Washington is risking not only Israel

Support for 'convergence' will endanger US interests

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By Ryan Jones
May 07, 2006

Bush Administration support for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Judea-Samaria withdrawal plan will endanger not only Israel, but also US interests and efforts in other parts of the region, warns The Jerusalem Post top columnist Caroline Glick.

Glick, who was embedded with American forces during the last Gulf War, noted in Thursday's edition of the Post a disconcerting lack of public or official debate "either on the strategic consequences of the Gaza withdrawal or on the likely security consequences of a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria."

She said such a debate would quickly reveal the utter failure of last summer's Gaza "disengagement", which led to the rise of Hamas, and the unacceptable risk of a similar result from the surrender of Judea and Samaria, which would destabalize both Israel and neighboring Jordan.

And the outcome of that undesirable scenario for America, according to Glick, would be that:

"Fuel and other vital materiel for US forces in Iraq would no longer be able to be safely transported overland from Israeli ports through Jordan into Iraq due to the instability of both Israel and Jordan."

The reason that is so dangerous is that it would force the Americans to rely heavily on Persian Gulf ports, which would in turn embolden Iran to disrupt US supplies via the Straits of Hormuz.

Not to mention the creation of yet another anti-American terrorist training center in Judea and Samaria, which will do booming business after the US-backed Israeli retreat encourages jihadists across the globe to join the battle against the Judeo-Christian West.

A resurgence of the international terrorist offensive is all that waits on the other side of "convergence."

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