I had this terrible nightmare last night:
Beset with problems in the Korean peninsula, domestic terrorism, and impending war with Iraq, the United States suddenly finds itself with a new crisis on our border with Mexico.
The government of Mexico falls to a terrorist thug who demands that Texas be returned to Mexico. Secretary of State Colin Powell shuttles about, consulting with allies and with the United Nations. He comes up with a compromise. Eighty percent of Texas is to be returned to Mexico and the Anglos have to vacate all but the remaining twenty percent. The United Nations approves, with all Latin American nations voting against any compromise on Mexico's demands. The U.S. abides by the Powell Plan and retains a tiny enclave surrounded on all sides by the Mexicans.
All does not go well. Surrounding Mexicans begin to call themselves Texicanos, and demand a right of return to the 20% portion allotted to the Texans. They embark on an uninterrupted series of suicide attacks against the Anglos, demanding a further division of the remaining American state, including parts of the President's Crawford Ranch.
The United Nations begins to pressure the besieged Americans, demanding sovereignty for a Texicano state, to be ruled by the TLO -- Texicano Liberation Organization. To the chagrin of the Americans, Tony Blair invites the TLO to hold talks in London. Invited to this conference named "Peace Proposals for the Anglo-Texicano War" are the leaders of all Latin American countries as well as the Western democracies. Their judgment against the Anglos is unanimous. Even Colin Powell's "Road Map to Peace" which divides the President's ranch, is rejected as too little and too late.
By now American academics and Hollywood tarts have begun to protest the Anglo's policies. The media picks up its criticism with CNN and the New York Times leading the assault.
Just then, I woke up.
I know that I'll hear from irate readers about my allegorical dream. After all, Israel has a far more legitimate, historical and religious claim to Palestine than America does to Texas. I know. I know. I was just trying to prove a point.
You see, in this country we are blessed. Nightmares are bad dreams from which you wake up. In Israel, it's just the opposite. When you wake up, the nightmare starts.
Ruth King is a member of the executive committee of Americans For a Safe Israel.
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charge after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation where he had a sexual discussion with an undercover investigator whom he thought was an underage girl. Although this is purely conjectural, and not backed by factual evidence, it would certainly not be beyond Saddam Hussein to blackmail Ritter if he had information -- from his stay in Iraq -- that would compromise him. Such a scenario might explain Ritter's otherwise inexplicable behavior, with the man even going so far as to address the Iraq National Assembly. Anti-Israel activists have taken over the leadership of the American Library Association. This disturbing development was first documented by Stephen Karetzky, former executive director of AFSI and author of Not Seeing Red, a study of American librarianship's woeful record in relation to the Soviet Union. The ALA, which passed its first anti-Israel resolution a decade ago, is now weighing in once more, having passed -- by an overwhelming majority of its 180 member Council -- a "Resolution on the Destruction of Palestinian Libraries, Archives and other Cultural Institutions." Perhaps the most bizarre feature of this resolution is that no Palestinian libraries have been destroyed. Sources in Israel checked directly with the Foreign Ministry and no one had heard of Israel's destroying any libraries. (As one critic of the ALA has noted, CNN would have had a field day, had a library been destroyed.) So what are the hive of activists who control the ALA's executive talking about? The most plausible explanation is that what they have in mind are the PA "archives" (notice "Archives" are in the resolution's title) that Israel seized when it invaded Arafat's headquarters -- those "archives" which revealed the extent to which Arafat and his cronies had been subsidizing terror, importing forbidden weapons and stealing EU money intended for economic development.
It's long past time for the ALA to institute a house cleaning. They could start with a clean sweep of the executive and abolish their Committee for Social Responsibility, an ideological hornet's nest.
We normally admire the editorials and articles of Jonathan Tobin, editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. But in a recent article he resuscitates a version of what used to be standard dogma in Jewish journalism -- the Israeli government knows best and whatever it does
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