Press Review [Archives:2002/15/Press Review]

Al-Ihyaa al-Arabi weekly, organ of the Arab Baath Socialist party (pro-Iraq organisation), 2 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Demonstration in Saada in solidarity with Palestinian Intifadha
_Solidarity Festival in Aden
_A sit-in in Yemeni Journalists Syndicate in solidarity with Palestinian people
_Kuwaiti prisoner in Iraq back in Kuwait
Columnist Abdulhamza al-Mansouri says in an article criticising the Arab stand towards the current Zionist entitys massacres perpetrated against the Palestinian people that the present reality of the Arab nation is not to be surprised at because it is a result of fragmentation and subsevience created by the Arabs enemies embodied by Zionists, Americans and British. Zionism has diagnosed that confronting the Arabs as united is something impossible and that what the Zionists have gained. The writer puts forwards a question whether the Arabs are aware of that situation. He says they perceive that but those of Arab leaderships satellite of the American-Zionist policy illusively think that they are away from the Zionists conspiracies now implemented against the Palestinian people. The writer says that if those Arabs continue keeping silent towards the Zionists crimes, the Arab people do have the decision and possess the appropriate action.
ATARIQ weekly 2 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Yemeni journalists hand over a letter to American Ambassador to Sanaa, refuse to meet him
_Retired army men volunteer to go to Palestine
_Civil society organisations erect tents in front of American embassy in Sanaa
_Yemen expects to produce 157 million barrels of oil at the end of this year
_A Tribal sheikh killed in Mareb in vengeance act
Dr Saleh Mahdi al-Muntassir says in an article that Israel as terrorist state receiving support from the United States of America and the NATO countries represents a factor destroying credibility of those countries governments with regard to fighting terrorism.
What Israel, under leadership of Sharon, is carrying out now of military escalation, destruction of all vital Palestinian institutions and infrastructure, killing innocent people and demolition of thousands of houses is meant for building a security shelter for its entity preceding the declaration of the state of Palestine and in preparation for an American-Israeli agreement regarding the Palestinian state.
 

Al-Balagh weekly, 2 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Upon the American stand supportive for Israeli enemy, Yemen reconsiders its security agreements with the U.S.
_Media, Journalists demand expulsion of American ambassador
_Responding to some Arab leaders languor, President Saleh suspends receiving delegations, personalities, contacts
_Opinion poll: America essential accomplice in massacres, 94 percent support acts of martyrdom
_Security forces in Egypt, Jordan suppress demonstrations condemning Zionists.
Columnist Fawzi al-Kahili says in an article that the fate to which president Yasser Arafat has reached confirms anew darkness of the end of the so-called tunnel of peace with the enemy. It is the same destiny other rulers would face even if tens of y ears pass on their fragile peace with the Zionists. He adds that now after that America has joined completely the Zionist enemys antagonism, there is no longer any reason for the presence of an American ambassador or interests in our country or in any other Arab countries.
All interviews and analyses and statements we have watched on satellite channels during the past few days confirm that the Arab official system has come to an end and the ball is now in the court of the peoples in order to come out of the state of intimidation and weakness.
Al-Wahdawi weekly, organ of the Nasserite Peoples Unionist organisatin, 2 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_NPUO announces opening its offices to register volunteers for Jihad in Palestine
_Opposition demand the government to embody the presidents stand at the Arab summit in Beirut
_Joint Action parties prepare for solidarity activities with Palestinian Resistance
_Two dead bodies found in Hajja and Ibb
_Massive popular demonstrations supporting Palestinian people in a number of Arab capitals
_Washington gave terrorist Sharon green light to step up his war against the Palestinians
Columnist Abdulla al-Dahmashi says U.S.-made weapons are no longer the only means of the war of annihilation in occupied Palestine. This war has become a pure decision of the American administration. When Bush describes terrorism of the Jewish state as legitimate self-defence, the declared meaning is that the comprehensive war is a plan led by general Zinnin and implemented by the notorious terrorist Sharon. And when Arab leaders beg Bushs administration to protect Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, it is so evident that the Arab reply to Sharons crimes and war of annihilation in occupied Palestine must begin in Washington, specifically at the White House.
The American administration hinders the international communitys movement, agreements and institutions in their pursuit to condemning terrorism of the Zionist state and to incriminate the brutality of massacres in the Sharonite war. The same administration prevents international organisations from playing their moral and humane role in protecting a defenceless people against pitched severity of the most sophisticated American weapons.
International agreements and conventions oblige Arab regimes to retaliate the decision of war declared from inside the White House against the Palestinian defenceless people. U.N. and security council resolutions also define that the reply should be directed towards the American policy, as the only power supporting the Zionist entity with finance, weapons and siding with its crimes. American policy also prevents providing protection for the Palestinian people and supporting their legitimate rights stipulated in international community will and legitimacy of its charters and resolutions of its organizations.
The writer urges the Arab regimes to boycott the United States in protest to its violations of the international legitimacy in occupied Palestine. He also urges the Arab regimes to respond to calamities of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Zionist occupation forces, providing them with means and elements that help them defend themselves against crimes of genocide they are now facing.
As-Sahwa weekly 4 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Zionist war machine kills the Palestinians, Arab armies confront demonstrators
_Yemeni journalists demand expulsion of U.S. ambassador
_Islah withdraws from local council in Hadramaut
Editorial of the newspaper by its editor in chief says that in 1956 the now Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon pledged that he would burn any Palestinian child born in the area because those children presence would mean continuation of new coming Palestinian generations. He had further mentioned that even if he would lose all posts and became an ordinary Israeli citizen he would bur any Palestinian he would encounter on street and would have him tortured to death.
Throughout more than half a century Sharon has kept loyal and committed to what he had promised. The important thing in this regard is to comprehend that the question is not merely personal intentions of both Zionist and Arab systems but rather two approaches or styles governed by the same systematicness. With all the Zionist arrogance against Arab and Islamic peoples, the Arab regimes have been one of the means of this arrogance whether they are aware of it or not. Absence of democracy, keeping rules of emergency alive, corrupting political life and impoverishing the society are factors making the Zionist arrogance live and thrive.
Annas weekly, 1 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Yasser Arafat faces physical liquidation danger
_Miyad: Abolishing automobile customs, an economic revolution
_Students face internal terrorism, condemn Israels terror
Columnist Sadeq Nasher says in his article alone Yasser Arafat and the entire Palestinian people deserve to be protector of the Arab Islamic nation honour that is exposed to offending. Following the bloody events in the Palestinian city of Ramalla and other Palestinian authority cities and areas during the past several days the Arab nations dignity has been treated with contempt.
The writer queries about when the Arab nation leaders would wake up and release themselves from the illusive thinking that the United States of America alone can bring peace to the Arabs. America and Israel are considered as one state and there is no difference between them. Both Sharon and Bush are two sides of the same coin. The Arabs should not believe that peace comes from America, the gun is the only means that is able to achieve peace not the illusions that Arabs have been depending on throughout all these years.
26 September weekly, organ of Yemeni Armed Forces, 4 April 2002.
Main Headlines:
_Yemeni, Arab wrath versus Zionist massacres in Palestine
_Yemeni working paper at Arab foreign ministers emergency meeting in support of the Intifadha
_Kidnapper of the German engineer sentenced to death
_Arab angry masses demand open borders before volunteers to fight by side of the Palestinians, Sever all ties with Zionist enemy, Support intifadha with funds, men, arms
_Yemeni defence minister discusses with Belgian counterpart development of bilateral cooperation
_Yemen takes part in Arab Parliamentary Union emergency meeting
The newspapers political editor writes the Zionist entity would not have been able to perpetrate this degree of crime and brutality and step its terrorism against the defenceless Palestinian people had it not been for the American blind bias to Israel.
At any rate we do not think that the United States that the policy it is following in the Middle East would make it lose its status at the international level. America faced misfortune on 11 September events and received the whole world sympathy and it was supposed that it would not put itself at biased and extremist positions towards Israel and its terrorist practices because this would undoubtedly make it lose its credibility and damage its interests in the Arab region, as has been expressed by the Arab masses in all Arab capitals.
The American administration must listen to the voice of Arab masses and think of it and its demands in order to adopt more just stands towards what is going on of Zionist organized acts of terror and atrocities against the Palestininan people. It should carry out what it should, i.e. not to be biased to Israel and bless what criminal acts and annihilation Sharon is perpetrating by considering the legitimate Palestinian resistance as terrorism. The difference between terrorism and peoples right to resistance and self-defence against invaders and occupation. The Palestinian resistance does not go beyond the frame of legitimate resistance in defence of their freedom and for liberating their land and establishing their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.

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