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Open Letter to Bush & Sharon - 2/2/05
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Following is a full-page ad that Dr. Jim Vineyard placed in the Washington
Times on February 2, 2005. -- John Henry
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER SHARON, PRESIDENT BUSH, AMERICA'S
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS, AND OUR DEAR JEWISH FRIENDS "YEDIDIM" CONCERNING
THE ROAD MAP - DISENGAGEMENT - DEPORTATION PLAN
February 2, 2005
Christian greetings to all from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Again, we are
writing about the proposed deportation of Jews from their homeland in the
Gaza Strip and the Shomron.
One of our dear Jewish friends (yedid, haver, and r'ea'), Louis Rene Beres
is a Professor of International Law and the author of many books and
articles dealing with terrorism, war and Israeli security issues. His
Austrian-Jewish parents survived the Holocaust in Switzerland, where he was
born in 1945. He recently wrote THE DEEPER MEANING OF "DISENGAGEMENT."
We quote for you in its entirety this article:
"All people, Jews or gentiles, who dare not defend themselves when they
know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of what
they have done but because of who they are, are already dead by their own
decision; and whether or not they survive physically depends on chance. If
circumstances are not favorable, they end up in gas chambers....." -- Bruno
Bettelheim, Freud's Vienna And Other Essays.
Bettelheim, like the Greek poet Homer, understands that the force that does
not kill - that does not kill just yet - can turn a human being into stone,
into a thing, while still alive. Merely hanging ominously over the head of
the vulnerable creature, it can choose to kill at any moment, poised
portentously to destroy breath in what it has "graciously" allowed, if only
for a few more moments, to breathe; this force mocks the fragile life it
intends to consume. The singular human being that stands helplessly before
this force has effectively become a corpse before any lethal assault is
even launched.
Israel, still manipulated and assaulted by an intermittent stream of
barbarous Palestinian terror, is in the process of becoming this pitiable
individual writ large. Called upon again and again by our "civilized" world
to negotiate with ritualistic murderers and child-sacrificers, the Jewish
State under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will soon face a very basic choice.
It can accept an immutably genocidal Palestinian state carved out of its
own still-living national body, or, instead, it can affirm its sacred
post-Holocaust obligation to endure and reaffirm its enduring Torah
obligation to "choose life."
Should the Sharon Government accept the former, and continue with its
announced "disengagement" policy of unilateral territorial surrender (a
policy linked to an imagined "Two-State Solution"), Israel would already
lie defeated.
Prime Minister Sharon plans to "disengage" from 21 Gaza settlements and
from four settlements in Samaria beginning in July. Yet, in his latest
annual report to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Shin
Bet intelligence director Avi Dichter underscored the manifest perils of
Jewish evacuation and surrender. His strategic argument, straightforward
and essentially unassailable, was that Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists -
newly unencumbered by any Israeli military presence - will quickly
transform southern Israel into a second South Lebanon. He added that
handing northern Samaria to Palestinian control could result in the
creation of a second Gaza.
Even today, even after Oslo and the "Road Map", and the election of a
Palestinian "president", the official Palestinian Authority (PA) map of
"Palestine" still includes all of Israel. There are no two states on the PA
maps, only one. There is no plan for coexistence with Israel in PA
doctrine, only continuation of the longstanding Arab/Islamic "phased plan"
for Palestinian "liberation". There is no Arab state on this bleeding
planet that genuinely accepts a Jewish State in the Dar al-Islam, in the
"world of Islam". Not one.
What sort of peace can Israel negotiate with a "partner" whose only real
question is, "How long before we can get the Jews to die?" And how shall
Israel navigate such a problematic peace in a world where the traditional
forms of anti-Semitism are now being reinvigorated by newer fashions of
Arab/Islamic Jew killing - fashions that call openly for the maiming and
mutilation of Jewish children with nary a hint of condemnation from
"civilized" countries?
Shall Israel complain? No problem, it can always find authoritative comfort
in the United Nations and its International Court of "Justice". Shall it be
allowed to erect a fence to protect its children from being torn apart and
burned alive? Certainly not, since the lives of Israel's Jewish children
are loudly declared to be less valuable than the olive trees of
inconvenienced Palestinian farmers. So it has already been written in the
ICJ's July 9, 2004 advisory opinion on Israel's security fence.
One might expect that Israel, after all the horror it has suffered at the
hands of Arab terrorists, would betray itself no longer. When Priam enters
the tent of Achilles, stops, clasps Achilles' knees and kisses his hands,
he has already reduced himself to a hapless and unworthy victim, one to be
disposed of without ceremony and in very short order. Realizing this, a
gracious Achilles takes the old man's arm, pushing him away. As long as he
is clasping Achilles' knees, Priam is an inert object. Only by lifting him
up off his knees can Achilles restore him to a position of self-respect and
to a living manhood.
Here Israel and Priam part company. Israel's frenzied enemies, twisted by
Jihad, will never act in the honorable manner of Achilles. Their aim is not
the high-minded revitalization of a respected adversary, but rather the
"liquidation" (still the term favored in the Arab world) of an inert object
by genocide and war. The Iliad reveals certain important lessons for
Jerusalem; it should be read with this in mind.
For whatever reasons, Israel has now come to accept a deformed view of
itself that was spawned not in Jerusalem or Hebron, but in Cairo, London,
Damascus, Paris, Baghdad, Washington, Teheran, Hamburg, Jericho and Gaza.
Degraded and debased, this is the view not of a strong and powerful Jewish
people, determined to remain alive in its own land, but of a conspicuous
corpse-in-waiting, brought home from a two-thousand year exile only to make
its present-day slaughter even easier to inflict. It goes without saying
that large majorities of courageous Israelis have always fought bitterly
against such an intolerable view - against the delusionary vision of
Israel's "Peace Camp" and the Sharon plan - but this view is currently the
official national image nonetheless.
After Auschwitz, after Belsen, after Warsaw, after Lodz, there can't be any
more intolerable expression of Jewish self-deception than an Israel that
has learned to "live with terror." To suggest otherwise, after every
blown-up bus or school or restaurant, to say that life in Israel must
return to "normal", is not normal. It is inexcusable and unspeakably abnormal.
Writing several years ago about Israel under the Oslo Accords, the Israeli
novelist Aharon Megged noted: "We have witnessed a phenomenon that probably
has no parallel in history; an emotional and moral identification by the
majority of Israel's intelligentsia with people openly committed to our
annihilation."
This identification has taken poisonous root in a succession of Israeli
governments that have stubbornly refused to understand their enemies, even
while the streets of Israel's cities have been transformed by primal
Palestinian killers from civilian thoroughfares to sacrificial altars.
Today, there are even Jewish scholars who advocate Israel's unilateral
nuclear disarmament, arguing in prestigious American journals that Israel
can negotiate true peace only by first agreeing to a "nuclear weapon-free
zone" in the Middle East.
There is a way out of this humiliating, fateful and delusionary condition,
but it must go far beyond the standard suggestions of policy and leadership
changes. Replacing Ariel Sharon will not be enough. Israel requires a way
that demands, more than anything else, an upright posture for the nation,
an appropriately heroic posture that precludes clasping the enemy's knees
and kissing his hands. It is a way of dignity, not of supplication. It is a
way of open, full and unapologetic warfare against evil, of standing firm
for Jewish lands, of choosing boldly and faithfully to stay alive, of
avoiding not only death at the bloodied hands of inflamed enemies, but also
avoiding a shameless and distinctly un-Jewish death-in-life.
This concludes what Professor Louis Rene Beres wrote.
I want to again appeal to the four groups listed below.
Prime Minister Sharon: You gave her this home, but it will not be if you
push this "deportation plan for peace" allowing it to be taken over by
Islamic so-called "Palestinian" terrorists and used to kill and to maim
more innocent Jewish children.
President Bush: What a tragedy is about to unfold before our very eyes;
you, Sir, will be a part of it! Believe it or not, I am on your side, first
as a Christian and second, Mr. President, as someone who voted for your
father twice and for you twice. But we must not continue with this terrible
"Road Map" devastation of Jewish families. We are now reliving the 1993
escapade when Israel piled on the concessions and presented a clueless
Clinton administration the "peace maker's fantasy" which brought about the
signing ill-fated Oslo Peace accords. In no time, Israeli buses were being
blown up in the campaign that lead inexorably to full-scale Islamic terror war.
Conservative Christians: You, the surprise electorate who ensured President
Bush's recent victory at the polls, must again make your voice heard now,
loud and clear, for the cause of righteousness. You must let our President
and the world know you do not approve the giving away of the land Jehovah
God gave to the Jews so long ago. Write/FAX/call to President Bush (FAX
number: 202-456-2461), Prime Minister Sharon (FAX numbers:
011-972-2-566-4838 and 011-972-2-670-5475), and your congressman today and
tell them to stop this madness!
Jewish Friends: Your Torah and my Bible tells us plainly that the land of
Israel belongs to the Jews. J-h G-d will certainly not be pleased with
Prime Minister Sharon's "disengagement" give-away to Gentiles.
Write/FAX/call your convictions to these same leaders who can rectify this
terrible tragedy before it is eternally too late!
Jim Vineyard
A Baptist Pastor in Oklahoma City
Yedidim of Israel
5517 NW 23rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73127
Phone: (405) 943-3326
E-mail: javyed-@aol.com
If you would like a copy of the film on DVD for $10 (covers cost only so as
not to profit from Jewish misery), write us at Yedidim of Israel, 5517 NW
23rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73127, or e-mail us at
<mailto:javyed-@aol.com>javyed-@aol.com.
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<b>Following is a full-page ad that Dr. Jim Vineyard placed in the
Washington Times on February 2, 2005. -- John Henry<br>
</b> <br><br>
<br>
<b>AN OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER SHARON, PRESIDENT BUSH, AMERICA’S
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS, AND OUR DEAR JEWISH FRIENDS “YEDIDIM” CONCERNING
THE ROAD MAP - DISENGAGEMENT - DEPORTATION PLAN<br><br>
</b>February 2, 2005<br>
<br>
Christian greetings to all from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Again, we are
writing about the proposed deportation of Jews from their homeland in the
Gaza Strip and the Shomron.<br>
<br>
One of our dear Jewish friends (yedid, haver, and r’ea’), Louis Rene
Beres is a Professor of International Law and the author of many books
and articles dealing with terrorism, war and Israeli security issues. His
Austrian-Jewish parents survived the Holocaust in Switzerland, where he
was born in 1945. He recently wrote THE DEEPER MEANING OF
“DISENGAGEMENT.”<br>
<br>
We quote for you in its entirety this article:<br>
<br>
"All people, Jews or gentiles, who dare not defend themselves when
they know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of
what they have done but because of who they are, are already dead by
their own decision; and whether or not they survive physically depends on
chance. If circumstances are not favorable, they end up in gas
chambers....." -- Bruno Bettelheim, Freud's Vienna And Other
Essays.<br>
<br>
Bettelheim, like the Greek poet Homer, understands that the force that
does not kill - that does not kill just yet - can turn a human being into
stone, into a thing, while still alive. Merely hanging ominously over the
head of the vulnerable creature, it can choose to kill at any moment,
poised portentously to destroy breath in what it has
"graciously" allowed, if only for a few more moments, to
breathe; this force mocks the fragile life it intends to consume. The
singular human being that stands helplessly before this force has
effectively become a corpse before any lethal assault is even
launched.<br>
<br>
Israel, still manipulated and assaulted by an intermittent stream of
barbarous Palestinian terror, is in the process of becoming this pitiable
individual writ large. Called upon again and again by our
"civilized" world to negotiate with ritualistic murderers and
child-sacrificers, the Jewish State under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
will soon face a very basic choice. It can accept an immutably genocidal
Palestinian state carved out of its own still-living national body, or,
instead, it can affirm its sacred post-Holocaust obligation to endure and
reaffirm its enduring Torah obligation to "choose life."<br>
<br>
Should the Sharon Government accept the former, and continue with its
announced "disengagement" policy of unilateral territorial
surrender (a policy linked to an imagined "Two-State
Solution"), Israel would already lie defeated.<br>
<br>
Prime Minister Sharon plans to "disengage" from 21 Gaza
settlements and from four settlements in Samaria beginning in July. Yet,
in his latest annual report to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, Shin Bet intelligence director Avi Dichter underscored the
manifest perils of Jewish evacuation and surrender. His strategic
argument, straightforward and essentially unassailable, was that
Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists - newly unencumbered by any Israeli
military presence - will quickly transform southern Israel into a second
South Lebanon. He added that handing northern Samaria to Palestinian
control could result in the creation of a second Gaza.<br>
<br>
Even today, even after Oslo and the "Road Map", and the
election of a Palestinian "president", the official Palestinian
Authority (PA) map of "Palestine" still includes all of Israel.
There are no two states on the PA maps, only one. There is no plan for
coexistence with Israel in PA doctrine, only continuation of the
longstanding Arab/Islamic "phased plan" for Palestinian
"liberation". There is no Arab state on this bleeding planet
that genuinely accepts a Jewish State in the Dar al-Islam, in the
"world of Islam". Not one.<br>
<br>
What sort of peace can Israel negotiate with a "partner" whose
only real question is, "How long before we can get the Jews to
die?" And how shall Israel navigate such a problematic peace in a
world where the traditional forms of anti-Semitism are now being
reinvigorated by newer fashions of Arab/Islamic Jew killing - fashions
that call openly for the maiming and mutilation of Jewish children with
nary a hint of condemnation from "civilized" countries?<br>
<br>
Shall Israel complain? No problem, it can always find authoritative
comfort in the United Nations and its International Court of
"Justice". Shall it be allowed to erect a fence to protect its
children from being torn apart and burned alive? Certainly not, since the
lives of Israel's Jewish children are loudly declared to be less valuable
than the olive trees of inconvenienced Palestinian farmers. So it has
already been written in the ICJ's July 9, 2004 advisory opinion on
Israel's security fence.<br>
<br>
One might expect that Israel, after all the horror it has suffered at the
hands of Arab terrorists, would betray itself no longer. When Priam
enters the tent of Achilles, stops, clasps Achilles' knees and kisses his
hands, he has already reduced himself to a hapless and unworthy victim,
one to be disposed of without ceremony and in very short order. Realizing
this, a gracious Achilles takes the old man's arm, pushing him away. As
long as he is clasping Achilles' knees, Priam is an inert object. Only by
lifting him up off his knees can Achilles restore him to a position of
self-respect and to a living manhood.<br>
<br>
Here Israel and Priam part company. Israel's frenzied enemies, twisted by
Jihad, will never act in the honorable manner of Achilles. Their aim is
not the high-minded revitalization of a respected adversary, but rather
the "liquidation" (still the term favored in the Arab world) of
an inert object by genocide and war. The Iliad reveals certain important
lessons for Jerusalem; it should be read with this in mind.<br>
<br>
For whatever reasons, Israel has now come to accept a deformed view of
itself that was spawned not in Jerusalem or Hebron, but in Cairo, London,
Damascus, Paris, Baghdad, Washington, Teheran, Hamburg, Jericho and Gaza.
Degraded and debased, this is the view not of a strong and powerful
Jewish people, determined to remain alive in its own land, but of a
conspicuous corpse-in-waiting, brought home from a two-thousand year
exile only to make its present-day slaughter even easier to inflict. It
goes without saying that large majorities of courageous Israelis have
always fought bitterly against such an intolerable view - against the
delusionary vision of Israel's "Peace Camp" and the Sharon plan
- but this view is currently the official national image
nonetheless.<br>
<br>
<br>
After Auschwitz, after Belsen, after Warsaw, after Lodz, there can't be
any more intolerable expression of Jewish self-deception than an Israel
that has learned to "live with terror." To suggest otherwise,
after every blown-up bus or school or restaurant, to say that life in
Israel must return to "normal", is not normal. It is
inexcusable and unspeakably abnormal.<br>
<br>
Writing several years ago about Israel under the Oslo Accords, the
Israeli novelist Aharon Megged noted: "We have witnessed a
phenomenon that probably has no parallel in history; an emotional and
moral identification by the majority of Israel's intelligentsia with
people openly committed to our annihilation."<br>
<br>
This identification has taken poisonous root in a succession of Israeli
governments that have stubbornly refused to understand their enemies,
even while the streets of Israel's cities have been transformed by primal
Palestinian killers from civilian thoroughfares to sacrificial altars.
Today, there are even Jewish scholars who advocate Israel's unilateral
nuclear disarmament, arguing in prestigious American journals that Israel
can negotiate true peace only by first agreeing to a "nuclear
weapon-free zone" in the Middle East.<br>
<br>
There is a way out of this humiliating, fateful and delusionary
condition, but it must go far beyond the standard suggestions of policy
and leadership changes. Replacing Ariel Sharon will not be enough. Israel
requires a way that demands, more than anything else, an upright posture
for the nation, an appropriately heroic posture that precludes clasping
the enemy's knees and kissing his hands. It is a way of dignity, not of
supplication. It is a way of open, full and unapologetic warfare against
evil, of standing firm for Jewish lands, of choosing boldly and
faithfully to stay alive, of avoiding not only death at the bloodied
hands of inflamed enemies, but also avoiding a shameless and distinctly
un-Jewish death-in-life.<br>
<br>
This concludes what Professor Louis Rene Beres wrote.<br>
<br>
I want to again appeal to the four groups listed below.<br>
<br>
Prime Minister Sharon: You gave her this home, but it will not be if you
push this “deportation plan for peace” allowing it to be taken over by
Islamic so-called “Palestinian” terrorists and used to kill and to maim
more innocent Jewish children.<br>
<br>
President Bush: What a tragedy is about to unfold before our very eyes;
you, Sir, will be a part of it! Believe it or not, I am on your side,
first as a Christian and second, Mr. President, as someone who voted for
your father twice and for you twice. But we must not continue with this
terrible “Road Map” devastation of Jewish families. We are now reliving
the 1993 escapade when Israel piled on the concessions and presented a
clueless Clinton administration the “peace maker’s fantasy” which brought
about the signing ill-fated Oslo Peace accords. In no time, Israeli buses
were being blown up in the campaign that lead inexorably to full-scale
Islamic terror war.<br>
<br>
Conservative Christians: You, the surprise electorate who ensured
President Bush’s recent victory at the polls, must again make your voice
heard now, loud and clear, for the cause of righteousness. You must let
our President and the world know you do not approve the giving away of
the land Jehovah God gave to the Jews so long ago. Write/FAX/call to
President Bush (FAX number: 202-456-2461), Prime Minister Sharon (FAX
numbers: 011-972-2-566-4838 and 011-972-2-670-5475), and your congressman
today and tell them to stop this madness!<br>
<br>
Jewish Friends: Your Torah and my Bible tells us plainly that the land of
Israel belongs to the Jews. J-h G-d will certainly not be pleased with
Prime Minister Sharon’s “disengagement” give-away to Gentiles.
Write/FAX/call your convictions to these same leaders who can rectify
this terrible tragedy before it is eternally too late!<br>
<br>
Jim Vineyard<br>
A Baptist Pastor in Oklahoma City<br>
Yedidim of Israel<br>
5517 NW 23rd Street<br>
Oklahoma City, OK 73127<br>
Phone: (405) 943-3326<br>
E-mail: javyed-@aol.com<br><br>
If you would like a copy of the film on DVD for $10 (covers cost only so
as not to profit from Jewish misery), write us at Yedidim of Israel, 5517
NW 23rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73127, or e-mail us at
<a href="mailto:javyed-@aol.com">javyed-@aol.com</a>.<br>
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