A memorial rally will be held in New York City today to remember the nine Israelis murdered by Arab terrorists in the past week. The event will take place at 11:00am New York time at the PLO UN Mission. The organizers of the protest note that of the nine victims of PLO-backed terrorism this past week, seven are Jewish and two are Arab.
The memorial is organized by Amcha-The Coalition for Jewish Concerns, whose national president Rabbi Avi Weiss declared: "Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is absolutely correct in severing contacts with Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian Authority president, until Mr. Abbas reigns in the very terrorists with whom he publicly appeared during his election campaign. There are over a dozen Palestinian security services under Mr. Abbas’ control. He cannot speak of peace while at the same moment giving terrorists free reign for murder and mayhem."
A second rally against terrorism, taking place on the opposite coast of the United States, will bring together a grassroots coalition of organizations and will include the display of the wreckage of an Israeli bus left behind by an Arab suicide terrorist one year ago. The organizers announced, "The rally will commemorate all victims of terrorism - those murdered and those injured and their families and orphans. We will have memorial services for the victims of the bus bombing and say Kaddish (Jewish Memorial Service) for the victims.... It was the 140th suicide bus bombing up until that time, January 2004."
Organizers explained that the rally's mission statement is taken from language adopted by the United Nations Security Council on October 9th, 2004: "All intentional acts of violence against civilians are unjustifiable by any political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic or religious considerations."
In a press release, the Berkeley rally organizers added: "Today's principle threats are abstract and mobile. Terror has no fixed address; it has attacked from Bali to Singapore, Riyadh, Istanbul, Argentina, Peru, Israel, Russia (Moscow and Baslan,) India, New York, the Pentagon, U.S. airplanes, Spain, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ireland, Honduras and many other countries and locations. We must raise public awareness to the threats of terrorism and we must fight terrorism and all of its manifestations."
The event is scheduled to take place from noon to 3:00pm, West Coast time, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Park of the Berkeley Civic Center.
The memorial is organized by Amcha-The Coalition for Jewish Concerns, whose national president Rabbi Avi Weiss declared: "Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is absolutely correct in severing contacts with Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian Authority president, until Mr. Abbas reigns in the very terrorists with whom he publicly appeared during his election campaign. There are over a dozen Palestinian security services under Mr. Abbas’ control. He cannot speak of peace while at the same moment giving terrorists free reign for murder and mayhem."
A second rally against terrorism, taking place on the opposite coast of the United States, will bring together a grassroots coalition of organizations and will include the display of the wreckage of an Israeli bus left behind by an Arab suicide terrorist one year ago. The organizers announced, "The rally will commemorate all victims of terrorism - those murdered and those injured and their families and orphans. We will have memorial services for the victims of the bus bombing and say Kaddish (Jewish Memorial Service) for the victims.... It was the 140th suicide bus bombing up until that time, January 2004."
Organizers explained that the rally's mission statement is taken from language adopted by the United Nations Security Council on October 9th, 2004: "All intentional acts of violence against civilians are unjustifiable by any political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic or religious considerations."
In a press release, the Berkeley rally organizers added: "Today's principle threats are abstract and mobile. Terror has no fixed address; it has attacked from Bali to Singapore, Riyadh, Istanbul, Argentina, Peru, Israel, Russia (Moscow and Baslan,) India, New York, the Pentagon, U.S. airplanes, Spain, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ireland, Honduras and many other countries and locations. We must raise public awareness to the threats of terrorism and we must fight terrorism and all of its manifestations."
The event is scheduled to take place from noon to 3:00pm, West Coast time, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Park of the Berkeley Civic Center.