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COMMENTARY Terrorism in Palestine must not stop peace process By Phil Zuckerman T hern is a sc one in the movie Ihk where Kevin ( ostner and .1 friend go to 1 lc* a I tear to watch the IV report of lhc> assassination of Kennedy As thev sit ancf watc h the horri ble news* ast .1 few people in the bar holler gleefully at the news of the president's murder At that point Costner savs to his friend in a voic e full of grief and help lessness Today I am ashamed to he an Aineric .111 While the c ircurnstam es are drastic ally different, as I sit here and read about the murderous slaughter that just o< 1 urred ill the city of Hebron in oc cupied Pales tine. I 1 an't help feeling a sense of shame As a Jew and a sup porter of the state of Israel. I feel disgusted, depressed and dread fully sorry about the news that an Americ an-horn Jewish Israeli "settlor'" (occupier) opened fire on praying Palestinians yosler dav. killing up to 40 and wound ing more than tot) in tux cut peo pie IV) 1 feel personally guilty' Of c ourse not lust because one insane gunman halfway ac ross the world who happens to he lewish butt hers m cold blood dozens of Muslims while they knelt in prayer in their mosque does not unpin ate every |eyy worldwide, needless to say I he guilt of that bloodshed lies sole ly on the shoulders of the man who pulled the trigger \ et while I justly feel no per sonai guilt. I cannot help feeling a sense of i ommunal shame I lav ing t>een raised on the history of my own people's persecution, having lieen raised on the stories of my own family's destruc turn in the Jewish holocaust, having been raised upon traditional tenets of Jewish morality and the ethical spirit of Rabbi Hillel. I i anno! help feeling mortified and ashamed (hat in the state of Israel such ntnx ities. < arried out hv the hands of supposed religious lews, are taking plat e Although the horrendous slaughter was i arried out by a i raced individual, the ini ident must he seen m its full, sinister context It is an ini ident that makes perfei t sense under the conditions of the Israeli state sunt turned oppression of Pales tinians that has t>een going on for det .11 les While the hostility ol A nib gov ernments and the terrorism of Muslim fundamentalist-, have ( ertainlv and undeniably added tension and blood to the region, the Israeli government is'pro foundly guilty of condoning vio lent e. of fostering the hatred that led up to the massacre Through the very act of occupation, through its support of the lew ish settlers, and through the wide spread rat ism that has been allowed to flourish m Israeli sik i et\ the government and artm of Israel .ire largely to blame I he murder of the Palestinians in Hebron was bound to happen When living in Israel. I e\pe rtemed the hateful t Innate first hand I remember groups of lews irowding on street corners in (erusiilem shouting Death to Arabs' I remember reading dai i\ in the newspapers ol Israeli soldiers shooting and lolling illildreii in the streets ol tiara I remember visiting homes of the lew ish settlers and listening to them explain the need lor reinov jng" the \rah population from Israel as the preferable solution I remember being attai ked by fellow Jewish sill dents as a traitor and sell hating anti Semite for daring to nriti ■ i/e the Israeli army in its use ol v loletu e against a < iv than popu latum No. it was no isolated im idnnt Tim massacre in Hebron. .i\ Mil him I burner of likkun mngnziim so rightly i lainu'ii. nils pntdii table l et us tn»|>«* tinit tlm at lion of tins Jewish terrorist does not sin i in'll in derailing tin* peace prot ms l et us condemn ail the fnnntii s anil fundamentalists within our midst. both Jew anil Arab, who art' enemies to pom e in thuir selfish anil savage mania l.itl us liopt' that out' day soon Israol will not bo t harai ten/.od hi rat ism and militarism hut will bn thf trot' It'Wish homeland of morality ami humanity that its fotuult'rs mti'iidt'd it to bl' Ihit more importantly, m this t ritii al juni turn, lot us hopt' for a free I'alestine and lor thf well lining ot r.ilnstinians in this hour ol mourning I'lul /.in krrtium is a grm/mitr trill huts: frllim ill thr sooto/ogl ilrfHirtmrnt ill thr l '/mersi/i LETTERS Ground Zero Hu* Committal* for World Peat e will collect humanitarian aid and show a \ ideo titled Surn'ft'vo Ground /.fl'o Wednes day \\ e I.iiiiu lied a project i ailed Spirit ol Sarajevo one month ago after establishing a network with peace/humamtarian urge ni/.ations throughout the funner Yugoslavia Besides stopping tins senseless war in Bosnia Herzegovina, we have a long term goal That is, the mitigation of the war's effects and support of peace projects in the former Yugoslavia. We wish to main tain and enhance the spirit of Sarajevo — a symbol of i ivilitv and tolerance among different nationalities. Things that you can bring are clothes, canned food, hooks, educational items — anything needed lor daily life. The humanitarian aid will In; distrib uted among Bosnian refugees who have recently arrived in Washington state I he aid will he collet ted from f> t() to 7 p in in front of the 1 Ml ()ek Room Wednesday I'he video will he shown Wednesday at f> in the Oak Room Die video describes the situation ol Sarajevo under siege from personal tragedy to fWUNDERLAND 5CVI0E0 GAMES Mh STREET ^ PUBLIC MARKET 683-8464 j r • VIDEO ADVENTURE 1 VALLEY R«VER PL A/A L/W «» \a* A V I M & 3&. characteristics of the war in Bosnia-Her/.egovina Wo encourage you to coma see tile reality of the war in the heart of Kurope it you .ire inter ested in our proiei t or organize turn, you are welcome to i ontui t the following people Slim Vasin (344-0J90). Shmgo l urukawa t t4J 5874). Don Star \ 14H4 1 107) and Kenata Filipovu 1340-0700) Shin Yasut Pre-Journalism Self-acceptance I was sitting in the KMU when suddenly I had a realization In die past I've hated lews, simply because they had something that I didn't Namely, a cultural her itage that they could feel good about I don't; the only culture I've grown up with is based on exploitation and ultimately death I spent the first JO years of tny life in front of a TV screen All 1 ate was white bread Now don't get me wrong I've never outwardly maligned lews or oppressed them in any way at least not consciously I’ve always kept my hatred buried leep and stepped down hard on it whenever it rose to the sur fa< it. just th«f same wav (hi* |i*vvs havii l)i*«fn treated historically Jewish people havtt had (hi* function, in inv experimu e of making mi* a warn of what I n* most hati'd m myself Now that I'm learning to ai i opt that I hnv *• thi'si* feelings. this awareness is allowing mi* to release inv judg infills against Jewish people and others w ho allow me to feel feel mgs I've previouslv denied I had Perhaps this is what |t*sos meant when he said that "salva tion is of the lews Milvhe they VI! heen holding on to the feelings that others couldn't accept within themselves and have liecn providing a reflet turn for the rest of us f ull self ai i eptani e requires full disclosure, so express your self, but don’t final on others lieuiuse they remind you of your own self fiat red This will work for everyone Jeffrey Daniel Oswald Eugene MEChA is neat Hola! I like MKChA It is real ly neat MM !i.\ does lots ol real ly dope (flings at the t'inverse dad de Oregon Some people don't like MIJ.IlA fiei ause we do lots ol really neat tilings like helping our community and bringing students to the I 'niversidod do (begun Shame shame. shame on Ml 1 It A What .ire they thinking, iv.lilting money to do .ill these i ool things7 MM III A has lots ot bullies who Ixither IK memtiers .0 they i an t breathe I think lonva Harding should he in MLUhA she's a really neat bul ly I think some IK members are neat. Joey Lyons has neat hair Some IK people aren I so neat, but I don't think naming her name would he neat It would be really neat if MLUhA got its money so it i an do really neat things for "Lb Ka/a Ramiro Flores MEChA Member Racist journal The editorial in the Emerald of Keh ZZ brought up the valid point that the word "rai isl is often used incorrectly I bis is understandable in a University yyfiere cultural awareness is fori ed on students I he Emerald says that the (irogon Cammenta tor is one id the targets of this unjust labeling Vet Commenttl for staffers have, through their actions and their articles, clear ly show u their rai ism and igno ram e Imply mg I hat Tm <i Time workers are stupid llisp.iim s" who don't speak l.uglish is rm ist S,iving tlint Native Amur it ,ms should've had the fore sight tu put money they rvi eived (v\ h<’ii pushed idf thtiir native lands by thru.it of death) in the bank is ignorant They have iivhii ridu u I ltd lint dim situation in lastern Europe (of course. tin* Slavs havn boon discriiiunatitd against Itefore in World War II (.or many. for ennui pin) 1 lie Cnmmvntator insists that this is innoi ent humor Maybe it's (list me. hut I don't i onsider referring to a lesperted offii er in the Him k Student Union as "that lat him k Inti h (with the office door open) innocent and humorous I also don’t find the stare that people of i olor are sub|ei led to when passing their offii e to lie very funny either I guess this is all ()k to these people who i all themselves the "White Student Union." This goes beyond a simple "request for office spin e " It is sad that this blatant rai ism is ignored by both the administration and the /.mmi/ii I hope this isn't the case with the rest of the students and faculty . on both sides of the political spectrum Nikki Okimoto Journalism SPORT - HIKING - WORK - FASHION - MEN'S AND WOMENS SIZES UP TO 16 l/AUC Join him , \W owEisr «^« ^55-0 Simple. AIRWALK pnnuenpe • L A- GEAR • HI-TECH • VISION • SENSI Lunvcltac • SCOTT • ELLESSE • SABRA NEGEY • SAGA CLOGS t<§§3l ION THE DOWNTOWN MALL 57 WEST BROADWAY r^n "OPEN 7 DAYS" ^ -Q1 2ND LOCATION 957 WILLAMETTE s H O E S
