34th Year of Publication

October 2004—Issue #171 PUBLISHED BY AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL

get off the land! Why is the United States supporting Herbert Zweibon has turned over this page to the fol- the creation of a new, racist, anti-Semitic hate state? lowing article by Joseph Farah because it focuses on Why is the civilized world viewing this as a prescription an important initiative that AFSI has worked for and for peace in the region? endorses. Is there any other place in the world where that kind of official policy of racism and ethnic clean- sing is tolerated – even condoned? No to Another Terror State Why are the rules different in the Middle East? Joseph Farah Why are the rules different for Arabs? Why are the rules different for Muslims? Collectively, we don't often get a chance to Would America consider it acceptable if the sound off in a meaningful way on the major issues of new Iraqi government said the few Jews remaining in the day. Iraq would have to leave? Would America consider it I don't know about you, but those public- acceptable if the new Iraqi governing council said opinion pollsters never call me. Christians would have to go? But there is an opportunity right now to weigh Of course not. So why – even before a Pales- in on one of the greatest and most important issues of tinian state is created – do we accept as a fait accom- our time – whether the world should create a Palestin- pli that Jews should be forced off their land in the com- ian Arab state. ing state of Palestine? A group called Global Israel Alliance Why are U.S. tax dollars supporting the racist, (www.globalisraelalliance.com) is attempting to mobi- anti-Semitic entity known as the Palestinian Authority? lize opposition to this misguided plan now, prior to the While the Arabs do not even believe Jews November elections. If the turnout is high enough, the have the right to live in the Palestinian state, the Is- organizers believe it might help reverse U.S. support raelis, on the other hand, offer full citizenship rights to for the so-called Mideast "roadmap." Arabs in the Jewish state. What's wrong with the idea of creating a Pal- What a contrast! estinian Arab state? In fact, as I have said many times, nowhere in There are many reasons to oppose the crea- the Middle East do Arabs experience more freedom tion of what would certainly be another breeding than in Israel. ground and support base for Islamic terrorism. But I So, sound off. Participate in the referendum. want to focus on just one. Make your voice heard. One of the great untold stories of the Israeli- There's still time to stop the creation of an- Palestinian conflict is that the Palestinian Authority's other terror state in the Middle East. official policy is to demand all Jews get out of the country they are attempting to create. Joseph Farah is founder and editor of WorldnetDaily in In any other part of the world, this kind of rac- which this appeared on September 22, 2004. ist, anti-Semitic effort at ethnically cleansing a region would be roundly condemned by all civilized people. Yet, because most people simply don't understand the clear, official plan by the Arab leaders to force out all On Jihad Against Israel by Hugh Fitzgerald ...3 Jews from the new Palestinian state, Arafat retains a How Strong Is The Arab Claim? by L. Auster ...4 degree of sympathy, even political support, from much John Quincy Adam on Jihad by A. Bostum ...6 of the world. Two Speeches by Ruth King ...9 Think about what I am saying: It is the official Our Partial War by Rachel Neuwirth ..10 policy of the Palestinian Authority that all Jews must

From the Editor Arab refugee issue by resettling the so-called refugees in Arab states? Now there's a way to shake up busi- ness as usual in the Middle East. Stahl-gate With all the focus on the bogus documents on Rather's 60 Minutes segment, another media scandal Dan Rather Peres has gone all but unnoticed: Leslie Stahl's report which While it is hard, outside of the realm of psycho- portrayed AIPAC as the conduit of Pentagon secrets sis, to compete with Shimon Peres in embracing delu- to Israel. As Joel Mowbray has pointed out in "The sions, Dan Rather is coming close. After the docu- Spies Who Aren't" (FrontPageMagazine.com, Sept. ments on Bush's National Guard service had been 17), the whole story is essentially a smear (a policy exposed as crude computer forgeries, he told Howard paper, resembling an op-ed, containing no sources or Kurtz of the Washington Post that if they proved to be methods, simply advocating tougher diplomacy in false he wanted to be the one to break the story and dealing with Iran was apparently mishandled by Larry subsequently, after being forced to apologize for the Franklin, a low-level Iran analyst at the Pentagon). documents on-air, told a Texas newspaper that he still The damage caused by this story will remain long after believed them to be real. Actually one of Peres' silly the story has dissolved: many in the public will believe aphorisms, newly come to light, could be invoked that Jewish officials in the Pentagon are disloyal here. In a new book in honor of the late General (never mind that Franklin is a Catholic) and AIPAC is Benny Peled, the general quotes Peres saying: "A lie a transmission belt for spies. is like a half a brick. It flies further." It is the more remarkable that Stahl (and the liberal 60 Minutes) would lend herself to this particular Spain Promotes Eurabia kind of canard. Historically the supposedly nefarious Bat Yeor, the famed historian of dhimmitude, Jewish lobby has been the whipping boy of the far has coined the term Eurabia to describe what she as- right. Indeed Mowbray reports that one of those pur- serts is a decision arrived at decades ago by Euro- portedly interviewed for hours by the FBI in connection pean leaders to throw in their lot with the Arabs in or- with this case is "Stephen Green...a free-lance writer der to achieve greater influence in the world. In the on a two-decade long quest to prove that Paul most recent manifestation of this mindset, the new Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and other Jews are actually Spanish prime minister Jose Zapatero (brought to embedded Israeli spies". In promoting this spurious power by Arab terror, as the Madrid train bombings case, Stahl and 60 Minutes have allied themselves persuaded voters to choose the candidate promising with the anti-Semitic far right with results that may be to take Spanish troops out of Iraq) has called for "an with us long after the Burkett memos are forgotten. alliance of cultures" rather than a war on terror. Zapa- tero says he has asked UN Secretary General Kofi Reagan vs. Bush Annan to set up a group to study the creation of "an President Bush makes no secret of his admira- alliance of civilizations" which would "have as its fun- tion for Ronald Reagan. When it came to the Soviet damental objective to deepen political, cultural and Union Reagan was unwilling to tolerate the endless education relations between those who represent the pursuit of failed policies and embarked on radically so-called Western world and, in this historic moment, new ones, even if they affronted the conventional wis- the area of Arab and Muslim countries." And what dom. Reagan turned his back on detente, on the no- would be on the first item on the agenda of this tion that the Soviet Communist empire must be ac- "alliance of civilizations"? Zapatero says "the interna- commodated and at best contained. To the surprise tional community must combat terrorism rationally by not only of pundits but most of his own administration, dealing with its roots in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." the evil empire (the very term sent frissons of horror Translation: The "alliance of civilizations" will through the media and academic establishment) col- devote itself to extirpating the Jewish state. lapsed. The war on terror (really against Islamic jihad) Outpost has clearly made President Bush rethink long ac- Editor: Rael Jean Isaac cepted policies on the Middle East -- but has not af- Editorial Board: Herbert Zweibon, Ruth King fected his policy on Israel. The pursuit of failed poli- cies continues, the notion that "territories for peace" Outpost is distributed free to will produce peace remains unchallenged. 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On Jihad Against Israel Hugh Fitzgerald

The relentless Jihad against Israel -- against, picture and reduce the discussion to a conflict of bor- rather, any Infidel sovereign state within the Dar al- ders between Israel and her neighbors. First of all, it is Islam -- always included imposition of the Shari'a as not the truth. The heart of the conflict is not the ques- part of its intended goal. Imposition of the Shari'a was, tion of the borders; it is the question of Muslim psy- in fact, demanded as early as 1920 by a group of Arab chology.....Moreover, to present the problem as a con- notables in the former Ottoman territories that were flict between two similar parts is to provide the Arabs quite properly assigned to Mandatory Palestine (i.e. all with the weapon of a claim that is not theirs. If the dis- of Western Palestine, while Eastern Palestine went to cussion with them is truly a political one, then it can be form part of the Emirate of Transjordan). seen from both sides. Then we appear as those who Nor was there any doubt that this was a Jihad came to a country that was entirely Arab, and we con- directed at Infidels throughout the Mandatory period; quered and implanted ourselves as an alien body curiously, it was some British officers, rather than the among them, and we loaded them with refugees and Palestinian Jews, who recognized the Islamic grounds constitute a military danger for them, etc. etc...one can for opposition to the Jews and the restoration of a justify this or that side -- and such a presentation, so- Jewish Commonwealth. It is also true that a few Is- phisticated and political, of the problem is understand- raelis, early in the history of the state, had the wit to able for European minds -- at our expense. recognize the problem. One of these was Dr. A. Carle- “The Arabs raise claims that make sense to bach, whose analysis published in Ma'ariv (Oct. 7, the Western understanding of simple legal dispute. 1955) would have been lost to history, one suspects, But in reality, who knows better than us that such is but for the fact that it is reprinted, amusingly and quite not the source of their hostile stand? All those political uncomprehendingly, in Edward Said's preposterous and social concepts are never theirs. Occupation by The Question of Palestine. Fortunately for us, Said force of arms, in their own eyes, in the eyes of Islam, often provides quotes from various European and Zi- is not at all associated with injustice. To the contrary, it onist sources that are so deadly, so convincing, par- constitutes a certificate and demonstration of authentic ticularly in the light of all we have learned about Islam ownership. The sorrow for the refugees, for the expro- over the past few years, that as a work of propaganda priated brothers, has no room in their thinking. Allah it no longer serves its purpose. Here is what Said expelled, Allah will care. Never has a Muslim politician quoted from Carlebach, and what Said obviously been moved by such things (unless, indeed, the catas- thought was self-evidently absurd, but we read it now trophe endangered his personal status). If there were with quite a different frame of mind: no refugees and no conquest, they would oppose us "These Arab Islamic countries do not suffer just the same." from poverty, or disease, or illiteracy, or exploitation; Now when Said put this into his little work of they only suffer from the worst of all plagues: Islam. propaganda, back in 1979, the invented "Palestinian Wherever Islamic psychology rules, there is the inevi- people" and their "legitimate rights" were in full swing. table rule of despotism and criminal aggression. The In 1979, the front of dhimmis, those islamochristians danger lies in Islamic psychology, which cannot inte- such as Hanan Ashrawi, were already in evidence, on grate itself into the world of efficiency and progress, campuses, before church groups, disguising the na- that lives in a world of illusion, perturbed by attacks of ture of the Jihad against Israel which cannot be as- inferiority complexes and megalomania, lost in dreams suaged, cannot be sated, and is not a matter of bor- of the holy sword. The danger stems from the totalitar- ders. ian conception of the world, the passion for murder But something has changed: other Muslim deeply rooted in their blood, from the lack of logic, the attacks, in America, in Russia, in Europe, and other easily inflamed brains, the boasting, and above all: the Muslim cries against Infidels, and other Muslim behav- blasphemous disregard for all that is sacred to the civi- ior, including the demand that European peoples yield lized world...their reactions -- to anything -- have noth- to Muslim demands, have caused many, and should ing to do with good sense. cause many more, to read the words written above, “They are all emotion, unbalanced, instantane- with a new understanding and a new appreciation. ous, senseless. It is always the lunatic that speaks Hoist by his own petard, is Edward Said -- he from their throat. You can talk 'business' with every- bothered to quote just a bit too much, and nowadays one, and even with the devil. But not with Allah...This we do not scorn those he assumed we would scorn, is what every grain in this country shouts. There were but see the truth of their remarks, and the scorn of the many great cultures here, and invaders of all kinds. All good and intelligent reader is reserved for Said's own of them -- even the Crusaders -- left signs of culture text. Quite something. and blossoming. But on the path of Islam, even the trees have died. This article by Hugh Fitzgerald, a frequent contributor "We pile sin upon crime when we distort the to Outpost, was posted on JihadWatch. October 2004 3 Outpost

How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine? Lawrence Auster

There is a myth hanging over all discussion of chadnezzar in 586 B.C. took Jerusalem and Judah the Palestinian problem: the myth that this land was from: "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invad- The Jews, meaning the people of the Kingdom ing Jews. Whatever may be the correct solution, let's of Judah, who, in their earlier incarnation as the Israel- get a few things straight: ites, seized the land in the 12th and 13th centuries As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take B.C. from: Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, The Canaanites, who had inhabited the land who exercised sovereign authority in Palestine under a for thousands of years before they were dispossessed League of Nations mandate for thirty years prior to by the Israelites. Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. And the British don't want it back. s the foregoing suggests, any Arab claim to If you consider the British illegitimate usurp- A ers, fine. In that case, this territory is not Arab land but sovereignty based on inherited historical control will Turkish land, a province of the Ottoman Empire for not stand up. Arabs are not native to Palestine, but are hundreds of years until the British wrested it from them native to Arabia, which is called Arab-ia for the breath- during the Great War in 1917. And the Turks don't takingly simple reason that it is the historic home of want it back. the Arabs. The territories comprising all other "Arab" If you look back earlier in history than the Otto- states outside the Arabian peninsula including Iraq, man Turks, who took over Palestine in 1517, you find Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, it under the sovereignty of yet another empire not in- as well as the entity now formally under the Palestin- digenous to Palestine: the Mamluks, who were Turkish ian Authority were originally non-Arab nations that and Circassian slave-soldiers headquartered in Egypt. were conquered by the Muslim Arabs when they And the Mamluks don't even exist any more, so they spread out from the Arabian peninsula in the first great can't want it back. wave of jihad in the 7th century, defeating, mass- So, going back 800 years, there's no particu- murdering, enslaving, dispossessing, converting, or larly clear chain of title that makes Israel's title to the reducing to the lowly status of dhimmitude millions of land inferior to that of any of the previous owners. Who Christians and Jews and destroying their ancient and were, continuing backward: flourishing civilizations. Prior to being Christian, of The Mamluks, already mentioned, who in course, these lands had even more ancient histories. 1250 took Palestine over from: Pharaonic Egypt, for example, was not an Arab coun- The Ayyubi dynasty, the descendants of Sala- try through its 3000 year history. din, the Kurdish Muslim leader who in 1187 took Jeru- The recent assertion by the Palestinian Arabs salem and most of Palestine from: that they are descended from the ancient Canaanites The European Christian Crusaders, who in whom the ancient Hebrews displaced is absurd in light 1099 conquered Palestine from: of the archeological evidence. There is no record of The Seljuk Turks, who ruled Palestine in the the Canaanites surviving their destruction in ancient name of: times. History records literally hundreds of ancient The Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, which in 750 peoples that no longer exist. The Arab claim to be de- took over the sovereignty of the entire Near East from: scended from Canaanites is an invention that came The Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, which after the 1964 founding of the Palestine Liberation Or- in 661 inherited control of the Islamic lands from: ganization, the same crew who today deny that there The Arabs of Arabia, who in the first flush of was ever a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Prior to 1964 Islamic expansion conquered Palestine in 638 from: there was no "Palestinian" people and no "Palestinian" The Byzantines, who (nice people - perhaps it claim to Palestine; the Arab nations who sought to should go to them?) didn't conquer the Levant, but, overrun and destroy Israel in 1948 planned to divide upon the division of the Roman Empire in 395, inher- up the territory amongst themselves. Let us also re- ited Palestine from: member that prior to the founding of the state of Israel The Romans, who in 63 B.C. took it over from: in 1948, the name "Palestinian" referred to the Jews of The last Jewish kingdom, which during the Palestine. Maccabean rebellion from 168 to 140 B.C. won control In any case, today's "Palestine," meaning the of the land from: West Bank and Gaza, is, like most of the world, inhab- The Hellenistic Greeks, who under Alexander ited by people who are not descendants of the first the Great in 333 B.C. conquered the Near East from: human society to inhabit that territory. This is true not The Persian empire, which under Cyrus the only of recently settled countries like the United States Great in 639 B.C. freed Jerusalem and Judah from: and Argentina, where European settlers took the land The Babylonian empire, which under Nebu- from the indigenous inhabitants several hundred years October 2004 4 Outpost

ago, but also of ancient nations like Japan, whose cur- settled in any number of peaceful ways, almost all of rent Mongoloid inhabitants displaced a primitive peo- which the Jews would have accepted. The Jews’ will- ple, the Ainu, aeons ago. Major “native” tribes of South ingness to compromise on territory was demonstrated Africa, like the Zulu, are actually invaders from the not only by their acquiescence in the UN’s 1947 parti- north who arrived in the 17th century. One could go tion plan, which gave them a state with squiggly inde- on and on. fensible borders, but even by their earlier acceptance The only nations that have perfect continuity of the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan, which between their earliest known human gave them nothing more than a part of inhabitants and their populations of the Galilee and a tiny strip along the the present day are Iceland, parts of When the Arabs coast. Yet the Arab nations, refusing to China, and a few Pacific islands. His- resorted to arms accept any Jewish sovereignty in Pal- tory is very sketchy in regard to the estine even if it was the size of a post- genealogies of ancient peoples. The in order to wipe age stamp, unanimously rejected the upshot is that “aboriginalism”, the out the Jews and 1937 Peel plan and nine years later proposition that the closest descen- they violently rejected the UN's parti- dants of the original inhabitants of a destroy the Jew- tion plan as well. When the Arabs re- territory are the rightful owners, is not sorted to arms in order to wipe out the tenable in the real world. It is not ish state, they ac- Jews and destroy the Jewish state, clear that it would be a desirable idea, cepted the verdict they accepted the verdict of arms. even if it were tenable. Would human They lost that verdict in 1948, and they civilization really be better off if there of arms. They lost it again in 1967, when Jordan, had been no China, no Japan, no lost that verdict which had annexed the West Bank in Greece, no Rome, no France, no 1948 (without any objections from Pal- England, no Ireland, no United in 1948. estinian Arabs that their sovereign na- States? tionhood was being violated), attacked Back to the Arabs. Israel from the West Bank during the Six Day War de- I have no problem recognizing the legitimacy spite Israel's urgent pleas that it stay out of the conflict. of the Arab’s tenure in Palestine when they had it, Israel in self-defense then captured the West Bank. from 638 to 1099, a period of 461 years out of a his- The Arabs thus have no grounds to complain either tory lasting 5,000 years. They took Palestine by mili- about Israel's existence (achieved in '48) or about its tary conquest, and they lost it by conquest, to the expanded sovereignty from the river to the sea Christian Crusaders in 1099. (achieved in '67). Of course, military occupation by itself does not determine which party rightly has sovereignty in a he Arabs have roiled the world for decades given territory. Can it not be said that the Arabs have T sovereign rights, if not to all of Israel, then at least to with their furious protest that their land has been the West Bank, by virtue of their majority residency in "stolen" from them. One might take seriously such a that region from the early Middle Ages to the present? statement if it came from a pacifist people such as the To answer that question, let's look again at the Tibetans, who had quietly inhabited their land for ages historical record. Prior to 1947, as we've discussed, before it was seized by the Communist Chinese in Palestine was administered by the British under the 1950. The claim is laughable coming from the Arabs, Palestine Mandate, the ultimate purpose of which, ac- who in the early Middle Ages conquered and reduced cording to the Balfour Declaration, was the establish- to slavery and penury ancient peoples and civilizations ment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. In 1924 stretching from the borders of Persia to the Atlantic; the British divided the Palestine Mandate into an Ar- who in 1947 rejected an Arab state in Palestine along- abs-only territory east of the Jordan, which became side a Jewish state and sought to obliterate the nas- the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan, and a greatly reduced cent Jewish state; who never called for a distinct Pal- Palestine Mandate territory west of the Jordan, which estinian Arab state until the creation of the terrorist was inhabited by both Arabs and Jews. PLO in 1964, sixteen years after the founding of the Given the fact that the Jews and Arabs were state of Israel; and who to this moment continue to unable to coexist in one state, there had to be two seek Israel's destruction, an object that would be enor- states. At the same time, there were no natural bor- mously advanced by the creation of the Arab state ders separating the two peoples, in the way that, for they demand. The Arab claim to sovereign rights west example, the Brenner Pass has historically marked the of the Jordan is only humored today because of a fatal division between Latin and Germanic Europe. Since combination of world need for Arab oil, leftist Political the Jewish population was concentrated near the Correctness that has cast the Israelis as "oppressors," coast, the Jewish state had to start at the coast and go and, of course, good old Jew-hatred. some distance inland. Exactly where it should have stopped, and where the Arab state should have be- Lawrence Auster is the author of Erasing America. gun, was a practical question that could have been This appeared in FrontPageMag.com on August 30.

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John Quincy Adams on Jihad Andrew G. Bostom

As this country's leaders struggle to come to connected indissolubly with it, the audacious false- grips with Islamic jihad -- still reluctant to use the term, hood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. they prefer the nebulous “war on terror”-- it is impor- Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith tant to note that an early U.S. President possessed a and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he remarkably clear understanding of the challenge humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and posed by Islam to Western civilization. sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sex- I have reviewed little known essays dealing ual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity with this subject by John Quincy Adams, written after at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the fe- his Presidency and before his election male sex, and the allowance of polyg- to Congress in 1830 (Chapters X-XIV, amy; and he declared undistinguishing pp. 267-402, in The American Annual Regarding Jihad, and exterminating war, as a part of his Register for 1827-28-29, New York religion, against all the rest of mankind. 1830). The contributions of the second Adams observes THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE Adams, thus far less recognized than “The precept of WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST; TO EX- those of his father John Adams, particu- ALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRI- larly in shaping U.S. foreign policy, are the Koran is per- TUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE being rediscovered. In 1949 the distin- petual war (Capitals in original)...Between these guished Yale diplomatic historian Sam- two religions, thus contrasted in their uel Flagg Bemis wrote: against all who characters, a war of twelve hundred “Adams grasped the essentials years has already raged. The war is of American policy and the position of deny that Maho- yet flagrant...While the merciless and the United States in the world more met is the dissolute dogmas of the false prophet surely than any other man of his time. shall furnish motives to human action, He availed himself of matchless oppor- prophet of God.” there can never be peace upon earth, tunities to advance the continental fu- and good will towards men.” ture of his country and the fundamental Adams concluded solemnly, principles for which it stood in the world….Even if John “As the essential principle of his Quincy Adams was not to have another great career, [Muhammad’s] faith is the subjugation of others by the as a crusader against the expansion of slavery, [his] sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can first and mighty achievement, of no less than continen- be dispelled, and his power annihilated.” tal proportions, in laying the foundations of American John Quincy Adams lucidly described the per- foreign policy, would have been great enough for one manent Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmi- lifetime.” tude. Regarding jihad, Adams observes, “…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, n an era untouched by cultural relativism, I against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Adams, convinced of the truth and moral superiority of Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Ma- Christianity, had no hesitation in drawing a harsh con- homet is the prophet of God… the faithful follower of trast between Jesus and Christianity, and Muhammad the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities and Islam. of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem “And he [Jesus] declared, that the enjoyment creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can of felicity in the world hereafter, would be reward of be made effective.” the practice of benevolence here. His whole law was And Adams captured the essential condition resolvable into the precept of love; peace on earth – imposed upon the non-Muslim dhimmi “tributaries” good will toward man…On the Christian system of subjugated by jihad, with this laconic statement, morals, man is an immortal spirit, confined for a short “The vanquished may purchase their lives, by space of time, in an earthly tabernacle. Kindness to the payment of tribute.” his fellow mortals embraces the whole compass of his duties upon earth, and the whole promise of happi- ness to his spirit hereafter. THE ESSENCE OF THIS Adams also reported on the religiously rooted DOCTRINE IS, TO EXALT THE SPIRITUAL OVER pattern of bad faith in negotiations -- the false prom- THE BRUTAL PART OF HIS NATURE [Capitals in ises of "peace," the saying of one thing in the lan- original].” guage of "foreigners," another in Arabic -- that Israel Of Muhammad and Islam, he writes: has belatedly discovered, at great cost, and the rest of “Adopting from the sublime conception of the the world has yet to confront. Writes Adams: Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he

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“..The commands of the prophet may be per- “The Hatti Sheriff commenced...'It is well formed alike, by fraud, or by force. Of Mahometan known (said the Sultan) to almost every person, that if good faith, we have had memorable examples our- the Mussulmen naturally hate the infidels, the infidels, selves. When our gallant [Stephen] Decatur had on their part, are the enemies of the Mussulmen: that chastised the pirate of Algiers, till he was ready to re- Russia, more especially bears a particular hatred to nounce his claim of tribute from the United States, he Islamism, and that she is the principal enemy of the signed a treaty to that effect: but the treaty was drawn Sublime Porte.' This appeal to the natural hatred of up in the Arabic language, as well as in our own; and the Mussulmen towards the infidels, is in just accor- our negotiators, unacquainted with the language of the dance with the precepts of the Koran. The document Koran, signed the copies of the treaty, in both lan- does not attempt to disguise it, nor even pretend that guages, not imagining that there was any difference the enmity of those whom it styles the infidels, is any between them." other than the necessary consequence of the hatred Adams continues: borne by the Mussulmen to them--the paragraph itself, "Within a year the Dey [Muslim ruler of Al- is a forcible example of the contrasted character of the giers] demands, under penalty of the two religions. The fundamental doc- renewal of the war, an indemnity in trine of the Christian religion, is the money for the frigate taken by Decatur; The Arabic copy extirpation of hatred from the human our Consul demands the foundation of heart. It forbids the exercise of it even this pretension; and the Arabic copy of of the treaty, towards enemies. There is no denomi- the treaty, signed by himself is pro- signed by him- nation of Christians, which denies or duced, with an article stipulating the misunderstands this doctrine....The indemnity, foisted into it, in direct oppo- self is produced, unqualified acknowledgement of a duty sition to the treaty as it had been con- does not, indeed, suffice to insure its cluded. The arrival of Chauncey, with a with an article performance. Hatred is yet a passion, squadron before Algiers, silenced the stipulating the but too powerful upon the hearts of fraudulent claim of the Dey, and he Christians. Yet they cannot indulge it, signed a new treaty in which it was indemnity, except by the sacrifice of their princi- abandoned; but he disdained to conceal foisted into it, in ples and the conscious violation of his intentions; my power, said he, has their duties. No state paper from a been wrested from my hands; draw ye direct opposition Christian hand, could, without tram- the treaty at your pleasure, and I will pling the precepts of its Lord and Mas- sign it; but beware of the moment, when to the treaty as ter, have commenced by an open I shall recover my power, for with that it had been con- proclamation of hatred to any portion moment, your treaty shall be waste pa- of the human race. The Ottoman lays it per. He avowed what they always prac- cluded. down as the foundation of his dis- ticed, and would without scruple have course.” practiced himself. Such is the spirit, which governs the hearts of men, to whom treachery and violence are dams notes that the Sultan's pronounce- taught as principles of religion." A ment to his subjects continued: “...all infidels are but one nation...This war Adams assails the subterfuges of the Otto- must be considered purely a religious and national man Sultan in his dealings with Russia. The Sultan, war. Let all the faithful, rich or poor, great or little, he writes, prepared for war while pretending, so as to know, that to fight is a duty with us; let them then re- gain time, peaceful intentions. He had the Ottoman frain from thinking of arrears, or of pay of any kind; far Grand Vizier send a letter to the Russian Prime Minis- from such considerations, let us sacrifice our property ter declaring "the Sublime Porte has at all times no and our persons; let us execute zealously the duties other desire or wish than to preserve peace and good which the honor of Islamism imposes on us -- let us understanding" while at the same time another state unite our efforts, and labor, body and soul, for the sup- paper was issued, addressed by the Sultan to his own port of religion, until the day of judgment. Mussulmen subjects--this was the Hatti Sheriff of the 20th of De- have no other means of working out salvation in this cember, sent to the Pashas of all the provinces, calling world and the next.” on all the faithful Mussulmen of the empire to come But then, writes Adams, when the Russians forth and 'fight for their religion, and their country, got wind of this declaration "summoning the whole against the infidel despisers of the Prophet. The com- Ottoman nation to arms against Russia, the Sultan parison of these two documents with each other, will now thinks proper to say, that it was only a proclama- afford the most perfect illustration of the Ottoman faith, tion which the Sublime Porte, for certain reasons, cir- as well as of their temper towards Russia." culated in its states; an internal transaction, of which Adams continues: the Sublime Porte alone knows the motives, and that

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the language held by a government to its own subjects British admiral, in the strict and faithful execution of his cannot be a ground for another government to pick a instructions, an untoward event. But the last member quarrel with it...that if Russia had conceived suspi- of the paragraph from his majesty's speech...to those cions, from the Sultan's address to his subjects, she accustomed to the mystifications of royal speeches might have applied amicably to the Porte to ascertain and diplomatic defiances, explained these apparent the truth and clear up her doubts.” disparates. He declares the great objects to which all his efforts have been directed, and of which...he will never lose sight, are the termination of the contest be- Adams assails the phony “moral tween the hostile parties; the permanent settlement of their future relations to each other, and maintenance equivalence” the Western pow- of the repose of Europe, upon the basis on which it ers, above all England, applied has rested since the last general peace.” In all the documents “issuing from the pro- to the Islamic Ottomans and found and magnanimous policy of the British warrior their victims (shades of the ap- statesman,” writes Adams, “nothing is more remarkable than the more proach of modern Western than stoical apathy with which they regard the cause, for which the Greeks are contending; the more than statesmen to the multitude of epicurean indifference with which they witness the conflicts on what Samuel Hunt- martyrdom of a whole people, perishing in the recov- ery of their religion and liberty.” ington aptly termed “Islam’s Given the global struggle with jihad terror, per- bloody borders”). haps it is time for John Quincy Adams remarkable se- ries of essays to be read by contemporary U.S. diplo- mats and politicians, and heeded. An early anti-imperialist, Adams was a strong advocate for the liberation of Greek Christians, like Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS has written extensively Christians in the Balkans and the Black Sea lands of on jihad, and is the editor of a forthcoming collection of Russia, then suffering under the strictures of dhimmi- classical essays and primary source documents enti- tude within the Ottoman Empire. Wrote Adams: tled, The Legacy of Jihad. “Those provinces are the abode of ten millions of human beings, two thirds of whom are Christians, groaning under the intolerable oppression of less than Now Available from Americans three millions of Turks. Those provinces are in some For A Safe Israel: of the fairest regions of the earth. They were Christian countries, subdued during the conquering period of the Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine Mahometan imposture, by the ruthless scymetar [sic] Shmuel Katz—$5.95 of the Ottoman race; and under their iron yoke, have been gradually dwindling in population, and sinking Lone Wolf: A Two-Volume Biography of into barbarism. The time of their redemption is at Vladimir Jabotinsky—by Shmuel Katz—$50.00 hand.” (new members—membership dues plus $25) Adams assails the phony “moral equivalence” Let us know if your library would like a copy of Lone the Western powers, above all England, applied to the Wolf. We will send a free copy to any library that Islamic Ottomans and their victims (shades of the ap- wishes to acquire it. proach of modern Western statesmen to the multitude of conflicts on what Samuel Huntington aptly termed, Dubious Allies: The Arab Media’s War of “Islam’s bloody borders”) and the moral cowardice that Words Against America put the status quo above liberty. Writes Adams: compiled by Jeff Daube and Rael Jean Isaac -$5.95 “In the king's [George IV] speech, at the open- ing of the session of Parliament, on the 29th of Janu- Shimon Says: Shimon Peres in His Own ary, he said that, 'for several years a contest had been Words –edited by Roger Gerber and Rael Jean carried on between the Ottoman Porte, and the inhabi- Isaac $3.95 (non-members: $4.95) tants of the Greek provinces and islands, which had been marked on each side, by excesses revolting to Order from: humanity.' Still more extraordinary was it to the ears of Christendom to hear a British king, in a speech to his Americans For a Safe Israel parliament, style the execrable and sanguinary head 1623 Third Ave., #205 of the Ottoman race, his ancient ally; and denominate New York, N.Y. 10128 a splendid victory, achieved under the command of a

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A Tale Of Two Speeches Ruth King

On November 10th, 2001, two months after help for the dispossessed, and candor about past sins. the terrorist attacks on America, President Bush ad- The president wished to convey a new multilateralist dressed the United Nations. His words soared with creed that would have made a John Kerry or Made- eloquence and resolve. leine Albright proud.” “And the people of my country will remember Also the President described terrorists as those who have plotted against us. We are learning “enemies of freedom,” a naive euphemism. Fidel Cas- their names. We are coming to know their faces. tro and several of the dictators of Eastern Europe can There is no corner of the earth distant or dark enough be called enemies of freedom. Barbaric Islamic terror- to protect them. However long it takes, their hour of ists and their supporters stretch the definition of "evil.” justice will come. But it was worse than that. In this UN speech, “This threat cannot be ignored. This threat the President, rather than confronting the jackals, cannot be appeased. Civilization, itself, the civilization joined them. Incredibly he excoriated Israel, the only we share, is threatened. History will record our re- country, apart from the Sudan, criticized in his speech. sponse, and judge or justify every nation in this hall. Much of what makes the UN so morally odious is its For every regime that sponsors terror, there is a price obsession with using Israel as international whipping to be paid. And it will be paid. The allies of terror are boy. And now President Bush applies the whip him- equally guilty of murder and equally accountable to self? Israel, said the President, "should impose a set- justice.” tlements freeze, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end He then challenged the United Nations: the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people, and “And, finally, this struggle is a defining moment avoid any actions that prejudice final negotiations.” for the United Nations, itself. And the world needs its It is especially unseemly for the President to principled leadership. It undermines the credibility of make this statement at the United Nations. The Presi- this great institution, for example, when the Commis- dent could indeed have properly mentioned Israel -- sion on Human Rights offers seats to the world's most to praise it for its exemplary restraint even in the face persistent violators of human rights. The United Na- of threats and attacks. To praise it for its protection of tions depends, above all, on its moral authority -- and the rights of its Arab citizens. Mr. Bush defends the that authority must be preserved.” Patriot Act and all efforts to interrogate and search Three years and two wars and thousands of possible suspects. Why then does he call Israel’s nec- victims of terrorism later -- in Indonesia, Madrid, Tur- essary security measures “humiliating?” Is it worse to key, Russia, Israel -- the United Nations has not a be questioned and searched than to feel a terrible fear shred of the “moral authority” which President Bush every single time your child rides a bus, or you or a evoked in 2001.The UN has sidestepped virtually family member goes to a movie or pizzeria or a cafe? every binding resolution on Iraq, ignored genocides in What the President did was to pander to the Rwanda and Sudan, ignored its responsibility to iso- Arab and Moslem enemies of America who insist that late and punish states that harbor terrorists, squan- the Arab-Israel conflict is the “root cause” of Islamic dered and misappropriated millions in humanitarian terrorism even though the President knows that Is- funds. Steeped in corruption, it continues to focus one lamic terrorists (who beheaded a second American half of its entire agenda on excoriating Israel. As An- hostage even as the President made his speech) are drew C. McCarthy has written in National Review faith driven barbarians for whom Israel is merely a re- Online (September 16), “the risible, anachronistic, hearsal stage for the greater Jihad. On November 8th, dysfunctional and quite likely criminal enterprise 2001, in a speech to firemen, policemen and postal known as the United Nations is an international calam- workers in Atlanta, Georgia, President Bush had said: ity that is doing far more harm than good.” “We are the target of enemies who boast they Nonetheless, in September, President Bush want to kill, kill all Americans, kill all Jews and kill all went to the belly of this beast to promote and defend Christians.” his mission in Iraq. Assembled were the usual cast of At the U.N. on November 10th, 2001 the Presi- despots and their emissaries, the sullen and spiteful dent had said, representatives of "old" Europe who have derided and “…. there is no such thing as a good terrorist. thwarted our war against terrorism, the assorted en- No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can ablers of militant Islam’s agenda, and, of course, Kofi ever justify the deliberate murder of the innocent. Any Annan, the Secretary General, who only days earlier government that rejects this principle, trying to pick had called our mission in Iraq “illegal.” And as Victor and choose its terrorist friends, will know the conse- Davis Hanson has pointed out in the Wall Street Jour- quence.” nal, the President "offered not blood and iron -- other I like George Bush. I want him to succeed. But than an obligatory 'the proper response is not to re- America and Israel deserve more from him than was treat but to prevail' -- but Wilsonian idealism, concrete given at that sorry speech on September 21,2004. Outpost 9 October 2004

Our Partial War Against Terror Rachel Neuwirth

Claims that America is engaged in a total war bath known as Black September, in which thousands against terrorism are greatly exaggerated. President were slaughtered. He then moved to Lebanon where Bush cannot selectively fight some terrorists, while he instigated a long civil war in which over 100,000 ignoring or even supporting other kinds of terrorists, were killed in a country of only about three million. His and still claim to be fighting a War on Terror. Bush thugs attacked residential neighborhoods using cannot declare that we oppose all who practice terror- women and children as human shields, a tactic he ism, including all their supporters, in theory, and then used later in his intifada against Israel. Lebanese employ a double standard in practice. We cannot say Christians suffered greatly and many were forced to that the 9/11 bombers are terrorists, but that those flee to other countries. who blow up buses in Israel are not terrorists because Forcible U.S. opposition to Arafat’s crimes they are engaged in a political process, as was was notably absent, but when Israel responded to claimed by Secretary of State Colin Powell. This dou- cross border attacks with a counteroffensive against ble standard has been a long-term the PLO and Syrian occupiers of element in U.S. policy, and is not Lebanon, the U.S. suddenly found its limited to the current Bush Admini- We cannot say that voice and demanded an Israeli with- stration and the equivocation in its the 9/11 bombers drawal. The U.S. intervened to rescue so-called war on terror. Arafat when Israel was close to de- President Bush is seeking are terrorists, but feating him, bringing him to safety in Osama bin Laden, dead or alive. But Tunisia, where he continued his war at the same time President Bush is that those who of terror against Israel. protecting Yasser Arafat, the father blow up buses in of modern terrorism, by demanding n 1972, Arafat’s PLO that Israel not harm him or even exile Israel are not ter- I slaughtered 11 Israeli athletes at the him. On 9/11 bin Laden caused the rorists because death of 3,000 Americans plus the Munich Olympics, marring interna- wounding of many more. Since the they are engaged tional games dedicated to world Oslo Accords of 1993, Arafat has peace, without generating an ade- killed about 1,300 Israelis and in a political proc- quately forceful response from the wounded upwards of 7,000. In pro- ess as was claimed U.S. Perhaps Arafat was becoming portion to population, this is the U.S. confident about U.S. tolerance to- equivalent of 70,000 dead and by Secretary of wards terror, because in 1973 he got away with the kidnap-murder of two 380,000 wounded, many of those State Colin Powell. horribly so. American diplomats in Khartoum, And yet Arafat’s Palestinian Sudan. Ambassador Cleo Noel and Authority receives some $200 million in American aid George Curtis Moore were murdered annually plus the promise of another Arab state at Is- on direct orders from Arafat. The CIA even taped rael’s expense, if only Arafat pretends to favor peace Arafat giving the order to his thugs. Yet the U.S. did for a short while. This appeasement of terrorism nothing, not even publicly fingering Arafat for this act harms America's national security as well as being of aggression against the United States, carried out on wrong in principle. the grounds of a supposedly sacrosanct diplomatic American double standards are clearly re- mission. vealed in the history of Yasser Arafat and his consis- In 1978, Jimmy Carter's administration began tent coddling by U.S. officials, which began in the writing speeches for Arafat to give, containing expres- 1960s. sions such as ‘no more terrorism’ and ‘peace with Is- Arafat officially began his terror career in 1959 rael,’ in return promising U.S. recognition for the PLO. when he formed the Fatah organization, with its Even then, it took Arafat ten years before he reluc- "constitution" explicitly calling for the destruction of tantly muttered the soothing words demanded of him Israel. In 1968, he succeeded in taking over the Pales- by the State Department. Immediately, the U.S. began tine Liberation Organization, an organization set up by pressuring Israel to begin negotiations with the PLO. the League of Arab States, whose "covenant" also During the Clinton years Arafat was the most declared the destruction of Israel to be its goal. These frequent foreign guest at the White House and re- declarations of total war were made years prior to the ceived some $100 million in annual aid, even while he 1967 Six-Day War and Israel’s acquiring those territo- continued his terror campaign against Israel. He re- ries now in dispute. During the 1960s he was already ceived the Nobel Peace Prize for simply signing his hijacking airliners. In 1970 he tried to seize control name to the Oslo Accords -- after which he violated over Jordan and was only driven back after a blood- every one of its provisions, and launched a massive Outpost 10 October 2004

new terrorist intifada. George W. Bush stopped the rights violations. (We also largely ignored Saddam’s visits, but doubled the aid to $200 million, again send- gassing of the Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.) ing mixed signals. About a year ago three American representa- n our so-called war on terror we also lack the tives were slaughtered in Gaza by terrorists linked to I Arafat. They were traveling to a refugee camp to re- intellectual honesty to even name the enemy, although cruit candidates for an education program in the U.S., there are small signs that this may finally be changing. an act of American generosity. Under U.S. pressure The enemy is not terror, but those who practice terror: Arafat went though the motions of looking for the kill- the Jihadists and Islamic extremists. ers but refused genuine cooperation with U.S. authori- Why does the U.S. refuse to seek a U.N. dec- ties. Arafat has won out again. He defied the U.S., al- laration against Islamic terrorism? The likely reason is lowed the killers to go free, and suffered no reprisals that it would be opposed in the U.N. by the large Is- at all from the U.S. -- not even a cut-off of aid. His lamic block and their supporters. If so, it is still worth- popularity among his depraved followers has been while to expose the U.N. for its moral bankruptcy. But boosted by his success in committing aggression the State Department prefers to perpetuate its pre- against the U.S. and getting away tense of the U.N.’s moral credibility. with it. We also fail in other respects. First, we have not properly defined The government what we stand for. The Islamic enemy According to a news report controlled Egyptian cites examples of Western deca- in WorldNetDaily, the FBI is finally dence as justification for their ‘holy opening an investigation into the media spews a war.’ Simply saying that we stand for 1973 case of Arafat’s killing of Ameri- ‘freedom’ and ‘free enterprise’ has can diplomats. Will Arafat be tried for constant torrent of limited value because for many reli- killing these two Americans? Don’t anti-Israel, anti- gious Muslims those terms may seem bet on it, because he has already foreign. It suggests that we are simply killed over 100 Americans with impu- Jewish and even imposing our system upon them by nity, many of them American Jews anti-American in- force. visiting Israel. Surely the U.S. information Continuing U.S. funding of vective while Egypt agencies can do a better job of com- Arafat alone makes a mockery of continues to re- municating the alternative that Amer- Bush’s claims to be fighting terror- ica's principles of freedom, openness, ism. But there are many more in- ceive billions in the rule of law, respect for human stances of hypocrisy. A few exam- rights, equality, and tolerance present ples: U.S. aid. to the peoples of the Islamic world, The Saudis have long sup- and their manifest superiority to the ported terrorism by their funding of hatred, intolerance, lawlessness and madrassas, which are Islamic schools that teach an cruelty of the Islamist fanatics. extreme form of Islam. They also funded terrorist cells In addition, we have failed to cultivate respon- in other countries. Egypt, too, supports terrorism, but sible Islamic clerics and intellectuals. There are Mus- mainly against Israel. Egypt has long been complicit in lims who understand very well the sickness that pre- allowing Arab terrorists to smuggle weapons into Gaza vails in so many Islamic societies. It is their voices that via tunnels between the Egyptian side of the boundary need to be heard, boldly challenging the extremists on into the Gaza side. This violates Egypt's peace treaty a religious basis, point for point. They must show the with Israel, which has enabled Egypt to receive about way out of this dead end and back towards an enlight- $2 billion in annual military and economic aid, along ened form of Islam. Such actually existed for a time with U.S. weapons and training since 1978. There are centuries ago, when there was true creativity and a U.S. personnel in the Sinai to monitor Egyptian compli- lively interchange of ideas across different cultures. ance with the peace treaty. How come these American Once Muslims hear from devout and learned men and monitors are blind to these flagrant violations by women of their own faith that human rights, the rule of Egypt? Meanwhile, the government-controlled Egyp- law, and respect for other religions and cultures are tian media spews a constant torrent of anti-Israeli, not incompatible with their Islamic heritage, most will anti-Jewish and even anti-American invective with im- eventually reject the teaching of the hatemongers punity while Egypt continues to receive billions in U.S. among them. Why not use our information forums and aid. financial resources to help the courageous and lonely Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdul Nasser, during Muslim moderates to get an enlightened message to the 1960s, used poison gas in Yemen in his attempt to their own people? expand his power in the region. The U.S. was busy However, our own leaders act as if they are courting him and other dictators as part of our cold war unaware of this battle of ideas, and instead allow the policies, and it was easy to ignore flagrant human extremists to have access to the highest levels of our October 2004 11 Outpost

Reserve the date: December 5th AFSI National Conference Islam’s War Against Israel and America Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City government. Grover Norquist is a conservative activist clarity. We can at least draw the boundary line be- who used to be involved in economic issues, but re- tween civilized conduct and outright barbarism, and cently has been using his influence to help Muslims insist that others observe this basic standard. We with radical and even pro-terrorist ties to gain access must reject the thinking expressed by the unfortunate to high Administration officials. This in turn has al- words of our very own Secretary of State, Colin Pow- lowed the Council on American Islamic Relations ell, that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom (CAIR) to help place Islamists among those selecting fighter.” We must be consistent, even if it is embar- clerics for Muslim inmates in our prisons and soldiers rassing to ourselves at times. By being honest we will in our military and to demand all manner of astonish our enemies, amaze our friends, rights and concessions for Muslims in Amer- and win grudging respect for our integrity. ica while playing the role of victims of dis- We can then speak more effectively and di- crimination. rectly to the peoples of the world and over The final question is what have we the heads of their governments and a biased gained by compromising on terrorism in the media. interest of expediency, by weakening our Even if it is beyond our power to be loyal ally, Israel, while pandering to Israel’s the world’s policeman, the United States, as Arab enemies? Except for Israel, how many a superpower, is more free than other na- countries in the world can we count as true tions to speak the truth without having to fear and staunch allies? When Tony Blair leaves reprisals from powers stronger than our- power, Britain may become like Germany. selves. Unless we do so, we will have seri- The same is true for allies such as Italy and ously compromised our self-declared “war on Australia, where the current political leader- terror.” ship faces strong public opposition to support of the war in Iraq. Rachel Neuwirth is a California based writer. Defending ourselves effectively requires moral

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