Terror's common denominator

The Washington Times ^ | April 7, 2002 | Arnaud de Borchgrave

[be-baw]

Israeli settlers on the West Bank

[xm177e2]

Historical precedents do not favor Israel's 200,000 settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestine's war of liberation, as reprehensible as wanton terrorism is, will continue until the two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — is achieved.

Does this doofus really think they will stop with the settlements? They will continue terrorizing Israel until it ceases to exist. Israel must simply drive them out if peace cannot be made.

[onyx]

Doofus? The author/writer of this laughable piece appears to be French. Therefore, "doofus" doesn't begin to describe this a-hole.

[backhoe]

This guy's recap of recent terrorism is pretty good, so I will cross-link it here:

The Web of Terror

[be-baw]

backhoe, thanks for adding this article to your comprehensive terrorism compendium. By the way, I very much appreciate all your efforts in researching and organizing various topics on FR. How you find time to do it all is beyond me.

xm177e2 and onyx: I wouldn't dismiss de Borchgrave so lightly. You might want to have a look at his biography.

[backhoe]

Appreciate your kind words- since I became a "househusband" in 1999, and especially since my wife's medical problems starting about a year ago, I find "long periods of boredom interspersed with brief moments of manic activity...."
( not unlike military service in wartime! )

Far as de Borchgrave goes, I have heard the man on C-Span, and FWIW he seems like an old-time Who, When, Where, What, Why kind of reporter. Didn't seem to have any blatant agenda.

[El Gato]

Far as de Borchgrave goes, I have heard the man on C-Span, and FWIW he seems like an old-time Who, When, Where, What, Why kind of reporter. Didn't seem to have any blatant agenda.

Indeed, he exposed the methods used by left wing editors to supress much of the Communist atrocities in Vietnam, plus the subseriant relations of the VC to the North Vietnamese regime. One method used was the fictionalised account in his novel "The Spike".

I think if read closely you'll see that he doesn't approve of or agree with the notion of terrorism as a legimate tool, but is merely reporting the way some see it.

As an aside, guerilla warfare and terrorism are not the same thing. A matter of targets and to a lessor extent means. Guerilla warfare is a legitmate means for a weaker group to fight a stonger occuppying force. Thats why its a specialty of Special Forces, who in turn are to teach it to indigenous forces.

[El Gato]

Historical precedents do not favor Israel's 200,000 settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestine's war of liberation, as reprehensible as wanton terrorism is, will continue until the two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — is achieved. And unless the Tenet-Mitchell negotiating track is imposed by the Bush administration, the current drift may well lead to the adoption by the moderates of the extremist agenda — i.e., a one-state solution. That's why a muscular U.S. policy in the region is an urgent imperative.

Of course there is an extreme difference between the Israeli situation now, and the French situtation regarding Algeria. Algeria never threatened the existence of France herself, the Arabs and a Palestinian state under any likely leadership, could and likely would, do just that. The PA, under it's former guise of the PLO, was in existence before the '67 war which brought the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli control. Their goal then, and their long term goal now, is the elimination of any Jewish government or presence in Palistine, all of it, from the Jordan to the sea.

[backhoe]

Guerilla warfare is a legitmate means for a weaker group to fight a stonger occuppying force. Thats why its a specialty of Special Forces, who in turn are to teach it to indigenous forces.

Exactly.

[rmlew]

There are quite a few problems with this op-ed peice.
1. The author refuses to accept that there already is a Palestinian country that is 90%+ Palestinian and is composed of 75% of the land: Jordan.
2. France had no real attachment to Algeria. The "Occupied Territories" are part of Israel and contain not only the defensible positions, but also the holy sites. Moreover, the so called settlements, are in many cases the reintroduction of 3000+ year old communities expelled by the Arabs in their genocidal campaing from 1929-67. There was a Jewish community in Hebron for 1500 years before Mohammed was born. The French were fighting for a colony. Israel is fighting for its homeland.

[cardinal4]

Israel is fighting for its homeland.

Nuff said.Go get every Hamas terrorist,Islamic Jihad lackey and al-Aqsa murderer and dont stop the incursion,invasion,or whatever you want to call it,until every single terror minded person who would harm Israel,or anyone else for that matter,is dead.

[xm177e2]

Let me put this another way, if he wants to compare it to Algeria. If the French cut Algeria in half, and gave the separatists their own half, do you think they would have stopped the terror? Does the author really think the Algerians would have been content with half? They wanted it all, just like the Palestinians. Israel would be foolish not to see this.

[Travis McGee]

All of the Palestinean terror groups have the stated non-negotiable goal of creating an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

IOW, no state of Israel, period.

The closer the "Saudi Plan" comes to reality, the more suicide bombs we will see.

The last thing the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hizbollah and Al Akhsa want is an Israel with secure borders.