
Christians United for Israel - Canada (CUFI - Canada) is a non-denominational coalition of individual Christians and Christian organizations from across Canada dedicated to actively supporting the Nation of Israel and its People.
CUFI - Canada is affiliated with Christians United for Israel - America an umbrella organization representing a number of groups and leaders - including John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Jack Hayford - with a collective membership of more than 40 million.
Israel to Germany: Drop Palestinian Statehood Plan - Josef Federman
April 7,2011
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask Germany's leader in a meeting this week to drop a proposal to endorse a Palestinian state in virtually all of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem as the end point of Mideast negotiations, Israeli officials said Wednesday. Germany, Britain and France are expected to bring up that position at a meeting of Mideast mediators next week. Netanyahu argues that endorsing Palestinian positions on borders would remove a key incentive for them to restart talks. Netanyahu has said he would not give up east Jerusalem, and
that Israel needs to keep West Bank areas with large Jewish settlements or
those close to major Israeli population centers. (AP)
Iran Makes Latin American Inroads beyond Venezuela - Donna Cassata
April 7,2011
Gen. Douglas Fraser, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, said Tuesday
that Iran has nearly doubled the number of its embassies in Latin America, from 6 in 2005 to 10 in 2010, while also building cultural centers in 17 countries. Last year, Iran also hosted heads of state from Bolivia, Guyana and Venezuela.
"Iran continues expanding regional ties to support its own diplomatic goal of reducing the impact of international sanctions connected with its nuclear program," Fraser told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "There are flights between
Iran and Venezuela on a weekly basis, and visas are not required for entrance
into Venezuela or Bolivia or Nicaragua. So we don't have a lot of visibility in who's visiting," he said. (AP)