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Why They Must Go
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Anyone who read the late Rabbi Meir Kahane book, They Must Go, would see a well-reasoned argument why the Arabs citizen of Israel must go, voluntarily if possible, forcibly if necessary.

Most politicians are too timid to admit the obvious and well- documented fact that the vast majority of Israel's Arab citizens identify themselves as "Palestinians," i.e., with Israel's enemies, that they oppose the existence of the Jewish state and are multiplying to hasten Israel's demise by means of the democratic principle of one adult/one vote. Nevertheless, Kahane was called a "racist."

Contrast Ariel Sharon's Disengagement Plan—by virtue of which The Jews of Gaza and Northern Samaria Must Go. No one quite understands, however, why "They Must Go," and yet Sharon is not called a "racist."

Judging from the testimony of IDF Chief of Staff. Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, IDF Chief of Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash, and Shin Bet Director, Avi Dichter, the Jews of Gaza and Northern Samaria MUST NOT GO. Indeed, ex-Deputy IDF Intelligence Chief, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, has said, "The Israeli government has not succeeded in producing a single serious argument that can refute objections [to Disengagement] and justify the grave step that it is taking."

Even Ariel Sharon once declared, "If we cut and run, Gaza will be taken over by terror organizations... Gaza's squares shall be transformed into launching platforms of Katyushas toward Ashkelon ... The only way to defeat terrorism is by controlling its bases" (Ma`ariv, June 12, 1992).

Now, inasmuch as the policy of Disengagement was not initiated by the United States, but rather by the Labor Party—a policy Sharon campaigned against and which a large majority of the voters rejected in the January 2003 election—it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the Jews of Gaza and Northern Samaria must go only because Sharon, for personal reasons, wants them to go.

MK Zvi Hendel has said that Sharon adopted Labor's policy of Disengagement to distract public attention from criminal charges that might be levied against him in the Greek Island Affair or for his accepting funds from foreign sources in his campaign for Likud party leadership in 1999. A recent poll indicated that 64% of the public regards Sharon as corrupt—and this was before he bribed the Shinui party with 700 million shekels to vote for the annual budget, and appointed seven Knesset members as deputy ministers for serving his cause.

It thus appears that 10,000 Jewish women, men, and children must be uprooted from their homes and farms, their schools and synagogues, for no reason other than to keep Sharon in office or out of jail! A grotesque state of affairs. What is also grotesque is that fools and scoundrels alike justify Sharon's treachery and chicanery in the name of "democracy"! Why? Because this con artist was aided and abetted by a majority of the Knesset, including 27 Likud MKs who betrayed their voters in the aforementioned January 2003 election!

Surely this so-called democracy must go, which means that Israel is in dire need of "regime change." Israelis should begin by changing their prime minister—and soon, because he is ruining the country to save his own skin. That's what his policy of Disengagement is all about—this and no more. A large majority of the public seems to see that the emperor has no clothes—is utterly shameless. A concerted and sustained campaign by respectable people may very well convince the public that Sharon and his cronies must go.