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Brutal Palestinian ter- Using these resources, ror attacks took hundreds of community organizations lives and injured thousands, have mobilized to protest the GERALD M. and the images of horror biased agendas that focus STEINBERG from the seder night in exclusively on Palestinian Special Netanya will remain indelibly "victimization," and to insure Commentary that the myths and false slo- engraved in our memories. In addition, assaults against syn- gans in the press are never agogues, community centers and left unanswered. Without this activi- individual Jews spread throughout ty, the Palestinian lies about the the world, while governments pre- events in Jenin would have been tended that these were "isolated inci- accepted at face value. dents." Working together, Jewish organiza- However, in the longer term, the tions also reversed some of the dam- past year may also emerge as a turn- age from the United Nations confer- ing point, in which the propaganda ence on racism that took place in used to justify these attacks was final- Durban last September, and insured ly exposed, and the Jewish people that the Johannesburg conference on regained their ability to fight back. In the environment was not turned into some parts of the press, the automatic another platform for Israel-bashing. condemnation of Israel has ended, or In addition, during the past year, the at least the scope has been reduced. fallacy of the media slogan that "acts An increasing number of journal- of terrorism cannot be ended by mili- ists, political leaders and diplomats tary action," was exposed. The Israeli around the world, including Canada, security forces acted with a high level have stopped repeating the Palestin- of professionalism and bravery to ian myths of occupation and settle- uproot the deeply entrenched Pale- ments as the root of all violence. The stinian terrorist networks. In door-to- hidden history of terrorism has been door fighting and extensive searches, restored, in particular the violence weapons and explosives have been that took place long before the 1967 located and destroyed. war, and was (and remains), aimed at The much-criticized policy of "tar- the destruction of Jewish sovereignty geted killings" has disrupted each of in Israel. the terror groups, and greatly impeded Following the leads of Israeli Prime their ability to conduct deadly attacks. Minister Ariel Sharon and then Pres- Similarly, after 9-11, the U.S. military ident Bush, even the usually "soft" campaign in Afghanistan removed the Europeans have withdrawn their sup- Taliban from the scene, ending the port for Yassir Arafat, recognizing safe haven provided to Al Qaida ter- that the Palestinian leadership is cor- rorists. (The Americans took far less rupt and composed of unreformed chances than Israel, relying primarily terrorists. The BBC (and, therefore, on high altitude bombing.) Although also the CBC), Reuters and other a series of errors apparently allowed media continue to allow Palestinian Osama Bin Laden to escape, efforts to and other terrorists to hide behind launch more attacks during the past terms such as "activists" and "fight- year have failed. ers," but this practice is coming It is far too early to declare victory, under increasing scrutiny and criti- and while the trend has shifted for the cism. better, much work remains to be From this perspective, 5762 can done. The terror groups have not also be seen as the year that the given up by any means, and attempts Jewish people regained their collective to kill Israelis and hijack aircraft to voice and redoubled the commitment use against Western targets continue. to the survival of Israel. The inherent The threats from Iraq, Syria and other democracy of the Internet has sources have not been subdued, and allowed for wide circulation of inde- the anti-Israel myths and slogans from the politically correct vocabulary still Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg is director dominate the university campuses and of the Program on Conflict Management much of the media. Last year consti- and Negotiation Political Studies at Bar- tuted an important beginning on this road, and the work must continue Ilan Universjty. E-mail• and expand in 5763. El gerald@vms.huji.ac.il „,. ,„. .„ 't. .p. 5 . 5 Hours: Tuesday thru Thursday 11 am-6 pm Friday & Saturday 11 am•5 pm • Sunday 12 noon-5 pm • Monday Closed ""AINA"."1\ AoNAION.VVI SI\A".‘"*ViNo\IN.taNi\A/VVVVV\ A".0