Another Free Pass to The Palestinians
Another Free Pass to The Palestinians
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 23, 2005
The Palestinian Authority has yet to comply with even one agreement they have signed since the Oslo Accord. They have violated the Oslo agreement, Oslo II, and the Road Map. Each agreement required the PA to disarm its terrorists and to empower its “security forces” to protect the safety of Israelis as well as Palestinian Arabs.
On September 13, 1993, after Arafat signed a Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, he appeared on Jordanian TV to explain that the agreement was simply part of the PLO's staged plan for Israel's destruction. “Since we cannot defeat Israel in war,” he said in that broadcast, “we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel."
Indeed, from 1993 through September 2000, while the Oslo negotiations were still ongoing, the Palestinians killed 256 Israeli civilians and soldiers and wounded thousands more. Since then, 1,086 more people have been killed, and nearly 65,000 were wounded in more than 26,000 Palestinian terror attacks.
Not to break with tradition, the PA announced plans to breach the Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing, implementation of which was scheduled for November 25. The agreement requires, among other things, that “a liaison office, led by the 3rd party, will receive real-time video and data feed of the activities at Rafah and will meet regularly to review implementation of this agreement, resolve any disputes arising from this agreement, and perform other tasks specified in this agreement.”
But PA Director of Borders and Crossings, Salim Abu Safiyyeh, declared on November 17, “that there won't be any live video streams to the Israeli side via the surveillance cameras installed in Rafah terminal,” according to a press release posted by the Palestinian National Authority State Information Service. He went on to elaborate that ”even the joint control room will not receive these live feeds, and will be only for the presence of the third party that will monitor the borders.”
The Rafah Crossing agreement was initiated by the European Union, which is also, the 3rd party assigned to observe its fulfillment. The PA, encouraged by the EU’s lack of respect for international law as was demonstrated by its refusal to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization, declared that it will not honor the agreement.
In October, EU officials met with Hizballah representatives in Lebanon, arguing that such meetings would help to moderate the organization. Today’s attacks on Israel by the Hizballah, attest to the complete failure of such diplomacy.
The EU’s willful blindness concerning terrorism against Israel is not limited to Hizballah. The EU was the major funding source for the PA’s security services during the Intifada. Not even Palestinian records documenting that EU funds were diverted to pay for terror attacks against Israel, committed by PA security forces (Tanzin, Force 17, al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade), convinced the EU to stop its funding.
Considering the past, if the US is serious about achieving peace in Israel, it should not leave this task to the EU, but demand that the PA comply with the Rafah agreement as well as all the other agreements it failed to keep.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed—and How to Stop It, is director of American Center for Democracy and member of the Committee on the Present Danger and Alyssa A. Lappen is a freelance journalist who frequently contributes to FrontPageMagazine and other online journals
Posted by Ted Belman at November 23, 2005 10:24 AM
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Ted Belman
said:
Sussinct and to the point.
Posted by: Ted Belman on November 23, 2005 10:29 AM
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Bill Levinson
said:
Re: "On September 13, 1993, after Arafat signed a Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, he appeared on Jordanian TV to explain that the agreement was simply part of the PLO's staged plan for Israel's destruction. “Since we cannot defeat Israel in war,” he said in that broadcast, “we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.""
After a statement like this by the other side's leader, it is inconceivable that any responsible government would not have terminated the fraudulent peace process on the spot, annexed all occupied territories, and expelled the two-legged locusts that were squatting therein. (And also had the Mossad or IDF put a bullet through Arafat's head, as should have been done after the Munich Massacre.) Yes, the Left would have screamed bloody murder throughout the world but, as Machiavelli said, if you have to do something nasty you should do it all at once because even the worst injury will soon be forgotten. (On the other hand, if you are going to do something nice, you do it over time so the benefits remain foremost in people's minds.)
Hitler pointed out that the Ottoman Empire had gotten away with the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians and that the world had hardly raised any protest whatsoever. Stalin was never tried for his genocide of 7 million Ukrainians so I think Israel could get away with simply expelling the Palestinians as opposed to killing them-- noting that, unlike the innocent and peaceful Armenians and Ukrainians, the violent Palestinians openly stated their intention to break their peace agreements.
It is also necessary to inform the world that Palestinians are untrustworthy and that a Palestinian's word of honor is worthless. http://www.omdurman.org/leaflets/pali_word.html for a royalty-free leaflet that anyone can download, copy, and circulate.
Posted by: Bill Levinson on November 23, 2005 01:31 PM
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BobW
said:
These folks continue to attribute Western philosophies and ideals to non-Western cultures. This is a basic mistake.
These are not "agreements" within the Western sense. When the barbarians default, GOI cnnot negate its position. Power politics rules.
It's difficult to say that EU officials met with Hizbollah representatives without mentioning GOI representatives had met with PLO representatives when this was illegal. These Israelis got promoted and are still around.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 23, 2005 02:57 PM
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MarkL
said:
I agree with Bill L 100%, especially with his suggestion on what SHOULD HAVE happened to Yasser (That's My Baby) Arafat following Munich.
BillW's opening statement is also spot-on. This is the Middle East. What works in the "West" does not necessarily work in the Middle East. Completely different mind-set. So-called "Agreements", as the Arabs and the "Palestinians" prove over and over again, are not worth the paper they're printed on. We haven't learned that yet and it is doubtful we ever will.
Posted by: MarkL on November 24, 2005 03:56 AM
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Another Free Pass to The Palestinians
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 23, 2005
The Palestinian Authority has yet to comply with even one agreement they have signed since the Oslo Accord. They have violated the Oslo agreement, Oslo II, and the Road Map. Each agreement required the PA to disarm its terrorists and to empower its “security forces” to protect the safety of Israelis as well as Palestinian Arabs.
On September 13, 1993, after Arafat signed a Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, he appeared on Jordanian TV to explain that the agreement was simply part of the PLO's staged plan for Israel's destruction. “Since we cannot defeat Israel in war,” he said in that broadcast, “we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel."
Indeed, from 1993 through September 2000, while the Oslo negotiations were still ongoing, the Palestinians killed 256 Israeli civilians and soldiers and wounded thousands more. Since then, 1,086 more people have been killed, and nearly 65,000 were wounded in more than 26,000 Palestinian terror attacks.
Not to break with tradition, the PA announced plans to breach the Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing, implementation of which was scheduled for November 25. The agreement requires, among other things, that “a liaison office, led by the 3rd party, will receive real-time video and data feed of the activities at Rafah and will meet regularly to review implementation of this agreement, resolve any disputes arising from this agreement, and perform other tasks specified in this agreement.”
But PA Director of Borders and Crossings, Salim Abu Safiyyeh, declared on November 17, “that there won't be any live video streams to the Israeli side via the surveillance cameras installed in Rafah terminal,” according to a press release posted by the Palestinian National Authority State Information Service. He went on to elaborate that ”even the joint control room will not receive these live feeds, and will be only for the presence of the third party that will monitor the borders.”
The Rafah Crossing agreement was initiated by the European Union, which is also, the 3rd party assigned to observe its fulfillment. The PA, encouraged by the EU’s lack of respect for international law as was demonstrated by its refusal to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization, declared that it will not honor the agreement.
In October, EU officials met with Hizballah representatives in Lebanon, arguing that such meetings would help to moderate the organization. Today’s attacks on Israel by the Hizballah, attest to the complete failure of such diplomacy.
The EU’s willful blindness concerning terrorism against Israel is not limited to Hizballah. The EU was the major funding source for the PA’s security services during the Intifada. Not even Palestinian records documenting that EU funds were diverted to pay for terror attacks against Israel, committed by PA security forces (Tanzin, Force 17, al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade), convinced the EU to stop its funding.
Considering the past, if the US is serious about achieving peace in Israel, it should not leave this task to the EU, but demand that the PA comply with the Rafah agreement as well as all the other agreements it failed to keep.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed—and How to Stop It, is director of American Center for Democracy and member of the Committee on the Present Danger and Alyssa A. Lappen is a freelance journalist who frequently contributes to FrontPageMagazine and other online journals
Posted by Ted Belman at November 23, 2005 10:24 AM