Now the Europeans can never say, "You wouldn't know what it's like to be bombed..." We now know.
Most Palestinian organizations are disavowing all connection to the attacks. Some of them seem to feel that these attacks will point out to the US that the Palestinians are being treated unfairly, and that it will produce sympathy.
How could they possibly have watched us for so long, and know us so little?
Whatever good it will do ... it's certainly worth noting that most Arabs, Middle Easterners, South Asians currently in the US had nothing to do with this, and most will be as appalled as all other Americans. (And it's worth noting, as well, that most such people in this country are Americans.) But I fear that, especially in New York but also throughout the country, people who look as though they could be vaguely Middle Eastern will be targeted in one way or another. That's what happened after the last bombing of the Towers, that's what happened after Oklahoma City. It will certainly happen again.
You know ... say what you will of the news media, but I cannot imagine the hell that the New York media are going through. They know that people that they know were in or near the Trade Center. And still they have to keep doing their jobs, letting the rest of the world know what happened, not knowing or being able to find out what happened to the people they know and love.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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