CAFI Newsletter #59
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Friday, December 7, 2001
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. ISRAELIS HARDEN ATTITUDES TOWARDS PALESTINIANS
2. UNLEASH ISRAEL, WIN PEACE
3. THEY DON'T WANT TO SAVE YOUR SOUL
IN DEFENSE OF FUNDAMENTALIST JEWS.
4. ONE MAN'S TERRORIST
5. THE MORAL FUTURE OF MANKIND: A CHANUKAH MEDITATION
6. QUOTES TO NOTE
7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
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1. ISRAELIS HARDEN ATTITUDES TOWARDS PALESTINIANS
The following are the results of a Gallup Poll of a
representative sample of 596 adult Israelis
(including Israeli Arabs) surveyed the week of 7 December 2001.
Survey error +/- 4.5 percentage points.
Do you support or oppose the decision of the government to
declare the Palestinian Authority a "terror supporting entity"?
Support 67% Oppose 26% Do not know/refuse reply 7%
Do you support or oppose massive IDF actions against the
Palestinian Authority?
Support 71% Oppose 25% Do not know/refuse reply 4%
Do you support or oppose an Israeli attempt to remove Arafat
from power?
Support 56% Oppose 34% Do not know/refuse reply 10%
Do you support or oppose an Israeli attempt to bring down
the Palestinian Authority?
Support 51% Oppose 42% Do not know/refuse reply 7%
In your opinion, should Israel accelerate its efforts to
reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians today, or
instead declare all out war against the Palestinian
Authority or continue the situation as now?
Accelerate efforts 42% All out war 39%
Existing situation 12%
Do not know/refuse reply 7%
[Two weeks ago: Accelerate 55% All out war 20%
Existing situation 19%
Do not know/ refuse reply 6%]
There are those who claim that the terror problem will
only be resolved when a Palestinian state is established
within the framework of a diplomatic arrangement, in
contrast there are those who claim that the problem of
Palestinian terror will only be resolved when the IDF
retakes the territories held by the Palestinian Authority.
Which of the two views do you agree more with?
Palestinian state 49% Retake 36% Do not know/refuse reply 15%
[In the text accompanying the report of the results, it is
noted that those who said terror would continue until a
Palestinian state was established included those who said
"no alternative" and those who felt that once it was
a state Israel could "really let them have it" as they
would then be an enemy state."]
Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance
of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in general?
Satisfied 57% Dissatisfied 36% Do not know 7%
Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance of
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the security area?
Satisfied 49% Dissatisfied 46% Do not know 5%
In your opinion, has Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
succeeded or failed so far in the struggle against terror?
Succeeded 27% Failed 60% Do not know 13%
In your opinion, will Prime Minister Ariel Sharon succeed
or fail in the future in the struggle against terror?
Succeed 53% Fail 30% Do not know 17%
In your opinion, will a solution to the problem of terror
be found in the course of the coming year?
Yes 30% No 58% Do not know 12%
Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance
of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres?
Satisfied 30% Dissatisfied 64% Do not know 6%
Vote Left: Satisfied 46% Dissatisfied 48%
Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance
of Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer?
Satisfied 43% Dissatisfied 43% Do not know 14%
Vote Left: Satisfied 31% Dissatisfied 56%
Do you support or oppose the Labor Party leaving the
national union government?
Support leaving 31% Oppose 50% Do not know 19%
Vote Left: Support leaving 32% Oppose 52%
DO you support or oppose that the United States impose a
solution that will put and end to the violence on
Israel and the Palestinians?
Support 42% Oppose 53% Do not know 5%
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2. UNLEASH ISRAEL, WIN PEACE
by Rush Limbaugh
The only way some form of quiet will ever exist in the
Middle East is if Israel is given the latitude to totally
defeat its declared enemies. Only then will the terrorist
attacks on Israel's civilians come to an end. Perpetual
negotiations, diplomatic half measures, or land for peace
deals will not bring peace to the Middle East. For those
who believe this is an irresponsible notion, I use
history as my guide.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Imperial Japan's
unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, in which 2,500
Americans were killed. There are lessons to be learned
from our victory in that war.
In his April 16, 1945 address before a Joint Session of
Congress, President Harry Truman stated: "So there can be
no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be
certain, beyond any shadow of doubt, that America will
continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of
resistance remains. We are deeply conscious of the fact
that much hard fighting is still ahead of us. Having to pay
such a heavy price to make complete victory certain,
America will never become a party to any plan for partial
victory. To settle for merely another temporary respite
would surely jeopardize the future security of the world.
Our demand has been, and it remains, unconditional
surrender."
On August 6, 1945, just 16-hours after the United States
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Truman issued a
statement which said, in part: "The Japanese began the war
from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many
fold. . We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and
completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have
above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks,
their factories, and their communications. Let there be no
mistake: we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war."
Truman understood that there could be no peace without total
victory. This lesson has not been lost on President George
Bush. On September 20, 2001, Bush also addressed a Joint
Session of Congress and announced America's policy --
"the Bush Doctrine" -- in responding to the atrocities of
September 11. He stated: " . Our war on terror begins with
al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until
every terrorist group of global reach has been found,
stopped and defeated."
Bush stated further: " . We will starve terrorists of
funding, turn them one against another, drive them from
place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. Every
nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either
you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this
day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support
terrorism will be regarded by the United States as
a hostile regime."
Since September 11, Bush has refused all offers by the
Taliban regime to negotiate any settlement of the war --
including the status of Osama bin Laden and his top
lieutenants in the al Qaeda terrorist network -- short of
outright surrender. As Bush once eloquently put it: bin
Laden is "wanted, dead or alive." And for over two months,
the U.S. has been systematically bombing the Taliban and
al Qaeda day and night. Already, the Bush administration
is planning the next phase of the war, which may involve U.S.
military action in Iraq, Somalia and elsewhere.
So, in the two most recent examples of the U.S. being
attacked on its own territory, America's predicate for
peace has been the total annihilation of its enemies. And
there is every reason to expect Israel's Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon to have learned the same lesson.
Since 1948, Israel has been forced to fight 4 wars with
the hostile nations surrounding her. Despite defeating her
enemies on the battlefield, the international community has
never permitted Israel to completely destroy any of these
regimes -- none of which are democracies. They've always
been left largely intact, free to start or support another
war, including the current terrorist war now being waged
against Israel's citizens. And between wars, Israel's enemies
have convinced the world, including the U.S., that her
borders and security are not only legitimate subjects of
constant negotiations, but that Israel's refusal to accept
most, if not all, of her enemies' demands is an obstacle
to peace.
This week Hamas and other terrorist groups -- which, like
certain of the countries that surround Israel, seek the
destruction of Israel, not co-existence or even the
establishment of a Palestinian state -- intensified their
war against the Jewish state by unleashing 5 fanatic
suicide bombers against innocent civilians, mostly children.
The result: hundreds of casualties, including 26 dead. In
the past 14 months, more than 230 Israelis have been killed
-- the proportional equivalent to the U.S. losing some
11,000 people.
In addition to Hamas, which receives support from
Palestinian expatriates, wealthy Saudi Arabians, and Iran,
Israel is under attack from, among others, Hizballah, which
is supported by Syria and Iran, and Islamic Jihad, which is
backed by Iran, Sudan and militant Islamic groups.
On December 4, in an address to his nation, Sharon stated:
" . A war has been forced upon us. A war of terror. A war that
claims innocent victims daily. A war of terror being conducted
systematically, in an organized fashion, and with methodical
direction. . We will pursue those responsible, the
perpetrators of terrorism and the supporters. We will pursue
them until we catch them, and they will pay a price."
Ironically, the major obstacle to Sharon implementing the
Bush Doctrine has been U.S. Middle East policy. When attacked
by terrorists, Israel has been urged to show "restraint," to
make more negotiated concessions and even accept the creation
of a hostile Palestinian state on its border. This week's
carnage appears to have caused some positive change in
America's rhetoric and position. The president has now
pointed the finger of responsibility directly at Yassar
Arafat for ending the terrorism committed by his people.
But accomplishing peace requires more -- much more.
Truman was right to insist that peace would only be
realized after the "obliteration" of the Japanese war
machine, just as Bush is right about "defeating" the
Taliban, al Qaeda and other terrorist networks. It is,
therefore, necessary that in the pursuit of real and
lasting peace, Israel also be free to destroy its enemies
-- meaning the terrorists and, yes, their sponsors, who
are at war with her, and that she do so before they obtain
devastating weapons of mass destruction
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3. THEY DON'T WANT TO SAVE YOUR SOUL
IN DEFENSE OF FUNDAMENTALIST JEWS.
BY SETH LIPSKY
Wednesday, December 5, 2001 12:01 a.m.
Three days after the attack on the World Trade Center,
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote a column
asserting, among other things, that terrorism reflects a
struggle "between those Muslims, Christians, Hindus,
Buddhists and Jews with a modern and progressive
outlook and those with a medieval one." It was one of
those glancing sneers that took some people a bit of time
to comprehend.
But not Rabbi Avi Shafran of the Agudath Israel of
America, an organization that represents fervently
religious Jews and is affiliated with the Council of Torah
Sages. "If Mr. Friedman means to impugn Jews who
remain faithful to Jewish religious tradition and who
accept and observe the Torah's laws even against the
zeitgeist, he should be advised," the rabbi wrote to the
Times. "Orthodox Jews express their fervency through
prayer, study of texts, ritual observance and kindness
toward others, not in terrorism. To try to compare them
to Islamic radicals is outlandish and worse."
A few weeks later came another of those sneers that are
so subtle they can go right past a reader. This time it
was by an author named Karen Armstrong, writing in Time
magazine. She asserted that every fundamentalist
movement she has studied "in Judaism, Christianity and
Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is
determined to wipe out religion." She went on to say:
"Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival,
fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more
compassionate principles of their faith."
This gibe prompted Phil Baum of the American Jewish
Congress to write a letter to Time. "While there are
extremists in Judaism and Christianity," he wrote, "the
actions of this handful of marginal religious fanatics are
almost universally repudiated by other Jews and
Christians." By contrast, he added, "Islamic extremism
includes thousands of adherents around the globe
expressly trained and sworn to kill by leaders like Osama
bin Laden. Except for a minuscule number of isolated
individuals, Jewish fundamentalists act out their beliefs
by railing against the modern world, prohibiting television
in their homes and requiring the strictest possible
interpretation of Jewish law, such as Sabbath
observance. But they do not direct airplanes into the
World Trade Center or the Pentagon."
When occasionally a religious Jew does commit an
atrocity, his co-religionists immediately and forcefully
condemn him. This happened in 1994, when Baruch
Goldstein slew 29 Arabs while they were kneeling in
prayer at Hebron. Of those few who cheered Goldstein,
then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, "Sane Judaism
spits them out." He spoke for overwhelming numbers.
Condemnation came not only from the secular authorities,
but also from religious Jewry, including the most
fundamentalist authorities.
A few weeks ago, the writer Jonathan Rosen, a former
colleague of mine at the Jewish Forward, published in the
New York Times magazine a seminal article titled "The
Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism." Mr. Rosen
wrote about his sense, which a lot of us share, that
things are suddenly changing in the wake of the attacks
of Sept. 11. The language of anti-Semitism, often used in
the context of hostile remarks about Israel, is starting to
become a routine part of the political chatter.
It reminds a lot of us of an earlier time.
Toward the end of his article, Mr. Rosen quotes Bernard
Lewis as pointing out that after Christians reconquered
Spain from the Muslims in the 15th century, they decided
to expel the Jews before the Muslims. "The reason for
this," Mr. Rosen writes, "is that although the Jews had no
army and posed far less of a political threat than the
Muslims, they posed a far greater theological challenge.
This is because Jews believed that adherents of other
faiths could find their own path to God. Christianity and
Islam, which cast unbelievers as infidels, did not share
this essential religious relativism. The rabbinic
interpretation of monotheism, which in seeing all human
beings as created in God's image recognized their
inherent equality, may well contain the seeds of the very
democratic principles that the terrorists of Sept. 11
found so intolerable."
In this context, what is one to make of all this carping
about Jewish fundamentalism? At one point Rabbi
Shafran--a prolific columnist with far too few
readers--actually tapped out a charming little piece
called "Confessions of a Jewish Fundamentalist." In it he
describes the fundamentals of his creed as a rigorously
Orthodox Jew, starting with: that there is a God and that
he revealed Himself at Sinai and that an ultimate reward
and punishment awaits all human beings. He explains
what he calls "funny clothes" ("modest in a way that
tends to stand out, especially on summer days") and
"strange doings" ("from the moment we wake up until we
go to bed, our lives are governed by myriad religious
rules").
He explains that Jewish fundamentalism seeks neither
material success nor world domination but rather good
deeds and the study of Torah. He confirms the point that
Messrs. Rosen and Lewis have made, explaining that
efforts of Jewish fundamentalists to spread the faith
extend only to other Jews who may lack traditional
Jewish educations. "We don't evangelize other faiths or
see them as unsaved," he writes. "Indeed, we consider a
Christian or Muslim who observes certain basic moral
precepts to merit a share in the World-to-Come."
Then, right after Thanksgiving, Mr. Friedman of the Times
issued another column, this one, called "The Real War,"
attacking "religious totalitarianism." He wrote of "the
contention that unless Jews reinterpreted their faith in a
way that embraced modernity, without weakening
religious passion, and in a way that affirmed that God
speaks multiple languages and is not exhausted by just
one faith, they would have no future in the land of
Israel."
This prompted Aguda's David Zweibel to write to the
Times to explain that religious Jews don't need to
"reinterpret" their tradition to allow for tolerance of
other faiths. "We do not seek, much less try to force, the
conversion of Christians or Muslims to our religion."
Religious Jews, he said, certainly do believe that the
Torah is God's word and that Judaism is the ultimate
expression of his will--"just as we imagine that many
people of other faiths believe that theirs represents
ultimate truth." He went on to write: "Mr. Friedman's
vision of America as a country where religious belief is
welcome only if it abandons claims to exclusive truth is
truly chilling--and truly intolerant."
Mr. Lipsky is a contributing editor of The Wall Street
Journal. His column appears Wednesdays.
Copyright © 2001 Dow Jones & Company
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4. ONE MAN'S TERRORIST
Wall Street Journal - Thursday, December 6, 2001
Hamas's latest terror means the end of the "peace process."
September 11 changed U.S. attitudes forever toward
terrorism, with a single exception: suicide bombings in
Israel. The Bush Administration said they were terrible but
the blame for "violence" was still said to lay with both
sides. Now even that moral equivalence may be vanishing
in the White House, with potentially helpful long-term
consequences.
After Hamas suicide bombers killed 25 Israelis and injured
some 200 over the weekend, the White House responded
to Israeli reprisals by saying, "Israel has a right to defend
itself." A day later President Bush went further, freezing
the assets of a U.S.-based charity called the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development, which he accused
of funding Hamas.
The about-face is an encouraging sign that the Bush
Administration understands that one man's terrorist is . . .
another man's terrorist. We also hope it's a sign the White
House is breaking with a decade-long U.S.-led "peace"
process that has now produced the most Arab-Israeli
violence in a generation. A further sign of progress would
be if Mr. Bush changed the current Mideast mission of U.S.
envoy and retired Gen. Anthony Zinni; instead of hoping
he can resurrect a forlorn process, he might first try to
get the Arabs to recognize Israel's right to exist.
Until even that basic standard is met, how can there be
something called "peace"? Yet only two Arab states,
Jordan and Egypt, have done so. Yasser Arafat's
Palestinian Authority employs textbooks with maps that do
not depict Israel at all, even as a disputed territory. And
the PLO Charter still declares: "The partition of Palestine
in 1947 and the establishment of Israel is fundamentally
null and void, whatever time has elapsed."
This Charter has never been amended, despite Arafat's
promises in signing the Oslo Accords in 1993. Bill Clinton's
1998 visit to the PLO meeting in Gaza, where the Charter
was supposedly changed, was in fact a sham; it isn't legal
by the PLO's own rules and most members don't recognize it.
In this context, Arafat's routine pledge to round up the
usual Hamas suspects can hardly be trusted. These are
the same people he promised to control as part of Oslo.
Instead he released most of them from jail last year when
he began the Second Intifada. Arafat still speaks, and has
since 1974, of a plan of "phases" to destroy Israel entirely
from any base he can establish in Palestine. Amid the
current terrorism, and after Arafat rejected Ehud Barak's
historic offer for a Palestinian state, Oslo looks merely like
one more part of this long-term strategy.
Which is why it's understandable if Israel now takes more
forceful security moves. Disarming the Palestinian police
force that was created under Oslo would seem to be a
logical step. The U.S. would never tolerate an armed camp
of suicide bombers on its own doorstep. Expelling Arafat
the way Jordan did in 1970 would also make sense.
The question is whether such moves would prompt the
Bush Administration to return to its earlier
blame-both-sides rhetoric. We've always suspected that
this posture was partly tactical, designed to appease the
coalition Mr. Bush wants to maintain in the war against
terrorism. But Hamas's continued terror has exposed that
stand's moral and strategic inconsistency. As New York
Senator Chuck Schumer has put it, "The PLO is the same
as the Taliban, which aids, abets and provides safe haven
for terrorists."
A peace in Palestine may still be possible one day, and the
U.S. efforts on their behalf since Oslo have been legion.
But after eight years and hundreds of deaths, Israelis
have understandably concluded that that process is over.
We hope the Bush Administration now finally agrees.
Copyright © 2001 Dow Jones & Company
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5. THE MORAL FUTURE OF MANKIND: A CHANUKAH MEDITATION
By Avi Davis
One of the more moving scenes in Steven Spielberg's epic,
Saving Private Ryan, occurs when messengers from the Army
arrive at the Ryan farmhouse in Iowa to inform the family that
the three oldest sons have been killed in action. The mother,
recognizing the military van as it snakes up the road, sinks
to her knees in a premonition of what is to come. From that
moment on, she is cast in silhouette and although we never
learn what she has to say, her overwhelming grief is
powerfully conveyed.
One can only try to imagine the anguish of a mother confronted
with news of the simultaneous sacrifice of her children. From
the Iliad to the novels of Thomas Hardy, the pages of our
literature are littered with the scenes of mothers weeping
for lost children.
Jewish history also has its tragic episodes of loss and one
of the most dramatic and desperate, remembered every Chanukah,
is that of Chana and her sons. During the time of Greek rule
over Judea, the Seleucid king Antiochus sought to tighten
his dominion of the country by requiring the population to
renounce Judaism. He commanded a pious widow named Chana
and her seven sons to appear before him and then demanded
that they eatthe forbidden meat of a pig . When they all
refused, he had them summarily executed, one after the other.
Finally Chana was left alone, the remains of her children
cast about her. Despite her inconsolable grief, she remained
defiant, and Antiochus bowed his head in defeat and shame.
The story of Chana and her children is used as an example
of the power of belief to humble or humiliate even the most
determined tyranny. But during these difficult times it has
assumed an even more poignant significance. Recent events
have altered our concept of martyrdom, stripping that noun,
perhaps forever, of its lexical nuance. By characterizing
the martyr as a weapon intended for the massacre of men,
women and children, the September 11 hijackers shattered
our hopes that mankind was approaching a universal
appreciation for the sanctity of human life. The wild
celebrations in the Arab street, the applause heard in
other Muslim countries and the chilling silence from Islamic
religious leaders, only reinforced the suspicion that almost
a third of humanity accepts mass slaughter, masquerading as
martyrdom, as a legitimate form of political expression.
This is not the concept of martyrdom as understood by
Jewish tradition. On the contrary. The Jews of Nordhausen
in Germany understood it very differently. As the Black
Plague swept through Europe in the mid-14th century,
Jews everywhere were accused of poisoning wells. The Jewish
community of Nordhausen, as suspects, were gathered at the
Jewish cemetery to be burned alive in a mass grave. With
no possibility of escape, the Jews astonished the
town-folk by beginning to dance and sing with all their
strength. When asked why they did this, Rabbi Jacob,
their leader answered, ' we are celebrating our entrance
to the presence of God'. Then they all - men, women
and children - entered the mass grave and died together.
Not a cry was heard.
In the Janowka Road Camp, during the Holocaust, a
particularly brutal Jewish warden from Lvov named
Schneeweiss was solicited by a group of religious Jews to
be allowed to observe Yom Kippur. To their surprise, the
Capo was moved and he agreed to give them light duties
and would not compel them to eat. However the S.S.
discovered the arrangement and later came to the barracks
with cart-loads of food. When the Jews were commanded to
eat, Schneeweiss stood defiantly before the SS officer.
"We Jews obey the law of our tradition and today is
Yom Kippur, a day of fasting. We will not eat."
The SS officer abruptly took out his revolver and pulled
the trigger. The Capo swayed for a moment and then fell.
He died with the words "shma yisrael" - the traditional
final benediction , upon his lips.
Neither Chana's sons, the Jews of Nordhausen nor the
capo Schneeweiss, sought to take other lives with them
when they died martyrs'deaths. Their sacrifice was a
confirmation of the extraordinary capacity of men and
women to rise above either fatal circumstances or the
instinct for self-preservation to recognize a higher
purpose to life.
So when lighting the Chanukah candles this year we
should recall not just the military triumphs and
celebration of national revival that give Chanukah its
festive glory. We should also remember those throughout
the millennia, from all races and religions, all
countries and wars who have chosen death over humiliation,
self-respect over degradation and belief over sacrilege.
It is their acts of courage that teach us that while we
may justifiably hold little faith in the actions of men,
there is every reason to believe in the moral future
of mankind.
Avi Davis is the senior fellow of the Freeman Center
for Strategic Studies and a senior editorial columnist
for the on-line magazine Jewsweek.com.
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6. QUOTES TO NOTE
"What Israel is doing is retaliating against acts
of violence intended to kill Israeli civilians.
What we are doing is exactly the same thing but,
the difference is that Israel doesn't criticize us.
We have a history of criticizing them. I'm happy to
say it now looks as if we are going to shelve
that criticism."
Richard Perle - Chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board
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"We're saying: `Here's the first dish on the menu,
if you want the whole meal, it's up to you."
Ra'anan Gissin, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, on
the possibility that Israeli air strikes on PA targets would
resume if PA chairman Yasser Arafat does not crack down on
militants with sufficient force
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7. FEATURE ARTICLES ON OUR SITE
A STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY
When CNN opens its newscast with reports from "both fronts"
in the war on terror - Israel and Afghanistan - you know that
things have changed. When the State Department does not temper
its support of Israel's right of self-defense with an asinine
plea to "end the cycle of violence," you know that Arafat is
in deep trouble.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/dec01/opportunity.html
SAY IT: MUSLIM TERRORIST
What counts as "anti-Islam terminology"? Apparently, the term
"Muslim terrorist" does. Under the CIC's rules, it counts for
80 hate points. So do "Muslim militants" (70 points),
"Muslim extremists" (60 points) and "Muslim fundamentalists"
(50 points).
http://christianactionforisrael.org/islam/say_it.html
WE SHALL OVERCOME
We grieve, our tears flow, and in defiance of the terrorists
we go on. We build, we advance our culture, we create music,
and art, and literature, even as our enemies scheme to
destroy us. We have a long history of surviving - and so we
defy the current terrorism by Palestinian barbarians today
as we defied the Nazis before them.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/dec01/overcome.html
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