Posted on 10/06/2004 8:32:52 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Consider the following parallel events. They happened within a 24-hour period last week:
In Pakistan security forces killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a key figure in Osama bin Laden's terrorist group, accused of the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl and two assassination attempts on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. He was tracked down by a special military team.
In Iraq a US air strike killed Saudi key al-Qaida operative Abu Ahmad Tabouki, believed responsible for beheading two Americans.
And in Damascus, Syria, a car bomb killed Izzeddin al-Sheikh Khalil, top leader of Hamas and reportedly the main organizer of its terror attacks on Israel, involved in the deaths of hundreds of civilians. Weren't these three operations equally victories in the war against terrorism? So why, then, are two of them going to be cheered in the West while one is more likely to be criticized, or at least questioned?
The story of Syria as a sponsor of terrorism is remarkable – and all the more shocking because
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"Peace" broker Indyk is a Kerry plant. What's he doing talking foreign policy with Assad anyway?
You can fool American Jews most of the time. . .
and we're about to find if you can fool us all of the time. David Bedein in FrontPageMagazine calls out John Kerry's newly appointed Middle East advisor, Martin Indyk. According to Bedein, "The very mention of Indyk, who served two stints as ambassador to Israel, sends shudders down the spine of senior members of the Israel defense and foreign policy establishment. For the past year, Indyk, in his new capacity as the head of the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, has conducted a campaign to dispatch U.S. troops to intervene in the Middle East conflict. Indyk has gone so far as to say that the U.S. should sent troops or create a protectorate over the West Bank and Gaza. Such a step would place the U.S. in a virtual state of war with the Israeli army, which has always viewed some of the West Bank and Gaza as vital to the security concerns of the state of Israel."
Bedein also shows that Indyk "has been working for years to garner American support for Yasser Arafat and his terrorist regime." Indeed, Indyk "is generally looked upon as the man who planned the Oslo process that gave Yassir Arafat and the PLO armed control over most of the Palestinian Arab population." Bedein shows that, since Oslo, Indyk has repeatedly provided cover for Arafat while the wily terrorist violated his commitment to cancel the PLO's covenant to eradicate the Jewish state and then launched the second intifada. For example, "in late November 2000, when Israel issued a 'white paper' on intercepted intelligence from Arafat’s headquarters that showed documentary evidence that Arafat and his mainstream PLO gangs were indeed facilitating the campaign of terror, Indyk made a special trip to Jerusalem to demand that the Israeli government withdraw its report. Indyk had just reported to the U.S. Congress that the Palestinian groups organizing the terror campaign were NOT under Arafat’s control."
My Dr. is a Russian Jew, and when I went to see him last week he told me he's getting calls from people in Israel to please vote for Bush. The sad thing is, and I know this because I see it all the time, the worst enemy of the Jews are liberal Jews. I grew up with a family of them, and I think I'm the only one voting for Bush.
Syrian promises are the hope of fools. They are not to be trusted.
I simply cannot comprehend how any Jew who claims to want what is good for Israel can consider anyone but George W. Bush. He is the best friend, the state of Israel has ever had.
Well, it seems to me that the peace movement got its wish, and the Bush doctrine became unusable, politically, for about a year or so.
This year of time allowed Iran to use its Shiite agents, most notably Sadr, to start trouble in southern Iraq and the Syrians to begin massive support of the ex-Baathists in the Sunni triangle.
The peace movement got its wish, and a bunch of dead Americans and Iraqis.
I believe that this will change after Bush's coming landslide.
If Syria does persist in fomenting terror in Israel and Iraq, exactly what form the reinvigorated Bush doctrine will take I am not sure - it could be giving the Israelis a free hand, massive air strikes, or even a full fledged invasion; but it will happen.
The Syrians have, as Bush's numbers have gone up, been more willing to make a deal. Presumably the Syrian Baathists are a bit smarter then the Iraqi ones were. Whether they come to an understanding before Nov 2 will pretty much be a bellweather for how much so.
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