The Jewish Arab State

• Author: Tzvi Fishman
• Published date: 05 April 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

The notion of embracing Arabs who support terror, denigrate the IDF, align themselves with the enemies of Israel, and yearn to destroy the Jewish State, is so utterly vapid and inane, I can't even begin to elaborate on the reasons why the idea should be garbaged.

What must be said, however, with all of the pain it involves, is the following. The Arab parties in Israel, their leaders, and the Arabs who vote for them, demonstrate a sincere attachment to the Land of Israel. Though they have absolutely no right to sovereignty or even political representation in the Jewish State, they fight fiercely on Israel's tragically misconceived democratic battleground for Arab rights and the privilege of living in the Land of Israel, and many of them, albeit with no moral justification, are willing to physically fight, risking long prison sentences and their lives, and to kill Jews in the attempt to wrest the Land of Israel from our control.

One could reason that precisely because of their attachment to the Land, and their willingness for self-sacrifice on its behalf, no matter how much it be based on falsehood, immorality, and pure evil, it is this passion for a place in the Holy Land, and for control over it, which has given them (along with the naivete and stupidity of Israel's founding fathers and subsequent leaders), the position of political power which they hold today, severely castrating our power to rule in our own Jewish State.

And I ask in great pain, how many Jewish leaders in France, England, America, and all of the other hiding places throughout the world, share the same level of attachment to the Land of Israel as these Arabs? How many leaders of Jewish organizations throughout the Diaspora have come forward in the last 100 years of struggle for our Land to enlist in the IDF and face the Arabs in physical battle? If not they themselves, how many have sent their sons in their stead to fight alongside their Jewish brothers in Israel? A sorrowful few.

How many young and...