Are Labor and Kadima Appeasement Parties?

 Labor Zionists [Mapai was one of the parties that merged into the Labor party in 1968] held power in Israel until 1977. As a result, it was under their governments when Israel waged heroic struggles to defend her existence from existential threats. For it was under Israeli left-wing governments when it defended itself in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. It was under Yitzhak Rabin, who was the Labor Prime Minister, when Israel heroically rescued the Jewish hostages held at Entebbe by the Communist terrorists from the PLO faction the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] and from the Red Army Faction, and held by then the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

However, the Labor party eventually evolved to the party of Appeasement. It was taken over by people who were willing to put Israel’s security at risk in the false hope of peace. Among them was Amos Oz who believes that an enemy Palestinian state that’s dedicated to Israel’s destruction is better than for Israel to defend itself, as seen from the following claim:

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Militarily and morally, it will be easier for Israel to face an enemy state than to continue fighting a cluster of armed gangs.

At the forefront of the appeasement movement in Israel is a group called Peace Now, which even exaggerates the amount of privately-owned Palestinian land that is used for Israeli settlements. For example, here’s what the Haaretz reported on one settlement that is accused by Peace Now of using privately-owned Palestinian land:

The Peace Now report did indicate, however, that contrary to numbers released by the movement in November, little private land was seized from Palestinians to build Ma’aleh Adumim, the largest settlement in the West Bank.

The new numbers are vastly smaller than numbers Peace Now issued in an earlier report based on leaked information.

The group claimed in November that 86 percent of Ma’aleh Adumim, which has more than 30,000 residents, was built on private Palestinian land.

After successfully petitioning the court to see the database, the group reported Wednesday that data show only 0.5 percent of the settlement is built on private land.

Oslo is the best illustration of how much of an appeasement party that Labor turned into. During the Oslo “peace”process, when Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak were Prime Minister, the Israeli government kept on promoting Yasser Arafat as a partner for peace, despite his constant violations like his support of terrorism and his incitement that calls for Israel’s destruction, and portrayed their opponents including the Likud party as being as bad as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, since like those two groups, Likud supposedly wanted to derail the “peace” process. In 1995, Amos Oz even called the Likud party “the best collaborator that Hamas could hope for”.

Despite Arafat’s constant violations, in 2000, Barak offered Arafat a state on most of what the Palestinians claim they want. Barak’s offer, if implemented, would include serious security risks to Israel from a government that essentially did the exact opposite of what the Oslo accords called for. Since it included giving the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, thusly resulting in giving up most of the eastern half of Israel’s historic capital to a government that violated the Oslo accords. Not only that, but at least many of Arabs in east Jerusalem preferred to live under Israeli rule instead of being in control of the PA. For example, Zohair Hamdan, who Yasser Arafat later made an assassination attempt on, got a signature of 10,000 Arabs in east Jerusalem on a petition stating that they want to live under Israeli rule. Arafat not only rejected the offer and left, but planned the second intifada. After the second intifada started, Barak made the same offer again. Arafat did the same thing. Ariel Sharon later became Prime Minister. In 2005, Sharon carried out the disengagement from Gaza in the hope of achieving peace. He dismantled the Israeli settlements and forced all the Israelis back into Israel. It was painful for at least many of the Jewish settlers and for at least many IDF soldiers who carried it out. The extremists among the Jewish settlers called the IDF soldiers who carried it them “Nazis”. Sharon’s disengagement was opposed by the Likud party. As a result, Sharon formed his own party called “Kadima”. It included those in the Likud who supported the disengagement from Gaza and some from the Labor party. among those who left the Likud party and came out in support of the disengagement plan was Ehud Olmert, who later became Prime Minister of Israel after Sharon had a stroke. As a result of the disengagement form Gaza, Israel did not get more peace. On the contrary, Gaza turned into a base for terrorist groups and rocket attacks on Israel increased. So the Kadima party was founded based on an action that gave Gaza to rejectionist terrorists. Two years later, Hamas took over Gaza. In Gaza, Hamas imposed Sharia law, brutally kills and/or tortures their opponents and continued with the terrorist rocket attacks on Israel. At the same time, unlike from 1995-1996 and the second intifada, suicide bombers did not increase. Suicide bombings were decreasing. It had nothing to do with the disengagement from Gaza. In fact, it had to do with the security fence that Israel is building. It successfully stopped the suicide bombings even more so than the checkpoints, which did prevent some suicide bombings. Palestinian terror groups did not give up suicide bombing. Israel is better at stopping them, especially with the security fence.

Then came the Annapolis “peace” talks, when Ehud Olmert was Prime Minister At the end of 2008, Israel offered 93% of the west Bank and to make 7% of Israel into Gaza in order to compensate for the 7% of the west Bank that Israel was going to retain. It also offered to give up east Jerusalem. And yet, Mahmoud Abbas continued with Arafat’s course of promoting terrorism and a culture of violence.Mahmoud Abbas is still doing that today, even saying that the doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Olmert offered to give a state that would potentially be a security threat to Israel, to Mahmoud Abbas, a man who promoted Holocaust denial with his book “The Other Side”. Abbas rejected that offer.

In Israeli politics, I support the Likud, which I consider to be heroic. The Likud party is a heroic party that is dedicated to the defense of Israel. Israel is a valuable ally to America regardless of whether the Prime Minister is from Labor, Kadima, or Likud. But Israel is especially a great ally when someone from the Likud is Prime Minister.

Apparently, at least much of the Labor and Kadima parties are for appeasement policies that strengthen Palestinian terrorists. The Labor party has been in the forefront of appeasement policies. Guys like Amos Oz are in the forefront for appeasement policies that strengthen Palestinian terrorists. To be fair, it was the Kadima-led government of Ehud Olmert that carried out the heroic Operation Cast Lead bombings against Hamas and other rejectionist terrorist groups. Still, Kadima was founded, as seen from this column, based on an action that resulted in Gaza turning into a terrorist base. 

There are Palestinian people who want peace with Israel and who are willing to accept Israel as a Jewish state. They’re not the ones in control of the political situation. They certainly are not the ones who would take control from Israeli withdrawals. The facts are that Israeli withdrawals result in rejectionist terrorists taking control of the territories and in an increase of terrorist attacks on Israel. After all, not all Germans were Nazis. But the free world had a duty to stop Hitler and his genocidal and anti-freedom global goals.

I think that peace with the Palestinians is a nice idea. But at the same time, I oppose premature Israeli withdrawals. The Likud is more concerned about Israel’s security, wheras Labor and Kadima are more focused on Israeli withdrawals. I strongly support the Likud party. Menachem Begin and Bibi Netanyahu are very big heroes.