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and Russian beneficiaries of oil vouchers, a list compiled by Iraq's oil ministry included Benon V. Sevan, a career U.N. officer chosen by Kofi Annan himself to run the "Food for Oil" program.According to Therese Raphael, author of the Wall Street Journal's article and editorial page editor of the Journal's European edition, Mr. Sevan's response was that the international servants of the United Nations take their marching orders from the Security Council. She adds: "It might have been more accurate to acknowledge the U.N. took marching orders from Saddam."
Now, we at AFSI do not wish to lay all this corruption at the feet of Kofi Annan. Poor dear, he is so busy with his social whirl of balls, benefits, premieres, and dinner parties that he can barely find the time for his weekly scolding of Israel. Nonetheless, it behooves him to, at the very least, demand an investigation.
Ruth King is a member of the executive committee of Americans For A Safe Israel.
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Under assault from fundamentalist Moslems, most of the community had fled. Now there are reports of a campaign of violence against Christians in Basra, the southernmost Shiite port city. The days of that Christian minority appear to be numbered as well. David Bukay, a professor in Haifa University's political science department, observes: "We are the only democracy in the world with Arab religious sectarian parties that all identify themselves as Palestinian. This is insane. There are three Arab parties in the Knesset, all working with different strategies to destroy the state of Israel. Such a phenomenon is unheard of in other Western countries."
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