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“Gaza could be like Singapore, but Hamas has chosen to direct all their resources to building terror tunnels and rockets, instead of investing in hospitals and schools,” stated Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based non-governmental organization U.N. Watch.
“Our aim is to empower the shared economy between Israelis and Palestinians, working closely together to empower and strengthen the economy,” said businessman Sheikh Ashraf Al Jabari.
“While we may not all be related,” said Federation of Greater Pittsburgh president and CEO Jeff Finkelstein, “we are all family in the Jewish world. Remembering our fallen is a global Jewish responsibility.”
Raising eyebrows within the Jewish and international community, the conference was supported and promoted by the terror-affiliated Palestinian National and Islamic Forces, and attended by leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Liberation Front.
Even though they sit on the front lines of riots and rocket attacks (and some very sandy driveways), the communities in southern Israel along the border with Gaza are experiencing economic growth that is double that of the rest of the country.
Israel offers an energy that is “almost unlike anywhere else in the world,” both as a global entrepreneurial epicenter and a country that fosters leaders, making it a perfect location for such gatherings.
The report provides evidence that Palestinian groups have subjected children to “arbitrary detention and torture … inundating children with messages of hate and violence,” as well as “encouraging them to kill Israelis and become martyrs in the struggle to liberate all of Israel [from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea] for Palestine.”
All the way from Oregon, Joe Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. Human Rights Council report—namely, that many of the report’s “victims” shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force were actually members of militant groups, including Hamas.