Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, delivers his address at the memorial service for Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg at the Chabad House in Westwood California. Excerpts:

The world should be very clear – achieving martyrdom by killing innocent civilians is an abomination – it is a concept that desecrates religion, denigrates humankind, and defames G-d himself.

But it is not only the terrorists who bear the responsibility – it is the religious leaders who programmed them, inspired them, and sent them, who are equally culpable. Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher never killed anyone – but they were named as war criminals at Nuremberg because on a daily basis, they poisoned the minds of tens of millions of Germans. That is exactly what the Imams of the Islamic Fundamentalists do.

The world must not remain silent. We have the tools to at least do something. The United Nations must make suicide terror a priority. Why is it that the General Assembly can call special sessions on drug cartels, on AIDs, on disarmament, on apartheid – all crucial issues – but it has not yet called for a special session on the greatest crime of the 21st century – suicide terror?

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3. Video: "Ask for Death". (Two 11 year olds explain how their fondest wish is to die for Allah).

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Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes in Darfur. Here is the story of 2 refugees, survivors of the Genocide in Darfur, which found a safe haven in Israel. (Hat tip: Israeli Girl/G.I.Y.U.S.)

Related Video- "Neighborhood Bully"

"Ingenuity, creativity, and guts have sustained this People longer than any other identifiable group of people in existence today.

The only thing that may have outdone this is their sensitivity to needs of others.

After lengthy research, the amount of material uncovered attesting to the generosity and deep feelings of love for their fellow man, is staggering - much more than could ever be stuffed into 1 video on YouTube.

So here, with the help of Bob Dylan and his Neighborhood Bully, is an attempt to show what cannot even be described as the "tip of the iceberg."

Who would have thought that such a small country, bound with so many problems of its own would have time to even think about problems of others, let alone actually be permanently organized to specifically be on hand when emergency assistance is needed.

Is there any other country in the world that can show such a "resume'"? The funny thing is (am not sure that is the right word) that they do not ask for anything in return - only respect as human beings - and even that, sad to say, is too much.

Even the numerous countries that this "Bully" has selflessly raced to provide with humanitarian aid in times of chaotic turmoil and strife, fail to speak up in public on Her behalf.

What a strange phenomenon . . .

Russia, Mexico, Ecuador, Turkey, Greece, Chile, Kenya, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, and many others - all recipients of vital emergency assistance from the "Neighborhood Bully" - it must be supposed that they simply wish not to upset the well established myth, born of lies and deceit successfully creating (as was/is the purpose) in the eyes of the world, the image that is known as the "Neighborhood Bully."

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“People are not dying of starvation,” he said. But “the problem is that people have been in camps for four or five years now,” he told reporters. “We need to find some solutions quickly so we don’t have to go on doing this indefinitely,” Holmes added.

3. Egyptians "lynch" 4 Sudanese trying to cross border ("These are not men- they are animals")

4. Arabs Capture Black Slaves In The Sudan

5. African and Islamic States Support Sudan’s Call to End UN Rights Investigation

6. How The Left Embraced The Genocide In Darfur

7. Appeasement in Darfur

8. Why Iran and Hamas Adore Darfur's Genocidal Dictator

9. China, Russia faulted for Sudan arms sales

10. Doubts do not end with Darfur (China's role)

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2. DarfurScores.org - Calling on Congress to Take Action

3. Sudan Watch

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Jews and Arabs studying together:

Every day more than 800 students aged 3-15 gather to learn at four schools in Israel located in Jerusalem, the Galilee Region, Wadi Ara, and Beer Sheva.

Of course a school advocating co-existence between Arabs and Jews could not exist in areas governed by the Palestinians-- the goal of Hamas (the terrorist group the Palestinians elected to lead them) is the total destruction of Israel.

The Anti-Semitism Report weblog has more re: what is taught in Palestinian schools.

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1. A 3 1/2 year old Egyptian girl shares what she has been taught: "We must teach our children to be good Muslims"

2. Just as Hitler fought the Jews...we should fight the Jews and burn them": Lebanese University Students illustrate what they have learned.

3. A Saudi "man-in-the-street type interview reveals quite a lot about educational objectives in that country: Would you shake hands with a Jew?

4. This sort of bigotry and stereotyping of Jews is not only taught in the schools, but is reinforced by anti-Semitic propaganda (often copied directly from that of Nazi Germany) that is found in much of the Arab & Iranian media.

5. Of course this sort of bigotry is present not only in schools in the Arab world, but even in some Arab-backed schools in the west. From a textbook in The King Fahd Academy in Britain: "The monkeys are the Jews; and the pigs: they are the Christian infidels at Jesus' table. Video.

6. Islamist propagandists are starting to make significant inroads in U.S. universities as well. Founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Student Association, or MSA, now has chapters on nearly 150 college campuses across North America. Video: Jihad in Academia.
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