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I am collecting links about the war in Afghanistan and Palestine. An inveterate Web surfer, this is where I surf these days...I hope I can stop- SOON.

The first four months of 2002:

Jan 2002
Well, it seems the U.S. is still bombing so I am not willing to stop yet either. I moved last year's notes to a separate page: click on 2001 notes on the War to go there.

Mar 2002
The detainees in Cuba are on a hunger strike

Apr 2002
The Israeli-

Links for April, 2002:

• Apartheid in the Holy Land
  Desmond Tutu, Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian
• Manufacturing Truth About the Middle East Michael Albert, Z Magazine
  April 25, 2002
  Editor's Note: Noam Chomsky discusses the current conflict in the Middle East, the history of U.S.-Israeli relations, and the fate of Palestine.
• a href="http://www.atimes.com/front/DD23Aa01.html"> Squandering American power: A view from Europe
  By Ehsan Ahrari
• West Bank Horror Uncovers True 'War on Terror'
  Larry Everest, Pacific News Service, April 18, 2002
• Published on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 in the lndependent/UK Fear and Learning in America by Robert Fisk
• The lunar landscape that was the Jenin refugee camp
• Middle East: Mind your language: alistair cooke

  Balfour said Britain favoured "a national home in Palestine". The Jews took this to mean Palestine would be it - the national home.

  The Arabs said - No, no the declaration says only "a national home" meaning in part of Palestine.

  A quarter century later the UN resolution said Israel must withdraw from occupied territories, which to the Israelis meant some territories. To the Arabs it meant the, all the occupied territories.

• Molly Ivins: No More Simplification or Thinking With Guts
• I helped kill a Palestinian today

  "I helped kill a Palestinian today.
  If you pay taxes to the U.S. government, so did you."

• Israel, Palestine, & Justice by Dan Brook

  "I frankly don’t understand why so many people, especially those on the left, consider the suicide/homicide bombings against civilians understandable (aside from in a social scientific sense, even if not “excusable”), inevitable, or the like. Why would it be “inevitable” for Palestinians and not for African-Americans, South Africans under apartheid, Native Americans and other indigenous people, East Timorese, Tibetans, Romani, Basques, Dalit, Kurds, Northern Ireland’s Catholics, et al.? Like all others, Palestinians make choices, even if those choices are constrained by their culture, and it is unfair to rob them of their agency. There are always other alternatives."

• Longmont Citzens for Justice and Democracy

Links for March, 2002:

• Why Don't We See Images of Terror Caused by U.S.?
• Reps. Lee, Kucinich call for Peace Dept.
• USA : Post 11 September detainees deprived of their basic rights
• US sends suspects to face torture
• Afghanistan: Stop Abuse in Northern Afghanistan
  New Evidence of Violence Against Pashtuns
• NOTHING CHANGED AFTER 9-11:
  Our Smoke and Mirrors War on Terror
• Bush policy endangers American and allied troops
• Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike

Links for February, 2002:

• Patriotic Dissent
• Europe goes off the U.S. leash
• Office of Strategic Mendacity
• US targeting of vehicles is detailed
  ''From a human rights point of view, what happened was outrageous,'' said Leslie Oqvist, the UN regional coordinator in southern Afghanistan.
• Afghans are still dying as air strikes go on. But no one is counting
• Reader's Soapbox: Now a word from the disapproving 15 percent
• Chomsky Says US Foreign Policy Amounts to International Terrorism

Links for January, 2002:

• Findings on Conditions at Shebarghan Prison
• The Others
  Howard Zinn in The Nation
• A Lot of People Hate the Double Standard Nation
  by Molly Ivins
• 55 Arrested at US Mission to the UN Urging Changes in U.S. Foreign Policy
• Unexploded US Bomblets Mine Villages
• "The Arab Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism": A Serious Threat to Human Rights
  Amnesty International - USA
• Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse
  New Global Survey Finds Crackdown on Civil Liberties
  
• A terrorist by any other name
  Lebanon Daily Star
• New US envoy to Kabul lobbied for Taliban oil rights
• US massacre entirely fails to move us
• Free speech -- casualty of war?
• Starving Afghan villagers eat grass
• Bloody evidence of US blunder
• Afghans in world's biggest refugee camp face disaster as winter tightens its grip
• U.N.: U.S. killed Afghan civilians

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