Stop the "Peace Process"
Stop the "Peace Process" Why is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright going to the Middle East only days after three suicide bombers killed four and wounded 170 in Jerusalem? Because, the president...
...What violence engulfs Mr...
...This is noxious...
...Mr...
...It requires polite opinion to believe that any action taken by Israel in pursuit of its own security is somehow as bad as any action taken by the Palestinians to terrorize and intimidate the citizenry of Israel...
...The Times dares to draw a parallel between an act of barbarous terror—the bombs—and an act taken by a sovereign government to protect its citizens—the closing of Israel's borders...
...No more fetishizing the "peace process...
...Then the bombs go off...
...It began: "Terrorist bombers strike, Israel responds by confining Palestinians to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, recriminations fly from both sides and the Middle East peace effort sinks deeper into paralysis...
...It did so in part because of American pressure...
...Arafat kisses violence on the lips...
...Not according to the New York Times, whose editorial on the subject last week was one of the most appalling the paper has ever published...
...There have been nearly 400 civilian casualties in Jerusalem this summer...
...That seems like a rational act, no...
...It works as follows: Israel makes concessions to the Palestinians...
...more than 1,800 Israelis have been killed or injured in terrorist attacks since the signing of the Oslo accords in May 1994...
...Arafat must climb above the violence that is engulfing them," the Times opines...
...Arafat...
...The "Oslo peace process" is a very interesting one...
...Netanyahu and Mr...
...Israel took a risk in opening the borders—especially considering the fact that Yasser Arafat decided in the aftermath of the July attack to plant a kiss on the political boss of Hamas, the organization responsible...
...After last week's attack, Israel closed the borders again...
...Better to kill the "peace process" than to allow its logic to kill more Israelis...
...No more movement on Oslo until Arafat stops embracing Hamas and starts destroying it...
...It happened just these past few weeks...
...Because, the president says, the bombers wanted to kill not only civilians but the peace process itself, and they cannot be allowed to succeed...
...Israel opened its borders to the Palestinians again after closing them following the July 30 bombings in Jerusalem...
...The almost immediate result: last week's suicide bombings...
...This astonishing sentence indicates the depths of the intellectual corruption fostered by the Oslo peace process...
...Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton should stand with the innocent victims of terror...
...How many Israelis have to be hurt before the United States recognizes that the "peace process" needs to be rethought completely...
...It is the Jewish citizenry of Jerusalem that is being engulfed by violence and the fear of violence...
...Because the very logic of the Oslo peace process requires moral equivalence...
Vol. 3 • September 1997 • No. 1
