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Jewish Community’s Public Affairs Arm Condemns Palestinian Terror Attacks, Arab Summit Statements Bush Administration Hailed for Casting UN Security Council Veto NEW YORK, March 28 - Dr. Leonard Cole, chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), issued the following statement expressing outrage over the spate of terrorist attacks this week in Israel: It is long past time for Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to implement fully their obligations under agreements with Israel and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in Palestinian-controlled areas that enables such attacks to be launched. We support Israel’s measured response and defensive strikes against the Palestinian terrorists. Our dismay at this week’s attacks is deepened by the appalling statements made at the Arab summit in Amman, which included Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad comparing Israelis to Nazis. As Israel faced terrorism within her borders and slanderous attacks at the Arab summit, the Palestinians also launched a diplomatic attack at the United Nations. We thoroughly reject these attempts to internationalize the conflict by seeking a United Nation’s observer force for the territories. President Bush and his administration earn the highest praise for exercising the United States’ veto over the one-sided Security Council resolution, the passage of which would have only exacerbated the situation. A resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will not be found through one-sided Security Council resolutions, nor through anti-Israel diatribes at Arab summits and certainly not through terrorist pressure. Peace can only be achieved if the Palestinian Authority will end the violence and incitement, which will make possible negotiations between the parties."
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