[I hace a feeling Ari Bussel would not approve of the above image. This is this Blog Editor's emotion about Islamic terrorism.]
Cataract surgery has placed me a bit behind in reading my
email. The result being I am also a bit behind in catching writer submissions.
In this submission Ari Bussel writes about the threat of
Islamic terrorism to the USA, Europe and Israel. Bussel rightly examines how
Muslim Arabs that call themselves Palestinians are taught from the cradle to
grave to hate Jews and destroy Israel AND how the West castigates Israel for
their response to this Muslim hatred of Jews.
Bussel’s thoughts are inspired by an email exchange with a
Japanese friend who queried him about the Islamic terrorist attack in Nice.
JRH 7/22/16
****************
Again for Nice
By Ari Bussel
Sent Sun 7/17/2016
1:22 AM
Dear John,
A family friend from Japan shared with us an e-mail he wrote
to a friend in Nice. I bring this e-mail in its entirety.
[Blog Editor: I performed just a little editing to the correspondence
but for the most part the email tone is untouched ---
Before end of World 2nd
War, anybody in France/Germany or in Algeria were unable
to judge who belonged to Nazi or who were only shamming as Nazi...
Then 70 years passed, again terrible
thoughts of IS is getting infiltrated into many of EU countries by
some portion of immigrated people from middle east, and
infiltrated into many of south/east Asian places also.
Now nobody of well-meaning persons
are getting unable to judge who are brainwashed IS members,
who are infiltrated as IS, or who are nothing concerned among their
neighborhood...
It regrets to say to what
a new difficult stage we are facing now, how we should
judge my neighboring persons or persons enjoy in down towns
after every evening as common friends or as such dangerous
persons?
And what we are able
to act to get a peace again?
Always,
Ari Bussel
USA +1 (310) ***-****
On Jul 16, 2016, at 7:39 PM, wrote:
Dear Ari san,
Only for your guidance, I sent
following message to one friend liv[ing] in south France.
My Best,
送信日時: 2016年7月16日 23:46
件名: again for Nice
Dear Jean-Remi san,
Very sorry, this is only my
monologue ＆ private
words after drank this evening,
but if you have
anything, hope to hear your comment...
Of course OK to be disregarded.
After I sent you a message of
sympathy to tragedy in Nice, I just remembered one novel story "La
Peste" which I had read often around 50 years ago at my university
age, & was written in 1947 by famous French novelist
"Albert Camus" what was taken place at Oran city in
Algeria.
In such novel, Albert Camus
probably regarded that a terrible black death disease Pesto as
Nazism. Before end of World 2nd War, anybody in France/Germany or
in Algeria were unable to judge who belonged to Nazi or who
were only shamming as Nazi...
Then 70 years passed, again terrible
thoughts of IS is getting infiltrated into many of EU countries by
some portion of immigrated people from middle east, and
infiltrated into many of south/east Asian places also.
Now nobody of well-meaning persons
are getting unable to judge who are brainwashed IS members,
who are infiltrated as IS, or who are nothing concerned among their
neighborhood...
It regrets to say to what
a new difficult stage we are facing now, how we should
judge my neighboring persons or persons enjoy in down towns
after every evening as common friends or as such dangerous
persons?
And what we are able
to act to get a peace again?
Probably you are surprised to read
this e-mail what I have never sent before to any of my friends but I was in
Nice very often and enjoyed a very beautiful sea view on Promenade
des Anglais and I still got excited at Nice tragedy...
My Best Regards,
Have you read that novel?]
Here is my reply:
Your e-mail is the least expected and most thought provoking
and insightful writing I have received lately. Thank you very much for
sharing, and for exposing me to Camus’ La Peste.
There will be peace again, but first, we must fight and
conclude WWIII, in which midst we are now.
A Global Islamic
Caliphate
You refer to IS (Islamic State, in Arabic Daesh), but its
ideology is not new, just its methods more widely “appreciated.”
Wahhabism (Saudi Arabi, the most common ideology to be found
in “cultural centers” and mosques throughout the USA courtesy of Saudi money)
and Muslim Brotherhood (primarily to be found in Egypt and Gaza, but here in
the USA shared by the “spokespeople” known as CAIR-the Council on
American-Islamic Relations) are not different from Daesh or the Mullahs in
Iran. Each wants to establish a global Islamic caliphate and to subjugate
all to its doctrine and way of living. [I, for one, do not want to live
as a Dhimmitude (second class citizen) according to Sharia Law.]
Each slightly “different” version of Islam is just a
different flavor of the same, and all are expected to experience the same fate:
convert and become a devout Muslim following the particular manner of
Islam being advocated, be a second class citizen (by paying a “protection” tax)
or die. It is true about non-Muslims (non-believers) and about Muslims
who do not subscribe to the exact same interpretation of Islam by the
particular “flavor of the moment.”
Lately, Daesh has managed to attract followers the world
over. Its methods are gruesome, the exact meaning of “terrorism”:
instilling fear in us. Murdering en mass, setting people on fire
(like the Jordanian pilot inside a metal cage). Raping and selling to
slavery women and children.
Non-Muslims are at
Peril
Minorities throughout Arab states are at great peril.
The Yazidis in Iraq. The Coptic in Egypt. The Christians
throughout Africa. The Jews in Israel.
Israel has proven to be one safe haven for all.
Minorities are guaranteed the same freedoms as Israelis. They are
respected - as it is a major tenet in the Bible. For the Muslims, Israel
is a problem, for it refuses point blank to go away. It is the only
source of light in an otherwise growing darkness engulfing the world. It
is a refuge where sanity rules. It is a spring of innovation and
goodness. And - it is a laboratory where the forces of darkness and the
cults of death unleash their wares - from homicide bombings to cars plowing at
civilians.
In short, Israel is an obstacle in the way of the
ever-spreading Islamic forces. At one point it was Iran, more recently
Daesh. But they all aspire for the same end-result, and to achieve that,
Israel must be “wiped off the map of the earth” and the Jews must be
exterminated. (Same doctrine as that of the Nazis.)
WWIII is that of Islam trying to rule the world, except the
various versions have not agreed yet among themselves which is the dominant
one, which will prevail. In the meantime, the Islamists have declared
“Europe has Fallen! America is Next!”
A Culture of Death
You mention people who are “brainwashed.” Once it was
believed that the destitute become “martyrs” (or as we call them “terrorists”).
Except, it was established long ago that this is not the case, and there
are numerous examples. I often cite the doctors (MDs) who drove with a
car full of explosives into the Glasgow airport. Not only were they not
impoverished, they had taken an oath to protect and save human lives.
None had mattered. They became part of a death cult.
Brainwashing is what takes place in the “Palestinian” areas.
From age zero, their kids are taught to hate non-Muslims (“Pigs and Apes”
we are called - reference to Jews and Christians). They watch children’s
programs and cartoons, video games and music videos that glorify “martyrdom”
for the sake of 72 virgins in heaven and to avenge some wrongdoing (the
audacity of existing). They go through summer camps and training camps
how to murder, how to use a knife and a gun, how to explode themselves (and add
to the explosives contaminated blood, rat poison or sharp metal objects to add
to the devastation). The textbooks in schools teach them hatred. Classrooms,
soccer fields and major intersections and city squares are named after
terrorists as are stamps and other collectibles.
A mother swears her son is a good “kid.” That he ate
her amazing cooking and was at home the all night. It turns out it was
all a lie, he went with a friend, butchered a Jewish family - two parents and
three of their children, the youngest just an infant - and then went back home
to sleep.
They went back home to sleep, and continued to live as if
they just executed the most peaceful, most beloved and most admirable act in
the world.
When arrested, they knew that their families will be well
taken care. Japanese, European and American aid money is used to pay very
generous monthly stipends to their families. The more people one murders
or maims, the higher the stipend.
Stopping the flow of money will not stop the lunacy, but it
is absolutely necessary to send a message: We are not part of this
insanity. But the money keeps flowing, and some of the teachings and
indoctrination take place inside UNRWA schools (again, the United Nations
playing a major role, exact opposite to the reason it was created).
Moreover, the young terrorists became heroes, their acts
exalted, their families worshiped. They did the right thing! (Let us forget not that the mother went on TV
and vowed the son was at home and would never do something like that - it is
“against how he was raised,” it is “against the teachings of Islam” she said.)
There are public celebrations and days of worship and exaltation of such
devout and devoted “heroes."
This is in Israel, but what is effective in Israel is also
effective elsewhere.
Except, when it happens in Israel, the world does not call
it “terrorism.” Instead, the world points a blaming finger right at
Israel. This is nothing new, just pure old anti-Semitism. When it
happens days, weeks or months later elsewhere, it is abhorred. Thus,
hundreds of homicide bombings (when a person comes into a crowded location and
detonates an explosive belt he or she wears, shouting “Allah-U-Akbar”) in
Israel - not a single objection. When the same happened at a Jordanian
(Muslim) wedding, the top Islamic clergy issued Fatwas (edicts) this is
contrary to the teachings of Islam (it is, if the victims are Muslims).
When Muslim spokespeople go out to say “We Condemn
Terrorism,” they cite some very known “incidents.” They never include any
of the exact same attacks in Israel, or in Israel’s capital - Jerusalem.
There it cannot be terrorism, for Jewish blood is allowed, because Jews
deserve what they get.
Exporting
Terrorism
Since the first day of October, 2015, to today, Israel has
experienced what is called the Third (or Youth) Intifada (Uprising).
Primarily young people (age 13, 17, sometimes younger even) take a knife
or scissors and go out to murder Jews - a 13yo, an 86yo, and more.
Others drive into crowds standing at a bus station.
(Does that sound familiar? Nice was not invented two days ago,
rather, the practice was well rehearsed repeatedly in Israel.)
The head of the “Palestinian Authority” calls it a “Symphony
of Blood” and calls to quench the thirsty earth. On official radio, TV
and newspapers. Repeatedly they call to do more of the same.
Glorification of death in this culture or cult of death.
Is there any wonder, then, that the same is then “exported”
elsewhere? It is very difficult to fight a non-conventional war, and
Israel has become the laboratory. This cancer must be eradicated.
We are told it is not “organized,” that individuals are rising up (thus
the reason that the Third or Youth Intifada is also called the Individual
Intifada. But this is not the case).
Lessons of WWII
You went back to the Nazi era. Humanity promised not
to forget, to internalize the lessons and that such madness would happen “Never
Again!” Seven decades have passed, and we are experiencing exactly the
same. The last remnants of the Holocaust are still here, some survivors
(primarily in their nineties) and child-survivors (like both my parents).
Let us remember (as you had indirectly highlighted) two
lessons from the Holocaust and WWII:
First, more Christians died in the hands of Christian in
WWII. The systematic extermination of the Jews - six million murdered,
20% children - paled in comparison to the ten-fold number of Christians that
died.
In WWIII, more Muslims will die in the hands of a Muslim [or
Muslims].
Thus, anyone following that lesson from long ago must ask:
Why are the Muslims not speaking out? Why are they not rising to
protect themselves, not for our sake, for they too would not want to revert to
the 7th Century way of living?
The answer is simple: Many are afraid. Some
agree with what is taking place (even if
a very small percentage, it still translates to many tens of millions of people
[Bold text from Editor]). The
remainder do not have anyone to follow, so they fall in place as well, lost to
the ever increasing feeling of dominance and power.
And to them I suggest to ponder a poem by one Pastor Martin
Niemoller: “First they came….”
First they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade
Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and
I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there
was no one left to speak for me.
-- Fighting from Within
You asked about how does one differentiate the innocent from
the culprit. The answer is simple. It is not you or I who need to
do so. The Muslim communities must act to reform themselves. They
can identify those within them who are getting ready to perpetrate atrocities,
but they close their eyes, they cover their ears. They refuse to do
anything. And so, the work continues uninterrupted. And help is
always given to those who seek it.
In theory it sounds commonsensical for the Muslim
communities to be on the alert, again - for their own sake. But in
practice here in the USA, the Muslim community at large is taught by its
assumed leaders (like CAIR and MPAC - Muslim Public Affairs Council) not to
cooperate with authorities, to cry foul every time there is an investigation
and to point a blaming finger to us, the non-Muslims. There is even a
manual what to do when questioned, for immediately, automatically and by default,
their “civil rights” have been attacked.
Even in other matters, such as travel. We are all
subjected to searches at airports - Muslims and non-Muslims alike - except all
the terror attacks that used airports or airplanes have been perpetrated by … yes, you guessed it!
We cannot go to the gate if we do not have a ticket. We must remove
our belt and shoes, we must open our computer. We cannot take any liquids
if more than a tiny container. And the list of restrictions goes on and
on.
Everyone is subjected to the same rules, but Muslims
complain: We “target” them. We accuse them. We persecute
them. We hate them.
The truth is different, but they prefer to sound the
“victim” cry-of-war.
They are the victims and we are at fault. That has
been what we, Americans, have been hearing also from our President for the past
seven and a half years.
Tell a lie often enough, and people will start believing it.
So in the USA, there are no “terror” attacks and no “terrorists.”
We only have “work-place violence.” We are told that “Islam is a
peaceful religion” and we are so politically correct that we are made to repeat
it ad nauseam.
For Humanity to
Prevail
For WWIII to end, Islam - a geopolitical movement (often
mistaken to be a monotheistic religion) - must reform itself. This will
have to happen from within, for I - a Jewish person - cannot reform Islam, nor
can any other person of any other faith outside Islam.
For WWIII to end,
Islam will have to be defeated and crushed, in the same manner that Nazism was
crushed allowing for WWII to end. [Bold text from Editor] And a better
Germany rose out of the ashes, reminding the entire world that humanity
matters. (Interestingly, the Bible teaches us that this is exactly what
God expects from us, to be good human beings, to treat the other as we want to
be treated ourselves, to do good and to be kind.)
We, human beings, have a tendency to easily forget and to a
practice of not knowing our own history. Seven decades have passed from
the most horrific period we have known in modern times, and here we are
repeating the very same mistakes once again.
I am attaching something I wrote recently, “Everything but Terrorism."
Yesterday there is a continuation, “The
Lighthouse of Humanity.” I will forward the latter as soon as it is
published.
Thank you again for a thought-provoking reaction to Nice.
___________________
Edited by John R. Houk
Blog Editor: I found a very good bio for
Mr. Bussel that reveals more than I had previous known of pertaining to his
history. The bio is from BeverlyHills.com
in pdf format which I am converting to a Word format to make it easier to share
here.
Ari Bussel is Vice President of Operations at Saybrex
International, a privately held family business specializing in the
distribution of fine wines and spirits. He is responsible for the day-to-day
operations of the company and has held various positions in the company since
1993.
Prior to joining Saybrex, Mr. Bussel served as First
Lieutenant in the Center for Systems Analysis at General Headquarters of the
Israel Defense Forces, where he led the implementation of the Logistics War
Doctrine in the Computerized Wargame Program.
Mr. Bussel is involved in a variety of philanthropic and
civic activities. Mr. Bussel completed the Team Beverly Hills Leadership
Program and served on the Environmental Sustainability Topic Committee of the
City of Beverly Hills. He was a member of the Steering Committees of former
Beverly Hills Mayor MeraLee Goldman and the current Beverly Hills City
Treasurer, the Hon. Eliot Finkel. Mr. Bussel also completed and participated in
the Community Emergency Response Training Program of the City of Beverly Hills
as well as the Crisis Response Team of the Maple Counseling Center.
Mr. Bussel was among the founding members and served on
the boards of Gen. Shimon Erem’s Israel Christian Nexus, the Western Region of
Friends of Israel Firefighters and the Israel Institute for Alternative Energy
Advancement. He completed the Salvin Leadership Program of the Anti-Defamation
League.
Mr. Bussel writes regularly. For the past decade, his
weekly columns appeared in print in Israel Jewish Life, Shalom LA, Muslim World
Today and Israeli Week. Mr. Bussel’s articles appear on numerous websites,
including Canada Free Press, Free Republic, NewsBlaze, SlantRight [That’s me J] and OpEdNews. He is a member of the Los Angeles Press
Club.
Mr. Bussel received a Master of Science in Operations
Research from Stanford University and Bachelor’s degrees from UCLA in Applied
Mathematics and in Economics with a specialization in Computing.
Mr. Bussel was an avid runner who completed the 2005 and
2006 Los Angeles Marathon.
Mr. Bussel divides his time between Israel and the United
States, writing about the social, political, military and foreign policy
fabrics of the two countries. Mr. Bussel is a member of the foreign press corps
in Israel. Since 2008, Mr. Bussel has cooperated with award-winning
investigative journalist and author in a series of essays “Postcards from
America
– Postcards from Israel,” and since 2011 in a series of
radio broadcasts “Conversations Eye to Eye.”
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