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03AMMAN3009
2003-05-21 11:13:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Amman
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UNCLAS AMMAN 003009
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ARN, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, INR/NESA, R/MR,
I/GNEA, B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA FOR ALTERMAN
USAID/ANE/MEA
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH
PARIS FOR O'FRIEL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR JO
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON MIDDLE EAST
Summary
-- Lead story in all papers today, May 21, focuses
preparations for the Jordanian parliamentary elections
as the candidate registration for the elections closed
at 821 candidates yesterday. Papers also highlight
America's warning of continued threats in Saudi
Arabia. Majority of editorial commentary focus on the
elections.
Editorial Commentary
-- "Operations here and there"
Daily columnist Urayb Rintawi writes on the op-ed page
of center-left, influential Arabic daily Al-Dustour
(05/21): "There is a strange coincidence of time
between two phenomena that have never coincided
before: the wave of operations in the West Bank and
Gaza and Israel, and the wave of Al-Qa'eda operations
in Riyadh and Casablanca.. It is a purely
circumstantial coincidence of timing, nothing more and
nothing less. Yet, this coincidence carries with some
disturbing indications, namely that it can be employed
to better serve Israel's objective of `Talbanizing'
the Palestinian Authority, of linking the Palestinian
struggle with international terrorism, and of turning
Israel's racist-based aggression and colonization into
another chapter of the legitimate international war
against terrorism.. Once again, the recent wave of
operations in Palestine and the Arab world shows that
combating violence, terrorism and extremism and
containing the anti-peace movement cannot be achieved
by military and security means alone, rather by
addressing the faults, namely the occupation, the
oppression, the frustration and the desperation."
GNEHM
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ARN, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, INR/NESA, R/MR,
I/GNEA, B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA FOR ALTERMAN
USAID/ANE/MEA
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH
PARIS FOR O'FRIEL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR JO
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON MIDDLE EAST
Summary
-- Lead story in all papers today, May 21, focuses
preparations for the Jordanian parliamentary elections
as the candidate registration for the elections closed
at 821 candidates yesterday. Papers also highlight
America's warning of continued threats in Saudi
Arabia. Majority of editorial commentary focus on the
elections.
Editorial Commentary
-- "Operations here and there"
Daily columnist Urayb Rintawi writes on the op-ed page
of center-left, influential Arabic daily Al-Dustour
(05/21): "There is a strange coincidence of time
between two phenomena that have never coincided
before: the wave of operations in the West Bank and
Gaza and Israel, and the wave of Al-Qa'eda operations
in Riyadh and Casablanca.. It is a purely
circumstantial coincidence of timing, nothing more and
nothing less. Yet, this coincidence carries with some
disturbing indications, namely that it can be employed
to better serve Israel's objective of `Talbanizing'
the Palestinian Authority, of linking the Palestinian
struggle with international terrorism, and of turning
Israel's racist-based aggression and colonization into
another chapter of the legitimate international war
against terrorism.. Once again, the recent wave of
operations in Palestine and the Arab world shows that
combating violence, terrorism and extremism and
containing the anti-peace movement cannot be achieved
by military and security means alone, rather by
addressing the faults, namely the occupation, the
oppression, the frustration and the desperation."
GNEHM