Grandma's army

How can anyone in the world, politically astute, who looks at the map and the demographics and says it’s within the power of the Jewish people to bring peace? There is a chorus around the world which accompanies our peace process which states: “Go on with this peace process. It is good for you. It is the only way. You are morally obliged to continue”. We hear it from everywhere in the whole of enlightened Europe. “The number of Jews killed in terrorist attacks is small, and you are accustomed to death. You have been hounded for generations, and lost six million only three generations ago. With one and a half million children among   those millions, what matters it in the grand scheme of things if another teenager is murdered.” A nation worn and grief-stricken from the devastation of the Holocaust believed that its victory in war, the final arbiter of international politics, would ensure its ultimate acceptance in the region. Yet the Arabs refus...

Golda Meir once stated: “The only time we will have peace with the Arabs is when they start to love their own children more than they hate ours.”  There are plenty of Arabs, including the mothers, who would willingly sacrifice their children’s lives in the cause of Islam. One blatant example is the case of the baby from Gaza whose life was saved in a hospital in Israel which treats   Arab children with heart problems. When he was released from hospital and his mother was asked what she would like her baby to become she replied “a Jihad warrior”! Quite a few of the suicide terrorists are mere teenagers. This is not surprising since they are brainwashed from infancy to consider it a good deed to kill Jews. Talking of teenagers, Nachshon Wachsman was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in 1994, after being kidnapped and held hostage for six terrible days. His mother, Esther Wachsman, who was the mother of seven sons, wrote a moving article in the Jerusalem Post in th...

Last week the subject was the Six Day war. A far different war was inflicted upon us six years later. The Yom Kippur war caught Israel completely by surprise since our enemies chose the most holy day in the Jewish calendar to attack us. The then Prime Minister, Golda Meir, visited the worn- out and filthy soldiers in the front line. One exhausted member of a tank crew asked Golda: “My father was killed in the 1948 war, and we won. Last week I lost my best friend and we’re now winning. But is all our sacrifice worthwhile, Golda? What’s the use of our military power if we can’t win the peace? After expressing her understanding of his question and her condolences,   Golda Meir added: In 1948, in this season of the year, I arrived in Moscow as Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union. The State of Israel was brand new. Stalinism was at its height. Jews, as Jews, had no rights. They had been cut off from their fellow Jews for 30 years. Since the Communist revolu...