• The Zionist Fingerprint on the Post-September 11 World: America Posture Toward Terrorism, Israel

By Dr. Ahmad Yousef

This book, with introductions by Congressman Paul Findley, Rabbi David Yisroel Weiss, and Attorney Stanley Cohen was written to shine a light on two current trends affecting the course of America's relations with the Middle East region. The first trend has been the exponential increase in violent acts conducted by Arabs and Muslims against the United States specifically. The second trend has to do with the role of the pro-Zionist sector in the United States in having led Washington to undertake actions that appear to be custom tailored to inflame the Arab-Muslim popular sentiment toward the United States in a manner that inevitably results in terrorism.

There are three separate sections, each of which deals with the problem from a different angle. The first of these, entitled "Terrorism and the Future of East-West Geopolitics," acknowledges that terrorism is a geopolitical phenomenon and advocates a dialogue between mainstream political Islamic figures and the US establishment with a view toward attacking terrorism by rooting out its causes. Specifically, it details how the US posture of hegemony is received in the Middle East and why it is perceived as hostile by the region's inhabitants, while also outlining the Zionist fingerprint on America's decision to project a threatening posture uniquely toward that part of the world.

The second section, entitled "Israel's Defense Ministry: The United States of America," deals specifically with the US-Israeli relationship in its present-day form. It addresses the reasons why America sees its relations with Israel as sacrosanct, focusing strongly on the alliance between the American Zionists, the Israeli government, and some powerful Christian fundamentalists as playing a major role in America's regional policymaking.

The premise is that US policy has been hijacked by these interests, and given that result, the reaction from Arabs and Muslims could not possibly have been anything other than a 100 percent conviction that the United States is out to harm them.

The final section, entitled "The Persecution of Arabs, Muslims, and Their Supporters inside the United States" addresses how the new American posture has affected politically active Arabs and Muslims inside the United States, as well as America's own previously cherished freedoms. It begins by discussing the saga of Palestinian Islamist individuals and charities and how they have been hunted down and persecuted on behalf of these Zionist interests. The discourse then moves on to discuss the activities of powerful Zionist figures based in America in subverting the formerly objective role of American journalism and in persecuting dissident thinkers in American academia. The section concludes by addressing what Muslims in the United States might eventually be able to do to restore their position in the far future, after the strategic situation has calmed down.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the present and future course of US-Muslim relations in the post-September 11 world.