Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLLefty who wrote (21964)	3/22/2002 7:36:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Printing the blood libel in the main government daily while sponsoring a "peace plan" for "full normalization" with Israel is remarkably two-faced, even by Saudi standards. Of course, why should they change what they normally print just because Prince Abdullah is pursuing a new diplomatic initiative? I'm not sure what got this one noticed. I think the good offices of memri.org for providing quick and trustworthy translations should not be discounted. All the conservative blogsites picked it up, and some mainstream media followed. I think the willingness of the US press to ignore the Saudi press has been definitely diminished since September 11th. Even so, I was surprised that State officially noticed this story and complained.

To: LLLefty who wrote (21964)	3/22/2002 10:13:03 PM
From: Doc Bones	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Blood Libel" Reporting Saw nothing in the NY Times. This is an editorial from the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com By William J. Bennett Wednesday, March 20, 2002; Page A33 The administration's policy in the Middle East just took a dramatic turn in the wrong direction. This turn at once marks a concession to terrorism and a violation of principle. Just as Israel was defending itself from unremitting, unbearable terror, President Bush stated that what Israel was doing -- targeting terrorists and militarily occupying the land they were coming from -- was "not helpful." As this paper reported, "[T]he State Department urged a complete withdrawal from all Palestinian cities and refugee camps retaken in the withering two-week crackdown." The New York Times reported that "Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had delivered a blunt private demand to Prime Minster Ariel Sharon to withdraw from the Palestinian-controlled areas to help American efforts to broker a cease-fire." <snip> Israel is being pressured so that we can assuage countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Yet, it just so happens that those countries are responsible for the reappearance of the worst forms of anti-Jewish propaganda since Joseph Goebbels. A recently published Saudi government newspaper article claimed the Jewish holiday of Purim requires that "Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare the holiday pastries. . . . [This] is a well-established fact, historically and legally, all throughout history." A recent Egyptian government daily claimed a Palestinian suicide bombing at a Jerusalem cafe was "heroic." <snip> Wall Street Journal [Article $] online.wsj.com <snip> Even as Saudi Arabia presses on with its proposal, a leading Saudi newspaper took the unusual step of retracting an anti-Semitic article. In a piece published by the al-Riyadh daily this month, Saudi university professor Umayma al-Jalahma wrote that Jews must use gentile blood to bake cakes for religious festivals and that the persecution of Jews throughout history is thus justified. Such a resurrection of the ancient "blood libel " and other staple fictions of traditional European anti-Semitism are common in the Arab media. But the timing of Ms. Jalahma's essay embarrassed Saudi Arabia. Al-Riyadh editor Turki al-Sudeiri, who was away when the essay appeared, wrote in an editorial this week that Ms. Jalahma's piece should have never been published because it is based on "nonsense." -------- GOOGLE Search (first 3 results): NYPOST.COM Post Opinion: Editorials: THE SAUDIS REVIVE THE BLOOD ... ... THE SAUDIS REVIVE THE BLOOD LIBEL. March 18, 2002 -- Saudi Arabia has been getting a lot of favorable press these days, thanks to its dubious Middle East "peace ... nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/43787.htm - 25k - 22 Mar 2002 - Cached Saudi Editor Retracts Article That Defamed Jews ... paper, but there is censorship in Saudi Arabia, and there was no effort to ... Al Ahram, that also repeated the "blood libel" against Jews. Although the ... www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020345mar20.story?coll=la-news-a_section - 37k - 22 Mar 2002 - Cached The Saudi media hatefest -- The Washington Times ... this latest example of the "blood libel" that has fueled anti-Semitism through ... Saudi peace initiative, it asked Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors to ... www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020322-17912452.htm - 23k - 22 Mar 2002 - Cached Doc@betterthanigetonimmigration-g-.com