By Nir Hasson
Military historian Dr. Aryeh Yitzhaki calls for the propaganda campaign against the pullout to be replaced by quasi-military action.
Dr. Aryeh Yitzhaki, a military historian and a resident of Kfar Yam, a tiny settlement on the Gaza Strip coast, is seen as one of the most radical extremists among the Gush Katif settlers. An article he wrote recently demonstrates this. The article, which even the right-wing papers failed to publish, in fear of being accused of incitement to rebellion, describes the unfolding of a scenario that, according to Yitzhaki, will take place following the disengagement plan. The article describes a seemingly imaginary event in which the prime minister of a Levantine country who answers to the name "The Fat Don," attempts to withdraw from an area called Hevel Assif [a play on words for Hevel or Gush Katif]. During an attempt to evacuate one of the settlements, violent clashes break out, quickly deteriorating into a general civil war. The war lasts six days, at the end of which the rebels are victorious. The victory is followed by mass executions of the elites, including the left-wing organizations, and leaders of "the Scandinavian Agreement."
"On the eighth day the revolutionary tribunals began to work. ... Behind the judges' bench, hung a large poster, with a quotation from General Jose Estray, a hero of the Spanish Civil War: `Never balk at cutting into the live flesh to remove a cancer from the body of the nation,'" Yitzhaki writes.
At the trials, "The Fat Don," his sons and his advisers are all sentenced to death by hanging.
Yitzhaki signs the article with the disclaimer: "Any resemblance between the names and the organizations mentioned in the legend and reality is purely coincidental; but we would all do well to remember that under some circumstances, legends can come true."
According to Yitzhaki, "The purpose of the article is to frighten, to deter, so that God forbid, we don't come to this."
He says the only way to stop the disengagement is to frighten the prime minister and the military chiefs so much that they don't try to implement the plan. To achieve this, he calls for active refusal and for organizing in quasi-military fashion against disengagement.
The soldiers will join us
Many, even in Gush Katif, view Yitzhaki as a lunatic general without soldiers. But even the politically moderate admit that similar views have been heard recently by more and more people in Gush Katif and the West Bank. After the demonstrations, the human chains and the love slogans didn't help, many settlers feel there is no choice but to escalate the struggle and deter the decision-makers from implementing the disengagement plan.
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