Now that the international community is energized to deal with the issue, we believe the chance for diplomacy succeeding has improved.

last chance for diplomacy.

No one at a senior level was willing to push Iran on diplomacy. Was there at least a chance that we could have gotten something going? Yes, there was a chance.

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

We believe the combination of fanatical ideology together with nuclear weaponry is a combination that no thinking person can feel comfortable with.

It is clear that as long as Islamic Jihad remains armed, it will have the ability both to kill innocent civilians and to kill chances for peace. What is needed is a continuous ongoing effort by the Palestinian leadership to disarm these extremist groups.