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This article is sponsored by one of our valued partners, Swiss America.
Visiting Israel for the first time several decades ago, I was shocked at being told to report any packages left on buses or park benches because these might be terrorist bombs. To Americans, this then seemed almost unimaginable.
In the wake of 9-11, we in the West are all Israelis now.
We need to wake up and smell the danger that threatens us.
This week, a modern Paul Revere arrived in Washington, D.C., to warn us that “The terrorists are coming” to cities we call home.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this from hard experience as a battle-wounded commando; brother of commando Yonatan killed rescuing skyjacked Israelis in Entebbe, Uganda; and leader of an American ally that faces incessant terrorist attacks.
What prompts Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress is that Iran –whose theocratic Islamist rulers believe they could trigger an apocalyptic war that brings the cosmic world triumph of Islam – may be within months of producing its first atomic bomb.
Iran’s rulers are building missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto the cities of Israel, Europe, and the United States. For Iran, the biggest supporter of terrorism, atom-armed terrorists may also become the delivery system of choice.
The next 9-11-like terrorist attack could vaporize Washington and New York City beneath mushroom-shaped clouds – killing millions, replacing our freedom with garrison states, and crashing our economy.
“When leaders play down a major crisis for fear of creating a crisis, isn’t that an even bigger crisis?” asked Fox News Neil Cavuto of Swiss America Chairman Craig R. Smith.
Read more at WJ:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/israelis-now/#pWm3bFyvqxqOjSLF.97