WE URGE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO RESPOND TO
ARAFAT'S SHIP OF TERROR
BY SUSPENDING ALL U.S. RELATIONS
WITH ARAFAT
In early January 2002, Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA)
sponsored a "ship of terror," which tried to bring more than 50 tons of
weapons to PA-controlled territory to be used to murder Israelis.
It was the latest of numerous such "ships of terror" and other weapons-
smuggling efforts by the PA.
The U.S. State Department has
publicly acknowledged that Israel's
evidence that the- PA sponsored the
ship is "compelling" and "extensive."
A Congressional delegation canceled its
meeting with Arafat after receiving an
American intelligence briefing that
showed "100 percent certainty" that
Arafat and the PA sponsored the ship.
urging President Bush to suspend "all relations with Yasir Arafat and
the Palestinian Authority" unless the PA "destroys the infrastructure of
Palestinian terrorist groups," "pursues and arrests terrorists whose incar-
ceration has been called for by Israel," and "takes all necessary steps to
end the ongoing Palestinian terrorist
campaign."
ARAFAT CONTINUES TO PROMOTE DAILY
TERROR ATTACKS
Instead of taking such steps, the PA
continues to harbor terrorists (including
killers of dozens of American citizens);
refuses to confiscate the tens of
thousands of weapons in the hands of the
terrorists; and promotes hatred and
violence against Israelis in the official PA
BUSH: "ZERO TOLERANCE FOR TERROR"
media, schools, children's camps. and
President Bush deserves praise for
speeches by PA officials and PA-appointed
clearly stating that the United States will
clergymen. The PA's own police and
have "zero tolerance" for terrorism and
security forces have carried out numerous
sponsors of terrorism, and that the U.S.
terrorist attacks. And the terror against
will not make any distinction between
OVER 50 TONS OF WEAPONS CAPTURED BY THE ISRAELI
Israelis continues on a daily basis.
"good" terrorists and "bad" terrorists.
ARMY ON THE PA SHIP KARINE A, JANUARY 3, 2002
Now that the anti-terror steps
In keeping with this U.S. position, there
stipulated by Congress—and by the Oslo
must be a firm and unequivocal response
accords—have not been carried out, despite Arafat's repeated promises
to Arafat's "ship of terror." Anything less will send a message to Arafat and
to do so, we urge _the Bush administration to suspend all relations with
the PA that they can continue to wage war against Israel without feeling
Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, just as the U.S. has done with
any consequences.
regard to other terror-sponsoring regimes around the world. This will
demonstrate to Arafat, and to all terror-sponsors, that there will be real
CONGRESS TO ARAFAT: FIGHT TERROR OR RELATIONS END
consequences for their actions.
In December 2001, Congress overwhelmingly adopted a resolution
Morton A. Klein
National President
Zionist Organization of America
Irwin Hochberg
Past Chairman,
UJA-Federation of New York;
Member, National Commission,
Anti-Defamation League
Neal Sher, Esq.
Past National Executive Director
AIPAC
Dr. Munr Kazmir
Member of the Board,
American Jewish Congress;
Member, Executive Committee,
Republican Jewish Coalition
Dr. John C. Hagee
Worldwide TV Ministry;
Pastor, Cornerstone Church
San Antonio, TX
Rabbi Hershel Billet,
President
Rabbi Steven Dworken,
Executive V. P.
Rabbinical Council of America
Dr. David Hocking, President
Hope for Today Ministries
Stephen M. Flatow, Esq.
Chair, Alisa Flatow Memorial Fund
Dr. Alex Grobman
Past Director
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Robert Zweiman
National Commander
Jewish War Veterans of USA
Gary Erlbaum, Esq.
Member, Executive Committee
Jewish Federation of Philadelphia
Shoshana Cardin
Past Chair,
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations
Richard D. Heideman, President
Daniel Mariaschin, Exec.V.P.
B'nai B'rith
Rev. Dr. Franklin Littell
Founding Board Member,
U.S. holocaust Memorial Museum;
Past Chair, Department of
Religion, Temple University
Hon. Jon Fox
Former Member of Congress (R-PA);
Former Board Member,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nathan Lewin, Esq.
Hon. President, American Section,
International Association
of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists
Janet Parshall
Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
Sylvia Freyer
Associate Chairman of the Board
Zionist Organization of America
Richard A. Hellman
President, Christians' Israel
Public Action Campaign
Rabbi Simcha Krauss, President
Dr. Mandell Ganchrow
Executive Vice Chairman
Religious Zionists of America
Gerald Charnoff, Esq.
Officer of many national
Jewish organizations
Thomas (Ed) Steele
President. Promise Publishing
Leon Levy
Past Chair,
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm,
President, Yeshiva University
Morris Amitay, Esq.
Past National Executive Director
AIPAC
Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein
Past President
Jewish National Fund
Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq.,
President
Rabbi Pesach Lerner,
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Exec. Director
National Council of Young Israel
Dr. Michael Goldblatt
Chair,
National Executive Committee
Zionist Organization of America
Dr. Michael Franzblau
Life National Commissioner
Anti-Defamation League
Dr. Julio Messer
President, American Friends of Likud
Sara C. Ballenger
President
Capitol Hill Prayer Partners
Larry J. Hochberg
Officer of many national
Jewish organizations
Dr. Rosalie Reich
Past President, Emunah of America
J. Philip Rosen, Esq.
Vice Chairman of the Board
Yeshiva College
Gary Bauer, President
American Values
Dr. Walter Reich
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor
of International Affairs & Ethics,
George Washington University;
Past Executive Director,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rabbi Seymour Essrog
Past President, Rabbinical Assembly
Shimon Erem
Member, Executive Committee
AIPAC
Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein
Principal, RAMAZ
Rabbi, Cong. Kehilath Jeshurun
Ben Armstrong
Past President
National Religious Broadcasters
Rose Mattus
Co-founder, Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream;
Member of the Board,
Zionist Organization of America
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President
Center for Security Policy
Malvina Halberstam
Professor of International Law
Cardozo Law School
Theodore Beckett
President, Foundation for Israel
Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld
Past President
Rabbinical Council of America
Marlin Maddoux
Host, "Point of View" Talk Show,
USA Television Network
Rabbi Herschel Schachter
Past Chair,
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations
Michael D. Little
President and CEO
Christian Broadcasting Network
Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler
Professor of Medical Ethics
and Talmudic Law
Yeshiva University
Hon. Matt Salmon
Former Member of Congress (R AZ)
Dr. Alan Mazurek
Chairman of the Board
Zionist Organization of America
Henry Schwartz
National Vice President
Zionist Organization of America
Herb Swarzman
Chairman, Florida-Israel Institute
Ed McAteer
President
National Religious Roundtable
Vicki Erlbaum
Member, Board of Trustees
Jewish Federation of Philadelphia
James Rapp
Founding Secretary, American
Gathering of Holocuast Survivors
Stanley Rosenberg, Esq.
Member of the Board
Orthodox Union
Jack Friedler
President. Friends of Jerusalem
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