Archived news and commentary: January 14 - 20, 2002

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2002/03/18 - 2002/03/24
2002/03/11 - 2002/03/17
2002/03/04 - 2002/03/10
2002/02/25 - 2002/03/03
2002/02/18 - 2002/02/24
2002/02/11 - 2002/02/17
2002/02/04 - 2002/02/10
2002/01/28 - 2002/02/03
2002/01/21 - 2002/01/27
2002/01/14 - 2002/01/20
2002/01/07 - 2002/01/13
2002/01/01 - 2002/01/06

Sunday, January 20, 2002

News and commentary:

"What the hell are you doing in OUR name Mister Blair?"
(The Mirror, 2002/01/21)

"Stop this brutality in our name, Mister Blair" (The Mirror, 2002/01/20)
An example of British medias hysterical overreaction to the fact that arriving Camp X-Ray prisoners were manacled and "forced to kneel". Never mind that even small scale offenders are routinely "forced to kneel" or even lie down by virtually all military and police forces around the world: "This is what is being done in the name of humanity, civilisation and the British people. These prisoners are trapped in open cages, manacled hand and foot, brutalised, tortured and humiliated. ... The treatment of the prisoners in Cuba is no more than a sick attempt to appeal to the worst red-neck prejudices. ... The President and his head-banging associates are proud of them, proud of the cruelty inflicted in their name, proud of the vengeance they are taking."

"Pakistan's Constitution Avenue" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2002/01/20)
"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's Jan. 12 speech to his nation has the potential - the potential - to be the kind of mind-set-shattering breakthrough for the Muslim world that has not been seen since Anwar el-Sadat's 1977 visit to Israel. Why? Because for the first time since Sept. 11, a Muslim leader has dared to acknowledge publicly the real problem: that Muslim extremism has been rooted in the educational systems and ruling arrangements of many of their societies, and it has left much of the Muslim world in a backward state. But he also laid out a road map for doing something about it - not just throwing extremists in jail, but confronting their extremist ideas with modern schools and a progressive Islam. Ever since Sept. 11 it has been clear that we need a war within Islam, not with Islam, and at least one leader has finally declared it. It would be nice if some Arab Muslim leaders now did the same."

 

Saturday, January 19, 2002

News and commentary:

"Tanks Approach Arafat's Office" (Lee Hockstader, The Washington Post, 2002/01/19)
"Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and paratroops advanced nearly to the doorstep of Yasser Arafat's walled headquarters Friday, and troops blew up the Voice of Palestine radio station before dawn today. ... The tanks began rumbling into Ramallah on Friday in retaliation for an attack by a Palestinian gunman on Thursday that killed six Israelis at a party in a banquet hall. The forces thrust deeper into Ramallah than Israel has gone in 16 months of fighting. U.S.-made Israeli F-16 warplanes also bombed the Palestinian town hall and security headquarters in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, the gunman's home town. ... Israeli officials said the gunman who attacked the banquet hall was a member of the armed wing of Arafat's Fatah organization, known as the Tanzim, Arabic for "the organization." They said the Palestinian leader had done nothing to rein in his own people - let alone crack down on such militant groups as the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas."

"Are the French 'a shi*tty lot'?" (Suzanne Lowry, The Spectator, from the 2002/01/19 issue)
"The usually tight-lipped Vedrine is the ambassador’s boss, yet the spat was not over undiplomatic indiscretion, but rather the increasing number of anti-Jewish outrages, such as those at the synagogue and school in Créteil at the end of the year. This suburb has a 20,000-strong Jewish community, the largest in the Paris region but nothing like as large as the North African immigrant community whose fervent young Muslims have been bringing the intifada into their own backyard. The result is what intellectuals have named 'Judaeophobia', to distinguish it from plain old-fashioned anti-Semitism. Pierre-André Taguieff has written a study of this phenomenon called La nouvelle Judéophobie. He blames its appearance on out-of-control delinquency in the suburban immigrant ghettos and on the lefty intellos who embrace a fervent 'Palestinophilia' and demonise Israel. ... The new and bitter twist is that this aggression comes from within the North African immigrant community. Three Maghrebian Muslims have been charged with the assaults on the school and synagogue — the last in a line of offences that began 15 months ago with the launch of the second intifada in Palestine."

"Annabel Croft can't take on Accrington Stanley" (Mark Steyn, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/01/19)
Steyn takes on Professor Marc Herold's estimate that nearly 4,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan. Herold's estimation has been used by various commentators and newsmedia (For example: "'I think that a much more realistic figure would be around 5,000. You know for Afghanistan, 3,700 to 5,000 is a really substantial number.' The figure is well in excess of the estimated 2,998 people killed in the 11 September attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center." ("Afghanistan's civilian deaths mount", BBC News, 2002/01/03)): "Professor Herold does not use official Pentagon data. Au contraire, he says he has avoided the ethnocentric bias of granting greater reliability to US or British sources: Iranian radio is given just as much credence as CNN. ... Right away, in his very first statistic, he's doubled the Taliban's own estimate of fatalities. ... The remaining three incidents have just one long-distance source apiece. The Pakistan Observer, the Pakistan News Service and the Global Report of Asheville, North Carolina. ... You don't have to be a Right-wing madman like me to dispute Prof Herold's civilian death toll of 4,000. Even Human Rights Watch puts civilian fatalities at about 1,000. So why on earth would The Spectator's media watchdog lend credence to junk numbers even the humanitarian lobby doesn't support?" (See also: "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States’ Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting" (Marc W. Herold, globalexchange.org, December 2001))

 

Friday, January 18, 2002

News and commentary:

"British Magazine Raising Specter of 'Zionist Lobby'" (Forward, 2002/01/18)
"In what some see as a pattern since September 11, a leading British weekly has raised the specter of Jewish control over the media and government. The cover story of the January 14 edition of the New Statesman, a respected liberal weekly, is headlined "A Kosher Conspiracy?" and features a gold Star of David appearing to pierce a Union Jack. The story purports to investigate whether there is a "Zionist" plan to sway the British press to the side of Israel and to minimize Palestinian grievances. It also assesses the extent to which Jews influence British politics. "That there is a Zionist lobby and that it is rich, potent, and effective goes largely unquestioned on the left," writes Dennis Sewell. "Big Jewry, like big tobacco, is seen as one of life's givens." Journalists who dare to speak out against the "Zionist lobby," Mr. Sewell adds, are harassed, threatened and eventually muted. ... The New Statesman article is only the latest example of what some say has become a wide expression of anti-Semitism in Britain since September 11." (See also: "A kosher conspiracy?" (Dennis Sewell, The New Statesman, from the 2002/01/14 issue))

"U.S. slams Syria for equating Gaza demolitions, WTC attacks" (Reuters/Haaretz, 2002/01/18)
Moral equivalence Syrian style, equating the demolition of Palestinian houses, used for staging terrorist attacks, with the WTC attacks: "The United States on Friday criticized Syria for equating the September 11 attacks against the World Trade Center with Israel's recent demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. A U.S. official told reporters that "the idea of equating the destruction of the World Trade Center and the demolition of homes that has been going on in the territories is outrageous." ... In his debut speech as a new UN Security Council member, Syrian representative Fayssal Mekdad said the 15-member body practiced a double standard in denouncing terrorism around the world but avoiding criticism of Israel. "We must note the scene of tens of Palestinian houses which were demolished by Israeli tanks in the Rafah camps a few days ago is not much different from the scene of the World Trade Center which was destroyed by the terrorists, whom we have all agreed here to combat and eliminate," Mekdad said."

"Arabs Still Want to Destroy Israel" (Daniel Pipes, from The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/18)
"Israel now has the unenviable task of convincing the Arabs that their dreams of destruction will fail. Translated into action, that means resolve and toughness. It means becoming feared, not loved. ... For many governments, even the American one, this approach requires a reversal from current policy of premising a breakthrough on concessions from Israel. Such a reversal in policy will not come easily, but it is a near-prerequisite for anyone truly serious about closing down the Arab-Israeli conflict."

"Time's Up - No more chances for terrorists" (Michael Ledeen, National Review, 2002/01/18)
"It's Munich, all over again, with Israel cast in the role of the brave little democracy about to be devoured by the fearsome tyrant while the West acquiesces and proclaims a new era of peace. I always marveled at the Europeans' ability to praise Hitler as a man of peace, and get terribly annoyed at Czechoslovakia for denying the poor man his richly deserved peace of mind...by existing in his Lebensraum. I'm getting to understand it better these days. The Europeans are more practiced at this form of self-deception than we, and so they've gone straight to the final chapter: Israel is the problem, we don't want this annoyance, so let's get on with it. The American people won't buy this, and so even those Europeanized diplomats who would love to see Israel disappear tomorrow (thereby producing real and eternal peace, in their view) can't quite say it, and so they limit themselves to a strained moral equivalence."

"Saudis May Seek U.S. Exit" (David B. Ottaway and Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post, 2002/01/18)
"Saudi Arabia's rulers are increasingly uncomfortable with the U.S. military presence in their country and may soon ask that it end, according to several Saudi sources. Such a decision would deprive the United States of regular use of the Prince Sultan Air Base, from which American power has been projected into the gulf region and beyond for more than a decade. Senior Saudi rulers believe the United States has "overstayed its welcome" and that other forms of less conspicuous military cooperation should be devised once the United States has completed its war in Afghanistan, according to a senior Saudi official."

 

Thursday, January 17, 2002

News and commentary:

"Manual for a 'Raid'" (Hassan Mneimneh and Kanan Makiya, The New York Review of Books, 2002/01/17)
"Three handwritten copies of a five-page Arabic document were found by the FBI after the September 11 attack: one in a car used by the hijackers and left outside Dulles International Airport, one in a piece of Mohammad Atta's luggage that, by accident, did not get on the plane from Logan Airport, one in the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. ... "If God grants any one of you a slaughter, you should perform it as an offering on behalf of your father and mother, for they are owed by you. Do not disagree amongst yourselves, but listen and obey." Here we find an explanation of what it means to kill a passenger who is attempting to resist. The Arabic word used for "grant" is manna, as in the biblical manna; it connotes the idea of a bounty or an act of grace conferred by God upon a person who has not asked for it. The Arabic for "slaughter" is dhabaha. The author has pointedly chosen it over the more common qatala, which means, simply, to kill. The classical dictionaries tell us the primary meaning of dhabaha is to cleave, slit, or rip something open. This is the word used for slitting the two external jugular veins in the throat of an animal. It is quick, direct, and always physically intimate; one does not slaughter with a gun, or a bomb, from afar."

"Gunman kills 6, wounds 30 at Israeli banquet" (CNN.com, 2002/01/17)
"An attack Thursday at a bat mitzvah here [in Hadera] left as many as seven people dead -- including the attacker -- and dozens wounded, said a spokesman for the Israeli national police. Israeli police said a man entered a banquet hall in this coastal city in northern Israel and began shooting an automatic weapon and throwing grenades. ... The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- the military wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement -- claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in response to the assassination Monday of popular Fatah leader Raed al-Karmi. ... The attack happened at 9:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. ET) as guests were departing the bat mitzvah celebration of a 12-year-old girl, said Gil Kleiman, a spokesman for the Israeli police."

"Did the left lose the war?" (Andy Becket, The Guardian, 2002/01/17)
"These are delicate times for the left, in Britain and elsewhere. First, two of its traditional enemies, the Pentagon and New York's financial district, were bloodily assaulted. Then, the leaders of this revolt against American dominance of the world were revealed, almost certainly, to be religious radicals of considerable ideological ambiguousness. Then the traditional instruments of American oppression in the eyes of its critics - bombing and the use of dubious allies - were deployed in response, with apparent success. And a solid majority of the British public approved, as did the great majority of left-of-centre politicians in Britain and abroad."

"The Southeast Asian Jihad" (Dana Dillon and Paolo Pasicolan, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/17)
"Imagine an Afghanistan-by-the-South-China-Sea, a radical Muslim state carved out from renegade regions of Southeast Asia, led by fundamentalist clerics calling for the destruction of the West. That's the vision that animates Jemaah Islamia, a group aiming to establish "Daulah Islamiah," a state that would include parts of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Fortunately, the group's timetable for paradise on earth has suffered a setback, with the recent arrest of a 13-member unit in Malaysia and a squad of 15 in Singapore. ... These and other signs of international coordination and cooperation involving local, radical Islamic groups should trigger alarm bells throughout Southeast Asia. Yet so far, most governments have downplayed the threat posed by these groups, regarding them as little more than for-profit criminal organizations, Islamic versions of La Cosa Nostra that deploy Muslim fundamentalism primarily for public relations purposes. That may have been the case a few years back. But evidence is mounting that these groups are much more sinister than some governments are willing to admit. ... In Southeast Asia, the next logical step for terrorist groups is to work in concert. Al Qaeda would be their ideal umbrella organization."

"When a Palestinian house is not a home" (Suzanne Fields, TownHall, 2002/01/17)
"The sympathy has begun to dissolve with the news that the Israeli army demolished dozens of houses in the Gaza strip, which the Israelis say were nests of terrorists. The destroyed houses covered the tunnels that allowed smugglers to deliver arms. But never mind: The world media could return to the story line it likes best, Israel heartlessly brutalizing the homeless. But even Simon Peres, the dovish Israeli foreign minister who often seems most comfortable criticizing his own government, said the "media damage" was worth it because the destruction was warranted: "We didn't touch - according to the information in my hands - any innocent houses, only houses that harbored an entrance to the tunnels or served as positions for terrorists or firing squads." ... Destroying houses is grim business, but Sharon's defense rings true: "We act according to security needs, and that's the only thing that influences our considerations." To do otherwise is suicidal. A house that shelters gunmen and covers tunnels of arms smugglers is not a home."

 

Wednesday, January 16, 2002

News and commentary:

"Facing Unpleasant Facts in the Middle East" (Steven Plaut, The Israel Report, 2002/01/16)
"For those returning to the planet Earth from Fantasyland in the "Oslo" parallel universe, it behooves them and us all to bear in mind some of the unpleasant facts of life about the Middle East.
1. The Arab world has never come to terms with Israel's existence within ANY set of borders whatsoever and is still seeking the destruction of Israel and its population.
2. ANY Palestinian state, regardless of who rules it, will produce escalated violence, terror and warfare in the Middle East, and not stability nor peaceful relations. It will seek warfare with Israel and not solutions to the economic and social problems of its citizens.
3. The only reason Arafat and the PLO ever wanted control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was to use them as bases for attacks on Israel. This is the only real use to which they will be put by any future Palestinian state.
4. There is no alternative that will stop the bloodshed and war in the Middle East other than the adoption by Israel of an unambiguous policy of R&D, that is, of Re-Occupation and Denazification of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Every other alternative proposal for stabilization and pacification is delusional."

"Arafat's real mission" (Barry Rubin, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/01/16)
"During the past 18 months alone, Arafat turned down the good basis for a deal at Camp David, then launched a war against Israel, then broke several promises to bring about a cease-fire, then rejected President Clinton's even better plan, thus guaranteeing Ariel Sharon's election as Israel's prime minister; then, by continuing his terrorist strategy, he threw away the chance to exploit the September 11 attacks on America, then lost a war in which he was responsible for 1,000 deaths and the destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure, then still didn't order a real cease-fire, then ordered home delivery on a boatload of weapons which showed the hollowness of his pretensions to end the violence."

"Occidentalism" (Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, from the 2002/01/17 issue)
"The modern city, representing all that shimmers just out of our reach, all the glittering arrogance and harlotry of the West, has found its icon in the Manhattan skyline, reproduced in millions of posters, photographs, and images, plastered all over the world. You cannot escape it. You find it on dusty jukeboxes in Burma, in discothèques in Urumqi, in student dorms in Addis Ababa. It excites longing, envy, and sometimes blinding rage. The Taliban, like the Nazi provincials horrified by "nigger dancing," like Pol Pot, like Mao, have tried to create a world of purity where visions of Babylon can no longer disturb them. ...
Whatever Israel does, it will remain the alien grit in the eyes of Muslim purists. And the US will always be intolerable to its enemies. In bin Laden's terms, "the crusader-Jewish alliance, led by the US and Israel," cannot do right. The hatred is unconditional. As he observed in a 1998 interview for al-Jazeera TV: "Every grown-up Muslim hates Americans, Jews, and Christians. It is our belief and religion. Since I was a boy I have been at war with and harboring hatred towards the Americans." The September angels of vengeance picked their target carefully. Since the Manhattan skyline is seen as a provocation, its Babylonian towers had to come down." (Note: The original link is down, but the article can be found via The Wayback Machine.)

"U.S. Won't Seek Death For Walker" (Dan Eggen and Brooke A. Masters, The Washington Post, 2002/01/16)
"John Walker Lindh, the restless Marin County wanderer who journeyed halfway around the world to fight alongside the Taliban militia, was charged yesterday with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens in Afghanistan and providing support to terrorist groups, including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. In outlining a case that could put Walker in prison for life, prosecutors also disclosed that Walker learned three months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks that bin Laden had sent operatives to the United States to carry out unspecified suicide missions, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria."

"U.S.- Philippine Command May Signal War's Next Phase" (Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 2002/01/16)
"In the first major expansion of the war on terrorism, American and Philippine military officers in Manila began preparing joint operations today against a Muslim extremist group linked to Al Qaeda in the southern Philippines. More than 600 American troops, including 160 Special Operations forces trained in counterterrorism, are expected to be sent this month to train and advise 1,200 Philippine Army soldiers in how to destroy Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group that is holding hostages, including two Americans."

 

Tuesday, January 15, 2002

News and commentary:

"1,430 Being Held in Pakistan as Part of Terror Crackdown" (Erik Eckholm and Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times, 2002/01/15)
"The Pakistani government has rounded up 1,430 people across the country in recent days and sealed 390 offices of militant groups as part of a widening crackdown on extremists ordered by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a senior police official said today. ... The Pakistani authorities have identified a total of 3,000 people, including its Kashmiri sector, they want to detain, the official said, adding that both India and the United States should clearly see that General Musharraf was serious about his pledges."

 

Monday, January 14, 2002

News and commentary:

"Princely payments" (Linda Robinson and Peter Cary, usnews.com, 2001/01/14)
An article on Saudi "protection money" and corruption: "Strained relations between Washington and Riyadh are nothing new. But since September 11, tensions have increased markedly. One reason, high-level intelligence sources tell U.S. News, is that at least two Saudi princes had been paying, on behalf of the kingdom, what amounts to protection money to Osama bin Laden since 1995. In November of that year, a bomb at the Saudi National Guard headquarters in Riyadh killed several American military advisers who worked closely with the force. One source, a former senior Clinton administration official, said that the two princes, whose names have not been disclosed, began making payments to bin Laden soon after the bombing. The official added that Washington did not learn of the payments until at least two years later. "There's no question they did buy protection from bin Laden," he says. "The deal was, they would turn a blind eye to what he was doing elsewhere. 'You don't conduct operations here, and we won't disrupt them elsewhere.' ... Even Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the ebullient Saudi ambassador in Washington, has freely acknowledged that there is corruption in the kingdom. In an interview with the PBS program Frontline, Bandar spoke of his country's $400 billion development program. "You could not have done all of that for less than, let's say, $350 billion. If you tell me that building this whole country, and spending $350 billion out of $400 billion, that we misused or got corrupted with $50 billion, I'll tell you, yes," he said. 'So what? We did not invent corruption.'"

"Arafat: 'Israel murders our children and use their organs as "spare parts" for organ-transplants'" (Islamic Association For Palestine, 2002/01/14)
The accusation of blood libel has been used throughout history against Jews. In this case the accusation comes from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat: "Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has accused the Israeli apartheid regime of murdering Palestinian children and youths and extricating their vital organs for organ transplants. "They murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts," Arafat said during an interview with the pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite television last night."

"Denial: A River in Egypt" (Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer, New York Post/danielpipes.org, 2002/01/14)
"But the Middle East media knows better. "The story of the arms ship is but a licensed fabrication by Israel," announces the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian government's daily, Al-Akhbar. Saudi media agree that the episode was a hoax, with Arab News calling it "an elaborate trap" and Ar-Riyadh alleging that it "was necessary to fabricate the ship story" to implicate other Arab and Muslim countries as sponsors of terrorism. Qatar's Ash-Sharq interpreted it as an Israeli "pretext for more oppression and terrorism against the Palestinians" and a story that "no sane person can believe." ... This pattern of avoiding unpleasant facts offers an insight into the problems of Muslim society. Turning defeat into victory, evidence into forgery, and terrorism into an "inside job" creates an alternate and more hospitable world. But this denial avoids problems rather than dealing with them. Not acknowledging who carried out the 9/11 atrocities, for example, means ignoring its many causes, from a radicalized school curriculum to the use of Islamic "charities" for money-laundering. Part of the U.S. war on terrorism, therefore, has to be working with Muslim governments and pressing them to face reality. This will not be easy, but so long as they remain in denial, the stage is set for fresh disasters."

"'No more Mr Nice Guy': the lesson America has learnt" (Barbara Amiel, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/01/14)
"When the Arab world responded by either remaining quiet or actually cheering the attack, even while some leaders made ritual condemnations, the blindfold fell off America's eyes. The United States realised that the problem was not Israel's intransigence, nor even the conflict that comes from Israel's existence, but Islamism. ... With the successful liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban and a cornered Arafat, the Third and Oriental worlds see that nothing is as irresistible as the successful use of power. ... If America continues to show that it is no paper tiger, it will be increasingly less fashionable to bad-mouth either it or its allies. The dislike of Israel and Jews may not abate among those who dislike them, but the fashion for showing that dislike, will, effendi, not "apply" and will retreat like the Turkish station master."

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