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JIHAD SEMINARY ATTACK

IS SEEN AS A MESSIANIC TACT

BY THE SONS OF ISHMAEL’S PACK,

AS ISAAC’S SEEDS PLAN AND MEDITATE,

FOR THEIR DEFILERS AN APPROPRIATE FATE!

March 7, 2008

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The conflict between Islam and Judaism began long before the religion of Islam was introduced to mankind by Muhammad from the teachings of the Quran.

In reality it intensified the argument as to the identity of the true sons of Abraham – Christians claiming to be the true spiritual son’s of Abraham in the Spirit, and Jews claiming to be the physical sons of Abraham in the flesh through Isaac’s son Jacob, whom God renamed Israel This argument was raging several hundred years before Muhammad was ever born.

Paul puts it quite explicitly in the following Scriptures.

Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Galatians 3:6,7 – Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. [7] Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

And Matthew makes the point abundantly clear that the sons of the man Abraham were to be considered as such by belief in the heart and not in the flesh.

Matthew 3:7-9 – But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? [8] Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: [9] And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

The introduction of Islamic belief that the promises made to Abraham came through Ishmael, who was not the son of promise made by God to Abraham, has led to such intense religious hatred by Islam against both Jews and Christians that it is impossible to grasp the depth of it. Jesus knew it would happen, but man can hardly blame God for the evil in his inherited depraved heart. Jesus knew the truth would clash violently in the hearts of man based on what they would do with it.

Matthew 10:34-36 – Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

[35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

What I will tell you is simply this – You need to make up your mind on this in the near future.

Is there a God? Is Jesus is only begotten, sinless Son born of a virgin? Is it belief in his life and sacrificial death for our sins that saves us? Is the Bible true? Is the Quran true? Should you be seeking God? Should you consider the following Scriptures?

Hebrews 11:6 – But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Acts 20:20,21 – And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, [21] Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 2:4 – Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance

?

Romans 10:17 – So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 10:13 – For whosoever shall call upon the name of

the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 2:20,21 – The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Attack will be seen in Messianic terms

Amir Mizroch, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 7, 2008

While defense establishment officials sitting in the Kiriya military headquarters in Tel-Aviv ponder the diplomatic-security implications of last night’s attack, a totally different analysis will be taking place this weekend around Shabbat dinner tables across Jerusalem and most West Bank settlements.

The people directly affected by the deadly terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva are not just the students, their relatives and friends, but the much wider larger segment of the religious Zionist public. This segment of the population, already seething with anger, which started with the Disengagement in 2005, the Amona pullout, the government promises to America remove illegal outposts, the continued diplomatic process launched at Annapolis and its emphasis to talk about all topics, including Jerusalem, is going to be extremely unhappy about this attack.

Together with the grief and sorrow, there is going to be a lot of angry talk about good and evil, about a religious war over the Holy Land.

This attack was aimed specifically for the religious Zionist and settler population, and the terrorists knew that by speaking in this language, to these people, their message could only be interpreted in one way. This will be seen in terms of Ishmael and Isaac.

Being messianic religious people, the religious Zionists are going to see this attack through the prism of messianic prophecy. Already I am hearing on religious Zionist radio stations people talking about the attack in prophetic terms, such as Isaiah 59 verse 20: And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

Settler radio talk- show hosts are interpreting this prophecy by saying that if the Jews don’t stop Hamas, the Palestinians, Hizbullah and any other Islamic fundamentalists God will force the Jews to do it. The talk-show hosts blame Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres, and several callers into the broadcasts are unanimous in their condemnation of the Israeli government and calling on its removal.

The fact that the Foreign Ministry has already come out with a formal statement saying the attack won’t derail the talks with the Palestinian Authority will only fuel the anger of the settler population this weekend.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the Knesset from Sunday and

the implications on the coalition. Shas will come under immense pressure to bolt the government.

At the funeral procession speeches Friday at the Yeshiva, Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar began his comments with the Psalm for Assaf: “They have spilled blood like water around Jerusalem.”

Many of the top leadership of the religious Zionist movement, speaking at the funerals, spoke of revenge of the blood. The fact that the Jewish students were killed in a house of God touched the most basic nerve of many Israelis, and especially of the religious Zionist public.

The rabbis called on the students not to carry out acts of revenge, saying that judgment is in God’s realm. “God’s vengeance will come swiftly,” Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu’s secretary cried out in his rabbi’s name. The eulogists also praised the deceased for their studiousness and deep connection to Torah and entreated those in attendance not to falter in their study of the sacred writ.

Very few people outside the religious Zionist population have even heard of Mercaz Harav, let alone know somebody who studies there. This was not an attack aimed at the wider Israeli public, but a strategic attack against a very vocal public who will be demanding action of the government. There m ay even be some on the fringes of the settlement movement who will w

ant to take the law into their own hands and carry out a revenge attack, maybe even against targets in East Jerusalem, where it looks like the killer came from.

The fact that the attack was carried out in the way it was – live fire, chasing down the students and shooting them at point blank range, as well as confirming the kills –

and not by a suicide bombing, will add to the sense of brutality, of the narrative of good versus evil.

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ACROSS THE WEST BANK

HAMAS CAN RIP FATAH APART!

THE FARCE OF A PALESTINIAN PEACE,

AN OPIUM PIPEDREAM OF EPIC PROPORTION,

LED THE WEST INTO A “PEACE OF LET’S PRETEND,”

WHICH ONLY THE MESSIAH HIMSELF COULD TRULY END!

Micah 3:5 – Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

Micah 5:4,5 – And HE shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall HE be great unto the ends of the earth.

[5] And THIS MAN shall be THE PEACE, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

(See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 71 through 75)

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and

in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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Hamas can whip Fatah with one hand tied behind its back and shackles on its ankles.

Fatah could not maintain anything that even faintly resembled peace if they signed an agreement, and Israel actually turned all the West Bank and Gaza Strip over to them, and pulled out. And Hamas will not sign a peace agreement with Israel because Hamas wants all the land of Israel, not just the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

To believe in any possibility of a real peace in Israel rides only on the vapors of an opium den.

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Israeli military: Palestinian Authority would fall to Hamas after West Bank pullout

By Israel e News

March 6, 2008

Israeli military: Palestinian Authority would fall to Hamas days afer West Bank pullout

TEL AVIV — Israel’s military projected Hamas would easily topple the Palestinian Authority soon after an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

Officials said military intelligence has concluded that Hamas forces in the West Bank could conduct an operation similar to that of its takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. They said most PA forces and Fatah would flee any battle with Hamas units in the West Bank.

“Without the massive Israeli military presence in the West Bank, Hamas would take over the institutions and apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority within days,” Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni, chief of the military’s Central Command, said.

On Feb. 26, Shamni briefed President Shimon Peres during the latter’s visit to command headquarters in Jerusalem. The general said Hamas was increasing its influence throughout the West Bank, including within the PA.

“Its presence is felt in hospitals, kindergartens, schools, universities and mosques,” Shamni said.

The military has been quietly urging the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to suspend plans for a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank. The United States has been pressing Olmert to honor his pledge in 2006 to withdraw unilaterally from some 97 percent of the West Bank as part of the Bush administration’s plans to establish a Palestinian state by early 2009.

Military intelligence has determined that Hamas organized sleeper cells and a secret militia in most cities in the West Bank. Officials said such a network — believed to include rogue PA officers

— would be operated within days of any Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

The intelligence assessment has been shared by the Israel Security Agency. ISA director Yuval Diskin said Hamas was planning to capture the West Bank.

“They are trying to create a new balance of terror to create calm, so they can consolidate their strength in Gaza and then move to the next level: taking over Judea and Samaria,” Diskin said on March 2.

The military assessment envisions immediate Hamas missile and rocket strikes after an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

Military intelligence has determined that Hamas and its allies have established an infrastructure for missile production in several cities.

“For the first time in a decade, the Israeli military, intelligence services and police have managed to almost completely prevent terror attacks on the home front,” Shamni said.

Israel’s military has found missile production facilities and seized a Hamas-origin Kassam missile and launcher in Nablus. So far, Hamas has failed to launch effective missile and rocket strikes on Israel from the West Bank.

“Although there are no rocket attacks emanating from the West Bank, we’ve found rockets produced here, and this tells us that there are [rocket production] labs in the region,” Shamni said.

Meanwhile, Israel’s military has captured a huge amount of Hamas weaponry.

Military sources said Hamas combatants abandoned a large amount of weapons, munitions and equipment in their battles with Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip in early March. The sources said Hamas fighters kept the arsenal in the Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza City.

“They have everything that you would need to equip an army,” a senior officer said. “They are well on their way to becoming another Hizbullah.”

On Tuesday evening, Israel’s military reentered the southern Gaza Strip. About 25 armored combat vehicles, backed by attack helicopters, fought Hamas combatants near Khan Yunis and killed an Islamic Jihad commander, Yusuf Samiri, as well as two of his associates.]

In Jabalya, the sources said, Hamas left behind rocket-propelled grenades, launchers, assault rifles and body armor. They said most of the weapons and equipment had been manufactured in Iran.

Hamas was said to have acquired much of the weaponry in early 2008, when the 12-kilometer border wall with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was breached in at least seven places. The sources said Iran and Hizbullah had shipped the equipment weeks earlier to the northern Sinai coast.

The sources said Hamas has organized a 15,000-member military organized into four brigades.

They said Iran and Hizbullah sent trainers from several Middle East countries, including Syria and Lebanon, to enhance Hamas combat skills.

During the battles in Jabalya, Hamas ordered children on the rooftops of military production facilities to prevent Israeli air strikes.

Military sources said Hamas used the children as human shields to stop several Israeli strikes.

“We are working with our hands tied because of all these laws and because we are part of the free world and because this is part of our values,” Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni told foreign diplomats on Tuesday.

World Tribune

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‘Hamas could take over W.

Bank in days’

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 27, 2008

“Without the massive IDF presence in the West Bank, Hamas would take over the institutions and apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority within days,” OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni told President Shimon Peres Tuesday as the two toured the Command’s main base in Jerusalem.

Shamni said Hamas was engaged in a constant effort to increase its influence in the region “and its presence is felt in hospitals, preschools, schools, universities and mosques.”

Peres was shown a Kassam rocket and launcher captured in Nablus. “Although there are no rocket attacks emanating from the West Bank, we’ve found rockets produced here, and this tells us that there are [rocket production] labs in the region,” Shamni said.

Shamni said the Palestinian Authority was exerting great efforts in keeping the public order but was not seriously working to stop terrorists operating in the West Bank. On the other hand, he said, “for the first time in a decade, the IDF, intelligence services and the police have managed to almost completely prevent terror attacks on the home front.”

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Terrorist Seminary Attack Unvails

Syria-Iran-Hizbullah-Hamas Peace Plan!

Islamic Peace Plan is Total Destruction of Israel!

Nothing Else can Satisfy Islam’s Insatiable Extremism!

Two Following Jerusalem Post Articles describe the Problem

But the Second Advent of the Messiah at Armageddon Will End It!

March 6, 2008

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The latest terrorist attack on Israel today from the Gaza Strip, targeted against innocent civilians, is simply another proof that the insatiable sadistic appetite of Islamic Jihad for Israeli blood will never be satisfied by a signed piece of paper. The madness of Middle East mayhem must eventually end at Armageddon and the Second Advent.

The final death count from this attack is likely to reach double figures at the final tally. Regardless of who conducted the attack, the character of the blood lusting Palestinians for Jewish blood was once manifested as they rushed out in the streets of the Gaza Strips shouting for joy and firing their weapons in the air.

‘Terrorist fired 500-600 bullets before he was killed’

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JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 6, 2008

Eight people were reported to be killed and approximately 35 wounded in a terror attack at a seminary located near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday evening.

The exact number of people killed was yet to be confirmed, but Magen David Adom have confirmed 10 wounded civilians including three seriously. One terrorist was said to be dead.

Witnesses said that only one terrorist had entered the building and that he managed to fire 500-600 bullets over the course of 10 minutes before he was killed.

Although witnesses claimed only a single terrorist carried out the attack, police were searching the building for an additional terrorist, preventing the entrance of rescue workers.

The incident occurred when at least one terrorist entered the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in the neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe carrying weapons.

The terrorist was not wearing a suicide-bomb belt as earlier reported.

The gunman entered a dining hall where about 80 people were gathered, witnesses said, and opened fire. “There are at least seven killed and 10 people wounded,” said Eli Dein, director of Israel’s rescue service.

Approximately 50 ambulances were sent to the scene and a 16-year-old boy in serious condition and suffering from chest wounds was seen being evacuated from the scene.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski told Channel 2, “It’s very sad tonight in Jerusalem – many people were killed in the heart of Jerusalem.”

In Gaza City, residents went out into the streets and fired rifles in celebration in the air after hearing news of the attack on the seminary.

No terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Who performed the spilling of innocent blood is not as significant as the heartless exuberance, thrilling joy, and ungodly excitement shown by the spirit of Jihad in the sons of Allah, when they heard Jewish blood had flowed, even if the act had been performed by a Jewish fanatic.

Whether mankind likes it or not, all the diplomacy of man and his many efforts to attempt to satisfy Islam’s insatiable hunger for the destruction of Israel in the Middle East will utterly fail. It must and will end as God describes in vivid detail in Revelation 19:11-21, followed by a Millennial peace portrayed in Isaiah 2:1-4 and Zechariah 14:8,9.

Revelation 19:11-21 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

[17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on

them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Isaiah 2:1-4 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

[2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

[9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name

one.

Isaiah 41:20 – That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

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Insatiable extremism

THE JERUSALEM POST

February 27, 2006

Roni Yihye, 47, a father of four, was murdered on Wednesday in the latest rocket assault from the Gaza Strip.

His death came a day after the 80th birthday of Ariel Sharon, the general and politician who ended a long career of outmaneuvering hostile Arab forces by withdrawing completely from the Gaza Strip.

And it followed the latest anti-Israel broadside from the UN’s Human Rights Council, whose rapporteur John Dugard wrote earlier this week that “a distinction must be drawn between acts of mindless terror, such as acts committed by al-Qaida, and acts committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid or military occupation… As long as there is occupation, there will be terrorism.”

The combination of Yihye’s murder, Sharon’s birthday and Dugard’s misguided report brings the current untenable reality apropos Gaza into sharp focus.

Led by Sharon, more than two years ago, Israel wrenched its settlers and withdrew its soldiers from the Gaza Strip. It left behind an unprecedented opportunity for Palestinian state-building and an international commitment to create a Singapore in the impoverished Strip, not to mention millions of dollars in farming equipment, including a world-famous complex of greenhouses. All these were wasted.

No other national liberation movement has ever garnered so much support and so much hard cash, nor been offered the opportunity to take major steps toward full independence by the unilateral withdrawal of the loathed “occupier” from a sizable proportion of its claimed territory.

No other national liberation movement has ever spurned such opportunity with so determined an insistence on the terrorizing of neighboring civilians.

Israel is gone from Gaza. Yet Hamas has intensified its attacks on Israel. Palestinian refugees remain in their blighted camps. The notion of progress toward viable institutions of democratic governance is a bad joke.

The ruthless rocket attacks from civilian areas in Israel-free Gaza that have traumatized southern Israel and that claimed the life yesterday of Roni Yihye cannot be honestly construed as “acts committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid or military occupation.” It is long past time for the learned diplomats of the UN, and all too many other international statespeople, to stop excusing the Islamist supremacists and ignoring their avowed and insatiable ambitions.

This newspaper recognizes that for Israel to remain at once Jewish in character and democratic, it must relinquish territory to which it claims a biblical and historic right and separate from the Palestinians. It looks forward to the day when the Palestinians will live peacefully, and independently, alongside Israel.

But Sharon’s “disengagement” did not advance that day. And the failure is that of the Palestinians. A mindset that loathes Israel more than it seeks its own freedom will not be remade by Israeli withdrawal or endless international funding and sympathy. A leadership inciting against Israel in its media, mosques and school system will not be rejected by the Palestinian public so long as much of that population is mired in a bigotry that inculcates permanent victimhood, refuses to recognize any shred of justice to Israel’s sovereign claims and extols the virtues of violence

and death.

Perceived legitimization for such violence, furthermore, can only exacerbate the tendency. What the international community must do is show its abhorrence of the rocket attacks and other violence and incitement, eschew the Palestinian leadership that encourages them, and energetically support the faint voices of moderation and educational programs that offer the prospect of a changed Palestinian mindset.

The Islamists’ strategy, updating enemy efforts to destroy this state, has been to so dishearten and bleed us that we dismantle the country and the instruments of our self-reliance, and go quietly into a Hamas or Hizbullah caliphate, or (as the Iranian version has it) get on a boat for Poland.

But Israelis are not packing their bags. Under Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and now Ehud Olmert, we have sought somehow to separate from the Palestinians. What the Hamas-inspired murderous rocket fire across the Gaza border should long since have made plain to all, however, is that even territory cleared of every last vestige of Israeli presence does not sate the appetite of the Islamists – who, terribly, happen to constitute the parliamentary leadership freely elected by the Palestinian public, and the murderous sole rulers of Gaza.

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Change for Chance’s Sake is Foolish!

Charisma is Dangerous without Substance

And Deadly without Recorded Past Evidence!

Faith in Obama should be based on His Record

Demonstrating what he has produced in Congress!

Voters get Good Reports who have this kind of Faith!

My worst nightmare would be a Clinton – Obama Ticket!

Such a Ticket would win the November Presidential Election!

March 6, 2008

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By now, in reading my previous Blogs, you have certainly discovered I am not a fan of charismatic Barack Obama. I have sent out previous Blogs quoting great articles by Charles Krauthammer and Abraham Katsman, who both gave objective reasons why he does not tickle their fancies. The analysis by Barry Rubin in the Jerusalem Post, which is found following our lead-in, is another excellent viewpoint regarding the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama.

The Bible is a record of the

accomplishments of God.

Based on those accomplishments I believe everything he says. The faith of the elders, recorded in Chapter 11 of Hebrews, had substance, and gave evidence they believed God’s track record of accomplishments was a very long one, which showed He had, and would continue to produce, what He promised.

Putting my faith in charisma alone was an outstanding flaw of my childhood.

I Corinthians 13:11 – When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Hebrews 11:1,2 – Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [2] For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Both John and Robert Kennedy had Charisma, but they also had a well established track record. My opinion of whether they would make a good president was not based on the color of their skin or the fact they were Catholic, but that they had proven their mantle, and I had faith in them based on their records. After the Jimmy Carter disaster, even though I came from a long continuous line of yellow-dog Democrats, I became a staunch Conservative Republican, but if the Democrats were ever inclined to find and nominate a true Conservative candidate, I have enough yellow-dog Democrat left in me to vote for him or her. But such a man or woman does not exist among them.

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The Region: Why charisma is not enough

Barry Rubin, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 2, 2008

The US presidential election is not – at least not supposed to be – like electing a high school class president. Vague promises, glib speeches and personal popularity shouldn’t be enough to gain victory. This should be especially true this year since so many Americans don’t seem to think they did such a great job of choosing the last time they voted.

All these points go double and more for the Middle East, an area too dangerous and important to deal with lightly. Yet since these debates are so highly partisan there has been a huge amount of distortion and self-interested blather on all sides.

So let’s sort it out. The first issue must be whom you trust to deal with the Middle East. The question is definitely not Israel, or even Arab-Israeli issues, in isolation. The next American president will face a lot of other problems, too, including, at a minimum: Afghanistan, attempts to take over states, Egypt’s post-Mubarak president, Hamas, Hizbullah and Lebanon, Iranian expansionism and nuclear threat, Iraq, oil supply and prices, radical Islamist movements, the stability of relatively moderate Arab regimes, Syria and terrorism.

The overriding question is a struggle between a well-organized radical alliance (HISH: Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, in Iraq both insurgents and radical Shi’ites, and Syria) and a relatively moderate though completely uncoordinated set of states. In addition, there are radical Islamist forces that don’t work with the HISH bloc but seek revolution in their own countries. Failure to recognize that reality is extraordinarily dangerous.

FACING THIS very tough situation, it is hard to believe that Barack Obama has the experience, understanding or world view to manage the virtually continuous crisis the region faces. The critical point here is not whether he says the “right” things, but whether he understands things the right way.

Speaking as an analyst, my main concern is not whether or not Obama is elected, but that if he becomes president he will do the best possible job. The best-case conclusion – a combination of wishful thinking and sober assessment – is that sooner or later he will reach what I will call the default position for US Middle East policy.

In other words, he might start out convinced that he can persuade the Iranian and Syrian governments

, along with other enemies of the United States, to play nice. Along the way, one hopes, he will learn that this does not work.

The main problem is that they don’t just object to US policies (or values even, at least if those stay confined to America) but that they rightly see the US as a barrier standing between them and a Middle East filled with Islamist states under their hegemony.

ALL PRESIDENTS need to learn in office.

In relative terms, though, both Hillary Clinton and John McCain are pretty much ready now. Obama is going to need two or three years. So the good news could be that Obama will eventually understand what needs to be done; and the bad news is what happens during his learning period.

Given current trends, it is quite possible that by the time he gains the needed comprehension, Iran will have nuclear weapons, Lebanon and Iraq will be satellites of Teheran, and Hamas will run the West Bank. In addition, conceiving of Obama as naive and appeasement-oriented – not my invention but an inevitable perception in the region – will embolden extremists and make relative moderates rush to cut a deal with what they will see as the winning side.

Or, to put it another way, the economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run we are all dead.

In the Middle East, in the medium-run we will all be in very serious trouble.

Aside from the default policy factor there is something quite important but never discussed: the division of labor. Strong criticism of Obama’s ideas and positions goes hand-in-hand with friendly efforts to change them.

Only because he was hit so hard – and rightfully so – regarding his views on Israel did Obama shift ground, eliminate his most objectionable advisers, and change his talking points.

Equally, there are many who praise him and denounce criticism because they want jobs, seek to influence Obama, or want to ensure that he and his supporters don’t view certain communities and countries as enemies. If he’s going to be president, no one wants to stir up a feud. And it is best to have good people being appointed

to important positions.

Consequently, both approaches are appropriate behavior, and indeed complement each other.

BUT WHILE we are on the subject, let’s talk about US-Israel relations. In this regard, there are three basic types of US presidents:

• those who see the Middle East in terms of radical versus moderate forces and view Israel as an asset in this struggle. Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush belong in this category.

• Conservative presidents who also see the region in these terms but think that Israel is a liability because their priority is on keeping Arab allies like Saudi Arabia happy with Washington – such as Dwight Eisenhower and George Bush senior. Richard Nixon was in this category, but switched when he recognized Israel as an asset in the Cold War.

• presidents whose main priority is to reconcile, rather than combat, radical regimes, proving America is friendly and eager to respond to their grievances. So far, only Jimmy Carter fits here. And so far, also, there is every reason to believe that Obama is more likely than not to follow in this path. After all, this is precisely how he views the Middle East.

Obama said that one can oppose the Likud viewpoint and still support Israel. True. But note that the Likud, in Obama’s sense, has not been in power since 1999.

In fact, if this is Obama’s view, he should be 100-percent supportive of the current Israeli government.

BUT THAT is beside the point. The important issue is not whether one favors a compromise peace agreement, Palestinian state, and territory for peace. The real question is: Who will you blame when this doesn’t happen?

Remember, Israel has been harshly criticized during the last 15 years (since the Oslo Accords) despite the fact that during 12 of them it followed the policy Obama says he likes.

Yet due to the intransigence of Hamas and the continued radicalism, disorganization, incompetence or ambiguity (call it what you will) of Fatah, there is not going to be a comprehensive peace settlement. Would a president Ob

ama conclude that Israel took risks and tried its best, or will he see a need to give the Palestinians, Arab states and even Iran more and more concessions in the belief that this will eventually work?

Again, though, the key question here is not US-Israel relations or Arab-Israeli issues, important as they are. The critical test for the next president is to wage a strategic struggle with radical forces that are becoming both stronger and more confident.

If you have a vote, it is for you to decide who that should be.

The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center at IDC Herzliya and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. His latest book is The Truth About Syria.

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from which we extracted it.

1690 BOMB SHELTERS!

A WONDERFUL PROJECT!

BUT SOON THEY WILL WISH

THEY HAD BUILT MORE OF THEM

IN THE ISRAELI NEGEV WILDERNESS!

March 5, 2008

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

The Excerpt from IMRA, which follows Archive Birth Pang Number 41, is a r ather timely one, especially since I believe Israelis are likely to find themselves surrounded by their enemies in the Negev beginning

at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.

Begin Archive Birth Pang 41 Issued Six Years Ago

ARCHIVE BIRTH PANG NUMBER 41

The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!

Part 6

March 22, 2002

Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The woman is Israel. The place that God has prepared for her is the Negev wilderness. A time is one 360 day year, times are two 360 day years, and half a time is 180 days, which totals 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years. Both these scriptures describe the time period of 42 prophetic months (30 days per month) before the end of the Tribulation Period.

When the antichrist launches his lightning Jihad from

the north it will be a two pronged attack.

Syrian and Lebanese troops will launch a blitzkrieg strike southward along the western lees of the Galilean and Samaritan mountain.

The Palestinians will zoom northward along the western lee of the Judean mountains, coming out of Gaza to link with their comrades coming down from the north.

This will cut off coastal Israel from interior Israel. Some 70% of the Jewish population lives along the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa. They will be kept pinned down by thousands of katyusha rockets being launched from the bluff top cities of Tul Karm and Qalqilya in the Samarian Mountains.

It will eventually be necessary to air evacuate the population out of this area across the Mediterranean into the Negev, as stated in 12:14. The other battle prong, consisting of troops from Iraq, Syria, and Iran, will be directed southward along the west bank of the Jordan River in a lightning strike.

Palestinians will pour down the hundreds of dendritic West Bank valleys in the eastern lee of the Samarian Mountains, armed with shoulder held antitank launchers. They will destroy many of the Israeli tanks coming north to intercept the southward moving Arab tank units of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The Jewish population to the east of the coastal sections, and to the west of the Jordan River, will flee on l

and in whatever types of transportation may be available.

This has long been the national Israel contingency plan that is to be carried out in the event of attack from the north, and the Negev has been their emergency contingency evacuation area since 1948.

If you desire a detailed discussion of what I have just briefly covered, please review Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, which are found in our Prophecy Update Archives found on the Web at:

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Begin Excerpt from IMRA Article

1,690 Bomb Shelters in North Israel Inaugurated in the Presence of Defense Minister Ehud Barak

March 4, 2008

For Immediate ReleaseInternational Fellowship of Christians and Jews

March 4, 2008

1,690 Bomb Shelters in North Israel Inaugurated in the Presence of Defense Minister Ehud Barak

1,690 bomb shelters, located in nine Israeli communities bordering Lebanon, were officially inaugurated yesterday following months of renovation work funded by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), a Chicago-based non-profit organization supported largely by American Christians.

The dedication ceremony, held in the town of Shlomi, was attended by Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and IFCJ President & Founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, as well as mayors and municipal leaders from the towns of Acre, Nahariya, Tiberias, Carmiel, Kiryat Shmona, Safed, Hatzor HaGalilit, Ma’alot, and Shlomi.

Begun in August 2007, the renovation project was initiated by IFCJ at a cost of $10 million and involved upgrading shelters located in privately-owned residential buildings, providing badly-needed protection for thousands of people.

The work was carried out in coordination with the I.D.F. home frontcommand and participating local authorities.

“Given the escalating threats of war and terrorism against Israel, the completion of these shelters could not have come at a better time,” Rabbi Eckstein said.” I’m heartened to know that thanks to our donors who gave so generously to fund this critical project, residents of Northern Israel will have safe places to take refuge in the event of attack.”

Commending IFCJ and its work, Defense Minister Barak said, “Although we hope there won’t be a need for the residents to use these shelters, their lives are now more secure. On behalf of the State of Israel, the Ministry of Defense and the citizens of Israel, I want to thank Rabbi Eckstein and IFCJ for the security they are bringing to Israel.”

Based on lessons learned from the 2006 Lebanon War, local authorities in each city will open shelters during times of emergency, while also providing appropriate supervision and maintenance of shelters during periods of quiet.

Founded in 1983, IFCJ has a dual mission to foster better understanding and cooperation between Christian and Jews and to build broad support for Israel and the Jewish people around the world. IFCJ works to help Jews immigrate to Israel from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, India and other troubled countries; fight poverty and aid victims of war and terrorism in Israel; and extend aid to poor elderly Jews and orphans in the former Soviet Union.

For general information about IFCJ, please visit: www.ifcj.org.

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