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by Bassam Tawil
• November 15, 2015 at 6:00 am
- By constantly
endorsing pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli policies, France has
obviously been seeking to appease Islamic countries. France seems
convinced that such policies will keep Muslim terrorists from
targeting French nationals and interests. The French are now in
grave danger of mistakenly believing that the November 13 attacks
occurred because France did not appease the Muslim terrorists enough.
- When the
terrorists see that pressure works -- increasing the pressure should
work even more!
- The French and
Europeans would do well to understand that there is no difference
between a young Palestinian who takes a knife and sets out to murder
Jews, and an Islamic State terrorist who murders dozens of innocent
people in Paris.
- The reason
Muslim extremists want to destroy Israel is not because of the
settlements or checkpoints it is because they believe that Jews have
no right to be in the Middle East whatsoever. And they want to
destroy Europe because they believe that Christians -- and everyone
-- have no right to be anything other than Muslim.
- The terrorists
attacking Jews also seek to destroy France, Germany, Britain and, of
course, the United States. These countries need to be reminded that
the Islamist terrorists' ultimate goal is to force all non-Muslims
to submit to Islam or face death.
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Scenes from Friday's grisly terror attacks in Paris.
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Earlier this year, France was one of eight countries that supported
a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations Security Council, calling
for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines by the end of 2017.
This vote means that France supports the establishment of an
independent Palestinian state, likely to be ruled by the same type of
people who on Friday carried out the most grisly terror attacks in France
since World War II.
Today, every Palestinian child knows that in the best case, a future
Palestinian state will be run by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, and in the worst
case by the Islamic State and its affiliates. Has it occurred to anyone
in Europe that the Palestinian people might not want to live under the
rule of any of the groups, any more than Europeans would?
by Guy Millière
• November 15, 2015 at 4:30 am
- Just as people
in Paris were murdered one day last week, Jews in Israel are
murdered virtually every day.
- Undoubtedly,
Rabin wanted peace -- virtually all Israelis want peace -- but not
at any price. He never envisaged the creation of a Palestinian
state: the Oslo Accords provided for the establishment of a
"provisional self-government," not a state.
- Rabin did not
contemplate infinite and unconditional negotiations: the Oslo
Accords call for a five-year period of negotiations, and include the
possibility of breaking off the talks if one of the parties does not
respect the spirit in which the Accords were to be implemented.
- In addition,
Rabin, seeing the rise of violence, wanted during the last weeks of
his life to break off the talks. If the Oslo talks did not live up
to their expectations, it was in continuing to pursue the vain and
useless negotiations -- exactly the opposite of what Rabin had
envisioned.
- Palestinian
leaders have an overwhelming responsibility for what has happened
during the last twenty years. Not only have they continued to make
the very demands that Rabin rejected -- and that no leader in a
comparable situation could ever accept; they have done worse.
- Israel cannot
make peace, because there is no one to make peace with.
- Peace implies
conditions. One of the first is that those with whom a country
intends to make peace also want to make peace. Nothing, however,
indicates that Palestinian leaders have the slightest intention of
making anything that even resembles peace.
- One hopes the
French will not surrender to terrorists; neither should the
Israelis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President
Bill Clinton, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords
signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Image source: Vince Musi / The
White House)
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On October 31, tens of thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv to
commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Israel's
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In a pre-recorded speech, Barack Obama addressed the crowd and
praised the man who had presided over the Oslo Accords. Former U.S.
President Bill Clinton, who came in person, spoke of the need to respect
"the legacy of Rabin," and said that Israelis should
"finish" what Rabin started, and choose between "the risk
of peace" and "the risk of walking away from it." He added
that it was up to the Israelis to take "the right decision."
His comments were well received both by the crowd and the media
worldwide as the words of a friend of Israel. Unfortunately, and possibly
unwittingly, they were the words of a false friend. They carried deeply
harmful inaccuracies that serve only the enemies of Israel, and are,
sadly, part of the verbal war against Israel.
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