Acts of war, scenes of stupidity By Naomi Ragen (November 16) It is a terrible thing to live in a country in which there is no such thing as an act of war. Go ahead, shoot into our living rooms, blow up shoppers in the marketplace, shoot at cars passing on the nations's highways. Desecrate our synagogues. Plow under our holy places. Call Judaism a fake, deny all Jewish claims to ever having had a Temple on the Temple Mount. Demand all of Jerusalem as your capital. Teach your children to hate Jews, and to give their lives to kill them. We will still come to the town square and hold up signs begging you to love us. To forgive us. To please, please give us the peace and quiet we have already given you 92% of the West Bank for. And if you tell us to go to hell, we will send our authentic Nobel Peace Prize winner crawling on his knees to you, to advise you on how to fool the people in Israel into meekly handing over what it is you want, even if it is all of Jerusalem tied up with a big bow. "Give them one week of peace," Shimon Peres reportedly told Arafat, assuming that seven days would probably be enough to make the idiots in this country forget that for the past month Arafat and his followers have been trying to gather the entire world together for a Final Solution in the Middle East. Wrong, Mr. Peres. Some Israelis don't even need a week. Watching the pathetic fools in Rabin Square cling to a delusional and disproven political concept was like watching those fools in the movie Independence Day holding up signs welcoming the aliens who were getting ready to blast them to smithereens. AND JUST as there is no such thing as an act of war in Israel, there is no such thing as an act of treason. Want to drive a Volvo as an Arab Knesset member and still call on Israeli Arabs to join in murdering our soldiers in the intifada? No problem. Want to advise people to break the hands of our policemen when they try to restore order? Go right ahead. Want to found one more whining mother's organization to undermine our soldiers and give aid and succor to the enemy? Be my guest. Mothers in Favor of Dismantling the State? Mothers Encouraging Mass Desertion from the Army? Mothers for National Suicide? It's your right. And every news program will give you hours of air time to share your dangerous stupidity with the nation. After all, we are a free and democratic state, are we not? But what about my freedom as an Israeli citizen? I know that if I lived in Boston and someone shot into my window, or threw rocks at me in my car, and elected officials encouraged it, and public organizations then suggested the "solution" was for me to move out of Boston, they would be arrested and prosecuted. They'd all be in jail. Because you cannot do such a thing to an American citizen - or to a British citizen, or to a French citizen. My fellow Israelis, what is the matter with you? Oslo was called a "process" for a reason. It was to be an acknowledged series of risks taken to answer the questions: Can we trade land for peace? Is there someone to talk to on the other side? Are they trustworthy? Like it or not, we have gotten our answers. All those who talk about "continuing the process where we left off" totally misunderstand the real situation. The "process" is over, and we are left where we began, with only one option: to gird our loins and start acting like citizens of a free and independent state, answering acts of war with war. Because if we can't do that, then the Jewish State has already ceased to exist.