January 20, 2003

Dear Friends,

Today is Martin Luther King’s Day, reminding us of a great pacifist with a vision, a man who understood that tolerance of all people, nations, cultures and religions is key to peace and prosperity. Martin Luther King Jr. did not only understand this precept but also was courageous enough to speak up and say it in the open. Unfortunately, forty years after his historic “I have a dream” speech, the days of intolerance are not over.  Today, black Americans are not anymore primary victims of intolerance, but the whole Western civilization is under a brutal violent attack by religious fanaticism and bigotry. Since the values of Judaism are the roots of the values of Western civilization, the Jewish nation suffers from the brunt of this vicious attack. This happens not only in the Jewish homeland, where the Jewish nation has regained sovereignty after close to two thousand years, but all over the world. It happens not only in Muslim countries were Judeophobia is rampant but also in Europe and to a certain extent also in Canada. In the latter countries Muslim anti-Semitism (= anti-Zionism, see Martin Luther King Jr.) gains support from devout socialists, who follow in the anti-Jewish (= anti-religious) footsteps of Stalin’s international Communism and Hitler’s National Socialism. Unfortunate, many in the mass media echo this anti-Jewish sentiment of these socialists.

Recent articles posted on our website document the anti-Jewish hate in Arab countries and the abuse of children raised to hate Jews.  The UN does not condemn these human rights abuses for its alterior motives. This is not surprising when Libya Chairs the UN Human Rights Commission. The immediate danger to Israel from the UN is, however, by far greater is the danger from the chicanery of the Quartet, which seems to validate the phony reform of the corrupt PA. American media, PBS in particular, which specializes in distorting history in favor of the Arabs, support the hostile Arab anti Western position. Three recent articles expose those distortions in a well-documented fashion.  Although the Bush administration is extremely helpful to Israel in its current struggle for survival, this cannot be said of all Democrats on Capitol Hill, some of whom are vocal opponents of Israel and of US foreign policy.

The coming months are going to be critical for the survival of the State of Israel. The imminent war against Iraq is a relatively minor problem. The major problem will be political – the potential establishment of a new Arab state west of the Jordan River that is likely to become a stepping stone for the Arab desire to eventually annihilate the Jewish homeland.  The question is not which Jewish settlement should be abandoned to placate the Arabs, the real question is the very existence of the State of Israel. To cite today’s editorial of the Jerusalem Post “It is not just Palestinian "rejectionists," but the Palestinian Authority itself, that routinely refers to Israeli cities and towns as "settlements" and "colonies." According to a study by Palestinian Media Watch, Netanya, Hadera, Zichron Ya'akov, Kfar Saba, Acre, Petah Tikva, Ra'anana, and the kibbutzim have all been labeled "settlements" in the PA-controlled press. Jaffa, Haifa, Tiberias, Lod, Ramle, Safed, Caesarea, Beit She'an, and Acre have been tagged as "captured Palestinian cities." US officials who speak of the "settlement problem" may mean one thing, but when Palestinians speak of "settlements" they mean something quite different”

The Jewish people must unite in their national struggle for survival. The State of Israel is not just a geographic Western outpost surrounded by   Arabs; it is a cultural outpost. Like in previous periods in world history, as the Jews go so goes Western civilization. The assaults of the Muslim Arabs on the native Christians Arabs in Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, the Sudan, and the territories under PA control, manifest the trend of the future. The terror attack on the Western world, exhibited in the 9/11 atrocity, is another indicator for the future. In an ideal Islamic world that would come to pass if the Islamists had their way, there may be room for some subservient Christians and Jews as they were in the medieval Arab empires, but there will be zero tolerance for godless people – these will be eradicated. One wonders, therefore, why do secular socialists support the political ambitions of the Islamists? Is their hatred of Jews greater than their instinct of survival? What would Martin Luther King Jr. have said about this social pathology?