PERSONAL!

To
Prime Minister
Benyamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister’s Office
J e r u s a l e m

April 15, 1997/Nisan 8, 5757

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

when you stood firm on the Har Homa decision I thought that may be you had indeed read my letters of warning and encouragement, and taken them to heart. Please, do not think I am some weird lunatic who writes you her own opinions. I have better things to do than that. Although our religious authorities say that today G-d does not speak anymore by prophets, somehow G-d seems to be unaware of their assessment, because I have had the dubious “privilege” of somewhat sharing in Jeremiah’s lot: I always receive a word of warning. I felt urged to write you one more time before you went on your trip to the States, but I tried to ignore this urging. Unhappily, this urging has become so strong that I can no longer ignore it with good conscience.

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, I have seen an awful thing: our own police and soldiers manhandling and mistreating our own people in Hebron under the gleeful eyes of the Arab onlookers; and Uzi Dayan (I believe that is his name) walking off smilingly with Palestinian military (or was it police) officials. Is this possible? Has the self-hatred of some of our leaders gone that far? When I see the hatred in Jael Dayan’s eyes as often as she speaks to some of our people who happen to disagree with her, I cannot help but wonder about Adolf Eichmann. It had been suggested that Eichmann was actually a Jew, the mere thought of which I found utterly unbearable, and just simply proposterous. Impossible! But when I observe the self-hatred, or Jew-hatred, of said Dayan, or of Peres, or Beilin, or Aloni, or of the “Peace Now” bunch, is it indeed so impossible?

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, when we celebrate Hanukah each year, we do NOT commemorate the Hellinist Jews who joined the “cause” of the Syrians and sold their own people out to the enemy of Israel and of G-d. We commemorate the courageous Maccabeans who not only withstood the arrogant, oppressing Syrians, but drove them out! And G-d confirmed this deed with a miracle. When we celebrate Purim each year, we do not celebrate a groveling, bowing and “pragmatic” Mordechai and Esther, NO! Thanks to them we still live to celebrate Purim. Because Mordechai and Esther did NOT bow, and grovel, and pusillanimously call such lack of spine “pragmatism”. They courageously withstood the demands of their arrogant enemy. They did not cower in fear before his threats. On the contrary! With faith and courage, with prayer and fasting, they overturned their enemy’s plot, so that what he had planned for the Jews was instead done to the oppressor. Neither “pragmatism” nor “cowardice” has any place of honor in our people’s history, and the way self-hating Jews view Rabin today would not be understood by those who founded the State, nor will it be understood by later generations.

Sir, you are the elected leader of a sovereign people., who are moreover the people of G-d NOT, because we are so much better or nobler (obviously not), but because the Almighty loved our forefathers and made a Covenant with them. And we are their offspring, with all their faith and faults also present in us. No leader of any sovereign nation will bow to the dictates, demands and threats of a terrorist and murderer, which Arafat was and still is, even though the world now calls him “president”. The British won’t bow to the IRA, and the Americans won’t bow to terrorist threats against them, and the Peruvian leader won’t bow to the demands of the terrorists holding those hostages. But come to a Jewish head of state --- and he will bow. How is this? Were you not born in this land? Did you not have the privilege of growing up as a “sovereign” Israeli Jew? 

Although we may be the smallest of peoples, you are privileged above all other heads of state: you are the leader of G-d’s people! They elected you! If G-d be with you, who can be against you? Stop bowing! This is not pragmatism --- it is cowardice! This is not political “common sense” --- it is pusillanimity! Jacob had no business to bow to Esau, and you have no business to bow to Clinton, or Mubarak, or Hussein, and last of all, Arafat! You are to bow before one alone: the Holy One of Israel! THIS was the “pragmatism” of Mordechai, and consider his triumph and our people’s deliverance! This was the “foolishness” of Daniel’s friends, and G-d saved them out of the fiery furnace! This was the political “common sense” of Daniel, and the Almighty delivered him from the lions’ mouth! Do you think G-d has changed? Or vanished? Or is it rather that so many of our leaders and people of today are trying desperately to emulate the goyim, to be “broad-minded” Hellenists and “one-worlders”, just not, for heaven’s sake, G-d’s “chosen people”?

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, twice I sent you HaShem’s warning, this is the third one. Shechem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and now Hebron have all become battle fields, because our leaders fail to demand from our adversary what Jacob demanded from Esau’s angel Samael: “I won’t let you loose until you confirm me as the rightful heir.” Demonstrate moral and military strength, the faith of a Jewish leader, the power of head-of-state of a sovereign nation, and the intifada will stop. Instead of fearing mortal men fear G-d, because cursed is the man that leans on the arm of flesh, but blessed is the man who trusts in G-d (Jeremiah 17:5-8). 

The threat of shame and disgrace was lifted with your firm Har Homa stand -- but not removed. If you will continue in weakness and worse yet, join with Peres, Barak, Beilin and the rest of Jew-haters, and allow religious hypocrites to establish a religious dictatorship over the whole land (is one Deri not enough?) with the help of the Knesset, then the “shame” of your weakness shall catch up with you and cover you and clothe you with disgrace. 

Be what you were elected to be: our sovereign leader who refuses to bow to threats and demands, who reckons Oslo I and II no longer binding upon Israel because Arafat has ALREADY nullified them. The USA is not our Messiah, and Mubarak is not our priest. They threaten with no more foreign aid? The US needs Israel as her ally in the Middle East more even than she needs the Arab oil. There is more wealth in the Dead Sea and in the depth of our soil than the [former] wealth of the US and Saudi Arabia combined. But why should G-d allow it to come up as long as our leaders look to men for help rather than to Him? It seems we are a people who fail to learn from our history. We keep repeating the same mistakes our forfathers made.

What if they threaten us with war? To whom will you look -- to their weapons or to the might of our G-d? If king David, who was but a mere youth, would have thought as “pragmatic” as our recent leaders, he most certainly would not have killed Goliath and got the whole Palestinian army defeated as a consequence of it. It was not “logical” for a youth, untrained in warfare, to go with but a slingshot against that big-mouthed giant of a Palestinian. But David’s perspective was right, for Goliath was “defying the armies of the Living G-d” (see 1 Samuel 17:36, 44-47), and Arafat and Jibril Rajhoub are following in the footsteps of that conceited, big-mouthed Palestinian. Question is, dear Prime Minister Netanyahu: will you follow in the footsteps of king Saul, or in those of king David? Saul G-d eventually rejected, because of his lack of faith; David He loved.

Sir, be the leader of G-d’s people, not a subservient, “groveling Jew” to the leaders of other nations. Be bold, be courageous, be proud, have faith, and rectify the wrongs done. Be not confounded or dismayed by the outcry of the nations (they always make noise, no matter what Israel does!) nor fear their threats of war or cancellation of monetary aid. Do the unpopular, have faith in G-d! Trust Him, and He will deliver you and our nation, until the time appointed for the end shall come. But if you will honor the agreements with this despicable person, giving away the land and towns over which you hold no sole right, for the sake of “peace” -- although you utterly know the true aim and goals of the PLO -- then the curse of G-d and our people shall devour your “peace” of mind and your flesh, as I warned you before.

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, be bold, be strong, be very courageous, and do not fear. With G-d on our side we are mightier than the mightiest of our foes! Therefore... take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

Respectfully,

(Annelore's full name & e-mail address)(

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