by Dr. Ron Breiman, former Chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel, translated by Hillel Fendel.
Those whose hypocrisy is their trade
are appalled by President Trump’s proposal to empty Gaza of its Arabs.
“Trumpsfer,” they mockingly call it. They view it as impossible to implement,
but continue to champion their favorite lie – the “two-state solution” – which
is even less implementable.
They conceal the fact that Trump has no
intention of forcibly expelling anyone. He rather intends to offer incentives
to the Gazans to encourage them to emigrate. The freedom to live anywhere one
likes is one of the most basic and important human rights - but the hypocrites
who want to prevent this plan are seeking to deny it to the Gazans.
These two-faced critics repeat over and
over their mantra regarding "The Day After" – which is really their
codename for their dangerous dream of a Palestinian state in the heart of
western Eretz Yisrael. And they wish to pave the way for it by having our IDF
soldiers put their lives on the line to destroy Hamas just so that the
Fatah-run, terrorist-supporting Palestinian Authority can take its place. And
all this comes precisely as they reject outright the Trump initiative for
"The Day After," which is geared to encourage the
terrorist-supporting, and worse, population of Gaza to begin new lives
elsewhere.
What is their problem with the Trump
plan? They say it's too coercive and racist, and immorally uproots people from
their land. They forget, of course, that they themselves were very much in
favor of a similar program to forcibly evict a myriad of Jews from their homes
in Gaza and northern Shomron just 20 years ago. Many of them also favor the
transfer of another few hundred thousand Jews so as to make room for their
beloved two-state solution. They would be well advised to wake up to their
hypocrisy and keep quiet.
Those whose hypocrisy is their trade,
by comparing modern-day Israel to Nazi-era Germany, are guilty of belittling
the Holocaust. The racist, Messianic left-wing camp has no right to even begin
speaking against Israel's shining democracy!
Those whose hypocrisy is their trade
claim to have compassion for the Arab "refugees" living in squalid
refugee camps – when in fact we are talking about the fourth generation of
those who left Israel back in 1948. By no means can they still be considered
refugees. Instead of being resettled, as is the case with refugees around the
world within two generations [according to the official UN definition for
refugees who are not Arab Palestinian], they continue to benefit, decade after
decade, from the generosity of the anti-Semitic UNRWA organization. The
"camps" they live in are generally full-fledged cities, and the IDF
would be well advised to stop using the term "refugee camp" (R.C.)
altogether.
Those whose hypocrisy is their trade
would have us forget that in 1948, there were not only Arab refugees, but also
Jewish refugees – those who had been forcibly expelled from Arab countries such
as Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and others, beginning immediately after the
establishment of the State of Israel. Some 650,000 of them arrived in Israel
destitute and truly homeless, and immediately began a process of rehabilitation
and acclimatization. Yet the hypocrites condemn Trump's nonviolent proposal for
the Gazans.
What Type of Investigation?
Speaking of those whose hypocrisy is their trade, out of their desire to topple the Netanyahu government at any price, they demand a public commission of inquiry – something that doesn't even appear in the Law of Commissions of Inquiry – to investigate the failures, faults and mishaps that led to the current war. However, they are not coming to the public debate on this matter with clean hands. A genuine investigation must look deeply into the following:
a.
How to ensure that
such a catastrophic event as Simchat Torah-October 7th not ever be
repeated – and not how to simply find those who are guilty, and especially Bibi
Netanyahu. There are those whose only goal is to ensure that Netanyahu leaves
public life, and as ignominiously as possible. The inquiry must therefore be carried
out by professional investigators who enjoy the public trust; its members can
certainly not be appointed by Judge Yitzchak Amit – who recently and
controversially took on the position of Supreme Court President – who does not
enjoy such public confidence.
b.
How the concept of giving gifts to the enemy evolved. These
include, specifically, handing over parts of our homeland under the Oslo
Accords, and giving money to Hamas. In addition, why was arch-terrorist Arafat
and his successors granted the role of peace-maker, and why did we feel the
need to purchase quiet from Hizbullah and Hamas?
c.
It must also investigate the plethora of new evidence that
has been amassed over the years regarding the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, thus
shedding light (or darkness…) on the circumstances of the murder and the
motives of the murderer.
Those whose hypocrisy is their trade
have not seemed to notice, or care, that there are politicians in Israel who
wear suits, and others who wear judicial robes. Most unfortunately, the latter
operate most zealously and aggressively to erode the public trust in them –
trust that is so very important for a judicial system. They might want to check
every once in a while to see if possibly the only ones standing behind them are
those who wear similar robes to them.