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April 22, 2002
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
We Come for Peace
Daniel
Bar-Tal
Is
There a Way Out?
Occupation, Terror
and Understanding
David Wilson
A Week of Coups, But Now
The Freedom Train Hits Town
Shaik
Ubaid
Today
I Was a Palestinian
April 21, 2002
Michelle Campos
Suckered Again in Israel
Mike Leon
200,000
in DC Protest Say:
"We Are All Palestinians Today"
C.G. Estabrook
Sex and Power in Catholicism
Kathy
Kelly
Gimme
Some Truth Now
A Walk Through Jenin
April 20, 2002
Philip Farruggio
Drowning in a Sea of Apathy
Kristen
Schurr
Leaving
Nablus
Bernard Weiner
Israel and the Intifada
for Dummies
Jean-Guy
Allard
A
Coup Signed by Otto Reich
Chris Floyd
The "Grandeur" That Was Rome:
A Letter from the Front
April 19, 2002
Eric Flint
Free
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David Krieger
A Peace Proposal:
Bring in the Children
Jeff Paterson
Advice
to Recruits from
a Gulf War Vet
Jeffrey St. Clair
From Sen. "Lunkhead" to
Bush Energy Czar: A Year in the Life of Spencer Abraham
April 18, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Latin
America's Dilemma:
The Propaganda of Otto Reich
Sam Bahour
Bush is Playing Russian
Roulette with Palestinians
M. Shahid
Alam
A
Colonizing Project
Built on Lies
Alexander Cockburn
Austin Cultural Limits:
Willie Nelson, Film and BBQ
April 17, 2002
Norman
Finkelstein
Behind
the Carnage in Palestine
Kristen Schurr
With the Wounded
and the Homeless in Nablus
Norman
Madarasz
Undoing
Chavez:
The View from South America
Brian Wood
Combing The Ruins of Jenin
George
Monbiot
Chemical
Coup: The CIA's Attempt to Undermine the UN's Weapon Inspector
for Iraq
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April 22, 2002
An Open Letter to the IDF
By Kathy Kelly
Dear Soldiers,
We've met with many of you in recent
days, sometimes at gunpoint, sometimes in more relaxed settings
when your guns weren't aimed at us. Some of you, trained as snipers,
have chosen to shoot over our heads.
We think many of you join us in desiring
to inflame passions for justice and peace rather than passions
for hatred and war.
Many of you have told us that you don't
want to carry and use weapons, that you have no choice, that
you are only doing your job, that you are only following orders.
As we left the Jenin Camp, one of you called out, "It's
very comfortable for you to judge us from New York City."
We don't want to be the judges, but yes, there will be a judgement
from Jenin, from Nuremberg.
Others of you have said that you must
follow orders to kill and destroy because it is the only way
to protect your country.
But the brutality of the devastation
wreaked upon Jenin and other West Bank cities will never ease
the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
We ask you please to consider Colin Powell's
statement made on September 11 after the second suicide attack
on the World Trade Center. He said, "The people who perpetrated
this barbarous act think that by killing people and destroying
buildings you can achieve a political goal." And then he
said, "They are always wrong." All who support or enact
violent means, whether random or systematic, whether as leaders
or followers, need to look into the mirror which is held up to
us in that statement.
Presidents Sharon, Arafat, and Bush,
along with Mr. Powell, share the attitude that it is they and
their emissaries who alone can resolve the conflict by sitting
down at negotiating tables. Certainly negotiation and dialogue
are preferable to brute force as means to at least temporarily
enforce a cease-fire and reinstate a peace process. But when
we who are ordinary people emphasize negotiations by people in
power, we disempower ourselves. The leadership on all sides has
been empowered and enriched, but it is also exhausted and over-stretched.
The leaders are not up to the potential of their own people.
So we are asking you not to follow those
who would lead you toward more killing and more destruction.
We're asking you to find kindred spirits within your ranks and
beyond who will lead in new directions, unarmed and reliant on
focused nonviolent efforts to achieve peace.
Sincerely,
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly
is co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to
end the economic sanctions against Iraq. They traveled to Israel
/Palestine in response to calls from the International Solidarity
Movement and other organizations working to reduce violence in
the region and nonviolently resist Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
She can be reached at: info@vitw.org
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