Letters to the Editor, October 21, 2003

The only ones who will strongly benefit from such 'irresponsible' comments against Jews, given by Dr. Mahather Muhammad, the Malaysian PM, is Ariel Sharon and his fellow Zionists, worldwide, who (Sharon and his fellows and associates) have, in fact, nothing to do with real Judiasim, but they have a lot to do with ZIONISM, as a real racist and terrorist movement.

The PM of Malaysia should be accurately specific by saying that Zionism, which has been leading the state of colonial Israel and terrorizing the Palestinian people as well as the Jewish people and other peoples around the world for the last 55 years and counting, is the real danger, BUT NOT THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

This is simply because many Jews, worldwide, are strongly against Zionism and its practices against the defenseless Palestinian people.

And at the same time, Zionism has many supporters around the world, who are not necessary Jews.

Please read the statement below and check out the Links provided.

Hilmi Salem, PhD

The Campaign Against Mahatir

I get so incensed when Muslims are accused of anti Semiticism. Our faith is a SEMITIC ONE as is the ARAB NATION. We may be anti ZIONIST but NOT ANTI JEWISH, ANTI- SEMITIC as that is being against ourselves!!!! The Jews that Mahathir is alluding to are the most aprt ZIONISTS who do have disproportionate CONTROL of the world and its resources. THAT IS A FACT! I don't really like writing to Zionist controlled Newspapers but I felt I had to in this instance (Sent to the NYT):

Your attack against Malaysia's Mahathir's speech at the Muslim conference is totally and absolutely unfounded. Perhaps you should read the ENTIRE speech before passing such accusations of anti semiticism. I enclose a full transcript for you here with certain parts highlighted to educate your narrow understanding of his speech. But there again you probably already knew what he ACTUALLY said but chose to twist and distort it to suit your own misconceptions. Take a good note of the comments made by the editor below who has a far better understanding than anything the NY Times has to offer its readers.

Secondly it is tiresome and another falsehood to accuse Muslims and Arabs in general of being anti semitic. They maybe anti Zionist, as are many JEWS, but certainly NOT ANTI SEMITES!! Islam is a SEMITIC religion as Arabs are SEMITES- more so than the majority of today's Jews who are converts and are in the most part secular irreligious Zionists who do not follow the true teachings of ancient Judaism. Your Zionist attitudes offend and insult true Judaism and does it much harm as those authentic religious Jews who adhere to God's true teachings deserve far more respect than Zionists give or show them. So please refrain from your slanderous anti semitic rhetoric against the SEMITIC peoples and religions of the MIDDLE EAST- the true birthplace of the three great faiths of Almighty God. Monotheistic Religion was born in PALESTINE, the land of CANAAN and NOT in the USA or the newly created State of Israel.

It is time for Zionists to undestand that the world was given to us by God, not them, and that the WHOLE of Humanity, are members of God's Family on Earth, Black, White,Yellow, Christian ,Jew , Muslim, Buddhist etc... WE ARE ALL CREATED AND THEREFORE CHOSEN BY HIM to serve HIM on this beautiful planet of ours which is desperately crying out for tolerance, respect, peace and justice and fair play for ALL and not just a select few whose racist arrogance thinks the world belongs to them and that somehow they have the DIVINE RIGHT to dominate while the Goyim are only good enough to serve them! ONLY GOD HAS THAT RIGHT and WE, MANKIND, ENTIRE HUMANITY, as HIS family, are here to serve HIM and HIM alone. We are all born equal in God's Eyes.

Mrs Maisoon Rice

England

Dear Editor:

I read with great interest, the opinion written by Rami G. Khouri (Speak frankly to the Israeli and American emperors, Oct. 8, 2003) and I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly.

There are many here in America that have spoken out against the Bush administration. The administration does not reflect the views of many Americans.

The abhorent fence that Israel is building around the West Bank is in essence, turning the West Bank into a concentration camp and Americans speak out against it.

I personally wrote a letter to G. Bush and told him that very thing. The Sharon government attacks Syria at the behest of G. Bush and Americans speak out against it.

I read an article in Arutz Sheva Israel National News that, questioned the bombing in Syria and raises the issue of complicity with the Bush administration. Terrorists murder the innocent and must be condemned. Sovereign governments commit murder and attack other countries and must be condemned.

It seems that our world has gone insane and has been gripped in a killing madness. Governments no longer talk, they attack. People no longer talk, they hate. At some point, we all need to take a breath, sit down and communicate with one another.

I do not believe that insanity can be allowed to rule the day or our world. People of peace need to set aside one day, somewhere in the very near future, and stand up and speak out against the killing and madness. Encouragement, talk, understanding, and respect should be allowed to florish and must never be allowed to be extinguished by hate and intolerance.

Anyway, that is how I see things from way out here in the American West. Our children deserve far better than what we leave them now.

sincerely,

Don Nash

Murray, Utah, USA

Dear Zogby, Gallup & Roper: I challenge you to take a poll on how America voted in the last elections

"In state after state, polling firms have been discredited because they failed to predict that Republicans would sweep election after election," the newspapers tell us.

America's most trustworthy, respectable and responsible opinion polling firms -- some with accuracy records stretching back 50-odd years -- are being told again and again that they have done shoddy work in predicting election outcomes. In Georgia, in Florida, in Minnesota, in Nebraska, in California -- they are being accused of consistently giving us the WRONG predictions.

Roper. Zogby. Gallup! Doesn't it bother you at all that your professional reputations have been compromised, tarnished and degraded?

How to save your reputations? I challenge each of you to do a poll. Just one little poll. Just survey the voters in the many states where your predictions were wrong -- and ask them this one simple question: "Who did you vote for?" Not who was elected. Not what they told us. Just simply, "Who did you vote for?"

Do Americans want to know what these answers are? Do Americans want to know if they have some housecleaning to do at the polls? I am a patriotic American. I want to know!

Best regards, Jane Stillwater, Berkeley, CA (Diebold country)

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Sincerely,

Jim Carlson / CEO & Chief Technologist

U.S. COMPTROLLER DECLARES BUSH POLICIES WILL KEEP NATION DEEPLY IN DEBT

U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, the nation's chief fiscal officer, interjected a dose of reality this week into President Bush's rosy claims that his Administration can cut the federal deficit in half within five years without changing policies. "The idea that this is manageable or that we are going to grow our way out of the problem is just flat false," Walker said.

Read the full Mis-Lead --> http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1299134&l=6213

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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