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...entire populations. Before the Aqsa intifadeh, Zibri's P.F.L.P., a faction of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, was a powerless joke in the West Bank, a has-been group that clung to its Marxist ideology and its naysaying on peace with Israel. Ze'evi was a marginal right-wing extremist who often advocated the "voluntary transfer" of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In death, both have become, to their own sides, evidence of the other side's cruelty and irredeemability...
...years, European antiterror investigators have had evidence that fanatics were preparing new forms of terrorism. In May 1997, an Algerian extremist in London was arrested in possession of a scientific work on botulism. During the 1998 dismantling of a militant Islamist network in Belgium, police found on one of the leaders a document detailing the military applications of botulism toxin in aerosol form. The bin Laden operatives arrested in Brussels after Sept. 11 were known associates of some of those apprehended in the 1998 raid...
Douthat claims that the understanding that he puts forward is that of the Muslim mainstream. In doing so, he uses the example of an extremist in New York (whom the Muslim community itself has intensely criticized for his comments) and a favorable review of a book by the Defense Minister of a totalitarian secular government (Syria) that bombed and killed 20,000 of its civilians because their Muslim faith asked them to protest the government’s tyranny. Might as well define America by Jerry Falwell and David Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published...
...result is a stunning quandary: the autocratic, authoritarian leadership of Arafat may be the only hope for peace, if he is able to exert control over his entire population, while popular support seems to lie more and more with Hamas and the other extremist groups...
...police...there are many recorded cases of the bodies of Arab children being found, torn to pieces without a single drop of blood.” According to Tlass, “the most reasonable explanation is that the blood was taken to be kneaded into the dough of extremist Jews to be used in matzahs...during Passover...