J'accuse! - Paul Eidelberg

Quite apart from Israel's flawed system of governance, what has bothered me most since the signing of the Oslo or Israel-PLO Agreement in September 1993 is the flawed character of Israel's Oslovian prime ministers.  What are we to say about these prime ministers without being dismissed as mere polemicists with an axe to grind?  

Let’s assume that these prime ministers— Yitzhak Rabin, Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, and again Netanyahu—were something other than stupid, that Oslo was simply a mistake.  Charles Krauthammer recently called Oslo "the greatest diplomatic blunder in history." 

Okay, but why—why despite the subsequent and ongoing murder of Jews by PLO, hence, why despite the PLO's repeated and blatant violations of the Oslo Agreement, why didn'tYitzhak Rabin, Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, and again Netanyahu abrogate that agreement?  Why did they persist in afflicting the people of Israel with the empirically self-destructive policy of "territory for peace"?

It is not sufficient to attribute their fixation on "territory for peace" to wishful thinking or to American pressure.  Since we are assuming that these prime ministers are other than stupid, they had to be aware that continuation of this policy could only result in the murder of more Jews by Arab terrorists.  Nor will it do to attribute their fixation to a Jewish death wish, a hypothesis I have elsewhere refuted.  No, the body count kept climbing, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

The ugly truth is that one prime minister after another could not stop this funereal peace process without incriminating himself and/or his predecessors as complicit in murder!  Not a single prime minister had the courage to resign, to confess his culpability, his virtual collaboration with the enemy, the leaders of terrorist organizations of whom he had an abundance of evidence clearly showing that they were engaged in a "strategy of stages" whose ultimate goal is the annihilation of Israel.

Can there be any doubt about the crime committed by these prime ministers?  Is there no a High Court of Justice in Israel?

Its former President Aharon Barak, who had the audacity to decree that "everything is justiciable," would have us believe that the crime alluded to here does not apply to these prime ministers.  Do you know why he is being disingenuous?

Ben Hecht, the brilliant and courageous author of Perfidy, reminds us that “The ancient Greeks believed that unpunished crimes brought plagues to the people who harbored them."  Is this why Israel, since the sacrifice of 1,600 Jews on Oslo's altar of peace, has increasingly become a pariah in the eyes of the eyes of the nations?

(To be continued)