It is no secret that Saudi Arabia has for decades supported the PLO, a terrorist organization like the al Quaida. Furthermore, the U.S. pursues Osama bin Laden and his al Quaida with determination and every possible military strategy, all the while coercing Israel back to the Mitchell Plan and renewed “peace talks” with Arafat and his terrorists, the PA alias PLO. Does President George Bush Jr. really expect a life-long terrorist to uproot terrorism? This is indeed like asking the devil to fight against himself! 

Arafat is the very man who introduced terrorism under the auspices of the Arab League and turned terrorism into a new form of warfare. Arafat IS terrorism! He knows nothing else! This he has done all his life, since the days of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser. He thinks and plots terror, he eats and sleeps terror, he designs and executes terror. He simply knows nothing other than terror!

When he created a terror fiefdom within the kingdom of Jordan, King Hussein drove him and his terrorists out (the event became known as "Black September"). They went to Lebanon and created an inferno there. Until this day the Lebanese shudder at the atrocities the PLO committed among them. But rather than rescuing the Lebanese and Israelis from the scourge of the PLO, Western nations led by the U.S. and President Ronald Reagan interfered with this liberation (the reason for Secretary of State, Alexander Haig's sudden resignation in 1982), thereby abandoning beautiful Lebanon (once "the Riviera of the Middle East") to the oppression of Syria and the terror of Hizbullah and condemning Israel to a 20 year quagmire.

Likewise, The Brussel World Court blames Israel’s prime minister, Arik Sharon, for war crimes committed by Lebanese Christian Phalange soldiers against Palestinians, most likely in revenge for heinous crimes the Palestinians had committed in Lebanon.

Is there no end to world hypocrisy? Is there no limit to the double standard that “Christian” nations hold to? Who can live with this and not get angry? Who can bear this anger and yet sin not?

Yet living in Israel means precisely that --- getting angry at the hypocrisy; the lies and the twisting of truth, all the while refraining to hate as they hate, refraining to malign and slander, and refraining to murder in violent, blind hatred as they do.^ZN

“Be angry but sin not”⁶ is a command Israelis must practice daily!
 
 

Let me share with you some of our daily life, using our own family as an example.  Without the help of parents, young people have a very difficult time "making it", as we say. For example, our youngest son, Ami, having completed his army service of 3 years, fell into a “minus” (overdrawn account) at his bank when he lost his job at a hi-tech company at the time the hi-tech business crashed last year. 

When he finally found other work, he was called up for yearly reserve duty and his new employer refused to keep his job open for him. Many employers in Israel hire young people only on a temporary basis because it is cheaper and they can replace them when they leave for reserve duty. 

Survival is the name of the game, and young people just out of school and the army can't survive unless parents help them over the hurdles.

Ami eventually found another job and enrolled in a computer course to better his chances in the job market. Half a year later the well-reputed school folded and our money was lost. After that, Ami was unemployed for 7 months despite his constant looking and ceaseless efforts. Israel’s economy had taken the worst downswing ever, and, in fact, the economy is still falling due to 17 months of violence, while unemployment is on the rise as the Shekel falls against the U.S. dollar. Even academics fill the corridors of employment agencies, unable to find jobs. We thank G-d daily for the work the Lord has given my husband! The Al Aqsa intifada is hurting everybody in the land!

Since Ami could not pay off the overdraft on his account, the bank charged him over 20% interest, resulting in an overdraft of NIS 20,000. He only earns about 3,000⁷ Shekels, barely enough to live on⁸.

Recently he received a court order to pay NIS 29,000. Question is, from what? How? On February 4th, I went with Ami from bank to bank and finally to the judge to take care of this. And hardly had Ami begun his new work when he was called up again for reserve duty. This time, however, the boss promised to keep his job for him.