Haetzni unimpressed with Kadima
Photo: Dan Balilty
Kadima's Israel
Kadima is a party in the tradition of founding father Ariel Sharon
There are those among us who explain Hamas' victory as a result of its successful social programs and Fatah's corruption, and can't quite come to grips with the fact that the Palestinian people democratically chose fighting Islam and to kick the Jews out of Israel.
Elyakim Haetzni is a right-wing activist and former Knesset memberHamas' fanaticism must not be confused with primitivism. Extremists can always moderate temporarily if tactics demand, but never at the expense of ideology or strategy.
After the Jews army fled Gaza and the destruction of 25 Jewish communities, the Palestinians felt themselves free to bring about the Hamas revolution that expresses their inner truth and allows their fighters – in the words of the late Faisal Husseini – to get out of the Trojan horse called Oslo.
After two victories over the Zionist entity – Oslo and disengagement – there was no longer any need to role play.
Israeli revolution
According to polls, Israel, too, is about to undergo a revolution – in the opposite direction.
Here, too, the masks will fall. Our real face will be revealed for all to see, as will our inner tendencies: Kadima means "forward," but the party is facing backwards, like the Crusaders coming down from the mountain towards the coast.
As opposed to Hamas, the Kadima Party has patented double vision (you can't see from there what we see from here). It has no ideology, and it is "pragmatic" – that is to say, it has no direction or principles.
It little more than an unholy mob of power-seekers, refugees from other (and often opposing) ideological incubators.
Hamas is an occupation party, and represents a return to values and tradition. Kadima is a party of withdrawals and disengagements – territorial and spiritual.
Power for the sake of power. Aggressiveness, cynicism, and corruption, in the very best tradition of party founder Ariel Sharon and sons.
Kadima's Israel is reflected in its speech, the mirror into the national soul. Once upon a time, people made "aliya" to Israel, and "yerida" from it (the phrases mean "going up" to Israel and "going down" from it).
Today, people just "move."
The "land of Israel" has become a dirty phrase associated with the settlers. Israelis have a "state."
As the sun set on them, the Crusaders traded Jerusalem for Acco. The new Israel prefers Tel Aviv. One well-known commentator said we don't want any more victories.
One might add we also have no enemy anymore. Revenge has been erased from our vocabulary, and 1,500 Oslo dead were killed in "incidents".
There is a pathological denial that we are at war, and that there is an enemy we can – and must – humiliate and defeat.
Whenever the fanatic realizes that what he can see "from here" is, in fact, exactly what he saw "from there," it strikes at the pragmatic, the passive, and the tired (Olmert: "We're tired of victories…).
When Hamas fighters are full of motivation and the IDF is busy pushing away anyone with a kippa on his head, the last ones who truly believe in the justice of their ways – the result is inevitable.
Bad omen
An omen: Hamas terrorist Ahmed al-Hajari, elected from the Nablus region, was released by the Kadima government when the Palestinian "parliament" was established.
Israeli Arabs announced, "I support Hamas… and vote Kadima!" It's no contradiction. The logic is iron-clad.
From the Megiddo Prison, another Hamas leader added, "You said, 'The fate of Netzarim is the same as the fate of Tel Aviv.' Look – the fate of Tel Aviv will be the same as that of Netzarim."
At Netzarim, it should be recalled, Hamas' Palestine met Kadima's Israel.
From the very beginning, the Arabs likened the Zionist movement to that of the Crusades, which ended with "the fate of the government in Jerusalem will be like that of Atlit," the last crusader to disengage in 1291.
Can there be a decree and no one to change it?
