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December 6, 2001
Sam and
Leila Bahour
The
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December 5, 2001
Edward Hammond
The Only
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Prevent Biowarfare
Harvey
Wasserman
Atomic
Treason in the House
Carl Estabrook
America's
Israel
Don Williams
Questions
Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George Bush
Cockburn/St. Clair
Liberals
Hail War as
Return of Big Government
Robert
Fisk
The
Last Colonial War?
Bahour/Dahan
It's About
the Occupation
December 4, 2001
Dave Marsh
A
Plea for Byron Parker
Rep. Ron Paul
Keep Your
Eye on the Target
Susan
Herman
Ashcroft
and the Patriot Act
Tariq Ali
The Afghan
King and the Nazis
November 30, 2001
Jordan
Green
Disappeared
in the Southland
Willliam Blum
Rebuilding
Afghanistan?
November 29, 2001
Phillip
Cryan
Defining
Terrorism
Robert Fisk
We Are the
War Criminals Now
November 28, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
A
Continuum of Terror
Patrick Cockburn
Tribal
Council:
Don't Blame It All on Taliban
Robert
Fisk
At
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Harry Browne
The Bill of
Rights:
They Threw It All Away
Sunil
Sharma
Suffer
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November 27, 2001
Paul Coggins
Kafka and
the Patriot Act
Tariq
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Tigris
and Euprhates
November 26, 2001
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Blood and
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December
6, 2001
Does Thomas Friedman
Read the New York Times?
By Jack McCarthy
In his silly and more-dishonest-than-usual column
for December 5, "Intifada 11 is Over" the New York
Times' Thomas Friedman (for not the first and probably not the
last time) blames Yassar Arafat and the Palestinian Authority
for rejecting a so-called unprecedented "peace offering"
in the form of a Palestinian state.
This grand offer supposedly occurred
during negotiations in the waning days of the Clinton administration.
At the time Clinton made a lot of news by claiming Arafat wouldn't
budge on anything.
But as the Times itself reported not
long ago, based on diplomatic reports, the record shows that
if anything it was the Israeli Prime Minister Barak, and not
Arafat, who was obstinate and unyielding.
Why then does Friedman continue to parrot
this blatant falsehood? Why does Freidman never provide "context"
for the current round of violence?
As Freidman is well aware, the current
intifida was ignited by matches lit by both Ariel Sharon and
Barak in the midst of the election for Prime Minister. Barak
pissed away the Oslo Accords during the Clinton round of negotiations
to prove his mettle with Israeli hardliners and Sharon did his
infamous waddle/swagger across Muslim holy ground in Jerusalem.
Friedman never mentions this.
It's not unreasonable conclude that Freidman
is using his perch at the Times for his own personal agenda--call
it Bin Friedmanism. Like that other preppie news dweeb, Jonathan
("Tortureboy") Alter at Newsweek, Friedman is vicariously
flexing his muscles by cheering loudly for Sharon as he supposedly
mops up Palestinian "bin ladenism."
Freidman, however, doesn't mention that
it's not Hamas and Islamic Jihad (who Friedman says has hijacked
the Palestinian cause) who are being attacked today. It's Arafat
and company.
In his December 5 column Osama Bin Friedman
can be found parroting the Sharon line and all but calls on the
Palestinians to kill Arafat. He warns that Sharon shouldn't go
after Arafat. "Leave that for the Palestinians."
One wonders who Friedman thinks Hamas
and Jihad hijacked the Palestinian movement from?
As he this sleaze weasel always does,
Freidman makes a quick feint toward the root cause of the conflict:settlements
and occupation. Friedman briefly urges that the U.S. pressure
Israel on these issues but then, israeli bombs strapped to his
brain, Friedman opens up fire again on Arafat for not taking
advantage at the Clinton round.
In the end the question remains:
Does Thomas Friedman read the New York
Times?
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