Professors for a Strong Israel
Paid advertisement - 12 March 2002
The following advertisement has been endorsed by the executive board
of Professors for a Strong Israel.
MANIFESTO
While the nation is at war with its enemies, its foundations are being shaken
from within.
Once more, we recall the principles of Zionism:
- This war is not against "terrorism." Terrorism is only one weapon in the
hands of the enemy, wielded in his war to uproot us from our country.
This is the war for the Land of Israel, another stage in the unfinished
War of Independence, against an enemy who has never accepted our presence here -
not In Jerusalem or in Tel Aviv, not in the Jezreel Valley or in the
Katif area.
- The Land of Israel is not subject to negotiation and it is not for sale.
The Jewish people did not return to their country in order to establish in it
a state for a foreign nation.
The Jewish people did not sacrifice more than 20,000 sons and daughters -
among them more than 600 since the Oslo agreement - in order to sign away,
for the first time in its existence, the heartland of Israel, the historic
core of our homeland, the land where our kings ruled and our prophets spoke.
- The Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are not
a security burden on the state, but quite the contrary: They secure
for the Jewish people the heart of the country and protect the rest of the
state's population.
We salute the residents of Yesha and note with pride the burden they
carry and their noble restraint.
We reject the prospect of
destruction of their towns and transfer of their populations
as a crime against the nation and against humanity.
Any Jewish authority that attempts to inflict such a disaster will return
the nation to to the baseless hatred that brought about the destruction of
the Second Temple.
- We call for the establishment of a Zionist-Jewish-National front
to oppose any proposal for the establishment of an Arab state - no matter
how small or how demilitarized - in the western portion of the Land of Israel.
Not only will
a terrorist state on the threshold of Israel's cities present a constant threat
to her existence;
it will constitute a spiritual collapse.
Recognition by a government of Israel, in an international document, that
the heart of the Land of Israel is the property of a foreign people would
be a cultural earthquake that will go down in history as treason against
Zionism, a disaster that generations will mourn.
We are confident that the nation of Israel will return to its roots and its
identity.
It will recognize who its enemies are and will defeat them; it will restate
loudly and fearlessly its historic right to its country; and it will
realize this right.