was being sponsored by an American cancer organization that was founded in the name of a prominent Jewish American woman.
For this organization to now be going forward with the conference despite the fact that these Israeli doctors and researchers had their inviations/visa denied at the last minute goes against the typical American ethos.
As you apparently are well aware, most American do NOT see Israelis as terrorists. So from their perspective, this smacks of blatant discrimination against the folks hailing from there.
And c'mon...out of all the Arab countries, Egypt has been one that has historically had one of the better relationships with Israel. So this is clearly a case of revenge -- for the UNESCO incident, for something else...nothing more. And while I have no problem with countries leveraging their weight to express their opinions about other countries' behavior, I don't think that the Susan G. Komen orgnization should have allowed itself to be put in the middle of this incident. They should have pulled out and allowed Egypt to express its displeasure with Israel another way.
As it is, the conference staying makes it appear that Susan G Komen endorses this behavior -- which I don't think they do (and if they did, they could kiss their organization goodbye because the vast majority of the US donors would walk away from them in a heartbeat over stuff like this).
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx
was being sponsored by an American cancer organization that was founded in the name of a prominent Jewish American woman.
For this organization to now be going forward with the conference despite the fact that these Israeli doctors and researchers had their inviations/visa denied at the last minute goes against the typical American ethos.
As you apparently are well aware, most American do NOT see Israelis as terrorists. So from their perspective, this smacks of blatant discrimination against the folks hailing from there.
And c'mon...out of all the Arab countries, Egypt has been one that has historically had one of the better relationships with Israel. So this is clearly a case of revenge -- for the UNESCO incident, for something else...nothing more. And while I have no problem with countries leveraging their weight to express their opinions about other countries' behavior, I don't think that the Susan G. Komen orgnization should have allowed itself to be put in the middle of this incident. They should have pulled out and allowed Egypt to express its displeasure with Israel another way.
As it is, the conference staying makes it appear that Susan G Komen endorses this behavior -- which I don't think they do (and if they did, they could kiss their organization goodbye because the vast majority of the US donors would walk away from them in a heartbeat over stuff like this).
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx