Israelis that continues to this very day.
In the 30 months after that date, more
Israelis were killed by terrorists (213)
than in the preceding 10 years — (209
from January 1983 to September 1993).
And in the following year, there were
over twice as many Israeli terror fatali-
ties.
The period since the Israel-PLO
accords has seen the highest level of ter-
rorist killings in the history of the State
of Israel. The situation has gone from
bad to worse. In the four years of the
current intifada, September 2000 to
September 2004, 1,032 Israelis have
been killed by Palestinian Arab violence
and there have been 6,665 casualties.
Nevertheless, Ross continues to pro-
mote the same concept. He implores
the Israelis to "get out of the lives of the
Palestinian Arabs." If the Israelis could
only make the Palestinian Arabs accept
the gracious deal of then-Prime Minister
Ehud Barak: all of Judea and Sai-naria,
the Jordan Valley, Arab neighborhoods
of Jerusalem, unlimited Arab right of
return to Judea and Samaria, etc.
Conveniently forgotten is the fact
that the Israelis threw Barak out of
office immediately after learning of
what Barak, Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton
and the American State Department
had offered. They replaced Barak with
another general in the hope that this
general would address the issue the way
generals are supposed to deal with ter-
ror. This general, Ariel Sharon, unfortu-
nately has also fallen into the trap of
"land for peace" despite the years of its
abject failure.
Finally, Ross made the most incredi-
bly, damaging statement of all. He said
that he knew at the time that Yasser
Arafat was incapable of sticking to any
deal he made! Furthermore, in all those
years of negotiation, the Ross mediators
did not obtain one concession from
Arafat himself; that, while Israelis were
bleeding to death and coerced to give
up more and more vital territory!
It is also obvious that Ross wants his
point man job back. Thankfully, this is
extremely unlikely with a Republican
administration.
Unfortunately, at least for public con-
sumption, President Bush continues to
urge Israel to accept another terrorist
Arab state in its back yard. He has not
accepted the fact that such an entity
will not help the interests of the
United States. It will backfire upon
us. America will have one more
enemy to deal with and, God forbid,
eventually obtain, instead, the loss of
a fellow democracy and a stalwart
military and political ally sold down
the river.

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