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sands of visas and covertly helped plan the escape of thousands of Jewish refugees, even going so far as to hide them in his home. Among those whose escape he facilitated were Marc Chagall and the Nobel physicist Otto Meyerhoff.Eventually, the State Department punished him for his "disobedience." He was sent to Argentina where he remained until the end of the war. While posted to Buenos Aires, he agitated against Argentina's harboring of Nazi war criminals. Washington's failure to take action on this matter ultimately caused him to resign from the Foreign Service, dooming what was left of a once promising career.
Rep. Rob Simmons, whose article in the Connecticut Jewish Ledger of March 23 details the heroism of Hiram Bingham, states: "Bingham sacrificed his career as he took an unyielding stand to do what was right and serve humanity."
Rep. Simmons plans to introduce a bill to honor Hiram Bingham by issuing a commemorative stamp in Bingham's memory. AFSI applauds this effort and we thank Rob Simmons and the Ledger for telling us about an American hero.
The recent spate of shootings in schools by minors has properly elicited much discussion in the American media. This potential for violence among teenagers, and its roots, is a serious issue.
One has to wonder, however, what all the commentators, counselors, therapists, and journalists make of the potential for violence among Arab youth. What do they think of a society whose clerics, community leaders, journalists, and teachers encourage, and, in fact, teach violence and murder of Jews?
A cursory glance at the school books, or an honest translation of the sermons and speeches even in nations such as Jordan or Egypt which have "peace agreements" with Israel, will disclose this incitement to hatred and violence.
Among the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria and Gaza, children are sent to rampage, to throw rocks, to hurt, to maim, to kill. These children are called "martyrs" by their own parents. Their violence is glorified and their entire community holds them up as exemplars.
Do American commentators who speak so volubly about violence in our schools ever give a serious thought to the legacy of this education in murder and racism? Alas. Instead of a serious discussion of this issue, all we get is the usual pap. If only Israel would give more concessions, this violence would stop. The concession Arabs are taught to demand is Israel's suicide, but don't expect the American media to acknowledge this fact.
Ruth King is a member of the executive committee of Americans For a Safe Israel.
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pendable signatory to anti-Israel ads over the years, he served as a board member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (along with Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Jesse Jackson) and as sponsor of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, which worked to create a pro-PLO coalition in the U.S. But Falk's chief fame was as an enthusiastic supporter (in company with former attorney general Ramsey Clark) of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Clark and Falk visited Khomeini while he was still in Paris (and the Shah still ruled Iran) and on the basis of that visit reassured the American public that the Ayatollah was a "moderate" man. (At the time this was very important in building international support for Khomeini.) Falk wrote in the New York Times that the American press had "defamed" Khomeini and "the depiction of him as fanatical, reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false," the work of political opponents seeking to frighten people. His entourage of close advisers, wrote Falk, "is uniformly composed of moderate, progressive individuals."
When, upon assuming power, Khomeini turned out to be all that his opponents accused him of, and more, Falk did not falter in his support. On the contrary, in June 1980, seven months after the U.S. embassy had been seized and the American hostages imprisoned, Falk and Ramsey Clark went on a pilgrimage to Teheran, where they participated in the anti-American "war crimes" tribunal organized by the Khomeini government and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (then a Soviet-controlled international Communist front organization).
Falk is currently one of three international
"experts" on the UN Human Rights Commission
preparing a report on the use of force by Israel against
Palestinians in their current mini-war against her. The
Israeli government has announced it will not cooperate
with the commission, which has been touring
PA-controlled territory, because of its obvious hostility. In fact, the
resolution which established the commission states
that Israel's actions "constitute a war crime and a
crime against humanity," this before the commission
even began its work! And lest there be any doubt where
Falk stands, in the Winter 2000 issue of MERIP's
Middle East Report (Stork's old stamping ground), Falk
begins his article "International Law and the al-Aqsa
Intifada" by declaring that though the Israeli government and
the U.S. media persist in describing the intifada as a dis-
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