By Ryan Jones JNW HEADLINE NEWS October 7, 2005

Islamic terrorism is the greatest threat to the free world today, and the only appropriate response is unrelenting battle until the day of ultimate victory, a resolute US President George W. Bush declared Thursday.

His was a statement recognizing reality and acknowledging the responsibility of dealing with that reality to ensure the safety of our world and the preservation of our way of life.

“We’re facing a radical ideology with inalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world,” Bush told supporters of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC.

“No concession, bribe, or act of appeasement” would ever “change or limit” the murderous plans of the intractable foes of Judeo-Christian civilization.

For which we should all say, Bravo, Mr. President.

However, the Bush Administration fails to adhere to its firm position on the dangers of and solution to Islamic terror when the perpetrators are Palestinian Arabs and the victims Israeli Jews.

And Bush’s robust assessment of the global threat contrasts starkly with the concerted American effort to prod Israel into relinquishing control of its biblical homeland in order to calm a century-old terrorist effort to dislodge the Jews from the Middle East.

Proponents of the land-for-peace process claim sweeping Israeli “concessions, bribes and acts of appeasement” will assuage Islam’s desire to drive the Jews into the sea.

They also insist Israel ultimately has no military solution to the terrorism plaguing its citizens.

In line with that thinking, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters twice last week that Washington supported Israel’s right to defend itself, but wanted the Jewish state to remain mindful of diplomatic efforts to birth a Palestinian Arab when choosing its course of action.

Uncompromising warfare against the Hamas terrorists who only days earlier had bombarded Jewish civilians in the Negev was clearly out of the question.

For Americans, on the other hand, Bush stated there is “only one effective response” to the kind of terrorism Israelis live with day in and day out: “We will never back down, never give in, and never accept anything less than complete victory.”

The president also took issue with the regimes that harbor, support and otherwise allow to act with impunity these forces of evil.

“State sponsors [of terrorism] like Syria and Iran…deserve no patience from the victims of terror,” Bush said forcefully, reiterating that the “United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them.”

Again, his words did not correspond to Washington’s treatment of the Palestinian Authority, or the conciliatory manner in which it demands Israel relate to the regime of PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas.

The terrorist groups that Syria’s President Assad permits to live and operate out of Damascus include members of the PLO as well as Hamas, the organization America believes should be allowed to participate in the “Palestinian” elections next year.

Israel has long held the PA responsible for acts of terror emanating from territories under its control, and particularly so for acts of aggression originating in post-disengagement Gaza.

Despite much publicized promises, a PA parliamentary panel concluded this week that Abbas and his government had categorically failed to take any substantial action whatsoever to deal with the “resistance factions” or the widespread armed anarchy in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Notwithstanding the PA’s long-standing failure to transform itself from a sponsor of terror and protector of its practitioners, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last Friday suggested Israel lighten up on its already limited war against terrorists and give the “Palestinians” even more time.

At a time when the “Palestinians” are going through “transition…one has to give some space to the participants,” Rice told a gathering at Princeton University.

Thousands of Israeli Jews have paid with lives and limbs for what has now been a 12-year “transition.”

Lastly, Bush in his address rejected the idea of a premature US withdrawal from Iraq, which would result in that country becoming a “home base and a launching pad for terror.”

Islamic terrorism “considers every retreat of the civilized world as an invitation to greater violence,” he said.

Israel’s pullout from Gaza, which appears to be leading to a complete takeover of that area by Hamas and other Islamic radicals, was nevertheless loudly applauded by Washington.

“In Iraq,” the president concluded, “there is no peace without victory.”

This truism, apparently, does not apply in Israel.

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