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February 28, 2006IT'S FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, JUST A PERFECT BLEND-SHIPHorsefeathers is old enough to recall how the brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, was transformed into benign "Uncle Joe" by our useful media idiots, during World War II. At home, our victrola played the Red Army Chorus singing its rousing martial anthems. After all, we were allies fighting Hitler, weren't we? All the while, Stalin's agents were infiltrating our government and scientific establishment, stealing whatever they could use in the struggle to impose global Communism. They played an often successful double game. However, they did so covertly; never did our highest government officials invite them to place their agents inside our most vulnerable locations. The United Arab Emirates, a collection of incestuous Emirs and Sheiks, who, were it not for oil, would have a hard time getting jobs bagging groceries, is the long term enemy--no matter how much they "cooperate" with us in hunting down others who also threaten them. They are part of the primitive world of Islamo-Nazis who envy and despise our Western civilization, and who scapegoat the Jews for their own failures. We don't recall President Roosevelt selling management of the Manhattan Project to Stalin's Soviet Union. Nor did Roosevelt trouble himself about sharing secrets with Churchill but not with Stalin. In fact he knew, despite our differences, Churchill was a real ally. Stalin had to use secret agents to get the important information. Roosevelt never felt compelled to explain that Nazism and Communism were really peaceful ideologies that had been regrettably hijacked by a few zealots. The clue, as always---the canary in the coal mine--is Israel. The Jew hatred that permeates Islam is manifest in the UAE, even as they cozy up to the United States. The Bush supporting conservative pundits, from David Brooks to William Kristol, glide over this inconvenient fact, explaining how grateful we should be for the friendship of any Arab. Grateful? If the UAE's rulers are helping us it is because they fear for their own lives and need us to shore up their cruel regimes. One wonders, if Russia in World War II worked openly to destroy England, would President Roosevelt have enthusiastically hailed them as our ally? Here's what our "friends" in the UAE are up to,: "The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The firm, Dubai Ports World, is seeking control over six major US ports, including those in New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is entirely owned by the Government of Dubai via a holding company called the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCZC), which consists of the Dubai Port Authority, the Dubai Customs Department and the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area. "Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced," Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of Israel, told the Post in a telephone interview. "If a product contained even some components that were made in Israel, and you wanted to import it to Dubai, it would be a problem," he said. A-Din noted that while the head office for the anti-Israel boycott sits in Damascus, he and his fellow staff members are paid employees of the Dubai Customs Department, which is a division of the PCZC, the same Dubai government-owned entity that runs Dubai Ports World. Moreover, the Post found that the website for Dubai's Jebel Ali Free Zone Area, which is also part of the PCZC, advises importers that they will need to comply with the terms of the boycott. In a section entitled "Frequently Asked Questions", the site lists six documents that are required in order to clear an item through the Dubai Customs Department. One of them, called a "Certificate of Origin," "is used by customs to confirm the country of origin and needs to be seen by the office which ensures any trade boycotts are enforced," according to the website. A-Din of the Israel boycott office confirmed that his office examines certificates of origin as a means of verifying whether a product originated in the Jewish state. On at least three separate occasions last year, the Post has learned, companies were fined by the US government's Office of Anti-boycott Compliance, an arm of the Commerce Department, on charges connected to boycott-related requests they had received from the Government of Dubai. US law bars firms from complying with such requests or cooperating with attempts by Arab governments to boycott Israel. In one instance, according to a Commerce Department press release, a New York-based exporter agreed to pay a fine for having "failed to report in a timely manner its receipts of requests from Dubai" to provide certification that its products had not been made in Israel. The proposed handover of US ports to DP World has provoked a political storm in Washington, where Republicans and Democrats alike have expressed hostility to the plan, citing national security concerns. In an attempt to stave off opposition, DP World agreed over the weekend to a highly unusual 45-day second federal investigation of potential security risks..." Perhaps the State Dept. can reassure our UAE "friends" that we truly appreciate their help, by complying with their boycott of Israel, and turning away any ships carrying goods from that infidel land. 
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