by Moshe Feiglin
Arutz Sheva, Israel, January 21, 2007
I would really love to write about Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan
Halutz's resignation. Manhigut Yehudit was the first body to call for him to
resign. From the very beginning of the war, we understood that Israel was going
to lose.
Why? Because the IDF—which buried its soul in the sands of Gush
Katif—and the High Command that did not identify the black flag waving
conspicuously over the Disengagement, can no longer win any battle against an
enemy that is not settlers. It makes no difference who will replace Halutz. As
long as this basic moral concept is not understood, we will continue to
lose.
But I am going to write about China. Why China?
Last week a
Kadima Knesset member proposed to legislate the harvest of organs from donors
who have not given their explicit permission to do so. Obviously, this Knesset
member thinks that even the bodies of Israel's citizens belong to the State.
According to his proposal, if a person is not willing to have his organs
harvested following his death, he must sign a declaration to that end.
China has been harvesting organs from its executed citizens and
exporting them to the rest of the world. I wrote an article last week on the
topic, and received the following letter in response:
I would like to
bring to your attention that the major source of the Chinese organs is not
executed individuals, as you wrote. According to the report written by David
Kilgour, a Canadian Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State and David
Matas, a human rights attorney, there is a different source for the majority of
the organs.
Most of the Chinese organs are harvested from followers of
the Falun Gong sect. The Chinese government cruelly prosecutes the Falun Gong
adherents. In the past years, it has placed hundreds of thousands of these
people in at least 36 concentration camps, where they are held until their
organs are needed, whereupon they are killed or simply provide the ordered
organs while still alive.
The Kilgour-Matas report was recently sent to
all of Israel's Knesset members, as reported in the Israeli media. The Knesset
Health Committee even discussed the matter. I would like to know your stand on
this issue as a Jew, an Israeli, a leader and a journalist.
I
immediately sent the writer the following answer:
Thank you very much
for sending the information. If it
is true, Israel must sever its diplomatic
relations with China.
One of the fundamental stories upon which I was
raised was the story of the British and American bombers that flew over
Auschwitz but did not interfere with the death factory. Israel, at this point,
cannot bomb the concentration camps in China. But at the same time that the
Chinese are amputating and selling corneas, kidneys and livers of the opponents
of its regime, Israel's Prime Minister visits there and declares that we have a
billion friends in China.
Do we still have any claims against the
British and Americans in World War II? We no longer believe that we are just. As
a result, we no longer see ourselves as a light unto the nations.
Imagine for a moment a different Israel. Imagine an Israel that believes
in the justice of its existence; an Israel that understands the significance of
the bond between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel; an Israel that
understands the universal message that the People of the Bible carry to the
entire world.
Imagine what would happen if such an Israel would sever
its diplomatic ties with the radical Leftist regime in China. Imagine what would
happen if Israel would boycott the Beijing Olympics until all the organ farms
would be closed. Humanity—most of which believes in the Bible—is waiting for an
ethical directive from the Nation of Israel.
All of our struggles in
Israel have an ultimate purpose. It is not control or power. Our goal is to
create an exemplary Jewish society in Israel so that we can rectify the world.
We must settle our holy Land, provide our children with authentic Jewish
education, take care of our security, justice, economy and health—for an
ultimate cause.
The entire world is waiting for a new light that will
emanate from Zion. The Temple for which we pray and struggle is not only the
Jewish moral matrix. It is the moral matrix that the entire world anticipates.
When the horrors in China do not bother us, not even on a diplomatic level, how
can we hope to proceed toward our destiny?
Instead, the entire world
witnessed Israel in Gush Katif. The media message that emanated from Zion was
that the Jewish People are disengaging from their land and destroying it. The
Chief Commander of that process was Dan Halutz.
In the sands of Gush
Katif, Israel completely lost its goal. Without a goal, it is impossible to win.
That is what brought Halutz to his inevitable resignation. The authentic Jewish
moral matrix is what will lead Israel—and the entire world—to its ultimate
redemption.