Hat tip to Campus Watch
If you are beginning to suspect that our universities have been taken over by anti-Israel/anti-American radicals from the Middle East, so am I. Rima Greene and Cinnamon Stillwell attended a recent appearance by professor As'ad AbuKahlil at one of those notororious "teach-ins", this one at U Beserkeley, and wrote this report on Campus Watch.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11925
It gets worse. Here is his Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As'ad_AbuKhalil
Here is my xenophobic reaction: This guy, who came here from Lebanon, not only hates Israel, but apparently, doesn't have much regard for America either. If that is the case, then why does he not go back to Lebanon, from where he came? We don't need him here. If you are so angry, pal, go home and be happy in that hellhole where everybody hates each other. We are getting sick and tired of guys like you who come here and piss all over us. This country happens to be a friend of Israel, which will be re-established as soon as we vote Obama out of office. If you don't like that, get out!
Other than that, he seems like a swell egg.
This is kind of funny if it were sad. He experienced the problems in Lebanon and supports a one state solution for Israel/Palestine. It takes a special kind of dumb to take that position.
ReplyDelete"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English and France to the French."
ReplyDelete- Mahatma Gandhi
Can't get any simpler or clearer than that Gary Fouse.
Nelly,
ReplyDeleteIt's not even clear that England belongs to the English or France belongs to the French anymore.
It's also noted that those Arabs were not even calling themselves Palestinians until after Gandhi was dead.
It is not so simple and clear Nelly LNU.
Nelly, have you read the entire piece by Ghandi that you took that selective quote? Have you read
ReplyDelete1. That was his opinion in 1938. Things change. The world now recognizes that Israel exists as a homeland for the Jewish people.
2. He also recommended that Jews in Germany use nonviolent resistance against Nazi persecution in Germany. He believed that if Jews willingly offered their lives that the German people would have a moral reformation.
So his quote was from a different era before Israel existed and his opinions on how Jews should live has not shown to be in the best interest of Jews to follow.
He was offering advice to the Jews without any recognition of their real situation.
Not this again. Really, are you using a quote from from Ghandi from the 1930s to try to try to delegimatize Israel's existence today?
ReplyDeleteIsrael is the homeland to the Jews in the same sense that England is the homeland for the English and France is the homeland for the French.
It is time to get past trying to fight against the existence of Israel. Israel exists. Your time would be better spent trying to work towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict, which is IMO the two state solution.
A Palestinian state should be created along the 1967 cease fire lines with swaps that should serve as the homeland for the Palestinians. The refugees should return to the Palestinian homeland. East Jersusalem should serve as the capital of the newly created Palestinian state.
@ Nelly,
ReplyDeleteGet the facts right. Palestinians are a pseudo people who have only one thing in mind, and that is to cast Isreali Jews into the Med and sign "From the Jordan to the Sea, Palestine will be free." I stand with Newt and I hope he wins.
As far as As'ad AbuKahlil, he needs to go back were he came from.
Squid
Maybe the Germans should start a movement to reclaim Koenigsberg (Kalinengrad). How does that old german song go, "From the Oder to the Neisse" or something like that?
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