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| amatullah |
| 01/26/02 at 20:17:56 |
| Bismillah and salam, WARNING: This is not for the faint of heart. I insha'Allah will not be looking at the pix again. But I couldn't help but feel that the horrible crimes against palestinians must be exposed. [color=red][edited by moderator][/color] |
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| amatullah |
| 01/26/02 at 15:39:11 |
| Bismillah and salam, Canadian newspaper bias against Palestinians By Jeffrey Hodgson TORONTO: Columnist Doug Cuthand expected controversy when he sat down to write a piece comparing Palestinians seeking a sovereign state to native Canadian Indians such as himself. But readers did not even have a chance to read this column. Editors at Cuthand's hometown Star-Phoenix newspaper "spiked," or killed, the piece, the only time he could recall such a thing happening in about 500 columns. Editors told Cuthand the column was "historically inaccurate." Others in the newsroom suggested it was too "anti-Israel" for a paper owned by CanWest, which is controlled by Winnipeg's Asper family, a strong supporter of Israel. CanWest strenuously denies this. "The guy (Cuthand) was hired to write about aboriginal affairs, not international affairs or the Middle East, and frankly he doesn't have much expertise in that latter area," Murdoch Davis, editor-in-chief of CanWest's Southam News, said. "If people want to construe that local decision as having some big corporate ghost behind it, at some point these things get pretty hard to rebut because they're such flights of fancy." The controversy heated up further in January when columnist Stephen Kimber resigned from CanWest's Halifax Daily News after the paper refused to run a piece he wrote suggesting the Asper family viewed their papers as personal pulpits. "For me it is the question of Israel, and what you could say and not say there," Kimber said. "Almost anything that you wrote that might be construed as not supportive of the Israeli government position was a nonstarter, and that I found frightening." CanWest Chief Executive Leonard Asper recently told the Canadian Jewish News that while the newspaper chain's "editorial position may be pro-Israel, that does not mean that good, sound opposing material can't appear." The Aspers are Jewish. But some commentators say the Aspers are little different to predecessors whose papers often reflected his own conservative views.-Reuters |
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| amatullah |
| 01/26/02 at 15:40:05 |
| Bismillah and salam, January 25, 2002 Playing Into Sharon's Hands By ROBERT MALLEY AMMAN, Jordan -- To hear the Israeli government tell it, the reason behind the enduring conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one man — Yasir Arafat. Hence, Israel's approach to the problem is confining the Palestinian leader to his Ramallah headquarters, destroying the symbols of the Palestinian Authority he leads and gradually reoccupying its territory. The United States also says the onus is on Mr. Arafat and passively looks on — occasionally dispatching its special envoy when the situation looks better, keeping him home as soon as events take a turn for the worse. Today, this is what passes for policy. But one has only to consider the growing number of victims on both sides to realize that far from being a path to peace, this approach is an almost certain recipe for catastrophe. There is an oddly abstract quality to the current reaction to Palestinian belligerence, as if that belligerence were devoid of context. Of course, it is not. The Palestinian people will have to think long and hard about how their actions led them to the edge of the abyss. But regardless of how the current intifada began, it has by now become a mutually reinforcing cycle of Palestinian violence and terror on the one hand and devastating Israeli military attacks on the other. As evidenced by the increasing number of Palestinians protesting even halfhearted efforts by Yasir Arafat to detain his militants, for the Palestinian Authority to crack down on its own people while Israel maintains its aggressive military action is politically and practically implausible. Of course, the United States is justified in pressuring Chairman Arafat to act against Palestinian terrorists. But so, too, must it admonish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease those policies that inflame the Palestinian public and paralyze its security services: the targeted assassinations, home demolitions, suffocating closures and creeping reoccupation. By his actions, and not without considerable help from the Palestinians, Mr. Sharon has done all in his power to make it unfeasible for them to meet their obligations. For Mr. Arafat to play into Mr. Sharon's hands in this, alas, has come to be expected. But for the rest of us? There is a broader political context as well. The intifada is the latest chapter in a conflict that opposes two peoples living on the same land and struggling over it. Any end to violence will depend on taking steps to end the conditions that helped produce it — the pervasive and persistent military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech last November, evoking the prospect of a Palestinian state, was forceful, eloquent and insufficient. What is needed is a clear vision plus the will to implement it. Otherwise the arithmetic, to paraphrase a former Israeli security chief, is gruesome in its simplicity: kill a terrorist when political hope exists and have one terrorist less; kill a terrorist in the absence of such hope, and create 10 terrorists more. Inherent in the current approach is the notion that a weakened Yasir Arafat will be either forced to do right or forced out. But one need not defend Mr. Arafat to grasp that his humiliation and virtual house arrest make it less likely that he will stop the violence. And one need not defend his failings to recognize what his fall would mean. Unwilling to make hard decisions, creative with the truth and at best vacillating in his attitude toward the use of violence — Mr. Arafat is all that, and then some. But he is also the embodiment of the Palestinian nation and of its aspirations. He is the first Palestinian leader to recognize Israel, relinquish the objective of regaining all of historic Palestine and negotiate for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 boundaries. And he remains for now the only Palestinian with the legitimacy to sell future concessions to his people. For him to be crushed by Mr. Sharon — whose unswerving goals have been, for the last 30 years, to vanquish Mr. Arafat, and more recently, to undo the foundations of the Oslo agreement — under the world's passive gaze, would send a distressing message to all Palestinians, guarantee a succession that is in the interest neither of peace nor of Israel, and produce a generation of scarred and vengeful Palestinians. The true test of any policy is whether it is working. Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and Hadera, Israeli military operations in Ramallah, Tulkarem and Nablus, and ever mounting loss of life on both sides ought to be enough to convince the Bush administration that this policy does not work. Still, the belief in Washington appears to be that engaging in more of the same — escalating pressure on Mr. Arafat, giving a muted response to Mr. Sharon's destructive tactics and adopting a hands-off policy on the ground — somehow will yield the desired outcome. The killings occurring daily are omens of an even greater disaster waiting to happen. As the Mideast inexorably drifts toward chaos and more bloodshed, the United States can either take action or take a pass. Can this really be that difficult a choice? Robert Malley is director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East program. He was special assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs under President Bill Clinton. |
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| amatullah |
| 01/26/02 at 15:45:37 |
| Article from Ha'aretz on the Israeli Military Intelligences views on the opportunites created by 9/11. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=121112&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y |
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| amal |
| 01/26/02 at 15:49:57 |
| slm, I couldn't get passed the second picture.Ya Allah what kind of a person could so such a horrible thing to a human being! O Allah give us victory over those who oppress us. Ameen. |
| Female Suicide Bomber |
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| explorer |
| 01/30/02 at 17:56:08 |
| I'm quite surprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet. It was seeing children killed and injured by israeli forces that angered the bomber. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1791000/1791800.stm ------------------------------ Female bomber's mother speaks out The mother of the first female Palestinian suicide bomber has said she is proud of her daughter and hopes more women will follow her example. Female body parts found at the scene suggested that an attack on Sunday, which killed an 81-year-old Israeli man and left more than 100 injured, was the first of its kind by a woman. But confirmation of the bomber's identity did not come until Wednesday, when relatives identified her as Wafa Idris, a 28-year-old divorced paramedic. The al-Aqsa Brigades militant faction, part of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, also published a leaflet saying she had carried out the bombing in response to Israeli military actions. Wafa's tearful mother, Wasfiyeh, described her only daughter as a martyr, as she was consoled by relatives at their home in Amari Refugee Camp near Ramallah. She told the BBC she did not know what turned her daughter into a bomber. 'Daughter of Palestine' "Maybe it was because of all the wounded people she saw in the ambulances. She wanted to help her people. She was a daughter of Palestine," she said. Mrs Idris said Wafa was not a known activist with any Palestinian militant group, although her three brothers are Fatah members. She said she had suspected nothing when her daughter, who had been shot several times by Israeli rubber bullets during her work for the Red Crescent, rushed from home on Sunday morning saying she would be late for work. "When I heard in the media that a woman may have been behind the bombing in Jerusalem and she didn't show up, I believed this could be the only explanation for her absence," Wasfiyeh told the Reuters news agency. Ms Idris's sister-in-law said Wafa, whose father died when she was a child, had become withdrawn and morose in the weeks preceding the attack. Angered The paramedic was angered by seeing children shot and killed during confrontations in Ramallah, she said. "She was happy when martyrdom attacks were carried out against the Israelis and told me she wished she would one day carry out such an attack," another relative, Manal Shaheen, said. It is still not clear, however, whether Ms Idris blew herself up intentionally, or whether explosives she was carrying detonated accidentally. The BBC's Orla Guerin in Ramallah says that Wafa Idris is already a heroine on the streets of the refugee camp where she lived. One woman from the Amari camp, a pregnant mother of three, told the BBC she would carry out a similar operation if she was given the opportunity. Wafa Idris's notoriety is also spreading rapidly: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has called for a memorial in her honour to be built in one of Baghdad's main squares, according to reports in Iraqi newspapers on Wednesday. |
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