Elyakim Haetzni
Yedioth Ahronoth
Ramat Mamre POB 2066
tel,: 02-9961878
fax: 02-9963001
Kiriat Arba 90100
e-mail: ehaetzni@netvision.net.il
October 27, 2007
            In the play “The Visit of the Old Lady” by the Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt, a forsaken and poor town is visited by a woman billionaire, who was born there. In expectation of a generous donation that will save them, they hold a reception for her, with a starring role reserved for a respectable merchant who was her childhood friend, but who, when she became pregnant from him, denied his paternity. The girl fled, and from a house of prostitution in Hamburg, she was married by an Armenian tycoon, and now she controls an empire. She brings with her a magnificent coffin, and she asks the town policeman, if he knows how to look away; the priest, if he consoles those condemned to death; and with the physician, she took an interest in a death certificate with the false cause of death: "heart attack." The woman's proposal to the city was blunt and simple: a billion in exchange for murdering the man who hurt her. At first, disgusted, they reject this, but the billion is inviting. People bought luxury items "on account," including elegant yellow shoes. The more yellow shoes that this man saw, the more he sensed that his end was near. Finally, with the pious claim of "doing justice," they murder the man. The policeman looks away, the priest consoles, the physician writes "heart attack," the coffin is filled, and the city flourishes.
Here, we can soon expect another visit by the "Young Lady". She comes to take our homeland from us. In her previous visits –
* She ordered the inclusion of the Hamas in the elections that led to a Hamas government and a terror state in the Gaza Strip.
* She forced us to abandon the Rafah crossing point to European supervisors who fled and left the Philadelphi Route as a superhighway for a flow of arms.
* She imposed the opening of checkpoints in Judea and Samaria, and the soldier who was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting near Ariel is her most recent victim.
* She subjugated Israel to the Road Map and the dictates of the Quartet and contemptuously threw out Israel's 14 objections.
* She dictated that the United States, and not we, would determine if the Palestinians disarmed their terror organizations, as a condition for recognition of their state, taking out of our hands the sovereign decision of what is vital for our security.
* She sent General Dayton to train terrorists disguised as policemen, and forced us to permit their arming, even though many of those arms and APCs fell into the hands of the Hamas, snipers who were trained after Oslo sniped and killed Jews, and Palestinian bomb disposal experts, trained in the United States used their new skills to operate explosive charges, murdering hundreds.
* She dictated to us the "revolving door" release of terrorist-murders, while Pollard rots in prison.
* She compelled us to pardon fugitive Fatah terrorists , but their weapons they do not surrender, and their terrorist activity goes on.
* She formulated a horrendous equation: the "crime" of Jewish settlement on the same level as Arab terror.
* She forced Sharon’s emissary, Weissglass, to make a commitment to freeze  Jewish settlements  and uproot outpost settlements.
* She enslaved us to the Saudi initiative, which means the flooding of our land with "refugees" of 1948.
* Out of her open, one-sided dedication to the Palestinian cause, she forced us to proclaim that the liberation of our homeland is "occupation", to be replaced with a terrorist enemy state.
 When she stamps her feet, Israel quakes, and when she raises her voice, the government folds. She dictated to Olmert that he must meet with Mahmoud Abbas and how many times, and her supervisors come here to confirm obedience and compliance.
 In the run-up to Annapolis, she constrains us to commit ourselves in advance to withdraw to the Green Line, to divide Jerusalem, and to cleanse of Jews the area earmarked for Palestine, like an athlete who demands the gold medal even before leaving for Beijing.
            The Old Lady’s name was Claire Zachanassian, the Young Lady is Dr. Condoleezza Rice. The Swiss town was named Gullen, and here is Eretz Israel. The Old Lady's victim was Alfred Ill, the victims of the Young Lady are our land, our people, and our independence.
So why doesn't anyone open his mouth? Look at the feet of the politicians and the shapers of our public opinion, and all you will see are yellow shoes!
Elyakim Haetzni