Israel's defenders mobilize, threaten

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Faced with what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of Israel's worst international relations disasters in years", the right-wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been pulling out all the stops to defend the Jewish state against global outrage over its deadly seizure of a Gaza-bound vessel in international waters carrying humanitarian supplies early on Monday morning.

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"As the international community is engaged in a biased rush to judgment against Israel and a diplomatic lynching, now is the time or the United States to firmly stand with the Jewish state and its people," said Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, on Wednesday.
"The US must show the world that it not only supports Israel's right to defend its borders and citizens against terrorism, but that it supports Israel's right to protect itself from people who pretend to be 'peace activists', and parade under the guise of humanitarians while supporting Hamas and violently attacking Israeli military personnel," he added.

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"If Obama decides it is in America's interest to make an example of Israel after the Gaza flotilla incident in order to win goodwill in Cairo, Beirut, Tehran and Ankara," warned Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, "then he must also recognize that the leadership in Jerusalem is going to conclude that it cannot trust the United States to safeguard its security, and that therefore it must take matters into its own hands on any number of issues, not the least of which is Iran's nuclear program."

In effect, if the White House decides to come down hard on Israel now," he added in National Review Online, "it is the same as giving a green light for Israel to strike Iran."

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But, while the IHH appears to have played a role in recruiting fighters in the Bosnia and Chechnya conflicts in the mid-1990s when the US Central Intelligence Agency report was written, it currently carries out relief operations in more than 100 countries, including Haiti and a number of African countries, as well as in Gaza, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And, aside from an assortment of sticks and kitchen knives, no weapons were found aboard any of the ships seized by Israel.

Similar talking points, however, were deployed by The Israel Project (TIP), another right-wing Zionist group that mobilized its members to write e-mails to lawmakers and media outlets in their area calling on them to stand by Israel. In the space of two hours on Tuesday afternoon, the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service received nearly 20 emails from TIP members in support of Israel's version of the incident.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LF04Ak01.html

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Here is a PDF copy of the Israel Projectsr 2009 handbook with a snip of it's contents it's quite a read

The Israel Project’s 2009
GLOBAL LANGUAGE
DICTIONARY


4) There is NEVER, EVER, any justification for the deliberate slaughter of innocent
women and children. NEVER. The primary Palestinian public relations goal is to
demonstrate that the so-called “hopelessness of the oppressed Palestinians” is what
causes them to go out and kill children. This must be challenged immediately,
aggressively, and directly.

“We may disagree about politics and we may disagree about economics. But
there is one fundamental principle that all peoples from all parts of the globe will
agree on: civilized people do not target innocent women and children for death.”
5) Don’t pretend that Israel is without mistakes or fault. It’s not true and no one
believes it. Pretending Israel is free from errors does not pass the smell test. It will only
make your listeners question the veracity of everything else you say. Admitting that
Israel has and continues to make mistakes does not undermine the overall justice of
Israel’s goals: peace and security and a better quality of life for BOTH sides.
Use humility. “I know that in trying to defend its children and citizens from terrorists
that Israel has accidentally hurt innocent people. I know it, and I’m sorry for it. But
what can Israel do to defend itself? If America had given up land for peace – and that
land had been used for launching rockets at America, what would America do? Israel
was attacked with thousands of rockets from Iran-backed Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.
What should Israel have done to protect her children? ”

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