The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, along with the Israeli Consulate, convened a community meeting Wednesday evening, June 2, to plan what they hope will be a large rally on Sunday, June 6, to support Israel. The rally will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday in front of the consulate at 6380 Wilshire Boulevard.
A senior Israeli official claimed that activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid boarded by Israeli commandos had plans to kidnap an Israeli soldier.
Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv.
The student body of Rachel Corrie\’s alma mater voted to urge the college to divest from companies that supply equipment to Israel\’s military.
Aharon Leshno Yaar tells UN Rights Council that Turkish-based IHH raises funds and finances terror for Hamas around the world
President Obama\’s Cairo speech and its equivalent invocations of Palestinian and Jewish sufferings. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton\’s call for an unequivocal freeze: \”Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions.\” The Joe Biden fiasco. And now the Obama administration\’s venture into a nuclear-free Middle East.\n
On June 1, as Los Angeles’ Jewish leaders absorbed the news from Israel, The Journal asked for their reactions as well as their thoughts on how the Jewish State might be affected by the recent events.
In the early hours of May 31, a Turkish so-called humanitarian aid organization, IHH, which financially and morally supports terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, organized a flotilla of six ships to Gaza. This supposed “aid” flotilla was actually a “hate” flotilla. Due to the fact that Hamas controls Gaza, smuggles weapons and ammunition aimed against Israeli civilians, and because there is NO lack of humanitarian aid coming into Gaza (Israel provides ample electricity, food, medical supply, water), we didn’t know the nature of what the flotillas carried; therefore, Israel advised the organizers to show us the humanitarian aid for inspection. We offered to have the flotilla dock in the port of Ashdod so the supplies could be properly checked for dangerous materials. After the verification we would have been happy to deliver the supplies to Gaza via land, through existing crossings, on behalf of the flotilla’s organizers. We emphasized that we would not let the flotilla enter Gaza because of the risks mentioned above.
When there is a negative sentiment in financial markets, a small economic or political hiccup can cause the markets\’ decline. Similarly, when regional relations between states are volatile, a minor provocation can escalate into a full-fledged war.
Many of us have spent the last two days vacillating between anger, fear, frustration and confusion.
