2. Norwegian friends of the Gaza Region

From Katif.net, 2005_03_11:

Flowers Bouquets for Every Family in Gush Katif, from the Norwegian Friends of the Gaza Region

More than seventeen-hundred colorful bouquets will be distributed today and tomorrow to each and every family in the Gush Katif region, from Dugit in the north of Gaza to Morag at the very southern end of Gush Katif.

The nice idea of sending the flowers originated with some people in Norway, true friends of Gush Katif, who in cooperation with the Gaza Region Development Fund decided to send flowers in order to lift the spirits of the region’s inhabitants.

The bouquets are being distributed by the youth in Gush Katif, who are taking part in this project together with the Gush Katif Struggle Committee.

The residents of Gush Katif through the katif.net website wish to send their thanks to all people who understand and admire the settlers of Gush Katif for their brave stand over the years. They are especially grateful to the Norwegian Friends of the Gaza Region, who thought up and carried out this beautiful idea of sending such charming flower bouquets to the people of Gush Katif.

3. In bed with the devil

The GOI has done little if anything to marshal the good-will and enduring affection that Christian Zionists and other non-Jews have for Israel. Yet the same GOI has no problem in getting in bed with the abominable Peace In Our Time group (aka, Peace Now, which is the same thing).

Arutz7 reports:

Likud Appealing to Peace Now for Help The Likud government has asked leftist groups to help in a massive campaign aimed at overcoming strong American non-Jewish and Jewish opposition to the disengagement plan.

Danny Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, will participate Monday in a Peace Now-sponsored forum on Capitol Hill. Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the June annual dinner of the Israel Policy Forum, a group that was formed to support the Labor Party's Oslo 2 policy.

These two events are part of an intensive campaign aimed at counteracting opposition to the disengagement plan by evangelical Christians and a large number of Jews.

Israeli diplomats in the U.S. are under orders to meet with as many Jewish organizations and synagogues as possible and urge them not to "second-guess the government of Israel or the Israeli citizens," according to Aryeh Mekel, Israel's consul general in New York. "This is the number one priority on the agenda of the consulates," he added.

The government only recently began to understand the impact of American Jewish opposition to Sharon's plan to dismantle 25 Jewish communities in the Gaza region and northern Samaria, according to consulate sources. Pro-disengagement Jewish leaders also are worried about the strength of opponents to the government plan to dismantle 25 Jewish communities in Gaza and northern Samaria. "It is necessary to mobilize" supporters of the government plan, said Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League and a prominent supporter of the plan. "It is very important that Israeli officials will be involved in doing that."

Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America and an outspoken critic of Sharon's program, said that American Jews have a right and obligation to oppose Israeli policies that they think are damaging. Klein added that the ZOA is launching a newspaper advertising campaign exposing anti-Israeli comments by Palestinian Authority chairman Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas).

4. US citizen support Yesha Pioneers

Excerpt from Arutz7:

Thousands of American Visitors to Flood Gush Katif

A 50-man delegation from New York next week will be the first of a scheduled air convoy of thousands of Americans planning to visit Gush Katif as a show of solidarity with its 8,500 residents.

New York state legislator Dov Hikind will lead next week's three-day mission of rabbis, New York High Court judges, doctors and other professionals.

Of course, if you only read such rag sheets as al-Ha'aretz you'd never know of any of this news.

Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews in Yesha and reacted with indifference.