Ayoon Wa Azan (I expect an intifada or a war)

Today, the Israelis go to the ballots to elect 120 Members of Knesset, or the 19th parliament since the creation of Israel on the land of Palestine. Every public opinion poll says that the Israeli right is leading ahead, and will snatch between 63 and 70 seats. The Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu alliance is predicted to receive 33 to 37 seats out of these, but on Monday, the last poll before the vote was showing its share dropping to 32 seats. Perhaps the center and the left will go on to achieve better results than the polls show, if the turnout is sufficiently large, but I have not read a single report that expects the right to lose. I therefore say to all Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims that peace is impossible with any upcoming Israeli government, just like it has been with the current government of Benjamin Netanyahu. They must consider other options, from a third intifada, to a partial or full-scale war, or let every one of us bear responsibility for betraying Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque. The center in Israel does not inspire peace, and its symbols include Tzipi Livni, who has moved from being a Mossad agent in France to Likud and Kadima, and now Hatnuah (the movement). As regards Labor, it is not going to get more than 16 seats, according to the polls, and there are no sufficient alliances close to it to allow it to rule. The worst thing about Israel’s lurch to the racist or extremist right is that a majority of Israelis accept the two-state solution. In addition, Israeli peace groups are very active, and if they take power, peace is indeed possible with them and can be concluded immediately. But power in Israel is no longer in the hands of a government, but in the hands of a gang of organized crime founded on Torah myths, written 500 or even 1,000 years after the alleged event, with no traces on the ground to corroborate them. Likud’s electoral list includes among its first twenty names twelve candidates who want to annex all or part of the West Bank, like Dan Meridor, Michael Eitan and Benny Begin. Moshe Feiglin of Likud’s list recently attended the Third Annual Conference on the Application of Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Feiglin believes in the lies of the Torah, and has put behind his desk a drawing of the Temple of Solomon. Well, there are no traces whatsoever of any temple in the Haram al-Sharif. When Yitzhak Rabin was in government in the early eighties, he excavated the site but only found the ruins of an Umayyad palace. The other Likudnik Ze’ev Elkin said that Israel has to stop making concessions (what are they? To whom are they?) and go on the attack step by step. The Likudnik Miri Regev, a former Israeli army spokeswoman, said that Arab Members of Knesset are “traitors” and that African refugees are a “cancer.” She regretted that she couldn’t convince the Knesset to annex the West Bank last year. Regev is reminiscent of the harlots of the Torah, like Rahab in the Book of Joshua, who the Torah claims had entered Palestine across the Jordan River into Jericho. But I say that that this did not happen and there is no evidence to back this claim. Of course, Yisrael Beiteinu includes in its ranks Russian settlers and others who have only known Palestine since the seventies or after. They want to occupy all of historic Palestine. There is Naftali Bennett, the son of American immigrants, who founded the Jewish Home Party, and is politically to the right of Likud if that is at all possible. Bennett is of American origin, and like Netanyahu, is a follower of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who wants to establish Israel on both banks of the Jordan River. Bennett declared that he will do everything in his power to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and opposes further negotiations and delusions. He even said once that the motto of Greater Israel is not his party’s main goal, which means that he does believe in this idea. But I say that there is no small or great Israel in history, and that the myths of the Torah do not amount to real history. There is also Shas, the party of Eastern Sephardic Jews, and the United Torah Party, which represents Ashkenazi Jews of eastern and central European descent. Both parties are even more espousing of the myths of the Torah than the rest. I said before and I say again today, no peace is possible with these neo-Nazi racist war criminals. I therefore expect intifada or war, because I do not expect the return of the old Israeli left or center in the current generation. --- The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.