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Monday, March 24, 2003

Israeli reporters to the back of the bus. Caroline Glick - a senior reporter for the Jerusalem Post - had to pass through Kuwait to get to the front in Iraq. Kuwait had issued a statement to the international press corps that anyone transmitting reports to the Israeli media would face criminal prosecution.

Read what Glick had to go through to take her rightful place alongside other international correspondents in Iraq. She ends with this observation:
. . . Kuwait hates the Palestinians. The Kuwaitis kicked the Palestinians out of their country. The way I was treated had nothing to do with Beit El or Netzarim. It has to do with Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and the Bible.

As I joined the 2-7 mechanized infantry battalion on Tuesday night, I realized that it was the first time I had felt safe in 48 hours. On Sunday afternoon, as I felt my body melting in the oppressive desert heat and its odor borne of five days in the heat and dust and wind without a shower wafted into my nostrils and shocked me, I understood how I would know when peace has come.

Peace will be upon us when I can feel as safe and welcome at a five-star Kuwaiti hotel as I felt in the Kuwaiti desert with the US army.