Path to peace
Podhoretz agrees with me.
"There may not be peace, but there is still hope. There is a way to get the peace process on track.
"The answer is simple, even if the execution will be fiendishly difficult: The terrorist groups that stand in the way of progress must be defunded and destroyed. Period.
"Defunding is where Bush comes in. He said it on Wednesday: 'I strongly urge all of you . . . to cut off money to organizations such as Hamas, to isolate those who hate so much that they're willing to kill to stop peace.' That's a message for Saudi Arabia, mainly. And it needs to be more than a message. It needs to be a threat.
"Destroying the terrorist organizations is where the Israelis come in. The so-called 'road map' calls for the Palestinian Authority to make a powerful effort in this regard. But it can't do much, and everybody knows it. Only the Israelis can. Israel's efforts to destroy Hamas and Islamic Jihad represent the only hope Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) has.
"A U.S.-Israeli diplomatic and military alliance is the only real hope for a Palestinian state."
Podhoretz agrees with me.
"There may not be peace, but there is still hope. There is a way to get the peace process on track.
"The answer is simple, even if the execution will be fiendishly difficult: The terrorist groups that stand in the way of progress must be defunded and destroyed. Period.
"Defunding is where Bush comes in. He said it on Wednesday: 'I strongly urge all of you . . . to cut off money to organizations such as Hamas, to isolate those who hate so much that they're willing to kill to stop peace.' That's a message for Saudi Arabia, mainly. And it needs to be more than a message. It needs to be a threat.
"Destroying the terrorist organizations is where the Israelis come in. The so-called 'road map' calls for the Palestinian Authority to make a powerful effort in this regard. But it can't do much, and everybody knows it. Only the Israelis can. Israel's efforts to destroy Hamas and Islamic Jihad represent the only hope Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) has.
"A U.S.-Israeli diplomatic and military alliance is the only real hope for a Palestinian state."
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