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Pakistan Link n By Mowahid Hussain Shah Th e Core

ideast today is roiled by
President confl ict including, but
Arif Zaff ar Mansuri Mnot limited to, Daesh,
ArifMansuri@PLpublications.org Libya, Syria, Kurds, Egypt, Bah-
rain, Saudi v Iran,
Editor Yemen, Iraq, et al.
Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui But underlying at
afaruqui@pakistanlink.com its core is a single
issue that refuses
Editor Urdu Link & Bureau Chief (Pakistan) to go away despite
Shabbir Ghori multiple diver-
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sionary attempts to present it as
Resident Editor Urdu Link one of many. Like Banquo’s ghost,
& Director Video Operations which haunted Shakespeare’s Mac-
Anwar Khawaja beth, the Palestinian specter con-
akhawaja@pakistanlink.com tinues to cast its long shadow on
the Mideast and beyond.
Manager Sales & Advertising Th e other evening, a major
Sana Shaikh event took place at a historic Wash-
sales@pakistanlink.com ington, DC Presbyterian Church.
Th is church is helping refugees and
Advisory Board immigrants. It was the US Presbyte-
Dr Sohail Masood rian Church that founded Lahore’s Mount Vesuvius, until one day, in 79 paganda czar. It was also evident in near-uniformity of perspective on
famed FC College in 1864. Its 2016 AD, it erupted and decimated Pom- the USSR where Communism was the Israel-Palestinian question, aid-
Regional Offi ces report, Israel-Palestine: For Hu- peii. foisted on a pedestal as a secular re- ed and abetted by media, academia,
man Values in the Absence of a Just Astute observers argue that, but think-tank punditry, Congress, and
YKKB Peace, “notes the grave danger [of] for the infl aming element of Pales- To dub the Mideast Hollywood. A one-sided narrative
ykkb03@gmail.com Israel government policies privileg- tine, there would have been no 9/11. predominates. Routinely, then, the
ing a narrow form of Zionism” and Th is point has been suggested by no as intractable means plight of the Palestinians is painted
Sacramento, CA that the “Israeli government rou- less a person than Michael Scheuer, in menacing colors, while concur-
Sacramento@plpublications.com tinely destroys Palestinian homes, who headed the CIA’s bin Laden giving up. Th e need rently whitewashing others. Th e
wells, businesses, and farms.” unit. fairness doctrine is hit for a six.
San Fransisco/Bay Area, CA of the hour is for a
Sanfrancisco@plpublications.com Th e meeting gave voice to the Militancy has now metasta- Uniformity is not counter-bal-
disinherited by honoring Church sized, reaching deep into Africa’s transformational fi gure anced by purposeful Muslim com-
New York, NY activists in America who took a interior, Niger. munity unity, which has been found
Newyork@plpublications.com stand against the occupation and Iran – despite its verifi ably like the Afrikaner strategically wanting. It has oscil-
oppression of Palestinian territories corroborated compliance with the lated between pusillanimity and
Houston, TX and people. It urged that the atti- nuclear deal – gets pummeled by leader, F W de Klerk, bellicosity. Its incapacity to strike
Houston@Plpublications.org
tude, “never again to us”, be expand- neocons and the Arab Establish- who pulled the plug a balance has left little space for
Phoenix, AZ ed to “never again to anyone else.” ment. Is it because of the nuclear meaningful discourse.
Phoenix@Plpublications.org Downtown Washington witnessed a deal? Or is it because of Iran’s pro- on apartheid, and To dub the Mideast as intrac-
counter-narrative against the fi ction Palestinian activism, which negates table means giving up. Th e need of
Ontario, Canada averted a bloodbath
Ontario@Plpublications.org being fl oated that Palestine doesn’t and frustrates concerted attempts to the hour is for a transformational
matter any more. downplay the issue? fi gure like the Afrikaner leader, F
A volcano is waiting to erupt, Mind control as a methodology ligion. W de Klerk, who pulled the plug on
Letters to the Editor with warnings not heeded. An- to manipulate public opinion has Mass media lends itself to mind apartheid, and averted a bloodbath.
Readers are welcome to express their opinion cient Romans dismissed occasional been evident at least since the days control, which has a sophisticated Th e alternative is too dire to con-
in these columns. Please keep your letters rumblings of the dormant volcano, of Dr Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s pro- role in the US, too, where there is template.
brief and to the point. Letters without full
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