OpinioNet Contributed Commentary

Date - October 21, 2001
Author - Steven Plaut

How Peres Contributed to Bin Laden?
(and related stories)

  1. Maybe the Danish Foreign Minister can comment: Until the Faroe Islands are liberated and Greenland is free, is Denmark an unworthy negiotating partner, and a legitimate target of terror?

  2. Here is a thought: The attack on the WTC and Pentagon might have happened because of Oslo stupidity. Why? Because at the very start of Oslo, Israel dismantled its entire intelligence gathering apparatus among Palestinians. Peres insisted it was no longer needed, cause Israel and the PLO were now friends and peace partners. Not only did Israel stop using its informers among Palestinians, in many cases it abandoned them to their fates and did nothing when the PLO tortured and murdered them. The Israeli Left insisted that any Palestinians who had ever helped Israel fight PLO terror had been a "traitor to their own people" and should even be denied Israeli protection and the right to settle their families in Israel. The exact same phenomenon repeated itself in Lebanon, where Israel dismantled its intelligence apparatus, and abandoned its southern Lebanese allies to their fates at the hands of the Hizbollah.

    Now intelligence about the Hizbollah and about the Palestinian terrorists might have been crucial in the days up to the attacks on the US. There is no doubt that the Palestinians and the Hizbollah are hand-in-glove with bin Laden. Good intelligence might have discovered what they were planning. We now know the plans for the attacks on the US had been made many years ago.

    But Peres left Israel eyeless in Gaza and the Labor Party lemmings disarmed Israeli intelligence, because there is no military solution to the problems of terror.

    And it is very possible that the results of this folly lie smouldering in the Battery this very day.


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