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Palestinian activists have been eager to help Saddam Hussein link his annexation of Kuwait with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by escalating the uprising in the occupied territories. Although Palestinians could not have anticipated how deadly the Israeli reaction would be, and it remains unclear just who attacked first, evidence strongly suggests that they were looking for a fight. The Temple Mount Faithful, which never entered the site, offered the perfect pretext to mobilize the masses, while the Jewish holiday provided a headline-grabbing backdrop for a demonstration...
...nearly three years of experience handling stone throwers. Certainly, there is no excuse for being caught off guard at a place so rich in religious symbolism for both sides. Nor can Israel claim that the police had no other options. When massive rioting spread throughout the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and among Israeli-Arab towns later in the week, better-prepared soldiers exercised far more restraint despite the salvos of stones...
...Iraq's occupation of Kuwait is unjust -- but so is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. is being hypocritical by threatening to oppose the first with military force if necessary but doing nothing about the second. In any case, there can be no peace in the Middle East unless both are solved -- simultaneously...
...Israel has followed harsh policies in the West Bank and Gaza, particularly in efforts during the past three years to suppress the intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...
...stalling on meeting the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, nor Washington's reluctance to lean harder on its ally to do so. Nor can Israel be encouraged to believe that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait might somehow give it an excuse to hang on to the West Bank and Gaza for another 23 years. But the two wrongs simply are not equal. And any attempt to pretend that they are can only confuse and weaken the world community's response to Saddam Hussein's blatant aggression...