Re: Re: Screening: _People and the Land_ (Thursday, Nov. 29)

["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 18:51:58 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
>...
>Didn't count the zeros in the quoted passage before pasting it.
>Blame it on _Washington Report on the Middle East Affairs_!
>
>Here's the correct (& more recent) figures:

The report is absolutely bloodcurdling, the direct link to which (PDF
format) is:

    http://www.nlg.org/NLG_MidEastReport.pdf

Another article worth reading is "A Gaza Diary" by New York Times
reporter Chris Hedges, in the October 2001 Harper's Magazine.  Here is
a very chilling excerpt:

     Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of
     whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This
     afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and
     seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen.
     Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered ---
     death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala,
     mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and
     Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them
     crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo --- but I have never before
     watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder
     them for sport.

This is from the entry "Sunday afternoon, June 17, the dunes" (page 7
in the online version).  The Israeli soldiers enticed the children to
their deaths by spewing obscene racist invective through loudspeakers
mounted on their jeeps as they sat behind electric fences.

The entire article can be seen online at:

    http://www.harpers.org/online/gaza_diary


Bill