January 17, 2007 Letters and Announcements to Al-Jazeerah Editor

Add on information for Al-Jazeerah Front Page: US Aid to Israel

Regarding your two counters on the front page: (1) Gross US National Debt & (2) Cost of the War in Iraq.

Is there any counter or easily up date information weekly or monthly Counter with Information on Total US. Dollars $ Given to the State of Israel to posting date. Which would be included with the two Counters above ?

Ron Kennedy

Editor:

I don't know of such a counter but it's a good idea. Readers are urged to find or design one. It would be an important educational effort.

Double Standard = Worst Example

Hello,

I've been saying for over 30 years that as long as the U.S. treats Israel like God's Chosen Master Race and the Palestinians are mistreated, there will never be a chance for peace in the Middle East and the U.S. will never have any genuine credibility in the world...

All the Best,

Scott Young

" Harper's foreign policy."

Jan. 16, 2007

The Editor, The Globe & Mail.

Jeffrey Simpson, in his column: {" Stephen Harper's proactive inactive foreign policy" Jan. 16}, has it exactly right when he says: " Mr. Harper has shifted Canada's position on the Palestinian-Israeli question to align the country with the preferences of the Canada-Israel Committee."

Canada's credibility is not only shattered in the Arab and Muslim worlds but also amongst the vast majority of members of the international community who still care for international law, the UN Charter and universal human rights, which Israel continues to completely disregard.

Yours sincerely,

Ismail Zayid, MD. Canada

Germany bids to outlaw denial of Holocaust across continent

Dear Editor,

Tony Blair describes the veil worn by some Muslim women is divisive, Western politicians and newspapers defame the Prophet Muhammad on a daily basis and Muslims Worldwide (including Germany) have to deal with daily verbal and physical assaults solely because they are Muslim.

These assaults on Muslims and Islam are defended as freedom of speech by those who conduct these actions and make these derogatory remarks.

And yet, these same groups are working to criminalize denial of the Holocaust?

While I also agree that the Holocaust and the atmosphere surrounding its genesis (similar to that which currently exists in Western attitudes toward Muslims and Islam) as criminal and reprehensible, I find the banning of Holocaust denial, while the West embraces and defends verbal and physical abuse of Muslims, the ultimate example of hypocrisy!

This is a double standard whose very defense is indefensible!

Timothy Stinson

Miami, Florida, USA

Germany bids to outlaw denial of Holocaust across continent • Nazi symbols and racist speech 'should be banned' • Prince Harry's fancy dress would have broken law http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1991371,00.html

Palestinians in Iraq

Important Community-Wide Meeting Sunday January 21, 2007

Al-Awda's San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles/Orange County Chapters will be hosting an important community-wide meeting:

Sunday January 21, 2007

starting at 2 PM

at Al-Awda's new office in Carlsbad, San Diego (for directions, see below).

The meeting is called by Al-Awda's West Coast Refugee Support Committee.

All members and supporters of our community are invited to this urgent meeting to hear about the current situation of Palestinians in Iraq.

Our Palestinian brothers and sisters, first driven out from their own homeland by the invading Zionists in 1948, are now being forced out of Iraq, and hundreds are stranded on the borders with Syria and Jordan.

To download, print and distribute the flyer for this important meeting, please go to http://al-awdacal.org/pdf/rsj21fly.pdf

DIRECTIONS

Al-Awda's Office is located at:

2734 Loker Avenue West Suite K, Carlsbad, CA 92010.

From I-5, exit Palomar Airport Blvd and head East - make a left on Loker Avenue West (first left after you cross El Camino Real) and left into Carlsbad Crossroads business center. End 2734 Loker Avenue West Suite K.

From I-15, exit I-78 West. From I-78 exit San Marcos Blvd and head >West. San Marcos Blvd becomes Palomar Airport Blvd when you enter Carlsbad. Loker Avenue West will be on your right, past the Melrose Drive and El Fuerte intersections.

From El Camino Real, go East on Palomar Airport Blvd and make a (first) >left on Loker Avenue West.

For further information, please contact:

West Coast Refugee Support Committee Al-Awda,

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

PO Box 131352 Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA Tel: 760-685-3243 E-mail: refugee_support@al-awdacal.org WWW: http://al-awdacal.org