The New Nation - Internet Edition

· REHAB's attractive show at Hotel Sheraton: Bumper offer for the wealthy, not a single house or flat for the poor and middle class people to live in.

· Some political leaders demand trial of war criminals: Why they make hue and cry? Why don't they furnish name and address of war criminals to the police station?

· Putin accuses West of meddling in Russian politics: Why the US diplomat Negroponte visits Pakistan and discusses internal matters with General Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto?

· Use of polythene bags rampant all over the country: Even in use in relief works.

· Secretaries to the Government of Bangladesh with Cabinet Secretary Ali Imam Majumdar in chair call upon country's civil officers and employees to donate their one day's salaries to the cyclone victims: Our Secretaries to the government are most powerful persons. They are in a position of affluence and riches. Why one day's salary, they may donate their one month's salaries for the noble cause and thus encourage other government servants to donate more than one day's salaries.

· Commonwealth conference ended in Kampala. Queen Elizabeth left, Pakistan suspended form Commonwealth, India's Kamalesh Sharma appointed Secretary General: Why the Commonwealth failed to express its sympathy for the cyclone affected people of Bangladesh?

· Khoka, Tofail, Sajeda asked to submit wealth statement: Why not Nizami, Zillur Rahman, Mannan Bhuiya, Amir Hussain, Saifur Rahman, Hannan Shah Razzak, and Suranjit Sen?

· Asian Energy hopeful of getting approval coal mine project despite its huge financial loss of millions of dollars: To loot and plunder billions of dollars of wealth from Bangladesh?

· Corruption costs Tk 23,000 crore in power sector in ten years: To make corrupt officers and employees more powerful and honest people more poorer and weaker?

· 'Iran far from nuclear weapon' says former Secretary of State Colin Rowell: Is Colin Powell a victim of present Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice?

· UNO Hamidul Haq of Lalmonirhat mass literacy schemes gains popularity: Congratulations to Hamidul Huq on sincere works.

Many times on many occasions, at different venues, places, cities and capitals the USA has arranged, invited, proposed, promised and lured the leaders of the Arab world for statehood and freedom of Palestine on the basis of 'two state solution' of Arab-Israel conflict for comprehensive peace in the Middle East. But all the times all meetings and discussions proved failure due to US-Israel secret deal, intrigue and dilly dally tactics. We feel the forth coming Annapolis Conference sponsored by US President George Bush would again end in fiasco.

The synopsis on Palestine-Israel history is that at the advent of Islam in 7th century A.D. Palestine became a part and parcel and came under the peaceful and benign Muslim governance. Its earlier record is very sorrowful, gruesome and tragic. In 931 B.C. the Hebrew kingdom broke into two states Israel and Judah due to internal feud.

Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece and Rome in turn conquered Israel and Judah, killed many jews, turned them to slaves and transported them to distant countries. The jews were lost in wilderness and the existence of Israel and Judah were wiped away from the world.

The Palestinian Arabs on the other hand are born and brought up in Palestine and from generation to generation they are living in Palestine for over 1300 years.

Israel is an illegal state within the state of Palestine. The jews in Israel are not the citizens of Israel. They are not born and brought up in Israel.

They are the immigrants from various countries of great holocaust, Nazi Germany, many Europeon and American countries, who have been pushed to Israel under an international conspiracy to meet and protect the geo-political, military, diplomatic and economic interest of the West.

Israel is living in fool's paradise. She is surrounded by Arab countries. How long the USA can give Israel huge economic and military aid for her survival? Israel must realise the gravity of the situation, have vision, wisdom and self respect and live in peace and harmony with the Arabs.

When the illegal making of Israel was under process the USA and the UK applied the theory, of 'two state' solution for comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

They created one illegal 'state' Israel in 1948. But why the original and legal state Palestine has been deprived of its statehood, freedom and human rights for over last 60 years ?

If India and Pakistan can become two states on the same day of 1947 why the same justice has not been done in case of Palestine and Israel ?

Further if the 'black' and 'white' can live in peace, harmony and democracy in South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and many other African countries, why not the people of Palestine and Israel ?

O. H. Kabir

Dhaka