By Moshe Feiglin, THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP BLOG
Former Head of Central Command General Gadi Shamni said last week that Israel is the most occupying force in the world and is on its way to becoming a pariah state. “Israel must achieve separation from the Palestinians,” Shamni added.
We can assume that Shamni’s words reflect his worldview. In the IDF 2016, it is impossible to be a General or even a Lieutenant Colonel if you believe in a diplomatic solution to Israel’s conflict with the Arabs other than what is dictated by the Left. The Oslo Peace Industry cloned the entire Israeli elite – built from all those who toed the Oslo line and who run the State today – in its own image.
First and foremost, it cloned the military elite. Every officer from Major and up must undergo a (re)education series, taught by the left-leaning Harman and Binah institutes. (Both are supported by the New Israel Fund). The only commanding officer who testified in favor of Elor Azariah, the soldier accused of killing a terrorist, was a low-ranking officer who left the army after the Azariah incident. The rest of the IDF command does not want to be accused of Nazism, as Deputy Chief of Staff General Golan intimated. So all of them think the same way and talk the same way. And in any future war, they will all be defeated in the same way, just as they were defeated in all the recent rounds of fighting. (That is fine, though. The media will praise them as great victors and only the bereaved families will bear their grief in silence.)
Back to General Shamni. Regardless of the worldview from which his words emanated, Shamni is simply right. The ‘Occupation’ in Judea and Samaria cannot go on forever and it must be ended.
Our Zehut party printed t-shirts that say, ‘End the Occupation’. Of course, this is where any agreement with General Shamni ends. While he advocates another glorious Israel retreat that will bring not only missiles to Tel Aviv, but mortar fire to Kfar Saba, as well, Zehut advocates the end of the Occupation by the declaration of Israeli sovereignty on every grain of sand under the control of the IDF. In other words, the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Zehut also has a detailed plan to achieve this goal. The plan also provides a solution for the Arabs living in Israel, for dealing with international pressure, the implications of the move in terms of international law, safeguarding human rights and more.
The idea of ending the Occupation by running away (Oslo/Disengagement) has already exploded in our faces. Even the Left has despaired of it.
The time has come to declare Israeli sovereignty over all the Land of Israel.
Who knows? Maybe General Shamni will join Zehut?
Well said.
In Israel; if we do not fight for our rights, we will not be here. It is a matter of survival.
Abbas the financier of the Munich Massacre.
Complain on Israel ignoring its Jewish roots and heritage of our nation.
The minute the U.N. its representatives or anyone else call Judea and Samaria aka West Bank occupied territory, than there is nobody to talk to. Jordan is also occupied territory. Moreover, all the Arab countries received over 12 million sq. km. of territory, established after WWI are also occupied territory; they were all allocated their territory by the Supreme Allied Powers at the same time they allocated Palestine aka The Land of Israel as the National Home of The Jewish people in their historical land as international law. The Jewish people must fight for their rights and heritage no concessions. Past concessions and compromise have proved counterproductive and only increased terror and violence. Stop deluding your-selves the Arabs do not want peace; they want all of Israel without the Jews. When the Arabs teach and train their children to hate, commit terror and violence, and their charter calls for the destruction of Israel. You are dealing with the enemy and not a peace partner. NEVER AGAIN. Stop the Ghetto Mentality.
The Arabs attacked Israel with superior men-power and weapons, in four wars since the British left The Land of Israel aka Palestine in 1948. They lost all four wars in utter defeat. It is time for the Arabs to face reality. The Land of Israel west of the Jordan River including ancient Jerusalem, which was liberated in four defensive wars; belongs to the Jewish people and will be retained by Israel and its Jewish population for eternity.
It is enough, that the Arabs have Jordan, which is Jewish territory, and the homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of land the Arabs confiscated from the terrorized and expelled million Jewish families, who lived in the Arab countries for over 2,600 years and now were resettled in Israel and comprise over half the population.
YJ Draiman
I always like what Feiglin has to say, it’s very precise and right to the point. But I sometimes don’t like his solutions. There is no proper way to declare sovereignty unless and until we can get rid of the Arabs out of Israel completely, at least from YESHA. I am more and more concerned that Arabs are easily infiltrating into Area C. Feiglin says he has a plan for dealing with the Arabs in “Israel” (I presume meaning ALL Israel) but doesn’t give us a hint as to what it is in this article.
The present Arab citizens can be acceptable only because they are a real minority without the means to successfully be unstable. But….I’m sure that they would if they could, so it’s unfortunate that they have such a comparably good life in Israel as citizens, with full rights, and would be hard to dislodge.