The Enablers Among Us:

Once again, Abbas and co. is demanding a freeze on the so-called settlements before any “peace” negotiations can resume. Ho-hum….excuse me while I take a long drawn out yawn, but really, this topic is tiresome, don’t you think?

By now, we all know, or should know that It’s not about the "settlements".  It’s not about the land. It never was. It’s not even about the entire Oslo inspired mess that we still find ourselves in. 


How can we expect to take on the existential threat on all our borders, when we can’t hold at bay the pesky little pseudo-intelligentsia anti-zionist elite in our midst who care not one iota about their own people, and can only worship with fervor their own ground they walk on.


What it is about, is the failure of our leadership to finally get its act together, and stop kowtowing to the minority ultra leftist elite. In other words, to show some…um…balls. The lack of strong leadership among successive Israeli governments allowed the small but lethal cabal of anti-zionist elitists to spread their venomous tentacles, and enabled the Oslo/Road Map or whatever they call it these days, to fester. 


Implementing the freeze back in 2009 was merely a symptom of ailing convictions – a disease with an ominous prognosis.  And should Netanyahu agree to another freeze, well…since the freeze is not the real problem in and of itself, all I can say is “Here we go again”.


Our problems do not rest with Obama and his allegiance to Islam and to those elements conspiring to spread Sharia law throughout the world, although it sure as hell doesn’t help. Neither are the Arabs at the core of our troubles.


Our predicament rests not only with our leadership in Israel, but with the Jewish leadership in the Diaspora as well.  Our problems lie with the enablers among us.

To be sure, the immediate results of the freeze on “settlements”, was that it stiffened the resolve of our enemies. It solidified the Arab stance in demanding further concessions while compelling our leadership to chill as the world, with the U.S. at the helm, shrieks against our right to our eternal capital. It served to put on ice the natural growth of the Jewish population and immobilize our efforts to settle our land. It has caused financial challenges and burdens on scores of people throughout Judea and Samaria and it rendered Israel a vassal state to the U.S. who in effect, acquired the power through this agreement to restrict our every movement in our own land including within our own capital. Despite this, however, our population in Judea and Samaria has risen in the past year to over 350,000, an increase of over 4 percent. To which I can only say, HA!

Freezing the “settlements” wrongly acknowledges that “settlements” are the cause of the problem, and that is a grave mistake. We saw it in Gush Katif. The destruction of the Jewish communities in Gaza proved to be nothing less than a catalyst for increased Arab terror and bombs and missiles targeted at our civilian population, holding southern Israel hostage to the whims of Hamas.

Time and again, our good will gestures, outright withdrawals, retreats from our land and from our convictions, the lack of adhering to any red lines, has proven that nothing is achieved with the Arab world via acquiescence.


The moment an Israeli government allows the other side to believe that we are willing to compromise on the very core of who we are - to surrender land that is the spiritual essence of our existence - then it only serves to embolden our enemies, and operates as a jump start platform for the likes of Obama to drive through his anti Israel agenda.  It never fails. One loose thread and the entire hem inevitably unravels.


So let’s get with the program. The “settlements” are not an obstacle to peace. Enough of that nonsense. Our troubles with the Arabs are over 100 years old, well before the settlement enterprise was born.  What the settlements are, aside from being the very heart of our land, is a necessary asset for our security.


And, plain and simple, a secure Israel in any shape, manner or form, is not tolerable to the Islamic world.


Peace was never part of the equation as far as the Arab world was concerned. In their eyes, the entire Israel is a “settlement” – a cancer in a part of the world they consider theirs. It is an affront to Islam and serves as a constant humiliation to the Moslem world. The only solution therefore, according to them, is its complete and total eradication from the Middle East, and that is non-negotiable. The freeze concept, is therefore a joke - certainly not a viable solution to be taken seriously in any Arab agenda.


For the Jewish people, Israel was never just a piece of real estate. One can negotiate a price on property, but there is no price on one’s soul. And  that is the crux of the matter. The Land of Israel is the soul of the Jewish people and it is like-wise non-negotiable.


Unfortunately however, someone forgot to tell that to the Prime Minister. 
On the other hand, one can gripe a lot about the current leadership in Israel, but…when all is said and done, they are here.  Which brings me to the topic of American Jews who are, well…not here.


Not only are they not here in Israel, but, for the most part, act as enablers for a hostile American administration. Whether the overwhelming liberal majority among American Jewry votes for Obama, Ron Paul, or some other genius, it makes little difference.  One can only go just so far in blaming it on ignorance. So let’s call it what it is.  Apathy.  The 78 percent Jewish vote for Obama in the previous election was a vote of apathy for Israel and their fellow Jews who reside within. 


And, the apathy continues, representative in the earth shattering silence in the face of Obama’s anti Israel stance and his audacity (to be fair, like the presidents before him) to give directives where we can or cannot build within our capital.  The silence from the mainstream American Jewish leadership is astounding. While the world conspires to wrest Jerusalem away from us, the American Jews and its leadership remain frozen in idleness.
One can say that the Israeli government is busy with the looming nuclear threat from Iran, but, hey, we’re talking Jerusalem here. Where is the rage, the anger, the fury? 
The freeze? It’s not over the settlements. The freeze is over the Jewish soul.