Thursday, August 28, 2008

Israel Update 8/28/08

QUICK READING LIST
- Who Revived the Electric Car?, Tamar Snyder, Jewish Week, 8/6/08: http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a13109/News/New_York.html
- Betancourt calls for Gilad Shalit's release, Reuters / YNetNews, 7/20/08: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3570722,00.html
- Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State, Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, July 2008: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080701faessay87402/walter-russell-mead/the-new-israel-and-the-old.html
- Land without regret, Hillel Halkin, National Post (CA), 5/6/08: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=494303
- Must Read (short): Five hours at Tel Aviv airport, Nicolien Den Boer, Radio Netherlands, 4/9/08: http://www.radionetherlands.nl/specialseries/mideastdiaries/080409-tel-aviv-airport
- At 63, Israeli immigrant solves 38-year-old math riddle, Aaron Heller, USA Today, 3/20/08: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2008-03-20-road-coloring-problem-solved_N.htm
- A Moral Outrage, Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report, 3/14/08: http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/03/14/a-moral-outrage.html

RESOURCE: VIRTUAL JERUSALEM
Take a virtual tour of the City of David: http://www.cityofdavid.org.il/hp_eng.asp

VIDEO: GAZANS TRAIN FOR WAR
Watch this short CNN video about how some Palestinians in Gaza are spending time during this "truce" with Israel: making rockets and training for war --
http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=SceCQyymTxR7
- Watch also:
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?rpc=401&videoId=88018&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName
- Read also: Gaza summer camps teach kids to fire rockets: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3575660,00.html

VIDEO: WHAT ISRAEL IS REALLY LIKE
Nice short video ad, brought to you by AJC, in honor of Israel @ 60: http://www.gmmb.com/client_view/AJC/AJC_landing_page/flash/index.html
- See also this color flyer, on the same topic: http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7b84DC5887-741E-4056-8D91-A389164BC94E%7d/20080731%20WINNER%20TOMMY%20HUYNH.PDF

CHARITY: SHALVA
Please consider donating to Shalva, an organization that provides comprehensive programs to physically and mentally challenged children in Israel: http://www.shalva.org/frame.htm

QUOTE OF THE DAY: HAMAS SON SPEAKS
Masab, the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef and a convert to Christianity: "You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas . . . They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death . . . An entire society sanctifies death and the suicide terrorists. In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheikhs tell their students about the 'heroism of the shaheeds.'" "Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country," he says.
- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007097.html

NEWS: DAILY HEADLINES
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