Readers letters and contributions, May 14, 2003

I am glad your website is back on. I was disgusted to hear that your site
had been (shut down). I would like you to take a look at my website, www.artpolitics.com
where you will find some of my recent and past work.

I believe America , and the world, is in the worst crisis it has ever faced.
The non-thinking current administration is threatening to cause major
calamities throughout the world.

My website is dedicated to bringing truth , with visual images, to those
who view it.

Should you ever like to use some of the work please let me know.
I would offer it free of charge of course.

Best Wishes and Please be safe and protected.
Sincerely,

Leon W. Fainstadt

Editor: Thank you for your offer. It seems that your link doesn't work.

If you will remember the slip of Hillary Clinton about the "Mass Right

Wing Conspiracy" you can figure where the threats are coming from. Look

up the book "They Dare to Speak Out". The last names of the conspirators

reveal they are part of the Zionist Mafia.

Joseph Orthoefer

55 Years of Israeli Oppression

Mr. Najjar,

First let me offer my regrets in regards to the death threats made to you. Terrorism is ugly regardless of it's origin.

I visited your site several weeks ago and planned on dropping you a note then. Your stated goal of peace between the Islamic world and the United States is noble enough. I wish for peace but don't see it being achieved by having Muslim views forced upon me after losing thousands of U. S. citizens to Muslims terrorists in 2001.

Your site lives up to it's stated goal of expressing Muslim views but if peace is to be achieved we need serious two-way dialogue. I point out that you have a link on your site:

"Human Price of the Israeli Occupation"

It could just as easily read:

Human Price of Islamic Terrorism

I read your response to what was called "Average American Views on the Arab-Israeli Conflict". I was happy to see the dialogue. We need much more dialogue. While I respect your views, I couldn't help but notice how easily you justify the killing of innocent civilians to promote a political agenda. No mention of an Islamic responsibility for the current state of affairs even though you acknowledge that in the Muslim world, Israel had no right to exist until 1993. Do you honestly believe that these issues are not significant in leading us to the current situation in the Middle East?

I believe you want peace Mr. Najjar and I am with you all the way in this effort but peace between the Muslim world and the United States will only become possible when the Muslim world acknowledges that it has every bit the responsibility that we do for the current crisis in the Middle East. Until the time such an acknowledgement is made, your efforts for understanding of the Muslim faith are likely to fall on deaf ears.

I wish you success in achieving peace and certainly hope no harm comes to you along the way. A lot more dialogue and lot less promotion of Muslim views will go a long way in this effort.

Peace

Rich Maurice

Editor:

Promoting peace and understanding should not be hampered by the expectation of seeing instant results. It's education. It takes time for people to be educated, but it's the right thing to do.

I said so many times that nothing justifies killing an innocent person, whoever that person maybe. It's important to educate non-Muslims that Islam prohibits killing innocent civilians. It shouldn't bother you to know about Islam.

Read my editorials and articles for a thorough analysis of the subject. Here, this is my brief reply to your letter. I can say that the West generally is more responsible for what is happening now. Western European powers (Britain, France, Italy, and Spain) invaded the Arab and Muslim worlds in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is known as European imperialism, which ended after WWII.

The World Zionist movement is responsible for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Since its establishment in 1897, it worked on colonizing Palestine on the expense of the Palestinian people. When Israel was established in 1948, it evicted Palestinians from their homes, instead of extending citizenship to them. Then Israelis occupied the rest of Palestine in 1967.

What responsibility do you want Arabs and Muslims to acknowledge? Do you want them to acknowledge that European imperialism was right? Do you want the Palestinians to thank Zionist Israelis for coming from Europe and America to take their lands and control them for 36 years until today?

The United States had a clean record in terms of imperialism in the Middle East until the 1991 Gulf War. But the decade long sanctions, the war on Iraq against the will of the UN, and the US military presence in the Arabian Peninsula, all have contributed to resentment among Arabs and Muslims. About a million and a half Iraqis died because of these sanctions. I think that you follow the news about what's happening in Iraq right now: no security, no government, and no services.

The most important area of resentment towards the US is its total support of Israeli aggressors against their victims, the Palestinian people.

Today is the 55th memorial of the destruction of Palestine as an entity and the eviction of the Palestinian people from their lands, villages, towns, and cities to become refugees. At the same time, Israel was established to displace Palestine and allow Jewish immigrants to dispossess the Palestinian people.

Israel was not content of what it got according to the 1947 UN Partition Resolution. Rather, it annexed the Arab Palestinian parts of Galilee and Auja. It also annexed major parts of Gaza Strip and the West Bank (See the Partition map in the documents section).

The most important development was denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes, according to UN resolutions. Thus, they have remained refugees, about seven million of them, without citizenship.

Israel was not content of all of this, it launched wars against Palestinians and neighboring Arab states in almost every decade after that, namely in 1956, 1967, 1978, and 1982.

Israel could not do all of this without support from World Zionism, which influences the policies of major Western powers, particularly the United States.

Zionist Israel is the problem and the solution starts with stopping its aggression.

Despite all of this, I believe that the conflict can be resolved peacefully by correcting the US foreign policy to be fair and friendly to Arabs and Muslims. Israel should be forced to withdraw from the occupied Arab territories, leaving Palestinians alone. The US military presence in Arabia should end. And economic cooperation and trade between the US and the Middle East should replace hostility.

How can this be achieved? Let's discuss that. But for now, education is the least we can do for that noble cause.

Thank you for the great site that you have here. Please find a way so that this site is prevented from being shut down again. From the beginning of the war with Iraq, I made a conscious decision to not watch the lies that are fed to us here in the United States by the Zionist controlled media here.

Everyone seems to be so dumbed down here in the States regarding our policy in the Middle East, particularly Israel's unending Human Rights violations with those of the land that really should go back to being called Palestine.

I used to frustrate myself by logging on to the Jerusalem Post to see how people who call themselves American citizens (Zionists) all go by the big lie of "God gave us this land". The fact as we all know, but are afraid to admit is this: they control the American Media, our Congress, major corporations, and of course, Hollywood.

The name "Rachel Corrie" is all but forgotten about already and a writer to the Jerusalem Post whom I wrote a disagreement letter to respond to his stupid letter to the editor, only had these things to say to me: "She got what she deserved" and, "she was burning the American flag". The latter of course, he threw in as a form of desperation, because he knew that he was wrong.

Any politician who dares say NO to Israel ,is automatically put on the hit list of the Jewish Defense League. There was one in particular, who came right out into the open, and admitted that the only reason that we were going to invade Iraq, was mostly for the sake of Israel (maybe oil as a close second). His name is Jim Moran, a Democrat who's life and career are probably going to go to the dogs for what he said about Israel.

There's FREEDOM OF SPEECH for you. Anyway, aside from my rambling, keep up the good work with this site and let me tell you that I will continue to explore this site as long as you are able to keep it going. I am now a certified fan.

Sincerely, Kenneth L. Mulligan From The United States (and for the return of Palestine and prosecution of Ariel Sharon as a war criminal).

What bothers me about U.S. power is the U.S. is not a welfare State. It is a

corporate State, different from the Nordic countries, Britain, Germany,

Australia, etc. When U.S. business startes to use it's influence to change

other countries, that's the problem.

The fault is with U.S. politicians who are influenced by business. The U.S.

political system which apparently allows it, and the worst of all, are the

politicians in countries like my own who sell out their own population. I

can't and won't blame Americans, they're innocent. I will blame certain

business and political identities in the U.S along with my own traitorous

Gov't

The U.S. like other countries should nationalise her banks

Gavin Oughton

This is a very concise and accurate analysis.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=7291

Why US is forcing India and Pakistan to start peace negotiation on Kashmir and other issues, specially at this juncture, when its own administration has its hand full with mounting difficult developments in the aftermath of war on Iraq? There is some informed guess that US is trying to curry favour with its old buddy Pakistan, as Pakistan is to assume the Presidency of UN Security Council through rotation and since this post is very important for the US backhand maneuverings to get a crucial resolution passed on lifting the UN sanctions passed, so that the US/UK can jointly start pumping Iraqi oil to international companies, who would not buy any oil with the UN sanctions in place.

US is in a bind. Billions of dollars are at stake. US/UK are out to ... a cool 2million barrels of oil from the Iraqi oil fields every day, on the sly promise of turning over the money to the rightful ‘Iraqi authority’ ---- US/UK at the moment, if they could get UN cooperation.

Impatient US had gone on to defy the UN and attack Iraq on dubious pretexts and now finds, it cannot hope to appropriate Iraq’s oil resources without UN cooperation on lifting of the legal sanctions. France and Russia have made it clear they will not vote for lifting of the sanctions, without first sending in the UN team back again to make sure that there are no “WMD” in Iraq. In a flank action, US has sent its own team into Iraq to check on WMD and quickly pull them out with the announcement that there are no WMD. This was to facilitate the obviating of sending the UN team once again to Iraq. But France and Russia are not ready to play ball with the US. They had extensive investments, debts, contracts with Iraq and they cannot just hand this all over to US/UK as defeated nations are supposed to. US may have defeated Saddam but not others who had their own stranglehold on Iraq and are not ready ! to relinquish all without their own share being guaranteed.

Here, the importance of Pakistan comes in as it assumes the Presidency of the UN Security Council. US stake in Iraq is so big and so important, that it can go to any length to arm twist others into following its biddings --- at times of its own choosing, at the pace of its own priorities.

The day, it gets its main priority fixed; it will be the same old hide and seek game between India and Pakistan.

GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI, India

Fury Rises In Baghdad- Saddam's Gone, Heroin Is Back

http://www.rense.com/general37/fury.htm

Jewish author David Hirst’s book describes the LaVon Affair. The LaVon Affair was an internationally embarrassing incident that occurred when Israel bombed U.S. interests in Egypt, murdering many innocent Americans and others:

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/lavon_hirst.html

Dr. Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 non-Jews. He is widely celebrated in Israel today, and there is a large monument dedicated to him:

http://www.geocities.com/dr_b_goldstein/kever.htm

http://www.freedomsite.org/pipermail/fs_discussion/2001-March/001599.html

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