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non-Moslems of that sad Balkan region. Bosnia is the main
trouble spot of Europe, and one of the great fears of the NATO
countries is that the conflict might spill over into the areas of the
Old Soviet Union, where there is such a large concentration of
Moslems. As one commentator, who is reputed to be an expert
on affairs in that area, said, the southern part of the old Soviet
Union is becoming increasingly "Middle Eastemized."

Thus, as the Moslem-dominated states in the Black Sea and
Caspian Sea areas exercise their independence from Russia, they
are becoming more and more oriented to their coreligionist
nations in the Middle East, along with all the attendant problems.

Once again, Israel is a key player when it comes to this new
threat, the expansionist Moslem religion. It is the only truly
democratic and open society in the midst of the hostile world of
Moslem autocracies. The neighboring Arab/Moslem nations
really have no semblance of what we know as democracy. Egypt
is perhaps the closest thing to a democracy, but it is very shaky.
Jordan and Saudi Arabia are shaky monarchies, based on the
hereditary lines from Mohammed. Syria and Iraq are run by
military-type juntas, and on it goes.

But ever since Israel w as re-created in 1948, it has been a
thorn in the side of Arab/Moslem geopolitics. They have done
everything they could think of to destroy the Zionist state and
push the Jewish people into the Mediterranean Sea. They waged
the most massive wars since WWII against Israel in 1948, 1956,
1967 and 1973 (Korea and Vietnam were limited wars in compari­
son), and they waged an economic war with their oil embargoes
and their boycott. So far, however, they have not succeeded.
Lately, however, they have utilized the new technique of the
"Intifada," by which they take advantage of the position of the
Palestinians within Israel as a "fifth column" and work against
Israel from the inside.

The other strategy has been to terrorize the Western nations
in general, and the United States in particular. The Moslem
terrorists have had some success in destroying international
passenger airplanes, disrupting airports, and recently exploding
a bomb in the World Trade Center in New York.