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To: Paul Kern who wrote (26770)	4/24/2002 12:03:11 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is there media bias against Israel? By Robert Scheer The LA Times April 23, 2002 latimes.com

To: Paul Kern who wrote (26770)	4/24/2002 12:11:02 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hmm. So, tell me, "Paul," why is it that when I run a google search for you, and a search on Lexis-Nexis, you don't show up?

To: Paul Kern who wrote (26770)	4/24/2002 12:16:40 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

A very interesting story, the likes of which I have never seen published in any American or British paper. A deeper question is, why is the party line this party line? Just an endless taste for sob stories, true or false, it doesn't matter, or is it some other reason?

To: Paul Kern who wrote (26770)	4/24/2002 10:02:21 AM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (excerpted) JERUSALEM — President Bush recently lamented that in the Middle East "the future is dying." Being out here now, I can confirm that. There is only one way to reclaim that future: It is for America to get Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat to face up to what each wants to ignore. Abdullah wants to ignore yesterday, Sharon wants to ignore tomorrow, and Arafat wants to ignore today. The Saudi leader will be meeting Mr. Bush tomorrow and will no doubt want to focus on one thing — the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Saudi peace initiative. I'm glad the crown prince has put forward a peace plan. It can only help create possibilities, and those who say it is only p.r. don't know what they're talking about. But as Americans we still have some "yesterday" business to clear up with him: namely, who were those 15 Saudi hijackers on Sept. 11 and what were the forces inside Saudi Arabia that produced them? The F.B.I. still doesn't know. Saudi Arabia refuses to take any responsibility for its citizens who participated in Sept. 11. A society that won't acknowledge responsibility isn't likely to engage in self-correction — in terms of how it educates its youth and what opportunities it offers them for the future. Think about two recent stories. The Times Education Life supplement just reported that the best-selling book in China for the past 16 months is a book, in Chinese, about how to get your teenager into Harvard, titled "Harvard Girl Yiting Liu." In this book a Chinese mother shares her "scientifically proven methods" for getting her daughter into Harvard. It has sold more than 1.1 million copies and triggered 15 copycats for how to get into Columbia, Oxford or Cambridge. In the same week it was reported that the normally intelligent Saudi ambassador in London, Ghazi Algosaibi, had published a poem in Al-Hayat in praise of the 18-year-old Palestinian girl who blew herself up in an Israeli supermarket, saying to her, "You died to honor God's word." A society that makes a best seller about how to get its teenagers into Harvard will eventually build Harvards of its own. But leaders who glorify a teenager who committed suicide in a supermarket full of civilians will never build a country that can live on anything other than oil; their priorities will be too messed up. Israel did not "honor" God in Jenin, and neither do suicide bombers.