From the Editor
MORE FROM THE LAND
OF TRAGI-COMIC OPERA
Minister of Infrastructure Ariel Sharon has revealed that the Palestinian Authority is using tens of millions of dollars of Israeli taxpayers' money to buy Israeli land. They use Israeli lawyers as go-betweens with the result that those selling the land do not even know that the buyers are Arabs.
And a survey prepared for the Environmental Ministry found there are 246 illegal garbage dumps in Judea and Samaria, 81% of them sitting where water enters the mountain aquifer, thus creating dangerous pollution.
Shimon Peres, who will go down in history as the Jew who made the wise men of Chelm look brilliant by comparison, has outdone himself once more. After Attorney General Rubinstein cleared Netanyahu in the Bar-On imbroglio, Peres called for Netanyahu's immediate resignation. The grounds? Admirers of Chelm-tales, pay heed to the words of a real master.
The fact that no evidence of Netanyahu's wrongdoing had been found meant that there was wrongdoing -- it just had not been found. Therefore simple justice demanded that Netanyahu immediately turn over the reins to Labor and its morally immaculate leader, Shimon Peres.
LOCAL COMIC OPERA
It is perhaps consoling that Israel is not the only
country where much of the media is mad. The following is from the Boston Globe's lead editorial on April 23, 1997, following the Peruvian government's Entebbe-like liberation of hostages.
"Nevertheless, it is always dispiriting to witness a failure of efforts to achieve a rational resolution to a conflict. Only the parties involved know whether the negotiations between Fujimori's representative and the hostage-holders were conducted in good faith and whether a mutually acceptable compromise was still possible."
Steven Plaut's apt comment on this: "I suppose I could look up the Globe's post-Entebbe editorial, but I'm afraid of what I might find."
ISRAEL'S PATRIOTS ABANDONED
Meanwhile, in Hebron, when it comes to protecting the Jewish community there, the Israeli government pays no attention to enforcing the terms of the agreement it signed. The Hebron Jewish community sent a letter to Member of the Knesset Uzi Landau,
Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, enumerating the ways in which the Israel Defense Forces have failed to enforce the agreement: The buffer zones have been erased with armed Palestinian police patroling there and Palestinians conducting demonstrations and
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throwing rocks from these areas. The joint patrols that were supposed to be conducted in the hilly areas surrounding the Jewish community have been halted, and only armed Palestinians patrol there. Law and order is enforced only against Jews, not against rioting Arabs. And so forth.
CLINTON AND TERROR
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to Israel or even confiscated the terrorists' weapons. Yet the administration continues to give Arafat and the PLO $100 million every year.
And when will the Clinton administration finally initiate legal action to prosecute PLO terrorists who have murdered Americans? The PLO killers of handicapped tourist Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro are still at large.
The PLO terrorists who murdered the U.S. ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, and his deputy in 1973 --reportedly on direct orders from Yasir Arafat-- have never been prosecuted. The families of American victims of PLO terror have never been compensated. Yet Clinton is silent.
The war against terrorism has not yet been launched in earnest, because it is being held hostage to the Clinton administration's political goals in the Middle East. An obsession with scoring "foreign policy successes" by achieving worthless "peace" treaties between Israel and the Arabs has obscured the need to fight terrorism and its sponsors.
Syria gets off the hook because of the hope for a Golan deal; the PLO gets off the hook because of the constant need for "progress" in advancing the Israel-PLO "peace process."
But no meaningful peace can ever be achieved with dictatorial regimes until the West --led by the United States-- is prepared to use all of its diplomatic, economic, and military might to force such regimes to sincerely forswear terrorism.
Herbert Zweibon is chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel.
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