There is probably no better example of political extremes than the nations of the Middle East. There is tiny Israel, a democratic nation 1/19th the size of California, surrounded by 21 hostile Islamic dictatorships 640 times the size of Israel. Israel, in our view, is an oasis of Western Democracy and Judeo/Christian morality in the totalitarian Mid East. For 50 years, Israel has sought peaceful coexistence with neighbors dedicated to her destruction. The ACRU admires and supports that tiny democracy struggling to survive. We support Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) as one of very few organizations that condemn Islamic Arab terrorism and the world's pressures on Israel to surrender vital land in exchange for "promises of peace" by her enemies. For these reasons, we are providing an internet link to AFSI, and will devote time and attention to the ongoing hostilities in that region.

The following AFSI commentary by Dr. Garber was published on September 19, 1993 in various newspapers:

Accord between Israel, PLO will live in infamy

President Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, "A date that will live in infamy." So, too, did the Western Regional Board of Americans for a Safe Israel react in shock and dismay at Israel's signing a "peace agreement" that offers no peace, but, instead, contains the seeds of Israel's destruction. Speaking on behalf of AFSI, Rabbi Julian White declared that Israel's Rabin government, seduced by a "peace at any price" process, had finally submitted to U.N. and United States pressure after 45 years of war - a war of attrition waged by 21 Arab dictatorships.

As Bassam Abu Sharif, political adviser to Arafat, stressed, "This is not a peace treaty with Israel. This is the first step in the transfer of authority to Palestinian self-government." Arafat himself says, "The Palestinian flag will soon fly over Jerusalem." Faisal Husseini, chief of the Palestinian delegation, added, "This is another step toward a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem." Why not take these leaders at their word?

Ironically, the Saudis and the Kuwaitis have sworn off all relations with the Palestinians, calling them untrustworthy. Weren't the Palestinians and the Palestinian State of Jordan the only ones to actively support Saddam Hussein during the Gulf war? Why then does Israel place faith in them? From the time when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem cast the Arab's lot with Hitler to more recent times when Palestinian Arabs danced on their rooftops cheering Saddam's scuds as they descended on Israel, anti-Jewish hostility and terror by the Palestinians has been an Israeli fact of life. How can Israel depend on a treaty with Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO, ignoring the others in the Palestine National Council, who, even today, are sounding their strident rejectionist cries, demonstrating renewed acts of violence and murdering more Israelis? And what should be said of the equally deadly Hamas, outside the PLO camp? This is the hard reality of the "Gaza-Jericho First" treaty, ceremoniously signed on Sept. 13. We share Israel's desire for peace, but should the Rabin government play Russian roulette with Israel's survival at stake? Does it make sense to follow Neville Chamberlain's historical "peace in our time" appeasement mirage? At risk is the survival of the only democratic state in the Middle East - a tiny Jewish state born out of the ashes of Holocaust.