Archive for the ‘The Middle East’ Category

Anti-Semitism, the University of California at Irvine, and the Muslim Student Union

Monday, March 1st, 2010
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The campus of UCI, an anti-Semitic hotbed?

By PAUL SCHNEE

On February 8th. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, was invited to speak on the campus of UCI. His speech was disrupted by eight UCI students and three students from the University of California at Riverside. All of the students were removed by the police, and no charges have been filed.

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“Religion of Peace” Snubs Haiti

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

HaitiflagBy PAUL SCHNEE

ATTENTION, JUDGE RICHARD GOLDSTONE & THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL:

As of last Friday Israel’s relief efforts to Haiti included the following: a field hospital, the only hospital in operation, with 40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children’s ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms, a surgical department, an internal medicine department and a maternity ward. The hospital can treat approximately 500 patients each day, and in addition will perform preliminary surgeries.

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Iran: Twitter Versus the Bomb

Friday, December 18th, 2009
Image by DALE

Image by DALE

From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

“In the last year, two things have happened,” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last Monday. “Iran has advanced its military nuclear program, and Iran has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the international community.”

The Iranian regime means business. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee was also told it has now enriched 1,800 kg of uranium – enough for one-and-a-half nuclear bombs. Yet despite serious and widespread concern over its nuclear ambitions, Tehran announced last month that it plans to build ten new sites for further uranium enrichment.

It was, of course, the re-election of Ahmadinejad – widely regarded as fraudulent – and the regime’s violent crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrators in June that cost it its remaining semblance of legitimacy, not the nuclear issue. This, and President Obama’s public and private overtures to Tehran over the last few months, have overshadowed the pro-democracy movement, but they are not separate from one another.

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Et Tu, Goldstone?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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By PAUL SCHNEE

If Judge Richard Goldstone wanted to be the Secretary General of the United Nations, he should have just applied for the job instead of collaborating with the UN Human Rights Commission investigation and producing a report about the conflict in Gaza which showed everything was true except the facts.

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A Speech Too Far!

Monday, October 26th, 2009

settlementBy PAUL SCHNEE

On September the 24th. I heard the leader of an embattled outpost of western values and the staunch guardian of Judeo/Christian ethics, draw a line in the sand contrasting the harsh differences between those who would destroy the only democracy in the Middle East and those who would preserve it intact. I should have been listening to Barack Obama, but it was Benjamin Netanyahu who held aloft the torch of truth, justice, and freedom. As he did so, he made the leaders of Iran accountable for their continual lies, hatred, and unremitting violence, and condemned those who seek to bestow any kind of legitimacy upon the genocidal Ahmedinejad and his determined, murdering, collaborators and proxies throughout the Middle East and the world.

The day before in stark contrast, Barack Obama, the supposed leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of the greatest military power the world has ever seen, gave a speech that showed it is more dangerous to be a friend of the United States than it is to be her enemy. As he betrayed Israel and acted as the legal counsel for the Palestinians by promoting his plan that encourages them not to make any concessions and by using his talent of expanding the least amount of thought into the greatest number of words, he demonstrated the truth of Gerald Warner’s observation in the London Daily Telegraph that if Osama bin Laden and Al Queda still wish to destroy America they had better hurry up before Barack Obama does it first.

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Boycott Israel?!!!

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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By PAUL SCHNEE

On Thursday the 20th. August, The Los Angeles Times published a thoroughly treacherous article by Neve Gordon the author of “Israel’s Occupation” and a professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. The substance of this piece of drivel, which would have made Benedict Arnold and Vidkun Quisling positively green with envy, was devoted to strong recommendations that the rest of the world boycott his own country since he is convinced that Israel is an apartheid state and therefore deserves to be punished and be brow-beaten into accepting the suicidal two-state-solution. My unpublished letter to the L.A. Times follows:

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A Case Of Historical Amnesia, Palestinian Style

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

israelflagBy PAUL SCHNEE

Some men are born to commit shameful acts. The speech given in Cairo by Barack Obama was one such act in a career of shameful acts and revealed that the curtain of moving lies which is the Obama administration has not only become the burial ground for real justice and peace in the Middle East but also the incubator for the next dreadful conflict there.

Islamic totalitarianism and terror are absolute evils with which there can be no compromise. Yet Obama’s confidence in his flabby and lethal policies grows with every step he takes away from reality reaching complete conviction in the editorials of the New York Times, the resolutions of the corrupt United Nations and the assent of the timid European Union.

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Gilad Shalit Supporters Wait for Hillary Clinton’s Reply

Friday, March 20th, 2009
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Photo: Anav Silverman

By ANAV SILVERMAN

Sderot Media Center

In their final effort to pressure the Olmert government to secure the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, the Shalit family has stationed itself in a protest tent across the Prime Minister’s Residence for more than a week now. Rain or shine, the family gathers together each day as reporters, cameramen and thousands of supporters mill around, amid the sad faces of Gilad’s parents, Noam and Aviva, and older brother, Yoel.

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