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----- Original Message ----- From: "WEBMASTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 7 August 2004 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [RHETORIC] Beats skeet huh? > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, G. Waleed Kavalec wrote: > > > > Murdering Children for Sport > > > > "Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the back. > > Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that Sharon refused to let the > > Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet with Yasir Arafat, yet his > > death also went unnoticed by American television news. But not entirely > > unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers, who taunted the Palestinian boys over > > loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading > > them to come out and throw rocks, did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a > > reporter for the New York Times. > > > > "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads > > gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were > > lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their > > sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice > > children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His > > account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not > > for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on > > his vacation." > > > > The Nation, March 11, 2002 > > > > Ibrahim Abu Awad, a dirty and disheveled boy of ten, pesters me for a > shekel, and finally stands and stares intently at the post. I ask him what > he wants to do in life. > > "Kill Jews," he says. > > SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? Just keep on blaming the other side,when we know our side is doing exactly the same...maybe worse. No doubt about it...the blood of both sides is up ... and the youngsters of both sides are being inculcated with murder. And both sides claim innocence...and loudly proclaim their own victims. I think we make progress by stopping (or at least attempting to stop) being the victims and perpetrators of propaganda... Tony Currie Tony Currie ===OO=====OO================================================= > http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (NewsWiki) - http://pnews.org/ (Home) > http://pnews.org/vortal/ (Portal) Myth Busters/Mid-East > http://g0lem.net/vortal/ (Portal) Insane Planet/Progressive > http://g0lem.net/portal/ (Portal) Bad-Ass Truth/Economics > http://pnews.org/portal/ (Portal) Naked Truth/Propaganda > http://pnews.org/signup.shtml - (pnews-l) info // sub/unsub > -(oldest progressive internet list - since 1982)- > ============================================================= > \_/ \_/ > --- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================= http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (NewsWiki) - http://pnews.org/ (Home) http://pnews.org/vortal/ (Portal) Myth Busters/Mid-East http://g0lem.net/vortal/ (Portal) Insane Planet/Progressive http://g0lem.net/portal/ (Portal) Bad-Ass Truth/Economics http://pnews.org/portal/ (Portal) Naked Truth/Propaganda http://pnews.org/signup.shtml - (pnews-l) info // sub/unsub -(oldest progressive internet list - since 1982)- ============================================================= \_/ \_/
