[Jo Sul]

Continued . . . (I bet you thought I was kidding) . . .

> There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the
> military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now
> called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the
> "spiritual leader". There are numerous other examples of such Orwellian
> nomenclature, used every day not only by terror chiefs but also by
> Western media. These words are much more dangerous than many people
> realize. They provide an emotional infrastructure for atrocities. It was
> Joseph Goebbels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people
> will believe it. He is now being outperformed by his successors.
>
> The third aspect is money. Huge amounts of money, which could have
> solved many social problems in this dysfunctional part of the world, are
> channeled into three concentric spheres supporting death and murder. In
> the inner circle are the terrorists themselves. The money funds their
> travel, explosives, hideouts and permanent search for soft vulnerable
> targets. They are surrounded by a second wider circle of direct
> supporters, planners, commanders, preachers, all of whom make a living,
> usually a very comfortable living, by serving as terror infrastructure.
>
> Finally, we find the third circle of so-called religious, educational
> and welfare organizations, which actually do some good, feed the hungry
> and provide some schooling, but brainwash a new generation with hatred,
> lies and ignorance. This circle operates mostly through mosques,
> madrasas and other religious establishments but also through inciting
> electronic and printed media. It is this circle that makes sure that
> women remain inferior, that democracy is unthinkable and that exposure
> to the outside world is minimal. It is also that circle that leads the
> way in blaming everybody outside the Moslem world, for the miseries of the
> region.
>
> Figuratively speaking, this outer circle is the guardian, which
> makes sure that the people look and listen inwards to the inner circle
> of terror and incitement, rather than to the world outside. Some parts
> of this same outer circle actually operate as a result of fear from, or
> blackmail by, the inner circles. The horrifying added factor is the high
> birth rate. Half of the population of the Arab world is under the age of
> 20, the most receptive age to incitement, guaranteeing two more
> generations of blind hatred.
>
> Of the three circles described above, the inner circles are
> primarily financed by terrorist states like Iran and Syria, until
> recently also by Iraq and Libya and earlier also by some of the
> Communist regimes. These states, as well as the Palestinian Authority,
> are the safe havens of the wholesale murder vendors. The outer circle is
> largely financed by Saudi Arabia, but also by donations from certain
> Moslem communities in the United States and Europe and, to a smaller
> extent, by donations of European Governments to various NGO's and by
> certain United Nations organizations, whose goals may be noble, but they
> are infested and exploited by agents of the outer circle. The Saudi
> regime, of course, will be the next victim of major terror, when the
> inner circle will explode into the outer circle. The Saudis are
> beginning to understand it, but they fight the inner circles, while
> still financing the infrastructure at the outer circle.
>
> Some of the leaders of these various circles live very comfortably
> on their loot. You meet their children in the best private schools in
> Europe, not in the training camps of suicide murderers. The Jihad
> "soldiers" join packaged death tours to Iraq and other hot spots, while
> some of their leaders ski in Switzerland. Mrs. Arafat, who lives in
> Paris with her daughter, receives tens of thousands of dollars per month
> from the allegedly bankrupt Palestinian Authority while a typical local
> ringleader of the Al-Aksa brigade, reporting to Arafat, receives only a
> cash payment of a couple of hundred dollars for performing murders at
> the retail level.
>
> The fourth element of the current world conflict is the total
> breaking of all laws. The civilized world believes in democracy, the
> rule of law, including international law, human rights, free speech and
> free press, among other liberties. There are naive old-fashioned habits
> such as respecting religious sites and symbols, not using ambulances and
> hospitals for acts of war, avoiding the mutilation of dead bodies and
> not using children as human shields or human bombs. Never in history,
> not even in the Nazi period, was there such total disregard of all of
> the above as we observe now. Every student of political science debates
> how you prevent an anti-democratic force from winning a democratic
> election and abolishing democracy. Other aspects of a civilized society
> must also have limitations. Can a policeman open fire on someone trying
> to kill him? Can a government listen to phone conversations of
> terrorists and drug dealers? Does free speech protect you when you shout
> "fire" in a crowded theater? Should there be the death penalty for
> deliberate multiple murders? These are the old-fashioned dilemmas. But
> now we have an entirely new set.
>
> Do you raid a mosque that serves as a terrorist ammunition storage?
> Do you return fire if you are attacked from a hospital? Do you storm a
> church taken over by terrorists who took the priests hostage? Do you
> search every ambulance after a few suicide murderers use ambulances to
> reach their targets? Do you strip every woman because one pretended to
> be pregnant and carried a suicide bomb on her belly? Do you shoot back
> at someone trying to kill you while standing deliberately behind a group
> of children? Do you raid terrorist headquarters hidden in a mental
> hospital? Do you shoot an arch-murderer who deliberately moves from one
> location to another, always surrounded by children? All of these happen
> daily in Iraq and in the Palestinian areas. What do you do? Well, you do
> not want to face the dilemma. But it cannot be avoided.
>
> Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay
> at a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and
> financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in
> France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility
> for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the
> same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his
> acts but continues to host him, to invite him to official functions, and
> to treat him as a great dignitary I leave it to you as homework to
> figure out what Spain or France would have done in such a situation.
>
> The problem is that the civilized world is still having illusions
> about the rule of law in a totally lawless environment. It is trying to
> play ice hockey by sending a ballerina ice-skater into the rink or to
> knock out a heavyweight boxer by a chess player. In the same way that no
> country has a law against cannibals eating its prime minister because
> such an act is unthinkable, international law does not address killers
> shooting from hospitals, mosques and ambulances, while being protected
> by their Government or society. International law does not know how to
> handle someone who sends children to throw stones, stands behind them
> and shoots with immunity and cannot be arrested because he is sheltered
> by a Government. International law does not know how to deal with a
> leader of murderers who is royally and comfortably hosted by a country
> that pretends to condemn his acts or just claims to be too weak to
> arrest him. The amazing thing is that all of these crooks demand
> protection under international law and define all those who attack them
> as war criminals, with some Western media repeating the allegations. The
> good news is that all of this is temporary, because the evolution of
> international law has always adapted itself to reality. The punishment
> for suicide murder should be death or arrest before the murder, not
> during and not after. After every world war, the rules of international
> law have changed and the same will happen after the present one But
> during the twilight zone, a lot of harm can be done.
>
> The picture I described here is not pretty. What can we do about it?
> In the short run, only fight and win. In the long run? Only educate the
> next generation and open it to the world. The inner circles can and must
> be destroyed by force. The outer circle cannot be eliminated by force.
> Here we need financial starvation of the organizing elite, more power to
> women, more education, counter propaganda, boycott whenever feasible,
> and access to Western media, the Internet, and the international scene.
> Above all, we need a total, absolute unity and determination of the
> civilized world against all three circles of evil.
>