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■ COMMENTARY Israel held to double standard On Nov tfl. the Palestin ian militia. under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, opened fir*' upon unarmed Palestinian civilians, killing at least 12. wounding hund reds Upon hearing this tragic news, 1 called up my cousin, Karel Kovanda. who happens to be the Czech representative to the United Nations Set uritv Coun cil. “So, is the Security Council going to condemn Arafat for slaughtering his own people?" I asked. Nu," he replied "What Arafat does is his own busi ness .-mu n is ine in (itK run at non ble-standard that is the United Nations. And others supposedly interested in peace in the Mid dle East, have applied to Israel and its adversaries for de< ados You can be sure that if the sol diers who murdered those Pales tinians had been Israelis, the United Nations would have swiftly condemned them Mow will the Arab communi ty. third world forums, and oth er pro-democratic movements reac t to this bloody twist in Palestine? Most likely, they will remain silent. As has bean the < aso for years, when Arabs commit atrocities, the world is silent. Condemnation is only reserved lor Israelis who kill. When an Israeli shoots a demon strator. he is latmled a Nazi, and the entire movement of Jewish national sovereignty, Zionism, is fallaciously equated with racism When an Arab dictator shouts a demonstrator, no sin h denouncement is forthcoming, Yasser Arafat, the supposed leader of the Palestinian people, has gunned down Palestinians. The implications are astound mg. and in addition to griming over more bloodshed in that troubled area, one can't help but wonder if it will again be proven that while Israeli* are si rule ni/ed in their misdeed*, Arab leader* are ignored for theirs While certainly not absolving Israel of its guilt for the brutal and unjust occupation of Pales title over the last few dei ades that has resulted in more than a thousand Palestinian deaths, one cannot hut notice still another obvious inpistii e when only Israel is condemned by the United Nations and supposed pro-Arabs, while injustnes in that region, often far worse, abound Few ptMi e-niks rallied against Syria's Ass.id when Amnesty internations) reported in Hitt,') that his troops butchered between 10.000 and 25,000 < ivilians in the town of Hama, almost overnight How mam pro-Palestinians lalxded Jordan a Nazi state, after Jordan opened fire on Palestini ans within its borders? The evil actions of Saddam Hussein, such as m 19HH when Iraqi planes dropped poison gas on the town of Halabjn. murder ing over 5,000 Kurdish i ivilians. do not receive the condemna tion they deserve So it goes when Palestinians are murdered in Lebanon or Kuwait, whim Baha'i* are persecuted in Iran, when Kgypt executes its own Muslim fundamtmtalists whan (loath tolls go up in Algeria or Libya or Sudan Yet when Israel plays the bloody game of oppression, the United Nations. pro Palestinians and others on the left are qui( k to condemn. Now Y asstir Arafat has joined the deadly ranks as a killer of Palestinians the's killed Jews for years) Will the world remain silent, as usual and leave their harsh judgment solely for Israel? Or will Arafat and every other per petrator of injustii e (from \ssad to the Israeli troops who still shoot at stone throwers) be equally i underlined' Palestinians blow up Israeli buses m Tel Aviv Israelis shoot demonstrating students in Nablus Thu cycle of murder must he broken, and one stop in that direction would be to into an even-keeled scale of justice for both sides Condemn Arafat for the murder of Palestinians, as we vo U'en rightfully < ondemn ing Israel for years Phil Zuckerman is a gradual? studant in sociology at thr l !iu versify ■ LETTERS & COMMENTARY POLICY The Oregon Doth Emerald welcomes letters and c orn men taries from the public: concerning topic s of interest to the Uni versity community. 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