I wondered how long it would take for the feeling of euphoria to leave, that wonderful feeling of oneness that I was feeling with my fellow Americans. However, when a few of my more militant friends taunted me with the thought of anti-Semitism that might be creeping into all of that good will, I didn?t accept it. Ah, but that was last week. Now I?m beginning to receive email and clippings from the mainstream with that same old undercurrent of Jew hatred that I?ve come to know and expect.
Among the offensive correspondence to come across my desk was an article sent to me by a ?white-bread? executive acquaintance who, I have no doubt, belongs to at least one ?restricted club? in his social repertoire. For some reason, he wanted to share an in-depth column that is making the rounds of computers around the country. Basically, the gist of it was to shift the blame of the infamous Black Tuesday to, you guessed it, Israel and ?the Jews.?
No thought, it seems, is given to how the worldwide pandering to Arab terrorism created the climate that made all this possible. The failure of my country and the world to show outrage over previous suicide actions against Israel only encouraged them. How often did I read the comments from President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraging Israel to show ?restraint? in its response, so as not to anger the rest of the Arab world? The biased press even managed to report on the suicide bombers themselves as more casualties in the Palestinian quest for a homeland.
The logic in the column, and that I am seeing more and more, of elsewhere, is that ?America must boldly take the lead in the Middle East. We must pressure Israel to take the concrete steps necessary to provide justice for the Palestinian people.? Then the article continued by explaining that the Israeli government is incapable of taking such steps. And ?if we don?t see that a just resolution of that conflict is realized, one that provides a homeland for the Palestinian people, then military action against Islamic states will backfire. Thereby, inflaming a significant portion of the world?s population against us and breeding thousands of terrorist where there were once dozens.?
Excuse me? Has it been so long that we are already back to the ?plight of the poor Palestinians?? This, despite the fact that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, in his moments of madness, offered almost the entire ?wish list? that Arafat requested and it still wasn?t enough. Thank G-d, Yasser Arafat walked away from the table, because he wanted the full 100% of everything on his list and Barak only offered 97%. That should have been enough to show the world that they don?t want a Palestinian state, Arafat and his boys want the entire country of Israel.
You have to be blind to think that there are only dozens of terrorists and that not overpowering Israel would bring the wrath of thousands. Who are all these Middle Eastern cartels that our government has just ok?d to spend forty billion dollars to go in and destroy? There are certainly not the few dozen that was claimed.
Even before my ignorant Yuppie acquaintance sent me the written tirade against Israel, I was getting a feeling of deja-vu now that Bush and Powell have once again pressured Israel to meet and settle their differences with the terrorist, Arafat. Remember when Bush senior pressured Israel to submit to the scuds during the Gulf War?
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is right when he says that to negotiate with Arafat now would be the same as Bush sitting down to ?make a deal? with Osama bin Laden. Maybe Sharon is having a difficult time forgetting, as everyone else seems to have done, that Arafat is the man who ordered the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes. In fact, it would behoove us to remember that he also ordered the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan in 1973. And what an inspiration he?s been to the Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Hamas! To keep America happy, should Sharon sit down and give the same offer to Arafat that he previously turned down before beginning the reign of terror against Israel over the past year? And, speaking of turning down, have you noticed how the suicide bombings in Israel stopped since the World Trade Towers bombings. Now that CNN?s attention is elsewhere, Arafat has needed to play down his band of bombers.
It is not because of America?s policy on Israel that the horrific bombings on that day of infamy took place. Frankly, if Bush has any sense at all, he might want to be nicer to the one country in the Middle East that is a democracy and that knows where the bodies are buried. Israel?s intelligence organizations, unlike the American, can tell us where the holes and caves of the vermin who did this reside, who sponsors them and how to find them.
These roaches who strap bombs on their bodies or, in the case of the USA, directed a missile into our civilian population have got to be destroyed. So far the Arab terrorists haven?t seen strength and have benefited from the spineless governments who aided and abetted them. The answer is not in once again pressuring Israel. I believe that it?s still possible to cut this cancer out of our society if the gutless governments hold together and finally stand up for what is right. This is not a ?Jewish problem? or even an American one. This concerns the world.
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Arlene Peck is an internationally syndicated columnist and television talk show hostess.
Among the offensive correspondence to come across my desk was an article sent to me by a ?white-bread? executive acquaintance who, I have no doubt, belongs to at least one ?restricted club? in his social repertoire. For some reason, he wanted to share an in-depth column that is making the rounds of computers around the country. Basically, the gist of it was to shift the blame of the infamous Black Tuesday to, you guessed it, Israel and ?the Jews.?
No thought, it seems, is given to how the worldwide pandering to Arab terrorism created the climate that made all this possible. The failure of my country and the world to show outrage over previous suicide actions against Israel only encouraged them. How often did I read the comments from President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraging Israel to show ?restraint? in its response, so as not to anger the rest of the Arab world? The biased press even managed to report on the suicide bombers themselves as more casualties in the Palestinian quest for a homeland.
The logic in the column, and that I am seeing more and more, of elsewhere, is that ?America must boldly take the lead in the Middle East. We must pressure Israel to take the concrete steps necessary to provide justice for the Palestinian people.? Then the article continued by explaining that the Israeli government is incapable of taking such steps. And ?if we don?t see that a just resolution of that conflict is realized, one that provides a homeland for the Palestinian people, then military action against Islamic states will backfire. Thereby, inflaming a significant portion of the world?s population against us and breeding thousands of terrorist where there were once dozens.?
Excuse me? Has it been so long that we are already back to the ?plight of the poor Palestinians?? This, despite the fact that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, in his moments of madness, offered almost the entire ?wish list? that Arafat requested and it still wasn?t enough. Thank G-d, Yasser Arafat walked away from the table, because he wanted the full 100% of everything on his list and Barak only offered 97%. That should have been enough to show the world that they don?t want a Palestinian state, Arafat and his boys want the entire country of Israel.
You have to be blind to think that there are only dozens of terrorists and that not overpowering Israel would bring the wrath of thousands. Who are all these Middle Eastern cartels that our government has just ok?d to spend forty billion dollars to go in and destroy? There are certainly not the few dozen that was claimed.
Even before my ignorant Yuppie acquaintance sent me the written tirade against Israel, I was getting a feeling of deja-vu now that Bush and Powell have once again pressured Israel to meet and settle their differences with the terrorist, Arafat. Remember when Bush senior pressured Israel to submit to the scuds during the Gulf War?
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is right when he says that to negotiate with Arafat now would be the same as Bush sitting down to ?make a deal? with Osama bin Laden. Maybe Sharon is having a difficult time forgetting, as everyone else seems to have done, that Arafat is the man who ordered the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes. In fact, it would behoove us to remember that he also ordered the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan in 1973. And what an inspiration he?s been to the Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Hamas! To keep America happy, should Sharon sit down and give the same offer to Arafat that he previously turned down before beginning the reign of terror against Israel over the past year? And, speaking of turning down, have you noticed how the suicide bombings in Israel stopped since the World Trade Towers bombings. Now that CNN?s attention is elsewhere, Arafat has needed to play down his band of bombers.
It is not because of America?s policy on Israel that the horrific bombings on that day of infamy took place. Frankly, if Bush has any sense at all, he might want to be nicer to the one country in the Middle East that is a democracy and that knows where the bodies are buried. Israel?s intelligence organizations, unlike the American, can tell us where the holes and caves of the vermin who did this reside, who sponsors them and how to find them.
These roaches who strap bombs on their bodies or, in the case of the USA, directed a missile into our civilian population have got to be destroyed. So far the Arab terrorists haven?t seen strength and have benefited from the spineless governments who aided and abetted them. The answer is not in once again pressuring Israel. I believe that it?s still possible to cut this cancer out of our society if the gutless governments hold together and finally stand up for what is right. This is not a ?Jewish problem? or even an American one. This concerns the world.
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Arlene Peck is an internationally syndicated columnist and television talk show hostess.