Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
17 February '14..
From experience, most people, seeing the word "terror" or "terrorism" or "jihad" in an article, will skip it and go on to something more relevant. It's hard to argue with them. Almost every aspect of their culture tells them that jihadism and terrorists belong to far-off regions beset with age-old blood feuds. Nothing relevant here. Nothing to do with me. And it's unpleasant to know about.
But the reality is that most people in most countries of Europe, North America, Australasia, South-east Asia are actually contributors to the unchecked scourge of terror without even knowing it. We think they ought to know it since the information is out there for anyone to see. But that's not how things work. If you don't want to see what's there, the politics and the news media and the general set of things that "everyone knows" will ensure you don't have to know it or see it or face up to it.
Today, the excellent Palestinian Media Watch organization went public with the case of a Palestinian Arab of no particular significance, Husni Najjar. He is an already convicted terrorist who was frank enough to tell his interrogators from the Israel Police that he got involved in the planning of a second terrorist attack for the money.
Husni had a problem, it appears, in that
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