Ethnic
Cleansing By Starvation
By Rania Awwad, Palestine Chronicle, August
30, 2002
A US-financed assessment of the overall
malnutrition level among Palestinian children,
released this month by the US Agency for
International Development (USAID), found
that one in five Palestinian children
under the age of five now suffers from
chronic or acute malnutrition. This astonishing
statistic is on par with impoverished
nations such as Chad and Nigeria, and
actually surpasses rates of child malnutrition
in Somalia and Bangladesh. Such figures,
the report noted, are "considered an emergency
by most humanitarians and public health
officials." The report points to Israeli-imposed
closures and sieges of major civilian
centers as the direct and primary cause.
Lessons
from the Hilliard and McKinney Defeats
By James Zogby, Palestine Chronicle, August
28, 2002
There are a number of lessons to be learned
and observations to be made following
the defeat of Congress Member Cynthia
McKinney in a Democratic primary election
last week. Her loss and that of Congressman
Earl Hilliard earlier this summer provide
a great deal for Arab-Americans to think
about. Most importantly, Arab-Americans
should not feel ashamed of their efforts
in these two elections. The community
did what they had to do they performed
well. We had been called upon to defend
two members of Congress who had defended
us in the past and we did.
Israel=
E-Liars
By Dr. E.A. Richards, Palestine Chronicle,
August 28, 2002
Is it anything but an innate media bias
favoring the government of Israel, the
accepting as gospel anything Sharon has
to say on any subject, without investigating
whether or not the statements are true?
Let Yassar Arafat say anything and the
media's pro-Israeli sycophants consider
his words ipso facto false, and make no
bones about it.
An
official history of Israel
John R. Bradley, Arab News, August 29,
2002
The Western media have universally welcomed
Michael B. Oren’s “Six Days
of War: June 1967 and the Making of the
Modern Middle East” as a masterpiece.
John R. Bradley argues that it is in fact
crude Zionist propaganda, which Oxford
University Press should never have published:
When I was an undergraduate I struck up
a friendship with an American-Israeli
who’d written asking if he could
contribute articles to the London Quarterly,
a cultural magazine I was editor of at
the time. As well as subsequently publishing
a number of his essays — on an emotional
visit he’d made to Israel following
the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, for
example, and the Palestinian intellectual
Edward Said’s Reith lectures —
I settled into a weekly lunch routine
with him.
Crosscurrents
into the mainstream
By Amira Howeidy, Al-Ahram Weekly, August
22 - 28, 2002
As the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination
Committee acts to fortify its presence
in the US mainstream, some members are
crying capitulation to the establishment:
Arab-American organisations are stuck
between the proverbial rock and a hard
place. In the post 11 September world,
the foremost Arab-American advocacy group,
the Arab- American Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC), continues to suffer from
the attack and its aftermath. As prominent
members of ADC express concerns about
the "crisis" within the organisation,
the leadership continues to deny that
there are any problems at all. Prominent
Arab-Americans have accused the ADC of
becoming an autocracy that capitulates
to the demands of the Bush administration
to the detriment of the interests of the
Arab-American community. The divisions
within the ADC are particularly alarming
given the post 11 September climate towards
Arabs in the US. The ADC is the largest
secular and grass-roots level organisation
in the US dealing with Arab issues. And
given the post 11 September hysteria,
the role of groups concerned with the
Arab community in the US has become more
essential than ever before.
Now
every Jew must decide
By Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, August
30, 2002
The Israeli right is calling for the chief
rabbi's resignation. Advocates of peace
must defend him: The chief rabbi has made
waves before, but never like this. His
comments to this newspaper - noting that
the conflict with the Palestinians was
forcing Israel into positions "incompatible"
with Judaism's deepest ideals and "corrupting"
of Israeli culture - have reverberated
far beyond Britain's Jewish community.
They have provoked outrage in Israel and
fierce debate across the diaspora.
How
Israel's Peace Movement Fell Apart
By David Newman, New York Times, August
30, 2002
BEER SHEVA, Israel — The peace movements
in Israel have been silenced in the past
year. The onslaught of terrorism and suicide
bombings has given rise to a discourse
of revenge, implemented by the government
of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the
country's mighty military force, replacing
any discourse of reconciliation and peace.
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