The Incredible Bulk Attacks Karin Friedemann

In The outsourcing of stupidity in the English-language Arab press, Hussein Ibish, who is a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership, evinces some sort of mad-on

• for my wife Karin Friedemann, who is an op-ed columnist for the Khaleej Times as well as Director of the Division on Muslim Civil Rights and Liberties for the National Association of Muslim American Women, and
  
• for Jeff Gates, who is an eminent author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide; an adviser to policy-makers worldwide; former counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee; and author of numerous articles and books including his latest book Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War, Democracy at Risk and The Ownership Solution.

I have previously discussed Ibish in the following blog entries:

1. trained arab parrots antisemitism accusation
2. arab american two-staters go insane
3. khaleej times: americans divided by hate crimes bill
4. kabobfest: palestinian president hussein ibish reaches peace
5. "...banks should remain in private hands"

Relatively minor Arab and South Asian English-language publications like Khaleej Times, which has published Jeff in addition to Karin, comprise the majority of international English-language printed journals, where one can find nearly uncensored articles by scholars and journalists with views that diverge from Zionist orthodoxy.

The attempt of Ibish to censor the content of English-language Arab media is intriguing.

Is it related to Haim Saban’s attempts to influence the Arabic-language content of Arabic media?

Is this effort just part of Fatah’s effort to stay on the US government gravy train by pleasing administration Zionists?

Karin hypothesizes that Ibish is looking for a Fusion Center grant, but Ibish as a Fatah supporter may simply be angry that Karin’s analysis tends to undermine the demonization of Hamas.

I do Karin’s fact checking. I try to maintain the standards of the New Yorker before it dove into the Zionist deep end.

Ibish attacks material that I verified in the BBC and with which even Lawrence Wright agreed in The Looming Tower.

In my analysis of what al-Qaeda is versus what the US government claims it is, I am following Harvard Kennedy School scholar Thomas Hegghammer.

I am somewhat baffled that Ibish appears to deny that Dennis Ross and Rahm Emanuel are extremist Zionists.

I am really disgusted that Ibish focuses on Karin’s name and alleged Western origins but not on her arguments.

Ibish also takes a crack at Karin's religious beliefs even though his frequently bragging about sexual conquests hardly makes him an exemplary Muslim.

What Sort of Organization is the ATFP?

A recent Jewish Telegraphic Authority article entitled Jones at ATFP describes the organization's recent gala:

There was a wide range of Middle East policymakers and experts among the 600 in attendance — Obama administration officials Dan Shapiro and Dennis Ross, J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami, The Israel Project founder and president Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi and former Bush administration official Elliott Abrams were among those spotted.

Jeff Gates Responds

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-gates

With the ADL's Hate Crimes legislation working its way to enactment, intimidation and guilt-by-association ploys are to be expected. I would be worried if they were NOT appearing. There will be more. Lots more. Why? The problem remains this: the facts remain the facts, period, full stop.

Here's four "how" analyses that appeared elsewhere some weeks ago that are now taking on a second life as they appear on Veterans Today and on Opinion Maker, a Muslim-oriented website out of Pakistan.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=124829&d=24&m=7&y=2009

http://aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/How_Israel_wages_war_in_plain_sight.html

http://intifada-palestine.com/2009/08/20/how-israel-wages-game-theory-warfare/

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/09/14/jeff-gates-how-israels-nuclear-arsenal-endangers-us-all/

Veterans Today gave the first "how" analysis a more provocative title and then sent it to the Opinion Maker site where it appeared with the same title:

http://www.opinion-maker.org/navigation.do?mode=showArticles&id=981

Also a review that (also) recently appeared on Opinion Maker:

http://www.israelshamir.net/shamirReaders/english/Freeland--Some-Dare-Call-It-Treason.php

If your readers are unaware of Haim Saban's role in this trans-generational duplicity, see for example:

http://intifada-palestine.com/2009/08/06/anti-zionists-the-new-heretics/

http://criminalstate.com/blog/?p=60

Note that Bill Clinton is working with him on the Aljazeera transaction.

By the way, The New Yorker has long been problematic. Bernard Baruch's publicist posted a major puff piece there on the so-called "the Park Bench diplomat" just as he received the first Pulitzer for "journalism" -- Herbert Bayard Swope. Akin to the the Nobel prize in economics (and peace) -- the credibility-enhancing power-of-association that this syndicate has long deployed with (to date) great success. Those days are now numbered - as are theirs.

Here's an analysis of the Nobel for Obama that you will not find in the media dominated by the usual suspects in the U.S., Canada, Germany, India and the U.K.:

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/10/13/tel-aviv-peace-and-the-obama-prize/

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