ISRAEL UPDATESeptember 23, 2001 - While America is angered and outraged at the violence unleashed on our nation; this past week many Americans were encouraged, even motivated to attack because European nations have promised their support.
Yet a 1993 report stated that by the year 2000 Muslim communities will constitute 25% of Europe's population, which would equate to roughly 10% of the population in France and the United Kingdom.
Both of these countries are notorious for their vehement anti-Semitic as well as anti-Israel stance, and a great majority of these youth are militant Iranian-trained fundamentalists. Further estimates state that 3 to 6% of the eight million Muslim émigrés are involved in Islamic activities that are borderline or outright subversive.
Statistics then show us that as of 1993, there could have been 250,000 to 300,000 potential terrorists and their supporters.
In 1992, Germany, another known anti-Israel nation, alone had 5 million foreigners of which 43,000 were known members of extremist groups and 23,000 prepared for violence.
Knowing these numbers have only increased in the past decade, one must realize how much at risk any NATO Base in Europe is, and how easily they can become compromised. While America is demanding justice, perhaps we should evaluate just how much help we will actually have, if and when we decide to strike.
September 23, 2001 - It is easy to demand that Osama bin Laden be brought to justice since he has been deemed "The most likely candidate." With the hurt, pain and frustration Americans feel, it is understandable they want to see justice, and see it swiftly.
But Osama bin Laden poses the great paradox of most American's view of terrorism, they despise who they see or hear about.
The majority of Americans did not even know of this man until the first World Trade Center bombing and most did not know about Saddam Hussein until the Gulf War.
But if you were to look at our Senate sub-committee's report on terrorism, you would probably sit in shock, realizing that vehement fundamentalist groups such as Hizbullah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad; recruit, train and even hold conferences in such unlikely places as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Phoenix, Arizona.
If the average American realized these recruitments go on in restaurants and on our university campuses they would not come out of their rooms.
The training expertise and even weapons that were used in the first World Trade Center bombing were refined and perfected not by Hussein or bin Laden but rather by Syrian and Iranian-trained fundamentalists in Lebanon's civil war and against U.S. troops and Embassies.
September 11, 2001 did not just happen overnight, but terrorism perpetrated by fundamentalists is a mentality, so don't focus on the one or two that the media gives the attention to.
To be continued…