Yesterday evening I spent an hour at a pro-Israel rally/prayer meeting at Congregation Beth Torah in Richardson.  There were 700 people but the only news crew that showed up was CBS - Channel 11.

Local Jewish Leaders Start Israel Support Campaign

I'm not sure why the article needed to have a counterpoint from a Lebanese-American, but I can't bring myself to criticize the article too strongly because it is so short and weak on background to begin with.

It seems when they published an article about the worries of a local Lebanese family a few days ago though, (Texans Make Contact With Family In Lebanon), they didn't need to spend half the article finding someone to talk about the Israeli point of view.

Anyway, the meeting was quite uplifitng with comments by various local rabbis, a leader of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the local Consul General of Israel.  The best comments of the night came from Alan Greenspan who said that if we feel uncomfortable defending Israel to our local community, think of how uncomfortable people are living in bomb shelters.  He also reminded us that when people complain about Israeli "massacres" of Lebanese civilians to remind them that under international law, terrorists who use civilians as human shields are committing war crimes and any civilians that die as a result are legally their responsibility.

After singing of the Star-Spangled banner and Hatikvah to close the meeting, people spontaneously broke out into singing "Am Yisrael Chai" - The People of Israel Live.

May he who makes peace
in the high places
make peace for us,
and for all the people of Israel
and let us say, Amen.