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East, which turns out to be the two state solution, which is of course identical to Bush's vision and therefore double vision. And Sharpton? Oh well.In the meantime, our President is unchallenged on the defining issue of his presidency, namely, the war on terrorism. While the putative candidates for his job rail against his handling of the war in Iraq, they ignore, or worse still endorse, his meddling in Israel's frontline war against Muslim Arab terrorism. Calling for a democratic Iraq, the President subverts democracy in Israel by encouraging the so-called Geneva Accords entered into by unelected Israelis and an Arafat diehard, without participation of any member of Israel's government.
Unfazed by the PA's inability in Cairo to achieve so much as a temporary halt in the terror onslaught against Israelis, the President and his appointees coninue to burble about a "vision" of two nations living side by side. Why has a President who started with strength, determination, and real moral vision sunk back into the old retrograde Middle Eastern policies? Every American administration since 1970 (the year of the Rogers Plan) has promoted the same hokum theory that territorial concessions by Israel will placate Muslim enemies.
The obsession with "peace" between Israel and the Arabs obfuscates the fact that the war on terrorism is a war with militant Islam. One would still hope that our President would put his foolish Road Map not on the back burner, as some advocate, but into the trash bin where it really belongs. Then he could return to waging our moral and military battles against the real forces of evil.
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In December, a draft resolution on anti-Semitism, which would have been the first in the UN's history, was withdrawn. Anne Bayefsky, professor of political science at York University and a member of the governing board of UN Watch, gives the background. Irish Foreign Minister Bruce Cowen and Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom had struck a deal two weeks earlier. Israel agreed to drop efforts to include "anti-Semitism" in the religious tolerance resolution before the General Assembly's Third Committee (Muslim states objected) in exchange for a promise that Ireland would introduce a new resolution specifically on anti-Semitism. But after the religious tolerance resolution passed, Ireland reneged. Cowen now claimed anti-Semitism was racial discrimination and so not suitable for a resolution on religious intolerance!
Bayefsky writes: "The UN is an organization founded on the ashes of the Jewish people and whose core human rights principles were drafted from the lessons of the Holocaust. The inability of the organization to address seriously one of the very evils it was intended to prevent is a scandal of global proportions. In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared, 'disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.' Fifty-five years later the outrage is gone, the silence of the UN when it comes to anti-Semitism is deafening, and the only ones benefiting are those planning future barbarous acts against Jews everywhere."
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