On 29-Aug-01 Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> New York Times 25 August 2001
>
> Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses
>
> By JODI WILGOREN
>
> .....
> "As much as we are counting on our soldiers back in Israel to protect
> Israel, we are counting on you," Giora Becher, Israel's consul
> general in Philadelphia, told the students, many in T-shirts with
> Hebrew lettering. "You are our soldiers, you are our commandos, in
> the public campaign we are having here."
>
> Like similar seminars for Israeli diplomats, the program urged
> students to stay focused on the issues of sovereignty and security,
> and not to let well-organized, impassioned pro- Palestinian groups
> frame the debate as one of human rights....
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Hope these kids realize they are being positioned to the right of George Bush's State Dept.
Chuck Grimes