Posted on 04/21/2002 8:06:46 PM PDT by A. Pole
BARF ALERT!!! BARF ALERT!!! BARF ALERT!!!
What is the difference between Ariel Sharon and Slobodan Milosevic, now on trial for war crimes? Apart from the fact that one killed Bosnians and Albanians while the other kills Palestinians, the answer is none whatsoever. At least, that is the answer heard across the Arab and Muslim world. Now, across the West too, the same judgment is heard. Public opinion has started to regard Sharon as a war criminal.
Over the past couple of weeks, the scales have fallen from millions of eyes. No longer is it seen in the way it has long tired to present itself, as the underdog, the plucky little David battling against an Arab Goliath that seeks to destroy it. Rather, it is the Israelis who are seen as the jackbooted thugs, the Palestinians as the defenseless victims.
If any one thing has changed Western views — and they have changed even in the US — it is Jenin. Taking the lead from the media, which has never been so uniformly hostile and critical of Israel, Western public has been visibly shocked and sickened by reports of innocent Palestinians civilians being slaughtered or being left to bleed to death and their newborn infants to perish because they were prevented from getting medical attention. There is still repugnance for the suicide bombers and little affection for the Palestinian leadership. But there is unprecedented sympathy for the Palestinians, mirrored by anger at Israel and disgust with Sharon.
This is new, and its significance should not be underestimated. For example, for one of Britain’s leading Jewish politicians, former Labor government minister Gerald Kaufman, hitherto a strong supporter of everything Israel does, to describe the Israeli prime minister as a "war criminal" as he did in Parliament last week, is an unheard-of development. The shift is seen in other ways. When, again in the UK, the French ambassador was recently reported to have described Israel as that "shitty little state", there was little condemnation or outrage, other than from overtly pro-Israeli sources. Indeed, it now seems as if many concur, if not in words then in sentiment.
Israel’s onslaught tops the news throughout the Western world, even in France which, with its presidential election just days away, might have been thought to be otherwise preoccupied. In London, Paris, Amsterdam people can be heard starting conversations with questions such as "What do you think about the Israelis?" (the inference being "Who would have believed it, or more bluntly: "Are the Israelis insane?"
From an Arab perspective, coming at a time when the news is otherwise depressing and cause for the deepest anger, this development is immensely encouraging. Already, the EU has floated the idea of sanctions against Israel. It may not happen; but Israel is fast assuming pariah status. The possibility that Sharon will one day be brought to international justice for his crimes certainly becomes daily more credible.
For years, Arabs and Muslims have told an unreceptive world that Israel is a racist, militaristic state. Finally people are listening, thanks to Sharon. Just as Milosevic’s bigoted warmongering all but destroyed Serbia, he has ironically done more to undermine and destroy the credibility of Israel than any Palestinian. It is encouraging.
When NATO bombed Serbs many Jews cheered, hoping to gain Muslim friendship. Even now Netanyahu compares Milosevic to Hitler!
Holocaust Memorial management invited as honorary guest semi-fascist Tudjman and condemned Serbs. So quickly the lessons of WWII (on which side were Serbs and on which were Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians?) got forgotten.
And where is the Muslim thankfulness? Was it worth to give Serbs the boot?
Those events has puzzled me to no end.
Well, to be fair this "virgins" might a wrong interpretation. It is possible that those are to be raisins. "white raisins" of "crystal clarity"
It is worth to mention that Jenin has also been a turning point for many in the nations that fought the German Nazis. The people in Russia, Ukraine, Poland and France could readily compare between the Nazi tanks onslaught against lightly armed civilians and the Israeli tanks bulldozing civilian occupied houses in Jenin. The difference was in the newer American technology in the Israeli military equipment.
Answer: Milosevic is a war criminal, Sharon isn't.
NOTHING! They both have been fighting to protect their respective countries from islamic terrorism and expansionism!!!!
These islamic sophists and liars should REALLY reflect on the difference between Adolf Hitler and Muhammad Al Husseini a.k.a. "Yasser Arafat". I'll give them a hint. Hitler and Himmler's associate, Haj Amin Al Husseini, was also "Arafat's" relative and his GREATEST MENTOR!!!!
By the way, the older Al Husseini, besides helping to plan the Holocaust, also organized the vicious SS units of Balkan muslim-Nazis that slaughtered tens of thousands of Serbs during WWII. The way the muslim Arab authors of this article compare Milosevic to Sharon shows that they have not lost the taste for Serbophobia that their "hero" Haj Amin had while he was alive!!!
Answer: Ariel Sharon's country received our bombs and military equipment to invade Palestinian territories and kill many civilians. Slobodan Milosevic's country was bombed by our planes, so that Serbian land in Kosovo could be taken over by the Albanian terrorists.
Nor have our media reminded anybody that in order to facilitate weapons shipments from the US, Sharon gave his word that Israel would refrain from further settlements in Palestinian territory, yet he has simply ignored his pledge and has established 32 settlements since coming to office.
None! Both are elected leaders of 'Democracies', brave, intelligent, and share Western values.
"Ramallah" added to the Sarajevo city sign
On April 10, 2002, representatives of Bosnian Liberal-Democratic party added "Ramallah" to the Sarajevo city sign, thus expressing their solidarity with the Palestinian people in Israel.
This act has drawn significant protest from the president of Jewish Community in Bosnia, Mr. Jakov Finci as well as Rabin Josef Atijas.
Would "what goes around comes around" be appropriate a comment?
I also know some who start to see the light. But it is so painfully slow process.
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