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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By ROBERT STARK

Many political figures are offering their solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Times saying that what Haiti needs is a Diaspora. Abrams says that “a larger Haitian Diaspora would be a far better base for the country’s economic future than aid pledges that may or may not be met. If several hundred thousand more Haitians were able to migrate, those Dominican, Honduran or Salvadoran numbers suggest that remittances to Haiti would give its economy a huge and continuing jolt. Abrams points out that the Haitian Diaspora sends home $1.9 billion in remittances. In 2007 the US gave Haiti $210 Million in foreign aid. Considering the poverty we would be importing it would cost us much less just to send the money directly in aid. Thanks to Israeli Lobby which Abrams has a major role in we give Israel approximately $3 Billion a year in aid.

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By 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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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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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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By ROBERT STARK

In his first interview after being released from prison last week, former congressman James Traficant let the cat out of the bag about the stranglehold that the Pro Israel Lobby has over Washington DC. The interview took place last night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.

Susteren asked him if he has any grudges. Traficant says that he was the number one target of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and the Justice Department. He goes on to say that “he believes that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They’re controlling much of our foreign policy. They’re influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as undersecretary of defense manipulated President Bush number two back into Iraq. They’ve pushed definitely, definitely to try to get Bush before he left to move into Iran. We’re conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody’s afraid to say it. They control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress.”

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By 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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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Is leftism rising to the defense of evil even as it sinks to the depths of hell? Perhaps this question would have made a better title for this article, but why scare readers away with what may only be construed as a preacher’s pious platitudes?

America is busy with economic problems, the war in Afghanistan and healthcare issues; who’s got time for questions of morality or theological issues? Apparently no one! While all the current issues are worthy of our attention, isn’t it odd that we tend to dismiss the very issue that we ultimately ignore at the price of our own peril?

The CBS News Crimesider reported on October 5, 2009 that Roman Polanski, the accused child rapist, agreed to pay to make it go away. “15 years after he fled the United States, film director — and child rapist — Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit, according to court documents.”

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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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

This week in America three celebrities passed away without warning. Reviews on the life of pop culture icon Michael Jackson was at the top of most news programs along with some questions about the manner of his death. Does our penchant for this kind of story indicate anything about our national state of mind?

While we reel from the loss of our celebrities and pop icons a Washington based organization known as the TVC (Traditional Values Coalition) is fighting almost a lone battle against the passage of a hate crimes bill that could effectively protect a pedophile but punish a preacher. Finding news about that organizations fight would be very hard to do in the mainstream media. The interest in one story over the other is proof positive that the entire direction and purpose of the nation has changed.

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