Thursday, June 28, 2007
Dear Friends,
This Monday, June 25th was the last day of the four-way Sharm-El-Sheikh Summit. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was the host of the summit, which was also attended by Jordan’s King Abdullah II, the Palestinian Authority Chairman, Abu Mazen, and Ehud Olmert who is, unfortunately, the current Prime Minister of Israel.
Ehud Olmert, thus, was not only outnumbered by the Arab Enemy, but was definitely outclassed as well.
Arab leaders at the four-way Sharm-El-Sheikh Summit reiterated their support for Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), in light of the recent takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the host of the Summit, spoke first at the closing ceremony, Monday night. Noting that Sharm-El-Sheikh has become a symbol of peace, he gave his blessings for success to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Abbas.
“I called for this summit in order to renew the hope for peace, as it is the desire of all the region’s peoples,” Mubarak said. He added that the leaders in attendance recognized “the need to assist and support the Chairman of the Authority, Abu Mazen, and to strengthen the unity of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and in the West Bank.”
Mubarak characterized the meeting at the summit as “forthright conversations” that focused on promoting continued negotiations between Israel and the PA, as well as ending the suffering of PA residents.
(R.M.: What about JEWISH suffering at the hands of Arab terrorists?)
In his parting address, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said that the events in Gaza in recent weeks “compel us to continue forward along the path that we wish for our peoples, the path of peace and security”. Abdullah added that he sees that path as leading to “a Palestinian state in Gaza and in the West Bank in peaceful existence alongside the State of Israel. To that end he emphasized, “Palestinian legality, and PA Chairman Abu Mazen must be strengthened.”
For his part, Abu Mazen said that the diplomatic opportunity that has been created must be taken full advantage of. According to the PA leader, with “all eyes on Sharm-El-Sheikh” the momentum must be transformed into action. Abu Mazen urged Prime Minister Olmert to resume what he described as “serious talks” towards a future Palestinian State. The region, he said, is “at a crossroads between peace and violence.” (R.M.: Is that a threat, Abu Mazen?)
Prime Minister Olmert said that he and Abu Mazen agreed to hold meetings every two weeks. “We agreed to continue talks that will bring about as soon as possible, the advent of a Palestinian State alongside the State of Israel” he said. In his closing speech, Olmert announced that he would propose to his Cabinet that Israel release 250 Fatah-affiliated terrorists from Israeli jails. As further gestures of goodwill, Olmert said he would release withheld tax revenues belonging to the PA and ease some restrictions on Arab travel in Judea and Samaria. However, Israeli military authorities have said that the easing of travel restrictions pose a great security risk!
THE REACTION OF KNESSET MEMBERS TO THE SHARM-EL-SHEIKH SUMMIT:
MK TZVI HENDEL representing the National Union Party on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said that Olmert continues charging down a path that leads to a weakening of Israel. “If the released terrorists were arrested after the Oslo Accords” Hendel asks, then what has changed? Then, too, we said that Fatah members want peace and we have to caress and hug them, and they committed crimes against Israeli citizens nonetheless. And now, reality will bite again under Olmert’s auspices. Hendel warned: “Every extra minute that Olmert remains in office increases the threat to Israel.”
MK YULI EDELSTEIN of the Likud Party said that Prime Minister Olmert’s speech showed that Olmert “has forgotten which state he heads and which people’s interests he is supposed to preserve.” According to Edelstein, Olmert gave “precedence to the Palestinian’s suffering instead of making it clear to Abu Mazen that in order to receive gestures from Israel, he needs to act towards a true eradication of terror.”
MK RABBI YITZCHAK LEVI (National Union Party) said in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the only way to release Arab terrorists from prison is by throwing them out of Israel totally. (Rabbi Levi’s daughter, Ayelet Hashachar, was murdered in a terror attack in November of 2000).
MK ZEVULUN ORLEV, Chairman of the National Religious Party, (NRP), said that the Prime Minister has again displayed a lack of thoughtfulness, irresponsibility, and impulsiveness in his decision-making. “The only consideration in exchange for release of the prisoners is Olmert’s political survival and, as on previous occasions, the citizens of Israel will be forced to suffer the attacks of those released terrorists.”
MK ARYEH ELDAD, of the National Union faction said that, despite the Sharm-El-Sheikh Summit’s failure, Olmert demonstrated a “Pavlovian” reaction by releasing prisoners and rewarding terrorism. Referring to future victims of terror acts by the released terrorists, Eldad said, “The blood of the murdered innocents will be on the head of the person who releases murderers for the sake of his political survival.”
ARE WE SUCKERS FOR PUNISHMENT?
The Arabs are trying to kill us in every way possible. They are trying to carve out yet another Arab State from our Biblical Inheritance, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
Are you surprised that I include Gaza as part of what G-d promised the Jews?
Sadly, even a large part of the Bible-believing community seems to have forgotten that after the Exodus from Egypt, upon the arrival at the Holy Land, G-d apportioned Gaza to the tribe of Judah.
(Joshua 15:20-47)
As Israelis absorb the news out of Sharm-El-Sheikh of the proposed release of hundreds of convicted terrorists, Sderot and other western Negev communities are under continual Kassam rocket attacks from the Arabs. Despite the continued violence from the Arabs, Israel continues humanitarian aid! At least 80 trucks filled with food crossed into Gaza via the Sufa crossing.
The most outrageous and ironic part of this “humanitarian aid” to the Arabs is Olmert’s shipment of 600,000 young plants for Gaza’s greenhouse farmers!
Not only did Olmert have a hand in uprooting the Jews from Gaza, and destroying their homes, farms and agriculture, but he now goes out of his way to rebuild the same for the Arab enemy!
Dear Friends,
Olmert said at the Sharm-El-Sheikh Summit that he is “by nature, optimistic, and precisely in these days I see an opportunity, a way to promote the region’s diplomatic processes.”
Actually, most of us agree with MK Zevulun Orlev that Olmert’s capitulation to the Arabs makes him (Olmert) more optimistic, first and foremost, about HIS OWN POLITICAL SURVIVAL.
In the words of MK Tzvi Hendel:
“EVERY EXTRA MINUTE THAT OLMERT REMAINS IN OFFICE INCREASES THE THREAT TO ISRAEL”
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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