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The Jihadist Threat
T
he Palestinian-led war against Israel is not a unique
conflict. Palestinian bombers act on behalf of the
larger Arab and Islamic world in much the same
way that extremists do in their suicidal attacks on America,
Europe and Western interests.
How well we in the Free World understand this common
ground for terror will dictate how
successful we are in confronting it.
Western freedoms are at stake. They
stand to be obliterated if we who cher-
ish them don't protect our precious
way of life and the liberty that drives
it.
Everything we stand for as a bea-
con for tolerant co-existence, every-
thing we hold dear, is being assailed.
Complacency will doom us if we don't
ratchet up the fight against terror.
There have been multiple battle-
grounds. In addition to Israel, battlefronts have ravaged far-
flung places like Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Indonesia,
Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Spain, Great Britain
and the U.S. But the enemy has been the same:
global jihadists.
"What we are seeing is a global movement
where the actors involved in attacking the Free
World are much more intertwined with one
another than the axis powers of Japan, Italy
and Germany were in World War says one of
Israel's most articulate and respected journal-
ists, Caroline Glick. She also is senior fellow for
Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security
Policy, a Washington think tank.
wombs as "martyr" factories. Terrorist ranting about Israel's
defensive military occupation of Palestinian-controlled lands
is just a diversion.
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Glick ripped the political incompetence of Israel's embattled
leadership, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "Our
entire policy;' she said, "is based upon simply ignoring reality
— hiding from the facts in the world in which we live."
Israel is the frontline state under siege by the global forces
of jihad. And Glick fears that Israelis may debate themselves
into oblivion by thinking the mass murderers they presum-
ably are negotiating with might actually desire lasting peace.
Sadly, the American Jewish community has been duped into
that irrelevant debate. A dialogue with those who you want
to strike a deal with is noble if there's a possibility of real
impact. If there's no detectable end, there's no reason to talk.
Glick's enlightening thoughts must be heeded. "We are driv-
ing ourselves absolutely bananas about nothing but lies that
we tell ourselves," she said.
She underscored that if Israel gives up the Golan Heights,
East Jerusalem and the West Bank after
already leaving the Gaza Strip, it would be sur-
rounded by the likes of a mini Taliban state.
"Appeasement strengthens your enemy:' she
warned.
Shifting Sands
Glick is a Chicago native who made aliyah in
1991 after graduating from Columbia University
in New York. She served six years in the Israeli
army before working briefly as an Israel
Antiquities Authority archaeologist and as an
Caroline Glick
adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
After
earning a master's degree in public policy
Message To Remember
Glick, deputy managing editor and senior columnist for the
at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Glick returned to
Jerusalem Post, visited Metro Detroit on April 12 at the invita- Israel in 2000 to begin her newspaper career. She started out
tion of the Zionist Organization of America. At a parlor meet-
as chief diplomatic commentator at Makor Rishon, a Hebrew
ing of 25 people who gathered in the West Bloomfield home
language newspaper. She joined the Jerusalem Post in 2002.
of local ZOA activists Diane and Joe Savin, Glick debunked
Despite Israel's corrupt political system and the widespread
the idea that the terrorists are all freelancing. They not only
world indifference to Israel's security plight, Glick remains
hopeful. "We have a strong army and a committed citizenry:'
pull from the same strategic thinkers — namely, theologians
of jihad — but they also copy each other's tactics. For exam-
she said. "The Jewish people in Israel are anything but asleep.
ple, Iraqi insurgents have used the Palestinian technique of
If anything good occurred last summer as a result of the war
bomb-laden donkey carts. And Iranian-made roadside bombs with Iran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, we are now an awak-
in Iraq are similar to what Iran-funded Hezbollah used in
ened populace that is much more aware of what's going on."
south Lebanon before the Israeli army pullout in 2000.
Israel also is on the radar of more American Jews. We're not
Glick is a riveting speaker who says what's on her mind.
only showing more concern and support, but more of us are
She accomplished her goal of sounding alarm bells about the
traveling there or making aliyah. I'm not ready to say there's a
danger that Jews face. She told the ZOA gathering what too
renaissance, but American Jewish life definitely is perking up.
many Jews are afraid or unwilling to say: that we represent a
And that's important.
core target for terrorists. I can't let go of the stunning contra-
As Caroline Glick put it: "I believe in the Jews of America,
diction she reminded us of: that terrorists deny the Holocaust
which is why I believe it's reasonable for me to sound my
but seek to re-enact it globally once they banish the Jewish
alarms here. If I didn't think that anyone would listen, then
state.
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Inspiring this multi-front war are brazen ideologues who
have cultivated a perspective of Islamic imperialism that
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seeks to dominate the world — with Allah's blessing. Thus,
secure Jewish state?
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conversations about solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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through a land-for-peace process become hollow. You can't
Are U.S. Jews and our agencies too lax
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negotiate when your "peace partner" indoctrinates its kids
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to sanctify death instead of life and its women to view their
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