A Tangled Web

THE OSLO OSTRICHES...



Sound advice from Frank Gaffney Jnr here on the follies of Oslo.





"The folks who brought us the Oslo "peace process" and its progeny have been thoroughly discredited by their handiwork. The last people President Bush and Ariel Sharon should be taking advice from in the present crisis are the likes of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, State Department Policy Planning Staff Director Richard Haass, Arabists in the Bush administration who are holdovers from the Clinton era and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Britain turned to new leadership after the appeasers got it into World War II. President Bush must do the same – not allow their contemporary counterparts to compound the danger they have helped to inflict on American interests in the Middle East and her most important ally in that region, Israel.



Yasser Arafat remains committed to the destruction of the state of Israel. This is evident in his speeches to his people in Arabic and the symbols (particularly the maps) he uses to describe his goals. He can no more be expected to end attacks on Israel by people who share his objectives than he can be relied upon to create a state of "Palestine" that will live, as President Bush put it recently, "side-by-side with Israel in peace and security."