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To: damniseedemons who wrote (150731)	12/11/2002 11:36:47 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Sooner or later we will spend our time talking about North Korea.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (150731)	12/11/2002 4:49:03 PM
From: Wizard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi Sal, I am FOR us pressuring Israel out of occupied Palestinian land. I am AGAINST rewarding suicide bombing. I am just curious what you propose the US should do about its Israel policy? If you had it your way, what should the US do? If we give in, there is a good chance that others will view suicide bombing as a political answer and start doing it to the US. Then again, maybe they will do it anyway. Maybe they will start shooting down planes with shoulder rockets and dirty bombs will go off simultaneously in 8 different cities and stick some bizarre chemicals in our resevoirs and suicide bomb our nuclear reactors etc... Then again, what if the US pressures Israel to give back the land (like they agreed to a few years ago) and then they do it and then the terrorist suicide bombings just continue? What if the middle east takes the view that they are just gaining momentum to extinguish Israel altogether? In my view, there is a serious problem with Islamic states which the US is going to have a tough time giving in to... ever. In general, the Islamic states are all intimidated by religious extremists who interpret the Koran however they must to fend off modernity and tolerance. Intolerance is a tremendous problem. It is possible though that somebody credible comes along that revolutionizes the interpretation of the Koran and allows for modernity and tolerance and then the Middle East realizes it cannot win a war with the rest of the world and evolution continues. Gloom and doom reigns today and maybe rightfully so... but even if a nuke goes off somewhere... we will then just have to figure out how to continue and how to evolve from there...

To: damniseedemons who wrote (150731)	12/12/2002 4:25:32 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Film Excluded from Oscar Competition for Being Palestinian >>> WASHINGTON (PC) - On the grounds that “Palestine is not a nation”, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has refused the Palestinian entry “Divine Intervention”, for the nomination of “Best Foreign Film”. The movie, which was directed by the renowned Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, recently won the Jury Award in the world famous “Cannes Film Festival” of France. The film describes a love story between a Palestinian man from Jerusalem, and a Palestinian woman from Ramallah, set against the background of the harsh conditions of Israeli occupation and repression. The American film industry has often been accused of “backwardness” with regard to the recognition of Palestinian rights, and of the standard portrayal of Arabs in negative stereotypes of aggression and savagery. The sharp contrast between the film coming out as a winner in the Cannes festival on the European continent, while not being allowed to enter the competition in the United States, also illustrates the differences in the political climate between the two continents. Hollywood producer Phil Ed sharply criticized the Academy’s stance, stating : "it seems to me that the Academy and the entire Hollywood film industry has lost yet another piece of its credibility. " >>> palestinechronicle.com