CAFI Newsletter #93
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* CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR ISRAEL NEWSLETTER #93 *
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"ON YOUR WALLS, O JERUSALEM, I HAVE APPOINTED WATCHMEN"
Isaiah 62:6
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Friday, July 19, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. A SIGN ON THE ROAD
2. DOES THE WORLD SHED TEARS FOR JEWISH SUFFERING?
3. RESPONSE TO TERROR: ARAB STYLE
4. BEWARE THE DANGEROUS MAN OF FAITH
5. A PILOT'S EDITORIAL - "YOU WORRY ME"
6. QUOTES TO NOTE
7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
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1. A SIGN ON THE ROAD
By Avi Davis
There are times when an incident jolts us so powerfully
that the aftershock leaves a permanent impression on
our lives. A year ago, I was traveling with a driver
and a friend along the road from Ariel to Kedumim in
the West Bank. As we passed by the entrance gate to a
settlement called Emmanuel a violent crack shook the
roof of the car. It was followed, within a split-second,
by two further thumps and an immediate shattering of
glass. The wind-shield had been smashed by two rocks
thrown within yards of the jeep. We braked and then
jumped out of the car to scour the nearby brush for
a sign of the attackers. They had fled. We returned
to the car but not before I noticed that a small sign
at the side of the road bearing the name Emmanuel in
Hebrew had been defaced.
After the attack on Emmanuel this week I remembered
that event and relived the sensation of being under
attack. I remembered how the rocks pounded with such
speed that there was no time for reaction. I recalled
how I flinched as the final rock hit and only then
did I uselessly raise my arms to shield my head.
It must have been a similar experience for those on
Bus 189 assaulted by terrorists on the road to Emmanuel.
Nothing this time so ‘benign’ as rocks. The bus tripped
two 20 kilo roadside bombs and as it staggered to a
halt was strafed by three Palestinian terrorists hidden
nearby who jumped on the roof and then mercilessly
gunned down men, women and children. They killed seven
including a nine month old baby and wounded eight .
It is almost axiomatic that no terrorist incident is
like any other but what Emmanuel bears uniquely is that
it is the only Jewish settlement to witness a mass
slaughter of its residents - not once, but twice. Only
nine months ago terrorists launched an identical
operation which claimed the lives of 11. As in the
first incident, mothers and their babies, fathers and
their sons, and this time even a fetus, numbered
among the victims of the assault.
The biographies of the dead victims is once again
heart-breaking. Ayellet Shikon, 29, who ran Emannuel's
day care center, was returning home her twin 9 month-old
daughters, Tiferet and Galia and 2 year-old son, Ohr
Chaim. Tiferet died in the arms of her murdered
grandmother, and Galia was severely injured by the
bullet that exited her sister’s brain. Yehudit
Weinberg, 22 was returning home from a graduation
ceremony with her year-old baby when she was fired
upon by the terrorists. In her eighth month of
pregnancy, she was rushed to ICU and gave birth via
an emergency C-section to a son, who was sent a
few miles away to a neo-natal unit, where he died.
Galila Adas, 46, was heading home to be with her 4
children, one of whom was seriously ill. The nurse,
who had been up the entire previous night caring
for invalids, had her life ended with three
bullets to her head.
As harrowing as these stories are to relate, they
do not begin to convey the extent of suffering in
such a small community. It is not just the absence
of a mother, father, brother or sister that is so
agonizing. It is the loss of the bagel maker,
the man who delivers the mail or who serves behind
the counter of the community store. It is the loss
of the children’s nursery teacher or the community
doctor. The devastation it leaves rakes a hot comb
across the heart of the community leaving it
damaged for years.
This, of course, is the aim of Arafat’s terrorist
campaign as it has been in the persecutions of
Jewish communities for generations. It is an attempt
to destroy the spirit of Jewish life by making that
life intolerable. But the people of Emmanuel are
unbowed. The name of their settlement may offer
some explanation. It translates simply as God is
with us. This declaration might be hard to accept
as body bags of the community’s residents are
loaded onto gurneys. But as I watched television
footage of the scene on that tragic day, I
noticed something that made my heart beat hard.
The defaced sign by the side of the road had been
restored. Upright, it seemed to be screaming to
me a defiance of history; there, before the cameras,
it proclaimed that despite the dangers Jews face,
the compass of Jewish history remains fixed on a
providential destiny, ensuring that hope survives.
So finally I understood how insignificant are the
differences between us all. The rapid rise of
hostility toward Jews in Europe and in other
countries is an ominous wind from the past now
blowing in unison with Palestinian terror. In one
way or another, Jews everywhere are still embarked
on a perilous journey between safety and danger.
For some, the peril may be less obvious than it
is to others. But as for me, I now appreciate
that my own road, as certain and secure as it has
always seemed, travels onward with the knowledge
that the fury of Jew-hatred is only a
stone’s throw away.
Avi Davis is the senior fellow of the Freeman
Center for Strategic Studies and the senior
editorial columnist for the on-line magazine
Jewsweek.com.
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2. DOES THE WORLD SHED TEARS FOR JEWISH SUFFERING?
By : Robert Leiter - 7/11/2002
I was compelled recently to take down Beyond Belief
by Deborah Lipstadt from my library shelves, driven
by the news coming out of the Middle East and the
way it's been covered. Lipstadt's book considers
just what the media knew and what was being reported
about the destruction of European Jewry from the
1930s through the war years.
At the moment I reached for the book, I had only
an inchoate sense of what I was looking for, but I
was convinced there was something - an anecdote,
a fact, a conclusion - that Lipstadt had utilized
which would illuminate what I was feeling about
today's media and Israel's current struggle
for survival.
I kept thinking that the past would open up and
reveal the truth about Jew-hatred then, and by
extension, how it is now. But what happened was
the reverse - the present malaise in the press
reflected back to the desperate '30s and '40s,
and I was struck by what seemed a particularly
chilling observation, one I couldn't prove in any
scientific way but that seemed indisputable
nonetheless.
The media response to Israel's current need to
defend itself against Palestinian suicide bombers
seemed to prove retrospectively that no amount
of news coverage would have changed the outcome
of the Holocaust.
No matter what was known, no matter the extent of
the details about the killing, the extermination
would not have been halted.
Some Jews might have raised their voices with more
gusto and been more unified in their fight to be
heard, and not so fractious in their approach to
what was happening in Europe. But those who really
held the keys to rescue would have turned away,
acquiescing in their silence and inaction to
the massacre of the Jews, just as they did.
Not so, readers will protest. They'll insist
that I'm exaggerating, and that what's being
expressed now, whether explicitly by the people
interviewed in the press or implicitly by the
way stories are written, is anger over something
more specific and correctable.
It is Israel's disproportionate firepower or
"the occupation" of Palestinian territory, but
not the kind of anti-Semitism that led to the
Nazi killing fields. Oh, no, we like Jews. It's
"Israel" we differ with, as if what's been going
on for the last year-and-a-half were just a
political squabble between friends.
Many Jews know in their hearts that this is the
deflection technique of real Jew-hatred, the
kind that masks the wish to see the complete
destruction of Israel, as long as Israel's
critics have no blood on their own hands.
In fact, the first inkling I had of how
deep-seated this hatred continues to be had to do,
quite literally, with an image of blood on
someone's hands. I was in Oslo, Norway, when
the so-called Al Aksa intifada began revving up.
It was October 2000, and two Israeli reservists
had the terrible misfortune of making a wrong
turn in the West Bank, only to be lynched by a
savage Arab crowd in Ramallah. On the cover of
nearly every Norwegian newspaper and magazine
was the photo of one of the executioners at a
window, exultantly showing the crowd below the
Jewish blood on his hands.
I remember thinking that now the world would see
the kind of people the Israelis were dealing with.
I expected an outcry to match the horror of the
photo, but there was only silence. Most Oslo
columnists, I was told, felt this was merely
another expression of Palestinian frustration
over Israeli foot-dragging. When I returned home,
I found that silence had been endemic here as well.
Inconvenience vs. hardship
This connection I've discovered between the past
and the present actually has more to do with images
than with words. One such example appeared in
the June 26 New York Times.
The photo shows an Israeli soldier in the foreground,
his back to the camera, checking the papers of a
Palestinian woman. Behind her, at a short distance,
stand a group of Palestinian women much like her,
waiting. The caption reads:
"Palestinians leaving the West Bank village of
El Khader É were forced to walk through a checkpoint
as Israel tightened security measures."
The headline to the story adds:
"Israeli Curfews Expand Hardships Imposed
on Palestinians."
There had been a suicide bombing, and Israel had responded.
I stared at the photo, wondering if my heart had
become hardened because all I saw were people
waiting, not terrible hardships.
Ironically, critics of Israel use images like
these to make obscene comparisons between Israel
and Nazi Germany, but when I saw the photo and
thought back to images of starving Jewish children
begging in the ghettos, I found the word "hardships"
laughable. Those Holocaust images are uncategorizable.
But when people saw them at war's end, many said
they couldn't believe human beings could do such
things to other human beings. Beneath those words
was another message - that Jewish suffering is to
be expected, that it's part of the deal.
Images of Palestinian inconvenience seem to move
the world, while those of genocide aimed at Jews did
not. My point is hardly original: Jews must be
defenseless victims to be tolerated. And dead Jews
are preferred over live ones. The sight of starving
Jews imprisoned in Theresienstadt didn't move Red
Cross workers in 1944. Contemporary descriptions of
Israeli body parts flying through the air, whether
they belong to infants or grandmothers, seem to do
nothing but give Western readers a slight
pornographic thrill.
Cynthia Ozick summed this up in her brilliant
"All the World Wants the Jews Dead," which appeared
n the November 1974 issue of Esquire. Writing in the
wake of Israel's 1973 Yom Kippur War, she reported
that it was both shocking and dully predictable
that nothing had changed since the Shoah, either
about world opinion or the blood lust against the
Jews. Media coverage of the war on Israel
today proves the point once again.
All the world prefers dead Jews to live ones.
And it especially finds Jews who can defend
themselves insufferable.
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3. RESPONSE TO TERROR: ARAB STYLE
by Emanuel A. Winston
I cannot help but wonder what will happen if or when
Israel adopts the typical Arab response to Terror.
I recall the start of the first ‘Intifada’ December
1987, which began in Rafiah/Rafah, a town which
lies half in Israel and half in Egypt. The Israeli
response was to waffle and allow the riot to grow.
On the Egyptian side, a few trucks pulled up,
dropped their rear tail gate and raked the rioters
with machine guns mounted in the trucks. After
killing many of the rioters, the Egyptians drove
away, leaving the dead bodies for the Palestinian
Arab compatriots to bury. That was the end of
the ‘Intifada’ on the Egyptian side of the border.
On the Israeli side, the rioting grew; many Jews
were murdered under the military guidance of the
Labor Left who nurtured the ‘Intifada’ with
tender treatment.
In Syria, then President Hafez al Assad responded
to an attack on his life by the murderous Islamic
Brotherhood by leveling the town of Hamma,
killing from 10,000 to 20,000 Syrian citizens.
After the artillery assault, poison gas was
disseminated. That was the end of any opposition
by Terror in Syria.
In Jordan Yassir Arafat and his Palestinian Arab
gangs ran a proto-Terror State. Palestinian Arabs
were approximately 75% of the Jordanian population.
Then King Hussein signed 26 agreements for
peaceful cooperation with Arafat - not one of
which Arafat kept. When Jordanian intelligence
discovered that Arafat intended to kill King
Hussein’s brother, he mobilized his army and
over 17 months beginning in September 1970, he
militarily moved Arafat and his Terror gangs out
- to Lebanon. This action was called Black
September and Terrorists by that name took the
Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympics in Munich,
Germany. The rescue attempt resulted in all of
the Israelis being murdered - Black September.
In Lebanon, Arafat created a Terror State that
caused a Civil War lasting 12 years during which
100,000 Christian and Muslim Arabs murdered each other.
Arafat’s gangs also sent Terror attacks across the
border into Israel. In 1982, then Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, z’l and then Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon led the IDF into Lebanon to root out the
Terrorists and discovered huge tunnels loaded with
sophisticated arms and war plans for a major attack
on Israel. The Lebanese welcomed the Israelis with
flowers. Sharon pushed the Terrorists north to
Beirut - but - the U.S. stepped in, stopped the
IDF and allowed Arafat and his main lieutenants
free exit from Lebanon and entry into Tunisia.
Of course, Jews are not Arabs but, Israel does
live in the Middle East. While Sharon urged to
restraint by Shimon Peres, the U.S. Arabist State
Department and the anti-Semitic Europeans,
nevertheless, we do not have an unlimited number
of Jews to sacrifice for world opinion. I discount
the Leftists who are the pallbearers of
civilizations that follow their dictates of Pacifism.
Regrettably, Sharon’s restraint encourages Terror,
while demoralizing the Jews of his own nation.
The Terror attacks on the bus going to Emanuel Erev
Tisha b’Av that killed at least 8 and the Tisha
B’Av double terror attack on the bus station that
killed 2 foreign workers and one Israeli plus the
wounding of countless others should lead to
conclusions. Clearly, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
should have leveled half of Schehem (Nablus) the
town to which the Terrorists escaped.
The concept of
No Arabs = No Terror
must become operative.
The Arab Palestinians declare openly and loudly
that they cannot live with Jews. Let us respect
their wishes. They say what they mean and they
mean what they say.
They should be assisted to emigrate to the 26
other Arab and/or Muslim countries where they
will not be offended with the presence of Jews.
If Israel cannot bring themselves to adopt the
methods of the Arab nations in dealing with their
own Terrorists, then they must transfer them as
the lessor of two evils.
Even if Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin, Yossi Sarid,
‘et al’ feel that there are an unlimited number of
Jews to sacrifice on the altar of the so-called
"Peace Process" illegitimately spawned in Oslo,
Norway and signed on the Clinton White House lawn
September 13, 1993, Sharon does not have to
follow their lead.
If Sharon has grown too soft and political in
his elder years, then he must leave the job for
someone who replicates Sharon,
the warrior in his prime.
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4. BEWARE THE DANGEROUS MAN OF FAITH
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach/Jewsweek.com
The rise of religious extremism, and the subsequent
decline of humane and rational religion, is
troubling, to say the least. The past year's tragic
events illustrate this phenomenon with terrifying
alacrity -- but the real measure of the rise of
religious extremism is the judgementalism of its
believers. I observe daily as my religious
compatriots become increasingly judgmental. Often,
one of the first steps that Jews who return to their
roots take is to stand in judgement against the
lifestyles of those who are less observant. Likewise,
the Christian Right spends much time condemning the
loose mores of the rest of the population.
Now I am not one to defend what I too see as an
increasingly shallow and destructive culture. But I
do object to the belief that being judgmental is the
first calling of religion. The purpose of religion,
from a Jewish perspective, is not to focus on the
world the way is, but the way it ought to be. The
truly spiritual person finds it difficult to be
dismissive of any person because he perceives God
wherever he looks. Judgmentalism is the very
antithesis of the religion because the principle
purpose of religion is for man to achieve a closer
proximity with God, and the closer one draws to God,
the more humble one becomes. When we peer at God's
perfection, we become more conscious of our own\
imperfection. The larger God grows in our sight,
the more we shrink in our own estimation.
When I was a student, the head of my Talmudic
seminary told me that the essence of religion is to
take God very seriously and never to take oneself
too seriously. I accuse religious extremists of
this cardinal sin of taking themselves too seriously.
I remember debating a self-righteous Christian
theologian on the subject of homosexuality. He
asked me how I could defend homosexuals when the
Bible called them an abomination. I responded by
asking him if he was aware that the Bible also
referred to the arrogant as an abomination.
("Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to
the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished"
Proverbs 16:5.)
Maimonides believed that goodness involves maintaining
a healthy equilibrium. For the individual to lead a
healthy and balanced life, they must travel
'the golden middle path.' The same is true of religion.
Judaism has a built-in mechanism to assist man in
achieving this pivotal balance -- Torah and mitzvot,
or the Bible and its commandments. God instructed that
man study the Torah so that he might develop a deep
appreciation for God's teachings. Man must be a
student rather than a mere servant. By studying the
Torah man asserts his own unique gifts in
apprehending, rather than just yielding, to that
which is greater than himself.
On the other hand, the mitzvot entail the opposite:
a subordination of one's will to God's will. Whether
or not the believer understands the merits of being
in the synagogue on the Sabbath rather than going to
the beach is of no consequence.
Here he is a servant rather than a student.
But rather than cancelling each other out, these
two functions are described in Jewish mystical thought
as being "like the two wings of a bird without which
the bird cannot fly." The laws of propulsion dictate
that there must be antithetical forces pushing from
opposite sides to facilitate the bird's flight. The
same is true for the elevation of the religious
believer. There must be an uncompromising submission
to the will of God on the one hand, but without
compromising one's humanity in the process.
Thus the religious extremist is a complete failure.
His spirituality is empty because he has no humility.
Rather than drawing closer to God, he forces God to
draw closer to Him. His ego becomes the locus of
his faith. Rather than making God's will his will,
he makes his will God's will. If he hates Americans
in tall buildings, then God must hate them as well.
If he wishes to incinerate Israelis who go to the
disco, then God must want them blown up as well.
This is the single most dangerous facet of the
religious extremist. When the believer can no
longer distinguish between himself and God, he
has granted himself the divine license to
create and destroy life.
But the religious fanatic fails on the second
count as well. Not only has he rejected God, but
he has rejected his humanity as well. His whole
religion is about suppressing the human traits of
love and empathy. He dismisses his humanity as an
obstacle to Godliness. A human being becomes a
dangerous religious fanatic whenever he concludes
that his humanity is incompatible with his religion
-- that his feelings are an impediment to his beliefs.
It is for this reason that the religious extremist is
so potentially destructive. In the same way that the
awesome might of nuclear power can cause universal
destruction, so too God, the most powerful and
awesome concept ever known to man, is capable of
colossal abuse. A belief in God is powerful enough
to sustain a Mother Theresa through a lifetime of
assisting the poor, and it is conversely powerful
enough to help a gang of terrorists overcome all
pangs of conscience and sympathy and irreversibly
harm their fellow man.
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5. A PILOT'S EDITORIAL - "YOU WORRY ME"
By American Airlines Pilot - Capt. John Maniscalco
"You worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I
walked down the streets of this country that I love,
that your color and culture still blended with the
beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and
it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it
anymore. People from your homelands, professing to
be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow
citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now.
I don't fully understand their grievances and hate
but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity
of their attacks.
On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked
four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of
women in front of children and brutally stabbed to
death others. They took control of those planes and
crashed them into buildings killing thousands of
proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents,
elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches,
fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
So I notice you now. I don't want to be worried.
I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and
hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of
these terrorists. But I need your help. As a
rational American, trying to protect my country and
family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must
know how to tell the difference between you,
and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true
Arab-Muslim-Americans and the Arab-Muslims in our
communities who are attending our schools, enjoying
our parks, and living in OUR communities under the
protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the
next attack that will slaughter those very same
good neighbors and children?
The events of September 11th changed the answer.
It is not my responsibility to determine which of
you embraces our great country, with ALL of it's
religions, with ALL of it's different citizens,
with all of it's faults. It is time for every
Arab-Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a
right to know whether or not you love America. Do
you pledge allegiance to it's flag? Do you proudly
display in front of your house, or on your car? Do
you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will
bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it?
Or do you pray that Allah will destroy it in one
of your "Jihads"? Are you thankful for the freedom
that only this nation affords? A freedom that was
paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of
patriots who gave their lives for this country?
Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying
the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America? If
this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start
letting ME know about it.
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be
flooding the media at this time with hard facts on
your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a
community and as a religion to protect the United
States of America. Please, no more benign overtures
of regret for the death of the innocent because I
worry about who you regard as innocent. And no more
benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked
attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked
to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy ...
I am only interested in action. What will you do
for America - our great country -- at this time
of crisis, at this time of war?
I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN
flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting
"Allah Bless America". I want to see young Arab-Muslim
men enlisting in the military. I want to see a
commitment of money, time, and emotion to the
victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.
The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want
to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these
people live and socialize in Muslim communities.
You know them. You know where they are.
Hand them over to us, now!
But I have seen little even approaching this sort
of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and
secretive community close even tighter. You have
disappeared from the streets. You have posted
armed security guards at your facilities. You have
threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for
protection from reprisals.
The very few Arab-Muslim representatives that
HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and
equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making
sure that the United States prove who was responsible
before taking action. They seemed more concerned
with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence
directed towards them in the United States and abroad
than they did with supporting our country and
denouncing "leaders" like Khadafi, Hussein,
Farrakhan, and Arafat.
If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance
and peace and love for all people then I want
chapter and verse from the Koran and statements
from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What
good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good
and pure and true when your "leaders" are teaching
fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?
It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if
large numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the
teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a
degenerative form of the religion. A form that has
been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form
whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence,
death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited
from the prisons around the world. A form whose
members defended Johnny Cochran and O. J. Simpson
after the latter butchered his wife and murdered an
innocent friend. A form whose members (some as young
a five years old) are seen day after day, week in
and week out, year after year, marching in the
streets around the world, burning effigies of our
presidents, burning the American flag, shooting
weapons into the air. A form whose members convert
from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms
against the great United States of America, the
country of their birth. A form whose rules are so
twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show
their faces at airport security checkpoints,
in the name of Islam.
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because
our women proudly show their faces in public?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we
drink wine with dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do
you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have
befriended Israel, the ONLY civilized democratic
nation in the entire Middle East? And if you and
your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world
are you even here?
Are you here to take our money? Are you here to
undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to
destroy us? If so, I want you to leave. I want you
to go back to your desert sandpit where women are
treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take
your religion, your friends, and your family back
to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE!
We will NEVER give in to your influence, your
retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant
religion. We will NEVER allow the attacks of
September 11, or any others for that matter, to
take away that which is so precious to us: Our
rights under the greatest constitution in the world.
I want to know where every Arab-Muslim in this
country stands and I think it is my right and the
right of every true citizen of this country to demand
it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of
my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very
constitution that is protecting you and your family.
I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you
here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a
fellow American. But there can be no gray areas or
ambivalence regarding your allegiance and
it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand."
"Until then ... you worry me."
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6. QUOTES TO NOTE
"[The Emmanuel attack] was an accident. In our
opinion the Israelis have not lived up to their
obligations. The Palestinians also have
obligations [and] I’m sure they will live
up to them.”
—Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher (Jer. Post, July 17)
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"This kind of thing is frightening to me,
because it often gives me the feeling that
the very concept of objective truth is
dying out of the world."
Thus spoke George Orwell, a very wise man.
Let's be grateful for Orwell that he didn't live
to see the kind of coverage and analysis the
Middle East is receiving today.
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7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES ON OUR SITE
THEIR KAMPF: Hitler's Book in Arab hands
Ahmad Ragab, a columnist for the Egyptian
government paper Al-Akhbar, is only one example
among many opinion-makers to "give thanks to
Hitler, of blessed memory," and regretting only
that Hitler had not extracted revenge for
Palestine by murdering every last Jew.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/kamph.html
U.S. DIPLOMACY: EVEN-HANDED, EMPTY-HANDED
Since the eruption of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities
in September 2000, the United States has faced the
dilemma of formulating a policy response. The nature
of the violence is clear, and almost predictable in
its routine. Not so U.S. policy, which has been
ambivalent-so ambivalent that it may well have
become a factor in prolonging the violence itself.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/july02/diplomacy.html
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Become a WITNESS TO THE NATIONS and let them know what
great things our Lord is doing for Israel and what great
things He will continue to do for her, His firstborn.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/witness/home1.html
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