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		<title>A True Narrative of Jews in Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is the real David in the Middle East? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nFSCjhi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235730" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nFSCjhi-450x337.jpg" alt="nFSCjhi" width="282" height="211" /></a>In a remarkable article, “Grand Larceny,” Chloe Valdary powerfully reminds the reader that the Palestinian Arabs have succeeded in reversing the true narrative of Eretz Yisrael.<sup>1</sup>  They have to a great degree succeeded in convincing people around the world that their land was stolen from them by Israel and the Jews. But Valdary points out that the reverse is closer to the truth. The land that is present-day Israel – including Judea and Samaria – was land that was brutally taken away from the Jewish people after 70 AD, and was only rightfully restored in 1947.  The story of Jewish deprivation and suffering for thousands of years is the true story of Middle Eastern “larceny.”  Valdary suggests that Israel and the Jewish people need to “re-package” the narrative of the history of Israel to replace the narrative that has gained traction among so many people.</p>
<p>Let us then consider the possible basis for this “new” narrative:</p>
<p>The Romans, Arabs, European Catholics, Seljuks, and other groups persecuted the Jews in their God-given homeland for 2000 years. The Jews remained in the land of their forefathers even though they were officially kicked out by the Romans.  A remnant clung to its historical homeland in spite of the so-called diaspora of Jews throughout the world.  They endured everything to live and breathe in the homeland of their ancestors assigned as a homeland by Almighty God.<sup>2</sup></p>
<p>The ancient Jewish kingdom was dealt a severe blow by the Assyrians and the Babylonians. Most of the Jews were taken into exile by the Babylonians.  However, the Persians conquered the Babylonians, and recognized that Judea, which included the capital city of Jerusalem, was Jewish land.  Under the Persian King Artaxerxes, a large contingent of Jews were allowed to return.<sup>3 </sup>  The Persians in turn were overcome by the Greeks led by Alexander the Great.  Alexander recognized that Judea was Jewish land, and showed a lot of respect for the Jewish leadership.  Later, other pagan Jew-haters like the Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes wanted to wipe out the Jews and the Jewish religion and steal their land, but he was repulsed miraculously by Judah Maccabee and his brothers.  The Romans succeeded to power over Jewish land; however, even though they heavily taxed the Jews and treated them as a conquered people, the Sanhedrin (high level rabbinical court) under the Romans still had some authority.  Governors, appointed by the Roman Emperors, along with the Roman military legions, had the ultimate governing control.</p>
<p>The great catastrophe for Jewish civilization was having the Second Temple, the center of Jewish spiritual life, destroyed in 70 AD and having precious Judea and Samaria renamed “Palestina” by the Romans and Jerusalem renamed “Aelia Capitolina.”  Despite the Roman carnage, a remnant of Jews remained century-after-century clinging to their hope of restoration, but living as a minority and as second-class citizens in the land of their forefathers.  What endurance!  They demonstrated the perseverance of the brokenhearted.</p>
<p>By the 7<sup>th</sup> century AD, the violent hordes of Islam took over the lands of the Middle East.  Jews, however, continued to live in the same land that had been occupied by Joshua since 1300 BCE. They lived as a beleaguered minority under the Arabs, and endured as <i>dhimmis</i> (second-class citizens). That meant they had to pay a<i> jizya </i>(tax on non-Muslims) and endure humiliations.  Constantly the Jewish people were crying out to Almighty God &#8212; both the minority of Jews in their ancient land, and Jews living throughout the world &#8212; to restore their state, their full citizenship in the land given to Abraham for them, which they controlled for 1500 years.</p>
<p>What a great day for all the minorities of the world when World War I came to an end. After World War I, the rights of persecuted minorities began to be recognized.  Just as Czechoslovakia was created for the Czechs and Slovaks, just as the Ottoman Empire was broken up to recognize the claims of Arabs living under their control (the Ottomans were Muslims, but ethnographically were not Arabs), so the British recognized the claims of the indigenous Jewish minority living in their ancient homeland, having lived there since long before the 7th century when the Muslim Arab claims to the land began.</p>
<p>The sweet smell of liberation for minorities and colonialized people was in the air for the first time in history.  Jews began to rejoice.  But the Arabs, despite their own liberation at that time under temporary British and French mandates, took a hateful look at Jews who had the same aspirations for liberation.  Their liberation was okay, but Jewish liberation under the same set of principles was rejected.  This abiding rejection of the principle of national self-determination that has been totally accepted beginning with the end of World War I, and continuing at a greater pace after the creation of the United Nations, is the key to understanding the hatefulness of the Arab mindset.  If it meant that Jews could achieve self-determination by having only .01% of the land of the Arab nations, that was still too much for those selfish, unprincipled people, even though they hungered for the same goal as those Arab states.</p>
<p>Arab anti-Semitism has caused them to reject national self-determination as it applies to the Jews.  Meanwhile, even the national self-determination of Czechoslovakia has been fine-tuned, and that country has been divided to become the countries of Czech Republic and Slovakia. The integrity of Poland after being split by the Nazis and the USSR in 1939 has been restored, and Yugoslavia has become Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.  The Arabs have accepted all these, but they will not accept Jewish self-determination.  All the former republics of the USSR have become independent countries, all under the universally accepted principle of self-determination, but the Arabs do not accept Jewish self-determination. The Arab hatred for Israel is not only a rejection of Israel but is rejection of national self-determination, one of the key items of Pres. Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s Fourteen Points and carried forward more strongly by Pres. Roosevelt, Pres. Truman, and their successors, as well as the United Nations.  The Arab world should hang its head in shame (but they have no shame regarding non-Muslim principles and rights) as its behavior is disgracing every world leader, and every country that became independent after World Wars I and II.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s existence is not only a tribute to the tenacity of the Jews who persisted there during the 2000 years after Rome&#8217;s expulsion, not only to the prayers of Jews all over the world for 2000 years, but also to the triumph of self-determination as an idea whose time had come.  It is thrilling to see the emergence of so many new national entities in the 20th century, among them Israel, India, Pakistan, and the others named above. But the Goliath that is the Arab world would snatch away the wonderful restoration that is Israel.  Goliath would kill David.  But &#8220;David&#8221; has already triumphed despite the malevolent intentions of its neighbors. The power to have overcome such overwhelming hatred speaks for itself. If you are for the underdog, an underdog that is exercising the same right as every indigenous people in the world, namely the right to sovereignly govern itself, then you have to praise, honor, and stand up for Israel in every possible way.</p>
<p><sup>1  The Algemeiner, July 3, 2014,  http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/02/grand-larceny/#comments</sup></p>
<p><sup>2 For a complete account of the Jewish presence (Yishuv) in the land of present-day Israel, see Jerome R. Verlin, Israel: </sup><i><sup>3000 Years, The Jewish People’s Three Thousand Years Presence in Palestine</sup></i><sup>, Pavilion Press, 2010 and Jerome R. Verlin and Lee S. Bender, </sup><i><sup>Pressing Israel</sup></i><sup>, Pavilion Press, 2012.</sup></p>
<p><sup>3  See Tanakh, Nehemiah 2:1-10.</sup></p>
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		<title>The Israeli Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Glick's new book corrects many faulty notions about the Jewish State.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/9780385348065_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-222679" alt="9780385348065_p0_v1_s260x420" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/9780385348065_p0_v1_s260x420-232x350.jpg" width="232" height="350" /></a></span><strong>To order Caroline Glick&#8217;s new book, <em>The Israeli Solution</em>, click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Israeli-Solution-One-State-Middle/dp/0385348061">here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Caroline Glick’s latest book, <em>The Israeli</em></span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Solution, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">carefully explains the political, legal, demographic, and military position of Israel in the modern world.  She corrects many faulty notions that are prevalent about Israel.  The reader learns from her that Israel was not created as an emotional reaction by a world horrified by the Holocaust.  Its legitimacy and destiny as a state is grounded in historical and political realities that antedate the Holocaust and in the prayerful longings of the Jewish people to be restored to and to rule their own homeland after dispossession by the vengeful Romans 20 centuries ago.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although Glick does not place much emphasis on the visionary and incredibly determined work of Theodore Herzl and Chaim Weizman, their vision is foundational and cannot be separated from the existence of present-day Israel.   Rather, she derives Israel’s right to exist primarily from three sources: </span>the continued presence of Jews in the territory now called Israel for 2000 years, the Palestine Mandate to the British, and from the British after World War I, and U.N. Resolution 181 which established the state of Israel (as a Jewish state).</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With amazing logic and compelling detail, she depicts every phase and aspect of Israel’s struggle to come into existence and remain in existence from 1920 until the present.  The reader can see plainly that the Arab world accepted France’s mandate to create an independent Syria and Lebanon and the legitimacy of the British prerogative to create Iraq and Jordan, but at the same time found the British mandate for a Jewish state to be illegal and untenable.  Self-determination became a by-word, a new, significant idea in international affairs after WWI and especially after Wilson’s Fourteen Points, but self-determination for the Jews, who had remained as a continuous presence in Palestine for 2000 years – to this, the Arab world’s resounding answer was &#8220;no.&#8221;  Israel has had to struggle all these decades against a pathological and almost fiendish opposition by the Arab world to her claims.  <em>The Israeli </em></span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Solution</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is utterly and properly offended by the racism and religious bigotry of the Arab world with respect to the Jews living in their midst.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Glick depicts with seeming effortless, elegant writing the hatred of the PLO towards Israel and towards Jews.  The book corrects many myths about the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab world.  One myth in particular stands out, namely, that Yasser Arafat &#8220;failed&#8221; in his goals because the two-state reality of Israel and an Arab Palestine was never realized despite his engagement in the Oslo process.  She debunks the idea of his failure, but in beautiful detail demonstrates the extent of his success.  With the help of the USSR, Arafat managed to create a worldwide diplomatic climate of opinion hostile to Israel where many countries now believe, falsely, that Israel is a colonialist power in the Middle East and racist to the core.  This portrayal fits the Marxist interpretation that the West needs to be “imperialistic” in order to perpetuate capitalism, but that, by historical necessity, the West is thereby sowing the seeds of its own destruction.  In short, so-called imperialism is slated to self-destruct and will bring down the colonialists with it. By the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this narrative with respect to Israel’s role in the Middle East &#8212; in which Israelis are colonialist exploiters of the Palestinian Arab people &#8212; was firmly entrenched.   It is a narrative that has been played thousands of times until, for many ears, it has the ring of truth.  But Caroline Glick argues forcefully on every page for the falsity of this vision.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Further, Arafat was bailed out time and time again by the U.S., lionized by a sycophantic world press for his “flexibility” and “moderation,” and excused for his masterminding of massacres and murders.  He was behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in Munich, his Intifada killed hundreds of Israelis, and he repeatedly broke every signed agreement made under the Oslo Accords.  Yet he remained the teflon terrorist throughout.  After being kicked out of Jordan and Lebanon by his fellow Arabs, the U.S. found a place of sanctuary for him and his cohorts in Tunisia. Furthermore, the U.S. has financed the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, and thus increased significantly the dangers to Israeli life and limb, and the precariousness of Israel’s national existence.  Ms. Glick documents Arafat’s criminal intentions and actions with overwhelming detail, and yet, as she sadly reports, he remained supported and encouraged by a long list of U.S. presidents.  </span></p>
<p>Negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs, the book tells us, have stagnated into a failed prioritizing of the so-called “two-state solution.”  Yet, Glick avers, the two-state solution is the cause of the twenty-year stalemate.  It is not a viable solution.  In fact, the Palestinian Arabs have rejected the establishment of their own state on four different occasions.  The assumption that we have “just barely missed” working out a final solution is a wrong conclusion. Rather, she posits that the Palestinian leadership does not want a two-state solution, but wants the destruction of the State of Israel as a sovereign, Jewish entity in the Middle East.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Her solution to the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (often improperly called “the West Bank”) is to follow actions taken by Prime Minister Begin who placed the Golan Heights and Jerusalem under Israeli law in the 1980s.  Although technically those areas were not annexed to Israel, placing them under Israeli law was a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">de facto</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> annexation.  They were no longer administered by the military.   Palestinian Arabs and many Western journalists seem to think that Israeli military presence means territories are “occupied,” but it does not.  The military is there to protect Israeli interests while the disputed territories are engaged in &#8220;dispute resolution&#8221; with interested parties.  Once Israeli law is put into effect, Israel would be unilaterally affirming the end of &#8220;dispute&#8221; and settling the question of control.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With passion and care, the author reviews the pros and cons of taking such a step.  She expresses a great deal of concern about the European reaction to such a move.  Also, there would certainly be </span>fallout from increasing the number of Arab permanent residents and/or citizens as part of Israeli demographics.  Yet, this big step will give relief from the cul-de-sac Israel now finds itself in, where she endlessly negotiates for a two-state solution that the Palestinian Arabs do not want. The endgame for current Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas is the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><em>The Israeli Solution</em> projects an alternative to the dangerous gamesmanship and perpetual war we have witnessed in the quest for a so-called two-state solution.  Yet, is it really wise to try to absorb a fiendish population – people mired in rage, mental instability, and rigid ideology – into one’s country?  Before attempting to do so, a much more aggressive public relations campaign is needed to counteract Arab and Soviet-era propaganda about Israel.  This campaign would put the moral onus where it belongs – on the attitudes, beliefs, and behavior of the Arab enemy.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One popular book provides a glimpse into the Left's preferred method of indoctrination. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/9044303-large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200637" alt="9044303-large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/9044303-large.jpg" width="266" height="198" /></a>Are you surprised that leftist ideas have penetrated the minds of the people?  Chalk up this reality to the leftist teachers and, especially, to the left-oriented textbooks now in use in our secondary schools.  One book in particular that has been gaining traction in New York City in recent years is &#8220;The Americans.&#8221;</span></b></p>
<p>Although even the leftist teachers claim not to like this textbook used in U.S. history (a one-year course required in NYC for all juniors) because it is so skimpy on facts and is written in an opaque style, any informed reader would have to agree that it is one of the most politically correct textbooks one could imagine. Reading this book, one gets the message that the history of America is a theme of victimization. The list of victims is well known: Native Americans, women, labor, immigrants, blacks, farmers, urban dwellers, the mentally ill, migrant workers, unions, etc. &#8220;The Americans&#8221; is a somewhat diluted version of Howard Zinn’s openly communist college textbook, &#8220;A People’s History of the United States.&#8221; It is also worth adding that this reference to Zinn’s “communism” is not putting labels on anyone, and is not a McCarthy-like type of red-baiting of an innocent individual; Zinn openly <i>announced</i> his communism decades ago when he taught at Boston University.</p>
<p>This author surveyed the index of &#8220;The Americans,&#8221; and found that in the 1,045 pages of text, there were only two references to Christianity, no references to Protestants, and five references to Roman Catholicism. There were zero references to God, zero references to Jesus Christ, and only one reference to evangelicals. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are described as “minor activists,” not as traitors who sold out their country for $10,000. Their being traitors is no longer supposition or in any way debatable, but has been revealed conclusively by Harvey Klehr et al. in their monumental study<i> The</i> <i>Secret World of American Communism</i> based on documents made available after the collapse of the USSR. Prof. Klehr is a professor at Emory University and the book was published by Yale University Press, hardly right-wing organizations.</p>
<p>The same textbook has no index reference to John Calvin and the powerful Reformation currents that were alive and well in the 17<sup>th</sup> and into the 18<sup>th</sup>centuries. And in the textbook’s sections on the &#8220;Pilgrims and the Puritans,&#8221; the focus goes from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson (essentially depicted as the first feminist victim of an uptight male patriarchy) to King Philip’s War between the Puritans and Wampanoag Indians in 1675. Although it’s not said outright, the book means to suggest that there was a certain bloodthirsty aspect to the Puritan culture. They were encroaching and exploitative, so the Indians had to fight back. The textbook fails to mention anything about the fifty-year peace treaty between the Wampanoags and the Puritans, which held up beautifully until Chief Massasoit and the Puritan leader John Winthrop died.</p>
<p>It fails to mention Thomas Hooker who founded Connecticut and, with his co-founders, wrote the first state constitution – &#8220;The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut&#8221; – that was a model for representative government in the colonies. The book does not mention that Anne Hutchinson, though she was a woman, was permitted to lead Bible discussions at her home in Massachusetts. Only when she began teaching antinomian doctrine (i.e., that it was not necessary for a Christian to follow moral law) was she reprimanded, and banished when she failed to submit to the teachings of the colonial leaders. Moreover, the book fails to highlight the incredible faith of the Puritans as they actually succeeded, despite some flaws, on building that “city on the hill” out of the wilderness, and the debt of gratitude we owe to the righteous and faithful Puritans, people who walked the walk of faith wearing the whole armor of God.</p>
<p>Further, under their original charter, the Puritans set up a kind of primitive communism where everybody shared equally in the town of Plymouth, but they soon perceived that this did not work, and divided the land into portions for each family, where the efforts of each person would decide his well-being up to a point (they never stopped being good neighbors and helping each other). All of this information is not noted in any form in the textbook and, although it is not said outright, an inexperienced young reader will come away with the impression that the Puritans and Pilgrims were a narrow-minded and racist group, and besides that they were Christian fanatics (like those terrible evangelicals of our own era).</p>
<p>Would not an even-handed approach to colonial U.S. history discuss William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania?  In that colony, there were no armed conflicts with the Native Americans during the colonial period. Pennsylvania had no army until the French and Indian War in the 1750s.  William Penn was an incredibly righteous and informed Quaker.  He wrote many books, including the marvelous book &#8220;No Cross, No Crown<i>,&#8221; </i>as well as others about politics, Christianity, and history.  His moral excellence and writing gifts are not even alluded to, nor are those of Thomas Hooker of Connecticut or Increase and Cotton Mather of Massachusetts (more than 500 works between them on a variety of topics).  Is there any governor among our fifty states who could write a theology book today?  Or any other book of clear intellectual merit for that matter?</p>
<p>The skewed and distorted information and disinformation in &#8220;The Americans&#8221; is too extensive in over 1,000 pages to catalogue completely in this article.  However, it reflects a mindset that is not unique to this volume.  This textbook represents a besetting ignorance as well as congeries of biases that are epidemic in our country and disrupting the minds of the people.</p>
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		<title>Arab Rage, Unrest and Anti-Americanism Is Nothing New</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about the so-called "Arab Spring." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jeff-ludwig/arab-rage-unrest-and-anti-americanism-is-nothing-new/egyptian-protesters-stones-gesture-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-175343"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-175343" title="egyptian-protesters-stones-gesture" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/egyptian-protesters-stones-gesture2.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="204" /></a>The delivery of tanks and F-16s to Egypt, originally promised to the Mubarak regime, but now forwarded to Morsi and the Brotherhood, is the latest phase of U.S. engagement with a Middle East in turmoil. Though all kinds of nasty and brutal individuals are still in charge, and though the thrust of the Arab world remains anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-American, the official line of our prescient government is that all this is an extension of the “Arab Spring” and, despite setbacks, is tending towards greater democracy in the Arab world.</p>
<p>We are, under Obama, supposedly the good guys because we generally support “democracy.”  What appears to be developments that are cancerous and threaten world peace, should be seen as just another Excedrin headache for our sincere, hardworking, compassionate, and all-knowing leaders.  After all, our President has an intuitive sense of the Muslim mind.  He can reconcile us with those who appear to be irreconcilable.</p>
<p>Stories are written as though the events in the Middle East, the turmoil and barbaric upheavals, were something new.   When the dust settles, we shall presumably see a more benign and tractable community of interests in the Arab world.  If anti-Americanism and anti-infidel expressions are reflected in Algeria, Libya, Syria, Mali, or Egypt, they are reflective of a new more harmonious relationship with us reflective of the influence of our balanced and giving President.</p>
<p>In fact, we see a deep-seated anti-American and anti-Western “rage” going back to Gamal Abdel Nasser with the closing of the Suez Canal and alignment with the Communist bloc.  Following Nasser, the assassination of his successor, President Sadat of Egypt, was clearly a rejection of the American-brokered Camp David Accords that led to the Egyptian recognition of the State of Israel.  There is a direct line from the deposing of Pres. Mubarak to that long-ago assassination. Therefore, Mubarak’s deposing was not pro-democratic, but anti-American at its heart.</p>
<p>If one believes that the history of thirty years ago cannot motivate Egyptians today, he or she would be very wrong. Incredibly, until today, many Egyptians and Arabs “on the street”  will tell you a bitter story of wrongdoing by the Crusaders who came in the late 11<sup>th</sup> and early 12<sup>th</sup> centuries.  Christianity and the West are blamed and condemned for those events of one thousand years ago.  The reader should understand that the “Arab street” really knows what it means to hold a grudge.</p>
<p>Further, if there is any doubt about deep-seated Arab animus towards the West and towards the U.S. in particular, we need only look at history to dispel that doubt.  Way back in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century, the Barbary pirates routinely attacked American vessels until President Jefferson sent in Stephen Decatur and the Marines to crush the piracy. Almost 150 years later, we find that the Muslim Brotherhood allied itself with the Nazis in their fight against the Allies in North Africa.</p>
<p>By the 1950s, under the rubric of Pan-Arabism, Nasser tried to pressure Lebanon, where a civil war was waging between Maronite Christians and Muslims, to join the United Arab Republic, which would thereby align Lebanon with the Soviet bloc.  Eisenhower, defending Western alignment, sent in 14,000 troops to force a compromise which kept Lebanon within the Western fold.  Then, in 1983, approximately 25 years later, the Marine barracks in Lebanon were bombed killing 241 Americans during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.</p>
<p>Then, as a small-scale reprise of the Marine barracks bombing, we must recall the repeated hijacking of American passenger flights in the 1980s, and of the terrorized cruise ship the Achille Lauro in 1985.  During the terrorist takeover of that vessel, Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair bound American senior citizen, was thrown overboard by hijackers when he fearlessly repudiated their activities to their faces.  These egregious events of the 1980s only stopped when, in 1986, President Reagan bombed Libya.</p>
<p>Closer to our own time, we must think of Ramzi Yousef, now serving a life sentence in Colorado in a federal maximum security prison, with the likes of the Unabomber and a mafia hit man on the same cell bloc. He led a team that blew up the World Trade Center in 1993, as a precursor of the 9/11 destruction to come.  While on the run from the FBI, he was hidden safely by many friends in  the Arab world, and had unsuccessfully planned a mission to blow up more than a dozen planes that were scheduled for departure from Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines. He represents the action-spearhead, the maniacal avant-garde, of the same mindset we see manifested on the streets and in the universities today protesting against the USA.</p>
<p>Lastly, we drove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and ostensibly smashed Al Queda.  Yet, the Taliban is still fighting us, and the government of Karzai (presumed to be democratically elected) is under armed siege month after month and year after year.  Does this not show the failure of both the “democratic” or nation-building solution and the military solution?</p>
<p>To think that cordiality between America and these unstable and anti-American countries can be achieved by supporting one side (the democratic) over another side (the despotic) in a part of the world where violent power struggles have been the norm for centuries and anti-Americanism has existed for decades, or longer, is just bad thinking.</p>
<p>We are being “played” by the Islamo-fascists, who have used the magic word “democracy” to persuade our own self-serving, ideological President that their interests and ours really are compatible.</p>
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