TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul Vallely
September 21, 2005

The U.S. government has exempted itself — and gone against its established policy on terror, again — from requirements to stop terror financing by giving $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite and support terrorism and provide sanctuary for known and established terrorist organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hezbollah and al Qaeda cells). The Sept. 24, 2001, Executive Order 13224, calls for "Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit or Support Terrorism."
Pursuant to this order in June 2003, the U.S. Agency for International Development demanded that all U.S. tax-exempt organizations partnering with Palestinian NGOs obtain from the Palestinians an antiterrorism certification, which among other things guarantees that: "The Recipient has not provided, and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not and will not knowingly provide, material support or resources to any individual or entity that commits, attempts to commit, advocates, facilitates, or participates in terrorist acts, or has committed, attempted to commit, facilitated, or participated in terrorist acts."
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The Jewish people have succeeded in remaing loyal to the religion of Israel, but there are ominous signs for the Land of Israel
Elyakim Haetzni  
Ariel Sharon stood in front of the United Nations and introduced himself as a "Jewish man, a proud representative of an ancient nation," before proceeding to recognize "the rights of others in the land," defined as the right "to liberty and a sovereign national existence in their own state" in the Land of Israel.  
For the first time in the history of Israel, a Jewish leader gave a foreign nation the right to what he himself called "the estate of our forefathers… in which every part of the land, every mountain and valley, and every brook and stone is saturated with Jewish history, artifacts, and memories."
Our forefathers, from Abraham our father till the fathers of Zionism, are turning in their graves.  
The "disengagement" together with the U.N. speech transmitted another chilling message: "The city, village, scenery, mountain range, deserts and coasts of Israel, which have loyally guarded, as witnesses, their original Hebrew names," can be the setting for the Palestinian "national existence," only when the Jewish existence in those lands is cut off.

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