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The Bush Doctrine and Suicide Bombers

The spate of suicide bombers that have plagued Israel during March 2002 culminated into the Passover Massacre where 27 people were slaughtered. There are those in America, certainly in Europe and most assuredly in the Arab world that wish to draw moral equivalency between the self-defense measures employed by Israel and the Hamas suicide brigades.

There is no moral equivalency between self-defense and outright terrorism.

Let’s get something straight right off the bat. The Israeli Government does not target civilians for wanton and casual violence, as do the Palestinian suicide bombers. Israel does not pursue a policy that sends teenage boys and girls laden with nail bombs into supermarkets, restaurants and buses so as to inflict maximum death and mayhem.

Saudi Arabia has allocated $50,000,000 towards those Palestinians who have suffered losses during the intifada, and Saddam Hussein (you remember him don’t you—egotistical madman who has used chemical weapons against his own population, invaded Kuwait a few years back and sent SCUD missiles in Saudi Arabia and Israel) pays $25,000 to the family of any suicide bomber.

Israel has responded to the Passover Massacre by sending its armed forces into the West Bank. They have three clear objectives:

1. Destroy the terrorist infrastructure. This means demolishing the bomb making factories and rounding up weapon caches.
2. Arrest and/or kill frontline terrorists and their leadership. These are those fun people who belong to Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and Al Qaeda.
3. Once the military mission is complete, erect barriers to separate Israel proper from the Palestinian Authority and/or what ever comes after it.

Hamas was formed in 1987 and has been running the suicide bomber terror campaign. They fundamentally an offshoot of the Palestinian Liberation Organization which finds it roots in Arafat’s Fatah organization. It is safe to say that Hamas operates either at the implicit or explicit orders of Yasser Arafat.

Hezbollah was formed in 1982 in response to the last time Israel had to actively protect its borders. It was originally based in Lebanon. It was both funded and organized by our good buddies in Iran. You know the guys running around in black sheets with the really tight turbans and bad attitudes. They are high on the suspect list for the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks bombings in 1983. That was when we lost 241 Marines (our guys—the good guys for those you still confused).

Islamic Jihad has been called many things and they have reconstituted themselves over the years. Their major claim to fame was the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. We all remember Anwar from Jimmy Carter’s crowning moment—the Camp David accords. However, these groups are not interested in peace with Israel, they are only interested in Israel’s destruction.

Fatah has been around since the Six Day War in 1967. This little gem is what brought Yasser Arafat from a thug and terrorist to Chairman Arafat and Bill Clinton’s most frequent guest (and he didn’t even have to pay money to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom). Fatah has spawned so many radical butchers over the years one loses count. Suffice it to say Fatah is still in the terror business.

Which brings us to everyone’s favorite—Al Qaeda. These are the people who flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. They hijacked Afghanistan using the Taliban. They have been active in a number of countries around the world, and they have links to Iran, Iraq and Fatah.

Connect the dots and we find the same cancer on the West Bank that America is fighting in Afghanistan. The battle between America and Al Qaeda is truly a war between western civilization and militant Islamic fundamentalism. The Bush Doctrine states, “You’re either with us or against us.”

Israel is fighting the same people and the same war that America has joined. Israel is with us. It is a pity that we really cannot say the same for Europe or the Saudis (you remember WWII and Desert Storm when America liberated countries from their oppressors). Some may question our motives, but none can question the results. The United States in the post-war period has been the guarantor of peace and stability throughout the world.

The West Bank suicide bombers and the mad pilots of September 11 are one in the same. It is time for the American Government to support Israel in her fight for survival, because the Sharon clearly recognizes that this is a death match someone needs to win soon.

Douglas De Bono / DouglasDeBono.Com
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota

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