Some (first Eliot Cohen and James Woolsey , echoed by Doug Saunders) have proposed that the war on terror is World War 4, and they point to 9-11 as the Pearl Harbor event of that war, or to terrorism in the 90's. Mudville Gazette has another take. Its chronology would suggest that the war is 30 years old, beginning with the terrorism launched on Israel, following the 6-day War.
If so, perhaps this too follows: that radical Palestinians' war against Israel is yet another expression of radical Islam's war against the West. Israel is, after all, the closest liberal democracy (ie, having an equality of sexes and some degree of secularized government) and capitalistic economy.
UPDATE:
Daniel Pipes adds his thoughts to the topic.
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