Posted by shelliR on October 9, 2001, at 12:06:11
In reply to Re: poem, posted by kid_A on October 9, 2001, at 11:34:33
> > well, I do think that your critique is a bit heavy duty for a poem. And anyway, who said anything about the Palestinians?
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> well... there are a lot of issues here, its a multifaceted situation and the Palestinians are a big part of it and have been for quite some time... Bin Laden is very much pro Palestine, of course Israel has a different view... This is where the problem lies, we pump a few billion into Israel each year and generally have ignored the plight of the Palestinians... Both Israel and Palestine need to make some true steps towards a peacefull resolution, and our stance needs to switch to a much less unilateral one...Truely, if you read the history of Bin Laden's movement, it has historically had nothing to do with Palestine, either pro or con. I'm not saying the Plaestinian issue is not an important one, just that had nothing to do with this highly religious, anti-American fundamentalist movement. If you can find any previous references to Bin Laden and the Palestintinans before his last video speech, I'd be surprised. The inclusion in his last video speech was a big surprise to mid-east analysts, and thought to be a ploy to gain more sympathy. This is not my analysis. This is the part of all the analysis I have read in the Washington Post and heard on NPR.
I think it is important to keep the two issues separate, because they are separate. You were being so critical of everything in the poem, and you said it was objective criticism. I was pointing out a mistake in your facts. I'll stand by my comments that you are incorrect in linking the palestinian movement to this last terrorism against the U.S. I hope that someone so anxious to put the facts on the record, would be willing to look into the possiblility that something they said was a mistake. I think it is really important that a very critical person be willing to put the facts above the necessity of being "right".Shelli
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