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Mark Franklin



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The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop: Dennis Ross and Iran

By SASAN FAYAZMANESH

In October 2008 I presented a paper, entitled “What the Future has in Store for Iran,” at a conference on Middle East Studies. The paper, which was subsequently posted at Payvand.com , examined what the US policy toward Iran might look like if either Barack Obama or John McCain came to office. The conclusion of my essay, stated in its last two lines, was: “In the case of McCain, the war [waged against Iran] might come sooner than later. In Obama’s case, one might see a period of ‘tough’ or ‘aggressive diplomacy’ before hostilities begin.”

My conclusion was based on the argument that the US foreign policy toward the Middle East has become institutionalized and it makes very little difference who is the president. The starting point of the argument was an analysis that appeared in The Jerusalem Post just before the Bush Administration took office, predicting that the US Middle East policy would be made more by the neoconservative forces within the new administration than anyone else. In one essay, on December 8, 2000, The Jerusalem Post wrote that both Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz “are the type of candidates the pro-Israel lobby is pushing.” In another article on January 19, 2001, entitled “All the president’s Middle East men,” The Jerusalem Post expressed how the “Jewish and pro-Israel communities are jumping for joy,” knowing that people like Wolfowitz will be in the new administration. The essay predicted: “What you will have are two institutions grappling for control of policy.” It then added: “It is no secret in Washington–or anywhere else for that matter–that the policies will be determined less by Bush himself and more by his inner circle of advisers.” 

Read the rest of the article at: http://counterpunch.com/sasan02272009.html

Commentary at the above article:

Editor,

Professor Fayazmanesh is, sadly, 100 percent correct. All men and women of goodwill should salute him for his excellent research and writing. Noteworthy too is the fact that every policy-maker that he mentions , with the exceptions of Bolton, Clawson, and Woolsey are eligible for Israeli citizenship upon landing at the Tel Aviv airport.

Given that the American response to the Israeli savagery in  Gaza was to make sure that the IDF did not run short of armaments, and the European response was to hold a conference in Copenhagen dedicated to enhancing European interdiction of arms for Hamas, the ruling circles in Tel Aviv are further emboldened. The Iranian leadership should carefully consider that the new Israeli government later in 2009 may well unleash a truly devastating attack  on their citizens.  

Al Balboni

Las Vegas

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"Israel's $2 Billion Dollar Rail System" and Zionist colonizers

 

I believe that your complain should be centered on the following part of the article below:

Who Lives There? The Israeli settlers are the undesirables of the Jewish society. When Poland flushed it's sewers the waste wound up on these hilltop settlements, and today's settlers are the result of close interbreeding.

I don’t see here what you  are complaining about in this quote:

Is it about the Jewish Zionist settlers, who are stealing Palestinian Arab public and private property and flooding Arab towns and villages with their sewage, destroying their fields and uprooting their trees and attacking them when harvesting their crops etc etc.?

Is this calling these Jewish only settlements, or the quality of those colonizers undesirable Polish sewage products, if you ask me they are exactly so, they are savages. I read today a  news article about a Zionist Jew who lead a Palestinian Arab taxi driver and stabbed him 24 times and didn’t stop till the victim died, and to defend himself in a Zionist court he said: “Arabs are like animals, his killing is like the killing of any animal, Arabs has no souls, I decided to kill an Arab, just because he is an Arab”!!!  

But what other than sewage product is such a community, but what is worse than that is the court’s rule that a man who insisted on justifying his crime as such, is to refer such a criminal to psychotherapy in a hospital rather than put him on trial to receive a just punishment. For a court to take such a stance is much much worse than if the executive system taking such a decision. This is a state that itself as a whole needs psychotherapy, not simply one of its foreign residents, I mean and repeat foreign residents and not citizens, because they are so not only those who are colonizing the West Bank and strangling the Gaza Strip, but every imported Zionist Jew colonizing all occupied Palestine.

Had you followed up with my writing you would have noticed that I differentiate between a Judaism and Zionism, as there are non Zionist Jews and there are Zionists who are non Jewish.

By the ay I am not the author of this article, I just circulated without comment.

Adib Ka'awar

 

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2 anti-Islam Articles in the BOSTON GLOBE


THE BOSTON GLOBE
Boston, MA
 
Dear Editor:
 
Re: Dark Passages by Philip Jenkins, March 9, 2009 - Ideas Section
 
Please do not see this letter as anti-Semitic. It is just a view that comes from reading books that differ from such tripe as seen in this article.
 
We really get a kick out of how the Boston Globe gets away with (usually Jewish) journalists who (1) profane the religion of Islam and are totally dedicated to (2) downing the Catholic Church and exposing the evils of some of the priests. (Hitler also did the second).
 
The Boston Globe has never except once written of an indecent Rabbi molesting young boys. There are many thousands of reports such as these on the Internet. But the Globe has written many hundreds of items on the Catholic priests committing same.
 
Now comes the first page of the Ideas Section in the Boston Globe this Sunday, March 8, 2009.
 
Of the three main religions, we never see the Jewish religion kicked around as badly as is done to the other two. Why? We should all look more into the sayings of Maimonides, studied well and taken seriously, but not by most.
 
Just a few quotes can be had from the Talmud which rabbis and students study faithfully. We won't go into it now. But there is much animosity portrayed in the Talmud against the non-Jew and rules to follow, so much so that it is obvious that the reader must see that there is great racial prejudice against what is sometimes called the "goy." In these teachings, the non-Jew is not seen as equal to the Jew. This can be seen today in the treatment given by Israel to the "Other." Many intellectuals deduct that in the Talmud, Jesus and Mary are described in humiliating passages. This of course is emphatically denied.
 
Jenkins quotes freely from evil passages in both the Old and New Testament regarding ethnic cleansing and segregation. Why doesn't he mention same that comes from the Talmud?
 
It's disgraceful what the media has done to downgrade and decry the beautiful religion of Islam, because of a small percentage of extremists. The Boston Globe should do an expose of not just some of the segregationist teachings in the Talmud, but also against the American evangelists who would be ready "Old-Testament" style to kill everyone who would oppose the racism going on in Israel against the Palestinian people.
 
Jenkins wraps it up with what he calls "holy amnesia" which portends that with the Koran and the Bible people tend to think positive of the growth of these religions. But taking a look at all of the other material he places within the article, it's difficult to give belief to any sort of "holy amnesia."
 
In this article which takes time to quoting murderous revenge in the Bible and also in the Koran, one cannot but identify with the reality of the recent massacre of nearly 1,400 Palestinian civilians by Israel. Yet Israel is not stopped. It is known that many ignorant evangelicals side strongly with Israel.  What is wrong with this picture?
 
Sincerely


 Paul Bradford
 Carol Rae Bradford
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Second Letter to the Editor:
 
Re: Islam and Freedom of Speech
 
Of course, Jacoby would be involved in this Q&A. This article deals with
the hatred of one bigot: Geert Wilders. The film "Fitna" should be ostracized
Wilders should be denied access to writing in an American newspaper.
 
Talk of Freedom of Speech denied by Islam? Does the Globe allow letters
such as the ones we write to be published? No. of course not. They follow
only one ideology and it is not on the side of Islam or the Arabs.
 
We have a very large file of professors and others who differ on opinions
of the Holocaust and have spoken out. And they've been fired! American
politicians have had their speeches canceled or been voted out because of
their differences. It is event that Freedom of Speech is already snuffed out here in America.
 
And, in Germany, say anything that differs by one number of the
total killed in the Holocaust, and it's jail for you. Try to purchase
Hitler's "Mein Kampf"? Forget it. It's against the law. Talk of book
burning. Such control!
 
Islam is not any more guilty of stopping Freedom of Speech than the
American press is. Sins of omission unfortunately abide within the press.
 
And if Jacoby stopped ranting anti-Muslim, anti-Arab op-eds but changed
over to exposing what some Talmudic writers have espoused,
he'd be immediately stricken from his job at the Boston Globe.
 
Sincerely,
The Bradfords

 

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INVITATION TO SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF
CONGRESSMAN KEITH ELLISON and BRIAN BAIRD's GAZA VIDEO

 

Washington, DC | March 12, 2009 | www.adc.org | Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) will be holding 
a screening and discussion of his video on Gaza along with Congressman Brian Baird (D-CA). Both 
Congressman recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Gaza, Israel and the West Bank. They were 
the first Members of Congress to travel to Gaza in almost three years. Using first hand footage filmed 
while there they put together a 45-minute video.  They will be screening this video and then answering 
questions on March 17, from 7-8:30pm at the North Orientation Theater - Congressional Visitor Center.  


An rsvp is required and bags will be searched upon entry into the Congressional Visitor Center.

WHO:       Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN)
                   Congressman Brian Baird (D-CA)

WHAT:     Gaza Video Screening and Discussion

WHEN:     Tuesday, March 17 from 7-8:30pm 

WHERE:   North Orientation Theater at the Congressional Visitor Center

                   http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/Visit/Visitor%20Center%20Map/
 
HOW:         RSVP to rsvp@adc.org by 5pm March 16
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Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

 

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
For Immediate Release  

Al-Awda to Host George Galloway in San Diego and Orange Counties 

The San Diego, Orange County, Riverside, Los Angeles and San Bernardino chapters of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition have the pleasure and honor of inviting you, your friends and family to come, meet and listen to long-time staunch advocate for the Palestinian cause, leader of the recent successful Viva Palestina Aid Convoy to Gaza, British Member of Parliament, author and talk show host: 

The Honorable George Galloway MP

We have organized two events in Southern California at which Galloway will be speaking: 

San Diego Event - April 6, 2009 

The first event, which is co-sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine at UCSD, will be held in San Diego on April 6, 2009. This event will start 6:30 PM at The Arbor View Banquet Room, City of La Mesa Community Center, 4975 Memorial Drive, La Mesa, CA 91941. Arabic food/dinner and refreshments will be provided. The cost per person: $35.00 standard, $25.00 student with valid ID. 

Orange County Event  - April 7, 2009 

The second event will be held on April 7, 2009 starting 7:00 PM at the Embassy Suites Hotel Anaheim South, 11767 Harbor Boulevard, Garden Grove, CA 92840. Refreshments will be provided at this event (no food). The cost per person: $25.00 standard, $15.00 student with valid ID. 

Reservations 

We suggest making your reservations early. Reserved tickets will be available for pick up at the registration desk of the relevant event.  

To reserve by mail, simply address your check or money order to:

PRRC
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA

Please be sure to indicate how many individuals and students will be in your party. Reservations by mail must be received no later than April 3, 2009.  

To make your reservation using your credit card, please go to http://al-awdasandiego.org/galloway.html (near the bottom of that page). Alternatively, call us Monday to Friday 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at 760-685-3243 with your credit card information.

 Note: Parking is free and plenty at both venues.

For more information, contact: 

Al-Awda Chapters in Southern California

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441

Fax: 760-918-9442
E-mail: info@al-awdacal.org
WWW: http://al-awdacal.org

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Join Atlanta’s DAY OF ACTION Against War & Occupation

 

The invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan by the US military have caused massive death and destruction to the peoples of those countries. Thousands of US military service men and women have died or been grievously injured, and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted waging war. As millions of Americans lose their jobs, healthcare, and homes, it is time for the wasteful spending on endless military occupations to end and for the needs of working people, families and students to be addressed.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition (GPJC) will mark the sixth anniversary of the Iraq warwith a series of events in Atlanta on Thursday, March 19th. The Atlanta events are one stop on the state-wide “Cost of War” tour of Georgia college campuses taking place during the week of March 16-22. Events in Atlanta include: 

3:00 pm – Educational Forum, Georgia State University, Aderhold Learning Center, Room 24, 60 Luckie St. AFSC’s critically acclaimed Cost of War exhibit will be on display along with two powerful speakers. Raed Jarrar was born in Baghdad and spent most of his life in Iraq.  Jarrar came to the United States in 2005 and has worked on many Iraq-related projects, as a translator, interpreter, consultant and political analyst. Since the summer of 2006, he has worked to bridge the gap between Iraqi leaders and U.S. Congress members by arranging a series of face-to-face meetings between U.S. and Iraqi leaders. Jason Hurd is the southeast regional director of Iraq Veterans against the War.  Jason spent ten years in the Army and National Guard and was deployed in 2005 to Iraq as a medic. Since returning to the U.S. he has been an advocate for Iraq veterans and a leading voice in the G.I. resistance movement. 

4:30 pm – Rally and March from Woodruff Park, Peachtree and Auburn streets, to CNN Center, Marietta and Centennial OlympicPark. “Atlanta Says No to More War.” Veterans will lead a demonstration demanding that CNN report the true cost of war. The US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have caused massive death and destruction and wasted hundreds of billions of dollars. The march will assemble at 4:30 pm at Woodruff Park and march at 5 to CNN. 

8:00 pm – Free Concert, Metropolitan Warehouses, 675 Metropolitan Parkway (Fishmarket D-125). Music by Futureshock, The Black Pockets, Contraverse and The Wild.

 

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STOP THE WAR COALITION 

No. 1085  13 March 2009  
Email office@stopwar.org.uk  
Tel: 020 7278 6694  
Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
 
STOP THE WAR IS MOVING ON MONDAY 16 MARCH  
PLEASE NOTE NEW CONTACT DETAILS:  
TEL: 0207 801 2768  
ADDRESS: Stop The War Coalition  
Douglas Houghton House, 231 Vauxhall Bridge Road  
London, SW1V 1EH
 
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:  
1) G20 DEMONSTRATION WED 1 APRIL US EMBASSY  
2) PROTEST AT NATO, STRASBOURG, APRIL 3 -5  
3) OTHER EVENTS  
4) LOW KEY RELEASES GAZA SINGLE  
5) ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION MEETS TARIQ ALI
 
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1) DEMONSTRATE AT THE G20, WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL  
ASSEMBLE US EMBASSY, GROSVENOR SQUARE. 2PM
 
We can now confirm that the G20 march will assemble outside  
the US embassy on Wednesday 1 April. Before we leave we will  
deliver a message to Barack Obama at the embassy.
 
This is the next step in the campaign to end the siege of Gaza   
and to get the troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
 
The march will end with an 'alternative summit' in Trafalgar  
square. Speakers already confirmed include TONY BENN, ARTHUR  
SCARGILL, anti debt campaigner SUSAN GEORGE, Palestinian  
singer REEM KOLANI, JEREMY CORBYN MP, KATE HUDSON from CND and   
LINDSEY GERMAN from the Stop the War Coalition.
 
We are asking all our supporters to do everything they can to    
take time off and attend this vital demonstration. Groups  
across the country should be organising transport to get down    
to London. Contact your local Stop the War group for more  
information about transport.
 
Flyers and posters are available from the Stop the War office.   
Please order some to leaflet your street, workplace or     
college.
 
DEMONSTRATE WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL
YES WE CAN  
* Get the troops out of Iraq & Afghanistan  
* End the siege of Gaza - free Palestine  
* Create jobs not bombs  
* Stop arming Israel  
* Abolish all nuclear weapons
CALLED BY Stop the War, CND, Palestine Solidarity Campaign,  
British  
Muslim Initiative
 
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2) PROTEST AT THE NATO CONFERENCE, STRASBOURG  
APRIL 4TH AND 5TH.  BOOK NOW.
 
Thousands of anti war campaigners across Europe will be making   
their way to Strasbourg to protest against NATO's policies for   
the weekend of 3-5th of April
 
The US is pressuring NATO leaders to join the US led surge in    
Afghanistan. A huge popular protest will be a big setback to  
that project. It will also be a blow against NATO's plan for  
eastward expansion.
 
The international demonstration is on Saturday April 4th.  
There will be a counter conference on the 3rd and the 5th  
which will be addressed by  Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky and Ali  
Fayad from Hezbollah and many others.
 
Stop the War is putting on coaches to Strasbourg from London  
for just £70 return. They will be leaving at 9am from Victoria  
Embankment on Friday 3rd April and returning early in the  
morning of Monday 6th. Places are limited so we encourage  
people to book as soon as possible. You can book on the Stop  
the War website http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
 
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3) OTHER EVENTS
 
*SATURDAY 28 MARCH: PUT PEOPLE FIRST  
MARCH FOR JOBS, CLIMATE, JUSTICE  
ASSEMBLE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT 11AM  
Nearest tube station Temple  
MARCH TO HYDE PARK
 
There will be an Anti war contingent on the PUT PEOPLE FIRST  
demonstration which will form up in Lincoln's Inn Fields from    
11am. Look for the Stop the War/PSC/CND banners .
 
*THURSDAY 2 APRIL: G20 MEETING PROTEST   
EXCEL CENTRE (details http://www.stopwar.org.uk/)  
Stop the War will be protesting from 11am at the Excel centre,   
when the G20 leaders will be meeting.
 
* SATURDAY 25 APRIL: STOP THE WAR'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE CAMDEN   
COMMUNITY SCHOOL, LONDON  
SPEAKERS include Ken Loach, Craig Murray, Tony Benn, Karma  
Nabulsi, Sami Ramadani.  
(Further details http://www.stopwar.org.uk/)
 
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4) LOW KEY RELEASES GAZA SINGLE
 
Low Key, the award winning hip hop artist and poet, has  
released as a single Tears to Laughter, with its rallying call   
of "long live Palestine - long live Gaza", which has become  
the unofficial soundtrack to many protests, university     
occupations and fundraising events for Gaza and Palestine   
across the UK. All profits from the sale of the Tears to  
Laughter will be donated to the DEC Gaza appeal.
 
The single costs just 79p and can be downloaded from iTunes or   
Juno (http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1402457-02.htm)
 
You can preview Tears to Laughter here:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWy6uA18sk
 
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5) ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION MEETS TARIQ ALI  
In light of recent developments with the war on terror and  
with US incursions into the Pakistan border commonplace, the  
band Asian Dub Foundation questioned Tariq Ali, a  
vice-President of Stop the War Coalition, about his views on  
the destabilised and tense situation in Pakistan. Watch the  
interview here: http://tinyurl.com/bz3fv4
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION:  
http://www.asiandubfoundation.com/

 

 

 
 

 

 

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