Dangerous Peaceniks on the Hudson
Dangerous Peaceniks on the Hudson
By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com
In recent weeks, the president of Iran called for Israel to be wiped
off the map, amid reports that Iran will have a nuclear capability in a few months, and the UN held a "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" that prominently featured a large map of "Palestine" in which Israel had disappeared. And after a massacre of Israeli civilians by a Palestinian terrorist in the town of Netanya, the UN Security Council proved unable to condemn the act.
In Israel and the PA, in addition to the Netanya attack, Hezbollah
subjected northern Israel to a missile barrage that injured a dozen
Israelis; the commander of the IDF?s Gaza Division sent a message to Defense Minister Mofaz saying the number of terrorist incidents coming from Gaza "is enormous," with the army reporting 75 incidents of small arms fire from there, 130 Kassam and mortar shell attacks, and at least 18 bombs planted along the border fence since the "disengagement"; PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas signed a law providing lifelong stipends to families of suicide bombers; Hamas leader Khaled Mashal announced that his organization will resume attacks after the end of 2005; convicted mass murderer Marwan Barghouti won the Fatah primaries in a landslide; Hamas won municipal elections in a landslide in major West Bank cities; Debkafile reported, "Palestinian terrorists are preparing Qassam missiles with chemical warheads, according to information reaching Israeli intelligence" and that is but a partial list.
Seemingly, the issue that Israel faces is not peace, but survival.
But none of this has stopped the professional peaceniks at the New
York-based Israel Policy Forum from continuing in their cheerful path. As Kenneth Levin notes in The Oslo Syndrome, this American Jewish organization was "created in 1993 at the behest of Israel's Labor-Meretz coalition government and placed under the leadership of...Jonathan Jacoby, who had earlier in his career signed a New York Times ad accusing Israel of "state terrorism"". more
Posted by Ted Belman at December 19, 2005 01:24 PM
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BobW
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the defectors who had gone over to the King of Babylon
II Kings 25:11
P. David Hornik is a great writer.
He CLEARLY identified the problem.
I appreciate not having to read Israel's safety is a function of the mood of the Islamic Red Crescent Society.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on December 19, 2005 04:13 PM
Dangerous Peaceniks on the Hudson
By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com
In recent weeks, the president of Iran called for Israel to be wiped
off the map, amid reports that Iran will have a nuclear capability in a few months, and the UN held a "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" that prominently featured a large map of "Palestine" in which Israel had disappeared. And after a massacre of Israeli civilians by a Palestinian terrorist in the town of Netanya, the UN Security Council proved unable to condemn the act.
In Israel and the PA, in addition to the Netanya attack, Hezbollah
subjected northern Israel to a missile barrage that injured a dozen
Israelis; the commander of the IDF?s Gaza Division sent a message to Defense Minister Mofaz saying the number of terrorist incidents coming from Gaza "is enormous," with the army reporting 75 incidents of small arms fire from there, 130 Kassam and mortar shell attacks, and at least 18 bombs planted along the border fence since the "disengagement"; PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas signed a law providing lifelong stipends to families of suicide bombers; Hamas leader Khaled Mashal announced that his organization will resume attacks after the end of 2005; convicted mass murderer Marwan Barghouti won the Fatah primaries in a landslide; Hamas won municipal elections in a landslide in major West Bank cities; Debkafile reported, "Palestinian terrorists are preparing Qassam missiles with chemical warheads, according to information reaching Israeli intelligence" and that is but a partial list.
Seemingly, the issue that Israel faces is not peace, but survival.
But none of this has stopped the professional peaceniks at the New
York-based Israel Policy Forum from continuing in their cheerful path. As Kenneth Levin notes in The Oslo Syndrome, this American Jewish organization was "created in 1993 at the behest of Israel's Labor-Meretz coalition government and placed under the leadership of...Jonathan Jacoby, who had earlier in his career signed a New York Times ad accusing Israel of "state terrorism"". more
Posted by Ted Belman at December 19, 2005 01:24 PM