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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (77341)	9/25/2001 12:02:39 AM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116856

The origins of the the attack on the US WEIN ON-LINE: Harvest of thorns By Berel Wein (September 20) Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, that noted humanitarian leader and statesman, with a definite flair for memorable prose, commented in glee on the massacre of thousands of innocents in the United States that America has "reaped its harvest of thorns." Well, good old Saddam may have something there, but not in the manner that he envisions. The Western world and the United States of America have reaped a harvest of thorns. But not because they were too strong and brutal against the terrorist countries and organizations of the Middle East. Rather, the thorns grew because of their weakness, lack of resolution and foolish condoning of Arab terror for the past 30 years. They condoned that terror because, basically, the terror was addressed toward Jews and the State of Israel. To use another felicitous phrase of Saddam, the mother of all terrorists in the world is Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Who first hijacked planes and blew others up to kill innocent people for the crime of travelling to Israel? Who placed a gun on the podium of the United Nations to tumultuous applause? Who planned and executed the killing of the children of Ma'alot, the teenagers at the Dolphinarium, the babies and women at Sabrro's? Was it not our peace partner, Arafat and his gang of corrupt and brutal terrorists? Yet Arafat received and still receives from large sections of the world and even the Israeli public treatment as a statesman and a legitimate leader. Well, that is one of the thorns, and a major one at that. ANOTHER THORN is the endemic anti-Semitism - subtle, pervasive and sometimes blatant - that continues to flourish throughout the world. And again, as long as it is the Jews and Israel who are being hated, it is somehow not too great a problem. The world forgets where Hitler and Stalin's anti-Semitism led, and the price all of humanity had to pay for their hatreds. No one spoke up in time to prevent the catastrophes that they in their evil caused, because after all the Jews were too "pushy" and "aggressive" (the words being used to describe Israeli policy today by the European Union.) Why didn't Europe, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Australia, etc. get up and walk out of the Durban conference? They certainly would have if the resolutions under consideration applied to any other country in the world except Israel. If the world condones anti-Semitism and dresses it in the form of anti-Israel, then the terrorists are legitimatized in their murderous acts against Jews and Israelis. It is only a short step of further illogic that legitimatizes terror against the United States or any other country deemed wanting in the world of suicide fanaticism. Listen to the words of the French ambassador to Israel at the president's reception for foreign diplomats last week. He said that the Arab terror against Israel is not to be compared to the terror attack against the United States. He said openly what we all suspect the French government secretly feels - that terror against Jews is not terror. Somehow, it is considered to be legitimate nationalist expression. Terror against the United States - now that is terror! The poor ambassador may or may not be punished for his candor. But the attitude of the French in coddling Iraq, Iran, Arafat and the rest of the terrorist groups is certainly a major thorn in the side of the attempt to provide some semblance of security from random, senseless, murderous terror in this world. And the tragedy is that this French attitude is echoed by many other countries in Europe, all of which unfortunately have deep anti-Semitic roots, centuries-old, implanted within them. The world media is also one of the thorns that has been harvested. The biased media coverage of the Palestinian terror, the"even-handedness," the justification of Palestinian acts of murder as a response to"occupation," the slavish obeying of Palestinian orders as to what video film should be shown and what is forbidden to be shown, the pie-in-the-sky solutions of the oped page experts, all are messages of encouragement to the continuation of violence and terror. Some of the columnists have already changed their tune after the horror of the attack against America. The media should take a long hard look at itself and its hopefully unwitting role in encouraging violence and providing positive coverage to evil. Yes, Saddam, we have harvested thorns, but those who sow the wind will yet harvest the whirlwind.

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (77341)	9/25/2001 3:32:54 AM
From: Square_Dealings	Respond to of 116856

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