"Suicide murders also have nothing to do with poverty and despair. The poorest region in the world, by far, is Africa. It never happens there. There are numerous desperate people in the world, in different cultures, countries and continents. Desperation does not provide anyone with explosives, reconnaissance and transportation. There was certainly more despair in Saddam's country-region then in Paul Bremmer's Iraq, and no one exploded himself. A suicide murder is simply a horrible, vicious weapon of cruel, inhuman, cynical, well-funded terrorists, with no regard to human life, including the life of their fellow countrymen, but with very high regard to their own affluent well-being and their hunger for power."

Even our liberal press would find this description of a suicide murderer's instigators difficult to argue with.

Sobering reality, and nothing to do with established religion here, other than the distorted, sick, and selfish use of a religion - Islamists using Islam for money, power, and cold-blooded murderous incitement does seem to be a reasonable description of the current state of affairs.

"The only way to fight this new "popular" weapon is identical to the only way in which you fight organized crime or pirates on the high seas: the offensive way. Like in the case of organized crime, it is crucial that the forces on the offensive be united and it is crucial to reach the top of the pyramid. You cannot eliminate organized crime by arresting the little drug dealer in the street corner. You must go after the head of the "Family." If part of the public supports it, others tolerate it, many are afraid of it and some try to explain it away by poverty or by a miserable childhood, organized crime will thrive and so will terrorism. The United States understands this now, after September 11. Russia is beginning to understand it. Turkey understands it well. I am very much afraid that most of Europe still does not understand it. Unfortunately, it seems that Europe will understand it only after suicide murders will arrive in Europe in a big way. In my humble opinion, this will definitely happen. The Spanish trains and the Istanbul bombings are only the beginning. The unity of the Civilized World in fighting this horror is absolutely indispensable. Until Europe wakes up, this unity will not be achieved."

The majority of the West is probably arriving at agreement with this, at least those of us in America. Our European friends were shocked into realizing the Islamic threat was real after the van Gogh murder and the Spainish train bombing. They are not there yet but they are arriving at the station. Only time remains as the barrier, although they are getting there. 

The next few paragraphs address what I would describe as one of the contributing factors being that of "having an enemy-collaborator among us," the collaborator being an anti-American American press.

Although he hasn't said that, I strongly believe that this is truly a tool the terrorists have recognized and utilize, for their can be no question whatsoever about the validity of the observation by conservatives that the left is pro-practically nothing and anti that of everything American.

"The second ingredient is words, more precisely lies. Words can be lethal. They kill people. It is often said that politicians, diplomats and perhaps also lawyers and business people must sometimes lie, as part of their professional life. But the norms of politics and diplomacy are childish, in comparison with the level of incitement and total absolute deliberate fabrications, which have reached new heights in the region we are talking about. An incredible number of people in the Arab world believe that September 11 never happened, or was an American provocation or, even better, a Jewish plot."

"You all remember the Iraqi Minister of Information, Mr. Mouhamad Said al-Sahaf and his press conferences when the US forces were already inside Baghdad. Disinformation at time of war is an accepted tactic. But to stand, day after day, and to make such preposterous statements, known to everybody to be lies, without even being ridiculed in your own milieu, can only happen in this region. Mr. Sahaf eventually became a popular icon as a court jester, but this did not stop some allegedly respectable newspapers from giving him equal time. It also does not prevent the Western press from giving credence, every day, even now, to similar liars. After all, if you want to be an anti-Semite, there are subtle ways of doing it. You do not have to claim that the holocaust never happened and that the Jewish temple in Jerusalem never existed. But millions of Moslems are told by their leaders that this is the case."

"When these same leaders make other statements, the Western media report them as if they could be true. It is a daily occurrence that the same people, who finance, arm and dispatch suicide murderers, condemn the act in English in front of western TV cameras, talking to a world audience, which even partly believes them. It is a daily routine to hear the same leader making opposite statements in Arabic to his people and in English to the rest of the world. Incitement by Arab TV, accompanied by horror pictures of mutilated bodies, has become a powerful weapon of those who lie, distort and want to destroy everything. Little children are raised on deep hatred and on admiration of so-called martyrs, and the Western World does not notice it because its own TV sets are mostly tuned to soap operas and game shows. I recommend to you, even though most of you do not understand Arabic, to watch Al Jazeera from time to time. You will not believe your own eyes."

"But words also work in other ways, more subtle. A demonstration in Berlin carrying banners supporting Saddam's regime and featuring three-year old babies dressed as suicide murderers, is defined by the press and by political leaders as a peace demonstration. You may support or oppose the Iraq war, but to refer to fans of Saddam, Arafat or Bin Laden as peace activists is a bit too much. A woman walks into an Israeli restaurant in mid-day, eats, observes families with old people and children eating their lunch in the adjacent tables and pays the bill. She then blows herself up, killing 20 people, including many children, with heads and arms rolling around in the restaurant. She is called "martyr" by several Arab leaders and "activist" by the European press. Dignitaries condemn the act but visit her bereaved family and the money flows."

"There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the "spiritual leader". There are numerous other examples of such Orwellian nomenclature,  every day not only by ; terror chiefs but also by Western media. These words are much more dangerous than many people realize. They provide an emotional infrastructure for atrocities. It was Joseph Goebels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. He is now being outperformed by his successors."

I think by now you've got the drift and I hope you're interest is sufficiently peaked so as to go read all of the speech. I believe that it is required reading for all of us in the West. Here we have only touched on one aspect of the speech, but there is much more.

To a significant degree we are all being duped or at the very least the targets of intended "indupement" (my word) and many of us have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Nothing in Haim Harari's speech is totally new to us, we've all heard it before but we have been so overwhelmed with propaganda from the Arab world and our own liberal press that we just sort of let reality slide by us, like standing at the train station looking for a bus, but it's the train that's coming and we are in it's track.

You should go read the rest of the speech. The link to it is at 2slick's forum. His site is worth visiting and you'll want to make it one of your daily reads if you haven't already, so I am not going to give you the link to the speech here - you need to visit 2slicks to get it. Finish reading all of "Nothing to do with Israel" at 2slicks Forum....