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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (11)	10/23/2001 7:12:13 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Message 16546784 Message 16546402 dailytelegraph.co.uk To court Arafat is to succour the enemy of our ally Israel By Daniel Johnson News: Blair backs call for Palestinian state IF 5,500 people had not been horribly murdered in America on September 11, would Tony Blair have invited Yasser Arafat to Downing Street? Why, in the midst of a war against terrorism, does the Prime Minister embrace the man who, more than any other, invented international terrorism? September 11 ought to have strengthened Israel's relationship with the West. Israel's enemies are our enemies. In such a common predicament, to demonstrate solidarity with Israel ought to have been an elementary duty. Instead, our governments have so far done the opposite. America and Britain have talked up the creation of an independent Palestinian state. The purpose of the "peace process" is no longer to make peace, but to satisfy one party to the conflict. No peace without full sovereignty for Arafat's Palestine will be regarded by London and Washington as just and permanent. Mr Blair is demanding that Israelis accept a new state, carved out of territory that is now being used to attack them, over which they will have no control. Most Israelis accept, as I do, that such a new state will one day exist. But what reason do they have to suppose that the new Palestine will not be a terrorist state, like Syria, Iraq, Libya, Iran and Afghanistan? Other states, such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, offer covert sponsorship. So does Yasser Arafat. From Oslo to Camp David, even unprecedented Israeli concessions could not persuade Mr Arafat to sign a treaty. The disillusionment of Israeli public opinion with the peace process since the resumption of the intifada is total. Yet Mr Blair is demanding that Israel resume talks with Mr Arafat as if the suicide bombings, which some 75 per cent of Palestinians support, had never happened. Why should Israel trust a man who has probably had more Jews killed in the past 50 years than anyone since Hitler? worldnetdaily.com