I was teaching at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake, Illinois, on September 11, 2001, when I was told by another teacher that a plane had hit one of the World Trade Center buildings in New York City.
At that time, all my lesson plans for that day were suspended and we listened on the radio to the events as they transpired. In between, I told the students about how this attack could be traced back to around 2,000 years ago when the Romans made the Jewish people leave their homeland in Israel and move elsewhere.
With the Jewish people gone, Palestinians moved into the land and it became an Arab country. After World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, the world was so appalled by what had happened, that the country of Palestine was partitioned to give the Jewish people a homeland of their own.
This did not take into account the fact that Palestinians had lived there for all that time in between. They and the other Arab countries around them fought back. The United States supported Israel and with that became an enemy of the Arab countries.
And that was why we had 9-11.
--Brock-Perry
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