The IDF cannot protect Jewish communities, not in the territories over the Green Line and not within the Green Line either. In the Jerusalem Post for March 1, 2001, the IDF reported reduced manpower available for defense of communities over the Green Line and said that residents of those communities have to take more responsibility for their own defense. Of course, no one's reserve duties were reduced to make that possible, nor was equipment or munitions made available for the task. The IDF simply abdicated part of its responsibility for their defense. Yet the Palestinians have not kept their plan a secret. Those communities are under threat from the Palestinian Authority's armed forces, which are well armed, including more than 120 armored cars, which the communities of YESHA are not known to have any defense against. A small armed force operating behind an armored car could quickly overwhelm the defenses of a settlement. It is doubtful that the IDF could respond to 120 simultaneously.

Towns inside the Green Line along the seam find themselves in a similarly threatened situation and no one is addressing the problem. The fact is that the whole country is under dire threat and the government seems to be pretending that the threat does not exist. Prior to the closure of Orient House, the Palestinian Authority had been deeply engaged in computerizing the identity of properties owned by Arabs prior to 1948 and matching properties to families. They make no secret of their intention to send hundreds of thousands of "refugees" into "Israel proper", backed up by armed Palestinian "police" to "reclaim" the homes their ancestors had abandoned. Nor do they conceal their intention to kill any occupant who refuses to vacate the premises.

There is precedent for armed border positions being overwhelmed by masses of civilians swarming past it. The Hisballah overwhelmed the South Lebanese Army the same way: masses of civilians backed up by armed Hisballah gunmen. Morocco occupied the Spanish Western Sahara the same way. Would Israeli troops open fire on women and children? Doubtful. Once inside Israeli cities, their purpose would be to run amuck and kill as many as possible. We can expect them to infiltrate the 14 and 15-year-old snipers they have been training to take up positions in teams on strategic buildings, similarly guarded by PA security personnel, to kill as many as they can before they are taken out.

Will the IDF be able to respond in the entire country? Not likely. In point of bitter fact, that will probably be coordinated with a general invasion by Egypt in the South, Syria in the North with expeditionary forces from Iran and probably Jordan in the East. The IDF will be unable to mobilize because of the chaos wrought by the Palestinians all over the country.

All this has been known since January 1997, when a study by the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Non-Conventional Warfare was made public. See the subcommittee article, "APPROACHING THE NEW CYCLE OF ARAB-ISRAELI FIGHTING." That task force, headed by Congressman Jim Saxton of New Jersey, reported in the above article that a pact had been made between Iraq and Syria, in April 1996 (before the election of Netanyahu, when Syria was still our "peace" interlocutor) to form a united Eastern Front against Israel. It was joined by Iran in the summer and massive joint war games were conducted. The Palestinian Authority signed on in August 1996 (before Israel opened the second exit to the Kotel Tunnel). The task of the Palestinian Authority under the pact is precisely to prevent the mobilization of the reserves. If the IDF cannot mobilize the reserves to the front within 48 hours, the entire North falls. The presence of Iraqi and Iranian forces shortens the time accordingly. If they link up with the Palestinian forces in the mountains of Samaria, the Center of the country is entirely indefensible. The South gets its water from the North.

Clearly, the IDF will not be able to protect the neighborhoods inside the country. The police cannot be expected to meet a challenge so massive. The Jewish communities themselves, in every neighborhood in the country, have to be the ones to defend themselves. The situation, however, is that the Jews are not armed and not ready. But the Arabs are. The Arabs have been arming themselves and even rehearsing their tactics. The Israeli government announced, in 2000, that the police will not search Arab villages for illegal weapons lest the Arabs riot. What that means is that the State of Israel has relinquished sovereignty over the areas populated by Arabs.

The future of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state depends on arming and training the Jews, community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, to defend themselves. The government has to permit and facilitate it or it will place itself precisely in the role of the British Mandatory government, the protector of the Arabs in their massacres of Jews.

It should be emphasized that the threat is to every Jewish neighborhood in the country and every sector of the Jewish population. The Arab terrorists are coming to murder us. They are not coming to murder the secular Jews. They are not coming to murder the religious Jews or the atheists. They are not coming to murder the “settlers". They are coming to murder Jews.

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