American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>I wonder what Dave Leland is going to do with all of those $98 
>dollar tickets he
>hustled now that Clinton has canceled his Ohio trip this coming week?  Maybe
>Clinton figured the Aladdin Temple in Columbus was the wrong place 
>for a foreign
>policy speech.
>
>A first person account I got from Columbus, Ohio indicates there was 
>some debate
>over whether or not to burn an Israeli flag.
>
>Tom

Yes, one incensed young man really wanted to burn a flag; older men 
-- leaders of the coalition I mentioned -- had to restrain him 
physically.

The rally was held on very short notice, and the participants were 
mainly Palestinian-Americans and other Arab-Americans from Columbus, 
with only a smattering of non-Arabs (yours truly, a Jewish friend of 
mine who is a Nader supporter, etc.).

Whither Palestinians, I wonder.  They have been compelled to settle 
for a worse piece of unjust compromise by the USA than even the Irish 
have, and Israel has not honored its side of the bargain in any case.

Yoshie