Levi Brackman’s Website

It seems so surreal. I have been watching the news that has been coming out of Mumbai, India in virtual horror. Any terror attack targeting innocent people is nothing short of evil. However, this attack has been especially troubling for more reaso...

“Those who cure you are going to kill you" were the words of a senior al-Qaeda chief in Jordan to Canon Andrew White, who runs an Anglican church in Baghdad, seemingly in reference to the physician’s plot to kill thousands in England...

It is people, not religions which are violent, and sadistic people will use religion for their cruel and evil aims. People who are tolerant and peaceful by nature will find these values within their religion   Can a truly religious person really...

After six Muslims were arrested this week for plotting a terrorist attack on an American army base I heard an interview with a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He was expressing concern for the safety of his communi...

Suicide bombing is in vogue for some of the youth living in our planet. First it was only in Israel but now it has reached the rest of the world as well   Not a day goes by without news of a new suicide attack in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel Indon...

The two strategies of containment and prevention are the calling of our day. We ignore them at our peril   The statement, published this week, by arch Al Qaeda terrorist and mass murderer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is sickening: "I decapitated ...

We Jews have tremendous coping power. This week, this was yet again put to the test. The pain and suffering that the "Massacre of the Children" caused is beyond belief. Like all of us, I was deeply pained that once again our people are bein...

The recent cowardly attack on Jordan and recent arrests in Australia has once again brought the following question into sharp focus: how can we avoid the looming devastation international terrorism would like to bring upon us? Many experts are pessim...

There are conflicting views about the life of Yasser Arafat. France gave him a full state final farewell. Some say that Arafat was a freedom fighter and a hero, who symbolised the suffering and hope of the Palestinian people. Others are more realisti...

In the world today we seem to be facing tremendous challenges. There seems to be two types of views the western more secular view on the one hand and the religious fundamentalist dictatorial view on the other. I know that these are sweeping generaliz...

There is no doubt that the greatest threat facing the civilized world today is the amalgam of extremism, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. This lethal combination could one day, if given the chance, claim the lives of millions, G-d forbid. ...

Like most people, I am becoming increasingly disturbed by the reports of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings coming out of Iraq. The cities Falluja and Ramadi and much of Anbar Province are now controlled by fundamentalist, Al-Qaeda style militias. ...

Radicals and radicalisation are the words on everyone’s lips. People are trying to understand the process of how normal people become radicalised to the extent that they become suicide bombers. They therefore talk about radicalisation as if it ...

The recent terror attack in London was unique--it was carried out by British-born fundamentalists, not foreigners. After suffering years of IRA-sponsored terrorism, the question people here in Britain are asking is why people would want to blow their...

Many of us are not quite sure how to react towards terrorists who have no qualms about killing huge numbers of people. Should we feel sorry for them because manipulative, demagogic religious leaders have indoctrinated them into these acts of killing?...

This week in Lahore, Pakistan, religious parties protesting the publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad by various European newspapers ransacked a McDonald’s outlet and set fire to the outlets of KFC and a foreign cellular service provid...