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To: wgh613 who wrote (23906)	4/8/2002 2:02:03 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Powell Visit Pressures Arab Leaders The Associated Press Sunday, April 7, 2002; 3:19 PM RIYADH, Saudi Arabia –– When Colin Powell meets with moderate Arab leaders this week, they will discuss not only Israel's offensive against the Palestinians, but also how it has raised the pitch of anti-American sentiment throughout the Middle East. Their language will be more diplomatic, but Arab leaders want the U.S. secretary of state to understand the rage behind the chants of "Death to Israel! Death to America!" that have been ringing out across the region in the past week. Powell, dispatched by President Bush to heighten U.S. involvement in Mideast peacemaking, meets with three key moderate leaders – Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah – in a mission that begins Monday in Morocco and takes him to Israel at the end of the week. Ahead of his arrival, some 350,000 demonstrators marched in the Moroccan capital on Sunday to show their support for Palestinians. There were smaller protests elsewhere, including Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain. The Arab world has been in an uproar since Israel confined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to his compound in the West Bank and began a sweep of Palestinian areas for the militants behind a series of suicide bombings against Israel. In some cases the protests have been violent. In Jordan, an 11-year-old Palestinian died Sunday of injuries suffered in a clash between riot police and anti-Israel demonstrators in his refugee settlement. In Bahrain, the death Sunday of a protester who was hit by a rubber bullet during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy prompted another protest through the streets of the Bahraini capital. In nearly every outburst of anger, Arabs blame the United States as much as Israel, saying the Bush administration has given the Jewish state the green light. "The demonstrations have put a squeeze on the governments. They are feeling the heat of the protests," said Abdel-Khaleq Abdullah, a political analyst speaking from the United Arab Emirates. "The rage is phenomenal," said Jamal Khashoggi, deputy editor-in-chief of the Saudi daily Arab News. "We see pictures on television we didn't see in previous Arab confrontations with Israel, like Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon." "What's happening in Palestine is creating suicide-bombers everywhere, not only in Palestine," he added. Powell was scheduled to meet Monday with Moroccan King Mohammed VI and Saudi Arabia's Abdullah, who has a palace near the city of Casablanca and is currently in Morocco. A senior official in the Bush administration said Powell will warn them they will bear responsibility if terrorism continues. Bush wants his Arab allies to compel Arafat to crack down on Palestinian militants. But that is a request Arab leaders are not likely to endorse, at least not publicly. In a speech last week at the University of Oklahoma, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, said it makes no sense to ask Arafat to "stop the violence in the occupied territories while the Israeli forces are destroying all his security apparatus and killing and detaining his security officers." "No leader in the world can guarantee 100 percent that no one will resort to violence," Bandar said. "But I can guarantee 100 percent that a desperate and oppressed person whose dignity has been insulted and who is willing to die cannot be stopped by any means." Emirati political analyst Abdullah said Arab governments have lived up only to the "minimum expectations" of the masses, who want more concrete action, such as an oil embargo, a withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Washington and other actions that could hurt U.S. economic interests in the region. That position is echoed in letters and opinions pieces across the Arab world. The analyst Abdullah said the Arab leaders cannot ignore the sentiments on the street and should make it clear to Powell "that a genocide is taking place in Palestine." "The leaders should hold the president of the United States, the American administration and the Americans politically and morally responsible for this genocide," he said, adding they should point out that the United States will lose "all its interests and friends if it does not do anything." © 2002 The Associated Press

To: wgh613 who wrote (23906)	4/8/2002 2:10:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>The world did nothing during the Holocaust<< Not true. Visit the Holocaust Museum and look at the exhibits about the many individuals, and nations, who did what they could to save Jews from the Holocaust. Not enough, I'll grant you. Nevertheless, if we accept the fact that even Jews did not know they were headed to the Final Solution when they got on the trains, can we not accept the fact that many non-Jews did not know, either? If the Jews did not know, how can you blame the rest of the world for not knowing? Our own military were surprised and horrified by what they saw when they liberated the camps. If everyone knew about the Holocaust but did nothing, why were our troops surprised when they came across the camps?