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...torture, detention and murder of Iraqis -- by Iraqis -- but the U.S. hardly cared about such atrocities during the years when Washington's Middle East policy dictated accommodating Saddam. So when the President says Amnesty's report has "really made an impression on me," he is reacting in a new context. Had he been applying a consistent human-rights standard all along, he would have been just as exercised about last year's Amnesty report on Iraq, and perhaps the Administration would have supported the sanctions some Congressmen were urging before Saddam's brutality spilled beyond Iraq's borders...
...communist about the U.S. when one tried to explain that America's society was basically good despite segregation. In their hearts and minds, Americans believed that completely -- and eventually, of course, the remnants of at least legal discrimination were abolished. Similarly, Kuwait's problems should be seen in context. Like Israel, an essentially decent nation despite some glaring blind spots, Kuwait before Saddam was a good country in a bad neighborhood. It will surely be that again, but it could be much more. A terrible tragedy has afforded Kuwait the rarest of opportunities, a true second chance. If it rises...
Such a statement makes no mention of the actual reasons for the periodic closure of schools in the occupied territories, the greater context of the issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict or even at the very least, the words "Palestinian" or "intifada". The posters had the sole purpose of discrediting Israel by portraying the Middle East's only democracy as a barbarous and militaristic regime...
Further, the posters, in their context, attempt to create a parallel between Harvard University and the Palestinian universities and the West Bank. This attempt is perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of all to the posters. Quite simply, this parallel is nonexistent...
Clearly, the Committee on Palestine has, through its actions, demonstrated a desire to propagandize rather than engage in serious debate about the issue of the intifada in the context of the more general Arab-Israeli conflict. Such motives and methods are at best questionable and, at worst, inflammatory and slanderous. Adam Taxin...