-Caveat Lector- Indeed... both sides are guilty of killing children. Both sides should be ashaimed of themselves, but instead they are more determined to kill the other side.
The power of Love is forgotten... ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:10:54 -0500 From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: !b_a_Act: Need a massive response.... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, Given that this is no less than the chief editor of the op-ed pages of one of the big US papers, it behooves us to make as strong a showing as possible. It is moreover a total outrage that this could happen in Detroit, the city with the largest Arab and Muslim population in the US. Detroit for Arabs and Muslims is what New York is for Jews -- and yet, can you imagine a piece at the NYTimes accusing the Israelis of killing children? Proof: NYTimes journalist Chris Hedges did not publish his damning piece at the NYTimes, but at Harper's, a magazine with far less circulation and impact than the Times. If you have not written, please write, and circulate. Ahmed Bouzid http://www.pmwatch.org ======================================================================== [ ACTION CALL PAGE: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/detnews.asp ] [ Please archive your letters at: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/manager/gadflies/postletter.asp ] PMWATCH -- March 18, 2002 -- Nolan Finley, editorial page editor of The Detroit News, published an op-ed in the March 17 edition of the Detroit News in which he wrote that "The ugly little secret of the Middle East conflict is that a favorite target of Palestinian terrorists are the children, teen-agers and young adults of Israel." Mr. Finley does not mince his words: "They appear to be intentionally killing Israel's kids", he writes. To be sure, he asserts, "Palestinian children are dying as well. And while there is a clear moral difference between intentionally targeting children for killing and accidentally killing children in a military engagement, a dead child is a dead child." We know for a fact that Mr. Finley obtained a copy of "A Gaza Diary", a story published in the October issue of Harper's Magazine by New York Times reporter Chris Hedges. We know that because PMWatch sent Mr. Finley a hard copy as well as an email describing the piece and pointing to it. More damning still is the fact that Ahmed Bouzid, president of Palestine Media Watch, published an op-ed on December 9, 2001 (see below) on the VERY PAGES Mr. Finley edits, that starts off by quoting and describing Chris Hedges's piece. In that piece, Mr. Hedges writes: And I walked out towards the dunes and they were--the--over the loudspeaker from an Israeli army Jeep on the other side of the electric fence they were taunting these kids. And these kids started to throw rocks. And most of these kids were 10, 11, 12 years old. And, first of all, the rocks were the size of a fist. They were being hurled towards a Jeep that was armor-plated. I doubt they could even hit the Jeep. And then I watched the soldiers open fire. And it was--I mean, I've seen kids shot in Sarajevo. I mean, snipers would shoot kids in Sarajevo. I've seen death squads kill families in Algeria or El Salvador. But I'd never seen soldiers bait or taunt kids like this and then shoot them for sport. It was--I just--even now, I find it almost inconceivable. And I went back every day, and every day it was the same. [Full transcript: http://64.226.129.19/pmw/manager/features/display_message.asp?mid=487 An yet, Mr. Finley has the gall to write: "there is a clear moral difference between intentionally targeting children for killing and accidentally killing children in a military engagement". Where has Mr.'s Finley's outrage been all these months that we have been urging him to speak up against the INTENTIONAL killing Palestinian children by the IDF as Mr. Hedges reports? Is the life of a Palestinian child worth less than that of an Israeli child? Please go to: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/detnews.asp and enter your letter below to Mr. Finley and click send. Your letter will be sent to the following: nfinley@ detnews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] And bcced to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also call them at: (313) 222-2064 - directly to Mr. Finley (313) 222-6417 - to the letters editor If you wish to send in an op-ed of your own, send it to Mr. Richard Burr at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palestine Media Watch Detroit Monitoring Team http://www.pmwatch.org ============================================================== Israel's children are the target of Middle East terror campaign By Nolan Finley / The Detroit News Sunday, March 17, 2002 http://www.detnews.com/2002/editorial/0203/17/a15-442135.htm The ugly little secret of the Middle East conflict is that a favorite target of Palestinian terrorists are the children, teen-agers and young adults of Israel. They appear to be intentionally killing Israel's kids. The slaughter is carried out by cold-hearted murderers who search for bar mitzvahs, high schools, teen discos, wedding parties, family restaurants -- any place likely to draw young people -- before touching off their suicide bombs. And it is being done without the world condemnation that such a heinous campaign should provoke. It is a deliberate and despicable effort to accelerate the demoralization of the Israeli people and force them to accept compromises that may leave the nation far less secure. "It's a way of killing the future, and of raising the temperature -- what is more painful than the funerals of the young?," says Stewart Schoffman, a father, former New Yorker and columnist with the Jerusalem Report. Schoffman says he and his fellow Israelis now try to keep their children always within sight and are reluctant to take them to crowded, public places. Certainly, Palestinian children are dying as well. And while there is a clear moral difference between intentionally targeting children for killing and accidentally killing children in a military engagement, a dead child is a dead child. The parents mourn equally. Though it is difficult to understand how Palestinian parents can grieve over children killed by Israeli gunfire, while celebrating the deaths of children they themselves brainwash and turn into human bombs. The late Golda Meir, the heroic Israeli prime minister, once said peace would come to the Middle East when Arabs love their children more than they love killing Jews. Former Sen. George Mitchell, who was in Livonia earlier this month to speak to the Michigan State University Political Leadership Program, offered a somewhat similar prediction, saying peace will come only when both sides reach a "general weariness of war." If dead children don't bring that weariness, nothing will. With so many children filling up graveyards, the real danger is that the already incredibly deep hatred between the two peoples will harden to the point where peace is no longer an option. Mitchell, who headed the presidential commission that produced a not-yet-followed blueprint for Middle East peace, remains optimistic, despite acknowledging there is "an absolute absence of trust" in the region. He points to Northern Ireland, where he also helped broker a peace deal, and says if the combatants in that conflict could overcome their hatred and stop killing each other, so can the Israelis and Palestinians. "Life is so painful for both, it will come to the point where they lay down their weapons and come to the table," Mitchell says. "But it will be generations before you will have absolute reconciliation. It takes a long time to change what's in hearts and minds." In the end, Mitchell says a peace deal will look very much like the one Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat walked away from at Camp David 18 months ago. If that's the case, getting back to that beginning will have taken the devastation of the Palestinian economy, a total loss of Israel's sense of security and far, far too many dead children. Nolan Finley is editorial page editor of The Detroit News. You can reach him at nfinley@ detnews.com or (313) 222-2064. ============================================================================ Yes: Israelis can stop cycle of violence with negotiations, not provocations Sunday, December 9, 2001 By Ahmed Bouzid / Special to The Detroit News http://detnews.com/2001/editorial/0112/12/a19-362132.htm In a gripping October Harper's article, New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges described how every afternoon around four o'clock at the outskirts of the Khan Yunis refugee camp, a voice on a loud speaker is heard spewing out insults in Arabic, calling out, "Come on, dogs! ... Son of a whore!" To his astonishment, Hedges discovered that the loud speakers were mounted on armored Israeli vehicles. Soon after, riled by the invectives, young Palestinian boys, most of them no more than 10 or 11 years old, would dash toward the armored vehicles and begin throwing rocks at the soldiers. At which point, the soldiers would open fire. To Americans, the notion that Israel would go out of its way to provoke and incite Palestinians, let alone Palestinian children, to violence is beyond belief. And yet, evidence is abundant that Israel is not engaged in self-defense -- certainly not as it is understood under international law -- but rather in deliberate provocation aimed at creating an unstable atmosphere within which Israel can undertake its military operations with impunity. Let's revisit the few weeks before the tragic Dec. 1 and 2 bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Nov. 7: the Red Crescent reports that Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers shoot in cold blood three wounded Palestinian gunmen under their custody after medics were unable to save the life of a wounded Israeli soldier; Nov. 13: The Israeli human rights group B'tselem uncovers that the IDF has a policy of not prosecuting Israeli soldiers who have shot and killed, without provocation, Palestinian children; Nov. 22: Five boys are killed when an ordnance planted by the IDF deep into civilian Palestinian territory explodes; Nov. 23: Four Palestinians are killed during the boys' funeral march, among them a 14-year-old boy. But what ignited this latest firestorm is of course the Nov. 23 assassination of military Hamas leader Mahmoud Abu Hanoud. As expected, Hamas vowed revenge. And so there was. Did Israel expect such a reaction? Of course it did. It knew full well that just as the taunted children of Gaza throw rocks at their tormenting soldiers, so do Hamas and Islamic Jihad, taunted by assassinations, bombings of densely populated areas, house demolitions and land confiscations, react with their weapon of choice: suicide bombings. Why would Israel engage in such provocations? As demonstrated by Camp David, the Palestinians are not willing to settle for anything less than a sovereign Palestinian state, and the Israelis are not willing to offer anything resembling a sovereign Palestinian state. The Palestinians, militarily no match for the Israelis, have time and again pleaded for an unconditional return to the negotiation table. The Israelis have decided that negotiations are a dead end for attaining their goal of a semi-autonomous Palestinian state and have instead opted for the time-tested strategy of divide and conquer: Establish a state of chaos, so Israel is no longer faced with solving a political problem, but rather with confronting a security crisis, and then tighten control over the remaining Palestinian territories. In this light, it becomes perfectly clear why the Israelis are making it virtually impossible -- not only politically, but now physically -- for Yasser Arafat to bring about order among his people. Between 1993 and 2000, about 400 Israelis were killed in militant Palestinian actions (3,000 were felled on the Palestinian side). The only period during that interval when Israeli fatalities fell to almost zero was during the last year under Ehud Barak, when Palestinians truly believed their ordeal was at an end. The cycle of violence will be broken only if and when Israel abandons its tactics of provocation and collective punishment and realizes there is no alternative to creating a free, sovereign Palestinian state. Ahmed Bouzid is president of Palestine Media Watch in Philadelphia. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/hcTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------------------------------------------ PEACE! 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