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Israel: The main ally against terror
Jeremy Sharpe
Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: Opinion
To answer the question proposed by Mary Ackerson in her opinion piece, "Israel: A true ally against Terror?" we need to examine all sides of the conflict in the Middle East.
Ackerson was at least partly correct. Unfortunately, recently there have been many Palestinian deaths, and yes, many young people were killed.
What Ackerson failed to mention, however, is that many of those young people were bearing arms, shooting directly at Israeli soldiers and that among them were many who passionately desire the total annihilation of the Jewish state.
Ackerson failed to mention that tens of thousands of rockets are continuously launched at sovereign Israeli soil or the scores of suicide bombers who board public buses, enter public centers such as malls, movie theaters and night clubs with the intent of randomly killing innocent people.
She also failed to mention that in the Camp David Accord -- an agreement between Israel and Palestine championed by our former president Bill Clinton -- Israel, in an effort to achieve peace, under the guarantees promised in writing by the former terrorist and leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization relinquished land that was won during the 1967 invasion of the sovereign land of Israel.
Furthermore, she failed to mention that the Palestinians have been in internal turmoil since they entered into the Camp David agreement and since Israel complied with it as an act of good will.
An act of good will that gave a part of the land of Israel away; an act that no nation in the history of human kind has ever willingly done in the name of peace. Imagine giving away the western United States to Mexico.
History has proven time and again that this group of people has not been able to govern themselves peacefully because of divergent opinions of different Muslim beliefs.
So in response of Ackerson's question, I propose a new question: How many innocent Israeli citizens must die before it is O.K. to protect the sovereign nation of Israel, a region that has been occupied -- as archeological evidence proves -- by the same people for 5,800 years?
Ackerson was at least partly correct. Unfortunately, recently there have been many Palestinian deaths, and yes, many young people were killed.
What Ackerson failed to mention, however, is that many of those young people were bearing arms, shooting directly at Israeli soldiers and that among them were many who passionately desire the total annihilation of the Jewish state.
Ackerson failed to mention that tens of thousands of rockets are continuously launched at sovereign Israeli soil or the scores of suicide bombers who board public buses, enter public centers such as malls, movie theaters and night clubs with the intent of randomly killing innocent people.
She also failed to mention that in the Camp David Accord -- an agreement between Israel and Palestine championed by our former president Bill Clinton -- Israel, in an effort to achieve peace, under the guarantees promised in writing by the former terrorist and leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization relinquished land that was won during the 1967 invasion of the sovereign land of Israel.
Furthermore, she failed to mention that the Palestinians have been in internal turmoil since they entered into the Camp David agreement and since Israel complied with it as an act of good will.
An act of good will that gave a part of the land of Israel away; an act that no nation in the history of human kind has ever willingly done in the name of peace. Imagine giving away the western United States to Mexico.
History has proven time and again that this group of people has not been able to govern themselves peacefully because of divergent opinions of different Muslim beliefs.
So in response of Ackerson's question, I propose a new question: How many innocent Israeli citizens must die before it is O.K. to protect the sovereign nation of Israel, a region that has been occupied -- as archeological evidence proves -- by the same people for 5,800 years?
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Registered Independent
posted 3/08/08 @ 8:04 PM MST
Excellent job Mr. Sharpe.
The Palestinians don't want peace. They have repeatedly stated that they want to "Push the Israeli's into the sea."
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Craig Hawley
posted 3/08/08 @ 10:04 PM MST
Right on Reg Indy their goal is the Annihilation of Israel not some negotiation for peace.
What kind of sick people respond to supposed oppression by turning their children into brain washed human bombs. (Continued…)
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