Letters to the Editor, February 20, 2004

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I have been searching all over the internet to find out what has happened to the impetus behind the Geneva Accord. Several weeks ago the two architects of the plan were planning to come to Amsterdam for a debate, but the event was cancelled. No reason was given. I am very drawn to those who work in any capacity for world peace and am thus drawn to the concept of the Geneva Accord. I have just come across your website and was wondering if perhaps you could clarify the mystery behind the disappearance of the Geneva Accord and why there are no public debates at the moment?

Next Monday in the Hague in the Netherlands the International Court will begin an assessment of the legalities of the wall now being constructed in Israel. It occurred to me yesterday that the Geneva Accord could be the "wall" that allows two people to stop killing each other and give them a chance to build up their lives and cultures without oppression and fear. The idea is based on concessions so that both sides can begin to live in peace. The deeper and broader idea is based on something known as Right Human Relations.

I feel at a loss to do much constructive in order to help the world move closer to this idea. An idea based on the concept of brotherhood. I believe in these concepts.

Perhaps someone somewhere could create the idea that would substitute the building of a concrete separating wall for the building of an ideological wall, which is of course called the Geneva Accord.
Thank you very much for your time.

Editor: I think that you've already answered the question. On Monday, February 23, 2004, the International Court of Justice at the Hague will start its hearing sessions about the Sharon Land-Grab Wall. Both Yossi Beilin and Yassir Abed Rabbo, the Geneva Accord architects, are against the Wall. They would not do anything to distract international public opinion from this important world event. That's why, I think, the debate or presentation was cancelled or postponed.

Ever since Israel's founding in 1948, the U.S. has surrendered it's foreign policy expertise to Israel, with one exception: 1956 when Israel, UK, France attacked Egypt, President Eisenhower forced them to withdraw from the Suez Canal and the Sinai Desert.

The founders of Israel formulated a policy of driving a wedge between the US and the Arabs/Muslim world It went to the extent of Israel bombing US embassies and installations and blaming it on Arabs. Ex. Lavon Affair. Israel is the true ground zero between the US and the Muslim world but we are too fearful and intimidated to speak out even when it's our own dollars and weapons killing the innocent civilians in the Arab/Muslim world.

LONDON TIMES: 2/19 PERLE SCANDAL FROM HALLIBURTON/IRAQ'S WAR. MEDIA/CONGRESS SILENT AS KOSHERLY USUAL

RICHARD PERLE, a neocon with massive Chutzpah, pushed for Iraqi war to benefit US security, NO, to benefit Israel and his pocket, $3 MILLION, dollars worth, NOW say "heads should roll" in CIA/DIA although he denounced their cautious intelligence as FAULTY.

WHY IS OUR MEDIA NOT REPORTING ON THIS SCANDAL? For the same reason the media supported the war and now not expressing outrage at US deaths due to LIES, ie, THE SAME REASON AS PERLE'S: ISRAEL AND MONEY.

Josh Marshall of www.talkingpointsmemo.com fame has a devastating but funny response to President Bush, who recently said,

"When the president came into office the budget surplus was over $200 billion. Now the deficit is over $500 billion.

Even my frail grasp of mathematics tells me that's a deterioration in the nation's fiscal health of roughly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in the three years he's been in office. And for almost all of that time the president's party controlled both houses of congress.

This is the arsonist in your house telling you that stranger outside with the hose can't be trusted."

MORE THAN EMPTRY ELECTIONEERING SLOGANS NEED TO TRANSFORM BJP INTO A SECULAR PARTY

For the first time in 15 years, while holding a public rally in Srinagar, Kashmir, BJP’s voluble Party President M. Venkiaih Naidu, came out with one of the most incredible announcement: ‘BJP is not anti-Muslim. This is a campaign by our rivals to keep Muslims from out party.’

He appeared to be as disengaged from the reality as the defeated US Democratic Party nomination hopeful Howard Dean, who was once a front runner for his party’s presidential nomination and had to bow out of the race, as he could not figure out how to control his own exuberance even while coming out third in Iowa caucus.

Venkiaih Naidu can hardly claim pro-Muslim credentials of BJP, while all over the country, the party cadre and propagandists are once again re-sharpening their anti-Muslims agenda and rhetoric to hoodwink their committed hard-line Hindutva vote bank.

In UP, the real battleground for the election Mahabharat, BJP’s newly anointed Chief campaigner, the once reviled Kalyan Singh, has chosen to reactivate his own real chameleon colors by declaring once again that Babri Masjid/ Ram Mandir issue is not dead, thus flogging a dead horse as far as its election USP is concerned. BJP is again mobilizing its cadre and all other parties are apprehensive that the third-ranking BJP in UP will once again organise some massive communal incident to try to regain its once prime position in the state.

In Madhya Pradesh, Uma Bharati has once again rekindled the issue of Bhojshala to incite communal flames and turn the whole face-off once again, as an anti-Muslim campaign to garner maximum mileage.

While BJP party functionaries are trying to woo opportunist border-line Muslim bounty hunters, RSS leadership including its chief, Pandit Sudarshan has not minced its words, when they asked Jamiat ul Ulama’s emissaries in a meeting last month, that Muslim should ‘take out all ‘offensive’ mention of ‘Kuffar’ from the holy Quran’, without fully understanding the import of the word, its meaning and its contexts.

It is surprising that the tame Jamiatul Ulama luminaries did not had the guts to ask RSS leadership to first take out all anti-Muslim propaganda from the books of their own leaders like Hedgewar, Golwalkar and Savarkar. After all they do not claim divine sourcing for the rabid anti-Muslim foundations of their whole Hindutva formulations.

If Venkiaih Naidu wants to prove to Muslims that the BJP has now understood the need of the hour for the nation to dump its militant Hindutva ideology, it should first cleanse its books of all anti- Muslim poison first, before addressing public meetings to appeal for Muslim votes.