Tuesday March 14, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak all but threatened a group of European Union foreign ministers who had informally gathered in Salzburg yesterday.

Mubarak, a rather imposing man, informed the foreign ministers that not giving aid to the Palestinians will create terror. His exact words were:
"The aid is used by the man in the street to buy medicine and to send his children to school. If this money is cut, terrorism will grow and all the people will suffer."

Mubarak did not stop there. He asked the EU representatives to move on and accept Hamas.
"Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people and Israel must recognize that it can form a new government. The renunciation of Hamas of violence and its recognition of preceding engagements is for a second stage."

Mubarak is a wise and wily man. He knows that his words carry weight and he weighs each word. That he is seen as the key to getting to Hamas.

If Mubarak manages to sway the EU then Hamas and terror will have won by changing the West's perspective on who terrorists are and what terror is.
If that happens, terror will have become an acceptable tool of Western politics.
We cannot let that happen.