On September 26, on the eve of Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, an Arab terrorist broke into a home
in Negohot, A Jewish Community near Hebron, and shot dead baby girl Shaked Avraham in her rocker, and also
murdered a 27 year old man, Eyal Yerberbaum. Arab terrorists have been particularly fond of staging
infiltration into Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria on Sabbath and Jewish Holidays. Since the
beginning of the current conflict three years ago a total of 39 Israelis were killed and over 60 wounded
in such attacks. Shaked is at least the seventh baby under one year of age, to be deliberately murdered in
the ongoing Oslo war of terrorism against Israel.

On September 9, a 19 year old alleged Hamas member,Ihab Abed Qadaer Abu Salim, exploded himself outside a
hitchhiking stop near Tel Aviv, taking eight Israelis with him. Five and a half hours later, his cousin and
neighbor, 22 year old Ramez Simi Izzedin Abu Salim, blew himself up in Jerusalem, killing seven.

What do these Arab murderers have in common? ALL THREE OF THEM WERE RELEASED FROM JAIL TWO MONTHS AGO BY THE
SHARON GOVERNMENT, AFTER STRONG PRESSURE FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. This was supposed to be a confidence
building measure to benefit then Prime Minister Abu Mazen and then Security Affairs Minister Mohammed
Dahlan. Did President Bush ever insist on Al Queda terrorists being released as a confidence building
measure towards Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein? The United States has invested more than 100 million
this year in the Palestinian security agencies, under the premise that these funds would be allocated to
former PA Prime Minister Abu Mazen, and former Security Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan, neither of
whom are any longer in power. The funds have now been diverted to forces loyal to Yasser Arafat. THAT LEAVES
US SECURITY PERSONNEL IN A POSITION OF TRAINING AND ADVISING PLO ARMED FORCES, WHO NOW COORDINATE TERROR
ATTACKS THROUGHOUT ISRAEL.

The question is:

WHY does the Bush Administration continue to bestow large financial grants WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
to the Palestinian Authority and Arafat, the career terrorist, who are the prime movers in this Arab
terror? (The International Monitory Fund has reported that Arafat has diverted $900 million to his special
account.)

WHY does Israel comply with American dictates NOT to remove Arafat, even though the Israeli Cabinet has
decided that this must be done?

WHY does Israel comply when President Bush compels it not to include Ariel, a city of 22,000 inhabitants,
behind the so-called security fence? Why does Ariel have to have a separate security fence with a large
OPENING? So as not to annoy the Arabs? So as to make it easier for terrorists to enter?

Did you know that the United States has built a high fence, 60 miles long, with plans to add another 260
miles, to more effectively seal its border with Mexico? The U.S. thus has a formidable security
barrier at the Mexican border, even though there are no Mexican terrorists intent on exploding bombs on
buses in America.

WHY does Israel comply with American dictates with regard to Jews living and building in Judea and
Samaria, in their own Biblical Homeland? Why does Israel cave in when the U.S. threatens to deduct any
settlement spending from the total amount of U.S. loan guarantees?

RUTH MATAR