U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said, quote:
“...our message is clear: there will be no sanctuary for terrorists and no limit to our resolve to defend American citizens and our interests - our ideals of democracy and law - against these cowardly attacks.”
Absolutely! With view of the “peace-process”, which is a “process that divides up Israel piece by piece,” and the Oslo Accords, President Clinton and his Defense Secretary performed the notable feat of: open mouth, insert foot!
Clinton and Cohen cannot recall their words which were televised worldwide. Plain hypocrisy and double standard, in addition to lying, would tarnish irreparably the chief executive of “a nation of ‘leaders, who act to advance peace, democracy, the rule of law and basic human values...’”
I love the words: No limit to our resolve to defend...!
What a splendid tool with which to invalidate the Oslo Accords, even repeal, or at least modify, Camp David! By their own mouth President Clinton and Defense Secretary Cohen justified such action.
NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT, SIR, with courage and diplomacy! This windfall of opportunity must not pass uncaptured! Every moment counts! Procrastination can cost you a decisive advantage, if not the loss of this opportunity altogether! It is politically expedient to seize on President Clinton’s questionable trustworthiness and on the above quoted statements, to strengthen and reorient Israel’s position as well as your own vis-à-vis your opponents.
For example:
I) Arafat threatened to proclaim a Palestinian State of the autonomous areas! This is in defiance both of the Camp David AND the Oslo Accords! Even American policy never supported an independent Palestinian State, but solely autonomy! The answer to such a threat is not a 13% cession of land, but a resolute return offensive: if Arafat undertakes this outrageous breach of agreements, then Israel has the legitimate right to declare “Oslo” annulled and to recapture the handed over areas.
Furthermore, rather than repeating military occupation, which has proven hurtful to both the Palestinian and Israeli people, annexing these areas and placing them under civilian administration, with local Palestinian representatives elected into the Knesset serving their local communities, may turn out to be the best move in the long run.
Leveling Palestinian houses, curfews, and roadblocks only increases hatred and frustration, and plays into the hands of the extremists. Humiliation is NOT the answer. Determination to execute national sovereign power is, and affording equal opportunity, rights and responsibility to ALL, as G-d commanded Moses Israel should treat the foreigners who live among us2.
Increased efforts and support for Aliyah will maintain Israel as the Jewish homeland.
II) For every terror act Israel will react with expansion of settlement; for every major terror act (such as at Beit Lid, Dizzengof, Bus #18 in Jerusalem) Israel will retake relinquished cities and land. There should be no giving up of land in return for mere promises.Act now, act quickly, while President Clinton is in no position to pressure you with a strong hand.
This may lead to war (possibly the Ezekiel 39 one). However, neither the “land-for- peace-process” nor fearless intransigence will ultimately avoid war. Nevertheless, the probability of war is much greater as long as Israel grovels before her enemies and U.S. and European pressure. Our people enjoyed the longest time of peace, with nearly no terror acts, under M. Begin, because Israel showed strength. Under “peace-maker” Rabin severe terror acts were the rule such as had not been for nearly 20 years. The “land for peace” deal has but one aim: to render Israel indefensible. Then it won’t be a war, but another genocide.
III) The best deterrent is unwavering resolve to insist on our rights as a sovereign nation, strength, determined military preparedness and prowess and --- yes, Sir, faith in G-d and His promises. My two sons had this to say about you: “Whatever his critics say, he is doing something right, because we can use again buses and move about the country and feel safe.”
President Clinton’s power to coerce you into actions which strip Israel’s government of the ability to “defend our people, our interests and our values” is temporarily at an all-time low --- thanks to his embarrassing lie and his and Cohen’s rationalization of the American air strikes in the hearing of the whole world.
IV) To further strengthen your position and government: Israel’s health care needs drastic improvement! The former Norwegian prime minister rightly said that “health is a basic human right, and investing in health brings tangible returns, like lower social costs, a better educated population and a more productive workforce.” If the present deterioration of health services is allowed to continue the negative effects will soon enough manifest, one of which will be an increasing disappointment with your leadership.
V) The same is true if the encroachment of ultra-orthodoxy as well as ultra-liberalism is not checked. If cigarette smokers are being restricted by law from smoking in certain public areas without infringing on their democratic right of freedom of choice, then the ultra-orthodox as well as the ultra-liberal can be lawfully restricted from imposing their specific way of life on the general public. Please, do not, for the sake of strengthening your government, let these factions - indifferent to the nation’s interest at large - place an unbearable yoke upon the people.
VI) Finally, increased funding and support
for research and development, especially in harvesting national resources
such as the incredible mineral wealth of the Dead Sea and oil fields underneath
our soil, should prove a worthwile investment. According to the blessings
of Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, Israel is richer in the “blessings of the
deep
that couches beneath;” in the “honey (petroleum resembles
in color and texture raw honey; bees don’t dwell in rock) that
flows
out of the flinty rock;” and in the “fatness (not
merely agricultural) of the earth,” than Saudi Arabia.
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