Readers of your letter were surprised to read that “the killers of September 11 issued no particular demands; in this sense, at least, the killing was done for its own sake.” This is without doubt, an insult to the intelligence of millions of people from all over the world who heard and saw the leader of the accused group speaking about the tragedy of the Palestinian people and the crimes of America in Iraq and other places, connecting American security to the security of the Palestinians. This connection appears in a great number of testimonies: in the statements of world leaders, in those of the leadership of the United Nations, in reports of the international media, in a American opinion polls in which 68% of the American public opinion wanted a solution for the Palestinian problem, even in the statements of the President Bush, Secretary Powell, and Secretary Rumsfeld speaking about solving the problem and establishing a Palestinian state, and about concern to improve the political and economic situation of the Islamic world whose troubles can be attributed to American policy. Bush’s repeated refusal to connect the two problems is only a response to the clear demand heard by the world, and understood by most of its leaders, the European Union being only one example of that.

So why then the recourse to this fallacy? Why this attempt to discover their motives while denying that they ever issued particular demands?

The very next paragraph us the answer. The whole purpose of the smoke screen around their demands is only a means to say that the attackers targeted America because it is free and democratic, just as the American president stated from the beginning and has repeated many times since. This causes the reader to feel sorry for the position these intellectuals are in, and reminds one of Soviet biologists who altered the results of their research to serve Marxist ideology. But they were forced to do so, while these sixties have voluntarily presented this fallacy to support the statements of their president.

So as not to be unfair, we will ask them only one question:

Why was the Palestinian problem absent from the open letter when it is the fundamental current problem that preoccupies the entire world, America in particular?

Let us listen to the other side of America, the side which recognizes and faces the truth, proposing solutions that achieve America’s interests –not Muslim or Palestinian interests. As long as Americans don’t understand the cause of the disaster they will never arrive at a correct solution. This point of view was expressed by David Duke in a long article from which we have provided the following excerpt dealing with the issue at hand (knowing that this man cannot be accused of loving Arabs, we do not agree with his well-known opinions on other topics.)

Why was America attacked?

It is vital that we know why bin Laden and millions of others around the world have come to hate America. Why are so many willing to risk or even sacrifice their lives to get at us? I certainly hope no one reading this is so naïve as to believe that the growing millions who hate America do so because we are “free.” That canard has to be the most ridiculous notion ever sold to the American people since the pet rock. To end the threat of terrorism against the American people, we must know the true reason why we are so hated ...

Perhaps we should have enough courage to consider the possible reasons why so many might hate us. Only when we have all the facts, rather than cute little clichés like “They were attacking freedom,” can we decide the best way we can protect our people in the future ...

Too many American politicians have treasonously betrayed the American people by blindly supporting the leading terrorist nation on earth: Israel ...

I will show you documentary evidence that during the last 50 years Israel has engaged in more murderous terrorism than any other nation in the world; and that by supporting its