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pullout plan is morally bankrupt.

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[because of what they have endured],
they will try anything," he said, specu-
lating.
ort Klein isn't bothered that
Explaining Sharon's thinking is even
he doesn't have a prescription
more difficult.
for peace between Israel and
Klein doesn't believe Sharon thinks
the Palestinians. What concerns him
the plan will improve Israel's security sit-
most is weakness in the face of terror.
uation but is an effort to better relations
He is passionate in his concern that a
with the United States and Europe. He
unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the
said Israelis have told him that Sharon is
Gaza Strip will increase Israel's isolation,
"horrified" by his image as a man of war
strengthen its enemies and put its very
and violence. He wants to transform it
existence at risk.
to a seeker of peace, or wants to influ-
Wrapping up a two-day visit to
ence Israel's "left-wing judiciary" to stop
Detroit, he spoke to a receptive audience investigating him for accepting alleged
of 150 people at Congregation Shaarey
payoffs for political favors.
Zedek West
But "appeasement has
Bloomfield, B'nai
failed throughout history,"
Israel Center on
maintained Klein, and
Aug. 10. Klein,
Israeli concessions have
the national presi-
shown that "appeasement
dent of the
has brought us nothing
Zionist
but disaster." Invoking
Organization of
British Prime Minister
America, believes
Neville Chamberlain's
prevailing anti-
appeasement of Adolf
Semitism and bar-
Hitler, he held up a pic-
baric factions pre-
ture of Chamberlain suc-
vent Arab societies
cessor Winston Churchill
from making
and quoted him as saying,
peace with Israel;
"he who feeds the croco-
consequently, he
dile will only succeed in
opposes any talk
being eaten last."
now of Palestinian
Unilateral Gaza with-
Mort Klein in West Bloomfield:
statehood in
drawal will "create a
Judea-Samaria (the "Eliminate terrorist nations."
Hamas-Islamic Jihad state
West Bank) and
that will have more room
Gaza.
to train terrorists," said
"The focus should not be on the final
Klein, noting that
determination [of the conflict], but on
Palestinians clearly see such a withdrawal
eliminating terrorist nations," he said.
as a victory they can build on.
He called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
"They must be punished for not
Sharon's plan to leave Gala "a tragic
fighting terrorism," he said to applause,
mistake" and "morally wrong." He said
"not rewarded."
the plan "gives up Gaza and throws
8,000 Israelis out of their homes for
Other Fronts
nothing."
Klein faults the plan for the same rea-
Klein scoffed at the idea that Egypt will
son he opposed the 1990s Oslo accords:
help calm Gaza after Israel leaves, noting
the belief that Israeli concessions will
that together with Iran, it has one of the
make things better.
most anti-Semitic presses in the world.
"The conflict is not about land and
Explaining the many tunnels dug to
not about settlements; it is about a
smuggle weapons from Egypt to Gaza,
Jewish state," he said. "It is about Israel's
he doubts "the country that is sending
existence."
weapons into Gaza to kill Jews will now
Klein is hard pressed to explain why a
send troops to protect Jews."
majority of Israelis support Sharon's
Klein responded gingerly to a ques-
pullout plan.
tion about the presidential election,
"The people of Israel are so miserable
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