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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1828)	9/9/2002 3:12:24 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Re: Although I have read that the gas was used a de-lousing agent and that was the extent of it. Are you sure? I've been told it was just a sneaker brand... Oh, whatever! Umbro 'regrets' Holocaust blunder August 28, 2002 Posted: 1:02 PM EDT (1702 GMT) LONDON, England -- A Jewish human rights group has criticised British sports supplier Umbro for naming a running shoe Zyklon -- a deadly gas used to murder millions of Jews during World War II. Dr. Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote in a letter to Umbro on Tuesday that the company's "outrageous misuse of the Holocaust is an insult to its victims and survivors," The Associated Press reported. Use of the name Zyklon was "an encouragement to neo-Nazis and skinheads who terrorize the football terraces and a dishonour to sport itself," Samuels said in the letter, addressed to Umbro Chief Executive Peter McGuigan. Umbro spokesman Nick Crook in London told AP the company wished to "express our sincere regret that the Zyklon name may have upset someone." He said the name Zyklon did not appear on the trainers but had been used for marketing purposes since 1999. "The naming of the shoe is purely coincidental and was not intended to communicate any connotations," he added. The shoe was being sold in stores and on Internet sites featuring sporting goods. Crook said Umbro had already changed the shoe's name in Britain and would do the same internationally as soon as possible. The Wiesenthal Center, named after the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, also demanded an "investigation and condemnation of those behind Umbro's marketing strategy." Copyright 2002 CNN. All rights reserved. cnn.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1828)	9/9/2002 4:22:21 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Len, one day, Zyklon might help solve Israel's "demographic problem".... Monday, September 09, 2002 Wombs in the service of the state By Gideon Levy haaretzdaily.com Excerpt: In the early 1970s, the Gafni Commission, an interministerial body with task of "examining the rate of development in Jerusalem," was established. Its recommendations, which were submitted in August 1973, stated: "The ratio of Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem must be preserved" - the ratio at the time was 73.5 percent Jews and 26.5 percent Arabs. Since then, Israeli governments have invested great efforts to implement that recommendation - innumerable new neighborhoods have been built for Jews only, while the lives of the city's Palestinian residents are turned into a living hell. They are stripped of residency rights, their homes are demolished, they are denied construction permits, they receive meager services and master plans for their part of the city are not approved. The aim of all this is to push them out of the city and maintain the sacred balance. The result? Twenty-nine years after the Gafni Commission turned in its report, the Palestinian minority in Jerusalem has increased to 32.5 percent. The conclusion? Either a population transfer or the end of the occupation in Jerusalem. No commission is needed to conclude that. Israel is a binational, multicultural state, and it is high time we recognized that fact. The only way to cope with it is to become a society that is more just. The only legitimate way to preserve the Jewish majority, for those to whom that goal is of overriding importance, is to end the occupation and perhaps also step up immigration. Defining the Arab citizens of Israel as a "demographic problem" raises harsh memories and sends them a highly offensive message. [...] _______________________________

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1828)	9/9/2002 4:52:47 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Told you so.... (message #1741) csmonitor.com Excerpt: "Syria, very much like Turkey, is comfortable with the status quo," says Jouejati. "It is comfortable that Saddam Hussein is strong enough to keep Iraq united, but weak enough not to threaten his neighbors. Damascus would not like to see the regime toppled and substituted by a pro-American regime because in that case Damascus would be totally surrounded by American power." Syria believes that with Hussein gone and a pro-US regime installed in Baghdad, Washington would be tempted to continue the process of regime change in the Arab world. Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says that the strong bonds between some administration officials and right-wing Israelis are creating the atmosphere for a broader agenda beyond simply deposing Mr. Hussein. "I do not believe that the Bush administration wishes to invade Iraq primarily because it is afraid of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities," Professor Cole says. "That seems to me a smokescreen for the real ambition, which is to begin reshaping the political culture of the Middle East in ways that might favor the US and forestall increasing moves to radicalism, as in Al Qaeda." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently called for "deeper unity and solidarity among Arab and Muslim countries in the face of American threats against the region." Syrian officials have stepped up diplomatic contacts with key Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, as well as non-Arab Iran, an ally of Damascus and one of President Bush's three "axis of evil" countries. [...] ____________________________