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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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since been replaced by religious fanaticism feeding on and therefore =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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ari
Isaac. &=
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