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Jan Willem van der Hoeven , a native of The Netherlands, has been living in the Middle East for over 30 years. He is the founder of The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and is today the director of The International Christian Zionist Center.
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By Jan Willem van der Hoeven
November 15, 2004
You released a murderer and arch terrorist, whom you knew to be your deadly enemy -- from Beirut to go free with his fellow terrorists and their guns -- when you could have captured and tried him in your courts!
You did it again when he and his prestige were at one of the lowest points, exiled to Tunisia - and you brought him back to prominence by allowing him to return victorious as "the Oslo peacemaker" to Israel and gave him back his worldwide importance and recognition. Thus he continued his bloody battle now as 'peacemaker' against thousands of your innocent men, women and children, also with guns you supplied to him in your mistaken hopes. Finally, however difficult for all Israel's left to swallow, you had to admit he had deceived you all these years and was no more of a peacemaker after Oslo as he was before Oslo.
Will you now do it again to your own woeful detriment?
Will you fall for the very sinister plan urged upon you by the world -- that you free from your prison the -- for the Palestinian street -- most popular Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, a man who will challenge all the old Palestinian leadership at the coming Palestinian elections so that he -- the man who still believes in violence -- the murderer and terrorist of Israelis, will become Arafat's successor? Even if this bitter pill would be sweetened by the blinded West through the release of Azzam Azzam from Egyptian prison and Jonathan Pollard from U.S. prison?
Will you now also allow a man of the type of Barghouti to go free to henceforth challenge all Palestinian moderates in the name of all those Palestinians thirsting for revenge and still violently intent on the establishment of a Palestinian State on all of the land of Israel. Those 'moderates' who would maybe have tried another way than violence to reach their goals?
So seeing how you released, built up and gave weapons and prestige to Arafat to your own terrifying detriment resulting in the killing of many of your own people -- you in all likelihood will do the same now in your mad drive for peace at all costs. The world will -- especially now that Arafat has gone -- pressurize and pressurize you to accept this already internationally accepted 'solution' -- a Palestinian State -- a future springboard for your further destruction.
You in all your self-destructiveness will probably -- all in the name of peace of course -- accept this plan of the nations: A Palestinian State not so much beside you but instead of you!
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