Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3401-1003987869-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11220 invoked by uid 510); 25 Oct 2001 05:30:35 -0000 Received: from n34.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.84) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 05:30:35 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3401-1003987869-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.222] by n34.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Oct 2001 05:31:09 -0000 X-Sender: ozair_rasheed@geocities.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 25 Oct 2001 05:31:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 90708 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 05:31:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 25 Oct 2001 05:31:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy) (208.242.128.175) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 05:31:04 -0000 Received: from ozair ([192.168.1.99]) by proxy with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600); Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:28:52 +0500 To: "Info War" <iwar@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <005c01c15d17$b7be0840$6301a8c0@crestech.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2001 05:28:52.0368 (UTC) FILETIME=[EEB5E900:01C15D15] From: "Mohammad Ozair Rasheed" <ozair_rasheed@geocities.com> X-Yahoo-Profile: ozair_rasheed Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:41:39 +0500 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] Time for Israel to get global message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.dawn.com/2001/10/25/int16.htm Time for Israel to get global message By Polly Toynbee LONDON: The little town of Bethlehem does not lie still in deep or dreamless sleep. Instead a Palestinian altar boy was machine- gunned to death in Manger Square when Israeli tanks stormed in and occupied six Palestinian towns, leaving many others dead in their wake. Israeli hit-squad assassinations of suspected Palestinian terrorist leaders have now reached over 40 dead. But six days into Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, there is still no response from George Bush. A state department spokesman did call for Israeli withdrawal and behind the scenes pressure is being applied. But what is needed urgently is the same thunderous and threatening language the president applies to the war in Afghanistan. Spell it out - no more money, no more support, no sympathy for future attacks until Israel withdraws and talks start at once on building the promised independent Palestinian state. Israel does not get the new global message, does not see how little patience its old friends have for Sharon's dangerous hard line. That is partly because the message has still not been delivered by presidential megaphone so that the whole world hears, announcing an end to the double standards of the west's treatment of Palestinians. Ugly Israel is the Middle Eastern representative of ugly America - and though it is not the sole cause, Palestine is the rallying cry for the terrorism that hurled itself at the World Trade Centre. Once secure as the west's best friend, overnight Israel's failure to make peace has turned into a lethal liability. Why, the Israelis ask angrily, should the world turn against them - victims acting in self-defence - instead of directing all anger at the perpetrators of suicide bombings and deliberate massacres of innocent Israeli civilians? Because, as Israel itself keeps pointing out, they remain one of us, ours, our people, partly our creation. The west that sustained and protected it in its fragility for all these years is also morally responsible for its behaviour and must take the blame for its abuses. For the left, Israel was once Jerusalem the Golden, Zionist banners fluttered on peace marches, young idealists worked in summers on socialist kibbutzim, full of all the earnest hopes described in Linda Grant's excellent novel about early Israel, 'When I Lived in Modern Times'. Now the left feels all the more betrayed by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, igniting the intifada by striding into the Al-Aqsa mosque and using the trouble he caused to seize power. The race-biased, them-and-us reporting of Israel/Palestine conflict works both ways. Consider the media coverage of death - how western audiences are invited to feel the agony of Israeli teenagers slaughtered in a disco or two, poor 14-year-old Israeli boys bludgeoned to death in a cave, as if they were our own children. Palestinian deaths are rarely made so graphic or memorable: they are anonymous people, counted as numbers, bodies aloft among depersonalized funeral crowds. If Israel succeeds in annexing our emotions, it also means Israelis reap a fiercer indignation when they do wrong - because the west feels angrily implicated in their crimes. The Palestinians may be the prime perpetrators, Hamas might be relentless in its wicked fantasy of sweeping Israel into the sea, but maybe our innate racism regards their alien sins as a political problem while emotionally demanding far better behaviour of our Israeli cousins. Palestinian guerrillas are not right, but the miserable history of mutual blame and victimhood has to end now. Indignation about injustice only flares up when the searchlight of public events falls upon that particular seething corner. Why care about Palestine now and not last year? Because it matters now, like the Taliban matters now. There is a right time for dealing with long-running oppressions - Serbia and Kosovo, or East Timor. Whatever the reason, when the chance comes it has to be seized and Tony Blair must urge the president to act loudly and decisively now, so all can see some good come of this. -Dawn/The Guardian News Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Pinpoint the right security solution for your company- Learn how to add 128- bit encryption and to authenticate your web site with VeriSign's FREE guide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yQix2C/33_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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