News- and Prayer letters

David's Comment: A Great Day for the Shalit Family but also  A Great Day for Terrorism

Records were broken as 70% of the Israeli population spent most of last Tuesday glued to their TV screens, watching the minute by minute progress of the prisoner exchange and to catch the first glimpse of Gilad Shalit as he was set free after 5 years and 4 months of captivity by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Of course by mid-morning we were all rejoicing with the family and friends of Gilad as he crossed back into Israel, saluted IDF officers and hugged his father and PM Netanyahu. We all rejoiced again at about 5 pm as two Air Force helicopters flew Gilad to his home in a northern Galilee village.  Finally this kidnapped son of Israel was safe and sound with his family, enjoying the food and festivities of the last few days of the Feast of Tabernacles, and sleeping in his own bed after 1941 nights of sleeping in a cold dark dungeon in Gaza.  I think I can speak for 99% of Israeli families in that we all felt for Gilad as if he was our own son, grandson, or brother.

1.  Diplomats: Turkey Disaster Won't Boost Relations
2.  US Senator Landrieu: Don't Cut Aid to Israel
3.  US Iraqi Pullout Whets Iranian Appetite for Trouble
4.  UN Committee Report on Palestinian Bid Expected Next Month
5.  Israel Asserts Control over East Jerusalem Textbooks
6.  Saudi Cleric: Kidnap Soldier, Get US $100,000
7.  Peres Visits Gilad Shalit in Mitzpe Hila

Israel’s enemies unite: Fatah and Hamas leaders plan meeting

After four years of internal struggle and bloody civil war, the leaders of the two main factions of the Palestinians—Fatah and Hamas—are scheduled to hold meetings in November. Hamas has totally controlled Gaza, using it as a launching pad for thousands and thousands of attacks on the Jewish people. The supposedly more moderate Fatah party headed by President Abbas (who financed the Black September raid that killed the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics) controls Judea and Samaria—the so-called West Bank. 

1.  9/11 Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Alive and Well
2.  US Will Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid at UN Security Council
3.  Shin Bet Uncovers Hamas Terror Cells
4.  Turkish Downgrade with Israel Raises Concerns
5.  Israelis Held in Istanbul Airport
6.  Egyptian Government to Close Gaza Smuggling Tunnels
7.  Haredi, Arab Saving Lives Together
8.  Business as the Road to Peace with Palestinians

Guest Comment: Tiny Israel is the Ultimate Rape Victim By  Victor Sharpe

The world and the national and international mainstream media are eerily silent when Israel and her civilian population are attacked by missiles from Gaza or Lebanon and her people slaughtered by Palestinian terrorists as just occurred.  But if she retaliates, oh my, the same immoral world and mass media scream and condemn her for daring to resist and a predictable anti-Israel censure is issued from that ultimate temple of hypocrisy: the United Nations.

“If the Christians make problems, I will exterminate them”

Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, a senior official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad, told an Egyptian newspaper that though his group is running a slate in the Egyptian elections, he doesn’t believe in democracy. “It is not the faith of Muslims, but the faith of Christians and Jews. Once Allah's law is applied, the role of the people will end, and Allah will reign supreme,” he said. He further promised that if the terrorist organization gains power, they will launch a worldwide armed campaign to institute Islamic sharia law. “The Christian is free to worship his God in his church, but if the Christians make problems for Muslims, I will exterminate them.”

David's Comment: Horrendous Headlines   - The Israel Hating News Media Are At It Again

A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for the Restoration of Israel & the Jewish People

by Rabbi Russ Resnik

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

Then Yeshua went out and departed from the temple, and his disciples came up to show him the buildings of the temple. And Yeshua said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”                      Matthew 23:37–24:2

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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day or night:
ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest,
till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.