Jerusalem News (3 April, 2013, Nissan 23, 5773)
Contents:
1. Muslim Arab Slave Traders. Shame on you Obama.
Why is there is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses? by Charles Jacobs.
2. Latin America's Narco-Terrorism Nexus & the Obama Administration by Rachel Ehrenfeld
3. Bennett: Obama's policies could lead to violence
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1. Muslim Arab Slave Traders. Shame on you Obama.
Why is there is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses?
Charles Jacobs..
frontpagemag.com..
01 April '13..
Extracts:
Israel Apartheid Week has come and gone this year on many American campuses. It was, of course, a hoax: However much Arabs in Israel suffer, and whoever is to blame for it, there is no apartheid in Israel.
Meanwhile, however, in Sudan and Mauritania, racist Arab societies enslave blacks. Today. Most of the slaves are African Muslims. Yet there is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses. Why not?
One might think American student activists would be upset about Mauritania, the West African country with the largest population of black slaves in the world , estimates range from 100,000 to more than a half-million. In Mauritania, slaves are used for labor, sex and breeding. The wholly owned property of their masters, they are passed down through generations, given as wedding gifts or exchanged for camels, trucks, guns or money.
Surely, life is not so good in a Palestinian refugee camp , no matter who is to blame, but it's undeniably a whole lot worse for Mauritanian slaves. According to a Human Rights Watch/Africa report, routine punishments for slaves in Mauritania, Â for the slightest fault , include beatings, denial of food and prolonged exposure to the sun, with hands and feet tied together. More serious infringement of the master's rule (in American slave-owning parlance, 'getting uppity') can lead to prolonged tortures known as 'the camel treatment,' in which the slave's body is slowly torn apart; the 'insect treatment,' in which tiny desert insects are inserted and sealed into the ear canal until the slave is driven mad; and 'burning coals,' a torture not fit to describe in a family newspaper.
Not all blacks in Mauritania are slaves. But all are oppressed by Arab colonialism. (You might even call the Arabs in North Africa 'settlers,' if you wanted to be testy.) Arab Berbers (or 'White Africans') constitute less than a third of Mauritania's population of 3.5 million people, but they control the government and military, as well as the education and the court systems.
Indeed, it might be even worse than apartheid: The government has expropriated land owned by black Africans through expulsion and dispossession. An ethnic cleansing campaign that began in 1989 led to the expulsion of an estimated 100,000 blacks from Mauritania. The government and army were purged of black officers. Amnesty International reported that thousands of blacks were killed, and many tortured, while hundreds of African villages in the south were demolished.
Why hasn't any of this been addressed by Western governments? For one, the Mauritanian regime, once a supporter of Saddam Hussein, has ingratiated itself with the United States and Europe through promises to help fight al-Qaida. And then in December 2012, in a move that defined it as the morally bankrupt institution it is, the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council elected Mauritania as its vice president and rapporteur.
What about the silence of Western progressives?
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2. Latin America's Narco-Terrorism Nexus & the Obama Administration
EWI BLOG by Rachel Ehrenfeld
No. 369
March 31, 2013
www.acdemocracy.org
www.econwarfare.org
Extracts:
"Terrorists use drug profits to fund their cells to commit acts of murder," said President George W. Bush, on December 14, 2001. "It's so important for Americans to know that the traffic in drugs finances the work of terror, sustaining terrorists."
On March 19, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft went on to say: "Terrorism and drugs go together like rats and the bubonic plague.... They thrive in the same conditions, support each other, and feed off each other."
Already in 2002, twelve of the thirty-six groups on the U.S. Department of State's ForeignTerrorist Organizations List were identified as being involvedin drug trafficking.
In another case, U.S. law enforcement derailed an al-Qaeda plot to exchange "9,000 assault weapons, such as AK-47 rifles, submachine guns and sniper rifles; 300 pistols; rocket-propelled grenade launchers; 300,000 grenades; shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and 60 million rounds of ammunition,"for $25 million dollars in cash and cocaine.
Since then, the cooperation between international drug trafficking has been cemented to share the "astronomical" amounts of money generated by drug trafficking, arms and people smuggling the worldover.
The fact that Hezbollah is Iran's principal agent both in Latin America and a good number of other places worldwide was established decades ago. Since 9/11 Hezbollah's activities and partnership with drug cartels in pursuing criminal activity of all sorts in the tri-border region [Paraguay-Argentina-Brazil border area] have been documented in "Funding Evil; How terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop it," and in many congressional hearings, by the Congressional Research Service, reports by the Drug Enforcement Administration, and many studies, reports and media accounts.
In April 2010, U.S. defense officials were cited by the U.S. Boarder Control website, saying that "Hezbollah is working with Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S, [and] ...to smuggle drugs and people into the United States."
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3. Bennett: Obama's policies could lead to violence
By GIL HOFFMAN
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Bennett-bashes-Obama-statements-on-2-state-solution-308208
LAST UPDATED: 03/31/2013 02:06
Extracts:
Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett became the first senior minister in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government to slam US President Barack Obama on Friday when he accused him of wishful thinking and warned that his policies could lead to the mass murder of Israelis.
In a lengthy Hebrew post on his official Facebook page, Bennett said the atmosphere during Obama's visit reminded him of the Oslo period. He recalled that during that time in the mid-1990s, there was a feeling that if Israel conceded enough, peace would come.
'There were the usual statements about both sides wanting peace and two states side by side being the only chance for peace,' Bennett wrote. 'These are nice statements but they are distant from reality.'
Bennett noted that in the second intifada that followed Israel's concessions in Oslo, hundreds of Israelis were killed in suicide bombings in cafes and on buses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. He singled out the 2002 bombing of Netanya's Park Hotel on Passover Seder night that left 32 Israelis killed and 160 wounded.
'Back then they also said that there is no military solution to terror and that only diplomatic talks would work, but Operation Defensive Shield proved that they were wrong and that actually only force can defeat terror,' Bennett wrote . 'We trounced terror.'
Bennett said he told Obama that the time has come to consider new directions on the Palestinian issue that would be different and creative. He said the president responded that he wanted to meet with him and listen. 'The lesson is never be silent, even if everyone thinks differently,' Bennett concluded.