April 19, 2002 – 11:47 am
Today, 19 April 2002, is the 59th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by the Jews in Nazi occupied Poland. If I were to be a Jew today, I would be deeply ashamed of how history has repeated itself on the eve of this anniversary.
The irony is simply too incredible to ignore: A totally isolated and starving civilian population confined in a dreadful ghetto with endless curfews. An oppressed and wronged people with little hope of salvation. An expansionist enemy with an elected sadist at its helm who blames the subjugated victims for their miserable predicament. A desperate uprising that knows it has no chances of military victory, but a resistance movement that is nevertheless determined to die fighting. A long and suffocating military siege, followed by a relentless and indiscriminate onslaught. A bloodbath, heroic martyrdom, a crushed uprising, but the inevitable and unstoppable rebirth of a people. Read More »
October 14, 2001 – 11:50 am
The following excerpts from an award winning book contain rare insights into the mysterious world of the archetypal terrorist of all times and the kind of ideological spell that drives his followers. These selected quotes from the book reveal a spine-tingling picture of a wicked movement and its fanatically single-minded leader.
The book describes the chosen fortress of this exiled dissident as:
“… a rock six thousand feet high in a countryside of bare mountains, forgotten lakes, sheer cliffs and narrow passes. The greatest army could only reach it in single file and the most powerful catapults could not graze its walls. The Shahrud River, nicknamed the ‘mad river’, dominated the mountains, swelling up in springtime with the melted snow of the Elburz mountains and snatching up trees and stones as it sped down its course. Woe to him who dared approach it! Woe to the army who dared pitch camp on its banks.” Read More »
