US Internal Politics and Isreal [Zionist] LobbyIsrael and Palestine
Most agree that the US is key to resolving the conflict but what are the US internal political ramifications? Is the US held hostage to its own internal politics and religious pressures? Recent discussion has brought the "Israel Lobby" more clearly into focus ...
Monday, August 20, 2007
NY city’s Arabic school: new principal’s two passions in life as Israel and educating youngsters.
NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL OCCUPIED BY ZIONISTS On Wednesday I posted about a school principal in New York that was forced to resign as a result of zionist pressures put on her. Apparently there is allot more to that story....
The title of my post was 'Palestinian Intifada Reaches New York City Schools'. I was wrong calling it that.... it should have been called ISRAELI OCCUPATION REACHES NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS.
Read the following to see why.... be sure to see the contact info at the end.
NY’s 1st Arabic School Occupied by a Zionist Principal!
ISLAM PROF IS ‘ZION’-HEARTED
By CHUCK BENNETT and JOHN MAZOR
New York Post
The new principal of the city’s controversial Arabic-themed school is an ardent Zionist who considered moving to Israel, according to her former Jerusalem roommate.
The latest revelation puts a strange twist on the saga of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the new city school that’s been in the cross hairs of critics since its inception.
Interim Principal Danielle Salzberg, 35, hosted an orientation seminar at the Brooklyn school yesterday for parents and students.
It was her first full day on the job since the school’s original principal, Debbie Almontaser, a Muslim and Arabic-speaker, quit last week. She had been caught up in a furor over her comments to The Post downplaying the “Intifada NYC” T-shirts her organization was linked to.
Salzberg’s former roommate Aliza Hemed described the new principal’s two passions in life as Israel and educating youngsters. And, in the end, Salzberg chose teaching New York City’s youth over life in the Holy Land.
“If anything, she was a Zionist. She had every intention to make aliyah [Hebrew for immigration to Israel] and move there, but she came back and fell in love with her [students] and the job,” said Hemed.
“Most American Orthodox [Jews] have a love of Israel - I’m sure it’s still in her.”
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Action Alert:
1 - Write to Joel Klein, the NYC Department of Education Chancellor, expressing your disgust at his department’s decision
Use this link http://schools.nyc.gov/webforms/chancellormessage.aspx
(FYI, Klein is the same person who banned the director of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, Professor Rashid Khalidi, from participating in a NYC school teachers’ training on the Middle East because of his criticism of Israel, and the one who approved a curriculum that grants graduate credit to NYC teachers who take a 30-hour course of study on Israel, written by the Israeli Consulate.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
US candidate Giuliani warns on Palestinian state
US candidate Giuliani warns on Palestinian state | Tue Aug 14, 2:10 PM ETWASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican 2008 White House front-runner Rudolph Giuliani warned Tuesday it was not in the interest of the United States to help create a Palestinian state that would "support terrorism." ...
