Topic: Israel's enemies
Israel not at war with invisible Islamic terror
9/6/2004 media@actcom.co.il
David Bedein
Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency
Fellow, Center for Near East Policy Research
IsraelBehindTheNews.com
There is a myth that Israel is at war with invisible Islamic "terror" that is hard for the Jewish state to identify and pinpoint.
Quite the contrary: Israel remains in a formal state of war with entities that it can easily identify.
In May 1948, The Arab League galvanized led six nations- Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq , to declare war against the creation of Israel in 1948. That same Arab League remains at war with Israel to this day - even though Egypt and Jordan eventually signed peace treaties with Israel, and even though Syria and Lebanon eventually signed armistice agreements with Israel, while Iraq was neutralized by the US.
That leaves Saudia Arabia in an active state of war with Israel.
In January 1964, the Arab League established the PLO to create an indigenous uprising of Palestinian Arabs to make war on Israel.
In June 1974, the Arab League and the PLO adapted a phased plan to continue that war, to take one piece of Palestine at a time until all of Palestine is "liberated."
In March 2002, the Arab League reaffirmed its war with Israel, based on the Saudi plan which clearly states that the war aim remains the return of all Arab refugees to replace Israel.
In April 2002, Israel acquired documents from PLO headquarters in Ramallah which proved that the PLO continues to act as a proxy for the Arab League and Saudi Arabia in the war against Israel. Those documents also showed how Islamic terror groups had been formally absorbed into the PLO.
In other words, Israel has three enemies that it can readily identify: The PLO , the Arab League and Saudi Arabia.
Only when Israel makes a strategic decision to defeat these three enemies will the 1948 war be resolved.
There is no war on terror. Only the continuation of the 1948 war, which has yet to be resolved.
