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The final straw in the conflict between Israel and their Palestinian tormentors is a recent EU vote that complains the U.S. shouldn't be standing with Israel against the Palestinians.  The EU position tries to lend support to Palestinians and Arafat while at the same time it admonishes Arafat to better control the terrorists.  This only days after Hamas proclaims an all out war.   Another good reason for the U.K. to distance itself from the EU.   As Arafat has become more and more marginalized, his usefulness as the representative of the Palestinians has vanished and Israel is right to have made the decision to ignore his rhetoric.  The bombers continue to keep walking into crowded areas and killing Israelis left and right, and with no one able to control them, Israel has nobody to negotiate with.    Some misguided appeasement advocates say negotiate with Arafat anyway.  Why?  Cuz there is nobody else?
 

Israel may soon take pre-emptive action

With all the solutions we can think of on the table, and few of them effective, the danger to the so called Palestinian cause gets greater.  For soon Israel will having nothing to lose by picking the easiest road out.  With Israeli's capture of weapons on their way to Hamas and probably Fatah, they now believe they have the moral obligation to make pre-emptive moves to shore up their security.  With Hezbollah give Israel excuses almost daily to cross the border, the case for Israeli pre-emptive actions grows daily.

It is certain that the peace lover's containment policy has failed and rather than giving peace a chance, Israeli leaders in the most recent past have done nothing more than attempt appeasement with a people only concerned with the Israeli body count.  No let's say it like it is, dead Jews.  And anyone shopping, eating with or standing at a bus stop with Jews is just another target better off dead than alive.

The Palestinian factions training young people to strap on bombs and attack Israelis are no different than Al-Qaida training pilots to fly planes into big tall buildings in the U.S.  The threat to Israel from Lebanon and Syria, and the Hamas/Hezbollah combination is as real as the threat to the U.S. that prompted President George Bush to go after Al-Qaida and the Taliban.  And it is as real as the threat the IRA has presented to the U.K.

Fans of revolutionary garbage used as propaganda by terrorist organizations are like Clintonites with stars in their eyes and god knows what in their hands.  Certainly not the reins of responsible leadership.  Just like the IRA killed  innocents whenever an IRA member was jailed or killed while attempting to kill someone, the Palestinians send in a bomber every time some affront is made in that warped Islamic creed.  Arrests were made yesterday, expect another suicide bomber today.

The appeasers lash out, "Stop the madness".  Yep.  Give up on law and order, turn it all over to the pure and angelic Palestinians whose idea of a good day is a Jew body count in double digits.  The whole thing can stop any day and has been at that point for decades, and especially so.  No one is forcing Palestinian youths to walk up to a bus stop and kill bystanders.  Who is making these things happen?  Sharon?  Get Real!

It is high time that the world realize that Israel, the U.K. and the U.S. are now inseparable.  If Arab nations and their appeasing friends in the western world cannot see there is no difference between a Hamas or Hezbollah attack on innocent Jews in Israel and the attack on the World Trade Center Towers, then that nation or their fan is thinking like a terrorist nation.  If they feel uncomfortable helping the U.S., U.K. and Israel eliminate this common threat, they they should start preparing for war right now.

The patience of civilized nations has ended.   A look at the Israeli-Palestinian chronology over the last two years is more than enough to build the case and sadly, support the only solution.  The United Kingdom's chronology with the IRA and its splinter groups reads like pages from the same book.  Israel fights a terrorist enemy, retribution exchanged for retribution, just as the U.K. has done for over a century, and now the U.S. is attempting to do the same, taking the war to the terrorist's hiding places.  No one is foolish enough to think there will be no retribution from the Al-Qaida network.

But the appeasers whine about treatment of prisoners in GITMO as if this were a conventional war or if the terrorists were pickpockets at the dock.  Grow up, get real, and get ready.

The U.S. and U.K. Must Aid Israel In Crushing  Hamas and Hezbollah

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.  The President of the United States has declared War on Terrorism.  Over 80% of the U.S. population supports the President in polls that typically lean 15% away from any Republican President.  In other words, there are probably less than  5% Americans who don't support the President in his ambition to rid the world of Terrorism.

Countries around the world have signed the pact to seize financial instruments of terrorist organizations and those who sponsor them.  The majority have given aid dollars, intelligence, or military forces to help in the fight.

Let's turn back to the Mideast.  Iran says "yeah we support you" but continues to breed terrorism and is probably hiding half the Al-Qaida despite their muslim sect differences.  Iraq of course hates everything western except our weapons especially if they are buying.  Lebanon and Syria breed the suicide bombers that attack Israeli citizens almost daily.  When the checkpoints were solid, they used mortars instead.  The attacks have not stopped for more than a week in memory, and if they have the following weeks have been so bloody the body count more than makes up for that lack of zeal.

The largest number of nations who breed or support Terrorism are in the Middle East and North Africa.  It is no coincidence that the countries involved are all predominately muslim and have education systems similar to that of the Taliban of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.   Their holy leaders preach death and suicide and the Holy Jihad against anyone with indoor plumbing.  First the Jews and then their friends.   The cradle of civilization has become the cradle of un-civilization.  We cannot be friends of the terrorists and we are devoted friends to Israel.  Therefore we must defend our friends and immediately strike out at our enemies.  Some of our so called friends true colors are starting to emerge.  If they aren't supporting terrorists, they are weak sisters who won't stand.  I am speaking of Saudi Arabia, who in my humble opinion, is a major contributor to the problems we and Israel face.  Look at the number of terrorists bred in the Middle East and Northern Africa.  Over 90% come from eight countries.  Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan.  And of course Iran and Iraq.

If you were to draw up a list of countries supporting anti-terrorism or not, you wind up with  nations in four columns;  "Happy to Support Terrorists (HST)", "Pay Lip Service, but do little or nothing (PLS)", "Can't Help (CH)", "Ready To Go get 'em (RTG)".  Guess where most of the Middle Eastern and more than a few North African countries fall?'

With the world at war against terrorism, why do we put up with Hamas and Hezbollah and their puppets in Fatah?  They must be eliminated immediately as the number one active terrorists in the world today.  To do otherwise is inviting their nurturing of more terrorists to come into our countries.  Why does the U.S. waste time in the Philippines and make noises about Somalia.  There is a daily killing field going on in Israel.  When are we going to quite hiding the fact we are the allies of the Israelis, and stand beside them and crush this half a century of attempts to destroy one of our best friends in the world?

The U.S. President makes noises like a gutsy, tough guy, out to save the world from terrorism.  It is about time he demonstrate the tough leadership that says "If you are killing Jews you are a terrorist and we are coming after you."  We did this in World War II, I don't see why it is any different today.  The hell with the Arabs...we'll buy our excess oil requirements from Russia or just develop our own resources.  So far in this century, I haven't seen a lot of redeeming qualities that make me believe being tolerant of their culture does anyone on this planet any good.  The price for our tolerance is simply too high.  Nothing is worth letting our friends get murdered day by day.  It is time to pick a side, Arab or Jew.  I pick NOT Arab.  Pretty simple decision given the evidence.  I've not seen any Jews flying planes into tall buildings in Cairo, or attending Mosque in London then boarding a flight to the U.S. with shoes made of Plastique Explosives.

UPDATE: 1/31/30: Israeli reserve Brig. Gen. Effi Eitam and a group of other senior reserve officers have prepared a plan that calls for reoccupying the Palestinian territories, destroying the Palestinian Authority and preventing Arabs from being elected to the Knesset, according to regional news source, Ha'aretz.

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