THEATER OF THE ABSURD: THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT BEING HITLER

[Note: For the past 3 months, based upon the concocted pretext that Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon had "offended" the Arab masses by visiting the public plaza atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount just before Rosh HaShana of 2000, Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority have waged an accelerated and uninterrupted war of annihilation against the Jewish population of Israel. In what will surely turn out to be a futile effort to appease this Nazi-like regime, U.S. President Clinton has just improved upon Israel's overly-generous July 2000 Camp David statehood proposal by offering to the "Palestinian" Arabs a state comprising virtually all of the ancestral lands of biblical Israel which the Jewish people had reacquired, as a result of the 1967 Six Day War, from Egypt and Jordan. After all, it is more than apparent that Clinton's misguided offer will only reinforce Arafat's Hitlerian belief that he need not terminate his aggression against the Jewish people in exchange for being given merely a portion of that which he will eventually be able to seize from a weakened Jewish State that has openly embraced a Chamberlainian course of appeasement. -- Mark Rosenblit, January 1, 2001]

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Arafat drove through Jerusalem

By: ETGAR LEFKOVITS, Jerusalem Post correspondent, 29 December 2000

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Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat travelled through the streets of Jerusalem with an Israeli escort in the wee hours of Christmas morning after attending a midnight mass in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve.

Due to the stormy weather in Israel that night, Arafat was unable to use his helicopter to fly out of PA-ruled Bethlehem. With Israeli permission, and a police escort, he drove through the darkened and deserted streets of Jerusalem at about 2:30 a.m. Christmas morning.

His motorcade passed by the walls of the Old City as he was driven down Road No. 1 out of the capital on his way to the Allenby Bridge, where he crossed over to Jordan for a meeting with King Abdullah II.

A Jerusalem police spokesman refused to comment on the report, which was first broadcast on Army radio Thursday morning. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he saw nothing wrong with the Palestinians' leader being driven through the capital.

"If Arafat needs to cross the city of Jerusalem, I could think of no more appropriate way than under the protection of Israeli security forces," he said at a press conference at the opening of his temporary office near the Western Wall plaza.

"As the leader of the Palestinians, we have to treat Arafat with the appropriate dignity on the personal level. This does not mean, however, that we have to give him everything he does not deserve on the political level...Anyway by seeing the city, he knew we are here," Olmert said.

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Ha'aretz: Sharon sends card to Arafat

By: Yossi Verter and Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz correspondents, 31 December 2000

Likud chair MK Ariel Sharon sent a greeting card to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat over the weekend in honor of the Id al-Fitr holiday. Along with the greeting for a happy holiday to "Arafat and his family," the note also expressed hope that the holiday would bring with it full peace for Israel and the Palestinians, enabling all in the region to live in peace and security and enjoy economic prosperity. Sharon's staff reported that this was not unusual because Sharon sends similar greetings every year to Arab leaders, including Arafat.

In response, MK Eli Goldshmidt, who heads [Prime Minister] Ehud Barak's campaign headquarters said, "The masquerade orchestrated by Likud's campaign spin doctors continues."

Sharon's holiday greeting was met by surprise by Palestinians. It received broad coverage in the Palestinian press and in an official report by the Palestinian news service.

Commentary: Kever Yosef (Joseph's Tomb), together with its synagogue, is destroyed in Shechem (Nablus). The Shalom Al Yisrael (Peace Upon Israel) synagogue is destroyed in Jericho. Rocks rain down upon Jewish worshipers at the Kotel HaMa'aravi (Western Wall) in Jerusalem. Jewish school buses are attacked, and bombs are detonated all over Israel. Jews are afraid to travel on the roads or to congregate in public places. Jews, including children, are being murdered and maimed on a daily basis. The "Palestinian" Arabs (with moral, diplomatic, financial and tactical support from "Israeli" Arabs) are waging a war of terroristic attrition against the Jewish communities of Israel, while -- at the very same time -- they are dulling our senses by their feigned participation in the "Peace Process".

And, in deference to the honor and respect that the gentile nations shower upon Yasser Arafat, y'mach sh'mo (cursed be his name), Israel insists on treating him in the same manner -- despite the fact that his hands are red with the bloods* of more Jews than any monster since Adolf Hitler, y'mach sh'mo! Is this not the height of Yirat HaGoyim (fear of the nations) and, consequently, a negation of Yirat Elokim (fear of God)?

"As the leader of the Palestinians, we have to treat Arafat with the appropriate dignity on the personal level." What can one say about the immorality of Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert who applauds and justifies the monster's escort under Jewish protection when, instead, he should have demanded the monster's arrest and execution for crimes against the Jewish people?

"Anyway by seeing the city, he knew we are here." No, Mr. Mayor! By being able to continually murder and maim Jews with impunity, the monster knows that we are here; once he runs out of Jews to annihilate, then he will know that we are no longer here.

And then there is Likud party leader and prime ministerial candidate Ariel Sharon who sends a greeting card to the very same monster! Is this really the "ariel" (lion of God) who seeks to be the ruler over the Jewish nation or, rather, just another frightened Jew who places Yirat HaGoyim above Yirat Elokim? In an effort to ingratiate himself with the gentile nations which have already begun to preemptively demonize him prior to the Israeli elections -- and to thereby "prove" to them that he is, in fact, quite "civilized", and that they are, in fact, quite wrong about him -- Ariel Sharon now supinely demonstrates for them how, despite the hemorrhaging of the Jewish people, he is, nonetheless, able to return Kindness for Cruelty.

Is there any moral basis for a Jewish leader to wish well the enemy leader who, on a daily basis, orchestrates the murder and maiming of the very people whom that Jewish leader is sworn to protect? Let us suppose that during the Shoah (Holocaust), Adolf Hitler, y'mach sh'mo -- in order to weaken the resolve of the Allies -- entered into peace negotiations while the furnaces of Auschwitz continued to consume our people. Would any Jewish leader have provided him with safe passage through Jewish territory? Would any Jewish leader have wished him well on his holiday? It is because we have unfortunately placed Hitler, y'mach sh'mo, in a special category of "One" that our Jewish leadership is simply unable to view and to treat any contemporary adversary, including Arafat, y'mach sh'mo, as we viewed and (had we but been given the blessed opportunity) as we would have treated Hitler, y'mach sh'mo -- namely, as an irredeemable enemy of the Jewish people who is deserving, not of respect, but of death.

Indeed, the case of Hitler, y’mach sh’mo, is the exception that proves the rule; for, past and present Jewish leaders have habitually committed the great sin of respecting the dignity of those who comprise the leadership of our enemies.

For example, Saul, first king of united Israel, was commanded by God to annihilate the evil nation of Amalek. However, after Saul had defeated and eradicated the Amalekites, he was no longer able to view or to treat their captured leader Agag, y'mach sh'mo, as an enemy of the Jewish people. As the Hebrew Bible states: “He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive, and the entire people he destroyed by the edge of the sword. Saul, as well as the people, took pity on Agag …” (I Samuel 15:8-9). It seems that Saul -- like many a leader of the modern State of Israel -- essentially viewed the Amalekite king and himself as belonging to an exclusive club, namely, that peer group comprised of all-powerful national leaders. As such, Saul perversely felt a greater kinship with his fellow monarch than he did with the Jewish people. Due to his exhibition and application of misplaced kindness, mercy and respect towards the evil Amalekite leader, Saul was stripped of his crown in favor of another -- David, son of Jesse. And it was left to the Prophet Samuel to administer the very Justice that King Saul was simply unable to contemplate, let alone effectuate: "Samuel then said, 'Bring me Agag, king of Amalek.' And Agag went to him submissively. And Agag said, 'Surely, the bitterness of death has passed.' And Samuel said, 'As your sword made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.' And Samuel cut Agag into pieces before HaShem in Gilgal. Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his home at Gibeath-shaul. Samuel never again saw Saul until the day of his [Samuel's] death, for Samuel mourned over Saul, but HaShem had reconsidered His having made Saul king over Israel." (I Samuel 15:32-35).

Similarly, Ahab, y’mach sh’mo, a subsequent monarch of the northern kingdom of Israel, who was himself an exceedingly evil person, was ordered by God to crush the evil empire of Aram, which had invaded Samaria in order to loot the country and carry off its women and children into slavery. Although, in two great battles, the Aramean and allied armies were decimated, Ben-hadad, y’mach sh’mo, the Aramean king, escaped to the City of Aphek and hid inside a closet. Then: “His servants said to him [Ben-hadad], ‘Behold now, [since] we have heard that the kings of the House of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will permit you to live.’ So they girded sackcloth on their loins and [put] ropes upon their heads, and they came to the king of Israel and said, ‘Your servant Ben-hadad said, “Please let me live.”’ -- and he [Ahab] said, ‘Is he still alive? He is my brother!’ Now the men took this as a [favorable] omen, and quickly catching the expression from him, said, ‘Your brother Ben-hadad.’ Then he [Ahab] said, ‘Go, bring him.’ -- and Ben-hadad came out to him, and he [Ahab] helped him up into the chariot. Ben-hadad said to him, ‘The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you shall control markets for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.’ -- [Ahab responded:] ‘And I -- with that covenant -- shall send you [on your way].’ So he [Ahab] sealed with him a covenant, and sent him [on his way].” (I Kings 20:31-34). Due to the fact that Ahab, y’mach sh’mo, had ignored God’s Instructions in favor of misplaced kindness, mercy and respect towards the evil Aramean leader, God sent an unidentified prophet to the disobedient monarch to pronounce Judgment upon him: “He [the Prophet] said to him [Ahab], ‘Thus said HaShem, “Because you have sent from [your] hand the man whom I had condemned to destruction, it shall be your soul instead of his soul, and your people instead of his people.”’ So the king of Israel went to his house depressed and upset; and he came to Samaria.” (I Kings 20:42-43).

Furthermore, it should be recalled that Haman, y'mach sh'mo -- the villain of the Purim story and a descendant of King Agag, y'mach, sh'mo -- is expressly described by Scripture as " ... Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews." (Esther 3:10). For his crimes against the Jewish people he was summarily executed (see Esther 7:1-10); and he is, consequently, deemed to be the archetypal adversary of the Jewish people. Yet he earned the death penalty and the everlasting enmity of the Jewish people without ever having harmed a single Jew. His punishment and infamy were due solely to his unfulfilled intentions. In this respect, Arafat, y'mach sh'mo, is much worse than Haman, y'mach sh'mo, because Arafat, y'mach sh'mo, has been able to commence fulfilling his intentions.

Moreover, it is perverse that that our Jewish leadership continues to rage -- through innumerable Holocaust memorials and endless Holocaust research projects -- against the Nazi enemy which has not harmed a single Jew in more than half a century, but that it is unable to redirect even a fraction of that rage against the Arab enemy which is presently directing a war of annihilation against the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.

May God provide us with a leader who has Yirat Elokim and not Yirat HaGoyim. And may God provide us with a leader who understands when the exhibition and application of kindness and mercy constitute a Kiddush HaShem (sanctification of God's Name) and when such exhibition and application, instead, constitute a Chillul HaShem (desecration of God's Name). And may God provide us with this leader quickly!

* Why do I say "bloods" and not "blood"? -- this is because, by murdering even one person, the monster exterminates, as well, all of the martyred one's unconceived descendants (see Gen. 4:10: "Then He said, 'What have you done? The voice of your brother's bloods [in Hebrew: d’mai achicha] cries out to Me from the ground!'"; see also Mishna, Sanhedrin 4:5, concerning the murder of Abel by Cain: “... it does not say, ‘your brother’s blood’ but ‘your brother’s bloods’, [indicating] his blood and the blood of his succeeding generations.”).

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