The security narrative is everything today. Just when we thought human rights might be getting on the Arab spring agenda– no, the attack in southern Israel shows that security is everything. Here’s a rush to judgment by Steve Rothman, congressman from northern New Jersey. Then after him the Simon Wiesenthal Center, same message; you can’t give a state to Palestinians. Rothman:
My condolences go out to the families and friends of the Israelis who were murdered in Southern Israel today and to all of the people of Jewish State of Israel. I strongly condemn these horrific terrorist attacks and call on the Palestinian Authority and the Egyptian government to immediately denounce this brutal violence. ..
With the efforts by the Palestinian Authority and Egypt to improve ties with terrorist groups like Hamas, today’s terrorist attacks remind us that trying to make peace with murderous terrorists only leads to more death and suffering – especially for Israel.
With an uncertain future in the Middle East, it is more important than ever for the United States to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish State of Israel.
From the Wiesenthal Center officials:
“These attacks should be a wake call to world leaders who continuously pressure the Jewish state to return to indefensible borders and to accept a two state solution with the Palestinian Authority, whose president cannot even set foot in Hamas-controlled Gaza”, Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper dean and founder and associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO said.
“Meanwhile, the Arab Spring has yielded a bonanza for terrorists in Gaza and the as Egypt opened its border with Hamastan and has been unable to control the Sinai from terrorist activities. Today’s attacks also underscore the dangerous folly that the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state scheduled for the United Nations next month represents….”
