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Why now? You have to ask, with the entire Arab world falling apart, and President Barack Obama caught up in urgent domestic matters, why has Secretary of State John Kerry staked his reputation on another effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
And, given the number of failed peace efforts over the past four decades, why on earth would Kerry set a goal of reaching an overall peace deal in nine months — which is, to put it mildly, impossible? Especially in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Cynics will argue that, with U.S. influence fading in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the region, this issue may be the only one where Washington still has leverage. That fails to explain the intensity with which Kerry has pursued an issue that can only bring him grief.
A short-term explanation for his crusade, put forward by some administration officials, is that a failure to renew talks would guarantee that the Palestinians would renew pressure for recognition at the United Nations and other international organizations.
Israel might respond by cutting off funds from the Palestinian Authority. This, in turn, would undercut important security cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian officials on the West Bank. This downward spiral could increase the international isolation of Israel that has already been provoked by Jewish settlement building in the West Bank.
The European Union has just banned exports from Israel that were produced by West Bank settlers, and a U.N. battle could lead the Europeans to make further cuts in investment.
This fear of greater Israeli isolation could explain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to enter talks, which could undercut pressures from Europe. Yet it's hard to believe that Kerry would take such a huge personal risk to avoid a U.N. confrontation over Palestine.
If you look at Kerry's statements, he appears to be thinking much more of the long term. He has repeatedly said he believes the window for a two-state solution is about to shut, with tragic consequences for Israel and a negative impact on U.S. security interests as well.
"We're running out of time," Kerry told the American Jewish Committee in June. "If we do not succeed now, we may not get another chance."
Kerry is correct. Here's why: First, the number of Jewish settlers on the West Bank is constantly expanding, with a total of about 360,000 living there and an additional 300,000 in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of their state. In the next few years, further settlement expansion, and a stronger settler lobby, will make it politically impossible to disentangle the West Bank from Israel without a civil war.
Second, as titular head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may be the last Palestinian leader with the legitimacy to sign a peace accord with Israel. But he is tired and aging, and losing credibility in the absence of negotiations (and has already lost control of Gaza to Hamas). A year or two from now, he is unlikely to still be in charge.
Third, the Arab leaders whose strong backing Abbas would need to sign an accord, are old, ailing, threatened, or finished in the wake of the Arab Spring. The three countries whose imprimatur Abbas requires are mired in uncertainty.
Egypt is in chaos and its leadership uncertain. King Abdullah, of Saudi Arabia, who initiated the Arab Peace Initiative that promised pan-Arab recognition of Israel in the wake of two states, is old and ailing — as is his designated successor. King Abdullah, of Jordan, is threatened by an influx of Syrian refugees and popular dissatisfaction with regime corruption. If the two Abdullahs pass from the scene, the Palestinian state would be orphaned at birth.
So Kerry is correct that the window for any peace deal is shutting. Yet the same factors that would rule out a deal two years hence are blocking one now. Abbas is already too weak, and the Arab world too fragmented to back him.
Even were Netanyahu inclined to confront the settlers and return most of the West Bank and East Jerusalem (which he has shown no interest in doing), the Arab world's convulsions would make him hesitate.
Kerry knows the status quo is unsustainable. He knows the failure to create two states means Israelis and Palestinians will soon be living in one state where Jews are outnumbered by Arabs.
Down this road lies an apartheid-style Israel facing international isolation. The secretary's passion stems from his determination to find a better solution. But the window may already have closed.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.8 Cape Town Aug. 2009
Universitas Academic Health Complex: national asset or provincial liability?
W F Mollentze; G J van Zyl
On behalf of the Executive Committee, School of Medicine, University of the Free State, email@example.com
To the Editor: The need for a medical school in Bloemfontein was recognised almost 40 years ago. The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of the Free State was launched in 1971 and has served the Free State (FS) and its neighbouring regions well. It has contributed some 4 000 medical doctors, 400 medical specialists, and numerous professional nurses and allied health care professionals to the South African health care workforce. Despite its relatively small size, it has contributed significantly to medical research in South Africa. The oncology outreach programme initiated by the late Professor J D (Andy) Anderson when the FHS was founded, paved the way for similar initiatives that are still in place. Funding to establish the FHS, to foster its growth and development and to ensure its continued existence, has never been easy. The uncompromising commitment of the FS Department of Health in the past was decisive in recognising and managing this faculty as a national asset. We firmly believe that a vibrant and flourishing FHS is fundamental to a successful and encompassing regional health care system.
Today, the future of Universitas Academic Health Complex (UAHC), which now includes Universitas, Pelonomi and part of National Hospital as the training platform of the FHS, is at a crossroads. The three-level health care system introduced after 1994 radically reshaped tertiary health care in the FS, including the academic health care complex. Some changes were unique and beneficial to the UAHC; for example, the introduction of one of the first public-private partnerships (PPP) in health care in South Africa, and remunerative work outside the public sector for medical specialists. These measures contributed to the retention of academic staff with scarce skills and provided some of the scarce but essential infrastructure, e.g cardiac electrophysiology, gastro-enterology and radiology.
Some changes, however, were artificial and detrimental to the UAHC. The forced separation of primary, tertiary and secondary health care services resulted in the downgrading and downsizing of Pelonomi Hospital to a 'level 2 plus' hospital. A serious error in judgement was the separation of the once unitary staff establishment of the academic hospitals to create an own-staff establishment for Pelonomi Hospital, with the noble intention of creating a smaller facility with its own ethos. Just the opposite was achieved, namely a continuous struggle to attract specialists to a hospital where the working conditions are demoralising and with few career path opportunities. The disintegrating PHC services in the FS, where patients at some clinics have no access to essential medication for months, are also the same services that do not refer patients appropriately. The result is that terminally ill patients often beyond help end up in level 2 hospitals, and UAHC struggles to find suitable patients for training and assessment purposes. Pelonomi Hospital's re-accreditation as a postgraduate teaching facility remains outstanding 10 months after the HPCSA's accreditation visit.
The most critical ingredient of any successful FHS is its human resources. A properly and continuously funded essential staff establishment is crucial. It takes years of hard work and dedication to establish and develop a successful clinical unit in any discipline. It can, however, be demolished in a wink. Growing your own timber applies in our case, since Bloemfontein has no shores or mountains to attract and retain academics. But vacant posts are automatically frozen when vacated and long-term planning is impossible. The present rate of vacant medical specialist posts in the FS is 33.6% compared with the national vacancy rate of 29.9%. The picture deteriorates significantly if the 53.4% vacancy rate of medical specialist posts in the Northern Cape (a referral area to the FS) is included in the equation. No systematic long-term policy regarding replacement of dated and failing equipment has been forthcoming. In some areas of UAHC, the practice of medicine has become close to unsafe. Managing an academic department in UAHC is now a nightmare, and it has functioned in crisis mode for the past 10 years.
These changes and the systematic and continuous underfunding of the UAHC over the past decade have steadily increased tension between top management of the FS Department of Health and academic departments. The per capita real annual growth from the 2002/2003 to 2008/2009 financial years for the FS was 2.8%, compared with a total average of 4.5% for the whole country. It is sad that the academic staff of UAHC conclude that UAHC is no longer regarded as a national asset but a provincial liability. The School of Medicine of the FHS makes an earnest plea to the government once again to recognise our academic health complex as a national asset, and to fund it accordingly before it is too late.1
1. A Position Statement by the School of Medicine. http://www.uovs.ac.za/news/newsarticle.php?NewsID=1351 (accessed 9 June 2009). [ Links ]


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ATLANTA - A lawsuit brought by Alabama targeting water use in Georgia should go forward since negotiations over the last three months have not produced a settlement, Alabama attorneys said Thursday.
The request came in a report asking U.S. District Court Judge Karon Bowdre to lift a moratorium on legal proceedings that was meant to allow negotiations over water usage in the Alabama, Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama and north Georgia. It came just days after Georgia won a major legal victory in a separate water rights feud with neighboring Alabama and Florida over Lake Lanier.
"While Alabama plans to continue settlement discussions and hopes that meaningful progress will resume, Alabama believes that the progress in the last three months does not warrant a continued stay of the litigation," Alabama attorney Matthew Lembke said in the joint filing.
Lawyers for Georgia asked Bowdre to continue the stay in the proceedings because they believed further negotiations could prove successful. They said they would support a court-appointed mediator to facilitate the talks. The judge has scheduled a July 18 meeting in Birmingham, Ala., to discuss the issues with attorneys.
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"I do think that we've made a lot of progress" in the negotiations," Deal said. "And I am hopeful that we can conclude those rather quickly."
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Jefferson took slave to France to learn to cook
If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he would be livid about how much our government is invading our privacy.
At least that's what Bethel resident Thomas Craughwell said he believes.
He is the author of approximately 40 books, many of which take on historical topics, including "Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brulee: How a Founding Father and his Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America" and "Stealing Lincoln's Body."
Craughwell, 56, said many of the views of America's earlier presidents resonate today.
"Jefferson hated big government. He felt it messes around with people's business. He thought the less the government is involved in Americans' day-to-day lives, the better," Craughwell said.
"Jefferson's Declaration of Independence essentially invented America," Craughwell said.
"It defines the right of every human being on the planet, which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It has been the inspiration for other declarations and constitutions for more than 200 years, all around the world."
If Jefferson invented America, then Abraham Lincoln saved it, Craughwell said.
"Lincoln got rid of slavery. Slavery had been going on for over 250 years. Over 4 million people were slaves and Lincoln freed them."
"Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brulee," published in 2012, tells the true story of Jefferson taking his 19-year-old slave James Hemmings to France to train as a French chef. Upon James' return, in exchange for teaching French cooking to another slave, Jefferson offered to grant James his freedom.
"Stealing Lincoln's Body," which was published in 2007, explores how a gang of Irish counterfeiters in Illinois attempted to kidnap Lincoln's body -- "and almost got away with it," Craughwell said. The research for this book took 18 months and involved Craughwell traveling to Illinois and Maryland.
Jason Emerson, editor of the Cazenovia Republican newspaper in Cazenovia, N.Y., said, "I think Tom is a wonderful historian. I've always been impressed by his research skills and his ability to find not only fascinating stories to tell, but stories that have not really been told before."
Emerson, who has been studying Abraham Lincoln for 19 years, worked at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Illinois and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Missouri.
Susan Anderson, public relations assistant at Bethel Public Library, where Craughwell has given several talks, said, "Tom's wit and down-to-earth demeanor bring history to life in an accessible way," she said.
"He combines that style with substance, doing in-depth research on historical topics that few other writers tackle. That is Tom's signature, really -- bringing little-known gems of history into the light and making them sparkle."
Craughwell has a master's degree from New York University and completed four years of doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin.
Freedom should never be taken for granted, Craughwell said, no matter where in the world a person lives.
"We always have to watch every level of the government to make sure our freedoms aren't being trimmed away. We can come up with excuses for why the government intrudes upon our lives, but if it starts to curtail our rights -- the ones defined in the Declaration of Independence -- that's a really good reason for Americans to get ticked off.
"We can change our government," he said. "We must vote for the person who is going to resist infringement on American liberties. The ballot box is our biggest weapon."
Craughwell is writing another novel about Lincoln, scheduled for publication next year. It's about the first plot to assassinate Lincoln, when he was on his way to his first inauguration in 1861.
"I've always loved history, and I especially enjoy finding something quirky and offbeat in history," he said.
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"We need an economy that matches the needs of the population, not economic elites that ridicule the American population for not fitting into the dystopia that they engineered."
The Engineering of Labor Markets
We hear a lot today about "structural
unemployment" in America, the notion being that unemployment in America
today is related to workers not having the right set of skills for the available
jobs in the economy. There is some truth to this, but the reason for this has
nothing to do with any inherent realities of a modern economy, it has to do with
how American capitalists have intentionally engineered the global labor markets.
The first thing to acknowledge is that every economy, including the American economy, is engineered and planned. An idea came to prominence in the 1970s among the economic elite in America that the future of the American economy was in "high skill jobs", i.e. research, design, science, analytics, etc., and that "low skill jobs" were to be something outsourced to developing foreign countries, for them to do the work that was "beneath Americans", but also so that those "low skill job" could be done more cheaply by these much more desperate foreign workers.
This idea has dominated the thinking of America's economic engineers (corporate executives, investment bankers, financiers, major investors, wealthy philanthropists, influential professors, private equity moguls, Federal Reserve members, and all of their corresponding enablers and puppets in government, etc.) for the past three or four decades, and has been a major driver in the engineering of the current American "jobs market".
The result of this has been that massive segments of our occupations have been eliminated from the American jobs market by the owners and controllers of capital and transferred to foreign countries, largely Mexico and China, but many more as well of course.
In the absence (or weakness) of labor unions, capitalists dictated the
conditions of employment, and the fact is that the parameters of "the
game" in America are dictated almost entirely by the owners of the capital.
The reality we live in is the reality designed by these people, and their
engineering efforts have been effective. They have successfully transferred a
large portion of "low skill work" to foreign countries and they have
successfully shifted the American occupational portfolio disproportionately
toward "higher skill work", but the "low skill work" that
was outsourced to foreign countries wasn't actually "low skill", it
was medium skill work.
The American "jobs market" has been distorted by the practices of capital owners and government policy (at the request of capital owners), under the guise of so-called "free trade" (which is anything but) and neo-liberal "globalization". So what are the results of this? Well the results are quite obvious, and exactly what would be predicted by market theory.
The result of this is of course a shortage of "high skill workers" in America and a glut of "low and medium skill jobs" in places like China and Mexico, and the result of this is inflated prices for high skill workers in America as well as deflated prices for medium skill workers in America.
So one would ask then, if there is a glut of low and medium skill jobs in places like China and Mexico, then why aren't the wages of low and medium skill workers in those countries rising faster? After all, a glut of jobs should mean a shortage of workers.
Two reasons: The first is obviously developmental and based on population. Places like China, India, and Mexico have been able to adsorb a massive influx of low and medium skill jobs because of their large populations and relatively undeveloped economies which afforded relatively few competing opportunities for workers. Due to the relative wealth of the West, we've been able to pay foreign workers higher for their labor than what they could earn within their own economies, even for lower skilled work than those same workers could perform in their local economies.
In other words, we were able to pay a worker in China, who could have been a Chinese doctor or skilled mason or software engineer, more to put together iPhones on an assembly line than they could have otherwise earned as a doctor, etc. if "we" weren't employing them. As foreign economies develop this "should" become less and less true.
In addition, the relatively small population of the West compared to China
and India has meant that the labor forces of those nation's are large compared
to the populations of Western consumers they serve. But now we get to the second
reason for why labor prices in these foreign countries haven't risen quite so
rapidly, and that has to do with the policies of their governments. American
capitalists have almost universally moved American production to countries ruled
by authoritarian regimes, in places with anti-worker policies that are designed
to keep wages low. The ruling class in these countries benefit from Western
support and wealth, from American corporations if not from government policy as
well, while the workers carry the burden.
But let's get back to America, and how all of this plays into growing income inequality here.
A very interesting debate took place between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton argued that economic diversity was key to the development of the American economy, and to this end Hamilton opposed "free trade" practices (then supported by Britain) and supported government subsidies for the development of industry in America -- as well as polices that encouraged the illegal (in their home countries) immigration of skilled manufacturers from Europe and the theft of intellectual property from Europe (sound familiar?). Hamilton was a supporter of corporations and manufacturing.
Jefferson, on the other hand, argued that corporations and manufacturing would result in the concentration of too much property and power in the hands of banks and wealth elites and that democracy could only be maintained by an agricultural economy rooted in widespread ownership of land, with land remaining the most important form for property. Jefferson argued that unless the majority of people owned the majority of the property then the majority would become disenfranchised (this was of course especially true in Jefferson's time when property ownership was a requirement for voting, but his argument was not based solely on that requirement, but rather the power grated by property ownership, regardless of any voting requirements).
Hamilton's counter, of course, was that an agricultural economy was not diverse enough to provide enough opportunities for a diverse population to make the best use of its skills.
"It is a just observation, that minds of the strongest and most active powers for their proper objects fall below mediocrity and labor without effect, if confined to uncongenial pursuits. And it is thence to be inferred, that the results of human exertion may be immensely increased by diversifying its objects. When all the different kinds of industry obtain in a community, each individual can find his proper element, and can call into activity the whole vigor of his nature. And the community is benefited by the services of its respective members, in the manner, in which each can serve it with most effect...The spirit of enterprise, useful and prolific as it is, must necessarily be contracted or expanded in proportion to the simplicity or variety of the occupations and productions, which are to be found in a Society. It must be less in a nation of mere cultivators, than in a nation of cultivators and merchants; less in a nation of cultivators and merchants, than in a nation of cultivators, artificers and merchants." - from Alexander Hamilton's Report on ManufacturersIn the end both were right. But here is where Hamilton's point comes into focus: the economy that has been engineered by America's economic elite is not diverse enough for the American population. Everyone can't be a scientist or a doctor or a engineer, everyone can't even be a college graduate, not everyone has that aptitude, and yet, just because one doesn't have the aptitude to be an engineer doesn't mean that one should be relegated to flipping burgers at a fast food joint, where, as Hamilton put it, their labor is "confined to uncongenial pursuits," but this is exactly what has happened in the American economy.
If we take a global view of the job market, what we see is that the American job market is disproportionately comprised of "high skill jobs", while the jobs markets in "developing" countries are disproportionately comprised of "low and medium skill jobs", yet if we look at the labor force what we find is that the American labor force is not comprised of disproportionately "high skilled workers". America is not "exceptional", we are merely "normal". The problem is that our job market is not "normal". Our job market has been manipulated in a way that has put it our of sync with the needs and skills of the population.
The result is that the demand for "high skill workers" exceeds the supply in America, while the supply of "high skill workers" exceeds the demand in most of the rest of the world. This is why so many highly skilled people immigrate to America, because prices in our labor market for high skilled workers are artificially inflated while prices for high skilled workers in most of the rest of the world are artificially depressed due to a jobs market disproportionately comprised of low and medium skilled jobs.
The result of exporting many medium skilled jobs to foreign economies has been growth in truly low skill jobs in America, and a drop in labor prices for everyone except high skilled workers, because now there is a glut of medium skilled workers in America without many jobs for them to fill.
But the thing to remember is that the lack of medium skill level jobs in America isn't a product of the fact that those skills are no longer needed or valuable - - it's a product of the fact that those jobs have been exported to foreign markets by American capitalists. There is still massive demand for the products of medium skilled labor, we just aren't supplying that demand with American workers.
So this is a driver of American economic inequality, and its something that has been completely engineered by the economic elite in this country. The reality is that every country has a relatively equal distribution of worker capabilities. In any given population, aside from war-torn places like Afghanistan and Somalia perhaps, there is going to be pretty much a normal distribution of aptitudes. You are going to have some really capable people and some really incapable people, and the bulk of the population is going to be of moderate capability.
It's absurd to expect any nation to be able to become a nation of nothing but
engineers, scientists, executives and entrepreneurs. That's never going to
happen anywhere. As Alexander Hamilton laid out over 200 years ago, a productive
economy is a diverse economy, that is able to take advantage of the diverse
range of skills, abilities, and aptitudes of its population. What our economic
engineers have done is they have engineered a less diverse economy that does not
match the diverse needs and capabilities of the American population. The result
is artificially inflated prices of "highly skilled labor" and
artificiality depressed prices for all other labor (although there are other
reasons for declines in labor compensation as well). A true global job market,
or a properly functioning global job market, is one in which the distribution of
jobs matches the distribution of labor skills in every location.
American policy for the past several decades, however, of both private industry and the government which does its bidding, has been to try and intentionally distort this distribution, to try to skew the occupational skill distribution and "corner the market" on "high skilled jobs". The government has seen this in part as a measure of "national security" and "national prestige", to have a disproportionate number of "intellectual" workers active in the American economy, and the economic elite has perused this goal out of a combination of naiveté and economic interests, in that doing so inflates the prices of high skilled workers (themselves and their peers) and deflates the prices of low and medium skilled workers, those whose work generates the profits they benefit from.
It's a grand experiment that was always doomed to fail from the beginning, especially considering the lack of support for such an agenda through other aspects of American policy and society. America's conservative populace never wanted the education required to have a population of disproportionately highly skilled workers. And furthermore, even if Americans were more accepting of science and intellectualism, the reality is that the average person is only...average, and always will be. The notion that America would ever be an economy with a disproportionately highly skilled work force is founded on a belief that America could be the Lake Wobegon of the world, a place where "everyone is above average".
We need an economy that matches the needs of the population, not economic elites that ridicule the American population for not fitting into the dystopia that they engineered.
And yet the engineers of American economic dysfunction are more strongly in
power now than ever. Virtually all elected officials in both parties, as well as
the policy "experts" that they appoint and rely on, are beholden to
the interests of America's private economic engineers and buy into their vision.
The fact is that America's elite are largely divorced from reality and they are
pursuing a quasi-Utopian vision for America's future. This includes people like
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, the so-called "good billionaires", as
well as political leaders who are pursuing this agenda for ostensibly altruistic
reasons. This isn't to mention the engineers of our economy whose agenda is
dictated by much more self-serving and/or elitist objectives.
The problem with Utopian visions is that when the goals are set too high and are unachievable then the effects on reality are disastrous. When we engineer an economy where the path to success is only attainable by 2% of the population, and everyone who doesn't make it is discarded and ridiculed, its a recipe for social disaster and collapse, and the important thing to understand is that it doesn't have to be this way - its a product of intentional (and flawed) design.
Basically, what our economy today tells us is, "if you can't be a superstar then you are a worthless piece of shit," but that's not true. Not everyone can start the next global mega-corporation; its not possible, no matter how capable everyone is. We can't have a system where everyone is a general or a ship's admiral. Someone has to man the torpedoes and someone has to be on the front lines, it can't work any other way, and those "front line" positions, the jobs performed by average workers, are a absolutely vital to the productivity of the economy and provide the basis of wealth upon which all of civilization exists and upon which the lifestyles and opportunities of the wealthy elite are afforded.
Ultimately, the root cause of this whole situation is the loss of control over capital by the American public, and so we now come back full circle to debate between Hamilton and Jefferson. Productive opportunities in America no longer reflect to the diversity of capabilities and aptitudes of the population because property ownership has become to concentrated in the hands of banks and corporations, and thus a small wealthy elite who have undermined democracy.
Hamilton and Jefferson were both right.
* I've also touched on this somewhat in an earlier post I did last November about Woodrow Wilson's and Theodore Roosevelt's "Hamiltonian" and "Jeffersonian" philosophies as these ideas had morphed into opposing political views today - - and how the Republicans have used psychology to promote fear to retain or regain their political power.
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Mennonite Scholars from CMU Face Criticism for Meeting with Iranian Clerics from Institution Led By Ahmadinejad's Spiritual Leader0 comments - published on Monday, June 27, 2011
Mennonite Scholars from CMU Face Criticism for Meeting with Iranian Clerics from Institution Led By Ahmadinejad's Spiritual Leader
By Rhonda Spivak, June 23, 2011
Seven Iranian Muslin clerics met at Canadian Mennonite University in Tuxedo in June, for three day of close-door discussions with seven Mennonite theologians from Canada and the United States, the Winnipeg Free Press reported. (See: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/mennonite-theologians-meet-with-iranian-muslim-clerics-123678754.html)
According to the Free Press report the Iranian scholars, consisting of Fanaei Eshkevari and six colleagues from the Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, insisted on closed meetings in order to prevent protests by pro-democracy Iranian Canadians against the Iranian regime.
A CMU professor told the Free Press that although these discussions were intended to be theological, not political, the Iranian scholars asked for closed meetings to prevent a repeat of protests by Iranian Canadians that shut down a public forum at a previous 2007 dialogue in Waterloo.
"It was they (the Iranians) who said we will not come if any of your events are for the public," explained Gordon Zerbe of CMU.
Pro-democracy Iranian Canadians and human rights advocates have criticized the decision of the Canadian Mennonite University for acceding to this request by the Iranian scholars, arguing that the actions by the CMU strengthen the dictatorship of Iran, and undermine the need for regime change.
Sayeh Hassan, an Iranian Canadian lawyer, and human rights activist in Toronto told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that even if the discussions were "theological" in nature, (and not political) "these clerics certainly have a very pro-regime stand." She pointed out, for example that in 2010 one of these clerics, Mohammad Fanaei Eshkevari in an interview with a Italian Magazine Vademecun stated " Iran is the only democratic country in the middle east… Iran is the most popular state in the world… those who demonstrate against the government are a small minority. Western Medias do not show the reality." (http://eshkevari.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/an-interview-with-italian-magazine-vademecum-about-iran/#more-26 emphasis added.)
After noting that the Iranian cleric insisted on a "behind closed doors" discussion to prevent demonstrations by "pro-democracy activists who support the overthrow of the Islamic Regime and creation of a secular and democratic government in Iran," she criticized a Canadian University for agreeing to "such an un-democratic demand."
As she said: "We live in Canada, not Iran, and while it is the norm in Iran to conduct many things including trials, torture, rape and executions behind closed doors, there is no reason for those anti-democratic practices to be carried into Canada by supporters or lobbyists of the Regime. I condemn any dialogue with supporters of the Islamic Regime who has for the past 32 years tortured, raped and executed hundreds of thousands of Iranians and who continue to do so. If this Canadian University was adamant on having these discussions they should at the very least have adhered to democratic Canadian values and made sure the discussions were open to public and transparent."
A Google search done by the Winnipeg Jewish Review found that the institute from which these seven Muslim clerics come from is headed by Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi who is considered one of Iran's most radical clerics and is the spiritual mentor of Iran's President Ahmadinejad. In fact, Mesbah-Yazdi asked and received a budget for the establishment of the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, which he currently heads. ( http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_e048.htm )
When asked for his reaction to this, David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, and Senior Honourary Counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, said "This sort of meeting is problematic because it can be used by the regime for propaganda purposes to give it legitimacy. Anything that helps keep the regime in power is, because of the very nature of the regime, something to be avoided."
However, Rev. James Christie, Professor of Dialogue Theology and Director of the Ridd Institute for Religion & Global Policy at the University of Winnipeg, defended the actions of the Canadian Mennonite University. He wrote to the Winnipeg Jewish Review: "Given that the meetings are closed, I can hardly speculate on what or what might not be discussed. But talks between and among scholars, theologians and any other religious leaders hardly legitimate any given political regime. If there is no talk, there is no progress. I agree with the late Mr. Rabin: 'You don't make peace with your friends.' To refuse to engage may satisfy a certain need to be or to be seen to be politically correct; little else.
"It is difficult to imagine Mennonites not addressing human rights concerns.
"As to outrageous statements by Iranian political leaders, I know that nothing I say influences Mr. Harper's positions. How should I expect something other in a country with a regime such as Iran's.?"
There is nothing in the Winnipeg Free Press report which says specifically that the Mennonite scholars addressed human rights concerns.
Further, when asked by the Winnipeg Jewish Review to respond to Rev. Christie's comments above, Matas replied: "In my view, the expression of human rights concerns, to be effective, should be public and persistent, at the highest level possible. The expression of human rights concerns behind closed doors dissipates the impact of those concerns."
When asked whether he thought that the CMU ought to have met the Iranian clerics behind closed doors, former Liberal MP and human rights activist David Kilgour activist said, "Definitely not. I'm surprised the University would do so. They should know better the nature of the regime by now."
Kilgour, who spoke at the recent Iran 180 Coalition in New York, told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that "We Americans/Canadians generally and the entire world have a responsibility to stand in robust solidarity with the struggle for dignity for all in Iran."
The dialogue marked the fifth formal meeting between Shia Muslim scholars form Iran and Mennonite scholars, and the first time the dialogue took place in Winnipeg. These dialogues began after Iranian religious leaders wanted to learn more about the Mennonites who offered aid and relief supplies through the Mennonite Central Committee after the devastation of the 1990 earthquake in Iran.
Editor's comment: The dialogue with the Iranian Muslim Clerics which took place in our city for the first time so happens to have occurred in the constituency which has the largest Jewish population in Manitoba and very near by, the Asper Jewish Community Campus. Next time the Mennonite scholars choose to invite pro-regime Iranian scholars we ought to suggest that both the Iranian and Mennonite scholars come join us for a screening of the movie "Iranian" about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. It is rather ironic that the screening of the film at an event sponsored by the B'nai Brith Prairie Region and Magen David Adom Canada, also took place at the beginning of June, right around the time when the clerics and Mennonite scholars were dialoguing down the road.
Readers may wish to remember that Robert J. Suderman, general secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, was among several Canadians who attended a dialogue with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008 in New York. One of the sponsoring organizations was the Mennonite Central Committee. They discussed the role of religion in responding to global challenges and building peace and understanding between societies. (http://www.mcc.org/stories/news/religious-and-political-leaders-hold-peacemaking-dialogue)
Readers may also wish to note the recent reports that Iran was the mastermind behind the Syrian government's backing of Palestinian refugees storming Israel's borders on "Nakba Day" and has been backing Bashar Assad's repressive actions to quell the ongoing protests in his country.They have aslo been delivering longer range weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, to be used, sooner or later, against Israel.
Tonight I attended an event in honor and memory of Abdollah and Mohammad Fatehi two brave brothers who were recently executed by the Islamic Regime in Iran.
The event had been organized by family members and friends of Fatehi brothers. There were a number of speakers including the Uncle of Fatehi brothers and his wife. Both mother and father of Fatehi brothers also joined us via telephone conference and thanked everyone worldwide who had stood by their family during this tragic time.
While it was an emotionally difficult night for me, I also left the event with a renewed sense of strength and motivation.
I am still in awe of Fatehi brothers mother who after losing two of her sons is still able to stand strong and encourage people to come together to get rid of the Islamic Regime in Iran.
A theme that seemed to be running through the night was that we need to stop crying, we need to stand strong and united against this brutal Regime. Only with strength, unity and determination will we be able to defeat this Regime.
This takes me back to a few years ago when I wrote a post titled "Never let the enemy see you sad or defeated" I wrote that post
in honor of Akbar Mohammadi who fought against the Regime until his death in the Evin Prison and Majid Kavousifar who went to his execution with a smile on his face.
It took me a while to understand the meaning behind that smile, but I realized that there is nothing more important than standing strong, united and proud against the Regime.
Tonight I am writing this post in Honor of Fatehi brothers and their very brave mother who reminded me once again the importance of standing strong and continuing in the path of Fatehi brothers and all other freedom fighters who have gone to their death holding their heads up, with a smile on their face and with the knowladge that thousands of others would follow in their footsteps until the Islamic Regime is overthrown.
The execution of Fatehi brothers has been a unifying force among Iranians and hopefully this tragic loss will be the beginning of the end for the Islamic Regime in Iran.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Rememberance for Fatehi Brothers- This Saturday June 11th in Toronto0 comments - published on Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Dear Friends,
A rememberence event is being organized by the family and friends of Abdollah and Mohammad Fatehi in Toronto for this coming Saturday (June 11th from 5pm to 8pm)
Please below find all necessary details below:
Date: Saturday June 11th
Time: 5pm-8pm
Place: Thornhill Community Centre: 7755 Bayview Ave. Thornhill
یادمانی به نام عشق و انسانیت
هرشب ستاره ای به زمین می کشند
باز این آسمان غمزده غرق ستاره هاست
در سحرگاه سه شنبه ۱۷ مه ۲۰۱۱ دو جوان، دو برادر عاشق انسانیت و زندگی، عبدالهن و محمد فتحی، توسط جمهوری اسلامی ایران اعدام گردیدند.
یادمان محمد و عبدالله مجلس سوگواری نیست، هر چند سوگواریم.
یادمان این عزیزان زانوی غم بغل گرفتن نیست، گر چه غمزده ایم.
این یادمان اما صدائیست علیه بی عدالتی، علیه شکنجه، علیه اعدام و جنایات رژیم اسلامی.
با حضور و همراهی تان این صدای اعتراض را هر چه رساتر کنیم.
مراسم شامل شعرخوانی، نمایش ویدئو و پیام از خانواده محمد و عبدالله
زمان: ساعت 5 تا 8 بعد از ظهر، روز شنبه 11 جون 2011
مکان: Thornhill Community Centre: 7755 Bayview Ave. Thornhill
(واقع در شمال شرقی تقاطع خیابانهای بی ویو و جان)
تماس: 416 407 7922
از طرف خانواده های فتحی و علاسوندی، رفقا و بستگان


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So...when is baby remastered coming out, as I got my original stolen and I want to want to the remastered comes out instead of buying the original. And did you know Baby went to number 1 in Austria (not Australia, Americans lol) the country where Arnold Swazenegger and Hitler was born also likes Yello hey? hmmm
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I will have to wait, I'm not giving in.
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He certainly fouled more people than Wright did. 5 (in 15 minutes) compared to Wright's 0. Brandan got just as many rebounds and shot a better % from the floor.
Lasme can block shots WAY better, but we already knew that.
He also scored more, something that isn't expected of the small school, second rounder. BWright is the one with all the hype and expectation, anything Lasme gives is an added bonus
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