Rally for Israel!
If you live in the Atlanta area, don’t miss this great opportunity to stand for Israel at a community-wide rally this coming Sunday:
Comments (8) »Americans United with Israel is hosting a public rally of support for Israel on August 14, 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The purpose of the rally is to show support to Israel, the Jewish State, as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East. Through this event Americans United with Israel wishes to make the statement that this is not a time for Americans to be silent, but a time to be bold and direct, a time to come together and support friendship with Israel. Americans United with Israel also hopes to inspire the creation of additional events showing support for Israel in other cities.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 7:56 AM | David Kuner
Politicians protest Israel’s treatment
Among U.S. politicians there is plenty of dissent on the Obama administration’s decision to publicly censure Israel for building “settlements” in Jerusalem.
Some of the politicians who were quick to speak out publicly against the U.S. position include: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), Rep. Shelley Berkley, (D-Nev.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl.), as well as former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin (on her Facebook page).
Meanwhile, conservative, pro-Israel activists continue sending messages and contacting officials on the Hill to demand a show of support for Israel.
Comments (1) »Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 3:02 PM | Alicia M. Cohn
Israeli ambassador undaunted, offers to return to campus where he was shouted down
You may remember how, last month, a speech by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren at UC Irvine was continually interrupted by a series of Arab and Muslim “protestors” calling him a “murderer” and “war criminal” – to the point where the University chancellor had to get on the stage and lecture the portion of the audience that had, according to press reports and materials they’d distributed prior to the speech, come with the intention of disrupting the event to the point that it couldn’t continue.
Oren, whose best-selling histories of the Six-Day War and the U.S. involvement in the Middle East made him known in the U.S. prior to his becoming ambassador, isn’t intimidated. In fact, in an open letter to the campus, he’s offering to come back:
The diplomat said he understood the emotional nature of Middle East politics, but said it was also important to observe the decorum of free speech and hear others’ viewpoints.
“I was saddened by the loss of this opportunity to exchange ideas with those who disagreed with me and, at the very least, to introduce them to different perspectives,” he wrote.
Oren noted that the incident underscored the importance of dialogue, and said dialogue was the only way peace in the Middle East would be achieved. He offered to return to the campus as long as the proper decorum of free speech is respected.
Apparently, according to the AP report, the arrests of 11 students at the lecture has become an issue on campus, with some charging that they were “unfairly targeted for making a political statement and exercising their own right to free speech.” They might try a few courses in the law or political science department, or maybe just open a dictionary of common sense, to figure out the different between “free speech” and chaotic, disorderly conduct.
Comments (0) »Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 6:10 PM | Stand For Israel
Turkish PM: Rachel’s tomb is Muslim, was never Jewish
In a statement that reveals what’s really at stake in the ongoing controversy–and PA-stoked violence–over Israel adding some religious sites to a list of Jewish heritage sites, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Saudi newspaper Al Wattan that al Aksa Mosque, the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb “were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.”
The al-Aksa Mosque is the black-domed mosque that sits at the southern end of the Temple Mount, which was not included (some Israelis have said, scandalously) on the list of national heritage sites.
As a reminder, Rachel was one of the Jewish people’s four matriarchs and lived several thousand years before the Islam was founded. Her grave, which is described in Genesis 35:19, has been a pilgrimage site for Jews (and, later, Christians) for thousands of years.
Comments (0) »Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 10:41 AM | Stand For Israel
Waqf, PA leadership attempt to rewrite biblical history
We told you before about the ongoing (low-burn) violence and media circus surrounding the Jewish state’s adding two major tourist and spiritual pilgrimage spots to a list of sites of “Jewish cultural heritage.”
Well, on Friday, worshipers at the Western Wall were stoned by rioters on top of the Temple Mount and 15 Israeli policemen and dozens of the rioters were injured in the resulting scuffles. (Don’t Islamic leaders mind their followers using the high ground of what is ostensibly a holy site to attempt to maim worshipers below?)
So let’s go over this again: Israel added two spots to a list that designates sites of historical and cultural relevance. And this caused Palestinians to riot? (Continuing the long tradition of the Palestinian Authority using violence or threats of it where other governments use diplomacy.) And countries ranging from Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab league states, to–predictably– the UN felt the need to condemn the list-making (while not condemning the violence fomented by the PA). And, of course, the U.S. hasn’t retracted the State Department’s comments on the matter, which were that the Israeli list was “provocative and unhelpful.”
So what are these sites anyway?
What exactly are these sites? One is Rachel’s Tomb, which sits on the edge of Bethelehem close to Jerusalem. The second is the Cave of the Patriarchs, which sits in the middle of Hebron. Just how “provocative” is it to add these to the list of sites of Jewish cultural import?
Rachel’s Tomb is identified in Genesis 35:19-20: “So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.” As the Bible relates, the site has been holy to Jews for thousands of years — more than a thousand years before Islam even came into existence! (And holy to Christians hundreds of years before…)
The case of the Cave of the Patriarchs is even more ironic: Genesis 23 records how…
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