The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Hence, the first purpose of government is to protect the lives of its citizens. A government that fails to protect its citizens forfeits its legitimacy. Such a government should obviously, and of necessity, be terminated by one means or another.

Consider the Israeli town of Sderot, once a town of 25,000 Jewish residents. This town has been terrorized and virtually depopulated. It has been struck by thousands of missiles launched from Gaza. The Arabs can bomb Sderot with impunity thanks to Israel’s cowardly and evil government. This cowardly and evil government has no right to exist. Its continued existence disgraces every Jew in Israel as well as in the Diaspora. This cowardly and evil government encourages terrorism throughout the world—more so when Israel’s ruling elites reward Arab terrorism with Jewish land.

That the people of Israel tolerate such a government places in question Israel’s own right to exist. Perhaps this is the arcane or unconscious reason why we hear voices in America and Europe questioning Israel’s justification? There may be another arcane reason.

I have in mind the criminality of Israel’s government. There is no objective justification for releasing and arming Arab terrorists. Yet this has been the policy of Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert. This policy is criminal, immoral, and demonstrably inane. Israeli prime ministers have released more than 7,000 terrorists, who have subsequently murdered more than 300 Jews. Upon their release, these terrorists are exalted as heroes of Islam. They become more zealously dedicated to terrorism, to killing more Jews. By releasing terrorists, Israeli prime ministers have become complicit in murder.

Let us probe deeper, and here allow me to focus on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Like his six predecessors. Mr. Olmert has betrayed our Jewish dead. Like them, he has betrayed the Jewish soldiers who died fighting in the cause of Judaism, Zionism, Eretz Israel. Like his predecessors, Olmert has sold his moral judgment to Arab villains. Like his predecessors, Mr. Olmert has murdered the sense of justice.

But if justice has been murdered in Israel, does Israel have a right to exist? This question takes priority over mere policy issues. It is nothing less than a regime issue. Right-minded people will accomplish nothing until they restore the sense of justice in this country. But to do this they must arouse moral outrage. They must condemn the prime ministers who have murdered the sense of justice. This is no time for polite words. I am speaking of prime ministers who have aided and abetted terrorism and who have thus become the patrons of evil.

This is not a complicated moral issue, except for minds trapped in and corrupted by superficial and amoral jargon like “Left” and “Right.” If, God-forbid, your loved-one is murdered by an Arab terrorist released and armed—as many are—by the Minister of Defense and as directed by the Prime Minister, then these two ministers have Jewish blood on their hands. The Defense Minister may make the excuse of Nazis: “I was only following orders or obeying the law,” but he is still a criminal, having violated the Moral Law.

The Prime Minister may say: “I was adhering to the terms of the Oslo or Israel-PLO agreement, and for the sake of peace.” But no agreement with a terrorist organization, and none that requires the release of terrorists, is lawful or valid. Besides, not only does Israeli law designate the PLO as a terrorist organization, but it was evident from the outset that the PLO has never been committed to peace. Its constitution makes this crystal clear: it calls for nothing less than Israel’s annihilation!

So what should thoughtful and upright people say and do when Israeli prime ministers repeatedly mislead and betray them? What should they say and do when their prime ministers talk peace while releasing and arming the enemies of peace?

I invite every critic and protester of the Oslo “peace process” to ask: “Does my criticism or protest demonstration go to the heart of the matter, or am I merely protesting against a policy pursued by one prime minister after another, year, after year, after year?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration expose and denounce those who have betrayed our dead? Does it expose and excoriate those who have released the murderers of our loved ones?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration denounce the government as illegitimate—a criminal clique, a democratically elected despotism?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration call for regime change and offer plans for the purpose?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration admonish our people that justice has been murdered by seven Israeli prime ministers, and that justice must be restored in the Land of Israel if we are not to be expelled from this land?”