- It's time for America either to wake up to Sharon's double
dealing in the Middle East or to risk further isolation from the international
community. Having just returned from Spain and England, and having spoken
with dozens of people from other countries, over 90 percent of them say
that Israel does not want peace in the Middle East and that America is
being played the fool by Sharon.
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- Clearly, Sharon is taking more land from Palestine, building
more settlements, while dismantling smaller settlements to give his "new
initiative" a good face, but the face is another lie by Sharon. True,
it is making some commotion in Israel, but under the cover of negotiations,
he is promising many of those who are being "moved" that they
will get newer and better homes in the new settlements he is building at
a very rapid rate while continuing his rhetoric to the world of "working
for peace."
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- Thus, it is time for America to understand why the EU,
the UN and other parties are getting angrier and angrier at the Sharon
and Israel for their hypocritical stand on settlements and the taking of
land from Palestinians. If one reads the foreign press reports, from Paris,
to London to Hamburg to Beirut to Cairo, all the reports show this dog
and pony of Sharon's for what it is-another conning of the Bush administration
and an attempt to con the world while destroying any viable potential Palestinian
state.
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- It is time we started to help our own poor and homeless,
aid our own sick and restore our own country, and restore our financial
situation rather than continuing to support an outlaw state like Israel
with billions of dollars every year. It would also help our standing in
the world if we pulled out of Iraq, especially since the new government
is in place-as we promised we would do many months ago. This would help
our image in the Muslim world, help restore some confidence in the dollar
(which is in danger of a free fall even to this day) and would give us
a chance to bring our people home to their wives, husbands, children and
loved ones instead of leaving them in the killing zone called Iraq, the
killing zone where the Depleted Uranium weapons we are using there are
the only WMDs and that will poison not only the Iraqis but have already
poisoned thousands of our own troops.
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- Sam Hamod is an expert on the Middle East and Islam,
having published hundreds of articles on said subjects. He is also the
former Director of The Islamic Center in Washington, DC, a former advisor
to the U.S. State Department, writer for AP and former editor of Third
World News (in Wash,DC) and professor at Princeton.
- shamod@cox.net
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