http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=4129

There is an expression that "ideas float in the air", and it happens quite often that a few talented and sensitive individuals in different parts of the world simultaneously 'pick up' and develop one and the same idea already in the hearts and minds of many.

Within the last couple of days, two quite similar articles appeared on the Russian- and English-language sites of Arutz-7. Yakov Segal of the Yamin Israel party and Nadia Matar of Women in Green have written articles showing a direct causal connection between the perfidious behavior of Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin and that of Tali Fahima, who has been arrested and indicted for aiding and abetting the enemy for her suspected involvement in the planning of the terrorist attack at the Kalandia checkpoint. She is the girlfriend of the Tanzim head Zakaria Zubeidi, who took responsibility for planning that attack.

Fahima is charged with maintaining close ties with wanted terrorists from the Palestinian Authority. It is also suspected that she was connected with the planning of the transfer of the explosive charge to Zubeidi's people. The difference, however, as both Matar and Segal indicate, is that Peres and Beilin, architects of Oslo - who brought on our heads Yasser Arafat and his gangs and even armed them at the expenses of Israel's taxpayers, and who are consequently responsible for over 1,000 dead and many thousands wounded, maimed, widowed and orphaned - roam free and hobnob with PLO terrorists, unconcerned about ever being incarcerated or indicted.

Both Segal's and Matar's articles show that, given the example of Peres and Beilin, we may reasonably expect that more and more leftists will become practical collaborators of Arab terrorists - unless we put on trial those who made aiding and abetting terrorists not only legal, but even respectable.

Yakov Segal, however, gives more attention to the commonly overlooked fact that different ways of aiding the enemy have become widespread in Israeli society.

He cites such examples as Peace Now, the so-called peace movement that organizes Arabs of Judea and Samaria to clash with the IDF in violent demonstrations against the "security fence". Peace Now also supplies the International Criminal Court with the names of Israeli pilots involved in precision bombing of terrorist nests, demanding international warrants for their arrest. "What is it if not aiding the enemy in time of war?" Segal asks. He goes on to emphasize that Peace Now includes among its leaders and activists such notables as former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg (Labor) and present Labor MK Prof. Yuli Tamir.

Segal cites MK Yossi Sarid (Meretz), who termed the IDF activity in Gaza a "war crime". He also cites Justice Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, leader of the Shinui party, who put the IDF on the same level as the Nazis, when he said that a Palestinian old woman on the ruins of a terrorist's house destroyed by the IDF reminds him of his own grandmother killed in the Holocaust.

Segal reminds us that actions of this sort routinely go unpunished in our country. He concludes his article by citing a well-known maxim: "impunity breeds crime." Like Nadia Matar, Segal wants to put the "Oslo criminals on trial". He warns that until this is done, the demoralization of Israel's society will continue to deepen.

The position of both authors is clear and indisputable, and any sensible Jew can only support it. I would like to stress, however, that this "culture of betrayal", which gave the likes of Peres-Beilin-Sarid the boldness to join the ranks of the enemy, didn't appear in Israel out of nowhere. It is a direct result of two things: 1) the philosophical doctrines that lie at the foundation of the education system of this country; and 2) the nature of the electoral system that is flaunted as " Israeli democracy".

Israeli educators have been the propagators of moral or cultural relativism - "Who is to say what is right and what is wrong?" - thus dismissing the truth of the Torah and even the possibility of existence of any Eternal Truth whatsoever. To this doctrine add the egalitarian socialism that has dominated the founders of Israel's education system since the dawn of this state and has been passed on by them to generations of teachers and intellectuals . They hold that "all nations are equal," and that "the poor among the Arabs are closer to us than the rich among the Jews." Both relativism and egalitarian socialism stripped generations of Israeli Jews of the moral support they could otherwise derive from the Jewish tradition. Hence, they were left defenseless before the Arab claim to the Land of Israel, which the descendants of Ishmael prefer to call by the name of "Palestine", coined by the Romans to eliminate the name of Judea from the memory of mankind, but first of all from that of the Jews.

If the first generations of Israelis were still taught some sort of political Zionism to give legitimacy to their presence here, Zionism has long since been replaced by "democracy" for Jews now in their teens or twenties, or even thirties. The democratic slogan "everybody is equal" makes everybody's claim to Land of Israel equal. Everybody's rights are equal, whether one is loyal or disloyal to what we habitually call "the Jewish state". Jews disregard the fact that when they celebrate Israel's Independence Day, their fellow Arab citizens mark that day as Nakba, the Day of their National Catastrophe.

Nevertheless, no matter what Jews understand by a "Jewish state", the vast majority believe that it should always remain a Jewish state. However, in this "Jewish state", Israelis are taught, everyone must be given complete equality, including the Arabs. Since loyalty to the idea of the "Jewish state", or the lack of such loyalty, does not serve as a qualification for equal political or other rights, the kind of electoral system Israel has, combined with rapidly proliferating Arab population, defines what kind of country Israel will become in the future; and on a more immediate level, who will be elected to rule this country.

Indeed, when the entire country constitutes a single electoral district, and all parties, no matter how they define their respective ideologies, address all voters for electoral support, the rapid numerical increase of increasingly hostile Israeli Arabs influences the political mentality of Jewish politicians.

"After all," think these Jewish politicians, "we live in a democracy, which is our most precious value. Like the Jews, the Arabs are our constituents. There are more and more of them, and we must take care of their interests. But what are their interests? Goodness! They don't want Israel to be a Jewish state! They want us to pass a law that will make this country 'a state of its citizens' where Jews and Judaism will have no special preference! And they want us to vote for the return of all the Arabs who fled the country in 1948, as well as for all their children and grandchildren!

"Meanwhile, they demand that we negotiate with this unshaved, disgusting leader of theirs, Yasser Arafat, who can call upon them to vote for our party in the next election. We don't support all their ideas, but what can we do? If we don't support at least some of their demands we may lose power. As for our Jewish constituents, we'll have to explain to them that this is the only way to peace. After all, these Jewish constituents do not have much choice; they will vote for us anyway, since they won't vote for any right-wing extremist party, let alone any Arab party."

Something like this way of thinking brought about the disaster of Oslo.

Any rational analysis brings one to the conclusion that Oslo was in fact an act of deliberate and calculated betrayal, but one that was forced on its perpetrators by Israel's electoral system. When Knesset Members are not individually accountable to voters in district elections, on the one hand, and when, on the other hand, the number of seats a party gets depends on how actively its leaders kowtow the fast proliferating Arabs, such a political system breeds betrayal.

If Arafat is rightly accused of brainwashing a generation of Arab children to hate and murder Jews, our own Peres-inspired establishment has brainwashed an entire generation of Jewish children to accept their enemies as their friends - and not simply as friends, but as friends before whom you are guilty for having robbed them in the past and for continuing to rob them today. The Fahima phenomenon is an inevitable result of this "peace and democracy" education in a country that replaced its Jewishness with a false and self-destructive conception of democracy.