By Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
Being the host country for the United Nations, every year world leaders arrive that we do not like. Not long after Fidel Castro took over Cuba, he came to New York (as he has many more times since) and American administrations fume. Soviet leader Khrushchev once angrily took off a shoe to pound it on the table. Yasser Arafat arrived dressed in military fatigues, carrying a "freedom fighter's gun" (presumably unloaded) and an olive branch. Hugo Chávez of Venezuela came and noted that the preceding speaker, President Bush, left an odor of sulfur behind, "the devil!" he said, crossing himself.
One of my favorite visitors is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, who has admirers among liberal dreamers of "world peace and religious tolerance," and illiberal radicals who believe that the enemy of their enemy (the U.S. and Israel) must be their friend. They seem unaware of the hilarious contractions of this position. Scott Kennedy, a former mayor of notoriously nutty Santa Cruz, California and founder of "the Resource Center for Nonviolence" (very selective nonviolence some say), even managed a private meeting with the Iranian president. Read more ...
Being the host country for the United Nations, every year world leaders arrive that we do not like. Not long after Fidel Castro took over Cuba, he came to New York (as he has many more times since) and American administrations fume. Soviet leader Khrushchev once angrily took off a shoe to pound it on the table. Yasser Arafat arrived dressed in military fatigues, carrying a "freedom fighter's gun" (presumably unloaded) and an olive branch. Hugo Chávez of Venezuela came and noted that the preceding speaker, President Bush, left an odor of sulfur behind, "the devil!" he said, crossing himself.
One of my favorite visitors is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, who has admirers among liberal dreamers of "world peace and religious tolerance," and illiberal radicals who believe that the enemy of their enemy (the U.S. and Israel) must be their friend. They seem unaware of the hilarious contractions of this position. Scott Kennedy, a former mayor of notoriously nutty Santa Cruz, California and founder of "the Resource Center for Nonviolence" (very selective nonviolence some say), even managed a private meeting with the Iranian president. Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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