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"World Braces for Hitler Redux
By The Detroit News
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Need a scapegoat? Find a Jew. Wiping out Jews and Judaism has been the bloody preoccupation of mad tyrants from Antiochus IV to Adolf Hitler.
Now the world finds itself again inflicted with a murderous anti-Semite who would rally support for his twisted cause by inflaming the ever-present hatred of Jews.
Osama bin Laden, the Islamic extremist most likely responsible for orchestrating this month's terrorist assault on the United States, identified the target of his holy war Tuesday: Americans, of course -- that was fairly evident when his disciples smashed passenger planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. And Jews, anywhere they can be found in the world.
"Wherever there are Americans and Jews, they will be targeted," bin Laden's military chief, Naseer Ahmed Mujahed, declared in a faxed statement.
Note that bin Laden did not twin Americans and Israelis as his foe. Like Hitler, he declared enmity with the entire Jewish people, whether they be Israeli Jews or French Jews or English Jews or Canadian Jews or Moroccan Jews. That makes him an enemy to the entire world.
Unfortunately, part of the world assigns blame for terrorism to Israel, and for the support Israel receives from the United States. There is growing pressure for the United States to change its policies in the Middle East to avoid future terrorist attacks.
Israel constantly must defend its right to exist in a region where it is unwelcome, at least in part because the faith practiced by its citizens is different from that of its neighbors.
Israel is the ultimate target whenever hostilities erupt in the Middle East. When America invaded Iraq in 1991 to liberate Kuwait, Saddam Hussein launched his Scud missiles at Israel, which had no part in the dispute. His goal was to woo the Muslim world by killing Jews. And now bin Laden is attempting the same thing.
After fascism was defeated in World War II and Hitler's atrocities fully exposed, the civilized world vowed "Never again." That promise should be remembered today as the world mobilizes against yet another villain who has anti-Semitism as his base motivation.
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