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Commentary
by Dr. Gerhard Falk |
Ariel Sharon - A Jewish
Hero
The hatred
with which the Arabs and their supporters denounce Ariel Sharon every day is the
best indication of the courage and determination with which this man has
defended his people and his nation. An uncompromising and unafraid Jew, Sharon
does not fit the expectations of the world. Jews are not expected to stand up
for themselves and their people. Jews, says the world, are to shuffle into gas
ovens while reciting ancient prayers. Jews, say the Europeans, have not rights.
Jews are to deliver their children to the butchers who make lampshades from
human skins and soap from Jewish bones. “Who ever heard of a Jew fighting
back?” “What an audacity, what chutzpah, for a Jew to defend his life and
the lives of his family!”
The haters
cannot believe it, the “diplomats” are disgusted, the religious are
appalled. Ariel Sharon, a Jew who defends himself! Of course the Arabs are
disappointed. The so-called “Human Rights Watch” tells them that they are
the victims of discrimination because they are not given the same right to
murder 6 million Jews as their European friends had only one generation ago. It
is a “war crime”, say the supporters of the Arabs, that Jews use guns to
defend themselves.
Well,
Ariel Sharon won’t listen to any of that. He was born in 1928 in the village
of Malal, Israel. At the age of 14, Sharon joined the HAGANAH, the Jewish
defense force which was chiefly responsible for winning the War of Independence
in 1948. Sharon commanded an infantry company during that war.
Consequently,
Ariel Sharon founded a special commando unit which defended Israeli citizens
against terrorist attacks. This led to his appointment as commander of a
paratroop brigade during the 1956 Sinai campaign and his further service as an
infantry brigade commander. Thereafter he was appointed head of the northern
command, head of the army training branch, head of the IDF southern command and
commander of an armored division which routed the Egyptians during the Six Day
War in 1967.
In 1973
Sharon, having returned to active duty after a few months of civilian life,
commanded an armored division which defeated the Egyptians again and crossed the
Suez Canal into Egypt on their way to Cairo. This spectacular success led to the
election of Sharon to parliament in December in 1977.
In 1982,
by then appointed defense minister by prime minister Menachem Begin, he sent the
Israeli army into Lebanon, all the way to Beirut, to stop the attacks of the
terrorists on Israel from Lebanese soil. That invasion stopped the attacks of
the terrorists on northern Israel, particularly because the Israeli army and
their Christian allies held on to a part of southern Lebanon until prime
minister Ehud Barak foolishly removed the IDF from Lebanon. That abandonment of
southern Lebanon led to the massacre of Israel’s Christian allies by the
return of the terrorists. In addition, that abandonment of southern Lebanon led
the terrorists to believe that they had won a great victory over the exhausted
Israeli army and therefore encouraged the terrorists to use homicide bombing
within Israel. The terrorists believed that the Jews would become so frightened
by the bombings that they would leave Israel just as they had left Lebanon. As
we know, the outcome was otherwise. The Israeli army seized Jenin and other
terrorist strongholds and arrested the killers in their bomb factories and in
their homes and destroyed the infrastructure of these murderers. Ariel Sharon,
now prime minister, achieved all this despite the gross lies and anti-Jewish
hate spewing from the Arabs and the European media.
This year
these media and the European politicians resorted once more to the vile “blood
libel” that the Nazis and their medieval forebears used for centuries to
defame and kill Jews. This “blood libel” was also used in 1982 when Arabs of
the Christian faith entered two Palestinian camps in Lebanon, Sabra and Shatila,
and there slaughtered numerous Moslem Arabs in retaliation for the mass killings
of Christians by Moslems earlier. There can be no doubt that these mass murders
were a nightmare of cruelty. There is also no doubt that Arabs killed Arabs at
Sabra and Shatila. Nevertheless, the Jew haters, including such bigots as
“Human Rights Watch”, blame Ariel Sharon for these murders. They call him a
“war criminal” but have nothing to say about the murderers. In short, when
Arabs kill Arabs the Jews are at fault. No doubt Mr. Henry Megally, the
executive director of “Human Rights Watch”, is convinced that Jews poison
the wells, use the blood of Christian children to bake Matzohs and control all
the media (the same media which berate Jews day and night).
Now this
year Ariel Sharon responded to the bombing of Israeli restaurants, food stores
and night clubs by rooting out the murderers from Jenin and other terror bases.
At once, the terrorists screamed that the Israeli army had conducted a “mass
murder” and slaughter of civilians. Thereupon the United Nations bigot Kofi
Anan appointed a “commision” to investigate the so-called mass killings.
Before ever getting near Jenin that commission at once condemned Ariel Sharon
and all Jews of a “massacre” of over 500 civilians. In view of this insane
accusation Ariel Sharon refused to let the Jew-baiters into Israel or Jenin. Now
it turns out that there was no “massacre” in Jenin but only in Israel where
the haters slaughtered hundreds of Jews with homicide bombs, even at a Seder. It
is of course out of the question that the UN or “Human Rights Watch” would
investigate those massacres since those massacres are on the approved list of
these “liberals.”
In the
forefront of the European anti-Jewish coalition is, of course, France. There the
Nazi Jean Marie Le Pen lost the election for president to Jaques Chirac, the
current president, by a wide margin. This is by no means a victory for liberty,
fraternity or equality. The truth is that the followers of Chirac burn down
synagogues. The followers of Chirac beat Jews in the streets and shout “kill
the Jews” all over France. The French government is actively participating in
the persecution of its Jewish citizens by constantly denouncing Israel, i.e.
“the Jews”, and by doing nothing to prevent the attacks on Jewish
institutions.
It is for
those reasons that Ariel Sharon has invited the Jews of France to come to Israel
where they can defend themselves instead of needing to rely on a government
which seeks their destruction.
It is
evident that once more Israel has a leader who is capable of dealing with the
crisis in which the Jews of the world find themselves now. Once more, as in the
past, the most unlikely candidate to leadership of the Jewish people has risen
when needed. This has happened many times. So let us not despair. Indeed, all
Jews are under attack once more even as the Moslems plan another Holocaust with
aid of their European allies. Yet, we fear not. We have allies among the
Christians of the United States. We have allies in the Congress of the United
States. We have allies in ourselves because we will not give in. We will not be
slaughtered. We will not enter another Auschwitz nor be driven to “the
Auschwitz Line”, as the Saudi murderers suggest. We will face the whole world
and shout with one voice: “Am Yisroel Chai”, the people of Israel live, no
matter who likes it, for we are an eternal people. The Torah teaches that those
who bless Israel are blessed and those who curse Israel are cursed. That truth
has been validated many times. So it has always been. So it shall always be. My
friends, be not afraid but stand up for Israel and for ourselves now and forever
and shout from the rooftops, “Onochi Yehoodi”. I AM A JEW.
Shalom
u’vracha.
Dr. Gerhard Falk is the author of numerous publications,
including Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders.
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