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How to Survive Violence? Let’s Turn the Clock Forward

The unprecedented deterioration of the personal and national security in Jerusalem, Galilee, Acre, Jaffa, Negev and Netzarim, is the direct and lethal outcome of the Oslo Process.  The rectification of the erosion in Israel’s national and personal security is preconditioned upon the annulling – and not just suspension – of the Oslo Process.  The suspension of the Process has been suggested by spineless politicians. But, it would not solve the security problem; it would only postpone the end…

 

The Oslo Process was initiated in 1993, a year and a half following the victory over the previous Intifada, which was fought with rocks rather than with firearms.  A proper due-diligence of the Oslo Process reveals that is has not been a peace process.  Rather, it has been a process of gradual elimination of the Jewish State.

 

For instance, the Oslo Process was supposed to nurture mutual trust between Israelis and Palestinians.  In fact, the Process has become a fertile ground for a systematic and a brutal violation of all PLO commitments, with the scandalous acquiescence of all Israeli prime ministers since 1993.  The Process was intended to resolve security problems, eliminate terrorism and advance the cause of peace.  Actually, it has exacerbated the security predicament, has facilitated terrorism to an unprecedented scope, has undermined the cause of peace and has intensified the threat of a war with the Arabs in Israel, with the Palestinians and with the Arab States.  The Oslo Process was supposed to bolster Israel’s security, but has lethally eroded Israel’s own confidence in its own military capabilities (as if there’s no military solution to PLO terrorism, in spite of the fact that the previous Intifada was defeated militarily).  It has also eroded Israel’s power of deterrence and the steadfastness of the politicians who have “led” Israel since 1993.

 

The erosion of Israel’s power of deterrence and steadfastness capabilities – which are at the foundation of personal and national security – has been deepened simultaneously with the erosion of Israel’s Red Lines.  The Process has perpetrated the illusion that concessions and appeasement could substitute military deterrence in the Mideast, the most violent neighborhood in the world.  The Oslo Process was intended to enhance Israel’s standing internationally.  Instead, it has transformed Israel from the role-model of defiance of terrorism and principled-tenacity in face of threats, into a role model of submission to terrorism, retreat in face of threats and “pragmatic” withdrawal from principles.  The Oslo Process was supposed to improve the overall Israeli state-of-mind, but in fact it has shattered self-confidence, has distanced the Jewish State from roots, values and Mideast reality and has weakened Individual commitment to the Collective.

 

In order to bolster personal and national security – which are the most essential prerequisites for peace – one must turn the clock forward and to resurrect Israel’s posture of deterrence.  The problem is not merely local and military; it is primarily systemic and political.  In order to resurrect Israel’s posture of deterrence, one must defeat the PLO and to accept the fact that the PLO has not been a partner for peace negotiation.  Such a step would terminate the Oslo Process.  On the other hand, Prime Minister Barak’s commitment to the Oslo Process precludes a military victory over the PLO.  Moreover, the reluctance to defeat the PLO is perceived as weakness, is therefore radicalizing PLO and Arab expectations, resulting in more casualties and gradually dooming the Jewish State.  The Oslo Process must be terminated, before it terminates the Jewish State.

 




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*The US’ co-sponsorship of an anti-Israel UN Security Council Statement reflects the return of the State Department’s worldview to the center stage of US foreign policy-making. This was the first time, in six years, that the US enabled the UN Security Council to act against Israel.

*This is not merely a worldview, which is highly critical of Israel, as has been the case since 1948, when Foggy Bottom led the charge against the re-establishment of the Jewish State.

This worldview has systematically undermined US interests, by subordinating the unilateral, independent US national security policy (on Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian issue, etc.) to a multilateral common denominator with the anti-US and anti-Israel UN and international organizations, as well as the vacillating and terrorists-appeasing Europe.

*It has sacrificed Middle East reality on the altar of wishful-thinking, assuming that the establishment of a Palestinian state would fulfill Palestinian aspirations, advance the cause of peace, reduce terrorism and regional instability; thus, enhancing US interests.

*However, the reality of the Middle East and Jordan and the rogue Palestinian track record lend credence to the assumption that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would doom the pro-US Hashemite regime east of the River, yielding traumatic ripple effects, regionally and globally:

^Replace the relatively-moderate Hashemite regime with either a rogue Palestinian regime, a Muslim Brotherhood regime, or other rogue regimes;
^Transform Jordan into a chaotic state, similar to Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which would be leveraged by Iran’s Ayatollahs to intensify their encirclement of the pro-US Saudi regime;
^Convert Jordan into a major arena of regional and global Islamic terrorism;
^Trigger a domino scenario into the Arabian Peninsula, which could topple all pro-US, oil-producing Arab regimes;
^Imperil the supply of Persian Gulf oil, which would be held hostage by anti-US entities, catapulting the price at the pump;
^Jeopardize major naval routes of global trade between Asia and Europe through the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal;
^Intensify epicenters of regional and global terrorism and drug trafficking;
^Generate a robust tailwind to US’ adversaries (Russia and China) and enemies (Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS) and a powerful headwind to US economic and national security interests.

*The State Department assumes that Palestinian terrorism – just like Islamic terrorism – is driven by despair, ignoring the fact that Palestinian terrorism has been driven (for the last 100 years) by the vision to erase the “infidel” Jewish entity from “the abode of Islam,” as stated by the charters of Fatah (1959) and the PLO (1964), 8 and 3 years before the Jewish State reunited Jerusalem and reasserted itself in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

*Aspiring for a Palestinian state, and viewing Israel’s control of Judea and Samaria as an obstacle to peace, ignores the Arab view of the Palestinians as a role model of intra-Arab subversion, terrorism, corruption and treachery. Moreover, the State Department has held the view that the Palestinian issue is the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a central to Arab interests, which has been refuted by the Abraham Accords. The latter ignored the State Department, sidestepped the Palestinian issue and therefore came to fruition.

*The State Department overlooks the centrality of the Palestinian Authority’s hate education, which has become the most effective production-line of terrorists, and the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Authority’s worldview and vision.

*The State Department has also taken lightly the Palestinian Authority’s mosque incitement, public glorification of terrorists and monthly allowances to families of terrorists, which have documented its rogue and terroristic nature (walk), notwithstanding its peaceful diplomatic rhetoric (talk).

*The State Department’s eagerness to welcome the Palestinian issue in a “red carpet” manner – contrary to the “shabby doormat” extended to Palestinians by Arabs – and its determination to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state, along with its embrace of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Muslim Brotherhood, have been interpreted by rogue regimes and organizations as weakness.

Experience suggests that weakness invites the wolves, including wolves which aim to bring “The Great Satan” to submission throughout the world as well as the US mainland.

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