http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/proisrael/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:52:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286193/posts Tucked away in a far corner of northern Europe, the tranquil and resourceful nation of Finland often gets unjustly overlooked. Flanked by a swaggering and increasingly quarrelsome Russia to the east and its larger and blonder Swedish neighbor to the west, the Finns seem to receive neither the attention nor the consideration that they rightly deserve. Indeed, despite being beset by harsh winters and a dearth of arable land, as well as enjoying the dubious distinction of being the European Union's most sparsely populated country, Finland has nonetheless built one of the most pleasant and peaceful societies on the entire... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286193/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:52:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276143/posts The Obama Administration insistently reiterated its support for Israel this weekend after a Jerusalem Post poll found that only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis now consider Barack Obama's presidency to be pro-Israel. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted by Smith Research among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults last week. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276143/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:40:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275669/posts Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults this week, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech in which he expressed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Another 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion. The numbers were a stark... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275669/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275247/posts Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults this week, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech in which he expressed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Another 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion. The numbers were a stark... THE JERUSALEM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275247/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274770/posts Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults this week, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech in which he expressed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Another 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274770/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272971/posts What are we to make of the new poll that supposedly shows a decline in American support for Israel? According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the survey was conducted by the Israel Project and the results were leaked by someone who obtained the data immediately after polling last week. Reportedly, the poll shows a precipitous drop in the number of those who call themselves supporters of Israel, with 44 percent believing the United States should support Israel as opposed to 69 percent last year Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272971/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:30:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255190/posts Mr. Prime Minister: We stand with you. I woke up this morning thinking about how alone you must feel. Please know that the current administration does not represent the views of Americans any more than Notre Dame's president, "Father" Jenkins, represents the Catholic faith. You are not alone. Christians in America stand with you and your right to exist. Know, also, that there are 60 million Americans who did not abandon our core values or our allies for the empty rhetoric of "hope" and "change." We are the ones who did not support the Hamas-endorsed, Muslim-bowing White House occupant, who,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255190/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 02:39:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254497/posts More than 250 Congressmen, including 76 senators, have signed a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, telling him “that peace cannot come while terrorism continues to wrack Israel.” “The notion that Obama was linking Jerusalem's negotiations with Palestinians to its ability to thwart nuclear annihilation rankled many in the Jewish and non-Jewish Israel support community,” New York Times journalist Edwin Black wrote. “In a word, Israel has gone over the president’s head and appealed directly to the Congress.” Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254497/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 06:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253713/posts A powerful Christian activist group joined thousands of Jews Monday at a massive rally in Washington DC to protest the Obama administration’s pressure on Israel to accept the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state within its current borders. The Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC Heartland), which links Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria with Christian churches and individual sponsors around the world, launched its internet initiative over the weekend. The group urged its members to contact the White House and oppose President Barack Obama’s plan to pressure Israel into dividing the country with the Palestinian Authority. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253713/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 05:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237636/posts Barack Obama's obvious comfort level with leaders of unfree countries shouldn't surprise anyone. He is not only our first black president. He is also our first president who doesn't like the free country he was elected to lead and feels his job is to change it. Obama's cordial encounter with Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez and his bow of deference in London to the Saudi Arabian king are extensions of behavior we have always seen on the black left. Jesse Jackson openly embraced Chavez, as well as having maintained relations with the likes of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and Yasser Arafat.... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237636/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234891/posts The U.S. government may abandon espionage-law charges against two former lobbyists for a pro-Israel advocacy group, officials said yesterday, as a prominent House lawmaker denied new allegations that she offered to use her influence on their behalf. SNIP With the trial set to begin June 2, the Justice Department is reviewing whether to proceed as planned or withdraw the indictments after a series of adverse court rulings, according to law enforcement sources and lawyers close to the case. Defense attorneys recently subpoenaed a number of senior Bush administration officials, including former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, former national security adviser... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234891/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:21:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221950/posts On March 30th DEBKA reported DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that the Obama administration is on the threshold of a major rapprochement with Tehran, a reversal of US policy dramatic enough to block out international sanctions. Iran will be allowed to keep its nuclear program, including military elements and enriched uranium stocks, up to the point of actually assembling a weapon. [..] The US president is willing to ditch Israel as a friend. This will be brought home to Jerusalem when he makes his big speech on April 7 appealing for a grand US-Muslim global reconciliation. The US president is preparing... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221950/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:33:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207938/posts William "Bill" Davidson, billionaire Jewish philanthropist, owner of the Detroit Pistons basketball team, and businessman, has passed away at the age of 86. Davidson was a long-time lover of Israel and philanthropist who gave to the Jewish State. After the Yom Kippur war, he and fellow Detroit area philanthropist Dr. Lloyd J. Paul were flown to Israel by Prime Minister Golda Meir and given the Prime Minister's Club award for outstanding philanthropic deeds towards Israel. In 2007, Davidson and his wife, Karen, gave $75 million to the Hadassah University Medical Center at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. The gift is being... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207938/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207289/posts Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has signed a coalition deal with the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, officials say. Under the agreement, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman would become foreign minister, said officials from Mr Netanyahu's Likud party. He is a strong supporter of the Israeli settler movement and opposes exchanging land for peace with the Palestinians. Likud still needs support from other parties to form majority in parliament. Yisrael Beiteinu would get five other cabinet posts, including internal security, infrastructure, tourism, and the integration of new immigrants. Mr Netanyahu has also been seeking the support of the centrist Kadima... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207289/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205799/posts THE Obama administration is increasingly fixed on resolving the "Arab-Is raeli dispute," seeing it as the key to peace and stability in the Middle East. This is bad news for Israel - and for America. In its purest form, this theory holds that, once Israel and its neighbors come to terms, all other regional conflicts can be duly resolved: Iran's nuclear-weapons program, fanatical anti-Western terrorism, Islam's Sunni-Shiite schism, Arab-Persian ethnic tensions. Some advocates believe substantively that the overwhelming bulk of other Middle Eastern grievances, wholly or partly, stem from Israel's founding and continued existence. Others see it in process terms... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205799/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203097/posts Barely a month into the presidency of Barack Obama, a profound realization is spreading among the pro-Israel community: we do not have an ally in the White House. The growing threat that Israel and the Jewish People now face demands an immediate acceptance of the "facts on the ground" regarding President Obama's perspective and agenda, and decisive action to prevent the frightening reality that he may play a leading role in creating. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203097/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:18:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200466/posts Conservatives Must Step Up to the Plate Jerry McConnell I just read a blog, written by Eric Florack of PajamasMedia.com, in which he details a lot of the mixed feelings on the Republican Party that surfaced at the CPAC conference held last weekend. [...]I believe and understand as they do that conservatism is just about everything a socialist, liberal Democrat is not, such as: Pro-life; Pro-freedom; Pro-USA; Pro-Christian; Pro-Israel; Pro-family; Pro-traditional marriage; Pro-free market capitalism; Pro-war-on-terror and war on Islamofascism and terror in the Middle East and everywhere; Pro-military and Pro providing the necessary equipment to monitor our known enemies... cfp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200466/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:19:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181100/posts Ten people were arrested in connection with a pro-Israel demonstration in Malmö on Sunday. The city's main square was closed as the demo met with anti-Israel protesters. Around 50 anti-Israel protesters had gathered but they were kept apart from the main demonstration, in front of the city hall on Stortorget, by a police barrier. The protesters were practically encircled by police but still managed to set off a number of bangers which disturbed the otherwise peaceful demonstration. Demonstrators displayed a sense of humour with several banners expressing comments on recent events concerning racism and racist stereotyping of some Malmö's residents... the local http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181100/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:46:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173507/posts TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president called Wednesday for "profound changes" in U.S. foreign policy including an end to support for Israel and an apology to the Islamic republic for past misdeeds. Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also urged Washington to withdraw its troops stationed around the world. He said Iran would be closely watching what President Barack Obama's new administration does and would welcome a real shift in its approach. "Change means giving up support for the rootless, uncivilized, fabricated, murdering ... Zionists and letting the Palestinian nation decide its own destiny," Ahmadinejad said. "Change means putting an end to U.S.... WJLA-TV / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173507/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:05:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171649/posts A pro-Israel rally in Malmo, Sweden was torn apart Sunday by pro-Palestinian residents who arrived on the scene with eggs, bottles, and tear gas grenades which they threw at Israel's supporters. Police dispersed the entire crowd. Hundreds of people took part in the rally in support of Israel, which was held at the city's main square. Elad Meier, a Bnei Akiva and Jewish Agency envoy to Sweden said it was organized by Malmo's Jewish community and Sweden's Democratic Party. ynet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171649/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:09:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171439/posts (IsraelNN.com) Police evacuated leaders of the Jewish community in the southern Swedish city of Malmo out of fear for their lives after pro-Arab demonstrators attacked a demonstration in support of Israel there Sunday afternoon. About 700 people took part in the pro-Israel rally, including members of Sweden's Democratic party. Participants carried signs saying, "Stop Eight Years of Kassam" and "Peace for Children in Israel and Gaza." The Arab supporters, who had been holding a demonstration of their own, threw a tear-gas grenade, bottles and eggs at participants in the pro-Israel demonstration about half an hour after it began. Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171439/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:35:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168434/posts Today President George W. Bush will hand over to his successor a Middle Eastern foreign policy outlook far brighter than the one he inherited from Bill Clinton. THE JERUSALEM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168434/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168311/posts ISRAELI President Shimon Peres has praised his outgoing US counterpart George W. Bush for his contribution to the Jewish state and people in a phone conversation. "In my name, in the name of Israel and the Jewish people I would like to thank you for the long years of help and friendship to Israel," Mr Peres told Mr Bush, who spoke to world leaders by phone today on the eve of leaving office. "You have made a historic contribution to the entire world and the Jewish people in particular," Mr Peres' office quoted him as telling Mr Bush, who staunchly... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168311/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:17:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166798/posts he United States coffee chain has recently been the subject of an internet boycott campaign amid claims it donates profits to Israel ? an accusation it strongly denies Photo: PA Riot police surrounded up to 240 demonstrators in central London, many wearing scarves covering their faces, who broke away from a rally in Trafalgar Square at about 5pm. Up to 200 were tracked by a police helicopter as they ransacked the coffee shops in Piccadilly and Shaftesbury Avenue while 40 more were contained in Hyde Park, thought to be on their way to the Israeli embassy in Kensington. The United... telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166798/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166461/posts Prime minister of Republika Srpska, (Serb part of Bosnia) Milorad Dodik have yesterday wrote a letter of support to Israeli president Shimon Peres: (Translation) Primeminister of Serb Republic, Milorad, Dodik have yesterday sent a letter of support to Israeli president Shimon Peres. Primeminister Dodik in his letter tells his understanding for jepardous position of Israel and its citizens, in same time giving a full support to Israeli effort to insure security and peace to Israeli people. Dodik states in his letter that Serb Republic does not support anti- Israeli demonstrations and gatherings organised in other part of Bosnia (Muslim-Croate Federation).... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166461/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:02:59 GMT