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btheir settlements, and vow to drive them into the sea? If they did, bEurope’s Jews and Israel’s Arabs are the same. bAnd if they did—if Germany’s Jews killed Germans and bsought to take their state from them—Germans would have been bjustified in removing them from Germany and saving their coun- btry. But if, as really happened, the Jews sought, not to destroy bGermany, not to separate from Germany, not to be independent bof Germany, but to be good, loyal, fervent, assimilated Ger- bmans, then what the Germans did was horrible, and what the bJews who equate the murderous Arabs with the murdered Jews bdo is obscene. With no apologies, no defensiveness, no hesitation, bthe Jew rejects with contempt the gentilized Hebrews and the bneo-Hellenists. He knows the Jewish response to threats to de- bstroy people and state: “If one comes to slay you, slay him first” b(Sanhedrin, 72d). “Do not be overly righteous” (Ecclesiastes 7). b“Said Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish: He who becomes merciful bunto the cruel is destined to be cruel unto the merciful.” bHow cruel are the overly righteous, the carriers of perverted bmorality, the unthinking, the gentilized. How many Jewish wom- ben and children will die because of the mercy of the overly right- beous to the cruel? The foolish children, the twisted adults, all bcalling in the name of “humanity” for the destruction of the bJewish state—they will be the problem, nothing else. bBut there are questions: How can we persuade the Arabs to bleave? The answer is: We do not come to the Arabs to request, bargue, or persuade. The government that comes to power will bremember the past and the hopes of the Arabs to repeat it. It will bnot request. The Arab will be given the choice of accepting non- bcitizenship and the difficult new conditions that status will en- btail, of leaving willingly with compensation, or of leaving unwill- bingly without compensation. He has no other options, and the belection of a strong, iron-handed government whose reputation band determination to implement this program at all cost are bknown to the Arab will keep resistance to a minimum. bThere will be a small percentage who will agree to the con- bditions of the noncitizen resident stranger. They will be mostly belderly people. They will remain. The majority, however, will baccept reality. Knowing that eventually they will have to leave in bany event, the largest group will accept the compensation, bbonus, and hoped-for visa to the West. They will leave willingly. b
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