Someone should tell Mubarak, that if the shooting from the PLO stops, then Israel won't have to go in to defend itself.Period, no need for special envoys, UN special sessions, another round of ceasefire talks, just stop the shooting.
In a peace agreement, both sides must keep it, shooting at innocents and then to claim that when Israel is defending itself that it creates instability is a liitle absurd.
2) The Washington Post (Oct. 11) criticized Egypt in the editorial, "The Arab Paradox." Excerpts:
"The largest single 'cause' of Islamic extremism and terrorism is not Israel, nor U.S. policy in Iraq, but the very governments that now purport to support the United States while counseling it to lean on Ariel Sharon and lay off Saddam Hussein. Egypt is the leading example. Its autocratic regime, established a half-century ago under the banner of Arab nationalism and socialism, is politically exhausted and morally bankrupt.
"Mr. Mubarak, who checked Islamic extremists in Egypt only by torture and massacre, has no modern political program or vision of progress to offer his people as an alternative to Osama bin Laden's Muslim victimology... Mr. Mubarak props himself up with $2 billion a year in U.S. aid, while allowing and even encouraging state-controlled clerics and media to promote the anti-Western, anti-modern and anti-Jewish propaganda of the Islamic extremists.
Read The Washington Post editorial at: washingtonpost.com |
