Dear President Bush,
My heartfelt sympathies to you and the American people.
But we must really speak about how to deal with these atrocities and
the attacks on America by these misunderstood Arab activists. President
Bush, I have a great deal of experience in dealing successfully with
terrorism and this is why I wish to come to your rescue.
President Bush, the first thing you must realize is that one can only
make peace with one's enemies. With one's friends there is no need to
make peace. There is no military solution to the problems of terrorism,
and this is why you must seek a diplomatic solution. ?No Justice, No
Peace,? as they say. You must invite Osama Bin Laden and his people to
meet you on the White House Lawn and at Camp David and there you must
listen carefully to his demands. You must learn to feel his pain and
understand his needs.
You must meet Bin Laden's demands nearly in full. In addition, you
must offer him internet web services and five-star tourist hotels in
exchange for his promising to abandon violence. That is how we turned
Yassir Arafat into a Quaker. You see, military force serves no role any
more. It is passe. It is archaic. Today economic interests dominate the
world and the Bin Ladens of the earth will surely make peace in exchange
for some profits from participating in global trade.
The attacks on America came because you have been insufficiently
sensitive in understanding the needs of Moslem fundamentalists. You took
their rhetoric at face value, whereas WE in Israel know that all this
rhetoric is empty and in fact these people simply want peace. Sure they
praise Hitler and celebrate atrocities, but what is it that they REALLY
want? You must negotiate even while under attack, for conditioning
negotiations on an end to violence is a no-win situation. It will simply
extend the bloodshed!
You have been trying to rule over others. You have illegal settlements
that you have yet to remove from Guam and Puerto Rico. You must put your own house in order and eliminate inequality and injustice in the United
States and then the terrorists will no longer target you.
The key is to build a New Middle West, one in which everyone is so busy
with the important matter of development tourism and investments and
hi-technology that they have no time to pursue violence. The era of war is
finished.
Moreover if you strike at Bin Laden and his supporters you will simply
extend and enlarge the cycle of violence. Your bombs will no doubt
injure some innocent children and civilians, alongside any terrorist
activists you strike, and that will simply enrage the rest of the world
and make the victims seek revenge. Your bombing Bin Laden and his
supporters will cause them to hate the United States and drive them to
terrorism. Moreover, if you refuse to negotiate with Bin Laden, then he
will be toppled and a REALLY violent militant and fanatic will take his
place. In that case you will have lost the window of opportunity to make
peace. Begin by declaring a unilateral ceasefire!
President Bush, blessed is the peacemaker. The entire world will
support you and congratulate you if you respond to these horrific attacks
by disarming America and opening dialogue with the terror activists. All
we are saying is give peace a chance. Yitzhak Rabin would have approved.
Yes, chaver, what you need is shalom, salaam, peace. You will be cheered
and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition. Do not allow yourself to
be drawn into the gutter of violence. Violence never achieves anything.
History is no lesson - forget the response to Pearl Harbor. History is
the dead past.
Seize the moment, President Bush. Show us America's finer side. Make
peace with Bin Laden so that all of our children can have better lives.
End the cycle of violence. Show restraint. Forego the juvenile impulse
to avenge.
Follow my example! Provide Bin Laden's people with anti-aircraft
missiles so that they can battle against the TRUE radicals and fanatics.
And they will do so with no ACLU nor Supreme Court to restrain them.
Demonstrate your humanity by paying pensions to the widows and orphans of the terrorist kamikazes who crashed the planes. Send millions into Bin Laden's personal bank account. Invite his troops into Arlington and
Alexandria, Virginia. Let him open offices next to Lafayette Park.
If you do all of this, I know I will campaign on your behalf and urge
Americans to vote for you, much as the administration of Bill Clinton
helped me impose my policies on Israel.
President Bush, the proof is in the pudding. My own peace policies
have eliminated war and bloodshed and terror from the Middle East. We no
longer have terrorists to deal with in the Levant, only peace partners.
If you follow in my footsteps you can achieve the same lofty goals.
Peacefully yours,
Shimon Peres, Peacemaker-at-Large
*****
Dear Mr. President,
Our heartfelt condolences regarding the events of the past days. Yes,
we grieve even though we know how much the United States got its just
deserts in this matter. We feel your pain, even as we understand the
motivations of those perpetrators of these protests against injustice.
You see, if the Moslems of the world HATE the United States and want to
destroy it, you and the other Americans need to ask yourselves what you
have done to earn the enmity of so many peace-loving justice-seeking
people. As you know, Islam is the religion of peace.
What you have done of course is to interfere in other people's affairs.
You have enraged the Arab world by getting in the way of their business of
perpetrating genocide against the Jews. You have interfered in something
that does not concern you. The Arabs are perfectly justified in seeking to
conduct genocide against the Jews, because the Jews set up a country in a
place where they do not belong. The Jews of the Zionist entity have no
business trying to defend themselves and preventing the implementation of
peace and justice. The Middle East belongs only to Arabs and Moslems and
everyone else needs be exterminated. And who are you to prevent Saddam Hussein from imposing peace and justice?
Of course, in fact the whole world and even the United States ultimately
must also be ruled by Islam, but we are perfectly willing to put off the day
for that to happen for many years. So, you have nothing to fear from Moslems.
Why have you gone out of your way to earn Moslem hatred?
President Bush, this is your comeuppance. You,the Americans, earned
this. Stop trying to interfere when we conduct genocide. It is our
inalienable God-given right. What concern is it of yours?
We are praying for peace and justice.
Cordially yours,
The Arab Anti-Defamation League
------------
Dr. Steven Plaut teaches at the Graduate School of Business, University of Haifa,
Israel.
My heartfelt sympathies to you and the American people.
But we must really speak about how to deal with these atrocities and
the attacks on America by these misunderstood Arab activists. President
Bush, I have a great deal of experience in dealing successfully with
terrorism and this is why I wish to come to your rescue.
President Bush, the first thing you must realize is that one can only
make peace with one's enemies. With one's friends there is no need to
make peace. There is no military solution to the problems of terrorism,
and this is why you must seek a diplomatic solution. ?No Justice, No
Peace,? as they say. You must invite Osama Bin Laden and his people to
meet you on the White House Lawn and at Camp David and there you must
listen carefully to his demands. You must learn to feel his pain and
understand his needs.
You must meet Bin Laden's demands nearly in full. In addition, you
must offer him internet web services and five-star tourist hotels in
exchange for his promising to abandon violence. That is how we turned
Yassir Arafat into a Quaker. You see, military force serves no role any
more. It is passe. It is archaic. Today economic interests dominate the
world and the Bin Ladens of the earth will surely make peace in exchange
for some profits from participating in global trade.
The attacks on America came because you have been insufficiently
sensitive in understanding the needs of Moslem fundamentalists. You took
their rhetoric at face value, whereas WE in Israel know that all this
rhetoric is empty and in fact these people simply want peace. Sure they
praise Hitler and celebrate atrocities, but what is it that they REALLY
want? You must negotiate even while under attack, for conditioning
negotiations on an end to violence is a no-win situation. It will simply
extend the bloodshed!
You have been trying to rule over others. You have illegal settlements
that you have yet to remove from Guam and Puerto Rico. You must put your own house in order and eliminate inequality and injustice in the United
States and then the terrorists will no longer target you.
The key is to build a New Middle West, one in which everyone is so busy
with the important matter of development tourism and investments and
hi-technology that they have no time to pursue violence. The era of war is
finished.
Moreover if you strike at Bin Laden and his supporters you will simply
extend and enlarge the cycle of violence. Your bombs will no doubt
injure some innocent children and civilians, alongside any terrorist
activists you strike, and that will simply enrage the rest of the world
and make the victims seek revenge. Your bombing Bin Laden and his
supporters will cause them to hate the United States and drive them to
terrorism. Moreover, if you refuse to negotiate with Bin Laden, then he
will be toppled and a REALLY violent militant and fanatic will take his
place. In that case you will have lost the window of opportunity to make
peace. Begin by declaring a unilateral ceasefire!
President Bush, blessed is the peacemaker. The entire world will
support you and congratulate you if you respond to these horrific attacks
by disarming America and opening dialogue with the terror activists. All
we are saying is give peace a chance. Yitzhak Rabin would have approved.
Yes, chaver, what you need is shalom, salaam, peace. You will be cheered
and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition. Do not allow yourself to
be drawn into the gutter of violence. Violence never achieves anything.
History is no lesson - forget the response to Pearl Harbor. History is
the dead past.
Seize the moment, President Bush. Show us America's finer side. Make
peace with Bin Laden so that all of our children can have better lives.
End the cycle of violence. Show restraint. Forego the juvenile impulse
to avenge.
Follow my example! Provide Bin Laden's people with anti-aircraft
missiles so that they can battle against the TRUE radicals and fanatics.
And they will do so with no ACLU nor Supreme Court to restrain them.
Demonstrate your humanity by paying pensions to the widows and orphans of the terrorist kamikazes who crashed the planes. Send millions into Bin Laden's personal bank account. Invite his troops into Arlington and
Alexandria, Virginia. Let him open offices next to Lafayette Park.
If you do all of this, I know I will campaign on your behalf and urge
Americans to vote for you, much as the administration of Bill Clinton
helped me impose my policies on Israel.
President Bush, the proof is in the pudding. My own peace policies
have eliminated war and bloodshed and terror from the Middle East. We no
longer have terrorists to deal with in the Levant, only peace partners.
If you follow in my footsteps you can achieve the same lofty goals.
Peacefully yours,
Shimon Peres, Peacemaker-at-Large
*****
Dear Mr. President,
Our heartfelt condolences regarding the events of the past days. Yes,
we grieve even though we know how much the United States got its just
deserts in this matter. We feel your pain, even as we understand the
motivations of those perpetrators of these protests against injustice.
You see, if the Moslems of the world HATE the United States and want to
destroy it, you and the other Americans need to ask yourselves what you
have done to earn the enmity of so many peace-loving justice-seeking
people. As you know, Islam is the religion of peace.
What you have done of course is to interfere in other people's affairs.
You have enraged the Arab world by getting in the way of their business of
perpetrating genocide against the Jews. You have interfered in something
that does not concern you. The Arabs are perfectly justified in seeking to
conduct genocide against the Jews, because the Jews set up a country in a
place where they do not belong. The Jews of the Zionist entity have no
business trying to defend themselves and preventing the implementation of
peace and justice. The Middle East belongs only to Arabs and Moslems and
everyone else needs be exterminated. And who are you to prevent Saddam Hussein from imposing peace and justice?
Of course, in fact the whole world and even the United States ultimately
must also be ruled by Islam, but we are perfectly willing to put off the day
for that to happen for many years. So, you have nothing to fear from Moslems.
Why have you gone out of your way to earn Moslem hatred?
President Bush, this is your comeuppance. You,the Americans, earned
this. Stop trying to interfere when we conduct genocide. It is our
inalienable God-given right. What concern is it of yours?
We are praying for peace and justice.
Cordially yours,
The Arab Anti-Defamation League
------------
Dr. Steven Plaut teaches at the Graduate School of Business, University of Haifa,
Israel.