Stand With Us Statement Regarding Events In Israel This Week

StandWithUs Statement Regarding Events in Israel This Week StandWithUs stands with the people of Israel during these difficult days. Israel is faced with acts of war against her. This war began with terrorists from Gaza tunneling into Israeli sovereign territory, murdering two Israeli soldiers and kidnapping a third, Cpl. Gilad Shalit. This provocation was a culmination of continuous shelling from Gaza into Israeli communities and schools. Terrorists have launched over 850 Kassam rockets since Israel’s disengagement last August. Instead of using disengagement as an opportunity for nation- building, Hamas has chosen to increase its armaments, build rockets and attack Israel. The Israeli government cannot and should not tolerate these unprovoked, belligerent attacks on its citizens. Yesterday, July 12, Hezbollah opened a second front against Israel in the north, using Hamas’ tactics. Hezbollah crossed the internationally recognized border, the Blue Line, attacked IDF soldiers, killing two and kidnapping two. The attack was followed by Hezbollah launching barrages of rockets and missiles into Nahariah, Haifa and other Israeli cities and villages. Within 24 hours, 120 Israelis had been wounded and two killed. Such actions cannot be tolerated. These are acts of war. If the US were being shelled by Canada or Mexico, it would be faced with an existential, bellicose threat and the world would expect Americans to respond accordingly. We remain firmly supportive of Israel’s defensive measures. We will do all we can to clarify Israel’s current response to the provocations it faces. Our thoughts and prayers are with Israel and its people, and with all those who long for peace in the region.
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Arab Brothers: The War with Israel is OVER - and they won
Youssef M. Ibrahim		By Youssef M. Ibrahim - Jewish World Review: July 12, 2006 Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former New York Times Middle East Correspondent and Wall Street Journal Energy Editor for 25 years, is a freelance writer based in New York City and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. With Israel entering its fourth week of an incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs is spreading through commentary by Arab pundits, letters to the editor, and political talk shows on Arabic-language TV networks. The new views are stunning both in their maturity and in their realism. The best way I can think of to convey them is in the form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs from their Arab friends: Dear Palestinian Arab brethren: The war with Israel is over. You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children. Read On ...
The Jews Will Not Go Quietly Again
		By Joe McCain - Senator John McCain's brother on The Jews & Israel: There is a lot of worry popping up in the media just now — "Can Israel Survive?" Don't worry about it. It relates to something that Palestinians, the Arabs, and perhaps most Americans don't realize — the Jews are never going quietly again. Never. And if the world doesn't come to understand that, then millions of Arabs are going to die. It's as simple as that. Throughout the history of the world, the most abused, kicked-around race of people have been the Jews. Not just during the holocaust of World War II, but for thousands of years. They have truly been "The Chosen People" in a terrible and tragic sense. The Bible story of Egypt's enslavement of the Jews is not just a story, it is history, if festooned with theological legend and heroic epics. In 70 A.D. the Romans, which had for a long time tolerated the Jews — even admired them as 'superior' to other vassals — tired of their truculent demands for independence and decided on an early "Solution" to the Jewish problem. Jerusalem was sacked and reduced to near rubble, Jewish resistance was pursued and crushed by the implacable Roman War Machine — see 'Masada'. And thus began The Diaspora, the dispersal of Jews throughout the rest of the world. Read On ...
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