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helping create a terrorist entity;
Jerusalem
President Bush would be culpa-
nilateral withdrawal
ble, an accessory to terrorism.
from Gaza is only the
Unilateral withdrawal from
beginning of a much
Gaza
undermines Bush's war
wider and extensive retreat from
against
terrorism in Afghanistan
Yehuda and Shomron that will
and
Iraq
and his efforts to con-
result in the establishment of a
tain
other
countries that sup-
terrorist-based provisional
port terrorism, like Iran and
MO SHE
Palestinian state.
North Korea. It undermines the
DAN N
Even with the best intentions,
"road map to peace," which
Sp e cial
this will strengthen and encour-
stipulates
a negotiating process.
Comm entary
age terrorist groups in the region
It
will
strengthen
and encourage
and throughout the world. It
terrorists
by
rewarding
them
will make it more difficult to
with
greater
autonomy
and
authority.
It
stop the smuggling of weapons and
will
eliminate
the
possibility
of
modera-
troops to Palestinians. Unilateral with-
tion and conciliation in those areas
drawal will create a safe haven for terror-
under Palestinian control.
ists wherever they are.
Solving the Israeli-Palesitnian conflict
Unilateral withdrawal will promote
is
a regional problem, involving nearby
more instability and violence. Egypt has
Arb
countries; all must work together
refused to prevent weapons smuggling
with
international assistan c e and
from its territory and will not fight
enforcement
towards a regional solution.
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza; Jordan can
U.N.-sponsored Palestinian "refugee
barely maintain security in its own
camps" must be dismantled, turned into
country without taking on Palestinian
towns and residents given citizenship
terrorists. The result will be chaos.
rights in their host and-or other coun-
Unilateral withdrawal undermines
tries. Until the Palestinian Authority
every compromise solution that might
abandons terrorism and moves towards
resolve conflicts and turns power over to
the very same people who operate terror- peace, Jordan should be considered the
sole representative of the Palestinian peo-
ist groups in the area; it offers no incen-
ple and responsible for them.
tive for ending the struggle.
The Palestinian Authority (and its
But ending the struggle is not the
militias)
must be abolished since it is a
Palestinian agenda, political and eco-
terrorist
organization.
All funds should
nomic gains are less important than
be
directed
to
legitimate
institutions
their hope for ultimate total victory.
which
promote
the
health
education and
U.S. legislation prohibits U.S. citizens,
welfare
of
"Palestinians"
in
need for a
businesses or any government agency
limited period wherever they reside and
(including the president) from engaging
whatever their origin.
in activity that directly or indirectly sup-
Here's what is needed.
ports terrorist groups or any transactions
1.
Patience. Only after communism
with them. (66 Fed. Reg. 51088 and
was
defeated
was it possible to reform
Presidential Executive Order 13224).
the
Soviet
bloc
or build democracies in
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective
Latin
America.
We are talking here of a
Death Penalty Act (1996) makes sup-
historical
epoch
of 20 to 50 years.
port of terrorist groups illegal. The
2. Steadfastness. Only a willingness to
National Defense Authorization Act
wage a long-term struggle can succeed.
(1996) prohibits the Defense
3. Fighting back by using everything
Department from providing funds to
from
force to maintaining normal life.
terrorist countries and those who aid ter-
Containing
extremism by denying
4.
rorists. The Foreign Operations, Export
it
victories,
especially
a chance to extend
Financing and Related Appropriations
its
rule
to
more
countries.
Act (1996) and the Omnibus
5. Encourage alternative forces in the
Appropriations Act (1997) prohibit
Arab and Islamic world, while under-
funding terrorist organizations.
standing that outsiders' influence will be
The U.S. Patriot Act, intended to
limited and transformation slow.
intercept and obstruct terrorism (2001),
6. Tell the truth. Lies must be com-
makes it unlawful to provide support or
bated
and struggle waged on the intel-
assistance to terrorist organizations.
lectual
battlefield to combat the "useful
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
idiots" (Lenin's term) and fellow travelers
withdrawal plan violates these laws by
who echo the radicals' propaganda.
The battle against radical Arab nation-
Moshe Dann, a former Detroiter and assis-
alism
and Jihadist Islamism involves the
tant professor of history at City Universi ty
willingness
to sustain the fight for one's
of New York, is a writer and journalist liv-
rights,
to
avoid
appeasement and to win
ing in Jerusalem. His e-mail address is
possible
allies..
❑
moshedan @netvision, net. il.
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