The 90`s

Jerusalem will need God's protection

Note: Written by Howard Barbanel, Published Week of September 8th - 14th, 1993

Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres must be going senile.  They've made a deal with the Nazis.  Here's the rationale: "We're tired of fighting terrorism and anti-Semitism and we're absolutely fixated on obtaining this year's Nobel Peace Prize, so, since in the relative scheme od things, the S.A. Brown Shirts (the PLO) are far more moderate than the S.S. Black Shirts (Hamas, PFLP, etc.), let's make a deal with the Brown Shirts."

Yasser Arafat is really on a par with people like Kurt Franz, he recently released (from German jail) former commandment of Treblinka and his crony the acquitted John Demjanjuk - Mr. Arafat has the blood of hundreds of innocent Jewish women and children on his hands.  At the next meeting between Israel and the PLO he should be kidnapped like Eichman and out on trial in Jerusalem for terrorism, murder, war crimes and chronic ugliness.

Israel has made broad concessions to the PLO without the PLO giving up anything! In fact, Arafat is equivocating on repealing the 1964 PLO Covenant provision calling for Israel's destruction, saying the whole Palestinian National Council would have to meet.  He doesn't want such a meeting because the PNC would probably vote to throw him out instead.

Israel is willing to sign off on segments of the document without that clause removed anyway.  If the PLO retracts the clause, Israel is willing to formally recognize the PLO as "the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" and grant that organization absolution by sprinkling "magic Holy water" on its leaders and transforming it (like the Christian trans-substantiation of the Eucharist) into something entirely different than a terrorist organization.  "It will become a "political organization," asserts Shimon Peres.

The Labor Government lied to the Israeli electorate when it said it wouldn't negotiate with the PLO.  The Labor Government lied to everyone when it repeatedly denied media reports indicating it was holding clandestine meetings with the PLO, all the while conducting 14 rounds of talks in Oslo, Norway.

The Palestinian negotiating team in Washington, normally the mouthpiece of Tunis, knew absolutely nothing about the PLO-Israeli accord and consequently the delegation head, Dr. Haidar Abel Shafi, said he won't sign-off on anything just yet.

The Labor Government has just rendered worthless the entire Madrid formula and all agreements thereto by going around the entire process.

Israeli Army Radio quotes IDF Deputy Chief of Staff General Amonon Shahak at stating that the "IDF will have difficulties fighting terrorism after the agreement with the PLO is implemented... the agreement creates complex security problems."  The Labor Government plans to use a "heavily armed" and "very strong" Palestinian Police Force (led by the PLO) to quell the Hamas and left-wing Palestinian terrorists, believing such a force will quash terrorism; believing that there won't be a bloodbath of Arab against Arab just like in the intifada today; believing that Jews won't be causalities at the hands of such a banana republic type of paramilitary force.

Ahmed Jabril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Communist) threatening to assassinate Arafat.  Hamas (fundamentalist) has threatened the same. Could Arafat survive even a few weeks in Gaza? Would the agreement be then worth the paper it's written on?

Ha'aretz quote Jordan's Kind Hussein on Aug. 29 as saying the PLO-Israeli accord and its Gaza and Jericho First Place "constitutes a danger to the national security of the Kingdom of Jordan."  The U.S. State Department on the 30th was "studying the agreement" because they weren't sure if the plan is "fully baked" (New York Times, Aug. 30)

Ma'ariv in a front-page story on Aug. 26 reported that the Israeli government will allow the PLO to establish its headquarters in Gaza.

The Israeli government will allow the PLO to establish its headquarters in Gaza.

The Israeli government is permitting Arabs living in Jerusalem to vote in Palestinian elections, thereby effectively acceding to PLO demands over the Holy City and permitting its Canonization.

Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that "it's incredible and incredulous that an Israeli government has just agreed to the PLO's phased plan for the destruction of Israel and that "the PLO is a Trojan Horse that once inside Judea and Samaria would then be in a position to press Israel toward the sea should a future armed conflict arise." Netanyahu went on to say, "If, as Americans, you had Arafat 10 miles from Washington, how secure would you feel?" Yitshak Shamir in Yediot Aharont has said "peace which is based in abandonment of the lands of our heritage is an ineffectual gimmick and an empty pack of lies."

The PLO-Israeli accord gives the Palestinians the following according to Yediot:

1. [Palestinian] "elections will constitute a significant interim preparatory step toward the realization for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their just requirements."

2. The Palestinian Council's jurisdiction will cover the whole of the West Bank and Gaza "who integrity will be preserved during the interim period."

3. The accord calls for massive international aid and investment in the territories, creation of development banks, quasi-governmental ministries, including establishing a Palestinian radio and TV station.

4. Arrangements will be made for the "safe passage for persons and transportation between the Gaza strip and Jericho" meaning some kind of Danzig-corridor bisecting Israel.

 "Forgiveness is mine sayeth the Lord" and at this Rosh Hashanah time, a time of prayer, repentance and forgiveness.  Yitzhak Rabin has forgiven Arafat and the PLO for everything that they are and everything that they've done. Clearly, Mr. Arafat received divine revelation on the road from Damascus like Saint Paul leading to his change of heart and just as clearly, Rabin and Peres must have received divine instructions regarding granting that deathbed pardon to Arafat.  Benjamin Netanyahu sums it up best from the perspective of a Likudnik: "We want to make the peace, not rest in the peace." Say Hallelujah! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem because she'll need God's protection (from others and from itself) now more than ever. Pray hard. Happy New Year everybody.