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April 8, 2002
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
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April 8, 2002
Mouth Wide Shut
By Gavin Keeney
"U.S. media coverage of the conflict
has been intense in recent weeks, as the Israeli Defense Forces
(IDF) mounted a large-scale invasion of the West Bank and Palestinian
militants carried out several major suicide bombings. Amnesty
International (4/3/02) has condemned the targeting of civilians
by both sides, voicing concern over 'flagrant human rights abuses'
by the IDF, including looting, mass detentions, the targeting
of medical personnel and possible extrajudicial executions. Israel
has tried to exclude the press from the entire area where the
abuses are occurring; the Committee to Protect Journalists has
expressed alarm (4/2/02) over the apparent targeting of reporters
in 'ongoing incidents in which IDF forces have opened fire on,
or in the direction of, journalists attempting to cover events
in the West Bank.'" (Fairness
& Accuracy In Reporting)
George W. Bush's recent pronouncements virtually
begging Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and for Yasser
Arafat to curb Palestinian "terrorist" activities come
after a round of withering attacks on the White House from both
domestic and overseas critics for its detached, silent Sam role,
despite the continuing US bankrolling of Israel to the tune of
three billion dollars a year. (For more on this hellish music,
see Israeli
Gears.)
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
1 - "In these circumstances,
America cannot ignore world public opinion. There is a nearly
unanimous global consensus that United States policy has become
one-sided and morally hypocritical, with clear displays of sympathy
for Israeli victims of terrorist violence and relative indifference
to the (much more numerous) Palestinian civilian casualties.
At risk is America's ability to maintain international support
for the war on terrorism, and especially for plans to deal with
Saddam Hussein." Zbigniew Brzezinski (The New York Times,
04/07/02)
The announcement despatching Colin Powell to the Middle East
comes with a built-in 5-to-8-day delay, giving the Israeli
military time to further destroy most of the West Bank in
pursuit of Palestinian "terrorists".
Perhaps it is time to suspend all US
aid to Israel and divert that largesse to the Palestinians
such that they might rebuild their provisional "territories"
- not quite a patchwork of bits and pieces unwanted by Israel
for settlements, "national parks", or military outposts.
Perhaps, too, it is time to launch a concerted, serious real
effort to lobby for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in Hebron.
Henry Kissinger can act as go-between for the IOC and the Palestinians,
as he did for China and the 2008 Summer Games. Kissinger can
with one stroke reverse his international reputation as War Criminal
and unrepentant Cold Warrior by supporting the PLOlympiad 2012.
Cutting off aid to Israel would be a superb "humanitarian"
gesture - albeit a high-handed coup de theatre that is
perfectly consistent with current American foreign policy - i.e.,
imposing economic sanctions on states that violate human rights
and murder innocent civilians. It can be qualified on all sorts
of grounds. Diverting the money to the Palestinian "homeland"
Bush has recently paid lip service to would be a case of putting
our money where the President's mouth is. Bush would have to
live up to his rhetoric and US taxpayers might feel a sense of
"finite justice". The huge flow of cash and credits
to the Middle East in the form of military and "civilian"
aid would be put to much better use rebuilding the lands destroyed
by the very forces of repression we have underwritten for decades
on end versus shoring up the Israeli military and funding new
rear-guard Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
2 - "The foreign minister of
Spain - which currently holds the European Union presidency -
said the EU would discuss imposing sanctions on Israel if it
continued its incursions on Palestinian territory." (BBC
World Service, 04/07/02)
The spiritually bankrupt Bush League could then claim the low-to-middle
moral ground of a "kinder, gentler, and compassionate"
realpolitik, a volte face contravening the overwhelming
tsunami of venality and unilateral opportunism passing for foreign
policy in the 1 1/2 years since the Supreme Court anointed the
Texas dimwit Court Jester for the Free World.
Lastly, perhaps it is time for Bush and the Congress to bite
the bullet and ratify a treaty signed during the Clinton Administration
- i.e., the Rome Statute to establish an International
Criminal Court.
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
3 - "Today [Thursday, March
28] in New York, Ambassador for War Crimes Issues Pierre Prosper
stated in a press conference that 'unsigning' is one of the options
considered by the Bush Administration to the soon-to-be-launched
ICC." (Coalition for the ICC, 03/28/02)
These three radical ventures would be the ultimate hat trick
for an Administration well on the slippery slope to historical
ignominy. US participation in the ICC (which will be established
with or without US support) would signal to the world that the
US supports an international system of justice versus its own
selective version of punishing its enemies and exempting its
home-grown war criminals. This last gesture would save the Bush
League from the ultimate indignity of disappearing into the muck
and mire of its own petty myopia.
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
4 - "I have a kind of firm,
semifirm signature as it moves across the page. It will probably
take about ... you know, about three seconds to get to the W,
I may hesitate on the period, and then rip through the Bush."
(Harper's Weekly Review, 03/26/02)
QUOTE-UNQUOTE
5 - "When a renowned and respected
retired politician like Zbigniew Brzezinski says explicitly on
national television that Israel has been behaving like the white
supremacist regime of apartheid South Africa, one can be certain
that he is not alone in this view, and that an increasing number
of Americans and others are slowly growing not only disenchanted
but also disgusted with Israel as a hugely expensive and draining
ward of the United States, costing far too much, increasing American
isolation, and seriously damaging the country's reputation with
its allies and its citizens." Edward Said (ZNet,
04/07/02)
Projection
of West Bank Final Status Map (2000) (Passia)
The Circling of
East Jerusalem - Roads 45 and 5 (ARIJ)
The Invasion
of Bethlehem and Our Tax Dollars at Work (CounterPunch,
04/05/02)
Israeli
Media Ban Brings Protests (BBC World Service, 04/05/02)
Extracts
>From Bush's Speech (BBC World Service, 04/04/02)
Justice
for Chile: Will Kissinger Finally Pay? (CounterPunch,
04/04/02)
Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court (United Nations)
International Justice
(Human Rights Watch)
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (LCHR)
Edward Said - Palestine
Has Not Disappeared (Le Monde Diplomatique, 04/02/98)
Anthony Lewis - Is
There a Solution? (The New York Review of Books, 04/25/02)
Landscape w/ Bullets - Postcards
from Hell - Raffaele Ciriello, an Italian photo-journalist,
was recently killed in Ramallah (West Bank, Occupied Palestine)
BADIOU: TRUTH & LIES - Manifesto
for Philosophy (SUNY, 1999) - Ethics:
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Verso, 2001)
Gavin Keeney is
a landscape architect in New York. He edits the web "anti
journal" Serious
Real. He can be reached at: ateliermp@netscape.net
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