STAND TALL from page 41 Like home delivery of The Detroit Jewish News. It's a great gift to give newlyweds, new home-owners, new parents, or treat yourself to. Stay in touch with your community and your world. A 52-week subscription, which includes 5 free issues of Style Magazine is just $52__ ($70 out of state) but naive, family members and friends continue to obsess about Palestinian civilians killed in retaliatory raids without regard to the fact that the enemy tends to cluster military and terror personnel and equipment directly in the middle of civilians, schools and mosques? Israel often shows more regard for Arab civilians than the Arab governments of Arab civilians show for Arab civilians. Does anybody tire of the reality that many of the "let's all live together in harmony" gatherings of Jews and Muslims result in Jews trying to be fair to both sides, while Muslims and their "Palestinian and Arab Christian" sym- pathizers lambaste us for who we are, in the most vile, anti-Semitic terms? With all respect to Seeds of Peace, the main problem with this organization, and organizations like it, is that young Jews often walk away ready to be "even- handed" about Israel (as if the Israeli army and terrorists are one and the same), while this admittedly well- intended organization does absolutely nothing to mitigate the horrific educa- tional program that dominates the Arab world's schools and cultures with respect to Jews, Israel and the United States. From time to time, the Jewish News publishes the opinions of local Arab activists Terry Ahwal, and others of that ilk. I will not insult anyone by asking the question as to whether this service is reciprocated. Peace No Process Subscribe via phone - 248.354.6620 Subscribe via internet thejewishnews.com Subscribe via postal service P.O. Box 2267 Southfield MI • 48034 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 111111411 12/14 2001 44 a Jewish Renaissance Media publication 27676 Franklin Road Southfield, MI 48034 Phone: 248.354.6620 Fax: 248.354.1210 Internet: www.detroitiewishnews.com Will we forever have a ghetto men- tality that causes us to be facile enough to believe that the man who has masterminded the Palestine Liberation Organization terror opera- WHAT DID HE SAY? from page 42 tion back to the 1960s, i.e., Yasser Arafat, wants peace? Are we so eager to aid the Democratic Party that we, down the road, once again will be as foolish col- lectively as most of us were a couple of years ago, when we praised Bill Clinton for "caring enough about peace" to prod Prime Minister Ehud Barak into nearly making internecine deals with Syria and with Arafat? Are we not smart enough to realize that peace is not a process; rather, peace is a decision? I am a conservative supporter of President Bush who nevertheless con- demns, in the strongest possible terms, his support for a Palestinian state, as well as the State Department's nauseat- ing remonstrations to Israel to "exer- cise restraint" and "pull back." The president should give more authority to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and in turn, should sack Secretary of State Colin Powell. Never will I permit my political affilia- tion with the president on most issues to blind me to when he is wrong. Prime Minister Sharon is absolutely correct: until the Dec. 1 attacks on the Jewish state, the United States and Europe collectively were pressuring Israel exactly as Czechoslovakia was squeezed in the late 1930s. We, as Jews, owe it to Mr. Sharon to ensure that he succeeds in his desire not to be the Eduard Benes [Slovak statesman who became Czechoslovakia's president during the rise of Nazi Germany] of the 21st cen- tury. Will American Jewish liberals join me in pledging never again to permit support for an American politician to Cloud common sense about Israel? ❑ SUICIDE FACTORY from page 43 Intricate Plans These facts tell us three things: Militant Islamic suicide killers are not born; they are manufactured. Like the four simultaneous suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, the four nearly simultane- ous suicide attacks in Israel last week resulted from long-term planning by sophisticated organizations. They can- not operate clandestinely, but require the permission of a ruling authority, either the Taliban or the PA. All of which leads to the conclusion that Sharon was right to hold Arafat responsible for the onslaught of sui- cide attacks on Israelis. This, in turn, has an implication for the war on terrorism. No less than in Afghanistan, the American goal must be to shut down the suicide factory in the Palestinian areas. And while it would be wonderfully convenient if Yasser Arafat could be del- egated this task, the chances of his doing this are about as likely as the Taliban getting rid of Al Qaeda — in other words, nil. Arafat has been in the busi- ness of murdering Israelis for nearly four decades; he deserves no more chances. Fortunately, unlike other pans of the world where Americans have to take up the fight against terrorism, an ally — Israel — is ready, and willing in this case, to fight terrorism on its own. The time has come for the U.S. government to urge (a surprisingly reluctant) Ariel Sharon to do just that. ❑ invasion. And when the Czechs were pressured into conceding them in England Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "peace in our time," the Germans took over Czechoslovakia the very next day, much as the Arabs will take over Israel the very next day after the Israelis give up the mountain ranges of Judea and Samaria in the "peace in our time" of Shimon Peres. Settler Ways Believe it or nor, Netanyahu was, in fact, talking about was the hated settlements" — another subject completely neglected by the Israeli and American spokespeople and an area maligned, besmirched and blithely sacrificed in every erudite presentation. But it is the settle- ments, baby, that sit upon and pro- tect that vital mountain rang& It was Ariel Sharon — the general, not the prime minister — who quickly realized their crucial military importance and promoted their development. Who are these "settlers"? They' now constitute more than 220,000 people in 144 breathtakingly beauti- ful communities. They are not somewhere out in the hinterlands; many are within five minutes of Israel proper and they are the most vital part of the Israeli nation, both as to continued growth and its vital defense. These are the people in the way of the Arab passion to destroy Israel and it is the Arabs, with the great help of uninformed Jews and Israelis, who have so cleverly con- verted the word "settler" into a pejo- rative. It is the sons and daughters of these settlers who elect to serve in the most dangerous units of the Israeli Defense Forces. It is these people who truly believe in Zionism and are willing to be at its most dangerous forefront. Now, with these painfully , obvious truths on the table and hundreds of Israeli lives wantonly and, to my mind, unnecessarily, sacrificed, will Israelis and American Jews truly understand and act accordingly? That very much remains to be seen. Bombing Arafat's empty airstrip and taking away his helicopter toys and raving Am Yisrael Chai [the land of Israel lives] is still a long way from irrevocably taking full control of "Arab occupied territory" and stand- ing resolutely firm against an Arab nation 500 yards away dedicated to Israel's destruction. ❑ "