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Front Page Magazine interviews Brigitte Gabriel, who is a survivor of the Islamist Jihad against Lebanon, and who's also worked as a news anchor for World News for Middle East television and is also the founder of American Congress for Truth. As she points out here:

Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the Militant Islamic fundamentalist. I think the biggest disservice for the American people was the denial by the networks to air the beheading video of Daniel Pearl. I think we as a society need to see what type of enemy we are fighting. People have been so sheltered in this country they have not paid attention to what was going on in the last 20 some years. They were more interested in watching a documentary about Madonna than paying attention to world events.

Here's an even more interesting point that can be added to the part involving Daniel Pearl: it's that Dubya/Condi don't realize the viciousness of the Islamic fundamentalists. Nor does even official Europe (EU).

Here's another interesting part she discusses:

FP: Discuss your intellectual journey about your view of Jews and Israelis, from what you were told in your childhood to when you started questioning whether it was true, to what you think today.

Gabriel: My town was 2 and half miles from the Israeli boarder. We in our Christian town were faced with the combined Muslim and Palestinian forces waiting to slaughter us. We knew our fate, knowing what they have done to other Christian towns and cities in the rest of Lebanon. To our back was Israel. The enemy, Satan, the demon possessed Jews. We had no where to turn but one way, to the devil Israel. After all we knew the Jews wouldn’t slaughter us because we had more shared values with them than we had with the Moslems. Under the cover of darkness, few men from our town went to the border, flagged down an Israeli boarder patrol, explained the situation and begged for help.

Israel agreed to help the Christians. Israel became our lifeline. The Israeli military would come during the night and bring food and ammunition to the military and milk for the children. They would take the Christian men anyone from age 13 to 70 and train them to fight; most of them have never held a rifle before. Most of the Christian men had degrees that decorated their walls, but all the degrees in the world can not defend you when an enemy is facing you with a gun, wanting to kill you by what your enemy believes is an order from God.

The only reason we stayed alive is because Israel came into Lebanon and drove the Muslims away from the surrounding hills and set up positions in our town to protect us. Things got worse as Syrian, Libyans, Iranians Egyptians became enraged and flocked into Lebanon to fight the infidel Christians and Jews.

The Muslims had one vision, to take control of the only Christian country in the Middle East and than attack Israel. Syria, with its military already suffocating the Christians, Iran with its militia Hezbollah, The PLO with the number one world terrorist Yasser Arafat, and all the other Muslim zealots on a holly mission, were using Lebanon as a terrorist breeding ground exporting terrorism into the rest of the world. Under the auspices of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon Syria shelled Israel along with Hezbollah the Iranian financed holly warriors. The world press which was getting its information from the Muslim controlled areas in Beirut were saying that Israel is occupying Lebanon and the poor Lebanese were fighting back to kick the Israelis out.

Shimon Peres was responsible, at the time he was prime minister for two years in 1984-86, for withdrawing the army from much of Lebanon, and Ehud Barak for withdrawing it entirely during his own two-year tenure in 1999-2001. So who's responsible here? The Israeli Labor party, simply put.

Update: and here's a very long, very sophisticated and very interesting look at the situation in Lebanon from the Foreign Affairs journal by the famous John Hopkins University professor Fouad Ajami who originally came from Lebanon, and the historical details behind the country and its late prime minister, Rafik Hariri, who was slain a few months ago, and what can be or is being done now to put an end to the autocracies that've been the norm of many Arabic/Islamist governments in the middle east, including Syria, one of the leading examples of a dictatorship given here.

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