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'There is no West without Israel'
Israel Today ^ | June 15, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 06/15/2010 12:58:39 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

A group of respected former world leaders and academic figures came together in Paris earlier this month to establish the Friends of Israel initiative to combat what they called the "delegitimation of the State of Israel."

The group was led by former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar and included Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble, former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, Italian philosopher Marcelo Pear, British historian Andrew Roberts and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton.

In a press release prior to the Paris event, the group expressed its outrage over the "unprecedented delegitimation campaign against Israel, driven by the enemies of the Jewish state and perversely assumed by numerous international authorities."

The Friends of Israel initiative differs from and compliments other pro-Israel movements because it "is promoted by people who are not Jewish and whose motivations are based on the deep conviction that Israel is part of the Western world. In fact, today Israel is a fundamental actor for the future of the West."

(Excerpt) Read more at israeltoday.co.il ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aznar; bolton; flotilla; france; iran; israel; jihad; paris; spain
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News of the initiative's launch was severely muted as it took place less than a day after Israel's raid on the Free Gaza "humanitarian aid" flotilla that was trying to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Interesting coincidence as this meeting was planned before the flotilla broke the blockade.

1 posted on 06/15/2010 12:58:39 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita
'There is no West without Israel'

Actually history records the exact opposite, there is NO Israel without US.... and yet people are oblivious to the destruction of US by the lunatic left will ultimately do to the rest of the civilized world.

2 posted on 06/15/2010 1:01:05 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: La Enchiladita
".....and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton"

Bol-ton! Bol-ton! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!


"'scuse me. I have a question."
3 posted on 06/15/2010 1:03:16 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Just mythoughts

Very true, even though initially it was the French who supported the Israelis during the 40s - 60s.


4 posted on 06/15/2010 1:04:09 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: Just mythoughts

G-d has different thoughts on the matter. Israel will never be destroyed again. On the other hand, America will be destroyed if she curses Israel, as per Genesis 12:3.


5 posted on 06/15/2010 1:04:27 PM PDT by Jeb21
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To: Just mythoughts

There is no US without Judeo-Christian ethics.


6 posted on 06/15/2010 1:09:08 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: La Enchiladita
'There is no West without Israel'

How did we manage to survive until 1948?

7 posted on 06/15/2010 1:09:18 PM PDT by gandalftb (OK State: Go Cowboys)
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To: Just mythoughts

In 1948, the Soviet Union recognized Israel and assumed it would be a Soviet ally. And it might have become so had not Truman overruled the ‘experts’ in the USA. Israel might have been a much larger and more ruthless nation as a Soviet proxy.


8 posted on 06/15/2010 1:11:21 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Jeb21
G-d has different thoughts on the matter. Israel will never be destroyed again. On the other hand, America will be destroyed if she curses Israel, as per Genesis 12:3.

This promise was made to whom????? Now the House of Jacob did NOT take heed of the writings of Moses particularly Deuteronomy 27- the end and by the time of the end of Solomon's rule they had a civil war. AND there became TWO houses of Jacob, one was the northern kingdom called the House of Israel, wherein it is recorded by Jeremiah that the Heavenly Father D I V O R C E D and sent her into captivity unto the Assyrian king. The House of Judah on the other hand a couple of hundred years later was sent into captivity to the king of Babylon.

Now IF people choose to stop reading the record at Genesis 12:3 claim it says what it does NOT say then hey they will be caught sleeping when the fake shows up.

9 posted on 06/15/2010 1:17:00 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: jjotto
In 1948, the Soviet Union recognized Israel and assumed it would be a Soviet ally. And it might have become so had not Truman overruled the ‘experts’ in the USA. Israel might have been a much larger and more ruthless nation as a Soviet proxy.

Oh my.... Well look at the history of survival of the Soviet Union... they were never able to be self sufficient and always had to be ruling with the IRON fist some productive nation in order to keep their godless system at least on the proverbial ventilator.

Did not the Soviets also finance the Aswan Dam for Egypt?

10 posted on 06/15/2010 1:21:20 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
Now the House of Jacob did NOT take heed of the writings of Moses particularly Deuteronomy 27

Why is it that chr*stians read G-d's admonitions to never abandon the Torah as admonitions to convert to chr*stianity? Oh, that's right--because of their built-in assumptions!

11 posted on 06/15/2010 1:23:19 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Veyiqchu 'eleykha farah 'adummah temimah 'asher 'ein-bah mum, 'asher lo'-`alah `aleyha `ol.)
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To: La Enchiladita
A very powerful essay that is very true:

All European Life Died in Auschwitz

12 posted on 06/15/2010 1:24:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Why is it that chr*stians read G-d's admonitions to never abandon the Torah as admonitions to convert to chr*stianity? Oh, that's right--because of their built-in assumptions!

No dear, because Christ IS the first prophecy in Genesis 3:15.... the bruising of the heel had happened but that snake still had his head, but hey there is to be a day of teaching when this flesh age ends.

13 posted on 06/15/2010 1:27:28 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: jjotto
In 1948, the Soviet Union recognized Israel and assumed it would be a Soviet ally. And it might have become so had not Truman overruled the ‘experts’ in the USA. Israel might have been a much larger and more ruthless nation as a Soviet proxy.

The Bolsheviks, while supporting "revolutionary" nationalisms around the world (such as the Irish) opposed Zionism from the beginning. This policy changed for a very brief period after WWII because the Soviet line at that time was very anti-British and the Zionists wanted the Brits out of Israel (which was called "Palestine" at that time; ironically, "Palestinians" meant Jews). The recognition of Israel by Stalin was part of this; the Soviets also allowed the Czechs to supply Israel with arms (while the US kept the embargo on).

But within a few years everything had back to the way things were before. The Soviets had the Czechs supply the Arabs and the idea of revolutionary "Third World" nationalism began to develop.

14 posted on 06/15/2010 1:28:34 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Veyiqchu 'eleykha farah 'adummah temimah 'asher 'ein-bah mum, 'asher lo'-`alah `aleyha `ol.)
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To: Just mythoughts

You are correct.

Israel would be similar to the other Soviet proxies, perhaps like Cuba.

The Soviets sought clients in Egypt and Syria because they didn’t get one in Israel. They didn’t develop infrastructure out of altruism.


15 posted on 06/15/2010 1:30:54 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

>Israel might have been a much larger and more ruthless nation as a Soviet proxy.<

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Which would have kept the Muslims better in line.


16 posted on 06/15/2010 1:32:23 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Just mythoughts
No dear, because Christ IS the first prophecy in Genesis 3:15.... the bruising of the heel had happened but that snake still had his head, but hey there is to be a day of teaching when this flesh age ends.

::Facepalms:: But of course! It's so obvious it just ups and bites you, doesn't it? Goodness knows Genesis 3:15 is referring to none other than J*sus--because the "new testament" is the "word of G-d!" And we know the "new testament" is the "word of G-d" because the "new testament" claims to be the "word of G-d!" Well, I'm sure convinced--NOT!!!

Your belief about Genesis 3:15 is called an assumption, dear.

So according to you the Jews didn't disobey Deuteronomy 27 but Genesis 3:15--right? Because Deuteronomy 27 sure as shootin' warns about what will happen if Israel abandons the Torah--for chr*stianity or anything else.

17 posted on 06/15/2010 1:32:41 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Veyiqchu 'eleykha farah 'adummah temimah 'asher 'ein-bah mum, 'asher lo'-`alah `aleyha `ol.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Jews have always had to have a talent for “running between raindrops”.


18 posted on 06/15/2010 1:35:57 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Zionist Conspirator
::Facepalms:: But of course! It's so obvious it just ups and bites you, doesn't it? Goodness knows Genesis 3:15 is referring to none other than J*sus--because the "new testament" is the "word of G-d!" And we know the "new testament" is the "word of G-d" because the "new testament" claims to be the "word of G-d!" Well, I'm sure convinced--NOT!!! Your belief about Genesis 3:15 is called an assumption, dear. So according to you the Jews didn't disobey Deuteronomy 27 but Genesis 3:15--right? Because Deuteronomy 27 sure as shootin' warns about what will happen if Israel abandons the Torah--for chr*stianity or anything else.

I guess you don't do Hebrew??? I think there are two gods derived from the language that got filtered out of Babylon.... ya know confusion.

19 posted on 06/15/2010 1:37:12 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: gandalftb

Israel is the outpost of Western Civilization in the Near/Middle East. Should the “little Satan” be exterminated by the barbarian Islamic tyrannies, it will only encourage them to multiply their efforts to eliminate the “big Satan.”


20 posted on 06/15/2010 1:37:40 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Let us remember that we should not disregard the experience of the ages - Aristotle)
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