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...recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole representative of the Palestinian people, Israel’s security has not increased but decreased. While seeking peace, Israel has allowed Arafat and the Palestinian terrorist organizations to set up a base of operations in the West Bank and Gaza, allowing them freedom to plan and execute terrorist missions with an ease unseen since the PLO operated from Lebanon. Arafat himself has proven himself more interested in his own power than in aiding his own people—or in making peace with Israel...
...hijackers, Zubaydah grew up in a comfortable middle-class home. His real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, and he was born into a Palestinian family living in Riyadh. In his teens, he was lured into Islamic extremism through the Palestinian cause. At 18, he surfaced in Gaza as a member of the Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Afghanistan, where his zeal and efficiency earned him a place in al-Qaeda's inner circle. Fastidious by nature, he was more a logistician than a fighter. Bin Laden trusted him enough to put him in charge...
...individual decision by a small group is becoming much more mainstream," says Jerrold Post, an American psychiatrist who has studied suicide bombings in the West Bank. The suicide-homicides have come to be seen by most Palestinians as their last, best hope. In June a poll taken in the Gaza Strip found that 78% of the population approved of suicide bombings, considerably more than supported peace talks...
...appalled to read Faisal Chaudry’s racist op-ed in which he calls Israel’s control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip a “racist colonial occupation.” He also tries to play the race card by describing “white Israeli soldiers destroy[ing] refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades.” He seems to forget that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis are from Ethiopian and Arab nations. To reduce the Mideast conflict to racism shows a lack of understanding...
Chaudhry claims in his op-ed that Israel is undertaking a “racist colonial occupation” of West Bank and Gaza Strip. While I have a problem with Chaudhry’s claim that Israel colonized these areas (when a country conquers lands in a defensive war, one can hardly call the ruling of said areas colonialism), it is reprehensible that Chaudhry uses the term “racism” in an article concerning the situation in Israel. The citizens of the democratic State of Israel are defending themselves from the suicide bombers and terrorists...