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To: JohnM who wrote (42022)	9/4/2002 9:28:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) has decided to celebrate the first anniversary of September 11th by giving an award to ... wait for it ... Edward Said. Not unnaturally, this has sent Martin Kramer into a fit, and he has an extended riff in a new article Mesa Culpa meforum.org Kramer points out that the government has just founded a program to pay for language-training centers on campus, called NLFI. Does Mesa welcome more training in Middle Eastern languages? Nah, they're boycotting it. Some of the students might become government agents, and that would be too awful. Not to be outdone, Spain has just awarded its highest peace prize to Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said. ca.news.yahoo.com You can fit Said's peace activities into a thimble. He broke with Arafat when Arafat signed Oslo.

To: JohnM who wrote (42022)	9/12/2002 11:37:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

John, here is an article from the Jpost describing a) how the Durban conference was used to demonize Israel and Jews, b) how the UN and NGOs have since proclaimed that Durban was a big success, and the Jews are myopic whiners, and c) how Mary Robinson was front and center in these efforts. Since Durban: An entrenchment of hatred By ANNE BAYEFSKY This week marks the anniversary of another hate-filled event with broad international repercussions, the UN World Conference Against Racism. A racist anti-racism spectacle, courtesy of the United Nations, it concluded in Durban, South Africa on September 8, 2001. The streets carrying banners reading "the blood of the martyrs irrigates the tree of revolution in Palestine" and "George W. Bush: Palestinian blood is on your hands" presaged the glorification of violence that lay ahead. The intervening year has not been one of exorcizing, lessons-learned reviews. On the contrary, the UN sponsor and the international human rights organizations that failed at the critical hour have engaged in a systematic cover-up and entrenchment of the Durban agenda. The UN calls it "follow-up." The follow-up campaign to Durban has been sweeping. jpost.com