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In this innovative and concise work, Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding and fighting the increase in domestic and international terrorism throughout the world. Citing diverse examples from around the globe, Netanyahu demonstrates that domestic terrorist groups are usually no match for an advanced technological society which can successfully roll back terror without any significant curtailment of civil liberties. But Netanyahu sees an even more potent threat from the new international terrorism which is increasingly the product of Islamic militants, who draw their inspiration and directives from Iran and its growing cadre of satellite states. The spread of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, coupled with the possibility that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons, poses a more frightening threat from an adversary less rational and therefore less controllable than was Soviet Communism. How democracies can defend themselves against this new threat concludes this provocative book.
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• An Important Book
16 July, 2009
So much of this book is just common sense. so why do countries, governments and people just ignore the simple???? An important book to read to just drive home the point that things can be done.....we can live in a safer and better place.....
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• Hmm...
02 April, 2007
Interesting how Netanyahu already had "terrorism" on his mind even before his Zionist buddies from the PNAC think tank were writing that the militaristic foreign policy they wanted to pursue in the Middle East would not be possible without "a catalyzing event like a new pearl harbor.) Man did that prediction come true! What insight these Zionist warmongers have! Oh and don't worry about the 5 Mossad operatives who were caught high-fiving each other while filming 9/11 as it happened who were dressed as Arabs, failed a lie detector & whose van tested positive for bombs. And nevermind the fact that Netanyahu said that it would be "very good for Israel" immediately after 9/11. (This is sarcasm, you should be concerned about this and look into all of it and more.) The towers were brought down with explosives. Read this book only to know your enemy, these guys had a plan for us and we're in the midst of it today. It's leading us to destruction and the victimization needs to end. Our government listed to Netanyahu & his friends alright, in fact they listened all too well.
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• Fighting Terrorism
07 October, 2007
Another piece of trash, good to line bird cages with. What about the terrorism practised against the Palestinian people? I call that ethnic cleansing. Do not waste your money.
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• Timeless Information
12 July, 2008
This book was first published in 1995. If we had implemented the hard learned lessons in this book then, thousands of Americans would be alive today. However, the lessons are timeless thus making it never too late to learn.
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• A Great Book By A Great Prime Minister
11 February, 2009
I have know Benjamin Netanyahu for 28yrs. As a #1 New York TImes Bestseller. I encourage all my book buyers to buy this book.
America has been in Osama bin Laden s murderous crosshairs since 1998 when he issued a fatwa calling on Muslims everywhere to kill Americans. No one in this country took him seriously when he wrote:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies civilians and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together, and fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.
We with God s help call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan s U.S. troops and the devil s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.
Yes, Islamic fundamentalism is a religion and it kills. The enemy is among us, and we can no longer define who that enemy is. Like the frog in the vat of water, we are perfectly happy to take our ease not realizing until it is too late that the pot reached the boiling point while we were lulled into a false sense of security.
U. N. members are screaming loudly, entreating anyone who will listen to save the terrorist regime, Hamas. The organization has not only murdered Jews, but Palestinians as well. The world should be outraged, yet the silence is deafening, especially after 9/11.
"Give me your passport!" I smiled and said, "Little boys, you should be playing with toys, not guns." The two boys, about nine and ten years old, clicked off the safeties on their Russian AK-47s. I suddenly realized I was a dead man if I made one wrong move. It was on October 22, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon. The following day two hundred forty-one U. S. Marines would be murdered in their barracks.
The night before I had videoed the Marines' Christmas messages to their loved ones back in the States. What a shock to see children, or as the liberal media describe them, "innocent civilians," waging Jihad. These children had been trained for years in a radical Islamic kindergarten terror camp.
Yesterday, I met with Sderot's mayor Eli Moyal just one mile from the Gaza border where 7,500 Hamas-fired missiles have landed. The mayor's office is a bunker as are many buildings in Sderot. The children's play areas are filled with concrete playground equipment which can double as bunkers in the event of a missile attack.
Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran's sub-contractors, have perfected the art of manipulating the media. This has been achieved despite the fact they are rabid, racist, terrorist organizations that make the Ku Klux Klan look like mere Boy Scouts.
Some time ago, I debated Al Sharpton on Hardball with Chris Matthews. The topic was Israel's use of what the media labels "excessive force." I said to Mr. Sharpton, "Would you defend the KKK if it fired thousands of missiles into Harlem, and the residents of Harlem responded with what the media perceived to be excessive force'?"
The media does not want to show hundreds of Israeli trucks crossing into Gaza with medicines and food. Likewise, no one wants to acknowledge that Israeli hospitals in southern Israel continue to treat wounded Palestinians. Neither is it popular to acknowledge that the majority of the injured and dead are Hamas operatives and fighters who surround themselves with innocent civilians, often women and children.
During the Hezbollah attack on Israel in 2006, I was shocked to see American liberal reporters stage shots on the roofs of 4- and 5-star hotels in Haifa. These reporters, attired in dress slacks and spit-shined shoes, had donned flak jackets and helmets in order to look as if they were reporting from Lebanon. Most often, their stories were about "innocent Lebanese civilians" being killed. These men and women refused to acknowledge that the missiles were being fired from Hezbollah garages hidden deep in populated areas. One cannot escape the truth that a person is just as dead whether killed by a woman or child, or an adult, male terrorist dressed in a quasi-military uniform.
America's greatest threat is from Liberal Left liars and lunatics in the media determined to lull the American people into complacency. Most often, the victims of terror are castigated while the terrorists are lionized. The war on terror cannot be won unless media terror is exposed
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United Nations Security Council is currently meeting and is working intensely with members and key leaders, both here and in capitals, to push for a resolution concerning the situation in Israel and Lebanon. The critical question is: With a consistently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist bias how can the UN, with a don t ask, don t tell policy when it comes to Bigotry against the Jews possibly be the savior of the day? Will this meeting be reminiscent of the UN-hosted World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa only two weeks before 9/11? Both the Israel and U.S. delegations walked out of the conference when racism was equated with Zionism. Yes, Iran, Hizbullah, and even Hamas are now encouraging the UN to act. I wonder why?
Could it be a ploy to allow a group of about 60 Iranian volunteers that set out from Teheran to join fellow Iranian volunteers in Lebanon time to reach their destination?
With yellow Hizbullah flags flying, Amir Jalilinejad, chairman of the Student Justice Movement, told the Associated Press, "We are just the first wave of Islamic warriors from Iran." "More will come from here and other Muslim nations around the world. Hizbullah needs our help."
As if to stress the closeness of the jihadist terrorist alliance, the group gathered in a section of Teheran's main cemetery reserved for war dead and other "martyrs" and prayed before a memorial to Hizbullah suicide bombers. They praised Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah and pledged their loyalty to the Islamist fanatics who perpetrated the 1983 bombing of the US Marines barracks in Beirut in which 241 US servicemen were murdered. A second bombing killed 56 French peacekeepers.
The Iranian volunteers ranging in age from teenagers to men old enough to be their grandfathers are eager to join the Islamist death cult that both characterizes Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is an ideology that justifies brainwashing Arab children to become martyrs by blowing themselves up among Israeli children, that warrants using entire Lebanese villages as human shields, behind which to launch thousands of deadly missiles at Israeli population centers.
And part of the shame of it is they are proud of this! As David Brooks wrote this week in The New York Times, there are Hizbullah victory markers strewn all over southern Lebanon, which tour buses would visit during happier times.
One brightly colored sign, written in both Arabic and (rough) English, marked the spot where On Oct. 19, 1988 at 1:25 p.m. a martyr car that was body trapped with 500 kilograms of highly exploding materials transformed two Israeli troops into masses of fire and limbs.
Busloads of tourists would take victory tours and stop at the prominent sights. Before the current war, there were gift shops and, in at least one place, a poster showing a Hizbullah fighter lifting a severed Israeli head. It all testified to the magnetism of a successful idea: that Muslim greatness can be restored through terrorism.
It is not unlikely that Hizbullah hypocrites are even now preparing new victory markers for the hundreds of Lebanese civilians whose deaths they caused by using them as human shields, firing missiles at Israel from inside their houses and using their homes to store weapons. Israel inadvertently killed Lebanese non-combatants when being forced to strike back at Hizbullah in self-defense and that is the difference. Israel dropped leaflets and made radio broadcasts warning Lebanese civilians to flee the fighting, while Hizbullah has fired more than 2,000 missiles trying to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible.
There is perhaps no better an example of how Islamist extremists memorialize terrorism than an exhibition held by students at An-Najah University in Nablus on the West Bank a few years ago. It commemorated the victory of a suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001, murdering 15 people, seven of them children. The students built a replica of the restaurant, complete with fake human body parts and pieces of pizza strewn around the room. It was very popular.
The execution-style murder of Paul Johnson has been condemned by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The OIC chief, Abd al-Wahid Bilqaziz labeled Mr. Johnson s death as a barbaric act , and went on to reassure the world in general and the American public in particular that Islam recommends the protection of foreigners and prohibits the killing of innocent people. How magnanimous of Mr. Bilqaziz!
Apparently in an attempt to assuage world outrage, Saudi security launched a search for the body of the beheaded American. Why has that outrage not extended to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who have been beheaded and tossed into unmarked graves over the past 30 years?
According to Amnesty International, more than half of those beheaded between 1990 and 1999 were foreign nationals, and some were Christian missionaries. Why has the Saudi government not returned those bodies to their loved ones for proper burial?
In Saudi Arabia, heads roll for sodomy, armed robbery, murder, and for being a Christian. Some Christians were beheaded after having been falsely accused of drugs or other crimes reportedly as benign as leading a Bible study or offering prayers. Saudis that convert to Christianity, or desert Islam , are subject to the death penalty, as well.
Those condemned to death are taken to a public square, blindfolded after midday prayers; hands tied behind their backs, and forced to kneel facing Mecca. The police clear the square of all traffic and lay a blue plastic sheet, 16-feet square on the ground. The executioner swings the sword two or three times before jabbing the poor soul in the back to force him to raise his head. More than 100 people have been beheaded in Saudi since 9/11, and the vast majority were not members of al-Qaeda!
We are told that the militants and extremists who committed the horrendous murder of Paul Johnson have been killed. Why are murderers, who have no regard for the sanctity of human life, called militants ? Why not label them exactly as what they are: Terrorists? And, if these so-called militants and extremists are going to be hunted down and killed or arrested, what awaits the entire House of Saud?
I, too, am outraged, not only by the beheading of Paul Johnson, but by the Saudi PR-machine that has hypocritically expressed its disgust over this barbarism. It is, indeed, the theater of the absurd and a festival of hypocrisy.
In 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, I preached the gospel in the center of Dhahran. U.S. military police grabbed me and screamed, Are you nuts? They will cut your head off, you fool! Days later, I shared Christ with General Khalid. He looked at me and asked, Are you trying to convert me? We cut off heads for that.
Any thinking person knows that the House of Saud is the principal financier of the terrorists on whom President Bush has declared war. They export more than oil. About twenty-five percent of all those in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are Saudi nationals. No country in the world has spent more to export bigotry and hatred than Saudi Arabia.
Islam is portrayed as a religion of tolerance. How ignorant can we be? Women cannot drive cars in Saudi Arabia, girls are still circumcised, political parties and trade unions are outlawed, the Church and State are one in Saudi Arabia. Do not hold your breath while searching for a Christian church or Jewish synagogue in that country; you will suffocate. Television is censored to the degree that if Mickey Mouse gives Minnie Mouse a peck on the cheek, poor Mickey will be banished from the kingdom!
Several years ago, I interviewed a U.S. Aramco employee. He told me he was tortured for having a video of The Love Boat in his suitcase. He was accused of possessing pornography. While in jail, he feared he might be beheaded.
The Holy Grail of understanding is that there is nothing tolerant about Saudi Arabia. Shariah (Islamic law) shows no tolerance. No, it is no coincidence that 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian. All were Wahabists, as is the Taliban, and the majority of the population of Saudi. If democracy comes to tolerant Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden would be elected in a landslide.
We have been assured that Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11; on the other hand, we know with certainty that Saudi nationals were. For the House of Saud to try to distance itself from Islamic fundamentalism would be tantamount to Osama trying to distance himself from terrorism.
The same can be said of al Qaeda. The general Muslim population thinks the evil empire of communism was not defeated by Ronald Reagan and the crusaders, but rather, it was Osama bin Laden and Islam that caused the Soviet house of cards to crumble in Afghanistan. They also believe there is just one evil empire in the world, and that Iraq will be to America what Afghanistan was to the Soviets.
he war on terrorism is a war against bigotry. It s a war that cannot be won unless we deal with Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Bigotry is a terrible thing; no one appreciates being discriminated against. Imagine, however, someone hating you so much that they refuse to even recognize your very existence. Conversely, imagine being told if you did precisely as you were instructed, your right to exist would be recognized. Israel has faced this catch-22 situation since her rebirth in 1949.
Millions of Arab bigots are propagating as true the diabolical lies quoted by Hitler from Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Arab children are being taught that all wars are caused by the Jews, that the Jews invented AIDS, that Jews attacked America on September 11 th and blamed it on the Arabs, and that America went to war against Iraq to appease the Jews. While this sounds ridiculous to us, it is accepted as truth in Arab lands.
The truth is the Baghdad Bobs of the Middle East feed these myths and conspiracy theories to the masses daily. These fabrications are believed as the Gospel, and used to inflame Palestinian children to commit violent acts against the Jews. Children play death games, collect terrorist cards (complete with pictures of suicide bombers), and fantasize about killing Jews to reclaim al-Quds (Jerusalem.)
And it doesn t stop with pretense! At least two-dozen children under the age of 18 have perished as suicide bombers; children as young as 11 have been enlisted as mules to smuggle bomb-making supplies into Israel. The two young Palestinians who carried out the most recent attack in Ashdod were 17-years-old.
In 1997, I wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled, Where s the Outrage? The article outlined the fact that the world continued to tolerate Arafat s speeches calling for one million martyrs to liberate Jerusalem. Yet today, Arafat s Palestinian Authority uses the television airwaves to encourage children of all ages to become Shahada suicide martyrs.
Money keeps Arafat in power! Since 1994, he has kept a tight grip on $5.5 billion dollars of international aid that has flowed into Palestinian coffers. He dispenses his wealth to would-be martyrs, as well as to purchase 50-ton shipments of weapons from Iran. Arafat s critics are either paid off, or murdered. According to Israeli intelligence, Arafat s personal holdings are reported at $1.3 billion. This includes a 23 percent stake in a casino in Jericho (estimated worth - $28.5 million), 20 percent of a Tunisian telecom company (estimated at $50 million), and a $55 million share of a firm that controls most of the cement imported into the territories.
Every six months, President Bush has an opportunity to allow the Anti-terrorism Act of 1987 to become law. The time has come for Mr. Bush to refuse to sign another waiver on this resolution, and allow it to be enacted. This document places the PLO firmly where it belongs; on the terrorist list. This Act would hold Arafat and his entire terrorist cartel accountable, and stop PLO terrorists from entering the U.S. under diplomatic immunity. It is time for President Bush to freeze Arafat s $1.3 billion in PLO funds, and pay compensation to the survivors of Americans killed by Arafat.
As far back as February 12, 1986, a letter was sent from 47 Senators to the U. S. Justice Department demanding that Arafat be indicted for the murder in Khartoum, Sudan, of Ambassador Cleo Noel, and charge d affaires, C. Curtis Moore. To date, no action has been taken; but there is no statute of limitations on murder. It must also be noted that the U.S. State Department has an audiotape of Arafat s order to have the American diplomats killed.
God bless President George W. Bush for refusing to invite Arafat to the Bush White House. He has drawn a line in the sand on this issue. Now it is time to send Arafat to The Hague to stand trial alongside Milosovic.
In order to win the war on terrorism, America must fight a war on bigotry. The same bigotry that kills Jews also kills Christians. We discovered that on 9/11. For all the Arab bigots who call themselves patriotic Americans , and who don t like the signing of this document, the President needs to refuse to recognize their right to exist as an American, and send them back to their countries of origin.
"Will terrorism come to America, and if so, when and where?" "Yes," he said, "I believe it will, and the most likely city will be New York...and the building, the Empire State Building in that it's the tallest." Isser Harrel (who ran Israel's Mossad Intelligence network from 1947 to 1963) was correct the year he told me that the Empire State Building was the tallest building; however, the following year, the much taller Twin Towers were built. That meeting took place decades ago!
On Tuesday, September 11, terrorists delivered two 189-ton bombs in the form of fully fueled aircraft. Yet as horrific as that demonic attack was, it was not the worst-case scenario.
The 21 st Century terrorists have access to chemical and biological weapons that can kill tens of thousands in a matter of minutes. Extremist Islamic terrorist organizations nullify the need to have air power or Intercontinental missiles as delivery systems for an Islamic nuclear payload. The terrorists themselves will be the delivery system. In the worst of such scenarios, the consequences could be not a car bomb, but a nuclear bomb.
Bin Laden issued a statement called the "Nuclear Bomb of Islam." In it he said, "The international Islamic front for fighting the Jews and Crusaders is the duty of all Muslims." He called on all Muslims to "...prepare for as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God."
This new 21 st Century terrorism now is a direct confrontation against "The Great Satan - America" who in the eyes of the bin Ladens of the world is desecrating the cradle of Islam. Bin Laden's network Al-Qa'ida (The Base) is a coalition of the most diabolical terrorist organizations in the world, all linked together with a common cause - to attack the kingdom of evil - America. The actions of bin Laden and his terrorist links could not be possible without a broad infrastructure of government movements and organizations that support terror directly or indirectly.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 was a day of celebration - like a sporting event - among the world family of terrorists. Like a team sport, terrorism is a team effort. To win--America must focus on the whole team of opponents instead of one player.
After more than 300 suicide attacks in 14 countries through 17 organizations- just this year- it's time to deal harshly with the family of terrorists and their sponsors.
Even in World War II, America was not forced to confront suicide bombers on its own soil. We never concluded, in WWII, we could win the war by shooting down one suicide bomber. The victory obviously required more systemic measures. Likewise, to truly defeat terrorism, we need to open our eyes to the obvious-that Osama Bin Laden is a card-carrying member of a terrorist cartel who is received with honor by the Saddam Husseins of the Middle East (terrorist states) - and, then direct bold efforts to stop him and aggressively stifle the entire scope and network of terrorist activity.
Terrorism shows itself to us in 21 st Century makeover. Today, terrorist states generally don't take hostages. Incognito--they can pose greater psychological damage by paralyzing, confusing and diminishing the ability of a nation to retaliate.
Young terrorists are used as Jihad bait by elusive terrorist states and organizations. It's a "don't ask, don't tell" world where the sponsors, with tears in their eyes, innocently express their condolences to victimized countries. Organized crime is about greed. Terrorism is about glory...the glory of humiliating "The Great Satan - America"...the glory of believing that all of the terrorists' family members are guaranteed a place in heaven because of their acts, and that, as young men, they will be greeted in Heaven with a room full of voluptuous virgins.
Does it seem a little strange that Syria, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and even Palestine (the P. L. O.) have never turned a terrorist over to America, and have never had problems with the terrorists they harbor? This is the reason for the dancing in the streets. It's the theater of the absurd, and a festival of hypocrisy!
The terrorist cross hairs are on "The Great Satan - America" that they see as the pig polluting the world with her prosperity, power and pornography and infecting the Islamic vision with her moral and religious perversion. Terrorists don't hate the West because of Israel; they hate Israel because of the West. Why the Twin Towers? Because it was a symbol of America's influence. The towers were 100 stories high and could be seen from 150 miles away. In 1993, a car- bomb failed to destroy the World Trade Center.
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the World Trade Center bombers in 1993 said, "The obligation of Allah is upon us to wage Jihad for the sake of Allah...We have to thoroughly demoralize the enemies of God by blowing up their towers that constitute the pillars of their civilization...the high buildings of which they are so proud."
The New York police found 47 boxes of Rahman's terrorist literature. Rahman, who was involved in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, came to America in 1990, free to set up his terrorist shop in New Jersey as if with our blessing.
PBS, in a piece aired in 1994, described the terrorist team effort. The documentary revealed the threat of a quilt-work of Islamic groups and terrorist sponsors that have sprung up across America since the Iranian revolution. These groups include arms of Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Hizballah with cells in New York, Florida, Chicago, Kansas City, and Dallas. The groups hide behind a smoke screen of small businesses and religious and charitable Islamic groups. These team members work in the U. S. to raise funds, recruit volunteers, and lay plans for terrorist missions for the ultimate battle against "The Great Satan." Their primary objective is to succeed with the mission without being blamed, then to realize widespread media coverage, and to maximize psychological and economic damage through terror.
It's past time that America drew a line in the sand. The conspirators of America's greatest terrorist attack in U. S. history walked freely in our streets. The truth is we have thousands of terrorist sympathizers and supporters living in the U.S. We must immediately take a hard look at our laws regulating and screening immigration and asylum seekers, and deal aggressively with terrorists who have already slipped through the cracks.
Secondly, America needs to focus on the terrorist cartel and work aggressively with all western democracies to cut it off - like the head of a poisonous snake. As long as we allow organizations to harbor terrorists, and countries to empower them and reward them, the network will thrive. Syria poses a prime example. She received one billion dollars for providing a show of force during the Persian Gulf War. Syria is recognized by the State Department as a terrorist country. When the U.S. this week asked Syria to be part of the coalition against terrorism, they flatly refused.
Thirdly, America must outlaw the businesses and fundraising groups operating legally in this country yet supporting terrorism; arrest and, at the very least, deport the groups and individuals.
Fourthly, we need to freeze financial assets of terrorist regimes and organizations throughout the entire western world. Countries and organizations that harbor terrorists should not even be able to spit in the wind without it coming back in their faces.
Once America makes up its mind to deal aggressively with terrorists through economic and military retaliation, the family of terrorism will fragment, and no longer will terrorism be a team effort.
On the morning of February 26, 1993, Yigal Carmon, then counter-terrorism adviser to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, warned the Pentagon that radical Islam was an imminent threat to America. At the end of his briefing, he was told by smirking critics that they did not consider a religion to be a threat to national security.
Later that morning Carmon flew on to New York, where, while having lunch, a huge explosion took place nearby: Islamic terrorists had attempted to blow up the World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,000.
Last September 11, Islamic terrorists finished the job. No one wants to admit why Americans were attacked just by whom. But Osama bin Laden is only the vanguard of a religious hatred that originates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and seeks to impose the will of radical Wahabi Islam throughout the world. The terrorist threat that bin Laden demonstrated on September 11 was just the opening salvo in the first world religious war of the 21st century.
An earlier campaign in the same war began in Israel in 1987, called the intifada. From mostly stone-throwing, this violence has escalated into the horrific suicide bombing that has come to characterize the so-called "al-Aksa intifada."
From scenes of Palestinians dancing on West Bank rooftops during Iraqi Scud attacks of the Gulf War, we are now witness to Palestinian mothers celebrating and handing out sweets upon hearing that their sons have blown themselves up killing innocent Israeli bus passengers. In this grotesque dance of death, Islamic zealots who are murderers are revered as religious martyrs.
On December 9, 1987, the Muslim Brotherhood met and issued a communique calling for the intensification of the Palestinian uprising. It was signed by representatives of the Islamic Resistance movement. Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden's mentor, developed the theme: "There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except jihad." The goal was simply to export Ayatollah Khomeini's "Islamic revolution" via the Hamas movement, and thereby Islamicize the Palestinian national struggle. Just as Islam had defeated the strongly pro-Western shah of Iran and shamed America, and just as Islam had defeated the communists in Afghanistan and led to the collapse of the Russian empire, so would the "Zionist entity" be slowly bled to death -- and so would the Great Satan, America.
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