Posted on 01/27/2007 10:59:18 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
A third World War is already underway between Islamic militancy and the West but most people do not realize it, the former head of Israels intelligence service Mossad said in an interview published Saturday in Portugal.
We are in the midst of a third World War, former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy told weekly newspaper Expresso.
The world does not understand. A person walks through the streets of Tel Aviv, Barcelona or Buenos Aires and doesnt get the sense that there is a war going on, said Halevy who headed Mossad between 1998 and 2003.
During World War I and II the entire world felt there was a war. Today no one is conscious of it. From time to time there is a terrorist attack in Madrid, London and New York and then everything stays the same.
Violence by Islamic militants has already disrupted international travel and trade just as in the previous two world conflicts, he said.
Halevy, who was raised in war-time London, predicted it would take at least 25 years before the battle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is won and during this time a nuclear strike by Islamic militants was likely.
It doesnt have to be something very sophisticated, It doesnt have to be the latest nuclear technology, it can be something simple like a dirty bomb which instead of killing millions only kills tens of thousands, he said.
Halevy served as an envoy for former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and is a former Israeli ambassador to the European Union.
It's actually WWIV. WWIII was the "Cold War".
LOL!!
......and people are temporarily awakened to the fact there's a war going on, but soon afterward they hit the snooze button and resume sleep.
He said the same this 2 or 3 yeas ago - and he was right them.
Very few people see this.
Perhaps it is obvious to us, but not many Americans, and certainly not to Europeans.
Perhaps it is obvious to us, but not many Americans, and certainly not to Europeans.
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It is amazing how the lack of awareness, or willingness to accept reality is hurting the effort. It is a strange war and a first because the enemy we are fighting is both inside and outside of our own country....
People do realize it. Conservatives realize it and want the West to win. Liberals realize it and want the West to lose.
Or it's actually WW0, begun in 600-whatever when Mohammed's army made its first contact with Jews or Christians.
Indeed. Just a reminder -- Fox News is airing a special tonight and tomorrow afternoon called Smoke Screen: Hezbollah Inside America.
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What I often wonder about is why some of us can see it when many seemingly can't or won't. I know the answer biblically speaking, yet still, I know many good and honest people who seem to be blind to what's going on.
It is called the "Idiot Gene", which is found mostly in leftists/liberals and occasionally here.
Nope.
The Cold War was "The Cold War."
Then I guess those on offense in this war aren't very good at it.
Adm. Woolsey refers to the Cold War as WWIII and this war as WWIV. Take your pick.
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