Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story
by Iddo Netanyahu
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Author: Iddo NetanyahuEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11
ISBN: 0892215534
Number of pages: 223
Publisher: Balfour Books
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Entebee is a very important story please to understand the war for moral
Clarity that is being fought. As the EU/UN /Arab League ect sleeps
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
Israel is again being condemned worldwide for commencing an attack against Hamas terrorists entrenched in Gaza. The question then becomes, "Why are the poor Palestinians being subjected to another assault?" The answer is quite simply one that most do not want to hear - self-defense.
From January through November 2008, Hamas launched 1,212 rockets and 1,290 mortar bombs into southern Israel. Israelis in that area have learned to respond immediately to warning sirens that disrupt their daily activities over and over. In a matter of seconds, civilians must find shelter while hoping that the incoming rockets fail to hit a school, shopping mall, or a home. Children in the area grow up with the fear that they could be the next target of Hamas' deadly intentions. Now, the Israelis face yet another challenge. Hamas has introduced the Grad Kaytusha rockets which have a longer range and can carry a deadlier payload. Ashkelon, a resort city on the Mediterranean, is now within the sights of Hamas missiles and has suffered death and destruction as a result.
Israeli government leaders have reiterated that they do not wish to move militarily against the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants. They do, however, have the right and the obligation to protect innocent Israelis which include both Jews and Arabs from being held hostage by Hamas and its fellow terrorist organizations operating in Gaza.
Hamas is not above using innocent Palestinians to achieve its radical agenda. Rocket launchers are secreted in neighborhoods which increases the likelihood of civilian casualties. This heinous conduct exposes women and children, and places the onus for any deaths directly on Hamas. It is obvious these leaders have no regard for the sanctity of life, and will go to any lengths to achieve their fundamentalist aims.
Israeli troops have targeted Hamas command centers, training camps, rocket manufacturing and storage facilities. Casualties in Gaza are largely terrorists affiliated with this vile and violent organization.
Israel, while protecting itself, has vowed to continue to supply humanitarian aid such as food, medications and electricity to the innocent bystanders in Gaza. This will be dependent on conditions in Gaza and the ability to render aid.
It is vital that the international community and the Arab world turn its attention to Hamas as the perpetrator and put pressure on it to halt attacks on the civilian population of Israel.
According to Defense Minister Ehud Barak the intent is to deal a crippling blow to Hamas and bring a halt to rocket attacks against Israel's citizens.
Acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni said, "This is the translation of our basic right to self- defense. The responsibility for harm to civilians lies with Hamas. Israel expects the support and understanding of the international community, as it confronts terror."
Surprisingly, Egypt's Foreign Minister Gheit "harshly censured Hamas, placing responsibility for the current situation on Hamas."
Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed with Livni: "The lives of Israelis are not forfeit, and Israel will not hesitate to respond to any acts of aggression against it."
We must ask ourselves if we would allow al-Qaeda to take up residence in Brooklyn and randomly fire rockets into New York City. Israel cannot be expected to react any differently than would the government of the United States under identical circumstances.
The time has come for the Christian world to sit up and take notice. Near the end of 2008, Hamas paved the way to make the fight against the Judeo-Christian population even bloodier and more reprehensible. This Iran sub-contractor proposed an addition to the Shariah criminal code that should make Christendom's blood run cold: the legalization of crucifixion. It was radical Islam's way of saying, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"
This return to the barbaric method of dispatching one's enemies was designed to prevent the Christian population from feeling overlooked while Hamas was occupied with lobbing rockets into schools, hospitals, child care facilities and the homes of innocent civilians in Israel. Oh, and Hamas didn't neglect its own; a mortar was tossed into the middle of a Israeli checkpoint as Christians from Gaza were awaiting transportation to Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of the One crucified for their sake.
Not to be upstaged by Hamas in the world arena, Britain's own Channel 4 cajoled Iran's rabidly anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying president to deliver a Christmas speech to the British population. Ahmadinejad's "greeting" was in response to a Christmas message from the head of the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth II. Of course, the ever-eager BBC tagged the fiasco a "public service." Their reasoning: "We're offering [Ahmadinejad] the chance to speak for himself, which people in the West don't often get the chance to see." He could not pass up the opportunity to proselytize with his statement, "The solution to today's problems can be found in a return to the call of the divine prophets."
Apparently, the powers that be at Channel 4 had conveniently forgotten Ahmadinejad's threats to eradicate the Jewish people then turn his attentions to America. Or that he has crept from his lair into the halls of the U.N. to summon nations worldwide to submit to Islam or expect to suffer the consequences. Yes, Hamas has an excellent role model for its social mores. And frankly, he has no more use for Britain and its royalty than he has for Israel and its Jewish population.
What makes these two events so ludicrous is not that Ahmadinejad and Hamas are out to push every limit possible, but that the rest of the world seems to be both blind to their machinations and hard of listening. Repeatedly we hear that the objectives of the major terrorist organizations are the mass global destruction of Jews and Christians, yet we fail to really get it!
Now at two of the most celebrated times of the year for Christians (Christmas) and Jews (Hanukkah), Hamas blithely announces that crucifixion has been resurrected. How many heard that clarion call?
World leaders seem bent on relegating Iran and its proxies to the back of the train whose headlight we can now see at the end of the tunnel. Many believe we can sit down calmly, explain to Ahmadinejad that he's not playing by the rules and see genuine repentance and a changing of his fanatical ways. What these experts on Iran fail to see is the rocket- launcher under the table pointed directly at Israel, while others work in the back rooms of Tehran to secure the rockets that will reach European and American shores. They fail to recognize that while we are beating-around-the-bush with Iran's leaders, uranium is being enriched, silos are being prepared to launch the atomic weapons that are being developed, and Hamas is preparing the scaffolding on which to crucify anyone who gets in its way.
Remember 9/11? Remember Osama bin-Laden? Have you noticed that, ever since the Twin Towers were brought down, you have to take your shoes off just to get to the airport gate?
If you answered yes to the above, then you might be puzzled by the declassified findings of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, obtained in advance by the Associated Press. The report indicates hold on to your shoes that al-Qaida is actually planning to attack the United States. Yes, the same al-Qaida that brought us 9/11.
If ever there were a more obvious conclusion to be drawn about the world we live in, a government agency in Washington would be the one to do it and probably for a lot of money. In fact, National Intelligence Estimates are supposed to be the most authoritative conclusions of the government's 16 spy agencies, reflecting the strategic consensus of America's top intelligence experts.
How did all those experts conclude that al-Qaida intends to attack the US (again)? They studied how al-Qaida murders American soldiers in Iraq. "Of note," AP quotes the analysts, "we assess that al Qaida will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI), its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the homeland."
While the experts acknowledge that defensive measures instituted after 9/11 have made the US a tougher target, probably not many Americans are convinced these measures can be absolutely effective. It's just not possible ask any Israeli, whose country has lived with more deadly terrorism for a lot longer. The Israelis know the only way to eliminate terrorism is to eliminate the terrorists. Until then, no one can be safe.
I wonder how much the American taxpayer paid those 16 agencies to predict that al-Qaida is likely to keep aiming for high-profile targets and mass casualties. Didn't we already know, as the report states, that "The group is proficient with conventional small arms and improvised explosive devices and is innovative in creating new capabilities and overcoming security obstacles"?
Do we actually need 16 intelligence agencies to conclude one wonders how long it took that al-Qaida is ruthless, fanatic, and continues to seek weapons of mass destruction atomic, biological, or chemical and "would not hesitate to use them"?
To be fair, the National Intelligence Estimate appears to have come up with a genuinely new estimate. For the first time, it acknowledges that Hizbullah, Iran's terrorist proxy in Lebanon, "may be more likely to consider attacking" the United States, in response to threats against it or Teheran.
On the other hand, Hizbullah's expertise seems to be firing artillery rockets from Lebanon at civilian targets in northern Israel. The National Intelligence Estimate doesn't say anything about Hizbullah terrorists deploying along the Canadian border.
In the spirit of equal opportunity, the experts also offer a prediction about non-Muslim terrorist groups. Surprise! The same crazies who have been blowing up animal-testing labs or mink farms for decades "probably will attack" again "in the next several years, although on a smaller scale."
There is no doubt and we didn't need 16 spy agencies to tell us that al-Qaida is trying for a comeback in Afghanistan and is helping fellow jihadists murder American soldiers in Iraq. This is not classified information but is, unfortunately, in dozens of news reports every day.
What would be unforgivable would be not to take the National Intelligence Estimate's findings seriously as far as Iraq is concerned. The Bush administration is rightfully determined to pursue Bin-Laden and his al-Qaida to the ends of Afghanistan and Iraq, for there is no reasoning with the kind of terrorists who can perpetrate 9/11. The logic is just as obvious as the National Intelligence Estimate: We can fight al-Qaida on the streets of Baghdad or on the streets of America.
A burning SUV loaded with gas cylinders crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow Airport on June 30, the day after two luxury cars packed with cans of gasoline, gas cylinders, and nails were found in central London. Incredibly, none of the vehicles exploded and only one terrorist in the flaming SUV was injured critically burned in the abortive attack.
As security authorities investigated the two attacks, it emerged that they had apparently been carried out by the same terrorist cell. What was shockingly unexpected was the identities of the suspects: all were doctors or medical personnel affiliated with Britain s National Health Service.
Dr. Bilal Abdulla, 27, who was arrested at the scene of the airport attack, was the only British-born suspect of the eight Muslims arrested. By some weird link, all eight people held in the attacks are connected to the National Health Service: Abdulla and Ahmed; Dr. Mohammed Asha, and his wife, Marwa Daana, a laboratory researcher, both Palestinians; Dr Sabeel Ahmed, an Indian; two medical students, and Dr. Mohammed Haneef, an Indian (he was arrested in Australia).
We should not be surprised to learn that al-Qaida was behind these attacks, which in fact originated in Iraq.
Canon Andrew White, the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, told The Times of London in April that he had met an Iraqi al-Qaida leader at a religious conference in the Jordanian capital of Amman, who had boasted about his group s plans to attack Britain. "Those who cure you will kill you," was how White quoted the man s warning.
What new perversion of Islam is now being perpetrated? Instead of ordinary suicide-bombers, the jihadists have become so filled with hatred for life that they are now sending suicide-DOCTOR-bombers. The middle-class college graduates who carried out 9/11 should have dispelled the illusion that Islamist terrorists are the frustrated products of a poverty and powerlessness that left them with no future but glorious martyrdom for the cause. But doctors?
These are the heroes of every mother s dream and not just Arab mothers. These are people who supposedly had devoted long years of study to be able to devote themselves to the supreme value of saving lives. Why are they suddenly willing to sacrifice their own lives in order to commit mass murder for the sake of jihad?
When an Islamist doctor living in the West examines the society around him, does he consider it to be infected with the sins of the Great Satan and therefore in need of radical purging? Does he consider the spiritual disease of the West to be so dangerous, that it must be destroyed along with its carriers?
As Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Britain s new shadow security minister, expressed her shock at the NHS link: "It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted. It means obviously that you can't make any assumptions, or have any preconceptions about the kind of people who might become terrorists.
National Health Service physicians don t plant car bombs and attack airports without considerable outside backing. The dots are connected from the al-Qaida warning to the semi-incinerated doctor in the front seat of the SUV at Glasgow Airport. What they have in common is a belief in a totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion. Their bigotry entitles them to blow up people they won t tolerate.
The Islamofascists perpetrate spectacular atrocities, knowing the media will cover all the gory details. They exploit the media to their own ends, using the press to help them terrorize and exhaust the soul of a democracy, helping to spread the virus of fear.
Do these attacks mean that Islam has become so perverted by fanaticism that it has changed the historic role of physician from healer to mass murderer? As far as al-Qaida is concerned, it has: those who used to cure us indeed would kill us.
When Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently returned from his fourth trip to Iraq in seven months, he seemed to signal that the administration is preparing to cut and run in line with the Baker-Hamilton recommendations. This would not only be a mistake in Iraq, but would demonstrate to the entire world that terrorism is rewarded.
Gates appears to share the Baker Commission s desire for direct dialogue with Islamofascist Iran and Syria, capital to the world s terrorist organizations. If the Bush administration were to do so, it would constitute a dangerous policy reversal based on appeasement. This is kind of extortion that is guaranteed to invite suicide bomber attacks on US soil.
Any effort to negotiate with Iran and Syria is a direct repudiation of the Bush Doctrine. Either Iran and Syria are part of the Axis of Evil or they re not. President George W. Bush s acquiescence to dialogue with these rogue states would both undermine his own declared foreign policy and deal a death blow to his political legacy.
Given the proliferation of terrorism throughout the world today, the Baker plan is an invitation to suicide bombers to begin attacking America. Just multiply the thousands of casualties to suicide bombers suffered by tiny Israel by their proportion to the population of a much less well-guarded United States the projected death toll in America would be in the hundreds of thousands.
Once the terrorists sent by Iran and Syria to kill our troops in Iraq see our nation at the negotiating table, they will have no incentive to agree to a cease-fire. On the contrary, they will immediately begin attacking us at home. That s what terrorists do. The failure to hold terrorist regimes accountable is an unforgivable weakness that will inevitably lead to more atrocities.
The Iraq situation is becoming a bad play in the theater of the absurd. The same president who said that you are either with us or with the terrorists, is now extending the olive branch to two nations that have sent tons of bombs, battalions of terrorists, and bundles of money to Iraq to defeat the democracy Americans are dying to help create. It is time for President Bush to say no to Iran and Syria.
It is also time for him to reject three-party talks between Iraq and our mortal terrorist enemies, and to stand up with moral clarity in the face of our enemies and the enemies of all civilization. Anything less than this would make America look weak at a time when it, as the world s only remaining superpower, must be strong.
No one should know better than the United States who the enemy is in Iraq. The enemy is Iran and its proxies, who are behind the intra-Arab fighting and who are killing Americans every day and so far winning the war.
As he left Baghdad, Gates spoke of the difficult task Iraqis face in sustaining their nascent democracy, and the justice of their cause. "No country can escape its history," he told the Associated Press. "The reality here is the Shia were repressed for a long time, as were the Kurds. Saddam Hussein and most of those in his government were Sunnis ... To try to bring these three groups together along with other minorities in Iraq is a difficult endeavor."
Gates' visit coincided with the launching of what many view as the final, desperate push for victory by US-led forces. Some 30,000 additional troops began a sweeping offensive aimed at uprooting al-Qaida from Baghdad. They are operating in key al-Qaida sectors where they previously had not been able to penetrate.
This notwithstanding, the US just suffered one of its deadliest months in the five-year war, as American deaths passed 3,500. The terrorists continue to improve their deadliness with more sophisticated roadside bombs supplied, as are most of the weapons of the insurgency, by Iran.
On a recent fact-finding trip to Israel researching a new book, I met with senior members of the Israeli intelligence community and several former prime ministers, and became convinced that Iran and Syria are preparing for an attack by the United States this summer.
It is because Iran is approaching the point of no return in its nuclear development that it apparently believes the US is preparing to strike soon. Once Teheran s plutonium production is on-line, a preemptive strike would risk a great number of civilian casualties and possible long-lasting damage from radioactive fallout.
Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, chief of Intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces, said that Iran and its Syria client state are beefing up their defenses in anticipation of an imminent military showdown with the United States.
"Their preparation is defensive ahead of war They fear a war initiated by the Americans, because they understand that there might be an attack against Iran over the summer, but not by Israel," Yadlin told the Israeli cabinet in a briefing on April 1.
The US and Israel have been closely monitoring the ongoing fortification of Teheran s nuclear facilities and surrounding military positions, as Iran races to develop atomic warheads for its existing array of ballistic missiles.
Both Iran and Syria apparently do not think America will act without Israel s involvement. Given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s constant threats to wipe Israel off the map, this is not an unreasonable assumption. Iran s ballistic missiles are a threat that Israel cannot ignore. Their destructive capability is immense even without atomic warheads, since they can already be armed with chemical or biological weapons.
Brig.-Gen. Yosef Baidatz, head of the IDF's intelligence research branch, recently told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of Israel s Knesset (Parliament) that the Syrian Army has been placed on high alert for an attack by Israel. He said Syrian President Bashar Assad has stepped up the production of long-range missiles capable of striking Israel s population centers.
Assad has made numerous declarations on his state-run media on preparing for war, which would be inevitable if the US does attack Iran, since Syria and Iran are linked by a number of military agreements. In an eerie echo of the past, the state-run Syrian media have been constantly broadcasting bellicose statements of the type heard leading up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
"The tone [in Syria] is one of preparing the public for a war," a senior security official told me. He said Syria is also concerned Israel might exploit an attack by the US to strike against Hizbullah in southern Lebanon, in order to eliminate the new arms it is smuggling in from Iran.
Another reason for a US strike against Iran and Syria is the support both renegade countries provide worldwide terrorism. Iran funds Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, in addition to smuggling arms through Syria to Hizbullah in Lebanon. In Iraq, however, Teheran is infiltrating and arming thousands of terrorists who are daily killing American soldiers, as well as Iraqi civilians struggling to establish a democracy.
The abrupt reversal in United States policy on negotiating with Iran and Syria, announced Tuesday by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, is a slap in the face to our allies in the war against terrorism and signals the perpetrators of barbarism that terrorism pays.
Rice s move came in response to the Iraqi government s invitation to a pair of regional conferences. The first meeting, at the ambassadorial level, is to be held this month, followed by her sitting down with the foreign ministers of Iran and Syria at a second meeting in April.
How different from Rice s statement in January on the improbability of a dialogue with Iran and Syria: "The only reason to talk to us would be to extract a price, and that's not diplomacy, that's extortion," she told the German magazine Der Spiegel, when asked about a similar international conference promoted by the Iraq Study Group.
Also in January, Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "the problem here is not a lack of engagement with Syrians but a lack of action by Syria. . . . If the government in Teheran wants to help stabilize the region -- as it now claims -- then it should end its support for violent extremists."
What happened to Rice s own division of the region between "mainstream" states, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and "extremists" such as Iran and Syria? She had not considered approaching Iran and Syria through diplomacy, but said the US would seek to isolate them unless they changed their ways.
Isn t this the same Iran whose main export to Iraq is terrorist infiltrators and the arms they use to kill innocent Iraqi civilians and American soldiers? Isn't this the same Syria whose porous border and loyalty to its Iranian ally ensure a continuing flow of suicide bombers and whose capital, Damascus, is the seat of the united nations of the worldwide jihad? Whatever happened to the Bush Doctrine on terrorism?
For one thing, this doctrine has been proudly championed, and at great sacrifice, by our troops on the ground in Iraq. Retired Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that Iran's contributing weapons to Iraqi militias "raises the cost to the United States" of its fighting in Iraq. In other words, the Iranians that Secretary Rice wants to engage in dialogue are murdering American soldiers.
Where did this about-face come from? The December recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by former secretary of state James Baker and former congressman Lee Hamilton, were largely ignored by the administration, particularly its call for such a regional meeting on Iraq.
Suddenly President George W. Bush has jumped into bed with a resurrected Baker. This is the same James Baker who persuaded the first president Bush to pressure Israel to absorb 39 Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War and then betrayed Israel by freezing a $10 billion in loan guarantees, paralyzing the government of then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. It was Baker who dragged Israel by the neck to the disastrous 1991 Madrid peace conference and now he's doing it again.
Baker through Rice has just sent a signal to all Islamic fascist regimes that terrorism and bigotry pays. It goes without saying that the only country not going to be invited to the conference is America s ally and the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel which is also the only country being threatened with extinction by Iran. Make no mistake: the State Department s about-face is going to feed Iranian anti-Semitism, just as State Department policy during World War II encouraged Adolf Hitler by refusing to act against his plan to destroy the Jews.
Now an Islamofascist dictator is threatening the Jewish state with another Holocaust as it races to arm itself with nuclear weapons, and Secretary Rice is flushing the Bush Doctrine on terrorism into the cesspool of history. Bush is buying a morally bankrupt Baker plan, just as his daddy did, with the world s two worst terrorist states waiting to be rewarded by the US for their crimes.
At a meeting in Iraq in January with Minister of State Karim Sinjari, I was told that tens of thousands of Iranian agents have infiltrated throughout Iraq, and that their number is augmented by hundreds of thousands of Iranians. He told me that Iran is working with Syria, a Sunni state, to kill Iraqis, and with the Shi ites to pit one group against another. Most government officials told me they would be killed by Iranian agents if they talked to me on the record. Osama bin Laden must be celebrating at this gift from the US State Department.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has declared that the US is preparing to stop Iran from fostering violence in Iraq. For that matter, the US also has been preparing to stop Iran s nuclear proliferation, with no notable success. Inviting Condoleezza Rice to chat with the two main, unrepentant sponsors of terrorism in Iraq and the rest of the world is just an invitation to view another act in the theater of the absurd.
An American who identified himself as a Palestinian Muslim recently told me that he was a peaceful Muslim who believed in fighting extremists and radicals. I congratulated him, only to learn that the extremists and radicals he referred to were what he called Christian Taliban evangelicals who believe the Bible and support Israel.
I was shocked to hear him claim that tens of thousands of American Muslims are fighting the radicals and extremists of the so-called Christian Taliban Movement .
This astonishing turning of language upside down signifies the extent to which Islamist extremists have taken the truth hostage in service of their increasingly violent campaign to impose their beliefs on the world. Indeed, as Prof. Alan Dershowitz has stated, There is an element within the Islamic faith that has hijacked the faith, and I think they are aptly called Islamofascists.
In the first campaign by the United States against the Islamofascists, the forces of democracy routed Osama bin Laden and the Taliban fundamentalists of Afghanistan in just two months. In his State of the Union Address in January 2002, President George W. Bush could declare that America had rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan s terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression.
It is hard to believe my American Muslim friend did not know who the real Taliban were, since some 80 percent of the mosques in America are funded by the Saudi Wahabists, fanatics who supported the Afghani Taliban. From 1996-2001, the Taliban "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" was notorious for its human rights abuses, not to mention harboring arch-terrorist bin Laden. The Taliban became infamous for their treatment of women, who were forced to wear the burqa in public, not allowed to work, not allowed to be educated after the 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
Summary of Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story
The remarkable account of the famous hostage rescue at Entebbe, and its commander, Jonathan Netanyahu. Learn how this modern Joshua inspired not only Israel but the whole free world through the success of this operation . . . described by many as a miraculous mission of biblical proportions. ò Relates perfectly with our own war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq ò This is the only documented, firsthand account of the epic raid on Entebbe - includes many photos ò Highlights the shared values of Israeli warriors like Yoni and freedom-loving American troops engaged with a vicious enemyJewish Books
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