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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (300801)	9/25/2002 4:41:35 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

A passed-over tragedy -- A recent column in the New York press by A.M. Rosenthal, former editor of the venerable New York Times, challenged the United States to more aggressively confront anti-Semitism around the world. "Jews and Christians have been deceiving themselves that the most violent and virulent anti-Semitism campaign since Hitler has involved only Muslim states," Rosenthal wrote. "The American press is generally doing a miserable job of reporting this outbreak. But when the information does trickle in, we sit around saying, 'Well, what can we do about it?'" "The first thing we can do is decide to do something. President Bush has so far shown the bravest and clearest mind among the world's 'leaders.' He does not try to define the killers by nationality or religion but by their belief that the only important weapon of their warfare is terrorist murder," he goes on. "Dissemination of Jew-hate is a prelude to suicide terror just as certainly as making the bomb is the prelude to exploding it. In Israel today, America tomorrow." In the piece, Rosenthal, who was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of a lengthy journalistic career fighting injustice, calls for the United States to boycott any country or international organization "that allows any official to tolerate the growing international anti-Jew movement." The piece has sparked a rigorous debate in Washington over whether Rosenthal's observations are real or hyperbolic and what, if anything, the United States is to do. One suggestion being heard with increasing frequency is that the White House should stop ignoring the plight of the Americans who are killed or wounded in the terror attacks against Israel in increasing numbers. A good first step, one foreign policy insider says, would be for the president to call the families of the Americans killed in the bombing at Hebrew University, promising those murdered will have their justice. newsalert.com