This is what the PA thinks of freedom of the press

Post #8,811 by bluke 9/13/01 6:06:02 AM Reply	This is what the PA thinks of freedom of the press [link\|http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010912/us/attacks_ap_protest_1.html\|http://us.news2.yim...otest_1.html] "The Associated Press on Wednesday protested to the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) about threats against a freelance camerman who filmed Palestinians celebrating terror attacks in the United States. The videographer, on assignment for Associated Press Television News, was summoned to a Palestinian Authority security office and told that the material must not be aired. Calls in the name of the Tanzim militia, an armed group associated with Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah (news - web sites) group, warned him he would be held responsible and made what he interpreted as threats on his life. Several Palestinian Authority officials spoke to AP in Jerusalem urging that the material not be broadcast. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority ``cannot guarantee the life'' of the cameraman if the footage was broadcast.
Post #8,815 by Andrew Grygus 9/13/01 8:05:49 AM Reply	They knew damned well many Americans were sympathetic . . . . to the Palastinian plight. That is over now. We don't give a fig what Israel does to Palastinians. We saw them dancing in the streets as thousands of innocent Americans died. Let 'em all rot in hell. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #8,839 by addison 9/13/01 9:49:50 AM Reply	That's unfair. We saw the stupid ones. The same sort of people who are in the US, talking about needing to kill all dem a-hrabs. It was a horrible display. The PA is well and truely screwed now, their plan was to garner US sympathy, and get us to pressure Israel. Forget it. Right now most Americans, having seen that, would be happy to donate money for flamethrowers. Even knowing that it was the stupid kids, the idiots out there, it was a damn good thing I wasn't around with something belt-fed. The PA had better see about an exit strategy. They ain't got their original one. I wonder if something of this magnitude could get them to the table, to realistically talk (and ditto for the Israelis). Addison
Post #8,853 by Andrew Grygus 9/13/01 10:22:24 AM Reply	Yes, it's unfair, I agree. Unfortunately it's reality and they have to live with it. When the general population fails to control its radicals, it gets tarred with the same brush. It will be very necessary to keep the radicals in this country under control. Killing all muslims is not the solution that'll work (I think my intern and my gardner are muslims - I do not intend to discharge them). On the other hand, we have to make the problem serious enough that the muslims get their radicals under control. Unfortunately, that won't be easy because, officially or unofficially, violence is written into the religion to even a greater extent than with other Judaic religions (including most of Christianity). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #8,856 by addison 9/13/01 10:27:37 AM Reply	One can hope... That that sort of thing MIGHT just MIGHT spur influential people - like Arafat - into pressing for a moderation, for a non-violent solution - because of the impression that things like that give. I don't think it will. But I can hope. Addison

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