Please Sir - Just Take my Wife

by Nadia Matar
January 2, 2003

Just imagine the following scenario: You and your husband 
are happily married for many years. You have a few kids. 
You live in an apartment building and one day, in the 
apartment across yours, on the same floor, come new tenants. 
The new neighbor says he has a crush on your wife and starts 
saying clearly that he wants  to take your wife from you, 
for him and his sons. The pressure is unbearable - the neighbor 
first threatens, then starts using violence. First he smashes 
your car windows, then burns your car, then puts a bomb in 
the building - killing one of your own kids and a few other 
tenants in the building. He wants your wife and he will
not stop till you let him have your wife.

The residents of the building itself and of neighboring 
buildings start pressuring the husband to find a solution - 
they are worried they will be the next target. After two 
years of violence, terror and incredible pressure - your 
husband says: "well - this indeed cannot go on. People have
been killed because of this problem. OK- I am willing to 
consider the idea of giving my wife away but I will make 
very strict conditions: - the neighbor has to promise to 
stop all violence - he has to promise to only want my wife 
and not my daughter - he has to make reforms as to how 
he keeps his household, he has to keep kosher and the 
Orthodox restraints relating to family purity, etc..."

And to his wife the husband says: "Don't worry - I am 
making such strict conditions in order to please the other 
neighbors in the street. I know that the neighbor will never 
accept those terms. So don't worry, I don't really mean it". 
Would you stay with such a man or would you immediately
divorce him? For he has basically betrayed you and basically 
agreed to give you away? What does it matter at what price? 
He has agreed on the principle. You had expected from a 
loyal husband to tell the entire street -  with banners and 
posters - I will *never* give away my wife and let's fight 
together to kick that bully neighbor and his  entire family
out of our street.

This is my answer to all those who try to rationalize Ariel 
Sharon and YBA (Yisrael Ba'aliyah) who *just say* they are 
for a PLO state but put such strict conditions "that anyway 
it will never happen". Just uttering the words that you favor 
giving away one inch of Judea, Samaria and Gaza - Israel's 
biblical heartland - is a betrayal of Erets Yisrael and 
nobody should give those people their votes. How many times 
do we have to repeat what Ben-Gurion said in 1937: 
No Jew has to right to give away one inch of Erets Yisrael 
to strangers for all of Erets Yisrael belongs to the People 
of Israel for all generations. And only *saying* that you 
favor the idea is no different than actually giving it away.

Ariel Sharon is not young and I wish him till 120 in good 
health. But after 120, when the day comes and he leaves this 
world - do you think that *anybody* will remember his 
"strict conditions" for the creation of a PLO state? 
They will just say "Sharon was for a PLO state - yalla, 
if he was, then we can do it too".  The same with YBA. 
The moment you agree to the principle, it is just a matter 
of time till you will do it - and therefore it is of 
utmost importance to vote for parties whose platform 
not only simply oppose the creation of a PLO state west 
of the Jordan, but vow to actively fight the very idea 
and clearly have written in their platform:
"The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel 
based on the Torah of Israel"

Jerusalem, January 2, 2003       Nadia Matar

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