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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Fwd: As I had said, this whole tragedy is the work of the CIA-trained PLO-Al Aksa Martyr brigade , with other words the POPE/RICE/BUSH/BLAIR/OLMERT/PERES, despite shameful hypocrisy and disinformation. Please read ALL below.



B"H

Dear All,

Shavuah Tov.

As you have already heard, this terrible tragedy happened Friday, when two young, beautiful, brave Jewish boys from Kiryat Arba were gunned down by Arab terrorists. This hit very closely home, and right away I knew it was no random terror attack.

There is the pattern of targeting prominent rabbis or their families, or various opposition leaders such as Ido Zoldan recently, whether by fake car accidents or actual shootings, a pattern that is statistically simply impossible.

Then there was also the story of the shots in the head, the all- terrain vehicle.. it just didn't make sense that this would have been some random attack by wild maniacs: this was a highly professional hit by experts. First the disinformation came that the Al-Quds brigade had claimed responsibility. The Al-Quds brigade is an arm of Iranian terror, why would they target soldiers in Telem? Then came the revelation that in fact, it was not Al-Quds, but Al- Aksa: close enough in sound, but a whole different meaning!

The Al-Aksa martys brigade is the most murderous arm of the PLO, it receives money from the PA government ( i.e. from ISRAEL, the EU, the US, etc, at the tune of over $ 6 billion pledged, if you remember Paris two weeks ago.), and it is trained by the CIA.

With other words, this was a GOVERNMENT HIT! Through fronts, of course, as usual, with disinformation, apologies. How do you like the cruel, phony, utter cynicism of Shimon Peres , using Fayyad's crocodile tears to actually PRAISE the PA for their murderous action!?

Now you are asking, how did they find out about the boys' whereabouts? . Well, I was at the funeral tonight, and the story I heard was that the two boys were at that spring in Telem, and they saw this Arab walking there too who started a conversation with them, they actually exchanged salaams! And while they were talking, the Arab alerted his four  terrorist buddies who arrived there in their all -terrain vehicle, fully armed, and started shooting at the boys.

All very well planned and executed.

What we should ask, though, is WHO alerted the Arabs that the boys were going on this trip? They were soldiers on leave. Somebody from the Shabak must have alerted the Arabs that they were on their way. WHO? FROM THE ARMY? FROM  KIRYAT ARBA? Don't forget, the gate to get out of Kiryat Arba has spies there at all times.

Also, one more important fact:

Rav Yehuda Amichai is a very prominent and important Rabbi. I spoke to him a couple of times before the Shemitta year to ask him a couple of questions re: Shemitta. He is THE EXPERT on Shemittah here, nobody is as knowledgeable as him here. He is highly respected and famous nationwide as the head of the OTZAR HAARETZ organization, which provides Shemittah produce for observant Jews all over Israel. It is a system whereby JEWISH LABOR ONLY is used in a HALACHICALLY PERMISSIBLE WAY. That sure goes against everything this evil government believes in. Witness the coercion they used to force rabbis to approve the Heter Mechira system. OTZAR HAARETZ DEFIES THE ISRAELI GODLESS GOVERNMENT!!

Hitting at the observance of Shemittah is hitting at the very essence of our link to the LAND. Do not forget that the PENALTY FOR NOT OBSERVING THE SHEMITTA CORRECTLY, ACCORDING TO TORAH, IS EXILE!

AND WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO, THESE MONSTERS? EXILE US! BY HITTING AT THE CORE OF SHEMITTA OBSERVANCE, THEY ARE IN FACT HITTING AT OUR VERY LINK TO THE LAND!

THEREFORE, MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS TERROR ATTACK IS THAT THE BEST WAY TO GET BACK AT THESE MONSTERS IS BY OBSERVING THE SHEMITTA LAWS EVER SO CAREFULLY, AND BUYING OTZAR HAARETZ PRODUCE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ONLY THUS CAN WE DEFEAT THEIR NEFARIOUS PLANS. THEY ARE NOT STUPID, THEIR ORDERS COME DIRECTLY FROM THE POPE, AND THE POPE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING.

The second rabbi is a rabbi at the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva. By killing his son, they are hitting at the heart of Hevron, trying to weaken Hevron.

So the whole thing makes a lot of sense from their point of view.

Just putting two and two together.

By the way, the young man who gave a eulogy for the dead is literally my next door neighbor. His parents and siblings can look at my garden every day...even into my bedroom , if they really wanted!!!

MAY G"D AVENGE THE BOYS' BLOOD.

PERES, YOU ARE GUILTY.

OLMERT, YOU ARE GUILTY.

CONDI, YOU ARE GUILTY.

BUSH , YOU ARE GUILTY.

BLAIR, YOU ARE GUILTY.

BENEDICT AND YOUR JESUIT MINIONS, YOU ARE THE MOST GUILTY.

 G'D WILL AVENGE THESE BOYS' BLOOD, AND YOU WILL PAY, WHEN THE TIME COMES. I AM SURE OF THIS, AS SURE AS TWO AND TWO EQUALS FOUR.

DS







David Rubin and Achikam Amichai Laid to Rest

20 Tevet 5768, 29 December 07 11:31
by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) The funerals of the two young men from Kiryat Arba who were murdered by terrorists Friday will be held tonight.

The funeral procession of David Rubin and Achikam Amichai left the homes of the slain boys at 7:30 P.M.. The joint funeral at Har Herzl will begin at 10 P.M.

Achikam is the son of Rabbi Yehuda Amichai, the head of the Torah Institute and the grandson of Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neria. David and Achikam were murdered in Nahal Telem, to the north and west of Hevron.

According to the details that have been leaked from the initial inquiry into the event, the two soldiers, who were on leave from their units, were approached by terrorists in an SUV who apparently had been tipped off as to their presence in the secluded riverbed. The terrorists struck up a conversation with their intended victims, and at a certain point opened fire on them.

The two young men, both of whom served in elite units, managed to return fire and killed one of the terrorists. At least one other was reportedly wounded. IDF sources told Ynet that the two "fought to their last drop of blood."

The young woman who was with the two managed to run and hide, and called the emergency services. Bad cell phone reception delayed the process of locating the attack victims. By the time the army and emergency crews arrived on the scene, the two young men were dead. The emergency crews also found the body of one Arab terrorist. The Red Crescent emergency services reportedly evacuated the second injured terrorist to a hospital in Hevron.

Fayad: We Are 'Pained' By Killing of Soldiers
Salam Fayad, chairman of the PA in Judea and Gaza, said Saturday evening that he shares the pain over the killing of the two Israeli soldiers near Hevron. "We feel pain over the death of the two soldiers. Every death is unnecessary," Fayad said at an economic conference being held at a hotel in Hertzliya.

Fayad said the PA arrested suspects in the matter and asked to convey his condolences to the bereaved families. These are not just words here, but also deeds," Fayad said. "We are working in cooperation with the Israeli security services and we will see this matter to its end."

'Only force'
The Yesha Rabbis' Council reacted to the murderous attack near Hevron by saying: "Any intention and plan to give up parts of the Land of Israel is understood as weakness and surrender and leads directly to the murder of Jews."

"The Arab enemy understands only force, power and resoluteness," the rabbis said. "A Jewish government needs to evict its enemies from within it and settle Jews in their stead."

The newly-formed Hatikva party responded to the murderous attack, and said: "The victims of Annapolis who were gunned down today in Har Hevron died as a direct result of the terrorists' daring, which increases the more Olmert and Livni court the chairman of the Palestinian terror authority, Abu Mazen."

Terror victims' organization Almagor sent a message to the Israeli cabinet following the attack, and asked it to return the roadblocks it removed from Judea and Samaria's roads "instead of discussing relaxation of the criteria for releasing terrorists."

Besides the pressing need to replace the roadblocks, Almagor said, such a move "would convey a proper message to the terror groups in the wake of the murder."

MK Uri Ariel (NU/NRP) said that the murders were "additional proof of how the Arab terror raises its head the moment it recognizes weakness and willingness to compromise" on the Israeli side. "The Prime Minister's announcements about releasing terrorists, freezing construction and supervision of tenders in Jerusalem give terror a boost," he said.

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Rabbi Lior: Slain Young Men's Heroism will Make Us Stronger

21 Tevet 5768, 30 December 07 12:19
by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Rabbi Dov Lior, the Rabbi of Kiryat Arba, told mourners in the funeral procession for the young men slain Friday that the way the two returned fire despite being wounded "is encouragement for heroic deeds by Jews who fight for their lives."

Lior tore at the government for its decision to narrow the definition of terrorists "with blood on their hands" so as to enable the return of Cpl. Gilad Shalit who was abducted by Hamas. "They free terrorists with blood… but the fact that a terrorist tried to murder and failed, and because of this they then free him, that is madness." 

'The government is weak'
Rabbi Lior continued: "Who said that the weapon with which they murdered the two heroes is not a weapon our government provided them with? The government surrenders, the government is weak, and now they have even invited some goy from America who came to pressure us to give up and retreat."

Lior said that things have reached a state in which a Jew can no longer walk freely in his own country. "We cower behind walls," he said, "but the youth will continue to redeem our land and from this shall come peace, true peace, unlike the one they are trying to drug us with."

Rabbi Lior added a prayer: "May G-d avenge His servants and cause the government to be replaced." The current government supposedly cares about security but releases hundreds of murderers. They want to uproot Jews from their land, and this encourages terror."

'For me you are a journey'
Benaya Sarel, who was a friend of both of the terror victims, told the mourners about Achikam, who had nine brothers and sisters, and who Sarel said was incapable of fear. "There is no spring you failed to dip in, you stepped in every stream and for me you are a trip, a journey, a walk, sometimes with no objective."

Sarel said his slain friends belonged to a kind of heroes that is becoming extinct. David Rubin, eldest of seven siblings, never cried once. "You never broke and you always led the way forward," he grieved.

Sarel vowed that he and his friends would not be deterred from continuing to hike all over the Land of Israel, including the "dangerous" zones. "We followed you with our eyes closed, and we will continue to leave no rock unturned, he said, "only this time we will have no one to ask where to go.

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PA Official: PA Al Aqsa Terrorists Now PA Policemen

21 Tevet 5768, 30 December 07 12:21
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(IsraelNN.com) Among those arrested by the IDF in connection with the murder of David Rubin and Achikam Amichai on Friday was Ahmed Muhammad Abu Sitteh, 
also known as Abu Suleiman, the Hevron area commander of the Al-Aqsa Brigades terror group.

According to Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Abdel-Razak al-Yahya, the terror group has been disbanded. "There is no Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades any more," he said in an interview with PA Radio. However, this does mean they have given up their weapons; instead, he said, they have been absorbed into "legitimate" PA security ranks, and are now "PA policemen." Yahya saw this as an ideal solution to dismantling the terror infrascture in Judea and Samaria. "We wish they [other terror groups] will respond positively and follow al-Aqsa's example," he said.

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Israeli forces seized the field commander of the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank city of Hebron and four other Al-Aqsa Brigades members on Friday.

The Al-Aqsa Brigades Media Center said commander Ahmed Muhammad Abu Sitteh, also known as Abu Suleiman, was detained late on Friday night and taken to an unknown location.

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Fayyad: We mourn deaths of Israeli soldiers

Palestinian prime minister meets with Israeli President Peres, expresses sorrow over deadly shooting attack near Hebron on Friday, says PA security forces have apprehended men suspected of involved in the attack

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Latest Update: 12.29.07, 23:24 / Israel News

"We mourn the deaths of the two soldiers. Every death is a senseless one," Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturday evening in a meeting with President Shimon Peres in Herzliya.

'We will combat terror'

Fayyad: PA responsible for attack in its territory / Ali Waked

Palestinian prime minister pledges Palestinian Authority will fulfill its commitment to combat terror. During visit to Nablus he addresses terror attack near Hebron on Friday, admits shooting was carried out in region under PA's charge. Meanwhile PA interior minister announces: 'There is no al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades anymore'
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"We are working to end the bloodshed, to create a better future," said Fayyad and extended his condolences to the families of Cpl. Ahikam Amihai and Sgt. David Ruben, two off-duty soldiers on a hiking trip who were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Hundreds attended their funeral Saturday evening. 

 

''In spite of our best efforts, from time to time our relations get tested with an incident like this unfortunately,'' Fayyad said. ''This is a sad reality, it's something that we have to deal with.''

 

Fayyad announced that Palestinian security forces have already apprehended several suspects in connection to the attack.

 

''We have suspects in custody already. We are coordinating and cooperating with the Israeli security services, weapons have already been returned to Israeli security in connection with this particular incident,'' he said . ''So it's not only strong words of condemnation, it's action.''

 

Fayyad did not give further details and the Israeli military had no immediate confirmation of his comments.

 

Peres stressed the importance of Fayyad's statements and praised the work being done by PA forces to combat terror in the West Bank.

 

During a survey of the PA's deployment in Nablus earlier in the day, Fayyad acknowledge that the attack

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had occurred on Palestinian territory. He vowed that the government would fulfill its commitment to rein in armed groups attacking Israel.

 

"Security is what Israelis view as most important; it is difficult for the public to understand why we are still being attacked after the withdrawal from Gaza. They are concerned that this will be the situation in the West Bank," said Peres.

 

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  • =Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian nationalists

    October 31, 2005


    What are the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades?

    The brigades are a group of West Bank militias affiliated with former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's al-Fatah faction and have been one of the driving forces behind the latest Palestinian intifada (uprising). While the group initially vowed to target only Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in early 2002 it began a spree of terrorist attacks against civilians in Israeli cities. In March 2002, after a deadly al-Aqsa Brigades suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the State Department added the group to the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations.

    Are the brigades an Islamist movement?

    No. The brigades began in 2000 as an offshoot of Fatah, the secular Palestinian nationalist movement led by Arafat. Fatah is the largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. (When Israel and the PLO signed a peace deal in 1993, Arafat renounced terrorism and founded a new, Palestinian-led administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.) The al-Aqsa Brigades commit the same sort of suicide bombings widely associated with such Muslim fundamentalist groups as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but the group's ideology is rooted in Palestinian nationalism, not political Islam. In early 2002, the al-Aqsa Brigades' attacks killed more Israelis than those of Hamas.

    What sort of attacks do the brigades launch?

    Mostly shootings and suicide bombings, experts say, including attacks by female suicide bombers. Brigade members say they draw inspiration from Hezbollah, the Shiite Lebanese militia whose attacks drove Israel out of its self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon in 2000. Similarly, the brigades hope to drive Israel out of the West Bank by force. The group began by targeting Israeli roadblocks and settlers in the West Bank, but since shifting its tactics in early 2002, the brigades have claimed responsibility for some of the conflict's most significant attacks, including:

    • An October 2005 suicide attack at the Gush Etzion junction that killed three Israelis and wounded three others;
    • A March 2004 suicide bombing at a checkpoint at the Port of Ashdod that killed ten people. Hamas also claimed responsibility for the attack;
    • An January 2004 attack on a bus in Rehavia, Jerusalem that killed eleven people;
    • A pair of January 2003 suicide bombings in downtown Tel Aviv that killed 23 people and injured about 100 more, one of the bloodiest attacks of the current Palestinian uprising;
    • A November 2002 shooting spree at a kibbutz in northern Israel that killed five Israelis, including two children, and wounded seven more;
    • A March 2002 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed three Israelis, prompting Israel to call off ceasefire talks with Arafat's Palestinian Authority;
    • Another March 2002 suicide bombing in a Jerusalem café that killed 11 Israelis and wounded more than 50;
    • A March 2002 sniper attack on an Israeli army checkpoint in the West Bank in which the gunman methodically killed 10 Israelis, including seven Israeli soldiers, before escaping;
    • A January 2002 suicide attack in Jerusalem by a female terrorist that killed an elderly man and wounded about 40 other people.
    When did the group begin to target civilians inside Israel?

    Experts say the shift began in early 2002, when the Palestinian death toll in the current uprising was nearing 1,000 and the popularity of Arafat's secular Fatah faction was waning in comparison to the Islamist militants of Hamas. (Polls say most Palestinians support suicide bombings.) The al-Aqsa Brigades' attacks became more deadly after January 2002, when the group's West Bank leader, Raed Karmi, was killed in an explosion—widely believed in the region to have been a "targeted killing" by Israeli forces. The al-Aqsa Brigades claim the deaths of women and children in their attacks are accidental.

    What's the brigades' relationship with the Palestinian government?

    Palestinian officials have said most of the group's members are on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority, often because they serve in both the brigades and in one of the fourteen formal security services. In October 2005, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia announced a plan to begin disarming the brigades by setting up training camps and incorporating its members into the Palestinian security forces. Al-Asqa spokesmen in the West Bank and Gaza strip said they were confident the group would go along with the new plan, but Israeli officials are skeptical that the effort to disarm the group will actually be successful.

    What does the name al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades mean?

    The group's name refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque—located atop the contested Jerusalem holy site known by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount— and to Palestinians killed in the current intifada. Arabs refer to the uprising, which began in September 2000 after a controversial walk atop that holy site by Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon, as the al-Aqsa intifada. Muslim tradition holds that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven from the site of the al-Aqsa Mosque, whose name is Arabic for "the farthest place." The individual militias that make up the group are often named after recently killed Palestinian militants.

 

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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > How Clinton trained terrorists - CIA 's PA police training course graduates joined Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

How Clinton trained terrorists - CIA 's PA police training course graduates joined Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

July 24, 2006

Fast Times At Clinton U

By William A. Mayer

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=palecia72406.htm

July 24, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A few days ago DNC Chief Howard Dean made a statement that should be consigned to the Twilight Zone:

"If you think what's going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn't, because we would have worked day after day after day to make sure we didn't get where we are today. We would have had the moral authority that Bill Clinton had when he brought together the Israelis and the Palestinians."

Books could - and have been - written about the shortcomings of foreign policy initiatives under the last Democrat president, however one in particular [there are a multitude of others of course - gifting a crazed N. Korean dictator with his very own nuclear reactor and inviting Iranian intelligence operatives into Bosnia for starters, immediately comes to mind] should serve to illustrate the imbecility of Mr. Dean's pronouncement.

Central to Dean's thesis [also touted now by Madeline Albright - out on the hustings again pimping her Albright Group - an amalgam of low level project managers for Clinton's delusional North Korea nuclear policy and the still smoldering Balkan intervention, the upshot of which was to establish an Islamist base in Central Europe] is that under the Clinton administration things were different...which they certainly were.

Starting in 1996 a program was initiated whereby the CIA would train key members of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian security force with the expectation that they would then weed out terror elements within the PA. Two years later as Clinton leaned on Israel in pursuit of something he could cling to as a legacy he formalized the training of Arafat's Palestinian security teams - who were oft times also moonlighting in outright terrorist organization like the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade - as part of the Wye River Memorandum, specifically:

2. Forensic Cooperation

There will be an exchange of forensic expertise, training, and other assistance.

C. Other Issues

(b) Should the Palestinian side request technical assistance, the U.S. has indicated its willingness to help meet those needs in cooperation with other donors.

In this manner the Clinton administration codified and intensified an ongoing program, providing the highest level of technical assistance available - methodologies and hardware - to Arafat's terrorists.

The lead image above is of the "graduating class" of 1998, comprised of 18 members.

Khaled Abu Nijmeh was a member of this class, trained under the Clinton doctrine which we must assume DNC Chair Dean would now like to resurrect.

Nijmeh had directed numerous terror bombings against Israelis and along with 12 others participated in the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

On the lam in Europe, he told the San Francisco Chronicle:

"I am a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a first sergeant in Palestinian General Intelligence," Abu Nijmeh, now 36, told The Chronicle from his temporary home in Rome. "I personally received a course in antiterrorism and VIP protection. "I was not alone. Many Palestinian security people were trained by the Americans. We hope they will continue helping us." - February 14, 2005, "Mideast training program backfires Palestinian security officers schooled by U.S. later used tactics against Israel," Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service

Raafat Bajali was also in this graduating class, quickly offering his newfound expertise to the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. Bajali died in a December 2001 explosion caused by the premature detonation of the bomb he was constructing.

Israeli officials including Clinton's handpicked PM Ehud Barak, complained, often bitterly that the American program was a serious threat to Israeli security:

"According to a senior member of the Israeli defense establishment, the American-Palestinian connection hurts Israel - and in a big way. 'Every course advances them, raises their level, helps them to become more professional. The CIA invests in them, gives them good courses. They get fantastic equipment, not just from the USA, also from European countries. The problem is that they also use the equipment against us, instead of using it to trap terrorists. So, for example, in the area of surveillance, they have a surveillance unit that monitors Israeli targets. And if you have advanced equipment, there is no problem monitoring military communications networks, intelligence networks or cellular telephones." - Article Link

The graduates of Clinton U learned their craft well, mastering shooting disciplines, VIP protection, interrogation techniques and communication skills, however many of them offered these new skills in service to the Palestinian's most violent killers.

As Front Page Magazine noted:

"More than half of the original class of 18 went on to become fighters in the Al-Aqsa brigades."

The training provided to Arafat's Fatah in the United States was coordinated through CIA contractors like Armor Group and Texas based International Training Inc. Additionally, state players - England, Jordan and Egypt directly provided instruction, in accordance with Wye.

One should be careful not to dismiss the fanciful pronouncements of partisans like Dean and Albright outright, because though often ridiculous on their face such sentiment permeates the leadership of the Democrat party, much of the press, academia and the permanent bureaucracy of the Dept. of State and the CIA.

Oft criticized as pre-9/11 thinking it goes deeper than that.

Perhaps the greatest defect with such policies lies in an almost complete misunderstanding of the nature of Islamist expansionism.

Such thinking leads boy-presidents with an eye to history and no experience in state-craft into problematic undertakings with huge potential downsides.

This leads seemingly well intentioned people to mount charm offensives [and "good will" gestures, training your enemies to more efficiently kill you] to demonstrate the benevolence of U.S. intentions towards people already proven implacable as participants in a manifest destiny of religious domination.

The nearly universal pressure to incorporate multiculturalism and moral relativism into any scheme of conflict resolution also looms large, one reason why the knee-jerk reaction to any confrontation between the Islamists and the West is almost always a demand for an "in place ceasefire," thus preserving terrorist gains and preventing any reversal of their fortunes.

At their core those who counsel a ME strategy heavily weighted towards negotiation and cooperation - absent the defeat of our enemies - are asking for the re-adoption of policies that have severely burned us and our allies in the past.

For that reason alone such rhetoric should be subjected to the derision it deserves.

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