<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Michael Oren, the "Israeli" Zionist regime's ambassador to the "US", is going to be speaking at 4:30PM today Monday, during the Honduras conference in a different room at Harvard KSG . (See attachment below). I am going to be outside with some people protesting against the "Israeli" ambassador. We will include at least a sign calling to restore Zelaya and oppose the coup and phony election in Honduras. We will be in complete solidarity with anyone going in to the Honduras conference to speak truth there in support of the Honduran resistance to the golpistas. <div><br></div><div>I am wondering if the KSG Honduras Conference and the appearance by Ambassador Oren are connected. Dr. Pastor, do you know if any of the conference panelists are meeting with Ambassador Oren?</div><div><br></div><div>There is clearly an Israeli connection to the coup in Honduras. The "Israeli" government, as well as their partner the "US" government, are clearly attempting to influence and interfere with politics in Latin America. </div><div><br></div><div>After the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia expelled the Israeli ambassadors (in reaction to the Israeli genocidal military attack against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip) last winter, here in Boston the Israeli Consulate and pro-Israel Jewish groups held several large events against Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina at which the Jewish groups alleged "anti-semitism" in South America. </div><div><br></div><div>In the first three days of June of this year, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon attended the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Honduras. Ayalon's stated aim was to counter Iranian & Hizballah influence in Latin America.</div><div>See <a href="http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?c=3&cg=2&id=37205&t=1">http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?c=3&cg=2&id=37205&t=1</a> and <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2009/Press+releases/Deputy-FM-+to-participate-in-Genera-Assembly-of-the-OAS-25-May-2009.htm">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2009/Press+releases/Deputy-FM-+to-participate-in-Genera-Assembly-of-the-OAS-25-May-2009.htm</a> (I should mention that at this OAS meeting the US government was apparently unable to impose conditions to block the invitation to Cuba to rejoin the OAS. The Cuban government welcomed the decision but refused to rejoin.)</div><div><br></div><div>Ten days after the OAS meeting, on June 12th, the Iranian presidential election was held. President Ahmadinejad was re-elected. The Western imperialist media went into a propaganda frenzy against Iran, falsely accusing the Iranian government of falsifying the election results. US/UK/Israeli agents staged riots and shot people at peaceful gatherings in Iran to try to instigate a "color revolution" to overthrow the independent anti-imperialist progressive Iranian government.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 24, ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance fair trade block that consisted of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Dominica) held a meeting at which three new countries (Ecuador, Antigua & Barbuda, and St Vincent & the Grenadines) became ALBA members. Iran has been an official observer at ALBA since 2007. At the June 24, 2009, meeting ALBA adopted a resolution pledging support for "the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" and rejecting "foreign interference and the campaign to discredit Iran's June 12th elections". <a href="http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4547">http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4547</a></div><div><br></div><div>The coup in Honduras deposing President Zelaya occurred on June 24 four days after the ALBA meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>The coup and post-coup repression in Honduras is clearly against the poor people of Honduras and is an attempt by the wealthy elite of Honduras and foreign imperialists to keep stealing from Honduras and from the people of Honduras. </div><div><br></div><div> But the events in Honduras are also occurring within a Latin American international context and within a worldwide international context. The coup in Honduras is an attack against ALBA, an attack against Venezuela and Cuba and Bolivia and all the ALBA countries. The coup in Honduras is part of the imperialist attempt to stop an alternative vision and alternative economic system of fair trade that ALBA is developing. This alternative economic system, that would bypass the IMF and World Bank, is a threat to the worldwide hegemony of US/UK/European/Israeli-based monopolistic corporations. ALBA is engaging in more and more mutually beneficial economic cooperation with other progressive countries around the world such as Iran and China. The report from the recent ALBA meeting mentioned that the Venezuelan government is planning to share access to its new Chinese-made communications satellite with the other ALBA countries. Hugo Chavez has said that the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are playing key roles in a process of shaping a new international order, a revolutionary economy at the service of human beings rather than capital. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#0000f0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><u><a href="http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2492">http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2492</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">.</span></u></font></span></div><div><br></div><div>Imperialists are using the coup in Honduras to try to break the ties of economic cooperation between ALBA and Iran and China and other countries. Imperialists tried to stage a counter-revolutionary coup in Iran at the same time as the (so-far) successful coup in Honduras. Zionist imperialists are threatening war against Iran and Venezuela and are pressuring ALBA to drop their solidarity with Iran. Imperialists are using disingenuous "ultra-leftist" anti-Muslim propaganda to try to turn socialist activists, who support ALBA, against Iran. Imperialist agents also instigated riots in Urumqi in western China in July. Western media anti-China propaganda used the Urumqi riots to accuse China of oppressing Muslims. This is an imperialist attempt to turn Iranians and other Muslims against China. </div><div><br></div><div>Imperialists are also trying to pressure Latin American countries to support continued Jewish-supremacist colonial occupation of Palestine and to continue to support the UN occupation of Haiti and imperialist refusal to allow the restoration of President Aristide to Haiti.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not saying that one factor is more important than another, just trying to point out some of the things going on and their relation to what is happening in Honduras. It is curious that the Israeli ambassador will be in the building this afternoon. The Carr Center has ties with the US State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations. It is one of Harvard's elite imperialist thinktanks.</div><div><br></div><div>~ David Rolde</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Middle East Initiative" <<a href="mailto:middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu">middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 19, 2009 1:43:10 PM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:davidrolde@comcast.net">davidrolde@comcast.net</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Nov 23: H.E. Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Middle East Initiative" <<a href="mailto:middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu">middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="550"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><img height="136" width="550" alt="" src="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/middleeast/Images/EmailHeader.jpg"></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="76"><img height="550" border="0" width="75" usemap="#Events" alt="" src="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/middleeast/Images/EmailSideGreen.jpg"></td><td valign="top" height="488" width="474" cellpadding="10" class="Padding" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><div align="center"><p class="style4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br><span class="style11" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; ">You are invited to attend a<br>Middle East Diplomacy Series Discussion with...</span></p><p class="style4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br><span class="style31" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">H.E. 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