War sickens me, but I stand with Israel.
"Wars sickens me, even wars that I support. I support Israel's offensive in Gaza, but watching it on TV -- the images of bombed-out buildings, crying women and, inevitably, the bodies of innocent bystanders -- is a painful experience." Rabbi Eric Yoffie
"Israel's actions in Gaza are justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its self-defense against terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks." Alan Dershowitz
Today marks the end of the first week of Israel defending herself against Hamas. Not against Gaza, not against the Palestinians, but against Hamas in Gaza.
I stand with Israel and believe in her right to defend her citizens.
Where can you go to get more information? I'm involved with a group in Israel called HelpUsWin.org. Help Us Win is trying to win hearts and minds for Israel. Israel has done a terrible job telling her side of the story, so we are stepping in to tell it.
This is the power of social media.
The site is place for supporters to go for more information, but we are also building FAQs, timelines, pages of aggregated news, aggregated video content, aggregated photos and even a way to donate your status on Facebook to the cause.
I'll be getting active on Digg for the first time ever and digging stories that tell Israel's side of the story, scanning HARO to find stories that we can pitch an Israeli angle to, and tagging content that I find on delicious with helpuswin. Those are places you can go to find stories written by people who are more eloquent than I about the matter.
If you have forgotten how I feel about Israel here are the postcards I wrote about Israel for her 60th. An essay I wrote about place which Israel figures into greatly. And if you think I don't seek peace over war, please read posts from our small meme in 2006 - Shalom2006, A Vision of a World Redeemed.
Another good resource for analysis is www.honestreporting.com. Honest
Reporting is a website that monitors Mideast media bias and ensures that
Israel receives fair worldwide press coverage.
i would say that not only has Israel done a horrible job of telling it's
story, but it has also done a horrible job of defending itself in a manner
which lends itself to any sympathy. i fully support Israel's right to exist
and it's right to defend itself, it's borders and it's citizens. BUT. when
you are defending yourself against callous terrorists who blow up
civilians, either with suicide bombers, or with indiscriminately aimed
rockets, the simplest, best, easiest way to ensure the world has a tough
time being sympathetic to your enemies is to make "zero civilian casualties
from Israeli weapons, no exceptions" your top priority. but Israel does not
do this. they seem to almost enjoy wallowing in the tit for tat exchange of
civilian deaths and this, i think, more than almost anything else, makes it
extremely difficult to be sympathetic with their plight. it ceases to look
like defense and begins to look far too much like revenge. and overkill
revenge at that.
This is from www.helpuswin.org
i think Graet Israel is right about the war . Israel must defend itself
against terrorism known as "Hamas" . I am fully confident and firm belief
that the land known as "Palestine" is the land of "Israel" and we, the
Palestinians have to deal with the Israelis that they are the owners of the
land and we are guests. Oh God, protect the State of Greater Israel from
the Hamas terrorism. And may God have mercy on children and women, the
elderly and the young Israelis who are "the greatest peoples on the earth"
who were killed by terrorists.
