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Will America Be Guilty of State-Sponsored Terror If It Kills bin Laden?
(Orlando Sentinel) Robert Stewart - Rantisi led an internationally recognized terrorist organization and vowed that Hamas "will not leave one Jew in Palestine." If American forces kill bin Laden, will European leaders accuse the Bush administration of sabotaging the peace process? Will America be guilty of state-sponsored terror and be decried for not first using every available diplomatic option for dealing with bin Laden? Of course not. Yet similar charges are now being leveled against Israel by those in Europe and elsewhere who should know better. There can be no diplomacy, no international agreements, and no peace with terrorist organizations. They must be eliminated, root and branch. There is no other option, no diplomatic means of dealing with an organization whose mission statement begins and ends with the destruction of Israel. Hamas is not a nation with diplomats; it is a terrorist organization with suicide bombers.