The Jihad against the Jewish State

Guest Blogger:
Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz of
Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation of Chicago

As I did, please take your pen in hand and defend Israel's civilian population, men, women and children, whose lives are emperiled, by contacting via phone call, snail mail, fax or e mail Congress and the White House today!

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PLO Logo:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbXwnglrsCWe4O3JicZvmPW_TA_fsl4Nalxth-hOeZUXsbts9Rki5J3do

The above is the symbol of the PLO.
Recognize that country - the future Palestinian State?
 
To the Members of the United States Congress:
The Arab League at its Cairo Summit in 1964: [see -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Arab_League_summit_(Cairo) ]
created an organization to represent the Palestinian people. The Palestinian National Council convened in Jerusalem on May 28, 1964. The PLO was founded on June 2, 1964. In its Proclamation the PLO stated:
"... the right of the Palestinian Arab people to its sacred homeland Palestine and affirming the inevitability of the battle to liberate the usurped part from it, and its determination to bring out its effective revolutionary entity and the mobilization of the capabilities and potentialities and its material, military and spiritual forces"
When the PLO was established in 1964 Gaza was controlled by Egypt, the Golan Heights by Syria and the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan.  If the Arab League supported the establishment of a Palestinian State, why didn't they do it in 1964?

Read the PLO Proclamation carefully – "and affirming the inevitability of the battle to liberate theusurped part from it."  What was that "usurped part"? The State of Israel, which was recognized as a sovereign state by the United Nations in 1948.
Hamas, now a welcomed partner in the Palestinian Authority by Mahmoud Abbas openly declares as its goal not only the destruction of the State of Israel but the global extermination of all Jews. The introduction to their charter states, "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious....The Movement [Hamas] is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realized."
 
Their sympathizers in the so called Islamic State, occupying territory in both Syria and Iraq and now preparing to move on Jordan, are doing their part to rid the world of Christians as well.  The horror of the crucifixion of Christian faithful in Iraq and the destruction of Churches has been well reported in the media. The battle lines are drawn, not between the Palestinians and the Israelis, but between Western civilization and the international Jihad.
 
As a first response to this threat to Western civilization, and as a tangible support to America's one true ally in the Middle East, The State of Israel, Congress and President Obama should immediately curtail any and all aid to the Palestinian Authority.
 

Kol Tuv,
RRW