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November 26, 2007

The Moral Dementia of Annapolis

Warning: Annapolis is being supported by Israel's most deep-end leftist organization Peace Now. Not surprising, Peace Now has some of their most fervent supporters here in La-La Land. If you hang around long enough you'll no doubt them babble on about Tikkun Olam—alot.

As if they have the vaguest idea what this concept truly encompasses.

At the moment, for it's the fashion, they think it means buying useless computers for Africans who desperately require roads, medicine, septic tanks, clean drinking water, y'know basic sanitation; or they lecture—endlessly, drearily—about so-called global warming, instead of confronting true and frightening evil: jihad.

It's so much easier to rant about the weather and hold, ahem, interfaith services with clever jihadists than actually show some moral and physical courage and confront these Jew-haters head-on.

Have you ever noticed that far left organizations bear names that have no relationship to reality. Peace Now has nothing to do with peace and everything to do with appeasement and the slow-motion annihilation of Israel.

One can scrawl the word peace, Shalom, on all the blackboards in the world, but it's the gesture of a fantasist when the other side is committed to your destruction, in fact boasts of this end-game relentlessly in their media, in their mosques, in their, ahem universities, and through their grade school educational system.

Just take a walk through Gaza or anywhere in the Arab world. Jew/Israeli hatred—there is no difference—is pandemic. Posters of so-called martyrs—actually, butchers of innocent men, women, and children—are displayed like rock posters. There is no talk of peace, only victory and the destruction of the Zionist entity.

When the Arabs speak of "occupation" they are talking about the entire state of Israel. From the Jordan to the Mediterranean. It's in the charter of Hamas and Fatah/PLO. Both documents are Islamist and boastfully genocidal. Parts of the Hamas charter are based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Let's be clear: Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas is president of nothing. Gaza belongs heart and soul to Hamas, Hizbullah, and a dozen criminal clans. And the only thing that keeps Judea and Samaria from sliding gleefully into the arms of Hamas is the presence of brave Jewish citizens and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Once again, we are living in 1938.

Too bad that so many in the West refuse to learn the lessons of history.

And of course, so many are Jews.

Sometimes, the only way to achieve peace, is through the business end of a gun.

In preparing for the Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland, this week, Jerusalem Post columnist and deputy managing editor Caroline Glick took some questions from National Review Online editor Kathryn Lopez Monday morning.

Glick, a senior Middle East fellow at the Center for Security Policy, is author of the upcoming book (March), The Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad will be released in March. All Glick clicks are available here.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Is there anything good to come out of Annapolis?

Caroline Glick: It is hard to see any positive outcome from the Annapolis conference. Some have argued that the conference will make clear the distinction between states interested in peace and states uninterested in peace. But it is far from clear why this is the case. Indeed, one of the basic flaws inherent in the Annapolis conference, and indeed in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent frenetic pursuit of Palestinian statehood is the complete absence of moral distinctions between states committed to the ideals of peace, freedom, and fighting terror and those committed to jihad, tyranny, and hatred.

To take just the most obvious example of Rice’s moral equivalence, she upholds Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Prime Minister Salam Fayad as moderates who seek peaceful coexistence with Israel. Yet the fact is that neither Abbas nor Fayad have taken any steps that could be considered conducive to peace. They joined a unity government with Hamas in March and would have remained Hamas’s junior partner in that Saudi-brokered governing arrangement had Hamas not decided to oust Fatah forces from Gaza in June. Fayad has continued to pay the salaries of the Iranian-trained Hamas army in Gaza since the terror group’s takeover of the area just as he pays the salaries of Fatah terrorists in the West Bank.

In addition to his position as political leader of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas is also the head of the Fatah terror organization. Due to its reputation as a secular terror group, the U.S. State Department upholds Fatah as a credible partner in peace talks with Israel. But this strains credulity. Since the onset of the Palestinian jihad against Israel in September 2000, Fatah has carried out more terror attacks against Israeli targets than either Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Just last week Fatah terrorist murdered 29-year-old Ido Zoldan.

In spite of Fatah’s moderate reputation, the fact is that Fatah terror cells in the West Bank are bankrolled by Iran and its Hezbollah proxy. Its operatives are directed by Tehran no less than Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives are.

To read the complete interview, please click here.

Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Dr. Carol

Posted by Robert J. Avrech at November 26, 2007 11:49 AM

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