- Title: ISRAEL: ISRAELIS RALLY IN SUPPORT FOR U.S. VICTIMS OF TERROR ATTACKS.
- Date: 16th September 2001
- Summary: (U7) JERUSALEM (SEPTEMBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. GV/PAN: ISRAELI FLAGS FLYING AS KANTOR SINGS 0.19 2. MV: OLD COUPLE SINGING 0.27 3. CU: OLD MAN CRYING 0.35 4. GV: ISRAELI AND AMERICAN FLAGS FLYING AT RALLY IN JERUSALEM 0.47 5. MV: COUPLE LISTENING 0.53 6. MCU: U.S. AND ISRAELI FLAGS 1.00 7. MV: YOUNG BOY DRA
- Embargoed: 1st October 2001 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM AND TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
- City:
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA7VMPI7R9C67AFGYFKMRRHT8G1
- Story Text: Thousands of Israelis have turned out for solidarity
rallies in sympathy for the victims of the terror attack on
the United States.
Israeli and U.S. flags flew at half-mast during rallies
in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Saturday night (September 15)
attended by thousands of Israelis in a show of solidarity with
the United States after Tuesday's (September 11) terror
attacks on Washington and New York in which thousands
perished.
Our heart is with you...It is again the United States of
America that will lead the struggle for freedom, for security,
for humanity. America today makes all of us feel painful but
makes all of us feel proud, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres told a crowd of thousands gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin
Square.
Many held aloft signs reading: 'You've got a friend'.
Some held aloft placards equating Palestinian President Yasser
Arafat with with Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden
and Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the militant
Palestinian group Hezbollah.
Palestinians dismiss any comparison between Arafat and the
Saudi-born bin Laden, named by the United States as a suspect
in the devastating hijack-suicide attacks on New York's World
Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.
Frail hopes of ending almost a year of Middle East
violence weakened on Saturday after Israel called off
tentatively-scheduled truce talks with between Peres and
Arafat.
An Israeli political source said Peres, at the behest of
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, would not meet Arafat for
talks which had been provisionally scheduled for Gaza on
Sunday (September 16).
Peres has suggested that failure to maintain a peace
dialogue could harm Washington's ability to rally Arab nations
to its call for an international alliance to fight terrorism.
Palestinians and Western diplomats had said earlier in the
day that they expected the meeting to go ahead in Gaza, but
there was little hope of significant progress in the talks
that have previously failed to stem the bloodshed.
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