The recent terrorist attack (14 dead, 35 injured) in New Orleans by a homegrown former soldier, Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had “become radicalized” by ISIS has called America’s attention to the threat of Islamic extremism in the USA. Has the enemy without become a serious enemy within? And if so, what can be done to protect ourselves from further atrocities?
We previously contended with the murderous events of 9/11 (2001), with downed planes and 3,000 dead; the Washington sniper and his pal (10 killed in 2002), who liked to pick off people at gas stations; the Fort Hood massacre (2009) of our soldiers (13 killed) by a radicalized army psychiatrist; the Tsarnaev brothers setting off explosions at the Boston marathon (3 killed, over 280 injured, and 12 amputations in 2013); the San Bernardino mass slaying (2015, 14 killed and 22 seriously injured) of Christmas partygoers who worked on behalf of the developmentally disabled; and the Chattanooga shooter (2015, 4 dead), who attacked an army recruiting center. In addition, there was the Islamic attempted hit in Texas on Pam Geller (2015), who had the audacity to have an art show with drawings of Mohammed, which for certain Islamics was worse than not being halal. But the murderers who intended to shoot up the entire gathering were themselves finished off by alert locals.
The above events were against the overseas backdrop of Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 of our beloved servicemen, in 1996. In 1983, 241 U.S. soldiers were killed in suicide attacks in Beirut, Lebanon. And many other nations throughout the world suffered similarly.
Is there any question that Islamic terrorism is a threat to worldwide security? Is there any question that increasing the number of Islamic immigrants increases the threat of murder and mayhem in our society? Between 1979 and April 2024, 66,872 Islamist attacks were recorded worldwide. These attacks caused the deaths of at least 249,941 people. In the 21-year 1979–2000, there were 2,194 attacks and only 6,817 deaths, but in the less than 11 years from 2013 to April 2024, there were 56,413 attacks and 204,937 deaths.
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A distinctive of these large, un-American campus demonstrations was the presence of tents occupied by many students. Tents have not been a mainstay of previous campus demonstrations going back to the civil rights demonstrations (which, by the way, were demonstrating for civil rights and not against white people). This writer believes that the tents were symbolic of identity with Arab people. The attempt to portray the demonstrations in their ethnic/religious dimension is not only averse to the “melting pot” ideal of American life, but an attempt to elevate the desert-life, nomadic existence of many parts of the Arab world into a place of honor it does not hold in Western civilization. Many students were wearing keffiyehs (head scarves common in the Arab world). The tents and the Muslim attire of students demonstrating introduced a wanton hatred of Western mores, religions, and cultural commitments that went far beyond protesting the Middle East conflict between Israel and some of her Arab neighbors.
By including tents, keffiyehs, and female head coverings, demonstrators also revealed themselves to be anti-Western and anti-American. These dimensions of demonstrator hostility are both novel and dreadful.
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Netanyahu: Countering the Attack on Israel’s Legitimacy – YouTube
Israeli Commandos conducted a raid in Syria on a missile production facility. #military #soldier – YouTube
Is the “Dreyfus Affair”, just a cheap publicity stunt? Why should Israel presume that a political alliance with Australia ever existed?
Australia maintained a neutral stance during the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Australia supported post wars UN Resolutions 242 and 338 written by British and French imperialism in the Middle East! Demands that Israel return to its ’48 Armistice battle lines amounts to revisionist history and supports EU imperialism in the Middle East which seeks to force Israel to return to a weak political pawn controlled by Great Power strategic interests; as if Israel exists as a UN pre-Independence War protectorate territory of the UN-nations.
UN – Nations political rhetoric propaganda that its interference in determination of Israeli strategic national interests, waving its bogus flag “promote peace”, simply conceals foreign great power efforts which reject the radical change in the balance of power in the Middle East, the result of Israeli military victories.
Calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from “territories occupied during the wars” – an utter fraud great power hat trick deception! The so called UN – Nations “efforts to find a peaceful solution” amounts to excuses by thieves to rob the Jewish state of its national security having defendable international borders.
Australia has never condemned the UN – Nations. Israel accuses the UN – Nations of establishing their own policy Apartheid against Israel; which singles out Israel as the only member which the UN – Nations flatly refuses to recognize as a nation state within the region of the Middle East. This Apartheid racism has forced Israel to piggy-back as a temporary EU member in order that Israel might chair UN – Nations committees.
Israel’s unique Apartheid status within the United Nations, its ghetto treatment as a “contentious” member state, more than simply “highly problematic”. It exemplifies a racist policy of apartheid — at least in a political and diplomatic sense. This issue isn’t about the exclusive separation of Israel as the only state to face ‘contentious relationships’ in the UN, but about the specific, consistent, and highly political manner in which Israel forced to endure unjust and unequal abuse from other states, particularly in terms of its right to participate in key roles as a full member of the Middle Eastern community, and have its sovereign status respected. No other nation has the so called “International Community” challenged the validity of its National Capital.
Israel’s treatment since it joined the UN as a member nation in 1949, forced to stomach the disgrace within this biased organization; its consistent exclusion from certain roles and responsibilities. From the beginning of its existence, Israel has faced opposition from a large portion of the Arab world and Muslim-majority countries that have refused to recognize it as a legitimate state. These states, both in the UN General Assembly and in other UN bodies, have blocked Israel’s participation in various forums, committees, and initiatives. While other countries with controversial political situations still find ways to take leadership positions, Israel has had to fight for recognition and equality in the system.
In the UN system, countries – grouped by regions – when it comes to selecting committee chairs or positions of power, like seats in the Security Council or the Human Rights Council. The Middle East the only region in the World which excludes Israel as country of that region, as part of that region. Arab states reject the Zionist entity as a Crusader State. Not because of Israel’s geographic location or lack of a right to participate, but due to their political opposition, their refusal to accept a permanent Jewish dhimmi status, and refuse to surrender as absurd that Jews have equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East. Hence Arab and Muslim voting blocks in the UN refer to Israel as the Zionist entity! This kind of Apartheid exclusion doesn’t happen with any other member state. Even states with complex geopolitical situations, like North Korea or Syria, are still granted the right to participate in committees, vote, and hold leadership positions within UN frameworks.
Israel a “full member” of the UN. Regardless of this fact, Israel banned to chair any UN committees, until it became more formally associated with European Union bloc. This exclusion, not based on performance or any objective criteria of competence, but solely rooted in the persistent political and ideological Apartheid policy of opposition by Arab and Muslim voting blocks that dominate the UN. No other country in the UN endures such political Apartheid exclusion from leadership roles, so blatant and consistent. Yet no ally of the Jewish state has denounced this obvious UN, Dreyfus Affair racism.
Israel flat-out rejects post its 2 Wars of Independence, ’48 and ’67 to establish the “Green Line” as its permanent international borders. Israel simply not a UN protectorate territory. The Quartet 2-State solution stinks of Nazi ‘Final Solution’. Post Shoah Europe does not shape nor influence Israeli strategic interests; Israel condemns to this day the British cowardly 1939 White Paper betrayal which influenced FDR to close the borders of America to Jews attempting to escape from Hitler’s genocide.
Diplomacy involves finding common ground, and Israel shares no common ground not with the EU nor with Australia. Imposition of political revisionism favors returning Israel to indefensible borders and the Quartet powers dominating the Middle East. Twice Arab leaders threatened, both in ’48 and ’67, to complete the Nazi genocide and throw the Jews into the Sea. Failure by UN – Nations Resolutions to address this cold-hard fact invalidates the neutrality of the UN, just as pre-Wars British and French neutrality but post-Wars British and French overbearing attempts to dictate peace terms based upon the presumption that Arab states won both wars.
The term “apartheid” has been used by some critics of Israel to describe its treatment of Palestinians, especially in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. However, Israel vehemently rejects this characterization, arguing that it provides full civil rights to its Arab citizens (who make up about 20% of the population).
Guilty European and Arab states have forged an alliance which projects and promotes and attempts to foist their repeated attempts of Jewish genocide upon the Jews themselves. This trash propaganda directly compares to the slander “the Jews poisoned the wells”, and Church “Blood Libels” repeated prior to every Easter for a millennium or more! Jews carry the scares and trauma of European and Arab barbarism whereby dhimmi Jewish refugee populations had no political or social rights.
The propaganda of “apartheid” in the context of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is part of a broader international debate on the legitimacy of the occupation and the viability of a two-state solution. This trash-talk compares to the WWI Allies slander of Germany, calling the German People “The Huns”. These criminal lies produced the fruits of Adolf Hitler!
The British ’39 White Paper betrayed the Balfour Declaration. Just that simple. Israel’s refusal to accept the international community’s proposed solutions (such as the two-state solution or pre-1967 borders) perceived as a rejection of the same international forces that failed to protect the Jewish people throughout 2000+ years, which culminated in the Shoah and the Allies refusal to bomb the rail-lines leading to Auschwitz!
That Australia recognizes Jerusalem as the Capital of the Jewish state, only exposes the pimp/whore relationship between it and the US. President Trump exercised tremendous leadership and moral courage to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. That PM Morrison basks in the huge shadow cast by President Trump, while much appreciated, Australia has shown no national backbone in forging a political and economic alliance with Israel.
Calls for Israel to return to pre-1967 borders or to accept a two-state solution an abomination to Israelis. Given the repeated existential Arab threats/wars, such biased posturing by “friendly nations”, with friends like these, who needs enemies. Israel’s rejection of the Green Line as its permanent border expresses Israeli diplomacy which requires security, not dependent on international guarantees but on realities which its military strength achieved.
Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. The UN condemned Jordan’s annexation of Samaria as illegal in 1950. Jordan never established a Palestinian state between 1950 to 1967. The propaganda of post war ’67 of the “West Bank” as bogus as the 1964 Arafat call for the Palestinian State!
Netanyahu: Countering the Attack on Israel’s Legitimacy – YouTube
Is the “Dreyfus Affair”, just a cheap publicity stunt? Why should Israel presume that a political alliance with Australia ever existed?
Australia maintained a neutral stance during the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Australia supported post wars UN Resolutions 242 and 338 written by British and French imperialism in the Middle East! Demands that Israel return to its ’48 Armistice battle lines amounts to revisionist history and supports EU imperialism in the Middle East which seeks to force Israel to return to a weak political pawn controlled by Great Power strategic interests; as if Israel exists as a UN pre-Independence War protectorate territory of the UN-nations.
UN – Nations political rhetoric propaganda that its interference in determination of Israeli strategic national interests, waving its bogus flag “promote peace”, simply conceals foreign great power efforts which reject the radical change in the balance of power in the Middle East, the result of Israeli military victories.
Calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from “territories occupied during the wars” – an utter fraud great power hat trick deception! The so called UN – Nations “efforts to find a peaceful solution” amounts to excuses by thieves to rob the Jewish state of its national security having defendable international borders.
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