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April 12, 2002
John Chuckman
Tom
Friedman's Fabrications
April 11, 2002
Patrick Cockburn
Battle of St. Petersburg Zoo
Jeff Halper
After
the Invasion:
Now What?
Falk / Krieger
Taming the Nuclear Monster
Steve
Perry
The
Good Life of
Nellie Stone Johnson
Nick Ring
Efficiency and Occupation:
Terrorism vs. Taylorism
Alexander
Cockburn
From
the West Bank to BBQ
to Old Sparky, And Beyond
April 10, 2002
M. Junaid Alam
Blaming the Victims:
Hating the Palestinians
George
Monbiot
World
Bank to West Bank
Fran Schor
US-Sponsored State Terror
David
Vest
Political
Color Schemes
Jack McCarthy
Florida State Radicals:
The Berkeley of the South
Rises Again
Doreen
Miller
A
Tale of Two Warring Tribes
Michael Neumann
Israelis and Indians
April 9, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
Colin
Powell's Table Talk
Matt Vidal
Thomas Friedman,
Another Wasted Pulitzer
Ron Jacobs
Buyer
Beware
Robert Jensen
I Helped Kill a Palestinian
Vijay
Prashad
Memories
of Barbarity:
Sharonism and September
Wayne Madsen
Anthrax and the Agency:
Thinking the Unthinkable
April 8, 2002
David
Vest
From
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The Making of Tammy Wynette
Rick Giombetti
Paxil, Suicide and Science
Dr. Neve
Gordon
Letter
to an IDF Colonel:
How Did You Become
a War Criminal?
Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
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Jordy
Cummings
Not
in My Name Anymore
Gavin Keeney
Bush and the Middle East:
Mouth Wide Shut
Edward
Said
The
Future of Palestine
April 7, 2002
Beth Daoud
Accompanying Ambulances
in Bethlehem
Nancy
Stohlman
After
the Invasion:
The Search for Bread
Among the Ruins
Thomas Mountain
"Yellow Peril" In Hawai'i:
Judge Orders Chains and Shackles for Chinese Witnesses
Tariq
Ali
Who
Killed Daniel Pearl?
April 6, 2002
Philip Farruggio
War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
Litovkin
Russian
Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
Walt Brasch
Oil
Slick George:
Bush-whacking the Environment
Ralph Nader
Campaign Finance Sham
Sam Bahour
The
Blind Leading the Criminal
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A Former CIA Official on
Oil and the Middle East
April 5, 2002
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Seitz
In
Ramallah: The Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On
Nancy Stohlman
The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
Beth Daoud
The
Siege of Bethlehem:
"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
Fareed Marjaee:
Demonizing Iran
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Philip
Morris to Canada:
"Drop Dead"
Alex Lynch
Tampa Campus Mirrors
Middle East Strife
Alexander
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Sharon's
Wars: How the
News Gets Through
April 4, 2002
Ray Hanania
Sharon's Latest Lie About the Church
of the Nativity
Mike Leon
Rightwing
Assault on Madison Progressives Misfires
Tom Turnipseed
Stop the Killing Now!
Nancy
Stohlman
An
American Under Siege in a West Bank Refugee Camp
Christopher Reilly
Kissinger, Chile and Justice
at Long Last?
M. Shahid
Alam
The
Lies of Thomas Friedman
April 3, 2002
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Weiner
An
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About His Shame
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Sting of Stings
Gabriel Ash
America's Bravest
John Chuckman
Of
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The Siege of Bethlehem
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April 12, 2002
International Nonviolence and Inner
Disarmament
By Nancy Stohlman
in East Jerusalem
Yesterday morning in Jerusalem, Ben Scribner and
I met an American named Mike, sitting on the steps of the Damascus
gate with his backpack and sunglasses. He, like the other internationals
who arrive each day, was jazzed and ready to join the Palestinian
struggle. Paul from Canada rode his bicycle in from Jordan, and
then cycled into beseiged Bethlehem. John from Seattle, still
jetlagged, awaits the delivery of phones to the new office space
that internationals are creating to receive one another. Craig
from Cairo, with the sunburned nose, raced off to begin the new
wave of internationals in refugee camps. British Jenny wiped
the mud of Nablus from her boots, and jumped in a convoy of supplies
headed for Nablus, a convoy that is being led by our own Brian
Wood. Gary Anderson has been working intimately with the Palestinian
Water Authority, glowing from the alignment of his work and his
heart. Ben and I have been coordinating with Israeli peace organizations
and leftist ! groups, organizing a potentially massive non-violent
demonstration in Tel Aviv in front of the US Embassy. Our message
to Colin Powell: The US has the power and the key to end this
battle, in the same way that they now perpetuate it. Why do we
do nothing?
As I was finishing one errand and hurrying
to another, I slipped into a store of olive wood carvings. For
a moment, the stillness of the shop, the shelves filled with
Christian icons, seemed a sweet escape from the bustle of the
street. The shopkeeper made small talk, showed me some rosaries.
He asked if I had been to the Church of the Nativity. Instantly
suspicious, I tried to nonchalantly brush off the question, not
wanting to admit to a stranger that I had been in Bethlehem.
I am now cautious of who might be listening through whose ears.
"No, nobody can go there," I answered. "It's too
bad, because I really wanted to." I tried to avoid his eyes
and seem like a regular tourist. Should I say--Yes! I saw smoke
and heard gunfire surround the Church for over a week! I feared
for my life like you fear for yours everyday!?
The shopkeeper is not fooled by my shopping
facade. "They kill a priest today," he says in a lowered
voice. My eyes soften and my reserve weakens. "I hadn't
heard that. But I had heard that the people in the Church are
down to a quarter of a pita a day for rations." He nods,
sadly. "They try to starve them out. It is very bad."
I feel the rage begin to rise up my esophagus. I pay for my purchase,
the shopkeeper insisting to accept fewer shekles than we had
originally agreed upon. "You have a special gift,"
he says to me, looking very seriously into my eyes. "You
smile. The people here need to see your smile."
As I walk through East Jerusalem, I feel
safe. I smile at the orange and artichoke venders, the cigarette
stands. The rains are gone, and the spring sun warms the broken
land, seeps in the cracks of the broken city. I cross the honking,
busy streets, past the flea market style drugstores, and bags
of lentils and garbanzos. I smell frying falafel oil and bundles
of fresh mint and sage for sale on the bustling sidewalk. Every
twenty feet, traditional Arab music blasts from a storefront.
I bob and flow with the crowds of beautiful scarved women holding
the hands of children. On a dumpster I see the scrawled words:
Free Palestine Now. Isn't that the real point?
I have realized that the International
Solidarity Movement, and the world attention that has been stirred
towards this oppression and injustice, is no longer a two-week
campaign. Two weeks is a field trip to an ongoing situation.
But two-week blocks of round the calendar presence from thousands
of internationals can become a powerful movement.
What we do here is important, but most
crucial is what we continue to do when we return to our homes.
I feel especially inspired by the actions of people who have
never even seen this land, but feel in their hearts a responsibility
to speak loudly against the destruction of a valid and beautiful
civilization. I came to the Middle East because it seemed to
be the vortex of the world's injustice. But no people are immune
to these horrors. We have seen how the oppressed can become the
oppressor, how the abused can turn around and abuse, how "Never
Again" can eventually become "One More Time."
I have always been particularly struck
by a quote from the Dalai Lama, who ironically has also been
exiled from his homeland of Tibet for over 40 years. "World
peace begins with inner peace, world disarmament begins with
inner disarmament." How gratifying it is, then, to see so
many people from around the world, including myself, make inner
peace with the dissonance in their hearts. We demonstrate, write
letters, make phone calls, buy last minute plane tickets, give
middle of the night interviews, and talk, talk, TALK about the
rift between what we know is right, and what we are actually
doing about it in our lives. Only when we can stitch the seams
between rhetoric and action, between rationalization and passion,
between privilege and responsibility, can we mend the gash between
Palestine and Israel--and ultimately the gaping wounds of the
world. Let no people be the oppressed people any longer--not
the Tibetans, Irish, African-Americans, Native Americans, South
Afric! ans, Colombians, or Palestinians. Let us all return to
our roots as members of humanity, and be accountable for the
horrors that taint the human experience for us all. What happens
to one of us happens to all of humanity.
I have been honored to be a voice for
the Palestinian people. I now hand the baton to every person
who reads this: Run fast. Speak loudly. We can all be part of
the solution.
Nancy Stohlman
is one of five members of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East
Peace who have joined hundreds of internationals in Palestine
to do nonviolent actions to end Israel's illegal military occupation
of Palestine. More about their story at: http://www.ccmep.org/palestine.html
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