FYI Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 08:23:48 -0500 From: MID-EAST REALITIES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libya - End The Embargo, End The Hypocrisy - MER QUOTE of the WEEK & Editorial - _______ ____ ______ / |/ / /___/ / /_ // M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ http://WWW.MiddleEast.Org /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ QUOTE OF THE WEEK & EDITORIAL: LIBYA - END THE EMBARGO, END THE HYPOCRISY _________________________________________________________________________ Only if you are on the new MER list will you receive all MER articles. To make sure email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the latest information. _________________________________________________________________________ CLEARLY MANDELA IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE USA "Those who object to my visiting Libya have no morals, and I will not join them because I have morals... Ghadafi is my friend. He helped us at a time when we were alone. And the ones who are trying to stop us from coming here were helping our enemies at that time." Nelson Mandela President, South Africa October 1997 when visiting Tripoli, Libya LIBYA - MANDELA IS RIGHT...TIME TO END EMBARGO MER - Washington - 11/1/97: The Americans are surely one of the most hypocritical countries. U.N. resolutions are being so sanctimoneously "enforced" for Iraq and Libya; but they have been repeatedly ignored and disregarded for Israel, most recently just last year regarding the terrible massacre at Qana. The Americans insist that the Arab boycott of Israel be ended; but they freely boycott Cuba and Iran and even threaten others who will not do as they command. The Americans insist that nuclear proliferation be prevented; but they make it possible for Israel to have such weapons instigating today's regional arms race. One could go on and on when it comes to American double- standards and self-serving hypocrisy. No lack of situations or evidence about these matters. As for the Pan Am bombing controversy, the Libyans have long offered to let the Libyans be tried in a third country. Fair enough. And for the U.N. Security Council to hold out for the American position on this, as on so many other crucial matters, shows what a patsy the U.N. has allowed itself to become in recent years. And while we're at it, maybe the Americans who ordered the bombing of Tripoli and the attempted assassination of Ghadafi a decade ago should finally be told they have to agree to be tried in the same third country at the same time. _________________________________________________________________ MID-EAST REALITIES is published a number of times weekly. To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For latest information about the weekly MER-TV program email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S MER may be freely distributed by email and on the Internet so long as there is no editing and the entire article including all opening and closing MER information is included. For any print publication, permission in writing is required. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Fax 202 362-6965 / Phone 202 362-5266