The events in Egypt might distract us from everything else, as the old poem by Amr bin Kalthoum said about the Bani Taghlib tribe. The events in Egypt are considerably more important than a poem, or a volume of poetry; however, I have other news to comment on… in prose, naturally. There is a common denominator among those whom I want to read my opinion of them: I say to them all, to hell with you, which is my opinion of them, their political stances, and their morals. --Peter King is a congressman, and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the United States House of Representatives. He wants to open an investigation into Islamic radicalism, and claimed in a newspaper interview on 20 December 2010 that “we are under siege by Muslim terrorists.” I say that he is a liar, charlatan and extremist. People have not forgotten his support for the terror of the Irish Republican Army, and he now supports Israeli terror against Palestinians, meaning that he is a partner to it. More than 50 Islamic groups, human rights organizations and religious bodies have expressed their anxiety about King's views; this means he stands convicted before he even begins the investigations, since his extremism cannot be compared to their moderation. --Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is threatening the United Nations with withholding millions of dollars from the US' contribution to the world body's budget, if it does not undertake “serious reforms.” The congresswoman's remarks require translation. She is a Jewish emigrant to Florida and an extremist Likudnik who supports Israel absolutely. Her campaign against the UN is taking place because the world body includes an absolute majority of countries that regularly condemn Israel and its terror. This does not suit people like Ros-Lehtinen, who support the occupation, settlements, killing and destruction. I argue that the opinion of a Likudnik from Florida cannot be compared to the world's opinion of Israel. It is a terrorist, racist state and there are more resolutions against it than any other country in the UN. They even exceed the resolutions against a group of states from the same continent. For every dollar that the United Sates pays to the UN, it will receive four dollars in return, since the UN building is in New York, and receives many visitors, such as heads of state, heads of government, ministers, delegations and advisors. The money they spend on hotels, transportation and other purchases more than double America's share of the UN budget, which is about $4.8 billion, of which the US pays 33 per cent, or around $600 million. Ros-Lehtinen is not alone. The leaders of the Republican Party in the House have begun a campaign to reduce the country's participation in funding, relying on a website that proposes ways to reduce the US budget deficit, of $1.5 trillion. This means that the entire UN budget is nothing compared to the deficit. --Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, who was talked about as a Republican presidential candidate for next year, was recently a guest of the Israeli organization for settlement in Jerusalem. He stated, pleasing his hosts, that the Jews have a right to settle Jerusalem and all of Biblical Israel, and if the Palestinians want to live in a state, they must ask the Arabs for it, and not Israel. To this Likudnik, evangelical preacher, I say that Palestine extends from the sea to the Jordan River, and that Israel is a false superstition that never once existed. There were Jewish tribes or population concentrations, but not kings or charlatan prophets. I say this based on information and actual history, not an extreme opinion that defends the fascists of Israel, or demands the execution of anyone who leaked American diplomatic communications to Wikileaks. --Bernard-Henri Levy is sometimes described as a philosopher, but I find him to be a public relations figure who lives off his contacts. The French have criticized his “philosophical” writings and ideas. Last year, there was a big scandal when in criticizing Immanuel Kant, Levy cited a French philosopher named Jean-Baptiste Botul, who does not exist, but was the creation of a French journalist and philosopher, Frederic Pages. Levy wrote a column in The Huffington Post entitled “Why the Call to ‘Boycott Israel' is crap.” Levy himself is crap and in the same newspaper, Omar Barghouti responded, and completely tore him apart. I will say only that the Israel boycott is being led by academics, among them many pro-peace Jews, while Levy supports an undemocratic state, a state of occupation and Apartheid that kills women and children, and its government is made up of the Likud, Shas and Israel Beitenu gangs, which represent the affiliation of this supposed philosopher. [email protected]
