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Anthem of Israel
THE DECLARATION
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL May 14, 1948
●
We will stand with Israel as she defends her right to be a sovereign
Jewish state with defensible borders living in peace with her neighbors. ●
We recognize United Jerusalem as
the eternal capital of Israel and support the development of the
communities in Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland of Israel. ● We will
fight against anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-Christian activities - in
education, geo-politics, and in the culture. ● We will
not remain silent as Israel
and the United States are undermined, threatened, and attacked by those
who seek to manipulate history, deny the truth, dismantle the
foundations and destroy the values that have made our nations free and
prosperous.
Anathoth
Jeremiah
32:14-15'Thus
saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of
the
purchase, both that which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and
put them
in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the G-d of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be
bought in
this land.'
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Faces
of Zionism
May
Long Founder
CJUI
"I am a Zionist because Israel
is my history, the land of my people. Israel continues to be the
safe
haven for persecuted Jews forced to flee anti-Semitism worldwide.
Israel is
freedom, a light unto the
nations. Stand with
me to fight for Israel’s security and survival."
Rev.
Fumio
Taku President
CJUI
"As
a Christian, my faith rests on the God of Israel and His holy
scriptures, which clearly state that the Land and people of Israel are
inseparable. It is my joy to stand with our Jewish neighbors in support
of Israel and of our
Judeo-Christian values."
Pastor
Scott &
Dorie Smith Christian
Renewal Church
Beverly, MA
Pastor
J. Abede Alexandre
Senior
Pastor
Tabernacle Baptist Congregation
Roslindale, MA
Gus and Dale Wheeler Gus
is CJUI’s Central
Massachusetts Representative.
"The Lord our God has
captured
our Gentile hearts with His love for Israel and caused us to join hands
with
the Jewish people in her support and defense."
Charles
Jacobs President
APT
Americans for
Peace
and
Tolerance
"Jews
and Christians seek to
walk hand in hand as we are both targeted by radical Islamists."
Boston College
Students for Israel
"Israel
is a country to be celebrated and never demonized"
Lori Lowenthal Marcus President
Z
Street
"Israel
belongs to the Jewish people
historically, legally, morally, biblically. I am a Zionist
because I
embrace my duty to defend the Jewish State against all enemies - within
and
without - and to maintain it as the sanctuary of our people."
Stan
Robbins CJUI
Board Member
Francis Bok Author,
"Escape From Slavery"
"As
one who was forced into slavery,
who has witnessed the slaughter of thousands of innocent people by
radical Muslims in the Sudan, I am stunned by those who demonize
Israel, crying out " Apartheid."
Tom
Trento Executive
Director Florida
Security Council
"I
am simply a Christian, united to Israel and
Jews… yesterday, today and forever."
Denette
Abers CJUI
Board Member
"Loving
the people and land of Israel has nothing to do
with being blessed if I bless Israel, and nothing nothing to do with
end time
scenarios. It has everything to do with Israel being the apple of God's
eye. As
I behold Him He continues to create in me the same undying love He
has for
His people."
Laurie
Cardoza-Moore President
PJTN
Proclaiming
Justice
To The Nations
"I am
a Zionist because my faith compels me to be. Israel stands as a
testimony
to the world that G-d's Covenant to Abraham is still in tact."
Dr.
Jean and Dr. Reed Holmes Directors: Maine Friendship
House, Jaffa
"As
Christians living in Israel, we see the apartheid charge as a complete
misrepresentation of Israeli society. Israeli Arabs serve in the
Knesset, shop
in the same store as we and vote in elections."
Bonnie Torrey Entrepreneur-Retailer
"In
the truest meaning of Zionism, I support the return of the Jewish
people to
their G-d given homeland, to be sovereign in their state and to be able
to
claim the promises that Hashem has for them."
Margot Einstein Membership
Chair, CJUI
"Zionism
is the marrow of my bones, the blood of life that pulses
through my veins.
On
April 19th Victory Assembly of God in Sharon MAwas vandalized with
swastikas painted on the doors and a "Celebrate Jerusalem Day" banner
that hung outside the church was shredded.The rock used
in the
hate crime to break a window at the church has been repurposed to
proclaim a
vital message from Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall
prosper.”
On May
19th, the church is hosting Boston's Jerusalem Day celebration, with
Rev. Pat
Robertson (founder of CBN/700 Club), Consul General to New England Shai
Bazak,
and other
notable speakers.
Come
join us on Sunday, May 19th at 1pm. Let's
tell whoever did these
hateful acts
that we are not backing down!!
Victory
Assembly of God
67 High
Plain St., Sharon, MA
Sunday,
May 19, 2013
1:00 PM –
3:00 PM
Taking a look at the background
to the E-1 Zone Proposal
"Contrary to reports, the completion of
E-1 would not cut the West Bank in half and undermine Palestinian
contiguity. Israel has planned a new road that would allow Palestinian
traffic coming from the south to pass eastward of Maale Adumim and
continue northward to connect with the cities in the northern West
Bank."
Protecting
the Contiguity of Israel: The E-1 Area and the Link Between Jerusalem
and Maale
Adumim by
Nadav Shragai, May 24, 2009
Linking
the City of Maale
Adumim to Jerusalem
The
site called E-1(East 1) is an area immediately adjacent to Jerusalem to
the
east, which covers an area of 12,000 dunams of largely uninhabited and
mostly state-owned
land. It is within the municipal boundary of the Israeli city of Maale
Adumim.
The Israel Ministry of Housing, which devised the E-1 construction
plan, sought
to develop the area in order to link Maale Adumim and its 36,000
residents to
Jerusalem.
Every
Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has supported the plan to
create
Israeli urban contiguity between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem. The
centerpiece of
the E-1 program involves the construction of 3,500 housing units, a
commercial
area, and a hotel zone.
The
plan is a subject of bitter international controversy, with the
Palestinians
claiming that it would prevent sovereign Palestinian contiguity between
the
northern and southern areas of the West Bank. The United States has
supported
the Palestinian position and has sought to block Israeli construction
at the
site, pending a final peace agreement.
Opinion Tevet 5, 5773, 18/12/12 08:50 From Giulio Meotti
Surprised that Israelis
entering Jordan are required to deposit religious Jewish items, like
skullcaps
and tefillin, for "security reasons?
It's happening in many
European
countries as well, where Jews are once again in grave danger and
Judeophobia
has become the common currency of politics.
Jews in Denmark have just
been warned by Israeli officials not to appear publicly wearing Jewish
religious symbols such as yarmulkes or stars of David in order to avoid
increasing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic altercations. “We advise
Israelis who
come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their
skull caps
until they enter the building and not to wear them in the street,
irrespective
of whether the areas they are visiting are seen as being safe,” said
Israel’s
ambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon.
Got that? To be
identifiable
as a Jew in public in Europe is to invite violence. There are European
areas in
its bigger cities where you cannot go outside looking like a Jew -
it's
like being in Gaza.
In the last few weeks, an
Israeli representative of the Magen David Adom was attacked at
Copenhagen
Central Station, while in central Copenaghen Jews who were wearing a
kippah were
have been phisically and verbally
attacked.
[Continue....]
Prosor:
Israeli Construction Not an Obstacle to Peace
by Elad Benari
Arutz
Sheva
12/20/2012
Israel's
building in its own capital is not an obstable to peace, but rather
the Arabs' demands and incitement, Israel's ambassador to the United
Nations
said on Wednesday.
Ambassador Ron Prosor was responding to the condemnation
by four European members of the Security
Council of Israel's plans to build thousands of new housing units in
Judea,
Samaria and Jerusalem.
"The planned construction is in neighborhoods that will be part of
Jerusalem and Israeli sovereignty under any future agreement between
Israel and
the Palestinian Authority," he said. "It is hypocrisy to call for
Palestinian territorial contiguity between Judea and Samaria and Gaza
and in
the same breath also oppose Jewish territorial contiguity between
Ma'aleh
Adumim and Jerusalem." [Continue.......]
PM: Where is Outrage as Hamas
Openly Seeks Our Destruction? Arutz Sheva
staff
12/10/2012
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met
with representatives of the foreign media in Israel on Monday,
denouncing the hypocrisy that has come to dominate the international
community’s handling of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"This weekend Hamas leaders openly
called for Israel's destruction. Where was the outrage? Where was the
UN? Where was Abbas?” Netanyahu demanded. “Why did Palestinian
diplomats not only remain silent in the face of these calls, but spoke
of the intention to unite with Hamas?”
“There was only deafening silence,”
asserted the prime minister.
“We cannot accept that the
international community has no problem denouncing Israeli intentions of
building Jewish homes in the nation's historic capital of Jerusalem but
remains silent as Palestinian leaders openly call for Israel’s
destruction,” Netanyahu said.
Fact
checking the settlement issue by
Yoram Ettinger 12.07.2012
1. Judea and Samaria (Jewish roots) or West
Bank (Arab roots)?
“Judea” (יהודה) is the origin of the term “Jew”
(יהודי). Its Hebrew spelling combines one of God’s names: Jehova (יהוה)
and one of God’s acronyms: ד'. Judea and Samaria are the cradle of
Jewish history, religion, culture, holidays, ethos, language and
yearnings. The official name of the area was "Judea and Samaria" from
Biblical times until April 1950, when Jordan occupied/annexed the area,
renaming it "West Bank," as distinguished from the east bank of the
Jordan River. Judea and Samaria was the official name used by the
1922-1948 British Mandate of Palestine, as well as by the U.N.
2. Are Jewish settlements in Judea and
Samaria an obstacle to peace?
Jewish settlements were established in Judea and
Samaria after the 1967 War. However, it was pre-1967 Arab terrorism
which annihilated the Jewish communities of Hebron, Gush Etzion and
Gaza and raged in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Galilee during the 1920s,
1930s and 1940s — [continue.....]
Thursday, Nov. 29, the
Palestinian Authority successfully won the bid to upgrade status at the
UN to a non-member observer state
Netanyahu responded by stating, “Peace cannot be achieved by going to
the UN unilaterally and not by joining the terrorist organization
Hamas,” Netanyahu said in a statement quoted by Israel’s Channel 2 News. “Peace will only be achieved through
direct negotiations with Israel.”
From the
text of Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor's speech at the UN
General Assembly on November 29. 2012
Today I stand before you tall and
proud because I represent the world’s one
and only Jewish state. A state built in the Jewish people’s ancient
homeland,
with its eternal capital Jerusalem as its beating heart.
We are a nation with deep roots in the
past and bright hopes for the future.
We are a nation that values idealism, but acts with pragmatism. Israel
is a
nation that never hesitates to defend itself, but will always extend
its hand
for peace.
Peace is a central value of Israeli
society. The bible calls on us:
“seek peace and pursue it.”
Peace fills our art and poetry. It is
taught in our schools. It has been the
goal of the Israeli people and every Israeli leader since Israel was
re-established 64 years ago.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence
states, “We extend our hand to all
neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good
neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation
and mutual
help…” (Complete text......)
How does the IDF minimize harm to
Palestinian civilians?
Tells audience influence has penetrated 'deepest halls of our
government'
by Michael Carl
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin is warning that Islamic
Shariah law already is in the United States, and is forming a cloud
over the future of the nation.
Boykin, addressing a packed house at a synagogue today in Stoughton,
Mass., said, “There is a threat to this country from Shariah and the
Muslim Brotherhood,” noting the Muslim Brotherhood has had a presence
in the U.S. since at least 1962.
“The new Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, said he joined the Muslim
Brotherhood in 1978 while he was in the United States of America.
People who say that the Muslim Brotherhood is not in America are not
dealing in reality,” Boykin said. Continued........
Simon Deng Former Sudanese Slave: “Calling
Israel a racist state is
absolutely absurd and immoral.”
"I
came here as a friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. –I
came to
protest this Durban conference which is based on a set of lies. It is
organized
by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of
oppression.
It
will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target
the Jewish
state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has itself become
a tool
against Israel. For over 50 years, 82 percent of the UN General
Assembly
emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel.
Hitler
couldn’t have been made happier."
"The Palestinians’ claim that they are an ancient and
indigenous people
fails tostand up to historic scrutiny."
Palestinians Eli E. Hertz
“Repeat a
lie often enough and people will
begin to believe it.”
Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels
There is no
age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative
newcomers
to the Land
of Israel
Like a
mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim
that the Palestinians are a native people. The concept of a ‘Stateless
Palestinian people’ is not based on fact. It is a fabrication.
Palestinian
Arabs cast themselves as a
native people in “Palestine” – like the
Aborigines in Australia
or
Native Americans in America.
They portray the Jews as European imperialists and colonizers. This is
simply
untrue.(Read entire article here..)
Young
Arab Woman's Life
Saved by Israeli Doctors
When a young Arab mother's life was
at risk after giving
birth in a Palestinian Authority hospital, the Arab doctors and her
parents decided to transport her to an Israeli hospital, where the
Israeli doctors immediately operated on her to save her
life!!
This is the true picture of
Israel, a nation dedicated to saving every human life, whether Jewish
or Arab! Israel is the champion of human rights in the
Middle East.
We are absolutely outraged when
anti-Zionists falsely accuse Israel as an apartheid occupier of the
Arab Palestinians. Israel is dedicated to saving lives; Hamas
and Hezbollah, backed up by Syria and Iran, are dedicated to wiping
Israel off the map.
It is truly ironic that those
who accuse Israel of "apartheid policy" are themselves
the champion of human rights violations and apartheid laws!
Valuing every person, regardless
of gender, race, nationality, or faith is a foundational
Judeo-Christian value that is protected by law in America and Israel.
This defines who we are as nations. It differentiates us from many
other nations of the world, where many of their citizens receive only
limited rights, privilege, or protection, because of their gender or
faith.
Rabbi Akiva was quoted as saying
that "Love your neighbors as yourself" [Leviticus 19:18] is "the major
tenet of the Torah." Lev. 19:34 further states: "The stranger who
resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall
love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I
the LORD am your God."
Likewise Jesus
is quoted in Mark 12:28-29: "One of the teachers of the law came
and...asked [Jesus], 'Of all the commandments, which one is the most
important?' Jesus answered, 'The most important one is this: Hear,
O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as
yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.'"
This is the foundation of our
Judeo-Christian values. Judaism does not teach Jews to go out and kill
those who do not follow Judaism. Nor did Jesus. He taught His followers
to love others, even love their enemies, and to do good to them that
hate them.
May 8th Judeophobia Check www.NH4Israel.org for details May 19,
2013, 1:00-3:00 PM Victory Assembly of God 67 High Plain St., Sharon MA United
Jerusalem Day Celebration May
20, 2013, 8:00 PM Congregation
Beth El-Atereth Israel 561 Ward
Street, Newton, MA Campus Antisemitism and What the Jewish
Community Can Do About It
Howard
Passman speaks about volunteering in Israel May 29, 2013,7:30 PM Jewish Community Center
of North Shore 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA Northeastern Unbecoming Demonization
of Israel and Jews on Campus June 5th, 2013 6:30 PM Temple Israel 66 Salmon St.
Manchester NH Inbar
Keren, Israeli Shlicah will speak on land ownership in Israel June 11, 3013, 7:00 PM Hudson
Portuguese/Riverview Club
13 Port Street, Hudson, MA 01749 Brigitte Gabriel , leading global expert on Islamic terrorism
Study by IJCR Researchers Exposes
Anti-Christian and Anti-Semitic Bias in U.S. K-12 Textbooks Reveals Gross Misrepresentation of
Religion, History and Social Studies
Official logo celebrating Fatah's 48th anniversary
includes map that shows all of Israel as "Palestine"
by Itamar
Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The
official Palestinian Authority daily published a picture of the
official logo chosen by Fatah for celebrations marking the movement's
48th anniversary. The logo features various symbols, including a
map of "Palestine" that includes all of Israel, the number 48, the
Palestinian flag, and the slogan for the 48th anniversary: "The state
and the victory."
In a related
article, Morton Klein, National President ZOA, wrote: “This new Fatah logo graphically depicts
the ugly truth about this unreconstructed terrorist organization whose Constitution to this day calls for the destruction
of Israel (Article 13) and the use of terrorism as an essential element
in the struggle to achieve this aim (Article 19). As with the quotes
reproduced below (and to which dozens more could be added), it belies
the fiction that Mahmoud Abbas is a ‘moderate’ who seeks peace with
Israel, and who wishes to end Palestinian terrorism against Israeli
Jews. It also makes clear that the principles of Yasser Arafat are
respected and promoted."
Palestinian
Authority President Abbas signed a presidential decree changing the
name of the
Palestinian Authority to the “State of Palestine,” following the
Palestinians’ upgraded
status at the United Nations as a non-member observer state.
According
to the decree, reported by
the official Palestinian news agency Wafa Thursday night, all stamps,
signs,
and official letterheads will be changed to bear the new name.
The
move was one of the first
concrete, albeit symbolic, steps the Palestinians have taken following
the
November 29 decision by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade
their
status to nonmember observer state.
Last month, the United
Nations
officially changed the way it refers to the Palestinians’ entity, from
“Palestine” to the “State of Palestine.”
An excellent
resource 25
Short Answers to
Tough Questions about Israel Click HERE to read Produced
by StandWithUs
Revisionist History Textbooks under Scrutiny
Distortions, Lies and Myths
parading as truth in school text materials...... How
has this happened?
Concerns About Texts a Local Issue
The national
concern regarding inaccuracies in textbook materials hits close to home
in the Boston area. CJUI along with concerned citizens of Newton MA is
actively engaged in reviewing text materials used in the Newton school
district after discovering serious disinformation in the "Arab World
Studies Notebook" used in
course studies at Newton high schools. According to the school
administration, this particular source has now been removed. Yet,
there is still much work to be done.
In an editorial of the Jewish
Advocate, November 30, Steven Stotsky writes:
Newton School Committee
Vice
Chairman Matt Hills dismisses the concerns of parents that the Newton
schools
are using biased and error-prone sources to teach about Islam and the
Middle
East (The Jewish Advocate, Nov. 16). He states disparagingly:
“The
McCarthy-esque tactic of waving an unopened book and claiming it’s
filled with
terrible prejudices does not mean that the book actually contains such
biased
material.”
This apparent reference is
to
a School Committee meeting in which a citizen held up a book called “A
Muslim
Primer” that is purportedly used in the Newton schools. I say
“purportedly”
because various students and parents have said the volume has been used
but the
schools themselves have thus far refused to give the concerned citizens
access
to the teaching materials they use.
And, contrary to Mr. Hills’
assertion, “A Muslim Primer” was not only opened – but read. (Cont...)
What should Israel do?
Yoram Ettinger Dec. 3, 2012
The November 29, 2012 U.N. vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to
a “nonmember observer state” — in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords —
was an expected derivative of Israel’s policy toward the PA since 1993
— critical concessions, retreats, indecisiveness, submission to
pressure and appeasement.
What has Israel done since 1993?
Unprecedented
Israeli concessions — such as the legitimization, importation and
arming of 60,000 Palestinian terrorists from Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya,
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia and the evacuation of the Gaza Strip
and 40 percent of Judea and Samaria — resulted in unprecedented
Palestinian hate-education and incitement, terrorism and noncompliance.
The
flabbier the Israeli policy and the frailer the Israeli response to
Palestinian terrorism, the more flagrant is the Palestinian abrogation
of agreements. For instance, 270 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian
terrorists between 1978 and the 1993 signing of the Oslo Accords,
compared with some 2,000 murdered since Oslo, mostly by PLO terrorists.
In 2000, Prime Minister Barak offered to uproot all Jewish settlements;
Mahmoud Abbas and Arafat responded with an unparalleled wave of suicide
bombings in the pre-1967 area of Israel. Prime Minister Sharon’s 2005
uprooting of 25 Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and Gaza
induced an unprecedented barrage of missiles on pre-1967 Israel.
Israel’s inaction in the face of the 2009-2012 amassing of long-range
missiles in Gaza triggered a daily barrage of missiles at pre-1967
Israel.
General
Assembly Resolution for Limited
Palestinian Statehood Lacks Legal Authority
November
29, 2012 | Eli E. Hertz
A
host of resolutions passing annually by the General Assembly are not
legally
binding documents by any measure. One needs only to read Article 10 of
the UN
Charter:
“The General
Assembly may discuss any questions or any matters within the
scope of the present Charter or
relating to the powers and functions of any organs provided for in the
present
Charter, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make
recommendations to
the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or to both
on any
such questions or matters” [italics by author].
Professor,
Judge Schwebel, the former president of the International Court of
Justice, has
written that:
“The General
Assembly of the United Nations can only, in
principle, issue ‘recommendations’ which are not of a binding
character,
according to Article 10 of the Charter of the United Nations.”[1]
Schwebel also
cites the
(1950) opinion of Judge, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, a former member judge
of the
International Court of Justice, who declared that:
“The General
Assembly has no
legal power to legislate or bind its members by way of recommendation.”
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Myths about the Middle East
A Dynamic Speech by Amb. Ron Prosor
"I would like to use today's debate as an opportunity to address just a
few of the myths that have become a permanent hindrance to our
discussion of the Middle East here at the United Nations." [Read his excellent
speech here..]
The U.N.'s universal
definition of a refugee:
"Any person who has been forced to abandon his permanent home in his
natural habitat since time immemorial will be considered a refugee".
In
only one instance has this definition been expanded upon, through the
pressure of the Arab League. The broadened definition is as follows:
"Every Arab who left Palestine-the Land of Israel in 1948, who had
lived
there for two years, will
also be considered a refugee he and
his descendants ". Why did the Arab countries bother to expand
this definition? Because most of the
Arabs calling themselves "Palestinians" immigrated to Palestine-
Israel during the British mandate, particularly during WWII and
following; the
years in which the British government prevented Jews from reaching
their
homeland, from saving their lives. <Read
more>
Hebron's Jewish Quarter, 1862
What are Israel's
Secure and Defensible Borders?
In
President
Obama’s speech on May 19, he articulated his conviction that, in
order
for
peace to move forward between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel would
need to
re-engage in negotiations recognizing the 1967 lines as the basis for
determining the future borders of a Palestinian state.
“We
believe the borders of Israel and
Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps,
so that
secure and recognized borders are established for both states.
The
Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach
their
full potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.” (Barak
Obama, May 19, 2011)
What
are the
1967 lines that President Obama is referring to? The 1967 lines
were the armistice
lines formed in 1949 that halted the Arab/Israel war begun in
1948 when
five Arab nations invaded the newly formed state of Israel determined
to destroy her. Following
this aggression, Jordan occupied the area west of the Jordan River that
became
known as the West Bank. This is the area historically known as Judea
and
Samaria. The
lines drawn for the cessation of this war, known as the Green Line, is
the
boundary that existed until the beginning of the Six Day War in 1967. From its inception, it was understood that the Green
Line was to
be temporary until secure boundaries could be negotiated.
In
his speech, President
Obama refers to “secure and recognized borders”.It
is important to know what territory Israel
needs in order to have secure borders.In fact,her very existence depends on
it.
The
following video
provides information for determining what would constitute secure
borders for Israel.
What are
Israel's
Secure
and Defensible Borders?
Israel's Critical Security Needs
for a Viable Peace
Israel’s
Requirement
forDefensible Borders
by Maj.-Gen.
(res.) Yaakov Amidror
Military-Strategic
Aspects of West Bank
Topography for Israel’s Defense
Due to its
location and topography, the West Bank (Judea and
Samaria) has played a vital role in Israel’s national security since it
was captured
by the IDF in 1967. The West Bank is relatively small, covering 2,123
square
miles (5,500 square kilometers), but it is situated immediately
adjacent the
Israeli coastal plain where more than 70 percent of Israel’s population
and 80
percent of industrial capacity are located. Moreover, the West Bank is
comprised largely of a north
south mountain
ridge that
dominates vital Israeli infrastructure along the coast, including
Israel’s
international airport, high-tech companies, and most of the major
highways
connecting Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Rainwater flows down the slopes of this mountain ridge into underground
aquifers in western Samaria that provide Israel with approximately 30
percent
of its water supply.
"There
is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of
time and vain endeavors."
Read
the complete Hamas Covenant of
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PM: Where is Outrage as Hamas
Openly Seeks Our Destruction?
giving
birth in a Palestinian Authority hospital, the Arab doctors and her
parents decided to transport her to an Israeli hospital, where the
Israeli doctors immediately operated on her to save her
life!! 
themselves
the champion of human rights violations and apartheid laws!
New Fatah logo erases Israel 
The
official Palestinian Authority daily published a picture of the
official logo chosen by Fatah for celebrations marking the movement's
48th anniversary. The logo features various symbols, including a
map of "Palestine" that includes all of Israel, the number 48, the
Palestinian flag, and the slogan for the 48th anniversary: "The state
and the victory."
