In fact, CAIR\’s sponsorship of the tour, which occurred last month, had nothing to do with improving dialogue or facilitating understanding — just the opposite.
OneVoice\’s sound-bite version of this conflict is misleading. Enticing, no doubt, but grossly inaccurate. Crucial facts have been omitted, and it\’s easy to see why. They punch holes in the attractive solution your minders have sold you — the solution you are peddling to us.
In announcing a plan to evacuate nearly all of the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is signaling that he\’s serious about creating large blocs of Palestinian territory free of Israelis — and that he is willing to gamble with his political future.
The United States has been keeping an eye on Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia for years, but attention on them has increased in the wake of U.S. military action against Iraq.
When Oslo was signed, Labor leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were careful not to commit themselves to Palestinian statehood for fear of sparking a public outcry. Now, 10 years later, over 60 percent of Israelis — including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of the Likud — back the two-state solution.
Unlike disappearances in the United States, which are often a case of runaways or kidnapping by criminals, disappearances in Israel are often feared to be a case of terrorism.
\”Mr. Reeve is an inspirational figure who has a unique story to tell Israel and the world,\” said Yuval Rotem, Israeli consul general in Los Angeles, who invited Christopher Reeve to visit Israel and convinced the foreign ministry in Jerusalem to follow through.
In a short political career, Darrell Issa\’s statements and actions consistently defend terrorists, terrorist groups and terrorist sponsor states.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian Authority counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, each will seek to persuade the American leader to lean on the other side to move faster — and Bush will be ready to lean on both, Israeli analysts believe.
Nimrod, the youngest, was a creative kid, the wild type who wanted to try it all. Girls followed him around, and he was always busy with projects — building model cars, fixing computers, raising pets in his room.
Vicky, the oldest, was the responsible one.
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