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, • 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 Titles for identification purposes only. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ARAFAT AND THE PA, VISIT WWW.ZOA.ORG iq 2/1 2002 46 For a free copy of the Zionist Organization of America's powerful exposé, Arafat's Culture of Hatred and Violence, contact the ZOA at: / tel: 248-538-6088 / fax: 248-538-6090 / 7001 Orchard Lake Road, #310, West Bloomfield, MI 48322 Joseph Savin, ZOA Detroit District President