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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14227)	4/29/2002 8:18:20 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how bizarre...I have just provided you an axplanation why Israel should not even bother to talk to UN, only US...

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14227)	4/29/2002 8:36:07 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

October 27, 1966 Letter from Yoni Netanyahu (Bibi's brother) ...The recent incidents are in effect of two kinds: those commited by bands of terrorists from the Syrian border and those commited by terrorists from Jordan.... ...Before I express my opinion of the reprisal actions, I want briefly to mention what has occured here most recently. ..The batallion was informed just this minute that at 8 30 this evening a freight train bound for Jerusalem struck a charge of explosives....A number of cars have been derailed. Not content with thos, the terrorists than opened fire on the passengers who were pulling themselves out of the overturned cars. In the meantime I think they're waiting too long here. They should have responded to these terrorist acts long ago. The fact that they've waited this long necessitates a reprisal action of major dimension now..... Adapted from The Commander of the Entebbe rescue force by Herman Wouk

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14227)	4/30/2002 1:02:44 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

West finds new enemy in Islam By Dr. Abdul Qader Tash, Special to Arab News The confrontation between the capitalist West and the Communist bloc came to and end with the fall of the Soviet Union in the early nineties. Since then, Western strategists, particularly in the United States, have been looking for a new “enemy” to take the role vacated by the Communists. The “candidate” they found was Islam. With its intellectual values and social vitality, Islam appeared to the West as a tough competitor. Consequently, many began to look at Islam as a looming “danger” to the West. A state of hysteria was whipped up against Islam by the media. The famous British writer Fred Halliday termed this attitude to Islam as “anti-Islamism.” He attributed the spread of anti-Muslim feelings to the end of the Cold War to the fast-growing ultraright movements in Europe and America. A German writer, Gerhard Konselman, published a book titled “Challenge of Islam.” He issued a pocket edition of the book because he wanted his ideas to get the widest possible circulation among people. According to Dr. Taib Taizini, professor of Philosophy at the Damascus University, the German author sounds an alarm bell to Westerners about Islam in the coming decades. In support of his theory, he quoted the anti-American demonstrations by Muslims in Izmir, Dhaka, Calcutta, Lahore and Tehran where American cultural centers were stoned. He particularly noted the attack on the German Embassy building in Islamabad. The writer’s final conclusion is that Muslims view the West as their “permanent enemy.” The same argument is heard in America. Professor Pierre Puzin of Warwick University, who published the article, “The Realpolitik in the New World: New Style for International Security in the 21st Century,” in the American International Affairs Journal is a noted example. Dr. Muhammad Abid Al-Jabiri, noted Arab thinker, has reviewed Puzin’s book in a series of articles in the Emarati newspaper Al-Ittihad. He calls the phenomenon a struggle between the center and peripheries. He identified the migration from the South (Arab and Muslim countries) to the North (Europe and America) and the “clash” between the competing cultural identities as major issues threatening the world. The immigration from the peripheries poses a serious threat to the security of the center, threatening its cultural identity, apart from forming special ranks within it. He also viewed that the clash between identities and cultures is “quite apparent between the West and Islam,” because of the contradiction between secular values prevailing in the West and Islamic values and also because of the historical competition between Christianity and Islam. He also attributed the clash between the West and Muslims to Muslim’s envy at the West’s power in addition to geographical reasons. “The combined hazards of the immigration and the risks of the clash of civilizations provide an insight into the magnitude of the social cold war between the center and the edges, particularly between the West and Islam,” the writer noted. Such books and studies have, undoubtedly, prepared the ground for the spread of anti-Muslim ideological and cultural concepts. Rulers, policy-makers and generals in the West are also, mostly, influenced by such ideas while defining Western relations with the Arab and Muslim world. Samuel Huntington was not the first to advance the theory of the clash between Muslim and Western civilizations. Konselman’s book appeared in 1980 and Pierre Puzin’s article in 1991. Both of them served as bases for Huntington’s theory, which is more provocative and aggressive. (Tashmrc@hotmail.com) arabnews.com