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MID-EAST REALITIES © - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 4/26: You gotta love all these scams that so many so tragically so often fall for -- especially the confused and naive Arab Americans.
First, they let Jim Zogby and his Saudi patrons dominate the scene for years -- and that's not a small matter. Then a Zogby protege, Khalil Jahshan -- who himself inherited the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) after a miserable history of paying its "leaders" grand undeserved salaries (and then there was the little matter of putting a former President of NAAA in the chair primarily to cover his HIV medical expenses, Jahshan waiting in the wings for him to pass) -- ran that organization into the ground, bankrupting and destroying it, only to then be rewarded by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) who bought up his mailing list and gave him a new place to sit. They now call it the "NAAA-ADC -- and the very guy who destroyed NAAA as a viable and independent organization runs "it" -- another Wizard of Oz operation of course.
Now the only ones who take these rather ridiculous "NAAA-ADC Press Releases" seriously are the naive types who still belong to ADC and look to it for "leadership" in the US, and the gullible types who keep inviting the ADC charlatans to come visit in the Middle East, continuing to give them more money actually believing in some cases they are doing something important in Washington. Here's the latest example of the grossly self-serving babble Jahshan and his new ADC keepers serve up these days for the naive and the gullible:
Washington, D.C., April 23 - NAAA-ADC, the government affairs affiliate of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, expressed its serious concern to the Bush Administration regarding the joint military maneuvers held in the Negev/Nagab Desert in early March. The military exercise, which was made public only on April 23, involved the U.S. Air Force and the Israeli Air Force. NAAA-ADC requested that Secretary Rumsfeld initiate an internal investigation of this affair due to the "clear damage it has caused to our credibility and national interests in the region."
In a letter to Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld, Khalil Jahshan, President of NAAA-ADC, described the Pentagon's decision to proceed with the joint exerciseat this critical time as "short-sighted and failing to take into consideration the political impact of such action on our broad national interests in the region."
Jahshan criticized the Defense Department for approving the maneuvers, with units of the Israeli military at a time when recent actions by the IDF were described as "excessive and disproportionate" by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Jahshan also questioned the timing of such a joint military exercises when the State Department is looking into legal violations by the IDF in using US-supplied weapons against civilian targets.