Al Gore In Israel This November

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Aug. 5, 2007 8:34
Celebrity Grapevine
By GREER FAY CASHMAN
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LESS THAN a month after 93.6 Ram FM broadcast "Live Earth," the global concert promoting environmental awareness, station manager Maysoun Odeh-Gangat attended a business meeting at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, where he bumped into Environment Minister Gideon Ezra. Odeh-Gengat invited Ezra to participate in one of the station's talk shows. Ezra promptly accepted the invitation and in an interview on the Midmorning Show told Israelis and Palestinians how they could work together to prevent global warming.

WHILE ON the subject of global warming, former US vice president Al Gore, who is now making a career promoting global warming awareness and ecological threats in general, is scheduled to come to Israel in November to boost sales of his book The Inconvenient Truth, which laid the foundations for his documentary film of the same name. The Hebrew version is to be published by Ziblin Youth Communications.

Gore, who is currently working on another ecology-based book, has meanwhile launched a contest in Israel for the best one-minute commercial on the quality of the environment. The prize for the winning entry will be wide-ranging exposure in the US and possibly beyond. Even though there is no monetary incentive, the advertising agency that wins the contest will have a significant entry card to the American environmental market. Gore also wants to persuade the education authorities here to place greater emphasis on environmental subjects in school curricula.
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This is the answer to begin bringing peace to this region. I have long believed that the water issue in the Middle East, particularly between Israelis and the Palestinian peoples was the true catalyst for much of the war in this region. I believe for Mr. Gore to go here as a global environmental ambasador to bring people together through working together to solve this crisis and to see all people in this area have water is one sure way to beginning a peace process for their children.

This is truly a great thing he is doing, and I am so filled up to see him finally using his knowledge, vision, and passion for the world to its fullest potential in being an emissary to those who need his knowledge and vision to bring them a new perspective on life and a new hope for their environmental future.

Of course, in the end it will have to be those leaders from Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as Jordan, Egypt, etc. that decide to come together to see their common moral purpose not only in providing water for al their peoples but in also working to mitigate drought and the effects of climate change. Can joining together in this urgent cause for their mutual survival work to end the decades of violence that have dessimated so much of this beautiful land?

We can only hope.

Thank you, Mr. Gore. You are truly an American we can be proud of.

My entries on this issue:
http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2007/06/water-as-source-of-life-and-strife.html
Water As The Source Of Life And Strife

http://water-is-life.blogspot.com
Water Is Life

http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-video-on-global-water-crisis.html
My video on the global water crisis

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1. More on the visit

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000236216&fid=1725

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2. Effects of climate change in the Middle East

http://www.climate.org/topics/climate/impacts_me.shtml

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3. kicking because I support All Gore's environmental work

Nice to see all those who support his work discussing this important visit.