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More than half a million people have
attended Oakland Community College
since it was founded in 1964 — that's
equal to half the population of Oakland
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Among its graduates OCC counts an
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one of the nation's largest real estate
companies, a physician with attention
deficit syndrome who has risen to the
top of his profession and innumerable
other leaders in the fields of business,
banking and community activism.

As for so many others, there's no better
place to begin your higher education
than Oakland Community College.
With programs in 160 high-demand
fields, OCC is here for you to get
started in a high-demand career.

If you're planning to go on for a four-
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per credit hour for Oakland County
residents. And there's a full range
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study programs.

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July 22 . 2010

Courage And Cowardice
Thanks in large part to Sarah
Stern and her organization, EMET:
Endowment for Middle East Truth, a
man who sacrificed his life for good
was able to escape deportation by
the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
As Stern said in Robert Sklar's
Editor's Letter ("A Hero; No
Terrorist:' July 15, page 5), Jews
and Americans should be deeply
thankful to Mosab Hassan Yousef,
who had the courage to break away
from a father who founded Hamas
and other Islamists so he could aid
Israel, help prevent terrorist attacks,
speak the truth and "save Israeli and
Palestinian lives."
It is encouraging to read of honor-
able people such as Stern, former
CIA director James Woolsey, U.S. Rep.
Doug Lamborn, Yousef's former Shin
Bet handler Gonen Ben-Yitzhak and
Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano all doing the right thing
and saving a courageous hero from
deportation.
On the other hand, how discour-
aging it is to again read about the
seemingly never-ending legal battles
and "life-altering ordeal" of local
resident David Tenenbaum who has
fought alleged anti-Semitism in the
U.S. Department of Defense for 15
years ("High-Level Cover-Up?" July
15, page 12). It's hard to believe that
he is still constricted in a cubicle at
TACOM in Warren, kept away from
any meaningful work.
I can only wonder what would
have happened if Tenenbaum
had continued his work to make
Humvees safe from IED (impro-
vised explosive device) shrapnel
rather than tormented because of his
Judaism.
How many American soldiers in
Iraq and Afghanistan could have
been saved?

Arnie Goldman

Farmington Hills

Stand With Israel
Though much ado has been made
of congressional letters defend-
ing Israel's response to the May
Gaza flotilla, we owe a huge debt of
gratitude to three U.S. congressmen
from our Michigan delegation who
co-sponsored legislation expressly
prohibiting U.S. involvement in any
United Nations investigation into the
incident.
Kudos to Reps. Peter Hoekstra,
Candice Miller and Thaddeus

McCotter for signing on to HR 5501,
the America Stands with Israel Act,
first introduced on June 10 and
referred to the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
This legislative initiative goes
far beyond the merely rhetorical
flourish of the congressional let-
ters in expressing the sense of
Congress that our government sup-
ports Israel's right to defend itself
against such a deliberate and hostile
provocation. The act unequivocally
supports Israel's naval blockade of
Gaza and, moreover, makes clear that
the U.S. will play no part in any inter-
national probe of Israel's actions in
the flotilla conflagration.
Specifically, the act directs the
U.S. Secretary of State to ensure that
no U.S. contributions to the United
Nations are used for any such inves-
tigation, including by withholding
a commensurate amount of U.S.
funding to the regularly assessed
biennial budget of the U.N. The
act also requires the Secretary of
State to direct the U.S. Permanent
Representative to the U.N. to cease
U.S. participation in, and member-
ship on, the U.N. Human Rights
Council (UNHRC).
The text of the legislation under-
scores Hamas' reign in Gaza as a
duly designated terror organization
and proxy of Iran dedicated to the
destruction of Israel as well as its
ties to the Turkish Humanitarian
Relief Foundation, the main organi-
zation of the flotilla, which in turn,
has been linked to other terror orga-
nizations, including Al Qaida.
In calling for cessation of mem-
bership on the U.N. Human Rights
Council, the 90 congressional sig-
natories are to be congratulated for
their willingness to stop providing
U.S. cover for what has become the
antithesis of a human rights coun-
cil. Members of the sham council
include such odious violators of
human rights as Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
China, Cuba and Russia.
This very same council produced
the widely discredited Goldstone
Report, whose flaws and anti-Israel
bias were rejected by the U.S. admin-
istration and Congress. And this
same council, while turning a blind
eye to human rights tragedies all
around the globe, has been fixated
on authoring at least 27 resolutions
specifically condemning Israel.

Linda Stulberq

Farmington Hills