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I am not a political analyst. I don’t sit in intelligence briefings, nor do I track military strategy.
I am a victim of terrorism.
That status has given me an understanding of terrorism I never asked for. It has given me a perspective most people do not understand, and too many would rather not discuss.
Twenty-two years ago, I was sitting on a bus in Jerusalem when an eighteen-year-old suicide bomber boarded and detonated his vest just a few feet away from me. In an instant, the life I had known turned into chaos. Smoke. Fire. The silence that follows trauma. The silence of death all around me.
I survived, but 17 innocent people who were on their way home that day did not. More than one hundred of us were injured. Physical injuries can heal, though for some that is a long and painful process. The psychological impact stays with you always. You learn to cope. You learn to carry it.
The Denial of Terror
That attack did not come out of nowhere. It happened because of an ideology, a network, and a system that had been building long before I ever stepped onto that bus.
I had already been volunteering with victims of terrorism before I became one myself. I thought I understood the pain, the fear, the lasting toll. Becoming a victim revealed just how much I, and so many others like me, had not fully grasped.
Since then, in working with survivors and bereaved families around the world through Strength to Strength, I have come to understand something far more unsettling: terrorism is not a distant phenomenon. It is not contained. It does not stay where it starts.
This is the point that too many Americans do not want to face.
Many Americans do not believe that Iranian proxy terror cells are an immediate threat to them. They do not believe these networks, this ideology, or this infrastructure could reach into their own communities, their own cities, their own lives. They want to believe it is somewhere else. Israel. The Middle East. Europe. A border region. A battlefield far away. They want to believe that because it feels distant, it is not urgent. Because it is foreign, it is not their responsibility. Because it has not yet touched them personally, it does not demand action now.
That is denial.
Terrorism has never respected borders. The ideology that fuels it moves. The money moves. The influence moves. The recruitment moves. The networks move. Individuals inspired or directed by these movements do not need permission to cross from distant threat to immediate danger. The belief that this is someone else’s problem has always been false. It was false before 9/11. It was false before the attacks that struck cities across Europe. It was false before I stepped onto that bus in Jerusalem. And it is false now.
The United States has law enforcement and intelligence agencies that repeatedly warn of these threats, even when they are not visible to the public. Yet too many people in this country dismiss those warnings or treat them as political noise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate over Iran and its terror proxies. The conversation is often reduced to politics, slogans, or fatigue. But terror networks are not abstractions. They are not debating points. They are not confined to the places where Americans prefer to imagine they belong.
The danger is not only that these threats exist. The danger is that so many people are determined not to see them.
Terrorism on American Soil
In less than five months, we will commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. A quarter of a century has passed, but for the families who lost loved ones, for thousands of survivors, and for the first responders who ran toward the fire and smoke, that day is not distant. It is urgent. It is immediate. It never goes away.
And still, even after 9/11, people fall back into the same trap. They tell themselves that this time is different. That this threat is far away. That the warnings are exaggerated. That someone else will handle it. That the country does not need to address it now.
We have seen where that kind of thinking leads.
We see warning signs in many countries around the world. The United Kingdom, for example, has faced serious challenges with extremism and radicalization. That did not happen overnight. It developed gradually. It was underestimated. It was ignored. And then, when the danger became harder to deny, it was also much harder to manage.
No country is immune to complacency. The United States is not immune. Acknowledging that does not require panic. It requires honesty. It requires moral clarity. It requires the willingness to say that extremist ideologies exist, that they evolve, that they spread, and that they are closer to home than many Americans are willing to admit.
The problem is not only what is happening. The problem is how little we are willing to see.
When the conversation is oversimplified or avoided altogether, people are left with the impression that distance is the same thing as safety. But distance has never been a reliable measure of risk. We all have a choice. We can continue to look away. We can tell ourselves that this is not my problem, that it is someone else’s tragedy, someone else’s country, someone else’s war. We can keep pretending it can wait.
Or we can start to pay attention.
We do that by listening to those who lived through it. Survivors know what denial sounds like. We know what warning signs look like before they are understood as warning signs. We know what people say before tragedy, and what they wish they had understood after it.
Awareness is not fear. It is my responsibility.
The truth is that most people never think terrorism will happen to them. They never think they could become victims. They never think the threat they read about in another country could one day enter their own life.
I certainly didn’t. And that is exactly why we don’t get to say, “we didn’t know.” Because by the time it becomes personal, it is already too late.
The warning signs were there all along.
Sarri Singer is a survivor of the bus #14 terrorist attack on June 11, 2003, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the Founder and Director of Strength to Strength, a non-profit organization that unites victims of terrorism from across the globe with long-term psychological and peer support to help them heal and move forward.
The very instant a muslim commits a terrorist commits a terrorist act, hell be exculpated by the left and Israel will be blamed. There’s probably already a script and a plan to do so in a DSA file cabinet.
Taylor you are exactly right. Too bad so many others are missing the forest while staring at the trees.
Tepid Bush43’s somehow felt it important to tell us that “islam is the religion-of-peace”. That was the 1st time that thug bullshit religion had been so described.
Bush then proceeded to do like his dad, and let the wrong dogs in as policy. (B. Hussein also & then Sleepy Joe flung the doors wide open.)
So it’s not like we didn’t see it coming per se, it’s that it was proactively brought in quietly.
We weren’t asked or consulted. If you were a hapless resident in Saint Paul, Dearborn, and many other cities before the Great Dumping, you were at 1st bewildered, then angry, then threatened by your new 3rd world hellscape.
You realized by then it was too late; the cancer had by then metastasised, and moving was your only option.
Good news is that greedy Somalis are living too high off the grift, fraud, welfare, Keith Ellison protection, and media glow to want to suicide-bomb a bus right now.
The media thrives on islamic attacks but they can never quite figure out the motive of the “alu akbar” terrorist. They surely don’t want to label it as an islamic jihad attack for fear of the word Islamophobia! Islam is a train wreck bringing havoc to your neighborhood in the near future until it is wiped from the face of the earth!
It’s especially tragic to see the British lose their country due to mis-leadership by those that hate Christendom or were taken in by Woke nonsense..
Maybe it’s even simpler than that. Maybe they betrayed their nation because they were very well paid to do so.
OR were VERY well paid.
“The attack did not come out of nowhere. It happened because of
an ideology, a network, and a system that had been building long
before . . . . . . . . I ever stepped onto that bus”.
So true. The Globalist Communists – and their political leaders –
have been working behind the scene for the past hundred years.
And eventually in cahoots with Islam. Although infliction of terror
such as that suffered by Sarri Singer is the worst of their plotting
and planning – White Western people have other dire warnings
right smack in front of their faces.
Look at the Islamization and devastation throughout Europe –
at the garbage and filth everywhere in their great cities – at the
graffiti-defaced historical buildings – the right-out-in-the-open
drug deals and drug use – the staggering amount of crimes,
assaults and rapes – and the sheer erasure of Western culture
with almost 100% displacement of shops and stores with foreign
ones (primarily Arab and North Africa) in cities like Rome, Berlin,
, Paris, London, Madrid, Athens and so on. Go on video walkabouts
to see for yourself on YouTube. Such sites as TWO MAD EXPLORERS
and others.
Then look at America. More massive in size than small European
nations but already experiencing the onslaught of evil wrought by
Globalist Communists. As seen in Minnesota (especially Somali
filth and fraud), Michigan, Texas and now New York with a Muslim
Communist Mayor. Only three months in and the garbage and rats
are proliferating.
All this – and terror too, and the injury and death that portends. Ms.
Singer is so right: “The warning signs were there all along”.
Annie, your comment is exactly on point.
I read your article and I must say I agree with you, but like so many others I do not see this around me. In order for this terrifying terrorism not to overtake our Great Country. What can I do to help?
I am only 1 person among millions….I do not want to be complacent when it comes to being aware that there are those who would love to take America down.
I love this country and I will continue to pray for this Nation everyday.
Ma’am, you have already taken the first step. That is by educating yourself and practicing your first amendment right of free speech. Continue this and pass your articles and knowledge on and you will see how bold and helpful you can be. It will blossom from there.
When you vote, remember the 2nd amendment!
Hi Janice Lay-Ford
I hear what you’re saying. I live out on Long Island
where things are still orderly and clean, quintessentially
American. But I’ll bet wherever you live in the U.S., like
here, there is a serious drug problem. I bet you know
someone hooked on drugs or who has overdosed.
Illegal drugs are a tactic used by the Globalist-Communist
Left to destroy White Western civilization. They have
saturated America and Europe all the way down to the
smallest communities. The terrifying terrorism slated to
take over the country that you speak of is just one more
tactic among many others.
If you are aware of the illegal drugs harming America, then
you are more aware of those “who would love to take
America down” than you think.
What we can all do is talk about the threat, talk about it all the time and in spite of being called Islamophobic. Say that there while there may be some nice Muslims, you are realistically concerned about the jihadis. You can say that it is right to be concerned given all the attacks, and rattle off at least five of them that most people will have forgotten or never seen from the msm.
If you keep your tone calm, people will have less reason to brush you off. Then you can shift the problem back on them:, asking Why aren’t YOU concerned, given these attacks and many more. And didn’t you know that the Koran says Muslims must make war until the whole earth is covered with Islam?
What is happening in all Western countries, regarding mass invasion by third world barbarians, has to be coordinated. It cannot be a coincidence that all these same, white countries have been flooded by non-whites. So, there must be a power, hidden from view, that is capable of enforcing its will on the governing bodies of all of these countries.
I am at a loss to know what or who this overarching power is or where it exists but there must be people who do know, so why is nothing about them being leaked to the wider public?
Unless someone has personally experienced violence that ignores everything about your humanity, it seems people have a very difficult time facing that it is possible for it to happen to you.
People, in their abject ignorance of the longterm repercussions of trauma (terrorism attacks from one or many leave lasting impacts in the brain) and the pseudo-resilience calls to “get over it” reveal not only ignorance but also a willingness to forego the extension of genuine empathy for the victims. It is as if allowing oneself to contemplate the actuality of what has happened eliminates the self-designed insularity through which we separate ourselves in order to feel safe. It is an illusion and a dire one with consequences that we are currently witnessing. Terrorists continue thundering across the globe and those innocents who have been attacked, raped, brutalized, maimed and murdered are regularly discounted, excused or totally ignored.
The failure to face the absurdity of multiculturalism and how it continues allowing for the disintegration of cultures, borders and the language and traditions of their indigenous peoples has furthered the unwillingness of citizens to call out the savagery, brutality and evident psychopathy of these perpetrators.
Abject ignorance of Islam’s Koranic dictates of hatred, mass murder and rape as means of subjugation along with martyred suicide bombers, and their attending propagandists have created themselves as victims on social media platforms in conjunction with main stream media subservience to their lies.
The green-headband wearing students, passionately waving Islamic flags, who know absolutely nothing about Islam, are those who have been Indoctrinated through the use of Qatari money, the worldwide funder of terrorism. Qatar has used its wealth at some of our formerly most prestigious universities to foment hatred of Israel and a repugnance of the USA as chanted by Islamists as the great Satan. Especially the young, screeching feminists who would be destroyed if they were the recipients of the marauding, Islamic rapists now violating women elsewhere in the world. They live in an ideological bubble without facing the real-world consequences for which other women are paying the price.
Clearly, propaganda, ignorance and denial are rapidly denigrating the value of human life with the tacit permission of humanity. When it reaches your door you will understand the absurdity of ” get over it”!