The Next Wave of Terror

by Naomi Ragen
April 24, 2003

I have been biding my time in discussing the whole 
Abu Mazen, new Palestinian leadership, now let's 
publish the road-map nonsense....

But today's suicide bombing in Kfar Saba that killed a 
23 year-old security guard, and injured 14 by Arafat's 
Fatah is the last straw. This comes only hours after the 
so-called Egyptian-engineered "compromise" that supposedly 
"bent" Arafat to the American will to see a "moderate" 
take control of the Palestinian government-to-be and has 
made it impossible for me to ignore this line of propaganda 
any longer.

Abu Mazen wrote a doctorate denying the Holocaust. As Arafat 
told a cheering crowd of Palestinian well-wishers aired on 
the Israeli news tonight: "I am the one who picked Abu Mazen."

Yes, Arafat's hand-picked successor is now going to fight 
terror. Hello? Is this the same Abu Mazen who made it clear 
that killing Jews over the Green Line was perfectly legitimate?  
Is this the same Abu Mazen who picked as his Chief Head of 
Security Muhammad  Dahlan? As Dr. Aaron Lerner points out: 
"...despite his"moderate" rhetoric, the Preventive Security 
Service under Dahlan's leadership played a key role in the 
manufacture of illegal weapons and coordinated and initiated 
terrorist attacks by the various terror groups. 
Dahlan himself ordered the bombing of the bus of children in 
Kfar Darom on the 20th of November 2000.

In an ideal world, the former Gazan chief of the Preventive 
Security Service would be sitting (once again) in an Israeli 
prison. But Israelis hope that Muhammad Dahlan's designation 
as the state minister for security affairs will help stem 
Palestinian terrorism."

This kind of delusional thinking on the part of Israeli leadership 
almost got my family killed last year. So this year, I am far less 
willing to sit back and be a good girl.

The problem, as I see it, is not the fact that Arafat, 
the discredited terrorist who should be hung for mass murder,  
is instead "president" and hand-picking people to head an  
American-supported Palestinian State ten miles from the 
heart of Israel's population centers. The problem is the 
Palestinian people,  who supported Saddam Hussein, who are 
in favor of terror, who are anti-Semitic, who never cease 
their incitement to terror, and who have shown at every 
opportunity that they do not want a State, but the 
destruction of Israel and the continuation of terrorist 
attacks.

We cannot allow coalition victors to create a new set of 
rules for fighting terror that they themselves wouldn't  
dream of swallowing, but are willing to force-feed Israel.  
Rules that allow terrorist leaders who supported Saddam
Hussein to pick their successors.  That allow former 
terrorists to "fight terror."  That allow people to continue 
to incite to terror and violence (below you will find the 
latest information on this incitement).  Now is the time
to fight this attempt, to expose it for what it is: 
a cheap way of appeasing Arab "pride" after their resounding 
defeat at American and British hands.

I am not going to let them take risks again with my life, 
and my children's so some wrong-headed, doomed theory can 
again be proven wrong-headed and doomed (how many will have 
to die to prove the Road Map won't work? A hundred? A 
thousand?).  
Mr. Blair is allowed to say the IRA's answers to three 
questions concerning their renunciation of terror were 
"conditional and uncertain."  When is the Israeli government 
going to have the guts to say the same about Abu Mazen as 
Prime MInister, and Muhammad Dahlan as chief of security?

There is only one plan that can create what is necessary 
for peace in our region, and this is it:

  Collect all weapons, and deport anyone found with illegal 
  weapons.

  End all incitement to terror and hatred. Close down radio, 
  television, schools, mosques that incite hatred.

  Begin a reeducation program for children  and adults that 
  will take five to seven years.

  At the end of that time, begin to create a new leadership 
  from those WHO WERE NEVER FRIENDS WITH ARAFAT,AND 
  WERE NEVER INVOLVED IN TERRORISM.

  In the interim, Israel security forces are the only security 
  forces in the region.  Period.

We may not be able to stop the war against us. But at least 
we don't have to put down our arms and tie our hands behind 
our back. We don't have to walk over the cliffs like lemmings.  
Not this time. This time, I'm not going quietly, no matter 
what my elected leadership and their good friends abroad say.