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To: Neocon who wrote (32864)	6/21/2002 3:16:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nice to see you too neocon. Welcome to FADG. To follow up your line of thinking, here's a an excerpt from today's column by Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post: Israel's pre-Oslo goals were rational and achievable, if sometimes only at great cost. Israel's success at deterring its neighbors from waging war against it and in providing decent security for its citizenry in spite of its enemies' high motivation to kill and terrorize was not inconsiderable. Then came Oslo, with its delusion that peace is a policy, and security disappeared from our lives. We armed our sworn enemy and gave it the means to transform Palestinian society from a nascent, if violent and petulant, democracy, into a fascistic, jihadi lunatic asylum with an open-door policy for homicidal Islamikazes, who ecstatically massacre us as we sleep, eat, go to work, go home, and shop. ... Since Oslo, all debate on national policy has been subordinated to the dictate that we must all profess our dedication to peace as a strategic goal before getting a seat at the table. Every policy and every decision, has been judged from the prism of whether it advanced attaining Arafat's signature on a dotted line, or distanced such an event. ...For Israel to extricate itself from the intolerable situation in which we have found ourselves these past 21 months, it is imperative that we change the premise upon which our national debate is being being carried out. Peace as a policy aim must be expunged from our national dialogue. Instead, we must anchor our national discourse on the rational pursuit of security. All political, diplomatic, and military moves by the government must be based on the litmus test of whether or not such moves enhance or degrade Israel's security. In this way, we will open the national debate to a wellspring of grounded and worthy ideas that have been silenced for the past decade because they aim at achieving security, not agreements with the PLO. jpost.com