[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

He said the United States ought to pressure Israel into making gestures of support to Arafat

Obviously Mr. Farrakhan has conviently chosen to overlook two very important, and highly relevent, historical occurrences.

First - the Oslo Accords. Provided direct Palestinian rule, under nominal Israeli suzerenty but without military occupation, over the Gaza Strip and portions of the West Bank. It also called for the eventual control of over half of the West Band by the Palestinians. It created the Palestinian Authority (PA). It is accepted by Arafat as a "state" in the international sense - the beginning of a Palestinian homeland.

Second - the meeting between Israel and Arafat where Barak gave the Palestinians around 90% of everything they asked for in negotations regarding land, self-rule, etc. Yassir turned it down flat.

Now both of those don't even go to the fact that terrorist activities were going on BEFORE June 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank in the first instance as a result of the Six-Day War. JORDAN, not Israel, controlled the West Bank at that time, and Israel was within the borders Arafat "claims" to want, yet terrorist activities were going on.

Farrakhan is on a fool's errand. But it is designed to give credibility to the Palestinian terrorists while lowering the status of the Israelis. On that, he could succeed.

[JimSEA]

So True!! The whole thing will always hang up on "right of return" which, of course, signals an end to the state of Israel. Do you think Farrakhan might be after some instruction in bomb making?

[Anamensis]

I wish the liberal media would also take note that the bombings always intensify the closer the Palestinians get to what they claim they want.

[flamefront]

Arrest Farrakhan now!

The Logan Act, from 18 USC 953, prohibits private citizens from conducting their own foreign policy and negotiations:

"Any citizen of the United States wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or any agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or any official or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."