THE DANGERS Inside: Seven OF A Important PALESTINIAN Articles STATE Haifa Shechem Tel Aviv Ariel Beit El Jerusalem Ashkelon Efrat Hebron Sderot Gaza Beersheva Founded 1897 Zionist Organization of America www.zoa.org [email protected] ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Benzel Mel Dubin Sylvia Freyer Outstanding and relentless advocates for the Jewish State of Israel Zionist Organization of America National Board of Directors Morton A. Klein, National President Dr. Michael Goldblatt, Chairman of the Board Dr. Alan A. Mazurek, Chairman, National Executive Committee Henry Schwartz, Treasurer Stanley Kessock, Acting National Executive Director Arnold Aronoff Eli Hertz Stanley Rosenberg, Esq. Janet Aronoff Dr. Esther Hirschenbaum Nina Rosenwald Dr. Newton Becker Irwin Hochberg * Howard Schaerf, Esq. Dr. Stanley Benzel Larry Hochberg David Schoen, Esq. * Bart Blatstein * Robert Jacobs Henry Schwartz * Dr. Herbert Caskey Daniel Katz, Esq. Dr. Zalman Shapiro Dr. Ben Chouake Dr. Jerome Kaufman * Gene Shusman Lewis Dashe Hon. Alfred Kleiman Edward M. Siegel, Esq. Mel Dubin Jay Knopf Henry Silverman, Esq. Congressman Jon D. Fox Dr. Arthur Kook Samuel (Sonny) Sklar Sylvia Freyer * Joshua Landes Martin Sokol Jack Friedler Joseph Loshinsky * Sandra Stein, Esq. Harvey Friedman Rubin Margules Henry Taubenfeld, Esq. * Dr. Jonathan Gold * Dr. Alan A. Mazurek * Henry Z. Ten Steven Goldberg, Esq. * Joseph Mermelstein Jacques Torczyner * Miriam Goldberger Jay P. Miller Ronn Torossian Dr. Michael Goldblatt * Cherna Moskowitz Larry Wenig, Esq. Taffy Gould Dr. Irving Moskowitz Al Grossberg Nelson Obus Robert Guzzardi, Esq. * Michael Orbach * Prof. Malvina Halberstam Dr. Rosalie Reich * ZOA National Officer The Dangers of a Palestinian State TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Based upon Security, Freedom, and a Change of Heart Former U.S. Senator Connie Mack 11 A New Palestinian State: Danger Ahead Douglas J. Feith 14 The Dangers of Establishing a Palestinian State Morton A. Klein 24 The Myth of Demilitarization Bernard Smith 31 Israel’s Water and Environment in Danger Itamar Marcus 35 Withdrawing from History Michael Freund 38 Israeli History in Palestinian Hands Shimon Riklin [2 ] Israeli and Palestinian Peace: Based upon Security, Freedom, and a Change of Heart FORMER U.S. Senator CONNIE MacK OF FLORIDA (The text of a speech deliv- Let me begin with the rule, convinced me that ered before the U.S. Senate question that is on my their hearts and minds on March 3, 1999.) mind today: How is it are set on other goals. possible to engage in The Palestinian leader- Mr. President, I very re- peace negotiations with ship does not want peace. cently traveled to Israel. people who maintain They want, first, their It had been several years the right to obliterate own state which they can since my last visit, and you, who are filled with control with total power. I expected this year we hatred toward you, and Then they want to use would bring some impor- who harbor the dream that state to eliminate tant measures to the Sen- of one day destroying the State of Israel. ate floor. I learned a great your homeland? Peace is deal during the week and a matter of the heart. I Let’s be clear. The peace I rise today to share a few believe in the depths of process, to be meaningful, simple thoughts regard- every person’s heart is must be about more than ing what I saw and what a desire to live in peace. rules and laws and lines went through my mind as But what I saw, which on a map. We can reach the week in Israel un- was the outcome of the a short-term agreement folded. Palestinian Authority on these points, but if the Palestinian leadership Former U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Republican of fails to abandon incite- Florida, chaired the Congressional Joint Economic ment of hatred, perse- Committee, and was a member of the Senate Finance cution, and terrorism, Committee, the Senate Banking Committee, and the then we are all dream- Senate Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. He ing, only dreaming, and was also a member of the Peace Accord Monitoring our President’s behavior Group, which monitors violations of the Oslo accords. must be labeled foolish appeasement. There will [3 ] not be peace until hearts When I wander into the that they were serious and minds are changed, entrance of Jerusalem, about long-term peace and we must focus our I’ll turn into a suicide with their neighbors? attention on these is- warrior in battledress. sues. Mr. President, many In battledress. In I also have some ex- of my colleagues in the battledress. amples from Palestin- Senate and in the House ian textbooks for a are aware of the promo- There is no way I can con- third-grade grammar tion of hatred contained vey to you the emotion of lesson. Here is the task: in the Palestinian media, actually seeing that scene “Complete the following and more significantly in on television. There is no blank spaces with the the Palestinian school- way I can put the emo- appropriate word.” And books. Let me provide tion into what she was ex- the sentence is, “The some examples. pressing and the emotion Zionist enemy blank ci- that she was expressing vilians with its aircraft.” This is a picture that was as she sang those words. The “correct” answer taken off of Palestinian And after her song, she is, “The Zionist enemy Authority-controlled tele- got an ovation from her attacked civilians with vision. It is a picture of a classmates and from her its aircraft.” For seventh young girl, probably six teacher. graders: “Answer the or seven years old. This is following question: Why a young girl singing into his focuses do the Jews hate Muslim a microphone. She is on us on the unity and want to cause a television show that fundamental division among them? would be what we would difference in Give an example of the refer to as kind of a Tapproach between the evil attempts of the Mickey Mouse Club type Palestinians and the Jews, from events hap- of show that would be Israelis. I have a grand- pening today.” These are shown to children by the son about that age, about from Palestinian text- Palestinian Authority. I the age of that little girl. books today. One would want to read to you what How would I feel if he expect, rather than focus this little girl is singing. were being taught hatred on hatred, if they were Again, this is a program in school? If he were serious about peace, they that was produced by the being taught hatred on would focus on how the people who are sitting television, how would I two peoples are working across the table from you, feel? How would you feel to live side by side. A supposedly negotiating if your government was history book for twelfth peace. This is what the teaching your children to graders published only little girl is singing: hate? Could you conclude last summer teaches: [4 ] “The clearest examples before moving with his realize that you are really of racist belief and racial wife to Israel. They just simply struggling for a discrimination in the had their second child, a normal life, hoping for world are Nazism and girl named Tamar. peace and security, pray- Zionism.” ing to God, while actually Wendy told the story of living in a war zone. To see this taking place the day she was check- today is chilling. If you ing out of the hospital in I had another profound can, think about it in Jerusalem, two days after meeting during this the context of being in giving birth. In a very or- week. I met one evening Israel and being briefed dinary and matter-of-fact privately—secretly— by a member of the way, the hospital gave her with Arabs who were government with respect the necessities for bring- being persecuted for their to what is happening in ing home a newborn baby. Christian faith. I met what they refer to as the In addition to providing with about ten Palestin- anti-incitement commit- for diapers and other ian Christians. I will tell tee, which was set up by things we would expect, you just one of their the Wye Agreement. To she was handed a gas stories, but I will change be sitting there and seeing mask for her baby. It is some of the details to this, I must say to you, actually a tent which you protect the person I am was chilling. I found it to put your baby under in describing. be extremely chilling. case of a chemical weap- ons attack. I remember an energetic While the government of man, in his early for- Israel makes good-faith n Israel, this prep- ties, at the end of the efforts to come to a peace aration is routine. table. I remember him agreement, the Palestin- Everyone in Israel because he seemed so full ian Authority teaches knows to have a of life and love. He had children hatred. This Igas mask ready. It just a great smile on his face causes me to ask: How becomes a part of the and displayed a wonder- can peace be obtained craziness of everyday life. ful sense of humor. I when the children are But when you bring home say this was memorable being taught hatred? Let a newborn baby, when because, frankly, after me share another story. I you bring home your hearing what he had been attended Shabbat dinner baby and you get the through, I do not know if at the home of Saul and chemical weapons tent I could express the sense Wendy Singer in Jeru- at the hospital, then you of peace and love he did.