Recently there has been a marked increase in terror attacks against Israeli citizens. The Sharon Government laments that "we never got a warning", as an excuse for the lack of response to the renewed Arab violence.
"But we didn't get a warning," is what we were told when three young people were gunned down by Arab terrorists at a bus stop in Gush Etzion in a drive-by shooting. Two young women, Matat Rosenfeld-Adler, 21, a bride of only three months, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, as well as Oz Ben-Meir, a 15-year-old boy, were murdered. Simultaneously, Arab terrorists opened fire at teenagers walking on a road near the Eli Junction in Samaria, causing serious injuries.
What caused, or at least contributed to, this tragedy? Highway 60, the Tunnel Road, which is the main north-south traffic artery in Israel, had, until recently, been closed to private Arab cars. Ariel Sharon had removed the checkpoints on this road as a 'confidence building' measure to the Arabs, thereby giving the terrorists the opportunity to murder Jewish civilians. After the attack, the terrorists sped away in their private car and escaped to Hebron. The checkpoints were temporarily reinstated, but there was talk by the Sharon government of eliminating them within ten days of the attack.
Then, numerous Kassam rockets were launched into Israel from Gaza, some landing in S'derot. Of course, the Arabs did not bother to warn us before they carried out this attack. Miraculously, nobody was hurt. Such attacks have become more numerous since we left Gaza.
"But we never had a warning!" is what we were again told by the Sharon Government when an Arab terrorist blew himself up at the Hadera market, killing five innocent shoppers and wounding more than thirty, seven of them seriously.
What caused, or at least contributed to, this particular tragedy? The terrorist who detonated himself in the Hadera market had recently been released by the Sharon Government from an Israeli prison. This, in a gesture of support for Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas.
Of course, the Sharon government is not truthful when it says that Israel has not received warnings. Honestly now, does Sharon expect a telephone call from the terrorists announcing the time and place of their next attack?
Indeed, the Sharon government has had plenty of warnings.
The Arab celebrations over Ariel Sharon's shameful surrender of Biblical Gaza and northern Samaria stressed that this victory was made possible by the terror war against the Jews and the rest of the infidels. Mahmoud Abbas jubilantly stated, "Today we are celebrating the liberation of Gaza and the northern West Bank [Samaria]. Tomorrow, we will celebrate the liberation of Jerusalem."
At the groundbreaking ceremony of Sheikh Khalifa City on October 8th, built on the ruins of the Jewish Gaza community of Morag, Mahmoud Abbas said, "The Palestinian nation will continue its campaign towards the liberation of the West Bank and Jerusalem and towards the construction of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."
Those remarks were not enough of a warning?
The Sharon government was further warned when Abbas stated that he had no intention of disarming terror groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (the latter being his own group of terrorists). Any such action on his part, he said, "would lead to civil war."
These remarks by Mahmoud Abbas certainly were a clear warning of Arab intentions to continue their terror war.
Warnings came, as well, from the Israeli defense establishment.
One such warning came from Israeli Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, who had originally, before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, expressed his view that terror would decrease after the Disengagement. After the expulsion, however, he changed his view completely and stated, "Judea and Samaria will become the main theater in the struggle against terrorism."
Former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon was one of the first to warn of the dangers of Sharon's Disengagement Plan. He said, more than a year ago, that Disengagement would provide a "tail wind" for terrorism. In a speech in Herzliya on April 19, 2005, he said: "The Israeli public must not think that the Mashiach (Messiah) is arriving with the withdrawal. Immediately after the Disengagement, we can expect a burst of terrorism- especially in Judea and Samaria." Yaalon was subsequently removed from his job for daring to publicly disagree with Ariel Sharon.
Army intelligence chief Aharon Ze'evi Farkash warned of Al-Qaeda's intentions toward Israel. He has stated that this global terror group has exploited holes in the Egypt-Gaza border to infiltrate Gaza. Al-Qaeda's presence in Gaza, under the name of "The Jihad Brigades in the Promised Land", has also been announced on Islamic web sites known to be friendly to Osama Bin-Laden's terrorist network. Al-Qaeda is known to have a working relationship with Hamas.
Credit us with some intelligence, Ariel Sharon. Jews are being killed not because they do not have advance warning of Arab attacks, but rather because your suicidal surrender policies of Jewish land have encouraged a renewed onslaught of terror.
There you have it, dear friends. Because Sharon gave parts of G-d's Promised Land to Israel's enemies, Gaza is quickly becoming the capital of international terrorism.
Are Sharon's policies dangerous only for Israel? Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and lashed out at Muslim nations that recognize the Jewish state.
"We should not settle for a piece of land," he said of Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. "Anyone who signs a treaty which recognizes the entity of Israel means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world," Ahmadinejad said, warning Muslim leaders who recognize Israel they "face the wrath of their own people."
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he thundered in a fiery speech on what he called an "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam."
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the Iranian president told a conference in Teheran entitled "The World without Zionism".
Who, then, is the "oppressor" the Muslim leaders keep talking about? This is the term used in the Muslim world to refer to the "Great Satan", the United States. Israel, in Muslim eyes, is just the "Little Satan", the creation of the "Great Satan".
Get real, America!
It is important that President George W. Bush, the US State Department and Condoleezza Rice finally realize that Israel must be allowed to defend itself, and that it is counterproductive to pressure Israel to give up land to the Arab enemy. It is harmful to American interests if Israel is pressured to indiscriminately open up Gaza border crossings, which may be used by potential Arab terrorists. Pressure, as well, to provide a road from Gaza to the West Bank, thereby cutting Israel in half, would be sheer folly. In the wake of 9/11, would America allow a road from Mexico to Canada to bisect the United States, even though both of these nations are friendly to the US?
It is erroneous to say that the Muslims have never given us warning. On the contrary, America experienced Islamic terror on 9/11. Israel experiences Islamic terror virtually every day. We do not need any warnings. We need to recognize the destructive goal of Islamic terror.
We will be able to defeat Muslim worldwide terror only when we realize that both Israel and America are considered enemies.
"But we didn't get a warning," is what we were told when three young people were gunned down by Arab terrorists at a bus stop in Gush Etzion in a drive-by shooting. Two young women, Matat Rosenfeld-Adler, 21, a bride of only three months, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, as well as Oz Ben-Meir, a 15-year-old boy, were murdered. Simultaneously, Arab terrorists opened fire at teenagers walking on a road near the Eli Junction in Samaria, causing serious injuries.
What caused, or at least contributed to, this tragedy? Highway 60, the Tunnel Road, which is the main north-south traffic artery in Israel, had, until recently, been closed to private Arab cars. Ariel Sharon had removed the checkpoints on this road as a 'confidence building' measure to the Arabs, thereby giving the terrorists the opportunity to murder Jewish civilians. After the attack, the terrorists sped away in their private car and escaped to Hebron. The checkpoints were temporarily reinstated, but there was talk by the Sharon government of eliminating them within ten days of the attack.
Then, numerous Kassam rockets were launched into Israel from Gaza, some landing in S'derot. Of course, the Arabs did not bother to warn us before they carried out this attack. Miraculously, nobody was hurt. Such attacks have become more numerous since we left Gaza.
"But we never had a warning!" is what we were again told by the Sharon Government when an Arab terrorist blew himself up at the Hadera market, killing five innocent shoppers and wounding more than thirty, seven of them seriously.
What caused, or at least contributed to, this particular tragedy? The terrorist who detonated himself in the Hadera market had recently been released by the Sharon Government from an Israeli prison. This, in a gesture of support for Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas.
Of course, the Sharon government is not truthful when it says that Israel has not received warnings. Honestly now, does Sharon expect a telephone call from the terrorists announcing the time and place of their next attack?
Indeed, the Sharon government has had plenty of warnings.
The Arab celebrations over Ariel Sharon's shameful surrender of Biblical Gaza and northern Samaria stressed that this victory was made possible by the terror war against the Jews and the rest of the infidels. Mahmoud Abbas jubilantly stated, "Today we are celebrating the liberation of Gaza and the northern West Bank [Samaria]. Tomorrow, we will celebrate the liberation of Jerusalem."
At the groundbreaking ceremony of Sheikh Khalifa City on October 8th, built on the ruins of the Jewish Gaza community of Morag, Mahmoud Abbas said, "The Palestinian nation will continue its campaign towards the liberation of the West Bank and Jerusalem and towards the construction of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."
Those remarks were not enough of a warning?
The Sharon government was further warned when Abbas stated that he had no intention of disarming terror groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (the latter being his own group of terrorists). Any such action on his part, he said, "would lead to civil war."
These remarks by Mahmoud Abbas certainly were a clear warning of Arab intentions to continue their terror war.
Warnings came, as well, from the Israeli defense establishment.
One such warning came from Israeli Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, who had originally, before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, expressed his view that terror would decrease after the Disengagement. After the expulsion, however, he changed his view completely and stated, "Judea and Samaria will become the main theater in the struggle against terrorism."
Former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon was one of the first to warn of the dangers of Sharon's Disengagement Plan. He said, more than a year ago, that Disengagement would provide a "tail wind" for terrorism. In a speech in Herzliya on April 19, 2005, he said: "The Israeli public must not think that the Mashiach (Messiah) is arriving with the withdrawal. Immediately after the Disengagement, we can expect a burst of terrorism- especially in Judea and Samaria." Yaalon was subsequently removed from his job for daring to publicly disagree with Ariel Sharon.
Army intelligence chief Aharon Ze'evi Farkash warned of Al-Qaeda's intentions toward Israel. He has stated that this global terror group has exploited holes in the Egypt-Gaza border to infiltrate Gaza. Al-Qaeda's presence in Gaza, under the name of "The Jihad Brigades in the Promised Land", has also been announced on Islamic web sites known to be friendly to Osama Bin-Laden's terrorist network. Al-Qaeda is known to have a working relationship with Hamas.
Credit us with some intelligence, Ariel Sharon. Jews are being killed not because they do not have advance warning of Arab attacks, but rather because your suicidal surrender policies of Jewish land have encouraged a renewed onslaught of terror.
There you have it, dear friends. Because Sharon gave parts of G-d's Promised Land to Israel's enemies, Gaza is quickly becoming the capital of international terrorism.
Are Sharon's policies dangerous only for Israel? Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and lashed out at Muslim nations that recognize the Jewish state.
"We should not settle for a piece of land," he said of Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. "Anyone who signs a treaty which recognizes the entity of Israel means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world," Ahmadinejad said, warning Muslim leaders who recognize Israel they "face the wrath of their own people."
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he thundered in a fiery speech on what he called an "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam."
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the Iranian president told a conference in Teheran entitled "The World without Zionism".
Who, then, is the "oppressor" the Muslim leaders keep talking about? This is the term used in the Muslim world to refer to the "Great Satan", the United States. Israel, in Muslim eyes, is just the "Little Satan", the creation of the "Great Satan".
Get real, America!
It is important that President George W. Bush, the US State Department and Condoleezza Rice finally realize that Israel must be allowed to defend itself, and that it is counterproductive to pressure Israel to give up land to the Arab enemy. It is harmful to American interests if Israel is pressured to indiscriminately open up Gaza border crossings, which may be used by potential Arab terrorists. Pressure, as well, to provide a road from Gaza to the West Bank, thereby cutting Israel in half, would be sheer folly. In the wake of 9/11, would America allow a road from Mexico to Canada to bisect the United States, even though both of these nations are friendly to the US?
It is erroneous to say that the Muslims have never given us warning. On the contrary, America experienced Islamic terror on 9/11. Israel experiences Islamic terror virtually every day. We do not need any warnings. We need to recognize the destructive goal of Islamic terror.
We will be able to defeat Muslim worldwide terror only when we realize that both Israel and America are considered enemies.