Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund

Since his embarrassing dressing down in the Principal’s office in Washington last month, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be holding firm in not giving in to President Obama’s unreasonable demands. The litmus test will be whether he agrees to extend the current building freeze in post 1967 Israel — Samaria and Judea.

In an earlier blog, I compared Netanyahu to the misguided Neville Chamberlain, for agreeing to the current building freeze. I hope that my perhaps harsh comparision was exaggerated and that Netanyahu will stand firm against all attempts to pressure Israel into submission. Pressure will only lead to more pressure, until he takes a page from Nancy Reagan’s unwritten book - “Just Say No!”

David Rubin

Shiloh, Israel

The Israeli Cabinet decided tonight to support Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s call for a ten-month building freeze in Judea and Samaria. This pusillanimous move by a weak leader under pressure is a blatant capitulation to the evil, implicit demand of American President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton that Israel surrender its Biblical heartland to the hostile Muslim terrorists. This is a surrender in the spirit of the notorious Neville Chamberlain whose capitulation to the dictates of Adolf Hitler were the beginning of the end for European Jewry.

Netanyahu, whose Likud party was  elected with (unfortunately) strong support from the  Israeli communities in the liberated territories (reestablished after the miraculous Six Day War of 1967), has now officially betrayed those pioneers in the Biblical heartland by freezing all building, including building needed for natural growth. His fellow Likud cohorts have proven to be men and women lacking in principles as well, as they backed this immoral and discriminatory policy, which officially halts all Jewish building while allowing and even encouraging Arab Muslims to expand and grow their cities and towns with the blessings of Obama, Clinton, and George Mitchell. 

But we can’t just blame the Obama Administration or even Netanyahu and his Likud party. Every resident of Judea or Samaria (and those who identify with us) who voted Likud or Yisrael Beitenu had better do some serious self-reckoning. This evil decree was indirectly created by those foolish voters who voted Likud or Yisrael Beitenu rather than for the (Land of Israel faithful) National Union, thinking that by voting Likud, they would somehow have influence over the Likud government’s policy.

We are today reaping the rotten fruit of that misguided thinking.

David Rubin

Shiloh, Israel