Q&A: The Rabbi’s Political Outlook
The Rabbi’s Political Outlook
Question
Hello Rabbi, may he live long. After the Rabbi’s post in which he stated the simple principle of the stick and the carrot, I felt that although the Rabbi is mistaken about a few things, the Arabs are not just a minority like the Druze or the Bedouins, but rather:
they aspire to Palestinian independence in Judea and Samaria and do not want our carrot.
And in practice, independence is really just an excuse; the Palestinians are an Arab group created by the Arab states as eternal soldiers, whose victory means the destruction of the Jews and the ruin of Israel. Therefore it is certainly impossible to make peace with them. It is even likely that if we give them Areas A and B, they will turn them into nests of terror and incitement (and that is what they already are now). And let us not forget that they are also Muslims, and their religion commands them to destroy the entire Western world, so we are in trouble in any case.
When I think about this, I come to a fairly Kahanist conclusion: the best solution is to expel the vast majority of Israel’s Arabs and impose harsh laws on the remaining minority. The problem is that it is neither technically nor morally practical to do such a thing.
I would be glad to hear whether the Rabbi has ever thought of any lead, in this tangled politics, toward solving the Palestinian problem.
Answer
All right. I do not intend here to enter into a debate about values or assessments of reality. That was not my subject. I am only pointing here to an option that anyone who believes in it should consider.