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Please help save Mr. Choudhury: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Advisory Board Member, R&B Islam-Israel Fellowship; Journalist, Columnist, Author & Peace Activist; PEN U.S.A. F.T.W. Award 2005; A.J.C. Moral Courage Award 2006; Editor & Publisher, Weekly Blitz www.weeklyblitz.net Chief Editor, Weekly Jamjamat www.interfaithstrength.com Mr. Salah is on trial for his life in Bangladesh. His crime - writing articles favorable toward Christians and Jews. On November 14, 2006, Representatives Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Nita Lowey (D-NY) introduced a Congressional Resolution (House Resolution 1080) urging the Bangladesh government to drop all charges against Muslim journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and cease all other forms of harassment against him. House Resolution 1080 will be voted on before Congress adjourns at the end of this year (before the holidays). Please contact your Congressional Representatives and urge them to support House Resolution 1080. Please encourage everyone you know to do the same. This is an issue that both Democrats and Republicans are supporting, and we must get it passed by a huge margin. This is our chance and the Congress's chance to make a strong statement for justice and against radicalism, and help save the life of this very brave man. Please act now and get everyone you know to act. Click for Washington Times Article Click for House Resolution 1080 and all information about Mr. Choudhury and what we can do.  Shame on you all.Until the EU and UN stand up to terrorists there will be no peace. It's about time that these organizations take responsibility and the blame for appeasing terrorists instead of standing up to them. If they can't do anything but talk, they should be quiet. For months, every day, Palestinian terrorists have fired Kassam rockets from Gaza into Israel, even if the media hardly bothers to report it. For months, every day, rockets have hit western Israel and the town of Sderot, injuring civilians. Close to 10 Kassam rockets have been fired at Sderot and other Israeli areas on each day of the past two weeks. The IDF aims artillery fire at the launching grounds of the rockets, to prevent further fire on Israeli civilians. Unfortunately, either a mechanical misfire or human error caused a house to be hit in Beit Hanoun, resulting in casualties. News reports state that the Palistinians are in shock. Why are they in shock? Because they know like everyone else that there is always a warning from the IDF, allowing civilians to clear the area, and there is great accuracy. Unfortunately the citizens of Israel don't have that warning. International law states clearly, that the responsibility for harm to civilians is upon those who use them as human shields, and not upon those who fight [the terrorists]. As usual officials from the U.N., Britain and the EU quickly criticized Israel's action. The U.N. Security Council scheduled an open meeting Thursday in response to Palestinian calls for it to condemn Israel's killing of 18 members of an extended family and demand the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Walner stated, "The killing this morning of so many civilians in Gaza, including many children, is a profoundly shocking event." At least there was one statement of intelligence. "U.N. Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Alvaro de Soto urged the "Palestinian side" to stop attacking Israelis." But even this was buried in anti-Israel rhetoric. There will be peace for Gaza when they stop firing rockets at Israel. This doesn't take too much common sense or intelligence to figure out. The World Community should be demanding and enforcing the halt of Kassam attacks on Israel. Until the EU and UN stand up to terrorists there will be no peace. It's about time that these organizations take responsibility and the blame for appeasing terrorists instead of standing up to them. If they can't do anything but talk, they should be quiet. The world news media has responsibility and blame too, maybe even more so. Where are the daily reports of the rockets hitting Israel and the casualties? These reports should be in the media every day just as they are for every other country. Shame on you all. by Jpost.com staff In an operation at Carmel Hospital in Haifa a new type of heart, approximately the size of a cellular phone, was successfully implanted. The patient will carry small batteries with him, but otherwise will be able to lead a routine life. by Ed Weiss Early Detection of Lung Cancer by CT Scanning Can Give Hope to Millions Jerusalem – (October 26, 2006) - The results of an international research study published Oct 26, 2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine report that an annual low-dose CT scan can detect lung cancer in its earliest stage in 85 percent of patients and when followed by prompt surgical removal, 92 percent have a 10-year survival rate. Implementation of this simple procedure would dramatically decrease the number of deaths from this disease, considered the most lethal cancer in the western world. Some 170,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with this cancer every year; about 95 percent of them do not survive. Currently, most of cases are diagnosed when the lung cancer is in its later phases. The study, initiated by researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 1993, expanded into an international research effort known as I-ELCAP (International Early Lung Cancer Action Program), involving researchers from 38 medical centers in seven countries. Dr. Claudia Hencshke of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, is the lead author and principal investigator. The Hadassah University Medical Center is the only Israeli hospital that participated in this research effort – the largest and longest study to test the effectiveness of annual CT scans in the early detection of lung cancer. Cure for lung cancer is likely only when it is discovered in Stage I. Of the 31,567 people the I-ELCAP teams tested, CT scans diagnosed 484 with lung cancer, with 412 in Stage I. All but eight of them received treatment; all of the eight died within five years. All the research participants were above 40 years old and considered at high risk of developing lung cancer from smoking, passive smoke or exposure to cancerous materials in their work places. Of the 1,000 people tested in Israel, 15 were diagnosed with lung cancer with 85 percent of them in Stage I. All were treated after diagnosis and their disease has not returned. Dr. Dorit Shaham of Hadassah’s Imaging Institute, one of I-ELCAP’s founders, played a major role in the international research group along with leading the Hadassah research aspect of the study. Among her contributions was the creation of a Internet site that the group is using to teach physicians. “These research findings provide convincing proof that the early detection of lung cancer by CT scanning can give hope to millions of people,” Dr. Shaham said. “They also prove that immediate treatment after detection in its early phase may dramatically decrease lung cancer mortality rates.”  In 1948 and 1967 there were not only Palestinian refugees but also Jewish refugees from Arab countries – 600,000 of whom came to Israel. The State of Israel is putting the claims of Jews from Arab countries on the table, parallel to the claim by the Palestinians who left Israel.The difference, is that no Jews want to go back to those countries. One can say that there was an exchange of populations for the sake of peace. The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) states that an estimated 900,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Arab and Muslim countries in the course of the 20th century. Jews were robbed of more than $100 billion in personal and communal assets, by Arab and Muslim governments. Click here for the Jewish International Rights and Redress Campaign. If your family was one of these refugees, there is a kit available with information on Jewish refugees and all the material necessary to document a personal testimony. You can also register your families experience. From Yahoo News By Corinne Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ethiopian doctors battling an AIDS epidemic are learning new methods of treatment in Israel from local physicians who gained experience caring for HIV-infected Ethiopian migrants to the Jewish state. From
IsraelNN.com The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference will be held tomorrow, Oct 24 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C. A main event will be the live satellite broadcast of a cardiac catheterization from the Jesselson Heart Center at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel to the Conference. "Four new procedures will be introduced by Dr. Yaron Almagor, Director of Catheterization Laboratories at Shaare Zedek. Each of the procedures to be illustrated are performed in the hospital and have been proven to offer dramatic benefits for patients with blockages in the arteries leading to the heart...." And the onslaught continues. Rockets from northern Gaza hit the western Negev near Ashkelon's power facilities. Two rockets struck the town of Sderot wounding 3 people and sending several others into shock. Meanwhile the IDF continues to find and destroy tunnels between Egypt and Gaza which are being used to smuggle explosives and weapons into Gaza. Tunnels have also been discovered leading from Gaza toward the western Negev region in the area which Israel withdrew from last summer. Solar Energy and "green" solutions abound at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The Jerusalem Post By David E. Kaplan "Seventy-one year-old Moshe Tzori is a farmer with a guilty conscience. "The soil has been good to me all my life, but have I been good to it?" he asks. One would think that Tzori has engaged in some nefarious activities to warrant such misgivings about his agrarian past - but no, far from it. All he has done is exactly what most farmers traditionally do: overirrigate. Why is that so bad? Explains Tzori, a longtime resident of Moshav Nir Banimin in the northern Negev: "Water wastage is bad enough in a country like Israel where it is so scarce; but there is another aspect and no less disturbing - pollution. Unused agricultural water spreads harmful insecticides, pesticides and herbicides into our underground water supplies. This stuff is poison. It's bad enough that we have to inflict our crops with it, but then to contaminate our subterranean water resources is untenable. Why? Because it is preventable." With more than 40 years of literally "in the field" experience and supported by his highly qualified sons with technical backgrounds, five years ago Tzori came up with an invention that could revolutionize the nature and scope of husbandry. Simply put, his CommonSensor, as he calls it, produced by his company Commonsensor Ltd. (www.common-sensor.com), is a computerized precision device that prevents inefficient water usage and dramatically reduces pollution. It enables the maximum exploitation of available water for irrigating field and greenhouse crops, as well as home and public gardens. "The beauty of it," he assures, "is that it leaves no residual water that contains waste fertilizers to percolate underground." What's more, according to Tzori, research has shown that "there could be anywhere from a 50% to 70% saving in water costs."... Click for article Rockets continue to hit Israel from Gaza strip: --------------------- ArutzSheva by Debbie Berman "Terrorists fired a barrage of Kassam rockets from the northern Gaza Strip toward Israel on the Sabbath, directly hitting a house in the Negev town of Sderot. The Red Dawn alert system warned of the impending rocket landing. Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived at the scene reported that one person had sustained light injuries and that three people were treated for shock. No one in the house was hurt, as the family members were in the synagogue at the time."...  This necklace is filled with earth and water from different parts of Israel. Looks like a nice gift, so I thought I would share it. WJC - World Jewish Congress Yale University has created a center for the study of contemporary anti-Semitism. The Yale Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism will provide a place to research anti-Semitism and explore ways to fight it, said Charles Small, director of the center at the prestigious Ivy League college. It remains unclear whether the center will offer a degree. "Anti-Semitism has reemerged internationally in a manner that many leading scholars and policymakers take seriously," Small said. "Because of this, there is a need to establish a high-caliber, interdisciplinary, non-partisan, scholarly institute, so that students and faculty can engage these issues fully." InfoLiveTV Jerusalem The Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, in cooperation with Hadassah France, led by Prof. Sydney Ohana, developed a new virus capable of defeating cancerous tumors, that brings many patients to Israel from around the world. Tens of Thousands rallied at the UN Wednesday in protest to the appearance of the Iranian President and in support of Israel. WW II cost the lives of millions of people from all over the world. British, French, American, African, Australian, European, etc...............  From ArutzSheva
by Hillel Fendel "Four Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and environs today. One of them, this morning, caused damage to a house and water piping, while an afternoon rocket heavily damaged a classroom at the Shaar HaNegev college. The Sderot municipality issued a call to the National Property Tax office, saying that permanent damage had apparently been caused to a building. Engineers suspect it is in danger of collapsing.".... CAMERA ACTION ALERT: By Gilead Ini, CAMERA "Hamas officials unequivocally stress the signing of document does not mean the group accepts Israel's legitimacy, and that "resistance" [terror] against Israel will continue".... |
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