A Biblical Perspective On The News
Issue No. 4, Year 2007
Shalom friends,
We are blessed to welcome Bethany into our family. The Lord has joined her and our eldest son Michael in marriage. Our younger son Jed, is still in the IDF on the Lebanese border. We appreciate your prayers and support so that, by His grace, we can glorify Yeshua in the work to which He has called us.
For My Holy Name’s sake – Ezekiel 36:22
God has promised to restore Israel and to protect her by making her a mighty army. [See verses below.] We see this being fulfilled today. Yet there is another vital aspect to these promises for those who love the God of Israel and pray for His people.
Although much of the world and the Church condemn Israel when she defends herself by killing her enemies, yet according to the following verses, God enables Israel to defend herself for His glory. Hear His words:
“Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of LORD, neither understand they His counsel: for He shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto LORD, their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” (Micah 4:11-13)
“Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains…make the hills as chaff. You shall fan them, the wind shall carry them away…and you shall rejoice in LORD, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 41:14-16)
So pray for Israel’s army – that God Himself will get the glory.
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Israel could soon be in another war. Hizbullah to Israel’s north, Syria on the Golan border, Hamas in Gaza, and Iran in missile range, are all tools of the current manifestation of the spirit of Islam. Yet the world seems paralyzed when dealing with Islam
- JP columnist Singer says “the West has entered a ‘post-post-9/11’ era,” noting that at the June G-8 summit, “the focus was on global warming, Africa, globalization, missile defenses in Europe – anything but the rising Islamist menace.” (“Quiet, America is sleeping,” Saul Singer, JP Op-ed, 14 June 2007)
How should we pray?
- Pray for a quick and decisive Israeli victory. This will result in mercy for Israel and her enemies. Israel at times has shown more mercy to her defeated foes than God Himself desires (1 Kings 20:31-43). Islamists deal barbaro- usly with defeated enemies: grisly tortures, beheadings, slavery, rape, forced conversions, etc. Also as one former Middle East [ME] dictator said, the Arab nations can lose 99 wars against Israel, yet if Israel loses once – she loses all.
- Pray that God would protect believers in the IDF, and make them salt and light. Ask God to anoint them with all spiritual gifts as needed – healings, words of knowledge, exhortation, etc.
- Beseech God for the sake of your nation that it would not hinder Israel when she deals with her enemies.
The un-civil war in Gaza…
in June, between Hamas and Palestinian Authority [PA] Chairman Abbas’ Fatah (two terrorist groups that lead the PA), was partly an answer to prayer: “Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion” (Psalms 129:5).
“The wave of violent Hamas-Fatah clashes is one of the most brutal the PA has known, especially considering that it broke out only a short while after signing the Mecca Agreement, which was supposed to put an end to their mutual fighting.”
Who was at fault? Fatah accused Hamas of “staging a coup against the PA.” A senior PA official said, “A strong smell of Al-Qaeda is rising from what is being done in Gaza…” And Hamas “accused Fatah of collaborating with the US and Israel…”
Egyptian Intelligence Chief Suleiman said Iran and Syria were behind the violence. A senior Fatah official agreed, saying “Iran and Syria have poured millions of dollars into Hamas’ coffers… The goal of [Iran’s] mullahs is to establish a Shi’ite-run ME.”(“Iran, Syria push Hamas to take Gaza,” Jerusalem Newswire, 13 June 2007)
Palestinian writers were furious at both groups. “You have ruined our world, castrated our nationalism, prostituted our resistance…Take your government, militias and gangs and go to hell.”
Another said, “Oh murderers, you are the Satan of Palestine.”
An Israeli-Arab weekly reported, “People in Gaza are hoping Israel will re-enter the Strip, wipe out both Hamas and Fatah, then withdraw again.” One day she will return for good. (Zeph. 2:4-7)
Journalist M. Azzam wrote, “The [only] thing that prevents the chaos and turmoil in Gaza from spreading to the West Bank is the presence of the Israeli occupation…” (MEMRI: “We Are Facing a 2nd Nakba,” C. Jacob, 13 June 2007)
The frightening aftermath
“If it had not been LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say…” (Psalms 124:1). After Fatah and Hamas killed each other, demonstrating a viciousness that should prove that neither group is capable of ruling over anyone – the West now says we have a “window of opportunity” to establish a Palestinian state because Abbas is really a “moderate” and now that Fatah terrorists are not linked to Hamas terrorists, we can give Fatah money and land and weapons, etc. This is total deception, with America in the lead.
White House press secretary Snow: “We want to get back to the situation where the Palestinians can get something they’ve been robbed of too many times…peace in their streets, democracy in their government, and…two nations, sovereign, living peacefully, side by side.” Yet Palestinians have always robbed themselves, and it will likely be the same in the future. (“US to Use Hamas Upheaval to Squeeze Israel For Concessions,” Arutz 7, 15 June 2007)
The bottom line is that a Palestinian state on God’s land is not His will (Joel 3:1-2; Amos 9:13-15; Obad. 17-21)!
JP’s C. Glick wants an answer to this simple question: “Why would a handover of Judea and Samaria to Abbas’ Fatah produce a better outcome than Israel’s 2005 handover of Gaza to Abbas’ Fatah?” (“Grounded in fantasy,” Caroline Glick, JP Op-ed, 18 June 2007)
JP editor David Horovitz wrote that although “Hamas has taken over the Gaza Strip, with a display of ruthless brutality toward its own people,” still their primary goal remains Israel’s destruction.
Yet now Israel is being asked to ignore “the inconvenient issue of the Hamas takeover…and the consequent emboldening of its fundamentalist ideology,” to forget the “escalating threat posed by Hamas’ full control of what is now an overt arms supply route via the Philadelphi Corridor from Egypt. Instead it is being urged… to seize the moment to advance substantive peace talks with the suddenly tough-talking but hitherto demonstrably impotent Abbas over the fate of the next slice of territory Hamas is eyeing, the West Bank.” (“Leverage in Hamastan,” D. Horovitz, JP Op-ed, 21 June 2007)
America’s Unbiblical Stance
In mid July, US President Bush made a major ME policy speech. “Bush reaffirmed his commitment to help birth a Palestinian Arab state in Israel’s biblical heartland and pledged nearly $200 million of US taxpayers’ dollars to Abbas…” (“US intelligence: Backing Abbas not the way to peace,” Israel Today, 17 July 2007)
Yet when interviewed on Arabic-language radio, US Sec. of State Rice claimed that Bush said, “the occupation of the West Bank will have to end,” and Palestine must “be established.” But Bush did not demand an Israeli withdrawal from all “the West Bank.” Rice’s statement “set a new standard for US officials…in opposition to Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria. Rice did not deal with…what to do with the 240,000 Jews living” there and a similar amount living in Jerusalem neighborhoods built beyond the pre-67 borders. (“Secy. Rice: Israel Must End Occupation of ‘West Bank’,” Arutz 7, 26 July 2007)
Rice reaffirmed her stance on July 31st by signing “a joint statement with Egypt, Jordan and six Persian Gulf states, endorsing the 2002 Arab peace initiative as” foundational for ME peace. “The initiative offers Israel normalized relations with all Arab countries in return for a full withdrawal from territory Israel captured in 1967.”(“US endorses Arab peace plan as foundation for ME peace,” Ha’aretz, 1 Aug. 2007)
Israelis living in Judea and Samaria issued their own statement informing Rice that they do not live in “‘occupied territory,’ but the biblically-mandated heartland of the Jewish people…”(“Israelis inform Rice the West Bank is not ‘occupied’,” Israel Today, 27 July 2007)
Here is one way to pray to stop these anti-biblical “peace” talks. “In a move that could scuttle the Bush Administration’s fresh momentum in the Israeli-Palestinian peace track, both Fatah and Hamas officials acknowledged…they are conducting secret talks.” PM Olmert’s office said these talks will have “severe ‘diplomatic ramifications’ and lead to another Israeli boycott of a Palestinian unity government…
“Arab governments and even Russian officials are reportedly brokering the…talks in hopes of bringing the rival militias back together.”(“Fatah, Hamas in Reconciliation Talks,” ICEJ News, 8 Aug. 2007) What a world we live in when we can pray for “unity” in order to stop something that is against God’s will.
Gaza Disengagement review
Israeli public figures “who supported or helped implement the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and N. Samaria and have since expressed regret.” Here are just two examples.
H. Halkin, author and political commentator admitted he was wrong. “Gaza has become more, not less, of a military menace to Israel; Palestinian politics and the Palestinian street have become more, not less, radicalized; Israel’s public image as an occupying country has not significantly improved in the world…”
Y. Lapid, TV personality and commentator: “We left Lebanon and Hizbullah attacks us from Lebanon. We left Gaza and terror groups attack us from Gaza. The region that is most quiet right now is Judea and Samaria. Even the biggest leftists are faced with the creeping heretical thought: perhaps it wasn’t the occupation?” (“Public Figures Express Regret For Disengagement,” Arutz 7, 31 May 2007)
Land for “peace” still being pushed
Even with all this proof that the current means to obtain peace between Israel and her neighbors is not working, the “peace” idol still causes many Israelis to try just one more time…
In late July the JP noted that things were again moving on the diplomatic front. In a short span of time Olmert met with Abbas, Bush gave that ME policy speech, EU foreign policy chief Solana, the Quartet’s new ME envoy Blair and then foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt all flew in for talks in Israel, followed by a visit by Rice and another Olmert-Abbas meeting. One Israeli diplomatic official said there is a sense of “cautious optimism.” Ominously, this means “Olmert’s realignment plan… to withdraw from most of the West Bank that [he] unveiled before the elections, and which seemed so dead just a few short months ago, is making a reappearance on the national agenda.”
Also making a return is the idea of working “out an accord on …what a Palestinian state would look like, how its economy would run, what its relations with Israel would be – and then deal with the more difficult issues later,” i.e. Jerusalem, settlements, refugees, security and borders.
This signals an “abandonment of the road map,” where the path to peace “was seen as a sequential, stage-by-stage process with security” first. Israel is now turning back to the Oslo approach – “first you make peace…sign an agreement, shake hands, [agree on principles], then everything else, including security, naturally falls into place.” This approach never worked because the real goal of the Palestinians is not peace with Israel – but all pieces of Israel.
Yet Israeli officials, urged “on by the international community, are saying that the newly reconstituted PA [i.e., Fatah] is…trying to put its house in order, but if Israel waits until the PA uproots the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank, it would be waiting a very long time indeed. And time…is very much of the essence.”
Why? Because now there is a “historic window of opportunity.” “This needs to be done quickly, before Hamas, well oiled from Iran, is able to strengthen its hold on Gaza and expand into the West Bank.”(“The return of an Oslo state of mind,” H. Keinon, JP Features, 26 July 2007)
Since PM Olmert is leading Israel in a very unbiblical, thus dangerous path, pray for God to either turn his heart (Prov. 21:1), or turn him out of office. Recently he and Abbas “agreed to meet regularly to prepare for” a US ME summit this fall. Olmert said, “The aim is to achieve President Bush’s vision of two countries for two peoples, living in security and peace side by side’.” (“Olmert Agrees to Speed Up Talks to Establish PA State,” Arutz 7, 7 Aug. 2007)
E. Gordon says two recent polls show, “just how surreal all the talk of…diplomatic momentum is…” A Peace Index poll, “found that for the first time in years, a majority of Israeli Jews oppose a broad West Bank withdrawal, even under…a peace treaty…”
And the latest Pew Global Attitudes poll, “found dramatic, almost across-the-board drops in Muslim countries’ support for suicide bombings…[except] the PA – where a whopping 70% considered suicide bombings sometimes or often justified…”
Gordon connects the dots. “It is precisely because Palestinian enthusiasm for murdering Jews remains undimmed after 14 years of the ‘peace process’ that Jewish Israelis have stopped believing territorial concessions will bring peace…”(“Surreal diplomacy,” Evelyn Gordon, JP Op-ed, 8 Aug. 2007)
A Dangerous International “Peace” Conference
Yet in mid-summer Israel was being pressed to do just that. “As the US, Jordan, the PA and others prepare for a high-level [US sponsored] ME summit in November, a squeeze on Israel to agree to a Palestinian state just kilometers from Tel Aviv is feared.”
Likud Knesset Member Y. Shteinitz said this summit must be strongly opposed, because it “could well lead to a Palestinian state, with clear Hamas and Iranian influence, right on the doorstep of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben Gurion Int’l Airport.”
IDF Col. (res.) M. Yogev warns against complacency. Israeli Cabinet ministers are “trying to give between 70 and 90% of Judea and Samaria to the PA for a state…Even if implementation is put off, it will still be an international Israeli commitment.”(“US Pressure on Israel For a Palestinian State Foreseen,” Arutz 7, 12 Aug. 2007)
Let us “strongly oppose” this summit in prayer. Sign up for the IFI Friday Prayer Alerts and follow how the Lord leads us to pray here in Jerusalem. [IFI’s website is www.ifij.org]
Tony is moving south
UK’s former PM Tony Blair has not retired. Instead, he has his sights on being a (the?) “man of peace,” by bringing peace to the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is now the special ME envoy for the Quartet – the US, EU, the UN and Russia, i.e., the world – which wants to divide God’s land, and give Islam another Arab nation. Satan is working hard to destroy Israel – whom God calls His witnesses (Isaiah 43:10,12; 44:8).
Then June 28th – this press release: “Former British PM Tony Blair is joining the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum,” a powerful NGO meeting in Davos Switzerland yearly, with increasing worldwide influence. (www.weforum.org).
Our last newsletter quoted Tony’s deceived view of Islam. Yet with his latest move up the ladder of global influence, other things he said in that speech – things that line up with a prophesied One World Order – become even more alarming. For example:
“We have to show that our values are not Western… [but] universal values that should be the right of the global citizen.”
His answer to terror “is the universal application of global values; the answer to poverty and injustice is the same…the struggle for global values has to be applied…to the whole global agenda.” Yet he still managed to single Israel out. “We need to reenergize the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians …A settlement would be the living, visible proof that the region and world can accommodate different faiths and cultures…”
“We need to construct a global alliance for global values…” Different faiths and cultures with global values is an oxymoron. Welcome to the last days. (“A Battle for Global Values,” T. Blair, Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.org, Jan/Feb. 2007)
Islam is inherently anti-Semitic
“As a central anti-Jewish motif, the Koran decrees an eternal curse upon the Jews (2:61; 3:112) for slaying the prophets and transgressing against the will of Allah (2:91;3:55;4:155,157).”
Sura [Koranic verse] 5:60says Allah transformed Jews into apes and swine. Sura 5:64, used by Abbas in a speech this year, “accuses the Jews…of being ‘spreaders of war and corruption’…” Sura 7:168 sees the Jews’ exile as “proof of Allah’s rejection.”
Muslims are warned not to “take Jews as friends” (5:51), and to beware of the inbred hatred Jews bear towards them (5:82). “The Jews…are the devil’s minions (4:60) cursed by Allah…(4:47), and if they do not accept the true faith of Islam…[will] burn in Hell-fires (4:55,5:29,98:6,58:14-19).”
Al-Maghili (d. 1505), an important Muslim theologian, said, “Love of the Prophet [Mohammed], requires hatred of the Jews.”(“An Apology for Koran’s Anti-Semitism?” A. G. Bostom, FrontPageMagazine .com, 23 Apr. 2007)
Anti-Semitism, Palestinian style
In a JP interview, Palestinian Media Watch director Marcus said, “We…live in an Islamic ME where most Muslims believe Allah has determined Israel must be destroyed…A peace agreement will not cause Hamas and its…supporters to reinterpret their beliefs to secular humanist Islam.” (“Got it?,” H. Rettig, JP Features, 21 May 2007)
In June, “Shocking footage broadcast on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV… showed Palestinian kindergarten children dressed like terrorists, chanting sinister slogans during their graduation ceremony. Five-year-old boys…were asked ‘What is your most lofty aspiration?’, they replied in unison: ‘Death for the sake of Allah!’” (“Arab kindergarten students taught to seek death,” Israel Today, 4 June 2007)
Farfur, PA TV’s version of Mickey Mouse, starred in a Hamas run children’s TV program which preached global domination by Islam and encouraged children “to become shahids (martyrs) in suicide bombings against Israelis…
“Farfur was killed in the final episode…by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfur’s land.” Farfur’s TV friend said, “Farfur was martyred while defending his land…by killers of children’.” (“Death of the PA Mickey Mouse,” Arutz 7, 1 July 2007)
“I will curse those who curse you…”
The Word is clear that if you curse Israel – you shall be cursed by God (Gen. 12:3; 27:29; Num. 24:9). And if you try to divide His Land and thus scatter His people – you will end up in the valley of His judgment (Joel 3:1-2).
Palestinians are living under this curse
When women try to blow themselves up – that is a curse. “Time reports that since 2002, 88 Palestinian women have attempted suicide bombings,” with 8 ‘successful’ attacks. (“Palestinian moms becoming martyrs,” ICEJ News, 14 May 2007)
Israeli security forces arrested two Gazans, “a pregnant mother of 8, and her niece, a mother of 4,” who planned a two-pronged suicide attack in two big Israeli cities. “They took advantage of Israel’s humanitarian policies, receiving a fraudulent medical permit to enter Israel.
Israel is often castigated by left-wing, humanistic organizations who complain that Palestinians “wait at checkpoints for security checks, and are allegedly denied medical care.” Officials point out that as in this case, many “Arabs attempt to take advantage of Israel’s humanitarian policies in order to murder Israelis.”(“Mother of 8 Planned Suicide Terror Attack in Israel,” Arutz 7, 14 June 2007)
Palestinians also desire to scatter God's people. This also comes back on them. Alarmed by the growing number of emigrees, the PA’s Islamic leader issued a religious decree “forbidding Muslims to leave. Sources in the PA Foreign Ministry [said] some 10,000 Palestinians have filed requests to emigrate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year.”
One official said, “at least 45,000 emigration applications” are being reviewed by different nations. Most are young men seeking work in the West. Between 50,000 to 80,000 left the first few years after the 2nd intifada started in Sept. 2000. (“Fatwa forbids PA Muslims to emigrate,” JP, 10 June 2007)
The Arabs under a curse
This Saudi Arabian newspaper editor sees that all is not kosher in Arabia. “One has to wonder if the Arab world is set on a course of self-destruction. The fratricidal violence between Palestinians, between Iraqis, the conflict in Sudan, the violence in Algeria, Al-Qaeda militants trying to murder their way to power throughout the region…all bloodily proclaim that suicidal politics have taken root in the minds of too many…The Arab world is staring catastrophe in the face…”(“Too Many Fires,” Arab News Editorial, [Saudi], IMRA, 15 June 2007)
Europe is cursed as well
As the EU has steadily pushed us to divide our land, she has been visited by severe weather. “According to meteorological research, the last few years have been hottest on record…[Yearly now] around 50,000+ forest fires burn in EU territory causing not only loss of human lives, but immeasurable devastation to the environment.” (“Dry Europe: Over 50,000 Forest Fires Per Year,” Intercessors For America, 11 May 2007)
While Southern Europe suffered a heat wave, including some deaths, England was hit by “unusual weather, with severe flooding caused by torrential rain.” There were also deaths and multitudes were “forced from their homes.” (“Global warming cited as Europe reels from new weather extremes,” JP, 29 June 2007)
How is this linked to Israel? Robin Shepherd, the senior fellow for Europe at Chatham House, London, wrote that in late June, the 27 EU nations signed a treaty which included a more coordinated foreign policy. Then in late July, foreign ministers from 10 mainly Mediterranean countries wrote “an open letter to new ME Envoy Blair…” containing four recommendations relating to the Israeli-Palestinian peace track:
1) Negotiate on final status issues “without pre-requisites.” 2) Use an “international force…to police a cease-fire” in “occupied” territories. 3) Israel must aid Abbas by “transferring tax revenues and releasing prisoners.” Also Israel must “freeze settlements.” 4) Do not take any actions to “cause Hamas to ‘up the stakes’,” and Israel must relax restrictions on Gaza’s borders.
Shepherd is awed. “At least five immediate demands are made on Israel; none whatsoever on the Palestinians.” (“Europe gets more ‘awkward’ on Israel,” Robin Shepherd, JP Op-ed, 24 July 2007)
America under the curse
America is having it’s own spate of “acts of God.” Considering that Bush and Rice are leading the charge to establish “Palestine” on God’s land, expect the severity of these judgments to increase.
America has “Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon that has resulted in the mysterious deaths of 2.4 million bee colonies and 10 billion bees in the US…” Albert Einstein thought that “mankind would become extinct four years after honey bees disappeared from…the earth.” (“A mystery disease has killed 10 billion [US] bees…” JP, 15 June 2007)
The US is also “facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still. From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an 8th consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.”
R. Seager, a leading climatologist at Columbia University said, “The 1930s drought lasted less than a decade. This is something that could remain for 100 years.” (“The Wrath of 2007: America’s Great Drought,” The Independent, UK, 15 June 2007).
The US has also been hit by heavy rains, flooding and wildfires. In Minnesota, a bridge collapsed in a Minneapolis neighborhood known as “the West Bank.” The bridge was built in 1967 and fell – causing deaths and injuries – 40 years later. Minnesota is the 1st state with a Moslem Congressman, Keith Ellis. He took the oath of office with his hand on the Koran instead of the Bible. Just minutes before the bridge collapse, Ellis had announced he was returning to the ME to help Israel and the PA set final boundaries for a Palestinian state in the “West Bank.”
The Golan Heights for peace? Never
The Golan was part of the land Moses conquered for Israel (Josh. 13:12). One of the six cities of refuge was located there (Josh. 21:27). Yeshua asked, “Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” at Banias, in the Golan foothills (Matt. 16:13). And God promised that His people would return and dwell there (Jer. 50:19; Micah 7:14).
Yet now it is back on the trading block for “peace” with Syria. But the Israeli people are not in agreement with Olmert’s plans. A recent poll showed. “84% of the public opposes a full withdrawal from the Golan.” (“Nation Up in Arms at Golan Offer,” Arutz 7, 8 June 2007)
Former Israeli negotiator with Syria, Y. Ben-Aharon, says talk of giving up the Golan encourages Syrian aggression. “It’s time we stop dreaming about peace…and concentrate on co-existence, meaning we must be very strong and our deterrence power must never, ever be perceived as weakness.” (“Former Negotiator: Talk of Ceding Golan Encourages Syrian Threat,” Arutz 7, 11 June 2007)
Iran – the Good news
The Voice of the Martyrs’ – a ministry to persecuted believers in the world – has contacts in Iran who report increased persecution. “Iranian security forces prompted by the Islamic leadership and Iranian president are trying to wipe out Christianity in Iran. They are angry that many Iranian Muslims are choosing to follow Christ.” (“IRAN – Increased Persecution against Christians,” VOM Prayer Update, 10 July 2007 www.persecution.com)
A new find revealed
Recently one of the oldest manuscripts of the Tanach was placed on display at the Shrine of the Book, the Jerusalem museum that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls. This manuscript, dating from the 7th century AD, contains Exodus 13-16. Here are a few verses to consider as we watch Israel placed under tremendous pressure to be a nation like all the other nations.
“Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD,
which He will show to you today: for … the LORD shall fight
for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (14:13-14)
“The LORD is my strength and song,
and He is become my salvation…
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is His name.” (15:2-3)
“Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (15:11)
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Sources & Websites: Arutz-7 = arutzsheva.org; BFP = Bridges For Peace, bridgesforpeace.com; CFI = Christian Friends of Israel, cfijerusalem.org; ICEJ = International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, icej.org.il; IMRA = Independent Media Review & Analysis, imra.org.il; Israel Today = israeltoday.co.il; JP = Jerusalem Post, jpost.com; JNW = Jerusalem Newswire, jnewswire.com; MEMRI = Middle East Media & Research Institute, memri.org; PMW = Palestinian Media Watch, pmw.org.il; YnetNews = ynetnews.com
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“Today, before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.”
There should be a full and honest debate on the war on terror. Americans can have that debate because the brave men and women in our military have fought and died to defend that right over the years. But hateful, personal attacks that call our military leaders traitors should be condemned.
