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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3484)	9/12/2001 9:08:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Don't count your chickens yet, Hawk... This time around, we'll chase down the REAL perpetrators of these atrocious attacks --NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, get it? Israelis Feel More Sure of American Support Lee Hockstader Washington Post Service Wednesday, September 12, 2001 They Believe That Both Countries Are Now In the Same Bunker, Facing the Same Foes JERUSALEM On Bethlehem Road in Jerusalem, an Israeli delicatessen owner sat glued to his radio this evening, taking in the ghastly news from the United States, when an American customer walked in. "It's just like it had happened here in Israel," he said, ashen-faced. Half-jokingly, Israelis often refer to their country as America's 51st state. On Tuesday, that sentiment was reinforced by their conviction that the United States, like Israel, was now besieged by terror - that the two countries, already allies, finally shared the same bunker and faced the same threat. Although there was no proof, many Israelis assumed that the attackers in America must have come from the Islamic world. Now, they said, America would finally understand and empathize with what Israelis see as their own predicament. Now, America's leaders would think twice before condemning Israel's policy of assassinations and other attacks on Islamic militants, they said. [...] iht.com WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?? How is it that, from now on, "America's leaders would think twice before condemning Israel"? Was yesterday's outrage a WARNING NOTICE of sorts? It's clear that, from the Zionist-hawkish standpoint, what befell the US yesterday was merely of the same magnitude as Israel's death toll since the outbreak of the current Intifada: over 160 Israelis have been killed out of a total population of 6 million Israelis --ie 0.0025%. Yesterday's total fatalities will likely amount to the same ratio when balanced against the US population of 260 million.... Hence the possibility that Israel's most extremist fringe wanted to shanghai the US into a Western crusade against the Islamic world --at any cost. Gus