Jerusalem Cloakroom #136

Lessons Concluded from the Murder of Three Americans by
Palestinian Terrorists:

by Yoram Ettinger
yoramtex@netvision.net.il

October 15, 2003 

1. The US should not tolerate the largest terrorist base in the world, which has been harbored, coordinated, financed, incited by the Palestinian Authority/PLO, since the 1993 conclusion of the Oslo Accords. The PA/PLO has tolerated/encouraged terrorism, perpetrated by its own “security organizations”, Abu-Mazen’s and Abu-Ala’s Fatah organization, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, Al Qaeda, Democratic Front, Popular Front, etc.
    

2. The murder of the three Americans has been the direct result of a 10 year sustained anti-US incitement campaign, orchestrated by the PA/PLO-controlled education, clergy and media systems. On October 10, 2003, the official PA/PLO TV broadcast a sermon from the Al Nuhayyan mosque in Gaza: “We hear unfair and tyrannical statements [by President Bush]... These statements carry destruction for the US itself... We warn the American People that this President is dragging them to the abyss.” On Sept. 5, 2003, PA/PLO TV broadcast a sermon by Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras:

   History repeats itself. The Prophet Muhammad was besieged by two powers, Persia in the east and Rome in the west, represented by the USSR and USA of today. Persia disintegrated first, just as did the USSR. May it be Allah’s will that the USA shall fall just like Rome.

   PA/PLO clergies, educators and journalists have consistently praised US’ enemies (bin Laden, Saddam, Iran, etc.) and incited against the US.
    

3. US taxpayers should stop financing PA/PLO anti-US incitement, as has been the case since 1994, when the US initiated the $100MN annual (fungible) foreign aid to the PA/PLO. It has formally been channeled via Palestinian NGOs, whose “independence” is identical to that of Iraqi NGOs under Saddam.
    

4. Egyptian culpability is underscored by Mubarak’s tolerance of the smuggling of explosives, missiles and other military hardware, from Sinai into Gaza. It is consistent with Mubarak’s destructive policy toward Saddam, Qaddafi, No. Korea, Sudan, the Horn of Africa and Israel.
    

5. PA/PLO ingratitude and treachery has once again been demonstrated, when facilitating the murder of the three Americans, while the Department of State and the CIA have been promoting the establishment of a Palestinian State, and have trained PA “security organizations”. Similarly, in 1990, the PLO spearheaded Iraq’s plunder of Kuwait, in spite of Kuwait’s most generous hospitality since 1959, and despite US (Bush #41) pressure on Israel (Shamir) to recognize the PLO. The PLO (not just Arafat) has been considered by Arabs as the role model of treachery, back-stabbing, terrorism, non-compliance and corruption, as demonstrated by its subversive activities in Syria (1966), Jordan (1970), Lebanon (1975-1982) and Kuwait (1990).
    

6. The PA/PLO should not be entrusted with war on (its own harbored/operated) terrorism.
    

7. US response should be decisively confrontational a-lá Afghanistan and Iraq, rather than indecisively accommodating a-lá USS Cole, Tanzania and Kenya, Khobar Towers, and Twin Tower 1993. The latter, eventually, fueled the fire of 9/11. Foggy Bottom should not constrain Israel into a low-intensity war against terrorism. Israel should implement Powell’s Doctrine of disproportional response.
    

8. The US-Israel unique bonds consist of mutual threats, joint interests, shared values, confluence of destiny and partnership in grief. Muslim intolerance of non-Muslim “infidel” elements has dominated the Mideast since the 7th century, plaguing non-Muslim minorities as well as Western Powers (e.g. Palestinian alliance with Hitler) and the Jewish State. It afflicted the US in Lebanon (300 murdered in 1983), in Saudi Arabia (24 murdered in 1995-6), in Aden (17 murdered in 2000), in the US itself (3,000 in 9/11) and it has afflicted the US on a daily basis in Iraq.
    

9. A Palestinian state and American interests and values would constitute an oxymoron and a reward to terrorism and hate education.