Tashbih Sayyed Agrees With Me

Again, maybe I'm not alone after all.

From a column at NRO today:

.... While the overwhelming majority of Jews, over 70 percent according to opinion polls, have gradually come to recognize a Palestinian right to self-determination, the Palestinian national movement continues to this day to oppose Jewish self-determination. The Hamas Charter and Hezbollah's literature make no secret of their desire to destroy the Jewish state. Arafat clearly makes common cause with Hamas, not least by authorizing his Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade to participate with Hamas in terrorist operations. Even the new Palestinian Authority prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, dares not say he accepts Israel as a Jewish state.

To create a Palestinian state before this mindset is changed can only ensure that the new state will be yet another terrorist sponsor. And that will have much broader consequences than merely empowering Palestinians to continue their genocidal campaign against Jews in the Middle East. Such a victory would galvanize Islamist terrorist movements worldwide....

If Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims worldwide see a Palestinian state created before the terrorist movements and extremist ideologies are discredited and defeated, they will be convinced that terrorism succeeds where other approaches have failed. That can only engender more terrorism, directed not only at Israel but also at the United States and the rest of the free world.

See my Diana West Seems to Agree With Me and my Roadmap to Terrorism?

(Thanks, Charles.)

P.S. Charles Johnson agrees with me, too:

At NRO, Tashbih Sayyed makes what would seem to be an obvious point — that rewarding Palestinians with a state before they have done anything to renounce terrorism as a tactic to destroy Israel would only engender more terrorism: Defeat Terrorism First. It seems obvious, yet much of the world is in total denial of this simple fact; so it needs to be said again and again to overcome the blindness....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 06/18/03 06:53:20 PM
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