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| Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:00pm – 6:30pm Outside of Israeli Consulate in NYC Corner of E42nd & 2nd Ave. New York, NY Support Israel in the current situation with Hamas in Gaza. Israel is acting to prevent Hamas and other militant Palestinians from firing rockets into southern Israel. Hamas has been firing Kassam (Qassam) rockets into southern Israel / Sderot for the past 8 years. This reprisal has been long overdue to protect Israeli civilians. Come and show your support toward Israel. Signs and fact sheets will be provided. To print out more signs, please click here. Help us spread the word on Facebook. |
These are very important facts to share with elected officials and journalists. There is far too much ignorance out there regarding what led up to this operation. You can help….
StandWithUs Statement of Support for Israel
StandWithUs calls on international leaders and all people of good conscience to support Israel as it acts to protect its citizens from systematic and wanton attacks from Gaza.
Hamas and its supporters bear sole responsibility for any harm to Gaza’s civilians. The U.S., France, Russia, Mahmoud Abbas, (president of the Palestinian Authority), and other international leaders have blamed Hamas’ escalating rocket attacks for Israel’s current military action.
Hamas and other Iranian-supported extremists chose to renew their war against Israel instead of renewing the six-month “calm” that ended on Dec 19th. In the week after Dec. 19th, Gaza’s terrorists committed war crimes and collective punishment by launching over 280 rockets and mortars that targeted civilian men, women, and children in southern Israel.
Israel seeks peace. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but instead of nation-building, Hamas seized control and has abused Gaza to build its terrorist capabilities and incite hatred and violence.
Israel respected the June 19th agreement for six months of “calm,” even as Hamas strengthened its terrorist infrastructure and launched over 377 attacks during the agreement. Israel exhausted all diplomatic channels to renew the “calm,” but Hamas responded only with escalating terrorism.
Israel has exercised extraordinary restraint even as Hamas has systematically targeted Israeli civilians, and Hamas has left Israel no choice but the military option it began on Dec. 27th. Israel’s stated goal is to destroy the terrorist infrastructure while avoiding harm to Palestinian civilians.
Hamas’ fanatical commitment to its founding document’s mission of “obliterating” Israel and murdering Jews is once again causing suffering for Palestinians living in Gaza. When Israel employed non-violent strategies to pressure Hamas to moderate, the terrorist organization cynically exploited them to accuse Israel of human rights’ abuses. Hamas attacks on Israel-Gaza crossings have impeded humanitarian aid deliveries. Hamas rocket misfires and “work accidents” have killed Palestinian children. Hamas’ ruthless use of human shields and densely populated neighborhoods has endangered Palestinian non-combatants. Hamas’ refusal to let wounded Gazans cross into Egypt for medical care is compounding casualties.
We join other international leaders in unequivocally condemning Hamas and its crimes against Palestinians and Israelis.
We call on the civilized world to support the right and above all, the duty, of every sovereign nation-including Israel-to defend its citizens from armed aggression. No nation can or should allow daily, incessant attacks against its people. There is no justification their terrorizing and intentionally murdering innocent men, women, and children.
Hamas could have easily changed Israeli policies merely by renouncing extremism and terrorism. It chose war instead. We hope the day will soon come when Hamas’ self destructive battle against Israel ends, and Israelis can live with their neighbors in prosperity and peace.
We urge you to send this statement or your own letter with some of the above facts to national or international leaders.
For addresses of national US officials, go to:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/officials/congress/?lvl=C&aZip=&search=GO
Dont forget to copy the following officials:
President George W. Bush
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Phone: (202) 456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov
President-Elect Barak Obama
Contact the Obama administration transition team here:
http://change.gov/page/content/contact/
Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
Secretary of State Nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://clinton.senate.gov/email_form.html
Phone: (202) 224-4451
Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon
The Honorable Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General
760 United Nations Plaza
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
A boat load of lunatics tried to sail a private yacht into Gaza under the pretense of delivering medical supplies. They were turned back by the Israeli Navy. The boats collided during the encounter. However, the damage was light. Unfortunately, head Moonbat, former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, did not fall overboard during the encounter.
Far-Left Hamas Supporters Coming to Gaza by Sea
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
(IsraelNN.com) Free Gaza, a far-left organization offering support to the jihadist Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority, sent a ship on Monday to defy the Israeli sea blockade on Gaza. Despite the major IDF military operation underway, sixteen Free Gaza activists, including a former member of the US Congress, are on their way to the region.
The ship, a yacht, left from Cyprus this evening carrying Free Gaza supporters from Britain, Australia, Ireland, Cyprus and Tunisia, as well as former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Free Gaza spokesmen told the press before they set off that their ship is carrying three and a half tons of medical supplies, including antibiotics. The yacht is the sixth of its kind sent to Gaza by the organization in four months.
A Cypriot doctor on board the ship said that they are sending a message to PA residents that “they are not alone.” McKinney said that she intends to call on American President-elect Barack Obama to condemn Israel’s Operation “Cast Lead” against the jihadist regime in Gaza. Link here. The Intellectual Redneck