Your summation and explanation is to the point exactly .No one could put it better.
I am optimistic .I do not think there will be an atomic suicide bomber and no capitals will be bombed because we are all doomed then no matter who does it
I hope Kofi Anan gets an International peace force there even if they have to build a wall as long as the killings stop .
We really are seeing the true colors of the US foreign policy fading slowly by the hour .
They will either have to change or admit to the whole world the lies they preach daily
I still think Powel's mission was a success although we may not see any measured progress as desired. He diffused the bomb per say for now and commend him for that.
Let us pray for peace and for God to change the hard hearts of the kinds of Sharon
Good night
Habib Diab Ghanim
Am I dreaming???
well take your guess!!!
HDG
>From: Bakary Kanteh <
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>Subject: Re: George W. Sadat
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:29:08 +0100
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>Yus,
>
>I sometimes wish that i were completely oblivious of the tragic
>picture of
>the world which would have certainly made me indifferent to the so
>many
>injustices going on. Unfortunately or fortunately for me, I have no
>choice
>but to contend with the realities and express my feelings:
>
>The on-going conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis has
>its
>origins in terrorism. The conflict is sustained through terrorism
>practiced
>by the Israeli army and it is in part resisted through terrorism
>against
>Israeli civilians. Therefore terrorism is both the cause and effect
>in the
>conflict; it is also the symptom BUT IT CAN NEVER BE THE SOLUTION.
>Whereas it was the collective policy of the Arabs in the dawn of
>Israel's
>existence to drive the latter into the sea, realities have since
>made the
>Arabs to recognise that Israel is here to stay as the homeland to
>all Jews:
>who are cousins to the Arabs as odd as this may appear in the
>current
>climate of conflict between the two. It is this acceptance of the
>reality by
>the Arabs that recently made them to offer Israel normal diplmatic
>recognition in exchange for the return of all lands seized from them
>in the
>aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. This offer commonly known as
>the
>Saudi Peace Plan goes futher than the previous Oslo Peace accord and
>the
>Madrid Peace Plan both of which envisaged the 'exchange of land for
>peace'
>between the two sides. The Saudi peace plan provides for peace as
>well as
>diplomatic ties. Ariel Sharon a common war criminal reacted to this
>offer by
>bringing the total fury of his brutal army on the Palestinians and
>just as
>he did in Lebanon 20 years ago, left behind him a trail of mass
>murder and
>destruction. Even the UN representative to the Occupied territories
>described the sight of devastation in the Jenin refugee camp
>following his
>visit there today as "horror beyond belief" but your president, not
>Yahya
>Jammeh this time, but George Bush today of all days decided to hail
>Ariel
>Sharon as ' a man of peace' instead of condemning him for the
>atrocities
>committed by his army. Is this not indifference by the leader of the
>United
>States; supposedly the so-called most powerful and civilised nation
>in the
>world, to the sufferings of the Palestinians? A massacre was
>committed in
>Jenin; International aid workers are being denied unhindered access
>to help
>the wounded, sick, dying and death Palestinians; and yet the
>architect of
>the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Jenin is called a man of
>peace by the
>President of the US.
>The solution is simple: a complete Israeli withdrawal from all
>occupied
>lands and there would be peaceful co-existence in the Mid-East.
>The US needs to practice what it preaches, ends it hypocrisy and
>double
>standards and orders Israel to halt its occupation and subjugation
>of the
>Palestinians. Oppression is not sustainable forever regardless of
>the might
>at the oppressor's disposal. One cannot eradicate a disease simply
>by
>tackling its effects and symptons; the focus should be on the
>causes.
>Similarly if the US is a genuine peacemaker which most people doubt;
>they
>(the US) need to focus on addressing the causes of so much
>resentment that
>would turn an 18 year old Palestinian beauty into a suicide bomber,
>which by
>the way, I am not trying to justify.
>I fear that lest justice is done, someday, a suicide Atomic bomber
>will
>cause so much death and destruction in Tel Aviv to prompt a nuclear
>retaliation on all Arab capitals by the US and Israel. Then would be
>start
>of the much predicted war of extermination and annhilation.
>
>In the above lies the solution for peace which is not mine but which
>i
>believe is reasonable and practical.
>
>A good night to you.
>
>The yoke of oppression must be shattered!
>
>
>
>BMK
>
>
>
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