Sunday, October 1, 2006
Reports are coming in on the tour of PLO Ambassador Afif Safieh (see previous: MAS Watch: Welcoming the PLO to Boston and MAS Watch: More PLO Ambassador...and even more besides). This is surreal: PLO liaison says key to peace is in fixing Palestinians' plight
...``We Palestinians are the key for America's lovability around the world," he told leaders of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom -- Hebrew for Covenant of Justice and Peace -- a pro-Israel group that favors creation of a Palestinian state on territory Israel occupied in the Six-Day War of 1967...
You know that's funny, even Ariel Sharon agreed to a Palestinian State on "occupied" land, so what's the hold up? Could it be the PLO itself?
``For an American administration to have a truly open attitude toward us, it must have an American Jewish fig leaf -- respectable, if not representative, Jewish-American voices who say this is kosher," he told the Brit Tzedek group over bagels and coffee in the home of one of its members. ``I am happy there is an alternative Jewish voice that is not AIPAC" -- a reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful lobbying group that usually supports Israeli government positions...
Definitely NOT representative.
``Hezbollah compared with Israel is an amateur in terrorism," Safieh said in an interview. ``The way Israel responded in the Lebanese conflagration was horrible." He also said that no one who fails to condemn Israeli bombings that kill Palestinian civilians is morally qualified to condemn suicide attacks.
I wonder what people who invite this guy into their homes are qualified for.
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The Brit Zedek people nauseated me to no end back at School. They're so clueless.
They remind me of this group here in NYC.
Aha! The Lesbians! I was wondering about them. Their events have been very vague about who they are. Very curious as to who's behind them. Thanks for that link. They look even worse than BTvS.
the link in "this group here in NYC" doesn't work.
Fixed it (said a htef instead of a href)
Even more disturbing, I know several rabbis of congregations who promote BTvS. (I think the majority of the congregants don't buy into it though....)