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Our profoundest admiration goes to Claudia Rosett, a true investigative reporter and champion of human rights (in a milieu where self-styled human rights organizations are mostly shills for Arab terrorists). It was Claudia Rosett who pioneered exposure of the $10 billion smuggling and graft in the UN Oil-for-Food program that enriched assorted UN staff, UN approved contractors and of course Saddam Hussein. And it is Claudia Rosett who tirelessly exposes the human rights calamity almost no one cares about -- the deaths of millions of North Koreans under the vicious heel of Kim Jong Il.
The always trenchant Victor Davis Hanson (whose "The Mirror of Fallujah" we are proud to publish in this issue) has offered a refreshing antidote to the policy of endlessly attempting to satisfy the demands of Palestinian Arabs. (Most recently these freedom-seekers have been celebrating in the streets the desecration of American corpses in Fallujah, calling for Iraqis to rise up against the U.S. in a holy war, burning Israeli and American flags -- yet again -- and turning out by the thousands in Nablus, carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein.)
This type of activity, writes Hanson, "is the DNA of a true belligerent of the United States at a time of war." Says Hanson: "We should insist on a complete travel ban to the West Bank. We must declare all representatives of the Palestinian Authority personae non gratae in the United States -- folk at the present time not welcome in the United States, including and especially diplomats, journalists, students and academics....We should inform the Palestinians that they are now analogous to Albanians circa 1970 or, better yet, North Koreans, who now stay out of the United States and vice versa. No aid whatsoever, no travel, no direct ties until barbarism ceases on the West Bank. Americans can accept war, but what tires them are enemies who lob a bomb, scream on television, assassinate an occasional American, and then seethe, claiming that they collectively hate the United States -- and yet want its attention, money and aid. It is time to accept their animus and assume that in this war against fascism in the Middle East, Arafat and Hamas too are quite logically our enemies and should be put on notice concerning the dangerous wages of that new reality."
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Outpost - 12 - May 2004