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1 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4436541,00.html
2 - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=13682216
>>>Please note that Cherie apologises one day for something the Israeliaqs admit
to the very next. So, now, she may wind up apoligising for being apologetic. Ah, I
love the politicos who haven't yet learnt there's being right )correct( is nothing to
apologise for! A<>E<>R <<<
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1 - Cherie Blair apologises for remarks
Michael White, political editor
Guardian
Wednesday June 19, 2002
The prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, was last night forced to apologise after she
acknowledged that Palestinian suicide bombers may be driven by a lack of hope
about their future.
On a personal appearance with Queen Rania of Jordon, Mrs Blair told reporters: "As
long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are
never going to make progress."
Her off-the-cuff response during a visit to a Palestinian medical charity in north
London - part of an appeal to buy medicine - might have gone largely unremarked
had it not coincided with yesterday's suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Tony Blair
condemned the latest attack, saying: "Terrorism offers absolutely no future, no way
out of that process whatsoever." But he also echoed his wife's stress on the need for
hope and added that "no one [should] misdescribe her sentiments, or mine or
anyone else's".
It was not enough to prevent a sharp attack from the shadow foreign secretary,
Michael Ancram, and a renewed mood of outrage among newspapers eager to
maintain the momentum of the past week's attacks over the Queen Mother's lying in
state.
Mr Ancram predicted that "these most unfortunate words by the prime minister's
wife...will cause massive offence" to the victims' families - a point taken up by the
Israeli embassy, which expressed "regret that any public statements which might be
interpreted as expressing understanding for Palestinian terrorism should be made".
Labour MPs who believe the Blairs are facing increasingly vicious media criticism
expressed alarm. Leftwinger Bob Marshall-Andrews told Channel 4: "You can hate
the sin (of terrorism), but still try to understand it." Tory MP Ann Widdecombe called
the remarks "grossly insensitive" on the same programme.
After consulting Mrs Blair, No 10 said that "if any offence has been taken from the
interpretation of her comments then Mrs Blair is obviously sorry. None was intended
and it goes without saying that she condemns the atrocity today in the strongest
possible terms, along with all right-minded people".
2 - Israel admits bombers motivated by 'misery'
AFP [ FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2002 7:41:55 PM ]
JERUSALEM: In the first such admission by a member of the
Israeli cabinet, Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer acknowledged on Friday that
Palestinian suicide bombers are motivated by "misery" and "hopelessness".
But the Labour party leader who holds the reins of the military in
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government also accused militant groups of
"seducing" the bombers who have killed scores of Israeli civilians.
"Certainly, there is misery. Certainly, there is frustration.
Certainly they feel hopelessness," Ben Eliezer told the Haaretz newspaper.
"But then, at the moment of the crisis, someone from one of
these death organisations comes and seduces them," he said.
"The environmental factor is the key, not the socio-economic
situation, or whether they're working or unemployed, or the years of oppression and
built-up frustration, or whether they're educated or not," Ben Eliezer said.
"These suicide bombers aren't created out of nowhere. They
aren't born like that. The Islamic Jihad and the Tanzim and Hamas find.
"It's the most cynical and cruel exploitation of human lives, of
young people's lives especially. The weak, like them, are caught," he said.
Tanzim is an armed group linked to Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's Fatah group, while the radical Islamic Jihad and Hamas groups have
claimed some of the bloodiest bombings in the 21- month Palestinian intifada.
Ben Eliezer insisted the "environment exploits fragile
personalities and gets them swept up in a current" of violence. But he stressed that
"there is no common denominator" that makes a suicide bomber.
"Sometimes it's a random, momentary thing. Sometimes there's
more of a religious background. Some of them say 'I die, therefore I exist'. They
think a heroic death will give meaning to their existence," he said.
"Some are brainwashed with a religious message. And some
come to it in an unpredictable way," said the minister, who recently took the usual
step of personally talking with two would- be bombers in prison.
He acknowledging that Israeli "military actions rekindle the
frustration, hatred and despair and are the incubator for the terror to come."
Ben Eliezer's comments were all the more striking since they
come hard on the heels of two suicide bombings in Jerusalem this week. One on a
bus on Tuesday killed 19 Israelis and the young Palestinian bomber, and another at
a bus stop the next day killed seven Israelis and the bomber.
The minister has been at odds with Sharon over the objectives of
the military operations being waged against the Palestinian territories following the
latest suicide bombings.
Sharon has said that the Israeli cabinet decided to reoccupy
Palestinian-ruled land in retaliation for the violence, but Ben Eliezer later told
reporters he had not accepted that decision.
Meanwhile, Palestinian voices have risen against the suicide
attacks.
Speaking to the same newspaper, Arafat reiterated his rejection
of such attacks and said he was lending his full support to a petition by Palestinian
intellectuals who have condemned suicide bombings.
"No more war. Enough is enough," the embattled leader told
Haaretz on Friday.
On Wednesday, 55 Palestinian figures, including Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) political commissioner for Jerusalem, Sari
Nusseibeh, and MP Hanan Ashrawi, appealed for a halt to attacks against civilians
in Israel.
"These operations do not help our national plan for freedom and
independence. On the contrary, they strengthen the enemies of peace and give
pretexts to the aggressive government of Ariel Sharon to pursue his furious war
against our people," they said in a statement published in Al-Quds newspaper.
Arafat joined the fray and charged in the interview that unnamed
"foreign" forces were exploiting desperate Palestinian youths and giving them
money to carry out attacks.
Two families of suicide bombers from the West Bank city of
Jenin, where heavy fighting raged on Friday, received $30,000 each to carry out
attacks, Arafat claimed.
In the aftermath of the second bombing on Wednesday, Arafat
called for a freeze on suicide bombings and shooting rampages inside Israel.
"I must insist on the need to completely halt these operations,
which we have condemned many times and against which we have taken decisive
measure in order to preserve the national interest," he said in a statement.
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