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Ramzy Baroud
While in high school, I used to write a weekly article. Pretending to use the school?s restroom, I would hide a scrap of paper behind a specified toilet and leave. A young man would follow me in, locate the paper, and fit it into his shoe and so hastily vanish. On the next day, the article, in its entirety would be inscribed on the walls of the school; hand-written with no names attached, except for a pen name: “Young Kanafani”.
Nat Hentoff
After the USA Senate exposed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless violations of the Bill of Rights, Attorney General Edward Levi established new FBI guidelines to keep its agents within the bounds of the Constitution. The chairman of the relevant Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, pledged that “the American people need to be reassured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers a threat to the established order.” Attorney General John Ashcroft has broken that pledge more times than I can count.
Ed Blanche
If the USA military?s escalating war against insurgent forces in Iraq is starting to look more and more like Israel?s campaign to crush the Intifada and the Palestinians? hope of an independent state, it?s probably because the Americans have been increasingly turning to their Israeli allies for advice on how to conduct just such a conflict.
Victoria Buch
I am a member of a women’s human rights organization that monitors military checkpoints around the West Bank. We make an effort to increase the awareness of the Israeli and international public of what is happening there. I would like to tell you about what we saw lately at check-points in the Nablus area, and also to share with you some thoughts concerning the real objectives of Israel’s ‘closure policy’.
Badrol Hisham
The fatwa from the high priests of Washington has been pronounced: Islamic radicalism is a dirty word. Millions of intimidated Muslims the world over, are now desparately trying to convince others that they are not radical Muslims. “We are moderates” they plead, “the good Muslims you can talk to.” In their efforts to fit in, they are forgetting that it has always been radicalism that solves the world’s problems.
Phillip Adams
As George W. Bush sinks slowly in the West, let?s look at what he?s achieved at other points of the compass. In Afghanistan, the president needs a Praetorian guard of Americans to keep him safe in Kabul. In Iraq, escalating attacks come from who knows where. As for Iraq?s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, we have witnessed the biggest failure in intelligence in modern history; or been misled with the biggest lies foisted on Western democracy. Or both. It?s now clear that only one man was honest about WMDs in the run-up to the war.
FATEH Rejects the Geneva Accord
For a short time after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian struggle was marked by protracted diplomatic attempts to bring about a two-state solution to the Occupation. In all the negotiations, people forgot that the projected state was only ever an interim objective of the Palestinian liberation movement, whose principle founding goal was the right of refugees to return to land that was stolen from them by Israelis in previous conflicts. After years of prevarication by Ehud Barak, and suppression by Ariel Sharon, the Oslo process has hit a brick wall. In this translation of their ruling on the Geneva Accord, FATEH (the Palestinian Liberation Movement) make plain that the Palestinian state is no longer the issue; only recognition of the right of return will end the conflict.
Azmi Bishara
What sense is there in attempts to blur the boundaries of the definition of the term and the phenomenon it identifies by claiming that racism against the Arabs is a form of anti-Semitism because the Arabs are Semites too? Why implicitly acknowledge this ethnic racial term, as though it were scientifically sound, and subsume ourselves beneath it? Racism against the Arabs does not have to be described as anti-Semitic in order to be condemned. Nor did hatred of the Jews in Europe arise because they were Semites.
Julian Manyon, ITV Correspondent
Sunday?s clashes in Samarra ? billed by the USA as their biggest post-invasion victory ? had all the classic ingredients of a Wild West thriller. The American white hats were delivering money to the town?s banks when they were ambushed by the black hats. The Americans were quicker on the draw and no fewer than 54 black hats perished in a hail of well-aimed gunfire. In fact, when I and other reporters reached the town, we found confusion, anger and a story that bore little resemblance to the made-for-TV version. It?s a story that gives the lie to Donald Rumsfeld?s airy claim that he doesn?t ?do? quagmires, for what happened in Samarra is something of an object lesson in how to make one.
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