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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1406)	4/9/2002 8:23:50 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

U.S. JEWS CANNOT ACQUIESCE TO SHARON'S MONSTROUS BEHAVIOR By Robert Scheer, The Los Angles Times, 4/9/2002 latimes.com Some of us make a deliberate effort to disassociate from the mayhem of Ariel Sharon's carnage, while others seem to wallow in it, as if displaying the awesome firepower of the Israeli army is necessary to the survival of the Jewish state. I would like to think that the peacemakers still outnumber the militarists among U.S. Jews, but my own e-mail and street-corner conversations no longer bear out that hope. While Jews are hardly monolithic, even in their views of Israel, their large presence in the media contrasts sharply with a near total exclusion of Palestinian Americans. Palestinian Americans in particular, and Arabs in general, are the ghosts haunting U.S. newsrooms by their embarrassing absence. As journalists, we do not know them as a people, we have little connection with their slights and sorrows, and we can only, even with the best of intentions, experience their suffering as an abstraction... Sharon himself is a man of barbaric impulse, demonstrated all too clearly in his terrorizing of civilians two decades ago in Lebanon and now on the West Bank. He has been a consistent provocateur, undermining peace efforts no matter their content, and now he is using his tanks to poison the ground for future generations... SEE ALSO: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE (EAST) WITH YOU By LIZ SPIKOL, Philadelphia Weekly, 4/3/2002 philadelphiaweekly.com In my experience as a Jewish reporter, I've heard a great deal about "not airing our dirty laundry." I have often been told--verbally, in Jewish publications and in synagogues--that even if I have doubts about the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians, I should keep quiet about it and be steadfast in my support of a nation that needs to exist. And I was happy to oblige, because wasn't it important, above all, that Israel endure--this vulnerable and a relatively new country penned in by nations that would like to make it disappear? But now Israel has crossed a line, and I--and many, many American Jews like me--will not be able to cross it with them...