From: MElsant@aol.com Date: Thu 13 Sep 2001 Subject: Support Israel! Destroy Islamic Extremist Terrorists! (VIPAC) Dear Mr. President: On September 9 your administration informed the press that President Bush intended on granting the honor of a presidential audience to chief PLO terrorist Arafat at the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting. Your administration also informed the press at that time that Secretary Powell would speak favorably of the establishment of a PLO State when he addressed the UN. Regardless of your intentions this was de facto positive reinforcement for the PLO's intensified campaign of terror and suicide bombings in Israel. Two days later on September 11th thousands of Americans were killed by the suicide terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As the Wall Street Journal said in its September 12 editorial "Just as Munich led to World War II so attempts to buy peace in the Middle East are surely behind this attack [on the US]." In other words your administration's recent coddling of Arafat was not only a precursor but a precipitator of the worst terrorist atrocity ever suffered by Americans. Your administration's continuous criticism of Israel's acts of legitimate self defense against PLO terrorism--calling Israel's actions "disproportionate" "provocative" "excessive" "contributing to the cycle of violence" and urging Israel to act with "more restraint"--certainly provided no disincentive to the Islamic extremist terrorists who attacked America. Clyde Haberman in the New York Times on September 12 on page A10 described how foolish and harmful your administration's criticisms have been: "Suppose I had intelligence reports telling me that someone was going to hijack a Boeing 757 and crash it into the World Trade Center" an Israeli official said yesterday. "And suppose I used an M-16 to kill him. According to the arguments being used against us I'd be an assassin illegally using American weapons." This official was referring to the international condemnation Israel has endured for killing certain Palestinians people accused of not only masterminding anti-Israel terrorist acts in the past but planning more in the near future. The American criticism of Israel has been soto voce. But it is there. And in this Black September after the worst act of terrorism in history the question arises from Israelis like this official: Do you get it now? Please Mr. President before your policy of advocating restraint in response to terror contributes to the loss of more innocent lives take a hard line against Islamic extremist terrorism wherever you find it. Stop your 100 million dollar a year subsidy of the PLO which provides encouragement and personnel for suicide terrorist bombers. Encourage Israel to use the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force to destroy the current leadership and infrastructure of the terrorist PLO in all the territory it now controls and ask Israel to stay there until a Palestinian leadership arises that is committed to end terrorism and live in peace even if that takes decades or centuries. Move the US embassy to Jerusalem NOW as you promised in your campaign and express your personal support repeatedly and passionately for Israel's historic and Biblical right for complete sovereignty in Judea Samaria the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Such vigorous steps demonstrating your determined opposition to the Islamic extremists who wish to destroy America and all of Western civilization constitute a substantial beginning to your antiterrorist campaign. And your effort to defeat these terrorists and protect America from further devastation must have this substantial foundation--grounded in the Bible and historical truth--if it is to be carried to a successful conclusion. For our enemy of Islamic extremist terrorism is a formidable one that shows no mercy and we can ill afford any more mistakes. Sincerely |
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