Press Review [Archives:2000/42/Press Review]

Main Headlines:
-Yemeni-French Summit Discusses Al-Quds Developments and Cementing Bilateral Relations
-WHO Calls for Offering Assistance for Combating RVF in Yemen
-Al-Asnaj Satisfied with Meeting President Saleh in Paris
-Massive Popular Demonstration in Aden in Support of Palestinian People Struggle
-Conflicting Yemeni and American news on Causes and Motives Behind Explosion of U.S. Destroyer USS Cole
-Nationwide Anger In Support of Al-Aqsa Uprising
-Al-Islah Shoura Calls for Opening Offices for Jihad Volunteers
-Government Unable to Contain RVD
-Four Transport Trade Unionists in Hadramaut, Detained
-The Zionists Wave with War, Wrathful Demonstrations All over Islamic Countries
-Islah Shoura Council Hails Al-Aqsa Uprising
-The President Calls for Opening Borders, Support Palestinian Mujahidin
-Hamas Delegation Visits Yemen
-Preparations for Referendum on Constitutional Amendments
-Teachers Lead Massive Protest Demonstration for not Implementing Judiciary Verdict
-Morgue Murder, German Expert Disappeared, University Claims Bodies Imported For Morgue
Despite the many domestic questions and matters that need being tackled and having the priority of interest by Yemeni press, the magnitude and speedy developments in the Palestinian occupied territories and the unprecedented brutality of the Zionists crimes against the defenseless Palestinians have topped the themes of press editorials and writings. In addition top focusing on the bloody events in Palestine the Yemeni press has also tackled some very important local political and social problems.
Excerpts from articles and commentaries published in some Yemeni newspapers of this week.
An-Nass
weekly,
October 9, 2000
An-Nass comments on the bloody events in occupied Palestine. In an article in its backpage the newspaper says the Arab masses swallow their grief and take part in massive demonstrations and the Arab regimes take part in protest and denunciation statements and call for an unagreed upon urgent Arab summit. The US calls for self-restraint and return to negotiations without referring to stopping the Israeli tanks, planes and missiles and the army. The UN holds deliberations on drafting a resolution in which the big powers are keen not to condemn Israel, calling for immediate return to negotiations. The Israeli forces are in the mean time are intensifying their aggressive military campaign against the civilian Palestinians in a random way not differentiating between men, women, children and elderly people.
Among features of all this image nothing is seen clearly but the Intifada and its people which will always remain victorious.
Ash-Shumou
weekly,
October 14, 2000
The newspapers editorial has said that the United States must realise that the will of peoples and dignity represent the characteristic of their being alive on their land. It must also comprehend that the Arabs have contributed to the world with civilisations and other humanitarian roles. The Arabs have proved throughout humanity history that they are among the best who are keen on peoples interests.
Since the international changes in 1990, the Arabs have been dealing with the language of the alleged peace with the Zionist enemy despite their outright belief that the Zionist enemy is hostile to humanity and does not know a single alphabet of the language of peace. America should remember how the American people have dealt with those who occupied them, although they were of the same culture as theirs.
The Arabs have many times warned against the danger of the American absolute alignment with the Zionist enemy and their support for it in the most brutal terroristic practices against the defenceless civilian Palestinians. The notorious terrorist Sharons visit to the holy Aqsa mosque has ignited a Zionist neo-Nazist war against the Palestinian people. Therefore it is normal that the Arabs and Moslems all over the world would raise high the banner of jihad for the liberation of Al-Quds and in defence of the Arab dignity.
As-Sahua
weekly,
October 12, 2000
in one of its articles commenting on the Aqsa Uprising, has said the Aqsa Intifada has proved anew that freedom is not granted without sacrifices. It has proved that peace could not be realised through negotiations and that normalisation is but a means for giving Israel more scope of time to strike root inside Palestine by expelling its people, building more settlements and finding enough time for military buildup.
The most recent Palestinian Intifada has come to strip the fragile peace process of its fig leaves and expose those sponsoring, calling and participating in it. The Palestinian authority is powerless on its territories and incapable of defending its citizen. The Palestinian refugees have not been permitted yet to return to their homeland. What kind of peace is this that does not give the minimum extent of right to its owners?
On the other hand the American president raises hell and loses his balance just because three Israeli soldiers have been arrested by Hizbulla organisation, while he does not show any emotion towards the killing of tens of Palestinian children and women and wounding of thousands of them.
 

Al-Mithaq
weekly, organ of the Peoples General Congress party PGC, October 9, 2000. 
An article published in the paper on the situation in occupied Palestine wondered about what the Arab leaders are waiting for happening against the people of Palestine more than what is befalling them now. What are they waiting for before convening at the same table to face the conspiracies machinated against a vital part of the Arab homeland and their sanctities?
What they have to urgently do is to adopt a stand embodying the Arab nations aims and hopes restoring to the nation her stature and dignity. Would the Arab leaders be able to disentagle themselves from the inferiority complex and feeling of weakness and exaggerating their enemys strength in case of confronting it?
The ongoing Israeli massacres against the Arab people of Palestine have disclosed falsity of the peace scenario and refuted allegations of the Zionist entity and claims of its keenness on peaceful coexistence. The massacres have proved to he whole world this entitys bloody tendency and racial policy based on displacement and annihilation of the Palestinian people.
Al-Umma weekly, October 12, 2000. In one of its articles on the Palestinian bloody events the paper has said that with the ongoing carnages against the Palestinians, Israel wants to transfer the conflict of negotiations on Al-Quds and change the settlement process into a a real bloody conflict which it had already begun the moment it had usurped Al-Quds in 1967.
There are many UN resolutions demanding Israels withdrawal from from Palestine, but have not been implemented because the American administration follows a double standard policy .
The article says that the Arabs can and should now demand of halting the defeatist negotiations till the return of all the occupied territories, Al-Quds and all the Palestinian refugees to their homes.
Al-Wahda weeklys editorial of October 11 says calling the Arab people for waging the war and jihad against the Zionist enemy to liberate the Holy Al-Quds comes in line with supporting the Intifada and blood of the martyrs.
Silencing the Israeli obstinacy and its war machine would not be accomplished but through struggle, fighting and sacrifice. The images and feats of heroism presented now by the sons of Palestine confirm the hope of confirming the Palestinian map, with Al-Quds as its capital, on the world map.

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