ISRAEL IS AN ALLY IN THE WAR ON TERROR
On July 28, 2006 I read an article titled “Ramsey Clark Plans ‘Emergency March’ to Stop Israel” by Alison Espach of CNSNews.com. This article really irritated me and caused my heart arrhythmia to act up.
This article indicated that former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, various anti-war groups, and Muslim groups have announced their plans for a march on the White House on August 12th to protest U.S. funding of the “Israeli war machine”. Clark claims that providing funding to Israel is grounds for impeaching President Bush. I have searched the Internet for anything that would indicate that the United States has provided any special funding to Israel beyond the normal foreign aid provided each year. I also found out that Israel has not requested any special funding. Once again, the far left has no grounds for their statements.
The National Council of Arab-Americans, Partnership for Civil Justice, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, and the ANSWER Coalition are all a part of this effort. Brian Becker, the national coordinator for ANSWER feels that the Lebanese and Palestinian people need to know that the President is spending tax dollars for the wars in Iraq and in Lebanon without the consent of the American people. Boy, is this way out there, but there is still more!
The article also indicated the ANSWER does not consider Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. The United Nations does not list them as terrorist organizations either. However, as pointed out by Dr. Ariel Chen, Australia, Canada, Israel, the United States, and the European Union do list Hamas as a terrorist group. Hezbollah is identified as a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States. ANSWER justifies Hamas and Hezbollah as non-terrorist groups because they are political parties that include at least 30 to 40 percent of the people. Dr. Ariel Cohen had a good response to this. He stated “So did the Nazi party”. I say a group, whether political or not, should be judged on its actions. Just because a group has established itself as a political entity does not give it the right to carry out terrorist acts. We could also look at this from the other side, and say that because they represent a political group in a country, then that entire country is guilty of the terrorist acts and must be held responsible.
In my opinion the National Council of Arab-Americans, Partnership for Civil Justice, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, and the ANSWER Coalition are totally out of touch with reality. They completely ignore the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah were the aggressors and caused the current war activity between these organizations and Israel. These terrorist groups have openly stated that their objective is to eliminate or wipe out Israel. They are against any government that is not based on radical Islam. Dr. Cohen is right-on with his comparison of these terrorist groups to the Nazi party.
In my mind the “War on Terror will not be over until Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all other terrorist organizations are eradicated from the world. Terrorist organizations or group cannot be tolerated by the world regardless of the country or political group. Terrorism needs to be an unacceptable way to effect change. All members of these organizations, whether in political parties or not, are terrorist and are the enemy in the “War on Terror”. We need to remember that any nation that supports these terrorist groups is also an enemy of the United States of America. We should consider the National Council of Arab-Americans, Partnership for Civil Justice, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, and the ANSWER Coalition as enemies because of their support for terrorist organizations. They are allies of terrorist organizations. Americans that support these groups should be charged and prosecuted for treason.
