> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Sunday, September 16, 2001 1:59 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Posturing Palestinians
> >>OK, so Arafat's Cabinet secretary is said to have threatened a
> >>cameraman. Bad move. But what does that have to do with whether the
> >>Palestinian people as a whole celebrated, or only a small minority
> >>celebrated?
>
> And the evidence keeps pouring in......
>
> "About 1,500 Palestinians, many supporters of the Islamic militant
> group Hamas," who "marched in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Friday,
> burning Israeli flags and carrying a large poster of Osama bin Laden."
> The AP reports that "After the rally, plainclothes Palestinian
> policemen questioned several journalists, including staffers of foreign
> news agencies, and confiscated videotape and film as well as camera
> equipment. An Associated Press Television News video was among the
> materials taken, and an AP photographer was warned by officials not to
> publish pictures of the bin-Laden poster."
A few days ago 4,000 Palestinians were considered representative of the
entire Palestinian people. Now, you apparently consider the actions of 1,500
people to be representative of the entire Palestinian population. I do not
know exactly how many Palestinians live there, but even 5,500 people still
make up a very small percentage of the population.
I do not know what footage you have seen, but I have seen footage of
Palestinians condemning the attack. I have seen footage of Palestinian
students standing outside a school, having a moment of silence for the
victims of the bombings.
The fact that some Palestinians support Osama bin Laden does not mean that
the entire population is as hate-driven as that small group is. I can
imagine that there are a handful of Americans who would cheer if the US
would right now nuke half the Middle East in retaliation; that does not mean
however that *all* Americans are so hate-driven as that small group is.
> I hope you feel real good, Jeroen, about supporting a terrorist-
> sponsoring and supporting regime that threatens journalists who report
> basic facts against a free democracy like Israel.
Has it occured to you that what the Palestinian police did, they did in
order to protect the Palestinians from revenge? Pictures of a Palestinian
crowd carrying a picture of Osama bin Laden might very well lead to
repercussions from Israel.
I note, BTW, that you have not yet answered my question which was quoted at
the top of this message. I still await your explanation of what the actions
of a government official have to do with whether the entire population
celebrated, or only a small of that population celebrated.
Jeroen
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