In her litany of interrogatories, however, Glick fails to point to one of the most culpable conspirators in the ongoing lie that the Palestinians have “moderate” leadership which seeks coexistence rather than jihad - and that is Israel’s government. Glick asks:
First, how is it possible that the belated admission of a massive 33 year cover-up of the murder of senior American diplomats spanning the course of seven consecutive presidential administrations has been ignored by the US media?…
[W]hat does the fact that under seven consecutive administrations, the US government has covered up Arafat’s direct responsibility for the murder of American diplomats while placing both Arafat and Fatah at the center of its Middle East policy, say about the basic rationale of US policy towards Israel and the Palestinians? What would US Middle East policy looked like, and what would have been the results for US, and international security as a whole, if rather than advancing a policy that made Arafat the most frequent foreign visitor to the White House during the Clinton administration, the US had demanded his extradition and tried him for murder?
How many lives would have been saved if the US had not been intent on upholding Arafat’s big lie? How would such a US policy have impacted the subsequent development of sister terror organizations like Hizbullah, al-Qaida and Hamas, all of which were founded by members of Arafat’s terror industry?
Good, important questions, all.
But, even more than the US, Israel’s government has created the environment for the PLOnoma to spread and metastasize until the Palestinian Arab population flocks to the Hamas banner, while Israel props up, funds, arms and trains Palestinian terror minions. Unless and until Israel comes clean, the US will have little choice but to follow the path Israel has chosen.
Israel has missed numerous opportunities since June 1967 to declare and secure her borders with finality and to provide safety for her citizens. Perhaps none were so egregious as the Left’s (Barak’s) collaboration with Clinton to concretize the deadly, destructive mirage of peaceful Palestinian statehood and the Right’s (Sharon’s) failure to realize that with Bush, post 9/11, things were different.
After 9/11, more and more people were prepared to understand that Israel has never been the obstacle to peace in the region. More and more people would have embraced an open US-Israel coalition. The tragic, sanguinary folly of Oslo could have been revealed for what it was - but Israel’s leaders chose to continue the deadly farce rather than demand it be ended once and for all.
They continue to do so today.
Arab culture is venerable, durable, proud, aggressive and different. And very, very dangerous. Islamic identity and pride are on the rise, even as Western identity and pride are faltering. Fatal fantasies about Iraqi democratization and liberalization also are fueled and fed by the woolly ethnocentrism which declares the Palestinians (and Saudis and Syrians, etc.) to be a similar culture of cultural primitives and naifs just awaiting the irresistable call of democracy and Western Civilization. Both America and Israel need to be cognizant that, in the history of human civilization the forces of tribalism and totalitarianism have, thus far, a much more enduring track record than those of democracy and liberalism. We are, as Lincoln memorably described our democracy, a great experiment…an experiment whose longevity is far from proven or ensured.
Nowhere is the West’s demise more imminent than in Israel, a country with military resources to dominate, but with a waning will to fight for survival. Yes, we need to challenge the US for lying to us about who is killing Americans. But Israel also needs to start telling the truth about the Palestinians. Perhaps the State Department won’t back it up, but Americans will.
http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2007/01/02/arafat-palestinians-and-the-big-lie/
03.01.2007
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