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Say wasn't Hanan Ashrawi Peter Jennings's Hot-Tub girlway back when
the twain enjoyed magic carpet romances and Camel frolics in the Arabian Nights
... ?
The article would have been best left to
stand or fall on its own merits without the pre-emptive tripe in the bold
headlines, which if you momentary give some reflection;they in reality
detract and do injustice to thesupposed spirit of the person and her
prizeby trying to manipulate it into a politicised piece of
crock.
Dave.
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William Shannon
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Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:26
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Subject: [CTRL] Zionists Try To Block
Awarding Of Peace Prize
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/warde.htmSharonite
Zionists Flex Their Muscles To Block Awarding Of An Australian
Peace Prize To Hanan Ashrawi11-5-3SYDNEY (Khaleej
Times, DPA) -- The row over the awarding of the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize to
Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi has brought to Australia a conflict that
some migrants left the Middle East to get away from. Previous
recipients of an annual prize awarded by the Sydney Peace Foundation and paid
for by the taxpayers of Sydney have been South Africa's Archbishop Desmond
Tutu and Mary Robinson, the former United Nations high commissioner for human
rights. It's the first time the award has been controversial.
Australia demands immigrants ditch old ethnic and religious grudges on their
arrival. The trading of barbs over Ashrawi and her fitness for the prize is
seen as a new and worrying departure. Dr Ashrawi will receive
the prize from New South Wales premier Bob Carr, but Mayor of Sydney Lucy
Turnbull is boycotting the ceremony and has ordered City of Sydney employees
to do likewise. Turnbull's beef is that Ashrawi is not a
peacemaker but a hardliner who criticised the Oslo peace process in 1993 and
who has condemned Washington's "road map to peace" initiative.
Prime Minister John Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and
other members of the cabinet have also said Ashrawi's record makes her
underserving of a peace prize. But Carr is standing firm. "I've
never been more resolved to attend a function in my life," the leader of
Australiaís biggest state said. Sydney Peace Foundation
director Stuart Reed is also adamant that Ashrawi should be honoured, alleging
that the city's powerful Jewish community had "campaigned to vilify her, to
ridicule the status of the prize, to pressure the companies that are partners
of the foundation to cease their public and financial support and to petition
the premier not to give the award". Reed has his supporters.
The Sydney-based Jewish Democratic Society describes Ashrawi as a "convincing
advocate of a two-state solution to the conflict". Jews Against the Occupation
spokeswoman Angela Budai characterised Ashrawi as a "Palestinian moderate who
has fought for democracy and human rights". The row has even
generated ripples in Israel. Professor Baruch Kimmerling, a sociologist at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chided Sydney's Jewish community for lobbying
against Ashrawi. "There are few international figures in the
present who deserve a peace prize more than the outstanding Palestinian
leader, intellectual and peace activist Dr Hanan Ashrawi," Kimmerling said.
The forces ranged against Ashrawi are potent.
Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld said Ashrawi, on her last
visit to Australia, had "let forth an unreconstructed form of Israel-bashing"
and since then had "increased her anti-Israel rhetoric, coloured it with an
anti-Jewish flavour and so dealt herself out of serious dialogue".
The most surprising thumbs-down for Ashrawi came from Colonel Mike
Kelly, a senior army officer serving in Baghdad, in a letter imploring Carr to
think again about Thursday's prizegiving. Kelly, a military
lawyer who has served in Bosnia and Somalia, wrote that awarding Ashrawi was
tantamount to betraying soldiers in the field. "It is precisely
these kinds of legitimising actions that have encouraged the terrorism that I
and my colleagues in the coalition forces are engaged in fighting," he said.
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