Pro-Israel Advocate Compares U.S. 'Pandering' to Palestine With Nazi Appeasement
by Chad Groening
November 22, 2005
(AgapePress) - - Esther Levens, founder and CEO of the Unity Coalition for Israel, says the recent Palestinian-Israeli "agreement" brokered by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is nothing but more appeasement of terrorists at Israel's expense. Rice pushed the Israelis to allow the Palestinians in Gaza to have a direct border with Egypt as well as bus convoys between Gaza and the West Bank through Israeli territory. But Levens says it is unbelievable that the U.S. Secretary of State is giving credibility to a terrorist group and "that the U.S. would back off of denying Hamas the ability to run in the January election against [Mahmoud] Abbas."
The coalition spokeswoman says the Bush administration's "pandering" to the Palestinians is reminiscent of the way Adolph Hitler was appeased by the Western powers leading up to the Second World War. "Is it much different," she asks, "than what happened in World War II, when we waited and waited and then had to get hit at Pearl Harbor? It's every bit as dangerous -- this is a new Nazi movement."
The Bush administration would never concede U.S. territory to al-Qaeda, Levens asserts, yet she says the U.S. government appears perfectly willing to make Israel sacrifice its territory and security to the Palestinians. "One battle after another, they're winning," she contends, "and it's not really helpful when the president and his secretary of state just hand it over and force Israel to do that."
America is not giving its terrorist enemies New York, Levens says, "because they killed 3,000 people there." It would be a farce even to consider such a thing, she adds, "and yet we pressure Israel to do what we would never do."
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
