Alyssa Lappen Also Agrees With Me

She decries the "roadmap", in great detail, in an open letter to President Bush at FrontPage Magazine today:

.... Mr. President, you resolved after September 11th that the U.S. would defeat terrorism globally. I’m a New Yorker, and this earned you my unwavering support.

The Road Map, however, defeats this wise policy by:

• Rewarding terrorists whose deceitful regime has murdered more than 1,300 civilians since 1993, maimed more than seven thousand, and sponsored 20,000 attacks on civilians over the past three years. It rewards the inventors of suicide bombing, airline hijacking, kidnapping and mass murder for political gain.
• Overlooking the Palestinian National Charter’s open call for genocide — never revised. Thirty of its clauses seek Israel’s political, military, intellectual and cultural destruction by any and all means.
• Defeating democracy. The PA Constitution proposes an undemocratic, racist, Islamist state — denying basic freedoms to non-Muslim minorities. This reinforces Islam’s worst characteristics, a history of subjugating non-Muslims revealed by Bat Ye’or, Ann Elizabeth Meyer, Raphael Israeli, Frederick P. Isaac , Tudor Parfitt, H.Z. Hirschberg, V.S. Naipaul and Patrick Sookdheo, among others. Israeli’s forthcoming Islamikaze should be required State Department reading.
• Illustrating U.S. failure of conviction, a perceived weakness inviting Islamists to mount larger attacks on Israeli and U.S. civilians — and intensify their advanced ideological, intellectual, political, and religious assaults on foundational Western values.
• Ignoring a central tenet of Islam, which permits no permanent peace between Muslims and “infidel” states (such as Israel). Under Islamic law, the only treaty possible between Muslims and “infidels” is a “truce” modeled on Muhammad’s Al-Hudabiyyah Treaty with the Meccans in 628, according to Islamic scholar Hugh Fitzgerald. This may not exceed 10 years, and may be renewed briefly, but only if Muslims could thereby gather strength to renew their assault or defeat the Infidels in question.

Mr. President, the U.S. government must insist, to allies and enemies alike, that Israel reserves the national and sovereign right to defeat the terrorists, who have used all concessions to coordinate further nefarious work from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade and every other terror group west of the Jordan River....

Besides the Rewarding point, of course, I think the Illustrating point is especially spot-on.

See my Roadmap to Terrorism?

(Thanks, Charles.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 06/19/03 06:01:56 PM
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