Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The Conference on the future of the Jewish People

The Conference on the future of the Jewish People 10-12.6 2007, conducted by The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI)

Special coverage can be found on the English Edition Ynet Site.

Highlights so far include

PM: I'm Jewish, then Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, addressing a conference on the future of the Jewish people, said he identified himself as "Jewish first, then Israeli."

'Jews face gathering storm'
Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler: Threat to Israel and Diaspora at level unprecedented since 1938

The Jewish people are facing a "gathering storm" in the form of threats posed by a genocidal Iran, Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and local terror cells which target Diaspora Jews, former Canadian Justice Minister and Jewish activist Irwin Cotler told a conference on the future of Jewish people in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

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Dennis Ross, the former US ambassador to Israel said that "Iran is led today by a regime that believes in the destruction of Israel, and they're developing the means to actually do it."

From the conference, Israel radio's international hour with Dr. Yitzhak Noy interviewed a professor from McGill University who spoke about the sophistication of the new anti-Semitism that cloaks its bias in veils of anti-Zionism and delegitimization of the state Israel through falsified populist pretenses of so called "human rights" issues.

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