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Arab Journalist: American College Campuses ‘Worse Than Gaza’
March 25, 2009
That’s the impression of veteran Jerusalem Post correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh, who recently wrapped up a speaking tour of American college campuses. Toameh says that the non-Arab, non-Muslim pro-Palestinian students are more strident, less tolerant of opposing viewpoints, and more fixated on their hatred of Israel than Arab Muslims on campus. The situation, he writes, is more hostile and uncivil than what he has encountered on Palestinian campuses.
Toameh writes:
If these folks really cared about the Palestinians, they would be campaigning for good government and for the promotion of values of democracy and freedom in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Their hatred for Israel and what it stands for has blinded them to a point where they no longer care about the real interests of the Palestinians, namely the need to end the anarchy and lawlessness, and to dismantle the armed gangs that are responsible for the death of hundreds of innocent Palestinians over the past few years.
The majority of these activists openly admit that they have never visited Israel or the Palestinian territories. They don’t know — and don’t want to know — that Jews and Arabs here are still doing business together and studying together and meeting with each other on a daily basis because they are destined to live together in this part of the world. They don’t want to hear that despite all the problems life continues and that ordinary Arab and Jewish parents who wake up in the morning just want to send their children to school and go to work before returning home safely and happily.
What is happening on the U.S. campuses is not about supporting the Palestinians as much as it is about promoting hatred for the Jewish state. It is not really about ending the “occupation” as much as it is about ending the existence of Israel.
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Just What The World Needs: A PMS Monitor For Men
March 25, 2009
What woman wouldn’t want to have her menstrual cycle on a man’s calendar?
Jordan Eisenberg says he knows a thing or two about dealing with the volatile emotions of premenstrual syndrome. After all, he grew up around women.
A year ago, the 28-year-old entrepreneur and Denver resident decided to devise a way other men could do the same.
The outcome was PMSbuddy.com, a free Internet-based service that tracks the monthly cycles of a subscriber’s significant other and offers e-mail reminders about the impending deadlines.
And it’s catching on: The site surpassed 150,000 registered users last month. Ten percent are women.
Not to rest on his laurels, Eisenberg recently added a phone application — PMS Buddy iPhone — for 99 cents.
There were 1,000 downloads the first day.
The idea was largely a social experiment rather than a way to earn money, Eisenberg said.
“The whole notion is that you’re being considerate,” he said. ” Obviously, it’s funny as well.”
And unlike websites such as fertilityfriend.com and mymonthlycycle.com , Eisenberg’s creation is different.
“This is for tracking PMS. Those are for tracking fertility,” he said.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University with degrees in math and computer engineering, Eisenberg moved to Denver two years ago. He lives downtown with his wife — not his inspiration for PMS Buddy — and works as director of sales for a technology company.
PMS Buddy germinated in a LoDo bar during happy hour. Eisenberg and a coed group of friends chatted about relationships, and the conversation inevitably landed on the challenges of PMS — otherwise known as premenstrual syndrome.
The group concluded that women just don’t like being asked if it is “that time of the month,” Eisenberg said. The solution: keep tabs on the woman’s menstrual cycle to eliminate the need to ask.
“Just having that awareness, we hope, will lend to fewer arguments,” he said.
The main demographic for PMS Buddy is men ages 20 to 40. There’s even a forum for subscribers to post their own PMS stories and a list of tips to help women feel better during their period.
Flowers, according to the site, “are the kryptonite to PMS.”
“We don’t intend to be taken too seriously,” Eisenberg said. “People think it’s funny, interesting, helpful . . . maybe a combination.”
Some aren’t so light-hearted, claiming the site is an adversary to understanding the problems women face, perpetuating stereotypes of women suffering from PMS.
“I feel it just reinforces this thing that women are driven by their hormones,” said Joanne Belknap , a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Men also have hormonal cycles. . . . We just aren’t as preoccupied with them.”
Belknap said people should not pathologize PMS because many women’s emotions tend to get dismissed and invalidated during what is a perfectly healthy function of a woman’s body.
Don Aptekar, a gynecologist at Rose Medical Center in Denver, said the website could be helpful if it’s used as a means of communication between partners dealing with PMS.
“If it’s something that two people do together as a means of encouraging communication, then yes, I think it has some value,” Aptekar said. “Independently, I think you’re just asking for trouble.”
The tips didn’t thrill him either, noting that buying a woman flowers or wine may only add fuel to the fire of insensitivity.
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