NEW POLL FINDS U.S., ARAB SUPPORT FOR MILITARY STRIKE ON IRAN
An intriguing new survey of international public opinion indicates deep concern over the mullahs in Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, and strong support for preemptive military action to stop Tehran from getting the Bomb. According to the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project 2010….. In 16 of the 22 states included in the survey, people who were polled said they would support preemptive military strikes against Iran [...]
Stand for Israel, Stand for the West
Stand for Israel, Stand for the West The Friends of Israel have joined together in a new international initiative on the basis of the following convictions: 1. Israel is a Western country. With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of [...]
News from Gaza
Nine pro-Palestenian activists were killed when Israel commandos boarded a flotilla carrying aid to the blockaded Gaza strip region. The aid was coming from Turkey and many of those activists killed were Turks. Turkey has been an important ally for Israel, the only Muslim friend in the Middle East, but early yesterday Turkey’s ambassador in [...]
The Case For Israel Flotilla Raid
The moment I heard of the tragedy that occurred when Israeli commandos were trying to stop a flotilla ship heading to Gaza, which unfortunately has resulted in loss of lives, I quickly begun reading articles from major news networks. However, it is unfortunate that most of the published articles and news networks broadcasted opinions and [...]
Report on Presbyterian Church USA-Israel policy recommendations (Presbyterian study in Christianity) by Peter Menkin
In this first part of a three part series on the Presbyterian-Israel policy to be discussed at the Presbyterian General Assembly in July, 2010, a list of players interviewed is introduced. Mainly, through quotes based on telephone, email, and written documentary material they speak their tone and position in this heated and sometimes angry debate. [...]
Iran: We had information Israel, U.S. intended to attack us
Iran received information days ago that Israeli and U.S. intelligence intended to carry out terrorist acts in Tehran, the country’s parliament speaker said on Wednesday, one day after the assassination of a university scientist. Washington has rejected Iran’s allegations of U.S. involvement in Tuesday’s bombing that killed professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi near his home in [...]
Israel Online Ambassadors – נציגי ישראל ברשת on Facebook
While it is not my habit to email all my friends like this, in the past two weeks, we have witnessed a lot of unfriendly, biased reporting with respect to Israel. Many of us have been frustrated with the lack of accuracy we found in traditional media outlets. http://www.facebook.com/israelonline However, in the past few years, there has been a [...]
The Myth of the Siege of Gaza
Jonathan D. Halevi Since 2007, Israel has maintained a legal maritime blockade around Gaza whose purpose is to keep rockets and other weapons out of the hands of Hamas, while letting food and other humanitarian aid in. Yet there have been a wide variety of officials and commentators who insist that Gaza is starving, setting the [...]
Israeli separation wall turns into huge TV screen
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Its purpose may be to divide, but for the past few nights, the wall that separates this biblical town in the West Bank from nearby Jerusalem has been bringing an international crowd together to watch the World Cup games. In a first for Bethlehem, local restaurant owner and avid football fan [...]
Canadian MP Libby Davis is anti-Israel, but doesn’t know why
As you will see in this video, Canadian MP Libby Davis, an outspoken critic of Israel, has no grasp of basic facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and is not bothered in the least by her ignorance. Whatever the facts, Israel must be wrong. The interviewer commented: Last weekend I interviewed NDP MP (a NDP=Leftist Party, [...]