Israeli worker strikes: State-sponsored terrorism, Part III
By Zev Golan, Executive Director, IASPS - Jerusalem

Parts one and two of State-sponsored Terror examined the current wave of strikes in Israel. On a superficial level, one might wonder what labor disputes in Israel have to do with the title of this series, Examples of the Peace Process in America.

But Part 1 focused on the State as it accommodates terror (in this case, by state employees against state citizens) and compromises with it, which is precisely the peace-process formula that justifies the State accommodating murder and compromising with it. In so doing, it compromises its citizens’ lives and its own reason for existence, as it devolves itself into terror, tyranny and murder.

In Part 2 we examined the same strikes, from the point of view of the perpetrators. These are motivated not by Islam or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism, as is the more talked about kind of terrorism these days, but by greed, immorality, communism or socialism, and once again tyranny. These latter terrorists are the perpetrators of threats against industrialists, travelers, tourists, anyone who stands in their way of getting more money. But they do not simply want more money; they want to get this money by having the State become tyrannical itself, as it steals from productive people in order to transfer their money to the state-employed terrorists.

The point is: When the State compromises with murderers it is involved in murder and has become the tyrant.

This is the third and final installment in this short series on State terror. The subject can be put into sharper focus by looking at the meshing of the two processes – on the one hand, international terror, murder and State tyranny; and on the other hand, what appear to be labor disputes in Israel but what have been seen, in Parts 1 and 2, to be domestic terror and State tyranny.

Prime Minister Blair met with President Assad of Syria last week. At their joint press conference, Assad said he is opposed to terror, then explained that the murder of Israelis is not murder; it is something else. This statement is remarkable enough in itself. But Blair’s response was even more remarkable. Blair’s response was: I am glad that we both agree on the need to continue the peace process.

Blair did not say the peace process must go forward. He said he and Assad agreed the peace process must go forward – one split second after Assad said the process he favors is murder.

An NBN on this site a few months ago revealed Faisal Husseini’s revelation, in his last published interview, that the Oslo Peace Process was a “Trojan horse,” in his words, designed to plant Arabs inside Israel from where they would work to set up an Arab state from the Jordan River to the sea. Another NBN revealed Marwan Bargouti’s statement that the only people who drew a distinction between the Tanzim and the Fatah were Israelis who don’t want to blame Arafat’s Fatah for murder, so they blame Tanzim.

What we have here is State-sponsored terrorism and murder. But the states involved are not Iraq and Afghanistan. They are Israel, the US, Britain, certainly the rest of Europe.

A Finance Ministry bureaucrat who says we should compromise with strikes that are literally ruining innocent Israeli factories and lives, so he can avoid wider unrest and stay in power, is a tyrant. Finance Minister Silvan Shalom declared on November 8 that he rejects the appeasement suggested by his bureaucrat, which we quoted in Part 1 of this series. Shalom stated that he will not give in to strikers and will instead follow the course recommended in Part 1, to exempt goods from customs regulations as long as the Customs strike lasts. This is a rare recognition that the State cannot sacrifice its own citizens to terror or murder without becoming itself the problem, the tyranny, the murderer. It remains to be seen whether the Sharon government will follow the advice of Shalom or the bureaucrat quoted in Part 1.

The British prime minister who says Assad wants to murder Jews, and that he agrees with Assad that the peace process must go forward, is murdering Jews. The US officials who press Israel to forfeit the lives of its citizens by being involved in a process of murder, are guilty of murder. A government that abandons the lives of its own citizens to labor-sponsored terrorists, or to Islamic terrorists, is a tyranny that is murdering its own citizens.  To the extent that the US does not pursue murderers and terrorists to all their lairs, but engages instead in heightened security alerts and increased State power at home, to that extent it will be sacrificing American lives because it chooses not to do what needs to be done to end terror and murder.  Israel is already engaged in this form of tyranny: the sacrificial murder of its own citizens, who are left to fend for themselves because their governments have chosen not to put an end to murder; and, more recently, to encourage its own employees to embitter the lives of its citizens in innumerable strikes.

The process is the same. It is reflected, in a minor key, in the process aiding and abetting striking state employees, and in a major key, in the ongoing process that Husseini and Bargouoti and Assad and Sadam and Bin Laden have defined as murder, but that Western accomplices or tyrants call the Peace Process.

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