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LETTERS
[From Br. Hani in
Canada.]
Ref. to New Trend letter:
EVEN BABY VICTIM OF ISRAEL
WAS AFFECTED BY CULTURAL
IMPERIALISM
[From Sis. J. in Maryland:]
Even the shoes of the Islamic leader's
poor baby had the stamp of Mickey
Mouse on them.
Al-Salamu `Alaykum
The message your letter carried was indeed
correct. Muslims need to
boycott
Jewish
products, not just because in turn we help
support them. But also
because it amounts to accepting their Western
culture.
On another count, I thought you might not realize
this fact. Israeli
businesses illegally use international logos so
they can market their
merchandise in the rest of the world, including
its Muslim neighbors. The
Palestinian
areas are not allowed, by Israeli
law, to import any products
that Israeli manufacturers can fake. If you go to
the markets of the Gaza
Strip, the West Bank, or Israel itself you will
find a lot of made-in-Japan,
Italy, Hong-Kong, etc with renowned brand-name
tags and logos on them.
They're all made in Israel!
Wa al-Salam
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[From Lynne Stewart, attorney for
Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman,
New York City.]
[Ref: New Trend's report on Lynne Stewart's
program in California.]
Thanks so much for your article. It was
extremely well done and accurate.
UNLIKE the
New York Times!!!
Hope you and your
family are well. Ralph and
I are doing a lot of travelling speaking out
against the real terrorists,
especially Ashcroft.
I don't know if you are aware but ['Abdel]
Sattar's lawyers joined by my
and
Yousry's lawyers, have moved the Judge to allow
them to interview the
Sheik's son at Guantanamo or wherever he is
held.
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"Anti-Anti-Semitism Conference", Giuliani and a
Muslim's Response
as-Salam `alaykum!
Here's another story that Kevin Walsh forwarded
to me
and my responses to it. It is actually an
alarming
item when we go beyond the emotionalism that they
are
trying to evoke about New York and
9/11
and get
down
to what is really going on here.
First you find Kevin's commentary. Then the
newspaper
article that he forwarded to me, then finally,
beginning with "Dear Kevin" is my response.
Wa-s-salam!
Eric Mueller
Texas
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K J WALSH wrote
Some misguided leftists would have us
distinguish
between "anti-Semitism"
(criticism of Jews, whether Semites or not) and
anti-Zionism,
possibly
because they really think there is a
substantial
difference and don't see
any harm in what Jews do outside of their
"Israel"
or because the are
afraid of the stigma of the former label and
think
they can escape it.
Wrong! You can't escape it. The
Jew-media
will
always find a way to
label you "anti-Semitic" if you support
Palestine.
This article is still
more proof of that. To correct a deceptive
statement found theirin,
the "documented 1300 anti-Semitic acts in
France"
consisted mainly of
non-violent non-destructive non-threatening
verbal
incidents, primarilly
the expression of opinions unlawful to express
in
France, such as that
the Auschwitz gas chamber story is false.
The following article, attributed to George
Jahn of
the
Associated Press
,
appeared on page A18 of the Friday, June 20,
2003
edition of The Arizona
Republic. One wants to ask Mr. Giuliani how a
hatred could endure for
two millenia without having a material basis
and how
Europe could have
become the world's most advanced continent if
it was
constantly being
"held back" for that period.
--Kevin Walsh
GIULIANI URGES ANTI-SEMITISM FIGHT
Says Old "Burden" Holds Europe Back
Vienna--Anti-Semitism is a scourge of Europe
rooted
in the same hate that led
to the September 11 attacks, former New York
Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani told an
international gathering Thursday.
Giuliani spoke as chief U.S. delegate to a
55-nation
conference aimed at
fighting anti-Semitism around the world. As he
spoke, he noted the short
distance to the Vienna square where adoring
crowds
mobbed Adolf Hitler as
he celebrated Nazi Germany's 1938 annexation of
Austria.
"So many lessons of history have not been
learned,"
Giuliani said. "If action
had been taken in the 1930s, then millions and
millions of people would have
lived."
Anti-Semitism, he said, is "a burden that has
held
Europe back for two
millenia" and is generated by the same hate
that led
to the attacks by Islamic
terrorists on Washington and New York.
Later, in a conference call with reporters,
Giuliani, who was mayor during the
September 11 attacks, said Europe and the
United
States are working together
to reduce attacks against Jews in a way that
helps
heal the divisions over
the U.S.-led war in
Iraq.
"There is a common interest...to work
together," he
said.
More than 350 delegates from Europe, central
Asia,
the United States, Russia
and Canada are attending the two-day
conference,
which comes amid an increase
in anti-Semitic acts, especially in Europe.
Giuliani said U.S. goals at the conference
include
agreeing on a uniform
way to gather hate crime statistics and
persuading
all members of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe,
which is hosting the
gathering, to adopt hate-crime legislation.
U.S. officials also hope to persuade the OSCE
to
meet annually to discuss
anti-Jewish prejudice and for all its members
to
create educational programs
about the issue.
A decision isn't likely, however, before a
meeting
of foreign ministers of
the organization's member countries, scheduled
for
later this year.
"Words aren't going to suffice to turn the tide
of
anti-Semitism, which is
once again growing in Europe and other parts of
the
world," the former mayor
said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles said
last
month that attacks
against Jews in Europe have reached the highest
level since World War II.
Since 2001, the center has documented 1300
anti-Semitic acts in France,
including the burning of a Marseille synagogue
and
the stabbing of a rabbi
in Paris. In Britain, records show 1,308
attacks
between 1998 and 2001.
The New York-based Lawyer's Committee for Human
Rights in 2002 criticized
European governments for laxness in monitoring,
publicizing and acting on
reports of anti-Semitic violence. Also last
year,
the U.S. House of
Representatives approved a resolution urging
European governments to take
action against increased attacks on Jews.
Avraham Toledo, Israel's chief delegate to the
Vienna meeting, said
governments should be alert for acts of
anti-Semitism committed under the
guise of opposition to Israel's Palestinian
policies.
"To justify anti-Semitic phenomena by
presenting
them as anti-Zionism is
the same ugly ideology with fresh makeup," he
said.
Dear Kevin,
I found the following passages particularly
interesting:
"Giuliani said U.S. goals at the conference
include
agreeing on a uniform way to gather hate crime
statistics and persuading all members of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe,
which is hosting the gathering, to adopt
hate-crime
legislation."
Since the Zionists insist that hating Israel is
"anti-Semitism" and since nobody there thinks
killing
Arabs is "anti-Semitism" we are clearly looking
at
"hate-crime legislation" which will amount to
branding
anti-"Israeli" activity as an anti-Semitic hate
crime
- that is to say we are looking at repressive
legislation to ban even verbal support for the
Arab
liberation struggles on the grounds that such
struggles are "anti-Semitic".
Giuliani even said that the 11 September 2001
attacks
grew out of "anti-Semitism". (I suppose because
the
Islamic guerrillas resented the Jewish
exclusivist
occupation of Palestine and such resentment
amounts in
his eyes to an "anti-Semitic hate crime". The
Jewish
occupation of Palestine, their butchery and
expulsion
of its native Semitic population is only some
obscure
footnote to history.)
Admittedly, the hijackers probably expected to
take
out a large number of Jews simply by hitting any
target in New York City, but had they been aiming
at
Jews specifically, they might have assaulted
targets
in occupied Palestine. Clearly they were aiming
at the
nerve centers of the American polity and American
capitalism and if Jews predominate there, well,
then
it's a matter of "if the shoe fits, you wear it."
Then there was this:
"U.S. officials also hope to persuade the OSCE to
meet annually to discuss anti-Jewish prejudice
and for
all its members to create educational programs
about
the issue."
Today there are hundreds of Arabs and Muslims
imprisoned in Guantanamo and in various dungeons
around the US. Islamic groups throughout Europe
are
subjected to spying and repression. Immigrant
Arabs
are being murdered in various European countries
as
western neocolonialism sucks their countries'
economies dry. Meanwhile, Jews are represented
far
beyond their percentage of the population in the
executive offices of the biggest global empire,
and in
its
media,
and entertainment world, heavily
influencing the thinking of the whole world.
In just this situation the US insists that there
must
be an annual meeting focused on anti-Jewish
prejudice,
and on the need for "educational programs about
that
issue." That's a very interesting perspective!
Then there was this interesting passage:
"Later, in a conference call with reporters,
Giuliani,
who was mayor during the September 11 attacks,
said
Europe and the United States are working together
to
reduce attacks against Jews in a way that helps
heal
the divisions over the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
'There
is a common interest...to work together,' he
said."
Now, since the USA is still brutally occupying
Iraq, I
presume that "healing the divisions over the
US-led
war in Iraq" means to bring the Europeans over to
supporting the American occupation. And this, we
are
told, is being done by way of "Europe and the
United
States working together to reduce attacks against
Jews." So evidently they are trying to unite on
the
basis of political Judaism, i.e., Zionism. Does
that
mean that the Zionist Jews and their gentile
supporters are trying to pull the Europeans up
next to
the United States? It would appear so.
Then isn't there room to talk about a "Jewish
conspiracy" on a world scale, not only with
respect to
bringing Jews to occupied Palestine but a
conspiracy
aimed at skewing the politics of whole continents
to
serve Zionist Jewish interests? This appears to
be an
unavoidable conclusion.
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