I write to you from Jerusalem, where I have lived for almost 28 years punctuated by frequent lectures in the United States. I write to you as a former officer in the United States Air Force, as one who has some knowledge of war - and make no mistake, we Americans are at war, a war far more complicated and more difficult than the World Wars of the twentieth century. For we are at war with Militant Islam, with a 1,400-year-old civilization, with countless millions of Muslims around the world who exult in shedding the blood of innocent people - "infidels" - be they Christians or Jews.
Day after day, American soldiers suffer casualties in Iraq. Arab suicide bombers reduce our soldiers to human debris. This has been the lot of Israel year after year. Left-wing politicians, aided by left-wing media and academicians, have been fostering defeatism, undermining your confidence in the justice of your cause - precisely what their counterparts have been doing in Israel. They are sapping America's will, as well as Israel's will, to win.
For this deplorable state of affairs, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, is partly responsible. Why? Because he has shown no moral clarity or consistency in the war on terror. He has appeased not only despotic Arab-Islamic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, which have been havens for international terrorists, but he has even appeased a gang of terrorists like the PLO-run Palestinian Authority. Instead of giving Israel the green light to eliminate the godfather of international terrorism, Yasser Arafat, instead of encouraging Israel to destroy the entire network of terrorists that have slaughtered over 1,000 Jewish men, women and children, he encourages this slaughter by insisting on the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Yasser Arafat and his minions are not interested in a Palestinian state. They are interested in killing Jews, which is why they have trained a generation of Arab children to emulate suicide bombers. Their goal is genocide - and the Bush administration has more than enough evidence to prove it.
Yes, President Bush, regardless of his noble intention to end the war between Jews and Palestinian Arabs, is prolonging this war and, therefore, the bloodshed. By so doing, he is unwittingly contributing to the decline of American will to win the war in Iraq.
Strange as it may seem, only if the American people see Israel wiping out the entire terrorist network - Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbullah - in Gaza and in the so-called West Bank, only then will they be inspired not only to persevere in the war in Iraq, but to win it. When Americans see little Israel do what it actually has the power to do, they will stand behind their President and reject his detractors.
I therefore urge all Americans who read this message to send it to your Senators and Congressmen, above all to President Bush, urging them to publicly support Israel's destruction of the terrorist organizations mentioned above, which supported Saddam Hussein and which are therefore the enemies of the United States. Only when America is working in harmony with the Jewish State of Israel will good conquer evil.
Day after day, American soldiers suffer casualties in Iraq. Arab suicide bombers reduce our soldiers to human debris. This has been the lot of Israel year after year. Left-wing politicians, aided by left-wing media and academicians, have been fostering defeatism, undermining your confidence in the justice of your cause - precisely what their counterparts have been doing in Israel. They are sapping America's will, as well as Israel's will, to win.
For this deplorable state of affairs, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, is partly responsible. Why? Because he has shown no moral clarity or consistency in the war on terror. He has appeased not only despotic Arab-Islamic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, which have been havens for international terrorists, but he has even appeased a gang of terrorists like the PLO-run Palestinian Authority. Instead of giving Israel the green light to eliminate the godfather of international terrorism, Yasser Arafat, instead of encouraging Israel to destroy the entire network of terrorists that have slaughtered over 1,000 Jewish men, women and children, he encourages this slaughter by insisting on the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Yasser Arafat and his minions are not interested in a Palestinian state. They are interested in killing Jews, which is why they have trained a generation of Arab children to emulate suicide bombers. Their goal is genocide - and the Bush administration has more than enough evidence to prove it.
Yes, President Bush, regardless of his noble intention to end the war between Jews and Palestinian Arabs, is prolonging this war and, therefore, the bloodshed. By so doing, he is unwittingly contributing to the decline of American will to win the war in Iraq.
Strange as it may seem, only if the American people see Israel wiping out the entire terrorist network - Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbullah - in Gaza and in the so-called West Bank, only then will they be inspired not only to persevere in the war in Iraq, but to win it. When Americans see little Israel do what it actually has the power to do, they will stand behind their President and reject his detractors.
I therefore urge all Americans who read this message to send it to your Senators and Congressmen, above all to President Bush, urging them to publicly support Israel's destruction of the terrorist organizations mentioned above, which supported Saddam Hussein and which are therefore the enemies of the United States. Only when America is working in harmony with the Jewish State of Israel will good conquer evil.