One-state solution means dissolution of Jewish homeland

By VICTOR SHARPE

article created on: 2008-11-01T00:00:00

It is the height of banality for any Jew to believe that peace will arrive by dissolving Israel into a so-called “democratic secular state encompassing Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,” in what Gerson Robboy (Speaking of Unspeakables, Jewish Review, Oct. 16) describes as a multi-ethnic single state of Jews and Arabs. Unless, of course, his vision is the peace of the grave—the Jewish grave.

I find it strange on reflection that supposedly liberal and open-minded people do not question the need or rightness of Denmark for the Danes, Monaco for the Monagasques, Spain for the Spanish, or such an artificial concoction as Jordan for the Jordanians. Only the Jews don’t have the right to a nation in the strange world inhabited by Gerson Robboy.

His suggestion will usher in the advent of a new era of humiliation and persecution of Jews by the predominately Moslem Arabs. It will result in the forced servitude of what remains of the Jewish population of Israel into the same dhimmi status they endured for centuries throughout the vast Arab-Moslem world; assuming they are permitted to survive.
    
It is with a sense of great sadness that one reflects upon Robboy’s ignorance of his people’s history. He cannot point to any secular-democratic state existing anywhere in the Arab-Islamic world. Nor can he show a multi-ethnic one, unless he believes that the wreckage of Lebanon is proof.

Such delusional foolishness is damning evidence of a horribly confused mind.

Mr. Robboy wrote an astonishing attack upon my previous article, “Dhimmis for Dummies,” published Oct. 15, 2007, in the Jewish Review. In the article I provided incontrovertible evidence of dhimmitude suffered by Jews within Arab-Moslem lands—the very same evidence that eminent writers and historians, such as Bat Ye’or, have authored.

Robboy’s demonstration of his own ignorance of the subject was matched only by his silly characterization of such proven historical facts as “hate literature.”

For those in Israel and the Diaspora who have forgotten the bloodstained pages of post-biblical Jewish history during the long night of its dispersal, it would be instructive for them to be reminded of the price paid for our statelessness.

Those rushing to bribe and placate the relentless hatred of the Arab world by giving away the reclaimed Jewish birthright in its ancestral homeland—including parts of eternal Jerusalem—should remember the searing passion of their ancestors and why they must not betray what little remains of the Jewish state.

With all the mounting pressures upon the state of Israel, I fear a new Jewish statelessness may again be the fate of Israel’s Jewish population. If Robboy had his way, the future unbearable discrimination of the Jews within their ancient homeland would be a lasting reproach to all that he thinks and believes. 

Such a new catastrophe, especially after the calamity of the Shoah, will become the ultimate betrayal of the suffering Jewish generations who dreamed the impossible; the rebirth in their ancestral and biblical homeland of a reconstituted and independent sovereign Jewish nation in Zion.

Victor Sharpe is a featured writer with the Jerusalem based Israel Hasbara Web site and author of the book, “Politicide: The Attempted Murder of the Jewish State.”