--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
I thank both you and MBI Munshi for circulating Dr Richard L. Benkin's article on Bangladesh election. I am quoting below one of Dr Benkin's postings to the "Portal to the Hindu World", in which he says that he is Jewish. The posting shows how strongly he is against Bangladesh, Pakistan, Muslim countries, and how he is generally against the Muslims and the Leftists. He says there is a Green and Red Alliance i.e. Muslim and Left Alliance against Israel, India and the US.. Dr Benkin serves Israel and the evil US-Israel-India Axis under the cover of Human Rights activities. Many Human Rights organisations and activists are of the same mould.
The Bangladesh Government, in their great wisdom (!!!), appointed Dr Richard L Benkin in April 2006 as a lobbyist for brightening (!!) the image of Bangladesh. It is like in the fables, that a 'clever' fox gave her seven cubs to the crocodile-teacher for their education. Didn't the Bangladesh government have any intelligence, warning them of what they were in? Or were there brown envelopes under the tables to induce them to recognize Israel? In either case, there needs to be a serious enquiry about the whole episode.
The Daily Star reported:
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The Daily Star
Monday, April 10, 2006
The government has appointed three American lobbyists including an individual and two firms to arrange high-level interactions with the US government and build a "positive and correct image" of Bangladesh among the US policymakers.
The lobbyists have also been assigned to ensure "balanced reporting on Bangladesh" through mainstream media. They will coordinate with the relevant agencies of the US government to facilitate interactions in Bangladesh between the government and the representatives of the US government.
The firms, The Washington Group and Ketchum Washington (TWG/K), will get a monthly retainer fee of at least $45,000 in addition to "certain out of pocket expenditure" that TWG/K will incur in connection with the services. It is not clear from documents how much the individual lobbyist, Richard L Benkin, will get.
The contract signed on October 31 last year for an initial period of six months between the Bangladesh embassy in Washington and the lobbyists however said "efforts will be made" to keep the pocket expenditure within $750 a month. The contract will be evaluated after the expiry of the first 90 days.
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There were people who warned: (quote)
Bangladesh and Zionism: The appointment of Richard L Benkin Tuesday
Apr 11,2006 Salam Dhaka has alerted the bangladeshi blogosphere to the appointment of a zionist, amongst others, as a PR man for Bangladesh. Richard Benkin has a certain way with words. And his talents have no doubt impressed the government sufficiently for him to have acquired this 5k usd per month contract. Richard penned a letter in Jewsweek sometime back entitled "Dear Bangladesh." Full of sophistry, the article tried to woo Bangladesh into recognising the state of Israel. ( unquote) ------------- The government probably thought, playing friendliness to Israel would probably bail them out. But the conspiracy of 'third force' or the so-called one-eleven 2007 was hatched much before then. And the government played in the hands of the conspirators. However, anyone who reads the following posting of Dr Benkin, will clearly see how urgently we need to launch campaign and build peaceful, unless compelled otherwise, political resistance throughout the country against imperialism and hegemonism. In order to obtain the broadest participation of the people, we need also to develop simultaneously the struggle for the economic emancipation of the people. ------------------------------------------- (quote) Portal to the Hindu World 20 Nov 2008 Posted by: Dr. Richard Benkin in Bangladesh, Hinduism, Politics, Research & Analysis Add Comment On November 1, 2008, I delivered the Arvind Ghosh Memorial Lecture to the Human Empowerment Convention in suburban Chicago. The address was interrupted more than a half dozen times with applause and received a standing ovation at its conclusion. The following are excerpts from that address.
"Some years back, my mother, wife, and daughter were sitting in a Jerusalem restaurant enjoying a meal. Not many weeks later, a Palestinian terrorist entered the restaurant and blew himself up, [and] I realized that had my mother, my wife, and my daughter been there that day, the murderers would have considered their deaths something glorious…. Anyone who could glory in the deaths of my mother, my wife, and my daughter is an enemy so vile that…there can be no quarter, no negotiation, no compromise; and in the fight against it there can be no rest….
"Why is there any question about the need to fight them unrelentingly and to destroy them utterly….Our enemy's expressed goals are to destroy our faiths, our values, our ways of life….Fuzzy thinking about this can destroy us, and…no matter [who] tries to convince us otherwise, [we] must remain focused on what we have to do to defeat them….This enemy has a name, and we need to use it: radical Islam. Not terrorism, which is only a tactic; or unspecified radicals, militants, or whatever politically correct word is in fashion but Islamist radicals….If we are engaged in a war on 'terror,' we are [merely] reacting to a tactic [and] not engaged in a comprehensive effort to defeat the terrorists and those who send them. If our enemies are merely "the extremists," we have [abandoned] the search for any ideology…that unites those extremists and motivates them. [That] dilutes our struggle, weakens us, and strengthens our enemies…radical Islamists.
"An alliance of Israel, India, and the United States…can [easily] dispose of the terrorists and the national leaders that support them…Look at what each nation has done by itself. Ever since its 1948 birth, Israel has been bedeviled by nation-states and terrorist groups determined to destroy it. It is the only nation on earth that has never known a day of peace….Invaded by multiple Arab militaries in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973…Israel beat them all back so thoroughly, that they had to change tactics and send terror proxies to do their work…. But the terrorists have failed, too. Suicide bombings [and rocket strikes from Gaza] have been virtually eliminated….In a 2007 conversation with an Israeli insider, I noted how the number of terror attacks dropped significantly, even though the terrorists keep trying….'Let me tell you a secret,' he whispered, smiling. 'We stop most of them in their beds.' Israel has survived; more than that, it has thrived to become one of the world's technological giants….
"India was born with an enemy dedicated to its destruction on its northwest border. For the last ten years, Pakistan has been a nuclear power. It has supported anti-Indian terror for decades, and since 1996, the entire Muslim ummah in the form of the Organization of Islamic Conferences and its members stand with Pakistan in claiming Kashmir. India faces a steady stream of terror attacks [and] a steady flow of Muslim infiltrators trying with some success to change the demographic realities in East and West Bengal. As I rode through villages near the Bangladesh and Nepal borders…I was told how each one has gone from having a mixed Hindu-Muslim population to an exclusively or almost exclusively Muslim one..…Yet India, too, survives and is becoming one of the new century's economic giants….
"The United States remains the world's only superpower and its largest economy…[Its] efforts in Iraq are succeeding. Terrorist actions are down, calm is returning, and Iraqis are taking on ever more of their national responsibilities. [It] has defeated an Islamist onslaught…conducted with no regard for the safety of innocents or for any international conventions. It has done so despite a worldwide ideological crusade by leftists and elites to demonize the United States and its anti-Islamist efforts. They have called it a war for oil, a war for Israel, and a war against Islam….
"Radical Islam threatens every country and people on earth but targets these three nations specifically for extinction….Yet, all three nations are told to negotiate with the enemy; to make concessions; to understand their grievances and our sins….Never mind that Israelis were being blown up on public busses; Palestinians said they were 'humiliated' by Israel's security checkpoints. So the world leaned on Israel, not the Arabs, to engage in what they called confidence building measures [that is] unilateral concessions [that only built] our enemy's confidence in our weakness….
"India is the key. Israel and the United States have had a strategic relationship at least since the 1960s. [India] did not even recognize Israel until 1992 and was a staunch ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.…But the collapse of the Soviet Union and growth of the Islamist enemy changed international realities and caused most nations to take a new look at their strategic interests….
"This has caused something of a generation gap among members of the India's media and government. Many remain tied to the ideologies and policies of the past, while much of the younger generation does not….The [leftist] Congress Party recently broke with its communist allies over the…nuclear cooperation deal with the United States [and] West Bengal [Communists] suffered some reverses in local elections for the first time in its thirty-year, iron-fisted rule of that state….Earlier this year, I addressed a group of journalism students at the University of Lucknow [about] Islamist ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. [They] voiced their opinions about how the Indian media has failed to identify the true nature of this genocide-in-the-making [but also] avidly drank in any detail I could provide about life in the Jewish state…and about the way Jews and Hindus share so many values and sensibilities. More than anything else, however, these journalists of tomorrow wanted to know how tiny Israel was able to 'defeat the terrorists and jihadis…so India can adopt these methods and defeat our terrorists like the Israelis did….'
"Members of [the] mainstream media…were quite candid about the media's leftist bias, corruption in the Congress government…and about the severity of the Islamist threat….But because, they told me…they "would surely be sacked" if their editors or colleagues heard those candid opinions, we met in out of the way hotels, coffee shops, and other inconspicuous places….
"In the United States…the political correctness police see a potential offense in virtually every comment that calls our enemy what it is. In Israel, it is the misnomered peace camp; misnomered because the only peace their policies would bring is the peace of the grave. In India, it is pseudo-secularism, a policy that legislates Hinduism to a second-class status….The recent budget included millions to fund Muslim religious pilgrimages but not a penny for Bangladeshi Hindus living stateless and abused in refugee camps. Even in its final days in office, Israel's Kadima Party is looking to strike a deal that would give up ancestral Jewish lands on West Bank, but also part of Israel's capital, Jerusalem [and] Hebron, where Judaism's patriarchs and matriarchs are buried….There had been a continuous Jewish presence in Hebron from biblical times until 1929 [when] Muslims with help from local authorities rioted and attacked the ancient Jewish community. Those who were not murdered were expelled [and] today, the descendants of the murderers have the gall to say the descendants of the victims have no title to the land, and the world disdainfully calls them 'settlers.' So, tell me, at what point does the statute of limitation run on genocide….
"We are also fighting what I have termed the Red-Green Alliance… of Communists and Islamists…In 2004, Al Qaeda terrorists were on the run from U.S. forces that dislodged them from their strongholds in Afghanistan….Friendly [Pakistani] border guards got them safely… to terrorist-controlled sections of Kashmir and into Nepal where they set up terror bases….Nepal is overwhelmingly Hindu and hardly a likely candidate to become the next Taliban state, but the Nepalese King had seized dictatorial powers in response to a decades-long communist revolt. That made for social chaos and uncontrolled border |