1. BobW said:

Here's a different opinion. I consider the psychological war against the terrorists going well. America's anti-terrorism efforts are running at the pace of the mobilization for WWII. The "Global Intifada" now faces lethal forces no longer bound by the Geneva and Hague rules.

It wasn't just the garment and merchant marine industries that left America. The traditional university also left. I'm aware of the exceptions. Academic conferences on anti-terrorism do not occur at Columbia University - although anything can be titled anything. An academic conference on anti-terrorism would most likely involve a trip to China. What's called "Western Academy" and the "Feminist Academy" are really the evolved British Victorian "finishing schools".

New Yorkers frequently get identified with the word "arrogant". To call a 6 March 2005 conference "historic" exaggerates a bit. A conference on "anti-terrorism" was "infiltrated" by the Palestine Solidarity Movement? No security at an anti-terrorism conference?

The intifida had always been global. There are woven themes to the oil embargoes.

I thought the "barbaric Islamic regimes" were like Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republic of Iran has 35-36,000 Jews in its population. Saudi Arabia forbids all religions but Islam. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is US sponsored.

To call for America's "standards for human rights should be universal" is so provincial, it is dangerous - dangerous, especially to Jews. Some societies have different beliefs regarding social class, polygamy, capital punishment, abortion, the size of families, what constitutes incitement, etc.

Reading "the new anti-Semitism" infers a lapse or a modern version to anti-Semitism. This is not scholarship. Anti-Semitism has always been around.

American campuses, to include the US military academies, are really not involved in anti-terrorism studies. The change occured circa the early 1970s. The US "think tanks" filled the void along with Asian universities. A couple of Israeli institutes also contributed. One is the Israeli Security Research Institute, Jerusalem. They ran the first intelligence seminar on aviation security in 1990 at Hertzlia. Westview Press has a strong involvment in filling the void left by the collapse of America's universities. The Airline Pilots Security Alliance (xxx.secure-skies.org) made excellent contributions re anti-terrorism.

American campuses are just expensive - and overpriced - finishing schools. Watch for a PR campaign to initiate hints of overcapacity in the university industry.

America's anti-terrorism efforts are strong. After America's midterm elections we should see much more.

The "heart of the problem" is that Israel's problems are not caused or even magnified by Arab funded Middle East institutes. Israel's problems are internal. When Israel becomes Jewish, wealth will be derived from many foreigners attending anti-terrorism conferences in Israel instead of Asia. What we rightfully view as a dangerous situation is not bleak. The situation is generating a realistic possibility for Israel to adopt Judaism.

the Tarshish fleet came in bearing gold and silver
I Kings 10:22

Kol tuv,
BobW