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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1507)	4/17/2002 12:29:31 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

I know what he said, you don't need to repeat it. In fact, quoting his words just makes his bias more obvious. gush-shalom.org Sorry, Ross' two-bit shyster act is wearing thin. <<< Of course, it's easy to be fooled. The first local radio shows illustrated all too well how the Middle East discourse is handled in America. When Gayane Torosyan opened WSUI/KSUI for questions in Iowa City, a caller named "Michael" – a leader of the local Jewish community, I later learnt, though he did not say this on air – insisted that after the Camp David talks in 2000, Yasser Arafat had turned to "terrorism" despite being offered a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem and 96 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza. Slowly and deliberately, I had to deconstruct this nonsense. Jerusalem was to have remained the "eternal and unified capital of Israel", according to Camp David. Arafat would only have got what Madeleine Albright called "a sort of sovereignty" over the Haram al-Sharif mosque area and some Arab streets, while the Palestinian parliament would have been below the city's eastern walls at Abu Dis. With the vastly extended and illegal Jerusalem municipality boundaries deep into the West Bank, Jewish settlements like Maale Adumim were not up for negotiation; nor were several other settlements. Nor was the 10-mile Israeli military buffer zone around the West Bank, nor the settlers' roads, which would razor through the Palestinian "state". Arafat was offered about 46 per cent of the 22 per cent of Palestine that was left. >>> zmag.org Tom

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1507)	4/17/2002 2:39:44 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6945

More on Dennis Ross: mafhoum.com The Middle East Negotiating team during Clinton's years of: Dennis Ross, Arthur Miller, and Martin Indyk were all Jews who came from the Israeli think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs. What is the WINEA? B. Washington Institute for Near East Policy Founded in 1985 by two former AIPAC members (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee--the most feared lobby in Washington DC), Martin Indyk and Barbi Weinberg, a former vice president of AIPAC to serve as a Pro-Israeli Think tank. It's Board members are a Who's Who of top Government officials while its staff like Patrick Clawson, Robert Sartoff and Dennis Ross publish often in defense of Israel and appear regularly unopposed on Television, especially on FOX which has become Israel's mouthpiece. The Board of Advisors of WINEA are: (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/) Warren Christopher, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Alexander Haig, and George Shultz (All former Secretaries of State) Max M. Kampelman, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel W. Lewis, Edward Luttwak, Michael Mandelbaum, Robert McFarlane, Martin Peretz, Richard Perle, James Roche, Eugene V. Rostow, Paul Wolfowitz Mortimer Zuckerman. These individuals with passionate support of Israel shuffle between top Government positions and Pro-Israeli Lobbying groups ensuring the ultimate protection and financing of Israel at America's expense. This has been going on for decades and their demand that America declare war on Iraq goes back to 1990 according to the Los Angeles Times. "The advocates of a war policy also have been bolstered by analysts from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank with close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the capital's leading pro-Israel lobbying organization. Washington Institute experts on the region are frequently quoted in television, radio and newspaper stories about the gulf standoff, although their organization's pro-Israel orientation is seldom cited." (David Lauter, "War Lobby' Urges Military Solution," The Los Angeles Times, 14 September 1990). >>>