Thursday, January 29, 2009

Gaza II and Israel Update 1/28/08

GAZA - ARTICLES (see more at http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2008/12/war-in-gaza-articles.html)
- Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza, Allan Gerson, Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html
- Liberate The Palestinians From Hamas, Bernard-Henri Levy, New Republic:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe
- Why the Israeli people have finally had enough, Ian O’Doherty, Independent (Ireland):
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/why-the-israeli-people-have-finally-had-enough-1592022.html
- Hamas has failed – it is time they stepped down, Sultan Al Qassemi, The National (Abu Dhabi): http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080
- A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery, Steven Erlanger, NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp
- Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly ‘Proportionate’, Alan Dershowitz, Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html
- ‘Hamas torturing Fatah members in Gaza’, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab
- Obama stresses commitment to stop Hamas arms smuggling, Eric Fingerhut, JTA:
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/21/1002417/obama-tells-middle-east-leaders-hes-determined-to-stop-hamas-arms-smuggling

GAZA - QUOTES (see more at
http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-quotes.html)
-- Khaled Mashal, the exiled leader of Hamas, in February 2006: "Before Israel dies, we must defeat and humiliate it. Before they die, god willing, they will daily absorb defeat and humiliation."
http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG (at 35 seconds in)

-- A Palestinian doctor at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital disputed the number of Palestinians that Hamas says have been killed in the campaign: "It's possible that the death toll in Gaza was 500 or 600 at the most, mainly youths aged 17 to 23 who were enlisted by Hamas - who sent them to their deaths . . . . Perhaps it is like Jenin in 2002. At the beginning they spoke about 1,500 dead, and at the end it turned out to be only 54 - of whom 45 were militants."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html

-- Muhammad Dahlan, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and of Fatah's Revolutionary Council: "With their rockets, [Hamas] gave Israel a pretext for the war. Hamas is one of the worst organizations in the region. People are afraid of the Islamists and no one in Gaza dares to express criticism . . . . Hamas shows no consideration for ordinary people -- its fighters fire rockets right from the heart of residential areas . . . .Their sole strategy is destruction and chaos."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599459,00.html

-- Secretary of State Hilary Clinton: "We support Israel's right to self-defence. The (Palestinian) rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas (in Israel) cannot go unanswered . . . . It is regrettable that the Hamas leadership apparently believes that it is in their interest to provoke the right of self-defence instead of building a better future for the people of Gaza."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50Q4QE20090127

-- Lama, a secretary for a Gaza company: "Rockets must end. What did we gain from them? Now Hamas is negotiating a truce. They were given an offer to renew it in December but they refused. Now after thousands of casualties, how does Hamas explain that?"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807

GAZA - VIDEOS (see more at
http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-photos-and-videos.html)
-- Former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp eloquently defends Israel’s actions in Gaza:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw
-- Amid Gaza violence, Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together to save a baby’s life: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ
-- Video regarding Hamas’s use of civilians as shields: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null
-- Inside a Gaza rocket lab: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html

GAZA - RESOURCES (see more at
http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-resources.html)
-- Who is Hamas?:
http://www.memritv.org/video.html and http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas.htm
-- International Law:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f and http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Hamas’s Human Shields:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?_r=3 (civilian homes); http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052981.html (Red Cross and UN buildings); http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html (ambulances); http://www.newsweek.com/id/180691/output/print (hospitals); http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html (mosques, ambulances); http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA (TV studio; for English, turn on CC captions); http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter (civilians)
-- MY RESPONSE to a blog posting:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-other-side-of- the-stor-by-Noah-Liben-090104-507.html


OTHER ISRAEL

RESOURCE: DR. KING AND ISRAEL
-- In honor of MLK, Jr. Day last week, view this video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a81y_martin-luther-king-israel
-- And read this article, King’s special bond with Israel:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/ED115336.DTL&hw=john+lewis&sn=003&sc=627

WEBSITE: EDUCATE OTHERS
Help fight the war of words and ideas! See:
www.helpuswin.org. You do not need to be an expert to make a difference! Help spread Israel’s side of the story to various media sites across the web. We will provide you with talking points, links, and videos for you to distribute and discuss online to show Israel's side of the story. If you choose to volunteer yourself to 10-20 minutes a day, please email Ron Kutas at RonK@standwithus.com with your Name, Email Address, and Country. Subject Title should read: "HelpUsWin Volunteer".

CHARITY / WEBSITE: GIFTS 4 ISRAEL
Take a look at
www.gifts4israel.com. When you use this site for your Amazon.com purchases, Amazon will give 10% of its profit to gifts4israel, half of which goes to Magen David Adom (http://www.afmda.org/), and the other half goes to ImpactAliyah (http://www.impactaliyah.com/). You will not be charged extra. The only way ImpactAliyah will receive this donation is if you use this website. Go to: www.gifts4israel.com.

PETITION: BOYCOTT DURBAN II
Please consider signing this petition, urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to have the U.S. attend the anti-Israel Durban II conference:
http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_6-end-SignPetition.htm

VIDEO: BLACK HEBREWS OF JERUSALEM
View this interesting video of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and their praise for Israel:
http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=ehnkHrmSWf

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