Summary
President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who meet at the White House today, have both been hurt by the inability to win decisive victories on the battlefield against the forces of Islamofascism: Mr. Bush in Iraq, and Mr. Olmert against terrorists in Gaza and Lebanon lands that Israel has unilaterally withdrawn from in efforts to achieve peace with its Arab neighbors. Mr. Olmert's situation is unlikely to improve anytime soon, especially if Washington keeps pressing Israel to forge ahead with another ill- considered attempt to prop up the terrorist-enabling Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas.
The results of earlier failed efforts to work with Mr. Abbas are on vivid display right now in Gaza where Israel withdrew its civilians and soldiers well over a year ago in the hope that the PA president would fight terrorism and manage a transition to an independent Palestinian state. But Mr. Abbas refused to fight terror, and the thuggishness and corruption that has long characterized his Fatah organization led to the victory of Hamas at the polls in January; Mr. Abbas is president of the PA, while Hamas (which unlike Fatah, refuses even the pretense of making peace with Israel) runs the PA administration in Gaza. Under Hamas-Fatah misrule, the situation has continued to deteriorate. The Egyptian government, which was supposed to prevent weapons smuggling into Gaza after the Israel Defense Forces withdrew, has failed to do its job. Terrorist gangs, some affiliated with Mr. Abbas's Fatah organization, others with Hamas, have turned Gaza into an updated version of Afghanistan under the Taliban. They chased away the European Union observers who were supposed to police the Gaza/Egypt border under an agreement brokered one year ago by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. With the Israeli military presence gone, Hamas, Fatah and myriad other terrorist organizations routinely smuggle arms across the border from Egypt into Gaza.See the full content of this document
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A Delusional Approach in Gaza
Today, a who's who of terrorists, including Hamas/Fatah gangsters and militias like Palestinian Islamic Jihad funded by Iran and Syria, roam the streets of Gaza, stockpiling arms and staging sho...
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