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Yesha Council Condemns Use of Shfaram Incident to Insult Entire Population

This comes from Arutz Sheva via Israpundit:

Yesha Council Condemns Use of Shfaram Incident to Insult Entire Population
21:33 Aug 04, '05 / 28 Tammuz 5765

(IsraelNN.com) The Yesha Council announced this evening (Thursday) that it is shocked and severely criticizes the shooting incident in Shfaram that took the lives of innocent people.
The Yesha Council also criticizes the cynical use of the incident by certain political entities to try to make a connection between a serious incident to the democratic, legitimate and nonviolent protest against the expulsion from Gush Katif.

Naming him “a settler” even though he was not a resident of any settlement is an attempt to slander a whole population who is leading a democratic protest in an exemplary way. It would be better to act with more responsibility instead of criticizing only in order to gain dubious political benefits.[link]

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Gordon Liddy Wears Orange

Gordon Liddy, one of America's top radio talk show hosts is proudly wearing orange in Israel:

Fromm Haaretz:

                                               

He's orange, Gordon Liddy, he's orange

By Yossi Melman

Among the thousands of demonstrators who gathered at Kfar Maimon two weeks ago in the July heat of the Negev, the figure of a man no longer young, his bald head gleaming, stood out from the crowd. In a short-sleeved blue shirt decorated with paratrooper's wings he did not look like he belonged to that time and place. In contrast to the fierce looks, the disheveled hair and the loud voices of the disengagement opponents, G. Gordon Liddy is soft-spoken, chooses his words carefully and dresses neatly. Yet nevertheless, the rhetoric of one of the main characters in the Watergate affair is very like that of the Jewish settlers. "During my visit I have formed the impression from meeting with people that [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is carrying out the disengagement only to avoid prosecution. This is not a decision anchored in his worldview. He has no intention and is making no effort to achieve peace," Liddy said in a conversation with Haaretz. Liddy picked up his "impressions" of the disengagement from right-wing leaders - MKs Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Uzi Landau (Likud), heads of the Yesha Council of settlements like Pinhas Wallerstein and extremists like Nadia Matar.

In the decision to disengage he sees a clear recipe for "disaster." According to him, "The disengagement will encourage the Arab terrorists. They will say: `Look, we'll kill some more Jews, we'll send some more rockets and they'll fold.' We, the Americans, made mistakes like that in Lebanon. After the terrorists blew up the Marine base near Beirut, we withdrew. And we repeated the mistake in Somalia. Retreats from terrorists encourage terror.[link]

For those of us accustomed to freedom of speech in the good old USA the tone of Haaretz is disgusting. But even they could not spoil Gordon Liddy's words.

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Who funds Somerville Divestment Project?

It is time for the Jewish Community , and more importantly to the Jewish establishment to review its blind commitment to the leftist causes. Under the guise of high words about environment, civil rights, and social justice leftists are engaged in the outright, age-old anti-Semitism.
Look at one such funder of the Somerville Divestment Project. Does, by any chance, any of the CJP money trickle down to this leftist scum?  From an email of a reader of JRTELEGRAPH:

Who funds SDP?
With these  "red" money, who needs "oil money"?  I wonder how much of this are Jewish money...

http://www.haymarket.org/ contact Malkah Feldman
GRANTS GIVEN OUT BY HAYMARKET PEOPLE’S FUND IN FY2004   

SOMERVILLE DIVESTMENT PROJECT, INC. – Ronald Francis  P.O. Box 441259, Somerville, MA  02143 – Tel: 617-666-4343; Email: ronwf777@yahoo.com They support human rights for Palestinians and is working for divestment of Somerville city funds from  monies tied to Israel’s military occupation.  $8,000 grant  Download haymarket_grantees.pdf
 
HAYMARKET BOARD MEMBERS
Massachusetts
 
Joyce Campbell
Fatou Fatty
Frances Hubbard
Robert Johnson
Stephania Lavalas
Strong Oak
Annie Rodriguez
Carlos Rosales
Norma Rosario
Aimee Thompson
 
HAYMARKET COMMITTEE MEMBERS
 
Coordinating Council (CC)
 
Rosemary Candelario
Christopher M. Kaufman
Cheryl Linear
Laurence Locke
Lynnette Moore-Booker
Ricardo Neal
Strong Oak
Deanna Partridge
Karla Tolbert
Ted Wilkinson
Haymarket Staff
 
Finance Committee
 
Rosemary Candelario
Ayeesha Lane
Cedric Shaw
Bob Terrell
Judy Tso

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Palestinian Authority is Spending $1.7 million on Gaza Withdrawal Celebration

From Natan Sharansky's One Jerusalem blog:

"Today Gaza, Tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem"

Posted by The Editors on August  2, 2005 at 11:18 AM

Today, the New York Times reported that the Palestinian Authority is spending $1.7 million on celebrations following the Gaza withdrawal. The PA has ordered thousands of flags, mugs, bumper stickers and posters bearing the slogan "Today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem."

What else will it take for Israeli and American officials to put an end to this obscenity? As we have said time and time again, listen to the Palestinian's intentions! They are not shy about their goals.

Do President Bush, Tony Blair and the rest of the G8 (who pledged billions to the Palestinians) not read the papers? Does Ariel Sharon not realize that the PA thugs see Gaza withdrawal as a victory for terrorism? Withdrawal is only whetting their appetite, as they plot their march on Jerusalem. In the meantime, American, Israeli and European tax dollars are being spent to celebrate a victory for terrorism.

What happened to the war on terrorism? Why does the U.S. continue to impose a double standard? Why is Ariel Sharon fleeing when confronted by terror?

Now is the time to let your elected officials know what you think. Tell them to let the President know that the American public does not support funding terrorism, that the American public will no longer sit back and watch these terrorists advertise their murderous intentions. American and allied soldiers are losing their lives fighting the war on terror - allowing this outrageous farce to go on in the Palestinian territories is a disgrace to their memory.[link]

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Frank Gaffney: Under King Fahd Saudis Perfected Double Game

How can we differentiate between enemies and friends like Saudis. King Fahd is dead. Frank Gaffney provides analys in the Washington Times:

. . . old Saudi games

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
August 2, 2005  

Within days of the murderous September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, President Bush declared before a joint session of Congress: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
    Unfortunately, under the leadership of King Fahd (actual or nominal), Saudi Arabia demonstrated it was possible to be with us and with the terrorists. Far from being regarded as a hostile regime, the U.S. has described the Saudi government as a valued "partner" in the war on terror, notwithstanding abundant evidence it continues to harbor and support terrorism around the world -- including inside the U.S.
    Indeed, under Fahd, whose death was officially announced Monday (although he has been effectively incapacitated for years following a severe stroke), the Saudis perfected their double game: simultaneously being considered in Washington as a friend of America while behaving all over the world as a supporter and financier of America's enemies. [link]

  It is true the Saudi royal family has lately become more concerned about its hold on power in the face of terror attacks inside the kingdom. Such concerns may produce more mutuality of interests with the United States on countering terrorist operations within Saudi Arabia. Even there, however, the transparency has been limited, as with, for example, U.S. access to terror suspects in Saudi custody.
    Far more important is the litany of things the Saudis have done -- and continue doing -- that encourage and enable terrorism against those (Muslim and non-Muslim alike) who do not embrace the ideology of the Saudi Islamofascist cult known as Wahhabism. A short list of these unfriendly activities includes:
    c? Financial, organizational, logistical and other support for terrorists like Osama bin Laden. While the Saudi leadership doesn't want any more al Qaeda attacks inside the Kingdom, there is reason to believe at least some of the 5,000 princes think underwriting its attacks elsewhere is the best way to prevent them at home.
    • Founding and running Wahhabi Islamofascist hate-factories in mosques and their associated schools (madrassas) all over the world. The Saudi-financed madrassas of Pakistan got a lot of attention after British authorities identified them as places where the Leeds suicide bombers trained. [link]

A superb study released in January by Freedom House documented that the Saudi government also uses American mosques -- by some estimates 80 percent have mortgages held by Saudi Arabian financial institutions -- to promote jihad. Materials officially produced and disseminated to such mosques by the kingdom are filled with calls to hate Christians and Jews. Those who fail to conform are threatened with violent punishment as apostates. Saudi-trained and -selected clerics serve as enforcers in our mosques and in prisons and the military as recruiters for a rabidly anti-American Wahhabi creed.
    • Since the Saudi-engineered oil price spikes of the 1970s, the Saudis have also spent untold sums (they acknowledge some $80 billion spent in "foreign aid"; the actual total is surely far higher) building a worldwide infrastructure of charities, businesses and front organizations. In the wake of the London bombings, several of these Saudi-backed front organizations have found it necessary to issue fatwas in Britain and the United States purporting to denounce terror.
    As noted terrorism expert Stephen Emerson has reported (www.investigativeproject.org/FCNA-CAIR.html), however, some of these groups and those associated with them have been prominent supporters of -- or, at the very least, apologists for -- terrorist organizations. For example, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which organized a press conference to promote the U.S. version of the phony fatwa: No fewer than four of its associates have been convicted of providing financial or other forms of material support to terrorists. [link]

It is no small irony the new Saudi ambassador to the United States exemplifies his country's double game on terrorism: Prince Turki al-Faisal. For roughly 25 years, Turki was in charge of Saudi Arabia's intelligence operations. He was intimately familiar both with his country's efforts to promote Wahhabism (including supporting bin Laden's operations in Afghanistan) and its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States.[link]
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times

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Operation Community Shield Rounds up 63 Gang Members in Massachusetts

The Daily Item reports:

Gang roundup part of nationwide sting
By Jill Casey
Tuesday, August  2, 2005Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials announced yesterday that a recent sweep of gang members in Lynn was part of a nationwide operation aimed at prosecuting foreign-born gang members charged with crimes and immigration violations.

     Under the auspices of "Operation Community Shield," ICE netted six gang members in Lynn and one in Peabody in the last two weeks, according to Paula Grenier, an ICE spokesperson. A total of 63 gang members were picked up in Massachusetts and 582 gang members total in six-different cities across the United States as part of the same operation.
     The suspects arrested in Lynn on July 19 and 21 were members of Mara Salvatrucha, of MS-13, according to Lynn Police records. The phrase Mara Salvatrucha is Spanish for "Salvador, forever."
     MS-13 originated in El Salvador in the 1980s and has since splintered into major urban areas around the country. Locally, the gang has been linked to machete and knife attacks and a gang rape on two deaf girls in Somerville in 2002. Law Enforcement officials in several North Shore communities formed a gang intelligence consortium in response to their growing presence in several communities from East Boston to Lynn.
     ICE agents originally set out to net MS-13 members, but have since broadened the operation's scope to include all street gangs with foreign-born members, Grenier said.
     Arrests were also made in neighboring cities such as Everett, Malden, Boston and Somerville. 
    The vast majority of those taken into custody were arrested for entering the country illegally, being a felon in their native countries or violations under their visa status.[link]

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Jeff Jacoby: an argument against Jewish life in Gaza, it is also an argument against Jewish life in Israel

Jeff Jacoby discusses the fact that many people protesting against disengagement are comparing the planned action of the Israeli government with actions of Nazis. Such comparisons drew sharp protests -- after all, the planned deportation (G-d forbid) can not be in all honesty compared to the final solution.
But, continues Jeff:

And yet . . .

And yet there is no getting around the fact that Israel is about to become the first modern, Western nation in more than 60 years to forcibly uproot a whole population -- men, women, children, babies -- solely because they are Jews. There is no getting around the fact that the forthcoming expulsions are rooted in the belief that any future Palestinian state must be Judenrein -- emptied of its Jews. And while it goes without saying that Sharon and every member of his government abominate the Nazis and all they stood for, there is no getting around the fact that disengagement is meant to appease an enemy that has always regarded the genocidal hatred of Jews in a very different light.

Long before there were ''occupied territories," Haj Amin El-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of Palestine's Arabs, urged Hitler to ''solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries . . . by the same method that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries." When five Arab armies invaded the newborn Israel in 1948, the secretary-general of the Arab League vowed to wage ''a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."

More than half a century later, what has changed? The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is the author of a book denying the Holocaust and claiming that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis against the Jews of Europe. Palestinian Authority TV broadcasts poisonous diatribes, like one Friday sermon by Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris. ''The Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers," he preached. ''The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous by nature and have been throughout history."

Israel's withdrawal from Gaza changes nothing, the senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahard said recently. He told an Italian newspaper that Israel's existence would be unacceptable even if it were to retreat to the armistice lines of 1949. ''In the end, Palestine . . . must become Muslim," he insisted. ''And in the long term Israel will disappear from the face of the Earth."

The abandonment of Gaza and northern Samaria plays directly into the hands of the haters. The sight of Jewish troops expelling Jewish families from their homes and schools will do nothing to promote Arab-Israeli peace. It will reinforce instead the notion that any Jewish presence is intolerable on land the Arabs claim for themselves. And if that is an argument against Jewish life in Gaza, it is also an argument against Jewish life in Israel.[link]

 

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Lessons of London: Boston Jewish Community Discussion on 8/16/2005

On 8/16/2005 at 7:30 PM at 29 Chestnut Hill avenue,Brighton, MA, in the building of the Jewish Russian Center/Shaloh House will take place a Boston Jewish community meeting and discussion on the topic:

Lessons Learned from London: Community's role and responsibility in assuring domestic security

Speakers: Ilana Freedman, internationally known expert in counter-terrorism

Ed Flynn, US Navy Veteran and a homeland security specialist.

The meeting is organized by the Jewish Russian Center and moderated by the Jewish Russian Telegraph.

Please reserve your seat by sending request for reservation to: jrtelegraph@rightbox.com

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Ed Flynn: What was actually said or done that would make the citizens of Boston feel safer?

JRTELEGRAPH  recently met and talked with Ed Flynn. The last name is familiar to most people in Boston. Ed is a son of the former popular Boston Mayor and Ambassador to Vatican Ray Flynn. But most importantly Ed is a veteran of the United States Navy. Currently he is running for City Councilor at Large. In his campaign Ed pays special attention to the problems of homeland security.

He is the only candidate who is trained as a homeland security specialist. Here is a statement that Ed released to the media  last week :

Statement by Edward M. Flynn

Candidate for the Boston City Council – At Large

July 26, 2005

How many times have we heard politicians say that the country has changed since September 11, 2001? That things have to be done differently?

We were certainly reminded about our security when we heard about the recent spate of London mass transit bombings. Domestic security has become the greatest concern for millions of Americans, especially for people who live in large and nationally important cities like Boston.

I volunteered for active duty in the Navy following 9/11. I was on a base in Norfolk, Virginia, receiving extensive anti-terrorism training at the Naval War College, and aboard ships and bases in Europe and in the Persian Gulf. I was part of the extensive security training that the U.S. Defense Department initiated. In fact, the reason I was late getting into the Boston City Council race was because of my training. I was asked by the U.S. Navy to assist with logistics and homeland security intelligence for the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. That was a thorough and elaborate three-month security assignment, obviously with the most sophisticated domestic security program.

Things changed alright since 9-11, especially in the military. Our federal government certainly changed how the military deals with base security, federal buildings and airports. But that is only a small part of the way we live our daily lives.

Former U.S. House Speaker Tom O’Neill often said, "All politics is local." He was right then and his words are still accurate today. This means that our police and even our citizens need to be educated about how they can go about their normal everyday lives, but also remaining alert and keeping a sharp eye for things going on around them. The other day just after the recent London bombings, the only local government response I heard were photo opportunities and press conferences. But what was actually said or done that would make the citizens of Boston feel safer? The answer is nothing. Politicians asked us to be alert. OK, but where is the detailed information and training if we need to assist the police? An even more important question might be, with all the money that the federal government is spending on domestic security, why don’t we see front line police officers in our neighborhoods? Or should I say, where are the anti-terrorist trained police officers who will attend our community meetings and help interested citizens to be alert to strange activities that might be going on.

I learned in my military training that human intelligence is key to homeland security and in heading off any possible terrorists acts. Yes, we are living in a different world and we need to do things differently to protect our families and neighbors. Yes, all politics is local. But so is effective security and policing. If you never see a police officer how can you feel comfortable passing along helpful information?

Having a couple of hundred police officers standing at Downtown Crossing or South Station and none around a busy Roche Brothers Market in West Roxbury does not make much sense. Naval Security officers know not only what was going on inside the military base but the surrounding community as well.

If it’s true that we are living in a different world and community, then we’d better start doing things differently. Difficult problems will mean making difficult decisions. Career politicians do not have the knowledge or experience. They certainly do not have any new ideas. New ideas often come from the people themselves, not City Hall or the State House. Homeland Security begins in our neighborhoods and must be given the highest priority by our city government. Potential terrorists live among us. They attend our schools, travel our streets and tend to associate with people of similar cultural backgrounds.

I would immediately call for a comprehensive citizens’ awareness campaign to be launched by the City of Boston in each of Boston’s neighborhoods. Homeland Security trained police officers would attend the meetings. They would provide and explain a brochure on what people should know and can do to make their neighborhoods safer.

During World War II, American schoolchildren were provided information on what they should keep their eyes open for, which provided helpful information to security officers. All Americans responded in a united way which we need to replicate now.

The city must ensure that all our police officers are given extensive Homeland Security training, such as the few who have done so at the F.B.I. training center in Virginia. The city should immediately provide training to our municipal police and cadets and expedite their becoming sworn Boston Police officers. All of Boston’s neighborhoods need police walking the streets now.

In this comprehensive Homeland Security initiative, I would especially include people who service the public, from librarians, cab drivers and people who work in restaurants. Every terrorist must learn from books in our libraries. They eat and discuss their plans in our restaurants. They drive on our streets and take our taxis.

Boston does not have enough adequately trained police officers to effectively deal with a terrorist attack. Boston should have at least 2,350 Homeland Security-trained officers. The money is there. Having only 2,000 police officers in an important strategic city like Boston, with all its potential terrorism targets is reckless and irresponsible. We keep on hearing that we are living in a different world since 9/11, yet we keep on coming up with the same old worn out strategies. My military training and background experience make me qualified to assess these vital needs. I am not a career politician, but I am someone who knows public safety and the critical issue of human intelligence locally and internationally.

If the recent events in London have shown us anything, it’s that international terrorism is migrating toward local targets and smaller scale attacks in our large cities. As residents of the great City of Boston, it is our civic duty to protect ourselves, our neighbors and our visitors.

For additional information, please contact (617) 269-0776.

It is high time for us to start paying attention to what kind of politicians we entrust with our local government. We like Ed's background and his statement.

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Freedman: Our ticking bomb is political correctness

Ilana Freedman is an internationally known specialist in counter-terrorism. He column regularly appears in MetroWest. Here is Ilana on the threat of political correctness. Emphasis below is added by JRTELEGRAPH.

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Freedman: Our ticking bomb is political correctness By Ilana Freedman / Local Columnist Friday, July 29, 2005July has been a cruel month. A shocking attack by suicide terrorists left 56 morning commuters in London dead. Scarcely two weeks later, three car bombs in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, killed 88 tourists and locals. And the next day, an early morning bomb under a train in Dagestan, Russia, left a woman passenger dead.      In one week alone, the city of Baghdad witnessed 22 car bombs, including 10 in one day that killed nearly 100 people.      It has been a busy and bloody month for terrorists. Their mission has been to kill as many people as possible. As I have pointed out before in this column, the victims were not innocent "bystanders." They were the terrorists' intended targets. Their only crime was happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.      Did I say "terrorists?" What was I thinking! Britain's BBC and Canada's CBC have made it policy to avoid using the "T" word, which they call "judgmental." When referring to the four men who blew up 56 people in London, they prefer to conjecture that they "may have been radicalized." These men, who packed nails into the explosives they carried in order to inflict the greatest suffering possible, were only "attackers." And the man whose rented car was found in a densely populated area containing 16, "ready-made" bombs set to deploy, was merely "a would-be bomber."      Get real, people! This is not a game. The first rule of war is: know your enemy. And we'd better start calling it what it is, because like it or not, we are at war. Our enemy is a global network of radical Islamist groups who have declared war on America and on our democratic way of life.      They have made no secret about their plans to turn our own country into a Muslim society governed by "sharia" law. They have extended their war to include our allies. And beyond that, they have targeted their historic enemies (Europeans), whom they call "crusaders." They also include the lands where they once held the reigns of power and then lost it (Spain), and those whom they consider "apostates" (other Muslims whose Islam is not sufficiently radical to please them).      Radical Islam is at the center of nearly every conflict in this deeply troubled world, from the Sudan to Indonesia, from the Philippines to Nigeria, from Pakistan to Lebanon, from Israel to the UK, from the Ivory Coast to the United States.      These terrorists justify their violence against civilians by shifting the blame onto others -- the Americans, the Jews, the British, and in fact, all dhimmis (non-Muslims). For example, terrorists frequently blame their need for brutal attacks against the West on the existence of Israel. It's a nice story, but it's a lie. In reality, Islam's hatred of Jews goes back nearly 1,400 years.      In 627, Muhammad ordered the massacre of 900 Jewish men in Medina and then sent their widows and children into slavery. A millennium later, Muslims were still murdering Jews in Palestine, long before the state of Israel was established in 1948. The existence of Israel may be a convenient excuse for terrorism that many are willing to accept without examination, but it is a perversion of historical fact.      Osama bin Laden took the lie one step further. When he threw down the gauntlet with his now famous fatwah, issued in February 1998, he blamed the United States for the misery of Muslims worldwide. He accused Americans of "occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples." He therefore called on Muslims everywhere to "kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military."      It is easy for others to blame us for their own shortcomings, to accuse us of interfering when we come to their aid. But for us to accept that blame, and by doing so become the victim, is the depth of folly. When our overriding need for political correctness prevents us from addressing the danger that faces us, we put ourselves at great risk.      Our need for absolution for crimes we did not commit makes us weak in the face of a violent and cruel enemy. We bend over backwards to avoid giving offense to those who have offended us and flagellate ourselves for breaches of manners. But people who murder other people with whom they disagree and then blame it on their victims, do not have sensitivities that should be catered to.      The truth remains that man is accountable for his actions. He who murders is responsible for his crime. Our enemies has made it clear that their goal is to destroy us. They will neither negotiate nor accept compromise, which they view as weakness. It is therefore time for us to rethink our posture and the manner in which we deal with the threat that confronts us.      As long as terrorists confined their activities to the Middle East, we felt safe. When they struck in Madrid, we were shaken, but we still felt reasonably secure. The longer nothing happened in the United States, the safer we felt. Now they have struck in London, a city not unlike New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles.      Are we listening? The threat will not be going away any time soon. On the contrary, the attacks are coming more frequently and they are getting closer. Do we remember 9/11? Are we naive enough to think it can not happen here again?      As long as we refuse to acknowledge that there is danger, we will not be safe at all. The first step that we must take is to recognize that we are at war and to stop the insanity of a culture of political correctness that is putting us all at risk. Ilana Freedman is a specialist in counter-terrorism and Managing Partner of Gerard Group International LLC. She welcomes your comments and questions at ilana@gerardgroup.com [link]