Renewed American Arms Sales To Arabs

Don’t Worry, Be Happy…How (Not) To Treat A Friend

by Gerald A. Honigman

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had barely finished calling for a Judea ( “land of the Judeans”--Jews) made Judenrein--free of Jews, who have thousands of years of history and modern ownership connecting them to the land--when it was announced that America had agreed to sell state of the art aircraft and other weaponry to Arabs either still technically at war with or dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

Hitler would be proud--as certainly are his Nazi-affiliated Arabs’ descendants. The latters’ World War II era icon, Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was a key Hitler ally in the Middle East and Arafat’s hero.

To show gratitude for earlier German favors, in 1943 al-Husseini repeatedly traveled to Bosnia where, on orders of the Nazi SS, he recruited the notorious Hanjar Troopers, a special Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS company which slaughtered the vast majority of Bosnia’s Jews and committed repeated atrocities against Serbs as well.

Keep in mind that the West’s current darling, Arafatian-in-a-suit, Mahmoud Abbas, is a Holocaust denier and is on record calling for Israel’s destruction as a Jewish State. And he’s the “moderate.” Abbas simply plays the game better than the more genocidally honest folks in Hamas. Just ask Arafat’s ghost...billions of dollars stashed away in Swiss bank accounts, and so forth.

Back to the current proposed massive American arms sale to Gulf Arab states…

Before proceeding any further, a lesson in demographics and geography is called for...especially for new readers.

Take out a map of the Middle East…a map of the world might do, but you’ll probably need a magnifying glass to assist in this exercise.

Find Israel on the map. Most of its population and industry lie within that miniscule central waistband, made about nine-sixteen miles wide by the ‘49 armistice lines, not borders. The lines simply marked the place where fighting was brought to a halt after the Arabs’ combined attempt to nip Israel in the bud in 1948. They were never meant to be permanent borders.

Next, take a look at the vast expanse of the Arab and non-Arab Muslim states surrounding Israel.

The Arabs themselves now claim almost two dozen states (conquered from mostly non-Arab peoples) on over six million square miles of territory.

Israel consists of about one-sixth of one percent of the land just held by Arabs. About five million Israeli Jews are surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs; this doesn’t include, of course, Muslim Iranians (and others) who are amongst Israel’s worst enemies today.

Now that we have some territorial perspective, we can move on…

Several decades earlier, President Jimmy (“Apartheid Israel”) Carter sold Saudi Arabia similar state of the art aircraft and such.

In May of 1978, the sale of over ninety F-15 C/D strike aircraft was narrowly approved by Congress, and only after Riyadh supposedly accepted restrictions that limited its ability to deploy against Israel. To allegedly “assure” this, the aircraft were not to be equipped with conformal fuel tanks (CFTs), preventing them from carrying extra fuel and a full weapons load simultaneously. The Saudis also agreed to refrain from basing the aircraft at the northwestern Tabuk airbase, a few minutes flight time from Israel.

In 1992, sales of seventy-two even more advanced F-15S aircraft were placed under the same and additional restrictions.

All of this was done to supposedly allow an Israel grotesquely out-manned and out-gunned to somehow maintain an edge on the battlefield. Quantitatively, there was nothing America could do…so the edge has always had to be qualitative.

Unfortunately, Israel’s “best friend,” America, has done much over the past years to erode the latter as well.

There are just so many rabbits that fit into a hat...and each time Israel fights an increasingly better enemy, it’s ability to continuously perform magic comes at an ever greater cost.

CFTs, AWACS command and control aircraft, etc. and so forth were later supplied to the Saudis, and Riyadh has repeatedly deployed F-15s at Tabuk, neutralizing Israel’s relative strategic depth.

The record of implementation for alleged American “restrictions” has thus been poor. And America has done nothing to address this except make excuses and downplay Israel’s concerns. The James Baker & Co. crew--petrodollar zillionaires, the Saudis’ legal reps, and so forth--have done their jobs well.

One of the latest excuses used to wink at this non-response to Arab non-compliance involved alleged Saudi support for America’s earlier Iraq offensive.

As is well known, however, if it was up to the Saudis, Kuwait, and the smaller Gulf Arab states themselves--despite the billions of dollars in arms they had already received--as the Saudis conquered much of the Arabian Peninsula from the Hashemites early in the 20th century creating Saudi Arabia, the land would most likely be known as Saddam Arabia today.

In 2007, substitute the threat from an Arab Saddam with that of a now even more powerful non-Arab Iran.

The mullahs not only have plans to create their twin Shi’a Islamic Republic to the west , but have recently openly staked claims to Bahrain and elsewhere as well…like Iraq, once part of ancient Iranian empires.

So, America--especially an Arabist-dominated State Department and its various petrodollar buddies--now has its latest excuse to play games at Israel’s expense.

Realistically, the latest proposed arms sales to the Arabs have about as much chance as being used against Iran as me being named an ayatollah. Unlike Israel, Iran won’t worry about precision bombing, targeted killings, and such if push really does come to shove in the Persian aka Arabian Gulf. And the Arabs know this…

So, as the Foggy Folks (who opposed Israel’s rebirth in the first place) know quite well, the only targets Arab arms will likely wind up being used against--one way or another--will be kosher ones. And the odds of any new so-called restrictions on renewed massive arms sales to Arabs being honored have about as much chance of success as the earlier ones did.

Back in 2005, the United States imposed sanctions after a dispute over Israel’s sale of drones --unmanned aerial vehicles--to China. The Israelis were forced to back down.

America dwarfs Israel in size and is the most powerful nation on Earth.

The weapons Washington sells Israel’s enemies--many of whom are still sworn to its demise--are far more lethal than those drones. The problem doesn’t go away simply by selling the Jews more armaments as well. Again, keep the demographics and geography in mind.

Israel’s qualitative edge these days is mostly--if not entirely--of its own making…upgrades on systems made by the Jews themselves.

Such continuous, callous disregard by America for the minimal, basic security needs of its tiny, beleaguered true friend--whether territorial (recall Rice’s demand for Israel to return to its 9-mile wide,’49 armistice line existence), military, or otherwise--is something which will backfire on America itself not too far down the road.

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Fall Foolishness...

Fall Foolishness…

by Gerald A. Honigman

Things ain’t going too well In Mesopotamia these days.

Despite the surge in American troops and so forth, the reality is that if America withdrew even a year from now, the fourteen hundred year old divide between Sunni and Shi’a Arabs would still yield the bloody results we are seeing daily right now. Short of either another Saddam-like Sunni or Shi’a version of that other post-World War I’s artificial state’s absolute ruler, Marshal Tito, emerging, “Iraq” will likely come apart at its religio-ethnic seams as did Yugoslavia.

Worse still, the one people (not perfect themselves, but still the most deserving) who most merit American support will be the folks we’ll probably again abandon to their Arab tormentors--the Kurds…some thirty million of whom still remain stateless and whom the American State Department and its oil-addicted kin make every excuse under the sun to keep as perpetual victims to their Arab and other regional oppressors.

The very week President George W. Bush announced plans for a major summit a few months down the road to reinvigorate his dream of the creation of a “contiguous” Palestinian Arab State (the Arabs‘ # 22--and second, not first, one in “Palestine“), reports surfaced of renewed atrocities and ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Arab Syria--the state where Kurdish kids are forced to sing songs praising their “Arab“ identities in schools. Four decades ago, Ismet Cheriff Vanly wrote The Syrian Mein Kampf Against The Kurds (Amsterdam 1968)--so such things have been going on for quite some time. Yet, how many people know of this? And why aren’t they reading about the case for Kurdistan in the news the way they are the cause for yet another Arab terror state set up in Israel‘s backyard?

The vast majority of Kurds are not involved in and do not support terror and just want to be able to rule their own lives and not be subjugated (or worse) as Arabs are able to do in many other states which they have come to rule.

Why are thirty million Kurds doomed by the world’s power brokers to statelessness and perpetual victimization (keep in mind that Kurds were promised independence in Mesopotamia/Iraq after World War I) while Mr. Bush presses Israel to allow for the creation of either a Hamas or Fatah Arab terror state?

Recall that it took Saddam’s gassings and such in Arab Iraq to even bring any attention at all to the plight of the Kurds.

But that was yesterday’s news…

Today, the plans of the Arabs’ legal representative, Bush family and petrodollar good buddy, James Baker, are again setting the stage for shafting America’s Kurdish friends in the area…friends who are now seeing through Baker’s and the State Department’s intentions and are acting sometimes in ways to also distance themselves from America. A shame…It should not have come to this.

Sunni Arab states control much of the world’s oil. Kurds should have the right to do likewise with oil which sits in land which they have lived in millennia before any Arab or Turk arrived there.

While I fully supported America’s overthrow of Saddam, the predicament we now face should have surprised no one…just ask the British who had a long history there after World War I.

If America’s honorable desire for a highly autonomous, federated Iraq falls apart (as it likely will…too many ancient, powerful forces and factors working against it), we should cut our losses and support the one true success story we have already helped to create…a free and independent Kurdistan, complete with American bases, in a region where the latter are becoming less and less welcome. Arabs and others routinely flee the violence in the areas they control for the Kurdish north.

And this brings me to the real topic of this piece…

With a less than probable favorable long term outcome facing us in Iraq--i.e. Iran’s ayatollahs have begun the countdown to the creation of their sister Islamic Republic to the west and may actually be considering reuniting it within Iran’s ancient borders (Bahrain was also targeted so the other day)--Bush would like to leave office with a “success” he can point to in that region. Think of the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency and similar pressures on Israel to give away the store for promises of Arab “good behavior” at Camp David and Taba.

Israel is now, once again, under enormous pressure to play along with this dangerous game.

It has agreed to release Arab prisoners to Fatah’s Abbas that should have never been taken alive in the first place…wannabes who “just” maimed instead of murdered innocent Israeli children and mothers, and so forth. Additionally, Israel has agreed to grant amnesty to others of the same ilk if they simply pledged to be good. As The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick has pointed out, the Arabs are laughing their behinds off at this.

But funny it’s not…especially when one considers that Israel’s alleged “best friend,” America, has been relentlessly pressuring it to act in this suicidal way.

Israel must muster the backbone to refuse to attend such a summit at this time.

Prime Minister Olmert and his even worse Condi Rice derriere-kisser, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, must get the boot by the Israeli public before Israel attends such a meeting.

When such things as the “contiguity ” of that proposed additional Arab state are brought up at such a summit, Israel must have leaders who will insist that Israel’s own contiguity (as just one example, how does one link Gaza with Judea and Samaria without dissecting Israel itself ?) must not suffer to create this.

The desires of Arab state # 22 must not take precedence over the security of the Jews’ sole, tiny, resurrected nation.

Before agreeing to attend any such meeting, Israel must have leaders who will insist upon the meaningful territorial compromises it is entitled to under the provisions of post-‘67 War U.N. Security Council Resolution 242. The latter called for the creation of secure and recognized borders to replace Israel’s former 1949, 9-mile wide armistice line existence. President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, and others supported this right, as did all of 242’s international architects such as Britain’s Lord Caradon and America’s Eugene Rostow. At one time Mr. Bush seemed to understand this as well, commenting that some Texan driveways were bigger than Israel’s width. While Israel’s goal will not be to rule over millions of additional Arabs, any territorial compromise worth the paper it’s written on will see some Arabs living within the sole Jewish State’s new, real borders the same way scores of millions of non-Arab Kurds, Berbers, Copts, Jews, Armenians, Assyrians, black Africans, and so forth live in so-called “Arab States.” If they don’t like this, they may move to the new, second Arab state in Palestine.

Israel must thus come to such a meeting with demands of its own and must be proactive instead of reactive.

So far, Olmert and Co. have simply caved in to one demand after another in the American State Department (with Bush approval ) Arafatian Fatah good cop vs. Hamas bad cop games. Every atrocity committed against Jews by Hamas was either winked at or collaborated with by Fatah. And the latter has as much or more Jewish blood on its hands as the former. Despite all the denials, for example, it turns out that Black September (airplane hijackings, Munich Olympics’ massacre, murderers of Americans, etc.) was, in fact, simply part of Arafat and his lieutenant, Mahmud Abbas’, Fatah. And America, in fact, collaborated with this manure to build up Arafat’s “good name.”

Massive amounts of American military aid and such have already fallen to Hamas. It’s likely that more will go this route as well…not that it really makes much difference to Israel. And that brings up the next crucial issue…

The first thing any Israeli Prime Minister must insist upon at any such meeting is that the days of Arab hudnas--temporary ceasefires--are over. Period…

Any concrete concessions of territory, amnesty, and such must be accompanied by a full treaty of peace in return. This must include the real--not pretend--revision of the PLO Charter which calls for Israel’s destruction. Textbooks, maps, imams, and such which show no Israel or call for its destruction must be replaced by those which lay the groundwork for peace and mutual acceptance--not terror and murder.

If Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas are different than Hamas in something beyond merely their openly-admitted Trojan Horse and destruction-in-stages tactics for Israel’s demise, then it’s time that they put up or shut up. The time for allowing Arab excuses to continue murder and attempted murder of Jews has to come to a quick end. What other nation would demand less?

Israel must insist that any treaty of peace must come with recognized casus belli between the two nations. Certainly one of these must be that both nations will take responsibility for preventing aggression being launched against the other from their respective territories. Certainly America would not tolerate the murder of its citizens by folks based in Canada or Mexico. Imagine our response to repeated rocket and missile attacks. Would we settle for “we’re too weak (wink, wink) to stop it? How long would we or anyone put up with that manure?

If a state can’t control such things, it either has no right to statehood or no right to complain when the victim does all in its power to stop the terror and murder itself.

Casus belli…

The Israeli leadership which attends such a summit must bring with them illustrations of what true peace can mean--for all parties concerned. Israel has been a good friend to many. But that leadership must also stand firm and insist that acts of war launched from the Arabs’ new state will be treated as such.

Despite the State Department’s all-too-frequent line, there is no “moral equivalency” between those who attack and those who defend.

No terror, no wall, no checkpoints, etc. and so forth.

Get it?

While we’re at it, let’s face some obvious, if politically incorrect, facts.

There really is no room in that miniscule space between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River for another state. But, if the world and President Bush insist that yet another Arab one indeed pop up there--in addition to the state Arabs already have east of the Jordan River on some 80% of the original 1920 Palestinian Mandate named Jordan--then its birth must cause Israel the least amount of risk as possible.

And there will be plenty of risk, regardless.

Given this, more than lip service is required to grant an extremely vulnerable Israel the security any other nation would demand. Yet that’s about all Arabs have really been asked to do up until now.

Speaking of which, Israel must tell the Arabs to forget about their demand to swamp Israel with millions of allegedly returning jihadi refugees.

None…zilch…nada.

More Jews fled “Arab ” countries than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to fighting Arabs started themselves.

Up until now, the pattern has been that the Holocaust-denying Abbas repeats some sweet talk (although he ran on an open platform for Israel‘s destruction--but by more “acceptable” means), and Jews are expected to say Amen!

Even when Abbas has condemned Arabs blowing up restaurants, buses and such, he repeatedly did so not because it was morally wrong, but only because it hurt the Arab cause. Regardless of what he really did or didn’t mean by such statements and behavior, his past history as Arafat’s close associate certainly is a cause for concern.

Until Abbas & Fatah announce clearly to the world that they fully recognize Israel’s right to exist in secure and recognized borders as a Jewish State, then Israel must treat them simply as Arafatians in suits.

All of these issues and more must be dealt with unabashedly by any Israeli leadership which agrees to attend any summit--regardless of when it actually occurs.

Bush would love to convene the summit soon for the reasons already reviewed and for the sake of Republicans running in upcoming elections at home. With the mess in Iraq, it would be nice to point to a “success.”

But until Israel gets itself leaders who are once again non-apologetic in resisting suicidal demands America would most certainly never consent to itself, Israel must refuse to join the planned festivities where it, itself, will likely be offered up as the sacrificial lamb.

Again, recall, above, the Arabs laughing at Israel’s latest concessions...

Israel must look its best friend in the eye and say that the issues spelled out above are basic and pertain to its minimal needs for survival...something that an America that is three thousand miles wide with a population of three hundred million should still certainly be able to understand. Thirty-four Israels fit into the territory of Bush’s Texas.

If Israel agrees to attend this rushed summit with Olmert & Co. at the helm, it will simply turn into a gang-up-on-the-Jews exercise in fall foolishness that the Jews will certainly pay for in blood.

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Jordan King Abdullah's Nasty Comments

Abdullah & The Palestinians...An Arab Lesson In Chutzpah

by Gerald A. Honigman

In a July 1st interview with the Jordanian newspaper, Al-Ghad, Jordan’s King Abdullah said that all of the photo-op sessions and such ultimately mean nothing for the Palestinians because they “face a solid enemy that works according to programs and plans.” He then warned that Israel will never have the peace and security it wishes unless it surrenders to the Arabs’ territorial demands.

Now, for someone whose country consists of some 80% of the original borders of Mandatory Palestine--and whose population is mostly “Palestinian” (however one defines that, since most of the latter were actually newcomers to the Mandate themselves)--I can undersdtand the King being a bit nervous about this subject.

Add to this his Dad’s (the late King Hussein) slaughter of more Palestinian Arabs in a month than all who have died during their years trying to destroy Israel, Abdullah’s remarks are a lesson, indeed, in chutzpah. “ Black September” is how the Palestinian Arabs remember this--when Arafat’s PLO allied with Syria in 1970 and tried to seize the bulk of Palestine from the Hashemites and were slaughtered by the thousands in the process. Many fled into Israel to escape the wrath of their brothers. And it was Israel’s mobilization in the north which saved Hussein’s derriere from further Syrian involvement.

Periodically, one Jordanian spokesman or another engages this touchy issue, so a reality check is in order. The points are so basic to this conflict that many of us, for a variety of reasons, feel obligated to repeat them over and over.

Indeed, the Hashemites would be wise to not address this issue to anyone with a knowledge of the actual history involved. Since many do not possess this, Abdullah and his comrades feel free to rant

To truly appreciate what comes next, first find a map of the Middle East. One of the world will do, but everything will be much smaller. Find Jordan and then find Israel to its west.

As has been written often, in 1922, Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, to reward Arab allies in World War I (remember the movie, Lawrence of Arabia ?), chopped off roughly 80% of the original Mandate of Palestine issued to Great Britain on April 25, 1920--all the land east of the Jordan River (the East Bank)--and created the purely Arab “Emirate of Transjordan”...today’s Jordan. This gift of the lion’s share of “Palestine” to Arab nationalism was engineered by Churchill in 1921 at the Cairo Conference.

Emir Abdullah (the current Jordanian King’s great-grandfather), who received the land on behalf of the Hashemites who were in the process of getting booted out of the Arabian Peninsula by the rival clan of Ibn Saud (hence, Saudi Arabia today), attributed this gift to an act of Allah in his memoirs. Sir Alec Kirkbride, Britain’s East Bank representative, had much to say about this separation of the bulk of the Palestinian Mandate as well.

“In due course the remarkable discovery was made that the clauses of the mandate relating to the establishment of a National Home for the Jews had never been intended to apply to the mandated territory east of the river (A Crackle of Thorns, page 27).”

Thus, right from the getgo, Arab nationalism was awarded most of the Palestinian Mandate.

Pro-Arab professors typically ignore all of this when teaching this topic. The main starting date for them is not 1920, but 1947...the proposed partition of “Palestine.” Of course they conveniently omit explaining that this was the second partition of the land--which the Arabs rejected themselves--and pretend that Jordan was always a separate state. Had the Arabs accepted this second partition, they would have wound up with some 90% of the territory. So much for the standard Arab line that Jews got all or most of the land.

The Jordan-Palestine connection is just one of many well-documented facts (not “Zionist propaganda") completely ignored or distorted by spokesmen such as King Abdullah and, unfortunately, little known by much of the rest of the world. Arabs typically claim Jews got 78% of all of the land, and leading newspapers typically prepare segments on the Middle East ignoring this crucial connection as well.

When Egypt’s Nasser decided, once again, in June 1967 to drive the Jews into the sea, he contacted Abdullah’s father, King Hussein (his calls were intercepted and taped) and convinced him to join in the massacre of the Jews. Israel, through the United Nations, begged Hussein to distance himself from Nasser’s plans.

Hussein didn’t listen and instead launched an attack on the Jewish half of Jerusalem instead.

The rest, as they say, is history. And that’s how Jordan lost Judea and Samaria (renamed by British imperialism the West Bank)--which it seized in the 1948 fighting (subsequently changing its name from Transjordan-to Jordan)--in the first place. Led by British officers, Transjordan joined other Arab countries in attacking a miniscule, reborn Israel in 1948, trying to nip it in the bud.

As I am forced to repeat too often in order to answer yet another pro-Arab propagandist, whatever will or won’t become of the land in question (and a meaningful territorial compromise is a must), it must be noted that the land in question, which the Jordanian king refers to, is disputed territory--not “Palestinian” land.

Jews lived and owned property there until their slaughter in the 1920s. 

In reality, the “West Bank” consists of non-apportioned parts of the Mandate, and leading authorities such as Eugene Rostow, William O’Brien, and others have stressed that these areas were open to settlement by Jews, Arabs, and other residents of the Mandate as well. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of Arabs poured into the area from all the region...Arab settlers setting up Arab settlements.

The League Of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission documented scores of thousands of Arabs entering into Palestine from just Syria alone. Hamas’ “patron saint,” Sheikh Izzedine al-Qassam, was from Latakia, Syria. Fatah’s Arafat, himself, was from Egypt. It’s estimated that many more Arabs entered the Mandate, to take advantage of the economic development going on because of the Jews, under cover of darkness and were never recorded...more Arab settlers setting up more Arab settlements.

Returning to the present, Israel does not deserve the nasty comments it received from Jordan’s young king--regardless of the delicate balancing act he must indulge in given the realities of the Jordan-Palestine connection.

Israel does not seek to rule over millions of Arabs’ lives in Judea and Samaria. What it must have is a reasonable compromise over these disputed lands...not the unilateral, Munich style “solution” too much of the rest of the world now has in mind that will return the Jewish State to its nine-mile wide existence of the 1949 armistice line--not border--days.

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The Day After (new Israeli elections)...

The Day After…

by Gerald A. Honigman

As I was walking my two-year old Chocolate Labrador Retriever, Tess (Contessa for your royals out there), along the ocean this morning, I found myself daydreaming. Not being able to fish today, I just admired the clear, calm ocean and felt sorry for myself for having my son, Jonathan, and my fishing trip cut short by rain the other day.  I don’t get the boat out often…yet we do need the rain (but why then!?!?)

Well, in a semi-trance brought on by Mother Nature, I started to think “what ifs?” as Tessa took me for a walk. Like many Labs, she flunked out of obedience school.

So, here’s the picture generated by my neurons on this Florida summer day…


Israel carried out new elections later this summer. Olmert and his pathetic crew have been given the boot, and a mixture of old and new faces have come to the fore.

A depressed Israeli public, thirsting for peace and tiring of war, finally woke up in August and realized that both parties in a conflict must want peace for it to occur. The painful truth--obvious to some, but avoided by too many others--finally sunk in: The only long-term “peace” their Arab enemies have in mind for Israel is the peace of the grave. Makes no difference whether it’s the State Department’s alleged Arafatian Fatah good cops or Hamas bad cops.

Olmert’s opposition ran away with the election.

The day after taking office, the new Israeli Prime Minister made a phone call to Fatah’s Abbas. Olmert, pressured by the American President, and Secretary Rice and her Foggy Folks, had released hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds, eased security restrictions, and so forth to prop up Abbas in the wake of Hamas’ Gaza victory. Abbas and his staff were now called to a meeting with the new Israeli leadership.

Previous, concrete, one-sided concessions by Israel in return for Fatah’s promises had only led to the shedding of more Jewish blood--and Arabs laughing at the Jews falling for their Trojan Horse and destruction in stages traps due to pressure from, ironically, their American best friends.

But, those days were now gone. Baruch HaShem.

And here’s the new Prime Minister’s steadfast position as expressed during his meeting with Abbas’ crew:

“ My Arab colleagues--colleagues, not friends--for up ‘til now, you have not been friends…

We both know the game that you have been playing for decades now. We Jews may have appeared ignorant, but we were squeezed to behave this way--as you well know and have taken advantage of many a time.

Those days are gone.


You have just received additional hard, concrete concessions from us as further gestures of good will and a sincere hope for a better future for both of our peoples.

The ball is now in your court.

There will be no more concessions from us until we see concrete evidence that you have decided to pursue a true peace--not your so-called hudnas, designed only to buy time to further strengthen yourselves
in pursuit of your openly-admitted real goal of our destruction .

So, along these lines, we demand that you place Israel on your official maps. It’s not there now.

We demand that you monitor, very carefully, the imams in your mosques who collect salaries from you and preach the slaughter of Jews, along with your teachers, newspaper editors, commentators, television stations, and so forth.

We demand that you remove the textbooks from your schools which, along with your children camps and so forth, only teach your youth how to hate--not how to get along with Jews who finally have in one, tiny resurrected state, where their ancestors have lived for thousands of years, what you Arabs have almost two dozen of. This is urgent, and a true test of your willingness to accept us as neighbors and not as fools.

We demand that you crack down hard--which you have refused to do up until now--upon those among you how find glory in murdering our innocents. You have the means to do this, but not the will. What does this say to us, from whom you expect more and more concessions?

While one half of our people fled Arab lands--were refugees (but with no UNRWA to help , as you Arabs received)--after the attack Arabs launched upon our tiny, reborn state--much of the other half had just undergone the nightmare of the Holocaust, which you, Abbas, claim never occurred.

Despite this, our leaders cracked down on those some perceived to be Jewish hardliners in the fight for Jewish survival. The ship Altalena, was sunk and Jews killed fellow Jews right after the nightmare of Auschwitz to see to it that there would be just one unified command.

There’s an important lesson for you here, Abbas, and you’d best learn it.

Our patience with Arab self-centeredness--others, besides yourselves, are entitled to their slivers of justice in this region too-- has worn out as has our willingness to cave in to the pressure of the world’s oil-addicted hypocrites.

So, here’s what’s expected next…

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, in the wake of the ‘67 War we were forced to fight after being blockaded at the Straits of Tiran ( a casus belli) , etc., once again, for our very survival (before we were in Sinai, the Golan, Gaza, back in Judea and Samaria, and so forth) called for the creation of “secure and recognized borders” to replace those ridiculous armistice lines which made our state a mere stone’s throw wide after 1948.

Given all the above, we realize that you still refuse to recognize us within our pre-’67 armistice lines…let alone anything more.

Even worse, after you expect us to cave in to a retreat to those lines--in opposition to 242--you then expect us to accept being flooded by millions of jihadi-raised alleged refugees--whom you caged in camps, and who were created as a result of your own aggression--while we took in more of our own Jewish refugees fleeing what you call “Arab” lands into our sole state about the size of America’s New Jersey.

Knowing this, we are thus forced to come up with our own solution.

We will never return to our 9-mile wide existence again. Get used to that--for your own good…regardless of what your State Department friends may be telling you.

We learned Gaza’s lessons well--though were not shocked at what occurred after our withdrawal over two years ago. It just brought your terror closer to our main population centers.

Wise up, Mahmoud…

We have the means to flatten you, literally, and are approaching the time when this will indeed become a real option. Nations at war have done what’s needed to be done to achieve victory in the past…and their very existence was not on the line. Ours is…The dispute with you has never been about how “big” we are…but that that we “are.”

While Gaza will be obliterated if Hamas attacks us, you will be held accountable as well. At least Hamas has been straightforward with its genocidal intentions towards us. This makes your own deception only more dangerous. Among other things, it is designed to win massive amounts of Western support. Anyway, your Fatah and its affiliates have as much or more of our blood on their hands as Hamas. You just play the game better.

No more games, Mahmoud…

We will draw a new set of lines unilaterally. Again, you don’t offer us a true peace even if we caved in to all of your suicidal demands.

Our nation will never be nine miles wide again.

The previous 1949 armistice lines--drawn up where the fighting halted after your invasion of us in 1948--were never meant to be permanent borders, as America’s UN representative, Ralph Bunche, pointed out at the time. Most of our people and industry--as you well know--are confined to a zipper-sized coastal waist, 9-16 miles wide.

We will double the above width…which still makes us a rump state.

Any additional state for Arabs--your 22nd--will not come at the expense of the security of the Jews’ sole, tiny nation. And this will indeed be the Arabs’ 2nd, not first, state in “Palestine.” Jordan emerged after 80% of the original 1920 Mandate was handed over to Arab nationalism in 1922. The original maps are available for all to see. If you don’t like it because some Arabs came from elsewhere as Transjordan‘s rulers, what are we to say? We Jews have come from both here but also from many “elsewheres” as well. Should we thus demand dozens of Jewish states instead of our one? Yet, that’s your game…

Arabs caught on our side of the new border will be offered Israeli citizenship in return for a loyalty pledge. If they mess up, they risk being expelled to your side of the new border. The same will go for our own Israeli Arab citizens--some of whom have indeed been acting treasonously. We will deal with the latter as other nations would. They are the freest Arabs in the region.

As Jews, Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Copts, Berbers, black Africans, and so forth live in “Arab” states, some Arabs will live in a Jewish State. If this is too much to ask of them, then they will be ejected. We Jews won’t apologize for wanting in one state what your Arab brothers mostly conquered and created for themselves in some two dozen others.

What you do on your side of the new border is your own business…as long as it doesn’t negatively impact upon us. Create that second “Palestinian” Arab state (however you define it, since most of your folks were newcomers--settlers--from other states as well after World War I), confederate with Jordan…whatever.

Just be a good neighbor…

If you are, you will find us meeting you far more than half way on the road to a better life for your children as well as our own. We have lots to offer to friends…

But we will offer far more than has been dished out in the recent past to enemies as well.

Violence from territories you control will be responded to exponentially. Just ask America’s former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, about his own Doctrine regarding such things. Hopefully, you’ll see to it that it doesn’t have to come to this.

While you, of course, are free to reject what I’m laying out here today, please understand that we are serious about the ball being in your own court right now…regardless of Secretary Rice’s (and the President’s?) short-sighted threats to us. If they materialize, they will likely backfire during the next, upcoming American elections. The American people largely know “what’s up” now as well.

Know also that we are prepared to take cuts in American aid and support if that’s what’s required to not cave in to our own suicide. And we will not be a part of your openly-admitted, “destruction in phases” plans for us any longer.

So, make your decision…

Will it be a true peace among neighbors--with all that can truly blossom from it--or your continued quest to see and seek justice through Arab eyes only?

The choice, Mahmoud, is yours.

Be honest and present this realistic compromise to the Arab Street, for they elected Hamas as they elected you earlier when you--one of Arafat’s chief lieutenants--also ran on a platform for the destruction of the sole State of the Jews.

As always, our hands are extended in friendship.

But the time for your excuses is fast running out.

You will have six months to earnestly begin the measures we laid out here that are designed to create an atmosphere of acceptance that you have ignored up until this very moment in time. You’ve received billions of dollars in aid over the years. What has been lacking is the will to do so.

While you can’t do anything about that unfortunate past, you can take steps towards a better future.

Be honest with your people before it’s too late.

We Jews waited too long for the resurrection of Israel to see it destroyed. Please understand and convey what this means for those who have the latter in mind.

After six months, if we have seen no concrete, positive changes, we will treat the territories you control in Judea and Samaria (renamed by British imperialism, only in the last century, the “West Bank“) as we will deal with those now under the control of Hamas. When you ruled Gaza, we were continuously attacked anyway. Other nations would have never put up with what we have already been doing for so long without taking massive action. Be advised…It’s coming. Olmert and his head-n-the-sand, inept folks are out.

Please don’t make it come to this.”

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