| How did terrorism, which has been around for | | | | the excessive use of force against Palestinians, |
| centuries, go from a sporadic, often localized, | | | | resulting in injury and loss of human life;" |
| atrocity to a global threat in the 21st Century? | | | | This Resolution placed violence and total anarchy |
| Are terrorists recruiting more vigorously? Do | | | | on the same level as an "offending" walk, which is |
| terrorist have more reasons to hate? Or have | | | | absolutely mind-boggling. According to the UN, if |
| terrorists gotten more support than ever before? | | | | you walk into a house of worship where "your |
| A close look at some events in recent years | | | | kind are not welcome," that's the same as going |
| seems to indicate it's the latter. What's most | | | | into someone's neighborhood and attacking |
| disturbing, though, is that the greatest motivational | | | | anyone and everyone in sight. How many civilized |
| support has come not from internal sources or | | | | people do you know who subscribe to this logic? |
| Arab countries, but from a somewhat | | | | The Resolution, in effect, gave Palestinians the |
| unexpected source -- the United Nations. | | | | right to savagely butcher people for the slightest |
| To understand the progression of events leading | | | | provocation, and restrained a victimized party |
| up to global terrorism, it would help to look at the | | | | from defending itself no matter how brutal the |
| motives of some mass killers in the U.S., which | | | | attacks against her. With the gist of this |
| are somewhat similar to those of international | | | | Resolution expressed repeatedly throughout the |
| terrorists. | | | | years of the intifada, the Resolution became a |
| On December 5, 2007, Robert Hawkins, 19, | | | | downright sanction of terrorism. |
| walked into a Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, | | | | What's worse, Israel's use of force to defend its |
| and killed eight people and himself. His suicide note | | | | citizens from deadly violence is referred to in the |
| read, in part, "Everyone will remember me as | | | | Resolution as "excessive" and is, in the UN's view, |
| some sort of monster. ... [But] just think ... I'm | | | | worthy of condemnation. This is like telling |
| gonna be ... famous." | | | | Columbine security personnel that they're use of |
| Michael Welner, an associate professor of | | | | force against would-be mass killers is excessive. |
| psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, pointed out, | | | | Exactly how much force is excessive when |
| "'My fame is more important than your life,' that's | | | | you're defending yourself against being killed? |
| basically what he said." | | | | Furthermore, with the UN's definition of excessive, |
| An FBI investigation into the infamous 1999 | | | | wouldn't Palestinian barbarism in response to a |
| Columbine massacre showed that Hawkins | | | | "walk" be far more excessive? But this is never |
| demented yearning for fame and recognition was | | | | even mentioned, let alone condemned. The |
| not unique. The public perception of the Columbine | | | | green-light to terrorism couldn't have been more |
| killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, was they | | | | blatant if the UN had told Palestinians, "Go ahead, |
| were lonely outcasts out for revenge on those | | | | kill whomever you want, we've got you covered." |
| who bullied them. But three months after the | | | | I've heard people remark, "Who cares what the |
| massacre, the FBI convened a summit in | | | | UN says?" Personally, I don't, and wish others |
| Leesburg, Va., that included world-renowned | | | | didn't. But the fact is the UN's utterly depraved |
| mental health experts, as well as Supervisory | | | | and perverted messages were carried across the |
| Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI's lead | | | | globe by the news media in what would be the |
| Columbine investigator and a clinical psychologist. | | | | equivalent of a multi-billion dollar ad campaign. |
| They're conclusion was disturbingly different from | | | | There's little need to elaborate on how mass |
| public perception. | | | | media bombardment makes an impression on the |
| Not lonely outcasts at all, Klebold and Harris | | | | public. Just ask Coca Cola, McDonalds, Honda and |
| regularly hung out and partied with a circle of | | | | many others. |
| friends. They laughed at petty school shooters | | | | One thing's for sure, it made an impression on the |
| and bragged about dwarfing the Oklahoma City | | | | Palestinians. In the 12 months after Resolution |
| bombing. Klebold boasted on a video about | | | | 1322 was passed there were, according to the |
| inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Rather | | | | most conservative estimates, over 100 Palestinian |
| than being an angry man being picked on, Harris, | | | | terrorist attacks against Israel (the previous 12 |
| according to Fuselier, had a messianic-grade | | | | months, less than a dozen). |
| superiority complex and was out to punish the | | | | Over the next five years, over 1000 Israelis |
| human race for its appalling inferiority. | | | | were savagely murdered and over 6000 maimed |
| So, on April 20, 1999, after a year of planning, | | | | and wounded. And, to add insult to injury, |
| Harris and Klebold walked into Columbine High | | | | throughout this massacre of Israelis, Israel was |
| School in Jefferson County, Colorado, and killed 12 | | | | unjustly and continually held in contempt by the |
| students, a teacher, and wounded 23, before | | | | UN. The Palestinians, on the other hand, despite |
| committing suicide. This became the | | | | unleashing the most inhumane carnage upon |
| fourth-deadliest school killing in U.S. history. | | | | Israelis, were never condemned even once by |
| Had their wiring functioned properly, they would | | | | the UN. |
| have wiped out 600 people in a massive propane | | | | How do you think all this played to all the terrorist |
| bombing of the cafeteria. In addition to gunning | | | | wannabes around the world? As great |
| down fleeing survivors, they planned on setting | | | | encouragement, no doubt. |
| off car bombs to finish off rescue workers and | | | | It is in this period that, I'm convinced, terrorism |
| reporters. | | | | got its big "whitewash." With such unfaltering |
| According to Agent Fuselier, it wasn't just fame | | | | support from the UN, terrorism was no longer a |
| they were after. They were after infamy of | | | | dirty word or the diabolical tool of yesteryear. |
| global proportions. Their aim was to create a | | | | Terrorism had now become an acceptable and |
| nightmare so devastating and horrendous that the | | | | even "respectable" way to express real or |
| entire world would shudder at their power. | | | | imagined grievances. And the world was made |
| Now, try to imagine this: The parents of Hawkins, | | | | very aware of this, over and over. |
| Harris and Klebold are asked about their sons' | | | | It took Osama bin Laden only one year to |
| atrocities and respond that they're very proud of | | | | capitalize in a major way on this new-found |
| their sons and hope their siblings would some day | | | | license to butcher people. Not that he needed |
| do the same. Then, schools around the country | | | | anyone's permission before. But now he could |
| hang up pictures of the three murderers, hailing | | | | massacre as many totally innocent people as he |
| them as heros and role models. | | | | wanted and, as long as he had a "grievance," he |
| Imagine further, one shooter survives, is brought | | | | could blame his victims and even come out with |
| to justice, and the judge finds his "grievances" | | | | dignity and respect. |
| plausible. And not only does the judge not convict | | | | So on September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden |
| him, but reprimands the cops and security | | | | became the most "respected" name in some |
| personnel for using excessive force. | | | | parts of the Muslim world and to who knows how |
| How do you suppose such an insane scenario | | | | many terrorist wannabes and terrorist |
| would impact mass killings? If people are willing to | | | | now-decided-to-be -- all with the tacit |
| die and murder others for infamy, it's pretty safe | | | | endorsement of Kofi Annan, |
| to say that honoring such monsters as heros and | | | | then-Secretary-General of the UN, and the rest |
| restraining law enforcement personnel with | | | | of his corrupt enterprise. |
| censures would in all likelihood cause mass killings | | | | By July 7, 2005, with the ripping of people on the |
| to skyrocket. | | | | street to shreds already redefined by the UN as |
| Unfortunately, you don't have to imagine all this. | | | | being no different from protesting or striking, it's |
| This scenario has been played out in real life, | | | | with little wonder that the London Bombers were |
| although not (yet) in the U.S. And the results have | | | | seemingly ordinary citizens. "I certainly think this is |
| been devastating. | | | | a new dimension," said Peter Newman of London |
| It's a well documented fact that Palestinian | | | | University's War Studies Institute. "These are |
| parents have often spoken proudly of their | | | | people who grew up in Britain ... a novelty we |
| suicide-murderer children and openly implored their | | | | haven't seen in this country so far." |
| other children to follow suit. Palestinians | | | | On September 20, 2006, at the 61st UN General |
| customarily hang up pictures of suicide murderers | | | | Assembly, Kofi Annan had the audacity to make |
| in schools and laud them as heros and roll models. | | | | this insulting understatement: " ... supporters of |
| Palestinian murderers are often promised bliss in | | | | Israel feel that it is harshly judged by standards |
| the hereafter. And, to top it all off, families of | | | | that are not applied to its enemies, and too often |
| Palestinian terrorist have for years received cash | | | | this is true, particularly in some UN bodies." In an |
| rewards from some Arab leaders for the very | | | | honest and contrite speech, he would have said, "I |
| act of murder-suicide. | | | | feel shame and regret for unjustly vilifying Israel |
| How well have these incentives and | | | | and the United States in the eyes of the world, |
| encouragements worked? From September 2000 | | | | and unleashing global terrorism for the foreseeable |
| to September 2005, over 26,000 (average of 14 | | | | future." |
| a day) terrorist attacks were perpetrated against | | | | The phoniness of Annan's statement became |
| Israeli targets. While playing down the plethora of | | | | apparent only two months later at the annual |
| incentives they showered upon mass murderers | | | | "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People," by |
| to perpetuate carnage, Palestinians perfected the | | | | the screening of a film encouraging children to |
| art of spouting "grievances" for public consumption | | | | glorify death and murder. In one scene, small |
| -- things like "oppression" and "occupation," which | | | | children in a classroom shout, "Jerusalem, I |
| caught on like the Columbine "being bullied" rumors. | | | | sacrifice myself to you, land of my grandfather, |
| And, thus, terrorism in the Middle East grew into | | | | we will return." (The previous year, they had a |
| more than a cottage industry. | | | | moment of silence to honor suicide murderers.) |
| It then took the ingenuity and creativity of an | | | | This was not a Hamas training camp -- this was |
| international "peacekeeping" organization -- the UN | | | | the UN! |
| -- to bring this deadly game to the world arena. | | | | As of January 2008, we've seen several terrorist |
| How? | | | | plots around the world by "ordinary" people. And |
| The intifada that began in September 2000 was | | | | authorities fear it's only the beginning. |
| trumpeted by the Palestinians as a response to | | | | The damage wrought upon the world by the UN, |
| then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's walk on | | | | and Kofi Annan in particular, by sanctioning |
| the Temple Mount, a Holy site for Muslims and | | | | terrorism is incalculable. To find another country or |
| others. The UN convened in October of that year | | | | entity in modern history that generated so much |
| and passed Resolution 1322, the opening lines of | | | | racism, bigotry and anti-semitism on such a |
| which read, in part: | | | | massive scale, you'd probably have to go back to |
| "Reaffirming the need for full respect by all of the | | | | the days of the Third Reich. If we're going to |
| Holy Places of the City of Jerusalem, and | | | | take fighting terrorism seriously, we must |
| condemning any behaviour to the contrary, | | | | prosecute all those responsible for it's proliferation, |
| "[the UN] Deplores the provocation [Sharon's walk] | | | | regardless of what physical or legal barriers they |
| carried out at Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the | | | | hide behind. One step in the right direction would |
| subsequent violence ... ; | | | | be to try Kofi Annan for crimes against humanity. |
| "[the UN] Condemns acts of violence, especially | | | | |