From: melsant@vipac.org Date: Fri 11 May 2007 Subject: [Vipac-letters] Support Israel and Fort Dix! End Dollars for PLO Sender: vipac-letters-bounces@vipac.org Errors-To: vipac-letters-bounces@vipac.org Dear Mr. President: Secretary Rice presented Israel with suggestions for "benchmarks" during her recent trip to the Middle East. One of those benchmarks was the removal of military checkpoints in Judea and Samaria and another was the establishment of a convoy of PLO busses from Gaza to the Hebron that Israel could not stop or inspect in route. Both of these ideas represent horrible compromises of Israeli security and sovereignty and you should stop promoting them. Your administration has repeatedly forced Israel to dismantle check points in Judea and Samaria and they have repeatedly lead to increased murder of Jews by PLO terrorists. Unless you approve of this result I suggest you cease advocating this approach. As for "secure" PLO convoys from Gaza to the West Bank that will only facilitate the rocket fire Israel now suffers from Gaza to originate from the West Bank as well. Such a development will lead to war not peace. I would like to point out that even though America and Canada are not at war if an American citizen wants to travel to Alaska from the lower 48 states Canadian Mounties will permit no similar "secure" convoys of Americans to cross their territory. Instead the Mounties will insist on their right to inspect each American car as it crosses the border and maintain their right to stop any one of those cars at any point along the road to Alaska. Israel's PLO neighbors are not peace-loving Canadians as evidenced by their daily launching of rockets and suicide bombing attacks against Israel's cities and villages. Such murderous PLO neighbors are not deserving of more liberties in their travels than Americans are permitted in Canada. Instead of presenting benchmarks that compromise Israeli security and sovereignty why not present benchmarks that will compromise PLO terror? For example why not insist that not another dime of American tax payers' money will be sent to the PLO if they fire even one more rocket into Israel? That would send a message that would discourage Islamists all over the world including American Islamists plotting domestic terror attacks like those arrested this week for planning to attack Fort Dix. Sincerely |