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Here's a little footnote to the September 11th WTO attack. In 1986, a
terrorist blew up a bus in Israel. He was captured, tried and imprisoned by
the Israelis. As part of the Oslo agreement, Israel had agreed to release
so-called "political prisoners", but refused to release any with blood on
their hands. The President and Secretary of State insisted they all be
released. Mohammed Atta was released and he is the pilot who flew one of the
hijacked commercial airplanes into the World Trade Center.
Writing in The Washington Times, columnist Wesley Pruden said, "The Secretary
of State insists that the Israeli response to Palestinian suicide bombers,
whose methods and goals are identical to those of the Islamist suicide
bombers who brought down the World Trade Center and inflicted a hideous wound
in the side of the Pentagon, is nevertheless 'counterproductive' because it
sets back the prospects for peace." So far, we have not heard Secretary
Powell speak a word against Hamas, Hezbollah or the Islamic Jihad.
After the latest terrorist attack in Israel, I received an interesting
communication from an Israeli citizen. It identified the similarities between
the Palestinian Liberation Organization covenant, announced in Cairo in 1968,
and the former National Socialist Party, Nazi covenant, announced in Munich
in 1920.
They share such similar language that anyone with any responsibility to
"negotiate" with Yassir Arafat and his terrorist organization should throw
his diplomatic portfolio in the nearest garbage can. Why shouldn't the
Israelis be permitted to crush the PLO when the United States and allied
nations are in the process of doing that to al Qaeda and the Taliban?
The attack on the United States by Islamic terrorists makes it clear that
efforts to force the Israelis to "negotiate" with the PLO or other terrorists
have been an idiotic waste of time. These demands have been in place for
decades. Every time the Israelis repulsed an attack by Arab nations, the
United Nations would step in with a new resolution condemning them.
If anything, I and lots of others, inside and outside of Israel have both
marveled and worried about the forbearance of successive Israeli governments
to keep trying to negotiate their way to peace with the Palestinians. After
having survived the Nazi Holocaust visited upon millions of European Jews, it
is insane for the Israelis to "negotiate" with the PLO whose covenant asserts
that "Palestine is an indivisible part of the homeland" of Arabs. It amounts
to a death wish.
Until around 1967, there was no reference at all to "a Palestinian people"
and most certainly none to a homeland. The notion that Israel belongs to
Arabs should be greeted with the same response as a demand by Seminole
Indians to have Florida returned to them. There is simply no legitimate claim
by Muslims on Israel or Jerusalem, a city that is not mentioned once in the
Koran.
Starting in the 1920's the National Socialists of Germany insisted on a union
of all Germans to form a greater Germany, demanding territory for this, even
if it happened to belong to their neighbors. In 1939 Hitler launched WWII
with an attack on Poland.
The PLO covenant asserts that Palestinians are solely Arabs and that they
differ from everyone else because they have a particular Palestinian
"characteristic." The Nazi covenant said that only those of German blood
could be considered citizens of their state. Jews had lived in Germany for
centuries and 100,000 fought for Germany in WWI, even though they were not
permitted to rise above the rank of sergeant.
The PLO aim of "liberation" includes the elimination of Zionism, the term
applied to the movement to establish a national state for Jews. Islam
requires its people to impose their religion on the entire world. "Zionism"
merely refers to the desire of some Jews to live in a homeland of their own.
More than half of all the Jews in the world live someplace else. The PLO
definition of liberation would exclude all Jews from Israel.
The Nazis went about achieving a similar goal by eventually killing every
German Jew they could and then killing millions more from throughout Europe.
When they invaded Russia, they killed twenty million of that nation's
citizens, Jew, Gentile, and Communist. So far, the goals of both groups are a
mirror image of one another.
The Palestinian covenant would require all states to regard Zionism as
illegitimate. In short, it outlaws Jews in Israel, despite the fact that Jews
have lived there for 3,000 years, despite the fact there never has been a
Palestinian nation, despite the fact that "Palestine" is the name the ancient
Romans applied to Israel in a futile attempt to eliminate any further
reference to it. The Roman Empire fell to the invasions of the Vandals, the
Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, and its own utter and complete decadence. Israel
lives, reborn from the ashes of six million murdered Jews. If you believe in
miracles, that's a pretty good one.
The Palestinian covenant declared that Great Britain's Balfour Declaration
that mandated the partition of Israel is illegal, just as the Nazis declared
the Versailles treaty that followed their defeat in World War I invalid.
Both the PLO covenant and Nazi Party covenant were declared to be
unalterable. So much for "negotiating" with people like this!
It is time that the government and the people of the United States begin to
take seriously the genocidal intentions of the Palestinians and of millions
of militant Muslims in other nations. At present, the US is trying to cope
with the use of a biological agent, Anthrax, sent to various members of our
government and our media. These people mean to kill every one of us. We are
infidels and, according to the demands of a jihad, a holy war, subject to
being killed unless we convert to Islam.
It should be recalled that the recent United Nations conference in Durban,
South Africa was supposedly devoted to eliminating bigotry. On September 3rd,
the United States withdrew because it was nothing more than an excuse to
repeat all the slanders of the Nazis and the Muslim world against Jews in
Israel and everywhere else. On September 11th Muslims destroyed the World
Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon. A fourth plane had yet another
destination for destruction.
The United Nations has an appalling record of anti-Semitism and that alone
should invalidate its claim to speak for world peace, the brotherhood of man,
or any other goal other than its obvious intent to become the new
authoritarian government that would rule the world.
Syria, a sponsor of terrorism, was just elected to the UN Security Council!
When UN weapons inspectors were told to leave Iraq, they did. The UN made it
impossible for the US to eliminate Saddam Hussein at the conclusion of the
Persian Gulf war. It is widely believed that Iraq provided the Anthrax
cultures that have already killed some Americans.
The United Nations wants its own independent military force, its own
independent court system, and the ability to tax every nation.
The United Nations asserts its treaties supercede the Constitution of the
United States. It is time to shut down the United Nations. It is time for the
US to stop propping up the UN with our dues. It is time to replace it with a
new organization that does not pose a threat to everyone's freedom
everywhere. And it is time to stop negotiating with terrorists.
Alan Caruba is the author of "The Pocket Guide to
Militant Islam", for sale from the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2001
Published by permission.
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