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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (13558)	12/7/2006 7:20:25 PM
From: steve kammerer	Respond to of 22250

From the Jerusalem Post. Who is "educating" media for the Palestinians. Notice this is also tax deductible. Supporter of Israel, Here’s a quote from Ahmadinejad that appeared in the New York Times. We need your help now more than ever to educate the media and help strengthen Israel’s image. Please send your contribution of $250, $180, $100, $60, $36 or even $18 TODAY to help us fight anti-Israel propaganda in the media. Stop Iran's nuclear bomb - protect Israel An Iran with nuclear weapons is our worst nightmare – for Israel, and for Western civilization. Iran must be stopped before it is too late. Your generous donation allows The Israel Project to educate the media about issues of importance to Israel. Please give now. Dear Supporter of Israel, I am writing with an urgent appeal for financial support. Please read on. This is too important to ignore. We need whatever assistance you can provide – today – so we can achieve what’s become our highest priority – to educate American and European audiences about the frightening dangers of a radical regime in Iran that is aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons. Why must we do this? Because we need the United States and its European allies to adopt smart policies to confront this danger. The people of America and Europe must understand the danger if they are going to support those policies. And we don’t have a moment to waste. At The Israel Project, we work every day to educate the media about issues of importance to Israel. Today, nothing is more important than the prospect of an Iran with nuclear weapons. Click here to support our work: theisraelproject.org How big is this menace? An Iran with nuclear weapons is our worst nightmare – for Israel, and for Western civilization. Iran is already the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism, providing $100 million a year to Hezbollah and a total of $200 million a year for terrorist groups in general. When the United States and Europe froze funding to the Palestinian Authority after Hamas’ victory in Parliamentary elections, Iran came through with a pledge of $50 million. Iran is headed by a President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who repeatedly denies the Holocaust and threatens to “wipe” Israel “off the map.” He has also set his sights on the United States, declaring that a world without America is “attainable” and “surely can be achieved.” Subscribing to a radical strain of Islam, Ahmadinejad believes it’s his religious destiny to provoke a violent confrontation with the West to help bring about the return of the so-called “Twelfth Imam” (or “Mahdi”), a messianic figure who will, in turn, announce the end of the world. Does he really believe it? Well, as President, Ahmadinejad gave about $20 million to the mosque from which the Mahdi supposedly will emerge, and he proposes to shape all of his economic, cultural, and political policies around the Mahdi’s return. Previously, as Tehran’s mayor, he ordered an urban reconstruction project so the city would be more presentable to the Mahdi when he arrived. All of that is frightening enough. But the radical regime over which Ahmadinejad presides is seeking the one tool that could turn his apocalyptic vision in reality – nuclear weapons. The United States and its European allies have tried to convince Iran to drop its nuclear program – a program Iran kept secret for 18 years until a dissident group brought it to light in 2002. Great Britain, France, and Germany negotiated with Iran for three years, offering a wide variety of incentives. The West even offered fuel for a peaceful, civilian nuclear program. But Ahmadinejad scoffed, making clear that Iran will push ahead – no matter what. No one knows for sure when Iran will have the technology and the know-how to develop nuclear weapons, but intelligence sources estimate that it could be only a year away. One thing’s for sure – each day, the Islamic Republic is making progress toward that goal. What would an Iran with nuclear weapons mean for Israel? It’s almost too frightening to contemplate. Any or all of the following could occur: A nuclear attack, enabling Iran to fulfill the goal of destroying Israel. Every Iranian leader has held that goal since the 1979 revolution brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. Iranian leaders have even boasted that a nuclear exchange with Israel would be well worth the cost – it would only damage Iran, but it would surely destroy the Jewish State. The sharing of nuclear weapons with Hezbollah, Hamas, or other terrorist clients that also have vowed to destroy Israel. The ability to threaten Israel with a nuclear attack when Israel seeks merely to defend itself, such as when Hezbollah and Hamas recently kidnapped Israeli soldiers in cross-border raids. The ability to blackmail Europe, which Iran already can reach with missiles, to put unrelenting pressure on Israel not to defend itself. The ability to blackmail America and the West to pressure Israel into submission, simply by threatening to disrupt oil deliveries from the Middle East to the West. We need your support. And we need it now! Please give whatever you can at theisraelproject.org. Sincerely, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi Founder and President The Israel Project P.S. Your tax-deductible contribution can help us tell the truth about Iran and the danger it represents to our American way of life. Please give generously today at theisraelproject.org!