Federation Star - April 2019

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jobs of American workers (71%) and
preventing the spread of weapons of
mass destruction (66%). (Grace Sparks,
CNN)
FORMER ISRAELI
DEFENSE MINISTER:
ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
IS OVER
“Today...there is not an Israeli-Arab
conflict: There is an Israeli-Palestinian
conflict,” former Israeli defense minister
Moshe Ya’alon told a conference on
Monday, March 11 at the Hebrew University’s
Truman Institute marking the
40 th anniversary of the Israeli-Egyptian
peace agreement. “When we look back
at the agreement, there has not been a
threat of conventional war against Israel
since it was signed. No Arab leader or
Arab army dared to challenge Israel as
army-against-army, and the Yom Kippur
War was the last war the Arab leaders
initiated against us.”
Ya’alon said that while the peace
agreement essentially put an end to the
nationalist pan-Arabist threat to Israel, a
month before the agreement was signed
in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
came to power in Iran. And that revolution
gave support to all the variations of
Islamic radicalism that the region has
witnessed since: from an increase in the
influence of the Muslim Brotherhood to
the rise of Hamas and al-Qaeda.
But this also created opportunities
for Israel as relations have developed
with the Sunni Arab world. The situation
is not one of normalization, “but they
are no longer telling stories about the
extremist Zionist empire that wants to
reign from the Euphrates to the Nile.”
(Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post)
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ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD
TRUDEAU: “I WILL
CONTINUE TO CONDEMN
THE BDS MOVEMENT”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau said recently, “I will continue
to condemn the BDS movement” that
calls to boycott Israel. Trudeau said the
anti-Semitism that was commonplace
decades ago still exists, as evidenced
by hate crimes against Jewish Canadians.
He added that Canada must be
very careful “not to sanction this new
frame around anti-Semitism and undue
criticism of Israel.”
“When you have movements like
BDS that single out Israel, that seek
to delegitimize and in some cases demonize,
when you have students on
campus dealing with things like Israel
apartheid weeks that make them fearful
of actually attending campus events
because of their religion in Canada, we
have to recognize that there are things
that aren’t acceptable, not because of
foreign policy concerns but because
of Canadian values.” (Ryan Maloney,
Huffington Post - Canada)
THE MYTH OF THE PRO-
ISRAEL LOBBY
What is missing from the argument
about what really motivates most of
my former House colleagues to support
Israel is: What is good for the United
States? Their responsibility is to protect
American interests first and foremost.
The vast majority of the Democrats
and Republicans in Congress support
Israel because it is a valuable ally that
shares fundamental ideals in a volatile
region of the world. Israel is not Turkey,
which has veered from American interests,
or Russia or China. So our lawmakers
support measures like funding
anti-missile systems or the $40 billion
security package that will help protect
aligned American and Israeli interests
in the Middle East.
Congress supports Israel not because
of a lobbyist, but because stopping
the influence of Hamas and Hizbullah is
essential for the U.S. In a region where
democracy is stifled and religious freedom
prohibited, our lawmakers support
Israel because it remains a democracy.
(Steve Israel, The Hill)
NASA TO INCLUDE ISRAELI
RADIATION SUIT IN ORION
MOON MISSION
NASA is set to include a radiation suit
manufactured by Israeli company Stem-
Rad in its upcoming Orion Exploration-
Mission 1, scheduled for June 2020, a
blog published by the European Space
Agency reported last week.
On the crewless mission, two dummies
designed to record radiation levels,
one donning StemRad’s radiation suit,
will be used to assess and compare the
levels astronauts may be exposed to
during a lunar mission.
StemRad develops and manufactures
wearable anti-radiation equipment
for military, scientific and medical applications.
(Calcalist)
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