This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I still can't take it in, can't comprehend it. I don't think I'll ever = be able to. My thoughts keep going from the grief to what has to be = done to punish, to prevent a recurrance. These thoughts are easier, = emotionally, to deal with. Frnny, I'm not angry because I grew up in = Israel where we were always under attack by Arabs of one kind or = another. Arabs, at one time, had the greatest, most enlightened = civilization in the west, far more so than Europe but the enlightenment = has long since been replaced by religious fanaticism feeding on and = therefore nurrishing rank ignorance and hatred of anything foreign, = Christian, viz the massacres of Lebanese Christians (30000 of them) in = the 1970s by the Moslem PLO, or Jewish. I know that, unhappily, the = language in which Moslem leaders and rulers speak and act is the = language of massacre and slaughter. I don't hate Arabs but I know their = culture. I also know that terrorism has been a constant feature of = Moslem history right from the beginning; Mohamed and, later Ali, his = son-in-law were assassinated by terrorists, an early Moslem ruler of = Persia sent terrorists to murder a Saracene ruler in Jerusalem in the = eighth century and so on down the centuries. =20 People will say that the attacks in New York took place because of the = Palestinians' struggle - - nothing could be further from reality. = Remember the Mahdi of Omderman in the Sudan? The fanatic Moslem leader = whose ragtag army killed and beheaded the British general Kitchener, = remebr the so call national guards, Iranian Moslem fanatics who took 52 = Americans hostage and kept them for more than a year? Moslem terrorism = goes back a long way and will go on for a long time and there'll always = be a convenient hook, like the Palestinians, to hang it on. I don't think terrorism, any more than murder, can be stopped but, like = murder, you can put a dent in it, you can slow it down, you can control = it if... only if you're up to causing the terrorists and there = paymaster (Saudi Arabia and Iran) and those who harbor them so much pain = as to make it unpalletable for anyone to harbor, pay for or volonteer = without thinking twice. thinking twice means they would probably not = do it because they would be sure of the consequences. We, Americans, Canadians, are not people who enjoy killing, we used to, = more than we do now. We have come a good deal closer to finding other = ways to get along. There are times, I'm convinced, we will need to show = to what extent we value our life, the lives of the thousands of victims = in New York and Washington, the lives of our loved ones by killing those = who do kill and who would gladly kill us. We did it in the first and = second world wars for a good and worthy cause, we did it in Vietnam for = no cause and now... Ari Isaac. =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d3/d2/c0/71/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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