Ariel Center for
Policy Research

A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

 

NATIV   ■   Volume Fourteen   ■   Number 2 (79)  ■  March 2001   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

 

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Their Sacrilegious Hearts
A Dispute with the Ariel Center and Martin Sherman

Yigal Elam

The people of the Ariel Center speak of democracy but their concept of democracy is totally distorted. Their weltanschauung is Darwinist, collectivist and ethnocentric, in complete contradistinction to that of Western democracy. They also have difficulty grasping that the philosophy of an ethnocentric Jewish state contradicts the idea of Greater Israel. In order for Israel to expand over the territory of all of the Land of Israel, it must take responsibility for all of the Palestinian inhabitants of that territory and treat them as citizens. Instead, the people of the Ariel Center dream of taking advantage of the historic opportunity to expel the Palestinians from the territory of the Land of Israel. They believe that it is feasible to commit this crime against humanity and get away with it because, in their opinion, it is the way of the world. Their philosophy is immature and violent. They are unfamiliar with the attributes of power. They disregard the international rules of the game. They do not understand the secret of the superiority of contemporary Western democracies. Even the essence and the role of a modern country are unclear to them.

Our right wing does not represent a patriotic outlook but rather an anti-Semitic one, which is fundamentally anti-country and anti-state. They do not believe in the possibility of peace with the Arab world; truth be told, they have no interest in it, since peace means coming to terms with the existence of a Palestinian nation in the Land of Israel, alongside the Jewish people. They paint a false and defeatist picture of the future – the destruction of Israel – and advocate a path which will lead to the realization of that prophecy of destruction.

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