Your analysis is so precise to the facts and crystal clear in explanation to any layman. I have to steal this well written summary of the Sharon /Arafat debate as an example or quote you . The Rev Jesse Jackson said it again today and we hope that some of the power hungry leaders learn that they will all end up one day being history like those behind them.(dead)
Without freedom and justice all of us will never live peacefully . So as Asjborn also mentioned let us also pray for peace and NOT depend only on the Superpower USA to solve our problems.
.Thanks & have a nice evening
Habib
HDG
>From: Bakary Kanteh <
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>Subject: NEUTRALITY OVER SUBJUGATION= IMMORALITY
>Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:54:54 +0100
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>The Israeli-Arab conflict is about treachery, confiscication of
>land, the
>forceful exile of Palestinians from their homeland, the imposition
>of
>Israel: the 52nd State of the United States in the Middle East and
>the
>continued subjugation and humiliation of the Palestinians. It is
>also about
>a determined and lawful struggle for freedom by the Palestinians
>against
>US-backed tyranny led by the Israeli occupation force.
>The hype in the Western media about suicide bombings being carried
>out by
>the desperate Palestinians against innocent Israeli civilians visa
>vis the
>indiscriminite killings of Palestinians and summary execution of
>their
>activists and militants by the Israeli occupation forces is
>unbelievable.
>Killing of the innocent is wrong regardless of the method in which
>the
>killings are committed but the Western media which feeds us with
>information is fond of potraying suicide killings as far more
>uncivilised
>than killing by tank fire or other so-called conventional methods
>inspite of
>those targeted on both sides being civilians or suspected militants.
>As it
>stands, the death ratio between the Palestinian and Israeli sides is
>8 to 1.
>The biasness of the Western media towards Israel should not surprise
>anyone
>who knows that Rupert Murdoch is the best friend of Ariel Sharon.
>The ultimate, just and dignified formula to solving the conflict was
>recently put forward by the Saudis. It is none other than the return
>of
>Israel to its pre-1967 borders in return for the full recognition of
>the
>State of Israel by the entire Arab world. However, the US and Sharon
>has not
>learnt the full lessons of Lebanon. The Arab-Israeli conflict is
>highly
>profitable to the US armaments industry. The US diplomatic and
>military
>establishment is still convinced that the dividends of peace in the
>Middle
>East will undermine their economic and military prowess throughout
>the world
>and until there is a genuine change of heart from that line of
>thinking, the
>conflict will rage on and continue to claim more innocent souls from
>both
>sides. However, if Israel defies the US and withdraws to its
>pre-1967
>borders today, the conflict will end today. Until then, the genuine
>struggle
>of the Palestinians against foreign occupation and subjugation will
>continue
>regardless of the price to be paid.
>To those who try to equate Yasser Arafat with Ariel Sharon, it is
>like
>equating Nelson Mandela with Peter Botha. Yasser Arafat is also
>fighting for
>the liberation of his people and like Mandela in his struggle days
>is
>prepared to die in the cause to free his people. There can be no
>capitulation to subjugation as Ho Che Ming: leader of the free
>Vietnamese
>forces told Uncle Sam during the Vietnam war.
>
>Why are those who are proclaiming to be neutral over a clear case of
>subjugation vs liberation in the Israeli-Arab conflict not likewise
>neutral
>over the misrule in the Gambia? Don't say it is because you are
>Gambians and
>not Palestinians. Decent men should stand for freedom everywhere. I
>therefore have and shall not have any regret in to labelling all
>those who
>profess to be neutral in the Arab-Plestinian conflict as being under
>one of
>the following three categories:
>1- Ill-informed about the origin and state of the conflict.
>2- Selectively unjust but posing to be neutral
>3- Plainly hypocritical
>
>As Saiks would say, 'for Freedom'
>
>The yoke of oppression must be shattered!
>
>BMK
>
>
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