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Update 222  |  September 13, 2006 Remembering September 11, 2001 AJC marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks with a solemn ceremony at the opening of the Board of Governors meeting. “We learned on September 11, 2001, that we no longer could dismiss the rhetoric of fanatics based in far-away lands. For them, globalization is a means to break down civilization as we know it,” said AJC President E. Robert Goodkind, reading the AJC statement on the anniversary. “The New York City skyline will never be the same. The absence of the World Trade Center's proud towers is a searing wound for all who live in or near New York, and for the millions more who visit, dream of, and adore this great city. Our sense of security as a nation will never be the same. We now are confronted with a new reality, a new paradigm. Terror has moved to the center of our thoughts, our vocabulary, our politics, and our daily lives.” The AJC national leadership was in New York on that fateful day five years ago, and together witnessed the unfolding tragedy. “We have come together to remember, to pay our respects – and to reaffirm our vigilance in defending our country, our people, and our values against the terrorist organizations that would destroy them, against the states that sponsor these jihadist killers,” Goodkind said. Read full statement. AJC Radio Message: Remembering 9/11 “We must not falter in the defense of what we aspire to – freedom, human dignity, gender equality, religious pluralism, and mutual respect,” said David Harris in his national radio message on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. “We weren’t attacked for any specific policy, but for what we stand for. This September 11th, let’s remember, reflect and recommit.” Harris’s radio commentaries air on the national CBS radio network during the Osgood File. Listen. Charity Navigator: AJC Outperforms Most Charities in U.S. The largest independent evaluator of philanthropies in the U.S., Charity Navigator, has given AJC its highest 4-star rating for the second consecutive year. “We are proud to announce that the American Jewish Committee has earned our 4-star rating for its ability to efficiently manage and grow its finances,” wrote the Charity Navigator executive director. “Only 12 percent of the charities we’ve rated have received at least two consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that the American Jewish Committee outperforms most charities in America in its efforts to operate in the most fiscally responsible way possible. This exceptional designation from Charity Navigator differentiates the American Jewish Committee from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust.” AJC Adopts Resolutions on Middle East Peace, Darfur Two resolutions were adopted on Monday. The Board of Governors adopted a Statement on Israel’s Security and Prospects for Peace. It reaffirms AJC’s longstanding support for a peaceful settlement of the conflict based on a two-state solution, our concerns regarding the Iranian nuclear threat and the Syrian regime's reckless policy. It calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists on June 25, and of Ehud Goldwasser and Elad Regev, the two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah on July 12. The statement concludes by applauding the principled U.S. efforts to advance security and freedom in the Middle East and around the world, and pledging AJC's continued efforts to achieve the goals of peace, security and reconciliation. Read Middle East statement. The International Relations Commission adopted an updated statement on Darfur, urging the international community to take immediate and decisive action in support of the people of Darfur and to consider all diplomatic avenues to vigorously exert pressure on the government of Sudan to ensure that the UN peacekeeping force can be deployed quickly and effectively to the region. Read Darfur statement. AJC Media Center Dedicated A new audio and video studio has been completed at AJC headquarters. The media center will be used to produce a variety of audio materials, including David Harris’s weekly national radio messages, interviews with AJC experts and visiting dignitaries, and a regular AJC radio show. Equipment in the studio also will enable AJC to create short films, television ads, and web casts. The media center, made possible by a generous donor, is the latest initiative in the Public Relations and Communications Department efforts to use state-of-the-art technologies to expand the reach of AJC. AJC TV Ad Calls on UN to Treat Israel Equally With world leaders gathering in New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly, AJC has re-launched its campaign to end the isolation of Israel at the world body. This will be on the agenda of the meetings AJC will hold with presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers. AJC’s television ad is currently on CNN and FOX in New York, and in other major cities. The AJC ad opens with the UN building in New York covered in flags of most UN member states, and then suddenly the flag of Israel peels away. “The inspiring promise that every member state, regardless of size, will be treated equally is the idea that gave the UN moral force,” states the AJC ad. “But what happens when one member state is not treated equally?” The ad also can be viewed at AJC’s website, where you also will find important resource materials on the UN and Israel, in particular the useful AJC publication, A Diminished World Body. UN Secretary General Calls AJC President UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called AJC President E. Robert Goodkind last night to give him a personal report on his just concluded trip to the Middle East. Goodkind, who introduced Kofi Annan at AJC’s 100th Anniversary Gala Dinner in Washington, D.C., and recently met with him at the UN, reports that the conversation was warm and indicates again Annan’s desire to build a positive relationship with AJC and the American Jewish community. “The Secretary General emphasized that the speedy freeing of Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, the two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah, is a primary objective of his,” said Goodkind, adding that Annan voiced confidence that the enhanced UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon will lead to a stabilized border with Israel and the disarmament of Hezbollah. “I reminded the Secretary General of our letter to him regarding his condemning the Tehran Holocaust cartoons exhibition, and I expressed our gratitude for his positive action in this regard when he was there,” said Goodkind. Read AJC letter to Annan. AJC Completes Second Solidarity Mission to Israel “You have always demonstrated solidarity and friendship with Israel,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who left a budget meeting to welcome the AJC Solidarity Mission to Israel at his office last week. More than 120 AJC members from across the U.S., as well as several U.S. Christian leaders, a former deputy prime minister of Sweden, and Jewish students from the U.S., Europe and Latin America, participated. This was the second AJC Solidarity Mission to Israel since the war broke out in mid-July. During the three-day visit, the mission met with officials at the Foreign Ministry, with several leading Israeli political and strategic analysts, with Education Minister Yuli Tamir, and with the parents of soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah. On a daylong visit to Israel’s north, the mission met with Israelis who took direct hits from Hezbollah rockets in Haifa, Kiryat Shemonah, Nahariya, and Safed, and also visited organizations that have received support from AJC’s Israel Emergency Assistance Fund. A full report on the Solidarity Mission will be available next week. AJC Israel Emergency Assistance Fund Tops $1.9 Million During the AJC Solidarity Mission, officials at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya and Sieff Hospital in Safed thanked AJC for the donations of life-saving medial equipment, all made possible by the generous contributions to AJC’s Israel Emergency Assistance Fund. The mission also met with the Israeli volunteer search and rescue organization, First Israel Rescue and Search Teams (FIRST). AJC is purchasing search and rescue vehicles for F.I.R.S.T, which can be used to locate people trapped in collapsed buildings. In addition, the Fund has purchased two cardiac care ambulances for Magen David Adom. Moreover, the mission visited the bomb shelter at Or Hadash, a reform synagogue in Haifa, where Rabbi Edgar Nof placed a plaque of appreciation to AJC for funding completion of the shelter. AJC Mideast Briefing: What’s Next for Israel In his weekly analysis, Eran Lerman, director of AJC’s Israel Office, assesses the internal debates taking place in Israel in the aftermath of the war in Lebanon. Lerman presents four possible avenues – resuming peace talks with the Palestinians; changing the current Israeli government; restructuring Israel's political system; and, reforming the country’s economic, political, intellectual and legal elites. “Given that the country, at large, looks upon the complex outcome and the painful events of the war as an opportunity for profound reform, each and every one of these avenues would merit close attention in the weeks and months to come,” writes Lerman. Read briefing. Egypt Hosts AJC Delegation in Cairo “The foundation of Egyptian-Israeli relations is solid,” said AJC President E. Robert Goodkind, after a day of meetings with Egypt’s top foreign policy officials. Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit hosted the AJC delegation for a private lunch. The delegation, which included Barry Wallach of Chicago and Jason Isaacson, AJC’s director of international affairs, also met separately with Gen. Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s national intelligence chief, and Dr. Osama El Baz, political advisor to President Hosni Mubarak. “The main message we take away from our meetings in Cairo is that Egypt and Israel need each other more than ever – that the two nations share concerns about Iran, regional extremism, and the urgency of advancing peace, concerns heightened by the war in Lebanon,” said Goodkind. The Cairo visit took place on the eve of the Solidarity mission to Israel. AJC Discusses Lebanon, Iran with Italian Prime Minister Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi met with an AJC leadership delegation, visiting Rome on the eve of the AJC Solidarity Mission to Israel. David Harris expressed appreciation to the Italian premier for contributing the largest number of forces to the new international peacekeeping force created by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for an end to Hezbollah’s armed presence on Israel’s northern border. The delegation also discussed with Prodi the perils of – and the international community’s response to – Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In addition, the delegation met with Interior Minister Giuliano Amato; European Affairs Minister Emma Bonino; Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro; Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni; senior Italian foreign affairs officials and policy analysts; U.S. and Israeli diplomats; and leaders of the Italian Jewish community. Portugal’s Foreign Minister Hosts AJC in Lisbon An AJC delegation discussed Middle East political and security issues with Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado on a visit to Lisbon, a day after the AJC Solidarity Mission to Israel. David Harris praised Portugal's commitment of troops to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The meeting focused on the international effort to stabilize the Israeli-Lebanese border, concerns in Europe and among moderate Arab states about the spread of Islamic radicalism, and the threat to regional and global security posed by Iran's continuing defiance of the international consensus against its nuclear program. Jason Isaacson, AJC’s director of international affairs, and Marta Mucznik, of the Transatlantic Institute, joined Harris. AJC Interreligious Director Key to Anglican Church, Israel Accord Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s international director of interreligious affairs, accompanied the chief rabbis of Israel to a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, which resulted in an agreement to create a formal dialogue between the Anglican Communion and Judaism. Rosen, who also serves as president of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC), has been working on the meeting with the archbishop since January. Rosen says the agreement will launch a bilateral commission, modeled on the current Roman Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Los Angeles Chapter Criticizes Plan to Honor Radical Muslim AJC’s Los Angeles Chapter has sharply criticized the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations’ decision to award Dr. Maher Hathout with the prestigious John Allen Buggs Award. “Dr. Hathout is a radical Islamic leader masquerading as a moderate and deceiving the American public,” said Sherry Weinman, president of AJC’s Los Angeles Chapter. “I expect that when the Commission on Human Relations and the Board of Supervisors under which it serves understand the facts, they will reconsider.” The award is named after John Allen Buggs, former director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Iranian Schools Teach Hatred of Christians, Jews, United States Iranian children are indoctrinated in basic hatred of Christians, Jews and the West, concludes a new study of textbooks used in Iran, prepared by AJC and the Center for Monitoring Peace in the Middle East (CMIP). Researchers with the CMIP analyzed 115 textbooks and teachers' guides currently used in grades 1 to 12 in Iran. The full report, which will be released later this year by AJC and CMIP, offers a comprehensive survey of the official Iranian worldview to which school-age children are exposed. "Examining Iranian schoolbooks is a chilling reminder that the words of violent confrontation espoused by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are not mere rhetoric, but need to be regarded with the utmost gravity because they are being taught to younger generations," said David Harris. AJC and CMIP have previously jointly published studies of schoolbooks used in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Read news release. Muslim Educators from Israel Visiting U.S. on AJC Program A group of professors from a leading Muslim college in Israel are visiting four American cities to dialogue with American Jews and Muslims about the challenges and opportunities religious minorities encounter in democracies like the United States and Israel. The program is sponsored by AJC, in cooperation with the Al-Qasemi Academy, which is located in Baqa el Garbiya in Israel and is known for its moderation and openness. AJC and the college have been working together to deepen understanding between Jews and Muslims. Their itinerary included stops in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Obituary: David Hirschhorn The AJC mourns the passing of David Hirschhorn, one of our most devoted leaders and generous benefactors for more than half a century. "David Hirschhorn was a highly principled, steadfast leader of AJC, especially devoted to that aspect of its mission to secure the health and vibrancy of the Jewish people and to advocate for human rights the world over,” said AJC President E. Robert Goodkind, who spoke at the funeral in Baltimore. Hirschhorn was an AJC Honorary Vice President, member of its National Leadership Council, and served with great distinction on the Board of Governors and International, Interreligious and Jewish Communal Affairs Commissions. In his hometown of Baltimore, he was a former Chapter Chair. UN Watch Testifies on Capitol Hill Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, AJC’s affiliate in Geneva, testified in Washington before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations about the UN Human Rights Council’s record in its first three sessions. After the hearing, the Chair personally expressed his appreciation and said he wanted to invite Neuer again. Read the full testimony and view the video at www.unwatch.org. Project Interchange Brings Thai Police to Israel In cooperation with AIJAC, AJC’s partner in Australia, a group of police officers and military officials from Thailand are visiting Israel on a Project Interchange educational seminar. This is the second group from Asia – the first was from India in July – to visit Israel under the auspices of Project Interchange, an AJC institute. The Asian groups are part of Project Interchange’s expanding international reach. French Minister Dines with AJC in New York AJC leaders were the only Jewish representatives at a private dinner in New York with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Minister of the Interior and presidential aspirant. AJC has met with Minister Sarkozy on numerous occasions, and Valerie Hoffenberg, AJC’s Paris representative, has developed a close relationship with the minister and his office. In the Media The International Herald Tribune published an op-ed by Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, on the dismal performance of the new UN Human Rights Council, especially its focus on criticizing Israel. The Washington Post published an op-ed by Felice Gaer, director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute, on former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s visit to Washington, D.C. Gaer, who also is chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, co-authored the piece with Nina Shea, the commission’s vice char. Gaer also discussed the issue in a live TV appearance on the O’Reilly Factor on FOX News. The Jerusalem Post quoted Jason Isaacson in a front page story on the AJC delegation visit to Cairo. The New York Jewish Week quoted AJC President Goodkind on his visit to Cairo. The JTA also reported on the meetings in Cairo. During the Solidarity Mission to Israel, David Harris was interviewed by Kol Israel radio (English) and Israel TV (English). Shula Bahat was interviewed in Hebrew on Kol Israel radio and Channel 1 TV. Reuters quoted extensively from the AJC letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urging him to speak out against the Holocaust cartoon exhibit in Tehran. The Forward quoted David Harris in a story on the new AJC report on Iranian schoolbooks. Deidre Berger, director of AJC’s Berlin Office, was interviewed on the NPR program “All Things Considered” about anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel. The Los Angeles Times quoted Sherry Weinman, president of AJC’s Los Angeles Chapter, on the controversial decision of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations to honor a radical Muslim. Read AJC statement. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quoted John Hexter, director of AJC’s Cleveland Chapter, in an article about Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s visit to the Middle East, a trip sponsored by an Arab American organization. The New York Jewish Week published a letter to the editor by Rebecca Neuwirth, AJC’s director of special projects, on AJC’s IKAR curriculum on Israel advocacy for high school students. J, the Jewish weekly newspaper of northern California, published David Harris’s op-ed article, on the need for American Jews to nurture the U.S. relationship with Israel. The piece originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post. Read op-ed. The JTA will publish an op-ed by David Harris, entitled What Being Jewish Means to Me. Read op-ed. Several Italian newspapers and wire services carried articles on an hour-long news conference given by David Harris in Rome, in “excellent Italian,” according to one report. The news conference focused on developments in the Middle East. It also was broadcast in its entirety by a leading national radio station in Italy. Please contact Kenneth Bandler, AJC's Director of Communications, at bandlerk@ajc.org with any questions or comments. © 2006 American Jewish Committee

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JINSA Report #603 Attack in Damascus

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Attack in Damascus

How does it happen in a most tightly guarded neighborhood in a most
tightly controlled city in a most tightly controlled country? Would-be
terrorists managed to find explosives and weapons and drive right up to
the U.S. Embassy - but while every two-bit hack in Iraq can make his car
blow up with spectacular results, these explosives failed to go off and
the heroic Syrian army saved the day while a Chinese diplomat
(reportedly senior) took pictures from the roof of the nearby Chinese
embassy.

Not quite Keystone Kops, but almost surely a setup by the Syrian
government. Was it a threat or a gambit for opening talks? Both
countries quickly played both scenarios.

The Syrian Embassy in Washington put out a statement calling it "a
heinous terrorist attack by an extremist group", but blamed the U.S.
"What has happened recently in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and
Iraq is exacerbating the fight against global terrorism. The U.S. should
take this opportunity to review its policies in the Middle East and
start looking at the root causes of terrorism, and broker a
comprehensive peace in the Middle East."
Secretary of State Rice was appreciative. "I do think that the Syrians
reacted to this attack in a way that helped to secure our people, and we
very much appreciate that." Press Secretary Snow was not. "Stop
harboring terrorist groups, stop being an agent in fomenting terror, and
work with us to fight against terror, as Libya has done - that's the
next step for Syria."
Syria is, on the one hand, complicated, on the other hand, obvious. This
is, after all, the country that invented the souk.

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of Rafik Hariri. But Syrian intelligence remains in Lebanon (harbored in
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unlikely to do more than posture, and the UN is running out of steam on
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terrorist infiltration and activity in Iraq's Anbar Province coinciding
with the Lebanon war and its aftermath.

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to him, and he may be hedging his bets as his father did. Hafez Assad
joined the Gulf War coalition and Junior has provided the U.S. with bits
of information about al Qaeda - just enough for some people to believe
that he is a closet moderate.

The previous administration took the "peace feeler" gambit, sending
Secretary of State Christopher to Damascus more than 20 times with no
discernable benefit to the U.S. or the West. The current administration
has failed to follow through on its rhetoric about states that harbor
and support terrorism.

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JINSA Report #602 The Fifth Anniversary, Part II

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As we wrote, "We owe them continuance of America's righteous anger until
justice is done," we also owe an accounting of justice done, including
balancing the scales back in the direction of protecting the innocent.
Opinion polls ask, "Do you feel more safe or less safe now?" It is the
wrong question. In the same way the phrase "war on terrorism" doesn't
go to the heart of the issue, neither does a measure of "feelings."
Angst is partly a function of finding out how deep and wide the problem
was before we fought back.

We surely have done better nationally and internationally sharing
information about terrorists, their movements and their finances. We
look more carefully at who is in our country, why and with whom they
share money and information. Polls show the public widely understands
and supports government efforts to track, trail and listen to people
talking to suspect persons abroad. We have arrested people and
uncovered domestic plots. There has not been one coordinated attack on
American soil since 9-11, although individuals have conducted attacks
which if they occurred in Israel or Iraq would be called terrorist
attacks. We have prevented attacks emanating from other countries –
including the horrific plan to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic
Ocean.

Those who say the U.S. cannot protect the homeland from terrorism while
conducting the war abroad are demonstrably wrong. It can. It has.

We have killed many and captured some of the perpetrators of 9-11 and
their network around the world. Five years is not a long time to work
through legal issues surrounding the status of terrorists and enemy
combatants and it is to our national credit that we work on it. The
Geneva Convention and POW status do not apply; they were made for
honorable soldiers. Neither was designed for people who use airplanes
as missiles to blow up secretaries and stock traders, who shoot from
amid women and children, or who believe the afterlife will be markedly
better it one enters it voluntarily in bloody shreds. American morality
does apply and we have faith in that.

Excuse us for not crying over Khalid Sheikh Mohammad's interrogation by
the CIA. Or Guantanamo prisoners, the 400 worst-case captures from
Afghanistan and Iraq, who have the same medical care as the troops who
guard them; religious freedom; and private visits from the Red Cross,
Congress and various European delegations. Where were the
self-righteous when Olaf Wiig and Steve Centanni were forced to convert
to Islam at the point of a gun? Where is their concern for Gilad
Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev? Spare us the crocodile tears
about Gitmo.

Captured terrorists, including KSM, will stand trial and face American
justice after Congress passes legislation to authorize the military
tribunals the Supreme Court ruled were appropriate if so authorized.
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Presidents from George Washington to Franklin Roosevelt had that
authority.

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JINSA Report #601 "The Fifth Anniversary, Part I"

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What do we owe the September 11th families?

We owe them remembrance of their individual humanity. For Americans,
September 11th is unique in its character as a national day of mourning.
Being optimists, Americans generally mark birth-days. Pearl Harbor is
noted more as the point of our entry into World War II; Memorial Day is
generic, not specific to the lives lost in specific battles. Only for
September 11th do we mark the day of passing.

We owe them recognition of their heroism and its legacy. There were
victims, of course, but also an untold number of heroes - some by chance
and some by choice. There were those who rose to the occasion thrust
upon them. And there were those who, operating counter to every known
human impulse, ran into danger instead of out for the sake of their
fellows. Their legacy has been heightened American vigilance and
increased cooperation among law enforcement and government agencies, but
that is not enough. We vastly increase our security when the rest of us
are vigilant as well and cooperative with our law enforcement agencies,
not only in the moment of tragedy but in the everyday world in which
people can work to prevent tragedy.

We owe them perspective. The world didn't become a more dangerous place
on 9-11; we simply became aware of the danger that long existed. The war
against our country, our friends and our way of life didn't begin on
9-11; those who wanted to destroy us had been fighting and killing us
for years - in Beirut, in Yemen, in Tanzania, and in New York in 1993.
The war began in 1979 with the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
and mutated throughout the region, creating a swamp of terrorists and
states that harbor and support them in a variety of ways.

We owe them clarity about the nature and ideology of their killers.
Terrorists and their apologists would have us believe 9-11 and other
acts of terror around the world, including in Israel, are a response to
things America or Israel or the West does wrong. While we are fully
capable of doing wrong or being wrong, Islamic radicalism is rooted in
itself, not in us. It is a violent, fascist, sexist, anti-Western,
anti-Semitic, anti-Christian ideology drawn from the most narrow
possible 8th Century interpretation of Islam and a desire to attain
Islamic hegemony in as much of the world as possible. Terrorism is a
tactic in service to the ideology and to its spread.

The perpetrators were sent by masters abroad to live among our citizens
and millions of law-abiding, freedom-loving immigrants whose hospitality
and protection they abused. The terrorists believed they were protected
by America's legendary commitment to privacy and personal liberty. They
were, unfortunately, right in their time - but wrong in this time.
Liberty is the right of innocent people to be secure in their everyday
activities. Those who seek to kill us in our homes and our workplace, or
actively support those who would to that, are not entitled to privacy
and certainly not to liberty.

Finally, we owe them continuance of America’s righteous anger until
justice is done.

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#600 Do it Now - Support the Bolton Confirmation

(2006-09-06) Call your Senators and, politely and in brief, express your hope
that the Senator will vote in favor of the confirmation of Ambassador Bolton
because it is important to have him represent the interests of the United
States in the United Nations. Read the appeal in JINSA Report #600.

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#29 The Summer War

(2006-09-07) Shoshana Bryen, JINSAs Director of Special Projects, assesses
medium-to-long-term winners and losers of the Hizballah-Israel war, concerned
that punditry has been too quick to pronounce Hizballah and Iran the winners.
There is no reason for friends of Israel and the West to make the case for
their own failure while the outcome is still in play. The opposite -
announcing the a priori failure of pro-Western, pro-Lebanese diplomacy sets
the conditions that make that failure a more likely possibility. Read the
Viewpoint.

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JINSA Viewpoint #29 The Summer War

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The Summer War

[Ed Note: Shoshana Bryen, JINSA's Director of Special Projects, assesses
medium-to-long-term "winners and losers" of the Hizballah-Israel war,
concerned that punditry has been too quick to pronounce Hizballah and
Iran the winners. " There is no reason for friends of Israel and the
West to make the case for their own failure while the outcome is still
in play. The opposite - announcing the a priori failure of pro-Western,
pro-Lebanese diplomacy sets the conditions that make that failure a more
likely possibility."]

It was immediately, and remains generally, fashionable to say that
Israel achieved at best an indecisive standoff with Hizballah in the
Lebanon war. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies was more negative. "At most, if you take the most
dramatic claim (of Israeli success), they probably got about 15 percent
of Hizballah strength, and that includes wounded as well as killed in
the forward area, which is not a decisive type of battle. If anything,
you now have very large numbers of very experienced combat people who
have spent more than six weeks in active engagement with the (the IDF)
and have, if not won, learned enough so they will be a far more serious
problem in the future."

That might be true if the Summer War was the whole war. Hizballah's
stand against the IDF and ability to fire missiles into Israel, Israel's
failure to neutralize short-range missiles or retrieve its soldiers, and
the almost immediate international backtracking on the terms of UN
Resolution 1701, would be all there was. Hizballah, then would have
"won" and Israel "lost."

But the Summer War was, in fact, a battle in the larger war against
terrorists and the states that harbor and/or support them. There was no
possibility of a final military victory in August; long-term success or
failure in the in the process remains at issue.

Hizballah is an arm of Iran via the Syrian pipeline, running a
state-within-a-state in Lebanon from among a
generally-but-not-totally-supportive Lebanese civilian population that
receives little help from the Beirut government. Israel is an integral
part of the economic, political and social fabric of the West,
threatened at several levels by violent Islamic radicalism and
nationalist irredentism orchestrated and funded by Iran.

Iran not only bankrolled Hizballah's social service network in Lebanon,
but paid for digging and hardening the bunker system; the electronic
warfare systems; long- and medium-range rockets as well as thousands of
Katyushas; Russian Kornet anti-tank missiles; Chinese C-802 anti-ship
missiles; high-powered sniper rifles; British night-vision goggles and a
lot more. They paid the freight for shipping from Iran to and through
Syria. They paid for the training and upkeep of hundreds to thousands of
Hizballah terrorists and paid to keep hundreds of their own Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps in Lebanon.

Whatever isn't gone has been exposed, degrading its value to its patron.

The Iranian arsenal wasn't there for Hizballah to play with. It was
there to ensure that Israel had to watch its back in case it had
intentions of attacking Iran. Israel now knows the extent of Hizballah's
capabilities and has degraded them - long-range rockets are unlikely to
reappear. Israel knows Hizballah's tactics and how better to counter
them - the Northern Command can make adjustments and improvements.
Israel knows what can happen to northern Israel, how the Israeli public
responds to large-scale rocket attacks and can improve the Homefront
Command. Israel knows not only what Hizballah can hit but, maybe more
important, what the Israeli public will tolerate. The threat is deeply
discounted and it isn't an accident that immediately after the arsenal
was exposed, Israel named a key general to be "in charge of Iran."

From the "knowledge is power" perspective vis a vis Lebanon, it is
better to be Israel than Iran.

Reconsider Cordesman's assertion that Hizballah's eight-week experience
with the IDF will make it a more formidable foe in the Lebanese theater.
Two problems quickly emerge:

a) Israel also "spent more than six week in active engagement." The
IDF, as a modern fighting force in a democratic country, is much more
likely than Hizballah to learn lessons and implement useful changes,
plus rectify shortcomings in the supply chain. The IDF has already
planned extensive changes in military intelligence.
b) Without major new infusions of equipment, tactics and training
(unlikely in the near or even medium term) Hizballah would be unable to
spring surprise capabilities on Israel, but the reverse is not true.

On the assumption that Hizballah will be resupplied despite the UN or
because of the UN, from the planning and operational perspective, it is
now better to be Israel than Hizballah.

And from the "who worries about what you worry about" perspective, it is
better to be Israel than either Hizballah or Iran.

The United States is threatened by the same confluence of forces and so
are Europe, Russia and China. Many in the last three would be loathe to
admit that a) they stand on the same side of the divide as Israel and
the U.S., and b) their pro-Iranian/pro-Palestinian/pro-Hizballah
policies buy them no pass from those who would restore the Caliphate, or
even those with less lofty but still dangerous ambitions, including
Uighurs, Chechens and disaffected third-generation-Algerian Frenchmen.

But there they stand.

And they (and we) have allies - states that believe in the primacy of
Sunni/Arab Islam in the region. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, along with
Jordan, Bahrain and other small countries fear the Shi'ite arc of which
Sunni-majority-populated but Alawite-minority-ruled Syria is an adjunct
member. Luring Syria away from Shi'ite/Persian Iran and back to its
natural home with the Arabs should be one of the Arab world's priorities.

The August War may have produced a shifting of strategic tectonic
plates, not necessarily at the surface, but somewhere underneath,
gathering force until the anti-Iranian tsunami becomes visible - unless,
of course, this loosely constructed group with
something-but-not-everything-in-common loses its nerve. In that case,
Israel may find its defensive options limited.

Much has been made of the "missing mandate" in UN Security Council
Resolution 1701 - UN troops will not engage Hizballah to disarm it, and
Kofi Annan appears ready to agree that the force will not be placed
along the Syrian/Lebanese border, not to mention that Annan appears to
accept Syria's "word" that it will police its own border. This certainly
does not bode well for the good guys, but it does provide an opening for
Arab diplomacy to convince Syria that it's long-term interests are with
the Arab, not the Persian, world. Which should be preceded by American
diplomacy to convince the Saudis, the Egyptians, et al., that such
forward regional diplomacy is in their long-term interest as well.

If Arab diplomacy succeeds, it would be better to be Israel than Iran.
Even if it fails or never gets off the ground, Israel is no worse off.

Some of the delay in deploying European forces is rumored to be the
unwillingness of French and other military commanders to undertake an
unclear military mission and one without clear rules of engagement -
hence French engineers, not combat forces, being first on the ground.
They are finally beginning to arrive in Lebanon in some number. It
should be remembered here that European peacekeepers failed to prevent
massacres in Bosnia in the not-too-distant past, and Blue Helmets have
been accused of a range of crimes including rape and extortion in
Africa. It is unlikely that they would commit troops to so public a
mission in order to watch them fail.

Italy's Foreign Minister said last week that "the world will not
tolerate" Syria rearming Hizballah. Germany will provide warships backed
by surveillance aircraft to prevent weapons being smuggled to Hizballah
guerrillas. The German Defense Minister said, "German soldiers have to
be prepared against the will of ships' captains to board ships suspected
of smuggling weapons." Russia and China are unlikely to directly cross
lines manned by German sailors to supply Hizballah by sea, and their
shipments to Syria can be monitored. Turkey has been grounding or
sending back Iranian planes suspected of carrying weapons for Hizballah.

If we take the Europeans at their word and they succeed, it will be
better to be Israel than Hizballah. If we take them at their word and
Israel finds an unacceptable threat looming again, Israel's options will
be constrained by the presence of so many Europeans in so small a
theater. The situation can conceivably push Israel to address the threat
by attacking Syria or even Iran. In which case, it would probably be
better to be Israel than Syria or Iran.

Yes, everything can go horribly wrong. The Arabs may revert to form, the
Europeans may revert to form, the U.S. may fail in its diplomatic
efforts, and Iran and Syria may play us all for fools - could all well
happen. But there is no reason for friends of Israel and the West to
make the case for their own failure while the outcome is still in play.
The opposite - announcing the a priori failure of pro-Western,
pro-Lebanese diplomacy sets the conditions that make that failure a more
likely possibility.

Israel, the Europeans, the U.S., the Arab states, the Turks, and Lebanon
- more talked about than talked with - have every reason to want the
political-military processes in which they are engaged to succeed. Even
the Chinese and the Russians standing on the sideline cannot want Iran
ascendant; if they are unwilling to take on Iran's nuclear capabilities
in concert with us, they may at least be willing to do this.

In which case, it is better to be all of us than them.

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David Harris on the Radio

A Painful Anniversary David A. Harris Executive Director, American Jewish Committee Week of September 4, 2006   David Harris delivers regular radio commentaries on the CBS radio network, which can be heard nationally just before the Osgood File on more than 400 stations. All of the commentaries are available on the AJC Podcast and at www.ajc.org. Click here to listen to this week's commentary. This Monday marks a painful anniversary. It's a time for remembrance. Nearly three thousand people were murdered five years ago in the terror attacks. Each loss creates a painful void for family, friends and the nation. It's a time for reflection. Right after the tragedy, we came together as a nation. We stood as one-in our grief, unity, and, yes, anger. After all, our country, our value system, was under attack. And it's a time for recommitment. We must not falter in the defense of what we aspire to-freedom, human dignity, gender equality, religious pluralism, and mutual respect. No, we weren't attacked for any specific policy, but for what we stand for. Remember: In 1993, under a different president, there was another attack on the World Trade Center. In 2001, there were no U.S. troops in Iraq. And the Palestinians had been offered a state-and rejected it. This September 11th, let's remember, reflect and recommit. This is David Harris of the American Jewish Committee.

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AJC Mideast Briefing

Gil'ad, Udi, Eldad – and Ron: What can be done to bring them home? Weekly Briefing on Israeli and Middle Eastern Affairs September 5, 2006 Dr. Eran Lerman Director Israel/Middle East Office On Thursday evening, tens of thousands of Israelis, from all walks of life and all shades of opinion, gathered in the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv - often the venue of dramatic and divisive events in our political history: but this was a vigil, not a protest, and all who came there did so because their hearts were grieving with three families, those of Gil'ad Shalit (abducted by the Hamas in raid into Israeli territory on June 25, 2006); and of Ehud - "Udi" - Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, the two reservists who were carried over into Lebanon by Hizbullah during the murderous raid of July 12, which ignited the second Lebanon War. The singers, the speakers, the family members who addressed the participants, called for the Hamas and Hizbullah to release the three young men; on the Israeli Government, to keep this at the top of its list of priorities; and on the international community, to all that can be done to bring pressure to bear so as to secure the release. But what could be done, when the past history of such cases has taught us, in the most brutal fashion, that we are not dealing with people who act within the acceptable norms of behavior, on the battlefield or elsewhere? A  fourth name, not mentioned (sadly) on the posters and in the advertisements which convened the rally, nevertheless hovered over everyone's heads like a dark cloud: that of Ron Arad, the Air Force navigator who was captured in Lebanon more than twenty years ago, traded by one faction over to Hizbullah and Iran, and held ever since (if, and the doubts are painful, he is still alive) without the slightest sign of life ever allowed by the Iranians to reach his family, until Tehran's full demands are met. Again and again, emissaries at the highest  levels went to Iran; again and again they were rebuffed, with Iran using the story of the four Iranian diplomats who disappeared in Beirut in 1982 (and are known to have been murdered and thrown in shallow graves by Christian militiamen) to fend off all unwanted appeals. There is a link, in fact, between Arad's fate and the present crisis. In the previous deal with Hizbullah, mediated by the Germans, Israel secured the release of a corrupt and venal man, Col. (res.) Elhanan Tenenbaum - who fell on hard times, was lured out of Israel by an illicit business proposition, abducted elsewhere, and brought to Lebanon, but there were reasons why it was important to gain his freedom - as well as the return of the bodies of the three soldiers taken in a Hizbullah raid on October 9, 2000. In return, Lebanese, Palestinian and other Arab prisoners were released: but not the man Nasrallah wanted most, Samir Quntar, a Lebanese "hero" who in the service of a Palestinian terror group, during a raid on Nahariyyah, smashed the scull of a four year old girl with a rock, and was sentenced to life in prison. The Ariel Sharon government, at the time, offered a "Stage B" exchange - some solid information about Ron Arad, in return for the release of Quntar and a few others with "blood on their hands": but no news came from Iran, and Quntar remained in jail. Hence Nasrallah's decision to hasten things up by adding new "cards" to his deck. The list of Israeli POW/MIAs - an evocative term, surely, for Americans, who faced the terrible decision to leave a significant number behind in Vietnam - is actually longer. It includes:  * Two soldiers, in recent years (and perhaps some of the civilians who disappeared altogether during the same period) who left their homes but never got to their bases, and whose fate is unaccounted for -  and may be held by hostile elements; * The three members of a tank crew from the battle of Sultan Ya'akub in 1982, generally believed to have been killed in action and buried by the Syrians (who are using the exact location as a bargaining chip , possibly abducted (to Syria?) - whose families cling to the hope, and to the rumors and manipulations by clairvoyants and their likes, that they are still alive; * A dozen or so - apparently killed in action from 1948 till 1973 - whom the IDF still seeks to bring to burial. Still, at this stage, it is the three, or hopefully the four (with Arad) whose fate is under active negotiations, despite strenuous denials that this is indeed what is happening (officially, Israel still seeks an unconditional release of Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev). The prospects are mixed: 1. In the case of Shalit, despite the hard line taken by Khalid Mash'al (in the service of the Syrians' bid to prove their centrality in the region), there is hope for a deal with the local Palestinian leadership, once the problematic questions of "sequences and appearances" are resolved. Israeli military pressure, and the growing impact of the international measures to isolate Hamas, are taking their toll, and voices are raised even from within Hamas calling for a practical solution (coupled with a prolonged hudna, ceasefire, and an end to the Qassam launches, in return for an Israeli commitment to desist from the air strikes and ground raids in Gaza). Moreover, Egypt - which still has considerable leverage in Gaza, if not in Damascus - is actively engaged and eager to promote, or even impose, a solution. 2. Vis-à-vis Hizbullah, on the other hand, the situation is bleak, and indeed no indications have leaked as to  the soldiers condition (The UN Secretary-General, and Jessie Jackson, too, failed to go beyond platitudes). Perhaps pressure on an element close to Hizbullah in Lebanon - the Christian faction of Michel Aoun - may yield results. In any case, as the international community pressures Israel to give up - and lift the siege on Lebanon - it would be legitimate for Israel to require, in return, that other possible levers should be brought to bear, or else we might face once again a prolonged and painful crisis.

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Reuters on AJC Iran letter

Annan asked to protest Iran's Holocaust cartoons September 2, 2006 By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been asked by a leading American Jewish group to speak out against Iran's Holocaust cartoon exhibition when he travels to Tehran next week. In a letter circulated on Friday, the American Jewish Committee said Annan should use the opportunity to speak out "publicly and privately" about the exhibit. The AJC lobbies against anti-Semitism and for pluralism. The exhibit's organizers say that the more than 200 entries from Iran's International Holocaust Cartoons Contest are aimed at challenging Western taboos about discussing the catastrophe, in which 6 million Jews died but which Iran's president has called a "myth" open to debate. "While we understand there are many vital issues on your agenda during your meetings in Iran, failure to address this government-endorsed and encouraged anti-Semitism would be seen, both inside and outside of Iran, as either acquiescence or worse, endorsement," the AJC letter said." "Such an interpretation would be especially dangerous given the context of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments calling for Israel's destruction," wrote AJC's executive director, David Harris, and its president, Robert Goodkind. Annan plans to visit Iran as part of a diplomatic swing through the Middle East to pin down a peace deal on Lebanon. At a July conference in Rome on the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah militia, the secretary-general suggested that Iran and Syria, Hizbollah's chief benefactors, be engaged. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "very pleased" about Annan's efforts but expressed doubt he would succeed. Annan was forced to cancel a scheduled trip to Iran last November after Ahmadinejad told students that that "Israel must be wiped off the map." The AJC letter said that Annan's visit would probably coincide with an announcement on Sept. 2 of winners in the cartoon contest. It also expressed appreciation for Annan's "prior statements about the bigotry of Holocaust denial and the importance of not using free speech as a pretext for hateful incitement." Iran's best-selling newspaper Hamshahri in February launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for last September's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish and other European newspapers. Those images of the prophet sparked attacks on European embassies in Muslim nations, including missions in Iran. (Additional information from Parisa Hafez in Tehran)

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JINSA Article Digest for September, 1st

Articles added to JINSA Online from August, 25th to September, 1st.
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#598 Russias Terrorist Road Map

(2006-08-28) Owing to its role in turning the Islamic world against Israel
and the U.S. beginning in the early 1970s, the archive of foreign Muslim
students trained in guerrilla/explosives/terrorism in the Soviet Union would
be an extremely useful road map for tracing todays Islamic fundamentalist
leaders and followers. Russia should be encouraged to provide it. Read the
analysis in JINSA Report #598.

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#599 Mexico or Iran?

(2006-08-31) The U.S. is ill-prepared to deal with unrelated challenges posed
by Iran and Mexico. And each problem appears to be growing. Read the analysis
in JINSA Report #599.

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ADL Headlines: A Bi-Weekly News Bulletin from the Anti-Defamation League

U.S. Newspapers and Political Cartoonists Support Israel Arab Media Cartoons Depict "Jewish Control" Of U.N. and U.S. Anti-Israel Professors Cross The Line Amnesty International Slams Israel El Salvador and Costa Rica Urged to Reverse Embassy Decision Name Change Welcomed for Hitler-Themed Restaurant In India Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Makes Bigoted Comment Canadian Church Rejects Israel Divestment Christian TV Special Blames Darwin for Hitler’s Genocidal Policies Polish Prosecutor Drops Case Against Anti-Semitic Station Santa Barbara: Early Childhood Education Launched Pennsylvania Declared ‘No Place for Hate’ New England: Teens Promoting Diversity New Hampshire: ADL Exposes Hate Group Media Watch August 31, 2006      Kofi Annan's Blind Spot on Israel and Iran During the first leg of his Mideast tour, the U.N. Secretary General strongly condemned Israel’s actions in the recent war, while largely reserving judgment for Hezbollah. "Kofi Annan clearly has a blind spot when it comes to Israel," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who is currently in Israel. "Why doesn't he understand what the Israelis have gone through?" ADL also questioned why Mr. Annan would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel’s destruction and openly questions the Holocaust, to discuss the situation in south Lebanon. More >> In the News: Cybercast News Service Ha’aretz     Anti-Semitism In The Arab World Cartoon of the Week Akhbar Al-Khalij, August 15, 2006 (Bahrain) In Arabic: "Resolution 1707" Click to Enlarge U.S. Newspapers and Political Cartoonists Support Israel In a survey of 33 of the nation's largest circulation daily newspapers, ADL found an overwhelming majority of editorials and political cartoons clearly labeled Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and supported Israel's response to Hezbollah’s unprovoked attacks.   More >> Arab Media Cartoons Depict "Jewish Control" Of U.N. and U.S. Editorial cartoonists in the Arab world returned to "rehashing and reinventing their tired conspiracy" that portrays Israelis and Jews as controlling the U.N. and U.S. foreign policy.   More >> Anti-Israel Professors Cross The Line The appearance of prominent academics John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard under the auspices of an American Muslim group with ties to Hamas demonstrates "they have crossed the line from academia to advocacy.”   More >> In the News: JTA Amnesty International Slams Israel ADL criticized the human rights group Amnesty International for its “bigoted, biased and borderline anti-Semitic” report on the Israeli-Hezbollah war.   More >> In the News: Christian Science Monitor El Salvador and Costa Rica Urged to Reverse Embassy Decisions Deeply distressed at announcements by El Salvador and Costa Rica that both intend to move their embassies in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, ADL called on the leaders of both nations to maintain their official diplomatic offices in the capital city of Jerusalem.   More >> Name Change Welcomed for Hitler-Themed Restaurant In India In response to international outrage over a new eatery named, “Hitler’s Cross,” the owner of the Mumbai restaurant apologized and said he would remove the Nazi imagery and theme from his establishment.  More >> In the News: International Herald Tribune Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Makes Bigoted Comment Andrew Young, a longtime African-American civil rights leader, resigned from his position as a public advocate for Wal-Mart after making derogatory and offensive comments about Jews, Koreans and Arabs. Young has since apologized.   More >> In the News: International Herald Tribune Canadian Church Rejects Israel Divestment ADL applauded the leaders of the United Church of Canada for rejecting an anti-Israel divestment resolution and instead approving a strategy of positive investment in the region.  More >> Christian TV Special Blames Darwin for Hitler’s Genocidal Policies A television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries outrageously attempted to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and his genocidal policies.   More >> In the News: Christian Post Polish Prosecutor Drops Case Against Anti-Semitic Station ADL strongly criticized the decision of a Polish prosecutor for dropping the case against a well-known anti-Semitic radio station for broadcasting an anti-Semitic rant, calling it "disgraceful." More >> Santa Barbara: Early Childhood Education Launched ADL’s Santa Barbara/Tri-Counties Regional Office launched The Miller Early Childhood Initiative of A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute at the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center. The Santa Barbara School District has committed to implementing The Initiative in 28 preschools. The Initiative Workshops count toward Santa Barbara’s No Place for Hate® certification, which has already reached 27 schools and college campuses, community and religious organizations in the county.  More >> Pennsylvania Declared ‘No Place for Hate’ Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell officially endorsed ADL’s No Place for Hate® program, and sent a letter to all school superintendents urging them to adopt No Place for Hate® in their districts. Meanwhile, the city of Philadelphia was confronted with new concerns about the formation of a local chapter of anti-Semitic and racist New Black Panther Party.  In the News: Philadelphia Inquirer New England: Teens Promoting Diversity More than 80 Jewish, Christian and Muslim high school students gathered in August for one week in New Hampshire to launch ADL’s Interfaith Youth Leadership Program with “Camp IF.” The program calls young people to action in the fight against anti-Semitism, religious intolerance, prejudice and bigotry in all forms.   In the News: Boston Globe WBUR New Hampshire: ADL Exposes Hate Group ADL exposed the link between Jaffrey, New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” Celebration and a White Supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The ensuing controversy caused the racist group to disavow its connections to the event and to remove promotions of the event from its Web site.  In the News: Concord Monitor Media Watch Op-Eds: Testing Time In Region (YNet News) 8/24/06 Israel must have right to defend itself against Hezbollah's readying for a new war in Lebanon, and Iran's threat to Israel's very existence   We Are One, But Not The Same (Forward) 8/24/06 Relations between Israel and American Jews, by now an old and recurring subject for discussion, have come to the surface again, this time on the editorial page of the Forward. Hatred Contradicts Core Values (Jewish News Weekly of Northern CA) 8/18/06 Hate is not kosher. It doesn't take long for hatred toward one group of people to redirect itself as hatred toward Jews. Letters to the Editor: Start Talking to Hezbollah (NY Times) 08/18/06 Lakhdar Brahimi's line of reasoning ignores history and is a sure formula for more violence and extremism in the Middle East. Avoid Muslim Stereotypes 08/23/06 Not all Muslims are violent, ADL says in response to a commentary piece by Dick Holt in the Ventura County Star. Editor's Note: The next edition of ADL Headlines will appear on September 14, 2006. 2006 Anti-Defamation League. All rights reserved. Donate | Change Your E-mail Address | Update your E-mail Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy