This Land is Our Land, by MK (NU-NRP) Arieh Eldad
Excerpts;
“It wasn’t the 20th century creation called Tel Aviv that inspired the world to recognize the Jewish rights to the entire Land of Israel, including both banks of the Jordan River. Rather, it was Jerusalem and Hebron and Bethlehem and Beit El.”
Many of us say today: We believe that Jews have rights to the entire Land of Israel, but “reality” forces us to make concessions. They believe that foregoing our rights to live in Hebron and Beit El and Nablus will bring peace. They apparently can’t see that they are pulling the rug out from any claim of rights over this land – moral, historical or legal.
In addition, their proposals only push peace further away. Throughout the long years of Muslim imperial occupation, no territorial compromise has ever advanced the cause of peace. A woman who would propose chopping a living baby in half is in effect testifying that she is not the baby’s mother.
There is no nation on Earth that would volunteer to forego its rights to half its homeland, unless they came to that country from the Diaspora but never managed to get the Diaspora mentality out of their hearts. These people have failed to internalize a sense that the Jewish people living in Israel is a natural state of affairs, and to relate to this country the way a Frenchman relates to France or an Italian relates to Italy.
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