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		<title>Top Norwegian Prof: Critics of Mass Immigration Mentally Ill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ubaydullah_1031805i.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190155" alt="ubaydullah_1031805i" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ubaydullah_1031805i-450x350.jpg" width="270" height="210" /></a>Per Fugelli is a physician, originally from Stavanger in western Norway, who has for years been a Professor of Social Medicine at the University of Oslo. He also enjoys a high media profile. Fritt Ord, Norway’s most important and well-funded free speech organization, decided to give the Freedom of Expression Prize for 2013, their highest distinction, to Fugelli “<a href="http://www.fritt-ord.no/en/hjem/mer/fritt_ords_pris_for_2013_gar_til_per_fugelli/">for</a> having given a voice to cancer patients.” He has been open about his struggle against this horrible disease and made a positive contribution in that regard, but in many other cases he’s been more preoccupied with harassing, threatening or bullying others who dare to use their freedom of speech.</p>
<p>Another person who has previously won the same award is <a href="http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/priser/category/fritt_ords_pris/">William Nygaard</a>, the Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie’s novel <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, who<i> </i>on the morning of 11 October 1993 was shot three times and nearly killed outside of his own home in Oslo. The percentage of Muslims in Norway at that point probably did not much exceed 1%. It was even less in Japan, where the translator of the same novel was murdered. Merely one percent or less of Islamic culture can thus be enough to get people killed for criticizing Islam. This should serve as a reminder of just how toxic Islam truly can be to any free society.</p>
<p>After it was announced in 2013 that he would receive this prestigious award for free speech, one newspaper asked Per Fugelli about who he would like to be stuck in an elevator with. He replied the politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde, so he could “<a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/tema/navn-i-nyhetene/fugelli-ypper-til-brak/">beat him</a> up.” A funny and tolerant guy, Professor Fugelli. Tybring-Gjedde is an MP and a notable member of the right-wing Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet). His party advocates lower taxes and is critical of certain aspects of mass immigration, although some of their voters feel that the party has gone soft over these issues after its current head Siv Jensen took over from long-time party leader Carl I. Hagen.</p>
<p>The left-wing activist Eivind Trædal published a major essay in the newspaper <i>Dagbladet </i>entitled “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/11/28/kultur/debatt/kronikk/innvandring/trakassering/19194014/">junk people</a>” in which he singled out a number of named individuals for attacks, among them Tybring-Gjedde, the author Bruce Bawer, and me, for spreading “hate” against Islam and thereby creating a climate of hate which allegedly fostered Breivik.</p>
<p>Tybring-Gjedde had to take sick leave for a while in <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7903981">late 2011</a> due to repeated death threats against him. Members of the ruling Labour Party, including Eskil Pedersen, the leader of Labour’s youth league AUF, had accused individuals from the rival Progress Party of laying the groundwork for Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre by “<a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7886748">misusing</a>“ freedom of speech to say negative things about mass immigration or Islamization.</p>
<p>Pedersen and a few others survived the Utøya massacre by escaping the island in a ferry, originally a military landing craft, which had room for many more people. This triggered critical remarks from some of the other survivors, among them Bjørn <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/artikkel.php?artid=10065090">Ihler</a>. Eskil Pedersen believed that the country was under attack and did <a href="http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/terrorangrepet/article1670192.ece">not trust</a> any member of the police after he had escaped. He has stated that he thought this was a coup d’état involving the police and the armed forces, and claims that other AUF members thought the same.</p>
<p>Breivik did in fact show up at Utøya wearing a fake police uniform. Nevertheless, it is somewhat odd for the leader of the country’s largest political youth organization to say openly that he thought it was a coup d’état by the police against a youth summer camp. What is most thought-provoking, though, is that the same Eskil Pedersen just a few months earlier had tried to use the police to shut up people he happened to disagree with.</p>
<p>In May 2011 he pressed criminal charges against a Member of Parliament, Christian <a href="http://politisk.tv2.no/nyheter/auf-leder-nekter-a-si-unnskyld-til-tybring-gjedde/">Tybring-Gjedde</a> from the rival Progress Party, for “racism.” The case was soon dismissed. Tybring-Gjedde had stated that in the Grorud Valley in Oslo, which has one of the densest concentrations of immigrants in the country, blond girls have to dye their hair dark to avoid harassment, children are threatened with violence if they have pig meat in their lunch box and native boys risk being physically assaulted by immigrants who think they don’t get enough time on the local football team. These are merely truthful statements. In fact, reality is often much worse than this.</p>
<p>The reaction of Eskil Pedersen and others of his ilk to hearing that the natives no longer feel safe in parts of their own country due to the immigration policies supported by the ruling elites is to try to silence political opponents who speak truthfully about this. This betrays a totalitarian impulse.</p>
<p>After Breivik, Per Fugelli was among those who were most aggressive in blaming the Progress Party and its leader <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Bygger-fiendebilder-6665503.html">Siv Jensen</a> indirectly, if not directly, for Breivik’s massacre, since they spread totally unfounded “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/08/05/kultur/debatt/kronikk/fugelli/innvandring/17565158/">Islamophobia</a>” by pointing out problems related to Islamic culture and Muslim immigration. He has more than once made questionable associations with Nazi Germany against those who criticize Multiculturalism.</p>
<p>In May 2013, on the day when he was about to formally receive his Freedom of Expression Prize, Fugelli stated that people who worry about such things as crime related to Gypsy gangs or certain types of organized crime need <a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/samfunn/ta-ansvar-ta-til-motmale/">a sedative</a> for their baseless “anxiety.” Professor Fugelli, a medical professional, recommended that politicians should take a Valium pill before they speak about issues related to immigration.</p>
<p>Obviously, once could assume that this was intended as some kind of joke on the good professor’s part. If it is, however, it’s not a terribly funny one, given that certain repressive regimes have considered those who oppose their ideology as “insane” individuals in desperate need of forced medical or psychiatric treatment. Just ask brave dissidents from the Soviet Union such as Vladimir Bukovsky.</p>
<p>It’s also not the first or only time that Mr. Fugelli has indicated, jokingly or otherwise, that individuals who disagree with his views should be treated medically for their alleged delusions, with or without their consent.</p>
<p>During the Multicultural craze of the 1990s, the Norwegian novelist Torgrim Eggen in an essay entitled “The psychotic racism” warned against the possibility of “race wars in the streets” as a result of mass immigration. This essay was available on the Internet as late as in 2007 and 2008 when I linked to it from <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3576"><i>The Brussels Journal</i></a>, but it has since then conveniently gone missing. The solution to these problems was not to limit mass immigration but to limit criticism of it. According to Eggen, xenophobia and opposition to mass immigration should be viewed as a mental illness, and the solution to xenophobia “is that you should distribute medication to those who are seriously affected. I have discussed this with a professor of Social Medicine, Dr. Per Fugelli, and he liked the idea.” Fugelli had apparently suggested putting anti-psychotic drugs in the city’s drinking water.</p>
<p>This may sound too extreme to be meant seriously, but Fugelli has continued to chastise all those who are critical of mass immigration. Eggen warned that arguments about how ordinary people are concerned over mass immigration shouldn’t be accepted, because this could lead to Fascism: “One should be on one’s guard against people, especially politicians, who invoke xenophobia on behalf of others. And if certain people begin their reasoning with phrases such as ‘ordinary people feel that,’ one shouldn’t argue at all, one should hit [them].”</p>
<p>In May 2013 Fugelli was a participant on <i>Dagsnytt Atten</i>, one of the most important daily news magazines and debate forums on the state broadcaster NRK. In addition to radio, it is also broadcasted on TV. On May 13, 2013, when he had been specifically invited to talk about his free speech award, during a conversation with Anders Heger, an influential publisher in the publishing house Cappelen Damm, Fugelli indicated that those who want to deport foreign gypsies should themselves be arrested and thrown in jail.</p>
<p>The issue was not about killing or abusing anybody, but merely whether to send back newly-arrived foreign organized beggars who cause problems. Per Fugelli thus advocated that those who disagree with his views on how to deal with foreign beggars should be thrown in jail. He said this in plain words on the country’s largest media outlet when he was there specifically to talk about freedom of speech.</p>
<p>So the person who had recently won one of the country’s most prestigious free speech awards has publicly advocated that those who use their free speech in a manner which he disagrees with should be beaten up, medicated or thrown in jail.</p>
<p>In the autumn of 2011, the author Torgrim Eggen complained in the national newspaper <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10039602"><i>VG</i></a> that some people make rude or threatening comments about others, whose political views they happen not to share themselves. It’s nice that he is concerned about this issue, of course, but he forgot to say anything about whether or not we should hit people who point out the negative results of mass immigration.</p>
<p>In the spring of 2013, the journalists Kjell Erik Eilertsen and Ole Asbjørn Ness from the medium-sized business paper <i>Finansavisen</i>, owned by businessman Trygve Hegnar, <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/okonomi/article727633.ece">interviewed</a> young people of ethnic Norwegian background about how it’s really like for them to grow up in the Grorud Valley in inner-city Oslo. They told a tale of constant, daily humiliations and abuse, until many native families simply move away from the area.</p>
<p>The article met with <a href="http://www.rights.no/2013/05/enorm-respons-pa-innvandringens-bakside/">a storm</a> of reactions on two of the major dissident <a href="http://www.document.no/2013/04/nederlaget/">websites</a> in Norway and was translated <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/everything-you-have-learned-in-school-is-wrong/">to English</a> at the website Gates of Vienna, which the weekly newspaper <i>Morgenbladet</i> has charmingly defined as the “<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/leder/2012/fellesskapets_grenser">Gates</a> of Hell.” Yet the story largely met with silence from bigger media outlets. The state broadcaster NRK was at the same time busy inventing a positive and charming Multicultural version of this area.</p>
<p>My initial thought when reading about this was the deafening silence of “nice” people like Per Fugelli, or <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/category/gutmenschen/"><i>Gutmenschen</i></a> as the Germans call them. What is their reaction to this? Virtually nothing; they just turn their backs to these problems caused by their own policies and pretend they don’t exist. I am sure these abused young natives, who tell horrifying tales of being robbed, beaten up or called “white infidel whore” on a regular basis in what once was their country, would have been delighted to receive some backing from a self-appointed brave “humanitarian” such as Mr. Fugelli. Sadly, they received none.</p>
<p>Perhaps if they asked him, Professor Fugelli would explain to them that the assaults and abuse they experience are all imaginary and can be cured with some anti-psychotic drugs. And if that didn’t work, maybe he would smear them with “Nazi” accusations or threaten to beat them up. Per Fugelli represents the dark and hypocritical face of humanitarian Norway.</p>
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		<title>The Only Thing We Have to Fear (Is Islamophobia Itself)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer and David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NRO</a></strong></span><strong> published Robert Spencer&#8217;s and David Horowitz&#8217;s article, &#8220;<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278722/rational-fear-islamism-robert-spencer">A Rational Fear of Islamism</a>,&#8221; in its Sept. 30, 2011 issue. Below we run the original version:</strong></p>
<p>In recent months several reports have appeared to a generally uncritical reception in the press, which purport to expose alleged conspiracies organized by “Islamophobes” against American citizens who mean us no harm. These reports single out for condemnation a dozen prominent conservative figures (and mostly the same dozen) who have publicly criticized the misogyny, bigotry and terrorism promoted by many (but not all) Islamic institutions and religious texts.</p>
<p>The term “Islamophobia” itself was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the political fountainhead of Islamic terror, having spawned al-Qaeda and created Hamas. Not coincidently, the reports themselves have been produced by Brotherhood fronts like CAIR, and jihadist apologists like the Southern Poverty Law Center. But the latest and most elaborate Islamophobia report, transparently derivative of its predecessors, has been issued by the Center for American Progress, which is a brain trust of the Democratic Party. It thus marks a disturbing development in this ugly campaign.</p>
<p>On examination, the term “Islamophobia” is designed to create a modern-day thought crime, while the campaign to suppress it is an effort to abolish the First Amendment where Islam is concerned. The purpose of the suffix – phobia &#8212; is to identify any concern about troubling Islamic institutions and actions as irrational, or worse as a dangerous bigotry that should itself be feared.</p>
<p>Is fear of terrorists inspired by Islam irrational? There have been 17,800 terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims in the name of Allah since 9/11. Is it unreasonable to be concerned that 30,000 shoulder-ready surface-to-air missiles have been recently gone missing in the Muslim nation of Libya, where both government and rebels the Islamic jihad against America and the West?</p>
<p>Would not a reasonable person be concerned about the attacks plotted and carried out by Muslims in the United States who claim to be inspired by the Koran and who regard themselves as holy warriors in the jihad declared by Osama bin Laden and other Muslim fanatics? These Muslim attacks include the successful massacre of unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood by Nidal Hassan, a self-declared Muslim warrior whose anti-infidel rantings were ignored by the military brass.</p>
<p>These Muslim terrorists include Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; and Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; and Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; and Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; and Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; and Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber; and many others.</p>
<p>If the FBI and law enforcement agencies had not had serious fears of Muslim fanatics, had not been possessed by a species of “Islamophobia,” all those would-be terrorist attacks would be successful attacks and carry long lists of dead innocents – infidels – along with their names.</p>
<p>Should those of us who are infidels – and therefore targets &#8212; not be concerned by a religion whose followers regard this Qur’anic incitement as the word of God: “Slay the pagans wherever you find them.” (9:5)</p>
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<p>Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestine Authority, we are told, comprise the moderate Palestinian alternative to the Hamas-driven vision of mayhem and terror in Gaza.  This assurance is repeated despite Abbas’s well-established biography as <a href="http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000032.html" target="_blank">someone antipathetic to Jews</a> as a people.  In his doctoral thesis, written at Moscow’s Institute  of Oriental Studies, Abbas presaged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by <a href="http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-03-denier.php" target="_blank">denying the Holocaust</a>.  As a top lieutenant to Yasser Arafat – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Abbas" target="_blank">he named a son “Yasser” for his mentor</a> – he was a terrorist leader, even sporting a <em>nom-de-guerre</em>:  Abu Mazen.  In his prominent role within <em>Al-Fatah</em>, <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/08/20/sb2/" target="_blank">Abbas provided the funds that Abu Daoud used to perpetrate the 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munic Olympic Games. </a> During the period Abbas has headed the Palestine Authority on <a href="http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-fischer052302.asp" target="_blank">the land that Arabs call the “West Bank” and Jews call “Judea and Samaria,”</a> he has honored mass murderers by <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=171031" target="_blank">naming town squares for them</a>, has permitted <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32924" target="_blank">mass media under his control</a> to savage Jews as people, and even has allowed anti-Jewish vituperative to be taught in the <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&amp;x_outlet=28&amp;x_article=94" target="_blank">curricula of his schools</a>.</p>
<p>Now comes word that his Government – ever on the international prowl with outstretched hand seeking <a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3315&amp;Itemid=49" target="_blank">hundreds of millions</a> of dollars and euros to cushion <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/485586" target="_blank">its bankrupt economy</a> – has found <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Palestinians-plan-fund-to-apf-614993593.html?x=0&amp;.v=1" target="_blank">$50 million to fund a new initiative</a>.  The Palestinian Authority will pay Arabs not to accept employment in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>Will American tax dollars indirectly be financing this “fund”?  Inexorably so. Only last year we <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/middle_east/jan-june09/gazaaid_03-02.html" target="_blank">pledged the Palestinian Authority and Gaza $900 million</a>, then rushed them another <a href="http://www.india-server.com/news/us-transfers-200-mn-as-palestinian-aid-9576.html" target="_blank">emergency infusion of $200 million as</a> their economy crumbled.  Yet, while the Palestine Authority may not be wealthy, their sense of irony is rich: If Israelis hesitate to employ Palestinian laborers, sincerely <a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/37989/2009/09/07/ramat-gan-israel-religious-jew-stabbed-to-death-by-fired-arab-worker/" target="_blank">fearing terrorism</a> in their midst, <a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m66218&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e" target="_blank">they are berated as “racist” and “apartheid.” </a> Now, in the face of tens of thousands of Palestinians working amicably with Jews, Mahmoud Abbas will pay them to revert to unemployed rather than to accept employment within Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>More than 20,000 Palestinian Arabs now work at the industrial parks and construction sites that employ them throughout Judea and Samaria.  Despite continual efforts by Mr. Abbas and Israel’s haters throughout the world to slander Israel as an “Apartheid” entity, the reality is that Arabs often earn from their Jewish employers twice the income they command within Mr. Abbas’s polity.  These are good salaries, and those wages support large families. The people whose lives would be affected by the cynicism – the workers in the industrial parks – do not want to give up those jobs.  The <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Palestinians-plan-fund-to-apf-614993593.html?x=0&amp;.v=1" target="_blank">Associated Press interviewed</a> Suhail Jaber, who supports his family of eight by working in a picture frame company in the community of Barkan in Samaria, an industrial park employs some 5,000 Arabs. Jaber told the AP that, if forced by Abbas to quit without being assured a new job, he might turn to stealing to feed his family.  Another employee, Samer Awad, “said he would sleep in Barkan&#8217;s furniture factory to avoid detection by Palestinian law enforcement, rather than quit.”</p>
<p>This is the season when pockets of Western campus radicals enjoy proclaiming on their respective campuses their annual day or <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/?p=2098" target="_blank">week of anti-Israel hate</a>.  (They mark May 15, 1948 as the “Day of Catastrophe” because Israel was proclaimed into existence as the Middle East’s first democracy on that day.) Curiously, the anti-Zionists actually are half-correct when they bewail the presence of Apartheid segregation and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9623" target="_blank">Nazi-like hatred in the Middle East</a>.  <em>There really is “Apartheid in Palestine.”</em> <em>There really is “Nazi-like hate” in the Middle East.</em> The only tweak on those <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IAW_FRONT.jpg" target="_blank">anti-Israel posters</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNhbSaf8ik" target="_blank">Jew-hating sloganeers</a>, and haters <a href="http://videos.mensup.fr/youtube/video/QLvfX_SGcAA/malik-ali-at-uci-51310.html" target="_blank">who call Israel-supporters the “new Nazis</a>,” is that the Apartheid and venom of Nazi-like hatred in Palestine <em>is perpetrated by the Palestinian Arabs</em>.  It is their unbridled insistence on demographic separation – complete, utter separation from Jews – and their concomitant dehumanization and demonization of Jews that sees them refuse to coexist permanently with a Jewish state next door or anywhere in the Middle East.  This social pathology mirrors the Apartheid and Nazi-like vitriol that sees the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703745904575248301172607696.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion" target="_blank">Coptic Christian minority persecuted in Egypt</a>, the <a href="http://www.persecution.org/Countries/algeria.html" target="_blank">Berber minority persecuted in Algeria</a>, the <a href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=23" target="_blank">Christian minority persecuted in Saudi Arabia</a>, African <a href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=11&amp;PHPSESSID=dfd140dfe1541bd582dda6205d6ad0e1" target="_blank">Christians persecuted in the Sudan</a>, the <a href="http://news.bahai.org/story/413" target="_blank">Baha’i persecuted in Iran</a>, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/slaughter-of-kurds-genocide-court-rules/2005/12/24/1135353171483.html" target="_blank">Kurds mass-murdered in Iraq</a>, and even Shiites persecuted in Sunni Muslim lands and Sunnis persecuted by Shiites. The <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html" target="_blank">affinity with Hitler’s Nazi paradigm of mass-murder and Jew-hatred</a> may be traced back to the father of Palestinian nationalism, the <a href="http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php" target="_blank">Grand Mufti of Jerusalem</a>.</p>
<p>This pathological hatred of Jews <a href="http://www.patrobertson.com/PressReleases/bushresponse2.asp" target="_blank">transcends the worst images of Hitler’s <em>Mein Kampf</em>. </a> At the core of Scripture, in its chapter five (“The Table”), Surah 5:57-62, the Koran discusses the “People of the Book,” portraying Jews as sub-human, despicable animals: “Believers, do not seek the friendship of the infidels and those who were given the Book before you . . . . Say: ‘People of the Book, do you hate us for any reason other than . . . that most of you are evil-doers?’. . . .You see many of them vie with one another in sin and wickedness . . . . Evil is what they do.”  Thus, Allah will lay his “worst reward” on the Jews, “transforming them into apes and pigs.”   The vicious ape/pig demonization of Jews recurs throughout the Koran (see, e.g., “The Cow,” 2:64-65), and that vicious imagery – a veritable Blood Libel – has been a central message <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaB5n8Az984" target="_blank">propagated by the Palestine Authority</a> in its mass media <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/arabs/sermons.html#_ednref21" target="_blank">for years</a>, even as it is a <a href="http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20108" target="_blank">recurring Friday sermon topic</a> telecast on Palestine Arab television – the literal demonizing of Jews as blood brothers or children of apes and pigs.</p>
<p>For all the hatred, perhaps nowhere in the world is Apartheid in Palestine more pernicious than . . . within the Palestine Authority.  Only within the Arab world do we find civilian populations in their thousands consigned to “refugee camps” for sixty years.  This perpetual consignment – indeed, virtual internment – constitutes one of the worst crimes against humanity we have witnessed in the modern era: the concerted persecution of Palestinian Arabs by cynical Arab regimes who have planted them in “refugee camps.”  Nowhere is the cynicism more manifest than it is within the Palestine Authority, which maintains <a href="http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=118" target="_blank">“refugee camps” in cities like Jenin. </a> Consider: If those denizens indeed are Palestinian Arabs, and if the Palestine Authority oversees the homeland of the Palestinians, then <em>how in the world can people living in their own land, under a government freely elected by their own people, be deemed “refugees”?</em></p>
<p>Those “refugee camps” are historical anomalies, thoroughly anachronistic. Their residents are dumped onto international welfare rolls, under the rubric of a cynically anti-Jewish United Nations agency, the “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/213cgjov.asp" target="_blank">United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East</a>” (UNRWA), which runs the camps and their schools.  The UNRWA has a vested interest – namely, preserving their own existence, preserving their own continued employment and pay checks, preserving their jobs –  in perpetuating the historical crime of refusing to let the residents be absorbed into their local environments.</p>
<p>During the last century, the world has seen so many tragically painful “population exchanges” play themselves out on the world stage. Greek ethnics were forced out of Bulgaria and into Greece, while Bulgarian ethnics were forced from Greece into Bulgaria. In 1922, under the League of Nations, 1.25 million Greek Orthodox ethnics were transferred from Turkey, and half a million Moslems were transferred reciprocally to Turkey from Greece. Fridtjof Nansen, who oversaw the population exchange, was awarded the <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1922/nansen-bio.html" target="_blank">1922 Nobel Peace Prize</a> for his effort. In 1940, under the Treaty of Craiova, there was a massive population exchange: 80,000 Romanian ethnics were forced into Bulgaria, and 65,000 Bulgarian ethnics forced out of Romania. After World War II, between 14-16 million ethnic Germans were transferred out of Central and Eastern Europe, and into Germany. Poland and the Soviet Union exchanged populations: between 1944 and 1946, some 2 million people, Polish ethnics sent to Poland from the Ukraine and Ukrainians sent out of Poland, were transferred. More than 5 million Hindus and Sikhs were forced to India from the regions that became Pakistan, and more than 6 million Moslems were pushed from India into Pakistan.</p>
<p>Where are the languishing Bulgarian refugee camps? Greek refugee camps? Romanian/ Polish/ German/ Ukrainian/ Hindu/ Sikh refugee camps? Where are the Bosnian Moslem refugee camps?  Why is there no massive international welfare apparatus in the rubric of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for any of these  refugees? <em>How is it that no one even thinks to ask?</em></p>
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<p>Maybe, as Mr. Abbas directs $50 million to pay Palestinian Arabs to leave their jobs alongside Jews, and to return to the squalor of his homespun “refugee camps,” it is time for Americans to ask that question – before we write him our next billion-dollar check.</p>
<p><em><em>Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political, cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of general Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine and blogs at <a title="http://www.rabbidov.com/" href="http://www.rabbidov.com/" target="_blank">www.rabbidov.com.</a></em></em></p>
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<p>Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the opposition against ObamaCare.</p>
<p>Yet to shut down the effort to overturn ObamaCare&#8217;s unpopular assault on freedom and prosperity, the left resorts to a frequently employed tactic. They and their media co-conspirators find whack jobs holding stupid signs — or saying or doing stupid things — and say, &#8220;See! Right-wing intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Idiots, wing nuts and haters exist — on both sides of the political spectrum — in a country of 300 million people. Those who threaten and engage in violence should be arrested and prosecuted. Those who use incendiary language should be denounced.</p>
<p>But which &#8220;hater&#8221; said the following, and where was the condemnation?</p>
<p>&#8220;The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and Communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. &#8230; Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines.&#8221; Was it a) Miss Piggy, b) Lady Gaga, c) the Dog Whisperer, or d) George Soros, billionaire Democratic supporter?</p>
<p>&#8220;(George W. Bush&#8217;s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. &#8230; And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.&#8221; a) Dan Rather, b) Katie Couric, c) Helen Thomas, d) Al Gore, Nobel laureate.</p>
<p>&#8220;(Republicans are) coming for our children. They&#8217;re coming for the poor. They&#8217;re coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled.&#8221; a) Mother Teresa, b) the Grim Reaper, c) Jack Bauer, d) Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.</p>
<p>The contest between Democrats and Republicans is &#8220;a struggle of good and evil. And we&#8217;re the good.&#8221; a) Wolverine, b) Spider-Man, c) RoboCop, d) Howard Dean, then-Democratic national chairman.</p>
<p>When asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism, he said, &#8220;Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.&#8221; a) Adolf Eichmann, b) Joseph Goebbels, c) Heinrich Himmler, d) Harry Belafonte, entertainer and liberal activist.</p>
<p>He called President Bush&#8217;s perceived lack of help for Katrina victims &#8220;ethnic cleansing by inaction&#8221; and called it a &#8220;calculated &#8230; policy.&#8221; He added, &#8220;So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this &#8230; crisis that was so greatly exaggerated by Katrina, they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing, and their hands are clean.&#8221; a) David Duke, b) Jack the Ripper, c) Jeffrey Dahmer, d) Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you look at the way the (then-Republican-controlled) House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221; a) Kunta Kinte, b) Harriet Tubman, c) Booker T. Washington, d) then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, former first lady and current secretary of State.</p>
<p>&#8220;George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.&#8221; a) Ming the Merciless, b) Ivan the Terrible, c) Vlad the Impaler, d) Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;spic&#8217; or &#8216;nigger&#8217; anymore. (Instead, Republicans) say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s cut taxes.&#8217;&#8221; a) Bernie Madoff, b) Bonnie and Clyde, c) Bennie and the Jets, d) Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re damn right; Dick Cheney&#8217;s heart&#8217;s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.&#8221; a) Dr. Seuss, b) Dr. Oz, c) Dr. J, d) Ed Schultz, MSNBC and radio host.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are in danger. The extreme right wing has seized the government. Tonight (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look out, because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. &#8230; Martin Luther King could have been. &#8230; The right-wing media, the FBI — they are targeting our leadership.&#8221; a) Mr. T, b) Flavor Flav, c) Gary Coleman, d) the Rev. Jesse Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. &#8230; (George W. Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America,&#8221; a) Darth Vader, b) Satan, c) the Rev. Pat Robertson, d) Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.</p>
<p>Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman, despite his reliably left-wing voting record, infuriated the left for supporting the Iraq War. Davis found himself on the receiving end of &#8220;hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle&#8221; and &#8220;their extremism, bigotry and intolerance.&#8221; A friend and fellow Lieberman supporter, said Davis, became &#8220;fearful for his physical safety.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I held on to the view,&#8221; Davis admitted, &#8220;that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right. &#8230; I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony.&#8221;</p>
<p>The majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare. Their opposition is not racist, fascist or intolerant. Let us work to prevail.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>Six Months Later, Pan Am Bomber is Still Alive &#8211; NBC New York</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The terrorist who helped bomb Pan Am flight 103 is still alive &#8211; and free &#8211; in Libya nearly six months after Scotland released the mass murderer from prison on &#8220;compassionate&#8221; grounds. Scottish officials had said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi would die within three months from prostate cancer when they announced they would set him free. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The terrorist who helped bomb Pan Am flight 103 is still alive &#8211; and free &#8211; in Libya nearly six months after Scotland released the mass murderer from prison on &#8220;compassionate&#8221; grounds.</p>
<p>Scottish officials had said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi would die within three months from prostate cancer when they announced they would set him free.   But nearly six months later, al-Megrahi is still calling in about twice a month from Libya to authorities in Scotland as part of the terms of his release.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has almost become comical,&#8221; said Bert Ammerman who lost his brother in the bombing.  &#8220;I have to laugh that he has to phone in that he is following his probation terms.  This is a complete insult.  Shame on Scotland.  Shame on the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Convicted terrorist Megrahi was set free back on August 21.  He had been sentence to life in prison after being convicted in 2001.  When he landed home in Libya, he was greeted by cheering crowds at the Tripoli airport, some waving Libyan and Scottish flags.</p>
<p>Some members of the Scottish Parliament have called on Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to better explain why a second medical opinion was not sought before deciding to release the terrorist.  MacAskill has responded saying the medical report stating Megrahi was dying of terminal cancer is accurate.</p>
<p>He has claimed the three month window was just an approximation. MacAskill charged critics are &#8220;circling like vultures&#8221; wondering when Megrahi might die.  &#8220;He is going to die.  That is why he was released,&#8221; MacAskill said to Scottish Parliament back in January.</p>
<p>Pan Am Flight 103 was en route from London to New york when a bomb exploded in the cargo hold of the mighty jetliner.  270 people were killed including 259 passengers and crew, and 11 people on the ground in the village of Lockerbie.  Megrahi was convicted of helping hide the bomb in a cassette recorder in a suitcase.</p>
<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said U.S. officials voiced their objections in advance about Scottish authorities plans to release the terrorist.  &#8220;It is obviously wrong to release someone who has been in prison based on the evidence about his involvement in such a horrendous crime,&#8221; Clinton said.</p>
<p>After he was set free, the FBI Director Robert Mueller blasted MacAskill&amp;apos;s decision.  &#8220;Your action in releasing Megrahi is as inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Indeed your action makes a mockery of the rule of law,&#8221; Mueller wrote.</p>
<p>Some victim&amp;apos;s families have charged Megrahi&amp;apos;s release was tied to future oil deals between British oil companies and the Libyan government.  Those allegations have been vehemently denied by British officials and spokesmen for oil firms like British Petroleum.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Still-Alive-Pan-Am-Bomber-6-Months-of-Freedom--84394717.html">Six Months Later, Pan Am Bomber is Still Alive | NBC New York</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, staged rallies of supporters and a new crackdown on democratic protestors. ]]></description>
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<p>Iran – or more accurately the Iranian government – this week celebrated the 31<sup>st</sup> anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. In preparation for the tightly orchestrated event, the government unleashed the full might of its security forces – including riot police, the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij, the civilian militia corps – to suppress the opposition protestors who have poured onto Iran’s streets since last summer’s fraudulent election.</p>
<p>Armed with live ammunition, knives and teargas, the security forces set upon anyone identified as opposition protestors. When not resorting to violent repression, the government tried to thwart the opposition by disrupting internet, telephone and text messaging service inside the country. For propaganda purposes, the government also staged its own mass rally in Tehran’s Freedom Square, an occasion capped by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiant declaration that Iran is now a “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html#ixzz0fEV1nsnR">nuclear state</a>,” capable of producing its own weapons-grade uranium.  </p>
<p>To discuss this week’s events and the state of the Iranian opposition movement, <em>Front Page</em> turned to exiled Iranian dissident Amir Abbas Fakhravar. Jailed for five years in Iran’s notoriously brutal Evin Prison after participating in anti-government student riots in 1999, Fakhravar now heads the Confederation of Iranian Students, an organization committed to non-violent regime change in Iran.</p>
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<p><strong>FP</strong>: The government clearly tried very hard this week to deter opposition protestors from making themselves heard. Instead, it has put on a mass rally, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html#ixzz0fEV1nsnR">complete with Iranian flags pro-government pro-Khameini signs</a>, to create the illusion of national unity. What can you tell us about these “pro-government” demonstrations?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar:</strong> The government knew that there was a plan from the protest movement to hold demonstrations in Tehran on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution, so they spent money to bring in about 200,000 Basij from cities all across Iran on the night before the anniversary celebration. The Basij – these are the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8509765.stm">masses</a> of men and women you see attending the pro-government protests – were paid $250 each to show up at the demonstrations, which is a lot of money in Iran, when you consider the bad state of the economy. They spent all night covering Freedom Square with the Basij. The government also spent a lot of money on propaganda. They printed posters of Ayatollah Khameini; they even gave the Basij frozen chicken after the demonstration was over.</p>
<p>But that didn’t stop the opposition protestors from showing up. If the government can get 200,000 people out of the 70 million in Iran, that means nothing. Across Iran, I believe there were some 2 million people who showed up to protest the government. And the protestors will come back stronger and stronger. The reason is this: The Basij fight for their salary; the people fight for their freedom. That’s why, on Tuesday, when Ahmadinejad gave his big speech, you could hear chants of “Death to the Dictator!” coming from a distance.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: Reports in the foreign press have portrayed this week’s events as a defeat for the reform movement and a victory for the government. In their accounts, the protestors were overwhelmed by the security forces and outnumbered by the pro-government demonstrators. What do you think explains the slant of this coverage?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar:</strong> First, I want to correct you. This is not a reform movement. This is an opposition movement, a revolution against the government. The people want regime change. That is why in front of the Basij and the Revolutionary Guard you heard chants of “Death to the Dictator” and “Death to Khameini.” That is also why the most popular chant was “Referendum.” By this the protestors mean a referendum on the Iranian government. The last time Iran had a referendum was when the Islamic republic came to power in 1979. Referendum means they want regime change. The people are saying to Khameini, “We don’t want an Islamic republic anymore!”</p>
<p>As for the coverage, it may be explained by the fact that the government invited 300 reporters from foreign countries to cover the pro-government demonstration. Yet, they didn’t let them go anywhere. They were only allowed to watch the main demonstration at Freedom Square in Tehran – nowhere else. They never saw the side streets where the opposition protests were taking place.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that the strength of the pro-government rallies is overstated. You can tell the opposition protestors from the government demonstrators because only the protestors carry handmade signs. The Basij carry the posters of Kahmeini or other placards that are printed and distributed by the government. Because all the print shops in Iran are under government control, and are carefully monitored, it’s not easy for protestors to print signs. All the people holding up the printed signs are paid by the government to hold them up. (We have a joke that if you see an ugly woman at an Iranian demonstration, she is with the Basij.) When the demonstrations are over, they just drop the signs and walk over them.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: The government seems to fear the protestors’ use of new media like Facebook and Twitter to organize their movement. Hence the regime’s attempts to restrict internet and text messaging and its announcement this week that it will <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-14552-Social-Media-Examiner~y2010m2d10-Iran-bans-Google-mail-permanent-suspension-of-Gmail-in-effect">permanently ban Google mail</a> in favor of a “national email service for Iranians.” What do you make of this clampdown on new media, and how big of a threat is it to the opposition movement’s ability to mobilize against the government?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The government’s primary goal was to shut down YouTube, but they were not successful. The intelligence services called in protestors to tell them that they were being watched and that they should not participate in the anniversary day protests. But we still get hundreds of videos from Iran. That means the government has failed to shut down the new media.</p>
<p>There are some 30 million Iranians who have access to the internet and the new media. Just a few months ago, it was 17 or 20 million. This is a sign that, right now, people are hungry for information from the internet. One of the most useful things that the U.S. could do to help the opposition movement would be to support new media and alternative media, whether it’s the internet or satellite services.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: How would you describe the Obama administration’s position? Has it done anything to aid the opposition movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The Obama administration’s approach seems to be to keep an eye on the protestors to see if they keep coming out on the streets even amidst the government repression. That’s wrong. It’s also wrong for the administration to continue to pursue diplomatic negotiations with the Iranian government. The government has no legitimacy inside Iran; it has no legal standing with the Iranian people. The people are saying, “This is not our president,” but Obama is saying, “I want to talk to him.” I don’t understand why the Obama administration would want to give legitimacy to a regime that has no legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: Perhaps the most notable incident from this week’s pro-government rally in Tehran was Ahmadinejad’s boast that Iran was now a full-fledged nuclear power. What has been the reaction to his remarks inside Iran and why do you think he chose to make the announcement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>There were several reasons he said that. First, he wanted to distract attention from the counter-protests and the opposition movement. It is also the government’s way of telling some of the stupider people in Iran, “If we spend a lot your money, eventually we will get what we want!”</p>
<p>For most Iranians, though, Ahmadinejad’s speech was a cruel joke. The funniest part was when he bragged that the regime successfully sent some animals – roaches, worms, mice and turtles – into space. This <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/03/iran.space.satellites/index.html">actually happened last week</a> and the government had a lot of propaganda about it. Ahmadinejad was trying to show that Iran was very successful and that the world covets our technological knowledge. But most Iranians cynically said, okay, we sent animals into space – Thank God we’re not hungry or anything.  </p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: What’s the best thing that the United States and the international community can do to support the Iranian protest movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>It’s very simple: Stop buying oil from the mullahs. If you cut off their oil funds with sanctions, they won’t have money to pay the Revolutionary Guard, or to buy friends in Latin America Russia and China, or to sponsor Hezbollah, or to continue the nuclear program. That would solve the problem.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What’s next for the Iranian opposition movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The next step in a protest is March 16, which is the last Wednesday in the Persian calendar. I am optimistic. I’ve lived in Iran all my life and I’ve never seen this much courage from the Iranian people. This is their last chance for freedom and they don’t want to give it up.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Amir, thank you very much for joining us.</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>Thank you for the interview.</p>
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<p>I knew when I responded to an NPR request for a comment on the late, unlamented <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" target="_blank">Howard Zinn</a> that I was asking for trouble — from the anti-American, Marxoid, neo-Communist left.  But I did it anyway because Howard Zinn’s life was so <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" target="_blank">dedicated to evil and specifically to the support of mass murderers and self-declared enemies of his country</a>, that someone with a brain unfogged by leftwing claptrap had to do it. As it turned out, if I had not contributed my soundbite it would have been left to <a title="Noam Chomsky" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" target="_blank">depraved</a> <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=642" target="_blank">radicals</a> — in this case <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=642" target="_blank">Julian Bond</a> — to promote Zinn’s malevolent work to an NPR audience of millions. I was somewhat surprised that the leftists at NPR turned to me since I have been effectively erased as a public intellectual from their airwaves along with a legion of other non-progressives.</p>
<p>Only one of my books, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Son-Generational-David-Horowitz/dp/0684840057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265996107&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"><em>Radical Son</em></a>, has ever enjoyed five minutes of airtime attention on NPR. Oh — there is an exception. Before I voted for Ronald Reagan — or made the vote public — I was indeed a guest on “Fresh Air” to talk about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kennedys-American-Drama-Peter-Collier/dp/0671447939/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265996150&amp;sr=8-11" target="_blank"><em>The Kennedys</em></a>, which I co-authored with Peter Collier. Although it is a book show and I have written more than a dozen well-received books since, the show has studiously avoided recognizing my existence; that is, for 25 years.</p>
<p>So this 30-second appearance was a rarity and came as a surprise to me. But evidently one 30-second appearance is too much for the totalitarians of the progressive left who have predictably launched an organized harassment campaign against the reporter who interviewed me and her boss. The <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201002040038" target="_blank">smear crowds</a> at <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7150" target="_blank">Media Matters</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7092" target="_blank">FAIR</a> have been hard at work ginning up the Pavlovian attack dogs to make the lives of NPR employees as miserable as they can.  These witch-hunts by the way are intimidating and effective. We’ll see how soon before NPR asks my opinion again.</p>
<p>Among the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=1312" target="_blank">witch-hunters</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=1312" target="_blank">Eric Alterman</a>, as usual, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/alterman">provides the most amusement</a>, complaining that I was not “qualified” to make a comment on Zinn:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Horowitz, on the other hand, does not claim to have known Zinn personally, and shares neither his goals nor views. He has no specialized knowledge of Zinn whatsoever. The single qualification that David Horowitz possessed to be included in the piece on Zinn’s obituary was that he could be depended upon to be deeply critical of the deceased.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, I am eminently qualified to comment on Zinn, having written a portrait of him and his writings in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Alliance-Radical-Islam-American/dp/0895260263/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265996375&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank"><em>Unholy Alliance</em></a>, and having devoted hundreds of thousands of words to my area of expertise, which is the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Communist</a> and neo-Communist left. Alterman, on the other hand, is himself something of an impostor, having secured a sinecure as the “Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College.” If there was to be a single testimony to <a title="One-Party Classroom" href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Party-Classroom-Professors-Indoctrinate-Undermine/dp/0307452557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265997816&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">the debasement of the American university by tenured leftists</a> this could be a candidate, since Alterman has no discernible literary interest, let alone expertise, that would qualify him for such a position. (<a href="http://www.ericalterman.com/" target="_blank">Alterman’s degrees</a> are in government, history, and international relations.) In fact, since <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-existential-view-David-Horowitz/dp/B00005XVOO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265996488&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">I have written a book about Shakespeare</a> I am more prepared to teach English than he is. However, I lack the principal qualification for a post in the English Department at Brooklyn College, since I am not a brain-dead, anti-American leftist.</p>
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		<title>The Heretics: Lord Christopher Monckton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A global warming critic explains how Al Gore and his disciples are supporting mass starvation and silencing debate. 
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<p>Given the dogmatic fervor of global warming proponents, and their intolerance of skeptics who dare to question the latest commandment (see: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/10/how-to-stop-cap-and-trade-by-rich-trzupek/">cap-and-trade</a>) in the green scripture, it is perhaps no coincidence that the environmentalist movement sometimes seems to have more in common with theology than with science. If that is true, then the logical word to describe those scientists who have challenged environmental hysteria and extremism is “heretics.” In a series of profiles, <em>Front Page’s </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/author/rich-trzupek/">Rich Trzupek</a> will spotlight prominent scientists whose “heretical” research, publications, and opinions have helped add a much-needed dose of balance and fact to environmental debates that for too long have been driven by fear mongering and alarmism. In a field that demands political conformity, they defiantly remain the heretics. Previous profiles in the series include <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/05/the-heretics-steve-milloy-by-rich-trzupek/">Steve Milloy</a>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/06/the-heretics-dr-craig-idso-by-rich-trzupek/">Dr. Craig Idso</a>, and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/12/the-heretics-dr-roy-spencer-%e2%80%93-by-rich-trzupek/">Dr. Roy Spencer</a>. – <em>The Editors</em></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-47980" title="Monckton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Monckton.jpg" alt="Monckton" width="400" height="362" /></p>
<p>Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount of Brenchley, is a legend within the global warming skeptic community. The erudite Englishman was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when climate change theories were in their infancy. In recent years, he has been one of the most eloquent and vocal critics of Al Gore and those who echo Gore’s alarmist cries.</p>
<p>Thatcher is often identified as the western leader most responsible for promoting the theory of man-made climate change that would explode into full-blown hysteria soon after she left office. This, Monckton says, is a misleading characterization. He recalled raising the issue with Thatcher as a possible concern, since carbon dioxide is indeed a greenhouse gas, but after studying the issue with leading scientists, the Prime Minister and Monckton concluded that any potential warming would be insignificant compared to natural factors. Monckton re-entered the climate-change fray in 2006, writing two pieces in the Sunday <em>Telegraph </em>criticizing global warming alarmism. The articles caused an immediate stir.</p>
<p>“There were 127,000 hits at the Sunday <em>Telegraph</em> website within the first two hours of my article hitting the site,” Monckton recalled. “There was so much traffic that they actually crashed the site. It was the first time that had happened. I believe it’s still the only time that happened.”</p>
<p>In a world hungry for understandable, reasoned explanations of climate science, Monckton’s greatest gift is his skill as a communicator. Though he is not a climatologist, he is well versed in both the basics and the nuances of the issues surrounding climate change. Typical of his style is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkB5DuveDE">this video</a> of Monckton politely explaining the realities of global warming theory to a member of Greenpeace during the Copenhagen climate conference in December.</p>
<p>Monckton is one of the few to address one of the tragic, unintended consequences of the world wide rush to produce biofuels as means of combating global warming: mass starvation in some of the world’s poorest nations. Between 2002 and 2008, world food prices more than doubled, <a href="http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/FoodPricesIndex/en/">according to the Food and Agricultural Organization</a> of the United Nations. With the United States leading the way in turning cropland previously used to grow foodstuffs to support energy crops, world food supplies have dropped, both raising food costs and leading to an unprecedented number of food riots throughout the third world. Long before an earthquake ravaged Haiti, Monckton witnessed firsthand the turmoil that the world food crisis had caused in that impoverished nation.</p>
<p>Many Haitians, Monckton found, regularly consume mud pies – literally: dirt and water pies that are sometimes (but not always) sprinkled with a modicum of something that might be actually nutritional. “It’s quite extraordinary that this should happen in the 21<sup>st</sup> century,” he said. “This [global warming alarmism] is causing mass starvation, but nobody seems to care. They’re too busy worrying about every icicle purportedly melting in Greenland.”</p>
<p>The former newspaperman places a great deal of the blame on the media. He argues that the press has championed a theory formulated by a couple of dozen scientists, refusing to reconsider any evidence that may challenge it. “The press, having nailed their flag to the mast of this sinking ship, have no stomach to go through the not inconsiderable embarrassment of admitting that they were wrong,” he said.</p>
<p>While Monckton was pleased that industrialized nations did not sign onto a Copenhagen treaty he believes would have effectively created a world government, he was not as upbeat as many others were about the result. Pointing to the establishment of a high-level panel to address global warming and the establishment of a green fund to transfer money from the first world to the third, he sees Copenhagen as yet another step down a gradual, yet slippery, slope. “They know now that they can’t do it all in one go,” he explained. “They tried, but that didn’t work, so they’ll try to do it incremental, almost imperceptible, steps.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne-X_vFWMlw">One video from Copenhagen</a> shows Monckton shedding his customary genial air, as he takes young members of the group SustainUS sternly to task, calling them “Hitler youth” over and over again. Intrigued, I asked Monckton what about this seemingly harmless, naïve group of college-age kids so incensed him. The back story explained it all. At the time, Monckton was in the company of his Danish wife and three German citizens. All four were part of families that had suffered under Nazi rule and had been well-schooled in the tactics that the Nazi Party used to harass and intimidate their way to power. So, when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZw8yF5alkM">SustainUS invaded a meeting</a> of Americans For Prosperity that Monckton was attending, the sight of young people shouting slogans and attempting to stifle free speech shocked and frightened Lady Monckton and their guests.</p>
<p>“They said this is what the Hitler youth did,” Monckton recalled. “They came in and started shouting and pretty soon no one dared to ever have a meeting again. I was just horrified to see the distress on the faces of my wife and our German friends. Some of them were crying.”</p>
<p>But, despite all of the shouting and deal making, Lord Monckton believes that the global warming movement cannot sustain itself much longer. “They’ve cried wolf once too often,” he said. “The Australian Liberal party just sacked their leader for going along with this, and I think Republicans in America will be the next to go. So far Republicans have been fighting it based on the cost, but I think most now realize that they will have to kill it on the science. In very short order, the majority of the electorate is going to say: we don’t buy this rubbish.”</p>
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		<title>French report wants limits on Muslim face veil &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS – A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010. The nearly 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PARIS – A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010.</p>
<p>The nearly 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended to dissuade women from wearing all-enveloping veils in France. It also recommends refusing residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of a &#8220;radical religious practice.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, there is no call to outlaw such garments — worn by a tiny minority of Muslims — in private areas and in the street. A full ban was the major issue that divided the 32-member, multiparty panel which ultimately heeded warnings that a full ban risked being deemed unconstitutional and could even cause trouble in a country where Islam is the second-largest religion.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_forbidding_the_veil">French report wants limits on Muslim face veil &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Picture this hypothetical situation: A member of Al Qaeda boards a transatlantic flight bearing 269 passengers and crew headed for a major American city &#8211; let&#8217;s just say Detroit &#8211; with powdered explosives stitched into his undergarments. As the plane makes its final descent, the terrorist at this point in our narrative, that&#8217;s what he is, both legally and morally, fails to detonate his illegal carry-on baggage, but he does draw attention to himself by setting his crotch on fire. Thanks to the heroic actions of some passengers, the man is subdued and, when the plane lands, taken into custody by the FBI.There, he readily admits to his membership in the League of Extraordinarily Evil Men and taunts his captors with the news that, while he might have failed in murdering some 300 civilians, more such attacks are on the way. Told, however, that he has the right to remain silent and is under no compunction to divulge any information that might incriminate him in a court of law, this wanna-be mass murder quickly secures the services of a top-notch lawyer from a white shoe firm and, under the advice of his attorney, clams up.This scenario, of course, is far from hypothetical, the stuff of college philosophy classrooms and speculative magazine articles. It is, rather, a fairly accurate description of the events that have transpired since last week, when the Nigerian-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was subdued in his attempt to bring down a Delta flight headed for the Motor City. While the Al Qaeda-linked 23-year-old gave his interrogators a grim preview of what may soon come from the hive of Islamist terrorism that is the state of Yemen, he has, according to federal officials who spoke with the Washington Post, &#8220;restricted his cooperation since securing a defense attorney.&#8221;We are thus presented with a version of the proverbial &#8220;ticking time bomb&#8221; scenario. Sure, the threat may not be as immediate as those regularly defused by Jack Bauer on &#8220;24.&#8221; The impending attacks may still be in the early planning stages, weeks or even months from execution. But now we have a real, live Al Qaeda operative &#8211; fresh from a foiled terrorist plot hatched in a country fast becoming the center point in the war on terror &#8211; in our hands.Surely we ought to be using the tools at our disposal to find out the who, what, where, when and how of the next potential mass casualty attack.Would it be inappropriate or immoral to pour water over the face and into the nose and mouth of Abdulmutallab, thus generating a drowning sensation but not actually drowning him to obtain this information? What about putting him in a small box with a caterpillar, a technique approved in a 2002 Justice Department memo for use against Al Qaeda mastermind Abu Zubaydah, who harbored a known fear of insects? Do you think slapping him across the face a few times &#8211; hard &#8211; is acceptable, if it might mean saving the lives of hundreds?</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/01/03/2010-01-03_why_shouldnt_we_waterboard_abdulmutallab_the_ticking_time_bomb_scenario_is_here.html">Why shouldn&#8217;t we waterboard Abdulmutallab? The ticking time bomb scenario is here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Auto-Genocide, Jewish Style &#8211; by Kenneth Levin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the Jewish collaborators in the Islamic war against the Jews.]]></description>
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<p>Demonization not only of Israel&#8217;s Jews but of all Jews, and calls for their mass murder, are a staple of media, mosques and schools throughout most of the Arab world and in some non-Arab Muslim countries such as <span id="lw_1261624590_3">Iran</span>. Jews are portrayed as vermin or as satanic beings, the source of all human ills, ritual murderers of Muslim and Christian children, evil-doers fit only for extermination.</p>
<p>Yet, as in virtually every past situation when incitement against Jews and attacks on them have intensified, some Jews have rushed to volubly defend the Jews&#8217; attackers. They have become supporters and cheerleaders even for those most committed to translating their Jew-hatred into action.</p>
<p><span id="lw_1261624590_4">Hamas</span>&#8216;s charter quotes a <span id="lw_1261624590_5">Hadith</span> in which Allah declares that the Day of Judgement will not come until the Jews are all killed and even the stones and trees will help in murdering them. The charter adds that Hamas &#8220;aspires to the realization of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take.&#8221; Hamas has, of course, perpetrated innumerable terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings and rocket and mortar barrages, and Hamas children’s television instructs its young audience to kill Jews.</p>
<p>Yet Jewish member of Britain’s Parliament <span id="lw_1261624590_6">Gerald Kaufman</span> has affectionately compared Hamas to Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto. American Sara Roy, a &#8220;researcher&#8221; at Harvard&#8217;s Center for <span id="lw_1261624590_8">Middle East Studies</span> and a perennial figure on the Israel-bashing lecture circuit, has waxed rhapsodic about the supposed &#8220;evolution in [Hamas's] political thinking&#8230; [and] its position on a <span id="lw_1261624590_9">two-state solution</span>&#8221; and defends the organization&#8217;s administration of Gaza. This as Hamas seeks to impose Sharia law across Gaza and repeatedly proclaims its unswerving commitment to its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda.</p>
<p>Hezbollah head <span id="lw_1261624590_11">Hassan Nasrallah</span> has declared that &#8220;If [the Jews] all gather in <span id="lw_1261624590_12">Israel</span>, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide,&#8221; and Hezbollah has in fact gone after them worldwide, as in its 1994 bombing of the <span id="lw_1261624590_13">Jewish Community Center</span> in Buenos Aires that claimed 87 lives. But none of this has constrained <span id="lw_1261624590_14">Noam Chomsky</span> from visiting with Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders, praising the organization and advocating its arming. Norman Finkelstein has likewise met with Hezbollah leaders and offered encomiums to the group. Emoted  Finkelstein at one point, &#8220;I say this without fear: for those who believe in freedom and dignity, we are all Hezbollah now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran&#8217;s Achmadinejad has, of course, repeatedly asserted there was no Holocaust while promising to visit a future Holocaust on Israel. He has virulently attacked &#8220;the Jews&#8221; and ratcheted up Iran&#8217;s support in money, weapons and training to Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet Achmadinejad&#8217;s Iran, too, has its Jewish supporters, who cast the Iranian theocracy as Israel&#8217;s victim. This is not limited to the usual culprits such as Chomsky. For example, the voice of the blog &#8220;Tikun Olam&#8221; (which has now widely come to mean somehow healing the world by attacking and seeking to undermine the Jewish state), one Richard Silverstein, declared, regarding Iran&#8217;s nuclear threat, &#8220;Of course, the Iranians do not have an ICBM to carry such a warhead. Nor do they have a nuclear weapon. But these are mere technicalities when it comes to frightening the world into adopting the Israeli government’s priorities and interests.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noteworthy is that many of those who embrace today&#8217;s would-be exterminators of the Jews make a point of advertising that they are themselves children of Holocaust survivors. Examples are Finkelstein and Sara Roy. In their twisted thinking, they trumpet their parents&#8217; history as though it somehow confers on them a special right to back forces that aspire to another Holocaust.</p>
<p>A variation on outright Jewish support for purveyors of genocidal Jew-hatred is the spectacle of Jews who downplay the threat and indict those taking it seriously. The latter are ridiculed as paranoiacs mentally scarred by past assaults on the Jews and simply projecting that past onto a relatively benign present. The leader of the new American <span id="lw_1261624590_18">Jewish lobby</span> &#8220;J Street&#8221; (which has opposed stronger <span id="lw_1261624590_19">sanctions against Iran</span>), Jeremy Ben-Ami, characterized as irrational anyone who would construe the threat presented by Hamas or Hezbullah or Iran as so great as to justify a military response. Ben-Ami went on to observe, in a <em>New York Times </em>interview, &#8220;&#8230; there&#8217;s their grandmother&#8217;s voice in their ear; it&#8217;s the emotional side and the communal history&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Some Israelis promote the same line. <span id="lw_1261624590_20">Hebrew University</span> political scientist Yaron Ezrahi has virtually made a career of purveying this comprehension of reality. Ezrahi has suggested that the perception of existential threats reflects in large part less actual dangers than a warped world view embraced by some Jews and &#8220;founded on a long memory of persecution, genocide, and a bitter struggle for survival&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Many more Jews could be mentioned who support those openly calling for the Jews&#8217; annihilation, and still more who downplay the threat and caricature concerned voices. Hardly less unsavory are the myriad Jews who attack Israel&#8217;s policies as the source of all the nation&#8217;s difficulties, insist that &#8220;peace&#8221; can be had if only Israel would reform itself and make sufficient concessions, militantly advocate such a course and say nothing of the genocidal agenda of the nation&#8217;s enemies or of their aggressive indoctrinating of additional cadres dedicated to enacting that agenda.</p>
<p>M.J. Rosenberg, erstwhile director of Israel Policy Forum&#8217;s Washington Policy Center, has written multiple articles on, for example, Israel and Hamas. He has invariably used them to excoriate Israel and complain about the Jewish state and the U.S. not being more forthcoming to the Palestinian Jihadists &#8211; as in &#8220;The U.S. should be extending carrots to Hamas&#8221; &#8211; and has never addressed Hamas&#8217;s explicit and continually reasserted commitment to the extermination of Israel and the Jews. He has acknowledged Hamas&#8217;s involvement in terror and its opposition to Israel&#8217;s existence but has uniformly done so in the context of criticizing Israeli policies.</p>
<p>Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian mullahs and others of Israel&#8217;s enemies have not hidden their objective. As has been the case whenever Jews have been under threat, there is no shortage of those from the community who side with the aggressors, or dismiss the threat and demean anyone taking it seriously, or rationalize the threat, cast fellow Jews as instigating it and demand their reform. All, shamefully, lend succor and cover to the would-be annihilators.</p>
<p><strong>Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of <em>The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>To see Frontpage’s series on Jewish Collaborators, <a href="../2009/12/04/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-richard-a-falk-by-steven-plaut/">click here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><strong>To get the whole story on the psychology of Jews who aid and abet those who wish to annihilate them, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ America’s master of the Orwellian inversion.]]></description>
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<p>It is a bit of a shame that <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0219/m/3a.jpg">Richard A. Falk</a>, professor emeritus of International Law and Practice from Princeton, cannot go back in time in some sort of time machine to right historic wrongs.  If he could, there is no doubt at all that he would revise and re-orchestrate the Nuremberg Trials conducted by the Allies after World War II so that the leaders of the United   States and Britain were the ones indicted instead.  After all, from 1945 onwards the Allies were guilty of “occupation.” Earlier, they had even dared to use military force against German terrorism, had caused German civilian deaths in their earlier military incursions and air bombing campaigns, and then illegally colonized German territories.  If it were up to Falk, the Nuremberg trials would have been devoted to prosecuting the Jews of Europe for causing so much trouble for those poor innocent Germans.</p>
<p>Falk is not only one of the worst collaborators in the academic wars against the Jews, he is also America’s leading practitioner of the Orwellian inversion.  For Falk, America is a<a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/richard_falk"> fascist monstrosity</a>, while the world’s fascist and totalitarian monstrosities are democratic enclaves of freedom.  For him, Israel is a terrorist aggressor, while the Arab terrorist aggressors are innocent victims and peace-loving progressives.  For him, Israel is a Nazi-like country seeking genocide, while the genocidal Islamofascists of the Hamas and their backers are merely protesters against social inequality inside Israel.  For him, terrorist aggression against Jews is really the pursuit of peace, while self-defense by Israel is criminal, terrorist aggression and genocide.</p>
<p>So who exactly is Richard Falk?  He is basically an Ivy League version of Ward Churchill.  He has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falk">described himself</a> as an &#8220;assimilationist Jewish with a virtual denial of even the ethnic side of Jewishness.&#8221;   <a href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/richard-falk-conspiracy-theorist">According to Martin Peretz</a> of the New Republic, “Yes, let me assure you, this hater of Israel is a Jew.  And, also yes, this hater of America is an American. “   Falk’s only interest in his Jewish origins is when he can use them as a bludgeon against Israel and other Jews.  According to one report, Falk <a href="http://blog.unwatch.org/?p=375">may have converted</a> to the Baha’i religion.  Falk’s <a href="http://un-truth.com/israel/richard-goldstone-due-in-region-this-weekend-to-begin-hearings-on-gaza-war">wife is a</a> Turkish Moslem.</p>
<p>And just what is Falk’s agenda?   <a href="../2009/10/28/friends-of-terror-by-mark-d-tooley">When addressing an audience</a> of supporters of the anti-Israel organization “Sabeel,” Falk thus spoke:  “During a question and answer period after remarks by Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, an audience member urged people to ‘vote the Jewish state out of existence.’  Enthusiastic applause erupted up and down the pews.”   For Falk, it goes without saying that Israel must be annihilated.  He <a href="../2009/10/28/friends-of-terror-by-mark-d-tooley">cannot imagine any form</a> of Middle East “peace” in which the Jews have <em>not</em> been driven into the sea.  In his words, “If we are to re-imagine peace, we have to stop thinking of the conventional two-state solution, this idea of two people living in separate states would be a disaster.”</p>
<p>But there is so much more! <a href="http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/5056-911-more-than-meets-the-eye"> Falk is a conspiracy nut who is involved</a> up to his hairline in <a href="http://www.nysun.com/foreign/un-official-calls-for-study-of-neocons-role/74465">the “911 Truth” conspiracy cult</a>, which claims that the Bush Administration was actually behind the 911 attacks on the US.  Falk has repeated over and over his “suspicion” that high American officials, conniving with nefarious Jewish neo-conservatives, were the real culprits who organized the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon.   <a href="http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/meet/2004/Falk_GriffinForeword.html">Falk wrote a sycophantic foreword</a> for a conspiracy “book” by one David Ray Griffin, &#8220;The New Pearl Harbor.&#8221;   Falk championed that “book” <a href="http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060616221050157">and helped get it a publisher</a>.   <a href="http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/the-truth-about-richard-falk-gaza-and-911">Here is Falk’s</a> take on 911:</p>
<blockquote><p>“As far as I can tell, the real explanation is a widely shared fear of what sinister forces might lay beneath the unturned stones of a full and honest investigation of 9/11. Ever since the assassinations in the 1960s of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X there has been waged a powerful campaign against ‘conspiracy theory’ that has made anyone who dares question the official story to be branded as a kook or some kind of unhinged troublemaker.  In this climate of opinion, any political candidate for high office who dared raise doubts about the official version of 9/11 would immediately be branded as unfit, and would lose all political credibility.  It is impossible to compete in any public arena in the United States if a person comes across as a ‘9/11 doubter.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>Writing a in the <em>Middle East Quarterly</em> (Winter 2002), &#8220;Professors of Palestine,&#8221; Martin Kramer observed that &#8220;extracting&#8230;<em>ex cathedra </em>rulings from Falk is easy business.&#8221;   <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/412">Kramer added</a>:  “I hadn&#8217;t seen Falk&#8217;s authority invoked so reverentially since my own student days at Princeton. Back then, he was the leading campus enthusiast of the Ayatollah Khomeini. ‘The depiction of Khomeini as fanatical, reactionary, and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false,’ he wrote in 1979. ‘Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane government for a third-world country.’ I well recall watching him preside over a ‘teach-in’ in support of the revolution, which was going to end human rights abuses in Iran. And I recall student groupies applauding fanatically, as if in a trance.”</p>
<p>Falk’s publication record is a one-sided indictment of everything Western and a one-sided exoneration of everything anti-Western.  He was an <a href="../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/XI0VDGQ4/New%20York%20Times%20on%20February%2016,%201979,%20and%20it%20was%20titled%20%22Trusting%20Khomeini.%22">early sycophant of</a> the Ayatollah Khomeini, publishing in the <em>New York Times</em> on February 16, 1979 a piece titles &#8220;Trusting Khomeini.&#8221;  <a href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/tensions-iran">The New Republic claims</a> Falk considered the Ayatollah to be the Messiah.  Falk <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/good-fight">also was a cheerleader</a> for the Khmer Rouge.  He regularly writes for viciously anti-American and anti-Semitic web sites such as “Counterpunch” and “Znet.”</p>
<p>Kramer adds, &#8220;Falk is famous for his one-size-fits-all definition of war crimes and crimes against humanity.&#8221;  So, &#8220;in 1998&#8230;he warned officials responsible for implementing the United Nations sanctions against Iraq of their &#8216;criminal accountability for complicity in the commission of crimes against humanity.&#8217; The persistence of American leaders in carrying out the sanctions regime ‘subjects them to potential criminal responsibility.’&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, Falk also sees conspiracies being perpetrated by Neo-conservatives (meaning Jews) against far-leftist academics.  <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4161">He opines:</a> &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that there&#8217;s a concerted right-wing attempt to intimidate professors who advocate critical views, especially on Middle East issues and on the Bush presidency.&#8221;   To drive home his point, he <a href="http://www.wardchurchill.net/a7_RichardFalk.pdf">served as a cheerleader</a> and apologist for Ward Churchill when the latter dismissed the American victims of 9-11 as “little Eichmanns.”</p>
<p>Falk has been ferociously opposed to the Allied liberation of Iraq.  He described the invasion as a “war of aggression” by the United States and its allies, and – naturally &#8211;  also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falk">compares<em> it</em></a> to the crimes of German Nazis in World War II.  Orwellian inversions involving Nazis are Falk’s favorite metaphor, and he seems to compose several before breakfast each day.  Elsewhere he has stated, “It is not an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with the criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity.&#8221;   He compared Attorney General like John Ashcroft to the Nazi conspirators who set the Reichstag on fire.</p>
<p>Falk<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2200"> dismisses</a> the Domestic Security Enhancement Act and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=101&amp;type=issue">Patriot Act</a> as &#8220;sweeping powers&#8221; that represent a &#8220;slide toward fascism.&#8221;  He routinely denounces America for being an imperialist power, an empire.  In 2003 he published a diatribe, &#8220;Will the Empire be Fascist?&#8221;   There he insists that terror warnings and threat assessments are tools used by the American government to frighten and control the public.  He has demanded that American sovereignty be constricted and subjected to a &#8220;Global Peoples&#8217; Assembly,&#8221; a governing body whose members would &#8220;represent the worldwide voice of the people in action and decision making.&#8221;  You know, people like Hugo Chavez and Muammar Khaddafi, who would decide there what America can and cannot do.</p>
<p>But Falk’s special animosity is reserved for Israel.  He has been trying for decades to get Israel obliterated.  And that track record qualified him to serve as the special investigator into “Israeli war crimes” on behalf of the United Nations!   In 2007 Falk published, &#8220;<a href="http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html">Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust</a>,&#8221; in which he wrote that it was not an &#8220;irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians (by Israel)&#8221; with the &#8220;criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity.&#8221;  His title is a thin plagiarism of the title of a book by Robert Bork, “<a href="http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/180-8895717-5469257?asin=B002JE1UQ8&amp;afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&amp;CPNG=bookmarked&amp;lnm=B002JE1UQ8%7CSlouching-Gomorrah-Liberalism-American-Paperback_:_Books&amp;ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060">Slouching Towards Gemorrah</a>.”  The article may be Falk’s most openly anti-Semite diatribe.  In it, he accuses Israel of mistreating Palestinians on a scale comparable to the Nazi extermination of Jews.  He writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty. The suggestion that this pattern of conduct is a holocaust-in-the-making represents a rather desperate appeal to the governments of the world and to international public opinion to act urgently to prevent these current genocidal tendencies from culminating in a collective tragedy. If ever the ethos of ‘a responsibility to protect,’ recently adopted by the UN Security Council  as the basis of ‘humanitarian intervention’ is applicable, it would be to act now to start protecting the people of Gaza from further pain and suffering.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Falk then went on to argue that the plight of the Palestinians is worse than the victims of genocide in Rwanda:  “But Gaza is morally far worse (than Rwanda), although mass death has not yet resulted.”  That single sentence may be the most telling of all the inanities Falk has ever invented.</p>
<p>Jonathan Kay, <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/04/10/jonathan-kay-on-the-bigtory-of-richard-falk-the-un-s-new-anti-israel-hit-man.aspx">writing in the Canadian National Post</a>, dismissed Falk as an anti-Jewish bigot and as “an anti-Israel hit man:”</p>
<p>“Falk accuses Israel of having ‘genocidal tendencies,’ and calls the international response to the situation in Gaza &#8220;morally far worse&#8221; than its response to the 1994 Rwanda genocide (death toll: 800,000) and Srebrenica — <em>despite the fact that there is not a single recorded instance of Israel implementing a program of deliberately killing civilians in Gaza, let alone mass murder</em>.”</p>
<p>The article concludes by declaring, &#8220;To persist with [Israeli policies] is indeed genocidal, and risks destroying an entire Palestinian community that is an integral part of an ethnic whole.  It is this prospect that makes appropriate the warning of a Palestinian holocaust in the making, and should remind the world of the famous post-Nazi pledge of ‘never again.&#8217;   What a scandal to imagine that this ignorant ideologue is the expert in whom the UNHRC has entrusted its fact-finding in Gaza and the West Bank.  In fact, notwithstanding his shrill opinions, Falk clearly doesn&#8217;t actually <em>know</em> anything about Gaza and West Bank.”   No, Falk is not beneath commandeering every iota of Jewish suffering in history to demonize Israel, even the “Never Again” slogan coined following the Holocaust in World War II.</p>
<p>There is almost no distortion of the truth that Falk will not embrace when he jihads against Israel.  He <a href="http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html">defends the “election” of the Hamas</a> in Gaza as a “fair election.”  His evidence?   Jimmy Carter said so.  He deliberately inverts history in the worst Orwellian manner.  The Hamas has been seeking ceasefires with Israel, but Israel keeps violating them, according to the learned oprofessor.  Israel and the US <a href="http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html">are all to blame for the rise of Hamas</a> hegemony in Gaza, opines Falk, because Israel failed to capitulate sufficiently to the heads of the PLO and the US failed to coerce Israel to do so: “This latest turn in policy needs to be understood in the wider context of the Israeli refusal to reach a reasonable compromise with the Palestinian people since 1967.”  The reasonable compromise the Palestinians demand of course is Israel’s complete extermination.</p>
<p>In 2001, when he retired from Princeton, the misnamed U.N. Commission on Human Rights decided to send a biased “commission of inquiry” to bash Israel over its supposed violation of human rights.  Falk was <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0219/3a.shtml">one of three</a> members chosen.  The other two were also anti-Israel:  John Dugard, a South African from Leiden University in the Netherlands who considers Israel a racist apartheid-like regime, and Kamal Hussein, former Bangladeshi foreign minister.  Alan Dershowitz <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/israel-bans-a-un-rapporte_b_152158.html">dismissed Falk as a bigot</a> and as someone who made up his mind long before he began any “investigation.”   In Dershowitz’ view, appointing Falk is comparable to the following: “Imagine the UN appointing David Duke to report on how Blacks are victimizing Whites, or Hugo Chavez to report on American foreign policy, or Mohammad Ahmadinejad to investigate whether the Holocaust occurred.”</p>
<p>In  2008 the <a title="United Nations Human Rights Council" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> (UNHRC) officially appointed Falk to a six-year term as a “<a title="United Nations Special Rapporteur" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur">United Nations Special Rapporteur</a>” on &#8220;the situation of human rights in the <a title="Palestinian Territories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Territories">Palestinian territories</a> occupied since 1967.&#8221;  I guess Noam Chomsky wasn’t available.  US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton explained why Falk was selected: &#8220;He was picked for a reason, and the reason is not to have an objective assessment — the objective is to find more ammunition to go after Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>This new commission reached its conclusions long before it was even convened.  <a href="../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/XI0VDGQ4/%22The%20central%20issue%20is%20to%20ask%20whether%20Israel%20has%20used%20excessive%20force%20in%20responding%20to%20the%20Palestinian%20political%20demonstrations,%22%20said%20Falk.">In Falk’s words</a>, the purpose of the commission was this: &#8220;The central issue is to ask whether Israel has used excessive force in responding to the Palestinian political demonstrations.&#8221;   Note that he and his sidekicks had no interest in the countless terrorist atrocities and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians launched by Palestinians.  In fact, Falk essentially came out in favor of Palestinian terrorism even before the commission began its work: &#8220;One is evaluating whether the conditions of occupation are such as to give the Palestinians some kind of right of resistance.  And if they have that right, then what are the limits to that right?&#8221;   The only difference between terrorism and “resistance” depends entirely on whether on not Falk endorses it.  Falk used the same opportunity to denounce Israel as a colonialist entity.</p>
<p>In May, 2008, and recalling his early campaigns against Israel on behalf of the UN, Israel refused to allow Falk to enter the country at all as a UN representative.   He <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;cid=1228728204503">tried to enter again</a> in December, was detained for 30 hours in Tel Aviv airport and then given the bum’s rush out.  Falk joined the tiny club of anti-Semites so extreme that Israel refuses to allow them to enter the country.  Of “academics” barred from entering Israel, Falk shares that honor only with Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein, who was evicted from Israel thanks to Finkelstein’s intimate ties to the Hezb’Allah terrorists.  (Even Noam Chomsky and numerous other blatant anti-Semites enter Israel all the time with no problem, and <a href="../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/3NE07EQU/isracampus.org.il">many lecture at Israeli universities</a>.  Israel only evicts the worst collaborators with terrorism!)</p>
<p>When Falk was evicted, the Israeli Ministry of the Interior explicitly cited Falk’s long record of anti-Israel hate propaganda in its decision to ban his entry.  Simona Halperin, the director of Israel’s International Organization and Human Rights department, called Falk &#8220;completely unobjective,&#8221; citing his comparisons of Israelis to Nazis and of Israel&#8217;s actions against the Palestinians to the Holocaust.  Writing in the Israeli daily Maariv, Uri Yablonka commented on the expulsion of Falk:  “It is not every day that the Foreign Ministry decides to ban a senior United Nations emissary from entering Israel, especially when the person involved is a Jewish academic. But in the case of Prof. Richard Falk from the United States, Israel made an exception. This was because in the past <em>Falk voiced support for suicide attacks</em> and compared Israel’s activity with that of the Nazis.”  The editor of Maariv dismissed Falk as a repulsive maniac.</p>
<p>When Israel launched its anti-terror campaign in Gaza in 2008, “Cast Lead,” Falk repeatedly and mechanically <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/F1EC67EF7A498A30C125752D005D17F7">denounced all Israeli defense operations</a> as “war crimes.”   Evidently the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6592">only form of Jewish self-defense against Hamas rockets that Falk</a> is willing to approve is total capitulation.   Even grabbing ships full of arms bound for Islamofascist <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097608.html">terrorists is “criminal,” according to Falk</a>, and an abuse of Palestinian rights.   He <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6186137.html">repeatedly called for Nuremberg</a>-style indictments of Israeli leaders for “war crimes.”  Falk is <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6801">not above outright falsification</a> when it comes to his prettifying the Hamas or demonizing Israel.</p>
<p>As for Falk’s <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30640">other political associations</a>, Kathy Shaidle lists some of these: “Falk is a prominent member of the<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2200"> International Association of Democratic Lawyers</a>, which the CIA once characterized as ‘one of the most useful Communist front organizations at the service of the Soviet Communist Party.’ Today Falk chairs the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6722">Nuclear Age Peace Foundation</a>, whose recommended strategy for combating terrorism is to increase U.S. aid to those countries that act as a breeding ground for terrorists.”  The New Republic’s <a href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/jane-fonda-mary-robinson-jimmy-carter-desmond-tuto-theyre-all-back-and-they-are-all-m">Martin Peretz insists</a> that he “finds human rights abuses Right and Left but on second thought only Right.”</p>
<p>Kathie Shaidle <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30640">sums Falk up</a> thus: “Were Falk simply an obscure crank, his views about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 could be written off as the rantings of a sadly delusional individual.  However, Falk’s enthusiasm for conspiracy theories casts grave doubts about the levels of objectivity and competence he will bring to his new ‘investigative’ position at the United Nations.  Unlike the scientific method or other rational methods of deduction, conspiracy theories work backwards from frequently tenuous ‘evidence,’ in order to ‘prove’ the conspiracist’s pre-determined theories.  Richard Falk publicly has sided with radical Islam over America and Israel for three decades, with little consideration for facts and evidence.  Given that, and his gullible support for bizarre 9/11 ‘revelations,’ critics have good reason to suspect that, as a UN ‘investigator,’ Falk will leave a great deal to be desired.”</p>
<p>As the Hamas’ point man serving the UN commission, Falk did indeed deliver the goods, as expected.</p>
<p><strong>Articles in Frontpage’s Collaborators series:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/18/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-sara-roy/">Sarah Roy</a><br />
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<p><strong><a href="../2009/10/21/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-howard-zinn/">Howard Zinn</a><br />
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<p><strong><a href="../2009/11/18/2009/10/16/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-joel-beinin-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Joel Beinin</a><br />
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<p><strong><a href="../2009/11/18/2009/10/14/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-mark-levine-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Mark LeVine</a><br />
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<p><strong><a href="../2009/11/18/2009/10/13/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-neve-gordon-by-john-perazzo/">Neve Gordon</a><br />
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<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36406">Norman Finkelstein</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36238">Tony Judt</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36178">Michael Lerner</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36028"><strong>Marc H. Ellis</strong></a></strong></p>
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