End Our Moral Cowardice
March 28, 2002 

MARINA DEL REY, CA--The United States must end attempts at "peace agreements" and allow Israel to destroy Yasser Arafat and all other Palestinian terrorist groups, said the Ayn Rand Institute's executive director, Dr. Yaron Brook.

"President Bush has issued many pleas for an end to the slaughter," said Dr. Brook. "But mere words are useless against groups who have demonstrated time and again that their only language is that of empty promises and suicide bombings. The United States must encourage Israel to use whatever military might is necessary to wipe out Palestinian terrorism."

"Such a stand is necessary for Israel's future--and ours," said Dr. Brook. "American eagerness to 'negotiate' with murderers has broadcast to the world that we are moral cowards, that we are unwilling fully to support the good. If the enemies of freedom attacking Israel have no reason to believe that the United States has broken with its paper-tiger past, we will be their next target."

Said Dr. Brook: "In addition to being morally in the right, Israel is in many ways our first line of defense against terrorism. If we want to stop the next Sept. 11 before it begins, we must send a new message to the Arafats, bin Ladens and Husseins of the world--by showing uncompromising moral support for Israel's right to freedom and self-defense."

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