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Peace Process

Jews choose to lose their land

After craving it for centuries, they?re giving it away


By Stan Goodenough
March 29, 2006

On March 28, 2006, a tragedy of truly historic proportions befell the Nation of Israel.

The final results revealed that the majority of voters chose for left wing parties who support the plan of Kadima party head Ehud Olmert to unilaterally withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria.

With 99 percent of the votes tallied the left wing has won 78 of the 120 Knesset seats versus the right wing?s 32 seats. (The anti-Israel Arab parties have 10 seats)

With this overwhelming majority the Jews as a nation have chosen for the first time in their history, and entirely of their own free will, to give part of their historic homeland away.

By voting for Olmert they did not so much reject any other man as they rejected the God of their fathers. For it was He Who ordained that the Land of Israel is the land of Israel, and that it should not be given away or divided up.

This land which the Israelis so effortlessly agreed to relinquish on Tuesday comprises the heartland of their small country. Specifically, it is the land where most their ancient history was played out, the sites where their nation was founded and established, and the territory that validates their claim to any of the rest of the land.

For so long they had yearned for it. For millennia, in countries around the world, generations of Jews wept and prayed for the chance to return there.

They were motivated by a passionate love for their history and their land on the one hand, and a desperate desire to escape persecution on the other.

That desire became a drive when a full third of the scattered nation was targeted, and then annihilated in just a few years, in the heart of Jew-hating Europe.

Fifty eight years ago, then, the cries and petitions of 20 centuries were all answered as the collective, millennia-old dream came true.

The Nation of Israel lived. They had survived and they had come home.

From that day through yesterday, they fought fiercely to hold onto that home, settling its barren places, rebuilding its cities, beating back the international efforts to take it from them, surviving wars and terrorism as they paid the price in the blood of their loved ones.

Then, on Tuesday, they just threw up their hands and let it all go.

?A chapter in the history of the country has ended,? Ehud Olmert declared in his victory speech. ?The people have spoken clearly.?

They have, and the consequences of their actions await them, and the rest of us.

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