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Terror 101
NMB, Florida December 4, 2001 A.H. Schectman
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Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
TERROR 101
It is sad that people have not learned elementary basics about the two wars
of terror that have been launched in this new millennium. Here is an
attempt to lay it out so that you Freshmen, just starting out, can
understand and deal with the absurdities that have been going on for some
time now.
1. Israel was created by a resolution by the United Nations. It was to be
one part of a divided land. England abandoned control over the entire area.
Israel accepted the decision and began to construct a state.
2. Palestine was created by the same resolution and was the other half of a
land now divided. Surrounding Arab States now began to mass armies to drive
the Jews (not quite Israelis yet) into the sea. They told the Palestinians,
Christians as well as Muslims to leave and get out of the way of invading
armies.
3. Israel won this first of several wars and began to consolidate its
government and accept immigration by Jews still reeling from the Holocaust
in many countries of Europe and other refuges.
4. Refugee camps were set up that remain to this day in bordering Arab
countries. Palestinians were not accepted as immigrants in other countries.
They were used to demonstrate the evil intent of the Israeli government.
Some stayed in Palestine and some commerce began between the two countries
residing in the "Holy Land". Israel became an industrialized country and
needed labor that was supplied by Palestinians.
5. Yasir Arafat emerged as a leader of the Palestinian opposition to
Israel - not the leader of a new country that needed to build from the
bottom up. Other Islamic countries supported him with money and arms and the
purpose was for him to lead a revolt against Israel and not build a nation
by and for Palestinians.
6. Fedayeen from Egypt, incursions by Syrians, the downfall of the shaky
shared government in Lebanon by Christians and Muslims and more wars
established a pattern of attack by armies and when they were defeated a
continued state of terrorism was continued against Israel. Iraq and Iran
became the two most antagonistic nations against Israel.
7. The attempts by the U.S. and its Presidents to broker peace between
Israel, a democratic nation, and Palestine now led by Arafat in a
non-country that had no elections had come near to being completed. The
fact is that demands by the rest of the governments of the world (non-Muslim
dominated) for Israel to be recognized by the Palestine Authority were never
realized. Palestine wanted to own all the land where Israel had established
a nation.
8. Israel began to plant "settlements" in Gaza and the West Bank.
9. The people of Palestine began to rise in what has been called the
"Intifada". By any other name this is a jihad or crusade against
unbelievers.
10. Israel has received qualified support by the United States, the chief
ally of Israel. The support is qualified by the realization that it cannot
offend the Arab or Muslim world. Muslim nations sit on an ocean of oil.
11. The Arab or Muslim world has repeatedly called for denouncing Zionism as
Nazism and using anti-Semitic slogans against Israel.
12. Car bombings, human bombs, sniping, drive-by car shootings and isolated
individual murders have characterized the terrorism against Israel by its
enemies. Israel has been restrained by the U.S. against a full all-out war
against these terrorist attacks. When attacked Israel, was prevented from
responding in such a way as to end terrorism within its borders. Israel's
policy was instant response to punish the terrorists in their home
territory.
13. On September 11, 2001 hijacked passenger airplanes and the biological
weapon of anthrax dust delivered by mail attacked the United States. While
the Pentagon was a target the main damage was done against innocent
civilians in the Twin Towers in New York. The leader of this and other
attacks has been identified as Osama bin Laden and his organization Al
Queda. He has been given aid and support and shelter by other nations. His
war against the United States and Israel has been in the nature of
terrorism.
14. The U.S. has responded by declaring war against bin Laden and his host
country, Afghanistan.
15. Terrorist attacks against Israel have continued by use of human bombs
against civilian targets.
16. Israel has responded by making, if not declaring, war on the Palestinian
leadership and its ability to make war.
17. The outcome of all of this is that soldiers have not been killed in a
war but terrorists have been killing civilians and counter attacks have
killed civilians. Israel has been continuously condemned for defending
itself.
THIS IS THE END OF TERRORISM 101.
Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10. Carol says, "Good Lesson!"
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