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From: melsant@vipac.org Date: Thu 28 Jul 2005 Subject: Support Israel! Don't Praise PLO Terror! (VIPAC resendsorry) Dear Mr. President: Secretary of State Rice on her recent trip to Israel demanded that Israel reduce its security measures against PLO suicide bombers while praising PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas for "cracking down on terror" even while his organization continues to launch attacks against Israel. The Zionist Organization of America's President Morton A. Klein has strongly criticized your administration for this skewed approach. "We are deeply perplexed by Rice's strong praise of Abbas' alleged actions against terrorism" President Klein said. "What actions? He hasn't disarmed or dismantled any terror groups. He hasn't stopped incitement against Jews and Israel in his media schools or mosques. He hasn't changed the names of the schools streets and sports teams presently named after suicide bombers. He hasn't stopped smuggling in weapons from the Sinai to Gaza and he hasn't closed the bomb factories." "(But) when it comes to Israel she demands adherence to the Roadmap reduced or no checkpoints stop building homes anywhere in Judea and Samaria or Eastern Jerusalem condemns the security fence demands contiguity and states that Israel cannot keep any land past the 1949 armistice line without Palestinian Arab approval. All these demands of Israel are before Abbas has fulfilled a single sentence of the Roadmap. "This type of approach only encourages Abbas to do nothing and only harms the security of America's only real ally in the Mideast Israel." President Bush I would like to add that this morally inverted approach of yours which rewards Arab terror and castigates Israel's legitimate security needs bitterly disappoints many who voted for you and reduces domestic support for your policies. Sincerely |