The UN at
Work - Dore Gold (Wall Street Journal, 19 January 2005)
Time to vote by Charles Krauthammer,
January 7, 2005
"On Sept. 13, 1993, I was on the White House lawn
watching the signing of the Oslo accords. I also watched the
intellectual collapse of the entire Middle East intelligentsia
-- journalists, politicians, ``experts'' -- as they swooned at
the famous handshake between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and
refused, that day and for years to come, to recognize what was
obvious: that Arafat was embarking not on peace but on the next
stage of his perpetual war against Israel, this one to be
launched far more advantageously from a base of Palestinian
territory that Israel had just suicidal granted him..."
Dangers Awaiting Israel from the Road Map Process - Interview
with Former Mossad Head Ephraim Halevy
- David Horovitz (Jerusalem Post)
"If Abu Mazen succeeds, with the help of
the Egyptians and others, in bringing down the level of violence
over a period of time - a period of several months - it will be
very difficult for Israel to say that this is unacceptable....he
road map was an aberration. It is based not only on UN
Resolutions 242 and 338, it also mentions the Saudi initiative
and other resolutions. The road map itself was approved by the
Security Council....It is not only accepted by the parties, but
is the official document which is the basis for the future. And
the fact that Israel has reservations on "14 points" is
immaterial. The 14 points were not accepted even by the United
States...."
The Trojan Horse of Wahhabism
"The Dutch Moroccan who murdered van Gogh attended a mosque
purchased in 1999 with a 1.5 million euro loan from the Saudi
charity Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, which has since been
designated by the U.S. and Saudi governments as an organization
providing financial, material, and logistical support to
al-Qaeda...." -> By Stephen Schwartz Published 12/09/2004
Arafat the monster
"YASSER ARAFAT died at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by
familiar faces. He left this world peacefully, unlike the
thousands of victims he sent to early graves.
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a
gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were
hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president
would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In
a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the
first reports that Arafat had died, "God bless his soul." God
bless his soul? What a grotesque idea..." -> By Jeff Jacoby,
Globe Columnist | November 11, 2004
Rules of War Enable Terror
- Alan M. Dershowitz (Baltimore Sun)
"The Geneva Conventions are so outdated and
are written so broadly that they have become a
sword used by terrorists to kill civilians,
rather than a shield to protect civilians from
terrorists..."
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Address to the
Knesset The Vote on the Disengagement Plan
October 25, 2004
"This is a fateful hour for Israel. We are on
threshold of a difficult decision, the likes of
which we have seldom faced, the significance of
which for the future of our country in this
region is consistent with the difficulty, pain
and dispute it arouses within us. You know that
I do not say these things with a light heart..."
Anti-Semitism bill opposed by State Department
Says creation of new monitoring office shows
'favoritism' to Jews
"A bill to create a State Department office to
monitor international anti-Semitism passed the
U.S. Congress yesterday despite opposition from
the State Department itself.
The Global Anti-Semitism Awareness/Review Act, a response to the
recent surge in anti-Semitism worldwide,
particularly in Europe, passed the House of
Representatives five months after the bill was
cleared by the Senate..." Posted: October 12,
2004 © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Interesting Times: Bush and the Jews
"The atmosphere was electric. Some 4,500
delegates to the largest AIPAC conference ever
were so excited they were giving ovations to
announcements about President George W. Bush
before he even walked into the room. And when he
did speak, he could barely get to the
applause lines, he was interrupted so many times
by cheering and 21 standing ovations..." -
By
SAUL SINGER
Bush Tears Roadmap to
Smithereens, Endorses Sharon’s Map Abed Rabbo:
Bush Declared Death of Peace Process Today
"In an unprecedented, dangerous move, US
President George W. Bush gave Israel’s premier
last night full backing for his go-it-alone plan
to disengage from the Gaza Strip and implicitly
recognized Israel’s claim to some of the West
Bank’s largest settlement blocs as part of any
peace accord with the Palestinians..." by
15/04/2004 Palestine Media Center- (PMC)
Sharon should prove terror hasn't
won
"Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's decision to unilaterally withdraw
from the Gaza Strip may represent a historical
watershed. Despite the chaotic manner in which
the initiative was launched and unpleasant
accompanying allegations concerning Sharon's
motives, most Israelis are desperate to separate
from the Palestinians. Despite this, Sharon is
widely perceived as beginning to lose the plot.
Observers bracket his Gaza initiative with the
bizarre Hizbullah hostage deal and zigzag
concessions on the security fence..." by Isi
Leibler
The Day the Road Map Died
- Aluf Benn (Ha'aretz)
- The "road
map" for solving the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict died last Thursday in the office of
Condoleezza Rice in the White House,
during a conversation with the prime
minister's bureau chief Dov Weisglass. In its
place, the "Bush vision" [as outlined on June
24, 2002] has returned to diplomatic discourse
as the political goal of Israel and the U.S.
- The U.S. administration is
partner to the Israeli assessment that there
is nobody to talk to on the Palestinian side.
The political process has been frozen until
the departure of Arafat.
- Sharon spoke of several
months of waiting, during which he will try to
implement the road map, before he goes over to
unilateral disengagement. But the waiting
period has been drastically shortened, and
Washington is now willing to hear about
disengagement steps, on condition that they
suit the Bush vision.
Incitement in the Palestinian
Authority After the Aqaba Summit
This paper reviews both attempts
to halt incitement and evidence of its
continuation from the June 4, 2003 Aqaba summit
up to the August 19 bus suicide bombing in
Jerusalem. These are measured against limited
criteria: only glorification of martyrdom or
incitement to violence, only against targets
inside the Green Line, and only since the Aqaba
summit. Incitement occurring after the release
of the Road Map and up to the Aqaba summit was
not included in the paper, but two examples can
be seen...
The Un And The Assault on Israel
Legitimacy
"From a political perspective,
many in Israel view the roadmap as another
irrelevant piece of paper in a long line of
musings or written agreements between Israelis
and Palestinians, or among Israelis,
Palestinians, and Americans over the past
decade. Although the spirit of the document has
significant UN roots, an organization long
understood as biased against Israeli interests
and Jewish well-being in general, the prevailing
view is still a strong skepticism about the
possible harm the UN can do in the Arab-Israeli
conflict. A sense of control over Israel's
destiny is firmly entrenched in the minds of
Israelis and the current Israeli government.
This analysis of the roadmap as a
non-legal, non-paper with non-status, a marginal
UN, and a firm Israeli grip on Israel's future,
is seriously flawed and even dangerously
inaccurate...." -> Jerusalem Center for Public
Affairs, #501, August, 2003
Are settlements illegal under international law?
Two articles by Eugene W.Rostow set the record
straight
Recently, many mainstream
American news outlets have been erroneously
reporting that Israeli settlements in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip are illegal. Please read the
following articles by Eugene Rostow, a former
Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Institute of
Peace, which will provide you with critical
background information to respond to false
claims about the legality of settlements.
If your local media falsely
characterizes Israeli settlements in Gaza and
the West Bank as illegal under international
law, place a call to the foreign editor
requesting a correction. Also, please write a
letter-to-the-editor for publication.
The unilateral surrender of Israel continues
by Charles Krauthammer
President Bush held two Middle
East summits this week. The first, with the Arab
states, was an abject failure. The second, with
the prime ministers of Israel and the
Palestinian Authority, was merely a troubling
echo of another abject failure, the Oslo
handshake of 1993...
Alternative to "Quartet" "Road Map":
Introduction to the Ben Elon Peace Plan
Only with application of a
regional solution that includes the entire
territory of British Mandatory Palestine (land
of Israel) can the peace process be delivered
from its impasse. A regional solution based on
geopolitical and economic logic can
provide the Middle East with long-term peace,
prosperity and stability.
The American and British
coalition victory in Iraq has spurred an
American commitment to instill democratic
values in the Middle East and establish a
new political map. This is a historic
opportunity to enable the Arab nations to be
part of the solution to the Palestinian problem
and garner international support and funding.
The Elon Peace Plan addresses
the fundamental issues related to the conflict
and offers a comprehensive solution for Israel,
Palestinian Arabs and surrounding countries...
'Road trap' for America, too by Frank J.
Gaffney, Jr
"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a
fateful decision last week when he embraced the
so-called "road map" developed by four entities
with long histories of hostility to his country:
the United Nations, the European Union, Russian
and the U.S. State Department (a.k.a. "the
Quartet"). If, as seems likely, this latest
diplomatic fandango winds up like all of its
predecessors -- producing Israeli territorial
and other concessions that jeopardize the
security of the Jewish State in exchange for
little more than empty promises of Arab
non-aggression against it -- most of the
terrible costs will be borne by the people of
Israel..."
Zionist Organization of America:
NEW POLL: BY 61%-13%,
AMERICANS OPPOSE ROAD MAP'S FREEZE ON JEWISH
CONSTRUCTION IN JUDEA-SAMARIA & GAZA
ROAD MAP TO NOWHERE
By ARNOLD AHLERT
"ANOTHER
suicide bombing. Another couple of terrorist
groups taking "credit" for it. Another speech by
an American president "deploring the act."
Another promise that the "peace process" will
not be derailed. Over and over and over again."
The Recruitment of Children in Current Palestinian
Strategy by Justus Weiner
"From the
outset of the current Palestinian intifada two years ago,
children and teenagers have assumed an integral role. Knowing that
Israeli soldiers are ordered not to shoot live ammunition at
children, Palestinian snipers hide among youngsters or use them as
shields. Three recent developments are also notable:
Yasser
Arafat's deputy, Abu Mazen, admitted to a Kuwaiti newspaper in June
that Palestinian children have been paid 5 shekels (about $1) for
every pipe bomb they throw." Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,
Jerusalem Issue Brief October 1, 2002, volume 2 number 8
Response to Amnesty International's Report "Killing the Future:
Children in the Line of Fire"
1 October 2002
For the past 2 years, the IDF has been engaged in difficult and
intensive fighting against Palestinian terrorist factions. During this
period of fighting, which was imposed upon the State of Israel and the
IDF, Palestinian terrorist factions perpetrated over 14,500 terror
attacks, claiming the lives of 624 Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.
All IDF operations adhere to international humanitarian law, in strict
compliance with the highest moral and legal standards. In glaring
contrast, Palestinian terrorist factions defy all norms, be they moral
or legal, deliberately attacking civilians only because they are
Israeli, as described at length in the report. Amnesty International
has labeled the Palestinian suicide attacks as crimes against
humanity.
As part of its adherence to the rules of the conduct of war, the IDF
goes to great lengths to avoid harming civilians, especially children.
This concern is an integral part of soldier training, of the
regulations governing when to open fire, of orders issued by
commanders, of operational plans, and of the message conveyed by the
highest-ranking officers.
Regrettably, some civilians, including children, have been injured
during the fighting against the Palestinian terrorist groups. In no
case were these injuries intentional. Those hurt were either
individuals involved in Palestinian terrorist activity, or civilians
who were unintentionally hurt when they entered a live-fire zone.
The Palestinian terrorists are solely and unequivocally responsible
for the injuries caused to Palestinian children. Since the beginning
of the conflict two years ago, the Palestinian terrorist factions have
cynically exploited children in terrorist activity, in violation of
international law. Children are groomed and dispatched to carry out
suicide attacks in the centers of the Israeli civilian population;
positioned at the front lines of demonstrations to hide snipers behind
them; and used to plant explosives and deliver weapons. Moreover, the
terrorist factions have transformed Palestinian civilian population
centers into terrorist activity headquarters...
