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To be added to the email list, email: noah.liben@gmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-19999110106444266232009-02-22T08:55:00.002-05:002009-02-22T09:05:29.598-05:002-20-09 Israel Election Update<span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">ELECTION UPDATE SPECIAL: ISRAEL VOTES, 2009<br /></span></strong>- <strong>VIDEO</strong>: Election results and commentary from Israel: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials10.asp" target="_blank"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials10.asp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <u>Votes in, but real winner still uncertain</u>, JTA: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/11/1002921/votes-in-but-real-winner-still-uncertain" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/11/1002921/votes-in-but-real-winner-still-uncertain</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- Election results, broken down by Haaretz: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1063105.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1063105.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <u>Arabs Make Gains In New Israeli Parliament</u>, Media Line: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24226" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24226</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong>BREAKING NEWS</strong>: Netanyahu tapped to form new government, aims for national unity: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/20/1003148/netanyahu-aims-for-national-unity" target="_blank"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/20/1003148/netanyahu-aims-for-national-unity</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">NEWS</span></strong><br />- Special Israeli operation to rescue Jews in danger in Yemen: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jewishagency.org./JewishAgency/English/Home/Jewish+Agency+Resources/Highlights/Archive/2009/feb19a.htm?variety=hp_top" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jewishagency.org./JewishAgency/English/Home/Jewish+Agency+Resources/Highlights/Archive/2009/feb19a.htm?variety=hp_top</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <u>UN halts Gaza aid over Hamas 'thefts'</u>, BBC: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7875171.stm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7875171.stm</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <u><span style="font-size:100%;">Israel eyes gas bonanza from large offshore find</span></u>, Reuters: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKLI27068120090118" target="_blank"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKLI27068120090118</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- Good time to visit Israel!! <span style="font-size:85%;"><u>Tourism numbers rise 32 percent in 2008</u></span>, Reuters: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50H1QW20090118" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50H1QW20090118</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">DOCUMENTARY: FACES OF ISRAEL</span></strong><br />Check out this new <strong>film</strong>, <strong><em><span style="color:#000066;">Faces of Israel</span></em></strong>, a documentary that discusses marriage, state, and religion in the Jewish homeland: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.facesthemovie.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.facesthemovie.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: GAZA REVISITED</span></strong><br />· <u><strong>What Hamas Has Wrought</strong></u>, Edgar Bronfman, Huffington Post:<br /></span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edgar-m-bronfman/what-hamas-has-wrought_b_165157.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edgar-m-bronfman/what-hamas-has-wrought_b_165157.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <u><strong>The War in Retrospect</strong></u>, David Forman, Jerusalem Post: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304765450&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304765450&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>· <u><strong>No Israeli apology for defeating Iran's Islamic proxy</strong></u>, Amir Gissin, Toronto Star:<br /></span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/576476" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/576476</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <strong>Correcting misperceptions from the Gaza War</strong>:<br />o <em>Khlaled Abed Rabbo affair</em>: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=62&x_article=1624" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=62&x_article=1624</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/02/04/time-magazine-and-palestinian-sources-on-the-origins-of-modern-blood-libels/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/02/04/time-magazine-and-palestinian-sources-on-the-origins-of-modern-blood-libels/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />o <em>The UN school bombing affair</em>: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304788684&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304788684&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <strong>Hamas tortures Fatah "collaborators"</strong>:<br />o </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MN3215FAUD.DTL" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MN3215FAUD.DTL</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">o </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD221709" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD221709</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">o </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18064" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18064</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> <br /></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: KERRY DEFENDS ISRAEL<br /></span></strong>In a message to the citizens of Gaza, <strong>Senator John Kerry</strong> defended Israel, saying: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Your political leadership needs to understand that any nation that has rockets hitting it for many years threatening its residents is going to respond</span></em></strong>. [Hamas] needs to make it clear how it is willing to move to make peace and those decisions have not been made yet." </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/2009219135025156298.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://english.aljazeera.net/<br />news/middleeast/2009/02/2009219135025156298.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">BLOGS: 4 TO CHECK OUT</span></strong><br />- For those interested in law in Israel: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://israellawreport.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://israellawreport.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- Global politics and Israel: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://theisraelhobby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://theisraelhobby.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- Engaging and challenging nuggets about Israel and Zionism: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://oznia.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://oznia.wordpress.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- Religious and Revisionist Zionism: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://hadarnews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://hadarnews.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">OTHER ARTICLES: QUICK READING LIST<br /></span></strong>· <u><strong>How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem</strong></u>, Natan Sharansky, Wall Street Journal, 1/6/09: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB123120586642556073.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB123120586642556073.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <strong><u>Welcome to the new Middle East</u></strong>, Martin Cohn, Toronto Star, 1/20/09: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.thestar.com/article/573793" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thestar.com/article/573793</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <strong><u>Anti-Israel vs. Anti-Semite</u></strong>, Tom Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 1/25/09: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-perspec0225hatejan25,0,1357809.story" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-perspec0225hatejan25,0,1357809.story</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">· <strong><u>Teaching tots terror: Hamas TV promotes culture of death for Palestinian children</u></strong>, NY Daily News, 2/3/09: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/03/2009-02-03_teaching_tots_terror_hamas_tv_promotes_c.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/03/2009-02-03_teaching_tots_terror_hamas_tv_promotes_c.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> - <strong><u>One Region, Two States</u></strong>, President Shimon Peres, Washington Post, 2/10/09: </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR2009020902098.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR2009020902098.html</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-20243828082374941102009-01-29T15:57:00.002-05:002009-01-29T16:11:40.308-05:00Gaza II and Israel Update 1/28/08<span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">GAZA - ARTICLES</span></strong> (<span style="font-size:85%;">see more at </span></span><a href="http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2008/12/war-in-gaza-articles.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2008/12/war-in-gaza-articles.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">)<br />- <strong><u>Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza</u></strong>, Allan Gerson, Huffington Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Liberate The Palestinians From Hamas</u></strong>, Bernard-Henri Levy, New Republic: </span><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Why the Israeli people have finally had enough</u></strong>, Ian O’Doherty, Independent (Ireland): </span><a href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/why-the-israeli-people-have-finally-had-enough-1592022.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/why-the-israeli-people-have-finally-had-enough-1592022.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>Hamas has failed – it is time they stepped down</u></strong>, Sultan Al Qassemi, The National (Abu Dhabi): </span><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery</u></strong>, Steven Erlanger, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly ‘Proportionate’</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>‘Hamas torturing Fatah members in Gaza’</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Obama stresses commitment to stop Hamas arms smuggling</u></strong>, Eric Fingerhut, JTA: </span><a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/21/1002417/obama-tells-middle-east-leaders-hes-determined-to-stop-hamas-arms-smuggling"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/21/1002417/obama-tells-middle-east-leaders-hes-determined-to-stop-hamas-arms-smuggling</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">GAZA - QUOTES</span></strong> (<span style="font-size:85%;">see more at </span></span><a href="http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-quotes.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-quotes.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">)<br />-- <strong>Khaled Mashal</strong>, the exiled leader of Hamas, in February 2006: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Before Israel dies, we must defeat and humiliate it. Before they die, god willing, they will daily absorb defeat and humiliation</span></em></strong>." </span><a href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(at 35 seconds in)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- A <strong>Palestinian doctor</strong> at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital disputed the number of Palestinians that Hamas says have been killed in the campaign: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">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</span></em></strong>." </span><a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong>Muhammad Dahlan</strong>, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and of Fatah's Revolutionary Council: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">With their rockets, [Hamas] gave Israel a pretext for the war. <strong><em>Hamas is one of the worst organizations in the region.</em></strong> People are afraid of the Islamists and no one in Gaza dares to express criticism . . . . <strong><em>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</em></strong></span>." </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599459,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599459,00.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong>Secretary of State Hilary Clinton</strong>: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">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</span></em></strong>." </span><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50Q4QE20090127"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50Q4QE20090127</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br />-- <strong>Lama</strong>, a secretary for a Gaza company: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">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?</span></em></strong>" </span><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">GAZA - VIDEOS</span></strong> (<span style="font-size:85%;">see more at </span></span><a href="http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-photos-and-videos.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-photos-and-videos.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">)<br />-- Former <strong>British Army Colonel Richard Kemp</strong> eloquently defends Israel’s actions in Gaza: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Amid Gaza violence, Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together to save a baby’s life: </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Video regarding Hamas’s use of civilians as shields: </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Inside a Gaza rocket lab: </span><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">GAZA - RESOURCES</span></strong> (<span style="font-size:85%;">see more at </span></span><a href="http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-resources.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://noah-israel-update.blogspot.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-resources.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">) <br />-- <strong>Who is Hamas?</strong>: </span><a href="http://www.memritv.org/video.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.memritv.org/video.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- <strong>International Law</strong>: </span><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- <strong>Hamas’s Human Shields</strong>: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?_r=3"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?_r=3</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian homes</span></em></strong>); </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052981.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052981.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">Red Cross and UN buildings</span></em></strong>); </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">ambulances</span></em></strong>); </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/180691/output/print"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.newsweek.com/id/180691/output/print</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">hospitals</span></em></strong>); </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">mosques, ambulances</span></em></strong>); </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">TV studio</span></em></strong>; <strong><u>for English, turn on CC captions</u></strong>); </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilians</span></em></strong>)<br />-- <strong>MY RESPONSE</strong> to a blog posting: </span><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-other-side-of-%20the-stor-by-Noah-Liben-090104-507.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-other-side-of- the-stor-by-Noah-Liben-090104-507.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><u>OTHER ISRAEL</u></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">RESOURCE: DR. KING AND ISRAEL</span></strong><br />-- In honor of MLK, Jr. Day last week, view this <strong><u>video</u></strong>: </span><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a81y_martin-luther-king-israel"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a81y_martin-luther-king-israel</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- And read this <strong>article</strong>, <strong><u>King’s special bond with Israel</u></strong>: </span><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/ED115336.DTL&hw=john+lewis&sn=003&sc=627"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/ED115336.DTL&hw=john+lewis&sn=003&sc=627</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WEBSITE: EDUCATE OTHERS</span></strong><br /><strong><em>Help fight the war of words and ideas</em></strong>! See: </span><a href="http://www.helpuswin.org/"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.helpuswin.org</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. <strong><em>You do not need to be an expert to make a difference</em></strong>! 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 </span><a href="mailto:RonK@standwithus.com"><span style="font-family:arial;">RonK@standwithus.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> with your Name, Email Address, and Country. Subject Title should read: "HelpUsWin Volunteer".<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">CHARITY / WEBSITE: GIFTS 4 ISRAEL<br /></span></strong>Take a look at </span><a href="http://www.gifts4israel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.gifts4israel.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. 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 (</span><a href="http://www.afmda.org/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.afmda.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">), and the other half goes to ImpactAliyah (</span><a href="http://www.impactaliyah.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.impactaliyah.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">). You will not be charged extra. The only way ImpactAliyah will receive this donation is if you use this website. Go to: </span><a href="http://www.gifts4israel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.gifts4israel.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">PETITION: BOYCOTT DURBAN II</span></strong><br />Please consider signing this petition, urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to have the U.S. attend the anti-Israel Durban II conference: </span><a href="http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_6-end-SignPetition.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_6-end-SignPetition.htm</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">VIDEO: BLACK HEBREWS OF JERUSALEM</span></strong><br />View this interesting video of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and their praise for Israel: </span><a href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=ehnkHrmSWf"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=ehnkHrmSWf</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-82730299584454346942009-01-19T17:15:00.004-05:002009-02-04T15:38:10.813-05:00War in Gaza - PHOTOS and VIDEOS<span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;"><strong>ISRAEL UNDER FIRE</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- View these <strong><u>photos</u></strong> portraying southern Israel under rocket fire: </span><a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4511363/k.8999/Photo_Gallery.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4511363/k.8999/Photo_Gallery.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/israelnewsphotosdotcom/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/israelnewsphotosdotcom/</span></a><a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4511363/k.8999/Photo_Gallery.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> </span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- <strong><u>Video</u></strong>: Inside a Gaza rocket lab: </span><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-homemade-ro.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Aish / Hasbara’s <strong><u>video</u></strong> showing missiles from Gaza: </span><a href="http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/MissilesFromGaza.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/MissilesFromGaza.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong><u>Photos</u></strong> showing the anxiety of living under constant Red Alerts in Southern Israel. Credit: Edi Israel. </span><a href="http://www.israelnewsphotos.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.israelnewsphotos.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- <strong><u>Videos</u></strong>: Scenes during and after Hamas missile attacks on southern Israeli towns: </span><a href="http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnAk1pTCew"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnAk1pTCew</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">, and </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=panic02-V&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=panic02-V&ak=null</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">, and </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R5WmL0w-0&feature=channel_page"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R5WmL0w-0&feature=channel_page</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- This <strong><u>video</u></strong>, from Aish HaTorah, illustrates how in Sderot, you have 15 seconds to run for cover once you hear the “Red Alert.” You can also add your name to a <strong><u>petition</u></strong> and send a message of support to the people of Sderot: </span><a href="http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/15Seconds.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/15Seconds.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">NATURE OF HAMAS</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- <strong><u>Video</u></strong> of Hamas in their own words: </span><a href="http://www.memritv.org/video.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.memritv.org/video.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- This Hamas video celebrates the targeting of Israeli civilians and includes captions such as "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Let them taste violent death</em></strong>," "<strong><em>Send them to Hell! Tear them to pieces!</em></strong></span>": </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5L5of2rPM"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5L5of2rPM</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Flyer/poster of Hamas’s war crimes: </span><a href="http://www.standwithus.org/SIGNS/pdfs/Gaza%20flyer.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.standwithus.org/SIGNS/pdfs/Gaza%20flyer.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- In this video interview <strong>Mosab Hassan Yousef</strong>, the son of a Hamas leader, speaks out against Hamas and about his decision to convert to Christianity: </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3016344&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3016344&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- How do you think this child at 1:15 into the video, who cannot possibly be more than 4 years old, learned that he wanted “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">to kill the Jews</span></em></strong>”? </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Read also: <strong><u>The truth about Hamas’s mission</u></strong>, Andrea Levin, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/17/the_truth_about_hamass_mission/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/17/the_truth_about_hamass_mission/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">HAMAS USE OF HUMAN SHIELDS (more under RESOURCES section)</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- In this <strong><u>video</u></strong> Hamas representative <strong>Fathi Hamad</strong> explains Hamas’s ideology to use civilians as human shields for its fighters: "<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Accordingly [Palestinians] <em>created a human shield of women, children, the elderly</em> and the Jihad fighters . . . as if they were saying: <em>We desire death as you desire life.</em></span></strong>" </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- See this news flash on Palestinian television, which states, “<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Following a threatened airstrike – Hamas calls upon <em>all Gaza children</em> to gather near the house of Abu Hatal in the A-Shouqaf quarter, <em>in order to form a human shield</em></span></strong>”: </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=1915991&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=1915991&ak=null</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- View out-takes of Al-Alarabiya TV's Hannan al-Masri learning of a Hamas missile being fired from the ground floor of the Gaza <strong><em>TV complex</em></strong> housing the Al-Arabiya Studio (<strong><em><u><span style="font-size:130%;">for English, turn on CC captions</span></u></em></strong>): </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=JY50cktUKbA</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- The IDF released <strong><u>video</u></strong> that it says shows a <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">school</span></em></strong> and <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">zoo</span></em></strong>, booby-trapped by Hamas: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-3saZDDkM"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-3saZDDkM</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- IDF footage of Hamas rockets and weaponry found inside a Gaza <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">mosque</span></em></strong>: </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=misgad+amlach+V&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=misgad+amlach+V&ak=null</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- View footage of Hamas firing rockets from a <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">mosque</span></em></strong>: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Last year, terrorists fired rockets at Israel from a <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">school</span></em></strong> in Gaza: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Old footage of Palestinian fighters using an <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">ambulance</span></em></strong> as a troop-carrier: </span><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Video of Hamas arms caches hidden in <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">civilian homes, mosques</span></em></strong>, and <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">schools</span></em></strong>: </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZMvOPfCvs"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZMvOPfCvs</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong><u>Video</u></strong> regarding Hamas’s use of civilians as shields: </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong><u>Power Point</u></strong> presentation, showing how the IDF limits harm to civilians, whereas Hamas intentionally puts civilians in harm’s way: </span><a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/IDF-%20Limiting%20Harm%20to%20Civilians%20(13.1).ppt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/IDF-%20Limiting%20Harm%20to%20Civilians%20(13.1).ppt</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">MISUSE OF HUMANITARIAN AID</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Video of military uniforms allegedly being smuggled into Gaza for Hamas in humanitarian aid shipments: </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=LCOxIHGk-l0&feature=PlayList&p=1A034E2467846BD5&index=32"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=LCOxIHGk-l0&feature=PlayList&p=1A034E2467846BD5&index=32</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Read also: <strong><u>Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies</u></strong>, Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424932109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424932109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Read also: <strong><u>UN: Hamas seized food and blankets from needy Gazans</u></strong>, AP / Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Read also reports of Hamas and Fatah accusing each other of stealing humanitarian aid: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292920527&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292920527&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Video from the Israeli Embassy about humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza: </span><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=AidCoridor-v&ak=null"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=AidCoridor-v&ak=null</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">VIDEOS: DEFENDING ISRAEL</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- <strong>NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg</strong> defends Israel: </span><a href="http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Former <strong>British Army Colonel Richard Kemp</strong> eloquently defends Israel’s actions in Gaza: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- <strong>UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer</strong> debunks the “disproportional” accusation to the United Nations: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh5vjejNpRU"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh5vjejNpRU</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">PROTESTERS TELL ISRAEL: 'GO BACK TO T</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;"><strong>HE OVEN’</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Footage from a recent anti-Israel rally in Florida. <strong>NOTE: Strong language, viewer discretion advised</strong>. Pay attention to the words and signs of these protestors: “<strong><em>Your mother’s a whore</em></strong>” (1:48), “<strong><em>F--- yourself</em></strong>” (1:51), “<strong><em>Nuke Israel</em></strong>” (1:54), “<strong><em>Go to hell</em></strong>” (2:14), “<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Go back to the ovens</em></strong>!</span>” (3:25): </span><a href="http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2008/12/31/1001928/protester-to-israel-go-back-to-the-oven"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2008/12/31/1001928/protester-to-israel-go-back-to-the-oven</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- More footage from dueling pro- and anti-Israel rallies, in Los Angeles. <strong>NOTE: Strong language, viewer discretion advised</strong>. You will see Hamas and Hezbollah flags and you will hear ugly chants: “<strong><em>Long Live Hitler</em></strong>” (4:37), “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Put the Jews in the Ovens</span></em></strong>” (4:49), “<strong><em>Jews are fossil fuel</em></strong>” (4:55), and “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">F--- the Jews</span></em></strong>” (5:03): </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpMbUliY3Ao"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpMbUliY3Ao</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Hamas flags were on full display at this San Francisco demonstration: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxAVjDuCav4&NR=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxAVjDuCav4&NR=1</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- And see more photos and videos from pro-Hamas rallies in San Francisco: </span><a href="http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- Nazi imagery was used in reference to Israel at recent Canadian demonstrations, and in Toronto one protestor reportedly yelled, "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Jewish child, you're going to f---ing die</span></em></strong>": </span><a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002274/incitement-to-hatred-at-canadian-demonstrations"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002274/incitement-to-hatred-at-canadian-demonstrations</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- At this “peaceful” demonstration of flag burning in Montreal, protesters shouted (subtitles), “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Palestine is ours, the Jews are our dogs</span></em></strong>” (4:05). </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWPeK-uydk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWPeK-uydk</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- At Pro-Palestinian rallies in Amsterdam, protesters shouted, "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Hamas, Hamas, put the Jews to the gas</span></em></strong>": </span><a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002290/dutch-justice-minister-to-investigate-pro-palestinian-rallies"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/15/1002290/dutch-justice-minister-to-investigate-pro-palestinian-rallies</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and watch: </span><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- See more of the “globalization of the intifada,” from London and elsewhere, at: </span><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=230%20"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=230%20</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- Read: <strong><u>Yes, it’s anti-Semitism</u></strong>, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/07/yes_its_anti_semitism/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/07/yes_its_anti_semitism/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Read also: <strong><u>Giving voice to anti-Semitism</u></strong>, Frank Furedi, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24913868-7583,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24913868-7583,00.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- Read also: <strong><u>Diminishing the Holocaust</u></strong>, Irwin Cotler, Montreal Gazette: <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Diminishing+Holocaust/1238075/story.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Diminishing+Holocaust/1238075/story.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> -- </span>Read also: <strong><u>Using the Holocaust to Attack the Jews</u></strong>, Walter Reich, Washington Post: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002770.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002770.html</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- See more Nazi and Holocaust imagery used by anti-Israel protestors at: </span><a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/anti_israel_demonstrations_hamas.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/anti_israel_demonstrations_hamas.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> </span><a href="http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn"></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">IDF ACTIONS IN GAZA</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Videos from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Israeli Air Force strikes on Grad rocket launchers: </span><a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4859139/k.CE7/Videos_from_the_Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4859139/k.CE7/Videos_from_the_Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs.htm</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Footage of an IAF strike on a truck being loaded with rockets: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0CzM_Frvc&feature=channel_page"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0CzM_Frvc&feature=channel_page</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />-- The IDF has opened a YouTube channel, displaying footage of Gaza bombing raids: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Israeli pilot talks about the Gaza conflict: </span><a href="http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=7219726001&l=5983747001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=7219726001&l=5983747001</span></a><br /><a href="http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=7219726001&l=5983747001"></a><span style="font-family:arial;">-- <strong><u>Photos From Israel That You Won’t See On The News</u></strong> : </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilana-teitelbaum/photos-from-israel-that-y_b_155256.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilana-teitelbaum/photos-from-israel-that-y_b_155256.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">PHOTOS: INSIDE THE GAZA TUNNELS</span></strong><br />-- Interesting <strong><u>photos</u></strong> of the Gaza smuggling tunnels: </span><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/pics-inside-the.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/pics-inside-the.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">VIDEO: MEDICAL COLLABORATION</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- Amid Gaza violence, Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together to save a baby’s life: </span><a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqm5tzIwIQ</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">-- See also – <strong><em>Save A Child’s Heart</em></strong>: </span><a href="http://www.saveachildsheart.org/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.saveachildsheart.org/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">FLYER/POSTER: ISRAEL’S BATTLE</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Download these posters from the ADL, regarding Israel’s fight against Hamas: </span><a href="http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/Why_is_Israel_Fighting_Back.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/Why_is_Israel_Fighting_Back.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_NewYork.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_NewYork.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> (New York) and </span><a href="http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Boston.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Boston.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> (Boston) and </span><a href="http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Chicago.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/israel/posters/HamasAd_Chicago.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> (Chicago)</span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-58887396001431132992009-01-19T16:45:00.003-05:002009-02-04T15:49:28.310-05:00War in Gaza - QUOTES<span style="color:#000066;"><strong>QUOTE: DISPUTING DEATH TOLL IN GAZA<br /></strong><span style="color:#000000;">A <strong><em><u>Palestinian doctor</u></em></strong> at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital disputed the number of Palestinians that Hamas says have been killed in the campaign: "<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>It's possible that the death toll in Gaza was 500 or 600 at the most</em>, mainly youths aged 17 to 23 <em>who were enlisted by Hamas - who sent them to their deaths</em> . . . . 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</span></strong>."</span> <a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">QUOTES: WE SUPPORT ISRAEL</span></strong><br />-- <strong>President-elect Barak Obama</strong> said earlier this year about the more than 6,300 rockets and mortar shells from Gaza that have rained down on Israel since 2005: “<em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I would do everything to stop that, and would expect Israel to do the same thing</span></strong></em>.” <a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1004747.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1004747.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- View for yourself this <strong><u>video</u></strong> of <strong>Obama</strong> at a press conference in the beleaguered Israeli city of Sderot in July 2008: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoj-PKJhck"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoj-PKJhck</span></a>. Obama says, “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">[Hamas] terror is intolerable. Israelis should not have to live in danger in their homes and schools</span></em></strong>.”<br /><br />-- <strong>Secretary of State Hilary Clinton</strong>: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>We support Israel's right to self-defence.</strong></em> The (Palestinian) rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas (in Israel) cannot go unanswered . . . . <strong><em>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</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50Q4QE20090127"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50Q4QE20090127</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg</strong> said Israel had the right to defend itself: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Let us realize one thing: <strong><em>Hamas increased steeply the number of rockets fired at Israel</em></strong> since the ceasefire ended on December 19. <strong><em>That is not acceptable any more</em></strong></span>," Schwarzenberg said in an interview. He said Hamas had excluded itself from serious political debate due to its rocket attacks on Israel. He also indirectly blamed the group for the growing death toll, saying it put its bases and gun warehouses in densely populated areas. "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Why am I one of the few that have expressed understanding for Israel? ... I am enjoying the luxury of telling the truth</span></em></strong>," Schwarzenberg told the daily. <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BT1RC20081230?sp=true"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BT1RC20081230?sp=true</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg</strong> traveled to Israel to express solidarity with the people of Israel. In a telephone interview with The AP, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel's actions. "<span style="color:#ff0000;">You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians . . . . <strong><em>All Hamas has to do is stop sending rockets over to kill people and agree on the accords that were negotiated earlier and come to an agreement that is verifiable, durable and effective to stop people from being killed</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybloom0105,0,4236989.story?track=rss"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybloom0105,0,4236989.story?track=rss</span></a><br />-- Watch <strong><u>video</u></strong> at: <a href="http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/01/05/1002001/bloomberg-on-cnn</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Senators Harry Reid and Dick Durbin</strong> — the top two Democrats in the chamber — described Israel's actions as understandable. "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I think what the Israelis are doing is very important</span></em></strong>," Reid said. "<span style="color:#ff0000;">I think this terrorist organization, <strong><em>Hamas, has got to be put away</em></strong>. They've got to come to their senses</span>."<br /><br />-- Said <strong>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell</strong>: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Hamas is a terrorist organization. <strong><em>Imagine in this country if somebody from a neighboring country were lobbing shells at our population. We'd do exactly the same thing.</em></strong> I think the Israelis are doing the only thing they can possibly do to defend their population</span>." <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g14_OgVc3KvfIE0q7FpUa4Ou69QQD95GGE8O0"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g14_OgVc3KvfIE0q7FpUa4Ou69QQD95GGE8O0</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />--Read what other <strong>U.S. officials</strong> have said in support of Israel: <a href="http://www.israelemb.org/Operation%20Cast%20Lead/US%20official.htm#members"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.israelemb.org/Operation%20Cast%20Lead/US%20official.htm#members</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Al Franken</strong>, engaged in a close election for Minnesota senator, said that the U.S. relationship with Israel is a "pillar of our foreign policy" and that he would continue to uphold that commitment "as a United States senator." "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Let us stand together to send a clear message to the Israeli people. In this complex and dangerous world, you do not stand alone</span></em></strong>." <a href="http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/01/12/1002192/franken-and-coleman-agree-on-one-thing"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/01/12/1002192/franken-and-coleman-agree-on-one-thing</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">QUOTES: WE BLAME HAMAS<br /></span></strong>-- <strong>Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit</strong> harshly censures Hamas for the current situation in Gaza. At a press conference along with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Gheit said that <strong><em>Egypt had repeatedly cautioned Hamas against continuing the rocket fire on Israel</em></strong> and that if they did not listen they should assume responsibility for the consequences. He added that Israel had publicly warned that continued rocket fire would lead to military action, and that Hamas fired 60 rockets on Thursday alone: <a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=egypt-minister-View&ak=null"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=egypt-minister-View&ak=null</span></a><br />-- In this <strong><u>video</u></strong> clip, <strong>Gheit</strong> blames Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, for not allowing wounded Palestinians to be transferred to Egypt for medical attention:<br /><a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=egypt-minister-2-view&ak=null"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=egypt-minister-2-view&ak=null</span></a><br />(Read also: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR0QP20081228"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR0QP20081228</span></a>)<br /><br />-- <strong>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas</strong> blamed the rival Islamist group Hamas for triggering Israel's deadly raids on Gaza by not extending a six-month truce with the Jewish state: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>We talked to [Hamas] and we told them ‘Please, we ask you, do not end the truce. Let the truce continue and not stop'</em></strong> so that we could have avoided what happened</span>," he said in Cairo. <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BR0PB20081228"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BR0PB20081228</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span>-- <strong>Nimr Hammad</strong>, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>The one responsible for the massacres is Hamas, and not the Zionist entity, which in its own view reacted to the firing of Palestinian missiles. Hamas needs to stop treating the blood of Palestinians lightly</em></strong>. They should not give the Israelis a pretext</span>." <a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD216408#_ednref2"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD216408#_ednref2</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color:#800080;"></span><br />-- <strong>Muhammad Dahlan</strong>, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, told the Arabic language newspaper al-Hayat that <strong><em>Hamas has sacrificed “<span style="color:#ff0000;">the Palestinian cause for the illusion of an Islamic emirate in Gaza</span></em></strong>.” <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">=</span><br /><br />-- <strong>Dahlan</strong>, though unsurprisingly critical of Israel, blames Hamas for the Gaza War: “<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>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</em>.</strong> Otherwise they face imprisonment or even death. Just like Israel, Hamas shows no consideration for ordinary people -- <strong><em>its fighters fire rockets right from the heart of residential areas</em> . . . . </strong>Since their election they have lost all legitimacy.<strong> <em>Their sole strategy is destruction and chaos</em></strong></span>.” <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599459,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599459,00.html</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Mohammed Shriteh</strong>, a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance driver: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>We would co-ordinate with the Israelis before we pick up patients, because they have all our names and our IDs, so they would not shoot at us</em></strong><span style="color:#000000;">." </span><span style="color:#000000;">Mr Shriteh said</span> <strong><u>the more immediate threat was from Hamas, who would lure the ambulances into the heart of a battle to transport fighters to safety</u></strong>. </span><span style="color:#000000;">He claims Hamas made several attempts to hijack the al-Quds Hospital's fleet of ambulances during the war</span>. <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Fatchi El-Zaarir</strong>, a Fatah spokesperson, on Arab television: “<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>I believe Hamas principally knew that Israel would react and therefore it claims that Israel was the first to assault, which is false</em></strong>.</span>” <a href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG</span></a> (at 2:25 in)<br /><br />-- <strong>Palestinian columnist Muwaffaq Matar</strong> blamed Hamas for being responsible for the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Will we learn the lesson, or are our leaders going to run away from bearing responsibility, as they usually do?</em></strong> If we believe in the value of men and in humanity, we should establish a Palestinian investigative committee that will reveal to the Palestinian people what happened, and why over 200 people have lost their lives and 750 have been injured within one hour, even though the calls for war, the speeches and the statements [in Israel], were abundant a week before the tahdiah ended. . . . <strong><em>What did the commanders in Gaza expect? . . . This bloodshed and horrible destruction of our national institutions could have been prevented</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD216408#_ednref2"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD216408#_ednref2</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span>-- <strong>13 year old Yousef Nakhala</strong>, a Palestinian resident of Gaza: “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I blame Hamas. It doesn’t want to recognize Israel. If they did so there could be peace. Egypt made a peace treaty with Israel, and nothing is happening to them</span></em></strong>.” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?_r=1"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?_r=1</span></a><br /><br />-- A <strong>Palestinian Authority official</strong> in Ramallah said, "<span style="color:#ff0000;">It was a big mistake [for Israel] to end the war this way. <em><strong>The fact that Hamas is still in power is bad for all . . . . There's no room for these Hamas thugs in the West Bank. We won't allow Hamas to turn the West Bank into another Islamic republic</strong></em></span>." <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643727590&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643727590&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Lama</strong>, a secretary for a Gaza company: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Rockets must end</em></strong>. What did we gain from them? <strong><em>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</em></strong>?</span>" <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span>-- <strong>Karam Jaber</strong>, editor of the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Youssef, blamed Hamas for inflicting “death and destruction on the Palestinians. . . . <strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">We hope the Hamas leaders will realize that they are fighting a destructive war on behalf of the Iranians and Syrians</span></em></strong>.” <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">=</span><br /><br />-- A <strong>Palestinian resident of Tal al-Hawa</strong> (in Gaza) told a newspaper reporter of Hamas’s tactic of using human shields: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Armed Hamas men sought out a good position for provoking the Israelis. <strong><em>There were mostly teenagers, aged 16 or 17, and armed</em></strong>. They couldn't do a thing against a tank or a jet. <strong><em>They knew they are much weaker, but they fired at our houses so that they could blame Israel for war crimes</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br />-- One <strong>Gazan</strong> recalled <strong>civilians in Gaza</strong> shouting at Hamas and Islamic Jihad men, "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Go away, go away from here!</em></strong> Do you want the Israelis to kill us all? <strong><em>Do you want our children to die under their bombs? Take your guns and missiles with you</em></strong></span>."<br />-- "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Traitors, collaborators with Israel, spies of Fatah, cowards!</em></strong> The soldiers of the holy war will punish you. And in any case you will all die, like us. <strong><em>Fighting the Zionist Jews we are all destined for paradise. Do you not wish to die with us?</em></strong></span>" the religious fanatics of Hamas reportedly responded. <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>Abu Abed, a Palestinian resident of Gaza</strong>: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I've changed my mind about Hamas. I can't support any party that wages a war that destroys our lives</span></em></strong>." He is particularly pained by the fact that Hamas is still selling the cease-fire as a victory. "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>Who has won here</em></span>?" he asks and points to the debris that was once his home.<br />-- A neighbor adds: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>Many people are now against Hamas</strong> but that won't change anything. Because <strong>anyone who stands up to them is killed</strong> . . . . There will never be a rebellion against Hamas. It would be suicide</em></span>." <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,603203,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,603203,00.html</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>European Union aid commissioner Louis Michel</strong> said during a visit to Gaza that said that Hamas bears an "<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>enormous responsibility</em></span></strong>" for what happened in the Gaza Strip and added, "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Hamas is a terror movement and needs to be treated as such and held responsible for its actions</span></em></strong>." <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/26/1002513/eu-aid-chief-hamas-responsible-for-gaza"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/26/1002513/eu-aid-chief-hamas-responsible-for-gaza</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief John Holmes</strong>: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The reckless and cynical use of civilian installations by Hamas and indiscriminate firing of rockets against civilian populations are clear violations of international humanitarian law</span></em></strong>." <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>German Chancellor Angela Merkel</strong> said that responsibility for the three-day-old Israeli air offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip lies "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">clearly and exclusively</span></em></strong>" with Hamas. <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,598724,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,598724,00.html</span></a>.<br />-- Further, Merkel stated that "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">the terror of Hamas cannot be accepted</span></em></strong>" and demanded that Hamas "immediately and permanently" stop its rocket attacks on Israel. <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155804&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155804&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br /><br />-- A sampling of callers into the <strong>Iranian Radio Farda</strong>: “The clerical regime is lying. <strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">It was not Israel who started this war</span></em></strong>”; “<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>Any other country [apart from Israel] would have done the same a long time ago</em></strong>”; “<strong><em>Hamas should be destroyed. This cowardly group is taking cover in hospitals and residential areas</em></strong></span>. The people of Gaza should help Israel.” <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">=<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"><strong>QUOTES: HAMAS IDEOLOGY - REJECTIONISM & USE OF HUMAN SHIELDS</strong><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><br /></span><span style="color:#000066;"><span style="color:#000000;">-- <strong>Palestinian cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita</strong>, on Al-Aqsa TV on July 13, 2008: “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine</span></em></strong>. <span style="color:#ff0000;">This will be followed by a greater blessing, Allah be praised, with <strong><em>the establishment of a Caliphate</em></strong> that will rule the land and will be pleasing to men and God</span>.” <a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD208708"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD208708</span></a> </span></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span><br />-- <strong>Khaled Mashaal</strong>, the exiled leader of Hamas, made it clear that Hamas will not live with any Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East: "<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The struggle must continue until the entire siege on the Strip is lifted and until the liberation of Palestine -- all of Palestine</span></em></strong>." <a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/01/23/hamas_leader_says_attacks_must_continue/2688/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/01/23/hamas_leader_says_attacks_must_continue/2688/</span></a> -- <strong>Mashaal</strong> recently told Iranian students: “<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>God willing we will liberate Al-Quds (Jerusalem) together and pray together there.</em> <strong><em>We are fully preparing ourselves to liberate all of Palestine, retake Al-Quds (Jerusalem)</em></strong> and secure the return of all Palestinians</span>.” <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090202/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazairanhamas_20090202160545;_ylt=AlyMSym6Y9ExgXKtHT18mkuaOrgF">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090202/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazairanhamas_20090202160545;_ylt=AlyMSym6Y9ExgXKtHT18mkuaOrgF</a> -- <strong>Mashaal</strong>, in February 2006: “<span style="color:#ff0000;">Before Israel dies, we must defeat and humiliate it. <strong><em>Before they die, god willing, they will daily absorb defeat and humiliation</em></strong></span>.” <a href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=SPXpB7gocG</span></a> (at 35 seconds in)<br /><br />-- <strong>Hamas legislator Ismail Radwan</strong> said Hamas is stronger than ever and poised to one day take control not just of the West Bank, but also of Israel. "<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Gaza is not our goal. <em>The liberation of all of Palestine, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, God willing, will be achieved</em></span></strong>." <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95R53S80"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95R53S80</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color:#000066;"><span style="color:#000000;">-- <strong>Hamas representative Fathi Hamad</strong> explains Hamas’s ideology to use civilians as human shields for its fighters: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>For the Palestinian people death became an industry</strong></em>, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. <em><strong>Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly</strong></em> and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: <em><strong>We desire death as you desire life</strong></em></span>."<span style="color:#000066;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs</span></a><span style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">-- When accused of acting cowardly by hiding among civilian infrastructure, <strong>Hamas parliamentarian Mushir al-Masri</strong> explained, "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Fear is the last thing we could be accused of. <em><strong>Martyrdom is our dearest wish, but God has ordered us not to pose ourselves as easy prey for our enemies</strong></em></span>."</span> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861</span></a><br /><br /><strong>-- </strong></span>After being injured, an <strong>Islamic Jihad fighter</strong> was taken to a hospital, smiling. “Why are you so happy? Look around you. Don’t you see that these people are hurting?” the militant was asked. “<span style="color:#ff0000;">But I am from the people, too,” he said, his smile incandescent. “<strong><em>They lost their loved ones as martyrs. They should be happy. I want to be a martyr, too</em></strong></span>.” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?scp=4&sq=+%22Taghreed%20El-Khodary%22%20+Jihad&st=cse"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?scp=4&sq=+%22Taghreed%20El-Khodary%22%20+Jihad&st=cse</span></a><br /><br />-- <strong>A Hamas fighter</strong> in Gaza gives an insight into the terror group’s ideology: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>The difference between us and them [the Israelis] is that</em></strong> they wait passionately for the day they can return home safely, while <strong><em>we bid farewell to our families and hope to die as martyrs</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/world/Mobiles-off-rockets-to-hand.4836795.jp"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://news.scotsman.com/world/Mobiles-off-rockets-to-hand.4836795.jp</span></a><br />-- Another <strong>Hamas fighter</strong> in Gaza proclaimed, “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">We are soldiers who run towards death. They run away from it</span></em></strong>.” <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497340"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497340</span></a><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497340.ece">.ece</a><br />Excerpts from footage of <strong>Hamas female martyrdom-seekers</strong> in Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 30, 2008:<br />-- Masked woman clad in explosives belt: “<span style="color:#ff0000;">I, the martyrdom-seeker Umm Suheib . . . <strong><em>swear by Allah that I will turn my body parts into a fire that will burn the occupation soldiers</em></strong>, if they move towards my house . . . . <strong><em>There are thousands of martyrdom-seeking women like me</em></strong>, waiting for the occupier, in order to avenge these massacres</span>.”<br />-- Masked woman holding rifle: “<span style="color:#ff0000;">We convey this message to the Israeli army high command, which bombards our sons day and night: <strong><em>We, the martyrdom-seeking women of Palestine, mothers as well as girls, are waiting impatiently for them to come</em></strong> . . . . I am the mother of two martyrs, and I will sacrifice myself as a martyr, Allah willing. <strong><em>I will turn my blood into bombs that will burn them</em></strong> . . . . My honorable people, have more forbearance and steadfastness. <strong><em>Your daughters march by your side on the path of Jihad and martyrdom</em></strong></span>.”<br />-- Second masked woman holding a rifle: “<span style="color:#ff0000;">We are all the daughters of Palestine, the daughters of steadfast Gaza. <strong><em>We will set out, booby-trapped. From every home, a bomb will set out, and it will explode among the sons of Zion</em></strong>. We are no less than Fatima Al-Najjar and Rim Al-Riyashi [two Palestinian women who blew themselves up among Israelis]. <strong><em>We will blow ourselves up among those traitors, those apes and pigs</em></strong></span>.” <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1966.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1966.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">QUOTE: ISRAEL WANTS PEACE WITH NEIGHBORS<br /></span>Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert</strong> in an interview on Al Arabiya, to the Palestinian people in Gaza: “You the citizens of Gaza, you can stop [the rockets]. I know how much you want to get up in the morning to quiet, to take your children to kindergarten or school, the way we do, the way they want to in Sderot and Netivot . . . . <strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">We want to live as good neighbors with Gaza. We do not want to harm you. We will not allow a humanitarian crisis and that you should suffer from a lack of food or medicines. We do not want to fight the Palestinian people but we will not allow Hamas to strike our children</span></em></strong>.” <a href="http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/Spokesman/2008/12/spokeinter251208.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/Spokesman/2008/12/spokeinter251208.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">PERES: ‘WHAT DO THEY EXPECT?’</span></strong><br /><strong>Israeli President Shimon Peres</strong>: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Israel, of its own accord evicted settlements and settlers from Gaza…so <strong><em>I ask myself, why are they shooting? What do they want to accomplish? What do they expect, that we won't respond? No one among us longs for war, but at the top of our priorities is the safety of our children</em></strong></span>.” <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645607,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645607,00.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /></span><strong><span style="color:#000066;">A.B. YEHOSHUA: ‘WHAT WOULD YOU DO?’</span></strong><br />The writer <a title="Encyclopedia article about Yehoshua" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/yehoshua.html"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">A.B. Yehoshua</span></strong></a>, noted dove who opposes Israel’s occupation and promotes a Palestinian state: “ <span style="color:#ff0000;">‘Imagine,’ I tell a French reporter, ‘that every two days a missile falls in the Champs-Élysées and only the glass windows of the shops break and five people suffer from shock,’ ” Mr. Yehoshua told a reporter from Yediot Aharonot, a Tel Aviv newspaper. “<strong><em>What would you say? Wouldn’t you be angry? Wouldn’t you send missiles at Belgium if it were responsible for missiles on your grand boulevard?’</em></strong> </span>” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/world/middleeast/13israel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/world/middleeast/13israel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">QUOTE: HAMAS TORTURING FATAH IN GAZA<br /></span></strong>A <strong>Fatah activist</strong> in Gaza City claimed that as many as 80 members of his faction wee either shot in the legs or had their hands broken for allegedly defying Hamas's house-arrest orders. "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>What's happening in the Gaza Strip is a new massacre that is being carried out by Hamas against Fatah</em></strong>," he said. "<strong><em>Where were these [Hamas] cowards when the Israeli army was here</em></strong>?</span>" <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">QUOTE: BOMBING TEL AVIV</span></strong><br /><strong>Hassan</strong>, a Palestinian father of five in Gaza, objected to Hamas firing rockets not for moral reasons, but for practical ones: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Rockets -- I think this issue needs to be stopped for sometime and restudied," he said. "<strong><em>Once we have a missile that can reach the heart of Tel Aviv and blow up a building, maybe they can resume fire</em></strong></span>." <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLH714807</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-89080409473999472962009-01-19T16:10:00.002-05:002009-02-04T15:25:07.955-05:00War in Gaza - ARTICLES (NEWS)<span style="font-family:arial;">News Articles:<br /><br />- <strong><u>Rice: US holds Hamas responsible for Gaza violence</u></strong>, AFP: </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081227/pl_afp/mideastconflictgazausrice_081227211143"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081227/pl_afp/mideastconflictgazausrice_081227211143</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> - <strong><u>Abbas blames Hamas for bringing Israel’s wrath</u></strong>, Reuters: </span><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BR0PB20081228"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE4BR0PB20081228</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israeli Self-Defense: Merkel Blasts Hamas for Middle East Violence</u></strong>, Der Spiegel: </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,598724,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,598724,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israelis worry about cover as rockets reach deeper</u></strong>, Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters: </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE4BT4D920081230"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE4BT4D920081230</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Despite Strikes, Israelis Vow to Soldier On</u></strong>, Isabel Kershner, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31israel.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31israel.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Saudi Arabia blames Hamas amid calls for talks with Fatah</u></strong>, Ian Black, Guardian (UK): </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/01/saudi-arabia-hamas-gaza"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/01/saudi-arabia-hamas-gaza</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong>See also</strong>: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/01arab.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/01arab.html?_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Arabs turn against “megalomaniac” Hamas</u></strong>, Abraham Rabinovich, The Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24860529-15084,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24860529-15084,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Arsenal</u></strong>, Mark Mazzetti, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/01rockets.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/01rockets.html?_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas sends text message to Israeli cell phones</u></strong>, Ali Waked, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3648799,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3648799,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Vulnerable Israeli homefront rethinks withdrawals</u></strong>, Aron Heller & Matti Friedman, AP: </span><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jDnG_28HRLV7fhYqiY0Y_oVceqeQD95DIT1O0"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jDnG_28HRLV7fhYqiY0Y_oVceqeQD95DIT1O0</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> - <strong><u>Hamas moves on Fatah “collaborators”</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155685&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155685&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Bush Accuses Hamas of Provoking Israeli Attacks</u></strong>, Sudarsan Raghavan and Dan Eggen, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010200706.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010200706.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Mayor Bloomberg Shows Continued Support During Trip To Israel</u></strong>, NY 1 News: </span><a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/91660/bloomberg-shows-continued-support-during-trip-to-israel/Default.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/91660/bloomberg-shows-continued-support-during-trip-to-israel/Default.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to residents</u></strong>, Roee Nahmias, YNetNews.com:<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>In southern Israel, families still live in fear of Hamas rockets</u></strong>, Sheera Frenkel, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454712.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454712.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Egypt’s Mubarak to EU: Hamas must not be allowed to win in Gaza</u></strong>, Barak Ravid, Avi Issacharoff, and Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052974.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052974.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israeli public in no mood for compromise</u></strong>, Kim Sengupta, Independent (UK): </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/polls-show-israeli-public-in-no-mood-for-compromise-1222865.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/polls-show-israeli-public-in-no-mood-for-compromise-1222865.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel finds more sympathy in Europe</u></strong>, Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor: </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0108/p01s02-woeu.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0108/p01s02-woeu.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Merkel: The terror of Hamas cannot be accepted</u></strong>, Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155804&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155804&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Wounded Israeli Troops Yearn to be in the Fight</u></strong>, Griff Witte, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/04/ST2009010400746.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/04/ST2009010400746.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Ottawa blames Hamas for civilian deaths at school</u></strong>, Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail (CA): </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wgaza_canadians07/BNStory/International/home"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wgaza_canadians07/BNStory/International/home</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> - <strong><u>See also</u></strong>: Last year, terrorists fired rockets at Israel from a school in Gaza: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas executes 6 suspected collaborators</u></strong>, Ali Waked, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651845,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651845,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>French TV apologises over footage mix-up</u></strong>, AFP/Gulf Times: </span><a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=265031&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=265031&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Rocket attack threatens Israel’s northern front</u></strong>, Washington Post (<strong><em>video</em></strong>): </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/01/08/VI2009010801924.html?sid=ST2009010800048"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/01/08/VI2009010801924.html?sid=ST2009010800048</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>IDF discovers Hamas booby-trap map</u></strong>, Hanan Greenberg, YNetNew.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3653059,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3653059,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Egyptian film star: Hamas is to blame</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733174299&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733174299&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas pulling back into crowded cities</u></strong>, Griff Witte, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010703690.html?hpid=topnews"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010703690.html?hpid=topnews</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas rockets keep raining down</u></strong>, Patrick Martin, Globe and Mail (CA): </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090109.GAZAROCKETS09/TPStory/International"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090109.GAZAROCKETS09/TPStory/International</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>U.S. funded program fails to stop tunnel smuggling</u></strong>, Anna Johnson and Omar Sinan, AP: </span><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jeMcr1QMvXEzLBc2EgP0cQC8rpywD95IGAGO0"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jeMcr1QMvXEzLBc2EgP0cQC8rpywD95IGAGO0</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>The Jews Face a Double Standard</u></strong>, Marvin Hier, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137495711862883.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137495711862883.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem stands in support of Israel</u></strong>, isRealli.com: </span><a href="http://www.isrealli.org/bethel-gospel-assembly-in-harlem-stands-in-support-of-israel/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.isrealli.org/bethel-gospel-assembly-in-harlem-stands-in-support-of-israel/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Senate Approves Resolution Backing Israel in Hamas Conflict</u></strong>, Nicholas Johnston, Bloomberg.com: </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aUhdubfcXlOE"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aUhdubfcXlOE</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. The House also overwhelmingly passed a resolution reaffirming the U.S.’s strong support for Israel in its fight against Hamas terror. The text of the resolutions can be read here: </span><a href="http://www.israelemb.org/Operation%20Cast%20Lead/US%20official.htm#hres34"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.israelemb.org/Operation%20Cast%20Lead/US%20official.htm#hres34</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery</u></strong>, Steven Erlanger, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <u><strong>10 seconds to escape the terror</strong></u>, Oakland Ross, Toronto Star: </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/561639"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/561639</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas rockets rain on Israeli towns</u></strong>, Joshua Mitnick, Christian Science Monitor: </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0107/p07s01-wome.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0107/p07s01-wome.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israelis United on Gaza War as Censure Rises Abroad</u></strong>, Ethan Bronner, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/world/middleeast/13israel.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/world/middleeast/13israel.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israel says Hamas leaders hide in foreign missions</u></strong>, Reuters: </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Dichter: Hamas salaries paid at Shifa hospital</u></strong>, Amir Mizroch, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424936164&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424936164&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Gaza’s tunnels, traps, and martyrs</u></strong>, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497340.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5497340.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies</u></strong>, Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424932109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424932109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas text message: Surprises waiting for your sons</u></strong>, Daniel Edelson, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3656126,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3656126,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>American public backs Israel firmly in war with Hamas</u></strong>, William Douglas, McClatchy: </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090113/wl_mcclatchy/3144021_1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090113/wl_mcclatchy/3144021_1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israeli pilot sorry about dead civilians in Gaza</u></strong>, AP/MSNBC: </span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28641444/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28641444/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Red Cross: Israel’s use of white phosphorous not illegal</u></strong>, Bradley Klapper, AP: </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_red_cross_white_phosphorus_2"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_red_cross_white_phosphorus_2</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>UN envoy: Hamas uses Gazans as human shields</u></strong>, Yitzhak Benhorin, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3655758,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3655758,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <u><strong>U.N. Agency That Runs School Hit in Gaza Employed Hamas and Islamic Jihad Members</strong></u>, Joel Mowbray, Fox News: </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479940,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479940,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Soldiers keen to rescue comrade</u></strong>, Abraham Rabinovich, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24892257-15084,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24892257-15084,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israel’s motivation for march into Gaza</u></strong>, Oakland Ross, Toronto Star: </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/561604"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/561604</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israelis near Gaza can’t let their guard down</u></strong>, Sebastian Rotella, LA Times: </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rockets15-2009jan15,0,1370659.story"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rockets15-2009jan15,0,1370659.story</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Gaza offensive also confronts Iran</u></strong>, Con Coughlin, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4214324/Analysis-Israels-Gaza-offensive-also-confronts-Iran.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4214324/Analysis-Israels-Gaza-offensive-also-confronts-Iran.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Gaza Venture Hits a Chord in Wounded India</u></strong>, Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg.com: </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aOZwFAGfnokY&refer=home"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aOZwFAGfnokY&refer=home</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Stage three in Gaza aimed at psyche</u></strong>, Abraham Rabinovich, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24922038-15084,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24922038-15084,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel Lets Reporters See Devastated Gaza Site and Image of Confident Military</u></strong>, Ethan Bronner, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/world/middleeast/16gaza.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/world/middleeast/16gaza.html?_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>No one left in Gaza to hear the thunder of Israel’s guns</u></strong>, Martin Fletcher, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5526922.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5526922.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Fatah cracks down on Hamas in W. Bank</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231950868927&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231950868927&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Interview with Tzipi Livni</u></strong>, Lally Wemouth, Newsweek: </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/178849"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.newsweek.com/id/178849</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>UN chief: How does one take shelter in 15 seconds?</u></strong>, Roni Sofer, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3657062,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3657062,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Israelis overwhelmingly back Gaza war</u></strong>, Shashank Bengali, Kansas City Star: </span><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/983520.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/983520.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Why the Arabs splinter over Gaza</u></strong>, Robert Worth, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/weekinreview/18worth.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/weekinreview/18worth.html?_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Tactical rethink as plans set back</u></strong>, Abraham Rabinovich, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24918064-15084,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24918064-15084,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>'Hamas torturing Fatah members in Gaza'</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292907998#_tab</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israelis Announce Cease-Fire in Gaza</u></strong>, Craig Whitlock and Jonathan Finer, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/17/AR2009011700592.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/17/AR2009011700592.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the for of urban warfare</u></strong>, Steven Erlanger, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/middleeast/17israel.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all%20"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/middleeast/17israel.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all%20</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Egypt’s Mubarak: Hamas invited Israeli offensive</u></strong>, Reuters: </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50I2W020090119?virtualBrandChannel=10112"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50I2W020090119?virtualBrandChannel=10112</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas trumpets of victory strike false note</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292909104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292909104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Few Israelis Near Gaza Feel War Achieved Much</u></strong>, Isabel Kershner, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/world/middleeast/21israel.html?_r=3"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/world/middleeast/21israel.html?_r=3</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />- <strong><u>Hamas confirms executing collaborators</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292930390#_tab"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1232292930390#_tab</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>PA official: Israel made a ‘big mistake’</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643727590&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643727590&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>Gazan doctor says death toll inflated</u></strong>, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>‘Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza’</u></strong>, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Italian paper: Gazans say Hamas kept them in houses used by gunmen</u></strong>, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>E.U. aid chief: Hamas responsible for Gaza</u></strong>, JTA: </span><a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/26/1002513/eu-aid-chief-hamas-responsible-for-gaza"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/26/1002513/eu-aid-chief-hamas-responsible-for-gaza</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>As Israel’s rockets fell, Gaza civilians also had problems with Hamas</u></strong>, Jason Koutsoukis, The Age (Australia): </span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas tried to hijack ambulances during Gaza war</u></strong>, Jason Koutsoukis, Sydney Morning Herald: </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>Gaza victims describe human shield use</u></strong>, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050211857&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050211857&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Top UN official blasts Hamas for ‘cynical’ use of civilian facilities</u></strong>, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>UN backtracks on claim that deadly IDF strike hit Gaza school</u></strong>, Amos Harel, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.htmlhttp:/www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.htmlhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>UN: Hamas seized food and blankets from needy Gazans</u></strong>, AP / Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.html</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-13047391168371679642009-01-19T16:05:00.002-05:002009-02-04T15:34:03.496-05:00War in Gaza - ARTICLES (OP-EDS)<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">In this section I will post informative articles about the situation in Gaza. I will try to update the section and post more articles as I find them.<br /><br />- <strong><u>MY RESPONSE to an anti-Israel blog posting</u></strong>: </span><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-other-side-of-the-stor-by-Noah-Liben-090104-507.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-other-side-of-the-stor-by-Noah-Liben-090104-507.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- Amos Oz, the noted Israeli author and dove - <strong><u>Israel Must Defend Its Citizens</u></strong>:<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><a href="http://mfaex.castup.net/mfa/public/sderot/AmosOz/AmosOz-ENG.pdf"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://mfaex.castup.net/mfa/public/sderot/AmosOz/AmosOz-ENG.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza</u></strong>, Allan Gerson, Huffington Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Palestinians Need Israel to Win</u></strong>, Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051182944538487.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051182944538487.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Debunking the worst anti-Israel charges you’ll hear</u></strong>, Bradley Burston, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050421.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050421.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel, Hamas, and moral idiocy</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Christian Science Monitor: </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1231/p09s02-coop.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1231/p09s02-coop.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>A Crisis and an Opportunity</u></strong>, Michael Oren, The New Republic: </span><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b80c860d-dca8-4d79-9cc4-05d91b6d4721&k=31792"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b80c860d-dca8-4d79-9cc4-05d91b6d4721&k=31792</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The suffering that Hamas causes</u></strong>, Jeff Robbins, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/30/the_suffering_that_hamas_causes/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/30/the_suffering_that_hamas_causes/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Gaza War</u></strong>, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic: </span><a href="http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/the_gaza_war.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/the_gaza_war.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas Knows One Big Thing</u></strong>, Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123059693797741083.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123059693797741083.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Tehran’s cannon fodder</u></strong>, Washington Times: </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/tehrans-cannon-fodder/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/tehrans-cannon-fodder/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas gets its wish</u></strong>, Chicago Tribune: </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1230edit1dec30,0,2949054.story"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1230edit1dec30,0,2949054.story</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Wakeup call in Gaza</u></strong>, Rocky Mountain News: </span><a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/30/wakeup-call-in-gaza/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/30/wakeup-call-in-gaza/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Damned if they do but dead if they don’t</u></strong>, New York Post: </span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/12292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/damned_if_they_do_146263.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nypost.com/seven/12292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/damned_if_they_do_146263.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Don’t overlook Israel’s vulnerability</u></strong>, Mary Dejevsky, The Independent (UK): </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary-dejevsky-dont-overlook-israels-vulnerability-1216250.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary-dejevsky-dont-overlook-israels-vulnerability-1216250.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>When a regime uses its citizens as tools of war</u></strong>, Fania Oz-Salzberger, The Age (Australia): </span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-tragedy-when-a-regime-uses-its-citizens-as-tools-of-war-20081230-77cb.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-tragedy-when-a-regime-uses-its-citizens-as-tools-of-war-20081230-77cb.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Time once more to blame the Jews</u></strong>, Wesley Pruden, Washington Times: </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/its-time-once-more-to-blame-the-jews/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/its-time-once-more-to-blame-the-jews/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Why Israel is bombing Gaza</u></strong>, Ephraim Sneh, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102772.html?hpid=opinionsbox1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102772.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas doesn’t want peace, reconciliation, or end to carnage</u></strong>, Cliff May, Scripps News: </span><a href="http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/39594"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/39594</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>On the other side from civilisation</u></strong>, Melanie Phillips, Spectator (UK): </span><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Gaza Defense</u></strong>, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_hamas_terrorists_have_only_themselves_to.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_hamas_terrorists_have_only_themselves_to.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>The blood on Hamas’s hands</u></strong>, Dallas Morning News: </span><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-israel_30edi.State.Edition1.279cf92.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-israel_30edi.State.Edition1.279cf92.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Moral clarity in Gaza</u></strong>, Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Peace in Gaza is in the hands of Hamas</u></strong>, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4015994/Peace-in-Gaza-is-in-the-hands-of-Hamas.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4015994/Peace-in-Gaza-is-in-the-hands-of-Hamas.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas terrorists have only themselves to blame for Israeli retaliation</u></strong>, NY Daily News: </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_hamas_terrorists_have_only_themselves_to.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_hamas_terrorists_have_only_themselves_to.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas and the Palestinian</u></strong>, Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson: </span><a href="http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/01/hamas-and-the-palestinians.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/01/hamas-and-the-palestinians.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s actions are lawful and commendable</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, JPost.com: </span><a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/israel_s_actions_are_lawful"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/israel_s_actions_are_lawful</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas is not interested in peace</u></strong>, Jack Kelley, Real Clear Politics: </span><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/hamas_not_interested_in_peace.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/hamas_not_interested_in_peace.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Israel asserts right to defend itself</u></strong>, Miami Herald: </span><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/830747.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/830747.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hard Truths About the Conflict</u></strong>, Robert Lieber, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102773.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102773.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>In Gaza, the real enemy is Iran</u></strong>, Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi, LA Times: </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-halevi4-2009jan04,0,3919516.story"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-halevi4-2009jan04,0,3919516.story</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Poor Hamas? No!,</u></strong> Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: </span><a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_604900.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_604900.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Answering Israel’s critics</u></strong>, Yigal Walt, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3647296,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3647296,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Moral Battleground</u></strong>, Melanie Phillips, Spectator (UK): </span><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3204131/the-moral-battleground.thtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3204131/the-moral-battleground.thtml</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>More Peace Processing Won’t Cut It</u></strong>, Claudia Rosett, Forbes.com: </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/31/hamas-terrorism-peace-oped-cx_cr_0101rosett.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/31/hamas-terrorism-peace-oped-cx_cr_0101rosett.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Excessive Force?,</u></strong> James Robbins, National Review: </span><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDRiNWU3NDJjZWI4NjQ0Y2MyNDFhOTQxNDRmMTU5Y2U"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDRiNWU3NDJjZWI4NjQ0Y2MyNDFhOTQxNDRmMTU5Y2U</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">=<br />- <strong><u>The Palestinians share responsibility in this conflict</u></strong>, Carlo Strenger, Guardian (UK): </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly ‘Proportionate’</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas and Israel are fighting under same old Gaza rules</u></strong>, Victor Davis Hanson, Salt Lake Tribune: </span><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11344434"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11344434</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas is the obstacle to Middle East peace</u></strong>, Ron Prosser, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4045000/Hamas-is-the-obstacle-to-Middle-East-peace.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4045000/Hamas-is-the-obstacle-to-Middle-East-peace.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel engages in self-defense</u></strong>, David Brumer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: </span><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394210_brumer31.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394210_brumer31.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>On Gaza, Sense and Centrism</u></strong>, Eric Yoffie, The Forward: </span><a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/14847/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.forward.com/articles/14847/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas has invited its own destruction</u></strong>, Detroit News: </span><a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081231/OPINION01/812310316/1008/OPINION01"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081231/OPINION01/812310316/1008/OPINION01</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Yes, it’s anti-Semitism</u></strong>, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/07/yes_its_anti_semitism/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/07/yes_its_anti_semitism/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Self-Defense</u></strong>, Richmond Times-Dispatch: </span><a href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/op_ed/article/EDMUMBAI_20081229-193210/164146"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/op_ed/article/EDMUMBAI_20081229-193210/164146</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Confidence War</u></strong>, David Brooks, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/opinion/06brooks.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/opinion/06brooks.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Moral High Ground</u></strong>, Saul Singer, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/saul_singer/2009/01/israels_moral_high_ground.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/saul_singer/2009/01/israels_moral_high_ground.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel finally says: Enough</u></strong>, Ottawa Citizen: </span><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Israel+finally+says+Enough/1124899/story.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Israel+finally+says+Enough/1124899/story.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Palestinian tilt towards self-destruction</u></strong>, Tom Teepen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: </span><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394170_teepenonline31.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394170_teepenonline31.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Gaza Surge</u></strong>, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111931225252877.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111931225252877.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The CNN strategy</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, National Post (CA): </span><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1149129&p=3"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1149129&p=3</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> - <strong><u>Why Israel Fights</u></strong>, William Kristol, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05kristol.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05kristol.html?_r=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas’ Palestinian victims</u></strong>, Washington Times: </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/hamas-palestinian-victims/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/hamas-palestinian-victims/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s inalienable right</u></strong>, Jonathan Peled, USA Today: </span><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/israels-inalien.html#more"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/israels-inalien.html#more</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Covering the conflict – and message control</u></strong>, Anderson Cooper, CNN: </span><a href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/covering-the-conflict-and-the-message-control/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/covering-the-conflict-and-the-message-control/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The language of Hamas</u></strong>, Paul Reynolds, BBC: </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7815630.stm"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7815630.stm</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel acts because the world won’t defend it</u></strong>, Daniel Finkelstein, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article5461544.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article5461544.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>‘Proportion’ rubbish</u></strong>, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1142760&srvc=home&position=rated"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1142760&srvc=home&position=rated</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Bush and Rice, don’t let the UN sell out Israel</u></strong>, Anne Bayefsky, NY Daily News: </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/01/08/2009-01-08_bush_and_rice_dont_let_the_un_sell_out_i.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/01/08/2009-01-08_bush_and_rice_dont_let_the_un_sell_out_i.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel vs. Hamas; civilization vs. terror</u></strong>, Robert Fulford, National Post (CA): </span><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/03/robert-fulforf-israel-vs-hamas-civilization-vs-terror.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/03/robert-fulforf-israel-vs-hamas-civilization-vs-terror.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel is not the cause of terror</u></strong>, The Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24866334-16741,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24866334-16741,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>A conflict Hamas caused</u></strong>, Richard Cohen, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010502343.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010502343.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Only the end of Hamas can bring peace to Gaza</u></strong>, David Warren, Ottawa Citizen: </span><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Only+Hamas+bring+peace+Gaza/1140093/story.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Only+Hamas+bring+peace+Gaza/1140093/story.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Why the Israeli people have finally had enough</u></strong>, Ian O’Doherty, Independent (Ireland): </span><a href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/why-the-israeli-people-have-finally-had-enough-1592022.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/why-the-israeli-people-have-finally-had-enough-1592022.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The criminal cynicism of Hamas</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Guardian (UK): </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/hamas-dershowitz-israel-gaza"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/hamas-dershowitz-israel-gaza</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Gaza Bedfellows UNRWA And Hamas</u></strong>, Claudia Rosett, Forbes: </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/07/gaza-hamas-unrwa-oped-cx_cr_0108rosett.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/07/gaza-hamas-unrwa-oped-cx_cr_0108rosett.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>No way forward while the Hamas hydra lives</u></strong>, Amir Taheri, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5477420.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5477420.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Yes, Israel can win in Gaza</u></strong>, Edward Luttwak, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146309313766581.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146309313766581.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas has failed – it is time they stepped down</u></strong>, Sultan Al Qassemi, The National (Abu Dhabi): </span><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Endgame in Gaza</u></strong>, Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010802993.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010802993.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>U.S. should support Israelis in campaign against Hamas</u></strong>, The Oklahoman: </span><a href="http://www.newsok.com/u.s.-should-support-israelis-in-campaign-against-hamas/article/3334012"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.newsok.com/u.s.-should-support-israelis-in-campaign-against-hamas/article/3334012</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Hamas rockets block the birth of a Palestinian state</u></strong>, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4092665/Hamas-blocks-the-birth-of-a-Palestinian-state.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4092665/Hamas-blocks-the-birth-of-a-Palestinian-state.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>The Gaza rules</u></strong>, Victor Davis Hanson, San Francisco Chronicle: </span><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/02/EDED151U2G.DTL"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/02/EDED151U2G.DTL</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Why Israel is united</u></strong>, Carlo Strenger, Guardian (UK): </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/united-israel-comment-carlo-strenger"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/united-israel-comment-carlo-strenger</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>The Hamas Broadcasting Corporation</u></strong>, Melanie Phillips, Spectator (UK): </span><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3210031/the-hamas-broadcasting-corporation-ctd.thtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3210031/the-hamas-broadcasting-corporation-ctd.thtml</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Amnesty International’s criticism of Israeli action in Gaza distorts the law of war</u></strong>, Marc Stern, Jurist: </span><a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/01/amnesty-internationals-criticism-of.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/01/amnesty-internationals-criticism-of.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Gaza deals blow to Palestinian myths</u></strong>, Lorne Gunter, National Post (CA): </span><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/05/lorne-gunter-gaza-deals-blow-to-palestinian-myths.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/05/lorne-gunter-gaza-deals-blow-to-palestinian-myths.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Mideast’s Ground Zero</u></strong>, Tom Friedman, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/opinion/07friedman.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/opinion/07friedman.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Yes, free Gaza – from terrorist tyranny</u></strong>, Reda Mansour, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: </span><a href="http://www.ajc.com/services/content/opinion/stories/2009/01/07/mansoured_0107.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ajc.com/services/content/opinion/stories/2009/01/07/mansoured_0107.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>If Hamas is the victim, why is Ramallah so quiet?,</u></strong> Michael Gove, Scotland on Sunday: </span><a href="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/12700/Michael-Gove-If-Hamas-is.4863820.jp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/12700/Michael-Gove-If-Hamas-is.4863820.jp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>It’s not Israel’s fault it has a strong, well-run army</u></strong>, Yoel Marcus, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054926.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054926.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>A Caterpillar and an Anthem</u></strong>, Daniel Gordis: </span><a href="http://www.danielgordis.org/Site/Site_Dispatches.asp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.danielgordis.org/Site/Site_Dispatches.asp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>A defensive war</u></strong>, Eric Cantor and Steny Hoyer, Washington Times: </span><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/09/a-defensive-war/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/09/a-defensive-war/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>On Proportionality</u></strong>, Michael Walzer, New Republic: </span><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Hamas War Crime Strategy</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Hudson: </span><a href="http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/01/the-hamas-war-crime-strategy.php"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/01/the-hamas-war-crime-strategy.php</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Ending the West’s Proxy War Against Israel</u></strong>, Gunnar Heinsohn, Wall Street Journal Europe: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123171179743471961.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123171179743471961.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The media collude in terrorist crimes against humanity</u></strong>, James Lewis, American Thinker: </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/the_media_collude_in_terrorist.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/the_media_collude_in_terrorist.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Hamas prefers war as an alternative to progress</u></strong>, Sami Alrabaa, National Post(CA): </span><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/12/sami-alrabaa-hamas-prefers-war-as-an-alternative-to-progress.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/12/sami-alrabaa-hamas-prefers-war-as-an-alternative-to-progress.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Irwin Cotler: Hamas is a war crimes ‘case study’</u></strong>, Haviv Rettig Gur, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Every item is a potential booby trap in Gaza</u></strong>, Abraham Rabinovich, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24903347-15084,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24903347-15084,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Gaza’s True ‘Disproportion’</u></strong>, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Newsweek / Washington Post: </span><a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/carlos_alberto_montaner/2009/01/gazas_true_disproportion.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/carlos_alberto_montaner/2009/01/gazas_true_disproportion.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>World must not condemn our war on Hamas</u></strong>, Ari Shavit, Haaretz: </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054905.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054905.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Threat of Hamas’s Human Shield Strategy</u></strong>, Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, U.S. News: </span><a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/01/09/the-threat-of-the-human-shield-strategy-hamas-uses-extends-beyond-israel-gaza.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/01/09/the-threat-of-the-human-shield-strategy-hamas-uses-extends-beyond-israel-gaza.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Britain’s Muslims should condemn Hamas, not Israel</u></strong>, Shiraz Maher, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4207857/Britains-Muslims-should-condemn-Hamas-not-Israel.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4207857/Britains-Muslims-should-condemn-Hamas-not-Israel.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Facing reality in the Israel-Palestinian conflict</u></strong>, David Galernter, Weekly Standard: </span><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/988kpgbq.asp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/988kpgbq.asp</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />- <strong><u>The fog of war: Root causes and resolutions</u></strong>, Irwin Cotler, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424927883&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424927883&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Taking Risks After the Gaza War</u></strong>, Daniel Gordis, NY Times: </span><a href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/taking-risks-after-the-gaza-war/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/taking-risks-after-the-gaza-war/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Hamas and the Death of a Better Future</u></strong>, Lazar Berman, Huffington Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lazar-berman/hamas-and-the-death-of-a_b_158287.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lazar-berman/hamas-and-the-death-of-a_b_158287.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas</u></strong>, Jeffrey Goldberg, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14goldberg-1.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14goldberg-1.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>The Gaza-Egypt Smuggling Tunnels Must be Closed</u></strong>, Dore Gold, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123189664039179733.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123189664039179733.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hard lessons for Hamas</u></strong>, Globe and Mail (CA): </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090116.EISRAEL16/TPStory/Comment"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090116.EISRAEL16/TPStory/Comment</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Proportionality and hypocrisy</u></strong>, Martin Sherman, YNetNews.com: </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3656420,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3656420,00.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Photos From Israel That You Won’t See On The News</u></strong>, Ilana Teitelbaum, Huffington Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilana-teitelbaum/photos-from-israel-that-y_b_155256.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilana-teitelbaum/photos-from-israel-that-y_b_155256.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Israel’s Goals in Gaza?</u></strong>, Tom Friedman, NY Times: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14friedman.html?ref=opinion"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14friedman.html?ref=opinion</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Canada a voice of integrity at UN</u></strong>, Rosie Dimanno, Toronto Star: </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/570610"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.thestar.com/article/570610</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Giving voice to anti-Semitism</u></strong>, Frank Furedi, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24913868-7583,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24913868-7583,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas disappoints its backers</u></strong>, Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review: </span><a href="http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=3166"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=3166</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>In defence of Israel</u></strong>, Times (UK): </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5484881.ece"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5484881.ece</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />- <strong><u>Liberate The Palestinians From Hamas</u></strong>, Bernard-Henri Levy, New Republic: </span><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Weighing Proportionality in Gaza</u></strong>, Alon Ben-Meir, Huffington Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/weighing-proportionality_b_157900.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/weighing-proportionality_b_157900.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Save Gaza by destroying the heart of terror</u></strong>, Natan Sharansky, Bloomberg.com: </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=axZLAbvx.p6E"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=axZLAbvx.p6E</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda: 21st Century Fascists</u></strong>, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/samuel_rodriguez/2009/01/hamas_hezbollah_and_al_qaeda_2.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/samuel_rodriguez/2009/01/hamas_hezbollah_and_al_qaeda_2.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Reaffirming Israel’s Right to Exist in the Face of Hamas Attacks in Gaza</u></strong>, Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News: </span><a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2009/01/15/reaffirming-the-right-of-israel-to-exist-in-the-face-of-hamas-attacks-in-gaza.html?PageNr=1"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2009/01/15/reaffirming-the-right-of-israel-to-exist-in-the-face-of-hamas-attacks-in-gaza.html?PageNr=1</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Do ordinary Iranians understand the Israel/Hamas conflict better than the experts?</u></strong>, Clifford May, National Review: </span><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTJiNzEzNTc3ZWUzZDYzY2RhYmFjOTcyNmU3YjY4MzI</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">=<br /></span>- <strong><u>The disproportionate criticism of Israel’s self-defence</u></strong>, Robert Fulford, National Post (CA): </span><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/17/robert-fulford-on-proportionality.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/17/robert-fulford-on-proportionality.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />- <strong><u>Beyond Gaza: The message that Barack Obama can send</u></strong>, Washington Post: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604319.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604319.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Just defence despite death toll</u></strong>, Robert Goot, Sydney Morning Herald: </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/just-defence-despite-death-toll/2009/01/17/1231609049046.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/just-defence-despite-death-toll/2009/01/17/1231609049046.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Israel scored a tactical victory</u></strong>, Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal: </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241373428396239.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241373428396239.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">- <strong><u>Why Arab states are unmoved by plight of Hamas: most fear Muslim militancy depite their dislike of Israel</u></strong>, Tim Butcher, Telegraph (UK): </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4279297/Why-Arab-states-are-unmoved-by-plight-of-Hamas-most-fear-Muslim-militancy-despite-their-dislike-of-Israel.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4279297/Why-Arab-states-are-unmoved-by-plight-of-Hamas-most-fear-Muslim-militancy-despite-their-dislike-of-Israel.html</span></a><br />-<span style="font-family:arial;"> <strong><u>The truth about Hamas’s mission</u></strong>, Andrea Levin, Boston Globe: </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/17/the_truth_about_hamass_mission/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/17/the_truth_about_hamass_mission/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Negotiating with terrorists is impossible</u></strong>, Mark Liebler, The Age (Australia): </span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/negotiating-with-terrorists-is-impossible-20090120-7lle.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/negotiating-with-terrorists-is-impossible-20090120-7lle.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>The Phony War Crimes Accusation Against Israel</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Huffinton Post: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-phony-war-crimes-accu_b_160050.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-phony-war-crimes-accu_b_160050.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>The Battle of Gaza</u></strong>, Cliff May, National Review: </span><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NjEyMWM4MTA1YzcxMWFiZTIxZWE0M2M3YWYyMmI3YTM"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NjEyMWM4MTA1YzcxMWFiZTIxZWE0M2M3YWYyMmI3YTM</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />- <strong><u>Hamas’s newspeak prolongs this war</u></strong>, Uri Dromi, Guardian (UK): </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/22/gaza-israel-hamas-marzook"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/22/gaza-israel-hamas-marzook</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Images of bloodshed obscure truth</u></strong>, Albert Dadon, Australian: </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24945114-7583,00.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24945114-7583,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>A British soldier’s view of Operation Cast Lead</u></strong>, Daniel Yates, Spectator (UK): </span><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3286561/a-british-soldiers-view-of-operation-cast-lead.thtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3286561/a-british-soldiers-view-of-operation-cast-lead.thtml</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- <strong><u>Israel, Gaza, and International Law</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post: </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1170359815127"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1170359815127</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>- <strong><u>Account of Israeli attack doesn’t hold up to scrutiny</u></strong>, Patrick Martin, Globe & Mail (CA): </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090129.wgazaschool29/BNStory/International/home"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090129.wgazaschool29/BNStory/International/home</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-56199503258460305852009-01-19T16:00:00.002-05:002009-02-04T15:57:15.551-05:00War in Gaza - RESOURCESOther Resources:<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Action: Contact Elected Officials</span></strong><br />-- AIPAC will help you craft letters to Members of Congress, urging them to vote for a resolution supporting Israel's right to self-defense: <a href="http://aipac.org/694.asp#19564"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://aipac.org/694.asp#19564</span></a><br />-- ADL’s site will help you send a message to Congress, urging your Senators and Representatives to support Israel’s right to self-defense: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/adl/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=117"><span style="font-size:85%;">https://secure2.convio.net/adl/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=117</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Action: Support the Soldiers</span></strong><br />-- Send a smile and a message to an IDF soldier – let them know how much you appreciate their courageous efforts! <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/smilecampaign.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/smilecampaign.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Send the soldiers some love through A Package From Home: <a href="http://www.apackagefromhome.org/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.apackagefromhome.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Petition: Support Israel<br /></span></strong>-- Consider signing ADL’s petition to the UN Security Council, supporting Israel and condemning the UN’s "equivalency" between Hamas's terrorism and Israel's attempts to eliminate that terrorism: <a href="http://support.adl.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Gaza_Letter_to_UN_2008_2009"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://support.adl.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Gaza_Letter_to_UN_2008_2009</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Stay Informed: Hamas’s Human Shields</span></strong><br />-- Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields (Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center): <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e028.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e028.htm</span></a><br />-- Aerial <strong><u>photographs</u></strong> in this report: Hamas Use of the Civilian Population of Gaza as Human Shields: <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e049.pdf"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e049.pdf</span></a><br />-- Hamas representative Fathi Hamad stating the terror group’s use of human shields: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs</span></a><br />-- News flash on Palestinian television, which states, “<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Following a threatened airstrike – Hamas calls upon all Gaza children to gather near the house of Abu Hatal in the A-Shouqaf quarter, in order to form a human shield</span></em></strong>”: <a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=1915991&ak=null"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=1915991&ak=null</span></a><br />-- <strong>UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief John Holmes</strong> blasts Hamas for its "cynical" use of <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian facilities</span></em></strong> in Gaza: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059475.html</span></a><br />-- Reports from <strong><u><em>Gaza residents</em></u></strong> regarding Hamas’s use of human shields by hiding in <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian homes</span></em></strong> and stairwells, <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">UNRWA</span></em></strong> <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">ambulances</span></em></strong>, and <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">mosques</span></em></strong>: <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html</span></a><br />-- More reports from <strong><u><em>Palestinian sources</em></u></strong> of Hamas officials hiding in <em><strong><span style="color:#009900;">hospitals</span></strong></em> and taking refuge near <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">Red Cross</span></em></strong> and <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">UN buildings</span></em></strong>: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052981.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052981.html</span></a><br />-- In this report, <strong><u><em>Gaza residents</em></u></strong> recount how Hamas fighters appropriated their <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian homes</span></em></strong> as bases, mined them as booby-traps, and returned after the war to retrieve weapons and ammunition: <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,603203,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,603203,00.html</span></a><br />-- Reports from a <strong><u><em>Gaza family</em></u></strong> of how Hamas turned their <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">farm</span></em></strong> into a “fortress”: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050211857&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050211857&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Italian paper: Gazans say Hamas kept them in houses used by gunmen</u></strong>, Haaretz: <a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057874.html</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Hamas tried to hijack <em><span style="color:#009900;">ambulances</span></em> during Gaza war</u></strong>, Sydney Morning Herald: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hamas-tried-to-hijack-ambulances-during-gaza-war/2009/01/25/1232818246374.html</span></a><br />-- <strong>Mohammed Shriteh</strong>, a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance driver, says that Hamas would lure the <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">ambulances</span></em></strong> into the heart of a battle to transport fighters to safety: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.theage.com.au/world/as-israels-rockets-fell-gaza-civilians-also-had-problems-with-hamas-20090125-7pfd.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- <strong>Talal Safadi</strong>, an official in the leftist Palestinian People's Party, said that Hamas fighters were firing from positions all around the <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">hospital</span></em></strong> in Gaza City: <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/180691/output/print"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.newsweek.com/id/180691/output/print</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- A <strong><u><em>Palestinian resident</em></u></strong> recalls how Hamas would use teenagers from <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian houses</span></em></strong> to shoot at Israel and then blame Israel for war crimes: <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html</span></a><br />-- Other <strong><u><em>Gaza civilians</em></u></strong> shouted at Hamas gunmen and urged them to leave the area so as to spare their lives; Hamas callously responded by calling them traitors: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</span></a><br />-- More reports from <strong><u><em>Palestinians</em></u></strong> in the Gaza Strip that on the first day of the war Hamas ordered its gunmen to <strong><em>take off their uniforms</em></strong>; that the Hamas gunmen who participated in the fighting against the IDF were all <strong><em>dressed as civilians</em></strong>; and that the majority arrived at hospitals without their weapons or any other signs revealing their status as gunmen: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292909104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292909104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Old footage of Palestinian fighters using an <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">ambulance</span></em></strong> as a troop-carrier: <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Footage of Hamas firing rockets from a <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">mosque</span></em></strong>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE</span></a><br />-- Last year, terrorists fired rockets at Israel from a <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">school</span></em></strong> in Gaza: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- One Hamas fighter recounted how he takes cover in <strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">civilian homes</span></em></strong> after firing at Israelis: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?_r=1"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html?_r=1</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Israel says Hamas leaders hide in <em><span style="color:#009900;">foreign missions</span></em></u></strong>, Reuters: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLB732861</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Dichter: Hamas salaries paid at Shifa <em><span style="color:#009900;">hospital</span></em></u></strong>, Amir Mizroch, Jerusalem Post: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424936164&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424936164&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>UN envoy: Hamas uses Gazans as human shields</u></strong>, Yitzhak Benhorin, YNetNews.com: <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3655758,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3655758,00.</span>html</a><br />-- <strong><u>U.N. Agency That Runs School Hit in Gaza Employed Hamas and Islamic Jihad Members</u></strong>, Joel Mowbray, Fox News: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479940,00.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479940,00.html</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Video</u></strong> regarding Hamas’s use of civilians as shields: <a href="http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?</span>ai=58&ar=HamasExploitationofCiviliansV&ak=null</a><br />-- <strong><u>Power Point</u></strong> presentation, showing how the IDF limits harm to civilians, whereas Hamas intentionally puts civilians in harm’s way: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/IDF-%20Limiting%20Harm%20to%20Civilians%20(13.1).ppt"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/IDF-%20Limiting%20Harm%20to%20Civilians%20(13.1).ppt</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Stay Informed: Educate Yourself</span></strong><br />-- Key Facts (The David Project): <a href="http://www.davidproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=337&Itemid=120"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.davidproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=337&Itemid=120</span></a><br />-- Israel’s Military Operation Against Hamas (Stand With Us, multimedia):<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><a href="http://www.standwithus.org/ONLINE_BOOKLETS/?BID=12"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.standwithus.org/ONLINE_BOOKLETS/?BID=12</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />-- Israel’s War Against Hamas – A Primer: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/gaza2008primer.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/gaza2008primer.html</span></a><br />-- Hamas escalation in the south: <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e019.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e019.htm</span></a><br />-- Fact vs. Fiction in Gaza: <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3587015&content_id=%7b17E1A442-5E39-4609-B552-AE054DD027AC%7d&notoc=1"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3587015&content_id=%7b17E1A442-5E39-4609-B552-AE054DD027AC%7d&notoc=1</span></a><br />-- Hamas In Their Own Words: <a href="http://www.memritv.org/video.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.memritv.org/video.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Gaza Casualties: Civilian or Combatant? (CAMERA): <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1603"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1603</span></a><br />-- Israel Strikes Back (ADL): <a href="http://www.adl.org/Israel/IsraelStrikesBack.asp"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.adl.org/Israel/IsraelStrikesBack.asp</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Who is Hamas?: <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas.htm</span></a><br />-- Map of Gaza conflict: <a href="http://www.davidproject.org/resources/flyers/map_SituationGaza.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.davidproject.org/resources/flyers/map_SituationGaza.jpg</span></a><br />-- Map of Israeli cities within range of rocket-fire from Gaza: <a href="http://www.jewishagency.org/NR/rdonlyres/D1354F94-10A9-494A-906D-B2DA6AF8DA8F/0/map.PDF"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jewishagency.org/NR/rdonlyres/D1354F94-10A9-494A-906D-B2DA6AF8DA8F/0/map.PDF</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>-- Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the U.S. regarding the prevention of weapons smuggling to terrorists: <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/{84dc5887-741e-4056-8d91-a389164bc94e}/MOU2.PDF"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/{84dc5887-741e-4056-8d91-a389164bc94e}/MOU2.PDF</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Educate Others</span></strong><br />-- <strong><em>Help fight the war of words and ideas!</em></strong> See: <a href="http://www.helpuswin.org/">http://www.helpuswin.org/</a>. <strong><em>You do not need to be an expert to make a difference!</em></strong> 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 <a href="mailto:RonK@standwithus.com">RonK@standwithus.com</a> with your Name, Email Address, and Country. Subject Title should read: "HelpUsWin Volunteer".<br />-- For <strong><em>Facebook</em></strong> users, consider “donating your status” to <strong>Qassam Count</strong>, which will automatically update your Facebook status either every time a rocket lands in Israel or once a day. Help let the world know <span style="font-size:85%;">about the number of Qassams and other rockets that hit Israel every day: </span><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/qassamcount/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://apps.facebook.com/qassamcount/</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;">International Law / Law of Warfare</span></strong><br />-- <strong><u>Did Israel use “Disproportionate Force” in Gaza?,</u></strong> Dore Gold: <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=2808&TTL=Did_Israel_Use_%E2%80%9CDisproportionate_Force%E2%80%9D_in_Gaza"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=2808&TTL=Did_Israel_Use_%E2%80%9CDisproportionate_Force%E2%80%9D_in_Gaza</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">?</span><br />-- <strong><u>International Law and the Fighting in Gaza</u></strong>, Justus Reid Weiner and Avi Bell: <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/text/puzzle1.pdf"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jcpa.org/text/puzzle1.pdf</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza</u></strong>, Allan Gerson, Huffington Post: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/proportionality-and-dispr_b_156068.html</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Amnesty International’s criticism of Israeli action in Gaza distorts the law of war</u></strong>, Marc Stern, Jurist: <a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/01/amnesty-internationals-criticism-of.php"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/01/amnesty-internationals-criticism-of.php</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>On Proportionality</u></strong>, Michael Walzer, New Republic: <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d6473c26-2ae3-4bf6-9673-ef043cae914f</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Irwin Cotler: Hamas is a war crimes ‘case study’</u></strong>, Haviv Rettig Gur, Jerusalem Post: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576202&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>The Phony War Crimes Accusation Against Israel</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Huffinton Post: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-phony-war-crimes-accu_b_160050.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-phony-war-crimes-accu_b_160050.html</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>Weighing Proportionality in Gaza</u></strong>, Alon Ben-Meir, Huffington Post: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/weighing-proportionality_b_157900.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/weighing-proportionality_b_157900.html</span></a><br />-- The NGO Front in the Gaza War: Exploitation of International Law: <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/the_ngo_front_exploitation_of_international_law"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/the_ngo_front_exploitation_of_international_law</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Media bias against Israel</span></strong>:<br />-- Fact Sheet – Disinformation From Gaza: <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/64_Gazacasualties.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/64_Gazacasualties.html</span></a><br />-- HonestReporting’s latest video: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/breaking_point.asp"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/breaking_point.asp</span></a><br />-- <strong><u>French TV apologises over footage mix-up</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=265031&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=265031&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-63711338559702058572009-01-04T21:12:00.005-05:002009-01-12T23:13:44.720-05:00ANNOUNCEMENT: RALLIES FOR ISRAEL, NYC AND NATIONWIDE<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><em>Nationwide Rallies to Support Israel</em></span></strong>: <a href="http://standwithuscampus.com/?p=385">http://standwithuscampus.com/?p=385</a><br /><br />Thousands of rockets have been launched by the terrorist organization Hamas into Southern Israel since Israel left Gaza in the name of peace. Israel has the right to defend herself. <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"><em>Please come out and show your support for Israel’s war against Hamas</em></span></strong>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-67330200759621035472008-12-24T18:05:00.002-05:002008-12-24T18:11:41.795-05:0012-24-08 Hanukah Israel UpdateDear all,<br />This holiday season, let us light a candle for Gilad Shalit, and all others who are not able to celebrate freedom with their families, as we hope for his speedy return. See: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://standwithus.com/FREETHESOLDIERS/candle.asp" target="_blank">http://standwithus.com/FREETHESOLDIERS/candle.asp</a>. <br />Peace,<br />Noah<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">VIDEO: REMEMBERING MUMBAI</span></strong><br />View this <strong><u>video</u></strong> from Chabad, a tribute to Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg and all those who were murdered last month in Mumbai: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=h859fgGLoA" target="_blank">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=h859fgGLoA</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br />- <strong><u>Solar Power – the Israeli Connection</u></strong>, Eric Taub, NY Times, 9/23/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2/24GOLDMAN.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2/24GOLDMAN.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a><br />- <strong><u>PA Policewomen search Palestinian women for weapons</u></strong>, Ilene Prusher, Christian Science Monitor, 11/21/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1121/p01s02-wogn.html" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1121/p01s02-wogn.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Thin line makes vast difference to life in Israel</u></strong>, Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald, 11/22/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/story.html?id=386535e7-46da-411d-937e-61fb9a736aa3" target="_blank"><br />http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/story.html?id=386535e7-46da-411d-937e-61fb9a736aa3</a><br />- <strong><u>While Detroit Slept</u></strong>, Thomas Friedman, NY Times, 12/9/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/opinion/10friedman.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/opinion/10friedman.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Israel Bans a UN Rapporteur Who Compares the Jewish State to Nazi Germany</u></strong>, Alan Dershowitz, Hudson, 12/18/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.hudsonny.org/2008/12/israel-bans-a-un-rapporteur-who-compares-the-jewish-state-to-nazi-germany.php" target="_blank">http://www.hudsonny.org/2008/12/israel-bans-a-un-rapporteur-who-compares-the-jewish-state-to-nazi-germany.php</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">RESOURCE: TRAVEL TO ISRAEL</span></strong><br />Nice article on Israel's natural beauty, and tourism options in the country: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/travel/28explorer.html" target="_blank">http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/travel/28explorer.html</a><br />View also this blog and website from an Israeli tour guide, with wonderful photos, travel tips, and other great information: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.israeltour.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.israeltour.wordpress.com</a> and <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.davidhymanisrael.com/" target="_blank">www.davidhymanisrael.com</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">NEWS</span></strong><br />- <strong><u>A feast of lights under gloom of rockets</u></strong>:<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6560882.html" target="_blank">http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6560882.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Myanmar students attend agricultural training in Israel</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.mmtimes.com/no443/n006.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mmtimes.com/no443/n006.htm</a><br />- <strong><u>Olmert's corruption case garners praise for Israel in the Arab world</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041432454&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041432454&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</a><br />- <strong><u>Israeli doctors save Iraqi child</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3633108,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3633108,00.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Czech pilots train in Israel for Afghan mission</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=350692" target="_blank">http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=350692</a><br />- <strong><u>Palestinians got $1.7 billion in aid last year</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iApRoTyESi2JfZXp2zJTskfoqOnQ" target="_blank"><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iApRoTyESi2JfZXp2zJTskfoqOnQ</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: WHY SHOULD THEY SUFFER?</span></strong><br />Asked how he justified the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Shimon Peres said: "<strong><em>Why should they suffer? Let them stop shooting and they won't suffer</em></strong>."<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE4AI5D1.html" target="_blank">http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE4AI5D1.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"> ACTION: FREE JONATHAN POLLARD</span></strong><br />Some people may be interested in this action: With less than one month until President Bush leaves office, this grass roots effort is intended to remind the White House of Jonathan Pollard's plight and to push for a commutation of his prison sentence. Please visit <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.freepollardnow.com/" target="_blank">www.FreePollardNow.com</a> to join the effort to help set Jonathan Pollard free.<br /> <br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">VIDEO AND PETITION: BIASED MEDIA</span></strong><br />View HonestReporting's latest <strong><u>video</u></strong> about biased media reporting: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/who_speaks_for_israel.asp" target="_blank">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/who_speaks_for_israel.asp</a><br /> - Also, read and consider signing this <strong><u>petition</u></strong>, urging the Washington Post to adopt a more balanced reporting on the Middle East: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://eyeonthepost.wsone.com/bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=1" target="_blank">http://eyeonthepost.wsone.com/bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=1<br /></a> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: ISRAEL AND ENVIRONMENTALISM</span><br /></strong> Check out this <strong><u>link</u></strong>, regarding environmentalism in Israel:<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5158747" target="_blank">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5158747</a><br /> - Also, see these cool <strong><u>facts</u></strong>!<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/wasteTreatment.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/wasteTreatment.jpg</a> and <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/waterHeater.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/waterHeater.jpg</a> and <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/electricPlant.jpg" target="_blank"><br />http://www.israelactivism.com/pdfs/electricPlant.jpg</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-66454149091355592252008-11-26T11:07:00.001-05:002008-11-26T11:14:19.747-05:00Israel Update 11-26-08<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br /><strong>- <u>Inside the covert world of Gaza's rocket factories</u></strong>, Janis Mackey Frayer, CTV News, 11/20/08 (with <strong>pictures</strong>): <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/rockets_janis_081129/20081120?hub=TopStories&pr=showAll" target="_blank">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/rockets_janis_081129/20081120?hub=TopStories&pr=showAll</a><br /><strong>- <u>Consul general is an Arab who represents Israel well</u></strong>, John Christensen, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/15/08:<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/15/mansour.html" target="_blank">http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/15/mansour.html</a> <strong>- <u>Self-induced Nakba</u></strong>, Phillip Carl Salzman, History News Network, 10/15/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/55730.html" target="_blank">http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/55730.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Angola: Children Return Home After Surgery in Israel</u></strong>, Angola Press Agency, 9/22/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200809230029.html" target="_blank">http://allafrica.com/stories/200809230029.html</a><br />- See also: <strong>Save a Child's Heart</strong> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.saveachildsheart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.saveachildsheart.com/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">RESOURCE: ADS 4 ISRAEL & BLUE STAR PR</span></strong><br />Check out these very cool resources for publicizing interesting and little-known facts about Israel, featuring great <strong>flyers</strong> and <strong>advertisements</strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ads4israel.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ads4israel.com/</a> and <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.bluestarpr.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bluestarpr.com/</a> (copy and paste if clicking link doesn't work)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">NEWS:</span></strong><br />- <strong><u>Jerusalem elects a new mayor</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404699357&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404699357&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br />- <strong><u>Jordan, Israel work to overcome regional water deficit</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910086247&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910086247&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br />- <strong><u>Charity Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html</a> (view Hamas <strong>posters</strong> found at the charity: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/ICS%20Hebron%2010.pdf" target="_blank">http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/ICS%20Hebron%2010.pdf</a>)<br />- <strong><u>Israel takes silver medal in Chess Olympiad</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3628765,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3628765,00.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Vietnam to open embassy in Israel</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3627644,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3627644,00.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">WEBSITE: GILAD SHALIT</span></strong><br />For Hebrew speakers: See this website, an attempt to influence the parties on all sides to resolve the situation and bring back Gilad Shalit by November 29, which will mark 888 days since Gilad was captured: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.giladshalit888.com/" target="_blank">http://www.giladshalit888.com/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'I WANT THE ISRAELIS BACK'</span></strong><br />Riyad al-Laham, a Palestinian living in Gaza: "<strong>I want [the Israelis] to come back [to Gaza].</strong> All the Mawassi people used to work in the settlements and make good money. Now there is nothing to do. Even our own agricultural land is barren . . . My sons were farmers in the greenhouses [before Israel withdrew 3 years ago]. We worked in the settlements and had resources. Now, I don't think I could survive without [the UN] . . . <strong>Before was better . . . [The Israelis] used to take responsibility for us as occupiers.</strong> Neither [Hamas nor Fatah] knocked on the doors to ask what we need. People are fed up.... We have become beggars."<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0812/p07s02-wome.html" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0812/p07s02-wome.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY</span></strong><br />-<u><strong>The Palace of David</strong></u>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/mazar.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/mazar.html</a><br />- Watch the <strong>video</strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/maza-01.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/maza-01.html</a> -<strong><u>Herod's Lost Tomb</u></strong>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/herod-s-lost-tomb-3571/overview?intcmp=herod_homepage-to-channel" target="_blank">http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/herod-s-lost-tomb-3571/overview?intcmp=herod_homepage-to-channel</a><br />- See also: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119084537.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119084537.htm</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">VIDEO: GAZAN WOMEN SUICIDE BOMBERS</span></strong><br />Watch this interesting <strong>video</strong> from MEMRI regarding Gazan women preparing to become suicide bombers: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1840.htm" target="_blank">http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1840.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-61417035463446202342008-10-26T19:58:00.005-04:002008-10-26T20:06:12.430-04:00Israel Update 10-26-08<span style="color:#000099;"><strong>QUICK READING LIST</strong><br /></span>- <strong><u>How to Get the World To Hate Israel</u></strong>, Richard Cravatts, History News Network, 8/4/08: <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/52723.html">http://hnn.us/articles/52723.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Why Iran and Hamas adore Darfur's genocidal dictator</u></strong>, Jonathan Schanzer, Weekly Standard, 8/6/08: <a href="http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/401vcvba.asp">http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/401vcvba.asp</a><br />- <strong><u>Seaweed gel 'could save 20,000 heart attack patients' lives a year'</u></strong>, Stephen Adams, Telegraph (UK), 8/11/08: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2538804/Seaweed-gel-could-save-20000-heart-attack-patients-lives-a-year.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2538804/Seaweed-gel-could-save-20000-heart-attack-patients-lives-a-year.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Jerusalem dig uncovers ancient city walls</u></strong>, Reuters, 9/3/08: <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL342025420080903">http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL342025420080903</a><br /><strong>Watch</strong> also: <a href="http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=wiJTDkFpcL">http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=wiJTDkFpcL</a><br />- <strong><u>Things here aren't what they seem</u></strong>, Oakland Ross, Toronto Star, 10/15/08: <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/517472">http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/517472</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">CHARITY: AMIT CHILDREN<br /></span></strong>Please consider donating to AMIT Children, a charity that enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals: <a href="http://www.amitchildren.org/">http://www.amitchildren.org/</a><br />- See their Students in Solidarity with Sderot project: <a href="http://www.amitchildren.org/s3.asp">http://www.amitchildren.org/s3.asp</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">VIDEO: FOOD AND AID TO GAZA</span></strong><br />Watch this interesting <strong>video</strong> about Israel’s attempts to get critical food and medical aid to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJyi-Pp3p4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJyi-Pp3p4</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: ZIONISTS’ DECEITFUL CONTROL<br /></span></strong>From Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at the UN (see also the petition below denouncing his rhetoric):<br />“The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small deceitful number of people called <strong>Zionists</strong>. Although they [the Zionists] are a minuscule minority, they <strong>have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries and the US in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner</strong>.It is deeply disturbing to witness that some presidential or premiere nominees in some big countries have to visit these people, take part in their gatherings, swear their allegiance and commitment to their interests in order to attain financial or media support . . . “<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">NEWS – CURRENT EVENTS</span></strong><br />- MUST READ - <strong><u>Iraqi MP visits Israel</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221034882048&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221034882048&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br />- <strong><u>A Boom in Israel's Exports to India</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2008/gb20080828_867715.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2008/gb20080828_867715.htm</a> - <strong><u>Young Iranians Release Book Caricaturing The Holocaust</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702588.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702588.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Colombia smashes drug ring with Hezbollah ties</u></strong>: <a href="http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE49L0GQ.html">http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE49L0GQ.html</a><br />- <strong><u>Israel to begin drilling for natural gas in Mediterranean</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLJ71844920081019">http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLJ71844920081019</a><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">PETITION: DENOUNCE AHMADINEJAD<br /></span></strong>Please read and consider signing this <strong>petition</strong> to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, denouncing Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s recent hate-filled and anti-Semitic speech at the UN: <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=4547233&msource=Ban08&auid=4051862">http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=4547233&msource=Ban08&auid=4051862</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">RESOURCE: UNIQUE PROJECTS<br /></span></strong>Check out this cool website, for anyone interested in real estate in Israel: <a href="http://www.uniqueprojects.co.il/">http://www.uniqueprojects.co.il/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-87546613600216490312008-09-29T12:28:00.000-04:002008-10-02T12:36:47.652-04:00Israel Update 9/29/08<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>QUICK READING LIST</strong></span><br /> - <strong><u>Being a French journalist means never having to say you're sorry</u></strong>, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Weekly Standard, 7/7/08: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/284xawsb.asp">http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/284xawsb.asp</a><br /> - <strong><u>Israeli company to build sea wave power plants in China</u></strong>, Israel21c.com, 7/10/08: <a href="http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El2189&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology">http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El2189&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology</a> <br />- <strong>See also</strong>: <a href="http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/">http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/</a> <br /> - <strong><u>Angola Children Travel to Israel on Medical Treatment</u></strong>, Angola Press Agency, 7/21/08: <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200807210154.html">http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200807210154.html</a> <br />-<strong> See also</strong>: <a href="http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html">http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html</a> <br /> - <strong><u>Refugees From Whom?</u></strong>, Melanie Phillips, Spectator (UK), 8/4/08: <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/875566/refugees-from-whom.thtml">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/875566/refugees-from-whom.thtml</a><br /> - <strong><u>Cotler: 'Peace Partners' Promote Hate</u></strong>, Joel Goldenberg, The Suburban (CA), 8/20/08: <a href="http://thesuburban.com/content.jsp?sid=75989305914795834871465141243&ctid=1000029&cnid=1016185">http://thesuburban.com/content.jsp?sid=75989305914795834871465141243&ctid=1000029&cnid=1016185</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">REMEMBERING 9/11</span></strong><br />A few weeks late, but still pertinent: <br /> - Read <strong><u>Finding the Next Danny</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018440.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018440.html</a> <br /> - And remember who celebrated on that tragic day: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_eN4YEEI0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_eN4YEEI0</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOZvbYJMvU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOZvbYJMvU</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">NEWS:</span></strong><br /> - <strong><u>Israel to launch website in Hindi and Urdu</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.freshnews.in/israel-to-launch-website-in-hindi-and-urdu-36984">http://www.freshnews.in/israel-to-launch-website-in-hindi-and-urdu-36984</a><br /> - <strong><u>US Airways adds Tel Aviv; more routes to come</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/business/breaking/US_Airways_to_add_new_international_route.html">http://www.philly.com/philly/business/breaking/US_Airways_to_add_new_international_route.html</a><br /> - <strong><u>17 Georgians wounded in Caucasus war to be treated in Israel</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591396,00.html">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591396,00.html</a><br /> - <strong><u>Tzipi Livni Wins Party Vote in Israel</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702365.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702365.html</a><br /> - <strong><u>McCartney makes his mark in Israel</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/first-night-sir-paul-mccartney-hayarkon-park-tel-aviv-942942.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/first-night-sir-paul-mccartney-hayarkon-park-tel-aviv-942942.html</a> <br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>QUOTE OF THE DAY: "JEWS CANNOT BE TRUSTED"</strong></span><br />Palestinian imam Yousif al-Zahar, a member of Hamas: "<strong>Jews are a people who cannot be trusted. They have been traitors to all agreements</strong> — go back to history. <strong>Their fate is their vanishing</strong>. Look what they are doing to us." Al-Zahar referred to Jews as "<strong>the brothers of apes and pigs,</strong>" while the Hamas television station, Al Aksa, <strong>praises suicide bombing and holy war until Palestine is free of Jewish control</strong>.<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/middleeast/01hamas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/middleeast/01hamas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a> <br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>PETITION: PROTEST AHMADINEJAD'S STATEMENTS</strong></span><br />Please read and consider signing the following <strong><u>petition</u></strong> to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, sponsored by StandWithUs, expressing outrage at Iranian President Ahmadinejad's repeated threats toward Israel: <a href="http://www.standwithus.com/petition/">http://www.standwithus.com/petition/</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">CHARITY: SDEROT CAMPUS CONNECTIONS</span></strong><br />Please consider donating to Sderot Campus Connections, a project of Connections Israel. Situated in the heart of four neighborhoods, Sderot Campus Connections will serve as a meeting place for Jews from around the world while providing a safe community space in which to pray, celebrate and just live life: <a href="http://connectionsisrael.com/get-involved/sderot-campus-connections-build-it-with-us">http://connectionsisrael.com/get-involved/sderot-campus-connections-build-it-with-us</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WEBSITE: ROAD 90</span></strong><br />Check out this website, Road 90, featuring interesting <strong><u>videos</u></strong> about everything Israel: <a href="http://www.road90.com/">http://www.road90.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-55049196136563174362008-08-28T16:24:00.000-04:002008-09-11T18:48:00.556-04:00Israel Update 8/28/08<strong><span style="color:#000099;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br /> - <u>Who Revived the Electric Car?</u>, Tamar Snyder, Jewish Week, 8/6/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a13109/News/New_York.html" target="_blank">http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a13109/News/New_York.html</a><br /> - <u>Betancourt calls for Gilad Shalit's release</u>, Reuters / YNetNews, 7/20/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3570722,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3570722,00.html</a><br /> - <u>Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State</u>, Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, July 2008: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080701faessay87402/walter-russell-mead/the-new-israel-and-the-old.html" target="_blank">http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080701faessay87402/walter-russell-mead/the-new-israel-and-the-old.html</a><br /> - <u>Land without regret</u>, Hillel Halkin, National Post (CA), 5/6/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=494303" target="_blank">http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=494303</a><br /><strong> - Must Read </strong>(short): <u>Five hours at Tel Aviv airport</u>, Nicolien Den Boer, Radio Netherlands, 4/9/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.radionetherlands.nl/specialseries/mideastdiaries/080409-tel-aviv-airport" target="_blank">http://www.radionetherlands.nl/specialseries/mideastdiaries/080409-tel-aviv-airport</a><br /> - <u>At 63, Israeli immigrant solves 38-year-old math riddle</u>, Aaron Heller, USA Today, 3/20/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2008-03-20-road-coloring-problem-solved_N.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2008-03-20-road-coloring-problem-solved_N.htm</a><br /> - <u>A Moral Outrage</u>, Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report, 3/14/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/03/14/a-moral-outrage.html" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/03/14/a-moral-outrage.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: VIRTUAL JERUSALEM</span></strong><br />Take a <strong>virtual</strong> tour of the City of David: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cityofdavid.org.il/hp_eng.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cityofdavid.org.il/hp_eng.asp</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>VIDEO: GAZANS TRAIN FOR WAR</strong><br /></span><strong> Watch</strong> this short CNN <strong>video</strong> about how some Palestinians in Gaza are spending time during this "truce" with Israel: making rockets and training for war --<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=SceCQyymTxR7" target="_blank">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=SceCQyymTxR7</a><br /> - <strong>Watch</strong> also:<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?rpc=401&videoId=88018&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName" target="_blank">http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?rpc=401&videoId=88018&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName</a><br /> - Read <strong>also</strong>: <u>Gaza summer camps teach kids to fire rockets</u>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3575660,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3575660,00.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">VIDEO: WHAT ISRAEL IS REALLY LIKE</span></strong><br />Nice short <strong>video</strong> ad, brought to you by AJC, in honor of Israel @ 60: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.gmmb.com/client_view/AJC/AJC_landing_page/flash/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.gmmb.com/client_view/AJC/AJC_landing_page/flash/index.html</a><br /> - See also this color <strong>flyer</strong>, on the same topic: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7b84DC5887-741E-4056-8D91-A389164BC94E%7d/20080731%20WINNER%20TOMMY%20HUYNH.PDF" target="_blank">http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7b84DC5887-741E-4056-8D91-A389164BC94E%7d/20080731%20WINNER%20TOMMY%20HUYNH.PDF</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>CHARITY: SHALVA </strong><br /></span>Please consider donating to Shalva, an organization that provides comprehensive programs to physically and mentally challenged children in Israel: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.shalva.org/frame.htm" target="_blank">http://www.shalva.org/frame.htm</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: HAMAS SON SPEAKS</span></strong><br />Masab, the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef and a convert to Christianity: "You Jews should be aware: <strong>You will never, but never have peace with Hamas</strong> . . . 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.'" "<strong>Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country</strong>," he says.<br />- <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007097.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007097.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">NEWS: DAILY HEADLINES</span></strong><br />Check here for daily headline news from Israel, in English: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jerusalemonline.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jerusalemonline.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-92185392168367059572008-08-07T11:32:00.004-04:002008-09-11T18:51:42.785-04:00Israel Update 8/7/08<span style="color:#000099;"><strong>QUICK READING LIST</strong><br /></span>- <u>Green giant</u>, Kobi Ben-Sihon, Haaretz, 5/18/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/984030.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/984030.html</a><br />- <u>Israel wins significant EU upgrade</u>, Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, 6/16/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659748504&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659748504&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br />- See <strong>also</strong>: <u>Europe and Israel: Strengthening the Partnership</u>, Nile Gardiner, Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 7/9/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm1984.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm1984.cfm</a><br />- <u>Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda</u>, Andre Oboler, JCPA, 6/26/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jcpa.org/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=376&PID=0&IID=2250&TTL=Google_Earth:_A_New_Platform_for_Anti-Israel_Propaganda_and_Replacement_Geography" target="_blank">http://jcpa.org/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=376&PID=0&IID=2250&TTL=Google_Earth:_A_New_Platform_for_Anti-Israel_Propaganda_and_Replacement_Geography</a><br />- <u>Israeli expertise in ritual helps Africa combat AIDS</u>, Joel Greenberg, Chicago Tribune, 7/8/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-circumcise-08-jul08,0,2114726.story" target="_blank">http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-circumcise-08-jul08,0,2114726.story</a><br />- In honor of the upcoming Olympics: Neal Amdur, NY Times, 7/13/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/sports/olympics/13ladany.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/sports/olympics/13ladany.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">CHARITY: BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO</span></strong><br />Beit Issie Shapiro is a center in Ra'anana, Israel that uses state of the art therapies to make a difference in the lives of children with special needs: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.afobis.org/" target="_blank">http://www.afobis.org/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">WEBSITE FOR STUDENTS</span></strong><br />For students interested in Middle East politics and diplomacy, check out this upcoming conference in Tel Aviv: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mesc.web.officelive.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://mesc.web.officelive.com/default.aspx</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">REACTIONS FROM THE PRISONER SWAP</span></strong><br />- <u>For Israel, prisoner swap evokes raw memories</u>, Aaron Heller, AP, 7/15/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGxpzWERVNq09cHSTuA2GNHHsB3QD91UMDB00" target="_blank">http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGxpzWERVNq09cHSTuA2GNHHsB3QD91UMDB00</a><br />- <u>A strange kind of hero</u>, Editorial, Boston Globe, 7/18/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/07/18/a_strange_kind_of_hero/" target="_blank">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/07/18/a_strange_kind_of_hero/</a><br />- <u>A moment of moral clarity</u>, Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, 7/18/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=d58f760a-55aa-45bf-aa5c-85bcda0cd072" target="_blank">http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=d58f760a-55aa-45bf-aa5c-85bcda0cd072</a><br />- <strong>Watch</strong> also: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6NyrexKlk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6NyrexKlk</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">SPECIAL: ISRAEL IN PICTURES</span></strong><br />See: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://gilad.deviantart.com/gallery/" target="_blank">http://gilad.deviantart.com/gallery/</a> and <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=4QeSDQPDGZ4O" target="_blank">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=4QeSDQPDGZ4O</a> (be patient and enjoy the slideshow!)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: BLAME HAMAS</span></strong><br />These quotes are a little old, but still ring true:<br /><br />Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said militant Palestinians, not Israel, are to blame for deteriorating conditions in the sealed-off Gaza Strip. "<strong>The responsibility for what is happening in Gaza should be put directly on the shoulders of Hamas</strong> . . . It is the policies of Hamas that have led to its own isolation . . . There have been efforts to make certain that humanitarian assistance is getting through," Rice said. "We have worked very diligently with the Israelis," she added. "Of course we're very concerned, but <strong>let's put the blame where it should be, and that's on Hamas</strong>."<br /><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKO6E2Vs5MktD_-DXHsbQ6tnT1-QD8TIRM3O1" target="_blank">http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKO6E2Vs5MktD_-DXHsbQ6tnT1-QD8TIRM3O1</a><br /><br />At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Secretary Rice said, "<strong>We believe that Hamas has acted in a way in Gaza that has made it very difficult for the Palestinians</strong>, the innocent Palestinians who are unfortunate enough to be in Gaza."<br /><br />And White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "<strong>The Palestinians living in Gaza are living under chaos because of Hamas</strong>. The blame has to be placed fully at their feet." <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1388167.php/US_blames_Hamas_for_Gaza_&quotchaos%22__2nd_Roundup_" target="_blank">http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1388167.php/US_blames_Hamas_for_Gaza_&quotchaos%22__2nd_Roundup_</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">GOOD NEWS!</span><br /></strong>- <u>Israeli Economy Weathers Global Storm</u>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080520_712676.htm" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080520_712676.htm</a><br />- <u>Microsoft opens new R&D facility in Israel</u>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/21/microsoft-sets-facility-israel" target="_blank">http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/21/microsoft-sets-facility-israel</a><br />- <u>Tourists Flock to Israel</u>: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080521_370198.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080521_370198.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION: THE 'BIG LIES'</span><br /></strong>Brought to you by Honest Reporting: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/bigLies.asp" target="_blank">http://www.honestreporting.com/a/bigLies.asp</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-76875544874836688512008-07-07T11:20:00.003-04:002008-09-11T11:28:26.987-04:00Israel Update 7/7/08<strong>NEWS FROM THE PAST 2 MONTHS</strong><br />More Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) links:<br /> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZX7WKsn5QE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZX7WKsn5QE</a> (video)<br /> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.aish.com/movies/60Years.asp" target="_blank">http://www.aish.com/movies/60Years.asp</a> (video)<br /> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPHaioopKM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPHaioopKM</a> (video of Barbara Streisand singing HaTikva)<br /> - Shop Israel! Commemorative memorabilia: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.judaicawebstore.com/emails/independencedayspecial.htm" target="_blank">http://www.judaicawebstore.com/emails/independencedayspecial.htm</a><br /> - <u>Israel's 60-Year Test</u>, by Bret Stephens: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121003365007069313.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121003365007069313.html</a><br /> - <u>Israel's Gift To The World</u>, by Alan Dershowitz: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/israel_s_gift_to_the_world_109432.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/israel_s_gift_to_the_world_109432.htm</a><br /> - <u>A Reality Check as Israel Turns 60</u>, Fouad Ajami: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/fajami/2008/05/07/a-reality-check-as-israel-turns-60.html" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/fajami/2008/05/07/a-reality-check-as-israel-turns-60.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) video links:<br /></strong> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XkzTPhQvo&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XkzTPhQvo&feature=related</a> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4yKn0vkmRQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4yKn0vkmRQ</a> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-SfbPmQjw&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-SfbPmQjw&feature=related</a> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wahd2piIr4Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wahd2piIr4Q</a><br /><br /><strong>Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day):</strong><br /> - Interesting and powerful video: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.aish.com/movies/jerusalem.asp" target="_blank">http://www.aish.com/movies/jerusalem.asp</a><br />I'd love to know your thoughts!<br /><br /><strong>CURRENT EVENTS</strong><br /><strong>Israeli Humanitarianism</strong>:<br /> - Israeli rescue teams in Myanmar (video): <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnpjDN9hmZs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnpjDN9hmZs</a><br /> - See also: Israel sends humanitarian aid to Chinese earthquake victims: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2008/Israel+sends+aid+to+Chinese+earthquake+victims+25-May-2008.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2008/Israel+sends+aid+to+Chinese+earthquake+victims+25-May-2008.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>Gilad Shalit</strong>:<br />2 years have passed since Palestinian terrorists from Gaza kidnapped Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was 19 years old at the time. Watch this video of American 11-year-olds reading the story about peace that Gilad wrote when he was just 11: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rb_SmjUKc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rb_SmjUKc</a><br /><br /><strong>Current News</strong>:<br /> - <u>Israel Agrees to Exchange Prisoners for Dead Soldiers</u>, Ethan Bronner, NY Times: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a><br /> - See also: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-morris1-2008jul01,0,2976963.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-morris1-2008jul01,0,2976963.story</a><br /> - <u>Intel inaugurates Israeli chip-making plant</u>, Ori Lewis, Reuters: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKL0172265220080701" target="_blank">http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKL0172265220080701</a><br /> - <u>Palestinian terrorism as a natural act</u>, Bradley Burston, Haaretz: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998354.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998354.html</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>OTHER ARTICLES<br /></strong> - <u>Israel's bond rating raised</u>, Forbes.com, 4/18/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/17/afx4905383.html" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/17/afx4905383.html</a><br /><br /> - <u>Israel is Now America's Closest Ally</u>, Michael Oren, Wall Street Journal, 5/7/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121011902390872015.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121011902390872015.html</a><br /><br /> - <u>Sierra Leone: Israel Boost to Agriculture, Tourism</u>, Abdul Karim, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), 5/13/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200805130680.html" target="_blank">http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200805130680.html</a><br /><br /> - <u>Palestinian victims of Hamas swear revenge</u>, Martin Chulov, The Australian, 5/17/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23710388-15084,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23710388-15084,00.html</a><br /><br /> - <u>The paradoxes of life in Israel</u>, Yossi Klein Halevi, Jerusalem Post, 5/20/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211288129459&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211288129459&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br /><br /> - <u>People vs. Dinosaurs</u>, Thomas Friedman, NY Times, 6/8/08: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&ex=1213761600&en=f12cbccc39e33839&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&ex=1213761600&en=f12cbccc39e33839&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin</a><br /><br /> - <u>Recognising the Jewish 'Nakba'</u>, Lyn Julius, Guardian (UK), 6/25/08: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/25/middleeast.middleeastthemedia">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/25/middleeast.middleeastthemedia</a> <br /> - See also: The Forgotten Refugees: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>QUOTE OF THE DAY: "THE INTIFADA HAS FAILED"<br /></strong>Zakariya Zubeidi, until not long ago the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin: "Look, it's perfectly clear to me that we won't be able to defeat Israel . . . Back in [Yasser Arafat's] day, we had a plan, there was a strategy, and we would carry his orders . . . Everything that was done in the intifada was done according to Arafat's instructions, but he didn't need to tell us the things explicitly. We understood his message . . . Today I can say explicitly: We failed entirely in the intifada. We haven't seen any benefit or positive result from it. We achieved nothing. It's a crushing failure."<br /> - <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/971604.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/971604.html</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>PHOTOS: DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY ROCKETS<br /></strong> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4125811/" target="_blank">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4125811/</a><br /> - See also: <u>The Assault on Israel's Right to Self-Defense</u>, Abraham Bell: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=2021&TTL=International_Law_and_Gaza:_The_Assault_on_Israel" target="_blank">http://jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=2021&TTL=International_Law_and_Gaza:_The_Assault_on_Israel's_Right_to_Self-Defense</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-4676652879558090292008-05-02T11:46:00.003-04:002008-09-11T11:51:10.714-04:00Israel Update 5/2/08This is a season of contradictory feelings for those who care about Israel. We recently commemorated Yom Ha’Shoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – and next week we will commemorate Yom Ha’Zikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day. As solemn and mournful as those days can be, Memorial Day in Israel is followed immediately by Yom Ha’Atzmaut – Israel’s Independence Day – a day of rejoicing that reminds us of the blessing and the hope that is the modern State of Israel. This Thursday, on Israel’s 60th birthday, I encourage everyone to do something to celebrate: hang a flag on your window, watch an Israeli movie, listen to Israeli music!<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br /> - <u>Desalinated water grows a city in Israel's desert</u>, Margaret Coker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/6/08: <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/05/iswater.html">http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/05/iswater.html</a><br /> - <u>Puppet child on Hamas TV "kills" US President Bush in revenge</u>, AP / IHT, 3/31/08: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/31/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Bush.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/31/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Bush.php</a> (View a link to the video clip at the end of the article)<br /> - <u>Rights Council hears from Jewish refugee</u>, Paul Lungen, Canadian Jewish News, 3/27/08: <a href="http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14325&Itemid=86">http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14325&Itemid=86</a><br /> - See also: The Forgotten Refugees: <a href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a><br /> - <u>The Care and Feeding of an Angry Territory</u>, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 3/7/08: <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjNkNTE1YzFiZGY5YmY4YTNkZmVlYzFjZDUwYWRmY2M">http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjNkNTE1YzFiZGY5YmY4YTNkZmVlYzFjZDUwYWRmY2M</a>=<br /> - <u>Living in the most heavily bombed place in the world</u>, Phillip Jacobson, Daily Mail (UK), 2/15/08: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?in_article_id=514681&in_page_id=1889">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?in_article_id=514681&in_page_id=1889</a><br />“Because of its proximity to the border and the concentration of Hamas-led amateur bomb-makers on the other side, Sderot has a unique civic claim: on a rocket-per-head-of-population basis, it is the most targeted town in Israel, indeed the world.”<br /> - <u>A conversation with Israel’s legendary startup guru</u>, Stacy Perman, Business Week, 1/2/08: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb2008012_744161.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+small+business+stories">http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb2008012_744161.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+small+business+stories</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>IN HONOR OF ISRAEL’S 60TH BIRTHDAY</strong></span><br /> - Sign Hillel’s birthday card for Israel: <a href="http://www.hillel.org/israel/israel60/default">http://www.hillel.org/israel/israel60/default</a><br /> - Israel@60: <a href="http://standwithuscampus.com/?page_id=135">http://standwithuscampus.com/?page_id=135</a><br /> - Israel at Sixty: <a href="http://www.60israel.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Focus+Areas/60Israel">http://www.60israel.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Focus+Areas/60Israel</a><br /> - <u>Israel at 60</u>, by Yossi Klein Halevi: <a href="http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/Israel_at_60.asp">http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/Israel_at_60.asp</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>QUOTE OF THE DAY: SOME ISRAELI ACHIEVEMENTS<br /></strong></span>“The country is so much more than the narrow lens that we see through the media…Israeli engineers are on the cutting edge of solar energy technology…In a medical breakthrough, a pill taken internally and containing a tiny camera allows Houston-area doctors to make a diagnosis with visual information and data... Scientists from Israel and Jordan are learning to transplant coral in the Red Sea into artificial reefs to save it from destruction…An Israeli-developed system for generating rain in desert regions has interested Texas officials who hope that it can be useful to increase agricultural production in Texan deserts.”<br />- <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5639801.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5639801.html</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>VIDEO: TERROR ON THE WEB</strong></span><br /><strong>Watch</strong> this interesting short video clip, exposing how the Hamas and Hezbollah terror organization spread their hateful messages on the internet: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTP6DkwhsM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTP6DkwhsM</a><br /> - See also: <a href="http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm#b280507">http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm#b280507</a>, with links to Hamas <strong>TV clips</strong> on YouTube<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>RESOURCE: HUMANITARIAN AND INTERNATIONAL AID</strong></span><br />View these links, highlighting Israel’s humanitarian and international aid to developing countries and those in need: <a href="http://standwithuscampus.com/?page_id=132">http://standwithuscampus.com/?page_id=132</a> and <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5161913">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5161913</a> <br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">2ND QUOTE: PALESTINIANS’ MISSED OPPORTUNITIES</span></strong><br />This one is particularly apropos this month:<br /><br />Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, comes to the painful acknowledgment of an opportunity missed. Looking back to the U.N. partition plan of 1947, which envisaged Jewish and Palestinian states living side by side in peace, he laments: "After 60 years, we are struggling for what we could have had in 1947. We have missed many historic opportunities."<br />- <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/africa/ME-FEA-GEN-Palestinian-Old-Guard.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/africa/ME-FEA-GEN-Palestinian-Old-Guard.php</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-49630032075508268202008-04-17T12:11:00.002-04:002008-09-11T12:17:14.768-04:00Israel Update 4/17/08<span style="color:#000099;"><strong>QUICK READING LIST<br /></strong></span> - <u>Palestinian children from Gaza undergo heart surgery in Israeli hospital</u>, AP/International Herald Tribune, 3/12/08: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/12/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Palestinian-Surgery.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/12/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Palestinian-Surgery.php</a><br /> - See: <strong>Save a Child’s Heart</strong>: <a href="http://www.saveachildsheart.com/">http://www.saveachildsheart.com/</a><br /> - <u>At the Zenith of Solar Energy</u>, Neal Sandler, Business Week, 3/26/08: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2008/gb20080326_485582.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2008/gb20080326_485582.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies</a><br /> - <u>The end of the ‘guilty Israeli’</u>, Yossi Klein Halevi, LA Times, 3/2/08: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-halevi2mar02,0,7671220.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-halevi2mar02,0,7671220.story</a><br /> - <u>Collective Punishment and Newspeak</u>, Michael Krauss, American Thinker, 2/24/08: <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/collective_punishment_and_news.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/collective_punishment_and_news.html</a><br /> - <u>Gaza buried in flour</u>, Martin Kramer, 1/28/08: <a href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_buried_in_flour.htm">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_buried_in_flour.htm</a><br /> - <u>The town that measures life in 15-second intervals</u>, Mary Dejevsky, The Independent (UK), 1/25/08: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mary-dejevsky-the-town-that-measures-life-in-15second-intervals-773885.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mary-dejevsky-the-town-that-measures-life-in-15second-intervals-773885.html</a><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">PRAYER FOR PASSOVER</span></strong><br />At the Passover Seder we celebrate freedom. This year, let us remember those who are not free to celebrate the holiday with their families and friends. Download this prayer for the health and well-being of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers:<br /><a href="http://www.freethesoldiers.org/local_includes/downloads/18388.pdf">http://www.freethesoldiers.org/local_includes/downloads/18388.pdf</a><br /><br /> <br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>CHARITY FOR PASSOVER: MEIR PANIM</strong></span><br />Please consider donating to Meir Panim, which helps feed the needy in Israel: <a href="https://www.meirpanim.org/donation_e.php?occasion=pesach&file=pesach">https://www.meirpanim.org/donation_e.php?occasion=pesach&file=pesach</a><br /> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: A HEALTHY ISRAEL</span></strong><br />Israel enjoys one of the fastest growing emerging markets in the world. Israel's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth is robust . . . Israel leads the world in research and development spending as a proportion of GDP. The country hosts the greatest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the US and Canada. It is home to Teva, the world's largest maker of generic drugs, to telecommunications software firms like Amdocs, to world-class biotech research at the Technion and to Intel's advanced chip production facilities. Silicon Wadi, in fact, is the world's second most important technology cluster. In 2007, venture-capital firms invested $1.76 billion here. Export earnings are up. Tourism is up. So are property prices. Just this month, Forbes magazine rated Israel as the world's most "up-and-coming" real-estate market. Last year Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).<br /><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649985233&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649985233&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><br /><br /> <br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>ACTION: PETITION</strong></span><br />Please read and consider signing the following petition, which condemns the words of UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, who recently legitimized Palestinian acts of terror against Israelis as being “against occupation” and “in the course of a war of national liberation”: <a href="http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_5-end-SignPetition.htm">http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_5-end-SignPetition.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: WOMEN IN ISRAEL</span></strong><br />Learn more about women’s rights in Israel and the status of women in all facets of Israeli life: <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5134255">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5134255</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>JULY TRIP TO ISRAEL: JUMPSTART</strong></span><br />Support Israel with your presence! Here is one among the many possible summer trips to Israel: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21660376664">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21660376664</a><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">VIDEO: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE PA</span></strong><br />Take a look at this short video clip regarding human rights abuses in the Palestinian Authority: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/27/wedeman.mideast.human.rights.abuses.cnn">http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/27/wedeman.mideast.human.rights.abuses.cnn</a><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">YOM HA’SHOAH: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY</span></strong><br /> In honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day, not to be confused with Holocaust Memorial Day), which will be on May 2: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120147388696520647.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120147388696520647.html</a><br /> - <strong>View</strong> also: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfv3jsLGzL0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfv3jsLGzL0</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-11637444379115702082008-03-31T14:33:00.001-04:002008-09-11T14:53:46.747-04:00Israel Update 3/31/08<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br /> - <u>Israel’s true friends</u>, Representatives Artur Davis and Eric Cantor, LA Times, 1/12/08: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/web/la-oew-cantor12jan12,1,4577405.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/web/la-oew-cantor12jan12,1,4577405.story</a><br /> - <u>Israel is embracing the electric car on a wide scale</u>, Steven Erlanger, International Herald Tribune, 1/21/08: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/21/business/cars.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/21/business/cars.php</a><br /> - <strong>Watch</strong> also: <a href="http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials18.asp">http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials18.asp</a><br /> - <u>A barrage against Israel</u>, Robin Shepherd, Times (UK), 1/29/08:<br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3278541.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3278541.ece</a><br />“The critics [of Israel] had another field day yesterday. But their arguments are dishonest.”<br /> - <u>Sderot, the Israeli town under rocket attack</u>, Carolynne Wheeler, Telegraph (UK), 2/3/08: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wisrael201.xml">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wisrael201.xml</a><br /> - <strong>Watch</strong> also: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GfvBGzMZcE8" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/watch?v=GfvBGzMZcE8</a> <strong>and</strong> <br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRynuIDWQw&NR=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRynuIDWQw&NR=1</a> (a bit old but informative)<br /> - <u>Welcoming the world’s ills</u>, Ronny Linder-Ganz, Haaretz, 2/14/08: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952294.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952294.html</a><br />A five-year-old boy from a village in Kazakhstan, diagnosed with a severe blood disease, came to Israel for a bone marrow transplant at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. A year later he returned to the village, healthy and speaking fluent Hebrew.<br /> - <u>Morbid Celebrations</u>, Jonathan Schanzer, Weekly Standard, 3/10/08: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/860nntcv.asp">http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/860nntcv.asp</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>ACTION ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES<br /></strong></span> The House of Representatives will vote this week on a bill (H.Res.185) addressing the issue of Jewish refugees from Muslim countries. The legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), states in part that "any resolutions relating to the issue of Middle East refugees, and which include a reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue, must also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish, Christian, and other refugees from Arab countries." Please <a href="https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml" target="_blank">contact your Representatives</a> to express your support for H.Res.185: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=151&JServSessionIdr004=t23kd9ycy1.app13b" target="_blank">https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=151&JServSessionIdr004=t23kd9ycy1.app13b</a><br /> - For more info on the "forgotten" Jewish refugees, <strong>see</strong>: <a href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a> <br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>TRIPS TO ISRAEL</strong></span><br /> For those who have been on a Birthright Israel trip, or who have never been to Israel at all, check out: <a href="http://jeconline.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=32">http://jeconline.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=32</a><br /> - <strong>See</strong> here for other programs in Israel: <a href="http://www.israelprograms.org/JewishAgency/English/Aliyah/Israel+Programs">http://www.israelprograms.org/JewishAgency/English/Aliyah/Israel+Programs</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: TOO MUCH BLAME ON ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> European commissioner for Justice Freedom and Security, Frano Frattini, criticized the incessant Qassam rocket fire on <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284752,00.html" target="_blank">Israeli </a>civilian population centers. . . . “There has been a large misunderstanding in recent years between Europe and Israel. And Israel is justified in its concerns. For too long, Europe has put too much blame on Israel for lack of peace with the Palestinians. We, as Europeans, should have understood Israel's concerns sooner.”<br /><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3497543,00.html">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3497543,00.html</a><br /><br /> Likewise, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said that the singling out of Israel for criticism in international forums was unfair. "It is not acceptable to focus on Israel time after time, while other countries like Sudan do not receive any reference whatsoever at the United Nations Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly in New York," Verhagen said in an interview.<br /><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/947090.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/947090.html</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT: UN-WATCH</strong></span><br /> Click here for a <strong>video</strong> and transcript of Hillel Neuer’s testimony at the UN, in which he gives an impassioned case against moral inversion: <a href="http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=4972179">http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=4972179</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>CHARITY: HELPING DISABLED ISRAELI CHILDREN</strong></span><br /> In the spirit of giving charity on the holiday of Purim (last week), please consider donating to this charity, ALEH, Israel's largest and most advanced network of residential facilities for children with severe disabilities: <a href="http://www.aleh.org/index.asp">http://www.aleh.org/index.asp</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: TEACHING KIDS HATE</span></strong><br /> Take a look this report (with <strong>pictures</strong>) on the Palestinian ‘hate industry,’ where children are encouraged to kiss the corpses of terrorist “martyrs”: <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/eng/eng_n/hi_231207e.htm">http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/eng/eng_n/hi_231207e.htm</a> <br /> - In <strong>contrast</strong>, see the “<u>Teach Kids Peace</u>” campaign: <a href="http://www.teachkidspeace.org/">http://www.teachkidspeace.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-8333352318009878582008-03-16T14:33:00.002-04:002008-09-11T15:18:13.281-04:00Israel Update 3/16/08<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">QUICK READING LIST<br /></span></strong> - <u>Israel’s Winemaking Revolution</u>, Stacy Perman, Business Week, 1/16/08: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb20080116_186026.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+small+business+stories">http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb20080116_186026.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+small+business+stories</a><br /> - <u>Gazan hearts saved in Israel as conflict rages on</u>, ReliefWeb, 1/17/08: <a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-7B2R9Z?OpenDocument">http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-7B2R9Z?OpenDocument</a><br /> - See also: <strong>Save a Child’s Heart</strong>: <a href="http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html">http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html</a><br /> - <u>U.N. could take lessons from Rambo</u>, Bridget Johnson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/29/08: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/349190_johnsonnline30.html">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/349190_johnsonnline30.html</a><br /> - <u>Rocketing Towards War</u>, Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 2/19/08: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021801539.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021801539.html</a><br />“In <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Europe?tid=informline">Europe</a> and elsewhere, where activists are just plain dizzy from their own moral virtue, Israel is denounced for inflicting suffering on Gaza. But the protesters say nothing about the Qassams raining from the sky -- sometimes as many as 40 a day.”<br /> - <strong>See</strong> also: <u>The Sderot Calculus</u>: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120398961080492299.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120398961080492299.html</a><br /> - <u>France Eyes New Israeli Ties</u>, Jamey Keaten, AP, 3/11/08: <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0oWxr9M6MoGVDkADL6DscuS1lAAD8VBC5M00">http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0oWxr9M6MoGVDkADL6DscuS1lAAD8VBC5M00</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">NEWS: MASSACRE AT JERUSALEM YESHIVA</span></strong><br /> Last week, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem entered a Jewish school of religious education and murdered 8 students while they studied Bible in the library. Watch this moving, but graphic, <strong>video</strong>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4O0WSvevs&eurl=http://apps.facebook.com/superwall/view.php?src=se&id=803149936&owner_id=121729">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4O0WSvevs&eurl=http://apps.facebook.com/superwall/view.php?src=se&id=803149936&owner_id=121729</a><br /> - Contrast that one with this <strong>video</strong> of Palestinians celebrating the massacre: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxPUzEBWDU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxPUzEBWDU</a>. Even if you don’t understand Hebrew, the images of thousands of Palestinians cheering, handing out candy, and flashing victory signs should be repulse you.<br /> - (See also: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546440616&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546440616&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3516031,00.html"></a>)<br /> <br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">SUPPORT THE TROOPS: SEND GIFTS</span></strong><br /> In honor of the upcoming Purim holiday, send “mishloach manot” gift packages to Israeli soldiers! Learn more: <a href="http://www.myownisrael.com/manot.php">http://www.myownisrael.com/manot.php</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: REJECTING JEWISH SOVEREIGNTY</span></strong><br /> PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed Rabbo: "<strong>It is only a Zionist party that deals with Israel as a Jewish state, and we did not request to be a member of the international Zionism movement</strong>."<br /> Veteran Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinians would never formally recognize Israel as the Jewish state: "Israel can define itself however it sees fit; and if it wishes to call itself a Jewish state, so be it. <strong>But the Palestinians will never acknowledge Israel's Jewish identity</strong>."<br /><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195036610009&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195036610009&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</a><br /> Erekat stated further: "<strong>There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined</strong>.”<br /><a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/12344.htm">http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/12344.htm</a><br /><br />Really? How about England, where Queen Elizabeth “is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and ... she appoints archbishops, bishops and deans of cathedrals on the advice of the Prime Minister"? (<a href="http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/cofeorg/">http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/cofeorg/</a>)<br />How about the Basic Law in Erekat’s own Palestinian Authority? Article 4 bluntly states: “Islam is the official religion in Palestine.” <a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/palestbasic.htm">http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/palestbasic.htm</a><br />(Credit to Daniel Gordis for these sources: <a href="http://www.danielgordis.org/Site/Site_Dispatches.asp">http://www.danielgordis.org/Site/Site_Dispatches.asp</a>)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">WEBSITE: PANORAMIC ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> Click on this link to view some unbelievable panoramic views of Jerusalem: <a title="blocked::http://www.israguide.com/panoramic.asp http://www.israguide.com/panoramic.asp" href="http://www.israguide.com/panoramic.asp" target="_blank">http://www.israguide.com/panoramic.asp</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: LEGALITY OF ISRAEL’S ACTIONS</span></strong><br /> Read this background paper on the legality, under international principles, of Israel’s self-defense actions in responding to Palestinian rocket-fire: <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/A1D75D9F-ED9E-4203-A024-AF8398997029/0/GazaProportionality.pdf">http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/A1D75D9F-ED9E-4203-A024-AF8398997029/0/GazaProportionality.pdf</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Special_Report_Gaza_-_Israel_Responds_to_Hamass_Escalation.asp">http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Special_Report_Gaza_-_Israel_Responds_to_Hamass_Escalation.asp</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-39440181530669648852008-03-02T16:30:00.002-05:002008-09-11T16:38:02.977-04:00Israel Update 3/2/08<span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>QUICK READING LIST</strong></span><br /> - <u>India: Reach out to Israel</u>, Ramesh Thakur, Times (India), 12/13/07: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reach_out_to_Israel/articleshow/2617931.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reach_out_to_Israel/articleshow/2617931.cms</a><br /> - <u>At Gaza’s Edge, Israelis Fear Rockets’ Whine</u>, Steven Erlanger, NY Times, 1/9/08: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/world/middleeast/09israel.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=gaza&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/world/middleeast/09israel.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=gaza&oref=slogin&oref=slogin</a><br /> - <strong>View</strong> also this <strong>video</strong> report of how Palestinian terrorists in Gaza use ‘Google Earth’ to launch rockets at Israeli targets: <a href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=WHxGEWMGoK3k">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=WHxGEWMGoK3k</a><br /> - <u>Deep inside the plucky country</u>, Gerg Sheridan, The Australian, 1/19/08: <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23072242-7583,00.html">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23072242-7583,00.html</a><br />“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.”<br /> - <u>Israeli duo of Ram, Erlich win Australian Open doubles title</u>, Rami Hipsh, Haaretz, 1/26/08: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948247.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948247.html</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <u>Israel's tennis player Peer makes history in Gulf</u>: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080217/sp_wl_afp/tenniswtaqatisrpeeroly2016">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080217/sp_wl_afp/tenniswtaqatisrpeeroly2016</a><br /> - <u>Israel isn't to blame for chaos around Egypt's wall</u>, Jonathan Gurwitz, San Antonio Express-News, 2/5/08: <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA020608.02O.gurwitz.25d44c7.html">http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA020608.02O.gurwitz.25d44c7.html</a><br /> - <u>Palestinian Christians live in constant fear</u>, Father Raymond De Souza, National Post (Canada), 2/19/08: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=317540">http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=317540</a><br />“The problem is not [the Palestinian Christians’] behaviour but, in the eyes of the violent Islamist jihadists, their very presence.”<br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <u>Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society</u>: <a href="http://jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm">http://jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">ACTION ALERT: CONDEMN ROCKET ATTACKS ON ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> 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: <a href="http://www.aipac.org/694.asp#8609">http://www.aipac.org/694.asp#8609</a> (click on the “Email your Representative” link)<br /> - For more info on the rocket attacks, <strong>see</strong>: <a href="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">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</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">PHOTO ESSAY: ISRAEL COVERED IN SNOW</span></strong><br /> Beautiful <strong>pictures</strong> of the Holy Land covered in snow: <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125106">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125106</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUOTE OF THE DAY: IRAN’S FEELINGS ABOUT ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> Unsurprisingly, they are not very fuzzy:<br />Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the West to acknowledge Israel's “<strong>imminent collapse</strong>.” Ahmadinejad further incited his listeners to “stop supporting the Zionists, as [their] regime reached its final stage . . . <strong>Accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end</strong>.”<br /><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/949628.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/949628.html</a><br /><br />Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: "In the near future, <strong>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</strong>.”<br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/wl_mideast_afp/iranisraelpoliticssyrialebanon_080218115101">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/wl_mideast_afp/iranisraelpoliticssyrialebanon_080218115101</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">WEBSITE: ISRAEL AT 60<br /></span></strong> This May, Israel will be celebrating its 60th birthday! Check out this great website for fascinating <strong>facts</strong> (<em>did you know Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world</em>?), great <strong>videos</strong>, and <strong>more</strong>: <a href="http://www.israelcelebrates60.com/">http://www.israelcelebrates60.com/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">VIDEO: HAMAS BUNNY THREATENS DENMARK</span></strong><br /> After newspapers in Denmark recently re-published cartoons of Mohammad, a rabbit on a Hamas children’s television program in Gaza threatened to <strong>kill Danes, bite them, and eat them up</strong> (see 3 minutes, 30 seconds in): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0U2ce-LmA4&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0U2ce-LmA4&feature=related</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-38886940268291262352008-02-14T16:45:00.002-05:002008-09-11T17:01:09.493-04:00Israel Update 2/14/08February 1 marked the 5-year anniversary of the Columbia Space Shuttle crash in which Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, was tragically killed. <strong><span style="color:#000099;">In memory of Ilan Ramon</span></strong>: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/818760.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/818760.html</a>.<br /><br />This week also saw the death of Representative Tom Lantos of California, a Holocaust survivor, a staunch supporter of the State of Israel, and a hero. <span style="color:#000066;"><strong>In honor of the life of Tom Lantos</strong></span>: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742150570&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742150570&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a>.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST</span></strong><br /> - <u>Another day, another bombardment</u>, Tobias Buck, Financial Times (UK), 12/7/07:<br /><a href="http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=another+bombardment&aje=true&id=071207000004&ct=0&nclick_check=1" target="_blank">http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=another+bombardment&aje=true&id=071207000004&ct=0&nclick_check=1</a><br /> - View <strong>also</strong> the report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center about the rocket threat from Gaza 2000-2007 (scroll down and also click on the link to the short <strong>video</strong> at the bottom): <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/eng/eng_n/rocket_threat_e.htm" target="_blank">http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/eng/eng_n/rocket_threat_e.htm#</a><br /> - Also, take a look at this <strong>photo gallery</strong> of terrorists from the Islamic Jihad group making rockets in Gaza: <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,28471,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,28471,00.html</a><br /> - <u>Israel gets rare UN approval for farm resolution</u>, Patrick Worsnip, Reuters, 12/11/07: <a href="http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN11501976.html" target="_blank">http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN11501976.html</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <a href="http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1882&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Democracy" target="_blank">http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1882&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Democracy</a><br /> - <u>Baby Steps</u>, Dennis Ross, New Republic/Washington Institute, 1/8/08: <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1119" target="_blank">http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1119</a><br /> - <u>More propaganda from the Los Angeles Times</u>, Alex Safian, CAMERA, 1/17/08: <a href="http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=33&x_article=1417">http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=33&x_article=1417</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/" target="_blank">http://www.honestreporting.com/</a><br /> - <u>Breach in Gaza – Hamas blockades the peace process</u>, Editorial, Washington Post, 1/24/08: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303327.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303327.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">NEWS: TERROR IN DIMONA</span></strong><br /> - Click here to view a <strong>photo</strong> of a Palestinian boy handing out sweets to celebrate a suicide bomber who killed at least one Israeli woman and wounded scores of others in the Israeli city Dimona: <a href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=yBQkyNqToAZS">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=yBQkyNqToAZS</a> and<br /><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/951034.html" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/951034.html</a><br /> - And watch this dramatic <strong>video</strong> of the heroic Israeli policeman who shot dead a second terrorist, wearing an explosives belt, before he had time to detonate the bomb: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7220000/newsid_7226300/7226313.stm?%3Cbr%20/%3Ebw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7220000/newsid_7226300/7226313.stm?%3Cbr%20/%3Ebw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">ACTION ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES<br /></span></strong> A bill (H.Res.185) addressing the issue of Jewish refugees from Muslim countries is being addressed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), states in part that "<em>any resolutions relating to the issue of Middle East refugees, and which include a reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue, must also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish, Christian, and other refugees from Arab countries</em>." Please <a href="https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml" target="_blank">contact your Representatives</a> to express your support for H.Res.185: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=151&JServSessionIdr004=t23kd9ycy1.app13b" target="_blank">https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=151&JServSessionIdr004=t23kd9ycy1.app13b</a><br /> - For more info on the "forgotten" Jewish refugees, <strong>see</strong>: <a href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a> <br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">RESOURCE: PROGRAMS IN ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> It's not too early to be thinking about your summer plans! Check out these websites for some long- and short-term programs in Israel:<br /> - <a href="http://www.israelprograms.org/JewishAgency/English/Aliyah/Israel+Programs">http://www.israelprograms.org/JewishAgency/English/Aliyah/Israel+Programs</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.lifeinisrael.org/" target="_blank">http://www.lifeinisrael.org/</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.wzo.org.il/en/programs/most_popular.asp" target="_blank">http://www.wzo.org.il/en/programs/most_popular.asp</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.destinationisrael.com/works_internships.asp" target="_blank">http://www.destinationisrael.com/works_internships.asp</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.birthrightisrael.com/site/PageServer" target="_blank">http://www.birthrightisrael.com/site/PageServer</a><br /><br /> And keep in mind that 2007 marked the best year ever in terms of American tourism to Israel: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-01-23-american-tourism-to-israel_N.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-01-23-american-tourism-to-israel_N.htm</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">STATE OF AFFAIRS IN GAZA<br /></span></strong> - Palestinian terrorists <strong>vandalize American school</strong> in Gaza (<strong>video</strong>): <a href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=SqDXLwbBaxNv" target="_blank">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=SqDXLwbBaxNv</a><br /> - And as if that wasn't enough, elsewhere in Gaza terrorists take advantage of humanitarian aid packages to <strong>smuggle explosives</strong> into the area: <a href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=fBz0nk3P5Fm7" target="_blank">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=fBz0nk3P5Fm7</a><br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL297764020071229" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL297764020071229</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944592.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944592.html</a><br /> - <strong>Also</strong>, check out this report about the media's<strong> misrepresentations</strong> about what is happening in Gaza: <a href="http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=iv4mIci56xEU" target="_blank">http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=iv4mIci56xEU</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">VIDEO COMPETITION</span></strong><br />Through Feb 29: MyIsrael <strong>video</strong> competition. See: <a href="http://my.israel.org/" target="_blank">http://my.israel.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-73249325138993796652008-01-23T17:22:00.002-05:002008-09-11T17:28:34.055-04:00Israel Update 1/23/08In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this week, let us recall that Dr. King was a stalwart supporter of the Jewish state and wrote that “Israel’s right to exist as a state is incontestable.” <strong>See</strong> <a href="http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=415">http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=415</a> <strong>and</strong> <a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/METRO02/801080356/1409/METRO">http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/METRO02/801080356/1409/METRO#</a>. <br /> - And take a look at this nifty <strong>flier</strong>: <a href="http://www.bluestarpr.com/docs/mlk1.pdf">http://www.bluestarpr.com/docs/mlk1.pdf</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">QUICK READING LIST<br /></span></strong> - <u>Leaving home for the homeland</u>, Rory McCarthy, Guardian (UK), 11/24/07: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2216069,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2216069,00.html</a><br /> - See <strong>also</strong>: <a href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a><br /> - <u>A Time to Kill, And a Time to Heal</u>, Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post, 11/25/07: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112401509.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112401509.html</a><br /> - <u>What about the record?</u>, Diana West, Washington Times, 12/21/07: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071221/EDITORIAL04/615858635/1013/editorial">http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071221/EDITORIAL04/615858635/1013/editorial</a><br /> - <u>Bush’s Mideast Muddle</u>, Michael Oren, Wall Street Journal, 1/9/08: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119984146243176521.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119984146243176521.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">ACTION ALERT: ADS AT ‘MS.’ MAGAZINE</span></strong><br /> - Ms. Magazine has turned down an advertisement calling attention to women who currently occupy three of the most significant positions of power in all three branches of the Israeli government. Their reason? The ad “will set off a firestorm” and that “there are very strong opinions” on the subject. See more here, and tell the Ms. editors your thoughts:<br /><a href="https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?s_oo=iET6e1kNSObQ-ZPggh-qrg..&id=148">https://secure2.convio.net/ajc/site/Advocacy?s_oo=iET6e1kNSObQ-ZPggh-qrg..&id=148</a><br /> - <strong>Also</strong>, view prominent Jewish feminists speaking out about this controversy (<strong>video</strong>): <a href="http://youtube.com/profile?user=AJCongress">http://youtube.com/profile?user=AJCongress</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">NEWS: NASDAQ-TEL AVIV STOCK EXCHANGES</span></strong><br /> - Read about the new partnership between NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv stock exchanges: <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/banking/10391583.html">http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/banking/10391583.html</a><br /> - View <strong>also</strong> (<strong>video</strong>): <a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&fg=rss&vid=252bd8c2-8c58-4a18-b3e8-97942b163243&from=34">http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&fg=rss&vid=252bd8c2-8c58-4a18-b3e8-97942b163243&from=34</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">BAD REPORTING: ISRAEL’S ACTIONS IN GAZA</span></strong><br /> - Many media outlets fail to add significant context to their reporting on Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, meant to eradicate the area of terrorists who have launched daily rocket barrages at Israel: <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/A_Barrage_of_Bad_Reporting.asp">http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/A_Barrage_of_Bad_Reporting.asp</a><br /> - For more on this situation, click here to view a <strong>short video</strong> from EuroNews (UK) showing the human side of the toll that daily rockets have taken on residents of the Israeli town Sderot: <a href="http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=mediterraneans&article=455347&lng=1">http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=mediterraneans&article=455347&lng=1#</a><br /> - Read <strong>also</strong>: <u>Palestinian rocket lands next to Israeli day care center</u>, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/03/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Babies-Rocketed.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/03/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Babies-Rocketed.php</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">PASSAGE OF THE DAY: THE TRUE ISRAEL</span></strong><br />We all know the Israel of wars, oppression, and precarious security, but what about Israel of the humming <strong>economy</strong> with 90 Israel-related companies on <strong>NASDAQ</strong>? What about <strong>Israeli films</strong> garnishing honors around the world: "Jellyfish" and "The Band's Visit" at Cannes, "Beaufort" in Berlin, "My Father My Lord" in Tribeca, "Sweet Mud" at Sundance, and "Aviva, My Love" in Shanghai? What of <strong>Israeli solar power</strong> in California that has been saving 2 million barrels of oil annually for nearly 20 years? What of Arava Valley <strong>high-tech agriculture</strong>, with exports exceeding $100 million? Natafim, the <strong>drip irrigation system</strong> patented by Kibbutz Hatzerim, is now a multinational conglomerate selling millions of systems throughout the world. What of the Israel that is <strong>taking in Darfur refugees</strong>, and what of the first Israeli-initiated UN resolution, calling upon countries to share <strong>agricultural technology with developing countries</strong>, adopted overwhelmingly this month? It's this other Israel that's underreported.<br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/29/the_overlooked_issues_of_2007/">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/29/the_overlooked_issues_of_2007/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077903747452063740.post-87619934367596430072008-01-09T18:28:00.002-05:002008-09-11T18:43:31.371-04:00Israel Update 1/9/08<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">QUICK READING LIST<br /></span></strong> - <u>Persona non grata in Gaza</u>, Conal Urquhart, Guardian (UK), 10/22/07: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2196828,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2196828,00.html</a><br /> - <u>Engaging the enemy</u>, David Feith and Andrew Steinberg, National Review, 10/24/07: <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MjMyZjUwYTE1ZjQxMzdmNmU4NWZjZDk1MDM5ODlkMzI">http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MjMyZjUwYTE1ZjQxMzdmNmU4NWZjZDk1MDM5ODlkMzI</a>=<br /> - <u>Group Spotlights Jews Who Left Arab Lands</u>, Warren Hoge, NY Times, 11/2/07: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/world/middleeast/05nations.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/world/middleeast/05nations.html</a><br /> - <strong>See also</strong>: <a href="http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/">http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/</a><br /> - <u>France 2 Cooks the Raw Footage</u>, Nidra Poller, Pajamas Media, 11/15/07: <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/al_dura_affair_the_raw_footage.php">http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/al_dura_affair_the_raw_footage.php</a><br /> - <strong>See also</strong>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQcRd_Mg60">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQcRd_Mg60</a><br /> - <u>Is Israel a Jewish state?</u>, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, 11/14/07: <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/11/14/is_israel_a_jewish_state/">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/11/14/is_israel_a_jewish_state/</a><br /> - <u>Drinking water for India's 'wet desert' with Israeli help</u>, Syed Zarir Hussain, Earthtimes.org, 12/4/07: <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/152706.html">http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/152706.html</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>FIRST QUOTE: ARABS IN ISRAEL</strong><br /></span>Simon Deng, a former jihad slave from Sudan and now a human rights activist, has <a href="http://davidproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=300&Itemid=166">written</a> a protest to Bishop Desmond Tutu over the bishop’s rabid prejudice against Israel, which he accuses of ‘apartheid’:<br />“The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where <strong>I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families</strong> – even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. <strong>I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world</strong>. I know they vote and <strong>have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic</strong>, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu’s South Africa.”<br /> - <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/371696/the-question-of-a-freed-slave.thtml">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/371696/the-question-of-a-freed-slave.thtml</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">RESOURCE: PREZ CANDIDATES’ VIEWS ON ISRAEL</span></strong><br /> Now that the presidential primaries have begun, I figured this would be a helpful resource! Each week Ha'aretz presents a ranking of where presidential candidates stand on their support for Israel. Click here to view this week's edition of <a title="The Israel Factor" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml" target="_blank">The Israel Factor</a> and to read more about the potential candidates and their positions on Israel (thanks to the OU-IPA for this!): <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">NEWS: ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE</span></strong><br />Read about the November peace conference hosted in Annapolis:<br /> - <em>Jeff Robbins</em>: <a href="http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010889">http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010889</a><br /> - <em>Salim Mansur</em>: <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2007/11/24/pf-4681351.html">http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2007/11/24/pf-4681351.html</a><br /> - <em>Mort Zuckerman</em>: <a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2007/11/30/zuckerman-editorial.html">http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2007/11/30/zuckerman-editorial.html</a><br /> - <em>Michael Oren</em>: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02oren.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02oren.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">VIDEO: ISRAEL’S ACHIEVEMENTS</span></strong><br />Watch this great new <strong>video</strong> about Israel’s fantastic achievements! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVvMJdvEX8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVvMJdvEX8</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">SUICIDE BOMBS: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY</span></strong><br />Simon Wiesenthal Center’s full page newspaper ad, prompted by the tragic and horrific assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, calling on the UN to designate suicide bombings as ‘crimes against humanity’: <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7bDFD2AAC1-2ADE-428A-9263-35234229D8D8%7d/NYTIMESADCOLORFINAL.PDF">http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/{DFD2AAC1-2ADE-428A-9263-35234229D8D8}/NYTIMESADCOLORFINAL.PDF</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">SECOND QUOTE: ‘THE WESTERN WALL IS OUR’S’</span><br /></strong>Adnan Husseini, aide to the Palestinian Authority president, said that <strong>Palestinian demands for Israel to cede eastern Jerusalem under any peace accord also includes the Western Wall [Judaism’s holiest site</strong>]. "This is part of Islamic heritage that cannot be given up, and <em>it must be under Muslim control</em>," Husseini told Israel's NRG Web site, adding that <strong>all of Jerusalem's Old City should be part of a future Palestinian state.<br /></strong>- <a href="http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104603.html">http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104603.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0