[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm posting the whole thing below as it only came to 8.6K in my text reader. > I know usually we don't do that, but it's a part of Salon Premium, which > y'all would have to pay for. Original URL: > http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/08/nablus/print.html
Issues of copyright? :/ > Also, as far as I can tell, Flore de Pr�neuf is not typically either an > anti-Israel or anti-Palestinian reporter. She has done stories in the past > that try to provide a broader view of the war in the MidEast. *nod* thanks for reporting the bias (or lack thereof?) > But Arafat's men couldn't stop hundreds of students from Gaza's Islamic > University from flowing out of the campus gates and marching down the streets > of Gaza, holding portraits of bin Laden and chanting his name. You want to support Bin Laden? Fine. Go ahead. Knock yourself out. Just don't expect us to send you any more cash, interceed on your behalf, etc. > Israel, however, has not been impressed with the pace of the arrests carried > out by the Palestinian Authority. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has > repeatedly compared Arafat to bin Laden, and last Thursday Sharon said it was > foolish to distinguish Palestinian actions against Israel from other forms of > terrorism: "There is no 'good terrorism' and 'bad terrorism.'" Huzzah, Sharon - I'm SURE that was helpful.. What's the status of Sharon's war crimes trial? > But then Sharon went too far. Using a comparison that riled the American > administration, Sharon warned the United States not to repeat the mistake of > 1938, when European democracies tried to satisfy Adolph Hitler's appetite for > expansion by granting Nazi Germany part of Czechoslovakia : "Do not try to > appease the Arabs at our expense. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. Israel > will fight terrorism." The Bush administration admonished Sharon, and he > offered a half-hearted apology over the weekend. Does that effectively end the conversation? -j-
