Friday, April 27, 2007

Let’s die for Israel!

Let’s die for Israel!


Israeli Holocaust, Holocaust continuum, The Iron Wall and The Holocaust as political asset are the real issues. Iraq pullout would hurt Israel and the Middle East Formula for Peace along with The Green Zone Follies are a few good examples to prove “Who control America”? Afghan massacre is consistent with the many other massacres and the direct result of the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab training manual of the US Army similar to American media and political machines!


Zionists are worse than Nazis but all Jews are not Zionists. However, Faruque Ahmed’s Declaration, British Jewish Declaration, Australian Jewish Declaration, European Jewish Declaration and the hidden truth and reality condemn modern day Nazis under the guise of Zionism except the U(z)SA and UK. Yet, Love Children of Adolph Hitler are silent and they are incapable to answer legitimate questions!


Hard times at the conversion school as Bishops equate Israel's actions to Holocaust, Diverse Jewish Voices defy the tabo and denounces clash of cultures like most Australians. Dick Cheney converts to Islam but why, do you know? May be the Transcript of telephone conversation between Bush and Biny could be at your assistance.


Sibel Edmonds, kill the messenger, congressional inquiry, The Highjacking of a Nation, Liberty Coalition and many more credible reasons and grounds including 9/11 and many unanswered questions; one should have an open mind about the 9/11. Rosie O'Donnell, Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings! Blowing up an assumption, Dear Muslims: Which "House" is America to you? and The Ingratitude of a Would Be Suicide Bomber deserve more attention.


America's Enemies, How Evangelicals Infiltrated the American Military, Love From Australia, ? New Australia, Australian Love, kisan of muktomona, Melanie Phillips, Bat Ye'or, Raphael Israeli, Jim Ball, Free America Now To Save Americans, 9/11 and many unanswered questions, Jewish Style, Cyber Terrorism, What Happened to the Jews of Medina, Nazi Israelites,? Who Deserve Gas Chamber and Sydney Taxi for your consideration.


Israeli Holocaust against the Arabs and rest of the humanity are complimented by Raphael Israeli, authors of Eurabia and Londonistan. Basically these people were invited to come out and debate any issues instead of following the footsteps of Adolph Hitler while they are constantly claiming to be victims of his. Even Gas Chamber, Jews, Zionists, Hitler, Nazis, Arabs and Muslims are unable to explain The Iron Wall of Zionism right in front of almost blind, deaf and dumb everyone!


Why I Walked Away from the War in Iraq, No War in Iraq, Secret and Lies, The Deserter's Tale, the illegal and immoral Invasion of Iraq is an act of Terrorism and Zionism is worse than Nazism. Who control America generates the answer We control America. George Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush used to be an ardent supporter and financier of Adolph Hitler. Most of the Bush family members are belong to the secret Skull and Bone Society (CBS, Wikipedia, Bilderberg)!


Australian politicians and power brokers
would do anything for Israeli child molesters and Muslim and Arab bashing are the most spectacular sports in the town. That’s why disgraced Michael Jools earlier and now Racist Ross Nelson of Kings Langley are playing the man with false and fabricated materials instead of playing the ball!


Osama is lovable than George, Freedom Highway, Rum Colony Criminals Rewarded are our issues of concern. The Dialogue of Padma And Salman Rushdie along with Salman and God are not too bad for a start beside Faruque Ahmed’s T-Shirt, Sydney Indy Media Conspiracy and do you know Who Deserve Holocaust?


Middle East Formula for Peace and The Result of American Terrorism, Zionised Diversion Tactics, Asian and Muslim Hater Owns 51% SC TV Indonesia, Do They Deserve Hitler?, Modern Day Hitler Marching!, Kangaroo Courts and Wombats and My Dolly are for your consideration.


Promoting Muslim And Christian Bashing as well as NSW Anti-discrimination Board are a slap in the face of Australian legal system.


Conspiracies, Anti_Muslim Conspiracies in Australia Faruque Ahmed vs Radio Terrorists and Why Muslims Poor - 'They Don't Work While Zionists Turn Desert into Oasis are further examples of deliberate actions and inactions of the government to promote and foster racism and sectarianism.


Australian Flag A 'gang Colour' message # 20 and 112, and Image Of Christ At Waverton Train Station message #39 may shed some light of desperation in our political system.


Free Australia Now, Free America Now, We control America, Invasion of Iraq is an act of Terrorism, WOMAN BEATEN IN JERUSALEM BUS FOR REFUSING TO MOVE TO REAR SEAT, Former Us President Slams Israel, Israeli HOLOCAUST in Palestine, Israeli Holocaust Continuum, Anti-Semitism, Zionism Is Anti-Semitism and Stop Killing Christians are unable to wake up mankind.


Freedom of Speech, Flight ban for anti-Bush T-shirt, Jesus Loves Osama, and Disclaimer speak for themselves. Hitler wanted to take over the world is not a bad one beside Australian Values and Muslims Are Now Getting The Same Treatment, Jews had a century ago!


Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ershad Manji are very lovely people too. However, please do not ignore Acharya Sanjay Dwivedi, My Daughter Is a Muslim, Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud and Prophet Mohammed for the sake of the truth. Violence Fractures Palestine Unity Talks is a slap in the face of world justice and politics.

Egyptian Terrorists, Iranian terrorists, Iraqi Terrorists and Lebanese Terrorists are consistent with the world politics lingo.

US admits Afghanistan massacre

US admits Afghanistan massacre
Doug Lorimer
19 April 2007


“A preliminary US military investigation indicates that more than 40 Afghans killed or wounded by Marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month were civilians”, the April 14 Washington Post reported it had been told by the US commander who ordered the investigation.

“Gen. Frank H. Kearney III, head of Special Operations Command Central, also said there is no evidence that the Marine Special Operations platoon came under small-arms fire after the bombing, although the Marines reported taking enemy fire and seeing people with weapons.
“The troops continued shooting at perceived threats as they travelled miles from the site of the March 4 attack, he said. They hit several vehicles, killing at least 10 people and wounding 33, among them children and elderly villagers.”

Kearney’s comments to the Post were confirmed the same day by William Mitchell, a US military spokesperson in Afghanistan, who told reporters that the Afghans killed by the Marines on March 4 were “innocent” non-combatants.

The Marines are part of the 27,000-strong US occupation force in Afghanistan. Half of these US forces are under the command of the 37,000-strong NATO-led, UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), while the rest, including all US Special Operations forces, remain under US command.

The Post reported that, on Kearney’s orders, “the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service is conducting a probe that could lead to courts-martial of those involved”.
All previous such probes by the US military have done nothing more than confirm witness accounts that those killed were civilian non-combatants.

In a report released on April 14, Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission said that in 2006 alone almost 700 Afghan civilians were killed in fighting between Afghan guerrillas and the US-ISAF forces, with the foreign forces’ air operations “causing excessive loss of civilian life”.
The report stated, “Anti-government armed groups have in several instances directly violated the immunity and protections of the civilian population” enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. It cited as an example, the “extrajudicial execution” by these groups of “persons alleged to have collaborated” with the US-backed Islamist government headed by President Hamid Karzai
The report went on to note that US-ISAF and Afghan government forces have engaged in “illegal and improper practices” during raids against suspected supporters of “anti-government armed groups”, including “illegal killing and beating of civilians”, wanton destruction or theft of their property, and “refusal of medical treatment to injured people”.

The largest of the armed anti-government groups is the Taliban — the Islamist movement that ruled most of the country from 1996 until the US-led invasion at the end of 2001. The Taliban movement was created in 1995-96, with Washington’s approval, by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, out of a mixture of Islamist guerrillas who fought against Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed secular government from 1979 to its fall in 1992, and Afghan religious students in Pakistan.

A March 19 report by the Brussels-based Senlis Council think tank found that support for the Taliban had skyrocketed in southern Afghanistan over the last 18 months. The report was based on an opinion survey of 17,000 Afghan men in the Canadian-occupied areas of Kandahar province and in neighbouring British- and US-occupied provinces of Helmand and Nangarhar.
The survey found that 27% of those polled openly admitted to supporting the Taliban; the pollsters believed actual support is likely higher. In a similar poll conducted in December 2005, only 3% said they supported the Taliban.

The men polled said they were disaffected with the ISAF military effort and the Karzai government. Sixty per cent said it was the most corrupt government in two decades; 80% said they had not been helped by foreign troops’ presence; 52% said that foreign troops should leave the country.

“People are hungry and angry, and when bombing campaigns level villages, it’s not difficult to see how those facts come together”, the surveyors noted. Half of those surveyed said they thought the Taliban would eventually defeat the US-ISAF forces.


From: International News, Green Left Weekly issue #
707 25 April 2007.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Dear Muslims: Which "House" is America to you?

Dear Muslims: Which "House" is America to you?


I suppose that’s how you lot conspired the holocaust cow and expanding it beyond imagination while conducting genocides and war crimes without any remorse. You lots are condemned indeed.

"Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God." --Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772

--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "bruceksim" wrote:

They are very, very relevant knucklehead!! Cheers Bruce


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "mamubhi" wrote:
Re: Dear Muslims: Which "House" is America to you?

No one should be interested of totally unsubstantiated nitrogenous wastes of Amil Imani because they are not relevant at all. We rather should concentrate to validate and understand the reasons and grounds below as they legitimize gas chamber for the Nazi Zionists.

1. "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000.Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

2. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

3. "We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget." David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, Zohar's Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet by Michael Bar

The Ingratitude of a Would Be Suicide Bomber

The Ingratitude of a Would Be Suicide Bomber


Further to
Israeli Holocaust, Holocaust continuum and The Iron Wall please examine Ehud Barak’s so called generous offer (the map) at Camp David. Yet, these war criminals are murdering unarmed Palestinians on a daily basis!


Based on the above alone, I think they gas chamber is long overdue for them as substantiated by the following:
"In everything, we are destroyers--even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief...We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands." - Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, pages 152, 155, and 147.



--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "bruceksim" wrote:
Well knucklehead it meade a lot of sense to me!! Why do you not like the truth?? Cheers Bruce



--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "mamubhi" wrote:
Re: The Ingratitude of a Would Be Suicide Bomber

False and fabricated materials of
Paolo Bassi should be ignored because they are ill motivated

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"Jewish blood and a goy's [gentile's] blood are not the same." Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, Inferring that killing isn't murder if the victim is Gentile. Jerusalem Post, June 19,1989.

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories." Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, tells students at Bar Ilan University, From the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000.Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

What Happened to the Jews of Medina



Further to Israeli Holocaust, Holocaust continuum and The Iron Wall please examine Ehud Barak’s so called generous offer (the map) at Camp David. Yet, these war criminals are murdering unarmed Palestinians on a daily basis!


Based on the above alone, I think they gas chamber is long overdue for them as substantiated by the following:


"Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world." - Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live, page 18.


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "bruceksim" wrote:

Is it usual for arabs/muslims to always run away from the truth??? Cheers Bruce


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "mamubhi" wrote:
Re: What Happened to the Jews of Medina


Why should we have to bother Zio-Nazi invention
Ali Sina? Everybody knows it is the Jews who conspired to murder Jesus and his brother James at Rome. By the way please examine the following good words and deeds of ZioNazis and let us know if they deserve gas chamber!

" [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.

"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, New York Times, 14 April 1983.

"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983. "We must expel Arabs and take their places." David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs by Shabtai Teveth 1985.

"The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

Source:
Free America Now

Why Muslims Poor - 'They Don't Work While Zionists Turn Desert into Oasis

Why Muslims Poor - 'They Don't Work While Zionists Turn Desert into Oasis


Lies, deception, treachery, conspiracy and many more disgusting believes and practices are the prime ingredients of Zionist empire. The deserve gas chamber.

"What is the basis of Judaism? A practical passion and greed for profit, to what can we reduce his (the Jew's) religious worship to extortion. What is his real God? Cash!" - Karl Marx, founder of Communism, quoted in the British Guardian, July-August, 1924.


"Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world." - Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live, page 18.


--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "bruceksim" wrote:
You may deny all you like but itis a fact that the arab lands are a self made desert and the land of Israel is an oasis built on the sweat of its inhabitants!!
Cheers Bruce



--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "mamubhi" wrote:
Re: Why Muslims Poor - 'They Don't Work While Zionists Turn Desert into Oasis': Qara


Selective cock n bull of
MEMRI is not a part of Israel Palestine debate. The following clearly expose the Zio-Nazi mindset and demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that they deserve gas chamber!

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, `The Koenig Memorandum', 1976

Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. The Arabs in Israel by Sabri Jiryas.

"If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor of "Israel" returning to the armistice lines-- (pre June 1967 borders) "Israel" would refuse to comply with the decision." Aba Eban (the Israeli Foreign Minister) . New York Times June 19, 1967.

"We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget." David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, Zohar's Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet by Michael Bar

"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier, Israeli Prime Minister, June 15, 1969

" [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.

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Free America Now

The Holocaust as political asset



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AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 18 April 2007


The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the yawning gap between the presentation of the State of Israel as the place of the Jewish people's rebirth and the void that exists for every Holocaust survivor and his family. The personal "rehabilitation" was dependent on the circumstances of each person: the stronger ones versus the others, who did not find support from the institutions of the state. During the 1950s and 1960s we saw the demeaning view of our parents as having gone "like sheep to the slaughter," the shame of the new Jews, the Sabras, over their misfortunate, Diaspora relatives.

It can be argued that during the first two decades, much of this attitude could be attributed to the lack of information and the very human lack of an ability to grasp the full meaning of theindustrialized genocide perpetrated by Germany. But the awareness of the material aspects of the Holocaust started very early, with Jewish and Zionist institutions starting in the early 1940s to discuss the possibility of demanding reparations. In 1952, the reparations agreement with Germany was signed, by which that country agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel to cover the absorption costs of the survivors and pay for their rehabilitation. The agreement obligated Germany to compensate survivors individually as well, but the German law differentiated between those who belonged to the "circle of German culture" and others. Those who were able to prove a connection to the superior circle received higher sums, even if they emigrated in time from Germany. Concentration camp survivors from outside the "circle" received the ridiculous sum of 5 marks per day. The Israeli representatives swallowed this distortion.

This is part of the roots of financial cynicism that the media is being exposed to today, due to several reasons: the advanced age and declining health of survivors, the intentional weakening of the welfare state, the presence of survivors from the former Soviet Union who are not included in the reparations agreement, the media activism of nongovernmental welfare organizations and the welcome enlistment of social affairs journalists.

They are shocked by the gap between the official appropriation of the Holocaust, which is perceived in Israel as understood andjustified, and the abandonment of survivors.

Turning the Holocaust into a political asset serves Israel primarily in its fight against the Palestinians. When the Holocaust is on one side of the scale, along with the guilty (and rightly so) conscience of the West, the dispossession of the Palestinian people from their homeland in 1948 is minimized and blurred.

The phrase "security for the Jews" has been consecrated as an exclusive synonym for "the lessons of the Holocaust." It is what allows Israel to systematically discriminate against its Arab citizens. For 40 years, "security" has been justifying control of the West Bank and Gaza and of subjects who have been dispossessed of their rights living alongside Jewish residents, Israeli citizensladen with privileges.

Security serves the creation of a regime of separation and discrimination on an ethnic basis, Israeli style, under the auspices of "peace talks" that go on forever. Turning the Holocaust into an asset allows Israel to present all the methods of the Palestinian struggle (even the unarmed ones) as another link in the anti-Semitic chain whose culmination is Auschwitz. Israel provides itself with the license to come up with more kinds of fences, walls and military guard towers around Palestinian enclaves.

Separating the genocide of the Jewish people from the historical context of Nazism and from its aims of murder and subjugation, and its separation from the series of genocides perpetrated by the white man outside of Europe, has created a hierarchy of victims, at whose head we stand. Holocaust and anti-Semitism researchers fumble for words when in Hebron the state carries out ethnic cleansing via its emissaries, the settlers, and ignore the enclaves and regime of separation it is setting up. Whoever criticizes Israel's policies toward the Palestinians is denounced as an anti-Semite, if not a Holocaust denier. Absurdly, the delegitimization of any criticism of Israel only makes it harder to refute the futile equations that are being made between the Nazi murder machine and the Israeli regime of discrimination and occupation.

The institutional abandonment of the survivors is rightly denounced across the board. The transformation of the Holocaust into a political asset for use in the struggle against the Palestinians feed on those same stores of official cynicism, but it is part of the consensus.

Source:
Free America Now

Blowing up an assumption



Article below is a good one. However, to have a fair and proper discussion we must free America first. Then we must ensure free speech in America and removing the Zionist stranglehold of the world and specifically US media is a precondition. Secondly, America belongs to Americans and any Israel centric suicidal policy and missions must be condemned and rejected by all means and measures. Thirdly, Israel inspired anti-Arab and anti-Muslim propaganda should be tackled by all levels and particularly the US Army training manuals must be reviewed to ensure they are free of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim propaganda to satisfy the lust and greed of Israel. Because they are based on falsehood and prejudice deliberately injected by Zionist empire.


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Chicago -- Many Americans are mystified by the recent rise in the number and the audacity of suicide attacks in Iraq. The lull in violence after January's successful elections seemed to suggest that the march of democracy was trampling the threat of terrorism. But as electoral politics is taking root, the Iraqi insurgency and suicide terrorism are actually gaining momentum. In the past two weeks, suicide attackers have killed more than 420 Iraqis working with the United States and its allies. There were 20 such incidents in 2003, nearly 50 in 2004, and they are on pace to set a new record this year.

To make sense of this apparent contradiction, one has to understand the strategic logic of suicide terrorism. Since Muslim terrorists professing religious motives have perpetrated many of the attacks, it might seem obvious that Islamic fundamentalism is the central cause, and thus the wholesale transformation of Muslim societies into secular democracies, even at the barrel of a gun, is the obvious solution. However, the presumed connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism is misleading, and it may spur American policies that are likely to worsen the situation.

Over the past two years, I have compiled a database of every suicide bombing and attack around the globe from 1980 through 2003 - 315 in all. This includes every episode in which at least one terrorist killed himself or herself while trying to kill others, but excludes attacks authorized by a national government (like those by North Korean agents against South Korea). The data show that there is far less of a connection between suicide terrorism and religious fundamentalism than most people think.

The leading instigator of suicide attacks is the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a Marxist-Leninist group whose members are from Hindu families but who are adamantly opposed to religion. This group committed 76 of the 315 incidents, more than Hamas (54) or Islamic Jihad (27). Even among Muslims, secular groups like the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Al Aksa Martyr Brigades account for more than a third of suicide attacks.

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks actually have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Religion is often used as a tool by terrorist organizations in recruiting and in seeking aid from abroad, but is rarely the root cause.

Three general patterns in the data support these conclusions. First, nearly all suicide terrorist attacks - 301 of the 315 in the period I studied - took place as part of organized political or military campaigns. Second, democracies are uniquely vulnerable to suicide terrorists; America, France, India, Israel, Russia, Sri Lanka and Turkey have been the targets of almost every suicide attack of the past two decades. Third, suicide terrorist campaigns are directed toward a strategic objective: from Lebanon to Israel to Sri Lanka to Kashmir to Chechnya, the sponsors of every campaign - 18 organizations in all - are seeking to establish or maintain political self-determination.

Before Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, there was no Hezbollah suicide terrorist campaign against Israel; indeed, Hezbollah came into existence only after this event. Before the Sri Lankan military began moving into the Tamil homelands of the island in 1987, the Tamil Tigers did not use suicide attacks. Before the huge increase in Jewish settlers on the West Bank in the 1980's, Palestinian groups did not use suicide terrorism.

And, true to form, there had never been a documented suicide attack in Iraq until after the American invasion in 2003. Much is made of the fact that we aren't sure who the Iraqi suicide attackers are. This is not unusual in the early years of a suicide terrorist campaign. Hezbollah published most of the biographies and last testaments of its "martyrs" only after it abandoned the suicide-attack strategy in 1986, a pattern adopted by the Tamil Tigers as well.

At the moment, our best information indicates that the attackers in Iraq are Sunni Iraqis and foreign fighters, principally from Saudi Arabia. If so, this would mean that the two main sources of suicide terrorists in Iraq are from the Arab countries deemed most vulnerable to transformation by the presence of American combat troops. This is fully consistent with what we now know about the strategic logic of suicide terrorism.

Some have wondered if the rise of suicide terrorism in Iraq is really such a bad thing for American security. Is it not better to have these killers far away in Iraq rather than here in the United States? Alas, history shows otherwise. The presence of tens of thousands of American combat forces on the Arabian Peninsula after 1990 enabled Al Qaeda to recruit suicide terrorists, who in turn attacked Americans in the region (the African embassy bombings in 1998 and the attack on the destroyer Cole in 2000). The presence of nearly 150,000 American combat troops in Iraq since 2003 can only give suicide terrorism a boost, and the longer this suicide terrorist campaign continues the greater the risk of new attacks in the United States.

Understanding that suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation rather than a product of Islamic fundamentalism has important implications for how the United States and its allies should conduct the war on terrorism. Spreading democracy across the Persian Gulf is not likely to be a panacea so long as foreign combat troops remain on the Arabian Peninsula. If not for the world's interest in Persian Gulf oil, the obvious solution might well be simply to abandon the region altogether. Isolationism, however, is not possible; America needs a new strategy that pursues our vital interest in oil but does not stimulate the rise of a new generationof suicide terrorists.***

Beyond recognizing the limits of military action and stepping up domestic security efforts, Americans would do well to recall the virtues of our traditional policy of "offshore balancing" in the Persian Gulf. During the 1970's and 1980's, the United States managed its interests there without stationing any combat soldiers on the ground, but keeping our forces close enough - either on ships or in bases near the region - to deploy in huge numbers if an emergency. This worked splendidly to defeat Iraq's aggression against Kuwait in 1990.

The Bush administration rightly intends to start turning over the responsibility for Iraq's security to the new government and systematically withdrawing American troops. But large numbers of these soldiers should not simply be sent to Iraq's neighbors, where they will continue to enrage many in the Arab world. Keeping the peace from a discreet distance seems a better way to secure our interests in the world's key oil-producing region without provokingmore terrorism.

Source: Free America Now