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Civil
War: Open fire orders will initiate the end of the Labor Zionist regimes
and their globalist agenda for Israel
Moshe Feiglin
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The Struggle for Eretz
Israel and the Existence of the State
Gush Katif is not just another outpost that can be evacuated one day and
returned to the next. The battle for Gush Katif is a strategic one. If, G-d
forbid, Gush Katif were to fall this would be liable to cause weakening in
other parts of Yesha. Jonathan Bassi's job would be far easier when he comes
to the Yesha settlers with proof of the destruction of Gush Katif. No-one
has illusions that Sharon's tsunami will halt in the Gush. In fact this is
a battle for the entire settlement enterprise in Yesha.
But even this definition is not exact. If, G-d forbid, the settlements in
Yesha are destroyed, nothing will continue to hold the remaining narrow coastal
strip. The end of settlements in Yesha will destroy the Jewish hold over
Eretz Israel from the moral aspect, and as a direct result also from the
security, social, and economic aspects. This is therefore a struggle for
a Jewish State that we can pass on to the coming generations.
Have we in fact begun to wage this struggle? More and more groups and
organizations are joining in the struggle for Gush Katif. The sit-down
demonstration that began this week opposite the Knesset represents an important
catalyst and we congratulate the Yesha Council for organizing it. However,
it is important to remember that in the end the fate of Gush Katif will be
decided by thousands of responsible citizens who will be prepared to violate
the law in a non-violent manner and pay the full price of a jail sentence.
A good example of this was provided by residents of Gush Katif who for two
hours blocked Kaplan St. in Tel Aviv, the major traffic route leading to
the Kirya. Non-violent civil disobedience is a recognized and accepted method
in real democracies, and we shouldn't pay too much attention to the declarations
of interested parties and Leftists.
The destruction of Yamit was a fatal mistake, but the struggle against it
assumed a different character since unfortunately at that time the nation
supported Begin. Begin did at least act in a democratic manner. Rabin at
his time, and Sharon now, created a pattern of dictatorial and militant behavior
in a superficially democratic guise. The public doesn't understand the deep
meaning of what is happening, but it smells the odor of despotism and senses
very well how its basic human rights are being nullified.
Sharon seeks manipulation disguised as democracy in order to continue on
his militant path. We hereby clearly declare that the expulsion of Jews from
Eretz Israel is obviously immoral, and is therefore obviously illegal, regardless
of the forum deciding it. We are convinced that the faithful public will
never obey the expulsion order.
It seems that the public atmosphere is ready for non-violent civil disobedience,
and many initiatives are emerging and forming into one great step. We are
talking about soldiers signing declarations that they will refuse to obey
orders (see the Defensive Wall website:
<http://www.hmagen.com/">http://www.hmagen.com/>http://www.hmagen.com/); preparations being made by layers to aid the numerous
political prisoners, preparations by action teams throughout the country;
unequivocal declarations by important rabbis, etc.
The Creator was merciful to us when he enabled Sharon to chalk up a victory
in the last Likud Conference. Now that Peres is in the picture, all the settlers
have finally realized that love alone will not win, and the struggle for
Gush Katif has taken the path leading to victory.
Civil War
Those who read the articles in Ha'aretz, and listen to the Left in the media,
can sense how the atmosphere is being prepared for a civil war. It is important
to remember that from the Left's point of view the struggle for Gush Katif
is one of to be or not be. They represent a negligible percentage of the
population, who are convinced that they were born to rule, and this is their
last battle before they leave the stage. If, after they have recruited
(apparently by coercion) the Cossack who robbed the Likud for them, and despite
being supported by all the media, the judicial system, the internal and external
security establishment, the political and economic systems – if after
all this Gush Katif remains standing, this means that the Left can pack its
bags. Remember that when their regime is at stake, they have no
inhibitions.
A civil war is the last thing to frighten the Left. They have already initiated
such battles in the past (the "open season", the Altalena) and they long
for such a war with all their hearts. This is a substantive part of their
ideology. As the Left frequently declares, a civil war is not likely since
the settlers are not their brothers. The basic orientation of a person from
the extreme Left is cosmopolitan. He wishes to remove national barriers in
order to prove that he is neither a Jew nor an Israeli, but a citizen of
the world.
"In the future there will be no more nations. We shall form part of the new
Middle East". (Shimon Peres) "There are no longer here Jews against Arabs,
but supporters of peace against opponents of peace". (Yitzhak Rabin) The
Left is re-drawing its lines of loyalty. This was once called treason, but
now it's a sign of enlightenment. The dream of the extreme Left is that all
the enlightened people of the world will join hands and crush with their
jackboots the primitive religious settlers. A juicy civil war will prove
to them that they have in fact crossed the borders of nationalism. They are
no longer Jews, nor even Israelis, but part of the enlightened world fighting
against the unenlightened one. They have demonstrated their loyalty, they
have acquired with integrity their new cosmopolitan identity, just like a
collaborator who perpetrates a terrorist attack in order to demonstrate loyalty.
They have finally freed themselves from the stigma of Jewish identity.
A recruitment notice appears in the Peace Now website. They declare that
for every soldier who refuses to participate in the eviction, they will recruit
volunteers from all over the world. There is a list there of countries whose
citizens are called upon to volunteer to come and destroy settlements together
with enlightened Israelis. France, Germany, the Gaza Strip… We are no
longer Jews. The fraternity of nations will destroy an ancient
nation…
Fortunately this is a negligible minority, less than one percent of the
population. The problem is that this minority is holding all the strings.
They won't open fire themselves. They lust for a juicy civil war but the
nation is healthy and they lack the troops to implement it. Consequently
they are covertly organizing the provocation that will cause the soldiers
and policemen to do this for them. This must be understood and publicized.
We have to be ready for this. The more emotionally prepared for this we are,
the more we talk about this, the less will be the chance of a civil war actually
breaking out.
We received clear indications of the preparations for such provocation this
week in the destruction of the Yitzhar outpost and the statements by GSS
director Avi Dichter. Obviously the organization of the performance in Yitzhar
was intended to serve a political objective. The soldier who fired was not
threatened. An enquiry should be held into who exactly is this soldier. Was
he an organic part of a regular unit and why did the army so quickly announce
that the shot fired by that soldier was legitimate. When the Left holds the
strings there is no democracy, and we all remember very well who opened the
champagne.
As an immediate continuation of this terrible act, the director of the GSS
announced that the extremist settlers were preparing provocations that would
lead to firing against IDF soldiers. Ran Edelist, an extremist Left journalist,
explained in a broadcast that Dichter has no concrete information, and his
intention is to create an atmosphere in which it will be possible to make
broad scale administrative arrests. Edelist didn't say this in order to protect
the rights of the citizens in Yesha. He was simply convinced of the need
for such action.
Consequently we are witnessing a move designed to prepare the way for opening
fire. These are talks, articles, and declarations by senior officers, and
all these affect the activities in the field.
How should loyal people act? The faithful public faces a terrible dilemma.
It is impossible not to fight with determination on behalf of the settlements
and the existence of the nation. On the other hand the Left is dragging us
into a civil war and also marks the end of the State. What can we do?
Fortunately the public is on our side. We have to remember the Likud referendum
and learn this. The vast majority of the Israeli public remains healthy despite
the brainwashing it is exposed to. If we do not fall into the trap of the
provocations of the Left, if the soldiers don't become convinced that their
lives are in danger, they will never open fire.
We have to declare on every possible occasion that in any area of friction
with Israeli soldiers and policemen we are not bearing arms. If you decide
to participate in the struggle, leave your weapons in a safe place outside
the area.
Anyone who bears arms in the area of the struggle should be suspected of
being a provocateur.
A person who fires from a group of settlers is certainly a provocateur. He
should be neutralized, his weapon taken from him, and he should be tied up.
Throw him out. We call on IDF soldiers to act in precisely the same way in
such a situation. Soldier! Don't take a weapon with you if you enter an area
of confrontation with Jews. If you see next to you a soldier firing at Jews,
know that he is a political provocateur. Take away his weapon, tie him up,
and throw him out.
The settlers will defend themselves with their bare hands against any organized
violence. But guns are out of bounds.
If we are fired on we shall take cover, and not fire back. For years the
Arabs are firing at us, we have been abandoned by the authorities, but we
are continuing to hold on to Eretz Israel with great self-sacrifice. When
the Left plants provocateurs to fire at us, we shall call on all our sources
of spiritual strength and not fire back. This time we are not fighting to
protect the country, but to protect the existence of the nation and the State.
If such rules are made clear in every possible way, this will guarantee that
the extremist Left will be unable to initiate a civil war between us. If
we clarify this point unequivocally, any order to IDF soldiers to open fire
on their loyal brothers will lead to the immediate fall of the evil regime
that initiated it. We have seen numerous examples of this recently in Eastern
Europe.
Is Refusal to Obey Orders a Threat to the Existence of the State?
The argument that refusal to obey orders undermines the IDF and the State
is a false one. When the Left makes such a claim there is no point in addressing
the issue. The Left developed the theory of refusal to obey orders, and gave
it full legitimacy. To our shame, some people in the national camp also support
this foolish argument.
The Rambam, in Hilchot Melachim, said that: "It need hardly be said that
if the king orders any of the Mitzvot of the Torah to be violated, he is
not to be obeyed". This is not a simple Halachic ruling. The opening "It
need hardly be said", means that some things are quite obvious. It is quite
clear that we must refuse to obey an immoral order that conflicts with the
Torah. This need hardly be said. This order should not be obeyed, even according
to the IDF rules of conduct.
Actually, someone who does not act in this way is responsible for destroying
the State and society. Over the course of history, obedience and disregarding
of conscience on the part of the individual has led to the degeneration of
society, to the rise of evil regimes, and to distorted norms of behavior.
People have freedom of choice and responsibility. Those who did not refuse
to obey orders and did not attempt to oppose Rabin now bear responsibility
for the march of death that followed the Oslo process. They cannot look their
children in the eyes and claim that they were only small bolts in the machine,
simple citizens.
"When the regime is evil, jail is the refuge of honest people", said Jefferson,
one of the founding fathers of the American nation. The obedient person who
ignores his own conscience loses his country, his property, and in the end
his life. Thousands in Israel have already paid the price of obedience to
the Oslo criminals. Only refusal to obey orders will save the country, property,
and lives.
The question is not how orders can be disobeyed in a democratic country,
but how a person can permit himself not to disobey in such
circumstances.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Blom"
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To: "Christian-Zionist Forum"
<Christian-Zionist@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday 29 June 2004 1:11 PM
Real Jewish democracy vs. dictatorship in Israel
Democratic Because it's Jewish. By Moshe
Feiglin.
28 Jun 2004 ManhigutEn
<aliza@manhigut.org>
The motto, "a Jewish and democratic State", has become meaningless. Aharon
Barak, with an abundance of tortuous explanations, has drained its Jewish
aspect of significance and has in fact declared that what (in his opinion)
is democratic is Jewish.
The Haredim and the national religious Jews who are trying to face the issue
are going wrong in the opposite direction. They are giving up democracy (as
it were) in favor of Judaism. In other words, they are accepting the
interpretation of the head of the Supreme Court and are in fact saying that
if democracy means the end of Judaism, they want no part of it. Give us a
king, who will enforce the wishes of the Almighty.
Belief-based people who adopt this approach are falling into the trap
twice. The first time, because they are abandoning the most basic principle
in Judaism – freedom. The second time, because they are giving up the
sole brake that can halt Israel's current slide into violent totalitarianism,
a process that we are now witnessing.
To be a Jew is to be a free man. The Jewish people brought the message of
liberty to the entire world. All human progress from slavery to a flesh and
body king, towards human liberty, starting with the English Magna Charta,
continuing with the American constitution, and ending with the French Revolution
– Judaism formed the source of inspiration for them all, as they publicly
declared.
The division of authority, the recognition that the king is not the source
of authority but the representative of the sovereignty, and that he is subject
to constant criticism by the parallel institutions of clarifications and
direction (Sanhedrin, kehuna), and that all of them – the king, the
institutions, and the people, are equally subject to the same rules, are
the fundamental elements of the modern free regime, or in other words, the
foundations of democracy.
However, the term democracy has been made meaningless by the extremist Left
that has compared the democratic method to its values. Aharon Barak's test
of a "civilized person" is an outstanding example of the way in which the
concept of democracy is distorted. It is not surprising that many people
currently tend to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The term democracy
may well have become so distorted that it can it can no longer be used, just
as happened to the term "Israeli" in its original meaning. It may well be
preferable to return to the term "liberty", but it would be a grave error
to abandon the real values forming the basis of the term.
It is not easy to understand the meaning of democracy. Hundreds of definitions
have been given, and all kinds of people (including mass murderers) have
drawn legitimacy from the term for their own needs. (examples are the People's
Democracy of China, or the democratic elections held by Arafat's murder gangs.)
However, before trying to understand why the belief-based public is the sole
chance for democracy in Israel, or, if you wish, why Israel can be democratic
only as a Jewish State, and why, if it abandons its Jewish character, it
inevitably acquires totalitarian characteristics, let us examine Israeli
reality.
It is difficult to call the first days of the State of Israel democracy.
Ben-Gurion's regime after the establishment of the state was very centralized,
the opposition was persecuted with the aid of close cooperation between the
defense establishment and the ruling party, and great courage and an independent
income were required to oppose the regime.
Let us therefore focus on the four decades that have elapsed since the Six
Day War (in which the Herut party first entered Eshkol's unity government).
It can be said that during this period Israel began really progressing towards
a regime based on the fundamentals of democracy. Since 1967 we have been
relatively democratic.
However, it is easy to point to two occasions during this period in which
Israeli democracy retreated towards dictatorship in the guise of democracy.
The separation fence between a free state and a totalitarian one has no color,
nor can it be felt. It can only be discovered using the sense of smell. And
just like any stench, those lying inside it don't feel it. There have been
numerous examples in the 20th Century of free societies that crossed the
fence without noticing it, and continued to believe that they were free and
advanced, even when the atmosphere of freedom was replaced by the stench
of dictatorship.
As we have said, this fence has been crossed twice since the Six Day War.
The first person to lie on it was Yitzhak Rabin, and the second, Ariel Sharon,
is doing so now.
These leaders were not the first to wish to hand over parts of the country
to the enemy, to destroy entire settlements and drive out their residents.
The first to do so was Menahem Begin, to his everlasting ignominy. But Begin
didn't do this terrible deed while crossing the fence. He possessed public
legitimacy for his action. The majority of the nation, hypnotized by Sadat's
visit to Jerusalem, supported him. Begin didn't change the rules of the game
and fit them to his needs, but acted in accordance with them. His opponents
were opposed to the retreat, but not to Begin. They could not contest Begin's
legitimacy as the elected democratic prime minister.
Rabin and Sharon crossed the fence quite blatantly. The hypnotizing spell
of the first Camp David Conference had faded away, and the public had already
developed the intellectual antibodies needed to understand what it was really
getting. In order to overcome the basic Jewish values, the fundamental loyalty
to Eretz Israel, and Jewish identity, that again played a key role in the
public consciousness, Rabin at that time, and Sharon now, had to cross the
fence separating democracy and dictatorship, between those people whom Rabin
discounted, and his voters, whom he had promised there would be no talks
with the PLO. His government was a minority one, and he achieved the majority
necessary for these fateful steps by bribing people such as Segev and Goldfarb.
In this way, with a fragile coalition, a leader of a free state initiated
a major national decision that split the nation over fundamental issues.
Broad popular protest was suppressed with great violence, and the media,
as in every dictatorship, supported the regime. Only in this way could the
Oslo Process, whose results are well known, be sold to Israeli society.
The current situation is far more serious. The intensity of the controversy
is unchanged, but the hopes planted at the time of the Oslo process no longer
exist. But the fence crossed by Sharon has exactly the same smell.
There is no argument about the nature of the majority achieved by Sharon.
He lost in the referendum and doesn't deny this. As long as he has the support
of the Left, he is not obligated to observe any rules, not even those he
himself fixed. He no longer attempts to bribe his ministers, but fires them.
The human rights of those planned to be evicted no longer exist. Now, just
as then, the media have been recruited to support the regime. "We shall not
only evict you and destroy your homes" (in the name of the new democracy),
"we shall also fix the rules governing how you will be permitted to resist,
what language you may use, and perhaps even the thoughts you will be permitted
to think… If you don't obey, you will be responsible for a civil
war…"
Not only the media but the courts and the Public Prosecutor's department
have been recruited. The idea of trying to halt this madness through an appeal
to the High Court of Justice, based on the law, "The dignity and freedom
of man", is just ridiculous.
Israeli totalitarianism is now advancing, and all the media are in a count-down
to the day when thousands of citizens will be called on to pack up their
belongings and move to a new place, and every morning on the State radio
Arieh Golan comes up with a new idea for implementing the new democracy,
such as a unit of sharpshooters deployed on the roofs and equipped with live
ammunition. In such a state of affairs it will not be surprising if at some
stage they start hanging people from the lamp posts, naturally in the name
of the law for dignity and freedom of man, and in order to protect the values
of civilized persons.
This sounds far-fetched?
How many Arab collaborators were hanged on the lamp posts as a sacrifice
for the Oslo process? Not only the Left looked aside, but also the Right.
The High Court of Justice did not intervene, but accepted Rabin's declaration
that "this is a political issue and not a judicial one".
During the Rabin era the emperor thought he was dressed and attempted to
persuade the nation of this. At least there was some kind of plan, and an
attempt was made to create the impression of democracy. However, Sharon now
knows that he is naked, but doesn't care. "The referendum was morally but
not legally binding." All this in the name of the "rule of law". And I am
the law.
This is a time to keep one's distance from the lamp posts.
Without noticing it, we have fallen into a situation of dictatorship whose
stench is already making itself felt.
Let us now try and understand what democracy is, and why only a Jewish
State can be democratic.
The most important feature of democracy is the subservience of both the ruler
and the ruled to the same set of rules. This has been clearly violated by
both Rabin and Sharon.
There are several viewpoints of democracy and I shall only address two
of them: the liberal and the community approaches.
The liberal tradition supports a single fundamental criterion, a universal
standpoint that does not recognize a different culture, tradition, or values.
It believes in the values of equality and freedom of the individual, where
the state is intended to serve the individual only. The state has no purpose
and does not represent the values of its society.
The second viewpoint is the community one, according to which a person needs
recognition by society in order to achieve self awareness, and in this way
express his opinion regarding the issues of morality and values. Consequently
the community plays a decisive role, and through it the individual identifies
with his country. The community and the state are assigned an important role
in the realization of the values and identities of the citizens.
According to this interpretation, democracy is a method of government permitting
the expression of the basic values of the society. Every society whose basic
values are those of freedom can and must be democratic, but it must fit the
lid to the pot, and adopt its form of democracy to its nature and its unique
values. Those who understand democracy using this approach can also understand
that the first democratic approach described, as adopted in Israel, must
inevitably lead to dictatorship.
The dispute regarding Eretz Israel is not about territory or security. The
issue of national identity currently finds expression through Eretz Israel.
Those who wish to abandon parts of the country in fact want to sever the
links with their Jewish identity.
"The Jews defeated the Israelis", explained Shimon Peres in an interview
for Ha'aretz after he lost to Netanyahu. The argument is between those holding
on to their Jewish identity and those who wish to disengage from it and replace
it with a new Israeli one.
The process of disengagement is one of enforcing the new identity on the
vast majority of the nation. Consequently it must inevitably lead to a
dictatorship, as is actually happening. Only if Israel lives in harmony with
its Jewish identity, and tries to serve this identity instead of fighting
it, will it also be really democratic.138 33
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