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June
3, 2007
The Day
After
by Gerald A. Honigman
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I was walking my two-year old Chocolate Labrador
Retriever, Tess (Contessa for you royals out
there), along the ocean this morning, I found
myself daydreaming. Not being able to fish today, I
just admired the clear, calm ocean and felt sorry
for myself for having my son, Jonathan, and my
fishing trip cut short by rain the other day. I
don't get the boat out often…yet we do need
the rain (but why then!?!?)
Well, in a semi-trance brought on by Mother
Nature, I started to think "what ifs?" as
Tessa took me for a walk. Like many Labs, she
flunked out of obedience school.
So, here's the picture generated by my neurons
on this Florida summer day…
Israel carried out new elections later this
summer. Olmert and his pathetic crew have been
given the boot, and a mixture of old and new faces
have come to the fore.
A depressed Israeli public, thirsting for peace
and tiring of war, finally woke up in August and
realized that both parties in a conflict
must want peace for it to occur. The painful
truth--obvious to some, but avoided by too many
others--finally sunk in: The only long-term "peace"
their Arab enemies have in mind for Israel is the
peace of the grave. Makes no difference whether
it's the State Department's alleged Arafatian Fatah
good cops or Hamas bad cops.
Olmert's opposition ran away with the
election.
The day after taking office, the new Israeli
Prime Minister made a phone call to Fatah's Abbas.
Olmert, pressured by the American President, and
Secretary Rice and her Foggy Folks, had released
hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds, eased
security restrictions, and so forth to prop up
Abbas in the wake of Hamas' Gaza victory. Abbas and
his staff were now called to a meeting with the new
Israeli leadership.
Previous, concrete, one-sided concessions by
Israel in return for Fatah's promises had only led
to the shedding of more Jewish blood--and Arabs
laughing at the Jews falling for their Trojan
Horse and destruction in stages traps
due to pressure from, ironically, their American
best friends.
But, those days were now gone. Baruch
HaShem.
And here's the new Prime Minister's steadfast
position as expressed during his meeting with
Abbas' crew:
- My Arab colleagues--colleagues, not
friends--for up 'til now, you have not been
friends…
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- We both know the game that you have been
playing for decades now. We Jews may have
appeared ignorant, but we were squeezed to
behave this way--as you well know and have taken
advantage of many a time.
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- Those days are gone.
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- You have just received additional hard,
concrete concessions from us as further gestures
of good will and a sincere hope for a better
future for both of our peoples.
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- The ball is now in your court.
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- There will be no more concessions from us
until we see concrete evidence that you have
decided to pursue a true peace--not your
so-called hudnas, designed only to buy time to
further strengthen yourselves
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- in pursuit of your openly-admitted real
goal of our destruction .
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- So, along these lines, we demand that you
place Israel on your official maps. It's not
there now.
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- We demand that you monitor, very
carefully, the imams in your mosques who collect
salaries from you and preach the slaughter of
Jews, along with your teachers, newspaper
editors, commentators, television stations, and
so forth.
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- We demand that you remove the textbooks
from your schools which, along with your
children camps and so forth, only teach your
youth how to hate--not how to get along with
Jews who finally have in one, tiny resurrected
state, where their ancestors have lived for
thousands of years, what you Arabs have almost
two dozen of. This is urgent, and a true test of
your willingness to accept us as neighbors and
not as fools.
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- We demand that you crack down hard--which
you have refused to do up until now--upon those
among you who find glory in murdering our
innocents. You have the means to do this, but
not the will. What does this say to us, from
whom you expect more and more
concessions?
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- While one half of our people fled Arab
lands--were refugees (but with no UNRWA to help
, as you Arabs received)--after the attack Arabs
launched upon our tiny, reborn state--much of
the other half had just undergone the nightmare
of the Holocaust, which you, Abbas, claim never
occurred.
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- Despite this, our leaders cracked down on
those some perceived to be Jewish hardliners in
the fight for Jewish survival. The ship,
Altalena, was sunk and Jews killed fellow Jews
right after the nightmare of Auschwitz to see to
it that there would be just one unified
command.
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- There's an important lesson for you here,
Abbas, and you'd best learn it.
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- Our patience with Arab
self-centeredness--others, besides yourselves,
are entitled to their slivers of justice in this
region too-- has worn out as has our willingness
to cave in to the pressure of the world's
oil-addicted hypocrites.
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- So, here's what's expected
next…
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- United Nations Security Council
Resolution 242, in the wake of the '67 War we
were forced to fight after being blockaded at
the Straits of Tiran ( a casus belli) , etc.,
once again, for our very survival (before we
were in Sinai, the Golan, Gaza, back in Judea
and Samaria, and so forth) called for the
creation of "secure and recognized borders" to
replace those ridiculous armistice lines which
made our state a mere stone's throw wide after
1948.
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- Given all the above, we realize that you
still refuse to recognize us within our pre-'67
armistice lines…let alone anything
more.
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- Even worse, after you expect us to cave
in to a retreat to those lines--in opposition to
242--you then expect us to accept being flooded
by millions of jihadi-raised alleged
refugees--whom you caged in camps, and who were
created as a result of your own
aggression--while we took in more of our own
Jewish refugees fleeing what you call "Arab"
lands into our sole state about the size of
America's New Jersey.
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- Knowing this, we are thus forced to come
up with our own solution.
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- We will never return to our 9-mile wide
existence again. Get used to that--for your own
good…regardless of what your State
Department friends may be telling you.
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- We learned Gaza's lessons well--though
were not shocked at what occurred after our
withdrawal over two years ago. It just brought
your terror closer to our main population
centers.
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- Wise up, Mahmoud…
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- We have the means to flatten you,
literally, and are approaching the time when
this will indeed become a real option. Nations
at war have done what's needed to be done to
achieve victory in the past…and their very
existence was not on the line. Ours is…The
dispute with you has never been about how "big"
we are…but that we "are."
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- While Gaza will be obliterated if Hamas
attacks us, you will be held accountable as
well. At least Hamas has been straightforward
with its genocidal intentions towards us. This
makes your own deception only more dangerous.
Among other things, it is designed to win
massive amounts of Western support. Anyway, your
Fatah and its affiliates have as much or more of
our blood on their hands as Hamas. You just play
the game better.
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- No more games, Mahmoud…
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- We will draw a new set of lines
unilaterally. Again, you don't offer us a true
peace even if we caved in to all of your
suicidal demands.
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- Our nation will never be nine miles wide
again.
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- The previous 1949 armistice lines--drawn
up where the fighting halted after your invasion
of us in 1948--were never meant to be permanent
borders, as America's UN representative, Ralph
Bunche, pointed out at the time. Most of our
people and industry--as you well know--are
confined to a zipper-sized coastal waist, 9-16
miles wide.
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- We will double the above width…which
still makes us a rump state.
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- Any additional state for Arabs--your
22nd--will not come at the expense of the
security of the Jews' sole, tiny nation. And
this will indeed be the Arabs' 2nd, not first,
state in "Palestine." Jordan emerged after 80%
of the original 1920 Mandate was handed over to
Arab nationalism in 1922. The original maps are
available for all to see. If you don't like it
because some Arabs came from elsewhere as
Transjordan's rulers, what are we to say? We
Jews have come from both here but also from many
"elsewheres" as well. Should we thus demand
dozens of Jewish states instead of our one? Yet,
that's your game…
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- Arabs caught on our side of the new
border will be offered Israeli citizenship in
return for a loyalty pledge. If they mess up,
they risk being expelled to your side of the new
border. The same will go for our own Israeli
Arab citizens--some of whom have indeed been
acting treasonously. We will deal with the
latter as other nations would. They are the
freest Arabs in the region.
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- As Jews, Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians,
Copts, Berbers, black Africans, and so forth
live in "Arab" states, some Arabs will live in a
Jewish State. If this is too much to ask of
them, then they will be ejected. We Jews won't
apologize for wanting in one state what your
Arab brothers mostly conquered and created for
themselves in some two dozen others.
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- What you do on your side of the new
border is your own business…as long as it
doesn't negatively impact upon us. Create that
second "Palestinian" Arab state (however you
define it, since most of your folks were
newcomers--settlers--from other states as well
after World War I), confederate with
Jordan…whatever.
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- Just be a good neighbor…
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- If you are, you will find us meeting you
far more than half way on the road to a better
life for your children as well as our own. We
have lots to offer to friends…
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- But we will offer far more than has been
dished out in the recent past to enemies as
well.
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- Violence from territories you control
will be responded to exponentially. Just ask
America's former Secretary of State, General
Colin Powell, about his own Doctrine regarding
such things. Hopefully, you'll see to it that it
doesn't have to come to this.
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- While you, of course, are free to reject
what I'm laying out here today, please
understand that we are serious about the ball
being in your own court right
now…regardless of Secretary Rice's (and the
President's?) short-sighted threats to us. If
they materialize, they will likely backfire
during the next, upcoming American elections.
The American people largely know "what's up" now
as well.
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- Know also that we are prepared to take
cuts in American aid and support if that's
what's required to not cave in to our own
suicide. And we will not be a part of your
openly-admitted, "destruction in phases" plans
for us any longer.
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- So, make your decision…
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- Will it be a true peace among
neighbors--with all that can truly blossom from
it--or your continued quest to see and seek
justice through Arab eyes only?
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- The choice, Mahmoud, is yours.
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- Be honest and present this realistic
compromise to the Arab Street, for they elected
Hamas as they elected you earlier when you--one
of Arafat's chief lieutenants--also ran on a
platform for the destruction of the sole State
of the Jews.
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- As always, our hands are extended in
friendship.
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- But the time for your excuses is fast
running out.
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- You will have six months to earnestly
begin the measures we laid out here that are
designed to create an atmosphere of acceptance
that you have ignored up until this very moment
in time. You've received billions of dollars in
aid over the years. What has been lacking is the
will to do so.
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- While you can't do anything about that
unfortunate past, you can take steps towards a
better future.
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- Be honest with your people before it's
too late.
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- We Jews waited too long for the
resurrection of Israel to see it destroyed.
Please understand and convey what this means for
those who have the latter in mind.
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- After six months, if we have seen no
concrete, positive changes, we will treat the
territories you control in Judea and Samaria
(renamed by British imperialism, only in the
last century, the "West Bank") as we will deal
with those now under the control of Hamas. When
you ruled Gaza, we were continuously attacked
anyway. Other nations would have never put up
with what we have already been doing for so long
without taking massive action. Be
advised…It's coming. Olmert and his
head-in-the-sand, inept folks are out.
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- Please don't make it come to
this.
Honigman
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Gerald
A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done
extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his website at
http://geraldahonigman.com/.
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