By Ken Blackwell on 3.15.10 @ 6:08AM
The vice president and the two-state "solution."
Vice President Joe Biden says the Palestinians deserve a
state. He has traveled to the Mideast to press the Israelis to
surrender more territory more quickly to what has been termed the
Palestinian Authority. The Obama administration is giving $900
million of our money to the Mahmoud Abbas regime on the West Bank
of the Jordan River, supposedly for "humanitarian" causes. This
administration went out of its way to avoid being seen as
"meddling" with Iran, but it shows no such restraint with Israel.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians go on naming schools for suicide
bombers and coaching their children to emulate these bombers. But
somehow they are viewed as "partners" in the mythical peace
process.
The Obama administration's position is that Israelis should
withdraw from the West Bank and leave the entire regions of Judea
and Samaria to the Palestinians -- all in the interest of a
comprehensive Mideast peace settlement. What happened when Israel
did evacuate from Gaza? Hamas promptly took over.
Have President Obama, Vice President Biden or Secretary Clinton
ever stopped to ask why is it in the interest of the U.S. to
foster a Judenrein on the West Bank? That terrible word
-- which comes to us from the time of the Holocaust -- means a
region cleared of Jews. We need to understand that Jews have
lived in this region since biblical times. If Jews have no right
to live in Judea and Samaria, why do they have a right to live in
Tel Aviv, which was founded only in the early 20th century?
Why indeed. Mahmoud Abbas is the head of a shaky government that
has lost most of its appeal to its own people. That's because he
is not considered radical enough or violent enough.
When an election was held in Gaza, the residents there voted
against Abbas's Fatah crowd and for the openly terrorist Hamas.
Hamas regularly sends missiles into Israel from their Gaza
fortress. World media blasted the Israelis for alleged attacks on
hospitals in Gaza during a recent incursion, but Hamas routinely
stores missiles in hospitals and uses ambulances to transport
them. So much for "humanitarian."
Mahmoud Abbas long served on the Palestinian Liberation
Organization's (PLO) executive council. The PLO is the
predecessor to the so-called Palestinian Authority. Abbas was the
loyal lieutenant of Yassir Arafat. Arafat founded the PLO. He
invented airline hijacking for terror purposes. Many of us recall
the headlines the PLO won for these terrorist attacks -- not just
airlines but the 1972 Olympics, kindergartens in Israel, and
peaceful cruise ships. Many of us have not forgotten it was
Arafat who gave orders for the murder of U.S. Ambassador Cleo
Noel in Sudan in 1972.
Leopards don't change their spots. Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party
emblem proves it: All of Israel disappears in the map it
shows of the Mideast -- not just the West Bank, not just Gaza.
When Vice President Biden stumps for a "contiguous" Palestinian
state, he plays right into Fatah's hands.
Today, Palestinian media continue uninterruptedly to spew the
most hateful caricatures of Jews. And Palestinian children
continue to be indoctrinated in all their schools with hatred of
Israel and all Jews. Only now, Americans are footing the bill.
When Arafat died, Abbas stepped up to take his place. Here's what
the U.S. Government had to say about the PLO in 1988, the year
that we supposedly achieved a breakthrough for peace in the
Mideast.
U.S. Government has convincing evidence that PLO elements have
engaged in terrorism against Americans and others. This
evidence includes a series of operations undertaken by the
Force 17 and the Hawari organizations since the PLO claimed to
foreswear the use of terrorism in the Cairo declaration of
November 1985. As Chairman of the PLO, Mr. Arafat is
responsible for actions of these organizations which are units
of Fatah, an element of the PLO of which he also is chairman
and which is under his control.
The most recent sign of Mr. Arafat's associations with
terrorism was the presence at the Algiers session of the
Palestine National Council this month of Abu Abbas, a member of
the Executive Committee of the PLO who has been convicted by
the Italian judicial system of the murder of an American
citizen, Mr. Leon Klinghoffer. In summary, we find that:
* The PLO, through certain of its elements, has employed
terrorism against Americans;
* Mr. Arafat, as Chairman of the PLO, knows of condones, and
lends support to such acts; he, therefore, is an accessory to
such terrorism;
* Terrorism and those involved in it are a serious threat to
our national security and to the lives of American citizens;
and
* The headquarters agreement, contained in Public Law 80-357,
reserves to us the right to bar the entry of those who
represent a threat to our security.
In those days, we would not even allow Arafat to enter our
country. We correctly branded him and his cohorts terrorists and
mass murderers. Over time, we somehow have convinced ourselves
that if we pay them enough and pet them enough, these leopards
will purr like kittens. Why? Nothing we have seen in the two
decades since then should convince us that the PLO has changed
its spots, whatever it is calling itself these days.
