By Gary Fitleberg
June 14, 2005
"Disengagement" will advance terrorism rather than peace. If the PA/PLO gets territory in return for terrorism it sets a shining example for other Arab/Islamist nations to exact and extract political concessions through terrorism rather than via a peaceful negotiation process with Israel, and sets a very dangerous precedent.
The plan for unilateral disengagement or "withdrawal" fuels political pressure through violence. A reward for the support of terrorism will transform Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (including Ben-Gurion Airport) Haifa, Netanya, Afula, Ashdod, Ashekelon, and other major places into targets for a future state of terrorism and its missile range.
Already, the disengagement from southern Lebanon has proven disastrous as Hizbollah now has a launching point for missiles that can destroy major population centers in Israel.
The July 2000 disengagement from Israel's security buffer zone in occupied southern Lebanon has propelled Hizbollah from a local to a regional stature. The proximity of this terrorist organization plagues U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with Arab/Islamist terrorism.
The Oslo driven disengagements have ignited an unprecedented wave of Arab terrorism. Each and every square inch added to the PA/PLO since 1994 has become the largest terrorist base in the world, a safe haven for Arab/Islamist terrorists under the control and domination of the Iran-Syrian axis of evil and support of terrorism.
Israel has not controlled the Arabs living in Gaza since the disengagement of the 1994 Oslo Accords. The PA/PLO controls and dominates the territory together with its sister terrorist organizations Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad, working hand-in-hand towards the annihilation and complete destruction of the only Jewish nation state in the entire world.
Disengagement from Gaza and Gush Katif has similar symptoms of the failed Oslo Accords and failed peace process. Land for Terrorism. Nothing less. Nothing more. Israel is getting nothing in return for its forced unholy alliance, except for agreement to suicidal self-destruction.
Disengagement is a complete setback for deterrence, intelligence gathering and pursuit of peace. The plan is a bottomless keg, militarily, diplomatically and economically.
Disengagement will not be financed by the U.S. It will increase the budget deficit, avert economic recovery, worsen unemployment, increase taxes, impose government bonds, cut human services and infrastructure expenditures, and much much more.
Israel and the Jewish people had better beware of Bush's call for a total freeze of all so-called "settlements" and Condaleeza's call for a contiguous Arab "Palestine" (according to the Balfour Declaration all of Palestine was to be a Jewish homeland and the British Mandate gave away 80% to the Arabs in the created Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, formerly Transjordan).
Bush's comment is deceptive and fraudulent, "that any final status agreement [including the "right of return"] will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes."
Bush's refusal to finance the disengagement confirms that disengagement will not produce any benefit to America as well as Israel. His friendly statements were not legislated and ratified by Congress, which merely passed a non-binding resolution.
Bush's recent offer to fund the PA/PLO with $50 million U.S. taxpayer money also sends a mixed message to the Medieval Middle East comprised already of 22 Arab/Islamist corrupt dictatorships, human rights violators, ruthless repressive regimes, state sponsors of terrorism as compared to the only Jewish nation state in the entire world and only beacon of freedom and democracy and true blue American ally in the entire region. Why create a second Arab "Palestine" and twenty-third state sponsor of terrorism and tyranny?
Is a terrorist a terrorist? What about Mahmoud Abbas, "Chief of Terrorism" elect of the PA/PLO and "Mr. Moderate"? As Arafat's partner in organized crime for over forty years the holocaust denier and financier of the Munich Olympic massacre has not changed spots, only into a more palatable image with a better barber and more stylish suit. Make no mistake. Mahmoud is a cold-blooded murderer and terrorist.
While Middle East peace has been driven by deterrence, disengagement guarantees destruction and undermines deterrence.
Disengment is destructive. Disengagement is dishonest. Disengagement is disastrous.
Views expressed by the author do not
necessarily reflect those of israelinsider.
 
|
|
|
|
Click on the blue headline to read a Talkback comment and respond to it. Click on the  icon to send a private email to the talkback writer. The icon appears only if the writer has decided to be contacted. If no popup window appears, please make sure your popup blocker allows israelinsider.com.
|
|
| |
|
