Spectator's Journal: Peace Terrorists
Shattan, Joseph
"Spectator's Journal: Peace Terrorists" by Joseph Shattan Peace Terrorists In early March, a series of deadly terrorist bombings killed 61 Israelis, bringing the death toll since Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the...
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...We have learned," they wrote in the March 14 Jerusalem Post, "that this grandiose operation"—they're referring to the "Anti-Terror Conference" held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh in the wake of the latest series of terrorist bombings —"was the brainchild of Peres...whose lifelong dream of being elected Prime Minister seems well-nigh shattered...
...This, in per capita terms, is equivalent to io,000 Americans killed...
...Yet Saddam Hussein was pointedly excluded from the international antiterrorism conference meant to bolster Peres and his policy of unilateral withdrawal...
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...The message of Clinton's visit to Israeli voters was unmistakable: "Stick with Peres and the peace process, and you'll have the mighty United States of America in your corner...
...An anti-terror conference has as its chief targets the Arabs and Iranians, on whom pressure must be brought to cease their thuggery...
...By now, however, every Israeli understands that Israel's massive and stifling bureaucracy is not exactly what Isaiah had in mind...
...Egypt's President] Mubarak passed over a Hilton and other luxury hotels," Hoagland wrote, "to select the Swiss-managed Movenpick —despite the fact that the hotel had no conference facilities...
...SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Joseph Shattan Peace Terrorists In early March, a series of deadly terrorist bombings killed 61 Israelis, bringing the death toll since Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn two-and-a-half years ago to 213...
...But Peres is wedded to the "peace process," both for personal reasons—his political future depends on its continuation—and for "ideological" reasons...
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...Although Clinton, for appearance's sake, did allow himself to be photographed with Peres's opponent, the Likud Party's Benjamin Netanyahu, angry Likud candidates insisted that both the conferenceand the presidential visit were crude attempts to bolster Peres's standing at a time when Labor, for the first time since Rabin's assassination, was trailing in the polls...
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...The Israeli voters got the message and elected Rabin, at which point the loan guarantee materialized...
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...The only thing Labor can reasonably claim as its own, then, is the "peace process," and Laborites like Peres cling to it for much the same reason that Democrats like Clinton cling to Big Government: Without it, they're nothing...
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...Besides Iraq and Libya, the only other Middle Eastern nation not invited to the Sharm el Sheikh parley was Iran...
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...Bush made it quite clear that so long as Shamir remained in office, Israel would not receive the $io billion loan guarantee that it (wrongly) believed was necessary to help resettle Soviet Jewish immigrants...
...Imagine, the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, actually condescended to sit at the same table as Peres...
...It was withthe latter goal in mind that the Arabs came to the Sharm el Sheikh summit, which they insisted on calling "The Peacemakers' Conference" and not—as the Israelis did—"The Anti-Terror Conference...
...As Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa put it, the summit's main purpose was to assure the "continued momentum of the Arab-Israeli peace process on the basis of Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and self-determination for the Palestinians...
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...In a sense, therefore, Iraq's Saddam Hussein is the real godfather of the current "peace process...
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...All this—the phoniness of the international conference, the cynical attempt to wring political profit out of human tragedy, the inability even to agree on the conference's name — suggests that the new Middle East envisioned by Israeli doves like Shimon Peres has a great deal in common with the old one...
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...Perhaps the most curious thing about the anti-terrorist conference was that Hamas, the Palestinian group responsible for the terrorist bombings in Israel, is funded by Saudi Arabia as well as Iran, and receives sanctuary from Syria —yetboth Saudi Arabia and Syria were invited to the conference...
...According to all the canons of conventional diplomacy, this kind of blatant interference by one country in the internal affairs of another is definitely not kosher...
...No wonder, too, that Israel's prime minister, the dovish Shimon Peres, is in deep political trouble...
...Then in 198o, Ezer Weizmann, a leading Israeli dove and currently Israel's president, gave his blessings to Jimmy Carter's presidential aspirations...
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...in the new Middle East, it is rapidly becoming just another U.S...
...After attending an international conference involving leaders from twenty-seven nations that was hastily cobbled together at Peres's urging, Clinton visited Israel, bringing promises of renewed American largesse along with his patented "I share your pain" spiel...
...Back in 1972, for example, Yitzhak Rabin, then a leading Israeli hawk as well as Israel's ambassador to the United States, barely troubled to conceal his support for Richard Nixon's reelection...
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...A pro–peace process summit has as its chief target the Israelis, on whom pressure must be brought to continue their unilateral withdrawals, despite the growing civilian death toll...
...From the Arab point of view, however, there was nothing incongruous about inviting sponsors of Hamas to the conference, since—as they saw it—the summit wasn't about fighting terrorism at all...
...Indeed, in his remarks to the conference, Peres went so far as to call Iran the "spearhead" of international terrorism...
...So what do you do if the process that defines you is bitterly resented by the voters, and an election is just a few months away...
...In going out of his way to pick a Libyan-financed hotel to hold the conference, perhaps Mubarak wanted to let Qaddafi know that he shouldn't take any of its anti-terrorist rhetoric personally...
...Labor also used to claim that it alone embodied the "pioneering spirit" that made the desert bloom, but today, the legitimate heirs of that spirit JOSEPH SHATTAN is consulting editor of The American Spectator...
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...Unfortunately, any possibility that the conference might be the prelude to a concerted international effort to isolate Iran was scotched by the Germans and French, who made it clear that all talk of isolating Iran by cutting off Europe's "critical dialogue"—and lucrative trade —with Tehran was strictly verboten...
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...Another Arab leader not invited to the anti-terrorism conference was Libya's Muammar Qaddafi —but he, at least, was present in spirit...
...Well, if you're Shimon Peres, you call up your good friend Bill Clinton and make him an offer: "You help me with my Jews, and I'll help you with yours...
...His invasion of Kuwait set a process in motion that culminated in Shamir's defeat, Labor's victory, and Israel's subsequent withdrawal from most of the West Bank...
...Moreover, thanks to the "peace process," the PLO has acquired an army of to,000 well-armed troops (disguised as police officers) who, as Arafat spokesman Marwan Bargouti told the London Independent, "have been ordered to fire on Israeli soldiers if they try to enter territories under the Palestinian Authority's control...
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...To liberate Kuwait from the Iraqis and protect Saudi Arabia from Saddam Hussein's tanks, he had to place infidel American troops on 50 May 1996 • The American Spectator sacred Islamic soil...
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...This was a major affront to Saudi religious sensibilities, which could only be assuaged by a promise from Bush to promote the "peace process"— a euphemism for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 Six Day War...
...the "settlers" living in harsh and dangerous circumstances on the West Bank and Golan Heights—are the very people Labor seeks to eliminate...
...According to two well-known Israeli journalists, Uri Dann and Daniel Eisenberg, that is precisely what Peres did...
...Moreover, the fact that Saudi Arabia actually accepted the invitation (Syria was otherwise engaged) was seen as yet another great breakthrough for the peace process...
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...On the American side, former President Bush did his level best to topple Israel's conservative prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, and elect Labor's candidate, Yitzhak Rabin...
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...Peres recruited President Clinton to ensure that world leaders would attend, assuring him that he would enhance the President's prestige by openly supporting his bid for re-election back home...
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...Add to that the fact that the first thing Arafat did after gaining control of areas vacated by the Israeli army was arrest or kill Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with the Zionist enemy, and it's no wonder many Israelis feel that the peace process has already irreparably damaged Israel's ability to defend itself against terrorism, and that the longer the process continues, the worse things will get...
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