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To: Thomas M. who wrote (25345)	8/14/2003 7:17:10 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 25898

Actually, it was just another example of "cut and paste" being able to prove anything. Most of the multiple post Israel haters do this on a daily basis. How often have they found some Israeli who opposes some aspect of Israeli policy. Similarly, there are those here who constantly post some US citizen or writer who opposes some aspect of US policy. In a democracy, it's OK and even commendable to be critical. What is interesting about the Arab thinker, is that someone expressing himself may be putting his life and freedom in jeopardy.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (25345)	8/16/2003 10:50:23 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 25898

Another Hitler lover bites the dust. Saudis probably will mourn dead tyrant Idi Amin, given shelter, not for his wealth, but they claim for "Islamic charity." washingtonpost.com Uganda Dictator Amin Dies at Saudi Hospital-Source Reuters Saturday, August 16, 2003; 3:18 AM By John R. Bradley JEDDAH (Reuters) - Former dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, died on Saturday in a Saudi hospital where he had been critically ill for weeks, a senior medical source said. "We can confirm that Mr Idi Amin has died from complications due to multiple organ failure," the source at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. The Ugandan embassy in the kingdom would not comment on Amin's death, referring all queries to his family. Amin, one of the bloodiest despots in Africa, has been living in exile, chiefly in Saudi Arabia, since being ousted from Uganda in 1979. He was in his late 70s. It was not immediately clear what would happen to Amin's body. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had said that if Amin died abroad, his body could be taken home for burial. Amin, who was in near-death condition for weeks, had received death threats by telephone, prompting the hospital management to post guards at his bed in the intensive care unit. A man who expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, Amin was denounced inside and outside Africa for massacring tens of thousands of people -- some estimates say more than 100,000 -- under his despotic 1971-79 rule. A former boxing champion, he came to power in a 1971 coup and his rule was characterized by eccentric behavior and violent purges. Amin was a ruthless dictator who, the International Commission of Jurists said in 1977, had violated every fundamental human right during a "reign of terror." Exiles accused him of having kept severed heads in the fridge, feeding corpses to crocodiles and having one of his wives dismembered. Some said he practiced cannibalism. He was driven from Uganda in 1979 by forces from neighboring Tanzania and Ugandan exiles, and was given sanctuary by Saudi Arabia in the name of Islamic charity. A Muslim, Amin had lived quietly in Jeddah on a government stipend with four wives. He was born in 1925, according to most sources, to a peasant family of the small, predominantly Muslim Kakwa tribe at Arua, in Uganda's remote West Nile district.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (25345)	8/20/2003 5:50:14 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 25898

1961: The Berlin Wall 2003: The Jerusalem Wall Carving up Jerusalem, for security, of course By Akiva Eldar The Palestinian residents of the eastern neighborhoods of East Jerusalem are now waking up nearly every morning to new land expropriation orders hanging on the electricity poles, giving the residents no more than seven days to appeal the decision. In the last week, the residents of Tsur Baher, Sheikh Sa'ad, Abu Dis and Voloja have been informed of new expropriations for another 17 kilometers of the "Jerusalem envelope." And the new orders are redrawing the face of Jerusalem. Nearly in secret, under cover of "security needs," the most dramatic change since the city was unified after the 1967 war is now taking place. In 1967, the Israeli government removed the physical barriers between the east and west of the city, between Jews and Arabs. Now the government is putting up physical barriers between Arab residents and their relatives, Arab pupils and their schools. The fence cuts off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, between 300,000 on one side, their relatives on the other, including a quarter million residents of East Jerusalem and 50,000 West Bankers. If the Temple Mount is taken as the center of a clock, then the fence goes from 2 P.M. to 7 P.M. and all it takes is a glance at a map to realize that the route has very little to do with security. What does the finger pointing at Rachel's Tomb (and the imprisonment of some 40-60 Palestinian families inside the fenced finger) have to do with the security of Jerusalem? It is difficult not to think that the principle guiding the planners of this new Jerusalem was to strangle the Palestinian neighborhoods with a contiguous corridor of Jewish settlements. The fence fills in the missing links until the Housing Ministry fills them in with subsidized housing. The new orders pull Mt. Gilo out of the West Bank, annexing it to Jerusalem. From there, the fence draws Israeli territorial contiguity to Gilo and the approaches to Har Homa. Heading north, it cuts in half Tsur Baher and moves hundreds of people, Palestinian residents of Israel (with blue ID cards) to outside the fence. Then it surrounds Sheikh Sa'ad and its neighbor, Arb Suhara, which is inside Jerusalem's municipal jurisdiction. Other orders will divide Abu Dis. Dozens of families, Jerusalemites for generations, will suddenly discover that the view from their windows is no longer the city but an eight-meter-high concrete wall. In other places, the wall will run through courtyards and across streets. Another fence will head east to the villagers of Azzariyeh and Abu Dis, which are on the eastern threshold of the city, and from there to the Ma'ale Adumim junction. West bankers, whose neighborhoods are inside the "Jerusalem envelope" fence, like Anata, A Ram and Dihiyat al Barid, will be considered illegal the minute they step out their front door onto the main street of their neighborhoods. It's no accident that East Jerusalem has been relatively quiet since the start of the intifada. In light of the sheer destruction in Bethlehem to the south and Ramallah in the north, the eastern Jerusalemites preferred to look westward, to their neighbors and jobs in the western part of the city. When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to implement his plan for Palestinian enclaves over 45 percent of the West Bank, did he take into account that those who treat East Jerusalem like Ramallah should expect the same attitude back? The difference is that the residents of the capital won't have to use subterfuge to get a car bomb into Israel. Their cars will be deep inside it. [...] haaretz.com