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ROD AMIS TALKS WITH ALISON WEIR ABOUT THE MIDEAST MIASMA:"As soon as I saw If Americans Knew, I realized that it presented a challenging, fact-filled look at how Americans remain insulated from their own government's policy actions in the Middle East, most specifically in and about Israel. What I found interesting was that a person like Alison Weir, who had no natural affiliation to either side of the situation, should have launched such an effort. G21 conducted an e-mail interview with Ms. Weir last week for your benefit. She was quite forthcoming and provided the most detailed answers of any interview subject in recent memory.G21: The positions taken at If Americans Knew are certainly not part of the mainstream discourse about the Middle East. What led to you espouse your positions about this situation?
ALISON WEIR: I'll first describe what led me to become involved in this issue, and then I'll clarify our positions.
Five years ago, when the current Palestinian uprising began, I knew almost nothing about Israel and Palestine. I'm neither Jewish nor Muslim nor Arab and had never paid attention to this issue before. At that time, I was the editor of a small newspaper in Sausalito, California, very involved in local issues.
But then the current Intifada began in fall of 2000 and I began to be curious about the subject. As I researched it more and more, I was increasingly shocked and outraged at what I found -- and, particularly, by how much of this was being omitted by the American press. After several months of this, I finally decided to quit my job and travel to the region as a freelance journalist to see for myself what was going on.
In my month traveling alone throughout the West Bank and Gaza, I saw devastation far beyond what our media were reporting. I saw entire communities in ruins, cropland destroyed, children maimed.
When you've seen what I saw, it changes your life -- especially when you know that you and your friends and your community are responsible, and have the power to stop it. ..." READ MORE
GAYNOR PAYNTER SHARES WHAT'S ON SOUTH AFRICAN MINDS:"Greetings to you all from the southernmost tip of Africa! With this being my first correspondence for this year, I would like to take the opportunity of wishing you a Happy New Year! We are now well into January 2005, and we find ourselves halfway through the "noughties", as it were. I would like to give you an objective view of where South Africa finds itself at this time in its history.
Recently, I had the experience of going to bed near dawn -- the dark of the morning was visible between the cracks in my curtain. For the first time in many years, I heard the almost deafening cacophony of birds (the "early birds, " as I thought of them ) singing in our garden. Sleepily, I muttered to my husband "I hope they don't keep us awake".
"They won't", he said, "they'll lull you".
He was right, that is exactly what they did. My last waking moments of that morning consist of the melodic song of sparrows, doves, Indian Mynahs, loeries and the like in my ear. When I woke, later, the twittering had given way to a 30 degree summer morning, which -- in its turn -- became a thunderstorm in the afternoon, and, still later, a sultry summer evening to be enjoyed with a glass of wine. Late at night, we are joined by our constant companions, mosquitoes, which seem to be stronger than any insect repellent these days!
Balmy summer days lead one into the other, punctuated every now and again by the flash floods which have claimed a number of lives in recent times -- with the tsunami, this is sufficient proof that Mother Nature is simply the strongest force of all. ... " READ MORE
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