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Brackets [ ] is my commentary.Quotes “” means I’m (as best I can) quoting verbatim.
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denotes a question/comment from an audience member.Consul General Mr. Fascist (F)Moderator Professor Banafsheh Keynoush (M)Professor As’ad AbuKhalil (AK)F: Wants to live in peace with Palestinians and does not interfere with Palestinian politics.AK: While Israeli diplomats speak of peace their soldiers kill Palestinians. “I believe in forms of all boycott in” Israel and my participation does not contradict the view of boycott.It is easy to say one is sick of conflict when one has bee instigating conflict [through settlements,invasions, terrorism, etc.] since the 1930s. Israel got 50% plus of land by UN mandate nowcontrols 90% with official territory of over 70%.Ben-Gurrion was racist towards Arabs and said “they were like children.” The idea of transfer did not begin with Avigdor Libermen but is earlier to Ben-Gurion and other original Zionists.There were peace offers by Arab leaders [which AK opposed] and were turned down bysuccessive Israeli coalition governments.From 1948 to 1960s thousands of Palestinian civilians were shot like pigeons by Israeli soldiers because they were checking on their farms (Benny Morris in the book 
 Righteous Victims
).Camp David Peace Accord, Invasions and occupation in between of peace offers. In my yearsIsrael has bombed a number of Middle Eastern countries.Ariel Sharon: was fed propaganda by F who could not get away with that in Israel as he would be laughed at out loud.[Begins his statement]The IDF released estimates on the latest incursion onto Gaza and stated on 295 Palestiniancivilians were killed AK says it is 926. Israeli military counts Palestinian males from as youngas 5 to up to a late age as militants. “He wants you to forgive and forget and wants you to accepthis words of peace” as true and sincere.The stage in the U.S. on which we debate these issues is that last place on the Earth were there issympathy of Israelis over Palestinians. In Europe students storm buildings and are openly hostileto Israeli diplomats and other arms of the state, etc.
 
“The complaint I have with we should boycott as we did with South Africa” with Israel. Weshould never forgive Al Qaeda and Israel and “we should insist on a categorical boycott of thestate, an arrogant and proud state that is a relic of the old” colonial states of the 19
th
century “onevery single issue you can judge Israel…racism” Zionism is founded on racism Read the book 
1949
on how Israel treated newcomers [such as Arab Jews and local Palestinian Jews comparedto European white Jews].The Hebrew press is “casual on how they refer to the Arabs as animals.”“The Zionists introduced terrorism into this land…the first bombs in cafes were used by Zionistsin Palestine…in Jaffa…bombs were first put on buses by Zionists in Palestine…the first bombing of hotels were done by Zionists…oh you know about that one because that was doneagainst the white man, the British.”“If you want footnotes on anything I said throughout the evening you can e-mail me.”The early Zionists knew there were people already in Palestine “He who desires the ends desiresthe means” a French proverb.“I am opposed to Israel…because it is a religious state…We should reject any religious state of any kind…The state of Israel was found on religious supremacy and…on the denigration of others.”Israel is a moral, economic, and political burden to the U.S.[F checks his watch, impatient with AK’s opening statement]Wraps up his opening statement. “It is a state that is also based on lies and deception.”Abu Mazen his a holocaust denier but Israel supports him as “he is a puppet.” Israel does notreject anti-Semitism from their mist.Sadat was a Nazi sympathizer but Israel didn’t care.[F taps M on the shoulder to wrap up speech M writes something down on a piece of paper toAK]“I don’t believe in a peace process and in a true peace were Palestinians have the full right toreturn…but not in this discriminatory and undemocratic Israeli state.”[loud applause around the room]M: I have personally been enlivened by these two sides and my father told me there “are alwaystwo sides to a story.”
 
[Oh my fucking God! What the fuck did she just say?! Yeah, there ARE two sides to each storyand in this case it is between the racist apartheid oppressor and the oppressed and disposedPalestinians! Would she have said that about a South African consul general in the 1960s and theANC!?]F: “Respectfully, I did not call the other speaker a liar and I am not going to go to that level Iwant to speak directly to the audience…You are making a terrible mistake…The rhetoric youheard is of Islamic terrorists. Sadat is a Nazi? Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize…Try not to betaken in by one’s own internal rhetoric…We are trying to be the first country in the world to havean electric car grid.”Israel is no more a Jewish state than Turkey, a secular state, is an Islamic State.“My wife is from Yemen! Half of our population is Oriental.”[Oriental??? That’s like using the term Negro.]On the contradictions with racism within Israel he says “Are there problems, of course there are,we are trying to overcome them.”“On the other side you did not hear of one word of self-criticism.”The Hamas charter is an anti-Semitic and anti-Christian document.“Professor AbuKhalil does not believe for the state of Israel to exists.”The debate “is not reality connected…If we want a better future we have to find a way to put thePeace Charter back on track…I’m not going to fall into the trap to call someone an anti-Semite...It’s absurd” to have the Jewish people give up their nation state and the Jews have nostate is deeply racist [anti-Semitic].AK: Saying my wife is Arab is like racist in America saying I have a “Black friend.”To speak to an American audience he threw in Islamic fundamentalism and somehow put me, asecular hard core atheists anarchist, with the Islamists. “Did you notice how they are trained todeal with the speakers” and here he cannot so call me an anti-Semite or an Islamicfundamentalists but he still does it anyway.The people in Ramallah are collaborationists hand picked and armed by the Israelis.The Nobel Peace Prize was won by war criminals and Anwar Sadat had a Nazi past but heglorifies him.
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