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20.10.01, 09:29
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Why tie Israel's hands?
Why is Israel once again being held to a different standard from the rest of
the civilized world? Why is it OK for the U.S. (and Great Britain) to send in
special forces to Afghanistan to hunt down and capture or kill Osama bin Laden,
but not OK for Israel to hunt down and capture or kill Palestinian terrorists
who have been carrying out murders on Israeli soil for years?
Why must Israel, for the sake of the shaky U.S.-Arab coalition against
Afghanistan, turn the other cheek when Palestinian extremists shoot an Israeli
cabinet minister to death, the first time Arab terrorists killed a member of
Israel's government?
Since U.S. and British-led coalition forces are now making the rubble bounce
every day in Afghanistan in a bid to bomb the Taliban into coughing up bin
Laden, why isn't Israel justified in doing the same thing, not in some foreign
land, but to meet a threat within its borders?
Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unfairly accused the Bush
administration of unreasonably pressuring Israel to tone down its own war on
terror for the sake of America's war against terror. That followed statements
by both George Bush (and, now, British PM Tony Blair) in support of a
Palestinian homeland.
When Sharon suggested the West might be gearing up to sacrifice Israel to
Islamic terrorism, the way the Europe sacrificed Czechoslovakia to appease
Hitler in 1938, he entered into the realm of fantasy and paranoia.
After all, the U.S. funds Israel with $3 billion annually, hardly the actions
of an enemy.
That said, the Americans, still reeling from their own terrorist assaults of
Sept. 11
