Israel Update 3/2/08

QUICK READING LIST
- India: Reach out to Israel, Ramesh Thakur, Times (India), 12/13/07: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reach_out_to_Israel/articleshow/2617931.cms
- At Gaza’s Edge, Israelis Fear Rockets’ Whine, Steven Erlanger, NY Times, 1/9/08: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/world/middleeast/09israel.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=gaza&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
- View also this video report of how Palestinian terrorists in Gaza use ‘Google Earth’ to launch rockets at Israeli targets: http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=WHxGEWMGoK3k
- Deep inside the plucky country, Gerg Sheridan, The Australian, 1/19/08: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23072242-7583,00.html
“Naturally the reporting [on Israel] is one-sided. But it is worse than that. It omits from the equation Israel and the Israelis, and all the countless enthralling and diverse aspects of Israeli politics and society.”
- Israeli duo of Ram, Erlich win Australian Open doubles title, Rami Hipsh, Haaretz, 1/26/08: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948247.html
- See also: Israel's tennis player Peer makes history in Gulf: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080217/sp_wl_afp/tenniswtaqatisrpeeroly2016
- Israel isn't to blame for chaos around Egypt's wall, Jonathan Gurwitz, San Antonio Express-News, 2/5/08: http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA020608.02O.gurwitz.25d44c7.html
- Palestinian Christians live in constant fear, Father Raymond De Souza, National Post (Canada), 2/19/08: http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=317540
“The problem is not [the Palestinian Christians’] behaviour but, in the eyes of the violent Islamist jihadists, their very presence.”
- See also: Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society: http://jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm

ACTION ALERT: CONDEMN ROCKET ATTACKS ON ISRAEL
Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) introduced a resolution (H.Res. 951) condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and supporting Israel's sovereign right to defend itself against such attacks. Please write to your Representatives and urge them to support this resolution: http://www.aipac.org/694.asp#8609 (click on the “Email your Representative” link)
- For more info on the rocket attacks, see: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Missile+fire+from+Gaza+on+Israeli+civilian+targets+Aug+2007.htm

PHOTO ESSAY: ISRAEL COVERED IN SNOW
Beautiful pictures of the Holy Land covered in snow: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125106

QUOTE OF THE DAY: IRAN’S FEELINGS ABOUT ISRAEL
Unsurprisingly, they are not very fuzzy:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the West to acknowledge Israel's “imminent collapse.” Ahmadinejad further incited his listeners to “stop supporting the Zionists, as [their] regime reached its final stage . . . Accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/949628.html

Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: "In the near future, we will witness the destruction of Israel, the aggressor, this cancerous microbe Israel, at the able hands of the soldiers of the community of Hezbollah.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/wl_mideast_afp/iranisraelpoliticssyrialebanon_080218115101

WEBSITE: ISRAEL AT 60
This May, Israel will be celebrating its 60th birthday! Check out this great website for fascinating facts (did you know Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world?), great videos, and more: http://www.israelcelebrates60.com/

VIDEO: HAMAS BUNNY THREATENS DENMARK
After newspapers in Denmark recently re-published cartoons of Mohammad, a rabbit on a Hamas children’s television program in Gaza threatened to kill Danes, bite them, and eat them up (see 3 minutes, 30 seconds in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0U2ce-LmA4&feature=related