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Peace Process

Endangering state security


By Ryan Jones
May 17, 2004

"The left-wing in Israel endangers state security."

No, those words did not spring from the lips of a right-wing MK in Israel’s Knesset. Rather that was the assessment of former-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1991.

Two years later the Left did more than endanger Israel’s security, it took steps that put possibly the very existence of the Jewish state in the hands of its most implacable enemy — the PLO.

After choosing to go along with them, and making Oslo his own, Rabin promised there was "no danger" the guns Israel was giving the PLO under that agreement would be used against Jews. The Palestinian Arabs "know very well," he said, "that if they use these guns against us once, at that moment the Oslo Accord will be annulled and the IDF will return to all the places that have been given to them."

But again, Rabin’s original assessment of the Left proved accurate, and Israel’s security was endangered when Shimon Peres and the other leftist leaders ignored the increasing "Palestinian" violence against Israel’s Jews — violence perpetrated with the very weapons Israel had given them.

And now, the Left wants to unilaterally evacuate all Jewish soldiers and citizens from the Gaza Strip and restart "peace" negotiations with the PLO, in spite of a nearly four year "Palestinian" terrorist offensive that has killed more than 1,000 Israelis.

That the defense establishment is warning Israel’s retreat from Gaza would result in a "victory" for terrorism and increased efforts by the Arabs to murder Jews means little to ultra-leftists like Peres, Yossi Beilin and Yossi Sarid.

They are determined to - as Rabin put it - endanger Israel’s security anyway in the name of "peace."

The prophet Isaiah, thousands of years ago, foretold how the "elite" of Israel would enter into just such a "covenant with death."

You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement." Isaiah 28:15

Isaiah goes on to point out that those who did this would boast that they could weather any adversity to their plans because they had "made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."

This past Saturday, Peres insisted the fact nearly 150,000 Israelis had shown up for a rally in favor of retreat meant the majority of Israelis also supported this course of action.

"Eighty percent" of the public agrees with us, Peres declared.

But Peres would have us forget that just a little more than one year ago, the huge majority of Israelis voted for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and against the agenda of the Labor Party and the Left.

Peres is wrong; most Israelis do not support his "covenant with death," and therefore will not be subjected to the fate that awaits those who do.

"Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it." Isaiah 28:18

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