Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of the country's future on the basis of the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem divided, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared to The Jerusalem Post.
At the same time, he made clear that he did not envisage a permanent accord along the '67 lines, describing Ma'aleh Adumim as an "indivisible" part of Jerusalem and Israel.
In an interview at the start of a year that he hopes will yield a permanent Israeli-PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi peace accord, the prime minister said many rival Israeli political parties remain "detached from the reality" that requires Israel to compromise "on parts of Eretz Yisrael" in order to maintain its Jewish, democratic nature.
If Israel "will have to deal with a reality of one state for two peoples," he said, this "could bring about the end of the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. That is a danger one cannot deny; it exists, and is even realistic."
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This story illustrates once again the wisdom of Rav Kahane.
The great Rav would always ask Smolmert and others during debates: 'Should the Arabs have the right to bring an end to Israel as a Jewish State if they did so by democratic means ?'.
Smolmert and the others were incapable of answering this question then and are incapable of answering this question now.
The Rav clearly understood that to Smolmert, Israel was a democracy first and a Jewish State second.
Because Smolmert considers Israel a democracy first, it is inconceivable for him to even consider removing the Arab enemy within, as this would be a violation of their 'democratic rights'.
Thus, we see Smolmert's 'solution' to this dilemma today; Israel should simply abandon and cede all territories where Arabs are the majority. This way the illusion of a democratic Jewish State can be maintained, and the so called 'friends' of Israel who demand a return to the 1967 borders can be placated.
The Rav was fond of saying "Judaism isn't Thomas Jefferson". He was right then and he remains right today.
There is no future for a Jewish State that places democracy before Judaism. For a Jewish State to remain Jewish it must implement exclusionary, non-democratic practices and policies. The demographics of the Mideast allow for no other conclusion. As unacceptable as this is to Smolmert and Israel's 'friends' this remains the inescapable reality they fruitlessly seek to avoid. Only the Rav had the guts and intestinal fortitude to deal with this reality head-on and forthright. How we need a leader like him today.
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