For all who are still able to see, the recent murder of Israeli schoolchildren by a Jordanian soldier is an obvious consequence of the Oslo Accords. Founded upon a relentlessly genocidal commitment by the Arab side to drive out "The Jews" once and for all, these agreements were never more than a Palestinian Trojan Horse. Rather than create a two-state solution to a seemingly endless intercommunal conflict, Oslo was always intended by the Palestine Authority to supplant, with violence, one state with another. The method of this violent displacement remains a carefully-orchestrated combination of terrorism and war.

In their very wildest dreams, Israel's Islamic enemies could never have imagined the extent to which the Jewish State would cooperate in its own destruction. Encouraged by the cliched wisdom of our own President, the Netanyahu Government, in the fashion of its misguided predecessors, still refuses to recognize what should now be perfectly obvious to everyone: The state being created by the Palestinian Authority, with its allies in Damascus, Teheran, Baghdad, Cairo and Amman, is to be erected upon the ruins of the State of Israel. The fact that Netanyahu insists that there will be no Palestinian state, but only an "entity" like "Puerto Rico," is doubly foolish, combining insupportable optimism with a demeaning image of paternalism.

What about Jerusalem? Here it is apparent that the Prime Minister plans to draw the line. There is no way, says Mr. Netanyahu, that Israel will consider a compromised authority over control of its eternal capital. Yet, it is now already too late for such an assertion, as former Prime Ministers Rabin and Peres legitimized the incomprehensible idea that Jerusalem was ultimately a negotiable matter. Today, Palestinian expectations concerning Jerusalem -- nurtured and sustained by prior Israeli leaderships -- are overwhelming and irreversible.

At Auschwitz, records Elie Wiesel in Night, a doomed inmate observes ironically: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." So, too, does Yassir Arafat intend to keep his promises to the Jews. This master terrorist, responsible for the murder of American diplomats (Cleo A Noel Jr. and George Curtis Moore) as well as of scores of Israeli women and children, is completely truthful when he declares that the developing state of Palestine will have Jerusalem as its capital. He can certainly offer nothing less to a collaborative Islamic world that now acts as an essential midwife to the birth of another Arab state and as gravedigger at the death of the Jewish State. This means that, in the near future, Netanyahu can either surrender Jerusalem the way in which he surrendered Hebron - in which case the incremental and "peaceful" removal of Israel by the Oslo Accords will continue - or he can hold on to Jerusalem. If he chooses the second option, which is now certain, the Palestinian Authority and its allies will assuredly unleash a new round of terrorism in Israel, one that might even include chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

This brings us to war. As reported recently by the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, national leaders in most Arab states and in Iran "are convinced that the present vulnerability of Israel is so great that there is a unique opportunity to, at the very least, begin the process leading to the destruction of Israel." Preoccupied with the battle against expanding terrorist violence throughout Israel, Netanyahu will be forced to concentrate his military strength internally, leaving the country's peripheries exposed. Aided by Palestinian "police" created by the "peace process," the terrorists will open up many fronts that could ultimately immobilize Israel's capacity to defend itself. In the ensuing chaos, for which Israel remains largely unprepared, Arab citizens of Israel -- now almost one million strong -- will join their Palestinian bretheren in "Palestine" to finally rid the region of its hated "Jewish cancer."

Yassir Arafat has already destroyed Israel's intelligence network in Judea/Samaria/Gaza (Palestine), and is now in full control of the Islamic terror group Hamas, according to a recent "revolutionary reassessment" of the PLO Chairman by Israeli intelligence services. As part of an agreement with Syria, Damascus will begin to provide the Palestinian Authority with advanced weapons. In Gaza, where Arafat has built himself a personal command bunker four stories deep, the PA security services are accumulating large stockpiles of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, including missiles, even though they are prohibited by the Oslo Accords.

When the time comes, and Israel is in chaos because of its diffused response to multiple acts of terrorism, the Palestinian Authority -- together with sympathetic Israeli Arabs, Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians -- will commence full scale war, a war likely to be joined by Israel's first "peace partner" Egypt as well as by its other "partner" Jordan. The Israelis, having forsaken the preemption option while it might still have been purposeful (because they didn't want to upset the "peace process" or The Americans) may then also have to face coordinated ballistic missile attacks against population centers involving unconventional warheads. Lacking an operational ballistic missile defense capability, which Israel's enemies know is still years away, Jerusalem's only real option will be to wreak parallel destruction upon its enemies. The final result of the American-led Middle East Peace Process will thus be catastrophic regional war, a conflagration from which there will be neither escape nor sanctuary and in which Washington's expert participation will be limited to burying the dead.
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