Why is John Kerry 'worried'? - by Dr. Reuven Berko

...Lacking a sense of history and any vision for the future, Kerry doesn't see the weakness and the need in the crumbling Arab world; doesn't recognize how marginal the Palestinian problem is and how pathetic its claims are; and doesn't understand that, in any case, if the Arabs could get rid of us, they'd have done so long ago. As it is said: May God protect me from my friends; I can defend myself against my enemies.

Dr. Reuven Berko..
Israel Hayom..
08 January '17..
Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=18109

When Sheikh Ekrima Sabri was still the grand mufti of Jerusalem, he declared to the media that he would prefer that the city remain occupied by Jews rather than become internationalized as part of a peace plan. Sabri said that the Muslims would eventually wrest control over the city away from the Jews, but it would be much harder to liberate it from the hands of the Christians and the Crusaders.

The return of the "Crusader occupation" via its "imperialist spearhead" -- the Jews -- is a shadowy fear that lies in the hearts of radical Islamists. They see the return of Christianity to the city, and certainly the resurrection of the Jews in their historic, promised capital with Christianity's help, as casting doubt on the relevance of the Islamist mission and the "seal of the prophets" doctrine, which, as we know, cancels out its predecessors.

Thus far, they have accepted an arrangement in which Jews are kept away from the city and worshippers at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher are subject to two Islamic families who for generations have held the keys to the church and allowed Christians -- before they fled the Middle East -- to open its doors and pray there. The reappearance of the Jewish people and the founding of their state and its capital in Jerusalem changed their world order into an insufferable situation in which the Jews were no longer a religious tribe that wandered, persecuted, throughout the world, the subject of God's eternal wrath, destined to convert to Islam.

The threat of "Jewish crusader-ism" served the fundamental hatred of Jews in Muslim countries, as well as the Arab countries and the Palestinians' political manipulations, especially when they made cynical use of Zionism as a uniting pillar of the Arab Spring. For types like Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and members of the ranks that represent his ideas -- including Sabri, radical Islamist Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, and adviser to the "rais" [president] on religion affairs, Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Habash -- locating Israel's capital in Jerusalem means nothing less than a collapse of peace and a declaration of war on Muslims.

Three disturbing reports from the White House

Fresnozionism.org
07 April '10

Lots of strange and disturbing things are coming from the White House now that the health-care issue is over:

1) Islamic terrorism is dropped into the memory hole.

President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century… — AP (Ha’aretz)

Well, I can understand him wanting to say “we are not fighting against Islam.” But we are fighting something and somebody. Someone killed 3000 Americans on 9/11 and someone is shooting at our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Similarly motivated someones are lobbing rockets at Israel from Gaza and preparing a massive bombardment from Lebanon. And someone in Iran is developing nuclear weapons for some reason. How can we fight an ideology that we are not allowed to name?

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Who or what are we fighting?

FresnoZionism
08 January '10

“It is not that Islam has been hijacked, rather different forces are fighting over control of the steering wheel.” — Barry Rubin

For the first time — as far as I can tell — in recorded history, a war is raging in which one side does not know the identity of its enemy.

This war has been underway since at least the 1990’s and pits the US and other Western democracies against various groups whose ideology is Radical Islamism. It is not a ‘war on terror’ — which is a tactic, not an opponent — and certainly not ‘overseas contingency operations’, an expression that Orwell would have been proud to invent. But on the other hand neither is it a ‘clash of civilizations’ and the enemy is not Islam.

What exactly is Radical Islamism, how is it related to Islam, why do Islamists employ the tactic of terrorism, why are we fighting, and what can be done to defeat it?

Important questions, and it appears that the previous and present US administrations lacked and continue to lack answers.

The following is a short but incisive discussion of these questions. It should be required reading in Washington. — ed.

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Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer
By Barry Rubin

A young American named Ramy Zamzam, arrested in Pakistan for trying to fight alongside the Taliban, responded in an interview with the Associated Press: “We are not terrorists. We are jihadists, and jihad is not terrorism.”

What he says is well worth bearing in mind in order to understand the great conflict of our era. First and foremost, Jihadism or radical Islamism is far more than mere terrorism. It is a revolutionary movement in every sense of the word. It seeks to overthrow existing regimes and replace them with governments that will transform society into a nightmarishly repressive system.

And so one might put it this way: Revolutionary Islamism is the main strategic problem in the world today. Terrorism is the main tactical problem.

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