There is something sad as well as cynical in saying that the Land of Israel is also home to Palestinians. The land gave us our identity and our name and despite our exile we never changed our name. To compare a history of 3500 years with a hundred year record of Arabs in the Land of Israel is to trivialize everything all good men stand for when they speak of heritage and character. While Arabs sat there, it neither transformed them nor did they transform the land. But from our very first step upon that land we made it holy and upon our return we made it blossom.
Honesty demands disclosure.
Our enemy is not Hussein or Arafat, our enemy is a loss of character and a crisis of nerve. Jews are a people that have proven themselves immortal. We have survived Nebuchadnezzar and Haman, Hitler and Stalin. But we cannot survive our own antinomian impulses. Living according to these values builds character and when our values become confused our character becomes impaired.