Richard Connerney, an author and professor of philosophy at Pace
University.
Richard is the author of The Upside-down Tree: India's Changing Culture (Algora
Press, 2009), which is partly about the Ayodhya crisis in India -- Mughals built
a large mosque on a Hindu holy site in the Middle Ages, and in 1992 Hindu
protesters tore that mosque down by hand, 600 years after it was built. He is
also the editor of Vera Lex: The Journal of the International Natural Law
Society, which is published by Pace University Press. The Natural Law Society is
an organization dedicated to the study of the history and contemporary
application of natural law theory, which is a school of legal philosophy
holding, in opposition to legal positivism, that law and ethics cannot be
severed from one another.
For myself and I think for most people here, today is a sad occasion, not only
for the obvious reason that on this day we remember the deaths of thousands of
innocent Americans on 9/11, but this occasion is sad for what has happened in
the aftermath of that event, and especially for what has happened here, so close
to the site of that tragedy, over the last three months.
>Over the last one hundred days we have watched a local conflict over a building
>proposal grow into a city-wide debate and then an issue in the state of New
>York's gubernatorial campaign, a national scandal and finally an international
>incident with global implications. Sometimes in all this confusion I think that
>the real meaning of this debate is lost. For me, behind all the headlines is a
>fundamental disagreement about what makes a good neighbor and a good citizen.
>Imam Rauf interprets his constitutional right to freedom of worship as the right
>to promote his views on religion in a place and in a way that is distasteful to
>the majority of Americans. What will it take to convince Mr. Rauf that his hope
>that a mosque in this place will act as a catalyst for interfaith understanding
>is out of touch with reality? His obstinacy has not aided tolerance or
>understanding but rather created division and confusion. By now his professed
>ignorance of the damage he is doing to the fabric of our society is undeniably
>willful.
>I have known many Muslims in my life and liked most of them as individuals and I
>have lived among Muslims in Asia. Most Muslims I know understand the importance
>of symbols and the importance of history and they understand that good fences
>make good neighbors. One of the great ironies of this conflict is that anecdotal
>evidence suggests that American Muslims themselves are unenthusiastic about this
>Mosque and many Muslims think that Imam Rauf has thrown them into the middle of
>a fight that they did not ask for and do not want.
>But Imam Rauf is only the proximate cause of this controversy. The inflation of
>this problem from a local one to a national one happened in part due to a
>failure of leadership on the part of Michael Bloomberg. The mayor put his weight
>behind the Cordoba Initiative project before the public was even aware it
>existed. From the beginning he has acted as if public debate is little more than
>a nuisance and has suggested that the opposition is irrational, bigoted or
>uninformed. He went so far as to suggest that anyone with questions about this
>project's financing "should be ashamed of themselves," as if asking questions
>was the source of our troubles.
>Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, the mainstream media in New York City and
>beyond bears some responsibility for the deep divisions over the Cordoba
>Initiative mosque. Publications such as the New York Times and Newsweek often
>provide monophonic coverage that characterizes the 2/3rds of the American public
>who oppose this mosque as bigots, while television pundits too numerous to name
>promote an extreme philosophy of multiculturalism as moral absolute and a brand
>of legal positivism whereby citizenship is little more than a laundry list of
>civic rights and good government nothing more than the mechanical administration
>of public policy.
>To the public's credit, Americans aren't buying it. Like me, many understand
>that citizenship is more than exercising your rights; it is understanding when
>not to exercise those rights when decency requires it. And when individual
>citizens are incapable of this level of sensitivity and they cause widespread
>offense, as Imam Rauf and Sharif El Gamal have done, then a just government must
>act. Effective leadership does more than stand aside as a disinterested referee
>while citizens commit acts of deliberate outrage against one another; leaders
>must also protect the common good and promote mutual respect.
>Some people are discouraged and ask how we can we stop the construction of this
>building when the Landmark Commission denied 45 Park Place landmark status and
>the Community Board has already approved the plan. In answer I would note that
>today we stand only a few blocks south of the African Burial Ground National
>Monument on the corner of Duane and Broadway--for those of you from out of town,
>if you haven't seen it yet, it's worth a look--the African Burial Ground is an
>18th century cemetery discovered accidentally during the construction of the
>Weiss Federal Building. The memorial that stands there today is one that people
>fought long and hard for and that was ultimately created by an act of Congress.
>I mention it because, in essence, we are asking for nothing more than this. If
>the government acted to create the African Burial Ground memorial so that some
>of the first African American New Yorkers could rest in peace and their
>descendants could remember their lives, then surely we have every right to
>expect similar accommodation for the place where so many Americans lost their
>lives nine years ago today. In a similar way, we are asking for a dignified
>environment in which to remember the fallen without a perversely positioned
>shrine to the creed that inspired their murder.
>To make ourselves heard on this, we have to turn out for the election this
>November. I hope that all of you will note who in the city, state and federal
>governments stood on which side of the issue. I hope voters will send an
>unmistakable message to our leaders by denying election or reelection to any
>politician, Republican or Democrat, who has failed to speak out against this
>mosque. In future elections, I hope that local voters will pay particular
>attention to the members of the Community Board and the borough president who
>rubber-stamped this building project, walking in lockstep with Mayor Bloomberg.
>And when I see the enthusiasm and determination of the people gathered here
>today I feel confident that we will attain our goal. The collective feeling of
>outrage over the planned construction of this building is over-whelming, the
>numbers are in and we represent the true will of the people, a fact that no true
>democracy can ignore. By this point the only people in New York who like the
>idea of the Ground Zero Mosque as far as I can tell are the Imam, his wife,
>Mayor Bloomberg and the editorial staff of the New York Times. While the legal
>barriers to stopping the construction of this mosque are considerable they are
>not insurmountable and in the end, if we steer the course, we have every reason
>to expect that we will prevail. Thank you for your support. God Bless America.
>The 9/11 Rally of Remembrance was inspiring. Tens of thousands of lovers of
>America gathered to hear Wilders, Bolton, Breitbart, Ilario Pantano, Mike
>Gallagher, Steve Malzberg, and a host of others -- and a highlight was a rousing
>speech by the media's "victim" of our June 6 rally, Coptic Christian activist
>Joseph Nassralla. More coverage will be coming, and be sure to check out Pamela
>Geller's coverage at Atlas Shrugs.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Time is out of time-time to go out of business
It's About Time for an Apology to Israel - Gary Rosenblatt
This week's cover story in Time magazine by Karl Vick, "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace," was simply indefensible The story has a narrow focus, concentrating mostly on satisfied Tel Aviv residents who are living well and enjoying life despite the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
While depicted as money-obsessed and cavalier about their neighbors, Israelis in fact have displayed remarkable resilience, pragmatism and faith in themselves. Attacked by suicide bombers on an almost daily basis a decade ago, they didn't flee. They didn't panic. And they didn't teach their children to hate, or to martyr themselves. Instead they took security precautions (namely, building a separation fence/wall, which has proved successful) and went about their business as best they could under horrific circumstances.
For this, and for carving out productive lives in the face of so many who would destroy them, they are portrayed as uncaring. Time's story does not address the attitudes of Palestinians toward Israel, or Jews, though Palestinian clerics, educators and politicians demonize Zionists and Jews everywhere so regularly that it is not considered newsworthy. (New York Jewish Week)
See also Time Magazine Promotes Anti-Jewish Prejudice - Bret Stephens
Nearly every Israeli has a child, sibling, boyfriend or parent in the army. Nearly every Israeli has been to the funeral of a fallen soldier, or a friend killed in a terrorist attack. Every Israeli owns a gas mask. The whole country exists under the encroaching shadows of Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the prospect of a nuclear Iran. When it comes to scoring cheap shots against the Jewish state, Time is not the sort of magazine to allow the obvious to disturb a prejudiced hypothesis. Can the magazine point to equally pointed cover stories about internal Palestinian affairs and what, perchance, they mean for the peace process?
Journalism aside, there's also a moral dimension here known as the delegitimization of Israel - the idea that the country ought not to exist. Insisting that Israel be wiped off the map, as Iran's leaders do with such numbing frequency, is one method of delegitimization. Suggesting that Israelis don't care about peace is another. (Wall Street Journal)
This week's cover story in Time magazine by Karl Vick, "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace," was simply indefensible The story has a narrow focus, concentrating mostly on satisfied Tel Aviv residents who are living well and enjoying life despite the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
While depicted as money-obsessed and cavalier about their neighbors, Israelis in fact have displayed remarkable resilience, pragmatism and faith in themselves. Attacked by suicide bombers on an almost daily basis a decade ago, they didn't flee. They didn't panic. And they didn't teach their children to hate, or to martyr themselves. Instead they took security precautions (namely, building a separation fence/wall, which has proved successful) and went about their business as best they could under horrific circumstances.
For this, and for carving out productive lives in the face of so many who would destroy them, they are portrayed as uncaring. Time's story does not address the attitudes of Palestinians toward Israel, or Jews, though Palestinian clerics, educators and politicians demonize Zionists and Jews everywhere so regularly that it is not considered newsworthy. (New York Jewish Week)
See also Time Magazine Promotes Anti-Jewish Prejudice - Bret Stephens
Nearly every Israeli has a child, sibling, boyfriend or parent in the army. Nearly every Israeli has been to the funeral of a fallen soldier, or a friend killed in a terrorist attack. Every Israeli owns a gas mask. The whole country exists under the encroaching shadows of Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the prospect of a nuclear Iran. When it comes to scoring cheap shots against the Jewish state, Time is not the sort of magazine to allow the obvious to disturb a prejudiced hypothesis. Can the magazine point to equally pointed cover stories about internal Palestinian affairs and what, perchance, they mean for the peace process?
Journalism aside, there's also a moral dimension here known as the delegitimization of Israel - the idea that the country ought not to exist. Insisting that Israel be wiped off the map, as Iran's leaders do with such numbing frequency, is one method of delegitimization. Suggesting that Israelis don't care about peace is another. (Wall Street Journal)
abbas- not one concession
Abbas declared: "If they demand concessions on the rights of the refugees or the 1967 borders, I will quit. I can't allow myself to make even one concession." How do you negotiate with someone who proclaims his intransigence? (New York Daily News)
A Numbers Game in the Middle East - Joel Brinkley
Isn't the Palestinian population growing so fast that, soon enough, it will outnumber Jews in the land between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea? A team of demographers headed by Yoram Ettinger, a former Israeli diplomat, conducted a detailed study and found, to most everyone's surprise, that Israeli Jews far outnumber Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. What's more, Jewish birth rates are higher now, too. The demographic threat, these demographers say, simply doesn't exist and the trend lines favor the Jews, not the Arabs.
Palestinians vastly overstated their population for their own political aims. As examples, they double-counted Arab residents of east Jerusalem and included about 400,000 Palestinians who actually live abroad. At the same time, as the West Bank grows more modern and prosperous, Palestinian birth rates are falling - while some Israeli West Bank settlers are having as many babies as they can. The writer is a professor of journalism at Stanford University. (San Francisco Chronicle)
See also More Babies Give a Boost to Israeli Jewish Demographics - Zuzana Barak
Jewish demographics in Israel are improving, Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, an international expert on Jewish demography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said Tuesday. According to DellaPergola, the trend in Israel is towards larger families, in comparison to the birth rate among Jews in the diaspora, which has been declining due to rapid ageing and intermarriage. The Jewish birth rate in Israel averages just under three children (2.9) per family, the highest in many years.
A Numbers Game in the Middle East - Joel Brinkley
Isn't the Palestinian population growing so fast that, soon enough, it will outnumber Jews in the land between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea? A team of demographers headed by Yoram Ettinger, a former Israeli diplomat, conducted a detailed study and found, to most everyone's surprise, that Israeli Jews far outnumber Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. What's more, Jewish birth rates are higher now, too. The demographic threat, these demographers say, simply doesn't exist and the trend lines favor the Jews, not the Arabs.
Palestinians vastly overstated their population for their own political aims. As examples, they double-counted Arab residents of east Jerusalem and included about 400,000 Palestinians who actually live abroad. At the same time, as the West Bank grows more modern and prosperous, Palestinian birth rates are falling - while some Israeli West Bank settlers are having as many babies as they can. The writer is a professor of journalism at Stanford University. (San Francisco Chronicle)
See also More Babies Give a Boost to Israeli Jewish Demographics - Zuzana Barak
Jewish demographics in Israel are improving, Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, an international expert on Jewish demography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said Tuesday. According to DellaPergola, the trend in Israel is towards larger families, in comparison to the birth rate among Jews in the diaspora, which has been declining due to rapid ageing and intermarriage. The Jewish birth rate in Israel averages just under three children (2.9) per family, the highest in many years.
Be a bad jew
Today’s column was written by Rami Kaminski, MD, founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York City. I have never met him or communicated with him in any way.
His column is entitled “Why I Am a Bad Jew.”
With that, I present the heartfelt and important words of Dr. Kaminski.
“For centuries, we lived in Berdichev. In the brutal Ukrainian winter of
1941, SS soldiers arrived there and rounded up eighty-seven members of my family - babies, young adults, octogenarians - stripped them naked, marched them to a nearby ditch, and executed them. Their lifeless bodies fell silently into a mass grave.
Like most Jews in Europe, my family ‘cooperated’ with the Final
Solution. They did not resist or fight back. Six million Jews were
slaughtered in a period of four years. They received little sympathy
while they were still alive and hunted down like animals. There was no
public outcry because the Holocaust fit the world’s narrative for Jews
during the past 2000 years: a people destined to be persecuted and
slaughtered.
During their two millennia in the Diaspora, Jews were not known to
resist. There are few recorded instances in which Jews turned against
their host nations or retaliated against their murderers. Instead, the
survivors - if there were any - were expelled or left for another place.
The murdered were regarded as ‘good’ Jews They accepted their fate
helplessly, without resistance.
This narrative of the Jews has played out on the historical stage with
boring monotony: Jews get killed because they are Jews. Nothing novel
about it. After the Holocaust, however, the world, disgusted by this
particularly ghoulish period of history, accorded some sympathy for the
Jews.
Media commentary about the ongoing Gaza War reveals the world has now reverted to its pre-Holocaust perspective. Today, the only good Jew is a powerless Jew willing to become a dead one. The Zionist Revolution is to blame. It changed everything. Jews re-created their own country. The Arabs attacked the new Jewish state the day after independence and promised to complete Hitler’s genocide. In succeeding decades, the Arabs attacked again and again. Strangely, the Jews, many of them refugees from Arab nations, adopted a surprising, new tactic: they fought back.
With Zionism, the Jews stubbornly refused to follow the centuries-old
script. They refuse to be killed without resistance. As a result, the
world has become increasingly enraged at their impertinence.
The recent events in Gaza and Mumbai make this plain. In 2005, Israel
eliminated all Jewish presence in Gaza making it ‘Judenrein,’ and handed it over to the Palestinians. Left behind were synagogues and thriving green houses. The Arabs looted and destroyed them literally the day after Israel’s withdrawal was complete. Where these structures once stood, the Palestinians built military bases and installed rocket
launchers to shell Israeli civilians. To date, some 7,000 missiles have
fallen on Israeli cities and towns, killing and maiming dozens, and
sowing widespread terror. Medical studies reveal nearly all Jewish
children in the communities bordering Gaza suffer from serious,
trauma-induced illness.
The Gazan Palestinians then elected Hamas to lead them. Hamas proceeded to kill or imprison their political rivals, and its leaders, true to the Hamas charter, were unabashed in clearly stating their aims: they will not stop until they achieve their Final Solution, kill all the Jews,
take over the land of Israel, and establish a theocracy governed by
Islamic law.
As killing Jews for being Jews has been a national sport for centuries,
Islamic militants are justified in believing they are merely fulfilling
historical tradition in Argentina, India and Gaza. Surely the Jews in
Mumbai did not occupy Gaza. They were tortured and killed just for being Jews. And predictably, in the eyes of the world, they immediately became good Jews, just like my murdered family in Bertishev.
Good Jews would wait until Hamas has weapons enabling its members to
achieve their ultimate goal of absolute mass murder. Those enraged by
Israel’s defensive military action insist Hamas uses only ‘crude’
rockets, as if Qassams were BB guns, and military inferiority were
somehow equivalent with moral superiority. In fact, Hamas now has
Iranian-supplied Grad missiles which have landed on Be’er Sheva and the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Westerners have had only sporadic exposure to the indiscriminant killing
in the name of ‘holy war’ which Israel has lived with for years.
Memories of 9-11, Madrid, and London have dimmed. This is not because
the Islamic militants made a careful choice of weapons. They simply have not yet acquired nuclear bombs. Once they do, the West will develop a less detached view about the Islamists’ professed intentions for the ‘infidels.’
The only enlightened people in the civilized world who actually get it
are the Israelis. They’ve not had time for detached philosophical
ponderings. They’ve been too busy confronting the reality of Islamic
fundamentalism.
Soon, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It will give them to Hezbollah and
Hamas. Today, Jews must take a position: either be ‘good’ Jews willing
to be slaughtered without resistance, or be “bad” Jews who defend
themselves at the cost of being pariahs of our enlightened world. Good
Jews would wait for another six million to be murdered, and pick up to
leave for another country to start the cycle again. The bad ones refuse
to go calmly into the ditch.
I confess: I’m a bad Jew.”
Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for
Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for-profit organization aimed
at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with
medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric
conditions. Prior to that, Dr. Kaminkski was the Commissioner’s Liaison
to Families and Community and Medical Director of Operations at the New
York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Kaminski also holds an academic
position as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He
earned recognition in 1990 from Mt. Sinai Hospital as Physician of the
Year, and received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards from the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Dr. Kaminski’s research explores
neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer and
Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders, as well as
psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. He
was for many years Director of The Schizophrenia research Unit at Mount
Sinai Hospital in NYC. Dr. Kaminiski also served as the Medical Director
of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the
Special Needs Program.
As a poem says, I will absolutely not go calmly into that good night.
My family did not survive the Holocaust and bring me into this world so my Jewish generation could be complacent and allow us to be exterminated like rats again.
When people say they want to wipe you off the face of the Earth, do not take the gamble that they are bluffing.
Iran must never…ever…ever…be allowed to have the bomb. Anything and everything must be done to prevent this.
May every Jew heed Dr. Kaminski’s words.
To those who oppose the right of Jews to exist, this Rosh Hashanah I offer only two simple words.
Never again.
eric
His column is entitled “Why I Am a Bad Jew.”
With that, I present the heartfelt and important words of Dr. Kaminski.
“For centuries, we lived in Berdichev. In the brutal Ukrainian winter of
1941, SS soldiers arrived there and rounded up eighty-seven members of my family - babies, young adults, octogenarians - stripped them naked, marched them to a nearby ditch, and executed them. Their lifeless bodies fell silently into a mass grave.
Like most Jews in Europe, my family ‘cooperated’ with the Final
Solution. They did not resist or fight back. Six million Jews were
slaughtered in a period of four years. They received little sympathy
while they were still alive and hunted down like animals. There was no
public outcry because the Holocaust fit the world’s narrative for Jews
during the past 2000 years: a people destined to be persecuted and
slaughtered.
During their two millennia in the Diaspora, Jews were not known to
resist. There are few recorded instances in which Jews turned against
their host nations or retaliated against their murderers. Instead, the
survivors - if there were any - were expelled or left for another place.
The murdered were regarded as ‘good’ Jews They accepted their fate
helplessly, without resistance.
This narrative of the Jews has played out on the historical stage with
boring monotony: Jews get killed because they are Jews. Nothing novel
about it. After the Holocaust, however, the world, disgusted by this
particularly ghoulish period of history, accorded some sympathy for the
Jews.
Media commentary about the ongoing Gaza War reveals the world has now reverted to its pre-Holocaust perspective. Today, the only good Jew is a powerless Jew willing to become a dead one. The Zionist Revolution is to blame. It changed everything. Jews re-created their own country. The Arabs attacked the new Jewish state the day after independence and promised to complete Hitler’s genocide. In succeeding decades, the Arabs attacked again and again. Strangely, the Jews, many of them refugees from Arab nations, adopted a surprising, new tactic: they fought back.
With Zionism, the Jews stubbornly refused to follow the centuries-old
script. They refuse to be killed without resistance. As a result, the
world has become increasingly enraged at their impertinence.
The recent events in Gaza and Mumbai make this plain. In 2005, Israel
eliminated all Jewish presence in Gaza making it ‘Judenrein,’ and handed it over to the Palestinians. Left behind were synagogues and thriving green houses. The Arabs looted and destroyed them literally the day after Israel’s withdrawal was complete. Where these structures once stood, the Palestinians built military bases and installed rocket
launchers to shell Israeli civilians. To date, some 7,000 missiles have
fallen on Israeli cities and towns, killing and maiming dozens, and
sowing widespread terror. Medical studies reveal nearly all Jewish
children in the communities bordering Gaza suffer from serious,
trauma-induced illness.
The Gazan Palestinians then elected Hamas to lead them. Hamas proceeded to kill or imprison their political rivals, and its leaders, true to the Hamas charter, were unabashed in clearly stating their aims: they will not stop until they achieve their Final Solution, kill all the Jews,
take over the land of Israel, and establish a theocracy governed by
Islamic law.
As killing Jews for being Jews has been a national sport for centuries,
Islamic militants are justified in believing they are merely fulfilling
historical tradition in Argentina, India and Gaza. Surely the Jews in
Mumbai did not occupy Gaza. They were tortured and killed just for being Jews. And predictably, in the eyes of the world, they immediately became good Jews, just like my murdered family in Bertishev.
Good Jews would wait until Hamas has weapons enabling its members to
achieve their ultimate goal of absolute mass murder. Those enraged by
Israel’s defensive military action insist Hamas uses only ‘crude’
rockets, as if Qassams were BB guns, and military inferiority were
somehow equivalent with moral superiority. In fact, Hamas now has
Iranian-supplied Grad missiles which have landed on Be’er Sheva and the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Westerners have had only sporadic exposure to the indiscriminant killing
in the name of ‘holy war’ which Israel has lived with for years.
Memories of 9-11, Madrid, and London have dimmed. This is not because
the Islamic militants made a careful choice of weapons. They simply have not yet acquired nuclear bombs. Once they do, the West will develop a less detached view about the Islamists’ professed intentions for the ‘infidels.’
The only enlightened people in the civilized world who actually get it
are the Israelis. They’ve not had time for detached philosophical
ponderings. They’ve been too busy confronting the reality of Islamic
fundamentalism.
Soon, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It will give them to Hezbollah and
Hamas. Today, Jews must take a position: either be ‘good’ Jews willing
to be slaughtered without resistance, or be “bad” Jews who defend
themselves at the cost of being pariahs of our enlightened world. Good
Jews would wait for another six million to be murdered, and pick up to
leave for another country to start the cycle again. The bad ones refuse
to go calmly into the ditch.
I confess: I’m a bad Jew.”
Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for
Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for-profit organization aimed
at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with
medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric
conditions. Prior to that, Dr. Kaminkski was the Commissioner’s Liaison
to Families and Community and Medical Director of Operations at the New
York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Kaminski also holds an academic
position as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He
earned recognition in 1990 from Mt. Sinai Hospital as Physician of the
Year, and received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards from the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Dr. Kaminski’s research explores
neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer and
Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders, as well as
psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. He
was for many years Director of The Schizophrenia research Unit at Mount
Sinai Hospital in NYC. Dr. Kaminiski also served as the Medical Director
of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the
Special Needs Program.
As a poem says, I will absolutely not go calmly into that good night.
My family did not survive the Holocaust and bring me into this world so my Jewish generation could be complacent and allow us to be exterminated like rats again.
When people say they want to wipe you off the face of the Earth, do not take the gamble that they are bluffing.
Iran must never…ever…ever…be allowed to have the bomb. Anything and everything must be done to prevent this.
May every Jew heed Dr. Kaminski’s words.
To those who oppose the right of Jews to exist, this Rosh Hashanah I offer only two simple words.
Never again.
eric
more on ground zero imam
Masjid al-Farah in New York City since
1983. Through his sermons and writings, Imam Abdul Rauf seeks to provide
spiritual seekers with answers to their eternal questions that often
hinder them from developing a personal relationship with the Divine. ...
Imam Abdul-Rauf is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic
Center of New York, and of the Interfaith Center of New York. He
lectures regularly at Synagogues, Churches and Mosques, and on radio and
television programs in the United States and abroad."/
http://www.perdana4peace.org/agenda.aspx?x=3
The website that is the source of the bio and quote belongs to the
Perdana Global Peace Organisation, that lists him as a one of its
leaders. Now, Perdana has quite a narrow definition of "global peace"
since it only focuses in virulent criticism of Israel and was one of the
main donors and partners in the Free Gaza flotilla: /*"Freedom Flotilla
partners are IHH (Turkish human rights organisation), European Campaign
to End the Siege of Gaza (ECESG), The Perdana Global Peace Organisation
from Malaysia, and the Greek and Swedish Ship to Gaza campaigns and the
International Coalition for Lifting the Siege on Gaza.*/"
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/1168-join-us-at-the-launch-to-gaza
Perdana is a creation of Malaysian former Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad, a brazen anti-Semite who said in a speech at the Tenth Islamic
Summit in 2003: /"The Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by
the Europeans and the Jews. It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3
billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be
a way. We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply
wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But
today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and
die for them. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back,
but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism,
Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would
appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With
these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and
they, this tiny community, have become a world power."
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/Malaysian_1.asp
/The website of the Cordoba Initiative adresses the issue of Imam
Rauf's connection to Perdana:/ //"Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has never been
a member of this group. Several years ago, Imam Feisal was invited to
Malaysia, the most moderate Islamic country in the world, to participate
in a Peace Conference sponsored by the Perdana Peace Group. He was one
of the hundreds of speakers present. He has no political, advisory or
business affiliation of any nature with the Perdana group. A photo of
Imam Feisal was taken at the conference, and this has been used to
"prove" his membership in the Perdana Global Peace Organization, but the
allegation is false. Because of the controversy surrounding Perdana, we
have requested the Perdana Group to remove the photo of him from their
publicity./"
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/frequently-asked-questions
I must say that this disclaimer sounds questionable to me. Imam Rauf's
connection seems much more serious than a candid photo taken at a
conference. We can imagine what kind of "peace conference" Perdana
convened in the "most moderate Islamic country in the world" lead by
Mahathir Mohamad. / /Imam Rauf is mentioned also as one of the signers
of the/ Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War
http://www.perdana4peace.org/Default.aspx / This initiative, also led by
Mahatir Mohamad, inspired the creation of the/ Kuala Lumpur Foundation
to Criminalise War/ that wants to establish a tribunal to judge war
crimes. Since almost all the alleged war crimes mentioned in the
foundation website are committed only by Israelis and Americans, it is
clear who is the target of this campaign.
http://criminalisewar.org/?m=201006
1983. Through his sermons and writings, Imam Abdul Rauf seeks to provide
spiritual seekers with answers to their eternal questions that often
hinder them from developing a personal relationship with the Divine. ...
Imam Abdul-Rauf is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic
Center of New York, and of the Interfaith Center of New York. He
lectures regularly at Synagogues, Churches and Mosques, and on radio and
television programs in the United States and abroad."/
http://www.perdana4peace.org/agenda.aspx?x=3
The website that is the source of the bio and quote belongs to the
Perdana Global Peace Organisation, that lists him as a one of its
leaders. Now, Perdana has quite a narrow definition of "global peace"
since it only focuses in virulent criticism of Israel and was one of the
main donors and partners in the Free Gaza flotilla: /*"Freedom Flotilla
partners are IHH (Turkish human rights organisation), European Campaign
to End the Siege of Gaza (ECESG), The Perdana Global Peace Organisation
from Malaysia, and the Greek and Swedish Ship to Gaza campaigns and the
International Coalition for Lifting the Siege on Gaza.*/"
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/1168-join-us-at-the-launch-to-gaza
Perdana is a creation of Malaysian former Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad, a brazen anti-Semite who said in a speech at the Tenth Islamic
Summit in 2003: /"The Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by
the Europeans and the Jews. It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3
billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be
a way. We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply
wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But
today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and
die for them. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back,
but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism,
Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would
appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With
these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and
they, this tiny community, have become a world power."
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/Malaysian_1.asp
/The website of the Cordoba Initiative adresses the issue of Imam
Rauf's connection to Perdana:/ //"Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has never been
a member of this group. Several years ago, Imam Feisal was invited to
Malaysia, the most moderate Islamic country in the world, to participate
in a Peace Conference sponsored by the Perdana Peace Group. He was one
of the hundreds of speakers present. He has no political, advisory or
business affiliation of any nature with the Perdana group. A photo of
Imam Feisal was taken at the conference, and this has been used to
"prove" his membership in the Perdana Global Peace Organization, but the
allegation is false. Because of the controversy surrounding Perdana, we
have requested the Perdana Group to remove the photo of him from their
publicity./"
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/frequently-asked-questions
I must say that this disclaimer sounds questionable to me. Imam Rauf's
connection seems much more serious than a candid photo taken at a
conference. We can imagine what kind of "peace conference" Perdana
convened in the "most moderate Islamic country in the world" lead by
Mahathir Mohamad. / /Imam Rauf is mentioned also as one of the signers
of the/ Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War
http://www.perdana4peace.org/Default.aspx / This initiative, also led by
Mahatir Mohamad, inspired the creation of the/ Kuala Lumpur Foundation
to Criminalise War/ that wants to establish a tribunal to judge war
crimes. Since almost all the alleged war crimes mentioned in the
foundation website are committed only by Israelis and Americans, it is
clear who is the target of this campaign.
http://criminalisewar.org/?m=201006
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