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The Root of Terror, Not the &# 8220;Root Cause&# 8221;
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Data: 07-04-2002 02:06 adres: *.cm-upc.chello.se


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The Root of Terror, Not the “Root Cause”
Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney
05 April 2002 Email this story
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Forget the peace process, it´s passé. After six suicide bombings in six days,
Israeli PM Sharon has taken action to smash the Palestinian terrorist
infrastructure, starting in Ramallah. Puzzlingly, there is an outpouring of
sympathy not for the innocent Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism, but for
the confined arch-terrorist, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, and his fellow
perpetrators of violence. His supporters include international peace activists
who tried to smuggle highly wanted Palestinian terrorists out of his Ramallah
compound.

Sharon´s military incursions alone cannot halt terrorist attacks. The PA, if
dismantled, will be replaced by other terror groups, with new leaders capable
of committing even worse atrocities. That´s because the root of terror is not
in Ramallah, nor is it in Qalqiliya, Bethlehem, Tulkarem or Jenin, but in
Islamic terror-sponsoring regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon
and Iraq. Israel must get to the source and cut off the snake´s head before it
sinks its venomous fangs into more innocent victims. For that, the support of
the West is needed.

Europeans are not interested in the mounting Israeli death toll, because it
does not affect their national interests. Middle East oil, on the other hand,
does. It´s in Europe´s economic interest to side with Saudi Arabia and other
oil-rich regimes, regardless of their complicity in terror. It seems to be in
Canada´s interest as well to side with terror. Canada´s insistence that it
recognizes Israel´s right to self-defence is the height of hypocrisy - it has
recently condemned Israel for its so-called disproportionate use of military
force against Palestinians.

Americans? Many seemed to have forgotten September 11th. They seem to have
forgotten that they are fighting the same war as the Israelis, but on a
different front. As of now, Israel is receiving U.S. support. Yet as soon as
oil prices soar - and it´s starting - U.S. support for Israel will plunge. For
the massacres in Israel to have any impact on Westerners, it must be made clear
that suicide bombings, the new form of warfare for Palestinians, pose a direct
threat not just to Israel, but to the West too. Sadly, if that´s what it takes
to force Westerners to open up their eyes to the savagery of suicide bombings
in Israel, then so be it.

It must be made clear that terrorism is not exclusive to the Middle East, but
is spewing over to the shores of North America, Europe and Asia. Suicide
bombers will eventually make their way overseas unless they are condemned and
defeated. Doing otherwise merely legitimizes their vile acts, signaling a green
light to inflict more Sept.11th-like tragedies on Western shores. It must be
made clear that Palestinian terrorist groups have ties with global Islamic
terrorist groups that are plotting the demise of the West - groups such as al-
Qaeda, whose members are finding refuge in Iran. It must be made clear that
Westerners are also being targeted. Hundreds of Americans have been killed
overseas by Islamic terrorist organizations over the past few decades. Hundreds
more may yet be killed.

Palestinians have become mere pawns used by Arab bankrollers of terrorism to
spur on the ultimate clash with the West. It should come as no surprise that
Saddam Hussein has recently increased his terror bounty to the families of
suicide bombers to $25,000. Saudi Arabia has put aside $400 million to support
the families of ‘martyrs’, according to the Saudi Embassy´s web site. According
to writer Stephen Schwartz, “at $5,300 per martyr, that works out to about
75,000 martyrs,” suggesting that Saudi Arabia anticipates many more suicide
bombings, be it in Israel or overseas.

Until the Western world realizes this and offers its support to Israel,
Sharon´s attempts to root out terrorism in the PA-controlled terrorist havens
and hotbeds of suicide bombers will be futile in the grand scheme of things.
Meanwhile there is an escalating conflict at the Lebanese border. Hezbollah
terrorists, supported by Lebanon, Syria and Iran, are heating up the northern
region by firing mortars and rockets at Israeli positions. For terrorism to
halt, it needs to be rooted out from its places of origin.

Saudi Arabia is a good place to start.
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