LETTER FROM JERUSALEM: Suicide Prevention
Neumayr, George
LETTER FROM ERUSALEM GEORGE NEUMAYR Suicide Prevention ERUSALEM IS A CITY OF FORTRESS WALLS. Suleiman the Magnificent, a Muslim sultan, built them in the 16th century, and they remain a...
...Not long after Gandhi left, the Palestinians conducted bus bombings in Be'er Sheva, a town in Southern Israel precisely where the security fence hasn't been completed...
...It would be like residents of New York City having to coexist with Al Qaeda in mid-town Manhattan...
...Are you carrying a weapon...
...In 2002, the suicide bombings occurred almost weekly, totaling 46...
...Jerusalem businessmen, I was told, who drive into the city past spots where the terrorists are known to fire on passing cars receive bullet-proof vests as Christmas bonuses...
...T HE PROTESTS against the fence are at bottom protests against the existence of Israel...
...Some homes that face Bethlehem have bullet-proof glass...
...Security in Israel is increasingly a science...
...To Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news network, the arrival of Jews in Israel is itself controversial...
...Many Israelis carry concealed weapons, but it is also common to see wayfarers with assault rifles...
...and predict ruin for Jews and Christians if they do not submit to Islam: "God's religion is Islam...
...Suleiman the Magnificent, a Muslim sultan, built them in the 16th century, and they remain a defining mark of the city...
...The Dome of the Rock is designed to distract attention from the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Christ's crucifixion and burial...
...Life goes on 42 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2004 regardless...
...A foreign correspondent, also rooting for the Palestinian terrorists, wished that they had more savvy "military leadership...
...But Islam had to make a claim on Jerusalem anyway in order to compete with and overshadow Judaism and Christianity...
...The apathy that the Oslo accords induced in Israel has dissipated...
...The nations of the world will rise up and put more pressure on Israel...
...V George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator...
...Israel's ongoing construction of a security fence to stem the tide of terrorism from the West Bank is a subject of great rancor as Muslim militants suddenly find the concept of walls novel and offensive...
...Hotels do not buy and sell, lest they become unkosher...
...You have to be pro-fence on this road...
...Since their jihad resumed in 2000, Palestinian terrorists have killed approximately 1,000 Israelis...
...The Western liberals helping Arafat to tear down "Sharon's wall" will find themselves behind his...
...Like clockwork, Mohandas Gandhi's grandson surfaced in the West Bank after the hunger strike was launched to commiserate with Yassir Arafat...
...an orthodox Jewish teenager asked me in a taxi bus as we traveled near the West Bank city of Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem...
...In Jerusalem, guards stand in front of cafes, hotels, and grocery stores with security wands...
...OCTOBER 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 43 Jerusalem is not mentioned a single time in the Koran...
...In fact, they would like you to have a pistol so that you can pick off a terrorist before he blows himself up in front of them...
...Jerusalem is not mentioned a single time in the Koran...
...I traveled to Jerusalem in the press gallery of an El Al flight sponsored by Nefesh B'Nefesh, an organization that has helped over 2,000 North American Jews move to Israel...
...Only nine miles wide in parts, Israel looks like a reef in a sea of Islamic hostility...
...One day during my visit the Aksa Martyrs Brigade tried to send a terrorist into Jerusalem...
...Israel's military nabs would-be terrorists daily...
...If the Palestinian people rise up and start a nonviolent movement, it will boost world sympathy," said Arun Gandhi...
...On the Sabbath, Jerusalem becomes a ghost town...
...they're trying to surmount and dismantle them...
...Security and religious immigration are more entwined than ever, as the secularized Shimon Pereses of Israel have proved useless in defending it against Islamic jihad...
...on the other is an ideology of lawlessness...
...I found the Dome of the Rock itself a revelation of the jihadist mind, for its original purpose was to announce to the world that Islam was the new world order and would drive out Christianity and Judaism...
...A few days after the foiled attack, Palestinian terrorists apparently sought to remedy this problem by threatening a hunger strike unless their Israeli jailers permitted them to coordinate attacks via cell phones from their cells...
...The security fence is working," a diplomat from a pro-PLO country said to me with disappointment...
...When I asked a journalist with sources in the intelligence community how Israel has wired the West Bank so effectively, he pointed out that Israel is a leader in cell phone technology and Palestinian terrorists are too dumb to realize that the Israeli-made cell phones they use to coordinate terrorist attacks are "monitored by intelligence agents just sitting in a room somewhere...
...Israel's airline, El Al, checks baggage with a minuteness that would make the most vigilant American airlines look lax...
...Seeing the heightened security, the terrorist scrapped his original plan...
...To supersede them it needed to occupy the Holy Land...
...By the time the emigres arrived Al-Jazeera had already done, as one passenger put it, "The Jews Are Coming Report...
...But Muslim leaders in Jerusalem these days aren't building walls...
...Its exposure to Palestinian terrorists verges on the ludicrous...
...Are you pro-fence or anti-fence...
...It didn't take long for me to see his point...
...The jihad continues until it is complete...
...Not that they mind...
...Israel's security minister, Tzahi Hanegbi, GEORGE NEU A Y R responding to press demands that he give terrorists their two calls, had to point out that prison officials this year alone have found 850 cell phones on the criminals, "but we have caught the phones and have prevented them from planning attacks...
...This frontal assault on Judaism has inspired the Jews to cleave to their faith more tightly...
...ask the guards as they pat you down...
...It would be like America losing 40,500 people or experiencing thirteen 9/11s," explained an Israeli security expert...
...Under this theology, Palestinian terrorists will not go to sleep jihadists and wake up statesmen...
...On one side of Jerusalem is a religion of the law...
...Departing from Jenin in Northern Israel where the fence is complete, he was forced to travel down the West Bank, but by the time he was nearing Jerusalem, Israeli spies learned of his mission and had alerted guards at checkpoints around the city...
...Arafat humored Gandhi's grandson while his henchmen plotted future attacks...
...The Dome of the Rock was built with inscriptions that rebuke Catholics for their Trinitarian theology—"believe in God and his apostles, and do not say `Three.' Desist and it will be better for you, for indeed God is one God, exalted above having a son...
...But he was foiled by the security fence (which restricted his route) and superior Israeli intelligence...
...One wonders how long Arafat's American apologists would last in East Jerusalem, the scene of antiAmerican revelry on 9/11, as Arab businessmen lighted cigars to celebrate the towers engulfed in flames...
...He ended up using a remote control device to blow up a bomb in his abandoned car, killing two fellow Palestinians in a car ahead of him...
...There is something of a Wild West feel to the city...
...But Islam had to make a claim on Jerusalem anyway in order to compete with and overshadow Judaism and Christianity...
...Shabbat" elevators stop automatically on every floor, lest the exertion of selecting a floor violate the ban on work...
...From the security barrier to the North American aliyah represented by Nefesh B'Nefesh, Israel is taking steps to secure its future...
...Let whoever disbelieves in the signs of God beware, for God is swift in reckoning...
Vol. 37 • October 2004 • No. 8
