"Peace cannot come while terrorism continues to wrack Israel"
May 22, 2009
JihadWatch.org
This is good as far as it goes, but it still endorses a two-state solution. PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki said this last month: "With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices they made - just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse. It will regress of its own accord. Then we will move forward."
"End-Run around Obama: 76 Senators Demand Peace without Terror," by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Israel National News,
More than 250 Congressmen, including 76 senators, have signed a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, telling him "that peace cannot come while terrorism continues to wrack Israel."The letter was initiated on April 30 by Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd and Arlen Specter and Republican Senators Johnny Isakson and John Thune, according to New York Times journalist Edwin Black. He wrote on The Cutting Edge website that the House of Representatives version was rallied by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor.
The letter has been signed by 195 members of the House in addition to the 76 senators, and it sends a clears message to the White House about Israel's security.
"The notion that Obama was linking Jerusalem's negotiations with Palestinians to its ability to thwart nuclear annihilation rankled many in the Jewish and non-Jewish Israel support community," Black wrote. "In a word, Israel has gone over the president's head and appealed directly to the Congress." [...]
"We must also continue to insist on the absolute Palestinian commitment to ending terrorist violence and to building the institutions necessary for a viable Palestinian state living side-by-side, in peace with the Jewish state of Israel."
