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And they say Higher Education broadens the Mind?!
Terrorism has been around for centuries. The sword has been upgraded to the bomb, the actors have changed, the targets have changed and the number of victims has escalated, but terrorism is as part of the political landscape now as it has been always. Stay vigilant and get used to it, say the experts.Vigilant OK, but USED to it?? "There has been politically motivated terrorism since the year dot," says terrorism expert Professor Clive Williams from the Australian National University. "It's just it wasn't always called terrorism in those days." In the name of religion, the Crusaders slaughtered women and children, and Guy Fawkes has a day of celebration named after him, even though his plot to blow up the British Parliament failed. Israel was born out of two terrorist groups, Irgun and the Stern Gang; the Palestine Liberation Organisation was born out of displaced Arabs and the desire for an independent state, their message passed on by the hijacking of international airliners. Clever twist of the truth. Untwist it and it reads like this: "The PLO was born out of terror. Israel was born out of displaced Jews and the desire for an independent state." Campaigns of terror have worked. One of of the most successful was waged by Jews against the British in Palestine, culminating with the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, - "that's an example of a considerable success". The Jewish group Irgun, which fought British rule, in 1946 blew up the hotel which was a British military post. Ninety-one people were killed, including women, children and Jews. The British left Palestine and in 1948 Israel was an independent state. I believe one or two women died and I'm not aware of any deaths of children. The British were WARNED beforehand that the hotel was going to be blown up, but chose not to evacuate. I never knew the birth of the State of Israel was such a ridiculously simple affair: bomb a hotel, the British leave, establish the state. Irgun leader Menachem Begin stressed his desire to avoid civilian casualties and said three telephone calls were placed, one to the hotel, another to the French Consulate, and a third to the Palestine Post, warning that explosives in the King David Hotel would soon be detonated. On July 22, 1946, the calls were made. The call into the hotel was apparently received and ignored. Begin quotes one British official who supposedly refused to evacuate the building, saying: "We don't take orders from the Jews." [From msn search - Irgun] Other terrorist groups have not been so successful, such as the ideologically driven Bader-Meinhof group. "Those sorts of people have been less successful because they've got older and they've got mortgages and, you know, have settled down." Huh? The guy's a PROFESSOR? Professor of WHAT??
Posted by: Bryan 2004-09-12 |
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