Gyroscope
A newsletter
for those unmoved by spin.
No. 13, October 20, 2003
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Gyroscope A newsletter
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| by John Nordin | ||
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The journal publishes a spectrum of material not available in the mainstream press. It focuses on detailed coverage of the Palistinian-Israeli conflict, but covers the entire Middle East and the Arab Diaspora in the US also. It carries first person accounts, news analysis and opinion pieces. It provides coverage of which Middle East lobbies are contributing money to U.S. campaigns and often shows the hidden explanations for public events. In particular, one thing they are good at is showing how Israeli policy is often to provoke terrorist attacks. Israel has recently been flying patrols over Lebanon for no obvious purpose other than to provoke Hezbollah into shelling Israeli territory, so then Israel can claim that terrorism is continuing unabated. WRMEA also has shown how, when there has been a period of calm with no suicide bombings that Israel often then does an assassination by airstrike, causes civilian casualties and this act is typically followed by one or more suicide attacks. They often translate material from the Hebrew language Israel press, which can be far more "anti-Semitic" in its attacks on government policy than is permitted here. Started by former U.S. Foreign Service officers, the journal survives on a shoestring. |
"A March 31 Ha'aretz [newspaper from Jerusalem] article reported
upcoming plans to reopen a long-unused pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oil
fields to the Israeli port of Haifa." "Civilians [in Iraq] are killed when they fail to stop at checkpoints,
or are caught in crossfire, or are mistaken for snipers. A 12-year-old
boy who was shot by soldiers as he stood on his roof bled to death when
the car taking him to a hospital was not allowed past a checkpoint. An
auto mechanic was killed when soldiers saw him carrying a car's distributor
to a repair shop and mistook it for a grenade. A car carrying five civilians
was blown up by soldiers when the driver inadvertently drove past a house
where the army believed Saddam Hussain was hiding." "Rise up in your thousands, take up sticks and get rid of the Bedouin Arabs." Israeli Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, speaking of Arab citizens of Israel, quoted in Ma'ariv newspaper, requoted in WRMEA, October, p. 17. "Israel should not celebrate the construction [of settlements in occupied territory] just build." - Prime Minister Sharon speaking to the Knesset, reported in WRMEA, Sept. p. 6 "[Prime Minister] Sharon did his best to keep the road map [for peace] from getting under way with a burst of attacks aimed at Palestinian militants - and any others who happened to be nearby. ... as Abbas and Egyptian negotiators were attempting to persuade resistance leaders to agree to a cease-fire, the Israelis launched a helicopter stroke on Gaza that wounded Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas's chief political spokesman, and killed five others. .. by the end of the week 44 Palestinian were dead, most of the civilians and at least eight of them children." Rachelle Marshall, WRMEA, Sept. p. 7 |
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| "Israel agreed Monday to change the route of a security
barrier that was designed to cut through six hectares of land belonging
to a Palestinian university in suburban Jerusalem.
Facing pressure from the U.S., the Israeli defence ministry agree to redirect the route so that the university's athletic fields and parking lot would not be affected. The U.S. had threatened to withhold loan guarantees if Israel would have built the fence through university lands." CBC News A small victory, but welcome. See Gyroscope Issue 11 |
