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Zogby Miserably Exploits All Once Again
Near Total Collapse of Arab American Organizations in US
For years now Jim Zogby has been politically scaming everyone he can in Washington and the Middle East. Zogby has become known as something of a political parasite constantly feeding off the Palestinian conflict from all sides; always to his own personal benefit and actually causing far more harm than help for the Palestinians. Just a few years ago in the Clinton "Peace Process" years it was the "Builders For Peace" project -- resulting in millions to Zogby and friends but in the end not one single completed project to benefit the Palestinians! Now in the Bush years Zogby has come up with some new sordid tricks.
Heavily promoted by the Saudis Zogby is actually quite widely despised, even hated, by many Arab Americans -- especially the most active and knowledgeable grass-roots.
Zogby's latest scam is taking place soon this month in Washington. Using a guillible simple-minded post-student Palestinian from Ramallah as his front man Zogby is once again miserably exploiting the vacuum caused by the near-total collapse of Arab American organizations in Washington.
This latest political scam -- complete with another help-them-out photo visit to the White House -- is being called the "1st Annual National Arab-American Professional Conference". Anyone with any dignity and smarts will stay away...far away; but there are always those eager to cash in for themselves, as well as those who just don't know whom they are dealing with and how tragic the whole predicament in Washington has become. Indeed a variety of corrupt and slippery Arab American business-types are now expected to attend as usual. But because Zogby and chums can't manage to get enough bodies to come -- even with the financial subsidies they've arranged and advertised far and wide -- it's being combined with what is called by Zogby side-kick Hanna Hanania the "5th Annual Arab-American Conference. While the Palestinians back home are being shot, starved, and bombed, the Zogby/Hanania crowd is going to wined, dined and screwed -- complete with live band, DJ, and a couple each of nearly-free breakfasts, lunches, dinners plus a "grand party" and banquet hoopla!
What a despicable (yes, we come back to that word) travesty it all is, with Jim Zogby personally (along with one of his key patrons, Saudi Ambassador 'Prince' Bandar) surely the most despicable character in the charade. It's a fitting time to recall this spoof newsletter that was distributed by Arab American students a few years ago hoping to expose and embarrass Mr. Jim...but sadly to little avail.
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