Of course, you are correct. Strange as the claim is, many believe it. Still remember an Israeli marching into a Palestinian costume exhibit organized by a group of students at UCLA c. '89 with our own & borrowed pieces who began yelling "There was no Palestine." I was afraid he might damage something, but he left. Same response to an Arabic music concert I organized at MIT in '91 by an Israeli visitor who said "there is no Palestinian music. There is no Arabic music, he (Simon Shaheen) is inventing a tradition."
I wish you had not published this on this particular day. Too bad those who supposedly support freedom and democracy do not support the new Constiution in Egypt which gives women and minorities equality, criminalizes discrimination, omits al-Azhar's supervision over civil law (as much as it relates to shari'ah) and much more. Egypt does NOT prefer a North Korean model, but it does not prefer an Iranian, Hizbullah nor a Taliban model at this time.
Of course, you are correct. Strange as the claim is, many believe it. Still remember an Israeli marching into a Palestinian costume exhibit organized by a group of students at UCLA c. '89 with our own & borrowed pieces who began yelling "There was no Palestine." I was afraid he might damage something, but he left. Same response to an Arabic music concert I organized at MIT in '91 by an Israeli visitor who said "there is no Palestinian music. There is no Arabic music, he (Simon Shaheen) is inventing a tradition."
How is it a "onesided" conference when the despicable Syrian government is represented as is the opposition?
I wish you had not published this on this particular day. Too bad those who supposedly support freedom and democracy do not support the new Constiution in Egypt which gives women and minorities equality, criminalizes discrimination, omits al-Azhar's supervision over civil law (as much as it relates to shari'ah) and much more. Egypt does NOT prefer a North Korean model, but it does not prefer an Iranian, Hizbullah nor a Taliban model at this time.