Dear Friends,
 
I remember coming to Israel for the very first time together with my husband, Michael. We got off the airplane and spontaneously went down on our knees and kissed the dirty tarmac of Ben Gurion airport. It was such a very emotional experience, that the surrounding environment was of no consequence. At that point we did not care if other people were staring at us.
 
Many years later I happened to attend a production of “Man of La Mancha” in New York with my oldest son, David. David is a pediatrician who lives with his family in Efrat, a community of 7,700 residents, which the Olmert government and the left like to call a “settlement”. At a certain point in the play, I felt an uncontrollable urge to cry. I turned toward David, then a father of five and an important physician in his community. To my amazement, tears were running down his face as well.
 
The song that triggered these emotions was “The Impossible Dream”. After the play we shamefacedly admitted to each other that since our Aliyah, our life in Israel had, in many ways, because of the cursed Oslo Accords, become “The Impossible Dream”!
 
I am sending you two articles by Professor Paul Eidelberg. If you worry about the political situation in Israel today, you should read these articles carefully. Both articles are an absolute MUST READ!
 
In the first article, “Confessions of a Political Scientist”, Eidelberg basically states that what is needed to save Israel from the traitors running and ruining this country- is a revolution.
 
In his second article, Professor Eidelberg worries that “if Israel should perish (God forbid), the cause of its demise will be the DEATH OF OUTRAGE.” 
 
Professor Eidelberg explains what he means by the “death of outrage”: the lack of concern on the part of the Olmert Government regarding the value of Jewish life. The government does nothing to stop the constant attacks on innocent civilians, not only in Sderot, but in the rest of the country as well.
 

 
I do not see how any self-respecting general can serve under such despicable individuals as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Both are not only liars and cowards, but their continuance in office endangers the Nation of Israel to which the officers of the general staff owe their first loyalty.
 
I do not see how any self-respecting Jewish Member of the Knesset, who also owes his or her first loyalty to the Nation, can continue to serve under the treacherous government of Ehud Olmert.
 
It redeems no Member of the Knesset merely call upon the people to engage in civil disobedience against this vile government.  Indeed, I dare say such MKs are little more than demagogues.
 
I want to see members of the Knesset who seriously oppose this villainous government to form a political bloc, RESIGN from the Knesset, and form an alternative government!
 
Revolution you say?  Precisely!  That is exactly what is needed to save Israel from the traitors running and ruining this country.
 
Please, do not talk to me about Israeli “democracy”­one of the biggest lies of the Middle East­vividly illustrated when Likud leader Ariel Sharon became Labor’s surrogate prime minister.  Yes, the Sharon who nullified the January 2003 election when he adopted Labor’s policy of “unilateral disengagement,” a policy rejected by an overwhelming majority of the electorate in that election,  Yes, when 22 other Likud MKs betrayed their supporters by voting for that criminal legislation.
 
Please, do not talk to me about “the rule of law,” certainly not since former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak established the dictum that “everything is justiciable.”
 
The litany of lies and egotists that deceive and exploit the Jews of this country is too long to enumerate and elaborate in a single article­something I have been doing for three decades in many books and countless articles.
 
No one in the Knesset­ – a haven for job-seekers – ­has the courage to undertake what is necessary to save this country.  Some of these Lilliputians stammer a brave word and pose as a nationalist.  Some attend a protest demonstration and perhaps even get manhandled by black-shirted security men.  But all relapse into political nullity, while enjoying their perks and privileges, while Jewish women, men, and children are killed or maimed or terrorized in Sderot and elsewhere in Israel, a country soaking in its own blood.
 
I have no words to describe Israel’s ruling elites.  They are not barbarians, like Arab suicide bombers.  They only facilitate and perpetuate such barbarism. Suicide? The last thing they would do is commit political suicide. Indeed, political suicide is hardly possible in Israel, not when Yossi Beilin, author of the Geneva Covenant, can return to the Knesset.  Not when the Knesset can stoop so low as to elect Shimon Peres as the president of Israel!
 
Forgive me.  I know such words are not becoming a political scientist­member of a profession that is supposed to be non-judgmental.  And yes, I know it takes no great courage to sit at computer and expose the cretins and cravens that have made a mockery of the Holocaust­the murder of Six Million Jews that made possible the rebirth of the so-called Jewish state. 
 
But I am tired of reading polite political analyses of right-minded politicians and journalists who have been saying essentially the same thing for the 31 years I have lived in this God-forsaken country.  Do not talk to me about any politician or party or party faction that does not openly call for regime change, which I deem the first sign of intellectual and moral integrity.  The second sign is action to hasten this end.
 

 
If Israel should perish (God forbid), the cause of its demise will be the death of outrage. 
 
We all know about the government’s virtual unconcern about Jewish life in Sderot, terrorized and half-depopulated by thousands of Arab missiles.  We also know that compounding the feckless behavior of this government is the impotence the Knesset, which tolerates Israel’s despicable prime minister.
 
But I want to go back to the premiership of his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, of whom Caroline Glick, in June 2005, wrote an article entitled “A Coward for a Prime Minister.”
 
I call the reader’s attention to another sterling journalist, George Will, to his account of the suicide bombing that occurred in Jerusalem’s Sbaro restaurant on August 9, 2001, when 15 Jews were killed and more than 100 were wounded, many maimed for life. Mr. Will first quotes a report by USA Today’s Jack Kelly, who was 30 yards away when the terrorist detonated a bomb packed with nails:
 
The blast… sent flesh flying onto second-story balconies a block away. Three men were blown 30 feet; their heads, separated from their bodies by the blast, rolled down the glass-strewn street…One woman had at least six nails embedded in her neck. Another had a nail in her left eye. Two men, one with a six-inch piece of glass in his right temple… tried to walk away… A man groaned… His legs were blown off. Blood poured from his torso… A 3-year old girl, her face covered with glass, walked among the bodies calling her mother’s name…The mother… was dead…One rabbi found a small hand against a white Subaru parked outside the restaurant.
 
Mr. Will, who is also normative (as opposed to an ethically neutral political scientist) comments:
 
As with the June bombing that killed 21 at a Tel Aviv disco, children were not collateral victims­they were the targets. Abdallah al-Shami, a senior official of Islamic Jihad, celebrated “this successful operation” against “pigs and monkeys.” That is a familiar rhetorical trope among those whom the calamitous Oslo “peace process” cast in the role of Israel’s “partners for peace.” In yet another of the constant violations of the Oslo requirement to stop anti-Jewish incitements, this was a recent broadcast from the moral cesspool that is the official television station of … [the] Palestinian Authority: “All weapons must be aimed at the Jews…whom the Koran describes as monkeys and pigs… We will enter Jerusalem as conquerors… Blessings to he who shot a bullet into the head of a Jew.”
 
Allow me to digress that while Israel is condemned for using “disproportionate force” against enemies committed to her destruction, none of Israel’s detractors condemn Muslims or Arabs for using disproportionate force against teenagers eating in a pizza parlor.  And what of children blown up in a school bus?
 
A physicist describes what happens when a conventional bomb is exploded in a contained space, like a school bus traveling through downtown Jerusalem: “A person sitting nearby would feel, momentarily, a shock wave slamming into his or her body, with an ‘overpressure’ of 300,000 pounds. Such a blast would crush the chest, rupture liver, spleen, heart and lungs, melt eyes, pull organs away from surrounding tissue, separate hands from arms and feet from legs.” (Toronto Star, June 19, 2002.) These are among the Arab “animosities” apologists for the Palestinians speak of when saying that Israelis­including, presumably, the school children who usually fill these buses­have brought upon themselves in the “intifada” a euphemism for Jihad.
 
But now I ask: What did the brave Sharon government do in retaliation against the outrage perpetrated in Jerusalem’s Sbaro restaurant on August 9, 2001?  It closed down Orient House, the PLO’s headquarters in eastern Jerusalem.
 
Not that the death of outrage commenced with the Sharon government.  The people of Israel were being conditioned to this terminal disease by some of Sharon’s predecessors. 
 
But now I invite readers to contrast the death of outrage in Israel today with the outrage expressed by Israel’s prophets.  Perhaps some will say, how tame were the “Confessions of a Political Scientist”?
 

–Paul Eidelberg is an internationally known political scientist, author and lecturer, and is the founder and president of The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy with offices in Jerusalem. He is also president of the Yamin Israel Party.
 
Prof. Eidelberg served in the United States Air Force where he held the rank of first lieutenant. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Chicago where he studied under Leo Strauss.
 
Before immigrating to Israel in 1976, Prof. Eidelberg wrote a trilogy on America’s founding fathers: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, ON THE SILENCE OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, and A DISCOURSE ON STATESMANSHIP.
In 1976 he joined the faculty of Bar-Ilan University.
 
He has written several books on the Arab-Israel conflict and on Judaism. DEMOPHRENIA analyses the mentality of Israel’s ruling elites. JEWISH STATESMANSHIP: LEST ISRAEL FALL, which has been translated into Hebrew and Russian, reveals the flaws inherent in Israel’s system of governance and how they may be remedied. His latest work, A JEWISH PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, investigates the world-historical events leading to the rebirth of Israel in 1948.

 
The following article shows the refusal of the Olmert Government to display outrage in the face of terror:
 

Israel has acceded to a Palestinian Authority request not to demand the murderers of hikers David Rubin and Achikam Amichai, according to a Channel 2 report.

Rubin and Amichai were murdered last month while hiking in the Telem Stream region near Hevron. They were ambushed by four terrorists, but managed to return fire and kill two of them.
 
The two surviving murderers are Ali a-Hamid Rajeb Dandis, a clerk at Hevron’s Islamic Court and member of Fatah’s intelligence wing, and Amr Bader a-Halim Taha, a resident of the Abu-Sneineh hills opposite Hevron’s Jewish community and member of the Fatah-controlled PA security forces. The two took refuge shortly after the murders among their fellow PA security men in an apparently successful attempt to avoid arrest by the IDF.

Contrary to initial reports, the PA did not even inform Israel that the two had taken refuge at a PA facility until after the Shabak (General Security Service) filed a request that the weapons of Rubin, Amichai and their killers be handed over. At that point, assuming that Israel knew the whereabouts of the murderers anyway, the PA told the Shabak that it had the men in custody.

Now, according to the Channel 2 television expose, the Olmert government has agreed to let the murderers remain in PA custody, effectively confined to their place of employment. The IDF has operation plans ready and was poised to intercept the terrorists but the Olmert government refused to grant authorization. The terrorists are now being transferred to Jericho.

Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu slammed the decision, saying “the humiliating agreement of the Olmert-Barak government to give up on arresting the PA heads that murdered Achikam Amichai and David Rubin is yet another testimony to the weakness and loss of national honor on the part of this government. An immediate demand that the murderers be handed over must be made.”

Nachi Ayal, who directs the Land of Israel Legal Forum, said the decision constitutes an open invitation to terrorists to attack any citizen of Israel, since in exchange they will be presented with a vacation sponsored by the Palestinian Authority. “For the first time, Israel is not demanding the custody of the murderers of Israelis. We are witnessing the shirking of the most basic responsibility of a government to its citizens.”

Dear friends, according to Professor Eidelberg, in order to save Israel, we must get rid of traitors like Olmert, who are running and ruining our country.
 
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
 
Ruth Matar

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