1. This is really Israel's War, claiming that Bin Laden would have little support in 
the Muslim World, if the US had not consistently shown overwhelming favoritism 
for Israel to the disadvantage of the Palestinians.

2. That the US is Hypocritical, in that the US is bemoaning an attack on Civilians 
in a War, when In our bombing of GERMANY, heavily populated civilian districts
were intentionally targeted. The idea was that by targeting the civilian population, 
we would disrupt Germany's economy, destroy the morale of its citizens and 
create chaos by rendering millions of people homeless.

Low-income areas were especially targeted for destruction because the 
population was denser and the buildings closer together. In February 1942, 
Allied bombers were specifically instructed to concentrate on built-up 
residential areas instead of targets such as dockyards and factories.

In JAPAN, the use of the A- Bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki on an almost 
totally civilian population. 

Oriana Fallaci was incensed by these detractors, and while I have been 
fascinated by her style heretofore, in this case, I totally dismiss her diatribe,
since she indicts ONLY Italians, plus she seems to indict ALL Italians. 
Further she is xenophobic, bigoted, anti female, and filiopiestic.

Her reasoning is as stupid, is if I were to discount her comments merely 
on the basis that her last name derives from both the English and Italian
word meaning: deceptive, misleading, and fallacy.]   
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PROVOCATEUR IS BACK TO 'SPIT' ON' DETRACTORS OF U.S.

New York Times
By Melinda Henneberger 
October 30, 2001

ROME, Oct. 29 - Oriana Fallaci, the war correspondent who
practically invented it's-all-about-me journalism some 30
years ago, had in effect become the Italian J. D. Salinger,
refusing to give interviews and publishing not a word for
the last decade.

But now, at age 71 and sick with cancer, she has suddenly
returned to her role as professional provocateur. In an
expletive-rich indictment of Muslim immigrants and Italian
ambivalence toward the United States that filled four full
pages in the country's leading newspaper recently, she sent
Italy's intelligentsia on a search of its soul.

Her essay, "The Rage and the Pride," began by announcing
that reports that some Italians had celebrated the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on America had so enraged her that she
had decided to break "the self- imposed silence I have kept
for 10 years to avoid mixing with cicadas."

"They say: `Good. Serves the Americans right.' ' she wrote.
"And I am very, very, very cross. Cross with a cold, lucid,
rational rage, that commands me to answer them and first of
all to spit on them."

That was just a warm-up for the scorn she heaped on fellow
Italians.

"My country, my Italy, is not the Italy of today," she
wrote, "the pleasure-loving, vulgar Italy of people who
think only about retiring before they are 50, the evil,
stupid and cowardly Italy of the little hyenas who would
send their daughter to a brothel in Beirut just to shake
hands with a Hollywood star, but when the kamikaze of bin
Laden reduce thousands of New Yorkers to mush, laugh and
say it serves America right."

She was tougher still, though, on Arab immigrants, saying
their arrival in Italy amounts to a colonization, "a secret
invasion." Going well beyond Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi's recent comments about the superiority of
Western civilization, she wrote: "We might as well admit
it. Our churches and cathedrals are more beautiful than
their mosques."

Her tone and anti-immigrant theme were all but universally
rejected, but the criticism of her native Italy as a
country of divided loyalties, deeply conflicted about the
American-led military action, is getting a serious hearing.
 

The discussion took on new life this week after Corriere
della Sera, the Milan newspaper that published her original
piece, ran an article with the headline, "One Italian Out
of Four `Justifies' bin Laden."

The article said one-quarter of all Italians could not only
understand the reasons behind the Sept. 11 attacks but
could also "justify" them - although the actual polling
data showed that 27 percent found the attacks completely
wrong, 22 percent thought them mostly wrong and only 6
percent considered them mostly right.

Signs of mixed feelings abound here. Some graffiti say,
"Siamo tutti americani," ("We are all Americans"), but
other spray-painted messages declare, "Siamo tutti
palestinesi." ("We are all Palestinians.")

In Italy, as in many other countries, condemnation of the
terrorist attacks has been mixed at times with a sense that
what happened to America amounted to some form of
retribution for the country's dominance of the world's
economy, culture, politics and military power.

As so often in the past, it appears - at least to some -
that she has hit a nerve in a country where Mr. Berlusconi,
a conservative, has already used strong anti-immigrant
language that was welcomed by some Italians even as it has
angered others.

Ms. Fallaci grew up poor in Florence and fought in the
anti-Fascist resistance as a teenager. She always took
sides in writing about wars from Vietnam to the Persian
Gulf, and she became the best-known political interviewer
of her generation.

She famously called Yasir Arafat "a man born to irritate,"
and described Henry A. Kissinger, whom she interviewed in
1972, this way: "Do you know that obsessive, hammering
sound of rain falling on a roof? His voice is like that."

"Each interview," she once said, "is a portrait of myself,
a strange mixture of my ideas, my temperament, my patience,
all of these driving the questions."

In the latest article, she was not even vaguely sisterly
toward Muslim women: "If in some countries women are so
stupid as to accept wearing the chador, so idiotic as to
marry a cretin who wants four wives, that's their problem.
But to treat them with indulgence or tolerance or hope is
suicide."

This report, from Manhattan, where she now spends most of
her time, was as angry as anything she had ever written.

Yet most of the prominent writers and thinkers who answered
her in print disagreed but did so carefully and with a
respect that was almost as astonishing as her original
article.

The novelist Dacia Maraini wrote that "if you turn this
into the first move of a holy war, you are helping him,"
meaning Osama bin Laden, adding, "It is a trap, Oriana, in
which you seem to have fallen, spurred on by the
impetuousness and the courage - a little quixotic in this
case - that characterize you."

Giovanni Sartori, professor of humanities at Columbia
University and professor emeritus at the University of
Florence, concluded that while he did not completely agree
with her, "Oriana Fallaci must be right, since her accusers
are thoroughly wrong."

The leader of the leftist opposition, Francesco Rutelli, a
former mayor of Rome, said: "I subscribe to a small part of
her intervention. She's not a political leader, so she can
write what she wants. And all her life is a life of
literature, passion and personal commitment, so what she
writes is important."