Walid Phares ? !!! Please Mustapha , get real and don’t cheapen your blog with trash from Phares ilk .

Let Principle, Not Politics, Guide Enforcement of Law
Author: Ismail Royer Publishing date: 23.06.2003 21:05

The idea that an Arab-American professor’s extracurricular activities would include low-key support for Middle East extremism may come as a shock to some.

This Florida professor founded a non-profit organization with the outward intent of promoting “human rights and democracy for all people in the Middle East,” but which instead operated as a virtual political front group in the West for an umbrella group of armed outfits that specialized in the targeting of innocent civilians.

The organization helped bring officials of these groups to the United States, and to shuttle them around the country to promote their agenda. One of those whose visits the professor facilitated was the chief of a militant group described by US government agencies as “terrorist” and “extremist,” a group that caused the deaths of more than 3,000 men, women, and children in just one operation.

The visiting gentlemen also happened to be a Middle East-based leader of the professor’s organization. But that Florida professor, Dr. Walid Phares, isn’t sitting in solitary confinement like Dr. Sami Al-Arian, the University of South Florida lecturer awaiting trial for allegedly aiding the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Instead, he carries on unhindered as a professor at Florida Atlantic University, an MSNBC commentator, and a darling of the neoconservative movement made so politically fashionable these days by its ascendance in the Bush Administration.

It has been said that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. That might help explain why the enthusiastic support for extremist pro-Israel groups by Dr. Phares, an Arab Christian, has generated nothing like the firestorm that engulfed Dr. Al-Arian, who happens to be a Palestinian Muslim. The political support both professors reportedly provided for Middle Eastern factions might be seen as sinister support for violence or freedom of expression, depending on the observer’s point of view. A

side from the difference in religion and politics between the two men, there’s little to distinguish them at face value. Both men immigrated to the US, treading the well-worn path of embracing American values and lifestyle while continuing to advocate for the passionately held causes of the Old World. Both are brilliant intellectuals, performing well as leaders and spokesmen for their ethnic communities.

The difference in the government’s treatment of the two men is clearly attributable to the fact that one man’s political views are in vogue and the other’s are not. After all, if sheer body count were to determine who were to remain free and who were to be jailed, it might be Dr. Al Arian analyzing the Middle East on MSNBC while Dr. Phares languished in solitary confinement.

The Phalange and the Guardians of the Cedar, two of the groups Dr. Phares and his World Lebanese Organization have been aligned with, were responsible for the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians in Palestinian refugee camps in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

As far back as 1985, the research wing of the US Congress labeled the Guardians a terrorist group. It is a fact of life that nations routinely use political interest and expediency, as opposed to moral principle, to shape their relationships with other nations, groups, and causes.

For better or worse, Israel is a close ally of the United States, and so those states or groups Israel is in conflict with can expect to land on America’s bad side, and those who are friendly toward Israel will receive a pass.

Americans might be forced to accept double standards in our foreign policy, but it should never be this way on the home front. Whether we are to tolerate or criminalize the intellectual or material embroilment in foreign conflicts by those in the US, it should be so regardless of which side of the conflict they come down on.

Let America’s Dr. Al-Arians, Dr. Phareses, Catholic partisans of the Irish Republican Army, and Tamil Tiger supporters be free to legally support their political factions in the Old World, or let them all be jailed.

If the American principles of equal protection under the law and freedom of speech are to have meaning, then in our application of the law, let moral principle, not political expediency, be our guide.

http://atrueword.com/index.php/article/articleview/60/1/1/

I take Sy Hersh words any day over such characters as Walid Phares .

Seymour Hersh: U.S. Indirectly Backed Islamist Militants Fighting Lebanese Army

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/143208

Ah well, Mustapha you tried, guess there are people who would rather carress their personal biases with garbage like that Hersh article (which has already been disproven) to actually allow their opinions to conform to reality.

Way to go “US”! (Sarcasm)

I didn’t read the article “US” posted - but I concur with “US” (to a degree) that Phares isn’t someone you should quote in order to make a point. It forms the basis of an unstable argument.

AHHHH!!! Well said “US” you have figured it out ITS ANOTHER GOD DAMN CONSPIRACY led by the JOOOOZ!!!…don’t mind that you are as narrow minded and foolish as anyone who relates this piece of nonsense as “fact”….->The Phalange and the Guardians of the Cedar, two of the groups Dr. Phares and his World Lebanese Organization have been aligned with, were responsible for the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians in Palestinian refugee camps in the late 1970s and early 1980s.” Not that I have any love for these two particular parties but PALEEEZE…was anyone innocent during the Civil war…I think not especially the Palestinians…unless you forget….a great piece of shit once said…the road to jerusalem leads through jounieh…

By the way Ismail Royer is part and parcel of CAIR which is pure hate…find out where he is right now (AND WHY) before repeating his nonsense too

Allah Maek ya failasoof

AYEASH LUBNAN!!

Shunkleash

Guys, just realize that Ismael “Randall” Royer is serving a sentence for Terrorism in the US. In 1999, when he posted that article on Walid Phares, he was assigned the mission of trashing all those who were warning about Iran, Hezbollah and the Jihadi Terrorists. So when someone now refers to Royer to attack Phares, he/she are basically using a Terrorist material to attack an expert on Terrorism. Goodness, do you think the readers are idiots. First google Royer and read his indictment before you stupidly post his material. Also Phares wasn’t in the Guardians of the Cedars nor was he in the militia. he had his own party, which by the way was on the left, even though based in East Beirut then..just don’t take people as idiots in the internet age.

You know you have a 500 pound gorrila as your neighbor with rocky relationship, then why not dry up your enemy’s resources from within, with a new democratic, fair political structure. If Sunnis with its Christian coalition thinks they are better, more democratic, then why not back up the rehtoric with action. I can’t understand how this alliance claim the moral authority to define and decide what is best for Lebanon when it falls short on the most basic test of democracy.

Good job US! A classic! When you can’t put a dent in the foresight and spot on prognoses an academic like Prof. Phares has been making for the past 15 years, let loose the silly CAIR-style ad hominem. A crackpot convict like Royer CERTAINLY bears out your bird-brained claims!
It must suck for you and YOUR “ilk” that a number of courageous academics are finally breaking ranks with the silly apologists of their ivory towers and outing you and your hateful ideology. Good luck stemming the tide of truth, kid! Truth is a bitch, ain’t it!

You’re funny US! I would pay to read the drivel of clowns like you. Ha ha, “Please Mustapha [pretty please], get real and don’t cheapen your blog with trash from Phares ilk”… and YOU are clearly enriching this blog! Strange how “straws” and “camels” can ruing your eyesight. But thanks US, I needed a good laugh.

Louis Noel Harfouche has it right on target..for the Iranian operatives online have been paid in oil dollars to trash all those who are opening the eyes of civil societies in the region and the public in the West. The fear in Tehran and in Damascus is that the international opinion sees finally who is are the fascists in the region and who are their apologists in the West. Tehran is spending millions from its petro dollars to win the war of public opinion, but its operatives are incredibly dumb. Watch the clown from Montreal, Awarke, gesticulating on al Jazeera, and that other clown in San Francisco, Asaad Abikhalil, jumping on al Manar at the rescue of Hezbollah’s image. Too late. All the Iranian and Syrian mukhabaraat can’t do much for the battle of the image. The game is over. With free bloggers and connections into Lebanon, Syria and Iran’s civil societies all the slogans and creepy trash can’t do much to win it..

Focus on the content you idiots!
All you do is attack the messenger in stead of reading his message.

No matter what Phares’ history is, the guy has a point.

Fares is totally right, as usual.