{news} Fw: USGP-INT Sara Roy's review of Hamas book censored

[Kenneth Humphrey]

        Not a mention here from Amy recognizing the
havoc rampaging Israel unleashed on innocent Lebanese
civilians, above all children, with their cluster
bomblets (supplied by rogue nation USA) that are STILL
causing war crimes against humanity and keeping
peasant farmers from working their fields.

        Nor does Amy comment about the Israeli bombing
the oil facility on the coast of Lebanon that caused
massive pollution, and then compounded the
environmental damage by refusing to allow cleanup
crews to start the cleanup process for weeks. (Not a
word from Jingo Joe Lieberman on this either, yet he
postures as a great environmentalist, and even is
listed favorably by the League of Conservation
Voters!)

        For Amy's biasted benefit, being critical of
the rightwing Israeli regime is NOT antisemitic.
Feeling Jingo/Chickenhawk Joe Lieberman is a disgrace
to our state and needs to be somehow removed from his
sinecure as senator so that Connecticut residents and
this nation can be spared more than five more years of
this Bush clone as he caters to the rightist Israeli
regime. As I've noted, we need a recall or impeachment
law in the case of a self-serving type like warmonger
Lieberman ( harping for assaults upon Iran, thus
extending this war as Nixon and Kissinger did in
making war on Cambodia).

        Ken Humphrey
 
--- Amy Vas Nunes <amyvasnunes at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Hamas does provide Social Services food and medical
> for people. They also run slanted Islamic schools
> where children are taught hate. Nowhere in the
> documents below do they renounce violence such as
> suicide "martyr" bombings or aligning with Hezbollah
> to fight inLebanon.What about payments to bombers
> families? These views of the IC co-chair are not the
> main stream views of yhr CTGP, Also the women's
> caucus as noted above exists only in the computer
> has not met for over 2 years most members quit the
> CTGP , Amy
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> From: justinemccabe at earthlink.netTo:
> gpcwc at lists.riseup.net; ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate:
> Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:22:18 -0400CC: Subject: {news}
> Few: USGP-INT Sara Roy's review of Hamas book
> censored
> 
> 
> 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Justine McCabe 
> To: USGP International Committee 
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:12 PM
> Subject: USGP-INT Sara Roy's review of Hamas book
> censored
> 
> Dear all,
>  
> I encourage you to read this book review by Harvard
> scholar Sara Roy not only for a brief overview of
> the evolution of Hamas, but also--as her author's
> note explains--as a disgraceful example of
> censorship where Israel is concerned. (The fact that
> Roy is Jewish and the child of holocaust survivors
> provides no pause from this bias.)
>  
> For a more extensive look at Hamas, read the work
> that Roy cites, Khaled Hroub's, "A `New Hamas'
> Through Its New Documents," Journal of Palestine
> Studies at this URL:
>
http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/printer.php?aid=7087
> .  Despite the evolution and complexity of Hamas
> documented by Roy and Hroub  that goes beyond the
> 1988 Hamas charter, the media and talking heads
> continue to regard Hamas only through that earlier
> lens.
>  
> Justine 
>
==============================================================================================================
> BOOK REVIEW  > Hamas: Politics, Charity and
> Terrorism in the Service of Jihad by> Matthew
> Levitt. Yale University Press, in cooperation with
> the> Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
> 2006. 324 pages, $26.00,> hardcover.>  > Sara Roy>
> Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
> University>
> http://mepc.org/journal_vol14/0707_roy.asp>  >
> Author's Note:> This review, published here in its
> entirety, was originally> commissioned by The
> Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, the official>
> foreign-policy journal at the Fletcher School at
> Tufts University.  > Between the time I was invited
> to write the review and the time I was> told it
> would be published, over two months had passed
> during which I> had had several exchanges, some of
> them difficult, with the editorial> staff. However,
> by the end of the process the editor-in-chief, with>
> whom I had been working, was pleased with the
> review, and so was I. He> sent me an e-PDF of the
> review as it would appear in the journal> (Volume
> 31:1 Winter 2007). The PDF version of the page
> proofs revealed> that the editor had excerpted two
> relevant sentences (featured in> sidebars) to
> highlight observations that I had offered in the
> review:>  > 1. "While there can be no doubt that,
> since its inception, Hamas has> engaged in violence
> and armed struggle, and has been the primary force>
> behind the horrific suicide bombings inside Israel,
> Levitt's> presentation reduces this increasingly
> complex and sophisticated> organization to an
> insular, one-dimensional...entity dedicated solely>
> to violence...and Israel's destruction."> 2. "The
> ability of Hamas to reinterpret itself over time
> through> processes of radicalization,
> de-radicalization, de-militarization, and>
> re-radicalization is a pronounced and common theme
> in its historical> evolution."> During a subsequent
> exchange the editor-in-chief wrote, "Thank you for>
> your hard work as well. It's a good review." I
> believed that was the> end of the matter. Just a few
> days later, I received the following> e-mail message
> from the same editor-in-chief:>  > Dear Ms. Roy:>
> After careful review and much consideration of the
> merits of your> piece, we have decided that we are
> ultimately unable to publish your> review for this
> edition. Your review was evaluated by several of
> our> editors and an external editor for objectivity.
> Unfortunately, they> disagreed with my decision to
> publish your review for the following> reasons:
> despite their agreement with many of your points,
> all> reviewers found the piece one-sided. This
> one-sidedness dissuaded> readers from reading the
> piece to the end; ultimately, this last point> is
> the most important. Although I found your arguments
> valuable, if> readers consistently feel this way, I
> am unable to move forward with a> piece. My
> apologies for the way in which this process was
> carried out,> and for the time that you spent on
> editing the piece. Thank you once> again for your
> submission and your efforts. If you would like to>
> discuss this further, please feel free to e-mail
> me.>  > In more than 20 years of writing and
> publishing I have never> experienced such behavior
> or encountered what to me, at least, is so> blatant
> a case of censorship. I am therefore extremely
> grateful to> Anne Joyce and Stephen Magro for
> agreeing to publish the review in> Middle East
> Policy.>  > ===>  > At the beginning of the first
> Palestinian uprising, I was living in> Gaza and
> spent much time in the refugee camps interviewing
> families> about the political and socioeconomic
> changes taking place around> them. Despite the harsh
> living situation, Palestinians were filled> with a
> palpable sense of hope and possibility that has
> since> evaporated. Hamas was then struggling to
> create a popular> constituency, despite overwhelming
> support among Palestinians for> secular nationalism.
> That was 18 years ago, and neither I nor anyone>
> else ever thought that Hamas would one day emerge as
> a major political> actor: democratically winning
> legislative elections, defeating the> majority Fatah
> party and heading a Palestinian government.>  > In
> his recent book, Matthew Levitt, who is deputy
> assistant secretary> for intelligence and analysis
> at the U.S. Department of the Treasury> and an
> expert in financial counterterrorism, argues that
> Hamas is> strictly a terrorist organization that is
> not only a domestic threat> but a global one, a part
> of an international jihad network with links> to
> al-Qaeda that must be met with force. He further
> argues ? and this> is the core of his book ? that
> despite the existence of differentiated> political,
> social and military sectors within Hamas, they are
> all part> of the same "apparatus of terror.">  >
> Levitt devotes significant attention to attacking
> the Islamist social> sector (dawa) and Hamas's
> charitable institutions. It is the principle> aim of
> his book to show how Hamas uses its extensive
> social-service> network-mosques, schools,
> kindergartens, orphanages, hospitals,> clinics,
> sports clubs, youth clubs-to further its primary
> political> agenda, which he claims is the
> destruction of Israel. He argues that> through its
> social support structure and services, "Hamas
> leverages> the appreciation (and indebtedness) it
> earns through social welfare> activities to garner
> support ? both political and logistical ? for its>
> terrorist activities." Levitt summarizes his
> argument as follows: "The> general deprivation of
> the Palestinian people in the Israeli-occupied>
> territories predisposes them to favor the
> much-needed social support> that Hamas provides." He
> continues, "In addition to purchasing> goodwill,
> charities also create a built-in logistical support
> umbrella> underneath which terrorist operations are
> sheltered and operate." He> explains that the dawa
> network operationally supports terrorism> through
> recruitment, employment and financing and by
> providing> institutional legitimacy.>  > His
> evidence, at times interesting, particularly with
> regard to> Hamas's external sources of financing, is
> more often than not based on> assumption,
> extrapolation and generalization. For example, as
> evidence> for how religious organizations raise
> money for Palestinian terrorism,> Levitt quotes from
> a pamphlet produced by a Quranic memorization>
> center that was sponsored by the Ramallah-al Bireh
> charity committee.> The pamphlet listed 30 ways to
> enter heaven, including "Jihad for the> sake of
> Allah by fighting with one's soul and money.">  > In
> another example of how hospitals are used to support
> terrorism,> Levitt briefly describes the Dar
> al-Salam Hospital: "According to> information cited
> by the FBI," the hospital is considered a Hamas>
> institution because it was founded with "Hamas funds
> and protection."> But Levitt fails to provide any
> real evidence of these funds or how> and why they
> are considered "Hamas." The assumption is that
> these> ties, even if they are shown to exist, are
> inherently evil and can be> nothing else.>  > In a
> chapter on how the dawa teaches terror and
> radicalizes> Palestinian society, Levitt writes,
> "Recipients of Hamas financial aid> or social
> services are less likely to turn down requests from
> the> organization such as allowing their homes to
> serve as safe houses for> Hamas fugitives, ferrying
> fugitives, couriering funds or weapons,> storing and
> maintaining 
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