This article deals with the projected psychological
consequences for the people of Israel – and for Jews everywhere – were a
PLO state to be established within the boundaries of the land of Israel.
The government and leadership of the people of Israel
can ignore only at great peril the devastating demoralization and apathy
that would follow such an event – factors that could well lead to the
eventual dissolution of the Jewish state.
Allowing the establishment of a PLO state, in
addition to constituting a rejection of both Zionist and religious
aspirations, would virtually spell the end of all hope – for, having seen
aborted what for 2,000 years was the ultimate dream, the hoped and prayed
for return to, and rebuilding of, Zion, the Jewish people will be able to
hope no longer.
Instead, we can expect that loss of identity,
alienation, depression and apathy will set in, bringing about, in turn, a
search for escape – not only in the form of yerida, but also into
cultism, drugs and suicide.
The article also analyzes effects on certain
subgroups of the population, and comes to the inevitable conclusion that,
such capitulation, such a withdrawal, would constitute a clear and present
danger not only for the physical survival of what would be left of the
State of Israel, but also for the soul and heart of the Jewish people.
