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From: MElsant@aol.com Date: Sun 14 Oct 2001 Subject: Support Israel! Don't Applaud Arafat's Terrorism! (VIPAC) Dear President Bush: In your Thursday night press conference I was horrified when you made the following statement: "I was pleased to see that Mr. Arafat is trying to control the radical elements within the Palestinian Authority. And I think the world ought to applaud him for that." I think that statement undermines our war against Islamic terror and undercuts our courageous troops who are risking their lives on behalf of all Americans on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Less than five days before your press conference a PLO suicide bomber attacked Kibbutz Shluchot in the Jordan Valley killing Yair Mordechai a father of seven children the youngest a two year old baby girl. That suicide bomber who came from the PLO controlled city of Jenin was approaching the Kibbutz nursery which functions as a day care center for many Israeli toddlers from neighboring Jewish communities. Yair Mordechai stopped to check the identification of this PLO suicide bomber shortly after he got past the kibbutz entrance. In the process Mr. Mordechai forfeited his life to protect the children and other innocents of his community. Less than five days after this you said in your news conference that Arafat deserves world-wide applause for his efforts. I do not think Mr. Mordechai's seven orphans nor his wife who is a United States citizen would add their applause and neither would I. I am appalled that you think Arafat's efforts that produce such dismal results deserve anyone's applause. The lead editorial of the NY Times on Sunday Oct 14 contains the following: "Washington's evasions need to cease as well. Pretending that Saudi Arabia is not a source of support for terrorism only invites further trouble." The same can be said about Arafat and Palestinian terrorism. Your administration should stop pretending it's not there so you can confront it in a straightforward manner and help to end it. Please ask for no more applause for Arafat and the PLO. They do not deserve it. There has not been a single day when the PLO has not fired dozens of mortar rounds antitank grenades and hundreds of machine gun bullets at Israeli targets punctuated with suicide bombers and car bombs every few days. Arafat's efforts that produce such results do not deserve your applause but do deserve your determined opposition which you can demonstrate by placing Hamas Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad on your expanded list of organizations whose assets are to be frozen here and abroad. Sincerely ==^====================================== The President's email: president@whitehouse.gov The Vice President's email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov White House phone: 202-456-1414 Fax: 202-456-2461 Click on "Govt. Email Addresses" at www.vipac.org for other officials. TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send an email to majordomo@vipac.org with "unsubscribe vipac-letters" in the body of the message. ==^====================================== |
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