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6/19/03

Your sidebar shows a category for Arab cartoonists, but all I get is a
"page missing" message.  Will there be a page for them?  Is there
another place where the work of Arab cartoonists is displayed?

Editor: The links were broken for three sections: Cartoons, News Archives, and News Photos. Sorry that you missed the daily cartoons. Anyway, you can look at all of them now. All sections are also linked on the front page, just under the the title. Thanks for your observation.

 


 

6/19/03

Hello,
I am writing this simply to say to you A big thank you for staying unbiased
and independant with your news reporting. If only more news services, such
as the BBC and others where as in depth and thorough as you appear to be.
While the BBC et al do report stories I have noticed they are very
"selective" as to what I - the viewer - see / hear / read . So to read
independant news reports is a good thing :)

keep up the good work :)

Martin H.

 

 



What really gets me with the following article is one particular remark: "Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence."  When is Avraham Toledo and his Zionist cohorts going to penalize those who engage in anti-Palestinianism, not to mention the vicious hateful creed directed against all non-Jews in their Talmudic Oral Laws, which they openly concede any more.  But, I guess living in Israel, a country where ethnic cleansing is part of its daily business, we might expect such hypocrisy from Avraham. 

m.f.

 Article follows:

 
Europe warned on anti-Semitism

The United States has said Europe must do more to tackle a resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world. The plea was made by former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, representing the US at a conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna. "Words do not suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism that is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world," he said. About 400 officials from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have gathered for the unprecedented two-day meeting following a rash of anti-Jewish incidents in Europe in recent years. The European Union told the conference it was taking action against anti-Jewish hatred but denied there had been a distinctive rise in anti-Semitism. Official limits Mr Giuliani told delegates to take concrete steps to stamp out violence against Jews, including keeping statistics on hate crimes, identifying problems early on and comparing performances between countries. In a message read to the conference, US President George W Bush urged countries to "ensure that anti-Semitism is excluded from school text books, official statements, official television programming and official publications". Last month, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre said attacks on Jews had reached the highest level since World War II. As well as physical attacks on Jews, many countries have reported vandalism of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, Hate messages French representative Michel Voisin, whose country has experienced a six-fold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the space of a year, said France viewed anti-Semitism as a "particularly odious form of racism". The Polish delegate, former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, warned that anti-Semitism had "mutated" in Poland since the Holocaust, which wiped out nearly all of Poland's pre-war Jewish population.


Several delegates pointed to the problem of the internet being used to spread hate messages, while Dutch OSCE ambassador Daan Everts highlighted "[racist] music [and] racist slogans in football stadiums". Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence. "It will not do to classify assaults on Jews, synagogues or Jewish communal institutions as mere hooliganism and vandalism," he said. The conference opened a day after the Romanian Government retracted an earlier claim that "there was no Holocaust" on Romanian soil.


Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/3004408.stm

Published: 2003/06/19 16:27:33 GMT

 





Mahathir's verdict: you're greedy, sexual deviants

June 19 2003 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launched a vitriolic attack on the European race today, accusing them of warmongering, indiscriminate attacks on Muslims, greed and sexual deviancy. Europeans, including "those who migrated and set up new nations in America, Australia and New Zealand", wanted "to control the world again", he said.

Predicting that he would be condemned as a "racist", the veteran Southeast Asian leader said he was "not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans."

"They are very clever, brave and have an insatiable curiosity," he said.

But "unfortunately they are also very greedy and like to take forcibly the territories and rights of other people."

In an obvious reference to the recent war on Iraq he said "they have demonstrated that they are ready to invent false allegations in order to go to war to kill children, old people, sick people", considering them "mere collaterals" who cannot stand in the way of their objectives.


Mahathir was speaking at the annual congress of his ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) for the last time before retiring in October after 22 years in power.

The leader of a moderate Muslim government, Mahathir said the September 11 2001 terrorist attack on the United States was "an excuse for the Anglo Saxon Europeans to return to their old violent ways.

"Their strategy to fight terrorism is through attacking Muslim countries and Muslims, whether they are guilty or not."

Just over a year ago Mahathir was invited to the White House to be thanked personally by President George W Bush for his support in the war on terrorism, but his strong opposition to the war in Iraq has seen relations sour.

Mahathir said Europeans also wanted to impose their cultural values on the world, including "unlimited freedom for the individual" and "the practice of free sex including sodomy as a right."

"Marriage between male and male, between female and female are officiallly recognised by them. What we call incest is not regarded as serious by them.

"The culture and the values which they will force us to accept will be hedonism, unlimited quest for pleasure, the satisfaction of base desires, particularly sexual desires. Our way of life must be the same as their way of life. Asian values do not exist for them."

AFP



This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/19/1055828425389.html


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6/22/03

Dear Editor
 
I had an opportunity to read your opinion on Sri Lankan peace process under the title Roadblock in Sri Lanka dated 21 June 2003.  I feel very sorry for the ignorance of the journalist on Sri Lankan affairs, who wrote this opinion.  This journalist has formed a wrong opinion about what is going on in this peace process, because this journalist is not aware of the details.
 
I am a Tamil Australian who is into the thick of this peace process and recently appeared on an ABC TV program under the Asia Pacific Focus program - "Double trouble in Sri Lanka" in which the Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumarathunga also was interviewed.  You could at least read the transcript at
http://www.abc.net.au/abcasiapacific/focus/stories/83874724.htm.
 
Road Maps and hence road blocks have become the popular jargons of the journalists these days when they write about conflicts.  However, using these jargons without knowing the true facts about a conflict and spreading false opinion among the readers is equivalent to a crime against humanity.
 
Your opinion starts with a false allegation that "This time the Tamil Tiger rebels have rejected the government's interim administration for the northeast of the island".  This is not correct.  Prime minister Ranil Wickramasinga in his Television address to the nation said that he is prepared to give an Interim Administrative Council and also said that the responsibility lies with the Tigers to participate in negotiations.  The LTTE's Chief Negotiator Anton Balasingam in a response to PM's address, given to the "Tamil Net" website has said that there is no difference between what PM has said before and now.  Balasingam also has said that for LTTE to discuss this matter with the government  face to face, PM has to give a framework of his plan on the Interim Administrative Council.  The "Tamil Net" published this as a response from the Tigers to PM's address.  But several media have headlined this news as Tigers have rejected PM's offer.
 
To go into the details of the IA, Tigers demanded an IA to be in place for the North East province until a new final constitutional arrangement is put in place.  Both PM and President in their last election manifesto promised to offer an IA for the North east.  President went even a further step and offered to give the administration of the North East to the Tigers for 10 years and also said that the Tigers could run the place with the help of their own police force.  Therefore the people of sri Lanka gave the mandate to both the PM and President to set up an IA (not as a final solution).  This is why the Government and Tigers set out to talk about an IA when they started the peace talks in Thailand.  But, because the PM was facing non cooperation from the President, knowing that he cannot offer an IA without her cooperation, he requested the Tigers not to insist on IA for the time being and the Government will try and fulfil its obligation through alternative means.  Tigers agreed for the sake of continuing the talks.  However after almost an year of negotiations, Tigers have found out that these arrangements have no legal powers to implement what is agreed upon through talks so far.  This is why Tigers are insisting on IA now.
 
As you are aware IA is the common denominator in any conflict resolution.  Without going through an IA it is impossible to change a Unitary state to a Federal State.  The roadblock to peace in Sri Lanka is the non-cooperation between the PM and the President.  Without both of them agree on anything, nothing will move forward.  This is the fact and this is the dilemma the PM is facing.
 
It is also stated in your opinion that " they (LTTE) refuse to talk directly the government, insisting instead the talking must be done by an IA".  This is gross misinformation concocted by the author of this opinion.  Tigers never said this.
 
It is also stated that the Tigers are demanding a fundamental overhaul of the peace process and it does not make sense as they are the ones who have undermined the process by refusing to talk directly to the government.  The author has taken this out of context here.  In referring to the final resolution made at the end of the Tokyo donor conference only the Tigers said that what is suggested in this final resolution is irrelevant as they are going to talk to the facilitators, Norway, about overhauling the peace process.  As an important party to the process Tigers have all the rights to request the facilitators to overhaul the whole process if they feel that the process is not going in the correct direction.  The direction cannot be dictated by others who have their own agenda.  This conflict cannot be resolved at a speed everyone wants for their own reasons.  The LTTE, Sri Lankan government and Norway only knows better, the speed at which the whole process could proceed.  Just for the sake of others' wish to find a quick fix, the Tamils in Sri Lanka are not prepared to sacrifice their right to self -determination.
 
Therefore I urge you to educate this opinion writer on this conflict, before he or she ventures out to write another opinion, for the sake of the benefit of your readers, if you are interested in providing your readers with accurate information.
 
Regards
 
Dr. Victor Rajakulendran
Tel: 02 9626 5487
7 Carly Place
Quakers Hill NSW 2763
AUSTRALIA. 

 


 

 

Dear Sir or Madam:

 

A recently concluded British Broadcasting Co. survey concluded that no less than 11,000 people from 11 countries throughout the world had a negative opinion of George W. Bush.  57 percent of those questioned had a very unfavorable, or fairly unfavorable attitude toward the US President, and when American opinions were eliminated from the survey, that number rose to 60 percent.

 

Jordan and Indonesia thought that the US was more dangerous to world peace and stability than Al-Qaeda.  The US was rated more dangerous than Iran, by people in Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea and Brazil, and more dangerous than Syria by respondents in all countries except Australia, Israel and the United States.

How can a president expect to broker peace in the Middle East when he and his country are held in such low esteem?

Walt Lukasik 

 


 

You have to like his painting "The Terrorist" and "The New World Order":

http://www.artmajeur.com/0/images/images/englishart_5149_The_Terrorist.jpg

http://www.artmajeur.com/0/images/images/englishart_5141_New-World-Order.jpg

His website - http://www.artmajeur.com/englishart/

m.f. 

 


Within the next few days, you will receive a copy of the special
IRMEP report "Dividends of Fear: America's $94 billion Arab Market
Export Loss" by U.S. mail.

This report examines falling U.S. exports to Arab countries and makes
recommendations for how businesses, diplomats, and government officials
can reverse the decline and productively re-engage the region.

This special report has been sent to a select group of influential
thought leaders.  Please let me know if you have not yet received your
copy by the end of next week.

Thank you,

Grant F. Smith, Director
Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy

 


Rove announces new Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace"

     Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rove, Perle -- sitting around the Oval Office.  George was off watching TV.

     "Let's stop playing God for a moment, said Perle.

     Total silence.  You could hear a pin drop.  "Nah.  Bad idea."

     "Let's shake up the Middle East again," said Rove.  Sure.  Whatja got?  "Well, the Afghanis, Iranians, Iraqis and CARS are killing each other off as planned."  With a little help from their American friends. "But the Jews and Muslims aren't killing each other fast enough.

     As usual, Rove had put his finger right on the problem.  No nuclear detonations, no fire storms, nothing.  Only 2,237 Arabs killed, only 720 Israelis killed, only 522 children.  Small potatoes.  Peanuts.

     Think tank mode.

     "I know!" sez Cheney.  "We need a new Roadmap!"  Cool.  "A Palestinian Roadmap!  Let's mess with their minds."  Give the Palestinians 8.5 million dollars a day too!

     "They can kill each other off, we get the Middle East, we get that idiot Charac off our necks."  Done deal.  No need to inform Congress. 

     The next day, Palestine announced their own Roadmap to Peace, bought matching Blackhawks, introduced settlers on the East Bank, started destroying businesses and olive groves and jailing men between the ages of 15 and 45.  Soon the Middle East was a desert.  An oil-producing desert.

     "Good work, Carl," said Wolfowitz.  "Now let's start on the real target.  California."

               Best regards, Jane Stillwater, Berkeley, CA

 


Reportedly, late last month, U.S. military forces arrested several persons
at the Embassy of Palestine in Baghdad, Iraq. The arrestees reportedly
included the Palestinian chargé d'affaires, Najah Abdul Rahman.

I am shocked by widespread reports that U.S. military forces have taken over
an embassy and are detaining diplomatic personnel. I am at a loss to
understand why this matter is not prominent in the news. When students took
over the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Americans were understandably
furious.

I am concerned that Najah Abdul Rahman may be in U.S. military detention. If
so, I urge that he be promptly released or charged with a recognizable crime
and be given a fair trial.

Thomas Prindiville Higgins
Attorney at Law
Ventura, CA 93001-2663

 


The author of this article was reported killed recently by a hit and run driver. 
Brian D. Ouig, 54, of Phoenix, AZ, died June 16, 2003.
Don Stacey
 
 
    

911 HIGH TREASON!!
by Brian Downing Quig  quig@dcia.com
 

After turning on my TV to see the burning tower after the first plane hit the WORLD TRADE CENTER my attention was arrested like all others. When the second plane hit the second tower I said to myself WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?  When the 3rd hijacked plane hit the PENTAGON, the first witnesses reported the "plane circled the PENTAGON in a sharply banked 270 degree turn that was distinctly different than any
commercial plane and more like a military plane" and bypassed a straight in shot at the offices of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF only to hit an insignificant spot in the back of the PENTAGON.  I said to myself then, IT IS NOT A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK!!  THANK GOD!!

One hour after the second plane hit a CIA analyst on ABC announced that it was Osama bin Laden who was behind the attacks!

When on the first day I saw it announced that terrorists left a flight manual for the BOEING 757 written in Arabic in their rental car parked at LOGAN AIRPORT I said THIS LOOKS LIKE PLANTED EVIDENCE REMINISCENT OF THE FAKED PHOTO OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD WITH THE RIFLE USED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT IN ONE HAD AND THE COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS IN THE OTHER THAT WAS USED TO CONVICT OSWALD IN THE MINDS OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

When the passport of the alleged lead terror pilot, Mohammed Atta, was found in 2 feet of rubble 2 blocks from the WTC I said WHO DO THEY EXPECT TO BELIEVE THAT!! Then they expected us to believe that Atta packed a bag for his suicide flight and by some good fortune it did not make his flight.  To top it all off the baggage contained a suicide note.  Then bin Laden makes a confession on video tape and leaves the
tape where it is found.  And the gullible American public buys it all primarily because it is unchallenged by the entire mass media!!

I can now give 25 compelling reasons to indict Daddy Bush, Cheney, the PENTAGON and the CARLYLE GROUP for the real terror behind 911.  Daddy Bush and Cheney were in the SITUATION ROOM at the WHITE HOUSE during the terror attacks (during the 34 minutes between the second WTC hit and the PENTAGON hit while a stand down order was issued to the AIR FORCE to supersede established intercept
procedures for planes that stray off course).

Junior Bush was reading stories to grade school children during the attacks.  He knew one plane had crashed into the WTC when the reading started.  When his top aid Andrew Card whispered in his ear about the second plane hitting the WTC this was caught on videotape and is widely available on the internet.  Junior Bush only looks up and nods and then goes back to reading stories to the kids for 25 more minutes!!  It clearly looks more like Card is informing Bush of an expected event.  There was for example no time for Card to add AND THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER HIJACKED PLANES IN THE AIR.
 
The Director of the WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM where all military crises are managed is with Junior Bush at the grade school.  At the end of the 25 minutes of reading Bush goes immediately to the library of the school where a press conference was set.  He says there I CALLED MY VICE PRESIDENT AND MY FBI DIRECTOR AND THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.  This was a lie!!  There was not enough
time for that.

It takes $5 million to make the minimum investment in CARLYLE GROUP, the defense contractor investment group whose stock has gone up 37% since 911.  The friends of Bush and Cheney are the other investors in CARLYLE GROUP along with the bin Ladens and John Major. CARLYLE GROUP was having their international investors conference in Washington D.C. at the RITZ CARLETON at the exact time of the
911 attacks.  CARLYLE GROUP had a big interest in BIOPORT a company that was the sole source of ANTHRAX VACCINE for the PENTAGON.  BIOPORT gave Admiral Crowe, the former Chairman of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF a 27% interest in the company for his pull

with the PENTAGON.  Do I have to connect all the dots regarding the ANTHRAX ATTACK that was traced to US military sources?

It was widely reported by THE NEW YORK TIMES Feb. 17, 2002, MSNBC Oct. 7, 2001 and others that Pakistani ISI Chief, General Mahmud, wire transferred $100,000 to alleged lead terror pilot Mohammed Atta the week before the terror attacks.  At the exact moment of the terror attacks Mahmud was having breakfast with the chairmen of the HOUSE (Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla) and SENATE (Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla) INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES along with my senator Jon Kyl.  I will have words with Kyl at the next opportunity. The $100,000 was sufficient to remove Mahmud from office but not enough for the light to go on in the brains of our top US intelligence officials!!

Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, and others were told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. In an exercise, called Operation "Swift Sword" planned for four years, 23,000 British troops were on their way to Oman the day before the attacks.  These troops were the ones used to assist the Americans in the Afghan invasion.   At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrived on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces were in place before the first plane hit the WTC!

Dan Hopsicker found plenty of CIA connections to the flight school in Venice Florida where Atta and others trained and much more of this nature

http://www.madcowprod.com/archive.htm

Ariel Sharon canceled his address to ISRAELI support groups in NEW YORK CITY just the day before his scheduled 9-11 address.  The 120 Israeli art student spy ring active in the UNITED STATES before 911 had a group living on the same street just 3 blocks form Mohammed Atta. US intelligence and US media had no interest in this ring or the 2 Israelis who were disarmed in the Mexican congress with guns and explosives
and fake Pakistani passports at a time when the congress was not going along with Fox's support for the Bush invasion of Afghanistan.

Those who consider it unthinkable that the UNITED STATES government and the ISRAELI government would fake a terror attack killing thousands to initiate a war to benefit those controlling these governments should listen to the sound track of the LOSS OF LIBERTY (Direct link for download: http://thewebfairy.com/liberty/liberty.rm )  It will take 2 hours to download with a 56k modem but it is worth it.  This is the account of how the 1967 WAR was started wherein all the Palestinian lands now in occupation were taken and how Israel tried to sink an American ship and blame it on the Egyptians.  The US government was clearly a party to this infamy!!

In my search for the best evidence of fake 911 terror I have found a great deal.  As far as stand alone evidence, the capability of the BOEING 757 and BOEING 767 to take off and land by computer alone is the most compelling.  These planes are fully capable of being remotely piloted which is what happened during the terror attacks.  Each of the four hijacked planes had 6 hidden panic alerts for just such events that were known to the flight crew.  NONE OF THEM WERE ACTIVATED!!  The alleged terrorists were the equivalent of Lee Harvey Oswalds --- patsies lured into place to take the blame.  Our FBI has made no effort to reconcile their initial list of terrorists with the real people with those identities shown to be alive in the Middle East!!

The overall plan to send operatives to the US and have them train to fly commercial aircraft at single engine flight schools is a very doubtful affair.  Real terrorists financed by bin Laden's billion dollars would have already been trained pilots quickly infiltrated shortly before the operation.  In secret operations like this time is the great terminator.  One of the alleged pilots trained at a single engine flight school in Phoenix that I once attended.  One day a year WILLIAMS AIR FORCE BASE opened their flight simulators to the public.  Their simulators were on hydraulic lifters with switches to day and night flight as well as various aircraft.  I used to consider myself lucky when I could crash the F-16 on the runway.  Usually I did not do that well!  For any terror master to bet the farm on such a dubious plan would be unthinkable.  But fooling the gullible American public is a far easier prospect.

The software of the BOEING 757 and 767 over rides pilot error and will not let a pilot make banking turns like the PENTAGON plane which was pulling 5 Gs at its final approach or the second WTC plane that was pulling 3 Gs.  This is the most fruitful area to explore for those wishing positive proof that the terror attacks were faked.

The American public has no concept of how the entire broadcast industry is monolithically controlled --- all offering the same lies at the same time.  There are 6 corporate groups that own all of the newspapers in America.  The last time the senate examined the corporate ownership of the broadcast industry was 1970 when they issued a report showing an enormous crime in progress.  A handful of international banks were illegally usurping corporate control of the entire broadcast industry in the UNITED STATES http://www.dcia.com/disclosure.html  It has only gotten much worse since then.

There is an ISRAELI WAR LOBBY numbering in the thousands beating the drum for war totally unchallenged on TV.  They are not registered as agents of a foreign government as law requires.  In the news media they fill the ranks of the very most prominent, like Ted Kopple, George Will, Mort Kondrakie, Wolf Blitzer and Billy Kristol.

The ambitions of the Bush administration go far beyond getting the Afghan pipeline to move the $350 billion of central Asian oil.  They are pressing for full-scale war where more is destroyed in a day than is produced in an entire year of peace.  From the business standpoint WAR IS THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER!!

I welcome comments, criticisms and corrections.

Brian Downing Quig
9-1-2002

 
 

 
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I was noticeably distrubed when I read about how Kevin McGuire was punished for telling the truth about Israel's hateful actions in the June edition of the magazine "Free American," which I purchased at Barnes & Noble.

 

It is a matter of common record that Israel has been engaging in terrorist actions since its inception.  Since its early days, we saw such hateful events as when Menachem Begin bombed the King David Hotel, murdering many Arabs and Europeans.  How did Israel respond?  They elected him prime minister.  When we saw Yitzhak Yezernitsky murder UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and England's Lord Moyne, how did the Israeli population respond?  Yezernitsky (or, Shamir, as he is better known) was also elected prime minister.

 

Later, we saw the LaVon Affair, when Israel bombed American interests in Egypt.  Some time later, we again witnessed the vicious nature of the Zionists when they murdered dozens of American sailors aboard the nigh-defenseless ship the USS Liberty, not to mentioning injuring close to 200.  It was an intentional act on Israel's part to place the blame on Egypt and entangle America in Israel's affairs.  In fact, the former heads of the NSA and CIA have gone on record attesting to the fact that Israel knew in advance, that it was a deliberate attack against an American ship, despite what Israel may say (having been caught in the act). 

 

I put together a few video clips of many such atrocities perpetrated by the Zionist hatemongers here:

 

(online med.-quality video for 112K+ connections – Windows Media Video)

 

http://www.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/zwc-ad-e-med.wmv

 

(sm. video for 56K connection, buffering req. – Windows Media Video)

 

http://www.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/zwcesad.wmv

 

These incidents are but few among hundreds of hateful acts perpetrated by the Zionist hatemongers.  There are too many massacres to even recall - Deir Yassin, Lebanon, Jenin, et cetera, ad nauseam.  In fact, as McGuire pointed out (if you had taken the time to honestly review the facts), 2,265 Palestinians have been murdered in the course of the last 3 years alone, 291 of whom were under 15 years old.  If Palestine had a population the same as America and the same percentage held true, that would be 226,500 people who were murdered by the Israeli hatemongers.  You can then begin to understand how it affects the lives of nearly all Palestinians, particularly when you add the injured and displaced among them.

 

For criticising Israel's gross violation of human rights, Kevin McGuire should have received a medal of honor from your college.  For you to cause him and the editor of your precious little newspaper grief is ludicrous. 

 

While you obviously don't respect either Truth or Free Speech - the ideas that this country was founded on - it is astounding that you can be so anti-American that you'd displace people who are working to keep America safe and intact - people like McGuire who honestly criticise Israel's gross violation of human rights.  

 

Whose side are you on?

 

Sincerely,

 

Mark Franklin

 


 

A letter from George Galloway

Dear Sir,
 
I received the following appeal today.  I believe that this man and his legal battle is worthy of our support as the trial will expose the  'Money-power' terrorists, behind the wars, the media and the British & American government.
Yours,
 
John Bayldon
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: Thank you for your support

 23rd June 2003

Dear Friend,

In view of your kind support for my work in the past I am writing to ask for your help.

I have launched the GEORGE GALLOWAY LEGAL FUND which will be handled by my lawyers DAVENPORT LYONS, 1 OLD BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON, W1X 2NL. This is to help finance my legal costs in the libel actions I will fight against the Daily Telegraph and the Christian Science Monitor after their vicious attacks upon me in April of this year.

As you will have seen the Christian Science Monitor have now accepted that the documents on which they based a front page story, published all over the world, alleging that I had taken more than six million pounds from the former Iraqi regime, were forgeries. You will know that another newspaper the Mail on Sunday consulting different experts quickly came to the same conclusion. But an apology is not enough, I want this matter fully dealt with through the law and above all I want to get to the bottom of this conspiracy. That is why I need your help.

These utterly false claims were, as I'm sure you will have concluded, entirely politically motivated. They were intended to punish me for my role on the Palestinian and Iraq issues, to intimidate me and others from continuing to make a stand and if possible to drive me out of British politics altogether.

With the support of my friends I intend to fight this. I hope I can count you as one of those friends.

The Telegraph group is controlled by Lord and Lady Black (Barbara Amiel), two of Sharon's and Israel's most vociferous supporters. On Black's board of directors sit Richard Perle and Henry Kissinger, as did once Margaret Thatcher. I mention this so you'll know what we're up against and the bitter and expensive fight on which I have embarked.

I can't do it without your help and I hope you will donate what you can. All contributions will be carefully recorded and will be returned on the successful awarding of costs in the case, or a proportion will be returned if costs are only partly awarded.

Cheques etc should be made payable to the GEORGE GALLOWAY LEGAL FUND and sent to DAVENPORT LYONS SOLICITORS, 1 OLD BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON W1X 2NL, together with a contact address so contributions can be returned. Confidentiality will be respected.


I sincerely hope I can count on your support in what will be an important political as well as legal struggle.

In any case with all good wishes,

Yours fraternally

George Galloway MP

 


 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).
The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

 

 

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