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LMNOP Palestine resources page: http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP/palestine.htm ---------------------------------------- from The Wrap, Guardian Unlimited's round-up of today's papers. >>> PESSIMISM SURROUNDS POWELL VISIT "I don't like wallowing with pessimists," Colin Powell snapped yesterday as he left for Jerusalem. "It is necessary for me to go." But none of the papers hold out much hope that the US envoy will be able to broker any sort of peace in the Middle East. (The Telegraph thinks it was a mistake for him to go at all; like John Pilger, it believes Ariel Sharon's "war on terrorism" bears comparison with America's. Pilger thinks both are wrong; the Telegraph thinks both are right). The Independent agrees that Mr Powell is unlikely to make any progress this week. "Material pressure" - sanctions and the withdrawal of aid - is the only kind that will work, the paper argues. But support for Mr Sharon in Washington is beginning to ebb away, the papers suggest. "After he's finished [this campaign], what next?" an official speculated on Wednesday. "The fear is that he knows no other way than being tough." The Israeli prime minister said last night that his troops would stay in Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus and Ramallah "until all the terrorists there have surrendered", reports the Telegraph, and predicted another three weeks of fighting. "You foreigners make much of Israeli civilian deaths," the neighbour of a dead Palestinian woman told the Washington Post. "But we are just statistics. Because a soldier does it, it is not terrorism. Why not?" The Guardian reports the "random strafing of heavily populated civilian areas" by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, as well as the use of Palestinians as human shields for army patrols: "A widespread and systematic pattern of human rights abuses is only now beginning to emerge." * Refugees report on Israeli abuses http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,683098,00.html * Telegraph: Israel issues challenge to Powell's peace drive http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/12/wmid12.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/04/12/ixport.html * Tribune: In Israelis' wake, untold destruction http://www.iht.com/articles/54459.html ===== Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace. Weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland. Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand & Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday. Info: (510)763-8712, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
