Like Father, Like Son by Arlene Peck Arutz-7 Opinion March 28, 2002 I don't really care anymore what 'world opinion' says. Restraint? Sure. Israel should show the same restraint towards the 'poor Palestinians' as the United States is showing each day when United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld goes on CNN and announces how many terrorists American forces have killed in Afghanistan while we were safe in our homes. While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was busy bombing, other than empty buildings, the Security Council of the United Nations immediately rushed to endorse a Palestinian state for the first time, supporting a U.S. measure. Oh yes, and that fair minded head of this biased organization, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called on the Jewish state to end it's "illegal occupation" of Palestinian land and halt "the bombing of civilian areas, the assassinations, the unnecessary use of lethal force, the demolitions and the daily humiliation of ordinary Palestinians." Golly gee, that very same description could be applied to Afghanistan and the United States might be facing the same condemnation. Oh, and let's not forget that this other bastion of peaceful coexistence who naturally deserves a place on the Security Council, Syria, was the sole veto to the resolution. It just didn’t go far enough. Isn’t it lovely how the states on the Security Council have all decided that Israel has a right to exist? Should we all be grateful at this point? The pro-PLO Los Angeles Times reporter, Tracy Wilkerson, made her usual plea for the Palestinians, while filling half a page with a description of how the poor "residents of this camp that has produced suicide bombers and shooters were seething at the destruction wrought by the Israeli incursion." Funny how in all of her anti-Semitic columns she regularly deplores how "Soldiers order families who live in apartments above the factories (terrorist bomb plants) to evacuate before the explosions, but give them no time to collect any belongings or clothing." Well, my goodness. Did anyone ever tell those families that if you choose to live among and within a bomb factory you just might be inconvenienced? I wonder how much time the soulless Arab terrorists gave to the Israeli babies in their strollers before killing them. The grief and depression of my Israeli friends and family is beyond comprehension. One of them recently told me, "I am terrified even to go to the cleaners and pick up my clothes, because I'm afraid of being bombed. I fear for my child to come home from school. Afraid a sniper might shoot out the windows of their school bus." Yet, because of the tendency of the world to cave into Arab oil-backed demands, Israel is once again put into the position of 'showing restraint' so that US Vice- President Cheney can put together his coalition of terrorists. Has anyone besides me noticed that over the last eighteen months, after Arafat walked away from everything on his 'wish list', there have been almost 12,000 terror attacks against the Jewish State. Look how the United States reacted after only one. Granted, it was a biggie. War is not to be taken casually, but Israel has avoided it for far to long. When the war is won, as the previous five that have been forced against Israel, then the conquered lands should be annexed. Why not? Would it be a good idea for Mexico to decide to go to the fair-minded group of world leaders at the U.N. and tell them how much they need Texas back? Hey, after all, it used to belong to them. Then, President George Bush could move out of his hometown in Texas with all the rest of those Texan 'invaders and occupiers' and go peaceably to a nearby state, so that he could live side by side in harmony with his good Mexican neighbors. Of course, we would all recognize the right of the United States to exist. Just as America cannot 'make nice' to Mexico and give back Texas, so be it for Israel. The land of Israel, furthermore, never belonged to the Arabs, as Texas once did to Mexico. I didn’t notice any one of those U.N. leaders having a problem with moving a quarter of a million Jews who are settled in the Judea, Samaria and Gaza out of their homes. By the same token, I don't have a problem with moving out those who commit terror and violence against Israel. The Arabs in the Land of Israel have another country and it’s called Jordan. That, among other Arab regions, is where they originated. Let them go back. Let them also take their 'brothers' who refuse to serve in the Israeli army, because they don't want to be involved in 'humiliating' the Arabs. Of course, we know that those Arab enemies of ours don't humiliate; they may mutilate and decapitate, but they don't humiliate. ---------------------------------- Arlene Peck is an internationally syndicated columnist and television talk show hostess.