…The
year 1967 was the highest point of Zionism triumphant, a forceful validation of
the historical Jewish rallying call Next Year In Jerusalem, now
transformed in the Jewish mind into Jerusalem Forever. Jews all over the
world were now all of a sudden energized and exhilarated. In the United States
they were about to become a huge political force, to be organized first
as liberal Jewish activists within the Democratic Party, then as
somewhat more hawkish proponents of an aggressive foreign policy, focused on
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, then as the so-called Reagan
Democrats within the Republican Party, and finally, as the Republican neoconservatives
of the New American Century fame, the ones that have given America her
war in Iraq, and, in the larger context, the hottest proponents of an American
neo-Crusade against… Islam.
Their
chief engine of power is Zionism. Their policies are centered around the State
of Israel, but not in the sense of promoting the interests of Israel, as much as
formulating those interests themselves, and acting upon them… But wait a minute,
what about Israel herself?
Over
forty years have passed since 1967. Today’s Israel is no longer the Israel of
the Six-Day War. The old caste of warriors that won that war has been diluted
through the immigration of non-combatant Jews from the Soviet Union, most of
whom, I repeat, have regarded Israel not as the Zion of their spiritual
destiny, but as a poor man’s substitute for America, their capitalist Paradise…
The great Zionist Sparta is no more!
Thus,
immigration has been both the boon of Israel and one of her banes. Ironically,
in the technical question of immigration, modern Israel isn’t much different
from ancient Sparta. Spartan citizenship, if we remember, was passed on by blood,
and so is Jewish citizenship. The physical place of birth in neither case has
been an essential factor in the determination of citizenship.
Another
bane of Israel is the Palestinian population, just as Sparta was plagued in her
sunset years by helots and helot revolts. It is hard to imagine however that
the Palestinians will be the immediate cause of Israel’s demise.
What
is the future of Israel then? No, it is not threatened by physical destruction,
nor by Palestinian or Arab terrorism. Terrorism, in this exact sense, is hardly
possible, even given the threat from the nuclear-armed Pakistan, or from the
Iranian nuclear ambitions. Not that the fact itself is impossible, but I do
believe that a different force is going to determine the bleak future of
Israel.
Her
civilian Jews, those new immigrants who have come to Israel for ‘comfort,’
rather than to fight for the land and persevere against great odds, have become
the nation’s debilitating fifth column. For the terrorists to
win, a military victory is not required. The meaning of anti-Israeli terrorism
today is non-lethal, specific, and easily achievable in practical terms. It
is not to exterminate the Israelis, but to terrorize them mentally to the
point of making the “softy” majority leave Israel, to find a peaceful life
elsewhere…
And
here comes my second group of Israeli citizens constituting the country’s fifth column.---
---Any
Jew living in Israel who holds an American, Australian, or any other passport,
or passports, in other words, one who holds multiple citizenships, whenever
push comes to shove will be motivated to leave Israel with its mounting
troubles behind. This is by no means an insult to the proper Israeli loyalties,
but a simple statement of fact. I sincerely believe, and with a good cause at
that, that any true Israeli Spartan should have a single Israeli citizenship as
a matter of principle. Multiple citizenships imply split loyalties, and they
make defective citizens, no matter what the holders of several passports may say
in their defense.
Just
read the requirements of naturalized
citizenship in the United States. No
split loyalties there! On paper, I mean. In reality, things are much different.
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