1. BobW said:

Once again, ZOA set a trap for itself and hope for those policy positions sought by many of us. A rally at Berkeley, California will surely also feature US and Israeli acts deemed terrorist matters. ZOA will be meshed into all this. Berkeley and it's University of California branch are firmly established as anti-American entities when these entities are mentioned.

UC Berkeley is discredited as a bona fide institute of scholarship in the social studies fields such as political science. The ZOA presence in Berkeley, with ZOA's inherent imprimatur, helps keep the place alive when it should be joining Patrice Lumumba University on the trash pile.

Is it appropriate for ZOA and Stephen Flatow to ask the UN anything? This publicity stunt will do nothing for the memory of his daughter,Alisa (Z"L). The UN has a well established reputation no less than UC Berkeley among middle America. The reputation is negative. Ditto the publicity ZOA will obtain from approaching the UN.

To address terrorism and retribution claims, requires sophisticated national organizations. ZOA still resides in the past. I've already written that Louis Brandeis represents an ideology out of step with middle America. Judicial activism is frowned upon by much of America.

The terrorist, Abu Mazen, requires condemnation even if a polished press release eminates from the new PLO leader.

Kol tuv,
BobW