Editor's Letter An Extraordinary Family Event to Help Children with Disabilities and Their Families 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. Leadership Void SUNDAY APRIL 29 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. what would be the point?" 1 Inspiring this multi-front war are brazen ideologues who have cultivated a perspective of Islamic imperialism that 1 _ : Do you fear for Israelis survival as a safe, ! 67 seeks to dominate the world — with Allah's blessing. Thus, secure Jewish state? N conversations about solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1— 0 Z z through a land-for-peace process become hollow. 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