Shortly after the September 11 attack, former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made the round of American talk shows. He is, of course, an authority on Arab terrorism, but as a patriotic Israeli, he also has his agenda.

Naturally Netanyahu wants to use this crisis to get America even more involved on the side of Israel against the Palestinians. I explained how this agenda would be disastrous for America over the next few years. I also showed how it might be disastrous for Jews in the long run (WHAT MAY HAPPEN, Sept. 12).

Nothing is more critical right now than that we do not fall for the Israel Lobby's attempt to use this crisis for their purposes.

Netanyahu was portrayed on the talk shows not as a loyal Israeli, but purely as an expert on how to deal with terrorism. Instead of saying America should go get the Palestinians, he used code words. He said we must have "zero tolerance for terror" and then talked about how the Palestinians represented only terrorism.

Those who can't see through this are wasting their time reading Whitaker Online. I would suggest something more on their intellectual level, like "Dick and Jane Went To Town" or Mother Goose.

I explained last week that the media line right now is to insist loudly that our stand for Israel has nothing to do with the fact that we are now hated throughout the Arab world.

If you know how propaganda works, you know that this means the major reason Arabs hate America is probably because of Israel. We have been totally on the side of Israel since the founding of that country. In the week since I wrote that article, Arab countries have been telling the United States that our totally one-sided support for Israel against the Palestinians is the basis of all that Middle Eastern hatred of America.

The old saying still applies, "One convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." Israel, with the American Empire behind it, has taken the ground Arabs called their own. To keep their oil and their international businesses, rich Arabs have generally accepted that, at least publicly. But private antipathy toward Israel and therefore the American Empire is universal over there.

If only some of them could realize that their real enemy is not America but the American Empire!

Even poor Arabs do not want anything from the United States except that we leave them alone. An old Southerner like me can understand that.

Jerusalem with its Old Testament history is the third most important holy city of the Islamic faith. Mecca is the first, and for Moslems Saudi Arabia is the Holy Land. I have met many leftist Moslems who wanted revolution everywhere else, but opposed revolution in the very homeland of their religion.

It was a violation of his Holy Land that made Bin Laden our enemy.

Bin Laden did a great deal to battle the Communist invasion of Afghanistan. In that war he was America's ally.

The final straw in making Bin Laden our open enemy was when American troops who were not Moslem came into his Holy Land by the thousands. In other words, he believes that the Holy Land should belong to God's Chosen People.

Emma Lazarus, who invented the term "melting pot" as the purpose of America, believed exactly the same thing Bin Laden does. She too wanted a homeland for God's Chosen People. Emma Lazarus was a Zionist who declared that America was for everybody else, but there should be a homeland for Jews only.

The only difference between Emma Lazarus and Bin Laden is that she thought the Jews were God's Chosen people and he thinks Moslems are the Chosen People (October 31, 1998 -- FIVE WORDS AND EMMA LAZARUS ).

Emma Lazarus agreed with Bin Laden. Every national fundamentalist spokesman I have heard so far agrees with both of them.

Every national "Christian" leader I have heard from demands that America be a melting pot. They are in the forefront of sponsoring, demanding and pushing interracial international adoptions to further that goal.

These "Christian" leaders also insist that the purpose of our American melting pot is to fight to preserve the State of Israel as the Holy Land for God's Chosen People the Jews.

Now comes the sick part. Unlike Lazarus and Bin Laden, these "leaders" do not believe the Chosen People are their own people or even those who share their faith.

When I state these obvious facts, I am attacked for being both anti-Christian and anti-American.

All that I am saying about fundamentalists is what I say about every other group: their national spokesmen are selling us out. That goes along with Whitaker's Law of National Spokesmen:

1) The media choose who will be the "national spokesmen" for any group.

2) The media will not give exposure to anyone who seriously challenges the basic media line.

3) If you spout the basic media line, you have to sell out America, white people and anything else a decent white gentile should have affection for.

4) Everybody's National Spokesmen must therefore sell them out.

I recently got a letter from a fundamentalist who said that religion and integration were the same thing to her. Since I did not agree with that, she accused me of being happy about all the nonwhites who were killed by the terrorists. She said she hoped I would find God.

In other words, if religion and integration were not the same thing to me, I was a bigot who wanted to kill women and children and I was unGodly.

Now for the clincher: This was NOT an angry letter. It was what such people consider a routine statement that they have right to make to me. I get similar ones regularly.

You see, these people have the right to attack my patriotism and my faith, but I have no right to question theirs.

Sorry, I won't play that game.