BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

Remarks of Richard Haass at inauguration of the Arthur
Schneier Center for International Affairs, Yeshiva University:
"I am always happy to be here at Park East Synagogue, to
my shul. I am especially happy given the circumstances: to
help launch Yeshiva University's Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Center for International Affairs. I want to salute Yeshiva and
its president, Richard Joel, for its good judgment twice over:
first, for establishing an interdisciplinary center that will bring
together faculty and both undergraduate and graduate
students from diverse intellectual backgrounds to study and
discuss some of the fundamental issues of the day. Your
timing could hardly be better. This is a moment of great
promise and peril alike for Americans and for the United
States, and we need to prepare a new generation that
understands and is tooled to address the challenges of living
in this global world of ours...I do believe too that everyone
involved would benefit in particular from the establishment of
a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel...This policy need
not be seen as inconsistent with the road map, which calls
for a Palestinian state with provisional borders."
With Yeshiva University now a CFR outlet, the same plotters
turned their attention to the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Before we begin with this sad episode, recall who CFR
member Stephen Frand Cohen is. For those familiar with my
work, you remember the Ginossar scandal of March '02. For
those unfamiliar, get my new book, Shabtai Tzvi, Labor
Zionism And The Holocaust, which boasts a long chapter on
the issue. To summarize: The former deputy head of Israel's
internal security forces, the Shabak, Yossi Ginossar,
laundered over $300 million in stolen funds for Yasir Arafat in
a Swiss bank account. To create a complicated paper trail,
Ginossar founded numerous phony companies on Arafat's
behalf and he appointed as CEO of many of these companies,
Stephen Frand Cohen. The tale turns to murder,
when Cohen's Washington partner, former Utah congressman
Wayne Owens, is found dead on a Tel Aviv beach. In
short, Cohen is an embezzler, fraud and complicit in murder.
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