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February 4, 2000
Faith Based Foreign policy
By Ahmed Amr,
Editor
The "journalists" at the New York Times sure know how to kick up a sand storm
when they target the record of an ex-Senator like Ashcroft. They are talented enough
to dig up every little detail when they have a political ax to grind. But their real
genius
is in covering up the record of a proven "serial arsonist" zealot like Sharon and then
repackaging him as a "conservative" politician. If Sharon is "conservative" and
Ashcroft is an "extremist", and Friedman and Sontag are "journalists", than the New
York Times is truly the daily ruse.
Consider that Sharon, the Idi Amin of Israel, is a man the Likudniks at the New York
Times have no trouble marketing as a "war hero". William Calley of My Lai fame
must be eating his heart out. Thomas Friedman continues to revere Sharon as "a
hero of the Six-day War" and Deborah Sontag is just waiting in line for a bounce on
Grandpa Arik's knee. Another American journalist who idolizes this serial murderer is
Charles Krauthamer. They would all do well to read "the Crimes of Ariel Sharon" by
Alexander Cockburn (NYPRESS.com, 2/1/ 2001) that amply documents Sharon's
murderous record from Qibya to Gaza to Sabra and Shatila.
But never mind what Cockburn has revealed. It is common knowledge in the Middle
East and Europe. Barak, who has just gone through a little killing spree of his own,
also wants the world to know about Sharon, his ex-boss.
The following list of charges against Sharon come courtesy of Barak's campaign
Website.
Sharon, in his extreme approach and reckless nature, dragged Israel into
an unnecessary adventure in Lebanon. Sharon's recklessness resulted in
an operation that was planned as a swift 48- hour campaign and ended up lasting for
18 years. An adventure that cost the lives of more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers.
Sharon's adventure hurt Israel in the long run, and even the late Prime Minister,
Menachem Begin, said about Sharon: "He (Sharon) does know how to control
himself".
Sharon, who holds extremely anti- Arab sentiments, has continuously opposed any
steps aimed at achieving peace. Sharon believes in confrontation and extreme
measures towards Arabs and Palestinians. Sharon, in his extreme approach, will
lead Israel to isolation from the international community. His carelessness will
undermine Israel's relations with the U.S. and the European community. Ariel Sharon
will shut the door to peace.
Sharon Voted Against the Peace Treaty with Egypt. "...Sharon apologized in front of
the crowd for his government's concession, when serving in the government that
agreed to return the Sinai to the Egyptians. (Haaretz, 7/24/95)
Sharon opposed the Oslo Agreements.
"No peace treaty can be achieved or last with Arafat..." (Yediot. 3/7/97)
Sharon did not support Peace with Jordan."I did not vote for a peace agreement with
Jordan even though I wanted to. I did not go to the ceremony even though I had the
desire to do so. This wasn't a planned move on my part, but rather a result of a deep
internal strife that only worsened as time passed, and when the time to vote arrived, I
simply felt I couldn't raise my hand for such an agreement." (10/28/94)
Sharon's extreme approach is expressed by the following sayings and quotes: In
1988, Sharon was quoted, (referring to Arab Israelis): They should be expelled; their
homes destroyed." (Yediot, 7/3/88)
In 1988 Sharon was quoted: "Arab Israelis will not determine who becomes Prime
Minister in Israel. This is a community without rights. Formally they do, but in
reality
they do not hold equal rights." (Maariv, 12/27/89)
In 1990, Sharon was quoted: "as far as I'm concerned, Teibe Arabs should be the
last community to receive gas masks." (Davar, 10/28/90)
On another occasion he was quoted as saying: "I've been claiming for years that our
main problem has been the Israeli Arab community, and it will continue to be our
most difficult problem. They should be put in their place." (Davar, 10/28/90)
In June 2000, Ariel Sharon said: "Thousands of Arabs are taking over public parks.
And in the future, thousands more will flood our roads and beaches." (Maariv, 6/1/00)
What follows is an AFP (2/2/2001) sample of the European press:
>From Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's biggest daily newspaper: "If there is a logic in that
decision � one can imagione what sanctions could be taken against Israel if Ariel
Sharon became the new prime minister." The decision referred to is the EU
sanctions against Austria due to far-right Freedom Party's rise to power.
The Guardian of England on Sharon: "a figure of the very far right: a man whose
political life has been conducted so far out of the mainstream that it is hard to
think of
a sensible analogy."
The New York Times "Ashcroft Message" on February 2, 2001
As Mr. Schumer and other senators like Joseph Lieberman of Conneticut noted
yesterday, Mr. Ashcroft ran into trouble with his old Democratic colleagues because
his views were too far removed from the mainstream of American thinking. They and
others were deeply dismayed, for example, by his record on reproductive rights and
on long-settled issues like the desegregation of public schools. They were also
troubled by his cavalier attitude toward amending the Constitution and his obvious
discomfort with the general direction of an increasingly diverse American society.
NileMedia's Analysis and Conclusion:
The intent is not to dishonor Attorney General Ashcroft by comparing him to either
Sharon or Haider. We dare say that the New York Times editorial was about flexing a
little muscle to show that it still had clout. Moreover, we detected no small element
of
religious bigotry in the Senate hearings. Rather, the intent is to point out the fact
that
the New York Times poses as a liberal progressive force on certain domestic issues
and on the other side of the pond has no problems with a war criminal like Sharon.
Indeed, it is a Publishing Company that has long practiced a vile form of ethnic bias
and religious bigotry when it comes to the Palestinians.
One need only mention the record of Jeff Jacoby, an insolent racist journalist who
works in their Boston Globe offices. As for diversity, they do not practice it in their
newsroom and should not be lecturing anyone on the subject of the "American
Mainstream". They are a decidedly ethnic publication with a transparent bias on all
matters Jewish and Israeli. Their reputation as a "national" newspaper is all about the
power of marketing and branding, not about substance and certainly not about quality
or ethics.
The New York Times is a finely crafted paper with abundant resources to market
their political agenda. Using their peculiar brand of advocacy journalism, they have
delivered the goods for their New York constituency, where Israel is a municipal
issue. Yet, the fact that they can stomach Sharon has not gone unnoticed by Arab-
Americans. This is a daily journal that insists on infusing faith-based politics into
American foreign policy. Of course, the faith tradition they want to base that policy
on
is their faith tradition.
We need a policy in the Middle East that will not create adversaries abroad or
broaden the ethnic divide at home. We need a just and even-handed policy for that
troubled region, one that caters to the interests of the American mainstream and is
free of any kind of ethnic bias or religious bigotry. We can start by not assembling
the
elements of our policies to suit the ethnic politics of New York.
The relationships between Arab-Americans and American Jews have become a
mirror image of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Israel's military muscle is matched
by
the political clout of the Jewish lobby. The anti-Arab sentiments in the press is an
incidental by-product of the incessant marketing of Israel's chauvinist policies
towards the Palestinians It is time we had a foreign policy that looks like it was made
in a very diverse America for a very diverse planet.
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