-Caveat Lector- University Of Hartford To Grant Israeli President Honorary Degree <i><b>"The gap is not only in capabilities, but also moral and cultural,". Indeed, it must be the end of time when the scum's of earth are deluded by cheaply bought suits of "honor". - Moshe Katsav</i></b> RACISM BEING SUPPORTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD MOSHE KATSAV SHOULD NOT BE "HONORED" Moshe Katsav has a long history of ADVOCATING BRUTAL FORCE TO CRUSH PALESTINIAN ASPIRATIONS [eliminate::::racism, bigotry and obsessive hatred of Palestinians]. As early as 1989, the Jerusalem Post reported "Transport Minister Moshe Katsav yesterday put forward his prescription for ending the intifada [Palestinian uprising for Independence]: close the territories for three months, ban movement of Palestinian labourers to Israel, and bar the media from the areas while deploying troops massively so as to put an end to the Arab riots. " (JP, May 11, 1989). As a Likud MK, Katsav said to the illegal Hebron settlers in 1996: "The Likud has no intention of recognizing the Oslo accords, and will at any price prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state" (The Jerusalem Post February 7, 1996). Katsav's most blatant racist remarks were are described in the following article which appeared in the Jerusalem Post on May 10. Note that his comments were made to a group of children. An immense gap exists between Israel and its enemies, President Moshe Katsav said today. "The gap is not only in capabilities, but also moral and cultural," Katsav said. Katsav made his remarks at a Bar- and Bat-Mitzvah ceremony for 86 children whose fathers died while serving in the IDF, Army Radio reported. "It seems to me that a few hundred meters from here there are people who not only do not identify with our continent or even planet Earth, rather they seem to be from another galaxy, a completely different world," Katsav said. "The gap between them and us is immense," he added. (JP 5/10/01) The May 15 edition of Ha'aretz, Danny Rubinstein addressed some of Katsav's racist remarks explaining that it has become fashionable in Israeli media to label innocent Palestinians killed as "mistakes" while labeling Israelis killed as "murdered" and that this is precisely fed by such remarks as those of Katsav. A letter by Dr. Veronika Cohen to Ha'aretz published May 21 also is relevant. It stated: "President Moshe Katsav recently asserted that Palestinians are so different from us Israelis that they cannot be conceived of as belonging to the same region or continent, indeed the same galaxy, to which we belong....Never mind that this astonishing declaration of our moral superiority came the same week during which we murdered a four-month-old Palestinian baby.... For shame, Mr. President? Do you follow the news?" If Israelis think like this about Katsav, why is the University of Hartford offering him an honorary degree? This is not to mention that Katsav represents a government that is widely condemned throughout the world for its record of Human rights violations. Amnesty International strongly condemned what it called the Israeli army's "iron fist" military tactics against Palestinian civilians. "There is a pattern of gross human rights violations that may well amount to war crimes," according to AI's international research director, Claudio Cordone (Nov. 1, 2000). Investigations by Human Rights Watch, Physicians For Human Rights, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, and the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights have all contradicted the Israeli army assertions that they are showing restraint and have documented patterns of human rights violations by Israeli occupation authorities. These detailed reports are available online and refute the Israeli government lines. In the last seven months, the Israeli army has killed 500 and injured over 17,000 Palestinians. One third of the victims were under the age of 18. The Israeli army continues its policy of demolishing homes, collective punishment, uprooting trees, and siege of towns. Katsav continued to provide racist remarks to support these policies. Shame on the University of Hartford for honoring such a man. ----------- Please write to these folks to voice your concerns:. Hartford Courant [EMAIL PROTECTED] President Walter Harrison: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Provost Donna M. Randall: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President for External Relations W. Stephen Jeffrey: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dean of the Faculty Diane Prusank: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send copies of your letters to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There will be a public protest (initiated by the Progressive Student Alliance): Meet in Elizabeth Park, on the corner of Prospect and Asylum Streets in Hartford, at 10 am on Sunday, June 3rd. We will then march to the University to complain about their choice of this person for an honorary degree. 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