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Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans— to a Jew!

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Author Klein, an Orthodox Jewish journalist, has somehow gained access to some of the world's worst terrorists. Chatting with leaders of Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, Islamic Jihad and other such terror groups, Klein exposes their megalomania (they're creating a worldwide caliphate), their delusions (the Jews control American churches) and their amazing ability to deny reality (there were no Jewish temples in Jerusalem).

Klein also reveals the sad effects of our celebrities' (Penn, Gere, etc.) pronouncements on American policy. He even uncovers their endorsements for President (hint: it's not Rudy).

Any Jewish journalist who can convene a panel of terrorists and seduce them into sharing ideas on how America can defeat Al Qaeda has a story that needs to be told - and read by all.

This is a serious look inside the minds of Jihadi operational leaders. The author has dared to travel to terrorist headquarters and hideouts and has dared to defy western media conventions in reporting what the terrorists actually think and say. If you have not been exposed before to their "off-with-their-heads" and "Islam-will-conquer-the-world" mindset, then the sheer audacity and brutality of their words will shock you. And if you already knows how the Jihadis think, you will be grateful to Klein for repeatedly risking his life and then defying media political correctness to help get the word out to an American audience. Run, do not walk, to buy a copy of this book, and get your friends running, too.

Next time someone says 'Listen to what they're saying' (get out of Iraq, isolate Israel, it's the oil, blah blah blah), 'and then everything will be fine' --- stuff this stunning book in his/her face. This is the unvarnished, self-righteous trash-talk of real-life terrorist leaders, presented with no apologies, reinterpretations, or 'paraphrasing' to soften their message.

What they are saying: They hate our lifestyle, our beliefs, our freedom, our intellectual curiousity, our fun, and see it as their duty - nay, their honor - to destroy Western rational, humanist, Judeo-Christian, scientific civilization. And they are absolutely certain that they will succeed, by insidious means, by using our own democratic process against us, and by dint of fear and violence.

What's fascinating is how often they say they must destroy and repress all aspects of Western culture, because it would detract, distract, seduce, taint, offend, insult, despoil, or otherwise threaten Islam. Allah's way, it appears, is not robust enough to withstand the attractions of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, or to appeal on its own merits. Mind you, things like music, sexuality, shorts, independent women, teenage romance, or a good glass of wine are all against Allah's 'fixed and designated human nature.' You will only be stoned to death if you refuse to give up all these things voluntarily, as well as any public expression of other religion.

I'll be buying a few more copies to start passing around to friends. I strongly urge everyone to buy an extra copy and mail it to Condi and the State Department before they just hand us over gift-wrapped to these cunning fools.

Aaron Klein gives regular interviews at Israel National Radio, an online English radio station broadcasting from Israel, and has regular contact with some of the most sinister people on the planet! His book is sure to be filled with honest testimony from the people who plan and execute terror attacks against Jewish civilians on a daily basis.

If his book is anything like his interviews, it will be a real page turner! There's no one else out there doing what Aaron does. Pray for his safety in the wake of this expose!

Schmoozing With Terrorists is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Klein asks the terrorists point blank all the questions most Americans have about them. He also gives the perfect amount of history to put everything in context.

If you only read one book about terrorism it should be this one!

As a guy who was there with Aaron, at a number of these encounters. I can tell you that what he writes is true. It is shocking that many people belive that, "If we only talked to them and let them know our side maybe they'd leave us alone." Well, we have talked with them and they aren't listening and don't care. Read this book, these Jihadists were asked reasonable and logical questions. The answers are anything but.

This author has an interesting story. He gave up the possibility of going to med school to go the Jerusalem to be a journalist. In his travels he has met dozens of hard-core terrorists, and somehow, despite being Jewish, managed to secure face-to-face interviews. What the terrorists say is sometimes ridiculous, sometimes very scary, but always thought-provoking. Anyone who thinks we can "work" with these people has another thought coming. They're out there for sure, at least in relation to Klein, who asks reasonable, rational questions only to get bizarro-world answers. Highly recommended.

This is a bit of an odd book, but it has a good deal of value in being one of the few sources of direct insight into what terrorists are actually like, how they think, and what motivates them.

First off my most sincere thanks to Klein and admiration for his courage to actually go talk to Palestinian terror leaders face to face. This is something that the terrorists allow however because they are in the end media-savvy. All wars are battles of will between those who believe in opposing ideas (be they political, religious, or at the most intractable level based on blood or ethnicity) which are won when either through sheer force the enemy is eliminated or through the threat of the pain of continued violence the enemy submits to stop resisting the other side (which may, and usually does, mean their elimination anyway.) Lacking the requisite military power to achieve their goals on the battlefields the terrorists have become adept at using the media to play to Western doubts, insecurities and false hopes to wear down our will.

In this book Klein provides briefs of his myriad interviews with terrorists living in the Palestinian territories and neighboring Lebanon, organized thematically. We see a worldview that is twisted by a hatred for the un-Islamic. Tolerance and negotiation are not part of the terrorist agenda. Their grasp of history is not necessarily poor, but bent so far out of shape by bias that it no longer reflects reality. Likewise for their bizarre interpretation of the world around them, laden as it is with Zionist conspiracies that can best be described as beyond the pale. The terrorists also have an Orwellian command of language, able to use the connotations of words to change their meaning and obscure their true actions and goals to Westerners. Further, much like the 9/11 hijackers, they are not necessarily the poor and the desperate either. Many face the prospect of a materially adequate life, but perhaps not an ideologically satisfying one and thus are willing to blow themselves up to be a martyr for Allah. We are thus faced with a unique, and frankly disturbing, enemy in our history, one who will not be defeated easily.

Klein shows persuasively that attempts to negotiate, make peace and/or accommodate the terrorists are indeed equivalent to Chamberlain-esque appeasement of Hitler or "peace in our time," mere opportunity for the terrorists to further their religiously fueled (and thus usually non-negotiable) ends. These ends are at least the restoration of the Caliphate and the expulsion or subjugation of all non-Muslims from traditional Islamic lands, but more likely the continued Islamic expansion by any means workable. This leaves open the door for both militant expansion, and inside out transformation of societies from open democracies to sharia ruled waqfs. What life would be like in these places is exhibited for all to see in the parts of Israel handed over to the Palestinian Authority. Strengthening one terrorist group against another, as seems to be the State Department preference, only sows the seeds of the next problem group and delays the inevitable confrontation with the West minimally if at all, while unsurprisingly making the future enemy stronger. Leftist actors and singers denouncing our government and our nation and sympathizing with the terrorists encourages and reinforces them. The Democratic fervor to get out of Iraq also emboldens them. This is a book whose themes and message people should familiarize themselves with. Peaceful civilizational co-existence between Islam and the rest of the world is the most pressing and difficult challenge of our times.

Several things do deny a fifth star though. First the editing is horrible, with glaring typos everywhere, giving the book a rushed feel. Second, there are many times where the book doesn't help itself. When the author starts using a string of negative words after a terrorist proclamation, despite the fact I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, there isn't much actually added and this commentary can (I hate to say it because of the importance of the subject matter and triviality of this critique) sound whiny. If you want to learn even more about the terrorists mind and goals the "Al-Qaeda Reader" by Raymond Ibrahim is a more scholarly work. This book will likely have more popular appeal however, although being proudly aligned with conservative talk radio will probably put off a lot of "open-minded" people from reading it.

Recommended. An important message, but in an idiosyncratic wrapping.

A great book for anyone with an open mind about the actual dangers to the entire western world posed by radical Islam. It provides fundamental, first-hand evidence of the goals and methods of those working to convert YOU to Islam, or to force YOU to submit to dhimmi status. It also makes clear that the terrorists are all fighting for the same thing, just in different theaters [places], and thus that the West is necessarily engaged in one multi-faceted battle against it. It becomes clear that each group's efforts against us in Iraq and Afghanistan, against Israel, against India, and governments throughout the world are only their immediate goals. We disregard the facts at our peril, and that of our children.

On a much more trivial level, I regrettably must admit that the book could benefit from a grammar check and a bit more editing.

The most astounding part of the book is How Mr. Klein draw out these mass murderers. They talk about killing as matter of factly as I talk about picking my kids up from school. You truly get the story behind the story of these evil men and the terrorist incidents you read about in the news. Read it ASAP and you will never again dispute the fact that their is Islamo-Fascism in the world.