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NPK-info 21-09-2001- Nederlands Palestina Komitee / www.palestina-komitee.nl
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Palestijnen herdachten dezer dagen de massamoord in Sabra en Shatila in 1982, waarvoor met name Sharon verantwoordelijk was.
En zie http://www.lawsociety.org
voor "gewoon Palestijns nieuws".
NPK/WL, 21-9-2001
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Drie bijeenkomsten in De Rode Hoed te Amsterdam [Keizersgracht 102]
Zie ook http://www.rodehoed.nl/
23 september
12 oktober
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For The Record
Number 82
18 September 2001
The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine / 2425-35 Virginia Ave., NW
/
Washington, DC 20037 / Tel: 202.338.1290 / Fax: 202.333.7742 /
The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Perception
With a PhD in Political Science, a background in journalism, and a
current position as professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S.
Army
War College, Stephen Pelletiere brought his expertise to a discussion of
the
media at a 13 September 2001 Center lecture. He focused on press
coverage
of Iraq, Palestine, and the current situation following the 11 September
plane hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in
the
U.S.
Pelletiere began by addressing the media campaign against Iraq
following the Iran-Iraq war. The U.S. did not expect Iraq to win,
and when
it did, U.S. leaders were "dumbfounded." As Iraq sought
to "rebuild itself"
after the war, the U.S. attempted to prevent this restructuring through
a
number of avenues, focusing on damaging Iraq's "credit worthiness."
Despite
the accumulation of a large debt, Iraq "was good for the money"
considering
its oil resources. Still, in the spring of 1988, Iraq did not have
the cash
reserves necessary and wished to reschedule its debt payments. The
media in
the U.S. began running stories on Iraq, "the tone of which was
extremely
hostile."
"All of the stories were slanted against Iraq," which by
itself is
suspicious. In addition, some of the stories were simply "phony,"
such as
the report that 80,000 to 100,000 Kurds were gassed to death by Iraq.
"You
can't kill that many people using gas, in a concentrated period, in
terrain
such as exists in northern Iraq." Irrational stories do
appear in the media
on occasion, but not usually so extensively in the established press.
It
seemed to Pelletiere that "this was a campaign." At the
time, Congress was
debating sanctions on Iraq and may have been trying to prepare the
public.
When sanctions were eventually declared, Iraq could no longer reschedule
its
debts.
Moving to the issue of how the media has covered Israel and
Palestine, Pelletiere explained that Israel's current military activity
in
the Occupied Territories is "coming dangerously close to ethnic
cleansing."
Nonetheless, the press presents the conflict as relatively balanced and
argues that both sides are equally responsible for the violence.
Pelletiere
takes a different approach. He explained that at the Camp David
negotiations, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a deal
"that
was no deal at all." Barak hoped the Palestinians would
accept it and be
"saddled with an entity that was not viable," a so-called
state that would
fall apart. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused.
"The pro-Israeli
forces . . . had to find a way of retreating from the exposed position
they
found themselves in, because in the process of setting Arafat up, . . .
they
had dignified both him and his movement by appearing to take the idea of
Palestinian statehood seriously." They choose to "criminalize"
the
Palestinians. Israeli leader Ariel Sharon's provocative visit to
the Haram
al-Sharif, which Barak allowed, started the uprising, then the Israeli
army
responded to subsequent protests with "unusual ferocity."
"Once a cycle of
violence had been created, one could simply nurse it along."
Pelletiere urged the public to "pay special attention" to the
fact
that journalists who are focusing on these stories and opinions are
conservative, as are the newspapers publishing them, mainly The New York
Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. The line
between
news and opinion has become blurred, mainly through the op-ed pages of
the
newspapers. "Spurious" ideas start there and then filter
into the news.
This is not only the case regarding Israel/Palestine, but with other
issues
as well. The role of the press is to "serve special interests."
Pelletiere
urged those concerned with these issues to confront to media. The
"peace
movement faced the same challenges" in the 1960s and managed to
overcome
them. They can be overcome now as well, "but it does take
innovative
thinking."
"There is a cadre [in the government] that knows what's going on"
and who are "fairly astute," but if their opinions are heard
at all, they
are labeled "alternative." During his work with the army
and Central
Intelligence Agency, Pelletiere met those like him who had alternative
viewpoints but "never got a hearing until there was a crisis,"
such as
during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Despite his encouragement of innovative thinking, Pelletiere was
keenly aware of the challenges involved. As he explained,
conservatives are
"in the ascendancy" now. He already sees trends
developing following
Tuesday's attack. These trends include the perceptions that:
(1) "We're at
war." (2) America will never again be the same. However,
Pelletiere
asserted, "I don't think we're any different" than before.
The U.S. is
still nearing a recession, the information technology industry is still
failing, President Bush is still untested. (3) Osama bin Laden is
guilty of
the attack. Pelletiere does not believe bin Laden had the
resources to
organize such a campaign, but whether or not he is guilty, the U.S. will
use
him as a scapegoat. (4) The United States will likely attack
Afghanistan.
The administration is already preparing the public for it through news
coverage and government briefings.
This is "not a classic conspiracy," Pelletiere pointed out.
Government and media leaders do not get together and decide what these
"lines" or trends will be. Rather, there is a "distillation
process" from
"thinks tanks" and policy institutes. Certain approaches
seem more
plausible than others, are repeated often enough, and are easier to
defend
than other arguments, and they become the "line."
Pelletiere also urged the
audience to watch the stock market and observe how it affects U.S.
policies.
The only times he has witnessed "real changes made" were when
business
interests were affected.
As for what the U.S. leadership will do now, Pelletiere said, "All
they want to do is get themselves through this period. If it
develops into
a real exploitation where the administration begins to single out
certain
areas for repression-then we're in for a very bad period. I don't
see any
signs of that now." Nonetheless, "there's a tradition of
using incidents
like this . . . to point American society into a very conservative
direction." This has occurred "over and over again"
in the past. "Whether
that will happen this time, I don't think anyone has a way of knowing,
but
it's a possibility."
The above text is based on remarks delivered on 13 September 2001 by
Stephen
Pelletiere, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War
College. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Center
for
Policy Analysis on Palestine or The Jerusalem Fund. This "For
the Record"
was written by Publications Manager Wendy Lehman; it may be used without
permission but with proper attribution to the Center for Policy Analysis
on
Palestine.
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From F r e e d o m: 14 September 2001
After the horrific tragedy, media outlets in the US repeatedly aired a
clip
of a few Palestinians rejoicing. However, there was hardly any
discussion or even reporting in the news of the following items.
- The terrorist act was strongly condemned by every single Palestinian
organization including Fatah, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas,
Workers
Unions and Committees, Human Right Organizations (AlHaq, Law, Palestine
Center for Human Rights), student associations, municipalities, mosques
and churches, etc.
- The attack was also condemned by every single Arab American, Muslim
American, and countless other human rights organizations who support
and/or
work for Palestinian human rights
- Palestinian Americans living in Palestine issued a statement in which
they
reported that all messages they received from other Palestinians were of
sorrow and concern.
- Palestinian lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi told a news conference the
celebrations
were "misguided" and "aberrations" motivated by a
feeling among Palestinians
that they have been victims of U.S. backing for Israel. Palestinian
analyst
Ghassan al-Khatib said the ``human tragedy'' in the United States
should
not be exploited for political gains by making Palestinians, Arabs and
Muslims look like the "bad guys.'' The vast majority of
Palestinians
condemned and were horrified and shocked by the terrorist attacks and
identified with the victims (as victims themselves).
- We won't know the exact numbers for sometime but there are likely
dozens
if not hundreds of Muslim and Arab Americans killed in these despicable
terrorist attacks. Many are still missing and we pray that they will be
found safe.
- The US Consul General in Jerusalem reported that he has received a
huge
stack of faxes from Palestinians and Palestinian organizations
expressing
condolences, grief and solidarity. He himself was pained to see
that the
media chose to focus on the sensational images of a few Palestinians
rejoicing.
- The Palestine Legislative Council condemned the terrorist attack on
the
United States and sent an urgent letter of condolences to Mr. J Dennis
Hasterd, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem held a candle-light vigils on
12
and 14 September to express their grief and solidarity with the
American
families struck by this tragedy. Mr. Abdel Qader Al-Husseini, son of the
late Palestinian leader Faisal Al-Husseini led one of the vigils.
- Jerusalem University students, along with the President of the
University and the Deans of the various Faculties, began a blood
donation
drive in Occupied East Jerusalem. Students and
professors went to hospitals in the Occupied City, in order to donate
blood
for the American victims who need it.
- The 1 million Palestinian students in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory,
including Occupied East Jerusalem, stood five minutes in silence to
express
their solidarity with the hundreds of American children who have been
struck
by this strategy, which resembles in its shocking effects their daily
sufferings.
- Throughout the US, Arab and Muslim Americans joined other American in
solidarity vigils and prayers even when some of those members were
attacked
and/or frightened by rhetoric being espoused in the media
Meanwhile:
- Georgia Senator Zell Miller's stated "I say bomb the hell out of
them. If
there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians
to
be expendable." [NY Times 9/13/01].
- "Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the
United
States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister,
replied:
'It's very good.' Then he edited himself: 'Well, not very good,
but it will
generate immediate sympathy.' New York Times, 12 September 2001, p. A22:
- While the media's attention was diverted by the tragedy, Israeli
forces
stormed the Palestinian cities of Jenin and later Jericho killing scores
of
people, injuring over 120, and demolishing many homes and other
buildings.
For other information, see
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network
of
grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights.
For more information contact:
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition
P.O. Box 1172
Orange, CT 06477
Fax: (717) 832-1123
E-mail: prrc@mail.com
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Press Room: http://al-awda.org/pressroom.htm
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From: F r e e d o m
Khadeeja Fatafta---an epitome of Israeli terrorism
Occupied Jerusalem: 19 September
By Khalid Amayreh
"If the world wants to understand what happened in New York and
Washington
on 11 September, the world must know first what happened to Khadeeja
Fatafta in downtown Hebron on 17 September."
Khadeeja Fatafta, 22, and mother of two little children, was not hurling
stones on Israeli occupation soldiers tormenting Palestinian civilians
into
subjugation and surrender.
Nor was she taking part in a peaceful demonstration protesting Israel's
ongoing rampage of murder and terror against a people whose only
crime is
their enduring desire to be free. In fact, Fatafta didn't even
happen to
be in a place where "confrontations" between the occupation
army and
Palestinian resistors were taking place.
Khadeeja was sitting peaceably outside the Princess Alia hospital
in
downtown Hebron, awaiting to see a cardiologist to examine her child who
suffers from a congenital heart anomaly, the occurrence of which
doctors
say has increased significantly in Palestine due to the intensive and
unbridled use by the Israeli army of lethal weapons with
long-lasting
effects.
And suddenly, on 17 September, calamity struck when an
Israeli army
sniper stationed on one of these strategic rooftops at Tel al Rumeida
pushed the trigger: The result an 800 mm -caliber bullet
striking
Khadeeja in the face, plucking out her left eye and causing a deep
wide
hollow in the upper part of her face.
Unconscious and nearly dead, Khadeeja was rushed to Saint Johns
eye
hospital in East Jerusalem for treatment. There her calamity was
described
as the worst of all the estimated 193 Palestinian civilians who have
lost
an eye or two as a result of being hit by Israeli bullets, often
fired by
army snipers stationed on strategic rooftops in Palestinian urban
centers.
Her treating doctor, Aghlab Khouri, describes Khadeeja's case as
"the
ugliest I've ever seen."
Speaking sorrowfully of Khadeeja's tragedy, Khouri laments
that not only
will the young woman be blind for the test of her life, but will have to
live with serious defacement as well.
Khadija's distraught mother, weeping outside the hospital, mourns the
tragedy that befell her only daughter.
She asks in a lethargic tone, combining bitterness, anger and
helplessness
"what was her fault, why did they shoot her.may God avenge my
daughters'
calamity.may God destroy Israel, and American as well."
In fact what happened to Khadeeja is only a small representative example
of
what the Palestinian people have been going through in the
past year.
Last week, a Palestinian medical doctor, Hussein Ikdeimat, was killed in
similar circumstances in the same vicinity when he sought to give first
aid
to a child who was shot by Israeli snipers.
The child survived, but Ikdeimat, 50 and father of six children, died to
be
added to the long list of victims of the American-funded Israeli
oppression
of a decimated people whose only crime is its enduring desire to be free
from occupation and apartheid.
Two other children had died earlier in similar circumstances and in the
same area which townspeople have come to call "death square."
All in all, the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists killed
no
less than 690 Palestinians in the last eleven months, a third of them
children and minors.
And the injured exceeds 25000, many, very many, like Khadeeja
Fatafta,
with crippling disabilities and handicaps that will stay with them
for the
rest of their life.
The Israeli army and government, indeed the heavily-armed fanatic Jewish
settlers, and also the media, view the daily Palestinian
calamities
blithely, even gleefully.
On 12 September, less than 24 hours after the tragic disasters in New
York
and Washington, Israeli defense minister Benyamin Benalizer boasted that
the Israeli army killed 18 Palestinians and the world didn't utter a
word
of protest at the carnage.
He was alluding to the murder of 18 Palestinians in the city of
Jenin on
12 September when as many as 60 Israeli tanks and several thousand
soldiers
rampaged through the town, spreading death and terror everywhere,
taking
advantage of the world's preoccupation with events in the United States.
Other Israeli spokesmen would only blame the victims, suggesting that
"this
is a self-inflicted tragedy that the Palestinians brought upon
themselves,"
claims unscrupulously, even readily, parroted by CNN and other
Zionist-controlled and manipulated American media.
Needless to say, Israel's indescribably wanton terror and murder,
which
very often assumes a collective approach and often thinly conceals
genocidal undertones of unmistakable features, triggers deep feelings of
frustration, vindictiveness and hatred, not only toward Israel, the
executive and direct tormentor, but at the United States,
perceived here
as the ultimate enabler of Israeli oppression and guarantor and
sponsor of
its continuity.
Last week, most Palestinians did express genuine sympathy with the
victims
of the suicide plane crashes in the United States. However, it is
morally
imperative to point out that there was also a feeling permeating in
Palestine, as in the rest of the Arab and Muslim world, that the US
brewed
what it baked and reaped what it sowed.
The wanton and brazen embrace by the United States of Israeli apartheid
and
colonialism may not justify the deadly terrorist attacks in the United
States. The murder of innocent people can never be justified, especially
by
Muslims whose religion teaches them that "killing an innocent soul
is like
killing the entire humanity."
However, it would be brashly dishonest and crassly stupid to
think that
America's misdeeds in the Middle East, to put it very mildly , don't
lead
to equally diabolic reactions such as what we saw in New York in
Washington on 11 September.
It is wisdom's turn now to mend the mess created so blithely and
insolently by greed and mindless power.
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Robert Fisk: Bush is walking into a trap
16 September 2001
Retaliation is a trap. In a world that was supposed to have learnt that
the
rule of law comes above revenge, President Bush appears to be heading
for
the very disaster that Osama bin Laden has laid down for him. Let us
have no
doubts about what happened in New York and Washington last week. It was
a
crime against humanity. We cannot understand America's need to retaliate
unless we accept this bleak, awesome fact. But this crime was
perpetrated -
it becomes ever clearer - to provoke the United States into just the
blind,
arrogant punch that the US military is preparing.
Mr bin Laden - every day his culpability becomes more apparent - has
described to me how he wishes to overthrow the pro-American regime of
the
Middle East, starting with Saudi Arabia and moving on to Egypt, Jordan
and
the other Gulf states. In an Arab world sunk in corruption and
dictatorships - most of them supported by the West - the only act that
might
bring Muslims to strike at their own leaders would be a brutal,
indiscriminate assault by the United States. Mr bin Laden is
unsophisticated
in foreign affairs, but a close student of the art and horror of war. He
knew how to fight the Russians who stayed on in Afghanistan, a Russian
monster that revenged itself upon its ill-educated, courageous
antagonists
until, faced with war without end, the entire Soviet Union began to fall
apart.
The Chechens learnt this lesson. And the man responsible for so much of
the
bloodbath in Chechnya - the career KGB man whose army is raping and
murdering the insurgent Sunni Muslim population of Chechnya - is now
being
signed up by Mr Bush for his "war against people''. Vladimir Putin
must
surely have a sense of humour to appreciate the cruel ironies that have
now
come to pass, though I doubt if he will let Mr Bush know what happens
when
you start a war of retaliation; your army - like the Russian forces in
Chechnya - becomes locked into battle with an enemy that appears ever
more
ruthless, ever more evil.
But the Americans need look no further than Ariel Sharon's futile war
with
the Palestinians to understand the folly of retaliation. In Lebanon, it
was
always the same. A Hizbollah guerrilla would kill an Israeli occupation
soldier, and the Israelis would fire back in retaliation at a village in
which a civilian would die. The Hizbollah would retaliate with a
Katyusha
missile attack over the Israeli border, and the Israelis would retaliate
again with a bombardment of southern Lebanon. In the end, the Hizbollah
-
the "centre of world terror'' according to Mr Sharon - drove the
Israelis
out of Lebanon.
In Israel/Palestine, it is the same story. An Israeli soldier shoots a
Palestinian stone-thrower. The Palestinians retaliate by killing a
settler.
The Israelis then retaliate by sending a murder squad to kill a
Palestinian
gunman. The Palestinians retaliate by sending a suicide bomber into a
pizzeria. The Israelis then retaliate by sending F-16s to bomb a
Palestinian
police station. Retaliation leads to retaliation and more retaliation.
War
without end.
And while Mr Bush - and perhaps Mr Blair - prepare their forces, they
explain so meretriciously that this is a war for "democracy and
liberty'',
that it is about men who are "attacking civilisation''.
"America was
targeted for attack,'' Mr Bush informed us on Friday, "because we
are the
brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.'' But this is
not
why America was attacked. If this was an Arab-Muslim apocalypse, then it
is
intimately associated with events in the Middle East and with America's
stewardship of the area. Arabs, it might be added, would rather like
some of
that democracy and liberty and freedom that Mr Bush has been telling
them
about. Instead, they get a president who wins 98 per cent in the
elections
(Washington's friend, Mr Mubarak) or a Palestinian police force, trained
by
the CIA, that tortures and sometimes kills its people in prison. The
Syrians
would also like a little of that democracy. So would the Saudis. But
their
effete princes are all friends of America - in many cases, educated at
US
universities.
I will always remember how President Clinton announced that Saddam
Hussein -
another of our grotesque inventions - must be overthrown so that the
people
of Iraq could choose their own leaders. But if that happened, it would
be
the first time in Middle Eastern history that Arabs have been permitted
to
do so. No, it is "our'' democracy and "our'' liberty and
freedom that Mr
Bush and Mr Blair are talking about, our Western sanctuary that is under
attack, not the vast place of terror and injustice that the Middle East
has
become.
Let me illustrate what I mean. Nineteen years ago today, the greatest
act of
terrorism - using Israel's own definition of that much misused word - in
modern Middle Eastern history began. Does anyone remember the
anniversary in
the West? How many readers of this article will remember it? I will take
a
tiny risk and say that no other British newspaper - certainly no
American
newspaper - will today recall the fact that on 16 September 1982,
Israel's
Phalangist militia allies started their three-day orgy of rape and
knifing
and murder in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that
cost
1,800 lives. It followed an Israeli invasion of Lebanon - designed to
drive
the PLO out of the country and given the green light by the then US
Secretary of State, Alexander Haig - which cost the lives of 17,500
Lebanese
and Palestinians, almost all of them civilians. That's probably three
times
the death toll in the World Trade Centre. Yet I do not remember any
vigils
or memorial services or candle-lighting in America or the West for the
innocent dead of Lebanon; I don't recall any stirring speeches about
democracy or liberty. In fact, my memory is that the United States spent
most of the bloody months of July and August 1982 calling for
"restraint".
No, Israel is not to blame for what happened last week. The culprits
were
Arabs, not Israelis. But America's failure to act with honour in the
Middle
East, its promiscuous sale of missiles to those who use them against
civilians, its blithe disregard for the deaths of tens of thousands of
Iraqi
children under sanctions of which Washington is the principal supporter
-
all these are intimately related to the society that produced the Arabs
who
plunged America into an apocalypse of fire last week.
America's name is literally stamped on to the missiles fired by Israel
into
Palestinian buildings in Gaza and the West Bank. Only four weeks ago, I
identified one of them as an AGM 114-D air-to-ground rocket made by
Boeing
and Lockheed-Martin at their factory in - of all places - Florida, the
state
where some of the suiciders trained to fly.
It was fired from an Apache helicopter (made in America, of course)
during
the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, when hundreds of cluster bombs
were
dropped in civilian areas of Beruit by the Israelis in contravention of
undertakings given to the United States. Most of the bombs had US Naval
markings and America then suspended a shipment of fighter bombers to
Israel - for less than two months.
The same type of missile - this time an AGM 114-C made inGeorgia - was
fired
by the Israelis into the back of an ambulance near the Lebanese village
of
Mansori, killing two women and four children. I collected the pieces of
the
missile, including its computer coding plate, flew to Georgia and
presented
them to the manufacturers at the Boeing factory. And what did the
developer
of the missile say to me when I showed him photographs of the children
his
missile had killed? "Whatever you do," he told me, "don't
quote me as saying
anything critical of the policies of Israel."
I'm sure the father of those children, who was driving the ambulance,
will
have been appalled by last week's events, but I don't suppose, given the
fate of his own wife - one of the women killed - that he was in a mood
to
send condolences to anyone. All these facts, of course, must be
forgotten
now.
Every effort will be made in the coming days to switch off the
"why''
question and concentrate on the who, what and how. CNN and most of the
world's media have already obeyed this essential new war rule. I've
already
seen what happens when this rule is broken. When The Independent
published
my article on the connection between Middle Eastern injustice and the
New
York holocaust, the BBC's 24-hour news channel produced an American
commentator who remarked that "Robert Fisk has won the prize for
bad
taste''. When I raised the same point on an Irish radio talk show, the
other
guest, a Harvard lawyer, denounced me as a bigot, a liar, a
"dangerous man''
and - of course - potentially anti-Semitic. The Irish pulled the plug on
him.
No wonder we have to refer to the terrorists as "mindless''. For if
we did
not, we would have to explain what went on in those minds. But this
attempt
to censor the realities of the war that has already begun must not be
permitted to continue. Look at the logic. Secretary of State Colin
Powell
was insisting on Friday that his message to the Taliban is simple: they
have
to take responsibility for sheltering Mr bin Laden. "You cannot
separate
your activities from the activities of the perpetrators,'' he warned.
But
the Americans absolutely refuse to associate their own response to their
predicament with their activities in the Middle East. We are supposed to
hold our tongues, even when Ariel Sharon - a man whose name will always
be
associated with the massacre at Sabra and Shatila - announces that
Israel
also wishes to join the battle against "world terror''.
No wonder the Palestinians are fearful. In the past four days, 23
Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and Gaza, an astonishing
figure that would have been front-page news had America not been
blitzed. If
Israel signs up for the new conflict, then the Palestinians - by
fighting
the Israelis - will, by extension, become part of the "world
terror''
against which Mr Bush is supposedly going to war. Not for nothing did Mr
Sharon claim that Yasser Arafat had connections with Osama bin Laden.
I repeat: what happened in New York was a crime against humanity. And
that
means policemen, arrests, justice, a whole new international court at
The
Hague if necessary. Not cruise missiles and "precision'' bombs and
Muslim
lives lost in revenge for Western lives. But the trap has been sprung.
Mr
Bush - perhaps we, too - are now walking into it.
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Articles
Dozens of scholars of Islam issued a statement , condemning last week's
violent attacks
Japanese Americans Recall '40s Bias, Understand Arab Counterparts' Fear
Feeling Like the Enemy Within
Arab Americans Enduring Hard Stares of Other Fliers
Explaining Arab anger
'Suicide hijacker' is an airline pilot alive and well in Jeddah
Stunned into disbelief as their 'normal' son is blamed
Working with UN could avert disaster
France fears fractures from 'terrorist war'
Some Hijackers' Identities Uncertain
Helping a Muslim Democracy
America Inspires Both Longing and Loathing in Arab World
A Muslim specialist says our acquaintance with Islam has just begun, and
at
the wrong place
A dangerous myth that distorts Islam: The west makes too little effort
to
understand the religion, and is partially responsible for its extremist
elements
Petition that will be forwarded to President Bush, and other world
leaders,
urging them to avoid war.
Better to be silent than out of step when Bush bangs the drum
'Smoking them out' is not new in the Middle East
The Mideast Is Also Changed
Fear in the Open City
A Writer's Delicate Hope for His Native Pakistan
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