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To: marcos who wrote (102632)	6/24/2003 3:27:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting brief note from Josh Marshall on the possibility US officials are denying UN officials permission to carry out medical examinations on local inhabitants suspected of contracting radiation poisoning in the disappearance of "low enriched uranium". (June 24th, 2003 -- 12:34 AM EST/a> // link) Could this possibly be true? The BBC has a report on the rising numbers of Iraqis who have apparently become victims of radiation poisoning because of the low-enriched uranium (i.e., "yellow-cake") which was looted from the Tuwaitha nuclear facility south of Baghdad. Barrels of the stuff were dumped into local rivers, it seems, so that the containers could be used for various domestic purposes. (Hell, and you thought you had to go to Niger to get your yellow-cake!) Down at the end of the article, though, comes this ... A team of UN experts has been at Tuwaitha trying to account for the missing nuclear material, but the United States as the occupying power is not allowing them to carry out any medical examinations on local people. Is this part of the dispute with the UN inspectors or the IAEA? Are we doing medical examinations and don't want others doing it? I have a hard time believing it's really as clear cut as that BBC clip implies. But if there's anything to this story it's really, really bad. -- Josh Marshall

To: marcos who wrote (102632)	6/24/2003 3:43:25 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Effective freedom of religion for israel means giving up the jewish nature of the state by allowing the right of return. Do all the peoples of the world get right of return as well. You are fixated on the religious point only and i respect your motives but what is in place is in place. You are dreaming and delaying peace by asking for the impossible. And if you want state religion to go, ask the islamic states and movements to give it up too. I am sure you would and you would get a swift kick in the arse from them as well. Need to get real Marcos and accept this imperfect world and try to make it better. mike@NOpieintheskyforme.com

To: marcos who wrote (102632)	6/25/2003 12:24:23 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Nadine's spelling of Judenstaat is likely more accurate, as Herzl would have been writing in yiddish not german ..[yes, a quick google seems to indicate so] .... perhaps less loaded with negative baggage as well I don't think Herzl even knew Yiddish. He was an assimilated German Jew.

To: marcos who wrote (102632)	6/25/2003 12:27:23 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Such may be the intention of some israelis, sure, but the state is not doing so .... a jew from Buenos Aires has right of 'return', an arab from a few metres over the fence does not .... this is stark contrast, by any measure A graduate of India's IIT gets an H-1 visa and a fast track to citizenship, while the Mexican just over the fence does not...another stark contrast. Every country on earth claims the right to control who immigrates to it.