I wrote this history in 2005, almost 8,000 words, so not a casual read. It recounts the rise of terrorism by Arab groups through its three stages of the 20th century: insurgency against Arab countries' secularist rulers; political terrorism against Israel; and finally Islamist terrorism against both insufficiently Islamic Arab rulers and the West, mainly the United States.
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| A terrorist of the PLO at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where 11 Israeli hostages and five of the eight terrorists were killed. |
The Old is New AgainThe war that radical, violent Islamists are waging against the West springs from the fact that Islamism and Westernism are fundamentally incompatible. But both are too deeply embedded in both sides' culture, social systems, politics and religion to be very easily altered. Compared to this centuries-old struggle, the Cold War was a brief respite. Rather than the new millennium inaugurating a golden age of human progress and well-being, what was old is new again. History has returned.Just click here.
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