Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: ?I have confidence that the Israeli public will know how to differentiate between the dirty politics of cheap slander, and the politics with which, with national responsibility, we continue to manage the complex affairs of the State of Israel.?
If the Saddam Hussein regime falls, Syria and Iran know they are next on the list of terrorist states and they will take steps to ensure that Hezbollah will "vanish," to protect themselves from the wrath of the United States. Over many years, Syria, an ally of Iran, who is flirting with the United States and is supposedly helping to achieve world and Middle East peace, has been a nation of double standards, destabilizing the US-backed peace process for the Middle East. While pretending it is supporting the war against terrorism, Syria is allowing the headquarters of Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Damascus to torpedo any hope of peace by suicide bombing any peace initiative on the Palestinian and Lebanese tracks. While pretending to support UN Resolution 1441 against Iraq, Syria is transferring chemical and biological weapon from Iraq, hiding them in Syria, and transferring some of them to Hezbollah.
While President Lahoud of Lebanon was enjoying his New Year celebration in Monaco and Monte Carlo in southern France, seemingly oblivious to his state-sponsored terrorist groups, the world?s security agencies and airports were on full alert due to terrorist threats. Hezbollah was busy during the New Year celebrations test firing a new missile they acquired from Iraq through Syria. The impact of the explosion was heard 30 km away in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. This missile is designed to be used against Israel, with biological agents added to the warhead, in the event of any future regional conflict in the Middle East.
In the past, Syria bluffed US President Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak regarding its peaceful intentions, in order to gain military momentum using terrorism to blackmail Israel. President Clinton, whose ambitions were to score a political victory in the Rose Garden before the end of his term, pressured Barak to surrender both Israel?s and its Lebanese allies? vital interests. Syria received South Lebanon on a golden platter as a reward for a ?fabricated? peace, and Hizbollah filled the vacuum. The name of the Syrian game: bluffing the United States with false intentions of peace and the continuance of the deadly suicide bombings in Israel by the forces of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, with the help of the Beirut-based Hezbollah ? all fully cooperating with Yasir Arafat?s Fatah ? as the liaison between the Gaza Strip and Damascus.
Realism dictates that there is no magical solution to the problem that the Israeli left imported from Tunis, yet there are effective surgical preemptive solutions that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has successfully used in containing and diminishing the influence and cultivation of terrorism. The United States and the Israeli nation should not undermine the past and present efforts of a brilliant General who spent his life fighting for the security and survival of the Free World and Israel. Ariel Sharon is the best-suited candidate - between the Left, the Center, and the Right in Israel - to lead the current war in the Middle East and achieve a durable peace. Afterwards, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud are the best suited to finish the conflict resolution that Sharon began.
We believe that Dr. Rifaat el-Assad, from his exile, is the best Syrian candidate to achieve a durable peace and to change Syria from a terrorist nation to a pro-United States ally in the Middle East. He should be helped by the West. Rifaat el-Assad alone has the will, the capacity, and the necessary background to bring Syria to the peace stage.
These men, Sharon and el-Assad, leaders of the previous wars in the Middle East, have the ability to bring about the best possible scenarios for peace between Syria and Israel. We invite the United States administration to consult with them and help them closely for the implementation of peace in the Middle East.
As for the Palestinian Leadership, they will have to choose the future of their children. They will have to accept living peacefully with Israel and witness their future generations flourishing, with a good quality of life, or live in the misery and the captivity of Israeli jails, accepting the consequences of their criminal, terrorist and murderous actions.
Do not give the reign of power to the inexperienced in Syria or in Israel. They will not bring peace nor security to the Middle East; they will compromise it to the detriment of all. Peace in the Middle East is an integral part of the security of the United States and the Free World. Success resides in selecting key leaders, challenging terrorism, and conducting this transitory period toward peace. As an example, we all witnessed the chaos former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak brought with his humiliating withdrawal from South Lebanon. The concessions that he and the Israeli Left offered didn't bring peace to Israel. On the contrary, it emboldened and convinced Hezbollah and the Islamic world to avoid cooperating with the US and Israel. We will all witness the pandemonium the weak Bashar el-Assad of Syria is fomenting with his Iranian-Iraqi-Hezbollah alliance. And Israel?s Labor Party candidate Amiram Mitzna is definitely not the answer to the problem. Concessions are not the way; Strength is supreme diplomacy.
This well masterminded violence isn't going to stop unless the terrorist infrastructure promoting these killings from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria are destroyed. The world's security can not be left to the forces of evil living in the Free World, feeding off the bedlam of New York City on 9/11 to the Tel Aviv bombings. Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA - all will have trouble fighting terrorism as long as the terror structure in Iran, Iraq, and Syria use the local masses as a platform for suicidal, bloody attacks. They use desperate and ill-chosen techniques, as they misuse the local populations, who are raised on hate, in order to inflict maximum casualties on the West. This is just too much. Too much of a failure of adequate action against terrorism and too much blood in the street.
How long is it going to take before military action will be taken against Gaza, Hezbollah, and Syria? This axis is more dangerous than the terrorism of Osama bin Laden, since it enjoys a larger underground constituency and is better armed. Every time a bomb explodes in Israel, the Israeli Left offers concessions, guaranteeing even more terrorism. A leftist government in Israel will compromise the United States' fight against terrorism. How long is Syria going to murder Christians and Jews alike in the Middle East? Syria ? with the complicity of Iran ? through its proxy Islamists, ordered the latest bombings of Tel Aviv.
Syria is, likewise, conducting a silent campaign of assassinations to intimidate the Christians of Lebanon into not cooperating with the United States in its war against terrorism. A few months ago, some Christian workers were slain in a local university in Beirut. A few weeks later, a Christian judge was shot in his courtroom in Beirut. A few days ago, a Christian soldier was shot within the barracks of the Lebanese army. Christian officers are intimidated. Syria claims they are separate "fundamentalist" incidents, but these things don't happen in Beirut without the green light of the Syrian Secret Service who control the security of the country. It is intended to send a "signal" to the Christian community not to cooperate with the United States. Additional reports have recently come to the Lebanese Foundation for Peace that Syria, through Hezbollah operatives, is orchestrating a future series of assassinations and bomb plots against prominent Christian figures and United States? interests in Lebanon should the war against Iraq start and have a negative impact on Syria and the Hezbollah. Hezbollah is distributing arms and explosives to sleeper cells in the Christian parts of Lebanon to execute such a job when the moment of truth shall come for them. When is this culture of death going to end?
Terrorists have murdered innocent Americans, innocent Lebanese, and innocent Israelis. The White House and the United States Congress should take the appropriate actions to secure peace in the Middle East as part of the security of the world.
Those who are intending to remove Sharon from power in Israel, under any pretext, are jeopardizing the United States? grand strategy in its fight against terror. Prime Minister Sharon is an important ally, which the United States will rely on when the Middle East will reach the point of no return in the upcoming battle against terrorism. The United States must differentiate between friend and enemy in the ?War against Terror.?
Appeasing terrorism will bring more damage and destruction, as proven by the latest Tel Aviv bombing ? masterminded in Syria. The Baker Institute for Peace, for example, should understand that by pampering a terrorist nation in the Middle East, by promoting their latest agenda in Damascus, they will be increasing the violence in the area. An expanded US meeting in Damascus will embolden the Syrian regime into initiating more terrorist acts in the future.
Lots of blood has been spilled and we have done little to halt the bloodshed. We still are making the same old mistakes. Syria should be challenged, President Bush. Beware of Syria, as they are breeding and spreading the essence of Islamic terrorism and cooperating with the Islamic regime in Iran, while they help Iraq discreetly and effectively.
Our Lebanese Government in Exile from Jerusalem is ready to assume the fight against terrorism when the moment shall come. The Lebanese people understand the challenge posed by terrorism and know how to react to it. Lebanon was a peaceful country. Give Lebanon its chance to fight against terrorism, as a future Free Lebanon will stabilize peace with its neighbors, Syria and Israel. The success and implementation of a Free Lebanon will make history in Middle East conflict resolution, and will push the peace process towards a new victory in the war against terrorism in the region.
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The Lebanese Foundation for Peace was established to promote a lasting peace between Lebanon, Israel and Syria. See the LFP website at http://www.free-lebanon.com.
If the Saddam Hussein regime falls, Syria and Iran know they are next on the list of terrorist states and they will take steps to ensure that Hezbollah will "vanish," to protect themselves from the wrath of the United States. Over many years, Syria, an ally of Iran, who is flirting with the United States and is supposedly helping to achieve world and Middle East peace, has been a nation of double standards, destabilizing the US-backed peace process for the Middle East. While pretending it is supporting the war against terrorism, Syria is allowing the headquarters of Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Damascus to torpedo any hope of peace by suicide bombing any peace initiative on the Palestinian and Lebanese tracks. While pretending to support UN Resolution 1441 against Iraq, Syria is transferring chemical and biological weapon from Iraq, hiding them in Syria, and transferring some of them to Hezbollah.
While President Lahoud of Lebanon was enjoying his New Year celebration in Monaco and Monte Carlo in southern France, seemingly oblivious to his state-sponsored terrorist groups, the world?s security agencies and airports were on full alert due to terrorist threats. Hezbollah was busy during the New Year celebrations test firing a new missile they acquired from Iraq through Syria. The impact of the explosion was heard 30 km away in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. This missile is designed to be used against Israel, with biological agents added to the warhead, in the event of any future regional conflict in the Middle East.
In the past, Syria bluffed US President Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak regarding its peaceful intentions, in order to gain military momentum using terrorism to blackmail Israel. President Clinton, whose ambitions were to score a political victory in the Rose Garden before the end of his term, pressured Barak to surrender both Israel?s and its Lebanese allies? vital interests. Syria received South Lebanon on a golden platter as a reward for a ?fabricated? peace, and Hizbollah filled the vacuum. The name of the Syrian game: bluffing the United States with false intentions of peace and the continuance of the deadly suicide bombings in Israel by the forces of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, with the help of the Beirut-based Hezbollah ? all fully cooperating with Yasir Arafat?s Fatah ? as the liaison between the Gaza Strip and Damascus.
Realism dictates that there is no magical solution to the problem that the Israeli left imported from Tunis, yet there are effective surgical preemptive solutions that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has successfully used in containing and diminishing the influence and cultivation of terrorism. The United States and the Israeli nation should not undermine the past and present efforts of a brilliant General who spent his life fighting for the security and survival of the Free World and Israel. Ariel Sharon is the best-suited candidate - between the Left, the Center, and the Right in Israel - to lead the current war in the Middle East and achieve a durable peace. Afterwards, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud are the best suited to finish the conflict resolution that Sharon began.
We believe that Dr. Rifaat el-Assad, from his exile, is the best Syrian candidate to achieve a durable peace and to change Syria from a terrorist nation to a pro-United States ally in the Middle East. He should be helped by the West. Rifaat el-Assad alone has the will, the capacity, and the necessary background to bring Syria to the peace stage.
These men, Sharon and el-Assad, leaders of the previous wars in the Middle East, have the ability to bring about the best possible scenarios for peace between Syria and Israel. We invite the United States administration to consult with them and help them closely for the implementation of peace in the Middle East.
As for the Palestinian Leadership, they will have to choose the future of their children. They will have to accept living peacefully with Israel and witness their future generations flourishing, with a good quality of life, or live in the misery and the captivity of Israeli jails, accepting the consequences of their criminal, terrorist and murderous actions.
Do not give the reign of power to the inexperienced in Syria or in Israel. They will not bring peace nor security to the Middle East; they will compromise it to the detriment of all. Peace in the Middle East is an integral part of the security of the United States and the Free World. Success resides in selecting key leaders, challenging terrorism, and conducting this transitory period toward peace. As an example, we all witnessed the chaos former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak brought with his humiliating withdrawal from South Lebanon. The concessions that he and the Israeli Left offered didn't bring peace to Israel. On the contrary, it emboldened and convinced Hezbollah and the Islamic world to avoid cooperating with the US and Israel. We will all witness the pandemonium the weak Bashar el-Assad of Syria is fomenting with his Iranian-Iraqi-Hezbollah alliance. And Israel?s Labor Party candidate Amiram Mitzna is definitely not the answer to the problem. Concessions are not the way; Strength is supreme diplomacy.
This well masterminded violence isn't going to stop unless the terrorist infrastructure promoting these killings from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria are destroyed. The world's security can not be left to the forces of evil living in the Free World, feeding off the bedlam of New York City on 9/11 to the Tel Aviv bombings. Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA - all will have trouble fighting terrorism as long as the terror structure in Iran, Iraq, and Syria use the local masses as a platform for suicidal, bloody attacks. They use desperate and ill-chosen techniques, as they misuse the local populations, who are raised on hate, in order to inflict maximum casualties on the West. This is just too much. Too much of a failure of adequate action against terrorism and too much blood in the street.
How long is it going to take before military action will be taken against Gaza, Hezbollah, and Syria? This axis is more dangerous than the terrorism of Osama bin Laden, since it enjoys a larger underground constituency and is better armed. Every time a bomb explodes in Israel, the Israeli Left offers concessions, guaranteeing even more terrorism. A leftist government in Israel will compromise the United States' fight against terrorism. How long is Syria going to murder Christians and Jews alike in the Middle East? Syria ? with the complicity of Iran ? through its proxy Islamists, ordered the latest bombings of Tel Aviv.
Syria is, likewise, conducting a silent campaign of assassinations to intimidate the Christians of Lebanon into not cooperating with the United States in its war against terrorism. A few months ago, some Christian workers were slain in a local university in Beirut. A few weeks later, a Christian judge was shot in his courtroom in Beirut. A few days ago, a Christian soldier was shot within the barracks of the Lebanese army. Christian officers are intimidated. Syria claims they are separate "fundamentalist" incidents, but these things don't happen in Beirut without the green light of the Syrian Secret Service who control the security of the country. It is intended to send a "signal" to the Christian community not to cooperate with the United States. Additional reports have recently come to the Lebanese Foundation for Peace that Syria, through Hezbollah operatives, is orchestrating a future series of assassinations and bomb plots against prominent Christian figures and United States? interests in Lebanon should the war against Iraq start and have a negative impact on Syria and the Hezbollah. Hezbollah is distributing arms and explosives to sleeper cells in the Christian parts of Lebanon to execute such a job when the moment of truth shall come for them. When is this culture of death going to end?
Terrorists have murdered innocent Americans, innocent Lebanese, and innocent Israelis. The White House and the United States Congress should take the appropriate actions to secure peace in the Middle East as part of the security of the world.
Those who are intending to remove Sharon from power in Israel, under any pretext, are jeopardizing the United States? grand strategy in its fight against terror. Prime Minister Sharon is an important ally, which the United States will rely on when the Middle East will reach the point of no return in the upcoming battle against terrorism. The United States must differentiate between friend and enemy in the ?War against Terror.?
Appeasing terrorism will bring more damage and destruction, as proven by the latest Tel Aviv bombing ? masterminded in Syria. The Baker Institute for Peace, for example, should understand that by pampering a terrorist nation in the Middle East, by promoting their latest agenda in Damascus, they will be increasing the violence in the area. An expanded US meeting in Damascus will embolden the Syrian regime into initiating more terrorist acts in the future.
Lots of blood has been spilled and we have done little to halt the bloodshed. We still are making the same old mistakes. Syria should be challenged, President Bush. Beware of Syria, as they are breeding and spreading the essence of Islamic terrorism and cooperating with the Islamic regime in Iran, while they help Iraq discreetly and effectively.
Our Lebanese Government in Exile from Jerusalem is ready to assume the fight against terrorism when the moment shall come. The Lebanese people understand the challenge posed by terrorism and know how to react to it. Lebanon was a peaceful country. Give Lebanon its chance to fight against terrorism, as a future Free Lebanon will stabilize peace with its neighbors, Syria and Israel. The success and implementation of a Free Lebanon will make history in Middle East conflict resolution, and will push the peace process towards a new victory in the war against terrorism in the region.
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The Lebanese Foundation for Peace was established to promote a lasting peace between Lebanon, Israel and Syria. See the LFP website at http://www.free-lebanon.com.