I was going to write: "What a difference a year makes!"
But does it?
Not in Israel - nor in Britain - where the Jewish Israel haters have reportedly reduced a fellow Jew - and leading medical man - to tears with their vicious, traitorous campaign of hate against the JEWISH State.
This last year ended with a hastily convened peace rally, "The Sderot Rally for Hope" organised as counter-response to the proposed "Gaza Freedom March", which was due to convene in Egypt with more than 1,300 people from 43 different countries protesting against the Israeli ’siege' and Operation Cast Lead.
The peace rally, organized by Sderot Media Centre, involved hundreds of Sderot residents, Israeli youth, university students, and international supporters who gathered to "call for an end to wars and the terrorist threat, and to give hope and a chance for peace in our region and throughout the world."
The organisers intended to bring a message of peace to civilians targeted by terror worldwide for 2010.
Speakers at the Sderot rally featured the presidential candidate for the 2011 elections in Zambia, the Honorable Dr. Saviour Chishimba, Former Member of Parliament-National Assembly of Zambia and founder of the Zambia-Israel Alliance.
In a recent visit to Sderot, Dr. Chishimba said: "Now is the time for Africa to stand up and fight terrorism wherever it emerges ... the threat on Israel and the Jewish people is the threat on all the peoples of the world.”
Contrast this with the speech made by leading cancer surgeon, Professor Michael Baum who told this year's mid-winter Limmud educational Conference in the U.K. how his career almost ended after he challenged an accusation that the Israel Medical Association (IMA) was complicit in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.
He revealed that not only did he receive online and hard-copy hate-mail by the sack-load but was threatened with being 'struck off' the register of the General Medical Council. If this campaign had succeeded he would have been unable to work.
So bad did the pressure become that he broke down and cried during a meeting about the situation with Mr Ron Prosor, Israel's Ambassador to Britain. I almost wept with him while reading the report, threw aside my copy of the Jewish Chronicle and wandered off to do something else while I cooled down. I guess Professor Baum had neither the leisure nor the opportunity to do likewise. My heart goes out to him and I hope he and his supporters have a better 2010.
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