It Is Now or Never

For 56 years since that fateful day in September 1970 when my mother, four siblings and I were hijacked by Arab Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists to Dawson’s Airfield in Jordan, I have had many memories triggered by events that have taken place along the way. This partial list of events (according to Wikipedia) is shown below.

I would venture to call what we are currently experiencing: the Third Crusades. The Jews were victimized by both the Muslims and Christians during the first two crusades, but this time, thank God, we have our own country and we can defend ourselves. Granted that they are trying to take our country away from us.

According to Wikipedia: In classical Islamic law, the two major divisions of the world are dar al-Islam (lit. ’territory of Islam’), and dar al-harb (lit. ’territory of war’). Dar al-Islam denotes lands under Islamic rule and dar al-harb denotes lands under non-Muslim rule. Muslims regard Islam as a universal religion and believe it to be the rightful law for all humankind. According to Islam, this should first be attempted peacefully through. In the case of war, Muslims are imposed to eliminate fighters until they surrender or seek peace and pay the Jizya (tax levied on non-Muslim subjects) if subdued. (emphasis mine)

In other words, until the entire world is under Islam rule and law, Muslims are instructed to fight “non-believers” until death. In fact, if the Muslim dies along the way he is awarded 72 virgins in heaven.

I do not claim that all Muslims support Islamist violence. I do claim that the Islamist movements threatening Israel, Europe, and the United States draw their justification from specific religious and ideological interpretations that continue to attract followers despite decades of bloodshed.

Anyone who has taken public transportation since then has seen increasing levels of security checks before one is permitted to board the plane, train, ocean liner, bus, etc.

While these security measures are designed to keep us safe, they are merely weak attempts – they often fail, as evidenced by the extensive list below. The Islamists dedicate their lives to circumvent these measures. They become more daring, devise better tools and methods. Our efforts are merely bandages applied to open wounds. They do not treat the underlying or root cause.

In many Islamist movements, children are exposed from an early age to teachings that glorify martyrdom, demonize Jews, and portray violent struggle as a religious obligation. Jews are singled out to be punished for rejecting Mohammad and Allah. Mohammad declared: I swear by Allah that I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula. This was a thousand years before the State of Israel, “Occupied Territories”, etc. In fact, he was not even referring to Jews in Israel at all, but to the Jews living in the Arabian Peninsula. This is not anti-Zionism. This is antisemitism and anti-Christianism. Is this the definitions of genocide? You bet!

This is why radical Islamists find it easy to justify attacks against Jews. The moral barrier has already been removed by years of ideological indoctrination. This is why it is easy and desirable for Arabs in Judea and Samaria to stab Jews in stores, shops and bus stops and shoot or ram into Jews on the roads. This is why the vile terrorists who committed rape, beheading, torture, capture of Jews in Israel on October 7^th, were not only OK with carrying out these atrocities, not only were they proud of it, but they also insisted on broadcasting these religious and righteous acts live to the entire world!

Were there more than a mere handful of demonstrations against Hamas by the average Gazan during the three years they held Israeli hostages? You might say that they were afraid to protest in Gaza (afraid of the peaceful Hamas?). But were there significant demonstrations against Hamas in Judea or Samaria?

Did any Arabs demonstrate against Hamas in England, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland or even in the United States?
Who did they all demonstrate against? The Israelis (read Jews) that were clearly the victims.

Recent reports indicate that Hamas has not only replenished many of its losses since October 7 but may now have recruited enough new members to return to or even exceed its pre-war manpower levels. If accurate, this suggests substantial support for Hamas remains within parts of the Gazan population.

While it is somewhat understandable that Muslims, true to their religion, would support their brethren in the dar al-harb when Jews, Christians, Druze, Baháʼís, Kurds, etc. are attacked and massacred, the big question is why did the non-Muslims in the above-mentioned countries participate? Why didn’t the peace loving, equality, equity, woke inclined people protest Hamas’ behavior?

The frightening answer is that the youth of today are increasingly sympathetic to the Palestinians while older voters remaining substantially more supportive of the Jewish state.

According to Wikipedia, Qatari involvement in U.S. higher education dates to 1981. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s foreign funding portal, as of early 2026, $62.4 billion in aggregate funding has been disclosed.

Saudi Arabia has invested approximately $3.5 billion in the same period.

First question: how much has not been disclosed?

Second question: how much influence has this money bought the Qataris and Saudis in the selection of professors?

Third question: how many professors with anti-Zionist or antisemitic beliefs have the universities hired?

In addition, the youth of today are influenced by TikTok, X, Facebook, etc. and who are the posters and content creators? The same youth that is the product of the above universities and social media. Prominent content creators and media campaigns have received support directly or indirectly from state actors including Qatar, China, Russia and Iran.

Our youth today are being brainwashed by social media and the education system. It is a vicious cycle.

To make matters worse, governments are capitulating to this Islamist philosophy. Which country is resisting the Islamist pressure? They have been accepting this money and, worse, have accepted an influx of immigrants who hold these beliefs into their countries. They overlook the harm that is being caused to their societies – a prime example is the Grooming Gang Rapists in Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. What are these countries doing to counter these anti-social behaviors and others like it? Countries like England have freed hijackers, like Laila Khaled, who participated in the coordinated hijacking that affected my family and me.

Except for Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel, the lone exception for only the last few years has been the United States. President Trump is the only world leader to actively stand up to this threat and fight back. He has cut off the illegal immigration, as well has reduced the “legal” immigration from these threatening countries and has vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which according to their religion, they must use if they have it. He has also acted kinetically against Iran, side by side with Israel, to eliminate the threat of Islamic domination.

But this is not sufficient! If this continues unabated the bandages we apply on our transportation systems will become useless. The surrender and capitulation will lead to the destruction of our civilization as we know it.

I include Israel’s “responses” to terror attacks. Don’t just threaten that the IDF will respond to terror attacks. Don’t wait to respond – eliminate the threat before they are carried out – or even planned.

It is time to wake up and fight back! But how? This will of course take generations.

We must eliminate all threats. Wiped out! That includes organizations like Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Tanzim, Taliban, Houthis, ISIS, Al Qaida (yes, they still exist), to name just a few. Current regimes in countries like Iran, Turkey, Somalia, etc. need to be replaced with “liberal” governments.

Forget about the “two-state” solution. Anyone who believes in a two-state solution believes that Israel should not exist at all. Look at Israel’s neighbors in Judea and Samaria and Gaza. As shown above, they want to replace Israel with an Islamic state. They even have the support of the British Green Party.

Bottom line: Israel cannot survive with countries in the region who are required by their religion to destroy it.

In addition, the education system must be supervised by an entity that rejects the Islamic tenet of genocide against Jews, Christians, Druze, Baháʼís, Kurds, etc. Only when a new population emerges that does not have these genocidal religious requirements or desires will there be peace in the Middle East and the world.

With the support of the free world this can be accomplished.

But it is now or never.

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Partial List of Terrorist Attacks since 1970:

• February 22, 1972: Lufthansa Flight 649
• May 8, 1972: Sabena Flight 571 from Vienna to Tel Aviv was taken over by four members of the Palestinian Black September movement. The plane diverted to Lod airport, where the hijackers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, or the plane would be blown up. It was stormed by Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces. Two future Israeli prime ministers, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu took part in the rescue. Two of the hijackers were killed along with one female passenger.
• October 29, 1972: Lufthansa Flight 615
• July 20, 1973: Japan Airlines Flight 404
• November 25, 1973: A KLM Boeing 747
• December 17, 1973: 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking
• September 8, 1974: TWA Flight 841 (1974)
• June 27, 1976: The hijack of Air France Flight 139 to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. This ended on July 4.
• October 13, 1977: Lufthansa Flight 181
• August 11, 1982: Pan Am Flight 830
• September 23, 1983: Gulf Air Flight 771
• November 23, 1985: EgyptAir Flight 648
• April 2, 1986: TWA Flight 840 bombing
• September 12, 1972: Munich Massacre terrorist attack against Israeli athletes at the summer Olympics
• October 7, 1985: Achille Lauro Ocean Liner hijacking
• February 26, 1993: World Trade Center Bombing
• September 11, 2001: Hijacking of four commercial airliners. Two crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.
• March 11, 2004: Madrid Train Bombings
• July 7, 2005: London Underground Bombings
• July 11, 2006: Mumbai Train Bombings

April 15, 2013: Boston Marathon Bombing

• October 7, 2023: Hamas and hordes of Gazans invaded Israeli villages and pillaged, raped, beheaded, burned children and adults alive and took 250 hostages.
• September 30, 2026: Attempted hijacking of flydubai flight with the intent of flying it into the Israeli passenger terminal.