Author: Ekmekjian Janet

ARMENIAN COPPER PROGRAM (ACP) ENTERS CORPORATE BONDS’ MARKET

arminfo
2007-08-28 17:30:00

One of the biggest ore mining and smelting companies of Armenia,
Armenian Copper Program (ACP), is going to enter the market
with corporate coupon bonds in the nearest future. Today ACP and
ArmSwissBank signed an agreement on placement of the first bonds
issue. ArmSwissBank is the main underwriter of the issue. Yesterday,
ArmSwissBank signed an agreement with other members of the syndicate
of the underwriters of ACP’s bonds, Armenian Development Bank and
"Future Capital Market" investment-brokerage company.

As the Executive Director of ACP, Gagik Arzumanyan, told ArmInfo,
the volume of the first bonds issue is 500 mln AMD, which will aim to
replenish the company’s current assets. "There are free resources in
the home market, which we intend to effectively use by means of bonded
loans. But our key goal is to gain investors’ trust by issuing bonds
and, may be, to implement the planned program, i.e. to start IPO in
international markets in the future". G Arzumanyan said.

At the same time, the Executive Director of ArmSwissBank, Gevorg
Machanyan, noted that ACP’s bonds will undoubtedly be in demand in the
market. He said that the period of bond turnover is 18 months with 10%
yearly interest.

Coupon payments will be made every six months. The bank is obliged
to make the initial redemption of half of the loan, 100 mln AMD will
be placed in free market, and 150 mln AMD among the members of the
syndicate. According to him, diversification of financial resources
for such a company as ACP is a recipe for success. Creation of steady
financial opportunities will allow the company to develop successfully
and carry out its strategic tasks.

To note, ACP is the owner of the Alaverdi metallurgical plant,
developer of the Teghut copper- molybdenum deposit, and it also
indirectly owns the Drmbon deposit of copper and gold in Nagorno-
Karabakh. An agreement has been reached between the company and
Vneshtorgbank (Russia) on granting $200 mln credit for developing of
the Teghut deposit. G.Arzumanyan told ArmInfo that the first stage of
the investment program on Teghut implies construction of a mining and
concentration plant with capacity of 7 mln tons of ore per year. At
the second and third stages the capacity of the plant will be doubled
and tripled.

ArmSwissBank was established in 2005, and it is steadily developing in
investment, corporate and private banking. The first client issuer,
whose bonds were successfully placed by ArmSwissBank in June, was
the multi-industry Valletta company. "We are not going to issue our
own securities yet, but trying to help the market participants place
their securities. From the viewpoint of implementation of this process,
it is very important to have enough issuers, investors, and financial
mediators in the market," G.Machanyan emphasized.

AN AFTERNOON WITH KAPOOR FAMILY

IndiaPost.com, CA
Aug 29 2007

LOS ANGELES: "I was traveling in a taxi in Westwood, yesterday," said
Rishi Kapoor, "when the cabbie suddenly asked- India?" I said, "Yes."

He smiled and said immediately, "Ah! Raj Kapoor?" I said, "I am Raj
Kapoor’s son." Rishi continues, "The cab driver was stunned.

He was from Armenia, idolized Raj Kapoor and here he was in a cab in
Los Angeles with the son of his screen idol." Only in Los Angeles
I thought as I clapped delightedly at the story, sitting in the
Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum along with a hundred other film
aficionados listening to movie star Rishi Kapoor recounting the life
and times of his father Raj Kapoor.

The audience had just seen a 13 minute documentary part of a two hour
film Kehta Hai Joker directed by Bobby Bedi. I was fifteen years old,
decades ago when I fell deeply and hopelessly in love.

I had seen my first Hindi film Awara and I was smitten by the romantic,
Raj Kapoor. The deep feelings lingered on with me through the teen
years as I saw Barsaat, Jagte Raho, Shri 420, Aah, Jis Desh Mein
Ganga Behti Hai, Mera Naam Joker, Boot Polish, and Sangam.

Of course I fell in love again, this time with my husband but
the connection with Raj Kapoor still exists. Over the years I have
watched his movies many times, as a reviewer, a columnist, an analyst,
a different individual experience.

A wisp of a song, a mention of any Kapoor name, a passing comment
on any of his leading ladies, Nargis, Nimmi, Zeenat, Vyjayantimala
drenched me with emotion. Of a man who honored love, challenged
injustice, created a blend of narrative, song and smoldering intensity
manifesting it into a demarcated film experience.

Now as part of the film festival, India Splendor hosted in Los Angeles
by McGlobal Trust (Dr Modi) we went back in time to enter the world
that Raj Kapoor created. Dr M introduced Raj Kapoor as-‘the first
global artist’.

Dean Rosen defined Raj Kapoor as an actor/film maker who represented
the best of Indian cinema. It was a wonderful and touching homecoming
as Raj Kapoor had prior to his death had visited the US for a
retrospective of his films in University of California, Los Angeles.

The fascinating documentary showed a montage of excerpts from many
of his films as he portrayed the actor, director, producer and studio
chief of almost four decades. Prior to his death due to complications
of asthma at the age of 63, Raj Kapoor said, "When I die take me to
the studio so I might get up, spring forward and say, Action."

Brother Shammi Kapoor when interviewed remembered, "Raj smoked, drank
and slept with films." Later, son Rishi Kapoor reaffirmed the statement
when he told us, "My family, his wife, mother, children…nothing
was important to him. Only the making of a film. We did not exist
when he was involved with a film. It was a passion, an obsession.

His family was a world apart." Film directors paid tribute as they
remembered him as the Indian Charlie Chaplin giving a shape and
character to the Chaplinesque brilliance he so admired. The second of
the Great Showman’s sons, Rishi Kapoor accompanied by wife Neetu and
son Ranbir, came on stage with Mira Advani Honeycutt, film curator
and author for an informal discussion with the audience.

Rishi who first starred in Mera Naam Joker has been India’s heartthrob
for 25 years. He made his debut as a teenager and became a top
star with leading lady Dimple Kapadia in Bobby which became a rage
overnight. "Raj Kapoor started young. He made Barsaat when he was 21
years old. I was always in awe of him.

When I worked on a film with him, I never called him Dad, only Raj
Saab," recalled Rishi Kapoor. Asked if the Kapoor family believed
in the tradition of not letting their wives to work in films, Neetu
responded immediately, "I chose not to work after marriage as I was
busy with the children. Maybe now if there is an opportunity I might
be cast as a mother."

"My father loved Archie comics," Rishi told us and "he wanted to make
a film about teenage romance, the kind of crushes one comes across
in Archies." Articulate, intelligent and ready with a repartee,
Rishi wittily and honestly captured the spirit of his father as he
related anecdote after anecdote with astonishing zest.

Unique emotions coursed through the audience as one person recalled a
violin lesson with the young Raj, another shared with fond remembrance
a particular film that evoked a deep recollection, some spoke of scenes
that resonated with the spirit of the times, and all acknowledged
with sadness, the absence of the Master of cinema Raj Kapoor.

Raj was aggressively adventurous, yet totally accessible to the common
man. There was no label or category to the man. The diversity of the
roles was enriching. Ranbir Kapoor, son of Rishi Kapoor, is being
launched this year in a film Saavariya by Sanjay Leela Bhansali –
Director of Devdas, and Black.

A winsome, handsome and savvy young man, he spoke of his years in
New York studying visual arts and in the Lee Strasberg school of
acting and his dreams of following in the steps of his father Rishi
and grandfather Raj Kapoor. "And what was the relationship between
your father and you, Rishi?" was the final question from the audience.

To which Rishi Kapoor replied, "I was the biological son of my
father. Raj Kapoor belongs to the world and to you…"

HOW CAN A JEWISH STATE REJECT REFUGEES AND REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE A GENOCIDE?

Ha’aretz, Israel
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Aug 30 2007

The 1952 debate over the reparations agreement with Germany was
one of the bitterest in the history of Israel. "Sons of Jerusalem,
citizens of Israel," cried opposition leader Menachem Begin in the
speech he made while heading a mass demonstration that threatened
to prevent the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, from voting on the
arrangement. "This evening, the most shameful deed in the history of
our people is about to happen."

Prime Minister David Ben Gurion was pushing the Knesset to approve
the deal. Simply put, it was financial compensation for the loss
of Jewish property during the horrific days of the Holocaust. "The
government of Israel," declared Begin, "is selling the honor of Israel
for greed." Less then a decade after the Holocaust, it was a powerful
accusation, and it still is. But Ben Gurion stood his ground. He had
a job to do?securing the future of the young state.

So, he made a deal with the devil. Like it or not, reparations from
Germany helped Israel become the modern, thriving country it is today.

Israel still faces such moral dilemmas. In the past couple of weeks,
they have surfaced again around ongoing controversies in both Israel
and America. It is the inherent tension between making the rational
decision a "normal" country would and the need to occupy the moral
high ground that Jewish history has burdened Israel with.

Last week, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.,
wrote a letter to Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Sallai Meridor.

"Israel has returned 48 Sudanese people to Egypt and intends to
refuse entrance to refugees from the war-torn Darfur region of
Sudan," reported the congressman. "I am writing today to express my
disappointment? [I]f any country should understand the special needs
of those affected by the genocide in Darfur, it should be Israel."

He was not alone expressing discomfort with Israel’s decision. Dozens
of Israeli legislators from across the political spectrum made the
same argument. Human rights organizations blasted the deportations.

American Jewish organizations expressed disappointment.

But Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached an agreement with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak under which any Sudanese citizens illegally
crossing into Israel through the Sinai Peninsula will be sent back to
Egypt. Ten days ago, Israel deported 50 such infiltrators?and Olmert
ordered that Darfurians arriving at the gates should be rejected.

Only 500 were lucky enough to be absorbed by the country
indefinitely. That number, say Israeli officials, is very high
considering how small the country is?it is the equivalent of 20,000
refugees getting into America (The United States accepted fewer than
2,000 refugees from all of Sudan last year).

It was a calculated decision, but not a pretty one. Accepting the
first wave of Darfurians proved problematic, tempting more Africans to
attempt entry. If he wants to educate himself about such problems,
Emanuel can call his former boss Bill Clinton. After CIA agents
visited him before he was even inaugurated, Clinton had to roll back
his criticism of the first Bush administration’s strict policy against
accepting refugees from Haiti. The agents presented him with satellite
photos that showed tens of thousands of Haitians hacking down houses
and trees in anticipation of the new, less restrictive administration.

The memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish refugees who wanted to
flee Europe was a handy weapon for those who criticized Israel for
its cold-hearted decision. It became useful again last week, in an
American-based controversy involving the Anti-Defamation League,
an American Jewish organization that faces mounting criticism from
both Jews and non-Jews over its refusal to acknowledge the Armenian
genocide at the hands of the Turks in World War I.

This story is also an old one, but it never dies. Turkey, an important
international and regional player, refuses to make peace with its
murderous past and threatens to sever its ties with any country that
contradicts its version of events. Israel?among many others?chose a
Turkish connection over truth and justice to history.

The ADL did what it thought was the responsible thing: defending
Israel and Jews in Turkey from the possible consequences of
acknowledging the genocide. But criticism threatened to tear the
organization apart. Eventually, after constant pressure from outside
the organization and also from its own activists, this led to a
change of course by ADL leader Abraham Foxman. Since advocating
against anti-Semitism and hate is the organization’s core issue,
its position seemed highly hypocritical.

"The Jewish people will always bear the burden of the memory of the
Holocaust and the comfort of redemption," said then-Prime Minister
Shimon Peres in 1996, while honoring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

But last week, Peres took a morally indefensible stand on the Armenian
genocide. Israel has not changed its position on the killing of
Armenians, President Peres assured the Turkish prime minister. Ben
Gurion’s most brilliant student, the last one standing, reiterated
the always controversial Israeli position: As it has always done,
it chooses Realpolitik over moral purity. Call it an action-oriented
morality.

A slightly longer version of this article was published in Slate
earlier this week

THEY CHARGE KILLERS OF ARMENIAN BOY FOR INCITING ETHNIC HATRED IN RUSSIA

AZG Armenian Daily
28/08/2007

Two of four young Russians, accused of killing the 15 year-old Armenian
boy, Narek Kocharian, near Moscow in 2006, are alos charged for
inciting inter-ethnic hatred.The four Slavs attacked Narek Kocharian
in 2006 November and first tried to throttle him, then stabbed him
several times to death. The bleeding boy was discovered by strangers
and rushed to hospital where he died. His attackers were arrested
in December.Russian newspapers reported that one of the arrested,
Yevgeny Mironov, ran a sporting club where he taught martial arts and
urged his students to drive all natives of Central Asia and Caucasus
out of Moscow.

American Thinker, AZ
Aug 22 2007

Call it ‘genocide’?

Thomas Lifson

The ADL’s odd stance on the Armenian genocide may reflect a broader
controversy and odd behavior on the topic. John Rosenthal of the
excellent site Transatlantic Intelligencer wrote in 2005 about
France’s treatment of Bernard Lewis’ (the Bernard Lewis) criticism of
the use of the term "genocide" to describe what the Turks undertook
against Armenians. In sum, he believes that what was done was
terrible, but that it doesn’t rise to the level of genocide, and even
diminishes the term if so applied.

What is peculiar about France is that it has done its best to block
websites from carrying Prof. Lewis’ critique.

I have a high regard for Prof. Lewis, and in fact, even though I
disagree with him on the Armenian genocide, I would like to read what
he has to say. But the link to his thoughts from TA is blocked, even
for users like me in the USA.

This is one of those debates that can be a learning experience. It is
regrettable that part of it is being shut down.

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Sabah, Turkey
Aug 24 2007

Back step in genocide statement

Erdoðan’s meeting with Peres was effective. The Jewish organization
ADL said: "we should leave the matter of genocide to historians."

Upon the major Jewish organization in the USA, ADL, announced to
recognize Armenian genocide, Ankara started a diplomatic attack. The
Prime Minister Erdoðan communicated the disturbance of Turkey to
Israeli president Peres who congratulated him on election victory.

Back step in genocide statement

Erdoðan’s meeting with Peres was effective. The Jewish organization
ADL said: "we should leave the matter of genocide to historians." ADL
suggested to establish a common commission for the genocide.

Just before the so called genocide bill is handled, the announcement
of the major Jewish lobby in the USA, Anti Defamation League
activated Turkey. Upon the major Jewish organization in the USA, ADL,
announced to recognize Armenian genocide, Ankara started a diplomatic
attack. As a result of the efforts by the Prime Minister Erdoðan,
Abdullah Gül and Egemen Baðýþ, ADL stepped back last midnight and
suggested to establish a joint commission.

Israel’s Ankara ambassador Avivi was informed about the
disillusionment about ADL’s recognizing Armenian genocide claims
during his farewell visit to Gül. The message that if the Jewish
lobby changes attitude, it will have very harsh consequences was
communicated. Israeli government was asked to use its influence on
Jewish lobby.

Israeli ambassador Avivi stated that the decision was a surprise for
them, too. Erdoðan requested to do the necessary thing at a phone
call with Israeli president Þimon Peres. Peres responded: "we will do
our best."

ADL softened its claims about genocide in their website last night:
"we should create such an atmosphere that Armenia reacts positively
to Turkey’s latest suggestions. So, we can succeed in easing the
differences between Turkey and Armenia by establishing a common
commission."

Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Aug 25 2007

ADL corrects `genocide’ mistake in letter, Erdoðan says

Saturday , 25 August 2007

The US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed regret over
debates centered on its recent decision to recognize Armenian claims
of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in a letter addressing
PM Recep Tayyip Erdoðan.

Foxman said in his letter that the ADL had huge respect for the
Turkish people and has never desired to put the Turkish people and
their leaders into a difficult situation, expressing deep regret over
what the Turkish people had to go through in the past few days since
it agreed to recognize the alleged genocide, reversing a long-held
policy, the Anatolia news agency said.Foxman also said the ADL would
continue to look for ways to improve relations with Turkey, lamenting
the fact that the latest debates strained ties between Turkey and the
ADL.

"The wrong step that has been taken is corrected," said Erdoðan in
subsequent comments to reporters. "They said they shared our
sensitivity and expressed the mistake they made. … They said they
will continue to give us all the support they have given so far," he
added.

In a statement published on its Internet site on Thursday, the ADL
said it was ready to support reconciliation efforts between Turks and
Armenians after it sent shockwaves through Ankara by recognizing
Armenian allegations of genocide earlier this week.

Reports in the Turkish media said the move followed a telephone
conversation between Erdoðan and Israeli President Shimon Peres on
Thursday. Erdoðan stressed the "futility" of the ADL decision to call
the events genocide in the conversation and Peres responded by saying
that Israel’s well-known position on the issue of genocide claims has
not changed. The Israeli prime minister also said Israel attached
great importance to relations with Turkey and promised to "advocate
Turkey’s position on the issue in the US."

Reports said Peres then called ADL National Director Foxman.

"We must encourage steps to create an atmosphere in which Armenia
will respond favorably to the several recent overtures of Turkey to
convene a joint commission to assist the parties in achieving a
resolution of their profound differences. We believe there are many
renowned historians, human rights activists and distinguished world
leaders who are willing to lend their knowledge, experience and
judgment to this cause. We know that earlier this year, Professor
Elie Wiesel and more than 50 of his fellow Nobel Laureates called for
concrete steps to be taken by Turkey and Armenia to find a way
forward to reach the goal of reconciliation, and that, last week,
Professor Wiesel reaffirmed his support for efforts to create a body
in which both Turkish and Armenian experts can come together to work
cooperatively in re-examining the shared past of both peoples. The
force and passion of the debate today leaves us more convinced than
ever that this issue does not belong in a forum such as the United
States Congress," the ADL’s Thursday statement said, going on to say:
"Although independent scholars may have reached a consensus about the
genocide, in an effort to help accomplish the reconciliation there is
room for further dispassionate scholarly examination of the details
of those dark and terrible days."

"ADL and the American Jewish community should focus their attention
on supporting efforts to urge Turkey and Armenia to make this
happen," the statement added, though it used the g-word, "genocide."

Armenians claim up to 1.5 million of their kinsmen died in a
systematic campaign by the Ottoman Turks around the time of World War
I, but Ankara categorically rejects the label, saying that both
Armenians and Turks died in civil strife during World War I when the
Armenians took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia and sided
with Russian troops invading the crumbling Ottoman Empire. According
to the Turkish archive documents more than 520.000 civilian Turkish
and Kurdish people were massacred by the armed Armenian groups
between 1915-1918.

Ahead of Erdoðan’s conversation with Peres, the Turkish Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Levent Bilman said there was no "consensus"
among scientists and historians that the World War I events
constituted genocide, contrary to the ADL’s conviction that there is.
"Moreover, it is Turkey who has asked Armenia to establish a joint
commission and reveal the historical realities. No positive response
has yet been made to this offer," he added. It sparked attention that
the ADL referred to the same proposal in its Thursday statement.

* Envoy to hold more talks in Israel

Meanwhile, Turkey’s Ambassador to Israel Namýk Tan, who this week cut
short his holiday in Turkey to return to Israel, told the Anatolia
news agency yesterday that he would once more voice Turkey’s stance
on the ADL statement during talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert as well as with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, both currently
on vacation.

Ankara believes that as much as Turkey attributes high importance to
its relations with Israel, Israel attributes the same level of
importance to its relations with Turkey, Tan said. "These statements
do not have any legal and historical grounds. They should be
corrected without fail," he added, noting that the statements have
not been compatible with Turkey’s existing strategic relations with
either Israel or the US.

25 August 2007

KOCHARIAN, PUTIN TO MEET AGAIN
By Armen Dulian

Radio Liberty
Aug 22 2007
Czech Rep.

President Robert Kocharian will fly to Russia on Thursday for talks
with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, it was announced on
Wednesday.

A spokesman for Putin was reported to have told journalists in Moscow
that the meeting will take place in the Black Sea city of Sochi on
Thursday. He did not specify its agenda.

Official Yerevan is also tight-lipped about details of the talks. A
short statement by Kocharian’s office said only that they will center
on "prospects for the development of Russian-Armenian relations."

Kocharian’s press secretary, Victor Soghomonian, said separately that
the Armenian leaders plans to hold a number of other meetings in Sochi,
but did not elaborate.

Putin and Kocharian already met in the southern Russian city in
January. The one-on-one talks reportedly focused on Russian-Armenian
commercial relations, with the two presidents praising Russia’s
increased economic presence in Armenia and saying that they agreed to
boost it further this year. Putin, in particular, noted the absence
of "unresolved problems or difficult issues" in Moscow’s ties with
Yerevan and welcomed growing Russian-Armenian trade.

"WE ARE NEITHER ON SIDE OF TURKS NOR ARMENIANS," ISRAEL DECLARES

Noyan Tapan
Aug 24, 2007

ANKARA, AUGUST 24, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Embassy of
Israel in Ankara made an official statement in connection with the
change of position of the "Anti-Defamation League" (ADL) Jewish
organization on the Armenian Genocide on August 22.

According to Daily "Milliyet", it is mentioned in the statement
that Israel has not changed its position on the events of 1915-16:
"We, the Jewish and Israeli people, see an emotional and moral
necessity in remembering the tragedies of the human kind, including
the events, that happened to the Armenian people in the last period
of the Ottoman Turkey, that is, in 1915-16. The state of Israel has
never denied those terrible events. Along with this, this subject has,
unfortunately, become a political burden for Armenians and Turks for
already many years, and both of the sides continue to insist on the
fairness and impartiality of their claims. That is why, the Israel
state is standing neither on this nor on that side. We hope that the
open wounds of the past will heal through dialogues," is mentioned
in the official statement of the Embassy of Israel in Ankara.

It should also be mentioned that Abraham Foxman, the Chairman of
the "Anti-Defamation League" (ADL) Jewish organization, officially
recognized the Armenian crime committed by the Ottoman Turks 92 years
ago as a genocide on August 21.

"We have never denied the fact of the 1915-1923 tragic events, we
have classed those sorrowful events committed under the rule of the
Ottoman Empire against Armenians as "massacres" and "atrocities"",
the Chairman of the Jewish organization declared and added that "the
consequences of those events are, in fact, equivalent to genocide."

The ADL’s unfinished business

August 23, 2007

IN 1951, six years after the end of World War II, at the urging of Raphael
Lemkin, the United Nations adopted a five-point definition of genocide. It
wasn’t just the Holocaust that led Lemkin to demand that the world recognize
as a crime systematic cultural and racial annihilations and atrocities, it
was also the massacre of more than 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman
Turks that occurred between 1915 and 1921. Has Abraham Foxman, national
director of the Anti-Defamation League, not learned anything from history ("ADL
chief bows to critics: Foxman cites rift, calls Armenian deaths
genocide< l/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/22/adl_chief_bows _to_critics/>,"
Page A1, Aug. 22)?

It would behoove him to educate himself on the moral, as opposed to the
political, issue of genocide by reading Samantha Power’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning book "A Problem from Hell," which chronicles the moral
corruption of American foreign policy when it comes to taking a stand in
such places as Rwanda, Cambodia, Serbia, and now Darfur.

Foxman is dissembling when he says, "On reflection, we have come to share
the view . . . that the consequences of those actions were indeed tantamount
to genocide," and then describes the proposed congressional resolution
recognizing the Armenian genocide as a "counterproductive diversion." This
"political" position is morally reprehensible.

LOIS A. ROSENFELD
Acton

WHILE THE recalcitrance of the national ADL in acknowledging the Armenian
genocide was troubling, the fact that some politicians and Armenian groups
have responded to Abraham Foxman’s capitulation with further hostility is
equally troubling.

Watertown Councilor Marilyn Pettito Devaney, the Armenian Assembly of
America, and US Representative Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who
introduced the genocide resolution in the House, may believe strongly in
declaring the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians a genocide, but it is
unfair to unilaterally declare support of a particular piece of legislation
to be a litmus test that another organization must submit to in order to
prove itself.

Does the NAACP have a position on the resolution? How about the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, or the National Council of La Raza? Has anyone
thought to ask them? Or is an organization devoted to fighting anti-Semitism
the only anti-hate group held to such a standard?

DAVE BROWN
Malden
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