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30JUN2002 REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT - Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border San Antonio, Texas So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375. "She would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for marzipan and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place settings, using the cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer Jennette Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really adds texture to the stucco walls." [MORE] 29JUN2002 Our Man In Ramallah - Sam Bahour A day in the life... Our Man In Ramallah wrote in Breaking the Fear "Sixteen fully armed Israeli soliders" entered his house like we can't imagine over here... 28JUN2002 NEWS YOU DIDN'T NOTICE 1: Tyrant President George W. Bush suffered a setback when a federal judge ruled that the recently enacted law authorizing the State Department to arbitrarily and capriciously deem an organization as "Terrorist" won't pass constitutional muster. Duh... Read all about it at: Judge strikes law citing 'terrorist' groups By Ben Barber The Washington Times 2: We have a slight trade deficit. The experts are telling us now that our standard of living is coming down and to make the best of it. Read all about it at: Trade gap could pinch our pocketbooks - Record deficit might decrease standard of living for regular Americans Sam Zuckerman, Chronicle Economics Writer By the way, you'll notice no mention whatsoever in that lengthy article of NAFTA/GATT, which is why we have such a massive and growing trade deficit. Truly amazing. You will recall I wrote quite some time ago that our combined wealth from over 300 million Americans won't make a ripple when it is "shared" with the rest of the world through NAFTA/GATT. You won't see any remarkable improvement in standard of living for them, but we will most definitely feel it ourselves. Basically, it's like taking a five-gallon bucket of our wealth, and dumping it into a 40,000 gallon world wealth pool. The depth of the world's wealth won't noticeably rise; trust me on that. Final note: Yesterday, the DOW took off straight down the tubes, alternating between -165 and -60 until the last hour or so. Then suddenly it reversed and at the closing bell, the DOW had lost only 6 points for the day. Remarkable isn't the word for it: Manipulation is what comes to mind. There was no good reason to by stocks of any kind yesterday, today or the next several thousand tomorrows. Yesterday, it was announced that World Com, the largest communications company in the world, had cooked the books and hidden almost 4 billion dollars in expenses. They plan to lay off 17,000 employees right away and their stock shot down to around 30 cents per share. They are looking for a nice loan to bail them out, but I don't see any stupid bankers on the horizon, so you can just about bet the farm World Com is going to be World Com gone very shortly. So not only were general stocks overvalued by 300% or more at the height of the bull market, that overvaluation is now compounded by the revelation that a number of huge corporations were claiming profits that were never there. How many more are going to be exposed? But don't worry, now's the time to buy stock!!  was a project coordinator for Enron. Employment is no problem for the attractive females laid off: Playboy is probably preparing its next layout called, "The Women of World Com". In the meantime, our president keeps telling us the economy is growing stronger and stronger. Have a nice day. Carl F. Worden 27JUN2002 Arafat Calls for Democratic Elections in the United States World Reaction is Mixed Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat stunned the world yesterday by demanding that the United States hold democratic elections for a new Chief Executive before it attempts to continue in its role as broker between Israel and Palestine. "Mr. Bush is tainted by his association with Jim-Crow-style selective disenfranchisement and executive strong-arm tactics in a southeastern province controlled by his brother," said Mr. Arafat, who was elected with 87% of the vote in 1996 elections in the West Bank and Gaza, declared to be free and fair by international observers, including former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. "Our count shows that he would have lost the election if his associates hadn't deprived so many thousands of African-Americans, an oppressed minority, of the right to vote. He is not the man to bring peace to the Middle East." Last night's long-awaited speech by President Bush was to set the pace for the Palestinians and Israelis to step back from the vicious and bloody cycle of violence that has gripped them for nearly two years. Instead, President Bush and his administration have publicly adopted the Israeli agenda of battering the Palestinians into submission. President Bush's illusion that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may be 'talked away' in a series of speeches is not only a poor example of leadership but seriously places U.S. interests in the region at high risk. See CounterPunch article by Rahul Mahajan Also see Bush Says Palestinians Must Dump Arafat for State by Mark Heinrich and Steve Holland And see Blair joins Canada and refuses to demand that Arafat quits by Rupert Cornwell One Nation Under God? See Deeds, not words, testify to faith and patriotism, an article by Joe Rodriguez Enron can't hold a candle to WorldCom WorldCom Charged with Fraud, by Barrie McKenna Also see Washington Post lead editorial: Another One Falls 25JUN2002 President Bush the Martyr By Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan Last night's long-awaited speech by President Bush was to set the pace for the Palestinians and Israelis to step back from the vicious and bloody cycle of violence that has gripped them for nearly two years. Instead, President Bush and his administration have publicly adopted the Israeli agenda of battering the Palestinians into submission. President Bush's illusion that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may be 'talked away' in a series of speeches is not only a poor example of leadership but seriously places U.S. interests in the region at high risk. President Bush's administration has utterly failed to comprehend the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and in particular the Palestinian predicament today which is an Israeli re-occupation of the small parcels of land that were transferred to the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Peace Accords. To add insult to injury, President Bush continues to mismanage U.S. policy with unprecedented unaccountability to the U.S. Congress or the world community. Bush's chronological attempts to address the crisis are as follows: ignore the conflict - failed, send Powell to the region - failed, the Mitchell Report - failed, the Tenet Plan - failed, Bush's UN speech - failed, Secretary of State Powell's policy speech in Kentucky - failed, send General Zinni on multiple missions - failed, and the most recent call for an international conference (completely ignored in Bush's latest speech) - failed. If the creativity applied to avoiding real U.S. action were used to put an implementation mechanism in place to end the Israeli occupation the region would be well out of the conflict by now. To a naive audience President Bush's speech may have sounded like a sensible framework for progress, but for anyone with any understanding at all of the Middle East, it was clearly a shallow attempt in diplomacy that amounts to U.S. surrender of its Middle East foreign policy to the ranks of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel's lobby in the U.S. Indeed, the speech was praised by Israel's right, which has rejected Palestinian statehood outright. President Bush continues to be blinded by the events of 9-11 and refuses (or deceitfully avoids) to see the Palestinian issue outside the framework of the yet undefined phenomena of "terrorism". Palestinians were stripped of their national, civil, and human rights decades before the word terrorism became a buzzword. By placing the Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence in a 9-11 mold, the U.S. is only prolonging a solution and feeding the bloodshed, exactly as Israel has been doing for 36 consecutive years now. Today the U.S. is ideally positioned to finally take real action and use its global leverage to end Israeli occupation, instead it has succumb to an extremist Israeli government that views the fate of illegal Israeli settlements the same as it views the fate of Tel Aviv. By reducing the entire conflict in the region to the existence of an individual Palestinian leader, or set of leaders, the Bush Administration has fallen for the red herring that was designed, produced and marketed by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. President Bush needs to remember that Former President Carter was part of the international election monitoring team that gave the Palestinian Presidential elections a stamp of approval. Furthermore, the Palestinians are fully aware of the weaknesses in their leadership and have been working to correct it for many years now. Instead of supporting Palestinian reformist the U.S. has chosen to make their efforts more difficult by making them look as if they are aligned to an Israeli strategy of reform before freedom. A U.S. led international campaign to mettle in internal Palestinian politics will only setback the efforts of those Palestinians that have already started making concrete steps for change. To craft U.S. policy in an entire region around new elections for an already expired Palestinian Authority is yet another display of Israeli setting of U.S. policy. More frightening is President Bush's criteria for the new leadership to be "not compromised by terror." We can only assume that this will be translated by way of Jerusalem to mean that only those Palestinians who have not been involved in resistance against occupation would be accepted. This is a clever way to say that no Palestinian is eligible for acceptance into this U.S. policy and thus give Israel more time to destroy Palestinian communities and any hope for co-existence. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, President Bush's advisors, the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. and the U.S. Congress have clearly provoked President Bush to become a martyr in the name of continued Israeli military occupation of Palestinians. As with most martyrs who fail to see how their emotionally charged act will negatively reflect on the real issues at hand, President Bush stands proud and tall in support of Israel while the U.S. economy, U.S. allies in the region, U.S. homeland security and the U.S. global leadership position all take the brunt of his misaligned and ill advised policy, if it can even be considered "policy". The authors of this article have written throughout the last two years on every one of the issues the President spoke about in his speech. We predicted each failed U.S. step. Every time we have advised the U.S. on the way out of the crisis - to put forth action, not words, in ending the Israeli occupation. We still strongly believe that as long as Israeli occupation is permitted to survive, the U.S. can revisit the issue in 10 days or 10 months or 10 years and would face the same - Palestinians, stripped of their rights, dignity, land and freedom will continue to struggle, with Arafat or without, to end their predicament, and Israelis will continue to suffer. It is time - past time, to use Secretary of State Powell's words - for the U.S. to put actions behind its policies. Until then we await the next speech by President Bush and brace ourselves for the next series of bombings. * Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West Bank and can be reached at sbahour@palnet.com. He is co-author of HOMELAND: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (1994). Dr. Michael Dahan is an Israeli-American political scientist living in Jerusalem and can be reached at mdahan@attglobal.net ********** Ed note: Also in today's e-mail was an article by the "Islamicist" (hater) Dan Pipes. Both Sam Bahour and Dan Pipes, even though they are saying the exact opposite thing, they have both gotten a good handle on the future of George WWIII & Company as a dying breed... and you don't have to look too deeply between the lines to see that Dan Pipes and George WWIII & Company, NOT the likes of Sam Bahour will be the death of Israel, and why and how. See Pipes' National Post article: Bush is rewarding terrorism. Oh, how the media loves Dan Pipes for his hatred of Muslims and Pat Buchanan for his hatred of ALL foreigners! ********** 02JUN2002 A certifiable moron occupying the White House? Intelligence Officer for the Southern Oregon Militia says Yes! How would I take such a threat seriously? The very first thing I would do, and I would have done it immediately after 9/11, is to authorize every law enforcement agency operating in the United States to stop and identify anyone who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. All those who prove to be American citizens would be given a special certification to show any other law enforcement officers who stop them that they've already been checked out. All the others, whether here on a valid visa or not, would be shipped home, no if's and's or but's, and NO exceptions. See: A Village Idiot Runs This Asylum Also see: Arafat declares Texas as new Palestinian Homeland |
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