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From: melsant@vipac.org Date: Fri 30 Mar 2007 Subject: [Vipac-letters] =?iso-8859-1?q?Support_Israel=3A_Land_For_Peace_D?= Sender: vipac-letters-bounces@vipac.org Errors-To: vipac-letters-bounces@vipac.org Dear Mr. President: A recent article in The New York Times on a meeting in Riyadh Saudi Arabia of the leaders of 21 Arab governments reported that these =93Arab leaders called on Israel to embrace a peace initiative that would have it withdraw from the land it occupied in the 1967 war in exchange for full diplomatic relations with them saying the window would not remain open for long.=94 In the summer of 2005 Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. The Palestinian Arabs immediately began a war against Israeli civilians in pre-1967 Israel with almost daily rocket attacks. In 2000 Israel withdrew for the security corridor it had made in southern Lebanon as a result of years of terrorist attacks against its civilian population in its northern area. In the summer of 2006 Arabs used that same area to launch a war against Israel=92s civilian population. These attacks against civilians were on a level that had not been seen by a western country since the Nazi blitzkrieg of World War II. The Times reported that =93Israel said it welcomed the offer of normalization and peace but made clear that it had numerous reservations about the offer.=94 Can anyone wonder why Israel has =93reservations=94 abo= ut Arab sincerity with regard to peaceful co-existence with the Jewish State? The Jerusalem Post reported that the leader of Hamas the Palestinian Arab terrorist organization that controls the Palestinian Arab Authority =93declared that his movement would continue to launch attacks on Israel despite the formation of the PA unity government. Addressing supporters in Gaza City by phone Mashaal said: "We will never give up our principles; anyone who thinks that Hamas is tired or weak is mistaken. Hamas has not stopped its military operations." Land for peace is not an option for Israel as long as its enemies continue to plot its destruction. I urge you to continue your support of Israel. The Arab rhetoric is false and will lead to further war. Respectfully yours =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The President's email: comments@whitehouse.gov. The Vice President's email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov White House phone: 202-456-1111 Fax: 202-456-2461 Senate and House switchboard: 202-224-3121 Click on "Govt. Email Addresses" at www.vipac.org for other officials. _______________________________________________ |