as a nation and at transferring to them the land which was at the br

time, and still is, inhabited by its historic owners, the Arabs.”

That is what they said then, before there were “occupied br

territories” or Jewish settlements in them that constituted an br

“obstacle to peace.” That was before there was an “occupation br

army” to defy a United Nations that was not even in existence. br

That is what the Arabs said, and those are the murders they br

committed—the death and destruction they effected—before br

there was even a Jewish state. All that they said then, they think br

today. All that they did then, they would do today if given the br

opportunity. Will we give it to them?

The first Jew to be killed in the rioting of 1936-38 was br

Yisrael Hazan, murdered near Tulkarm, in April 1936. Forty- br

three years later, in October 1979, an automobile carrying Tzvi br

Laufer, twenty-four, crashed into a truck in Tulkarm. He was br

killed instantly and the driver of the car severely injured. When br

soldiers arrived at the spot, they were horrified to find young br

Arabs from the nearby school happily dancing, singing, and br

clapping around the car containing the two dead Jews.

Nothing has changed, and if the Jew does not understand br

the real cause of the Arab-Jewish conflict, he will indeed, G-d br

forbid, give the Arab the opportunity for which he so longs: to br

liquidate the Jewish state.