Jewish Jihad is Better.
by Steven Shamrak.
Let's declare our own jihad.
Many Muslim
mullahs, imams and terrorist chiefs have been igniting their followers with the
word "jihad" - holy war. Even the leaders of some Muslim countries
are not able to resist the temptation. Their true intent is a war against
everything that is un-Islamic. Any infidel, not just Jews, any non-Islamic
country is a target. Even Muslim countries that allow some flexibility, freedom
and personal rights that are not in line with hard-core Islamic doctrine are considered
as a blasphemous and also are targeted.
Sometimes, in
order to disguise the actual aggressive nature of Islamic jihad, Muslim leaders
say that they are misunderstood. They say that jihad has nothing to do with
terror and the desire for world domination by Islam; rather, it is a call for
the inner struggle of an individual Muslim. Little do they know that the
concept of "inner struggle" is a deep spiritual idea of Judaism and
Jewish spiritual teaching.
Every year, Jews
celebrate the exodus from Egypt. Most Jews celebrate Pesach (Passover) as
marking the freedom Jews obtained from physical slavery in Egypt some 3,300
years ago. Not many remember or know that Passover is to remind us that
internal freedom of mind and spirit is even more important.
Unfortunately,
even so many years after the creation of the independent Jewish State, many
Jews are still living in inner mental slavery. We are constantly living under
the fear of "them."
"What will they
think?"; "This is current reality, they will not allow us
to...." - these are the questions that continuously sabotage our efforts
to obtain true sovereignty and end the ongoing torture of Arab terrorism that
is unleashed on Israel, and which is artificially fostered by international
hypocrisy.
The idea of a
"two-state solution" has become the only focus of the peace process
in the Meddle East. For many years, Israel has tried education, negotiations,
economic stimulation, and political and territorial sacrifice. Israel gave
control of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinian Authority after the Oslo
agreement. Nothing has worked so far. These ideas have failed to bring peace to
Israel; they just bring more terror.
The idea of
removing 240,000 Jews from their ancestral land, Judea and Samaria, does not
shock Peace Now supporters. At the same time, they reject the idea of
transferring Arabs from Jewish land. Why is the idea of giving up Jewish land
to enemies whose goal is complete destruction of the state of Israel not
considered radical, but advocating the rights of Jewish people to the land of
their ancestors is? The fact that our enemies, not just Arabs, have been
persistently working on a one-state solution - a Muslim state without Jews - is
completely ignored by many Jews.
We neglect our own
right to the unity of Jewish land. Our right to self-determination is forgotten
and regularly abused. Our right to live in peace in our own country is
non-existent. At the same time, many Jews support the fictional people - the
"Palestinians" - that was created for one reason only: to destroy
Israel.
It is time for
the Jewish people to shake off "Mitzraim" ("Egypt" as a
metaphor for internal slavery) and declare our own jihad. This is the fight
against self-doubt, self-hate and lack of self-respect. We must unite the
Jewish nation, get rid of our enemies and reunite our land. Only when we start
to believe in ourselves will the respect from "them" follow.
As you can see,
jihad is a good thing when it is properly used. So, let's start a Jewish jihad.
It will be good for us.