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UPDATE FROM HFT CONNECT ON
"ISLAMIC TERRORISM, THE USA, AND THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE"!!
by retired Ambassador Yoram
Ettinger
According to President Obama's worldview the Palestinian issue is a
principal Muslim concern and a major source of Muslim animation and
frustration, which has fueled regional violence, intensifying Islamic
terrorism.
However, irrespective of Obama's far-reaching gestures to the Palestinian
Authority, the number of Muslim terrorist cells in the US has increased, as
have Islamic terrorist attacks on the US mainland, such as in San
Bernardino (2015), Boston (2013), Times Square (2010), Ft. Hood, Texas
(2009), Little Rock, Arkansas (2009), Dallas, Texas (2009), etc.
Moreover, in 1983, while President Reagan brutally pressured Israel to end
its offensive against the PLO in Lebanon and withdraw to the international
border, Islamic car bombs blew up the US embassy and the Marines'
headquarters in Beirut, murdering 300 US Marines.
In 1998 and 2000, while President Clinton pressured Israel to make dramatic
concessions to the Palestinians, and made Arafat a frequent foreign visitor
to the White House, Islamic car bombs hit the US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, murdering 300 persons, and Islamic terrorists hit the "USS
Cole" at the port of Aden, murdering 17 US sailors. Furthermore,
"September 11" was planned while President Clinton pressured
Israel to repartition Jerusalem, retreat to the pre-1967 lines and accept a
limited version of the Palestinian "claim of return" to the
pre-1967 area of Israel.
President Obama was right when declaring in June, 2009, at Cairo
University: "Islam has always been part of America's story."
Indeed, Islamic (Barbary) terrorism targeted US ships between 1776 and the
beginning of the 19th century. John Quincy Adams, the sixth US president
(1825-1929), researched the causes of anti-US Islamic terrorism, concluding
that the core cause was Islam's endemic hostility toward the
"infidel" as expressed in the Quran.
The US is the role-model of democracy and civil liberties, and therefore,
it is perceived as a lethal threat by repressive, rogue, anti-democratic
Muslim regimes, which have terrorized their own people and other Muslim
communities since the 7th century. They, also, consider the US to be the
most effective hurdle on their way to regional and global domination. US
prominence has made America the chief scapegoat, blamed by rogue Muslim
regimes for their own social, economic and moral failures.
Islamic terrorists believe that their victory over the USSR, in Afghanistan,
caused the disintegration of the Soviet Union. They are convinced that
defeating the USA would be easier, in view of recent US retreats from
Vietnam (1973), Iran (1979), Lebanon (1983), Somalia (1993) and Libya
(2012), and the expected evacuation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Islamic
terrorists assume that the US policy-makers and public tend to cave under
intensified terrorism - increasingly on the US mainland - which will,
therefore, trigger further US retreats.
Islamic terrorists have been emboldened by President Obama's and CIA
Director John Brennan's claims - in defiance of 1,400 year old Islamic
terrorism, Islamic tyranny and the absence of intra-Muslim peaceful
coexistence - that there is no Islamic terrorism, since Islam promotes
peace; that there is no Jihadist terrorism, since Jihad purifies the soul;
that the US should engage rogue regimes diplomatically rather than
militarily; that the Muslim Brotherhood (the largest transnational Islamic
terrorist organization) is not a terrorist organization; that there is no
military solution to terrorism; that terrorism should be contained rather
than defeated; and that terrorist acts may be defined as "workplace
violence," etc. Thus, wrong US assumptions have produced wrong US
policies and failed battle tactics.
According to the
late Prof. Fuad Ajami one of the leading Middle East scientists in recent
years: "The sad truth is that the terror will continue - and continue
to test the patience of an America that insists on its innocence and its
distance from the feuds and passions of the Middle East....
A terrible wind was now blowing throughout the
realm of Islam. Americans were caught there at a time when a large fight
was breaking out - a fight for the soul and historic direction of that
society.... Caught between the frightened privilege, on the one side, and
the militant wrath, on the other. And, America was inevitably on the side
of the privilege.... The distant superpower was turned into a demon....
Decades of oil wealth and promise in the Moslem world was ending in failure
and defeat.
When the inevitable scapegoating came, America was the best kind of
scapegoat....This amorphous world took America on the only way it could -
with terror.... In reality, to talk of a peace process that would end this
wave of terror is naïve. If Americans can be sure of anything, they can be
sure of this: Nothing would inflame the passions of extremists more than a
major American diplomatic initiative....
No US diplomatic scheme would spare America the fury of those bent upon
eradicating its presence in the Middle East. It is a false reading of Islam
to say that terror springs from the impasse between Israelis and
Palestinians.... It does not advance Israeli-Palestinian peace to pretend
that it would solve a problem larger than their conflict...."
Is it realistic to assume that rogue Muslim regimes, which have employed
terrorism - systematically and deliberately - since the 7th century, in
order to settle intra-Muslim conflicts with fellow "believers,"
would not employ terrorism in order to settle their conflicts with the USA,
"the big, arrogant, infidel Satan"?!
Islamic terrorism constitutes a clear and present danger to the USA
and the Free World, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent
of the Palestinian issue and regardless of Israel's policies or the very
existence of the Jewish State, which is only "the little Satan"
as far as Muslim rogue regimes and terrorists are concerned.
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