Cheney: US won't be party to terror state
 

By Ryan Jones

March 8th, 2006
 

 
 
US Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday declared Washington will not be party to the birth of a terrorist state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but failed to recognize that America has already laid the groundwork for such an entity.

Speaking to a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Cheney said:

"The United States will not be a party to the establishment of a Palestinian state that sponsors terror and violence."
His words were directed at the Hamas terrorist organization, which in January shattered American assumptions that democracy is the key to Middle East peace when it scored an overwhelming victory in Palestinian Authority general elections.

Many would argue that the US has already made itself a party to the establishment of a "Palestinian" terror state by virtue of its long support for Yasser Arafat's PLO.  The PLO, now headed by Arafat's former deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, was just 15 years ago still recognized as the world's premier terrorist network, the Al Qaeda of its day.

From "Oslo" to Wye to the Road Map, the Unites States more than any other nation has helped to entrench the idea that the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are entitled to a separate state, and put them in a position to move ahead aggressively with the establishment of that state.

Whether Washington will merely step back and allow the terrorists to use the foundation put in place largely by US diplomatic efforts to establish sovereignty, or actively oppose and help prevent the birth of a Hamas terror state remains to be seen.

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