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Summary: The ABCs of the War on Terror
Review: This book: "Fighting Terrorism" by Benjamin Netanyahu, the past and future Prime Minister of Israel is pure propaganda. The central purpose of the book is to convince us that Israel's enemies are our enemies. In truth Zionism contemplated war in the Middle East in the 19th century. Now, the Zionists have their long planned war. The US (out of ignorance, and guilt over the holocaust) has supplied the Zionists with weapons and accordingly was attacked on 9/11 in retaliation. That led directly to the current bizarre war in Iraq which Netanyahu desperately loves because now the U.S. is not only supplying weapons to the Zionists but is also directly fighting their Muslim enemies too.
America's abject blindness to this elementary history is so profound that Netanyahu knowingly spent less than a page trying to explain that terrorism is not connected to Zionism at all. Instead Netanyahu would have us believe that the entire Muslim world and much of the rest of the world would still hate us just as much had we not supported Zionism, and attacked Iraq. It is just too self serving and deadly to justify a response.
Yes, we all fear terrorism and are therefore subject to exploitation about it. But in truth terrorism is merely a poor mans way of waging war. Does anyone think Arabs and the rest of the world are not afraid of the way rich people wage war? Japan surrendered as nuclear Bombs terrorized them. The Chinese referred to American citizens as B-52s as they lived in terror believing that one day American B-52s would shake the earth beneath their cities with fire bombs. Indeed the whole world lived under a "balance of terror" as the USSR and the U.S. raced to build more and more nuclear weapons, but no one called what were essentially wars of ideology, wars on terror. Netanyahu prefers a war on terror precisely because it distracts from ideology; in this case Zionism, which holds that it is somehow ok to steal land from the Arabs. Americans submit to this trick in part out of abject ignorance and in part out of our endless sympathy for the Jews stemming from the holocaust. Netanyahu wants to destroy terrorism so Zionism can prevail. His objective and the world's objective should be, firstly, to force Israel to live within internationally established and recognized boundaries. Secondly, the objective should be to force the UN to defend those international boundaries until the Arabs give up their dream of pushing Israel into the sea. If this doesn't make perfect sense please let me know.
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Summary: The ABCs of the War on Terror
Review: This book: "Fighting Terrorism" by Benjamin Netanyahu, the past and future Prime Minister of Israel is pure propaganda. The central purpose of the book is to convince us that Israel's enemies are our enemies. In truth Zionism contemplated war in the Middle East in the 19th century. Now, the Zionists have their long planned war. The US (out of ignorance, and guilt over the holocaust) has supplied the Zionists with weapons and accordingly was attacked on 9/11 in retaliation. That led directly to the current bizarre war in Iraq which Netanyahu desperately loves because now the U.S. is not only supplying weapons to the Zionists but is also directly fighting their Muslim enemies too.
America's abject blindness to this elementary history is so profound that Netanyahu knowingly spent less than a page trying to explain that terrorism is not connected to Zionism at all. Instead Netanyahu would have us believe that the entire Muslim world and much of the rest of the world would still hate us just as much had we not supported Zionism, and attacked Iraq. It is just too self serving and deadly to justify a response.
Yes, we all fear terrorism and are therefore subject to exploitation about it. But in truth terrorism is merely a poor mans way of waging war. Does anyone think Arabs and the rest of the world are not afraid of the way rich people wage war? Japan surrendered as nuclear Bombs terrorized them. The Chinese referred to American citizens as B-52s as they lived in terror believing that one day American B-52s would shake the earth beneath their cities with fire bombs. Indeed the whole world lived under a "balance of terror" as the USSR and the U.S. raced to build more and more nuclear weapons, but no one called what were essentially wars of ideology, wars on terror. Netanyahu prefers a war on terror precisely because it distracts from ideology; in this case Zionism, which holds that it is somehow ok to steal land from the Arabs. Americans submit to this trick in part out of abject ignorance and in part out of our endless sympathy for the Jews stemming from the holocaust. Netanyahu wants to destroy terrorism so Zionism can prevail. His objective and the world's objective should be, firstly, to force Israel to live within internationally established and recognized boundaries. Secondly, the objective should be to force the UN to defend those international boundaries until the Arabs give up their dream of pushing Israel into the sea. If this doesn't make perfect sense please let me know.
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Summary: Netanyahu dismantles terrorism root cause: its philosophy
Review: This work is an exceptionally honest perspective on the nature of and driving forces behind the use of terrorism as a political weapon. Netanyahu, like few others, refuses to mince words and relinquish the moral ground when chronicling the "deliberate and systematic assault on civilians to inspire political ends." Voltaire wrote that there are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. Unlike those who brandish obfuscation and appeasement as political weaponry (q.v., Bill Clinton and Colin Powell), Netanyahu convincingly dismantles the "cause" of terrorism at its most vulnerable place: its philosophy. He brings a clarity of vision-coupled with a compelling and well researched historical record-to bear on what, in the light of day, cannot be called a just cause. Accordingly, while the bulk of his work appropriately focuses on the Middle East (the birthplace of modern terrorism), he elucidates many of the causes behind terrorism on both a domestic and an international scale-from the Oklahoma and New York Trade Tower bombings (the book was written in 1995) to the rise of the PLO and other European terrorist organizations as puppets for a corrupt Soviet regime. Netanyahu's principled argument and clear writing style are only made more stark by the compelling historical record that leads him to his final conclusion. The history of terrorism is not light reading, but it is crucial to known thine enemy. Netanyahu details the mentality behind this enemy by showing that "[i]t is not only that the ends of the terrorists do not succeed in justifying the means they choose; their choice of means indicates what their true ends are." The overall purpose of the book is to demonstrate that a philosophical response (Netanyahu calls it a moral response) is the only means of defeating terrorism. To be more precise, terrorists can be defeated, but only if decent people uproot it properly, once and for all, without moral compunctions of any kind. The book is replete with historical fact not reported in any of today's ludicrously biased media, and it concludes with specific remedies not dreamed of by liberal appeasers who wish to grant murderers an equal voice at the international bargaining table. (Many of these rememdies finally are being enacted after September 11.) This is a remarkably well written book; I just pray that our leaders digest its message in time.
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Summary: Clairvoyance on Terrorism
Review: This work, originally published in 1995, was Netanyahu's policy statement on terrorism -- both domestic and international. The sum of the book, the last chapter, outlines ten steps that western democracies should take in order to slow or irradicate terrorism. Unfortunately, Netanyahu's predictions of what would happen if these policy recomendations were not taken seriously, have come true in recent months -- signalling that perhaps the U.S should give Netanyahu a dedicated ear. The problem confronting modern democracies is complacency, regressive policy formation and a focus on appeasement. Netanyahu has a particular clarvoyance on terrorism, and is able to make a clear-cut case for his policy directions, citing historical cases -- many in U.S. History -- where drastic measures were taken to save the Nation. The intent is to help overcome the fear of losing the "freedoms" which come with a zero tolerance policy -- which he likens to "Obsta Principiis" This book is a pleasant read, and offers a focused overview of terrorism resulting from, as Netanyahu states, the Islamic hatred of Western Civilzation -- which he portrays as not hating the West because of Israel, but hating Israel because of the West. It should also be noted that this book now is in its 2nd edition, which includes a forward commentary by the author reflecting on the Sept. 11th 2001 terrorist attacks.
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