Friday, September 15, 2006
The Muslim American Society is touting the visit of a real gem of a guest, Ambassador Afif Safieh of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Maybe someone has papers to serve him. I remember when members of terror organizations had to wear masks and hide in basements. Ah for the good old days.
Via the MAS email list:
Come hear Ambassador AFIF SAFIEH , the Ambassador of the PLO to the USA , who is visiting Boston !
When: Wednesday, September 27 , 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Cathedral Church of St. Paul-Episcopal , 138 Tremont Street (across from Park Street Station and the Boston Common in downtown Boston )
Theme: "Palestine/Israel: Peace Process from Breakthrough to Breakdown - What Next?
"Afif Safieh is considered the most articulate Palestinian diplomat in Europe and the world. The most experienced speakers the foreign ministry can muster have been sent to face off against him in international conferences and on BBC talk shows, and have run into difficulty opposite the Jerusalem-born Palestinian with the rich vocabulary and smooth delivery." - Akiva Eldar in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, July 22, 2002
Sponsored by : American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Massachusetts , American Diaspora Alliance for Israeli Palestinian Peace, American Friends Service Committee - New England Regional Office, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Boston to Palestine [local International Solidarity Movement chapter], Friends of Sabeel - New England, Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston .
For more information, contact: hilary_rantisi@ksg.harvard.edu [yes, that's a Kennedy School address]
Ambassador AFIF SAFIEH will also be the honored guest and speaker at a Ramadan Iftar (dinner to break the fast on-going during the holy month of Ramadan)
When: Thursday, September 28 , 6:30 PM
Where: The Irish American Club [!], 177 West St. , Malden , MA
Tickets: Adults $20, Children $10
Sponsored by : Palestinian American Congress - Massachusetts and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Massachusetts
For more information and to purchase tickets, contact...
Update: Judith Weiss wrote two posts on Afif Safieh some months ago: Working on mysteries without any clues and Meet the new PLO diplomat. From the first of those two:
When Stone later challenged him on that, Safieh —who assumed his post on Nov. 1 — said he saw no difference between Palestinian suicide bombers and Israelis, all of whom must serve in the military. “I found that truly horrifying,” Stone told The Jewish Week. “If this is the way he feels — that a soldier in the line of duty is the same as a guy who blows up in a nightclub — he is not the one we want to sit down to have lunch with...
But just fine for Iftar dinner with the Muslim American Society...
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Hey Sol, googled the name on that e-mail and it led me to one of your old posts:
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/006050.shtml
The Kennedy School's sponsorship of Khatami's speech on Tolerance (!) is a lot more understandable with this little bit of context. They actually are on the other side.