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Another steady voice of sanity is that of Lebanese Christian Joseph Farah, the editor of WorldNetDaily.com (who will be a guest of honor and featured speaker at the AFSI national conference in New York City on June 23). The following is from one of his columns entitled "Israel Must Prevail." "If Israel loses, the Islamic revolution goes worldwide. The target is no longer Jerusalem. It's Washington...Frankly, we can take the handcuffs off Israel today, and let them fight, or we can do the fighting ourselves later. It's that simple. This war is not about a little sliver of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River. It's about global power. It's about an expansionist vision that has shaped history for the last 1,200 years. This monster cannot be appeased. It can only be defeated."
Following his meeting with Saudi's Prince Abdullah President Bush declared they had a "shared vision" and that the Saudi Peace Plan was "a breakthrough moment." The Saudi Peace Plan calls for Israel to return to the indefensible borders of 1949 and to accept the "right of return" of Arab refugees (UN Resolution 194). This means President Bush characterizes Arafat's plan for Israel's destruction as a "breakthrough moment." The President's remarks underscore what George Will wrote in Newsweek of April 22: the President has "made a hash of the principles he has articulated about zero tolerance for terrorism and regimes that facilitate it" and the entire administration is mired in "intellectual confusion and moral miasma expressed in Orwellian language."
In private meetings with Jewish leaders Henry Kissinger has acknowledged the intractable nature of Arab hostility toward Israel and the failure of Oslo. But as a TV pundit he gives 'em what CNN wants to hear. The following is from Lou Dobbs Moneyline of April 9.
Dobbs: "Is it realistic to talk about a solution to this Arab-Palestinian conflict in the short term?"
Kissinger: "Not in the short term. What is possible, however, is to make progress towards a solution, to agree on what it is they are trying to accomplish. I think there is considerable agreement that one of the results should be the emergence of a Palestinian state in some form and an end to new settlement activity by Israel...I don't think it's possible at this stage to talk about the '67 borders because that would require a tremendous wrench. And before that can be faced, there has to be some demonstration that the two societies are prepared to live at peace with one another."
How's that for moral equivalence?
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