The Middle East is heating up. From some points of view it is red hot. I think we should take a hard look at what's really going on. Basically you have a democracy whose people are being murdered by people who hate Jews more than they love their own kids. These are people who take money to sacrifice their children to kill the children of others. Seriously sick individuals. The Palestinians have spent the last three decades teaching their kids to hate. They have instilled the notion that strapping on bombs and murdering Israelis in coffee shops is noble.

The actual dying is left to the young because the older generations of Palestinians are too cowardly to perform these acts of suicide themselves. Any group of people so cynical and devoid of humanity as these, have no claim to national sovereignty. They are human only by the existence of DNA. The virtues that make us human are missing from them. They are void of humanity.

Terrorist leader Yasser Arafat claims that the United States is taking sides. Leaflets have been distributed telling the people of the Middle East to target Americans as well as Israelis. This justifies our taking sides. I for one am squarely on the side of Israel. I think that Prime Minister Sharon's restraint is remarkable. If I were in charge of the Israeli government, Arafat would be history, the Palestinian authority would be dismantled and Hamas would be a largely nomadic people wandering around the Sinai.

The solution in the Middle East is for the Israelis to win. Too many of the opposing forces have made it clear that their goal is the elimination of Israel and the extermination of Jews. These modern day Nazi wannabes even have support from places in Europe. Continental Europeans, given their history regarding Jews during World War II should be ashamed of themselves. Palestinian terrorist organizations calling for the extermination of Jews and encouraging their children to blow themselves up is hardly deserving of anyone's support. At the very least, the Europeans should do what they did in Bosnia and pretend the conflict doesn't exist.

The United States, on the other hand, should do everything in its power to ensure that the forces of right wins. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are terrorist groups and those who harbor them should share in their fate. President Bush was quite clear about how the proponents of terror should be treated and the Israelis have as much right to stamp out the terrorist that threaten their country as we do in the USA. President Bush needs to decide if his call for an end to terrorism is a principled quest or just empty politically driven rhetoric.

When the terrorism of September 11th was visited on the innocent civilians of this country, Palestinians danced in the streets. They were delighted. The forces of Islam had dealt a blow to the great Satan. They said that the United States got what it deserved for its support of Israel. Few in the civilized world, with the exception of American University Professors and political science majors, sided with the enemy. Most of the world agreed that the United States had the right to defend itself and many in this country rightly pointed out that our government had a duty to stop terror wherever it could be located, identified and eradicated. The United States can do this because we are strong and because we are a sovereign nation. For our rights to be valid, Israel must be allowed to assert those same rights. Self-defense is not the sole providence of the United States. We cannot allow the politics or the economics of Arab Oil to make us turn our backs on the only democracy in the region.

The United States cannot assert a right to self-defense and then deny that right to our friends the Israelis. To do so makes our actions against terrorism illegitimate. We should add our military might to that of the Israelis and remove the forces of terror from the Palestinian areas just like we did in Afghanistan. The neighboring countries interfere at their own peril. To those in the Arab or Moslem world who doubt the resolve of the Israeli government and military I have three words…six day war.