U.S. officials say Israel struck Sudan
By Ben Harris · March 27, 2009
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Anonymous U.S. officials told the New York Times that Israeli warplanes attacked a convoy in Sudan believed to be smuggling arms to Gaza in January.
The report cited unnamed U.S. officials. Israel has refused to confirm or deny the attack; however, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister told a conference in Herzliya on Thursday that "Israel hits every place it can in order to stop terror, near and far." Many interpreted it as a veiled reference to the Sudan strike. "Those who need to know, know that there is no place where Israel cannot operate," Olmert said, according to Ha'aretz.
Earlier this week, Sudanese officials blamed the strike on American forces, but on Friday a Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the attack "most probably involved Israel."
The airstrike took place in a remote desert area of eastern Sudan, the officials said, according to Reuters. CBS news reported Wednesday on its Web site that the Israeli Air Force carried out the attack on the 17-vehicle convoy, killing 39 and injuring many civilians. The weapons were intended for Hamas, the report said.
Other reports in the United States and Egypt said the United States may have carried out the attack, according to Reuters.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/27/1004044/us-says-israel-struck-sudan
fredag 27. mars 2009
tirsdag 17. mars 2009
Marching towards the real genocide in Darfur!!!?
Activists standing firm on Sudanese president arrest warrant
By Eric Fingerhut · March 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Hours after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir kicked humanitarian aid groups out of his country. Nevertheless, Jewish activists who backed the indictment are standing behind their decision.
The world community cannot allow Bashir's crimes and threats to deter the appropriate legal entities from taking action, said the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Rabbi David Saperstein.
Bashir's reaction reaffirms "the legitimacy of the indictment” by the International Criminal Court, said Saperstein, who noted that Bashir has been obstructing the provision of humanitarian aid for years, and that the indictment and arrest warrant should turn up the pressure on the Sudanese leader.
The warrant charges Bashir with five counts of crimes against humanity -- murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape -- in the Darfur region of Sudan. It also includes two counts of war crimes -- intentionally directing an attacks against a civilian population and pillaging.
After a nearly six-year campaign of systematic rape, expulsion and murder against the citizens of Darfur by the government-backed Janjaweed militia, hundreds of thousands have died and more than 2.5 million have fled their homes and live in refugee camps in the region or in the neighboring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic.
Following the arrest warrant, the Sudanese government revoked the licenses of 13 international humanitarian organizations and evicted them from Sudan on March 4. The government also closed down three domestic relief agencies.
According to the Save Darfur Coalition, the expelled organizations account for at least half of the humanitarian operations in Darfur, and without them, some 1.1 million people will be without food aid, 1.5 million will not have medical care and more than a million will be left without safe drinking water.
“I'm sad" about the situation, but "if criminal law is going to mean anything, we have to call it what it is,” said Rabbi Steve Gutow, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which earlier this month passed a resolution supporting the possible use of military force in Darfur.
Gutow said supporters of the indictment anticipated the consequences, but the hope is that the ICC action will have an impact “not today but tomorrow.” He said the arrest warrant increased the likelihood that others in the Sudanese leadership, upset by the international opprobrium, would push out Bashir and set up a more conciliatory government.
Another Jewish group active on the Darfur issue, the American Jewish World Service, refused to connect the two recent events. AJWS spokesman Joshua Berkman said his organization “does not believe there is any legitimate link” between the arrest warrant and the ejection of aid groups.
“The ICC is an independent court and has nothing to do with humanitarian relief work,” he said.
Berkman said AJWS believes the international community is correct in rejecting the idea that humanitarian aid for 4 million people could be used as a “bargaining chip” in any way, and added that it was time for the United States to take the lead in pushing to resolve the conflict.
Saperstein agreed, saying that his group was pushing for the White House to name a special envoy to work on the issue.
After a meeting with President Obama last month, actor George Clooney said he was told there would be an envoy appointed, but the White House has not announced it.
In a letter last week signed by AJWS, the Religious Action Center and the JCPA, more than 50 members of the Save Darfur Coalition urged Obama to condemn publicly Bashir's actions and “insist that he restore access to life-saving humanitarian aid.”
While the effects of the expulsion of aid groups on Darfurians is not yet known, Jewish leaders said that Bashir's actions immediately caught the attention of the wider American Jewish community, which has been at the forefront of efforts to bring the world's focus to the Darfur genocide.
The Reform movement sent out an action alert last week to its congregations urging members to call their members of Congress about Darfur, and "judging from the response, people are re-engaged on this issue," Saperstein said.
He said the indictment and expulsion of aid groups "has galvanized people again."
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http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/17/1003774/standing-firm-on-sudanese-president-arrest-warrant
By Eric Fingerhut · March 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Hours after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir kicked humanitarian aid groups out of his country. Nevertheless, Jewish activists who backed the indictment are standing behind their decision.
The world community cannot allow Bashir's crimes and threats to deter the appropriate legal entities from taking action, said the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Rabbi David Saperstein.
Bashir's reaction reaffirms "the legitimacy of the indictment” by the International Criminal Court, said Saperstein, who noted that Bashir has been obstructing the provision of humanitarian aid for years, and that the indictment and arrest warrant should turn up the pressure on the Sudanese leader.
The warrant charges Bashir with five counts of crimes against humanity -- murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape -- in the Darfur region of Sudan. It also includes two counts of war crimes -- intentionally directing an attacks against a civilian population and pillaging.
After a nearly six-year campaign of systematic rape, expulsion and murder against the citizens of Darfur by the government-backed Janjaweed militia, hundreds of thousands have died and more than 2.5 million have fled their homes and live in refugee camps in the region or in the neighboring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic.
Following the arrest warrant, the Sudanese government revoked the licenses of 13 international humanitarian organizations and evicted them from Sudan on March 4. The government also closed down three domestic relief agencies.
According to the Save Darfur Coalition, the expelled organizations account for at least half of the humanitarian operations in Darfur, and without them, some 1.1 million people will be without food aid, 1.5 million will not have medical care and more than a million will be left without safe drinking water.
“I'm sad" about the situation, but "if criminal law is going to mean anything, we have to call it what it is,” said Rabbi Steve Gutow, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which earlier this month passed a resolution supporting the possible use of military force in Darfur.
Gutow said supporters of the indictment anticipated the consequences, but the hope is that the ICC action will have an impact “not today but tomorrow.” He said the arrest warrant increased the likelihood that others in the Sudanese leadership, upset by the international opprobrium, would push out Bashir and set up a more conciliatory government.
Another Jewish group active on the Darfur issue, the American Jewish World Service, refused to connect the two recent events. AJWS spokesman Joshua Berkman said his organization “does not believe there is any legitimate link” between the arrest warrant and the ejection of aid groups.
“The ICC is an independent court and has nothing to do with humanitarian relief work,” he said.
Berkman said AJWS believes the international community is correct in rejecting the idea that humanitarian aid for 4 million people could be used as a “bargaining chip” in any way, and added that it was time for the United States to take the lead in pushing to resolve the conflict.
Saperstein agreed, saying that his group was pushing for the White House to name a special envoy to work on the issue.
After a meeting with President Obama last month, actor George Clooney said he was told there would be an envoy appointed, but the White House has not announced it.
In a letter last week signed by AJWS, the Religious Action Center and the JCPA, more than 50 members of the Save Darfur Coalition urged Obama to condemn publicly Bashir's actions and “insist that he restore access to life-saving humanitarian aid.”
While the effects of the expulsion of aid groups on Darfurians is not yet known, Jewish leaders said that Bashir's actions immediately caught the attention of the wider American Jewish community, which has been at the forefront of efforts to bring the world's focus to the Darfur genocide.
The Reform movement sent out an action alert last week to its congregations urging members to call their members of Congress about Darfur, and "judging from the response, people are re-engaged on this issue," Saperstein said.
He said the indictment and expulsion of aid groups "has galvanized people again."
More articles by this author »
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søndag 8. mars 2009
Treatment of ethiopian tenants in Israel.
'Ethiopian tenants? Out of the question'
Real estate agent trying to find apartment in Ashkelon for new immigrants shocked to discover building has policy of not selling flats to Ethiopians, 'because it drops the apartments' value.' Deputy mayor: Unfortunately, I've encountered this problem many times
Shmulik Hadad
Published:
02.13.09, 09:06 / Israel News
Shlomo Blai vows to fight phenomenon
Ugly racism in Ashkelon: R., a real estate agent from Ashkelon, arrived at a building in one of the southern city's neighborhoods recently with a couple of new immigrants, and was shocked to discover that the place has a policy of not selling apartments to Ethiopians.
A thorough investigation revealed that this policy is shared by all of the building's tenants, and perhaps the residents of additional buildings in the area as well – most of them of Russian descent.
Created Equal
Rabbi Amar calls for end to discrimination against Ethiopians / Neta Sela
Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi issues plea to community's schools, asks that they stop refusing Ethiopian students' admission
Full story
In a conversation the real estate agent had with A., the owner of one of the building's apartments, A. asked about the potential buyers. When he heard that they were Ethiopian immigrants, he replied, "Out of the question… This is unacceptable in my apartment.
"Excuse me, but there are no Ethiopians in this area at all, and there won't be any. This is our policy. I have no problem with them living somewhere else… Anyone can come, but not Ethiopians. This is how it is in the entire building, at least I hope it is, in order to preserve the apartment's value and the building's value."
In another conversation, A. repeated his stance, adding, "We’ve kept this rule of not selling to Ethiopians for 16 years. I can't speak for the entire house, but this is how I feel… It immediately drops the apartment's value… Although I'll be leaving the building, their apartments drop 30% in value… I'm no expert in the details, but the price goes down if Ethiopians come.
"I don’t care who lives here, I'm not racist. But when I leave the building where I have lived for the past 16 years, the rest of the tenants will look at me as a traitor because I sold to Ethiopians. I don’t want to ruin my relations with my friends."
A. went on to explain, "It just happened that there are no Ethiopians in the houses around us. A quarter of the apartments have been sold in our building. There are no Ethiopians at all, and almost everyone is Russian.... It's not a written rule, but there is such a decision that it drops the apartment's value.
"This isn't a racist issue, this is reality, which proves that it drops the apartments' prices. Why? That question should be directed to those who don’t want to pay. It's not my call, it's the fact on the ground. People call me at the apartment and they almost always ask, 'Do you have Ethiopians in the building?' It matters to some people, that's all."
The apartment was eventually sold to a couple of new immigrants from Russia.
'No Ethiopians here'
Another resident in the building, who only identified herself as Irena, also clarified that "we have no Ethiopians in this building". Pointing at the eastern end of the neighborhood, she added, "There are Ethiopians down there. We don’t have any. I don’t know who I'll sell my house to, but I won't sell it to Ethiopians. It's our building, we're all friends here, we grew up together, and each person wants to live next to the people he knows."
"And you don’t know the Ethiopians?" she was asked. "No, I don’t know them, and I don’t think I want to get to know them," she replied and hurried home.
Ashkelon's Deputy Mayor Avi Vaaknin, who has previously been in charge of the city's welfare department and has dealt with issues concerting the Ethiopian community, said in response the he is familiar with this phenomenon.
"Unfortunately, we have encountered this phenomenon many times, and each time I was shocked because one expects such phenomena to disappear in this era. But each time you hear about it you think it's a one-time incident. Unfortunately, this phenomenon exists, and it's good that it has been exposed in its full ugliness, because raising this issue will only help fight such ugly phenomenon," he noted.
Former Council Member Shlomo Blai, head of the Ethiopian community in Ashkelon, was shocked to hear about the story. He said he had heard about the phenomenon in the distant past, "but I couldn’t believe such things still exist in Ashkelon. It's shocking, outrageous, and simply awful. I talk about it and I'm all shaking with anger.
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"It's unthinkable that such things happen in 2009. Each time I hear about such racist things I ask myself what sin have we committed. Is a person's skin color enough to cause people to treat other people like this? They are not criminals or bad people, but rather people like you and me. I won't keep silent over this issue."
A thorough investigation revealed that this policy is shared by all of the building's tenants, and perhaps the residents of additional buildings in the area as well – most of them of Russian descent.
Created Equal
Rabbi Amar calls for end to discrimination against Ethiopians / Neta Sela
Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi issues plea to community's schools, asks that they stop refusing Ethiopian students' admission
Full story
In a conversation the real estate agent had with A., the owner of one of the building's apartments, A. asked about the potential buyers. When he heard that they were Ethiopian immigrants, he replied, "Out of the question… This is unacceptable in my apartment.
"Excuse me, but there are no Ethiopians in this area at all, and there won't be any. This is our policy. I have no problem with them living somewhere else… Anyone can come, but not Ethiopians. This is how it is in the entire building, at least I hope it is, in order to preserve the apartment's value and the building's value."
In another conversation, A. repeated his stance, adding, "We’ve kept this rule of not selling to Ethiopians for 16 years. I can't speak for the entire house, but this is how I feel… It immediately drops the apartment's value… Although I'll be leaving the building, their apartments drop 30% in value… I'm no expert in the details, but the price goes down if Ethiopians come.
"I don’t care who lives here, I'm not racist. But when I leave the building where I have lived for the past 16 years, the rest of the tenants will look at me as a traitor because I sold to Ethiopians. I don’t want to ruin my relations with my friends."
A. went on to explain, "It just happened that there are no Ethiopians in the houses around us. A quarter of the apartments have been sold in our building. There are no Ethiopians at all, and almost everyone is Russian.... It's not a written rule, but there is such a decision that it drops the apartment's value.
"This isn't a racist issue, this is reality, which proves that it drops the apartments' prices. Why? That question should be directed to those who don’t want to pay. It's not my call, it's the fact on the ground. People call me at the apartment and they almost always ask, 'Do you have Ethiopians in the building?' It matters to some people, that's all."
The apartment was eventually sold to a couple of new immigrants from Russia.
'No Ethiopians here'
Another resident in the building, who only identified herself as Irena, also clarified that "we have no Ethiopians in this building". Pointing at the eastern end of the neighborhood, she added, "There are Ethiopians down there. We don’t have any. I don’t know who I'll sell my house to, but I won't sell it to Ethiopians. It's our building, we're all friends here, we grew up together, and each person wants to live next to the people he knows."
"And you don’t know the Ethiopians?" she was asked. "No, I don’t know them, and I don’t think I want to get to know them," she replied and hurried home.
Ashkelon's Deputy Mayor Avi Vaaknin, who has previously been in charge of the city's welfare department and has dealt with issues concerting the Ethiopian community, said in response the he is familiar with this phenomenon.
"Unfortunately, we have encountered this phenomenon many times, and each time I was shocked because one expects such phenomena to disappear in this era. But each time you hear about it you think it's a one-time incident. Unfortunately, this phenomenon exists, and it's good that it has been exposed in its full ugliness, because raising this issue will only help fight such ugly phenomenon," he noted.
Former Council Member Shlomo Blai, head of the Ethiopian community in Ashkelon, was shocked to hear about the story. He said he had heard about the phenomenon in the distant past, "but I couldn’t believe such things still exist in Ashkelon. It's shocking, outrageous, and simply awful. I talk about it and I'm all shaking with anger.
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"It's unthinkable that such things happen in 2009. Each time I hear about such racist things I ask myself what sin have we committed. Is a person's skin color enough to cause people to treat other people like this? They are not criminals or bad people, but rather people like you and me. I won't keep silent over this issue."
onsdag 4. mars 2009
Darfur still on the brain at JCPA gathering
By Eric Fingerhut · March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The economic crisis and other issues may have far surpassed it in the headlines, but the Jewish community still cares about the crisis in Darfur.
That was evident this week in Washington as the Jewish Council for Public Affairs passed a resolution at its annual plenum endorsing the option of U.S. military force in Sudan.
“I think it's a statement about this community's steadfastness,” said JCPA's executive director, Rabbi Steve Gutow, noting that even though local Jewish communities have spent much time and effort on Darfur in the past few years, great concern remains about the genocide in the region.
The plenum serves as an annual barometer of where the organized Jewish community stands on a host of issues. Representatives of JCPA's member organizations -- the synagogue movements, several national groups and more than 100 local communities across North America -- come together for the event.
The resolution, in addition to calling for intensified diplomatic efforts and the appointment of a senior full-time envoy to the Sudan, states that the U.S. government should "not exclude the option of military means if feasible, and in coalition with other countries, to protect the innocent civilians in Darfur and to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid." It passed overwhelmingly after an effort to strike the paragraph on the military option garnered little support.
Another resolution that achieved wide backing of public-policy advocates from more than 100 community relations councils and 14 national organizations encouraged local communities to pursue Jewish-Muslim dialogue on common concerns such as civil liberties issues and fighting racism and prejudice.
“Differences remain" among the two communities, the document says, but "they should not necessarily preclude efforts to dialogue."
Its advocates say the resolution will provide “guidance” to local communities. Jack Moline, a Conservative rabbi from Alexandria, Va., who helped craft the statement, says it simply says that “we should be treating Muslims like any other partner in dialogue.”
Some critics argued that the resolution did not provide enough guidance on controversial issues.Holder: No clash between ideals, security
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder received a standing ovation before he started speaking on Monday morning.
“This is definitely my kind of audience,” he said in response.
The main theme of Holder's 15-minute talk was that the conflict between fighting terrorism and protecting “our tradition of civil liberties” is not a “zero-sum battle.” Such an idea is not only “misguided,” he said, but “has done us more harm than good.”
After the speech Holder held an hourlong, off-the-record meeting with about a dozen top JCPA leaders on legal topics from torture to church-state issues.
"It was a deep, substantive discussion," said JCPA Washington director Hadar Susskind, adding that the attorney general saw the meeting as the "first step in building an open and engaged relationship with the Jewish community."How big a tent?The Jewish Council for Public Affairs Plenum's Sunday discussion of "How Big a Tent for Pro-Israel Advocacy?" marked the debut of a new face inside the tent.
J Street, the 10-month-old group that has marketed itself as an alternative to what it believes are the more hawkish views of mainstream Jewish organizations, for the first time was invited to participate in a conference held by an established group.The invitation sparked a spirited but civi, debate about how the Jewish community should discuss Israel.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street's executive director, argued that the community should shun useless labels such as "pro-Israel" and instead have a vibrant discussion about what is best for the Jewish state -- saying that "orthodoxy" of opinion on Israel was "dangerous" and "sowing the seeds of destruction" for the Jewish community.
The deputy national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Kenneth Jacobson, responded that there was plenty of debate about Israel in the American Jewish community, but it happened in places such as the JCPA plenum and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The community has thought about the best way to be effective and have influence, Jacobson said, and the answer was to have a "consensus position" when it goes to Congress -- an approach that has achieved “unbelievable success.”
There's a "difference between the right to think as an individual and the responsibility of the community to present advocacy in a way that will have an impact,” the ADL official said.
Meanwhile, the third member of the panel, Endowment for Middle East Truth founder and director Sarah Stern, asserted that there was a "tremendous distinction between lobbying from the left and right” because those on the left were “encouraging risks.” Jacobson rejected that notion.
Stern and Jacobson argued that those who want to participate in the community's debate about the Jewish state should at least be grounded in some minimal amount of education about Israel and the Jewish world.
Ben-Ami, though, said the community can only benefit from bringing more people into the discussion, saying that young Jews are turned off when they are given just one opinion on the conflict but will be engaged by more free-flowing debate.
The crowd of about 75 seemed to include supporters of both viewpoints, and Ben-Ami was pleased afterward by the debate his appearance had fostered.
"This is the kind of discussion we need to have," he said. "If college students saw this, they'd be thrilled."
REALLLLLLLLYYYYY????? Commmon sense!!!!
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The economic crisis and other issues may have far surpassed it in the headlines, but the Jewish community still cares about the crisis in Darfur.
That was evident this week in Washington as the Jewish Council for Public Affairs passed a resolution at its annual plenum endorsing the option of U.S. military force in Sudan.
“I think it's a statement about this community's steadfastness,” said JCPA's executive director, Rabbi Steve Gutow, noting that even though local Jewish communities have spent much time and effort on Darfur in the past few years, great concern remains about the genocide in the region.
The plenum serves as an annual barometer of where the organized Jewish community stands on a host of issues. Representatives of JCPA's member organizations -- the synagogue movements, several national groups and more than 100 local communities across North America -- come together for the event.
The resolution, in addition to calling for intensified diplomatic efforts and the appointment of a senior full-time envoy to the Sudan, states that the U.S. government should "not exclude the option of military means if feasible, and in coalition with other countries, to protect the innocent civilians in Darfur and to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid." It passed overwhelmingly after an effort to strike the paragraph on the military option garnered little support.
Another resolution that achieved wide backing of public-policy advocates from more than 100 community relations councils and 14 national organizations encouraged local communities to pursue Jewish-Muslim dialogue on common concerns such as civil liberties issues and fighting racism and prejudice.
“Differences remain" among the two communities, the document says, but "they should not necessarily preclude efforts to dialogue."
Its advocates say the resolution will provide “guidance” to local communities. Jack Moline, a Conservative rabbi from Alexandria, Va., who helped craft the statement, says it simply says that “we should be treating Muslims like any other partner in dialogue.”
Some critics argued that the resolution did not provide enough guidance on controversial issues.Holder: No clash between ideals, security
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder received a standing ovation before he started speaking on Monday morning.
“This is definitely my kind of audience,” he said in response.
The main theme of Holder's 15-minute talk was that the conflict between fighting terrorism and protecting “our tradition of civil liberties” is not a “zero-sum battle.” Such an idea is not only “misguided,” he said, but “has done us more harm than good.”
After the speech Holder held an hourlong, off-the-record meeting with about a dozen top JCPA leaders on legal topics from torture to church-state issues.
"It was a deep, substantive discussion," said JCPA Washington director Hadar Susskind, adding that the attorney general saw the meeting as the "first step in building an open and engaged relationship with the Jewish community."How big a tent?The Jewish Council for Public Affairs Plenum's Sunday discussion of "How Big a Tent for Pro-Israel Advocacy?" marked the debut of a new face inside the tent.
J Street, the 10-month-old group that has marketed itself as an alternative to what it believes are the more hawkish views of mainstream Jewish organizations, for the first time was invited to participate in a conference held by an established group.The invitation sparked a spirited but civi, debate about how the Jewish community should discuss Israel.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street's executive director, argued that the community should shun useless labels such as "pro-Israel" and instead have a vibrant discussion about what is best for the Jewish state -- saying that "orthodoxy" of opinion on Israel was "dangerous" and "sowing the seeds of destruction" for the Jewish community.
The deputy national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Kenneth Jacobson, responded that there was plenty of debate about Israel in the American Jewish community, but it happened in places such as the JCPA plenum and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The community has thought about the best way to be effective and have influence, Jacobson said, and the answer was to have a "consensus position" when it goes to Congress -- an approach that has achieved “unbelievable success.”
There's a "difference between the right to think as an individual and the responsibility of the community to present advocacy in a way that will have an impact,” the ADL official said.
Meanwhile, the third member of the panel, Endowment for Middle East Truth founder and director Sarah Stern, asserted that there was a "tremendous distinction between lobbying from the left and right” because those on the left were “encouraging risks.” Jacobson rejected that notion.
Stern and Jacobson argued that those who want to participate in the community's debate about the Jewish state should at least be grounded in some minimal amount of education about Israel and the Jewish world.
Ben-Ami, though, said the community can only benefit from bringing more people into the discussion, saying that young Jews are turned off when they are given just one opinion on the conflict but will be engaged by more free-flowing debate.
The crowd of about 75 seemed to include supporters of both viewpoints, and Ben-Ami was pleased afterward by the debate his appearance had fostered.
"This is the kind of discussion we need to have," he said. "If college students saw this, they'd be thrilled."
REALLLLLLLLYYYYY????? Commmon sense!!!!
torsdag 26. februar 2009
George Clooney wanna save Darfur!!! REALLY? WILL YOU BELIEVE ANY OF THIS?????
Another Zionist Propaganda Scheme
The Zionist Orchestrated Crisis In Darfur
Clooney Discusses Darfur With VP Biden
His battle to bring peace to Darfur brought him to the White House on Monday, where he met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Clooney's Fellow Zionist
Clooney, a longtime Darfur activist and a Messenger of Peace for the United Nations, was in Darfur last week with journalists Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and Ann Curry of NBC."I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth," Clooney told King of his visit. 6
Sudan's Muslim leader
Clooney says this monster uses a mysterious militia, the 'Janjaweed', to burn remote villages at night.
The Zionist Orchestrated Crisis In Darfur
Clooney Discusses Darfur With VP Biden
His battle to bring peace to Darfur brought him to the White House on Monday, where he met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Clooney's Fellow Zionist
Clooney, a longtime Darfur activist and a Messenger of Peace for the United Nations, was in Darfur last week with journalists Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and Ann Curry of NBC."I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth," Clooney told King of his visit. 6
Sudan's Muslim leaderClooney says this monster uses a mysterious militia, the 'Janjaweed', to burn remote villages at night.
Isrealis and Darfur.
Gadhafi: Israel responsible for Darfur crisis
February 24, 2009
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi said Israel is to blame for the crisis in Darfur.
Gadhafi, president of the African Union, said Tuesday that "foreign forces," including Israel, are to blame for the genocide in the Sudan region.
"We discovered that some of the main leaders of the Darfur rebels have opened offices in Tel Aviv and hold meetings with the military there to add fuel to the conflict fire," the Libyan state news agency Jana quoted Gadhafi as saying, Ha'aretz reported.
Gadhafi urged the International Criminal Court to stop proceedings to decide whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is accused of masterminding the genocide.
"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv, for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?" he said.
source: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/24/1003247/gadhafi-israel-responsible-for-darfur-crisis
February 24, 2009
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi said Israel is to blame for the crisis in Darfur.
Gadhafi, president of the African Union, said Tuesday that "foreign forces," including Israel, are to blame for the genocide in the Sudan region.
"We discovered that some of the main leaders of the Darfur rebels have opened offices in Tel Aviv and hold meetings with the military there to add fuel to the conflict fire," the Libyan state news agency Jana quoted Gadhafi as saying, Ha'aretz reported.
Gadhafi urged the International Criminal Court to stop proceedings to decide whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is accused of masterminding the genocide.
"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv, for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?" he said.
source: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/24/1003247/gadhafi-israel-responsible-for-darfur-crisis
torsdag 19. februar 2009
Zionist really?
Pope Benedict XVI calls Holocaust denial 'intolerable'
Pope Benedict XVI has told Jewish leaders he believes Holocaust denial and anti-semitism are 'intolerable'.
By Nick Squires in Rome Last Updated: 12:22AM GMT 13 Feb 2009
The Pope met Gordon Brown at The Vatican Photo: REUTERS
His comments were his strongest condemnation yet following a row involving a British bishop who questioned the details of the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.
The Pope told Jewish leaders visiting the Vatican that it was unacceptable for anyone, but especially a priest, to deny the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War.
Benedict repeated a prayer recited by John Paul II in Jerusalem in March 2000, in which his predecessor had asked for "forgiveness" for the past persecution of Jews by Christians.
Pope Benedict said: "I now make his prayer my own."
He also confirmed that he will visit Israel in May, probably from the 8th to 13th of the month – his first trip to the Holy Land as Pontiff.
The Pope's meeting with about 60 American Jewish leaders at the Vatican was an attempt to rebuild bridges with Jews worldwide after he lifted the excommunication of a maverick British bishop, Richard Williamson, who denies the scale of the Holocaust and has questioned the use of gas chambers as the Nazi method of killing.
The Cambridge-educated bishop insisted in a television interview broadcast last month that the Nazis killed 200,000 to 300,000 Jews, rather than the six million accepted by historians, and that none of them were gassed.
Benedict said the Roman Catholic Church was "profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-semitism".
"The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah [the Hebrew term for the Holocaust] was a crime against God and against humanity," he told delegates from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations.
"This should be clear to everyone, especially to those standing in the tradition of the Holy Scriptures."
Some Jewish leaders called for the Pope to go further and repeal Bishop Williamson's excommunication, but he made no specific mention of the British cleric.
Jewish groups and moderate Catholics were outraged when the Vatican lifted the excommunication in January, just days after Bishop Williamson's interview was broadcast on Swedish television.
Bishop Williamson, 67, later apologised for the trouble he had caused the Pope, but defied Benedict's demand that he recant his views, saying only that he would "re-examine" the historical evidence.
On Monday he was sacked as director of the seminary he ran in La Reja, Argentina, by the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X, a breakaway Catholic faction of which he is a member.
Senior cardinals insisted the Pope was unaware that Bishop Williamson was a Holocaust denier, but critics said a simple Google search would have revealed his controversial views.
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4603324/Pope-Benedict-XVI-calls-Holocaust-denial-intolerable.html
Pope Benedict XVI has told Jewish leaders he believes Holocaust denial and anti-semitism are 'intolerable'.
By Nick Squires in Rome Last Updated: 12:22AM GMT 13 Feb 2009
The Pope met Gordon Brown at The Vatican Photo: REUTERS
His comments were his strongest condemnation yet following a row involving a British bishop who questioned the details of the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.
The Pope told Jewish leaders visiting the Vatican that it was unacceptable for anyone, but especially a priest, to deny the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War.
Benedict repeated a prayer recited by John Paul II in Jerusalem in March 2000, in which his predecessor had asked for "forgiveness" for the past persecution of Jews by Christians.
Pope Benedict said: "I now make his prayer my own."
He also confirmed that he will visit Israel in May, probably from the 8th to 13th of the month – his first trip to the Holy Land as Pontiff.
The Pope's meeting with about 60 American Jewish leaders at the Vatican was an attempt to rebuild bridges with Jews worldwide after he lifted the excommunication of a maverick British bishop, Richard Williamson, who denies the scale of the Holocaust and has questioned the use of gas chambers as the Nazi method of killing.
The Cambridge-educated bishop insisted in a television interview broadcast last month that the Nazis killed 200,000 to 300,000 Jews, rather than the six million accepted by historians, and that none of them were gassed.
Benedict said the Roman Catholic Church was "profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-semitism".
"The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah [the Hebrew term for the Holocaust] was a crime against God and against humanity," he told delegates from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations.
"This should be clear to everyone, especially to those standing in the tradition of the Holy Scriptures."
Some Jewish leaders called for the Pope to go further and repeal Bishop Williamson's excommunication, but he made no specific mention of the British cleric.
Jewish groups and moderate Catholics were outraged when the Vatican lifted the excommunication in January, just days after Bishop Williamson's interview was broadcast on Swedish television.
Bishop Williamson, 67, later apologised for the trouble he had caused the Pope, but defied Benedict's demand that he recant his views, saying only that he would "re-examine" the historical evidence.
On Monday he was sacked as director of the seminary he ran in La Reja, Argentina, by the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X, a breakaway Catholic faction of which he is a member.
Senior cardinals insisted the Pope was unaware that Bishop Williamson was a Holocaust denier, but critics said a simple Google search would have revealed his controversial views.
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4603324/Pope-Benedict-XVI-calls-Holocaust-denial-intolerable.html
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