ECI to give Israel a birthday present which will last
Invites churches and Christians to recommit their support for Israel
Brussels 12 May 2008 – The European Coalition for Israel is planning
to give the state of Israel a different kind of birthday present on its
60th anniversary which will be celebrated in Europe on Wednesday May
14. In the week leading up to the festivities the Coalition is calling
on national and local churches in Europe to recommit their support for
Israel and for the safety of the Jewish state.
- “During the last hundred years Christians of various backgrounds have
stood side by side with the Jewish people in solidarity and support for
their own homeland. This year one such organization turns 100,
indicating that even 40 years before the declaration of independence,
there were Christians in Europe who had read their Bibles and believed
that God would bring back the Jewish people to the land and give it
back to them as their own Jewish homeland”, explains founding director
Tomas Sandell in Brussels.
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Paris 1 July 2008 – The French EU-presidency, which starts today on Tuesday 1 July, wants to send a strong message to any state or terrorist organization which threatens to attack Israel. “Those who call for the destruction of Israel will always find France blocking their path.” This message was repeated several times during French president Nikolas Sarkozy’s state visit to Israel last week and was also confirmed to a small delegation of the European Coalition for Israel, which met privately with an adviser close to the president last week in Paris.
Geneva 19 March 2008 – As the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday debated the issue of racism and the plans for a new UN Conference on the subject to be held in 2009, European Coalition for Israel issued a statement calling on the European Union to ensure that such a conference addresses racism as such and does not use the conference as just another opportunity to demonize the state of Israel and the Jewish people.