To
Prime Minister
Benyamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister’s Office
J e r u s a l e mDecember 31, 1996
Re.: Will you follow in the footsteps of
king Saul --- or of king David?
Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,
your predecessors Begin and Shamir used to have the courtesy of both personally reading and replying my mail. I sincerely hope that you will follow at least this good example.
Sir, your name predestined you to be a “son of the right hand” both for G-d and your people, ”given unto us” by HaShem Himself. But the name still left open the choice whether you were given unto your people “for good or for evil”, as a right hand “to curse or to bless” us.
It appears you made your choice --- for evil, not for good; for a curse, not for a blessing.
I was among those who marched together with you from Tulkarm to Netanya, and I, together with all the others, heard your words. I did not join the chorus of “Bibi! Bibi!” because words don’t mean much to me until they have been translated into action. But --- I was among those who voted for you in the hope that your name and your words may prove true.
Dear Prime Minister, it is not as yet too late --- not yet. But it soon will be if you make the wrong choice! I had warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin (whom I loved and respected) with the Scriptures of ISAIAH 30:1-7, 8-11, 12-14, and 31:1-3, concerning the Camp David accords. I warned him that, if he would hearken rather to men than the Holy One of Israel, his government would collapse, suddenly, like a bulging wall. I warned him that he would stumble and fall, and that he, together with Sadat and Carter, would perish off the political scene. I warned him that through these accords the “treasures of the South” such as the discovered oil-well, Yamit and other developments would go to Egypt while we will receive nothing in return except, may be, a temporary absence of war. He proceeded thereupon to level Yamit . But --- after Sadat was assassinated on the day he celebrated Egypt’s sole victory of the Yom Kippur war; after Carter was humiliated in the eyes of the whole world by Khomeini; and after he himself had literally stumbled and fallen and sustained the ever afflicting hip injury, he realized what he, the man who loved his people with such a passion, had done: he had sold us out. Camp David laid the groundwork for undoing the State of Israel --- and he KNEW it.
The death of his wife gave him the rest. He couldn’t show his face anymore to his people whom, dispite his love for them, he had betrayed, caving in under the international pressure. Prime Minister Shamir was trying to follow in Begin’s footsteps, as a “talmid” does in his rabbi’s. But Begin’s “mantle” was not on him, nor had he Begin’s charisma and passion. But worse of all, he was trying in his own strength to swim upstream --- against Camp David which, since its inauguration, has been coming down on us like a destructive waterfall, having the appearance of a blessing.
Although we are Jews and call ourselves by the Name of “Israel”, we are the most apostate of people I have ever known. The peoples who worship idols and false gods are by far more dedicated and devoted to them than we are to the Only Living G-d. Israel’s leadership courts and pursues anyone, even men of lawlessness and murderers, rather than turning to her only Savior, the Holy One of Israel. Why do our leaders continue to bow to “Esau” and to “Ishmael” and make our people’s back like a road for everyone to walk over us? Why does prime minister after prime minister treat the American president as if he were Israel’s Mashiach? Why does prime minister after prime minister believe that “pharaoh” is the answer to peace and security? Are all our leaders mad? Are they all blind and deaf? Who suddenly threw sand into your eyes and stopped up your ears? Were you not warned? Did you also not perceive and understand?
Yitzchaq Rabin was not killed by a mere man. It was the Word of G-d, the Covenant which he violated, that killed him. In the week during which Genesis 15:17-21 was part of that week’s Parsha, Rabin died. On the day on which he sang, “Do NOT whisper a prayer, only sing a song of peace”, the “fire” of the Holy One of Israel struck him. The sheet of that song was soaked with his blood. Oh yes, I know, we all only SAW a young man, apparently a fanatic. But the Covenant Rabin violated was one between the G-d of Israel and Abraham. It is an unalterable, inviolable Covenant regarding the inheritance of the Land of Israel. It was not human, but divine fire, that consummated this Covenant.
The two bullets that judged the betrayer of this Covenant may have appeared to have come from a human source, but were indeed divinely sent. This does not make an apology for assassination, which is lawlessness, anarchy. Rabin, Perez, and all those with him relied on human wisdom and insight, and promoted a “kingdom of lawlessness and anarchy”, namely Arafat’s. By a lawless act Rabin was killed. The prophet foresaw this long ago and wrote about those “scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem”, in ISAIAH 28:14-19. They scoff at the Bible, at the prophecies, at prayer, at anyone of our people putting their trust in HaShem and His promises. They scoff at HaShem Himself and want to be more “goy” than the goyim themselves. They call the remnant of our people who still love G-d and hope in Him “evil” right-wing extremists, while they exalt the apostate, anti-G-d anti-Jewish anti-Israel “Peace Now” folks as “good”.
Yitzchaq Rabin was still afforded the honor of a statesman’s burial, because before he was led astray by all the false counselors surrounding him he had devoted his life to his people and our Land. But you, sir, shall not receive the same honor, if you continue on the betraying course you have taken, in total opposition to your words of promise and assurance during the election days. This day I tell you that your end shall be like that of king Saul who, though chosen by G-d Himself to be a deliverer for his people from their enemies, looked to men rather than to Him Who chose him. He stood a head above his fellow Israelites, and Samuel had anointed him. Still Saul was swayed by what his eyes saw and what people said and did. First he transgressed his office when he thought the people were abandoning him. Then he listened to the people’s reasoning in regard to the spoil taken from Amalek rather than obeying G-d’s explicit command to destroy the very memory of Amalek from under heaven.
It sounded so good and righteous to keep the best of the spoil and “offer it up to G-d.” Is that what G-d had required? No, Samuel had to come and slay the king of Amalek. Saul failed in every quarter --- because he looked to men and not to G-d. Henceforth “peace” alluded Saul, it became the tormenting spirit that harassed him day and night.
Why would you choose Saul’s lot? Do you not know that the PA is “Amalek”? Consider the words of the teenager David in answer to Goliath, that big-mouthed Palestinian terrorist who had challenged: “Today I defy the armies of Israel!” He said: “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine, and TAKES AWAY THE REPROACH FROM ISRAEL? For WHO is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should DEFY THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING G-D?”
Who should come along and put David down if not the oldest brother, Eliab, like a Yossi Sarid, and a Yossi Beilin, and a Shimon Perez, and a Shulamit Aloni, thinking himself so smart, so understanding, so knowledgeable? But David wasn’t swayed by that “firstborn brother”.
Neither Saul nor Eliab had the honor of closing permanently this big-mouthed Palestinian’s boastful mouth. The honor fell to a mere youth --- who trusted the might and promise of G-d, not the words and might of men. He was jealous for G-d and His people. Saul was worried about himself and only saw weakness. David only saw victory.
The same example we find with the 10 faithless spies who saw themselves as mere “grasshoppers” in the sight of the “giants” in the Land. Their words corrupted the people and their faith, and it led to disaster. Only Joshua and Caleb had spoken true --- like our settlers today --- but them the people wanted to stone.
Why are Israel’s leaders bent on repeating the errors of our forefathers? We have survived two thousand years of relentless attempts at our annihilation. We have returned to the land from which we were driven two millennia ago. We are barely 50 years back in the Land as a sovereign people and already our leaders are prepared to give away this precious land, to sell us out to our enemies? Is this fathomable? Is this believable? Are we forever bent on backsliding? Is it not written:
“In Shuva and Aliyah shall you be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
Why then do our leaders and this blindest of all blind people continue to refuse hearkening to the Only One Who can give us true “Shalom”? Why do you continue to bow, like Jacob and all his family bowed to Esau? Did not Esau’s angel Samael admit, although reluctantly and only under pressure, that “henceforth it shall no longer be said of you, that you are the transplanter of your brother. Instead it shall be said of you that you - not Esau - are indeed the established heir, you are the ‘prince with G-d’. ”
So why did Jacob, the heir and prince, bow to him whom G-d rejected? Why is it that all our leaders seem to be without any understanding, and without faith?
Turn about, dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, while there is still time. Be bold and very courageous, don’t fear nor be dismayed. Do what is right in the sight of G-d and not in the sight of men. And don’t be moved by the tirades of Mubarak, or Hussein, or any other leaders for that matter. President Mubarak’s “throne” is shaking severely and in the not far-off future an Egyptian “Khomeini” will bring him to fall and rule over Egypt, as Khomeini brought the Shah to fall and ruled over Iran. Then many Egyptians will flee, and Egypt will be indeed “Rahab that sits still”. Don’t lean on him, for he will be unto you and unto our people like a reed that breaks under our weight and pierces through our shoulder. All his ranting against us now won’t save his hide from the Islamic fanatics. Mubarak is doomed.
And so is Hussein, whose land shall become a place of salt pits and nettles, and no one will remember him. Because he coveted our land, not the peace of “kin”. And what of the Saudis? The oil they are using to blackmail the world and to curse our people and land shall curse them instead, and turn their land into perpetual burning pitch and their sand into brimstone. The “allies “ in the blackmail, whom they trusted, will betray them, and the whole earth will reverberate from the fall of Saudi Arabia.
Why, dear Prime Minister, oh why would you fear mere mortal men, if it is the Holy One of Israel Who chose you to lead our people?! I call out to you as Deborah did to Barak. Arise, therefore, and walk at the head of your people with courage, with honor and with faith in the Holy One of Israel. But if you will not do it, shame and dishonor shall cover you, and the curses of your people whom you betrayed will devour your “peace of mind” and your flesh. And the people shall neither mourn or weep over you as has been granted to Menachem Begin and Yitzchaq Rabin, the former zealous patriots turned violators of G-d’s Covenant.
Let it not be said, dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,
that you were not warned. Let this letter not be withheld from you.
Anyone who does this, the words of this letter shall pursue him/her.
Respectfully,
(Annelore's full name & e-mail address)
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