Fairness for Belarus

[Ian David]

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Date: Sun, Mar 26 2006 7:02 pm

Bush Administration Policy on Belarus Is Just Plain Hypocritical

By David Grossack

Many Americans may be unfamiliar with Belarus. It has not been in the
news much until this weekend, but it is an important country and one
from where millions of Americans, including this writer, trace their
ancestry. Belarus is one of the former Soviet republics and has become
a sovereign nation since the break up, with its capital in Minsk. My
great grandmother came from Bobruisk, a suburb of Minsk.

Belarus is a country with a mixed economy.

In matters of religion both Christianity and Judaism are respected
and freedom of religion is unquestioned. The Jewish communities of
Belarus are active and dynamic and problems are rare.

The country is now all of a sudden considered a pariah by the Bush
administration because of supposed electoral irregularities. Sanctions
are being planned against the country of over 10 million and its
leaders are being banned from travel here, which I believe is a drastic
over reaction, despite problems Belarus admittedly has.

But compare the treatment of Belarus with that of the United Arab
Emirates.

No person may apply for citizenship in the UAE unless they are Sunni
Muslims.

Christian missionaries who proselytize Muslims are jailed and expelled.
Three missionaries from Georgia were caught giving Bibles to a Muslim
not long ago and were arrested and not released until an international
outcry was made. (See the Christian missionary site on the Internet at
http://www.persecution.org )

No Jewish synagogues exist in Dubai or the United Arab Emirates and no
Jews are known to be living there because they would be arrested. or
deported. Dubai recently hosted American Klansman David Duke and
invited him to hold seminars to help deny the reality of the
Holocaust.

Dubai actively supports the Arab League boycott of Israel and two of
the September 11 hijackers came from the Emirates, of which Dubai is a
member state.

Dubai regularly sends money to Hamas to aid the suicide bombers of that
organization who are perhaps the world's most vicious terrorists,
blowing up little children in pizza parlors and on buses.

But the Bush administration places no sanctions on Dubai and the UAE.

Terrorism when supported by the United Arab Emirates is not terrorism
in the Bush administration's oil drenched brains.. Instead, the lying
hypocrites in Washington falsely claim that Dubai is an ally in the war
on terrorism when it is financing it.

Dubai was rewarded for its years of evil conduct with the now lapsed
port management contracts which our Congressional leaders, including
Republicans, wisely opposed

Belarus did nothing to hurt America or its allies and is now a pariah.

Other nations have no elections but we do billions in trade with them,
such as Communist China and the tyrants in Saudi Arabia.

But Belarus is somehow held to a different standard and different
rules.

Unlike Dubai, the Bush family apparently has no business there. They
ought to get some deals going with Neil Bush and I am sure things will
get better for them.

More:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/browse_thread/thread/5927dc0b1053eab3/ed0c8fd4d9c90481?lnk=st&q=david+grossack&rnum=1#ed0c8fd4d9c90481

FYI: Atty David Grossack is a Republican.

He's what I call "A Dennis Miller Republican."

Draw your own inferences to what I mean by that.

[Ian David]

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