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From: Robert and David Tsal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Report from a trip to Israel
by David Tsal
If Israelis do not want to help themselves, no one in the
world
can help them.
This is my basic impression from the trip to Israel I have
made
in October, 2001. This was my second trip to Israel. The first one
took place 6 years ago and was filled with fascinating events and
encounters with amazing characters a trip of great joy and discovery.
Now things were different.
I have heard for a very long time that the Sabras (those born in
Israel) are truly new Jews. The word "sabra" stands for a cactus
fruit, which is rough and spiky on the surface, but soft and sweet in
the middle. This is how Israeli Jews were described to me: hard and
spiky on the surface, but sweet inside. I was told that they differ
from the "old Jews" in their open and direct manner, in freedom they
breathe all their lives, in their being unafraid to stand up for their
dignity and other basic rights every human is entitled to.
I have also read an article on how to fight Jew-hatred,
written
by an Israeli student at Columbia University. The occasion was a
speech by Leonard Jeffries (antisemitic professor) at Columbia. The
student was so upset with lack of dignity in American Jews that he
longed to return to Israel. What a tremendous article. Here was a true
Sabra, just like I have heard. It has made a great impression on me.
My first visit in 1997 was essentially exploratory: I did not
have any preconceived notion about any sides in the Arab-Israeli
conflict. This allowed me to find out some things, so that I would
know where to stand. I came out on the "right" (in the Israeli meaning
of this term). With time, and especially since the beginning of the
new "intifada", I have moved further and further to the right.
However, I do not regard the Israeli Left as enemies, but rather as
wrongheaded and unpleasant relatives. So much of what they do strikes
me as offensive, and deliberately meant to be that way. Though they
speak of peace, their attitude is often war-like. In general, I do not
believe those who profess to love other peoples while hating or
despising their own.
Recently I have become aware of the danger of Arab
overpopulation. In 20 years the Arab population of Israel will exceed
the Jewish population. Since there are zero chances for peace, there
is a real danger of second Holocaust: extermination of 5-6 million
Israeli Jews. If peace is not achievable, and if Arab hatred is
unquenchable (and it looks that way), nothing but the most brutal
measures can change the flow of things.
And if Israel cannot take care of the current pathetic
"intifada", how in the world is it going to handle that problem?
This was my mindset when I came to Israel.
Perhaps the first impression I had in Israel was that of
great
relief. Here terrorists were called terrorists. Here I heard the
Jewish tradition discussed openly and unapologetically on the radio.
"Palestinian opinions" did not overwhelm the airwaves, and Jewish
history, including recent history, did not have to be "balanced" by
presenting a "Palestinian view". The difference with American sources
like NPR and CNN was startling. Only now could I appreciate just how
overwhelmingly pro-Arab and anti-Israel American media has become. The
sense of liberation made my head spin. I felt like I had just escaped
from a weird country, with basically good people and the media managed
by Nazis. But this euphoria did not last.
Tolerance for Arabs and everything they do permeates Israeli
society from top to bottom and from left to right.
Shortly before I left, Palestinians used the death of Feisal
Husseini to make a "Day of the Arab" in Jerusalem, where Jews had to
yield to the Arabs on the street (just like in the Arab countries,
where Jews are Dhimmies). About 150 Arabs waving PLO flags took to the
streets in Jerusalem, blocking motorists and jumping on cars. Then the
Border Guard police cleared the traffic. No one was hurt. Israelis are
generally louder, more rude and hot-tempered than Americans. Fights in
Knesset are much more common than in the US Congress. Certainly if
Jews were to block motorists and jump on cars in Jerusalem, some of
them would get their faces bloodied. But nothing like that happens to
Arabs.
I read an interview with a leader of one of the Israeli
leftist
feminist organizations. Her approach was that Palestinians who kill
Israelis (within the green line) are terrorists, but Palestinians
killing settlers are freedom fighters. When she was asked whether the
sniper who deliberately killed a settler baby was also a freedom
fighter, she responded, "I have to think about it".
On many intersections in Tel Aviv I saw "Women in Black"
self-satisfied wealthy-looking light-skinned ladies (and a few men)
with smug faces.
One day in Tel Aviv the leftists brought 750 "coffins of dead
Palestinians" to their rally. (Of course, including those who had
blown themselves up.) I have not seen it, but I heard many people
(more sane from my point of view) talk angrily about it.
These are leftists, but the right wingers are not that
different.
When I remarked that a group of Arabs had not only killed but
mutilated two Israeli civilians and that a terrorist of the "Black
September" group (which was actually the PLO under a different name)
drank the blood of a Jordanian diplomat after killing him, I
immediately heard, "yes, but that is not out of hatred, it's just an
Arab tradition". This from an "extreme right-winger".
Excuses for Arab behavior abound. Leftists blame it on the
"occupation" and poverty, right-wingers on Arab tradition, the
religion of Islam, the British rule and the "peace process". Both
blame previous Israeli governments. Anything and everything but the
Arabs themselves. Larisa Gershtein (Jerusalem Deputy Mayor) is the
only one who has had a realization that the mutilators and the
blood-drinkers are the first to be held responsible, and that just as
they disregard the norms of humanity, no norms of humanity should be
applied to them. But in this she is completely alone.
I have seen the Dolphinarium disco, the scene of the worst
carnage since the start of the recent "intifada". (Alas, it is not the
worst any more.) There is a monument in front, with signs in Hebrew,
English and Russian, and many, many flowers. And directly across
stands a mosque with a tall minaret, with bright, cold neon lights,
for everyone to see who is the real master. A cruel scene. But I was
the only one seeing the cruelty. The Israelis who accompanied me did
not share, or even understand why I am angry at the mosque.
I have always been suspicious of anyone who loves other
cultures
and despises one's own. There are plenty of Jews in Israel who love
Arabs, yet have little love for other Jews. There is a psychological
problem here.
With time it became clear to me that in the mind of many
Israelis
too, Arabs are human, but Jews are not quite.
It is not that Israelis are completely devoid of hatred. Many
kinds of hatred exist: for the religious Jews, for Sefardic and
Russian Jews, and of course for the left and for the right. But the
most obvious and the most justified one the hatred for the Arab I have
not found.
This has practical results. Wives and children of terrorists
continue to get aid from Israeli government as "widows" and "orphans".
Israeli army goes to ridiculous extent not to hurt one innocent Arab,
thus endangering itself and civilians (both Jewish and Arab). The
roads that are closed after each terrorist act are soon reopened, "so
that the Arabs will not starve". Of course, this allows a new
terrorist to come through, but Arab starvation seems more important
than Jewish lives.
There is a divide between things Arab and Jewish. Jewish houses on the
territories have slanted tile-covered roofs, the Arab roofs are flat.
The water tanks on top of the Jewish houses are different color from
the Arab ones. The pine is the "Jewish tree", Arabs do not plant it.
Jews do not plant the olive it's an "Arab tree". I said that the oil
for the menorah was made from olives and that olives play key part in
the Chanukah story, and therefore the olive is as Jewish a tree as
any. I also said that flat-roofed houses are also perfectly Jewish,
because that was how David could see Bath Sheba on the roof. I was
told that I am right, and that this division is one more problem that
comes with occupation. It seems to me that all a Jew needs to do to
combat this particular problem is to build a house with a flat roof
and plant an olive tree. This looks like a perfect place for personal
initiative. But it is not done. The division of trees and houses into
Jewish and Arab makes Israeli settlements feel incomplete, as if Jews
only half-own the land. Maybe this was the real subconscious reason
for the division.
While I was there, Israel was visited by the President of
Croatia. As I heard him denounce the Holocaust and ask for
forgiveness for the role Croats played in it, I suddenly felt that the
old Nazi Holocaust is becoming irrelevant. The life-and-death
struggles of today and the threat of the Arab Holocaust of the future
overwhelmed it. I felt mildly good about the Croatian President saying
these things, but mad at politicians (both in Israel and outside) for
allowing the present to become so dark.
Time and time again I would tell Israelis how awful it is for
me
to see Israel humiliated by European and American reaction, by their
support of Arafat, by refusal to call Fatah, Force 17, Tanzim
terrorist organizations and to acknowledge murder of Israelis as
terror. My anger stood above theirs. The smarter Israelis said that I
should not get angry at America and Europe because nothing else can be
expected from them when Israeli government itself continues to play
games with terrorists and when Peres is about to meet Arafat once
again. I had nothing to say to this, I felt they were right.
It is important to say that there is no "left" and "right" in
Israel in the American or European sense of the word. In that sense,
all Israelis are on the left. The "right wing" corresponds to American
moderate left, and the "left wing" to the radical left. And the fight
between them is like those endless fights between the different
branches of the left. It is ideological and personal, the stakes are
small, and therefore it is particularly vicious.
The divisions between the right and the left are vicious. Not
only newspapers, radio and TV stations are divided, but so are sports
teams, companies, stores, areas, towns. There is hardly a person that
can avoid being classified as one or another. I heard a comedian
described as a right-winger, and an object of the left's reprisals. My
Hebrew textbook contained a story about a good man named Shimon and a
bad man named Benjamin. Judging by the year of issue, this was a
not-too-obscure hint at Peres and Netanyahu.
Even the children of people from one group are subject to
reprisals of another. Before the formation of Israel, Shlomo Yakobi
was a member of Lehi, hated by the Hagana. After the war, Hagana, Lehi
and Irgun were united, yet hatred persisted. Completely false
accusations about rape and drunken orgies in Lehi were printed in
papers. Shlomo was shot at and almost killed by the people from the
army special unit merely because he was from Lehi. All his life he
never was able to receive the trade union card something every working
Israeli possesses. It was hard to find a job, so he opened his own
business. His daughter, not a right-winger by views, had great
difficulty getting a job at an airplane factory.
Truth and clarity are the first losers in the endless
arguments
between the right and the left. One may begin with the most clear and
precise arguments, yet soon enough one is forced to confront
counter-arguments of mind-boggling stupidity. Or one begins to argue
about meanings of words. Everyone sticks to one's opinion and is busy
inventing justifications. Arguing for arguing's sake eventually
replaces the original goal for which one started the argument. Sense
of reality is diminished. I have heard from right-wingers that
"activating and persuading" the left-wingers is the most important
thing right now. Again, Jews are busy debating (i.e. verbally
fighting) Jews. The real danger the Arabs is obscured.
Unlike Americans, average Israeli voter does not seem to
possess
a healthy degree of conservatism. Many Israelis are recent immigrants
from either Middle East or Eastern Europe, and had no experience of
democracy prior to arrival. They keep switching parties, endlessly
being persuaded by one or another politician who promises them the
world and a storehouse of treasures. They keep being disappointed that
the promises are not kept and the politicians switch completely as
they get into power. They keep accusing their prime-ministers of
"corruption" (they see not fulfilling election promises as a form of
corruption).
Things have gotten so bad that I kept hearing from the
right-wingers, "In the secular world there is no legitimacy to either
Jewish or Arab point of view. Both living in Yesha and
killing/mutilating Jews, both the Jewish desire to be alive and the
Arab desire to kill Jews are equally legitimate or illegitimate. Only
religion gives us the ground to support our view".
I was walking with my friend along the King George Avenue in central
Tel Aviv, when I saw a swastika in the dust on a window. Apparently
some of the Russians who pretend to be Jews in order to come to Israel
have turned antisemitic. I wanted to erase the swastika, but my friend
wanted it to stay. "Let the people see it," he said. "Maybe then they
will force the government to take measures against the antisemites."
Here I saw the difference between America and Israel. I am far from
Libertarian, but in America I do not trust the government, nor do I
expect anything but the most basic functions from it. Wherever
possible, I prefer to rely on private and personal initiative. My
friend in Israel curses the government all the time, but in the end he
still relies on it to do what people might as well do themselves.
Sharon too has done terrible damage. I have heard it from so
many
Israelis, "If Sharon continues the policies of Rabin, Netanyahu, Peres
and Barak, then there must be no alternative to them indeed." And
Sharon's combination of (usually) right-wing words and (usually)
left-wing action has stolen the language from the right wing. Now a
call for strong action against Arab terrorists is often met with,
"that's just what Sharon says". Go try to explain that what Sharon
says and what he does are different things.
There is much concern of what others might think of Israel's
actions. I constantly encountered responses like "this cannot be done
because American (European, world) pressure will not allow it."
Anything that suggested at friendship and support from the USA was
exaggerated, while everything to the contrary was ignored. When I
tried to explain that in my view America, Europe, and the rest are
already dead-set against Israel and will accuse it of all kinds of
evils as long as it exists, few people believed me.
It is as if Israel is a powder box, and Arafat has already
lit
the fuse. And Israelis are staring at the fire getting closer and
closer, but too afraid that the world will punish them if they pull
the fuse out.
It seems like Israeli Jews have become "heavy", that they
have a
lot to lose. They spend their time inventing arguments why they should
not act, why they need to move over just one more bit and to allow
Arab terror to continue. This is the key difference between the
current situation and the situation in 1945-47. At that time Jews were
"light" and had nothing to lose.
It seemed not unlike the time before every catastrophe in the
galut. The Jews who ran from German pogroms to Poland, or from
Ukrainian Chmelnitsky pogroms to Portugal and England, or from Spanish
expulsion to the lands of the Turkish empire, traveled "light". They
had little money, few possessions, no property. They were useless to a
robber, and ready to move on if the conditions in the new land proved
unacceptable. So they often had to be given special privileges to stay
in the new land. Then the Jews would establish themselves, and through
great labor of generations would accumulate wealth and property (at
least some Jews), acquire possessions, learn the new language, become
an integral part of the new society, fall in love with the nature and
customs of the new place, and thus become "heavy". Antisemitism in the
new land would then grow to threatening degrees, just like the
antisemitism in the old land. Yet most of the Jews would still cling
to the new (by now old) place, refuse to move until too late, and thus
perish. Only those who would let go of the material baggage and
spiritual attachment and be willing to take risks would survive. I
have a very bad feeling that just as the great majority of Jews always
clung to their "native" land in the galut and refused to run, so now
the great majority of Israeli Jews in their truly native land clings
to "let it go as it goes" attitude and refuse to think and to dream,
to plan and to act. Only the Arabs are dreaming, planning and acting.
I got very tired of indignity the people in Israel were
willing
to accept. The indignity coming from the international community, the
Arabs and the leftist Jews. I felt that in the land where Jews were
supposed to be free, I was absorbing that very galutnik, slavish way
of thinking from which I had been cured in the U.S. Where were the
free-thinking Sabras? Where was that dignity which made the Israeli
student at Columbia University long for Jerusalem?
Some Israelis told me that it is just terrible that they
cannot
travel from Israel to anywhere by train. At first I did not see this
as distressing. Just take an airplane and go to Europe. There you can
go by train wherever you wish. Later I began to understand that this
is a symbol of the isolation in which Israelis live. Not only are all
the neighboring countries closed to them (legal peace with Egypt and
Jordan does not mean these places are safe for Israelis to visit), but
in Europe too it is no fun to be an Israeli. I was filled with stories
of bad treatment in France, England, Germany, Belgium, Holland,
Sweden, Norway, Greece, Cyprus. I was told that in Athens there was
only one place where Israelis can eat in peace. All other places treat
them very rudely once they find out who they are. Israelis pass the
address of this one place to each other.
The worst thing of all is that I suspect that this is not
quite
true. Undoubtedly there must be prejudiced eating places in Athens,
but I seriously doubt that only one of them is not. I am afraid that I
am witnessing yet another example of Jewish fright and self-isolation,
a self-ghettoization, a common phenomenon in the galut.
I asked whether there was any place at all where Israelis
were
accepted. They said that Turkey is still OK.
When I pointed out that America should no longer be viewed as
a
partner, I was met with, "Then we have no one at all. And we cannot
survive without someone's help." I asked about Micronesia, which was
Israel's partner in 1997." It turned out that relations have turned
sour during Barak's administration.
The degree of amnesia in Israel differs from person to
person,
and occasionally reaches staggering proportions. Some remember when
Arafat and his "peace" ideas looked like an attractive alternative to
the Islamist violence of Hamas. But only a few people remembered how
the PLO was chased out of Lebanon, and how Hamas was promoted by the
Israeli government as a good, peaceful organization, building schools
and hospitals, taking care of garbage collection, water and
electricity. And because only a few remembered this, few were able to
put two and two together and conclude that whether Hamas or PLO,
whether PFLP or DFLP, Arabs remain Arabs, and their most fundamental
desire was, is, and will be to exterminate the Jews.
One person told me that under Rabin there was almost no
terrorism. I tried to remind her about the bus bombings, but she did
not remember them. Then she told me that under Barak there was no
terrorism, that it only started when Sharon came to power in 2001. She
did not remember what took place less that a year ago. I was shocked
and at a loss for words.
Jaffa was one of the most interesting and beautiful places I
saw
during my first visit to Israel in 1997. This time, when we reached
the edge of Jaffa as we walked from Tel Aviv, we took a taxi. One lady
told me that she recently crossed into Jaffa as she walked along the
street. Suddenly she realized that there are only Arabs around her.
She picked up the things she had bought and ran back. In 1997, the
center of Jaffa was full of people: Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Russians
and others. Stores were busy, restaurants were full, galleries were
doing their business. Crowds of people strolled along, everyone had a
good time. Now this place must have become a desert. Jaffa has become
dangerous if one is not an Arab, and particularly if one is a Jew. In
Israel, even in Tel Aviv, there are now places off limits to Jews.
Radio Reka broadcasts in many languages. Russian is
predominant,
but there is also French, Amharic, Georgian, and some other language I
did not recognize. The sound quality is good until about 5 p.m., when
another radio station barges in in Arabic. In Tel Aviv I could still
hear Reka, but in Jerusalem and vicinity Arabic drowns everything. Of
course, many listeners complained. The answer to their complaints was
simple: "We used to have a broadcasting tower in Ramallah, but it has
been taken over by Palestinian Authority, which is apparently using it
to broadcast the other radio. Reka has tried to contact the PA, but
never got a response, nor does it expect to get one."
On the radio they said (during the news) that Syria's
"moderate"
foreign minister wrote an article, saying that Israel will cease to
exist in 20 years. He based this prediction on the demographic
situation, when in 20 years the Arab population was supposed to become
larger than the Jewish one, and the Jewish government would simply be
outvoted. The announcer on the radio commented that Jews have survived
for a long time, and will survive beyond the 20 years. The radio
announcer's careless dismissal of an almost immediate danger
frightened me much more than the prediction of the Syrian minister. I
realized that with such attitudes Israel indeed will cease to exist.
I asked others how they viewed the demographic situation.
Some
told me that "peace will come", others that "a great crisis will unite
Jews and force them to use drastic measures." Everyone thought things
were supposed to happen by themselves. Some stared blankly. They had
no answer, and did not care.
Just like in the Soviet Union, humor helps to cope with
hopelessness, makes it bearable and promotes passivity. One story is
that Arafat came out of his mother's womb dressed in green uniform and
with a half-shaved face. He was so unbelievably ugly that all angels,
even the angel of Death, turned away. Therefore, Arafat is immortal.
Another joke was that the Jews have bribed their way into
Paradise, raped the 72 virgins that are supposed to greet each Arab
"martyr" and gave them AIDS. This sounds rude and stupid in America,
but in Israel it is different. Several people told it to me, including
people with impeccable taste. Compared to what Arabs do and say daily,
it is not rude and stupid. In Israel this joke is defiant. But it is
defiance of a joke, defiance of showing a finger while keeping one's
hand in a pocket.
In a situation where people have almost no control of their
lives, they try to regain it through magic. Israel is no exception.
One person told me that terrorist attacks go in waves, and one can
"feel" when they are coming and act to protect oneself. Another person
said that a particular terrorist attack has happened because that
person had violated one of the intricate religious laws that have to
do with kashrut or Sabbath.
Israeli kids are loud. I usually met them in groups, laughing
or
chattering in Hebrew, which in their mouths sounds like bird talk.
Occasionally they can be nasty. But as I was walking the streets of
Bat Yam and Holon, looking at them filled my heart with pain and
despair. The future Holocaust will kill them all. Then I had to remind
myself that one day they will all be dead anyway.
As my frustration with passivity and acceptance of Israelis
mounted, I started asking them directly, "What can be done to help".
In return I got the same silly phrases: "Boycott Toyota", "Boycott
Ford", "Buy Coke, not Pepsi", "Emperor Nero was a hero", "Saint Paul
was an asshole". Boring, pathetic and tired.
Jabotinsky may have spent years trying to wake Jews to the
coming
Holocaust, but in this he failed completely. Jews merely laughed at
him. For myself, I see no point in being a Cassandra. I need not waste
my life telling people the truth which they are not willing to
believe. I have to wash my hands.
But if anyone really is concerned for Israel's future, the
only
way to influence events is from within. My advice to them would be:
"First, emigrate to Israel. Then attend political rallies, subscribe
to "Makor Rishon", join "Moledet" or "Yisrael Beiteinu", vote for the
right-wing candidate, raise awareness about the Arab danger, etc.
Maybe even take the law into your hands (It may be the right moment
for this, because the dangers are indeed great). At least plant olives
and pines, build flat-roof and slanted-roof houses, erase swastikas
and teach self-reliance to your children. Become the Israelis who want
to help themselves. Then you might find in the outside world those who
want to help you."
After I left Israel, I spent a day in Cyprus and two days in
Greece. Everyone I met was very nice to me. But I hid the two Israeli
bags with Hebrew letters into my suitcase, hid my Tel-Aviv/Larnaca
ticket stab until I could dispose of it "safely", and in other ways
tried to hide all signs of Jewish identity. It was not out of fear. I
guess I have absorbed collective Jewish obsequiousness from the air of
Israel. During my flight to the U.S. I had to force myself to take out
my Hebrew textbook and begin studying. After coming to the U.S. I took
a shower.
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