When the Cold War ended I thought Stalinism would become a bad memory for me to study as a pathology of history. But the perennial Middle East Crisis in its current form has proceeded with both sides exercising their Stalinist prerogatives. The Arabs-- whom I personally saw trained in East Europe in the 1980s to become adept at Stalnist terror tactics of resistance developed during the Nazi occupation of Russia-- are resisting Israel, finally most effectively, using these techniques constantly into yet another generation of struggle. The Israelis, on the other hand, who had inherited as immigrants many Stalinist occupation secret police, is applying those same ocuppation terror methods used in East Europe to attain "a secure environment," in the words of Stalin. But History teaches us that though both techniques deny the other victory, neither permits any societal evolution. As a result, Israel and her Arab neighbors are frozen in a Stalinist point in time that the rest of the world has long abandoned in a global search for peaceful economic development through the application of technology. Perhaps, our war on terror is also as pointless, given that we give our children to support Bush's war on terror while fully supporting terrorism with our gas guzzling SUVs. This triangle of bloodshed and stagnation can only be stopped by a consolidated scientific effort to end our dependence on fossil fuel. Then, the Israelis can become the "light onto the [Arab] nations" that leads them out of the darkness of one-resource economies and into high-tech diversity. One can only hope that America as the "unipolar leader" will lead in the effort to break the bloody triangle. Daniel E. Teodoru