Consul General had an interview with the Huffington Post last week and gave a good description of the goings-on. He also cites some facts and figures, about which we have gotten a number of good questions. A sample: The United Nations estimates that 25 percent of Palestinian casualties in the pres[...]
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January 13th, 2009 - 1:54 pm § in Citizen Press Conference, Conflict, Interviews, Media, Operation Cast Lead
HuffPost Interviews the Consul General
How Did the “Cease-fire” End?
On 19 June, a “state of calm” began between Israel and Hamas. The goal of this arrangement was to end Hamas’s rocket fire on Sderot and to gradually open up the border crossings into Gaza for civilian goods. You can see details of the arrangement in our previous post. This a[...]
January 4th, 2009 - 7:02 pm § in Citizen Press Conference, Interviews, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem stands in support of Israel
On January 4th, at Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem, over 1,200 people stood in support of Israel. Bishop Carlton T. Brown, Senior Pastor of the Bethel Gospel Assembly, Inc. in Harlem lead his congregation in a special prayer for the State of Israel and all of the lives affected by the recent event[...]
Why has Israel started a ground operation today?
People have asked us this question through our twitter account and the blog. Here is what Consul David Saranga has to say on the matter of today’s ground operation: Hamas still maintains the capacity and will to engage in terrorism. With Iranian assistance, Hamas has extended the reach of its [...]
December 31st, 2008 - 5:09 pm § in Citizen Press Conference
Answers to Questions from “Press Conference”
Thank you again to everyone who submitted questions to us yesterday. In yesterday’s posts, we went over and “transcribed” the questions and answers from the Twitter session. During the session itself, we had time to answer only a limited amount of questions. This post summarizes [...]
Hamas Charter 1988
During yesterday’s Twitter conference, we got a few questions about Hamas. While the answers to the specific questions will be coming shortly, following are selected sections from the charter of Hamas (aka the Islamic Resistance Movement) with some emphasis added. The full document can be fo[...]
December 30th, 2008 - 7:58 pm § in Citizen Press Conference
The Last of the Q&As from Today’s Twitter Conference
The fourth and final part of our summary from the Civilian Press Conference that took place on twitter earlier today. The conversations were ‘expanded’ (meaning we removed the short ‘twitter talk’ and re-wrote fully spelled words) but otherwise unchanged. This may be the end [...]
December 30th, 2008 - 7:32 pm § in Citizen Press Conference
Even More Q&A from the Twitter Conference
The third part of our summary from the Civilian Press Conference that took place on twitter earlier today. The conversations were ‘expanded’ (meaning we removed the short ‘twitter talk’ and re-wrote fully spelled words) but otherwise unchanged. 0 people like this post. Like[...]
December 30th, 2008 - 6:45 pm § in Citizen Press Conference
More Q&A from Twitter Conference
The second part of our summary from the Civilian Press Conference that took place on twitter earlier today. The conversations were ‘expanded’ (meaning we removed the short ‘twitter talk’ and re-wrote fully spelled words) but otherwise unchanged. 0 people like this post. Lik[...]
December 30th, 2008 - 6:07 pm § in Citizen Press Conference
Q&A from Today’s “Press Conference”
Today’s “Press Conference” on Twitter was great. Thank you to everyone who posted, followed, participated, etc. Below, we’ve posted some of the questions and answers from this session. We’ll try to put up more answers soon; keep checking in. The conversations were &#[...]
