Impact of Israel’s “Disengagement” (uprooting Jewish communities) from Gaza on US Interests

1. Congressional oversight requires an examination (hearing) of the impact of Israel’s “disengagement” (retreat) from terrorist strongholds in Gaza and Samaria on US interests in general and on the safety of US GIs in Iraq/Afghanistan in particular.

2. The July 2000 “disengagement” from Lebanon boosted Hizballah terror to regional prominence, currently haunting US GIs in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

3. The 1994-98 “disengagements” from 85% of Gaza and 40% of Judea&Samaria created the largest terror base in the world, a platform and a tailwind to regional anti-US terrorism. Palestinian terrorists face the US in Iraq/Afghanistan.

4. The 1994-98 “disengagements” bolstered the PLO/PA, the arch lethal enemy of the pro-US Hashemite regime in Jordan.

5. The 1995 “disengagement” from Bethlehem doomed its Christians to PLO/PA oppression, accelerating Christian flight (from a 70% majority to a 20% minority).

6. “Disengagement” would transfer control of Gaza’s sea and air ports to the PLO/PA – the sustained ally of Iran, Russia, China and No. Korea – enhancing their strategic posture in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean.

7. “Disengagement” would reward the PA – a platform to pro-Saddam elements.

8. “Disengagement” would drag the US into inevitable Egypt-Israel diplomatic and military conflicts.

9. “Disengagement” would be perceived, by Palestinians, as a boost to the rogue PA regime, discouraging Palestinian reformists and moderates.

10. “Disengagement” (retreat) would reward terrorists and undermine deterrence and negotiation in the Mideast, where the only peace possible is deterrence-driven.

11. The 1993-2001 anti-US wave of Islamic terrorism was fueled by the 1979, 1983 and 1993 US “disengagements” from Teheran, Beirut and Mogadishu.

12. President Bush opposes the “disengagement” (retreat) concept (June 28, 2005): “They think that they can force us to retreat; they are mistaken…We either deal with terrorism abroad, or we deal with them when it comes to us…”

13. “Disengagement” and US interests constitute an oxymoron! The time to examine the impact of Israel’s “disengagement” on US interests is before – and not after – its consequences burden US GIs.

*General Alexander Galloway, UNRWA Jordan Office Director (April 1952 briefing to the American Christian Palestine Committee): “The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.” (Asaf Romirowsky, Middle Eastern Studies, September 2010).

*Dr. Benny Morris (Irish Times, Feb. 21, 2008): “…In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29th, 1947, [the Palestinians] launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost…”

*15 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displace in 1947 in order to create Pakistan. No right of return…

*300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait, in 1991, in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. No Arab or international uproar…

*Scores of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan and killed – in 1970 – in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO attempt to topple the Hashemite regime.

*The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employs 6,300 persons, resettling gradually 27MN refugees. UNRWA – the largest UN agency – employs 29,000 Palestinians, perpetuating Palestinians’ refugee-status.

*The phantom of the Palestinian refugees – just like Abu Mazen’s hate education – constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Vision, aiming to de-legitimize and de-humanize the Jewish State.

*The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the existence – and not the size – of the Jewish State.

Please read the following Summer 2010 article – The Nakba Obsession – by Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the City Journal quarterly:

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_nakba.html

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