Middle East Turmoil

Despite the consistently biased, anti-Israel United Nations and its Resolution 799 condemning the tiny Jewish democracy, and the efforts of the U.N.’s biased Egyptian secretary general to force Israel to tolerate internal terrorism by its Islamic/Arab enemies, all nations, including Israel, have the right by international law, moral law (even Hashemite law) and common sense, to deal with terrorists, murderers and all “internal enemies” as they deem necessary. Whether by lethal force, imprisonment or deportation. Israel has endured 44 years of war waged by its internal and external enemies, and it must take whatever measures it deems essential for its survival.

History is replete with examples of executions, internments and expulsions in “ethnic cleansing” as in Yugoslavia today. Its worst, the slaughter of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, is the reason the nation of Israel was reborn. Jordan in 1970 expelled the PLO, killing some 10,000. Syria in 1982 dealt with insurrection by indiscriminately machine-gunning almost 20,000. Saudi Arabia deported three-fourths of a million citizens from Yemen because that country supported Iraq in the Gulf War. Kuwait, a nation we fought for, deported 300,000 of its Palestinians. Why were there no U.N. resolutions of condemnation and threatened sanctions against those countries? And, when will the U.N., the U.S. and the world community stop subjecting Israel to intolerable double standards that jeopardize its security and its very existence?

HOWARD D. GARBER, President

Americans for a Safe Israel

Orange County Chapter