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April 8, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Bush and the Middle East:
Mouth Wide Shut
Edward
Said
The
Future of Palestine
April 7, 2002
Beth Daoud
Accompanying Ambulances
in Bethlehem
Nancy
Stohlman
After
the Invasion:
The Search for Bread
Among the Ruins
Thomas Mountain
"Yellow Peril" In Hawai'i:
Judge Orders Chains and Shackles for Chinese Witnesses
Tariq
Ali
Who
Killed Daniel Pearl?
April 6, 2002
Philip Farruggio
War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
Litovkin
Russian
Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
Walt Brasch
Oil
Slick George:
Bush-whacking the Environment
Ralph Nader
Campaign Finance Sham
Sam Bahour
The
Blind Leading the Criminal
Bill Christison:
A Former CIA Official on
Oil and the Middle East
April 5, 2002
Charmaine
Seitz
In
Ramallah: The Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On
Nancy Stohlman
The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
Beth Daoud
The
Siege of Bethlehem:
"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
Fareed Marjaee:
Demonizing Iran
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Philip
Morris to Canada:
"Drop Dead"
Alex Lynch
Tampa Campus Mirrors
Middle East Strife
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon's
Wars: How the
News Gets Through
April 4, 2002
Ray Hanania
Sharon's Latest Lie About the Church
of the Nativity
Mike Leon
Rightwing
Assault on Madison Progressives Misfires
Tom Turnipseed
Stop the Killing Now!
Nancy
Stohlman
An
American Under Siege in a West Bank Refugee Camp
Christopher Reilly
Kissinger, Chile and Justice
at Long Last?
M. Shahid
Alam
The
Lies of Thomas Friedman
April 3, 2002
Don Henley
Dear Loathsome Trade Hacks
Bernard
Weiner
An
American Jew Talks
About His Shame
David Vest
Sting of Stings
Tzaporah
Ryter
Under
Fire: an American Student in Ramallah
Gabriel Ash
America's Bravest
John Chuckman
Of
War, Islam and Israel
Robert Fisk
The Siege of Bethlehem
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Sins of the Church
April 2, 2002
Uri Avnery
Murdering Arafat?
Jeff Chang
Is
Protest Music Dead?
Lev Grinberg
Israel's State Terrorism
Norman
Madarasz
Bullying
Brazil
Robert Fisk
Farce and Terror
in Ramallah
Steve
Perry
Let's
Roll! ®:
The Marketing of Lisa Beamer
April 1, 2002
Stanton / Madsen
America's War Inc.
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
Peace
and Nuclear Disarmament: a Call to Action
Bahour / Dahan
Bloodshed in Palestine:
A Way Out
Molly
Secours
Tennessee's
Kangaroo Court
Phyllis Pollack
The Making of Exile
on Main Street
Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
This Week's
Top 10 CDs
Francis Boyle
The Big Lie:
Palestine, Palestinians
and International Law
March 31, 2002
Jordan
Flaherty
Last
Night the Israeli
Military Tried to Kill Me
Kristen Schurr
Live from Bethlehem
Maha Sbitani
The
Israeli Army Took Over My House
Robert Fisk
Lies Leaders Tell When
They Want to Go to War
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April 8, 2002
Not In My Name Anymore
By Jordy Cummings
I am writing from the heart of the Jewish community
in Montreal, one of the most powerful, well organized, diverse
(heavily Sephardic) and liberal Jewish communities in North
America. The community is active, particularly the Jewish Public
Library and community campus, which serves not only the Jewish
community, but the entire working-class, heavily Arab-Palestinian
and Lebanese for the most part - and North African community
of Cote De Neiges. Indeed, Montreal may be the only place in
the world in which Jews and Palestinians live in peace.
As Israeli Prime Minister Sharon started
his current assault on the Palestinian Occupied Territories
it brought back memories of Saddam in Kuwait as well as Sharon's
own criminal actions in Lebanon. A mutual friend of mine who
happens to be serving in the IDF [Israeli military] recently
told me that this was "a war for the settlers." Liberal,
secular Israelis, even in the IDF know that Sharon has always
seen the Palestinian territories as part of Israel, and they
quietly curse him for supporting those settlements, many of
which are populated by Russian Mafia figures. In the Jewish
Diaspora, even the most strident Zionists, such as Thomas Friedman
say that these settlements "threaten the heart of the Zionist
enterprise."
Ariel Sharon has not only gone too far,
he has made us all ashamed that these crimes are being committed
in our names - whether we identify ourselves as Zionists or
not, we are all Jews! An Orthodox friend of mine, hearing of
Israel's desecration of Mosques and Churches in the wake of
an attack on a Synagogue in France, told me that what Israel
is doing is basically against the very precepts of Judaism.
Indeed, Israel's actions are very non-Jewish.
While Israel is the Jewish state, it is based on an ethnic nationalism
that was foisted upon us by European racists, culminating in
the Holocaust. Israel's current despicable actions are actually
in the context of many post-colonial second-world autocracies.
For Israel to call itself a democracy is uniquely appropriate
in the era of Mugabe and Bush.
The most obvious example of Israel's
absolutely non-Jewish actions is the violation of good old,
"love thy neighbor." There are countless examples,
particularly in the book of Solomon, that deal with what could
modernly be referred to as International Law. As far as my understanding
goes, in using the bible as a historical legislative document,
if a man attacks the Hebrew people, only that man can be punished,
not his family and not his tribe. Further references to the
Jewish concept of social justice can be attained through a perusal
of the Talmud, the Kabballah (not dissimilar to Sufism) and
particularly in the works of Maimonodes, who incidentally wrote
his greatest work in Arabic.
Another friend of mine, a spokesperson
for my university's Hillel organization is miserable that despite
the collective view that Sharon had gone too far, he could not
publicly criticize Ariel Sharon, because of the nearly Stalinist
Jewish community rule that one cannot criticize Israel outside
of Israel if one is speaking for the community. So the world
gets a perception that we are all at best quiet apologists for
state-terror. Morally bankrupt as it may be, if the masses associate
Islam with the likes of Bin Laden, my friend - and I - feared
that Judaism would be associated with the likes of Sharon. He
felt that he was between a rock and a hard place. How could
one defend such brutality?
I am not hopeless. Semites have lived
together for thousands of years, sometimes fighting, but more
often sharing their different strains of olives. I long to see
the day when Jews and Palestinians can build a true, inclusive
Pan-Semitism. Some may say I am idealistic, but I believe this
will turn out to be a truism. We have to live together. There
is no other way.
Jordy Cummings
is a graduate student at Concordia University and may be reached
at yorgos33ca@yahoo.ca.
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