Written for Hadasah on 10-15-2001
By Nonie Darwish
After 9/11 I was horrified, angry and disappointed at the Middle East culture where I grew up. The country that has given me shelter, protection and hope is under a monstrous attack from the Middle East. No one is taking responsibility for this insanity, but people were celebrating in the Arab street! The U.S. and the West are finally realizing what we are truly up against. Our civilization and liberty are under attack by Arab dictatorships who use some lost souls for terrorist acts to accomplish their mission. They first claimed Arabs did not do it and asked the US to prove who did it. When the US published the names of the 19 Arab terrorists, mostly Saudis headed by an Egyptian, they then shamelessly said that 9/11 was an Israeli conspiracy!!
