Posted by Barry on April 21, 2002, 7:21 am I join my prayers to yours as we hope and pray for some justice to find its way into the equation.
How can the rest of the world including Australia not act more firmly and decisively in response to this situation. The United nations is making some attempt but one feels that Israel's response will be less than adequate, driven as they are by their own fears and their own prejudices.
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: I just add my small voice to all those others
: expressing dismay, pain and anger at the
: fate dished out to the people of Jenin by
: the Israeli military.
: From ABC reports this morning, it is evident
: that the Israelis went far beyond the
: cautious respectful limits that Ariel
: Sharon has claimed. There has it seems
: been a massacre of innocent civilians that
: beggars belief.
: Then I hear a US Congressman proposing a
: piece of legislation to increase US aid to
: Israel, becaue he says that Arafat has
: been ordering these suicide bomobings and
: is akin to the people who attacked the US
: on September 11! There is no interest in
: the truth evident here, only a one-eyed
: determination to see Israel dominate and
: even eliminate the possibility of a
: Palestinian State, and perhaps even the
: Palestinians as a people.
: The world must respond and quickly to this
: rampant racist aggression. No wonder the
: Us voted against the recently established
: War Crimes Court set up by the United
: Nations.
: Prayers and protests must go hand in hand
: until justice comes to all peoples in the
: Palestine/Israel area.
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