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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (127243)	10/4/2001 1:35:20 AM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Re: Yet terrorism is not really our underlying problem. It is, rather, the palpably barbarous tactic of a methodically planned and determinedly apocalyptic war. What a total load of crap. Was the Israeli bombing of the Kind David Hotel in 1948 an attack on Islamic or British civilization? Have the activities of the IRA against Britain for nearly fifty years represented an apocalyptic clash of Catholicism versus the Church of England? If the United States were to stop allowing and even encouraging-- through billions a year in military aid and vetoing of every UN resolution that condemns the Israelis for their barbaric treatment of the Palestinians-- the Israeli expropriation of the Palestinians via asymmetrical retaliation (600 dead Palestinians; 150 dead Israelis in the last year), the forced maintenance of Gaza as ghetto; the simply revolting practice of building settlements in the middle of land that is supposedly to be the Palestinian state, Osama Bin Laden, al-Queda and friends would stop caring about the U.S. within minutes. There is a reason that Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Japan haven't had any violence committed against them. These terrorist actions are not about Islamism, Islam versus Western Civilization, or anything else involving ideology, they are a consequence of American support for a thug nation that professes to be a modern twentieth century human rights, civil rights respecting democracy, but which treats two million people, who had the misfortune of having their land stolen by said state, in a manner no better than did nineteenth century and prior imperialists. -Eric