October 27, 1998

Everyone knows that peace is good. It thus stands to reason that anyone who is against peace must be bad. It is a given axiom in Israel that Yitzchak Rabin was murdered by "enemies of peace". Enemies of peace are those who openly declared their opposition to the Oslo peace process. All of those, therefore, who took part in demonstrations against Oslo and who expressed dissatisfaction with the government which instituted that agreement have been labeled as conspirators to murder of the Prime Minister of Israel. This, even after it has become clear that the man who is alleged to have murdered Mr. Rabin was under the employ of the GSS.

The assassination was liberally used as a tool by the left to link the ideology of the religious right with incitement to murder. If you express the belief that the entire Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish people, you are an inciter. If you express your belief that any government which voluntarily surrenders Jewish land to our enemies is a government of treason, you are an inciter. It is further suggested that such incitement has already "proven" to lead to assassination, thus the "incitement" itself is seen as criminal.

Once you have brainwashed the public to accept this kind of reasoning you fail to notice that, not only is the logic flawed and completely untrue, but you have now legitimized the redefinition of good and evil. You have given license for evil to be called good and for good to be called evil. When we call evil good that is a protected right. And when we call good evil that too is lauded as commendable. The problem arises when you try to recognize true good and true evil. Anyone who dares point to the emperor and declares him to be naked is called an inciter and opens himself to attack which could lead to arrest and imprisonment. It is a requirement of all good citizens to accept the lie that our naked emperor is clad in fine clothing.

Emperor Netanyahu has clad himself in alleged golden garments which were spun from air. He has declared that an evil agreement is, indeed, good for Israel. He deplores the continued murder of our people, yet he continues to insist that we must further weaken ourselves before the murderers in order to achieve peace. And when the people who elected him take to the streets and call him a traitor for failing to live up to his own ideology and by voluntarily emasculating our country before our enemies, such people are accused of inciting to assassinate the prime minister!

Even the sweet words which fall so easily from his tongue are not sweet enough to fool the people. There are no meaningful guarantees to protect us from terror. Again our leaders have agreed to give up pieces of our only homeland for worthless promises. Only this time we have a right wing government which swears that treason is valor. The media presents the surrender to terror as "peace" and has backed up the government by smearing all who dare challenge that concept as "inciters", "rabble rousers", and potential "assassins".

While, in some countries, treason is a crime, punishable by death, that, by no means implies that one who recognizes an act of treason and declares the one committing it to be a traitor, is an inciter. Any citizen who is a traitor to his country is usually imprisoned. How much graver is the crime when committed by a country's leader! In fact, one who sees his leadership taking steps which endanger the country he is leading, has a patriotic obligation to make this fact known. To remain silent is to become a partner to treason. Crime and punishment are to be determined by the courts. But no citizen should be forced to remain silent as he sees his very life being endangered by his government. And worse, our citizens are being labeled as criminals themselves for daring to recognize genuine treason and declare it as such!

Treason is not a light term. It is very serious and even grave. We, who elected Bibi, do not seek to defame him nor to put him to death. We seek to remove him from office for betraying our trust. We did not elect him to find another way to give away our homeland to our enemies. The reason we elected him was to stop that concept, if not to reverse it. Instead he has accelerated our surrender and is trying to convince us that it is for our own good. Had we believed that, we never would have elected him. Peres had been doing a fine job of surrender already.

As the third anniversary of the Rabin assassination is upon us we see our media back to its old tricks. Whether or not Amir was an agent of the right, or of the government doesn't really matter. What does matter is the outrageous fact that the assassination itself is still being held up as proof that Oslo is a holy process which must not be stopped. It is being used to justify stifling legitimate protest against a government which is betraying the electorate. It is labeling good citizens, who desperately want to save this country from self destruction, by declaring the emperor to be naked and demanding that we stop this insane suicide immediately, as inciters who should be punished. And, once again, we see our own police wielding batons and inflicting injury upon those who dare exercise their democratic right to protest.

Whoever fired the bullet that killed Rabin also mortally injured the concept of freedom of expression and democratic dissent in this country. Bibi has compounded this evil by lending legitimacy to the allegation by the left that we have no choice but to yield to terror.

Our leaders have ruled out the legitimate option to bring peace, and the only one that will work. . . that we obliterate terror ourselves and not ask Clinton or the PLO to do it for us. One needn't be a genius nor a mind-reader to know that Arafat and the PLO are planning to conquer Israel and turn it into Palestine. Our leaders know this yet refuse to think about it. They have convinced themselves that those who have shown themselves prepared to commit suicide for their beliefs will accept less than complete victory over the Jewish people. With every act of surrender we make our enemies become stronger, both in physical terms and in terms of morale. And, conversely, we weaken ourselves in those same areas. How can we not see that this process is not only failing to bring peace, but inviting the most vicious war we have ever faced? If we cannot find the courage to stand up to our enemies now while we are still strong, how will we find that courage later when we will have to take on not just a band of terrorists, but a fully equipped and trained terrorist army already entrenched within our borders and likely to be joined by our other Arab neighbors?