Yaron London, a Bolshevik to the core, has apparently yet to come out of the days when his fellow travelers, both in Israel and abroad, revered Stalin.
The “sun of nations,” they called him. In his name, they were willing to do anything and everything, no matter how monstrous.
In the pre-State period, when right-wing groups said we should fight the British, Mr. London’s fellow travelers turned over Etzel and Lehi fighters to the British.
“Open Season,” the Bolshevik-Stalinists called it.
Some of their victims were executed by the British, others deported to Africa. One of the deportees, Meir Shamgar, became the president of the Supreme Court. Another, Shmuel Tamir, was one of the best justice ministers. A third, Yitzhak Shamir, even made it to the prime minister’s chair.
To err is human
Of course, it is legitimate to err, and I expect that London represents the views of more than a few people. It is even possible to be - as were the Palmach members who, under the command of David Ben-Gurion, sank the Altalena 57 years ago - part of the “peace camp."
But it took them a bit too long to realize that Stalin was little more than a mass murderer, with no conscience and an insatiable craving for power. And they, too, wanted power more than they wanted a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. After all, was it not Ben Gurion’s greatest fear that Menachem Begin would seize power in the newly-established country?
Here they come again
Now, here they come again, Yaron London and his friends, unashamed and full of chutzpah, to tell us – the folks who refused to be silent and refused to despair when the British prevented concentration camp survivors from coming to Israel – that once again, they are correct.
They have learned nothing from history.
Everything is crystal clear to them, London et al. Once again, they are prepared to use force to enforce a political program to support their ideological agenda. All of a sudden, and not surprisingly, they’ve become dedicated supporters of Ariel Sharon’s warped democracy.
Once again, corruption in the halls of power doesn’t bother them. They don’t mind vote-buying in the Knesset, where some 40 of them are ministers or deputy ministers, a twisted reality in and of itself.
Democratic process?
And they are unbothered by the immorality of the disengagement plan itself, a plan that was born, as Yaron London well knows, to prevent Sharon’s indictment, and not out of some new strategic reality.
Opposition to the disengagement plan is legitimate, in all its forms. Illegal commands with a black flag hanging over them must not be obeyed.
Yaron London and his ilk wouldn’t hesitate one second before abandoning their “democratic” processes if Ariel Sharon would so much as suggest transferring one of the Arab villages in Wadi Ara to the Palestinian Authority. Not to remove, people from their homes, God forbid, but to tell them that from now on they are part of the emerging “Palestinian State”.
We must try to understand Yaron London and his friends. The knowledge that they could once again be wrong drives them crazy. They screwed up years ago, they screwed up when they brought Yasser Arafat and thousands of terrorists back from Tunis. 2,000 Jews have been killed since then. Thousands more are crippled.
Yaron London and his friends have never asked forgiveness from any of them. They have also not apologized for what they did to so many people who fought against those who tried to kick the British occupier out of the Land of Israel.
