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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (424)	11/18/2001 3:51:25 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

"Jewish culture is also culture. Zionism was a nationalist movement but it reflects Jewish culture. Both Christians and Jews often call Israel the Holy Land." Review that and re-phrase it if it is not what you wanted to say. The Holy Land is based on Bible stories. "Face it, len, it's 50 years and five lost wars later..." Zionists started the wars, but I agree, there needs to be more discussion on how many refugees will return. Why don't the Israelis just open their doors and accept the people they put themselves amongst?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (424)	11/18/2001 8:45:57 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Peres to complain to UN about anti-Semitic skit on Abu Dhabi TV By Herb Keinon JERUSALEM (November 19) - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres plans to lodge a formal complaint with the UN today over the airing of an anti-Semitic satirical skit on Abu Dhabi Television over the weekend, cabinet secretary Gideon Sa'ar said yesterday. Sa'ar said after the weekly cabinet meeting that the satire, which he said the government views "with gravity," reflects a culture of "incitement, hatred, and blood libel" in the Arab world. The satirical skit, which aired on the second most popular television station in the Arab world, depicted a character meant to be Prime Minister Ariel Sharon drinking the blood of Arab children, as a grotesque-looking haredi looks on. In another skit, Dracula appears to be taking a bite out of Sharon, but is himself killed because Sharon's blood is polluted. The skit reminds us "of the worst forms of anti-Semitism that we have seen throughout our history," Sa'ar said. He said it is Israel's "obligation" to point this out to the world and let the international community see the type of hatred and incitement Israel is up against. To this end the Foreign Ministry yesterday made tapes of the skit, with English subtitles. The visiting EU delegation, headed by Belgian President Guy Verhofstadt, was to receive a tape last night. Verhofstadt was asked about the program during a press conference he held with Sharon yesterday, and said he thought the depiction of Sharon was a "scandal." Foreign Ministry officials said that, as bad as the satire is, it is by no means unique in the Arab world. These types of caricatures appear almost every day in the Arab press, especially in Egypt, one official said. He said what makes the Abu Dhabi satire worse is that while newspapers are seen by a few thousand or a few hundred thousand people, this particular television show was beamed into millions of homes throughout the Arab world. The program - produced in Kuwait and featuring an Egyptian actor - was one of a series of programs on Sharon to be aired during Ramadan. Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, who heads an interministerial committee to battle anti-Semitism, reacted to the skit by saying that anti-Semitism takes on a new appearance in every generation, and that hatred of Israel is the new, modern manifestation of this ancient hatred. "If this was meant to be satire, it failed," said Wayne Firestone, the Anti-Defamation League's director here. "This was just a very inappropriate, hateful message, supposedly in honor of Ramadan. One would expect that a more humane and peaceful message could be delivered by people of this region during Ramadan, but instead what we have is a supposed satire that repeats the age-old blood libel against the Jewish people." Firestone said the ADL sees the satire as being "aimed at the entire Jewish people. It is true they used the caricature of Sharon, but all the classical images of Jews with horns and of Jews drinking the blood of innocent non-Jews are a libel of the entire Jewish people."