Under international law, the Palestinians are at war with US

The American Thinker:

Recent revelations in the news that al Qaeda has announced a new organization in Gaza in light of the Israeli withdrawal now means that the Palestinian Authority is technically at war with the United States.

How so?

Under international law, a neutral country not party to a war between belligerents is not allowed to harbor enemy combatants from one of the belligerents. Doing so willingly demonstrates the neutral party is now a party to the conflict. International law defines “the rights and duties of neutrals and belligerents in time of armed conflict are not mere legalistic rhetoric--they represent a carefully balanced relationship in which neutrals do not interfere with the policy goals of belligerents in exchange for a broad immunity from the violence used to attain those goals by belligerents. Impartiality intends to prevent the actions of a neutral nation from giving unbalanced support to one belligerent at the expense of another. The law is the codification of sound policy decisions and the military principle of economy of force. Absent the law, the logical consequences would not be much different.”


But Hamas and Al Qaeda have both been very brazen in suggesting unity with Bin Laden’s international terrorist group. Now it has been reported numerous times in world media that Al Qaeda is opening up a new cell in Gaza called the “Jihad Brigades in the Border Districts.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not once condemned Al Qaeda or forbidden it from creating such a cell in Gaza. No Palestinian police security apparatus has even warned Al Qaeda that its members will be hunted down and arrested whenever possible. In fact, Mahmoud Abbas is busy negotiating with Hamas and other terrorist groups to be part of his government.

Money to the Palestinians should be cut off until they get rid of the enemy in their midst. They will never have a state anyway as long as they are harboring terrorist. Until they get rid of the terrorist they have nothing to offer Israel.

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If the Palestinian Authority CANNOT keep Al Qaeda out of Gaza, then Gaza's status is now like that of Belgium during the World Wars. The U.S. would be free to invade Gaza to fight Al Qaeda at any time just as Britain and France and the U.S. were entitled to enter Belgium to fight Germany. If the Palestinian Authority WILL NOT keep Al Qaeda out of Gaza, then it has just declared war on the United States. Belgium, of course, had no choice once the Nazis invaded. But the Palestinian Authority does have a choice and responsibility in the situation.
This is a point liberals have ignored since World War II. They insisted that the US could not attack Laos and Cambodia, notwithstanding the enemy use of those territories as sanctuaries during the Vietnam war. Condy Sheehan made the same ridiculous argument when it came to the overthrough of the Taliban in Afghanistan. When international law does not support their point of view, antiwar liberals are quick to ignore it.

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