Interesting newspaper. No wonder Osama bin Laden wants to put rightful heir to throne of Saudi Arabia back in power after the murder of his father by Black Panther/Nationalist from Berkley. And of course Hill and Bill were supporting Panthers then as they do today. What if KKK had come to the party in Texas loaded with AK's like the kids had at Littleton? One would think they would have at least been gassed, sho with rubber bullets, jaws broken as example Seattle? A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy
_______ ____ ______ / |/ / /___/ / /_ // M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ F L A S H B A C K - More About Zogby http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, & Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! --------------- MER - IF YOU DON'T GET IT, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------- MER FLASHBACK - Washington Scene - 2 years ago: JUST CALL ME "UNCLE JIM" "I am delighted to call Jim Zogby my friend. We share values and passions... He is also far more willing to meet and work (publicly!) with the Jewish community than many of our leaders are with the Arab American community..." Rabbi Jack Moline Washington Jewish Week, 12/19/96 MER - June 1998: In essence Zogby is essentially a Public Relations hack for the Saudis and other Arab client regimes. Others might consider him a kind of political mistress -- after all a lot of attractive women come to DC and find themselves in such "compromised" relationships; and something similar happens with guys like Zogby whose tongues, rather than bodies, are for sale if the price is right. And still others take seriously the long-heard rumors of Zogby family ties to the CIA going back some years, including a certain Ghosm Zogby who it now comes out was the first CIA station chief in Beirut in the 50s (though Jim Zogby refuses to discuss the family "connections"). Masquerading with the media as the spokesman for Arab Americans -- Jim Zogby is the Arab for all seasons. He is the darling of the Arab client regimes and they do all they can to push him forward and arm him with money and contacts; the Uncle Tom for American Jews who always call on him to arrange meetings and "dialog" with "the Arabs"; the co-opted Arab contact for the politicos whenever they need a place to give a speech and get their pictures taken...as "Kosher Kitchen" Bill Clinton did last evening. With substantial financial help from the regimes and their friends, Zogby made himself President of the "Arab American Institute" (AAI) he created a decade ago after getting thrown out on the street from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) when the stench got too great even for them. Zogby just picked right up and rolled right over ADC, which too this day fears him and refuses to challenge him. Ever since Zogby has been pushed forward by various regimes and political/ financial interests, especially the Saudis who feature him weekly on their cable TV channel that continually propagandizes Arab Americans. Here too remember: just think of Arab Network of America (ANA) as Saudi Cable TV for Arab Americans. The amazing thing about Zogby is that many Arabs Americans -- even those distant from Washington realities, and even many of those who interact regularly with him -- consider him the biggest Uncle Tom ever. He recently upset even some of his sympathizers when it was leaked in the Al-QUDS AL-ARABI, a London-based Arabic, newspaper that he suggested increasing the sanctions on Iraq instead of the bombing! "I have a stake in seeing that Israel's aid does not get cut... Anybody who raises the question of cutting aid to Israel puts the peace process at risk." James Zogby Christian Science Monitor - 10/19/98 And it was only a few years ago that Zogby publicly complimented Bill Clinton for his appointments to the White House, National Security Council, and State Department, even though never before in history has an American government been so riddled with former officials of the Israeli/Jewish lobby. He even went out of his way in public to single out Martin Indyk, the man who formerly ran the Israeli lobby think-tank, for compliments, helping consolidate his appointment first to the National Security Council and more recently as Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East! Gee, there must have been extra checks to "Uncle Jim" for that one! Of course Zogby always says, when cornered, that he was "misquoted" or "misunderstood". But the damage Zogby causes to the political representation of Arab Americans is immense and continual. Examples are numerous. Last year, for instance, when the crisis of the Har Homa settlement was escalating the Palestinian "Authority" sent the "minister" of Higher Education, Hanan Ashrawi, to Washington. Zogby held a press conference for Ashrawi; but then dominated it himself. As with other Arab American political events, most of the attendees were Palestinian and Arab American. No attempts were made to invite outsiders or representatives of progressive groups who could suggest insights, solutions, or plans for actions from their own experiences. Zogby dominated the meeting and simply wanted to get his name once more in front of the Arab press. Meanwhile, all he had to offer was the silly suggestion for concerned persons to call the White House to voice their concerns. And then weekly, on his ANA TV show, Zogby continually gives his highly distorted but always politically-correct versions of Middle Eastern problems. He always presents major issues as simply "disputes" or "misunderstandings" rather than as fundamental and basic controversies. And of course he never admits, or invites anyone else to even discuss, that the "Peace of the Brave" is really the "Peace of the Weak", the "Peace of the Co-opted". Nor of course does he ever mention the term "client-regimes", or invite anyone else who might; nor ever mention the terrible human rights and political rights abuses going on in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and these days Arafat's "Authority". To quote an Arab observer of this ongoing political farce whereby it is Jim Zogby, the well-known Arab Uncle Tom, who one continually sees on TV "representing" Arab Americans: "Zogby's show is as serious as a cheap made-for-TV comedy." But alas, alot of people watch, and a lot of people don't know what they are watching. 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