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Solidarity with Israel rally, NYC

Christian Churches, Pro-Israel Campaigns, United Nations

From Gary Bauer:

I have written before about my work with Christians United For Israel (CUFI), founded by Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. CUFI is an association of pro-Israel churches, ministries and individuals working together to speak with one voice in support of Israel.

CUFI is participating in the Solidarity with Israel Rally in front of the United Nations building in New York City on Wednesday, September 20th.

The rally is being timed to coincide with the expected arrival of Iran’s genocidal “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his address to the UN General Assembly.

This is the man who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the face of the map” and whose country is vigorously seeking nuclear weapons technology in blatant defiance of UN resolutions.

I encourage all of you in the New York area to attend this important gathering. If you do not live in the New York vicinity, buses will be chartered from major cities across the country.

This is a critical time for Israel. Christians and Jews must stand together to confront our common enemy of Islamofascism. To find out more information about this important rally, please visit: www.conferenceofpresidents.org.

The enemy mindset

Arab/Israeli Conflict, Middle East Politics, United Nations

The Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey raises the issue of Samir Kuntar, the main figure – indeed, the “dean” of Lebanese prisoners – that Hezbollah is so keen to get back. Sandmonkey points out exactly why Kuntar was jailed:

In the coastal town of Nahariya, the terrorists shot dead a policeman and forced their way into an apartment building, where they captured Danny Haran and his daughter, Einat, 4.

While the terrorists rampaged through the apartment, firing weapons and detonating grenades, Haran’s wife Smadar hid in a crawlspace above the couple’s bedroom together with their other daughter, two-year-old Yael, and a neighbor.

In an effort to prevent Yael from crying out and alerting the terrorists to their whereabouts, Smadar kept her hand over the child’s mouth, and accidentally smothered her to death.

Meanwhile Kuntar and his group took Danny and Einat Haran to the beach.

“There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see,” Smadar
wrote later.

“Then he smashed my little girl’s skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That terrorist was Samir Kuntar.”

And these are the sort of people who are deemed appropriate for an “exchange of prisoners” – a euphemism for hostage-taking and blackmail to secure the release of terrorists – and all facilitated by the UN of course. As Sandmonkey says, “This guy, this child-killer will walk free and will be greeted as a Hero when he goes back to Lebanon.”

Urge the UN to Condemn and Disarm Hezbollah

United Nations

From UN Watch:

On July 30, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—who ten days before had correctly identified Hezbollah’s “provocative attack” on Israel as the cause of the current crisis—urged the Security Council to “condemn” Israel’s response. He said nothing about the need to condemn Hezbollah, which cynically fires its missiles from residential or UN observer areas to maximize civilian casualties and indict Israel in world opinion. Send an email to Mr. Annan reminding him of the facts about Hezbollah, and urging him to condemn its terrorist tactics.

Click here to send a letter to Kofi Annan

Competition time again

United Nations

It’s competition time again. Our question is this:

Who is pictured below meeting the Hezbollah henchman Hassan Nasrallah in 2000, who also said this of the meeting: “I did tell Mr. Nasrallah that Hezbollah exercised restraint, responsibility and discipline after the withdrawal and that we would want to see that continue, and I am sure from the indications that he gave me that he intends to do it”?

We have cunningly disguised the mystery person’s features to make it more difficult. Can you guess?


Hassan Nasrallah with Kofi Annan

Answers on a postcard please to: Kofi Annan Mystery Identity Competition, c/o The United Nations, New York, NY 10017.

Israel’s statement to the UN Security Council

Arab/Israeli Conflict, United Nations

“The Lebanese Government must seize the opportunity to wrest their country from the grips of terror “

Statement by H.E. Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel before the Security Council during the open debate on “The Situation in the Middle East” (14 July 2006)

Mr. President,

Let me take you back to a warm summer’s day in Beirut – 32 years ago – exactly the 14 th of July 1974, this very significant day for you and your people. I want to describe the scene to you and my Lebanese colleague – cafés and bars bustling with young people, beaches filled with happy holidaymakers – the Switzerland of the Middle East.

How different this scene is from the one on Beirut’s streets today, 32 years later. But this difference did not start this week or last year. The difference started only one year after the scene I just described, in 1975, when the Lebanese began their long descent into oppression, depression and terror. This is a country that has been held hostage for more than 32 years by tyrants from the north and terrorists in the south; a country whose fun-loving, business-minded, entrepreneurial and liberal population has been tormented by decades of oppression, sectarian strife, fundamentalist violence, religious conflict, Syrian control, political assassinations, terror and full-fledged civil war.

In May 2000 Israel took the painful and politically difficult decision to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon, having been compelled a few years earlier to establish a security zone there in order to prevent terrorist attacks and rocket shelling from Lebanon into Israeli towns and villages. This Council acknowledged Israel’s complete withdrawal from southern Lebanon and its full compliance with Security Council Resolution 425 in a Presidential Statement on June 18 th, 2000.

This was Lebanon’s moment of truth: Would its government look inward and free its people from the stranglehold of terror, or would it allow its territory to become a base from which Hizbullah terrorists would launch attacks against Israeli civilians? Tragically, Mr. President, the Lebanese government chose the latter.
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