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The reception in honor of this book, published
by Michael Cherney Foundation, took place on May 30, 2002
in Tel Aviv.
A year ago, on June 1, 2002, twenty-one people
died in the suicide bombing committed by Islamic Jihad outside
Dolphinarium, a Tel Aviv disco. Now the tragedy has been commemorated
in a book called Dolphinarium: Terror Targets the Young published
by the Michael Cherney Foundation. All income received from
the sales of the book are designated for the victims of the
bombing.
The book was created by two journalists,
Dmitry Radyshevsky and Polina Lempert.
The Hebrew edition of the book was presented
on May 30 in Tel Aviv. The Russian-language edition will be
presented in Moscow on June 6. The English-language one will
follow, scheduled for July in New York.
The speakers at the presentation included
Ms. Dalia Rabin Filosof, Israel's Deputy Defense Ministry;
Dov Wiseglass from the Israel's Prime Minister's office; Knesset
members and leaders of Russian communities throughout the
Diaspora.
The guests were also greeted by letters from
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Knesset Chairman
Avrom Burg. "3,000 years ago Israel was fighting against
Philistines who sacrificed their children to their gods,"
said Avigdor Liberman, the leader of Our Home Israel. "This
book confirms that once again Israel has encountered the ancient
evil: we are fighting Palestinians who sacrifice children
- both theirs and ours - on the altar of jihad."
In his opening remarks Michael Cherney said,
"We will try to distribute this book in all countries
in the world. People must learn the truth about Israel and
who the real victim in the terrorist war is. Jews were the
first victims of fascism; now the world is endangered by Islamism
- the new fascism - and once again, the Jews are its first
victim. Then the Nazis claimed they were fighting for Lebensraum
and restoring the trampled pride of the German people, while
in reality they were trying to take over the world. Today
the radical jihad claims to be fighting for Palestinian territories
and the Palestinians' trampled pride. But their real objective
is the world jihad. We saw the result of this jihad outside
the Dolphinarium. We saw it in the ashes of the World Trade
Center in New York. The World War Three is well under way.
But not everyone in the free world is prepared to admit it."
"If terrorists set Israel on her knees,"
said the book's co-author Dmitry Radyshevsky, "they will
set the whole world on its knees. If Israel triumphs, this
will be a key victory of the world over terror."
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