Radical Muslims Cynically and Sinisterly Abuse Democratic Tenets of Free Speech

Radical Muslims play with words and, cynically and sinisterly abuse democratic tenets of free speech in order to spread their intolerant hatred and undermine western civilization

Israel's Secret 18 Month Air Lift of Food and Medicine to Biafra 40 years ago

This past week, channel 2 news here in Israel unveiled this amazing story from 40 years ago.

While the world stood silent, 40 years ago Israeli pilots and air-crews conducted a secret air-lift of food and medicine to the besieged Biafran nation. For 18 months in face of great risk and peril of being shot down by Nigerian Migs under the cover of night they flew red-cross propeller cargo plains into Biafra to bring life saving supplies. Now 40 years later, the pilots and crew meet at a reunion to retell their story.

The full reports from local channel 2 news, in Hebrew only can be found here: http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-5fd65dc2acec721004.htm

More than 900 people who have been killed by Ugandan rebels in northeastern Congo since Christmas

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04/uganda-massacre-lords-res_n_163907.html

NAIROBI, Kenya — An aid group on Wednesday accused U.N. peacekeepers of failing to protect more than 900 people who have been killed by Ugandan rebels in northeastern Congo since Christmas, but the U.N. denied the allegations.

Medecins Sans Frontieres field coordinator Hakim Chkam said the attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army were so brutal that workers had only found 17 survivors. They included a 4-year-old girl whose attackers had attempted to twist off her head.

Where's Goldstone when you need him...

Pilar Rahola is a Spanish Politician from the Left, journalist and activist and is a passionate Defender of the United States & Israel

Source: http://portalofideas.blogspot.com/2009/01/pilar-rahola.html

Conclusion:

I am not Jewish. Ideologically I am left and by profession a journalist. Why am I not as anti Israeli as my colleagues? Because as a non-Jew I have the historical responsibility to fight against Jewish hatred and currently against the hatred for their historic homeland, Israel. To fight against anti-Semitism is not the duty of the Jews, it is the duty of the non-Jews.

As a journalist it is my duty to search for the truth beyond prejudice, lies and manipulations. The truth about Israel is not told. As a person from the left who loves progress, I am obligated to defend liberty, culture, civic education for children, coexistence and the laws that the Tablets of the Covenant made into universal principles. Principles that Islamic fundamentalism systematically destroys. That is to say that as a non-Jew, journalist and lefty I have a triple moral duty with Israel, because if Israel is destroyed, liberty, modernity and culture will be destroyed too.

The struggle of Israel, even if the world doesn’t want to accept it, is the struggle of the world.

Fatah dedicates square to woman who led massacre that killed 37 Israeli civilians

An event that was largely ignored by Israeli and global mainstream media that occurred the same week when Biden visited Israel and the only news that got attention was a building complex in east Jerusalem.

Fatah holds ceremony naming square after terrorist By KHALED ABU TOAMEH 15/03/2010

Despite the Palestinian Authority’s announcement that it had postponed the inauguration of a square in el-Bireh named after Dalal Mughrabi, the Fatah woman who led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in which 37 Israeli civilians and an American photographer were killed, and 71 were wounded, Fatah officials on Thursday evening went ahead with the ceremony.

The Disgrace and Hypocrisy of Obama's treatment of the Israeli PM

1 British and 1 Australian Newspaper make a poignant case on this matter.

Barack Obama’s humiliation of Israel is a disgrace by Nile Gardiner UK Telegraph writes:

"I very much doubt that even third world tyrants would be received in such a rude fashion by the president...The ritual humiliation of the Israelis is an absolute disgrace, and yet another example of how the Obama administration views its allies with indifference, contempt, and at times outright hostility. It is extraordinary how far the Obama team has gone out of its way to grovel to state sponsors of terrorism, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Muammar Gaddafi, while kicking America’s friends in the teeth...

Israel is literally fighting for its survival on a daily basis against an array of vicious terrorist groups, from Hamas to Hizbollah, while facing a looming threat from a genocidal, nuclear-armed Iran. President Obama’s top priority in the Middle East should be preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapons programme. Instead he seems obsessed with kowtowing to America’s enemies by bashing Israel at almost every opportunity"

Nile Gardiner UK Telegraph, is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR.

Obama's anti-Israeli hysteria dangerous and destructive by Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor From The Australian writes:

"When Obama met the king of Saudi Arabia, a nation in which no one votes, women are subject to severe and demeaning restrictions and it is against the law to have a Christian church, Obama bowed in deep respect. When Obama ran into Venezuela's murderous despot, Hugo Chavez, at a summit, there was a friendly greeting observed by all...You might even conclude that Obama is trying to interfere in internal Israeli politics and bring down a government. This is something post-colonial, post-multicultural Obama would never do with Iran, but with Israel, the US's longstanding ally, it's fine."

Persecution of Christians in Gaza

Israel Channel 2 reports on the persecution of Christian Arabs in Gaza: http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Friday-Newscast/Article-d9e226ca42b7621004.htm
Accounts of churches being torched, Christians being denied their freedom of expression and religion, physical and even lethal use of aggression against the Christian community in Gaza.

Elizabeth Cohen CNN: Wowed by Israeli Field Hospital in Haiti

Sky News Covers Israeli Rescue Team in Haiti

Story of Israeli rescue team that toils for 8 hours, cutting through metal and concrete in order to save 1 man under the rubbles, followed by the birth of 1 Haitian baby in the Israeli field-hospital. The first and only international hospital operating in Haiti during the 1st week of the international recuse efforts.

הצביעות של דו"ח גולדסטון

מתוך ישראל היום
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/2680/1625285

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עוד בספטמבר התרחש באפגניסטן אירוע שזכה לפרסום, שבו הצבא הגרמני ביקש סיוע אווירי מחיל האוויר האמריקני במתקפה אווירית נגד שתי מכליות שנתפסו על ידי הטליבאן, תקיפה שתוצאותיה היו 142 הרוגים ובהם 40 אזרחים.

בשנה שחלפה הוטחה ביקורת נגד ארה"ב בנוגע לפעולותיה בפקיסטן, שם היא עושה שימוש במל"טים כדוגמת ה"פרדטור" לחיסול אנשי אל־קאעידה ובעלי בריתם הפקיסטנים.

אובאמה הגביר את השימוש במל"טים בפקיסטן תוך שהוא מאשר, בתשעת החודשים הראשונים לכהונתו, כמות תקיפות השווה לזו שאישר הנשיא בוש בכל שלוש השנים האחרונות לכהונתו.

על פי הערכות מקובלות, מאז 2006 נהרגו כ־700 אזרחים מתקיפות של מל"טים אמריקניים. התקשורת הפקיסטנית דיווחה כי 687 מההרוגים היו אזרחים. המומחה האוסטרלי ללוחמה נגד טרור שעבד עבור מפקד הכוחות האמריקניים בעיראק, הגנרל דיוויד פטראוס, מקבל את ההערכות הפקיסטניות ומסכם שנכון לסוף אוקטובר 2009 - שלוש שנים של תקיפות מל"טים הובילו למותם של 700 אזרחים ו־14 מנהיגי טרור.

במילים אחרות, לטענתו, תקיפות המל"טים האמריקניות מחסלות 98 אחוז אזרחים ורק שני אחוז מנהיגי טרור. הערכות אמריקניות אחרות חולקות על קביעה זו וטוענות כי כשליש מההרוגים הפקיסטנים היו לוחמים בעוד שני שלישים היו אזרחים.
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הטענה המרכזית של גולדסטון נגד ישראל איננה מתבססת אך ורק על היחס בין מספר האזרחים ההרוגים למחבלים במהלך מבצע "עופרת יצוקה". הדו"ח מצטט מקורות ישראליים ופלשתיניים לגבי מספר האבידות בצד הפלשתיני, כולל מידע של צה"ל המראה כי בין 60 ל־75 אחוז מהנפגעים הפלשתינים היו לוחמים

ישראל היום מדווח על שנאת ישראל במצרים

http://www.israelhayom.co.il/site/newsletter_opinion.php?a=2700

יעקב אחימאיר:בביקור במצרים:

הוזמנתי לשם כדי להיפגש עם עיתונאים מצרים ואחרים, יוזמה שנועדה לסדוק את הקרח - סליחה, את האיבה והשנאה המקיפות את צוות השגרירות. לא, אינני מוכן להמיר את הביטוי "שנאה" במונח מרוכך לתיאור היחס המצרי לשגרירות ולישראל! אם אעשה כך, אחטא לאמת...כן, גם עיתונאי שאמור לדעת, להבין, מתקשה לתפוס את עומק השנאה הסובבת את ישראל במצרים. את המציאות הזאת אין לטייח. יום־יום "חוטפות" ישראל ושגרירותה בקהיר "מטחים" מצד אמצעי התקשורת... ערה נוספת נאמרה לי: גם אם ישראל תיסוג לגבולות 67', יחסה של מצרים לא ישתנההמצריים...ואפילו במאוחר, הציגה הליגה נגד השמצה, הארגון היהודי־אמריקני החשוב, דו"ח חמור על עוצמת האנטישמיות באמצעי התקשורת.הדו"ח נשלח למובארק כדי למחות על האדישות שבה מצרים הרשמית מתייחסת לתופעה הנפוצה.

From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed

New York Magazine, brings the chilling details in this exposé, which hasn't made any of the mainstream evening news reports, nor are there any signs that there will ever be some equivalent Goldstone report for these prevalent atrocities

http://nymag.com/news/features/59695/

9/11 Memorial Dedicated in the Jerusalem Forest Hills

From the poignant Israeli commemoration speech

"We recall the tragic events of 9-11 and *vow* that such a loss should never occur...WHY HERE in ISRAEL, in Jerusalem? Because IF ANY NATION ON EARTH, if any city in the world, has endured similar horrors, can share comparable pain, can equally perceive the inherent threat to civilization and life, is able to continue to battle evil, will swear to eternally remember the outcome and the price, is committed to seek peace while standing guard against war, and share similar human national and democratic values with the United States -- It is here in Israel at the gates of it's capital Jerusalem"

למה אף אחד לא מדבר על הגזענות שמאחורי הפשרה שרק לא יהודים יעבדו בשבת באינטל

מכתב לתוכנית סדר יום ברשת ב'

לתשומת ליבכם -- נושא לסדר יום שנעלם מהמדיה הישראלית

איזה מין מדינה קובעת שרק אנשים מדת מסוימת מותר להם לעבוד במפעל ביום מסוים. לא שמעתי מימי על החלטה כזאת גזענית במדינה דמוקרטית, ולמרות זאת לא שמעתי אף התייחסות לנושא הזה במדיה

מכתב פתוח לראש הממשלה בנושא גירוש ילדי העובדים הזרים

לכבוד ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו

שאלה לי אליך בנושא, הילדים האלה, האוהבים את מדינת ישראל, פטריוטים למדינת היהודים, רובם ככולם ישרתו בצבא, הם וילדיהם ייטמעו בחברה היהודית הישראלית.

לעומת זאת יש כמיליון אזרחים ערבים במדינת ישראל, רובם ככולם, לא מקבלים ולא רוצים להיות חלק ממדינה יהודית, ולא מעט מהם אף שונאים את המדינה היהודית.

ולמרות זאת אתה נותן לשר הפנים שלך, עם דעות וביטויים שמקומם במאות שקודמות לשלנו ,לגרש ממדינת ישראל את אלה שאוהבים ורוצים להיות חלק ממדינת היהודים

מה ההיגיון?

לתשומת לבך, אני אזרח מודאג ממרכז המפה הפוליטי. המייצג אוכלוסייה עם ערכים ציוניים יהודיים ואוניברסאליים.

איפה אתה עומד אדוני ראש הממשלה?

יחסי ציבור חייבים להיות חלק מהמערך האסטרטגי של מדינת ישראל

מכתב פתוח לראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו

אני אזרח מודאג, ורבים כמוני בארץ לא מעכלים איך ממשלות ישראל לדורותיהם לא השכילו להבין שזירת יחסי הציבור הוא חלק מהמערכה הקיומית של מדינית ישראל!

30 שנה הערבים שופכים כסף באוניברסיטאות בארה"ב וסביב העולם, וגדל דור "שלא ידע את יוסף", והיום יש מיליארדים של בני אדם סביב העולם שמכירים רק את ההיסטוריה המשוכתבת של הערבים והמוסלמים, ואף קול ישראלי\יהודי מאזן לא מגיע ולא נשמע כנגד השקר הגדול של דורינו. וכך הגענו עד הלום, מציאות בלהות שרוב יושבי תבל חושבים שישראל היא מטרד קולוניאלי שיש לעקר אם לא לעקור מהמזרח התיכון.

אתה ראש ממשלה, שאמור להבין בנושא יחסי ציבור ואת חשיבותו האסטרטגית והקיומית. תעשה מעשה, תבטל היום רכישת טייסת מטוסים, ובמקומה תקים מערך יחסי ציבור מטובי האנשים בעולם (יהודים ולא יהודים אוהדי ישראל), ותעשה יותר לקיומה של עם ישראל מאשר כל טייסת מטוסים נוספת הייתה יכולה לעשות.

בתודה מראש,
נעם רותם

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech at the UN

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech stating the simple yet obvious multifaceted historical connection of Jews to the land of Israel. That the real danger in the world is a cold blooded, barbaric fundamen...tal Islamic creed of terror that undermines all basic and decent human rights achieved in the past 400 years and yet this threat is met with misappropriated and hypocritical agendas by the UN, mainstream media and the World at large

60 Minutes Report on Torture In Iran

While the world gathered to ostracize Israel on false and warped claims in Durban II -- here’s just one example of hundreds of millions of real cases of true evil and abhorrent human rights violations that are overlooked regularly and daily by the mainstream media

Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.

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Cleric on Egyptian TV calls for Boycott of Starbucks Because Logo has Queen Esther in it

This is actually a news item that poignantly and befittingly came out around Purim time this year.

Sadly many politically correct left wing Israelis misguidingly find Purim too war mongering for their tastes -- as the Jews at the end of the biblical story actually get to defend themselves from their enemies, which they end up, killing and defeating. Regardless of the sophomoric skewing of both the story and its historical context, which is an obvious allegory to a scenario that sadly repeated itself through out Jewish history countless times from the Greeks and Romans through the Crusaders, middle-ages and up to and including modern times, where Jews did not actually have the opportunity to defend themselves -- it would serve these and other PC moonbats worldwide to catch this news worthy item about the dangerous dim-wittedness of "modern" Islamic culture in so called "moderate" countries like Egypt.

If should be duly noted that Egypt is not a free country nor free society, and as such lacks free speech -- so that if this anti-semetic mind boggling idiocy was on Egyptian TV its because it was not just allowed to be on -- but in fact had the full backing of the authorities.

A quintessential depiction of the nature of Israel’s struggle against Arab terrorist and guerrilla forces

A sad but true quintessential depiction of the nature of Israel’s struggle against Arab terrorist and guerrilla forces

Hamas takes pride in using women and children as human shields in fighting Israel

From Palestinian Media Watch:

A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council, takes pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shield in fighting Israel. He describes it as part of the "Death Industry" at which they excel, and explains that the Palestinians "desire death" the same way Israelis "desire life".

The following is the full text:

For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters againset the Zionist bombing machine, as they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire Life.

Hamas is committing three war crimes

Alan Dershowitz poignantly stated the obvious in an op-ed he wrote today for the WSJ titled: Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate' Hamas are the real war criminals in this conflict

Until the world recognizes that Hamas is committing three war crimes -- targeting Israeli civilians, using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and seeking the destruction of a member state of the United Nations -- and that Israel is acting in self-defense and out of military necessity, the conflict will continue.

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In a recent incident related to me by the former head of the Israeli air force, Israeli intelligence learned that a family's house in Gaza was being used to manufacture rockets. The Israeli military gave the residents 30 minutes to leave. Instead, the owner called Hamas, which sent mothers carrying babies to the house.

Hamas knew that Israel would never fire at a home with civilians in it. They also knew that if Israeli authorities did not learn there were civilians in the house and fired on it, Hamas would win a public relations victory by displaying the dead. Israel held its fire. The Hamas rockets that were protected by the human shields were then used against Israeli civilians.

These despicable tactics -- targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians -- can only work against moral democracies that care deeply about minimizing civilian casualties. They never work against amoral nations such as Russia, whose military has few inhibitions against killing civilians among whom enemy combatants are hiding.
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See the full op-ed on the WSJ website:
Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate' Hamas are the real war criminals in this conflict

Mr. Dershowitz is a law professor at Harvard. His latest book is "The Case Against Israel's Enemies" (Wiley, 2008).

Israel's answer to the "Obama Girl" youtube video clip: "The Livni Boy"

And here’s another one in a slightly different vain--a real LOL campy take-off of the original Obama Girl, with all the sexy trappings (Israeli style) for some young Likud MK candidate

Syria's genocidal intentions

From the Washington Times

Syria, like Iran, makes no secret of its genocidal intentions toward Israel. Both actively support a number of major terrorist groups. Syria maintains especially important links to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP-GC and Hezbollah - which is an Iranian proxy.

Syria cannot afford to detach itself from Iran because Tehran provides the minority Allawi regime with protection against the Sunni majority in Syria. Also, Syria's dominant position in Lebanon is contingent on Hezbollah.

Tel Aviv Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Gay Pride Parade

Tel Aviv adorned it’s main boulevards this past week with rainbow colored flags as revelers of all persuasions streamed along the main route of the city’s 10th annual gay pride parade that converged at Gordon Beach, one of the city’s central beach fronts, for a free outdoor concert. As usual for this annual parade, gays and lesbians weren’t the only ones out celebrating. Tel Avivans of all ages and statuses were out embracing the event, the community, and the festivities. All of which made for a colorful love fest of freedom of expression in a city that enjoys celebrating its unbridled spirit, diversity and a good beach party.

It should be duly noted that in stark contrast, homosexuality is a crime under the Palestinian Authority, where Gay’s are persecuted and sent to jail. Similarly in Egypt gay men can be sentenced anywhere from 3 and up to 25 years for homosexuality. And in general, the status of gays and lesbians in the Arab and Muslim world is for the most part a dire one.

Some photos I snapped at the event:

Click on any photo for a larger view. The entire album can be viewed here

Some more photos from other people can be found on Flickr by clicking here and here -- don't miss the Israeli soldier girl with a rainbow flag in her shirt pocket

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record high in 2007

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record high in 2007, Ha'aretz, 03/06/2008
By Rhonda Spivak

WINNIPEG - Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit a record high in 2007, according to a recently released report by the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada.

The group recorded 1,042 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2007, up 11.4% since 2006. A 59.1% increase was noted on Canadian college and university campuses.

In Montreal, anti-Semitic incidents increased 16 percent from 2006 to 2007, and regional Quebec showed a significant increase of 282 percent from the previous year.
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The study also showed that over the past 10 years anti-Semitic incidents have jumped 400 percent in Canada.

Nearly 30 percent of all incidents in 2007 were attributed to internet activity. Of these, nearly one-third involved threatening or harassing communications.

Synagogues were targeted in 22 incidents, in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Richmond British Columbia, Hamilton and Barrie, Ontario. There were 28 incidents of violence in 2007, down from 30 in 2006. Incidents of harassment were up from 588 in 2006 to 699 in 2007.

"The 2007 findings indicate that anti-Semitism is not just at the fringes of Canadian society," Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada said in a news release. He also noted that incidents are no longer "primarily confined to urban centers."

84% of Palestinian Arabs support the Massacre at the Rabbinical Seminary

Last month “Israel Today” headlined this story based on a survey by Khalil Shikaki based in Ramallah and is considered a reliable pollster of Palestinian society . The survey also shows unprecedented support for the shooting of rockets on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip and for the end of the peace negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.

The New York Times also covered this story which can be found here: Poll Shows Most Palestinians Favor Violence Over Talks

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs Celebrated Jerusalem Terrorist Attack on the Rabbinical Seminary

By Noam Rotem

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza celebrated the Jerusalem terrorist attack on the Rabbinical seminary on March 5th. AP, Reuters, AFP, Jerusalem Post, Ynet and other news organizations reported on this story--here is one sample from Ynet:

Palestinians distribute sweets in celebration of Jerusalem terror attack as Hamas promises 'this is only the beginning'. Gaza's streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands on Thursday evening following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary in which eight people were killed. In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many residents went to perform the prayers of thanksgiving. Armed men fired in the air in celebration and others passed out sweets to passersby.

Missing from these descriptions are what should have been the appropriate adjectives describing the nature of this kind of behavior by the popular masses of Palestinian Arabs, i.e. qualifiers such as : abhorrent, disgusting, despicable, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, repugnant, repulsive just to mention a few.

Of course one of the main reasons these adjectives are missing, has to do in no small part to Political Correct ideological censorship, which has infected every corner of western perception, impeding on free uncensored speech and thought. Worse yet is the fact that societies afflicted with this autoimmune disease are unaware of the censorship that is continuous, is on going, and distorts the most essential and fundamental comprehension of reality.

Furthermore this PC distortion field, distracts from an important fact of the real story is, and that is that the Palestinian population is not really an innocent by stander. They voted in terrorist and fascist organization. As already reported in the past in Tel Aviv Vistas, a Pew research report from last year found that 70% of Palestinians believe that suicide bombings against civilians can be often or sometimes justified.

Israeli Cows are Greenest in the World

Dalia Mazori of Ma’ariv reported last week (28.02.2008) that Israeli cows were awarded "The Most Environmentally Friendly Cows" at the annual conference of International Dairy Federation (IDF). Dr. Yisrael Palmenbaum explained that the methane gas emitted by cows, is caused from the fermentation of food in the cows digestive system. Israeli cows are fed a rich diet of seeds as opposed to their counterparts in New Zealand and other grazing countries, that feed on a lot of green fiber, which takes much longer to digest causing more methane gas in the process.

The Benefits of Industrialized Agriculture

Here's an interesting clear-eye article from the International Herald Tribune (having nothing to do with Israel or the mideast), showing the benefits of Industrialized Agriculture. Not to take away from the many benefits of Organic farming, this article shows why on mass the world needs industrizlied farming and the dangerous effects PC ideololgoy has on millions of Africans.

FOOD FANTASIES: Africa's organic farms

By Robert Paarlberg

...Nearly all of Africa's farms are thus de facto "organic." Poor and non-productive, but organic.

Cereal crop yields in Africa are only one-third as high as in developing Asia, and only one-tenth as high as the United States. Average income from this kind of farming amounts to only a dollar a day, which is why nearly 80 percent of all those officially classified as poor in Africa are farmers, and why one third of all farmers are chronically malnourished.

Without modern agricultural science, food production in Africa has fallen ominously behind population growth. Total agricultural production per capita today has fallen 19 percent below the level of 1970. Increasingly, Africans must depend on imported food aid...

In this fashion, and perhaps without realizing it, wealthy countries are imposing the richest of tastes on the poorest of people. The rich are, in effect, telling Africa's farmers they should just as well remain poor.

Robert Paarlberg is a professor of political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the author of "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa.