Posted on 04/18/2010 1:37:25 PM PDT by Michel12
Israel plans to establish a national war monument in Jerusalem to honor the memory of the 22,684 soldiers and security personnel who have fallen defending the land of Israel since 1860 – the year the first Jews left Jerusalem’s Old City walls to settle other parts of the country.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced plans to erect the new monument, during a ceremony at its future location on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
“As a society we owe a great moral debt to bereaved families,” Barak said. “In its 62 years of independence this country has stood before complicated challenges and overcome them due to the generation after generation of talented youth who were, and still are, prepared to defend this country with their lives.”
Under the Defense Ministry plan, the monument will include all of the names of the soldiers and security personnel who have died since 1860, with a memorial light next to the name that will be lit up on the anniversary of the soldier’s death. At the monument, the Defense Ministry will also set up computer consoles, where visitors will be able to look up the stories of the fallen.
Barak said that Mount Herzl was the most appropriate location for the new monument, since it would be located between Yad Vashem and the graves of Israel’s founding fathers, and adjacent to the graves of the IDF’s fallen.
“These soldiers are the silver platter upon which we received the State of Israel, and there is no place more fitting to memorialize them than on this mountain,” Barak said.
President Shimon Peres opened the state ceremony on Sunday evening ushering in the 24 hours of mourning for fallen soldiers, minutes after Israelis stood for a moment of silence during the siren announcing the beginning of Remembrance Day.
“Bereaved families, whose Remembrance Day does not start with the siren that calls for a minute of silence, or end with the kindling of the beacons; you who came to this place, in the nebulous light of dusk, in the chilly Jerusalem evening air, facing the remnants of the Temple, [represent] over 20,000 households in Israel who lost the most precious of all, in the storm of battle, and in the line of duty,” the president said.
“I am aware that nothing can compensate for the sound of the steps of a son you expect to hear on the staircase, which has suddenly turned silent. The son whose uniform you hung on a hanger in the closet, which generates a yearning to smell the smell of his body one last time,” he went on.
“Facing your tormented eyes – there is a loss of words. A testimony of the truth that destiny has inflicted upon you the heaviest of prices – bereavement. And bequeathed to our nation the greatest of achievements – revival,” Peres said.
Consoling the families that their sacrifice was not in vain, Peres said, “In their battle, the fallen prevented the destruction of the new tabernacle of David.”
Speaking of future challenges to the Jewish state’s survival, Peres noted that “there are still those who wish to annihilate us. And at their head, the autocratic Iranian regime that seeks to cast its rule over the Middle East, silence it with lethal weapons, and launch an anti-Israel incitement campaign to deflect Arab concerns.
“On no account must we disregard these threats. Nor should our enemies belittle our capabilities,” he declared.
“A threat to the peace of the Jewish people always carries the danger of turning into a threat to the civilized world as a whole, to its well-being and values,” Peres warned. ...
Counting down til Obama and other anti-semitic boneheads DENOUNCE this obvious effort at ‘nation building’ and ‘expanding settlement territory’!!! 3.....2.....1.....
God Bless Israel. No one else will.
Psalm 28.7
This used to be said of the U.S. Now it’s more like, “we seek peace, and are willing to apologize, disarm and prostrate ourselves before anyone who we think might want us to.”
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The Peresite is a traitor.
....and here comes the Saudi’s on Nuclear.
SOURCE: SAUDI GAZETTE 18 April’10:
“King orders to build nuke, renewable energy facility”
SUBJECT:....Saudi to pursue civilian nuclear
EXCERPTS:...RIYADH – King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saturday ordered the establishment of a scientific center for civilian nuclear and renewable energy to meet rising demand for power and desalinated water. The King issued a Royal Decree ordering setting up of the King Abdullah City of Atomic and Renewable Energy. ...The new entity is to draft a national policy on nuclear energy development and will be responsible for supervising all commercial use of nuclear power and the handling of radioactive waste.
The King Abdullah City of Atomic and Renewable Energy will be an independent legal entity and will be linked to the prime minister in terms of administration. Its headquarters will be in Riyadh and it has been authorized to establish branches, offices or research centers within the Kingdom.
The City will also represent the Kingdom at the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other . . .
HUmmm....Don’t know if this was on a thread or not...first I have heard.
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