Secretary of State Rice Speech at the AJC
During a speech to a meeting of the American Jewish Committee on April 29, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced an important new doctrine for classifying and prosecuting terrorists:
“When Israel was besieged by terror in 2001 and 2002, it was the United States that insisted that Israel had the right to defend itself. When people used to say, and we now forget that they did, “Well, you see, one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter,” it was the United States that said: No, that is wrong. No, the intentional murder of innocent people is wrong, and you cannot hug Hezbollah and Hamas and say that you are fighting al-Qaida.”
A key State Department role in the world is public diplomacy. In 1953 the United States Information Agency was established to expand the cultural and educational exchange of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In the summer of 1954, Israel conducted a covert false-flag operation in Egypt code named “Operation Susannah.” Israeli agents trained by the IDF launched terrorist bombing attacks against U.S. -, British-, and Egyptian-owned targets in Egypt. US Information Service libraries in Alexandria and Cairo were targeted.
The event was covered up by the Israeli government for decades, but the new Rice doctrine clearly applies. The US must now seek the extradition of Marcelle Ninio, Robert Dassa and Meir Zafran for prosecution as terrorists. In 2005 Israel gave them military ranks in recognition of their “service to the state”. However, as the last surviving members of the Operation Susannah terror attacks, their prosecution in the US will be an important first test of the Rice doctrine.
See also William James Martin’s “Condoleezza Rice:The Secretary who came in from the Cold War“