*** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Iwanowski) widze, ze Pan Konrad pospieszyl z pomoca. nota bene.: dostalem ok od emperor's clothes to put up the film on serbia on a server. Pan Mariusz Prokopczyk pracuje juz nad tym, ale moze znacie inne servery. jest to 430 mb .mpg tomek.
--- Konrad M Lepecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konrad M Lepecki) > > Podsylam artykul: > > > *** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Glowacki) > > > > Link okazuje sie "wrong URL". Moze by wiec puscic caly artykul., jezeli go > > Pan posiada. > > W.G. > > Los Angeles Times > > April 7, 2002 Sunday Home Edition > > Opinion; Part M; Page 3; Editorial Pages Desk > > > ISRAEL; > Dark Thoughts and Quiet Desperation; > Jews well understand the consequences of passively accepting doom. > > DAVID D. PERLMUTTER, David D. Perlmutter is an associate professor of > Mass, Communication at Louisiana State University and a senior fellow at, the > Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. He is the author of, "Visions of > War." > > > When I was in college, an Armenian American acquaintance told me about his > grandfather's obsession with the Turkish genocide against his people in the > early part of the 20th century. To a comment of "nice weather today," the old > man habitually would reply, "What does it matter since our people were > slaughtered?" > > I wonder if I will be like him 40 years from now. For the first time in my > life, I see the shadows of Israel's destruction, if not by Arab armies all at > once, then by suicide bombers, one Jewish child and mother at a time. I see an > anti-Jewish European press sadistically attacking Israel's defensive measures. > I > see a clownishly hypocritical United Nations condemning Israel's bulldozing of > a > building while millions die in the Sudan or Tibet. I see my fellow academics > musing and posturing in praise of demons who would cut their throats merely > for > being non-Muslims. > > Small items, too, prick hard. I find myself getting irritated at a Jewish > social organization I belong to for raising its dues: Why don't we send all > the > money to buy Israeli war bonds instead? I am furious when I read that some > Jewish media mogul just gave $7 million to the Democratic National Committee. > Where is the opposition of our good friends in the Democratic Party to > President's Bush's persistent coddling of Yasser Arafat and the House of Saud? > > I simmer, too, about how I see Jews fighting consistently for the good of > all--from the civil rights movement to the salvation of Bosnian Muslims--but > when the hangman comes for us, we find ourselves standing alone. > > Mostly, I cannot stand watching the news--with its tired cliches of "cycles" > of violence. Today, I see Arafat, sitting in his bunker, talking to > "international activists" and proclaiming that the Israelis are just like > Nazis. > I wonder: Did Adolf Hitler allow his enemies press conferences? I daydream--if > only! If in 1948, 1956, 1967 or 1973 Israel had acted just a bit like the > Third > Reich, then today Israelis would shop, eat pizza, marry and celebrate the holy > days unmolested. And of course Jews, not sheiks, would have that Gulf oil. In > contrast, if the Arabs had conquered Israel, does anyone think a single Jew > would today be alive between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean? > > This is what I'm reduced to: thinking like a Nazi when an Arab accuses Jews > of acting like Nazis. > > I'm unhappy as well--especially since I teach political communication--at > Israel's unsophisticated, unplanned media policy. Since the Lebanon war, the > seven squabbling Israeli ministries that claim to control press relations have > been notorious for either ignoring or failing to understand the needs of > modern > journalism. One journalist noted to me: "The Palestinians will go to the news > bureaus each day and pitch stories, and go out of their way to help arrange > interviews and suggest places to shoot. From the Israeli government, all you > get > is statements, silence or red tape." > > A more ominous reason that the evening news is so laden with images > favorable > to the Palestinians is that they are chosen and shot by Palestinians. Israeli > reporters are banned from working in Palestinian areas; foreign journalists > are > subtly or violently pressured to either keep out or report with a > pro-Palestinian bias. The result is that most television networks and news > bureaus use Palestinian stringers for spot news coverage and also for > translations. So, Arafat and his allies are allowed to make statements like, > "We > are the only occupied people in the world" without an accompanying laugh > track. > > But what to do? I have other dreams as well--apocalyptic ones. I think: > > Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand > what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, > and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow--it hurt > the Romans not a whit, but Sampson in Gaza? With an H-bomb? What would serve > the > Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a > Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace > activists to join us in the ovens? > > For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world > either cackles or looks away--unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II > European Jews or Rwandans--have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate > justice? > > These are my dark thoughts and quiet desperations. Who will dissolve them? > Who will silence the madness? Will I even be allowed to become an old, bitter > man? Will any of us have the chance to look back on these days beyond the > mushroom clouds of tomorrow? > > > =============================================================== > Lista 'Forum Zagraniczne' Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archiwum: http://www.mail-archive.com/forum.zagraniczne@3w3.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ =============================================================== Lista 'Forum Zagraniczne' Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiwum: http://www.mail-archive.com/forum.zagraniczne@3w3.net