Posted on 10/16/2001 10:59:43 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization. (...) In its research, the institute emphasizes the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel
Independent, non-partisan, non-profit and ZIONIST?
MEMRI is a small, nonprofit organization with offices in Jerusalem and Washington, dedicated to monitoring the Arabic-language media in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and translating important dispatches into English.Yigal Carmon, a retired top Israeli army counterintelligence officer and fluent Arabic speaker, heads the Jerusalem bureau. He says it's important for Americans to know what is being reported and discussed among the Arabs in their own media.
"There is a huge difference between the words and images conveyed by the Arabs to the West and what they say to their own people," says Carmon, 54, speaking by phone from Jerusalem. "When you get only what they say to Westerners, it's simply not the whole truth."
"Yigal Carmon was formerly Adviser on Counterterrorism to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin."
Carmon is associated with Emerson (the terrorism "expert" that the US always parades):
We have people who we KNOW were actively supporting terrorists organizations, who, in the name of their religion, were gathering money for them and sending it off shore. Traveling around the country making speeches for years to a growing illegal population (and a "legal" one) in this country. Like that professor (yes, that's right a professor in one of our colleges) down in Florida.
The governments response is to pass more legislation that can be used against all of us and claim that it's "tough" to penetrate the veil of religion these people are using to hide their activities.
While I believe we cannot persecute a religion or people peacefully pursuing their religion, in the wake of 911, for many of these people the veil has been revealed to be nothing more than a smoke screen. In fact, before 911, there is evidence that our own authorities knew it but were immobilized because of an understood timidness.
Well, after 911 it is crystal clear that ANYONE actively involved in using their religion to gather money for, or lend support, comfort and aide to these enemies should not only be suspect, they should be languishing in a cell right now, and deported if not a citizen. Islamic cleric, Imam, or any other religious overtone notwithstanding.
If we don't, we are simply waiting for the next set of shoes to fall ... or, as we have discussed in the past ... waiting for the heat to build up sufficiently to bring the rest of the structure down around us, just like the towers came down.
In the case of the towers, the force was applied completely externally and nature and physics did the rest. In the case of our society, the force is coming from both external and long festering internal sources and "PC" attitudes about such things (including the very principles that our liberty is built upon) are doing the rest.
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