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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4172)	11/1/2000 12:42:39 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

I don't think you can win like that. Nice guys do finish last. Ahh.. but I don't make the mistake of misinterpreting Bush's geniality for spinelessness. Anyone who saw how he reacted to the news that his debating tapes had been sent to the Democrats realizes the guy is not a pushover. Bush strikes me as someone who realizes his own capacity for nastiness, but also has the common sense as to know when to display it and when to keep it in check. In effect, he has learned self-discipline. Something that I think Al Gore is still struggling with and certainly something Clinton never quite grasped. Personally, I just like the fact that he has come so far in this election by taking the high road and appealing to his "vision" of unity and bi-partisanship. The fact that he is leading in the polls is a clear indication that maybe, just maybe, a nice guy WILL finish first this time around. Regards, Ron

To: epicure who wrote (4172)	11/1/2000 7:59:40 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

news \| World \| Middle_East \| 2000-10 Attacks on Jews worldwide 'worst since Nazi Germany' By David Usborne in New York 28 October 2000 Jewish leaders are asking the United Nations to condemn a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks around the world which, they say, have reached levels unprecedented since the rampages of Nazi thugs against Jews in Germany in 1938. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has presented Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, with a catalogue of 200 anti-Semitic incidents that have occurred in scores of countries since violence returned to the Middle East at the end of September, including in Britain. The organisation, which keeps memories of the Holocaust alive to help eliminate anti-Semitic sentiments more than half a century later, was also highly critical of the UN for failing to recognise the attacks. It stopped barely short of suggesting that the UN itself had inadvertently encouraged them. "There has been nothing but total silence on the unprecedented anti-Semitic attacks," commented the founder of the Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin Hier, after handing the list of incidents to Mr Annan in New York on Thursday night. "We don't believe there has ever been, except going back to 1938 to Kristallnacht, as many synagogues desecrated and attacked in such a short time." Most of the incidents, ranging from the scrawling of graffiti to the stoning of worshippers and the distribution of leaflets urging Muslims to kill Jews, have happened in France, the Center said. But they have also been seen in Britain, Canada, the US, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. According to the list 93 synagogues in different countries have been vandalised since 28 September. A synagogue was broken into in Efrat on the West Bank yesterday by vandals who daubed walls with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs in Arab, police in Jerusalem said last night. "This is the first time such a thing has happened," said the mayor of Efrat, Eitan Golan. Rabbi Hier noted that the worst of the attacks had broken out after the UN Security Council responded to the worst of the violence in the West Bank by condemning Israel. Many Jewish leaders consider the UN to be biased towards Palestinian interests while being unwilling to speak up for Jews when they are threatened. The UN Charter, Rabbi Hier said, demanded that it speak for both sides. Mr Annan, however, has been striving to end Israel's comparative isolation within the UN. His efforts appeared to have paid off when he was invited to the region recently to help mediate between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. independent.co.uk