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'US To Rate Its Allies On
Their Treatment Of Jews
By David Rennie in Washington
The Telegraph - UK
10-13-4
In another test of America's frayed relations with France, Russia and other
allies, the US Congress has ordered the State Department to start rating
governments throughout the world on their treatment of Jewish citizens.
The resulting report cards on anti-Semitism would be published in annual US
surveys of human rights abuses around the world.
The proposed law was passed by the House of Representatives on Monday, in
response to what its sponsors called an alarming surge in anti-Semitism,
especially in Europe. It has already been passed by the Senate.
Congress overruled strong opposition from diplomats at the State Department who
complained in an internal memo that a special focus on Judaism, "opens us to
charges of favouritism and challenges the credibility of our reporting".
There is little doubt that the new law will create diplomatic waves.
France, Russia, Malaysia, Egypt, Canada and Australia were singled out by
congressional sponsors of the law as countries that had witnessed disturbing
outbreaks of discrimination against Jews in the past year.
The law, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, also ordered the establishment of
an office at the State Department dedicated to monitoring anti-Semitism, again
over the department's protests.
The resulting internal row must now be resolved by President George W Bush as
the legislation heads to his desk from Congress. With the act overwhelmingly
backed by both parties, officials in Congress said they expected he would sign
it into law.
A three-page State Department memorandum, leaked to The Telegraph yesterday,
complained that congressional plans would throw US human rights reporting "out
of balance", and "erode our credibility by being interpreted as favouritism in
human rights reporting".
In a sign of the diplomatic anxieties, the State Department argued for anti-
Semitism monitoring to remain a task conducted behind closed doors, by the
department's existing "special envoy for holocaust issues".
At the moment, US diplomats discreetly gather data on anti-Semitism from other
governments, in multilateral conferences held in Europe and an annual
international religious freedom round table sponsored by Washington.
"There is no need for the special envoy to hold public hearings, take testimony
or receive evidence to effectively monitor and combat anti-Semitism," said the
memo, which was sent to congressional sponsors of the new law.
Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and Holocaust survivor who was one of the
sponsors, denounced State Department talk of "favouritism" as an alarming nod
to "the worst stereotypes of Jews perpetrated in anti-Semitic tracts throughout
modern history".
Mr Lantos said the objections from diplomats overlooked existing offices at the
State Department dedicated to promoting religious freedom, women's rights, and
Tibetan rights.
He did not touch directly on the risk of offending French or other allied
sensibilities.
Lynne Weil, his communications director, said: "It's unclear why anyone would
be offended by this.
"If a government takes offence at this, that government should be offended by
the acts of its own citizens, if they are hateful."
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Why Turks no longer love the U.S.
By: Yigal Schleifer on: 01.11.2007 [05:47 ] (62 reads)
Reporter Yigal Schleifer discusses anti-American sentiment in Turkish
culture.Istanbul, Turkey - The US has hailed Turkey as moderate Islamic
democracy, the kind it would like to see develop elsewhere. It's a key NATO
ally, with US aircraft stationed here.
Yet, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Ankara Friday to defuse
tensions over Kurdish rebels operating in Iraq, she faces a nation that is now
the most anti-American in the world, according to one survey. In the meetings
with Ms. Rice, and next Monday in Washington with President Bush, Turkey's
prime minister is expected to press the US to take steps against the Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in Iraq.
That might help soften attitudes here toward the US. But given the depth of
anti-American feeling that has developed in just the past few years, few
expect Turkish public opinion to turn quickly.
In a recent global survey by the Pew Research Center, only 9 percent of Turks
held a favorable view of the United States (down from 52 percent in 2000), a
figure that placed Turkey at the rock bottom of the 46 countries surveyed.
"People have become accustomed to this plot line of America being a threat to
Turkish national security. This was inconceivable five years ago, but now it
has come to be the prevailing view," says Ihsan Dagi, a professor of
international relations at Ankara's Middle East Technical University.
That perception has been reinforced in the past two years by some of Turkey's
most popular books and films which portray the US and Turkey at odds – if not
at war. Turkey's all-time box office champ, 2006's "Valley of the Wolves," saw
a ragtag Turkish force square off heroically against a whole division of
bloodthirsty American soldiers in northern Iraq.
"Metal Storm," a bestselling political fantasy book from the year before, went
even further, describing an all out war between Ankara and Washington in the
not so distant future (the year 2007, to be exact), in which Turkey ultimately
prevails with the help of Russia and the European Union.
Analysts say the public's mood represents a trend that has worrying
implications for the future health of the ties between the two NATO allies.
"The public is really convinced that the United States is no longer a friend
and ally. That is really frustrating," says Professor Dagi.
Real life events have also done little to improve America's image in Turkey.
The recent passage by a US congressional committee of a resolution recognizing
the mass killing of Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire as a
genocide – something Turkey strongly rejects – set public opinion aflame.
At the same time, the renewed attacks on Turkish forces by PKK guerrillas have
only strengthened the widespread belief that Washington is doing little to get
rid of the PKK in northern Iraq. Ankara has been building up its troops on the
Iraqi border and threatening an invasion, something Washington strongly opposes.
"The clearest fact is that the real threats against Turkey come not from its
neighbors, but from its 'allies' and each new development brings Turkey face
to face with its Western allies," Ali Bulac, a columnist for the
liberal-Islamic Zaman newspaper, recently wrote. "The United States ... is
taking its place on the stage as the force behind the PKK."
Says Gunduz Aktan, a former Turkish ambassador who is currently a
parliamentarian with the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP): "The
entire Turkish public opinion now is one of frustration and exasperation and a
kind of acute expectation of the US to do something meaningful and concrete on
the PKK issue and to understand the problem that we have in Turkey."
But experts say Turkey's growing anti-Americanism also has a domestic element.
The success of the Islamic-rooted ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
has forced Turkey to confront the issue of how to reconcile secularism with
Islam, while the renewal of PKK violence has again brought to the surface the
decades-long struggle to square a strong national Turkish identity with the
country's diverse ethnic identities.
"Turkey is caught right now between East and West, between Islam and
secularism, between Kurdish and Turkish nationalism," says Omer Taspinar,
director of the Turkey program at the Brookings Institution, a Washington
think tank. "Since the cold war ended, we are living in an era where all the
problems that defined the Turkish Republic in the early years are back, and
Turkey is blaming the West for this."
The Rice visit and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the
White House on Nov. 5 are part of an effort to stave off any further
deterioration in US-Turkish relations. "I will openly tell him President
George Bush that we expect concrete, immediate steps against the terrorists,"
Mr. Erdogan recently told parliamentarians from his party. "The problem of the
PKK terrorist organization is a test of sincerity for everybody," he said.
"This test carries great importance for the region and in determining the fate
of our future relations."
Observers inside and outside Turkey say Ankara could play a role in easing
regional tensions by dropping its objections to speaking directly with the
Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq and its leader, Massoud Barzani.
But METU's Dagi says that without American action on the PKK front, there is
little Ankara can do to defuse the public's growing dislike of the US.
"The government has somehow been taken hostage by this public mood," he says.
"The first thing is to deal with this mood, and in that America has to
contribute something."
Most Anti-American Nations
Percentage surveyed with an unfavorable view of the US
1. Turkey – 83 percent
2. Pakistan – 68
3. Morocco – 56
4. Argentina – 72
5. Jordan – 78
6. Egypt – 78
7. Malaysia – 69
8. Indonesia – 66
9. Germany – 66
10. Spain – 60
Source: June 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project (Pewglobal.org)
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