Be careful, they're thinking
Ehud Barak has dared to ask the question: What will we do when Hamas takes over Palestine?
One shouldn't envy the head of the Labor Party. The "priests" of peace will not forgive him. Although he has not yet renounced the central tenet – a foreign state on the Land of Israel, Jerusalem to the Arabs, Jewish communities to be destroyed and expelled – but for Catholics, even a small sign of independent thought or doubt is enough to depose a person from the church of true believers, and from there the way is short to the stake.
Barak says that we cannot allow the establishment of a Palestinian state until we find a way to stop the Qassam rockets. He talks of a period of at least five years. And here's another proof of the dangers of allowing independent thinking: Is it only Qassams that are likely to be fired from Palestine?
After all, how many years will it take before we find an electronic defense against the bullets that will fly in Jerusalem from the Palestinian streets? And after we find a solution to the "flying objects", will we have to hold back on a Palestinian state until there's an answer to the tunnel that our pleasant neighbors will dig under the separation fence?
And if Barak insists on first closing every possible hole – is there an electronic device against handgrenades thrown at Jewish vehicles from the other side of the wall? Against suicide bombers? Against terror planned by a sovereign Palestinian state, or supported from abroad, or from the "Revolutionary Guards" brought by Iran, or scores of thousands of "refugees" who will march in the direction of Lod and Ramle?
According to Barak's methodology, grass will grow on the cheeks of the peace camp, and the redemption of Palestine will not come to pass, until a miracle occurs in the hearts and minds of the Arabs, and they, of their own free will, will reeducate their children, from kindergarten to university, to a different, a more Western worldview.
Barak is also likely to think another step ahead, and arrive at the conclusion that there will never be, in response to Palestinian provocation, another chance to implement Operation Defensive Shield. The world will not allow us to go back into the cities of a sovereign Palestinian state to fight against terror.
At this point, we are only a few steps away from the greatest heresy of all – the conclusion that Jewish settlement, which sits in the heart of the lions' den, is a positive development because it prevents the establishment of a terror state that would turn the life of the Jewish state into hell.
And here's another heresy uttered by Barak: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are unable to implement anything in the "West Bank".
It seems that Barak has dared ask the question that Peres, Livni and Olmert are hiding from us: What will we do when Hamas takes over Palestine, as happened in Gaza? And how do we prevent the unification of Gaza with Judea and Samaria under a joint Hamas-Fatah coalition? We can't just say: "Let's go back, we made a mistake." After all, we a state cannot be canceled.
It's dangerous to pose these questions, because they eat away at the naïve faith of the simple groupies of Palestine, and it is for that reason that they are not raised in the media.
Another folly Barak dared expose was the pretence that we and Fatah (the "good guys") stand together against Hamas and its allies (the "baddies"). "They both want exactly the same thing" he says, revealing the nakedness of a policy of lies that has tried to sell us the idea that the "al-Aqsa" murderers are lost souls who have repented.
We are left, of course, with another obstacle on the way to implementing the "vision of Palestine". You first have to remove from Jewish hearts the ideas of Zion and "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem". Here we go beyond Barak's spiritual world, but this obstacle will prove no less impenetrable than the Qassams that opened Barak's eyes.
