Aharon Nathan's opening Statement as delivered at the Israel
Forum Meeting on 11 Sept 2011 in Wimbledon Synagogue sharing
a panel with Mr Stephen Hammond MP, Mr
Alex Brummer of the Daily Mail and Dr Simon Joseph in the Chair
"Israel is a paradox. Its
spectacular achievements in every sphere whether in science, technology,
medicine etc., contrast sharply with its utter failure in politics. As in Greek tragedies, this one fault is bringing about Israel’s downfall. I believe
Israel
is definitely not safer now than ten years ago.
Arik Sharon apart, its political leaders throughout those ten years have
pushed Israel
towards a dark slippery slope which threatens its very existence today.
This grave situation is rooted in 3 problems that
urgently need practical solutions:
1. Reforming Israel’s
electoral system of pure proportional representation to bring about stability
of government and integration of its splintered society including its
Arab minority;
2. Directing Israel’s policies towards defendable borders
based on a 3 state solution: Palestine, Israel and the State of Gaza;
3. Improving Israel’s image
in the world by widening the legitimacy for its existence through
focusing on the ethnic cleansing by the Arab countries of their entire
Jewish populations that has left them in Hitler’s words: Judenrein, Arab lands clean of Jews.
These 3 problems are interlinked and
intertwined. If left without action, Israel' support
will shrink under the attrition of intermittent Arab and Islamist hostilities,
backed by vicious ignorant European public. Time is running out." (Sept 2011)
What Today, the 5th August 2014? What we needed then we still need now: Root
and branch solutions. To achieve that we must not confine ourselves to reacting
to the last events and headlines but be guided by the above underlying causes
of the present conflict.
And what to do specifically the day after this War is
over? A Mini Marshal Plan in exchange for
Demilitarisation. We must catch
the present golden opportunity that Egypt is affording us to deal directly with
the leadership of local Hamas in
Gaza (with Abu Mazen but better without) to establish a demilitarised viable autonomous entity in Gaza backed by financial
help of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States (not
Qatar) USA and Europe (definitely not
the UN). Commentaries and detailed
analysis on website: www.aharonnathan.com