[Whenever we whites in Africa attacked terrorist bases in other countries, the Western world including the USA would come down on us like a ton of bricks. We never faced a nuclear threat. But even the Israelis did not get the thumbs up from the USA in 1981. But now that the USA is starting to face nuclear terrorism… maybe… there will be a change of attitude in the USA.

Sometimes, when I look at the views of many Americans, I think that the war on terror really has NOT hit home to many. Many are still engaged in all sorts of hypothetical moral debates… when in fact… this ugly thing… is slowly building up… like a boiler under pressure. One day… TERROR… will come home to visit Americans. 9/11 was a single event. It was nothing. It was but the first shot. Terror is going to be with the Western world for a long time, and it appears to me, the Western world has learned little, if anything, from the experiences of whites in Africa and the Israelis in the Middle East. Give it another 10 years… give it time… The Israelis are right… this is World War III. Its going to be a long, ugly… ugly… world war… just wait… The terrorists have just managed to find their feet. It will get worse. I am watching as more and more new fronts are opening up in this world. Americans may find themselves eventually embroiled in 101 small wars all over this planet. It will be interesting.

If the USA used more tactics like the Israelis used… this war would come to a quicker end. I still think this is not a real war… its just a lot of pussy-footing around. I think one needs some serious killing in order to win. It must be fought with will and determination, and then it will come to a speedy end. All this pussy-footing around… will only give the terrorists time to learn and grow… Jan]

Below are the Israeli pilots – the heroes who smashed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in 90 seconds. American could learn from this.

On the 25th anniversary of the Israel Air Force’s devastating raid to wipe out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear plant at Osirak, prime minister Menachem Begin’s adviser has detailed the shocked and initially displeased American reaction to the strike, and Begin’s vehement justification of it as an unparalleled act of self-defense.

Writing in today’s Jerusalem Post, Yehuda Avner, a veteran diplomat who served on the staffs of five prime ministers, describes the atmosphere at Begin’s residence, on the eve of Shavuot 1981, as the prime minister waited anxiously to hear how the raid was proceeding.

While the planes were en route, Avner recalls, Begin handed him the summary of the Mossad’s psychological portrait of Saddam, “and when I read the opening paragraph my heart thumped against my rib cage. It said: ‘Saddam Hussein is a hard-headed megalomaniac, cunning, sophisticated and cruel. He is willing to take high risks and drastic action to realize his ambition for self-aggrandizement. His possession and use of a nuclear weapon will enable him to threaten and strike Israel and, thereby, win supremacy over the Arab world. He is prepared to act at an early opportunity, even in the awareness that retaliation might follow.'”

While Avner was reading this, Begin was “prowling the room, head down, face grim, arms behind his back, his lips moving imperceptibly in the manner of one muttering Tehillim – Psalms.”

As the waiting continued, Avner writes, Begin also bitterly castigated Shimon Peres, the opposition leader, for having written to him a few weeks earlier “to ask me to desist from taking action. Hoss gehert aza meisa? [Yiddish for ‘Have you heard of such a thing?’],” Begin stormed, according to Avner.

When word finally came through that the target had been hit and destroyed in less than 90 seconds, Begin praised God and phoned the US ambassador, Sam Lewis.

“I have to tell you in all honesty that I suspect some people in the White House will be pretty furious about this,” said a shocked Lewis. “Your weaponry was procured from us under the Arms Export Act, for purposes of self-defense only.”

“Self-defense?” Begin retorted. “What greater act of self-defense could there be than to demolish Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, designed to bring Israel to its knees, kill our people, vaporize our infrastructure – in a word to destroy our nation, our country, our existence? Over these past months I’ve told you again and again, Sam, that either the US does something to stop that reactor, or we will have to.”

Stressing the resonance and relevance of the Osirak strike given the current international crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, Avner notes that Begin, at the end of a cabinet communique he issued shortly before Shavuot began that evening, vowed that Israel would never allow “an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction against our people” and would take “whatever preemptive measures are necessary to defend the citizens of Israel.”

(‘When Armageddon loomed,’ by Yehuda Avner, UpFront, Page 4)

Source: Jerusalem Post
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