* Palestinian Authority-supervised sermon: “Palestine [including all of Israel] is an Islamic land that must not be relinquished.” (West Bank, Ramallah, Voice of Palestine, official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, carried live on February 6, 2004, from Al-Aqsa Mosque.)
* PA-supervised sermon: “Jews, the sons of apes and pigs.” (Gaza, Palestine Satellite TV Channel in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, carried live on March 13, 2004, from Zayid Bin-Sultan Mosque in Gaza.)
Yemeni sermon: “O God, destroy the aggressive Zionists and the tyrant Americans.” (Sanaa, Republic of Yemen Television in Arabic, official television station of the Republic of Yemen, carried live on February 6, 2004, from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa.)
Qatar sermon: “…aggressor Jews and their wicked Crusader allies…” (Doha, Qatar Television Service in Arabic, official television station of the State of Qatar, carried live on February 20, 2004, from Umar Bin-Al-Khattab Mosque in Doha.)
Syrian sermon: “O God, deal with the criminal Zionists and those with them and behind them.” (Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic radio in Arabic, official station of the Syrian government, carried live on February 27, 2004, from Al-Uthman Mosque in Damascus.)
So much for waiting for the Arab-Islamic leopard to change its spots. What Israel really needs is for that leopard to change into a totally different animal – one that is not such an aggressive carnivore.
The Bush Administration is in “hot pursuit” of Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network. America is also trying to create a stable post-Saddam Iraq even as it continues to neutralize both indigenous Arab-Muslim terrorism and terrorism imported from “Greater Arabia.”
Sadly, yet predictably, America is beginning to feel the utter frustration that Israel has felt for years: full-throttle Arab violence, fueled by an Islamic engine that never quits.
There is also some hypocrisy here. While America aggressively fights terrorists, it denies Israel the right to fight its own all-out war against these same savages. This sends a message to the Arab-Islamic terrorists that the American war on terror is not completely sincere. For if America were truly committed to “root out terrorists,” it would turn the Israel Defense Forces loose on Arafat and his so-called Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Al-Aqsa Brigades, Hizbullah, Tanzim, PFLP, at al. And if Israel were unable or unwilling to do this, then America would do it for Israel.
So why is there a double standard vis-a-vis Israel in the war on terrorism? President Bush should be asking (perhaps demanding) that Prime Minister Sharon launch an all-out attack on the terrorist organizations surrounding Israel. These areas are the breeding grounds that fuel anti-Western sentiment and send jihadists against Israel and against American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These killers of Jews in Israel are indistinguishable from the killers of Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan and downtown New York City. Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies, and Israel’s enemies are also enemies of the shrinking civilized world.
Are you listening, Spain? France? Germany? Italy? England? Sweden?
One should never dialogue with terrorists. When the bombs went off in Madrid on March 11, the Spanish electorate indeed decided not to dialogue with the Arab-Muslim murderers who perpetrated the act. But Spain took the cowardly route of appeasement. The Spanish matador took a goring and the crowd yelled, “Ole!”
Beware: that same Arab-Islamic bull is on the loose elsewhere.