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favorovThe Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was reconsecrated yesterday after a terrorist occupation that lasted 38 days. Now that a semblance of normality is returning, the lessons of this extraordinary siege are clearer.
It began on April 3, when more than 100 Palestinian gunmen broke into the church, rightly assuming they would not be pursued inside by the surrounding Israelis. With monks, nuns and other civilians held hostage, church leaders were forced to grant the intruders sanctuary.
The terrorists, almost all Muslims, turned this place of peace into a fortress, desecrating and defiling the basilica built by St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, to mark one of the holiest shrines in Christendom.
The occupiers' contempt for their sanctuary may be deduced from the fact that, when they finally left, the Israelis had to remove up to 40 booby-traps.
Yet, for five long weeks, the Western media demonised the Israeli besiegers, in spite of their restrained conduct. The Israelis ended the siege on unfavourable terms mainly because its continuation was alienating Western public opinion.
What, though, if roles had been reversed? What if Israeli troops had dared to attempt the violent occupation of the grotto where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born?
One need only venture the thought to know how the West would have reacted. Every sordid detail of the sacrilege would have been emblazoned across our screens and front pages.
When Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount two years ago, Palestinians treated his mere presence near the al-Aqsa mosque as sufficiently provocative to justify a new intifada.
Like the so-called "Jenin massacre", the Bethlehem siege demonstrates how the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a test not of military strength, but of skill in propaganda.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2002%2F05%2F13%2Fdl1303.xml
It began on April 3, when more than 100 Palestinian gunmen broke into the church, rightly assuming they would not be pursued inside by the surrounding Israelis. With monks, nuns and other civilians held hostage, church leaders were forced to grant the intruders sanctuary.
The terrorists, almost all Muslims, turned this place of peace into a fortress, desecrating and defiling the basilica built by St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, to mark one of the holiest shrines in Christendom.
The occupiers' contempt for their sanctuary may be deduced from the fact that, when they finally left, the Israelis had to remove up to 40 booby-traps.
Yet, for five long weeks, the Western media demonised the Israeli besiegers, in spite of their restrained conduct. The Israelis ended the siege on unfavourable terms mainly because its continuation was alienating Western public opinion.
What, though, if roles had been reversed? What if Israeli troops had dared to attempt the violent occupation of the grotto where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born?
One need only venture the thought to know how the West would have reacted. Every sordid detail of the sacrilege would have been emblazoned across our screens and front pages.
When Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount two years ago, Palestinians treated his mere presence near the al-Aqsa mosque as sufficiently provocative to justify a new intifada.
Like the so-called "Jenin massacre", the Bethlehem siege demonstrates how the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a test not of military strength, but of skill in propaganda.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2002%2F05%2F13%2Fdl1303.xml
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Date: 2002-05-13 04:33 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-05-13 04:55 pm (UTC)Шок
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Date: 2002-05-13 10:56 pm (UTC)Re: Шок
Date: 2002-05-13 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-14 05:34 pm (UTC)Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
-- Yeats
vopros
Po mne, tak pust' izrail'tiane i palestincy provaliatsia v tartarary: davno pora, ..., dogovorit'sia, a ne palit' drug v druga. U nih bylo dostatochno vremeni (let 30?)
Ya tebe vchera poslala e-mail pro to, o chem ty sprashival, no ne znaju, doshel li on, potomu chto komputer opiat' vyrubilsia. - M.R.
Re: vopros
Date: 2002-05-18 05:11 am (UTC)a tak - konechno, ja rad. ja by i sam tochno tozhe samoe napisal by pro vifleemskij incident.