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Posted on 02/27/2005 10:41:10 AM PST by Alouette
Middle East ceasefires are always unilateral ceasefires, whereby the Jews stop shooting back. They usually morph into one of those "controlled carnage" agreements that Israeli politicians so love, whereby the Arabs continue to murder Jews, and as long as the rate of murder is "reasonable", the Jews do not retaliate. Such deals obtained in the past in Lebanon and with the PLO.
And now, Ariel Sharon's ceasefire has been revealed to be just another in this series, as the massacre Friday night outside a Tel Aviv nightclub showed. The one-sided violence is no surprise. And it is being accompanied by all the same nonsensical Oslo Pollyanna. The leftist newspapers in Israel are sighing in ecstasy about how Abu Shlimazen's new government is now going to crack down on the terror. Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz's commentator on Palestinian affairs - the leftist who always seems to be convinced that all Palestinians think exactly what he is thinking this week, a guy who is acknowledged as an expert on Palestinians by himself - insists the Palestinian "street" is horrified by the atrocity in Tel Aviv Friday night.
It is Oslo deja vu all over again. All we are missing is Shimon Peres telling us about how the threat of infiltration into Israel by cable TV is much worse than the threat of infiltration by terrorists.
But one question is nagging at everyone's mind. What was the role of the International Solidarity Movement, the pro-terror group of Mall Marxists and Designer-Jean Anarchists, in Friday night's attack?
Why would anyone think the ISM is involved? Because it already was involved in the last identical bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub, where the bombers used the identical modus operandi as this week's atrocity.
The International Solidarity Movement openly endorses Palestinian terror and candidly declares its belief that Israel and its people should be annihilated. It's martyr and Mother Teresa is Rachel Corrie, a young American girl who died while trying to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from destroying a tunnel in which explosives used to murder Jewish civilians were being smuggled.
ISM members who come to Israel have been arrested for vandalizing and destroying Israeli security fences and equipment. On March 27, 2003, fugitive Islamic Jihad terrorist Shadi Sukiya was arrested in a house in Jenin rented by the ISM. In the most serious incident, on April 30, 2003, two British Muslims tried to blow themselves up at a popular Tel Aviv nightspot, Mike's Place; one of them succeeded, killing three and wounding 50. At least one of the terrorists had spent the weeks before the attack living with the ISM in Gaza. They entered Israel in the first place by pretending to be part of an entourage of "peace protesters" and fact-seekers.
So, we have ample reason to suspect that the same ISM accomplices of terror could be again involved. Were they? Inquiring minds want to know.
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The author lost me a little. His original rant was a natural reaction to the continued violence after it was supposed to stop. He insists that Abbas do something before there is time to do something. Then he swerves into a seeming expose' of the ISM. If they are a group which should be investigated then I suppose they will be but to blow up a brand new peace attempt over this on such short notice seems unwise to me.
Give Abbas a chance. Then if it is still business as usual all bets are off and the decks have been cleared for further action.
Dubya went through delays for over a year to give the UN and other diplomats a chance to solve the crisis in Iraq. When they didn't he acted. However, he had covered all his diplomatic bases before acting, for what good it did him with the left. Bush and Sharon are doing the same now.
Ceasefire always only for Israel, never our enemies - Ping!
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