CAFI Newsletter #78
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Isaiah 62:6
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Friday, April 12, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. AFTER POWELL FAILS IN MIDEAST
2. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
3. THE OSLO CULT
4. IMRA'S WEEKLY COMMENTARY ON ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
5. QUOTES TO NOTE
6. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
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1. AFTER POWELL FAILS IN MIDEAST
Jed Babbin Washington Times April 10, 2002
After Secretary of State Colin Powell's mission to
the Middle East fails — as it is now in the process of
doing — all our friends and enemies will analyze it to
see what has been accomplished and what has been
learned. The principal accomplishment will be the
rehabilitation of Yasser Arafat. The lesson learned will
be that George Bush's stand against terrorism
everywhere can no longer be taken seriously.
Mr. Powell was very careful to minimize public
expectations. He said he would not return with a
peace treaty and might not even achieve a cease-fire
between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Privately,
he and the president hoped that the trip would result in
just that: a cease-fire for a period long enough that the
campaign to topple Saddam Hussein could at least
begin. But Mr. Powell failed in this even before he
arrived in the region.
Before Mr. Powell left the United States, the chorus
of Arab leaders was insisting that he had to meet with
Mr. Arafat if there were to be any cessation of the
violence. On arriving in Morocco, he was scolded by
the Moroccan king — who has about as much
geopolitical clout as the Duchess of Grand Fenwick
— for going there instead of going directly to Mr.
Arafat's compound in Ramallah. The Arab leaders
have always demanded that America deal with Mr.
Arafat on the Palestinian issue not because he is a
legitimate leader but because he — and the entire
Palestinian population — stands as their surrogate in
their larger war against Israel. Most of the nations in
the region — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia
— all support the Palestinians and Mr. Arafat directly.
So long as we deal with Mr. Arafat, none of the Arab
nations will ever face the problem and help solve it.
Had the president crafted a better strategy, the
message delivered this week would have been that
Mr. Arafat will no longer be permitted to participate in
the peace discussions, and that the supposedly
moderate Arab states — Jordan, Egypt and others —
would have to accept responsibility for them. But Mr.
Bush either acquiesced in or ordered a plan that
begins by giving away the progress the Israelis had
made toward excluding Mr. Arafat from the bargaining
table. The debates about Mr. Arafat's successor were
the beginning of real progress. Following Mr. Bush's
plan, Mr. Powell has thoroughly cancelled all of that
progress.
By agreeing to meet with Mr. Arafat, Mr. Powell
has also ended any chance the Israelis had to exile
him. That Mr. Arafat is a terrorist leader can no longer
be seriously disputed. Information gathered at his
Ramallah compound has since been used to arrest or
kill dozens of the Palestinian gunmen and potential
suicide bombers like those who have been attacking
Israel almost daily. For this, Mr. Arafat should be
exiled. By meeting with him, Mr. Powell restores his
legitimacy, and makes him able to resume his
terrorist activity as soon as the Israelis pull out of the
West Bank region. Mr. Powell seems unable to
realize that Mr. Arafat is, was and always will be an
advocate of terror, not of peace.
For no apparent reason, the president has given
up his demand that Mr. Arafat speak to the
Palestinians and declare an end to the suicide
bombings. Just two weeks ago, the president
demanded that Mr. Arafat give this speech in both
English and Arabic, ordering an end to the bombings
and declaring a cease-fire. That was wise because
the bilingual statement would prevent Mr. Arafat from
doing what he has always done: preach peace in
English and shout for terror in Arabic. Mr. Bush made
his demand at the start of the Israeli incursion. In
response, Mr. Arafat went on Egyptian television and
demanded more bombings, saying that Palestinians
would go to Jerusalem as "martyrs by the millions." By
sending Mr. Powell to meet with Mr. Arafat before Mr.
Arafat makes the bilingual call for peace, Mr. Bush
has tacitly withdrawn his demand. And now Mr. Arafat
has even less reason to make peace.
Mr. Bush has made severe demands on Israel to
end its operations in the West Bank area. His
admonitions get weaker as he makes them more
stridently. He has forgotten the television images of
September 11. The pictures of the rabble dancing in
the streets and cheering the destruction of the World
Trade Center were not filmed in Baghdad or Kabul,
but in the West Bank and Gaza. We have no reason
to call on Israel to stop short of its goal of cleaning out
Mr. Arafat's terror network.
The president and Mr. Powell really should recall
that, with the exceptions of Turkey and Pakistan,
almost all the other nations in the region are cut from
the same cloth as Mr. Arafat. Only a few days ago, at
the latest Arab summit, the assembled nations —
including the supposed moderates — voted for a
resolution that praised and endorsed the Palestinian
suicide bombings. They said, "The continuation of the
Israeli occupation necessitates the continuation of the
resistance as a legitimate, expected and necessary
reaction." How can you even deal with people who
endorse the random slaughter of women and children
as "expected and necessary"? How can you expect
they ever will support us in toppling Saddam
Hussein? In reality, you just can't.
It is painful to write these words. After America
took an eight-year vacation from responsibility, I was
very proud of our new president. Never more so than
on September 20, 2001, when the leader of the free
world stood undaunted before Congress and said we
would require every nation to choose between terror
and freedom, and would regard all those who choose
terror as our enemy. Something has been lost
between then and now. Long ago, Winston Churchill
wrote that our creed should be, "In war: resolution. In
defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace:
goodwill." We are at war, Mr. President. You would do
well to re-read your Churchill. May his resolve be
yours.
Jed Babbin was a deputy undersecretary of
defense in the first Bush administration.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020411-41625931.htm
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2. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Joseph Farrah, Editor-In-Chief WorldNetDaily.com
I regularly get emails from Arab readers and well-meaning
Westerners who watch too much CNN "coverage" taking me to
task for my position regarding Israel and the
Palestinians. For the most part, the letters reflect a
general viewpoint that I don't care about Arabs, or
Palestinians, or their plight. As one Palestinian reader
asked me, "What about the victims of Israeli policy?"
I'd like to take this opportunity to send an open letter
to the Palestinian "man on the street":
Dear Child of Abraham,
It is an ironclad certainty that I grieve for the
situation you currently find yourselves in. I grieve when
I read of homes being bulldozed by the Israeli Defense
Forces in retaliation for this attack or that against
Israeli targets. I grieve for those innocents who suffer
the consequences of the actions of Hamas, Hezbollah,
Fatah and other perpetrators of terror.
I grieve for those among you who saw the bright promise
of peace that shone so brilliantly on that warm September
afternoon in the Rose Garden in 1993. I grieve for those
who saw the hope that was manifested in the simple act of
a handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, only
to see that promise squandered.
I grieve for those who watched as the hope of peace
faded, and as the dogs of war began to nip at your heels.
Today, those dogs are at your throat and I grieve for the
hopelessness of your situation.
I grieve for your dead, and for the families that remain
behind to mourn their loss. I grieve for the hatred that
has replaced the burgeoning friendships that began
following the signing of Oslo and the beginning of what
appeared to be a process of peace.
But my grief is not for the "victims of Israeli
aggression," since it would be misplaced. The victims of
the intifada are victims of a Palestinian leadership that
has perverted the truth. Your leadership has had almost a
decade in which to indoctrinate your children in hatred
and violence and they have used it to their best
advantage.
The victims of the intifada are the children who are
being bussed to indoctrination camps to be taught how to
kill without regard for their victims. A counselor at one
such camp called "Paradise Camp" bragged in the July 20
Jerusalem Post, "We are teaching the children that
suicide bombs make [the] Israeli people frightened and we
are allowed to do it. ... We teach them that after a
person becomes a suicide bomber he reaches the highest
level of paradise."
The victims of the intifada are the children, some as
young as 12, bussed to rally points and deliberately
placed in the front ranks of the stone throwers, with
Palestinian snipers shooting from behind them. Your
leadership "purchases" the lives of these children as
martyrs, paying the families of those killed a paltry
$2,000 per life. Wounded children are worth much less,
with the value of their injuries assessed by your
leadership as being worth only $300.
I grieve for Mohammed al-Dura, the 12 year-old boy
murdered by your own forces during a shoot-out with the
IDF. His death made excellent propaganda for Yasser
Arafat, but the price of that propaganda was far too
high, despite Arafat's eagerness to pay that price.
I grieve for the families of suicide bombers who have
given up their sons as a consequence of a leadership who
places no value on the lives of its constituency, placing
instead a premium on their deaths relative only to the
number of innocent civilians that die with them.
The victims of your leadership are legion, but the most
heart-rending stories of suffering at the hands of Yasser
Arafat and his band of thugs come from within your own
ranks.
I grieve for the five young men sentenced to death by
firing squad after a ten-minute trial for
"collaborating" with Israel. If collaboration
with Israel is a crime worthy of death, then your
leadership represents the apex of hypocrisy. Or else
Arafat would long ago have put on his own blindfold and
smoked his last cigarette. For making a peace he never
intended to honor at the expense of his own people is
collaboration defined.
My heart breaks for your suffering. But none of that
grief changes reality. Your current suffering is the
result of your allowing yourself to be deceived by an
opportunistic cynic who knew back in 1993 that genuine
peace with Israel would mean the end of his power.
Without the conflict to define him, Yasser Arafat's
political existence would self-destruct. Peace is his
mortal enemy.
Within six months of signing the Oslo agreement for
peace, the first Egged bus exploded into flames on a Tel
Aviv street. Dozens of young Palestinian lives have since
dissolved into a similar pink mist of impotent rage,
created and fanned by the need of Yasser Arafat and Fatah
to justify their continued political existence.
The responsibility for the suffering of your people
rightly belongs in the hands of the man who once took the
hand of Yitzhak Rabin in an empty gesture of a peace that
would never come. By design, Arafat raised the hopes of
both sons of Abraham that, finally, reconciliation of a
4,000-year-old conflict might be at hand, knowing full
well he intended to bring about the current conflict.
Your leadership always intended to implement the "Phased
Plan for the Destruction of Israel" that Arafat promised
to renounce as a condition of peace. As recently as May
2000, Abd El Aziz Shanhian, a member of Arafat's cabinet
revealed that truth in one of your own newspapers, Al
Ayaam. As he said then, "The Palestinian people accepted
the Oslo Agreement as a first step and not as a permanent
arrangement, based on the premise that the war and the
struggle on the ground is more efficient than a struggle
from a distant land."
I grieve for you, because Arafat bartered your future to
preserve his present. He is a liar. That isn't a value
judgment, but rather an observation of fact. He signed an
agreement to renounce violence, knowing full well in
advance that was never his intention, and that if there
were consequences of his perfidy to be paid, they would
be paid by his own people.
Even now, as you suffer, he continues to lie to you,
telling you your suffering is the result of Israeli
"aggression." "Retaliation" can never be aggression. It
is, by definition, a response to aggression.
An aggression begun by your own leadership, under the
cover of false promises and outright lies, with the full
knowledge in advance of the price that aggression would
exact from you, while he looted your treasury and
installed his Tunisian thugs to help him carry away the
booty. While you suffer in poverty and deprivation, he
and his Tunisians live in luxury villas, drive Mercedes
and wear Armani suits.
Your leadership has refused to meet the Israelis halfway,
preferring instead to use deception and violence to prop
up their own regime. When Israel, recognizing that the
halfway mark for Arafat was nowhere near the middle,
moved so far toward your side as to offer Arafat 95
percent of what he claimed he wanted back in 1993, Arafat
rejected it out of hand and began the current uprising.
Arafat knew the price of rejecting the offer would be
high, but you would be the ones who had to pay it.
Because the price of peace was too high for Arafat to
even consider ponying up himself. He likes the trappings
of power too much.
I grieve for you. But I don't buy for a second that your
pain is a consequence of Israeli "aggression." You could
hold in your own hands the keys to peace. But to claim
that key, you will first have to drop the rocks, bottles
and guns. I pray that you do, for your own sake, and for
the sake of the peace co-existence with the other son of
Abraham you once claimed as your objective.
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3. THE OSLO CULT
By Steven Plaut - Haifa, Israel
How do we know that "Oslo" is a pagan cult and
not a political school of ideology?
The answer is - from the way it was implemented.
Had Oslo been merely a foolish school of political
ideology based on total misunderstanding of the Middle
East conflict, it would not have produced the total
disaster and debacle that it has. It would have been
halted and reversed in its earliest stages, before
there was any serious damage.
Suppose in the year 1992, the Israeli Labor Party
and its fellow travelers were serious about implementing
Oslo as an attempt to produce a peaceful settlement to
the Arab-Israeli conflict. What would it have done?
The answer is that "Oslo" would have been slowly and
cautiously implemented in small stages, where each stage
would be tested thoroughly before proceeding to the next.
The implementers would gauge each stage by the degree of
cooperation from and by the behavior of the PLO. Only
if the PLO were in full compliance and fully cooperating
would the implementers have moved to the next stage.
They would have made sure each testing stage was long
enough for the public to be convinced that the "process"
was working and was really producing peaceful relations
and lowered tensions.
A rational Israeli "peace camp" might have turned
Gaza City only to the PLO for a year or so, while
insisting that the PLO's "police" and "security forces"
there be totally unarmed, like London bobbies, and while
insisting Arafat stay in Tunis throughout the first stage,
just giving his people orders. The condition for moving
on to any further stage might have been the extradition
of all Hamas and Jihad terrorists to Israel as required
under the first Oslo Accord, and the maintenance of total
tranquility not only in Gaza but in all Palestinian towns
everywhere. If the Palestinians so much as threw rocks
at a passing Israeli car or police van, the deal would
be off. No further territory would be turned over and
evacuated by the IDF unless the PLO were preaching
nonviolence ten times a day, nor unless the PLO schools
were filled with texts about Israel's right to exist,
publicly and openly endorsed by all PLO officials
everywhere, in Arabic. And where the old Gaza City
synagogue was renewed and returned to the Jews, where
PLO officials greeted visiting Jewish worshippers
there on each sabbath. Where PLO spokesmen everywhere -
especially in the UN and on CNN - agreed that violence
was a dead end, that Israel had the MORAL right to exist,
and where Jewish civilians were welcome to live in
peace alongside Palestinians everywhere.
A rational Israeli Left would have insisted that
the Jewish settlers and settlements are Israel's mine
canary. If the Palestinians demonize and attack them,
then this proves that the Palestinians are not interested
in peace, and so Israel would reconquer Gaza City and
expel the PLO. If the settlers were welcomed by
Palestinian officials with garlands and loaves of kosher
challah bread, Israel would consider moving to a second,
third and fourth Oslo stage. The PLO would remain
completely unarmed until the tenth stage or so. If they
needed muscle to suppress the Hamas, they could call
in the Israel Defense Forces.
Why was not Oslo implemented in that way? Because
Shimon Peres and the Israeli Lemming Left insisted there
was absolutely no reason for caution and testing. For
them, Oslo was a cult and not an idea. People becoming
"chozrim b'tshuvah" or newly Orthodox generally do not
test the religious waters with their pinkies and enter
the pool one inch at a time - they DIVE in.
And that is what the Lemmings insisted.
Peres explicitly ruled out any need for testing
PLO intentions because he and his sidekicks were so
convinced that Arafat and the PLO wanted nothing but
Benelux style relations that they saw no reason for delay.
They wanted instant gratification. Like a frustrated
teenager on prom night.
Israeli politicians by definition know everything.
There is no reason for them to deliberate or listen to
criticism or doubts. They never read and do not need
to entertain other opinions. They have no patience
for intellectuals, most of whom are leftist anyway,
and see no reason why they should ever stop mouthing
and just sit and listen. People who are always
correct have no reason for caution, for testing.
Israeli politicians do not come from academia and
seldom speak with any academic types, other than
leftist amen-sayers. That is why they have no notion
of testing ideas and hypotheses, subjecting ideas to
testing periods and experiments. They have no interest
in experiments that can possibly prove them wrong.
In short, political ideology for the Israeli Left is
not hypotheses and ideas but rather cult pseudo-religion.
And that is why Oslo was implemented with no
testing and no caution. Arafat was installed in the
"territories" all at once. His legions of stormtroopers
were imported all at once. They were granted tens of
thousands of Israeli arms all at once. Arafat was
granted legitimacy by Israel all at once. Peres wanted
Israel behind its Green Line as fast as possible and a
Palestinian State declared, preferably all at once.
Israeli concessions were never conditioned on a single
test of compliance by Arafat and the PLO. Indeed the
PLO has yet to comply with even a single plank of the
1993 first Oslo Accord. Ten years later, the PLO is
still demanding unlimited Israeli capitulations in
order to agree to the same ceasefire it committed to
in 1993.
And when all this instantaneous implementation of
Oslo went afoul, when it became obvious to all
terrestrians that the PLO was seeking war and not peace,
Peres and his Lemming flock in the Israeli Left
dismissed the doubts. They insisted there was no need
for the PLO to comply with anything. True believers
in cults do not expect their beliefs to be instantly
rewarded with favors from their gods. They persevere
on, all on the basis of faith alone.
SO was the case with the Oslo Cult.
Peres and the Left insisted that Oslo be fully
implemented because it was the sacred thing to do, not
because it was actually working. It was irrelevant
whether it was "working".
And the result of this was to take the Israel
of 1992, with assorted problems but with unassailable
security and a military that gave the Arab fascists
heebie-jeebies, with a healthy economy, a rapidly
growing Jewish population and a flowering culture,
and to turn all of this into the 2002 Shadow of the
Valley of Death. Where the dominant national trait
of the Israeli elites is treason and self-hatred,
where the Left is struggling to castrate the military
and foment mutiny, where civilians are afraid to
leave their homes, where the nation is filled with
parentless infants and Oslo widows. Where the West
Bank is a huge terrorist base for launching mass
murderers and where the Gaza Strip is a large mortar
factory. Where Hizbollah terrorism escalates by the
day. Where the Europeans denounce Israel as a nation
of war criminals and more openly by the day endorse
genocide of Israelis. Where the Americans do
everything in their power to prevent Israel from
defending its children from the Nazis. Where Israeli
Arabs march about openly with Hamas banners and
portraits of the heads of the Hizbollah and scream
for Israel's destruction. Where the "peace
partners" praise Hitler and claim Jews murder
gentile children to make matzos for Passover.
And where Shimon Peres is the Number Two person
in the Sharon government.
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4. IMRA'S WEEKLY COMMENTARY ON ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
Aaron Lerner Date: 11 April 2002
(Broadcast in English on Thursday nights at 10:00 PM on 98.7
FM and on 1539 AM throughout Israel - recording available on
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com and
www.IsraelNationalRadio.com)
#1 Jenin - test of true morality
In the days to come the Palestinian propaganda machine will
do everything in its power to convince the world that Israel
acted as an immoral beast in Jenin.
And just as they did in Rafah, the Palestinians will offer
up a steady stream of lies that the media will
dutifully report.
Let's make this clear: Palestinian terrorists turned the
area into a deathtrap - not to protect the local population
(after all, if the terrorists weren't there neither would
the IDF) but to be protected BY the local population.
It was immoral for the terrorist to use the local
population for cover.
It was immoral for those in the local population to
intentionally supply their families to the terrorists
as cover.
The only thing immoral Israel did is that it didn't
fight American style - disintegrating buildings from the
air instead of in house-to-house fighting.
The terrorists claimed they were willing to fight to
the death - but in truth they were only willing to
fight if there was a chance to take Israelis with them.
The moment we finally threatened to fight like Americans
- threatened to level the buildings instead of going
into them - hundreds gave up.
How many lives would have been saved if we had gone
for the American method from the start?
Sure, we might have had to convince them we were serious
by flattening a few buildings - but it might have cost
considerably fewer casualties on both sides.
#2 US faces dilemma if Israel folds completely to Bush
demands
The United States faces a curious dilemma if Israel
decides to fold completely to Secretary of State
Powell's demands.
Until now America could explain to the Arab world
that it demanded that Israel take various actions but
Israel, as an independent democratic state, declined
to honor America's demands.
If Israel withdraws from Palestinian cities without
destroying the terror infrastructure then the Arabs will
interpret any future Israeli action - or for that
matter policy decision - as bearing the imprimatur
of the United States since if the US really insisted
that Israel not take the action or decision Israel
would honor America's "marching orders".
This would put the United States in a particularly
difficult position since on many occasions it serve US
interests to criticize Israel or make demands of
Israel solely for public relations considerations.
Even worse: if Israel is perceived only as a puppet
in the hands of an American puppeteer, "moderate" Arab
leaders will be under pressure to be considerably more
strident in their demands for American dictated Israeli
concessions.
This would both raise the ante and hurt America's
position in the Arab world when it fails to succeed in
pushing Israel beyond its "red lines".
#3 Grotesque Powell visit to murderer of Israeli Minister
Grotesque. Obscene. The depths of immorality.
What words can come close to express my revulsion at the
thought that a senior member of the cabinet of the
United States of America - Secretary of State Colin
Powell - plans to meet with Yasser Arafat this Saturday
in Ramallah in the close quarters Arafat now shares with
the terrorists who murdered Israeli Minister
Rechavam Ze'evi.
Israel had agreed to allow Arafat to go to Jericho to meet
Powell but Arafat wanted to take his room of terrorists
along with him for the ride.
That's right: the terrorists who murdered an Israeli
minister aren't holding Arafat hostage - Arafat is
providing sanctuary to the murderers!
What will Powell do when he meets Ze'evi's murderers?
Will he shake their hands and exchange pleasantries?
This is sick!
#4 The truth is there for all to see - Palestinian
Authority is rotten to the core
Here we are with the indisputable evidence piling up by the
hour that the Palestinian Authority is rotten to the core.
That the official "security forces" are part of the
problem and not the solution, working hand-in-hand with
the other terrorists to carry out terrorist operations.
And if the pictures and the documents and the testimonies
weren't enough - Mr. Powell will on Saturday be able to
come face-to-face with a room of terrorists enjoying
Arafat's protection.
Secretary of State Powell is here to meet with Prime
Minister Sharon to thump on his shoulder and bark orders
at us to sacrifice the security - the very lives - of
our parents, wives and children - if Arafat mumbles a
few choice words in Arabic.
Mr. Powell plans to bark those suicide orders - and
that's what they are - suicide orders - even though he
knows damn well that it is complete and total insanity
to assert that those words mumbled in Arabic will mean
anything. That even if Arafat's team does a few
"photo-opportunity" moves that it is all a sham.
Because the sham has been exposed.
Look at the calendar - it reads "APRIL 2002" - not
"SEPTEMBER 1993".
Our nation has sacrificed enough in this "experiment".
The terrorists were terrorists, are terrorists and will
be terrorists - and all the photo opportunities and
gestures and declarations and summits and supervisors
won't change that basic fact.
And any "solution" that doesn't recognize that these
terrorists remain committed to the ultimate destruction
of Israel isn't a solution at all.
I wish the situation was different. But it isn't.
And whether Mr. Powell likes it or not - as a nation
we must choose life.
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5.QUOTES TO NOTE
"In our own native land, in defense of the freedom
that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed
till the late violation of it -- for the protection
of our property, acquired solely by the honest
industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against
violence actually offered, we have taken up arms.
We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease
on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of
their being renewed shall be removed, and not before."
Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity
of Taking Up Arms," July 6, 1775
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6. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
IT'S A MAD, MAD WORLD
Why is a small state surrounded by millions of enemies
deemed the Goliath of the Middle East — when it is
clearly a David on the world scene? If it garners no
admiration for pluck because it is deemed too strong in
comparison with the Arabs, why does it in turn win no
sympathy because it is too weak in relationship to the
entire world?
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/apr02/madmad.html
IS IT 1938 AGAIN FOR THE JEWS?
So here we are, just one generation after nearly every
Jew in Europe was murdered, and the remnant that remains
in the New Jersey-sized Jewish state is threatened with
extinction. Even the bulk of Jewry that was not alive in
1938 feels now as if that year of appeasement of evil is
being replayed. As in 1938, the world now seems to be
divided between those nations that were about to murder
Jews and those that would let it happen.
It is ALMOST unbelievable.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/apr02/1938.html
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