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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-62625734625755862332015-11-29T19:20:00.002-08:002015-11-29T19:20:43.380-08:00He Sendeth Rain on the Just and Unjust<div class="yiv6321386502MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448852029272_7152" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448852029272_7161" style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448852029272_7160" style="font-family: Calibri;">The Scriptures teach in Mt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<br />God Almighty will send that rain, then allow it to freeze as HE has done in our case here in Piedmont, Oklahoma. We have trees down all the way around our house. But, so far, we have not had any of the great big ones come through the roof. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> With my wife going through hip replacement recuperation, this ice storm has been very difficult upon her. But, ole jav is very proud of the woman whom God allowed him to marry 53-1/2 years ago. Continue please to pray for her.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Published time: 29 Nov, 2015 15:27Edited time: 29 Nov, 2015 15:27</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Russian warplane recently entered Israeli-controlled airspace from Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told local media. The brief intrusion was resolved quietly, with Yaalon noting “we must not automatically react and shoot them down when an error occurs."</span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"There was a slight intrusion a mile (1.6 kilometers) deep by a Russian plane from Syria into our airspace, but it was immediately resolved and the Russian plane returned towards Syria,"</span></em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Yaalon told Army Radio.</span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"It was apparently an error by the pilot who was flying near the Golan,"</span></em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> he said without elaborating when the incident had occurred.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Earlier, General Amos Gilad, Yaalon’s close aide, said such incidents occur occasionally. To prevent misunderstandings, Israel and Russia have arranged a <em>“hotline"</em>, information sharing and joint air exercises.</span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">"Russian planes do not intend to attack us, which is why we must not automatically react and shoot them down when an error occurs,"</span></em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> Yaalon also said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Monday, a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber in a rebel-held area in Syria, not far from the Turkish border. The 45-year-old pilot, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Peshkov, was shot dead by Turkmen militia while parachuting to the ground.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turkey maintains the Russian bomber had breached their airspace and ignored numerous warnings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, the surviving pilot, navigator Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, says at no point did Turkish aircraft attempt to contact them prior to the attack.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'segoe ui', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Russia has called the incident <em>“a stab in the back,”</em> with President Putin ordering <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/323839-putin-russia-turkey-sanctions/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">sanctions</span></a> be imposed against Turkey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The current wave of Palestinian terror, which kicked off on Sept. 13, claimed 225 Israeli casualties between then and Nov. 24 - 22 killed and 203 wounded, including 22 in serious condition, 33 with moderate-to-serious injuries and 146 lightly wounded. Another 85 people, many of them children, were traumatized.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conviction is taking root in senior IDF ranks that the current rate of daily stabbings, car attacks, and shooting by individual terrorists can’t go on for much longer without escalating.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This sense is even more pronounced among the brigade and division commanders serving in the West Bank and Palestinian Authority-ruled areas.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These officers are bracing for the low-intensity, albeit nerve-wracking, terror tactics to escalate into a spectacular attack in an Israeli city with dozens of Israelis killed and wounded. The conflict would then tip over into a major Palestinian-Israeli conflagration.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This expectation is grounded in an analysis of the current situation:</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The wave of terror is much broader than revealed!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. When Israelis or Palestinians are killed or injured in terrorist attacks, these incidents are invariably reported. But many other Palestinian-Israeli encounters – even shootings – that end without casualties, are not. So on any given day in the last two months, five attacks may be reported, while the public is not informed of another 70-90 incidents</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Most Israeli military and intelligence officers judge that the counter-terror policies conducted by Prime Minister <strong>Binyamin Netanyahu</strong> and Defense Minister <strong>Moshe Yaalon</strong> are not working and may indeed be counterproductive, in that they leave the way open for the Palestinians to calibrate the violence.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the end of last week, five Israelis were murdered in one day in attacks by Palestinians from the Hebron district of the southern West Bank. The high number of fatalities brought the prime minister and defense minister rushing over to Gush Etzion to announce the new measures.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Gush Etzion settlement bloc is located in the Hebron district with 70,000 Jewish residents and two main towns, Efrat and Beitar. They are surrounded by ten times that number of Palestinians in the towns of Hebron, Bethlehem, Halhoul and Yatta and farming villages.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The security measures imposed can’t be enforced!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The security measures included roadblocks on side roads from the Palestinian villages to Route 60, the main artery of the district; a series of new local Israeli command centers, each responsible for a small area; and temporary bans on Palestinian access to Jewish locations, which meant that thousands of Palestinians employed at Jewish places of business could not go to work.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. The IDF commanders on the spot never believed that these measures would work for more than a few days, before the attacks resumed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is not enough manpower to enforce them, they say, without a massive call-up of reserves, which is not approved by Netanyahu and Ya’alon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And meanwhile, the local Palestinians are finding many ways to circumvent them.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. The prime minister and defense minister are certain that their policies are effective in one place, Jerusalem, where daily Palestinian attacks have dropped from several a day, to one every 7 to 10 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The massive presence of security forces on the streets and in public places ensure that any attacker is shot dead on the spot.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But what the security forces call the “line of fire,” which runs from the Muslim neighborhoods of the capital to the Jewish districts, is invisible to the public eye, except to its victims. There, the stabbings and shootings have given way to firebombs and fireworks tossed night after night at the homes of Jewish neighbors, causing damage or fires, making the streets dangerous and terrifying householders.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An American general’s thankless job between Palestinians and Israelis!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Few Israelis or Palestinians know the name of <strong>US Maj. Gen. Frederick Rudesheim</strong>, who has an office at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and quietly does his best to perform the thankless task of Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Several times a week, he travels to Ramallah, where he talks to <strong>Gen. Nidal Abu</strong> <strong>Dukhan</strong>, Head of the Palestinian Authority’s National Security Forces. He sometimes meets Palestinian Authority Chairman <strong>Mahmud Abbas</strong> there as well.</span><br /> </div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">M</span></strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ilitary sources report that the American general has repeatedly asked Abu Dukhan to de-escalate the violence by creating a buffer zone between the Palestinians and the Israelis. After all, he says, the PA has at its disposal nine divisions of well-equipped and armed men, the equivalent of three brigades, for executing this task.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Palestinian general regularly promises to consider the idea and just as regularly avoids taking concrete action.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. But the buffer zone suggestion did give senior Israeli officers an idea. Since the Americans have failed to persuade the Palestinians to mark out a security buffer for curbing the attacks on Israelis before they occur, the IDF should establish one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This could be accomplished by imposing a total closure on Palestinian entry into Israel and the settlement blocs.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The plan was put by the military before Netanyahu and Ya’alon, but both waved it away for the time being.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-268068530346516192015-11-10T19:13:00.002-08:002015-11-10T19:13:29.088-08:00Support the Widows<table id="content-grid" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2724" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2723" style="font-size: small;">On Friday morning, August 7</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;">, of this year God took one of HIS CHOICE SERVANTS home from the Dominican Republic, JOSH WESSON. Dr. Russell Anderson always said that Josh was the finest young man he ever knew. Josh’s father, Joel Wesson, led Josh to the Lord when he was just a wee lad. Recently, I have been in touch with Joy, Josh’s widow. I want to be a blessing to them. Mrs. Vineyard and I are going to take Joy, Kimberly, Stephen, Ashlyn, and Katlyn on for $50.00 a month support.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, Preachers, knowing GOD’S COMMANDMENTS TO US CONCERNING WIDOWS, I write you this Tuesday morning urging you, to get A REAL BLESSING and take this dear widow on for monthly support.</span></span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for your kindness to our family and your willingness to seek support on our behalf. We appreciate you and Mrs. Vineyard praying for us as you do and for being willing to support us monthly. My prayer is that the Lord will help me to walk worthy" of Him and of our calling.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Many times through these years on the mission field, I have recalled to mind a message you preached to us many years ago in college chapel. Just this morning I read it in my daily Bible reading. It is Psalm 78:9 "The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle." </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I do not ever want to turn back. The Lord has given me everything I need to continue to go forward. Thank you for encouraging us as we seek to do just that</span></em></strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I think the message she refers to was titled "TURNING BACK IN THE DAY OF BATTLE".<br /><br />Psalms 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">And then in Psalms 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I.<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> TURNING BACK BECAUSE THEY FIND OUT IT TAKES WORK!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It takes work to visit prospects every week; to keep track of all the addresses and names one develops; to run a good program on the bus; to run good programs in Sunday School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">II.<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> TURNING BACK BECAUSE WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE TIME IN WHICH WE LIVE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">God brought Esther to he Kingdom for Such a Time as this; He has brought you and I to the Kingdom for such a time as this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2Co 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">IV.<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">TURNING</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> BACK BECAUSE WE ARE NOT WISER THAN OUR ENEMIES!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In recent days we have had three Israeli Colonels visit us here at WHBC. I would hate to be a Palestinian, always having to “play catch-up” with the JEWS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Battle is not “mine.” It is the LORD’s! I need let him fight I my behalf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ex 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We need, 1<sup>st</sup>, to rest patiently in our circumstances; 2<sup>nd</sup>, to realize God is greater than all our hindrances; 3<sup>rd</sup>, our only alternative is to follow God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">PREACHERS: THIS WIDOW IS ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD. SHE HAS 4 CHILDREN. SOME CHURCHES WON’T CONTINUE TO SUPPORT WIDOWS AS MISSIONARIES. I AM SURE THAT HAS BEEN THE CASE IN HER SITUATION. THEREFORE, IF YOU WANT A BLESSING, TAKE THIS DEAR LADY ON AS SHE WINS SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE AND DEAF FOLK. GOD WILL ABUNDANTLY BLESS YOU AS A CONSEQUENCE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two Palestinian youths, a 12- and 13-year-old, stabbed a security guard on the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The victim was moderately wounded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Magen David Adom paramedics arrived on the scene at the light rail station on Aluf Yekutiel Adam Street and treated the 25-year-old guard. They transferred him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center for treatment with stab wounds to the upper body.<br /><br />Meanwhile, another stabbing attack was reported in Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The assailant ran toward two security guards on HaNevi'im Street in the direction of the gate with a knife in his hand. The guards shot at the attacker before he managed to stab them, critically wounding him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The assailant was transferred to Hadassah University Hospital on Mt. Scopus, and later succumbed to his wounds. A 50-year-old Palestinian passerby was lightly wounded in the hand by the shots. Israeli security forces arrest one of two knife-wielding Palestinian boys who allegedly attacked a security guard guard at a tramway station in Jerusalem, November 10, 2015.AFP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A few hours later on Tuesday, initial police reports indicated that an assailant attempted to stab a Border Police officer in East Jerusalem at a checkpoint near Abu Dis. His attack was thwarted when police shot him onsite. He succumbed to his wounds within the hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Jerusalem has not seen any attacks since the start of November. Last Wednesday, Jerusalem Police </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.683764" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">removed four checkpoints</span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2696" style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2695" style="font-size: small;"> set up three weeks earlier in East Jerusalem. The checkpoints were set up amid the recent wave of attacks, which started in October. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2694" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The last terror attack in Jerusalem took place next to the Jerusalem Light Rail station near Ammunition Hill. A</span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.683286" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2693" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2692" style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Palestinian assailant stabbed an American</span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2690" style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447210120730_2689" style="font-size: small;"> citizen in the upper body and lightly wounded him. According to the police, three security guards shot dozens of bullets at the attacker, who was critically wounded and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445965361762_4550" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445965361762_4549" style="font-size: small;">On the first Monday of March, 1977, Dr. Bill Blair came to my office to welcome me to OKC.<span> </span>Below you will see a picture I took yesterday in Cattleman’s Restaurant of Bill’s Son, Paul Blair, Colonel Guy Biton, an Oklahoma Cowboy, Colonel Aharon Formoza, and a second</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445965361762_4552" style="font-size: small;"> OKIE Cowboy.<span> </span>Paul Blair is one of the finest Christians I have ever known.<span> </span>What a blessing it would have been to grow up in a CHRISTIAN HOME, rather than in a HEATHEN HOME as ole Jim Vineyard did.<span> </span>Praise the LORD with your help and support, PREACHERS, we get to be FRIENDS [YEDIDIM] of the JEWS in this very time.<br /><br /><img align="none" height="480" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b982e3effca77f65e3b41620f/images/4602ef0b-da47-47ab-b9e5-cbd0e0d80f13.jpg" style="height: 480px; margin: 0px; width: 640px;" width="640" /></span></span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: MS Shell Dlg;">Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and US Secretary of State Ash Carter have begun talks on the defense package Washington will offer Israel for the next decade, following the Iran nuclear deal.<br /><br /> Ya'alon, who is in the US on an official visit to discuss the defense package, spoke Monday night at the Israeli Embassy in Washington at a memorial event marking 20 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.<br /><br /> "During this visit, I will be meeting with my good friend Secretary of Defense Ashton (Ash) Carter, who has time and again proven his commitment to the security of the State of Israel," Ya'alon said.<br /><br /> "We will discuss how to further increase the IDF’s capacity and capabilities to maintain our qualitative edge, given increased and growing regional threats on the security of our country," Ya'alon added.<br /><br /> Ya'alon spoke at length about Rabin's life and deep involvement in the defense establishment at all levels.<br /><br /> "Today, 20 years later [after the assassination], the United States is Israel’s greatest friend. Its contribution to our security is tremendous and is truly our strategic cornerstone," he said.<br /><br /> "The relationship between the United States and Israel is based on shared values and interests, and is clearly expressed in the strong ties between our defense establishments, armed forces and intelligence agencies," said the defense minister.<br /><br /> Ya'alon thanked "the American people, President Barack Obama and the Congress, for your contribution and commitment to our security. There is no truer friend of Israel than the United States of America. And no difference of opinion can harm this relationship."<br /><br /> Earlier this month,the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, visited Israel on his first official overseas visit since recently taking up his post.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;">Ya'alon also addressed the series of ongoing Palestinian attacks on Israelis, saying that "an intense wave of terror attacks" is being "perpetrated by Palestinians, who have been driven by incitement and lies against the State of Israel. This is an opportunity to say it again, loud and clear: we extend our hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors. The State of Israel is not violating the status quo on the Temple Mount, whatsoever. This is a lie. We uphold freedom of religion and respect the beliefs of every person."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: MS Shell Dlg;">"We will fight terror and win, because we have no other choice," Ya'alon vowed.<br /><br /> Earlier in October, Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said Israel and the United States have resumed talks on future defense aid that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended in protest at the Iran nuclear deal.<br /><br /> "Israel hopes that the discussions we are now engaged in will culminate in a long-term agreement that will dramatically upgrade Israel's ability to defend itself by itself against any threat and enable Israel to address the enormous challenges we now face in the region," Dermer said in a Facebook post.<br /><br /> The allies had been looking to agree on a 10-year aid package to extend the current US grants to Israel worth $3 billion annually, which are due to expire in 2017. But Netanyahu froze negotiations ahead of the July deal reached between Iran and world powers.<br /><br /> "With the nuclear deal now moving ahead, Israel is also moving ahead, hoping to forge a common policy with the United States to address the continuing dangers posed by Iran," Dermer said.<br /><br /> "Discussions over a new Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States, which had been on hold for some time, resumed this past week in Washington," he said, using a term for the defense-aid agreement.<br /><br /> Before the suspension, the two sides were close to a new package of grants worth $3.6 billion to $3.7 billion a year, US and Israeli officials have said. They have predicted that the amount could rise further as Israel argues that it needs more aid to off-set a likely windfall for Iran in sanctions relief which might be used to finance Iran's regional proxies.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;">Israel plans to continue to build responsibly in Judea and Samaria, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Sunday, attempting to dispel rumors that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised the Americans he would stop Jewish building in the West Bank.<br /><br />“We haven’t frozen construction,” Ya’alon told Israel Radio. “No decision was taken to do so.”<br /><br />The only freeze Netanyahu has ever imposed was a moratorium on settlement starts for ten months from November 2009 to September 2010. That moratorium was the result of American pressure, but in the end, it didn’t lead to anything, Ya’alon noted.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Since then we have been building,” he said.<br /><br /> One of the Palestinians’ criteria for the resumption of talks with Israel is a freeze on settlement construction and Jewish building in Judea and Samaria. It has also turned to the International Criminal Court, which has yet to make a decision on the issue.<br /><br /> The US has termed such construction as harmful to the peace process, but Ya’alon said he didn’t believe that halting building over the pre- 1967 lines would move the peace process forward. “The Palestinians didn’t come to the [negotiating] table even when we froze construction,” Ya’alon said.<br /><br /> Israel, he said, has continued to build responsibly in Judea and Samaria with an understanding that such activity is under “unjust” intense international scrutiny, both legally with regard to the ICC and from the UN Security Council.<br /><br /> On Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also issued a tweet in which he said, “Israel has not made any commitments not to authorize new building in Judea and Samaria.”<br /><br />But settlers have argued for months that there is a de-facto freeze, because Netanyahu has failed to advance plans that would allow construction to continue in the future. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">BRETHREN, there is no acceptable excuse to murder Jews.<span> </span>However, ‘useful idiots’ continue try to come up for “explanations” for this “latest wave” of Wild Donkey Replacement Doctrine Reject terrorists attacks hitting the Jews.<span> </span>You probably remember how </span><span style="color: #413f43; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">. Indian-born Author Salman Rushdie once called this phenomenon the "<span style="color: black;">but brigade</span>": It's not OK to commit murder, but … (insert excuse: settlements, poverty, and so on).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #413f43; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If anyone is still unconvinced of the enormous psychological revolution that U.S. President Barack Obama has generated in his country, I invite them to review the obtuse American accusation that Israel uses "excessive force" against Arab terrorists who murder Jews; revisit the White House's call on "both sides" to refrain from violence; re-examine the mechanical explanation U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry provided for the recent rise in Palestinian violence: Palestinian "frustration" with Israel's "massive increase in settlements," of course.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #413f43; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">These types of responses, seeking to somehow excuse the murder of Jews, are essentially a justification for the Arab acts of murder committed against us. It is not about the rocky relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama. It is about the West convincing itself of "Western guilt" for what has come to be known as "crimes of colonialism." It is about the substitution of civil rights with "human rights" and accepting the "occupied Palestine" narrative. It is about turning Israel into the West's scapegoat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #413f43; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In the 1980s, journalist and philosopher Jean-Francois Revel published his book "How Democracies Perish." To paraphrase his point, the conflict between Islam and the West is like a soccer game, in which one of the teams limits itself from crossing the half-way line, while the other team plays freely in the opponent's penalty box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #413f43; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">While Islam views its opponents (even those who do not pose an active threat) as undermining its existence and therefore seeks to exterminate them, the West views subversive groups that threaten its existence as valid adversaries with whom they disagree.</span></span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445965361762_4594" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">NOW BRETHREN, WITH YOU PRAYERS AND FINANCIAL HELP, THIS <span> </span>75-1/2 YEAR OLD CODGER GETS TO STAND WITH THE JEWS.<span> </span>HE COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP.<span> </span><br /><br /> BY THE WAY I HAVE TO MAKE A $5500.00 PAYMENT 11-4-15 ON THE FEB. 2016 TRIP.<span> </span>IF YOU COULD HELP ME WITH THAT I WOULD BE MUCH OBLIGED, AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU FOR YOUR ARE DOING SOMETHING FOR THE JEWS.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445965361762_4592" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I DO WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN WITH US SUNDAY NIGHT SO YOU COULD HAVE HEARD HOW COLONEL GUY BITON CAME THROUGH THE FENCE OUT OF LEBANON BACK IN AUGUST OF 2006 AS GIVATI SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDER AND HOW ONE OF HIS OFFICERS SAID, “THERE IS SOMEONE WANTING TO MEET YOU.”<span> </span>GUY SAID HE ASKED, “WHO IS HE?”<span> </span>HE SAID THE OFFICER ANSWERED “I DON’T KNOW.”<span> </span>THEN GUY SAID, “THERE STOOD DR. VINEYARD.”<span> </span>WHAT A BLESSING GUY BITON WAS IN BEING WITH US FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-59712238866067100772015-10-16T17:09:00.001-07:002015-10-16T17:09:26.175-07:00Reason for the Knife Attacks<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445039480993_5192" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
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Gadi Eshel has an Engineering Degree from Purdue University. I met him through Rene Beres of Purdue. Gadi commanded a Paladin 155 unit in the Yom Kippur War. His unit put the whammy on a ton of Syrian Tanks.</div>
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He has forwarded to me a Sermon by a Muslim Imam preached one week ago, Oct 9, in Rafah. </div>
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THIS IS A MUST WATCH FOR ALL YOU PASTORS. AND, IF I WERE STILL PASTORING, I WOULD SHOW IT TO MY PEOPLE. IT EXPLAINS PART OF THE REASON OF ALL THESE RECENT KNIFE ATTACKS UPON JEWS IN ISRAEL.</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br />From: gadi eshel <gadi .eshel="" ptk.co.il=""><br />To: javokc <javokc aol.com=""><br />Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 4:03 am<br />Subject: mind opener 101<br /> <div id="yiv2735186615AOLMsgPart_2_97ab6fd1-cfe1-43fe-b738-a292f7839791">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445039480993_5239" style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;">It is hard for people in the <span class="yiv2735186615719314808-16102015">W</span>est to fathom the terrorist ("Palestinian") mind<span class="yiv2735186615719314808-16102015">, the hatred that produces it and </span>the Zeitgeist that <span class="yiv2735186615719314808-16102015" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445039480993_5237">grow</span> <span class="yiv2735186615719314808-16102015">people </span><span class="yiv2735186615719314808-16102015">wholly dedicated to one cause: murder</span>.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445039480993_5235" style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Perhaps the following sermon would somewhat help out:</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-85169316772551641702015-09-14T11:43:00.001-07:002015-09-14T11:43:13.436-07:00Reach For the Sky!<span style="font-family: Calibri;">eptember 15, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the News this morning we learn of a CLASH at the Al-Aqsa compound yonder in Jerusalem is going to wind up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">13 Sep 2015 23:01 GMT | </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/categories/politics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Politics</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/middleeast.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Middle East</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/palestine.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Palestine</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/spotlight/battle-jerusalem.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Battle for Jerusalem</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/city/jerusalem.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Jerusalem</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Clashes have erupted after a number of Israeli soldiers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, police and witnesses said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Israeli security personnel used tear gas and stun grenades, as they entered the compound to arrest what they called Palestinian "stone throwers".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Omar Kiswani, the manager of Al-Aqsa Mosque, told Al Jazeera that 80 "Jewish settlers" protected by the Israeli police, attacked the mosque when confronted by Palestinian volunteer guards. [The derogatory term “settlers” is used by all over there against the Jews.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A Muslim witness accused police of entering the mosque and causing damage, saying prayer mats were partially burned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Clashes later continued outside the mosque complex, with police firing tear gas and stun grenades.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Israeli security forces closed the mosque's compound to worshippers following the clashes that come just hours before the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"The presidency strongly condemns the attack by the occupier's military and police against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the aggression against the faithful who were there," a statement from his office said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for Israeli police, said that the Israeli police received intelligence in the morning about the possible disturbances at Al-Aqsa Mosque that would involve explosive devices as well as stones thrown at Jewish visitors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Our police units took the situation under control from 20 to 25 minutes only using stun grenades, non-lethal weapons only to make sure that situation remained calm."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that the Israeli police were being dishonest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I think what happened today is an act of aggression on the part of the Israeli army," he said, adding that right-wing Jewish settlers provoked Palestinians when they entered the mosque.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"This is unacceptable."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Israel seized East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, in the Six Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community.</span></span><br /><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5486" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Pastors, as I read about the Jews and this Al-Aqsa disturbance this Monday morning, I am glad to see that Defense Minister Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon is involved.<span> </span>What America needs in this “Wild-Donkey-Replacement-Doctrine-Reject” war against both the Jews, and free people world-wide, is someone like DOUGLAS BADER of WWII fame. There is a book out on his life entitled REACH FOR THE SKY!<span> </span>IT IS A GOOD READ ABOUT SOMEONE WHO WAS “ALL-MAN!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Douglas Bader was born in London, England on February 21, 1910. The son of civil engineer Frederick Bader and his wife Jessie, Douglas spent his first two years with relatives on the Isle of Man as his father had to return to work in India. Joining his parents at age two, the family returned to Britain a year later and settled in London. With the outbreak of </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwari/tp/wwi101.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">World War I</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, Bader's father left for military service. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though he survived the war, he was wounded in 1917 and died of complications in 1922. Re-marrying, Bader's mother had little time for him and he was sent to Saint Edward's School.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5489" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5488" style="font-size: small;">Excelling at sports, Bader proved an unruly student. In 1923, he was introduced to aviation while visiting his aunt who was engaged to Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Cyril Burge. Interested in flying, he returned to school and improved his grades. This resulted in an offer of admission to Cambridge, but he was unable to attend when his mother claimed she lacked the money to pay tuition. At this time, Burge also informed Bader of six annual prize cadetships offered by RAF Cranwell. Applying, he placed fifth and was admitted to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1928.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flying came easier to Bader than studying and flew his first solo on February 19, 1929 after just 11 hours and 15 minutes of flight time. Commissioned as a pilot officer on July 26, 1930, he received an assignment to No. 23 Squadron at Kenley. Flying Bristol Bulldogs, the squadron was under orders to avoid aerobatics and stunts at less than 2,000 ft. of altitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bader, as well as other pilots in the squadron, repeated flaunted this regulation. On December 14, 1931, while at the Reading Aero Club, he attempted a series of low altitude stunts over Woodley Field. In the course of these, his left wing hit the ground causing a severe crash. Immediately taken to Royal Berkshire Hospital, Bader survived but had both his legs amputated, one above the knee, the other below. Recovering through 1932, he met his future wife, Thelma Edwards, and was fitted with artificial legs. That June, Bader returned to service and passed the required flight tests.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5492" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5491" style="font-size: small;">His return to RAF flying proved short-lived when he was medically discharged in April 1933. Leaving the service, he took a job with the Asiatic Petroleum Company (now Shell) and married Edwards. As the political situation in Europe deteriorated in the late 1930s, Bader continually requested positions with the Air Ministry. With the outbreak of </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwarii/tp/wwii101.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">World War II</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in September 1939, he was finally asked to a selection board meeting at Adastral House. Though he was initially only offered ground positions, intervention from Halahan secured him an assessment at the Central Flying School.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quickly proving his skill, he was permitted to move through refresher training later that fall. In January 1940, Bader was assigned to No. 19 Squadron and began flying the </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/militaryaircraft/p/Spitfire.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Supermarine Spitfire</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Through the spring, he flew with the squadron learning formations and fighting tactics. Impressing Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, commander No. 12 Group, he was moved to No. 222 Squadron and promoted to flight lieutenant. That May, with Allied defeat in France looming, Bader flew in support of the </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwarii/p/dunkirk.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Dunkirk Evacuation</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. On June 1, he scored his first kill, a </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiaircraft/p/bf109.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Messerschmitt Bf 109</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, over Dunkirk.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5495" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5494" style="font-size: small;">With the conclusion of these operations, Bader was promoted to Squadron Leader and given command of No. 232 Squadron. Largely composed of Canadians and flying the </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiaircraft/p/hawker-hurricane.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Hawker Hurricane</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, it had taken heavy losses during the Battle of France. Quickly earning his men's trust, Bader rebuilt the squadron and it re-entered operations on July 9, just in time for the </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/aerialcampaigns/a/battle-of-britain.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Battle of Britain</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Two days later, he scored his first kill with the squadron when he downed a Dornier Do 17 off the Norfolk coast. As the battle intensified, he continued to add to his total as No. 232 engaged the Germans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On September 14, Bader received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his performance through the late summer. As the fighting progressed, he became an outspoken advocate for Leigh-Mallory's "Big Wing" tactics which called for massed attacks by at least three squadrons. Flying from farther north, Bader often found himself leading large groups fighters into battles over southeastern Britain. This approach was countered by </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/WorldWarIIAces/fl/World-War-II-Air-Chief-Marshal-Sir-Keith-Park.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Air Vice Marshal Keith Park</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'s 11 Group in the southeast which generally committed squadrons individually in an effort to conserve strength.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5501" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5500" style="font-size: small;">On December 12, Bader was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts during the Battle of Britain. In the course of the fighting, No. 262 Squadron downed 62 enemy aircraft. Assigned to Tangmere in March 1941, he was promoted to wing commander and given Nos. 145, 610, and 616 Squadrons. Returning to the Spitfire, Bader began conducting offensive fighter sweeps and escort missions over the Continent. Flying through the summer, Bader continued to add to his tally with his primary prey being Bf 109s. Awarded a bar for his DSO on July 2, he pushed for additional sorties over occupied Europe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though his wing was tired, Leigh-Mallory allowed Bader a free hand rather than anger his star </span></span><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/glossaryofmilitaryterms/g/ace.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">ace</span></span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5504" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5503" style="font-size: small;">. On August 9, Bader engaged a group of Bf 109s over northern France. In the engagement, his Spitfire was hit with the rear of the aircraft breaking away. Though he believed it was the result of a mid-air collision, more recent scholarship indicates that his downing may have been at German hands or due to friendly fire. In the course of exiting the aircraft, Bader lost one of his artificial legs. Captured by German forces, he was treated with great respect due to his accomplishments. At the time of his capture, Bader's score stood at 22 kills and six probables.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5507" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5506" style="font-size: small;">After his capture, Bader was entertained by noted German ace Adolf Galland. In a sign of respect, Galland arranged to have the British airdrop a replacement leg for Bader. Hospitalized in St. Omer after his capture, Bader attempted to escape and nearly did so until a French informer alerted the Germans. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It came to his side with a dark shadow behind it that whispered urgently “Dooglass?” in a strong French accent.<span> </span>“Oui,” he said, and the shape took his right arm and they moved off down the street.<span> </span>The town was like a tomb in which his artificial legs were making an unholy clatter, echoing in the darkness.<span> </span>Bader could not see, but the silent shape seemed to know by instinct.<span> </span>They stumbled on, with his “legs making all the racket they could.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a few minutes Bader though “how funny it was,” [a sense of humor will always help you,] walking after curfew in German-occupied St. Omer arm-in-arm with a stranger he had never seen, with all the racket of his clattering legs.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He began to giggle as the Frenchman began muttering to him:<span> </span>“C’est bon.<span> </span>C’est magnifigque<span> </span>Ah, les sales Boches.”<span> </span>The Frenchman said “Ssh!<span> </span>Ssh!” but that only made him giggle more.<span> </span>He tried to stop.<span> </span>He couldn’t, and the more he tried, the more he giggled as his “strained nerves took control.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then, lo and behold, the Frenchman starts to giggle and Bader told later how grotesque it was, the two of them giggling and clattering down the street, which then grew into loud laughter mingled with “terror inside” that certainly the German Occupiers would hear.<span> </span>Slowly, he said, his pent-up emotion washed away and the laughter subsided into suppressed sniggers that he was finally able to stop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They made it to the Frenchman’s folk’s house, where, in the shed behind the house, the Boches re-captured Douglas Bader.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bader remained at Colditz until liberated by the US First Army in April 1945. Returning to Britain, he was given the honor of leading a victory flyover of London in June. Returning to active duty, he briefly oversaw the Fighter Leader's School before taking an assignment to lead the North Weald sector of No. 11 Group. Considered out of date by many of the younger officers, he was never comfortable and elected to leave the RAF in June 1946 for a job with Royal Dutch Shell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Named Chairman of Shell Aircraft Ltd., Bader was free to keep flying and travelled extensively. A popular speaker, he continued advocating for aviation even after his retirement in 1969. Somewhat controversial in his older age for his outspoken conservative political positions, he remained friendly with former foes such as Galland. A tireless advocate for the disabled, he was knighted for his services in this area in 1976. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">When the film </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_for_the_Sky" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Reach for the Sky"><em><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Reach for the Sky</span></span></em></a></span><span class="yiv5326805583MsoHyperlink"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"><u><span style="color: blue;"> [Bader’s Story,]</span></u></span></em></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> was released, people associated Bader with the quiet and amiable personality of actor </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_More" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Kenneth More"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Kenneth More</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> who played Bader in the film. Bader recognised that the producers had deleted all those habits he displayed when on operations, particularly his prolific use of bad language. Bader once said, "[they] still think [I'm] the dashing chap Kenneth More was". Bader's more controversial traits were touched upon by Brickhill in the book <em>Reach for the Sky</em>. Nevertheless, he was received as a legendary figure by the wider public, who closely identified him as a leader of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Few" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Few"><em><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">The Few</span></span></em></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> in the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Battle of Britain"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Battle of Britain</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">Never a person to hide his opinions, Bader also became controversial for his political interventions. A staunch conservative with traditional Victorian values, his trenchantly-expressed views on such subjects as juvenile delinquency, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Apartheid"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">apartheid</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Rhodesia"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Rhodesia</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">'s defiance of the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Commonwealth of Nations"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Commonwealth</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> (he was a strong supporter of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Smith" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Ian Smith"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Ian Smith</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">'s white minority regime) attracted much criticism. During the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Suez Crisis"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Suez Crisis</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">, Bader travelled to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="New Zealand"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">New Zealand</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">. Some of the more recent African Commonwealth countries had been critical of British military intervention; he replied that they could "bloody well climb back up their trees". During a trip to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="South Africa"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">South Africa</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"> in November 1965, Bader said that if he had been in Rhodesia when it made its declaration of independence he "would have had serious thoughts about changing my citizenship". </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5514" style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">Later, Bader also wrote the foreword to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Hans-Ulrich Rudel"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Hans-Ulrich Rudel</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">'s biography <em>Stuka Pilot</em>. Even when it emerged that Rudel was a fervent supporter of the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Nazi Party"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue;">Nazi Party</span></span></a></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5513" lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;">, Bader refused to admit that prior knowledge would have changed his mind about his contribution.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5517" lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5516" style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span> </span>In the late 1960s Bader was interviewed on television and his comments provoked controversy. During the interview he expressed a desire to be Prime Minister, and listed some controversial proposals should the opportunity ever arise: </span></span></div>
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<li class="yiv5326805583MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Ban betting shops, "They breed protection rackets. That's why we're getting like </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_mob" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Chicago mob"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Chicago in the '20s</span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">".</span></span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Bader was known, at times, to be head-strong, blunt, and unsophisticated when he made his opinion known. During one visit to </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Munich"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Munich</span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="West Germany"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Germany</span></span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5542" lang="EN"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5541" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">, as a guest of Adolf Galland, he walked into a room full of ex-<em>Luftwaffe</em> pilots and said, "My God, I had no idea we left so many of you b……s alive". He also used the phrase to describe the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trades_Union_Congress" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5540" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Trades Union Congress"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5539" lang="EN"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5538" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Trades Union Congress</span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> during economic and social unrest in the 1970s. Later, he suggested that Britons in support of the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5536" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5535" lang="EN"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5534" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament</span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> were a "rabble" and should be deported. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Though in declining health, he continued to pursue an exhausting schedule. Bader died of a heart attack on September 5, 1982 </span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;">after a dinner in honor of </span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;"><a href="http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/airforce/p/bomberharris.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue;">Air Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5519" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">BRETHREN, WE HAVE TOO MANY “SUCK-UPS” IN OUR HIGHER RANKING OFFICERS, IN ALL BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE, I THINK.<span> </span>THEY TELL BHO WHAT HE WANTS TO HEAR RATHER THAN WHAT HE NEEDS TO HEAR.<span> </span>MAY THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS HELP US IN THIS GREAT HOUR OF NEED.<span> </span>MY PRAYER IS THAT THE LORD GOD WOULD GIVE US A MILITARY MAN WITH THE TRAITS OF DOUGLAS BADER!</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442249822805_5532" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-50264639807462070292015-09-08T10:14:00.003-07:002015-09-08T10:14:32.123-07:00Happy New Year Message<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5756">
September 8, 2015</div>
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We received the HAPPY NEW YEAR MESSAGE from Israeli Defense Minister Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon. I wanted to be sure to pass it on to you.</div>
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JIM VINEYARD</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br /> From: Javokc <javokc aol.com=""><br /> To: anat_tal <anat_tal mod.gov.il=""><br /> Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2015 9:44 am<br /> Subject: Re: Happy New Year from the MOD Moshe Yaalon<br /> <div id="yiv5049189245AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_101f05bb-e01e-4456-80ab-f7a8824035b3">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">September 8, 2015</span> </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5787" style="background-color: transparent;">Moshe, Anat, fellow employees in Defense Ministry:</span> </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">May the L-d G-d of the Hebrews bless you "Dear Apples of God's Eye" [Zechariah 2:8,] in this new year! </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Boogie, we pray by name for you, your family, and all your duties every day. We don't have their names, but we do pray for those who work for you. We encourage Independent Baptist Pastors, world-wide, to be faithful to pray for you too. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Anat, we pray for you, your hubby, and his protection with the same kind of hedge about him as G-d put about Job, since he is in the military, and your two young'uns, by name every day. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">We are very sorry for what BHO-Kerry has done regarding Iran's Nuclear works. And, the 34 Senators, whom being a Democrat is more important to them, THAN DOING RIGHT! </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Anyone we can influence, we do so asking them to PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM! </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_5743" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">WE WISH WE COULD DO MORE IN THE BEHALF OF JEWS WORLD-WIDE! </span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-70440808889926384382015-09-08T10:05:00.001-07:002015-09-08T10:05:27.741-07:00Pappy Boyington<div class="yiv3544911504MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">September 7, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Pastors:</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4927" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4926" style="font-size: small;">Please continue to pray for the physical needs of the bride of my youth regarding her hip-replacement surgery which we hope to get scheduled before the end of September!<span> </span>And I pray that each of you will have a GOOD LABOR DAY!</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4930" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4929" style="font-size: small;">Tomorrow is the anniversary of our friend Dr. Ron Fenwick’s death.<span> </span>Ron has been in Heaven now for 7 years.<span> </span>What A PREACHER!<span> </span>I HAVE BEEN PRIVILEGED TO KNOW SOME GREAT ONES --- John Rice, B. R. Lakin, John Rawlings, Jerry Falwell, Jack Hyles, Ford Porter, Lee Roberson, and I could go on.<span> </span>But, Ron Fenwick was a GREAT PREACHER also.<span> </span>I sure do miss him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron was a Pilot.<span> </span>He loved to talk about the great ACES America had.<span> </span>He loved to talk about Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, USMC.<span> </span>Eddie Rickenbacker shot down 26 planes in WWI.<span> </span>Joe Foss of the USMC broke that record, shooting down 27.<span> </span>Foss was given the Medal of Honor and pulled from combat to save his life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron would tell me how “Pappy Boyington” was a prime example of the “classic archetype of the swash-buckling hero who breaks the rules off the battlefield while being both brave and effective in battle!”<span> </span>In the Air Pappy B was an extraordinary pilot and a skilled squadron leader with an almost uncanny knack for aerial combat.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4864" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4863" style="font-size: small;">On the ground, however, Ron would tell me how Pappy B drank heavily and had an almost unnatural proclivity for fistfights.<span> </span>Boyington was the “bad boy” fighter pilot who became “highest scoring ace” to ever fly with the USMC, having scored 22 of his 28 total victories with the Marine Corps, plus another six with the American Volunteer Group ---the legendary “Flying Tigers” in China.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron would tell me how that when the Flying Tigers were incorporated into the USAAF at the start of WWII, Pappy chose to return to the USMC.<span> </span>Because of Pappy’s bad temper and discipline issues, it was not until January 1943, 12 months after Pearl Harbor, that he was able to get his USMC Commission reinstated and to have an opportunity to go overseas again.</span></span><br /><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Boyington_MOH.JPEG" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="File:Boyington MOH.JPEG" data-file-height="2000" data-file-width="1600" height="600" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Boyington_MOH.JPEG/480px-Boyington_MOH.JPEG" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Boyington_MOH.JPEG/720px-Boyington_MOH.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Boyington_MOH.JPEG/960px-Boyington_MOH.JPEG 2x" width="480" /></a><br /><br /> </div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington had begun his military training as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_Officers_Training_Corps" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Reserve Officers Training Corps"><span style="color: blue;">Reserve Officers Training Corps</span></a> (ROTC), at the University of Washington, where he became a cadet captain. He was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioned_officer" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Commissioned officer"><span style="color: blue;">commissioned</span></a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Second_Lieutenant" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="US Second Lieutenant"><span style="color: blue;">second lieutenant</span></a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Army" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="US Army"><span style="color: blue;">US Army</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Artillery" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Coast Artillery"><span style="color: blue;">Coast Artillery</span></a> Reserve in June 1934, and then served two months of active duty with the 630th Coast Artillery at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worden" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fort Worden"><span style="color: blue;">Fort Worden</span></a>, Washington.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On June 13, 1935, he managed to transfer to the Marine Corps Reserve. He returned to inactive duty on July 16 that year.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> On February 18, 1936, Boyington accepted an appointment as an aviation cadet in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USMCR" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="USMCR"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Corps Reserve</span></a>. He was assigned to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Naval Air Station Pensacola"><span style="color: blue;">Naval Air Station, Pensacola</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Florida"><span style="color: blue;">Florida</span></a>, for flight training. He was designated a Naval Aviator on March 11, 1937, then transferred to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Quantico" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Marine Corps Base Quantico"><span style="color: blue;">Quantico</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Virginia"><span style="color: blue;">Virginia</span></a>, for duty with Aircraft One, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Marine_Force" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fleet Marine Force"><span style="color: blue;">Fleet Marine Force</span></a>. He was discharged from the Marine Corps Reserve on July 1, 1937 in order to accept a second lieutenant's commission in the regular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States Marine Corps"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Corps</span></a> the following day.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington attended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_School" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Basic School"><span style="color: blue;">Basic School</span></a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Philadelphia"><span style="color: blue;">Philadelphia</span></a> from July 1938 to January 1939. On completion of the course, he was assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Group at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS_San_Diego" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="NAS San Diego"><span style="color: blue;">San Diego Naval Air Station</span></a>. He took part in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_problems" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fleet problems"><span style="color: blue;">fleet problems</span></a> off the aircraft carriers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-2)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="USS Lexington (CV-2)"><span style="color: blue;">USS <em>Lexington</em></span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="USS Yorktown (CV-5)"><span style="color: blue;">USS <em>Yorktown</em></span></a>. Promoted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant#United_States" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Lieutenant"><span style="color: blue;">first lieutenant</span></a> on November 4, 1940, Boyington returned to Pensacola as an instructor in December.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington resigned his commission in the Marine Corps on August 26, 1941, to accept a position with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Aircraft_Manufacturing_Company" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company"><span style="color: blue;">Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO)</span></a>. CAMCO was a civilian firm that contracted to staff a Special Air Unit to defend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="China"><span style="color: blue;">China</span></a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Road" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Burma Road"><span style="color: blue;">Burma Road</span></a>. This later became known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Volunteer_Group" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="American Volunteer Group"><span style="color: blue;">American Volunteer Group</span></a> (AVG), the famed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Flying Tigers"><span style="color: blue;">Flying Tigers</span></a> in Burma. During his time with the Tigers, Boyington became a flight leader. He was frequently in trouble with the commander of the outfit, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Claire Chennault"><span style="color: blue;">Claire Chennault</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington was officially credited with 2 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air and 1.5 on the ground, but AVG records suggest that one additional ground "kill" may have been due to him. (He afterward claimed six victories as a Tiger, but there is no substantiation for that figure, and aircraft destroyed on the ground normally do not count as victories.) In April 1942, he broke his contract with the American Volunteer Group and returned on his own to the United States.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On September 29, 1942, he rejoined the Marine Corps and managed to gain a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Major"><span style="color: blue;">major</span></a>'s commission.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Marine Corps needed experienced combat pilots and in early 1943, he was assigned to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Aircraft_Group_11" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Marine Aircraft Group 11"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Aircraft Group 11</span></a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Marine_Aircraft_Wing" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="1st Marine Aircraft Wing"><span style="color: blue;">1st Marine Aircraft Wing</span></a> and deployed to the South Pacific as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Officer" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Executive Officer"><span style="color: blue;">Executive Officer</span></a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMF-122" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="VMF-122"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Fighter Squadron 122</span></a> operating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Guadalcanal"><span style="color: blue;">Guadalcanal</span></a> until April 1943. While assigned to VMF-122, Boyington did not gain any victories. He became commander of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMF-112" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="VMF-112"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Fighter Squadron 112</span></a> from July to August 1943. In September 1943, he became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_Officer" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Commanding Officer"><span style="color: blue;">Commanding Officer</span></a> (CO) of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMA-214" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="VMA-214"><span style="color: blue;">Marine Fighter Squadron 214</span></a>, better known by its nickname, the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_Squadron" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Black Sheep Squadron"><span style="color: blue;">Black Sheep Squadron</span></a>."</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington received the nickname "Gramps", because at age 31, he was a decade older than most of the Marines serving under him. The name "Gramps" was changed to "Pappy" in a variation on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiffenpoofs" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="The Whiffenpoofs"><span style="color: blue;">"The Whiffenpoof Song"</span></a> whose new lyrics had been written by Paul "Moon" Mullen, one of his pilots, and this version was picked up by war correspondents.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington is best known for his exploits in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Vought F4U Corsair"><span style="color: blue;">Vought F4U Corsair</span></a> in VMF-214. During periods of intense activity in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Islands" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Russell Islands"><span style="color: blue;">Russell Islands</span></a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Georgia" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="New Georgia"><span style="color: blue;">New Georgia</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Bougainville Island"><span style="color: blue;">Bougainville</span></a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Britain" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="New Britain"><span style="color: blue;">New Britain</span></a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ireland_(island)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="New Ireland (island)"><span style="color: blue;">New Ireland</span></a> areas, Boyington added to his total almost daily. During his squadron's first tour of combat duty, he shot down 14 enemy fighter planes in 32 days. By December 27, his record had climbed to 25.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4868" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">A typical feat was his attack on Kahili airdrome at the southern tip of Bougainville on October 17, 1943. Boyington and 24 fighters circled the field, where 60 hostile aircraft were based, goading the enemy into sending up a large force. In the fierce battle that followed, 20 enemy aircraft were shot down, while the Black Sheep returned to their base without loss.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington’s squadron, flying from the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vella_Lavella" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Vella Lavella"><span style="color: blue;">Vella Lavella</span></a>, offered to down a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Zero" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Japanese Zero"><span style="color: blue;">Japanese Zero</span></a> for every baseball cap sent to them by major league players in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="World Series"><span style="color: blue;">World Series</span></a>. They received 20 caps and shot down more than that number of enemy aircraft.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On January 3, 1944, he tied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="World War I"><span style="color: blue;">World War I</span></a> ace <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Eddie Rickenbacker"><span style="color: blue;">Eddie Rickenbacker</span></a>'s record of 26 enemy planes destroyed, before he was himself shot down. On that mission, forty-eight American fighters, including four planes from the Black Sheep Squadron, were sent on a sweep over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaul" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Rabaul"><span style="color: blue;">Rabaul</span></a>. Boyington was tactical commander of the flight and arrived over the target at eight o'clock AM. He was seen to shoot down his 26th plane, but he then became mixed in the general melee of dogfighting planes and was not seen or heard from during the battle, nor did he return with his squadron. Boyington's wingman, Captain George Ashmun, was killed in action.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In later years, Masajiro "Mike" Kawato claimed to have been the pilot who shot down Boyington. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">He described the combat in two books and numerous public appearances (often with Boyington), but this claim was eventually "disproven," though Kawato repeated his story until his death. Kawato was present during the action in which Boyington, as one of 70 Japanese fighters which engaged about 30 American fighters.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following a determined but futile search, Boyington was declared <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Missing in action"><span style="color: blue;">missing in action</span></a>. He had been picked up by a Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Submarine"><span style="color: blue;">submarine</span></a> and became a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Prisoner of war"><span style="color: blue;">prisoner of war</span></a>. (The submarine was sunk 13 days after picking him up.) According to Boyington's autobiography, he was never accorded official P.O.W. status by the Japanese and his captivity was not reported to the Red Cross. He spent the rest of the war, some 20 months, in Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Internment"><span style="color: blue;">prison camps</span></a>. After being held temporarily at Rabaul and then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Chuuk Lagoon"><span style="color: blue;">Truk</span></a>, where he survived the massive U.S. Navy raid known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Operation Hailstone"><span style="color: blue;">Operation Hailstone</span></a>", he was transported first to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cfuna_(Prisoner_of_War_Camp)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Ōfuna (Prisoner of War Camp)"><span style="color: blue;">Ōfuna</span></a> and finally to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cmori" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Ōmori"><span style="color: blue;">Ōmori Prison Camp</span></a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Tokyo"><span style="color: blue;">Tokyo</span></a>. During that time he was selected for temporary promotion to the rank of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Lieutenant colonel (United States)"><span style="color: blue;">lieutenant colonel</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A fellow American prisoner of war was Medal of Honor recipient submarine captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Kane" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Richard O'Kane"><span style="color: blue;">Richard O'Kane</span></a>.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> At Ōfuna Boyington was interned with the former Olympic distance runner and downed aviator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Louis Zamperini"><span style="color: blue;">Louis Zamperini</span></a>.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">During mid-August 1945, after the atomic bombs and the Japanese capitulation, Boyington was liberated from Japanese custody at Omori Prison Camp on August 29. Boyington returned to the United States at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Alameda" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Naval Air Station Alameda"><span style="color: blue;">Naval Air Station Alameda</span></a> on September 12, 1945, where he was met by 21 former squadron members from VMF-214. That night a party for him was held at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Hotel" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="St. Francis Hotel"><span style="color: blue;">St. Francis Hotel</span></a> in downtown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="San Francisco"><span style="color: blue;">San Francisco</span></a> that was covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Life (magazine)"><em><span style="color: blue;">Life</span></em><span style="color: blue;"> Magazine</span></a>. The coverage of the party marked the first time that the magazine had ever shown people consuming alcohol.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></a></span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Prior to his arrival, on September 6, he accepted his temporary lieutenant colonel's commission in the Marine Corps.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington shortly after receiving the Medal of Honor</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly after his return to the U.S., as a lieutenant colonel, Boyington was ordered to Washington to receive the nation's highest honor — the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Medal of Honor"><span style="color: blue;">Medal of Honor</span></a> — from the President. The medal had been awarded by the late president, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt"><span style="color: blue;">Franklin D. Roosevelt</span></a> in March 1944 and held in the capital until such time as he could receive it. On October 4, 1945, Boyington received the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Navy Cross (United States)"><span style="color: blue;">Navy Cross</span></a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Marine_Corps" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Commandant of the Marine Corps"><span style="color: blue;">Commandant of the Marine Corps</span></a> for the Rabaul raid; the following day, "Nimitz Day," he and other sailors and Marines were decorated at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="White House"><span style="color: blue;">White House</span></a> by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Harry S. Truman"><span style="color: blue;">Harry S. Truman</span></a>.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a><span> </span></span></sup></div>
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<sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">[</span></sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">OUR FRIEND WOODY WILLIAMS RECEIVED THE CMOH THAT VERY DAY WITH PAPPY B.]</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following the receipt of his Medal of Honor and Navy Cross, Boyington made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Bond_Tour" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Victory Bond Tour"><span style="color: blue;">Victory Bond Tour</span></a>. Originally ordered to the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, he was later directed to report to the Commanding General, Marine Air West Coast, Marine Corps Air Depot, Miramar, San Diego, California. He retired from the Marine Corps on August 1, 1947, and because he was specially commended for the performance of duty in actual combat, he was promoted to colonel.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyington was a tough, hard-living character known for being unorthodox. He was also a heavy drinker, which plagued him in the years after the war, and possibly contributed to his multiple divorces. He freely admitted that during the two years he spent as a P.O.W. his health improved, due to the enforced sobriety. He worked various civilian jobs, including refereeing and participating in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Professional wrestling"><span style="color: blue;">professional wrestling</span></a> matches.</span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington#cite_note-Whoswho-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">From our friend Caroline Glick, we read:<span> </span></span></span><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4900"><u id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4899"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4898" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441731348134_4897" style="font-size: small;">The US Constitution gives sole power to approve international treaties to the Senate and requires a minimum of two-thirds approval for passage. Corker turned the Constitution on its head when he went forward with his bill. Far from curbing Obama’s executive overreach, Corker gave Obama unprecedented power to enact his radical, reckless nuclear agenda.<br /><br /> So if the fight against the deal was doomed to fail, why did the Israeli government decide to fight it for all it was worth? And why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still fighting it even though there is no longer any way to stop Obama from enabling Iran to sprint across the nuclear finish line? By fighting Obama’s nuclear deal, Israel seeks to advance two larger efforts.</span></span></u></em></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-44788768882125629772015-09-04T11:09:00.002-07:002015-09-04T11:09:45.896-07:00A Tragic Symbol of U.S. Failure to Act in the Mideast<div class="yiv4868182953MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5710" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">A side-light, but, also something of a blessing to she and this ole sinful man she is married to is, next Tuesday,<span> </span>September 8, is the anniversary of the death of our good friend Dr. Ron Fenwick.<span> </span>Ron made a vow to God that he would find someone who had never been told the GOSPEL STORY and witness to that person, and would do so EVERY DAY.<span> </span><span> </span><span style="color: #29303b;">He witnessed faithfully 365 days a year for over 37 years!<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5544" style="color: #29303b;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5543" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5542" style="font-size: small;">We had Ron come and Preach every August and every January.<span> </span>While he was here he always kept that vow of going out to find someone who had never heard that GOOD NEWS STORY.<span> </span>He would do nothing until he had accomplished that.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron would have my wife and I come to Woodlawn Baptist Church every year.<span> </span>I would speak on Monday night.<span> </span>Then, Tuesday morning he wanted his church Ladies and girls to hear Mrs. Vineyard, and so she would speak a couple of hours to them while I spoke to the men and boys.<span> </span>He would tell people words to this effect, “Mrs. Vineyard is going to get more rewards in heaven than Dr. Vineyard, for she won him!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5666" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Back some years ago THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS allowed my path to cross with that of Yoram Ettinger.<span> </span>Yoram spent several years ago in Houston as Israel’s SW Area Representative.<span> </span>Texas made an impact upon him and he wears Cowboy Boots.<span> </span>He has written a “Oy Jerusalem” Article which we show below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">While the Jewish State benefits from the robust Jewish demographic tailwind of fertility and immigration, Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is burdened with a Jewish demographic headwind of emigration, which is eroding the current 66% Jewish majority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The growing, youthful Jewish emigration from Jerusalem is driven by the scarcity of jobs as well as costly and limited housing. It was triggered – beginning in the 1990s - by Israeli Prime Ministers, who have relegated Jerusalem to a lower national priority, in sharp contrast to preceding Prime Ministers. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5555" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Simultaneously with a litany of "O Jerusalem" boasting statements, they have demonstrated "Oy Jerusalem" feeble action, reflecting limited capability to withstand opposition, by US Presidents, to Jewish construction beyond the pre-1967 armistice line. Moreover, succumbing to US pressure has yielded more, and rougher, pressure. Thus, they have constrained the development of Jerusalem's infrastructure of transportation, housing and employment - which constitute a prerequisite for transforming Jewish emigration into robust Jewish immigration - since it requires construction on substantial, state-owned land, available within the largely unpopulated boundaries of reunited Jerusalem, not in the limited parameters of pre-1967 Jerusalem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The smaller the effective boundary of Jerusalem, the larger is Jewish emigration; the larger the effective boundary, the greater is the potential for Jewish immigration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thus, recent Prime Ministers have sacrificed the significant upgrading of Jerusalem's infrastructure of growth on the altar of the supposed peace process with the Palestinian Authority, which seeks to annul Jerusalem's reunification, worships suicide bombers and operates the most effective assembly line for manufacturing terrorists: a </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">K-12 destroy-Israel-education system.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5557" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This peace process-driven policy has also led to physical and administrative disengagement from some Arab neighborhoods in reunited Jerusalem, and the construction of walls and fences, separating these neighborhoods from the rest of the city. As a result, parallel to the increasing Jewish emigration from Jerusalem, some 50,000 Arab residents of these neighborhoods - possessing Israeli ID cards - immigrated over the walls and the fences deeper into Jerusalem, lest they lose Israeli social and welfare benefits. Thus, at a time when parity has been reached between Jewish and Arab fertility rates (number of births per woman), this Israeli policy of disengagement has induced Arab immigration into Jerusalem, at a rate twice as high as the rate of Jewish emigration from Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5668" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In this regard, contemporary Israeli Prime Ministers have strayed away, dramatically, from their predecessors. For example, in 1950, in defiance of brutal US and global pressure to internationalize Jerusalem (which is still the policy of the US Department of State!), Prime Minister David Ben Gurion proclaimed Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish State, relocated government agencies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, settled a massive number of Olim (Jewish immigrants to Israel) in Jerusalem, upgraded the transportation infrastructure to Jerusalem, and erected new Jewish neighborhoods along Jerusalem's cease fire lines, providing the city land reserves for long term growth. Ben Gurion's actions spoke louder than the current bravado statements about the "indivisible Jerusalem."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In 1967, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol adopted Ben Gurion's statesmanship, fended off severe US and global threats, reunited Jerusalem and established the foundation of satellite Jewish neighborhoods well beyond Jerusalem's "pre-1967 lines." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In 1970-1, Prime Minister Golda Meir resisted heavy pressure, by the White House and the Department of State, refusing to rescind the reunification of Jerusalem and to transfer Jerusalem's </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Holy Basin</span><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> to the auspices of the three leading religions (these </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">demands were embraced</span><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">, in 2010, by former Prime Minister, Olmert). Defiantly, Golda Meir laid the groundwork for additional neighborhoods beyond the "pre-'67 lines": Gilo, Ramot Alon, French Hill and Neve' Ya'akov, significantly expanding Jerusalem's infrastructure of growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir sustained the position of Jerusalem at the top of Israel's national priorities, reinforcing - through construction and growth - the historical, national and religious status of reunified Jerusalem as the exclusive, non-negotiable capital of the Jewish State.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5559" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In order to dramatically expand Jerusalem's 66% Jewish majority, and retain the graduates of the Hebrew University (Israel's largest university), while improving the quality of life for Jews and Arabs, Israel should embark upon a fast-track, dramatic enhancement of Jerusalem's transportation infrastructure, which would pave the road for a flow of Israeli and international entrepreneurs and investors. For example, the largest Israeli city (2.5 times larger and more populated than Tel Aviv!) needs an airport, located in the ample, unpopulated area in eastern Jerusalem, which would be a most effective engine of growth. The only two freeways to Jerusalem from the coastal plain (#1 and #443 which stretches along the Land of the Maccabees beyond the 1967 lines) must be expanded, and a third one (#45 which was shelved by Prime Minister Sharon) should be constructed, for commercial, safety and national security reasons. The internal Begin Road should evolve into the Jerusalem Loop, which would be a game-changer for commerce and quality of life. A similar surge should apply to the infrastructure for high tech, telecommunications, electricity, water, education and housing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Will Israeli Prime Ministers embark upon an "O Jerusalem" policy – initiated 3,000 years ago by King David – which would drastically enhance Jerusalem's quality of life and expand its Jewish majority? Or, will they sustain the "Oy Jerusalem" policy, which could doom Jerusalem to a Jewish minority?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wishing you <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Shabbat Shalom</span></strong> and a <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">rewarding weekend</span></strong>,</span></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5590"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5589" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 24pt;">And Jonathan said unto him: 'Tomorrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, <span style="color: firebrick;">thy seat</span> will be empty.'</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 18pt;">וַיֹּאמֶר-לוֹ יְהוֹנָתָן מָחָר חֹדֶשׁ וְנִפְקַדְתָּ כִּי יִפָּקֵד <span style="color: firebrick;">מוֹשָׁבֶךָ</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The Rabbis teach that the moon is a symbol of the People of Israel. Just as the moon waxes and wanes, looking tiny when it is new but appearing great by the middle of the month, the Children of Israel follow a similar cycle. Though at times they are a small and downtrodden nation, they will again become great in the eyes of all. And when the world is blessed with the Messiah, son of the house of David, the light from the People of Israel will shine its brightest. This year, the moon is going through a special four-moon cycle, known as a "tetrad", when a blood moon appears four times over the year - and each time, it occurs during a Jewish holiday! The Almighty is sending a message to the world, and we can decipher His message by studying biblical prophecies. Gidon Ariel and Bob O’Dell are the first Orthodox Jew and Christian to join forces in putting it all together, uniting Biblical information and prophecies relating to Blood Moons, Shemitah (the sabbatical year), promises to Israel, and the Jubilee in one amazing eBook. Don't miss this #1 Amazon New Release!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> Nuclear Deal:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A passage of President Obama’s appeasement pact may mean the U.S. helping Iran fight back against an Israeli attack on their nuclear sites. But then again, this president might do that even without a deal. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5683" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Considering how gravely concerned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been all along about President Obama’s nuclear surrender to Iran, even coming to Washington in March to make a personal appeal in front of a joint session of Congress, one might have expected the Israelis to have bombed Iran by now. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> As long ago as 2008, over 100 Israeli fighter jets were conducting what were obviously practice exercises in the Mediterranean for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister at the time, warned it would require drastic measures to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran; his deputy, former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, said military action appeared “unavoidable.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> That was seven years ago. Could anything less than a warning from the Obama administration that America would resist Israeli actions against Iran have stopped Israel? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Now turn to the text of the deal. Annex three’s section on “nuclear security” on Page 142 pledges that the U.S. will “strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to, nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.” </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5685" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> While this is supposed to happen “through training and workshops,” the clause about enabling “effective and sustainable nuclear security” could conceivably mean direct military aid to Iran against Israeli attack. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> And anyway, who other than Israel would be undertaking “nuclear security threats, including sabotage” against Iran? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In July, the Center for Security Policy’s IranTruth.org warned that this section of the agreement apparently commits the U.S. “to help Iran develop capacities to prevent things like the STUXNET worm,” the computer attack five years ago that dealt Iran’s nuclear program a significant setback. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The U.S. giving Tehran secrets about computer worm design “would mean entrusting extremely sensitive data to Iran — a nation that has weaponized, for distribution to terrorist groups, every technology it has thus far obtained,” the center argues. It might also mean “training Iranian commandos . . . the last line of defense for Iranian nuclear security,” which is “unwise, given Iran’s decades-long history of murdering Americans.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This section of the pact might even mean “sharing intelligence on Israeli operations that” the Israelis themselves “do not know we have knowledge of, but have obtained via NSA intercepts or human intelligence.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Only last week, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which the deal charges with conducting nuclear facility inspections within Iran, reported new construction going on at Iran’s Parchin site, where Tehran is strongly suspected of having tested nuclear-weapon detonators. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> According to the IAEA, it “has continued to observe through satellite imagery, the presence of vehicles equipment and probable construction materials. In addition, a small extension to an existing building” has apparently been built. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5647" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Activities at Parchin over the past 3-1/2 years “are likely to have undermined the agency’s ability to conduct effective verification,” warns the IAEA, which is concerned of possible Iranian “activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The U.N. inspection agency concluded that it “is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> So while Iran is already undermining the deal’s inspection regime, the U.S. is expected to start protecting and defending Tehran as a U.S. ally, against Israel, as if the Jewish state were an American enemy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> It has been obvious for a long time that President Obama badly wanted to strike a deal with Iran on its illicit nuclear program. The problem is, if you want it bad, you’ll get it bad. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Bipartisan majorities of both houses of Congress disapprove of the deal. They are prepared to vote that way. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Just a few months ago, Senate Democrats unanimously supported having a vote on the subject. Now the White House is desperate to avoid this embarrassment. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rather than have an honest debate on the Iran deal, the president and the Senate Democrat leader are hiding behind a filibuster. They’re using Senate procedure to conceal their panic. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The administration knows that it struck a bad bargain. Its reluctance to admit the agreement’s flaws means that the American people don’t even know how bad the deal really is. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The administration won’t talk about how much money Iran stands to make because of the deal. Under the agreement, Iran reportedly will get access to $100 billion. Additional money will flow from the sale of oil and other goods. How much, we don’t know. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This administration also won’t talk about the side deals to the agreement. There have been media reports that Iran will collect its own samples for testing at nuclear sites. The White House refuses to answer this charge. We could resolve this issue if the administration would provide the side deals to Congress, as required by law. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5687" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Since the deal was announced almost eight weeks ago, Senate committees have held nine hearings. We’ve heard from experts and allowed the administration to make its best case for the agreement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have raised sincere and important questions about the deal. President Obama has been blinded by deal euphoria. He cannot see the defects that are obvious in the plan. He lashes out at anyone who questions him, calling them “the crazies.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The president has said that those who have scrutinized the agreement and disagree with it are making “common cause” with anti-American radicals. </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5626" style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet the answers to our questions suggest that his administration was far too willing to make concessions that put our own national security at risk. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In April, the administration said that inspectors would have access to Iran’s facilities “anywhere, anytime, 24/7.” That has turned out to be more like anywhere, anytime Iran chooses — with up to 24 days’ notice. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Under United Nations Security Council resolutions, Iran was supposed to suspend its uranium enrichment program before it could get sanctions relief. In the final agreement, Iran will continue to enrich. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The president said in December 2013 that the Iranians “don’t need some of the advanced centrifuges that they currently possess in order to have a limited, peaceful nuclear program.” The final agreement allows Iran to keep those centrifuges and to develop more advanced ones. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The original goal of ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program was a good one. I wish that the president had stuck with that target and done a better job of negotiating. He did not. I believe it would be irresponsible to support such a weak, naive and dangerous deal. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Iranians stalled for years on these negotiations. They watched closely as the Obama administration signaled its desperation to strike a bargain. Iran adjusted its demands accordingly and wound up with a very good deal for the radical leaders. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> After this agreement, Iran will be a nuclear threshold state and a military and industrial power. It will have the money to support terrorists around the world. It will have the freedom to pursue its nuclear ambitions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> President Obama and his allies should take seriously the concerns of the American people. The Senate should be allowed to have an up-ordown vote to disapprove the agreement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The president should also rethink his reckless veto threat. He should stop the childish name-calling and come clean about the flaws in his agreement. Then he should sit down with Congress and figure out a way to strike a better deal that actually meets the goals he set from the start. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million displaced from their homes are statistics. But they represent a collective failure of massive proportions. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5628" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> For four years, the Obama administration has engaged in what Frederic Hof, former special adviser for transition in Syria, calls a “pantomime of outrage.” Four years of strongly worded protests and urgent meetings and calls for negotiation — the whole drama a sickening substitute for useful action. People talking to drown out the voice of their own conscience. And blaming. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5690" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In 2013, President Obama lectured the United Nations Security Council for having “demonstrated no inclination to act at all.” Psychological projection on a global stage. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “It’s not the job of the president of the United States to solve every problem in the Middle East.” We must be “modest in our belief that we can remedy every evil.” </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5692" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> But we are not dealing here with every problem or every evil; rather a unique set of circumstances: The largest humanitarian failure of the Obama era is also its largest strategic failure. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> At some point, being “modest” becomes the same thing as being inured to atrocities. President Bashar Assad’s helicopters continue to drop barrel bombs filled with shrapnel and chlorine. In recent attacks on the town of Marea, Islamic State forces have used skin-blistering mustard gas and deployed, over a few days, perhaps 50 suicide bombers. We have seen starvation sieges and kidnappings and beheadings and more than 10,000 dead children. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> German Chancellor Angela Merkel has changed her country’s asylum rules to welcome every Syrian refugee who arrives. Syrians have taken to calling her “Mama Merkel, Mother of the Outcasts.” I wonder what they call America’s president. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> At many points in the last four years, even relatively small actions might have reduced the pace of civilian casualties in Syria. How hard would it have been to destroy the helicopters dropping barrel bombs on neighborhoods? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A number of options short of intervention might have reduced the regime’s destructive power and/or strengthened the capabilities of more responsible forces. All were untaken. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This was not some humanitarian problem distant from the center of U.S. interests. It was a crisis at the heart of the Mideast that produced a vacuum of sovereignty that has attracted and empowered some of the worst people in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Inaction was a conscious, determined choice on the part of the Obama White House. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus advocated arming favorable proxies. Sunni friends and allies in the region asked, then begged, for U.S. leadership. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5645" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All were overruled or ignored. In the process, Syria has become the graveyard of American credibility. The chemical weapons “red line.” “The tide of war is receding.” “We don’t do stupid (stuff).” These are global punch lines. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “The analogy we use around here sometimes,” said Obama of the Islamic State, “and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5643" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Now the goal to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State looks unachievable with current strategy and resources. “The time has come for President Assad to step aside,” said Obama in 2011. Yet Assad will likely outlast him in power. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5639" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> What explains Obama’s high tolerance for humiliation and mass atrocities in Syria? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Syrian regime is Iran’s proxy, propped up by billions of dollars each year. And Obama wanted nothing to interfere with a nuclear deal with Iran. He was, as Hof has said, “reluctant to offend the Iranians at this critical juncture.” </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5633" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> So the effective concession of Syria as an Iranian zone of influence is just one more cost of the president’s legacy nuclear agreement. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5635" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Never mind Iran will now have tens of billions of unfrozen assets to strengthen Assad’s struggling military. And never mind Assad’s atrocities are one of the main recruiting tools for the Islamic State and other Sunni radicals. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5637" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> All of which is likely to extend a war that no one can win, that has incubated regional and global threats, and that has thrown a small body in a red T-shirt against a distant shore. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /> PLEASE REMEMBER THIS PICTURE OF THE TINY BOY LYING DROWNED ON A TURKISH BEACH ---A TRAGIC SYMBOL OF U.S. FAILURE TO ACT IN THE MIDEAST! </span><br /><br /><img height="423" id="yiv8111187703yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_4492" src="http://epaper.investors.com/olive/ode/ibd/server/GetContent.asp?field=Text%3B%3Biran&field=BASE_HREF%3B%3BIBD%2F2015%2F09%2F04&field=EntityType%3B%3BArticle&field=PUBLICATION%3B%3BIBD&sortby=IssueDateID%3Bdesc&contentsrc=primitive&dochref=IBD%2F2015%2F09%2F04&primid=Pc0150400&entityid=Pc01504&pageno=15&repformat=1.0&chunkid=Pc01504&imgext=png&type=Content&for=primitive" style="min-height: 423px; width: 525px;" width="525" /><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5631" style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">BRETHREN, GOD HAS ALLOWED THIS OLE SINNER TO LIVE 75 YEARS AND A FEW MONTHS ON HIS GOOD EARTH.<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5630"> </span>HE HAS BEEN FAR BETTER TO US THAN WE DESERVE.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441373536771_5641" style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">NOW, WE LIVE AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD IS ALL MESSED UP!<span> </span>I DO NOT THINK I HAVE EVER SEEN MORE SERIOUS TIMES THAN THOSE WE FACE NOW.<span> </span>MY OH MY, HOW WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR WORLD AND FOR THE JEWS IN ISRAEL!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-5582607744341331672015-09-03T09:54:00.001-07:002015-09-03T09:54:34.818-07:00Results of War<div class="yiv8162764131MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5039" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5045" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5044" style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me ask you to pray for the bride of my youth, Jo Ann.<span> </span>She found out yesterday that she will have to have hip replacement surgery.<span> </span>Dr. Paul Jacob told her she had as “bad of a hip” as he had ever seen.<span> </span>She has cysts in it.<span> </span>Hopefully we shall get the surgery done before the end of September.<span> </span>Please hold her up to the Lord in prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5049" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5048" style="font-family: Calibri;">Cops are still being killed and the BHO set up of BLACK LIVES MATTER continues to spread division between the black and white races, as well as the Hispanic & Asian races.<span> </span>In 75 years I don’t believe I have ever saw a time when our country was more divided according to race.<span> </span>Pray for our Country in that regard.<span> </span>BHO could have done so much for his race, but he is doing for “himself,” in ole jav’s opinion.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5051" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Biden is appearing at an invitation-only event at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center — in the heart of the district represented by a prime target of his salesmanship, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the vice president's motorcade pulled into the center about 9 a.m., a protest of nearly 800 people moved to the front entrance, shouting "We need a better deal!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">About 8:40 a.m., the invited Jewish community leaders were ushered into a relatively small room at the JCC.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; display: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Protesters against the Iran deal chant and carry signs outside the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in in Davie before Vice President Joe Biden appears Thursday in an attempt to sell the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal to Jewish community leaders. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441285577666_5053" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Closest to where Wasserman Schultz and Biden will sit is former Cooper City Mayor Debby Eisinger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among the Jewish community leaders assembled are Andrew Weinstein, a Coral Springs lawyer, and Mitchell Berger, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer. Both are major national campaign fundraisers for Democratic candidates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The table had a place for Frank Biden, the vice president’s brother, who lives in Delray Beach, but the placecard was removed about 9:15 a.m. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also at the table is Barbara Effman, president of the West Broward Democratic Club. Hava Holzhauer, the Florida regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, is also present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Outside the community center, about 800 protesters gathered at the intersection of Pine Island and Stirling roads, most of them picking up navy-blue T-shirts reading "We Need a Better Deal" from cardboard boxes that had been dropped along the sidewalk extending to the front of the community center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The protesters stood behind steel barricades and waved the U.S. flag or poster boards as rush-hour traffic passed. Some motorists honked their horns or waved in approval of the demonstration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joe Zezuloni, of Americans United Against the Deal, gave a 10-minute speech from the stage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">"It is yet to be over; we are going to make sure our message will be heard everywhere. Make sureour message is clear, we will not accept this deal," said Zezuloni.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Louis Reinstein, 40, an attorney from Plantation, brought his 7-year-old son Daniel to the protest. As Daniel clutched a small wooden pole with an American flag attached, Reinstein said that although the deal won't likely be rescinded at this point, the U.S. should still consider future sanctions against Iran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We're here to let the world know, to let the vice president know, that we believe this deal is a bad one and that we can do better," he said. "Coming into the deal, it was the public's belief that the goal was to prevent Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, from getting nuclear weapons, but we see that Iran is assured to get them in 10 to 15 years."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wasserman Schultz hasn't yet said how she'll vote on the nuclear agreement, which is President Barack Obama's top foreign policy priority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wasserman Schultz is fiercely loyal to the president, who made her chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. And she's been a longtime, close ally of Biden, dating to his time as a U.S. senator and her early days in the House of Representatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wasserman Schultz is also the first Jewish woman from Florida to serve in Congress, and many organizations and leaders in the Jewish community oppose the deal. She's a staunch supporter of Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the world's leading opponent of the agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">"There are a number of questions and concerns that I have, along with my constituents and community leaders, about the agreement," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. "Ultimately, I will make this most consequential of decisions based on what I believe is the best way to prevent Iran from achieving their nuclear ambitions."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Floridians' views of the deal between Iran and six world powers are mixed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">An Aug. 24 Quinnipiac University Poll reported 61 percent of Florida voters opposed the nuclear agreement with Iran. Just 25 percent said they supported it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most of the intense opposition comes from Republicans. Only 6 percent support the deal. It was supported by 50 percent of Democrats, 24 percent of independents, 27 percent of men, 24 percent of women, 29 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds and 24 percent of those 65 and older.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The agreement calls for inspections of Iran's nuclear program, reductions in uranium stockpiles and limits on its ability to enrich uranium. In return, Iran would get access to more than $100 billion in assets currently frozen in foreign banks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Critics of the deal, including U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-West Boca, are convinced at least some of the money Iran would get under the deal would be used to fund terrorism. Supporters, including U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat from northern <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Palm Beach County</span></a>, said there's no better alternative and he considers the deal "the best available option to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Rabbis from all of the country are gathering … because of a scene of urgency of the moment of this Iran deal and how dangerous it is to the national security of Americans and to our brothers and sisters in Israel," Goldberg, a Florida Rabbi, said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even though the administration just secured the votes, Goldberg said opponents aren't willing to concede. "We don't believe it's over until it's over," he said. "Until the vote is taken, people's minds can can still be changed."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">In a telephone interview with CNN Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said that under the auspices of the Iran nuclear agreement, if Israel were to attack the Islamic Republic, the United States would have to come to the Tehran's aid.<br /><br /> Trump has vocally opposed the deal since announcing his run for president, saying that the United States "should have doubled up the sanctions for another couple of months" and that the 24-day notice Iran receives before sites can be inspected is unacceptable.<br /><br /> But Trump added an unconventional twist to the opposition argument, suggesting that under the terms of the deal the United States was required to fight alongside Iran if Israel were to attack.<br /><br /> "You know, there is something in the Iran deal that people I don't think really understand or know about," the real estate mogul said. "And nobody is ever to explain it that if somebody attacks Iran, we have to come to their defense."<br /><br /> Trump added, "And I'm saying this - that includes Israel? And most people say, yes. So, if Israel attacks Iran according to that deal, I believe... that we have to fight with Iran against Israel."<br /><br /> On Wednesday, the Obama administration secured the support of 34 senators for its landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, ensuring its safe passage through a vote scheduled in Congress this month.<br /><br /> Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat from Maryland, </span><a href="http://www.mikulski.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mikulski-statement-in-support-of-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action-to-prevent-iran-from-developing-nuclear-weapons" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">announced her support for the deal</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> on Wednesday morning. She followed announcements from two Democratic colleagues, senators Chris Coons of Delaware and Bob Casey, Jr. from Pennsylvania, the previous day.<br /><br /> Congress may still vote and pass a resolution disapproving of the deal when it reconvenes next week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Young boy found lying face-down on a beach near Turkish resort of Bodrum was one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned attempting to reach Greece.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The full horror of the human tragedy unfolding on the shores of </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Europe</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> was brought home on Wednesday as images of the lifeless body of a young boy – one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned attempting to reach the Greek island of Kos – encapsulated the extraordinary risks refugees are taking to reach the west.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The picture, taken on Wednesday morning, depicted the dark-haired toddler, wearing a bright-red T-shirt and shorts, washed up on a beach, lying face down in the surf not far from Turkey’s fashionable resort town of Bodrum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his five-year-old brother. Galip. and their mother, Rehan, died in desperate attempt to flee to relatives! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When Abraham’s son Ishmael, was born, the book of Genesis says of him:<span> </span>Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-12305111609318481242015-09-01T10:15:00.000-07:002015-09-01T10:15:44.625-07:00The Joy of Jerusalem<div class="yiv1367569227MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3391" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3324" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3323" style="font-size: small;">This ole hell-deserving sinner writes this Tuesday morning from Oklahoma.<span> </span>The Writer of 1 Chronicles wrote:<span> </span><strong><em><u>1Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. </u></em></strong><span> </span><br /><br /> We are just strangers and sojourners here on this earth with the days of our lives being as a shadow and none will abide.<span> </span>One <span> </span>of the Christians which my path crossed with in August 1972 was Dr. Bob Billings.<span> </span>He helped Dr. Jack Hyles found Hyles-Anderson College.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3327" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3326" style="font-size: small;">Of all the staff people who worked at Hyles Anderson, I became closer to Bob Billings than any of the other.<span> </span>He was a Mohawk Indian.<span> </span>He could play the Piano and sing, and was a big hit among the un-registered Baptist churches yonder in the former Soviet Union.<span> </span>My wife and I were on the mission field when Dr. Bob Ross, our Youth Director and Associate Pastor, called to tell me that Bob Billings had died.<span> </span>We were able to talk on the phone with Charlotte before they took Bob’s Body from the Hospital Room where he had died.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Robert J. Billings, the evangelistic Christian educator who helped rouse the religious right into a potent political force as a founder of the Moral Majority, died on Sunday at the Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Florida. He was 68 and had lived in Haines City, Fla., since 1992. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mr. Billings was a tireless organizer who was Ronald Reagan's liaison to the fundamentalist Christian movement during the 1980 Presidential campaign. He also served six years in the Education Department. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3351" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Before he became politically active in the late 1970's, Mr. Billings was a missionary in the British West Indies, an itinerate preacher in the South and the Midwest and the president of Hyles-Anderson College, a religious institution he helped found in Hammond, Ind., in 1971. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3353" lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mr. Billings, who made an unsuccessful run for the House in 1976 as the Republican nominee in Indiana's heavily Democratic First District, was working as the principal of a Christian high school when he was galvanized into action in 1978 by policies of the Carter Administration. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Alarmed by plans to revoke the tax-exempt status of private schools, many of them Christian, Mr. Billings formed the National Christian Action Coalition, packed his belongings in a trailer and hit the road with his wife to preach against what he viewed as a godless humanism dominating American life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Along the way, Mr, Billings, who once estimated that his efforts had led to the founding of 400 Christian schools, met and impressed other like-minded individuals, among them Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips, Richard Viguerie and Ed McAteer. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">In 1979, Mr. Billings invited those men and a rising television evangelist named Jerry Falwell to a meeting, where they formed an organization known as the Moral Majority. It was armed with a plan to induce the Republican Party to adopt a firm stance against abortion as a way to split the voter-rich Roman Catholic bloc from the Democratic Party. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Protestant fundamentalism had once been a powerful force in American politics, but had not been a major political factor since the death of William Jennings Bryant in the 1920's. With Mr. Falwell serving as the public voice and Mr. Billings as its first executive director, it re-emerged, and the Moral Majority was widely credited with helping Mr. Reagan win the 1980 Presidential campaign. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A native of Massena, N.Y., Mr. Billings was the son of a Mohawk Indian so poor that his son had to be reared in an orphanage. Mr. Billings, who traced his religious fervor to a camp meeting he attended in his early teens, graduated from the Allentown Bible Institute in Pennsylvania and from Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. </span></div>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The <span>Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne</span> (alternate spelling <span>Ahkwesáhsne</span>) is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Nation" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Mohawk Nation"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></a></span></em></strong><strong>Mohawk Nation</strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> (<span>Kanien'kehá:ka</span>) </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_(country_subdivision)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Territory (country subdivision)"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>territory</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> that straddles the intersection of international (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>United States</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Canada"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Canada</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">) borders and provincial (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Ontario"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Ontario</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Quebec"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Quebec</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">) boundaries on both banks of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_River" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="St. Lawrence River"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>St. Lawrence River</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">. Most of the land is in what is otherwise the present-day United States. Although divided by an international border, the residents consider themselves to be one community.</span></span></div>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">It was founded in the mid-18th century by people from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahnawake" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Kahnawake"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></a></span></em></strong><strong>Kahnawake</strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, a Catholic Mohawk village south of Montreal. Today Akwesasne has 12,000 residents, with the largest population and land area of any <span>Kanien'kehá:ka</span> community.<span> </span>Beginning in the eighteenth century, Akwesasne was considered one of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nations_of_Canada" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Seven Nations of Canada"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Seven Nations of Canada</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. It is one of several <span>Kanien'kehá:ka</span> (Mohawk) territories within present-day Canada; others are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahnawake" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Kahnawake"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Kahnawake</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahta" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Wahta"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Wahta</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanesatake" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Kanesatake"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Kanesatake</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Nations_of_the_Grand_River_First_Nation" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, founded after the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="American Revolutionary War"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>American Revolutionary War</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">.</span></span></div>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The name <span>Akwesasne</span> in <span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_language" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Mohawk language"><span style="color: #004276;"></span></a></span></span></span></em></strong><strong>Kanien'kéha</strong> (Mohawk language) means "Land Where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partridge" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Partridge"><span style="color: #004276; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>Partridge</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Drums", referring to the rich wildlife in the area.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am now living with my granddaughter and that is a blessing.<span> </span>She is so good to me.<span> </span>I find that every day I need to depend upon others to care for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">God bless you dear friends for what you have done and are still doing for me.<span> </span>I cannot thank you enough.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="color: black; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hodayah (meaning Thanks to Gd) is one of a set of triplets, about 11/2 years old. Last Sunday, while eating lunch, she began to choke – something was caught in her throat and she could not breathe!! Her parents rushed her to the infirmary and Sarah the nurse began working to free the object. Someone in the infirmary called for Tzuri, a Magen Davud Adom paramedic who had just arrived home from a tour of duty. For an hour Sarah and Tzuri worked on the baby to revive her. Unable to pull the object out, they forced it down into her lung, allowing minimal air passage</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: black; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some people called it a “<strong><u>medical miracle</u></strong>.” There is no question that the alertness of the family with the special treatment of the infirmary staff, coupled with <strong><u>many, many</u></strong> prayers by friends and neighbors, saved the baby’s life</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441126108011_3381" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">AS you and I pray for THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM, one of these days, we shall rejoice for we shall hear THE JOY OF JERUSALEM.<span> </span>I am looking forward to that day, when we will put aside the bodies of clay with so much sin and putrefaction within them, with so many temptations befalling us on a daily, nay, hourly, basis.<span> </span>THANK GOD FOR THAT COMING DAY!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-21104575078934064112015-08-29T11:52:00.003-07:002015-08-29T11:52:33.397-07:00An Eye for an Eye<div class="yiv8976442930MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440873559461_3773" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The WORD OF GOD is very plain and easy to be understood if one would just take a bit of time and give studious attention to what THE SCRIPTURES TEACH. THE JEWS are central to all Scriptural teaching, as is plain in Psalms 83!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday, August 23, 2005; Posted: 4:21 p.m. EDT (20:21 GMT)</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">SANUR, West Bank (CNN) -- Israel evacuated the last settlers and protesters from the West Bank settlement of Homesh on Tuesday, the military said, completing its historic withdrawal of civilians from 25 settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Today, we accomplished the first phase of the disengagement process ... related to evacuation of the civilians," Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israeli forces plan to remove the settlers' belongings and destroy their houses and then withdraw from Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Authorities used force at times Tuesday to clear the two remaining West Bank settlements -- Homesh and Sanur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before Sanur was evacuated, forces used a crane and container to remove protesters from the roof of an old fortress in the settlement. In Homesh, demonstrators in a school refused to move and security forces picked them up and carried them away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israel completed its withdrawal from 21 settlements in Gaza on Monday, and settlers had been evacuated from the other West Bank settlements included in the plan -- Ganim and Kadim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">About 120 Jewish settlements remain in the West Bank after the evacuations, according to the Israel-based Web site peacenow.org.il.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">President Bush, asked a question Tuesday by reporters about the next step in the region, called on Palestinians to establish "a working government in Gaza, a government that responds to the people."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bush said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "has made a commitment to fight off" Palestinian "violence because he understands a democracy can't exist with terrorist groups trying to take the law into their own hands."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Earlier, authorities said about 600 people remained in Sanur -- as many as 200 of them anti-withdrawal activists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Military cranes lifted a cargo container which carried police to the top of the fortress that served as Sanur's community center. Police removed about 50 protesters who had barricaded themselves on the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the outside of the stone fortress, a banner declared: "A curse upon those who evacuate us."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">About 300 settlers who had barricaded themselves inside the fortress also were removed, commanders said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">About five miles away in Homesh, Israeli forces raided a religious school, where about 40 protesters waited. They sat praying and singing with arms and legs locked to make their removal more difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Television images broadcast from inside the school showed Israeli soldiers struggling with the student protesters, slowly extracting one at a time and carrying them to a waiting bus outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two settlers, one in Homesh and one in Sanur, tried to stab Israeli soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said. In Homesh, a settler who was drunk was arrested after attempting to stab a soldier, IDF said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Sanur, a civilian stabbed a female soldier during a scuffle, the IDF said, describing the soldier's wounds as light. The civilian was taken into custody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The clearance of Homesh and Sanur marked the end of the "main part" of Sharon's disengagement process -- the settlements must still be demolished, said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Gideon Meir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"A process that the Israel government ... took upon itself in order to extend our hand in peace to the Palestinians," Meir said. "This is what Israel is willing to do in order to live in peace with the Palestinians."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He said now is the time "for the Palestinians to disengage themselves from terror and violence."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23</span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> from the interaction between a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_wave" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Tropical wave"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">tropical wave</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> and the remnants of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Depression_Ten_(2005)" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Tropical Depression Ten (2005)"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Tropical Depression Ten</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. Early the following day, the new depression intensified into Tropical Storm Katrina. The cyclone headed generally westward toward </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Florida"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Florida</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> and strengthened into a hurricane only two hours before making landfall </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallandale_Beach,_Florida" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Hallandale Beach, Florida"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Hallandale Beach</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventura,_Florida" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Aventura, Florida"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Aventura</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> on August 25. After very briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Katrina emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and began to</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_deepening" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Rapid deepening"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">rapidly deepen</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. The storm strengthened to a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_5" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Category 5</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> hurricane over the warm waters of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Gulf of Mexico"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Gulf of Mexico</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, but weakened before making its second landfall as a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_3" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Category 3</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> hurricane on August 29 in southeast Louisiana.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">August 31, 2005</span><sup><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#cite_note-KatrinaTCR-1" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">$108 billion (2005 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="United States dollar"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Calibri;">USD</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Calibri;">Costliest</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> on record</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 6pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#cite_note-Dead_2011-2" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[2]</span></span></a></span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">BRETHREN, DON’T MISS THE “EYE FOR AN EYE” TEACHING OF THE 2 DATES – SANUR, THE LAST OF THE 25 COMMUNITIES, 21 IN THE GUSH KATIF, GAZA, AND 4 IN THE SHOMROM – AGAIN, REPEATING MYSELF, SANUR BEING THE LAST DISENGAGED FROM ----THEN THE FORMATION OF KATRINA ---ON THE SAME DAY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After a well-orchestrated media campaign (including a <em>New York Times</em> leader calling for the US to pull the MFO from Sinai), for preparing the ground, Washington this week presented Israel and Egypt with a detailed blueprint for covering its retreat from the strategic Egyptian peninsula in the face of rising Islamic terrorism</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The preamble noted that the danger of Islamic State attack increasingly confronts the 1,600 members of the Sinai Multinational Force and Observers (MFO).</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">They come from 12 nations and include the Texas Army National Guard Soldiers of the 1<sup>st</sup> Squadron, 112<sup>th</sup> Cavalry Regiment, which is posted near the Sharm El-Sheikh resort town in the South, and a number of US officers based in the northern camp at Gorah near El Arish.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The authors of the plan stress that it has accordingly become necessary to “alter the MFO’s mode of operation.”</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Egypt’s Chief of Staff <strong>Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Hegazy</strong> and the policy adviser at Israel’s Defense Ministry, <strong>Amos</strong> <strong>Gilead, </strong>took the blueprint when it reached them as advance notice of Washington’s intention to withdraw from the MFO in Sinai as quickly as possible.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Since the US is the largest contributor to the MFO, with its Task Force Sinai comprising 692 military personnel, the inescapable conclusion was that once the Americans were out, the other nationals would soon follow suit and the MFO would be gone for good.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The MFO becomes redundant when treaty restrictions are eased</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440873559461_3682" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The US blueprint outlined three practical steps:</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. In the first stage, the force would close down 25 observations posts scattered across Sinai from north to south (see attached map) and evacuate the soldiers manning them. Each of these posts has 6-8 soldiers – some American – who would be easy prey for the Islamists – either to kill or take hostage.<br />Until now, the Sinai branch of ISIS has refrained from major attacks on the multinational force, possibly to avoid stirring up international support for Egypt’s fight against them in North Sinai.<br />But there have been incidents. On June 6, the Islamists fired shells towards Gorah airport, which is used by the MFO. There were no casualties. A more serious attack took place three years ago in September 2012, when the Gorah camp was set on fire and three foreign soldiers were injured.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. The spread-out observation posts were set up originally to monitor the military restrictions imposed on Egypt in Sinai under the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty. But last year Israel relaxed those restrictions to let Cairo introduce a division plus and assault aircraft and helicopters to Sinai, to fight the Islamists terrorists.<br />The MFO suddenly became redundant.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Replacing MFO observation posts with satellite surveillance</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But its observation posts stayed in place and turned their efforts to keeping watch and reporting on the illicit paramilitary forces moving clandestinely around the peninsula, including armed Palestinian groups, various smuggling rings and ISIS.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. It is a little known fact that one part of the MFO’s American team was stationed on the highly strategic island of Tiran, which is situated in the narrowest part of the Straits of Tiran - an important sea passage for the important ports of Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A hostile force on that island, which separates the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aqaba, could block Israel’s only southern outlet from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Red Sea and out to the Far East.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The tiny 230 sq, km island is part of Egypt’s Ras Muhammad National Park, although the opposing claims to its sovereignty by Egypt and Saudi Arabia have never been resolved.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The US exit will leave Tiran island and vital sea passage unguarded</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The American force’s exit from the island of Tiran, along with the rest of the MFO, will leave the essential strait without oversight and the shipping using it unprotected. The Sinai Bedouin, smugglers and ISIS adherents alike, keep track from their speedboats on the ships sailing in and out of the Gulf of Aqaba and using the Suez Canal. By seizing Tiran Island after the American troops’ departure, they would control these strategic straits. The Islamic State would not only strengthen its grip in the Sinai Peninsula, but directly imperil the national security interests of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel.</span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440873559461_3699" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The US plans for Sinai, published here for the first time, left Israeli and Egyptian strategists stunned. If Washington goes through with them, the Middle East and, most of all, the Islamist State, would be free to conclude that if the Obama administration declines to stand its ground against 500 ISIS Sinai terrorists, it can hardly be relied on to fight Islamist terror anywhere else.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-28143906622075459852015-08-28T19:21:00.001-07:002015-08-28T19:21:20.445-07:00Same Sex Marriage Controversy<div class="yiv5621290082MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440814021244_2322" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we look at the world’s conditions presently, with all that is going on yonder in the MIDDLE EAST; AND OUR ATTENTION AND EYES ON JERUSALEM, as the center-piece for all events as they are UNFOLDING BEFORE US, I am reminded of what THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS showed KING HEZEKIAH through the PROPHET ISAIAH when a Despotic Dictator named Sennacherib sought to do harm to the PEOPLE OF THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS, just as the Iranian Dictator is seeking to do presently---that God took out 185,000 of his soldiers in one night, and then let Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Isaiah 37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. [BRETHREN, WE NEED NOTE THIS: GOD SAID “NOT ONE ARROW”WILL BE SHOT THERE!]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: [OLE JAV really likes this next part of this verse] and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. [You don’t want to mess with THE HEBREW PEOPLE, WHO BELONG TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL!]</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">WASHINGTON — The attacks on Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> since he </span></span><a href="https://medium.com/@RepJerryNadler/congressman-jerrold-nadler-statement-on-the-p5-1-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action-f7ca527e3f50" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Mr. Nadler's statement."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">announced his support</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> for the nuclear accord with Iran have been so vicious that the </span></span><a href="http://www.njdc.org/nadlerletter082615" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="The council's statement."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">National Jewish Democratic Council</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> and the </span></span><a href="http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/miscellaneous/adl-condemns-vicious-attacks-on-rep-nadler.html#.Vd89j7xViko" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="The league's statement."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">Anti-Defamation League</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> both felt compelled this week to publicly condemn Jewish voices of hate.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">On the other side, three Jewish Democrats in the House who oppose the deal released a </span></span><a href="http://engel.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=24&itemid=4180" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="The statement."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">joint statement</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">denouncing “ad hominem attacks and threats” against not only supporters like Mr. Nadler but also Jewish opponents, who have been accused of “dual loyalties” and treason.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This August recess has not produced the kind of fiery town hall-style meetings that greeted lawmakers in 2009 before their vote on the Affordable Care Act, but in one small but influential segment of the electorate, Jewish voters, it has been brutal. Infighting among Jewish Americans may be nothing new, but the vitriol surrounding </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-is-reached-after-long-negotiations.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Times article."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">the accord</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> between Iran and six world powers has become so intense that leaders now speak openly of long-term damage to Jewish organizations, and possibly to American-Israeli relations.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Greg Rosenbaum, the chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council, raised such concerns this month at a private meeting between President Obama and Jewish groups</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">. At the meeting, other Jewish leaders told Mr. Obama that his own rhetoric — framing the debate as a choice </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/us/politics/obama-urges-critics-of-iran-deal-to-ignore-drumbeat-of-war.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Times article."><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1;">between diplomacy and war</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">, and speaking of the money lining up against the deal — was only accelerating the corrosion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“We are on the verge of fratricide in the Jewish community, and it has to stop,” said Mr. Rosenbaum, who spoke of Jews’ spurning organizational meetings, and even religious services, simply to avoid discussing Iran.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The animus is hard to miss. On his Facebook page, Mr. Nadler has been called a kapo: a Jew who collaborated with Nazis in the </span></span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world_war_ii_/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="More articles about Wold War II."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">World War II</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> death camps. One writer said he had “blood on his hands.” Another said he had “facilitated Obama’s holocaust.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dov Hikind, a New York State assemblyman,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> rented a double-decker bus this week; plastered the smiling face of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on it; and parked it in front of Mr. Nadler’s office. On Wednesday, he took six Auschwitz survivors to the office to condemn Mr. Nadler. Then, when groups including the Anti-Defamation League, which opposes the Iran deal, told him to back off, he delivered a mocking sympathy card and teddy bear on Thursday.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“This immature, babyish, childish whining? Stop,” Mr. Hikind said in an interview. “I’m just getting started.” [You may recall that Dov Hikind is the Jew whom a group of us went to Israel with in 2005, just before the Disengagement!!]</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mr. Nadler said it pained him both to have his pro-Israel credentials questioned and to see Jewish lawmakers who oppose the deal face questions about their patriotism.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He cited a cartoon on the liberal website Daily Kos, which lampooned Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, as a traitorous rodent for </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/us/politics/opposing-iran-nuclear-deal-chuck-schumer-rattles-democratic-firewall.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Times article."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">opposing the pact</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, as an example of blunt anti-Semitism from the left. (Mr. Schumer made a statement of his own, defending Mr. Nadler as “one of the most steadfast supporters of Israel’s security.”)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> “I’ve been accused of being treacherous, treasonous, even disloyal to the United States,” said Representative Nita M. Lowey of New York, one of a half-dozen Jewish Democrats who have come out against the Iran deal.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Andy Bachman — a prominent progressive rabbi who </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/nyregion/a-rabbis-decision-to-step-down-touches-on-questions-of-jewish-identity.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Times article."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">until recently</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> led Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, in Mr. Nadler’s district — called the discourse “horribly gut-wrenching.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Most Jews I know cringe at these very public battles and the ways in which we can be quite cruel toward each other,” he said.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In </span></span><a href="http://engel.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=24&itemid=4180" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="The letter."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">an open letter</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> this week, Ms. Lowey, Eliot L. Engel and Steve Israel, all Jewish Democrats from New York opposed to the deal, wrote, “No matter where you stand on the Iran deal, comparisons to the Holocaust, the darkest chapter in human history; questioning the credentials of longstanding advocates for Israel; and accusations of dual loyalty are inappropriate.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">David G. Greenfield, a Brooklyn city councilman who represents part of Mr. Nadler’s district, was unapologetic. An Orthodox Jew, he said he had received “many calls” from supporters urging him to run against Mr. Nadler, which he has declined to do.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“This isn’t just another vote,” Mr. Greenfield said before a rally against the deal Wednesday evening. “I actually believe, and my constituency believes, that this is a matter of life and death.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“We can’t just simply say, ‘O.K., we’re going to agree to disagree,’ and move on,” he said.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I have yet to hear a coherent argument against this deal.There is no logical argument against this deal.The President's argument for it are...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What would be the nature of the divide, I wonder, if the worst case scenario emerges. I.e., we oppose this deal, we tighten sanctions, we...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Our elected representatives need to vote based upon the best interests of the US, not the best interests of a foreign nation. The US has...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beyond the name-calling is real concern about geopolitical implications. With momentum on Mr. Obama’s side, the chances that Congress can scuttle the deal appear remote, and Mr. Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said leaders in both parties needed to look at new security policies for Israel and the Middle East if the accord goes into force.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The agreement is likely to foreclose Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years, even many opponents say, but the lifting of economic sanctions will give Iran more cash that it could use to destabilize the region, support terrorism and assert its authority.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Whether this passes, whether this fails, we always have to be looking at next steps,” Mr. Engel said. “And there has to be a rapprochement between the United States and Israel. There just has to be.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But the bitterness of the current debate will make that difficult. Mr. Israel said that Republican leaders had begun exploiting the rift among American Jews when Speaker John A. Boehner invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/world/middleeast/netanyahu-congress-iran-israel-speech.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Times article."><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #324fe1; font-family: Times New Roman;">to address Congress</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> in March, and that “partisan Republicans will continue to squeeze the sponge.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Republicans who barely knew where Israel was on a map are the new David Ben-Gurions,” he said, referring to Israel’s first prime minister.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Jewish left can be equally unforgiving. Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, a Jewish political advocacy group that backs the Iran deal, spoke of a fundamental break between Democratic Party leaders inclined toward diplomacy and the worldview of a conservative Israeli government that has more in common with Dick Cheney than the former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. That will not change even if congressional efforts to kill the accord fail, Mr. Ben-Ami said.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> “This is a clash of epic proportions reflecting fundamentally different worldviews,” he said. “You can’t paper over that difference anymore.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mr. Israel said such concerns were overstated. During Ronald Reagan’s presidency, a battle broke out over the administration’s plans to sell advanced airplane-based radar called airborne warning and control systems to Saudi Arabia. At that time, Mr. Israel was a pro-Israel activist working against those plans and warning of a fundamental shift of American allegiance from Israel to the Persian Gulf states.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“People said this was a breach that would never be repaired, and within a year, no one remembered what Awacs stood for,” he said, laughing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">For the first, the stalled offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS), Tehran mustered its powerful Zelzal-3B (“earthquake”) solid propellant surface missile for an all-out offensive to finally root the Islamists out of the Iraqi cities of Faluja and Ramadi.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">And so, after ISIS successfully parried every Iranian and Iraqi Shiite militia assault to recover those cities, Iraq sees heavy ground-to-ground missiles rolling into the battlefield for the first time since the US invasion of 2003.</span><br /> </div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">ME</span></strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> sources report that the first batteries crossed in from Iran this week aboard trucks painted to represent civilian vehicles, their military number plates removed. They were delivered to pro-Iranian Shiite militia bases in the western province of Anbar.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">These powerful missiles were brought in on the recommendation of Al Qods Brigades chief<strong>Gen. Qassem Soleimani</strong>, commander of the Iranian front in Iraq, and his deputy, <strong>Abu Mahdi</strong>, head of the “popular mobilization committee.”</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Mahdi poses as an Iraqi Shiite, but is in fact an Iranian general called <strong>Jamal</strong> <strong>Jafaar Mohammed Ali Ebrahim</strong>, who is charged with establishing a pro-Iranian Shiite army.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Sistani challenges Iraqi Shiite deference to Tehran!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">But the Iranians are lso gravely concerned by another challenge from an unforeseen quarter: the Supreme Shiite authority, <strong>Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Al Husaini Sistani</strong>, has begun leading an opposition movement against Iran. Our sources report that this development brought Al Qods Chief <strong>Gen. Qassem Soleimani</strong>, hastening Thursday, Aug. 27, to the cleric’s seat in the southern Iraqi Shiite shrine city of Najef.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Iran’s deepening intervention in the war on the Islamic State, and growing influence in Baghdad, have opened up a deep new rift at the top of the Shiite camp and among Shiite militias.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">The Shiite world’s most venerated religious authority, <strong>Grand Ayatollah Sistani</strong>, 85, has come out forcefully against Tehran and its Iraqi minions.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">He was outraged by the favored treatment awarded the Iraqi Shiite militias which bend the knee to Tehran, such as the Badr Brigade, the League of the Sons of the Righteous and the (Iraqi) Hizballah. They won plentiful supplies of Iranian weapons and their leaders were hailed publicly in Baghdad as heroes.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">The Iraqi Prime Minister<strong>, Al-Abadi</strong>, and other Shiite leaders were treated to derogatory sneers.<br />When it was suggested that the Badr Brigade’s chief, <strong>Hadi al-Ameri</strong> would make a better prime minister than the incumbent, the outraged Sistani stirred into action.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Iraqi Shiites set up anti-Iran militias on Sistani’s fatwa!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">The Iraqi Shiite leader has a history of disrespect for Iran’s supreme leader <strong>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</strong>. Sistani holds that Khamenei is not entitled to use the title of ayatollah and his<em>fatwas</em> have no religious force for any Shiite.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">For many years, the clerical establishments of Qom and Najf have vied for supremacy as the world centers of the Shiite faith, each presenting their religious seminaries as the more superior.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">The contest between the two establishments has spilled over into world affairs: Sistani is up in arms against Iran’s drive for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. According to his teachings, men of cloth should devote themselves to religious activity and education – not conquests and wars.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">The ageing Iraqi cleric ordered two steps for stemming Iranian ascendancy in Baghdad:</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">1.<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">He issued a fatwa (decree) for the creation of Shiite paramilitary groups as a counterweight for the pro-Iranian militias. Fifteen new groups responded to his call, led by Jund al-Majayer.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">But still, the pro-Sistani groups are heavily outnumbered by 45 pro-Iranian militias. More will have to be enlisted, to bring them level, notably from the extensive following of <strong>Moqtada al-Sadr</strong>, who is anti-Tehran but also cherishes his independence.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Gen. Soleimani rushes to Najef to placate Sistanti!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">2. Sistani also mobilized his activists to derail the secret plot for turning last week’s protest rallies in Baghdad against corruption and the breakdown of essential services, such as water and electricity, into a movement for toppling the government.<br />These are the actions that brought Gen. Soleimani running to Najef in the middle of an operation for introducing the Zelzal missiles into service against ISIS. Placating the grand ayatollah was absolutely vital, because the internal Shiite struggle in Iraq between the pro- and anti-Iran camps was gaining momentum and threatening Tehran’s deep stake in Baghdad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">DR. JEFF FUGATE HAS KEPT ME POSTED ON THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY GOING ON IN Kentucky Here is a news article about it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A clerk in a rural Kentucky county continued to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples Thursday in defiance of a mounting pile of federal court orders that reject her claim that her Christian faith should exempt her from licensing a gay union.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The United States Supreme Court, which two months ago legalized gay marriage across the nation, will now be asked to consider whether Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis can continue to deny marriage licenses until her appeal is complete, a process that could drag out for several more months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">"It's getting tedious. We get torn down, built back up, torn down, built back up," said David Ermold. He and his partner, David Moore, have been rejected by Davis' office twice. "It's emotionally draining that this keeps happening over and over."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Days after the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling, Davis announced that her religious convictions prevented her from sanctioning a gay marriage. She refused to issue licenses to any couple, gay or straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The American Civil Liberties Union sued her last month on behalf of four couples. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue marriage licenses two weeks ago. He later delayed that ruling until Aug. 31 or until the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling. The appeals court did so on Wednesday, denying Davis' appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">But a deputy clerk in Davis' office on Thursday told William Smith Jr. and James Yates, a couple for nearly a decade, the office believes Bunning's delay remains in effect until Aug. 31. He refused to give his name or give them a license.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Smith and Yates, rejected for the third time, left the office shaking their heads in anger and bewilderment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Davis, meanwhile, sat in her office with the door closed. She talked on the phone, ignoring the commotion as Yates and Smith, trailed by television cameras, poured in through the door and demanded answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">"The court of appeals did not provide any religious accommodation rights to individuals, which makes little sense because at the end of the day it's individuals that are carrying out the acts of the office," said Mat Staver, whose religious law firm Liberty Counsel is representing Davis. "They don't lose their individual constitutional rights just because they are employed in a public office."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Staver told The Associated Press he plans to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Thursday or Friday. He wants the court to delay the judge's order until the appeal is completed, a process that could take several months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Her appeal to the nation's highest court will fall to Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees the 6th Circuit. Kagan, a liberal judge, sided with the majority this summer when it ruled gay marriage bans unconstitutional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kagan could reject it outright in a matter of days, which would exhaust Davis' options for appeal, said Sam Marcosson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Louisville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Genesis 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-28278862174759352822015-08-27T16:05:00.002-07:002015-08-27T16:05:14.477-07:00Grace in God's Sight<div class="yiv5067547829MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440715970117_2376" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, let us touch upon [1] THE DIVINE FAVOR THE JEWS HAVE IN THE EYES OF GOD ALMIGHTY BY HIS GRACE ALONE, [2] HAMAS COMMANDO TUNNEL, [3], </span><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Israeli air strike targets Hamas in response to rocket attack, and then [4] </span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Putin again Touts Gazprom for Running Israel’s Offshore Gas Exports!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Exodus 33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[First,]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">nd thou hast also found grace in my sight</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<br /><br />[From Scriptures Brethren, it is plain to ole jav that the Children of Israel found Divine Favor of which “the child Samuel” is a worthy illustration for us! 1Sa 2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.] [Grace is THE UNMERITED FAVOR OF GOD ALMIGHTY. WE CAN DO NOTHING TO MERIT HIS GRACE.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[Second,] </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">grace in thy sight</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[Third,]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">grace in thy sight</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">: and </span></span><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[#1,]</span></u></em></strong><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif;">consider that this nation is thy people</span></u></em></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div>
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<strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">They were a Peculiar Treasure –<br /><br />Ex 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: <br /><br />They were chosen by Jehovah –<br /><br />Deut 14:2:For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. <br /><br />They were Exhalted above all nations –<br /><br />Deut 26:19; And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.<br /><br />Zec 2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.<br /><br />The Children of Israel are the APPLE OF GOD’S OWN DEAR EYE!!!</span></u></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Exod 33: 14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I</span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> </span><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[#2,]</span></u></em></strong><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif;">and thy people</span></u></em></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> have found </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[Fourth,]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">grace in thy sight</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated</span><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif;">, </span></u></em></strong></span><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[#3,] </span></u><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: 'arial unicode ms', sans-serif;">I and thy people</span></u></em></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[Fifth,]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">grace in my sight</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and I know thee by name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;">[</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">Sixth</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;">,] </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">be gracious</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to whom I will </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733333587647px;">[Seventh,]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">be gracious</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2e74b5;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Light;">The video, which was released prior to the latest rocket fire at Israel and the subsequent IDF reprisals, shows Hamas terrorists simulating their activities as if they were fighting Israeli soldiers.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Hamas on Wednesday posted a video on Islamist propaganda web sites showing what it claims to be exclusive footage of the organization's units responsible for the construction of underground tunnels in Gaza.<br /><br />The video, which was released prior to the </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Rocket-fired-from-Gaza-lands-in-Israeli-territory-413390" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">latest rocket fire</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> at Israel and the </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-Air-Force-targets-Hamas-munitions-operation-in-Gaza-after-rocket-attack-413399" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">subsequent IDF reprisals</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, shows Hamas terrorists simulating their activities as if they were fighting Israeli soldiers.<br /><br />The clip depicts Hamas gunmen doing battle against Israeli positions, tanks, homes, and even civilians. It also shows a simulation of Hamas rocket fire on Israel as well as the takeover of an IDF post and the killing from short range of an IDF soldier.<br /><br />The video appears to be sophisticated in its production and editing while revealing a number of interesting insights into the method of operation employed by the special Hamas units.<br /><br />The Hamas operatives are shown digging tunnels, evacuating wounded fighters, engaging in camouflaged stakeouts, and staging commando operations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No one was hurt in the night-time rocket attack on southern Israel, the army said in a statement. There were no immediate reports of any casualties in the Palestinian enclave after warplanes struck what the Israeli military said was a weapons factory belonging to the ruling Hamas Islamist movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">President <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> has put a fresh offer to Israeli Prime Minister <strong>Binyamin Netanyahu</strong> for a stake in the development of new Israeli gas fields in the Mediterranean and a contract for its national Gazprom to lay the future gas export pipeline to Turkey.<br />From there, he wants Israeli natural gas to flow through Russian pipelines to Europe.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Putin in a word is pitching for Russian control of Israel’s gas exports. His selling point is linked directly to another Russian strategic step:<br />Moscow is about to embark on military intervention in the Syrian war.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The estimated investment for fully developing Israel’s Leviathan, one of the biggest offshore gas discoveries in recent years, is $7-10 billion. A pipeline from Israel to Turkey would come to another roughly $2bn.<br />It is not the first time that the Russian leader as propositioned Israel on its gas bonanza. In 2012, secret meetings took place between Russian and Israeli gas experts and investors, mostly in London.<br />Those tentative exchanges were shelved in mid-2014, mainly because the US was furiously opposed to Israel contracting business with Moscow shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine and was penalized with US and European sanctions.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then, too, relations between the Russian leader and Turkish President <strong>Recep Tayyip Edrogan</strong> were at a low point.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First “Russo-Syrian Military Commission” is born!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But this year, from late July and early August, Putin took a fresh look at the fluctuating Middle East map and decided to reassess his strategy. He found the Turkish operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) to be useless, and the arrangement for US air strikes over Syria to be coordinated with Turkish ground action getting nowhere. Indeed, in his view, these faltering steps had allowed ISIS to evolve into a palpable threat to Russia itself.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The signs of Moscow’s intention to take a hand in fighting ISIS in Syria include the creation in recent weeks of the first “Russo-Syrian Military Commission,” designed to supervise Russian forces destined in Syria to put up an effective fight against ISIS – and not just to rescue <strong>Bashar Assad</strong> from his military straits.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is also informed speculation that the six Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor aircraft from Moscow which landed Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Mezze Airbase of Damascus international airport, are to be part of the new deployment.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Russian military in Syria - on the spot for securing the gas fields!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How does all this tie in with Moscow’s quest for a partnership in Israel’s gas?</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Putin maintains that the forthcoming Russian military presence in Syria, including air and naval units, would offer the only credible shield for protecting Israel’s offshore gas fields.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leviathan has estimated reserves of 22 trillion cubic feet (tcf) or 622 billion cubic meters. The Russians estimate the reserves as quadruple this amount.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As far back as March 2013, when the Russian leader talked to Netanyahu in Israel – and again when they met in Sochi three months later - he pushed the argument that Russian forces alone were competent to secure the gas fields against attack by any of the groups taking part in the Syria conflict, because of their heft in Damascus, which also worked as a deterrent against the Lebanese Hizballah sabotaging the gas fields.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Putin now proposes setting up a joint Russian-Israeli task force. This would be the first instance of Russian-Israeli military cooperation.<br />This initiative is the counterpart of another Moscow project: a joint Russian-Egyptian task force for securing the Suez Canal and its shipping lanes, which Putin put before Egyptian President <strong>Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi</strong>during his visit to Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 25.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Progress in talk with Turkey as anchor client and pipeline partner!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moscow is aware of the negotiations the Israeli government and the Noble Energy-Delek gas consortium are holding with Turkey on the selfsame issue of an underwater pipeline to carry Leviathan gas under water to the Turkish coast. The field is slated to begin production in 2018 or 2019.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The talks with Turkey are at an advanced stage.<br />The Erdogan government is willing to cover a large part of the investment. Turkey's overall gas consumption is seven times that of Israel and growing fast, expected to double in the next 20 years. At the moment, Ankara is heavily reliant for its gas on Russia, from whom it purchases 40 billion BCM a year. The Turks are keen to reduce their dependence on Moscow by using Israel as a competitive source.<br />Gas is also piped in to Turkey from Iran and Azerbaijan as well as high-priced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Algeria. Ankara has stepped up its purchases from those sources to cut down on gas imports from Gazprom.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Turkish-Israeli talks are now down to discussing the price per MMBTu (British thermal units in millions) to be charged by Israel.<br />While markets for Israel’s Mediterranean gas are eagerly awaited in Egypt and Jordan, Turkey is seen as an anchor customer for Leviathan’s product.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israeli consortium divided over Turkish connection!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Israeli partners of the consortium are keen on going ahead for a deal with Turkey, but the American side, Texas-based Noble Energy, is leery, raising the fear in private parleys that Turkey faces the danger of a radical Islamist revolution, whose leaders might without warning cut off the inflow of Leviathan gas to its premier outlet.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Netanyahu has been enthusiastic about the deal with Ankara, also because it holds out the prospect of better relations with Turkey, on which he places high strategic value. He has picked up hints from the Erdogan regime that this improvement is indeed in prospect.</span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440715970117_2341" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But Netanyahu is now faced with a new proposition from Moscow. He must take into account that Israel’s acceptance of that proposition would leave Russia in continued domination of Turkey’s sources of gas and its export pipeline to Europe and determine how that suits Israel’s interests.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440715970117_2339" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;">All this Brethren gives us cause to keep our EYES ON ISRAEL and everything that is going on over THERE IN RELATION TO THE JEWS. THEY ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE. GOD MADE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM – EZEKIEL 16:60. THAT COVENANT IS STILL IN EFFECT ON THIS 27<sup>TH</sup> DAY OF AUGUST 2015! WE GENTILE CHRISTIANS ARE DEEPLY INDEBTED TO THE JEWS. WE SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER OUR DEBTS TO THEM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;">PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!</span><br /><br /><strong>Please pray for Dr. Bill Pickell's, Pacolet, SC, Granddaughter, Hope. She does have cancer.</strong></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-43044802079817657112015-08-26T11:40:00.001-07:002015-08-26T11:40:15.849-07:00The Battles We Face<div class="yiv6013182257MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5123" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">On a day, a couple of days ago, <span> </span>in History, French Settlers showed up in Louisiana</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="French language"><span style="color: blue;">French</span></a>: </span><em><span lang="FR" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">La Louisiane;</span></em><span lang="FR" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> by 1879, <em>La Louisiane française</em></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">) or <strong>French Louisiana</strong> was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_France" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Administrative divisions of France"><span style="color: blue;">administrative district</span></a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="New France"><span style="color: blue;">New France</span></a>.<span> </span></span><br /><br /><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having gone to Sulphur, La., recently for Josh Wesson’s funeral, I found this subject interesting.</span><br /><br /> </div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>Under French control 1682–1762 and 1802–04, the area was named in honor of King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Louis XIV"><span style="color: blue;">Louis XIV</span></a>, by French explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_la_Salle" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle"><span style="color: blue;">René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle</span></a>. It originally covered an expansive territory that included most of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Drainage basin"><span style="color: blue;">drainage basin</span></a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Mississippi River"><span style="color: blue;">Mississippi River</span></a>, and stretched from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Great Lakes"><span style="color: blue;">Great Lakes</span></a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Gulf of Mexico"><span style="color: blue;">Gulf of Mexico</span></a> and from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Appalachian Mountains"><span style="color: blue;">Appalachian Mountains</span></a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Rocky Mountains"><span style="color: blue;">Rocky Mountains</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5137" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Louisiana was divided into two regions, known as <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Country" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Illinois Country"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></strong><strong>Upper Louisiana</strong> (French: <em>Haute-Louisiane</em>), which began north of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_River" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Arkansas River"><span style="color: blue;">Arkansas River</span></a>, and <strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5221">Lower Louisiana</strong> (French: <em>Basse-Louisiane</em>). The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="U.S. state"><span style="color: blue;">U.S. state</span></a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Louisiana"><span style="color: blue;">Louisiana</span></a> is named for the historical region, although it occupies only a small portion of the vast lands claimed by the French. Although French exploration of the area began during the reign of Louis XIV, French Louisiana was not greatly developed, due to a lack of human and financial resources. As a result of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_Seven_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="France in the Seven Years' War"><span style="color: blue;">its defeat</span></a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Seven Years' War"><span style="color: blue;">Seven Years' War</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_France" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Early modern France"><span style="color: blue;">France</span></a> was forced to cede the eastern part of the territory in 1763 to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_in_the_Seven_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Great Britain in the Seven Years' War"><span style="color: blue;">victorious British</span></a>, and the western part to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Spain"><span style="color: blue;">Spain</span></a> as compensation for that country's loss of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Florida" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Spanish Florida"><span style="color: blue;">Florida</span></a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="French First Republic"><span style="color: blue;">France</span></a> regained sovereignty of the western territory in the secret <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Third Treaty of San Ildefonso"><span style="color: blue;">Treaty of San Ildefonso</span></a> of 1800. But strained by obligations in Europe, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Napoleon"><span style="color: blue;">Napoleon Bonaparte</span></a> decided to sell the territory to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States"><span style="color: blue;">United States</span></a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Louisiana Purchase"><span style="color: blue;">Louisiana Purchase</span></a> of 1803, ending France's presence in Louisiana.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">With Josh Wesson’s children losing their Daddy, I was reminded of one of my SUPERVISORS while I was in the Insurance Business, CHARLIE CLIFFORD.<span> </span>My 75 year-old mind won’t get Charlie’s connection back to Louisiana, but he too had a connection with Louisiana.<span> </span>Charlie’s Daddy died when Charlie was only 7.<span> </span>The family lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Bride of my youth has her origin.<span> </span>Charlie was the oldest child.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5158" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">He had to go to work as a SEVEN YEAR OLD to support the family.<span> </span>He carried the morning and evening papers in Indianapolis, the STAR and NEWS.<span> </span>As a 7 year old lad he was carrying over 400 morning papers. <span> </span>He carried over 300 evening papers Monday to Saturday.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5156" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Charlie went to grade school in spite of his Dad dying..<span> </span>Charlie finished High School.<span> </span>All the time carrying papers.<span> </span>Charlie completed College carrying papers.<span> </span>He was working for the Insurance Company I went to work for to get into the Insurance Business as a Fieldman.<span> </span>The Multi-Peril Insurance Polices had just come out --- Homeowners, Farmowners, The Special Multi-Peril for Businesses.<span> </span>Charlie was a real blessing to me as I went through the training for all that.</span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Don Holleder</span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Donald Holleder</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; display: none; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1934-08-03)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">August 3, 1934<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Buffalo, New York"><span style="color: blue;">Buffalo, New York</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">October 17, 1967<span style="display: none;">(1967-10-17)</span> (aged 33)<br /> Ong Thanh, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Vietnam"><span style="color: blue;">Vietnam</span></a></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Donald Walter Holleder</span></strong><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5187" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (August 3, 1934 – October 17, 1967) was an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="College football"><span style="color: blue;">college football</span></a> star while attending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5186" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States Military Academy"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5185" style="color: blue;">United States Military Academy</span></a> who was later killed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Vietnam War"><span style="color: blue;">Vietnam War</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Holleder was born in Buffalo, New York, and at age 13, he and his family moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irondequoit,_New_York" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Irondequoit, New York"><span style="color: blue;">Irondequoit, New York</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Holleder#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></sup> He attended high school at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas_Institute" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Aquinas Institute"><span style="color: blue;">Aquinas Institute</span></a> in nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Rochester, New York"><span style="color: blue;">Rochester</span></a>. He was heavily recruited by a number of top college football teams, including West Point's offensive coach <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Vince Lombardi"><span style="color: blue;">Vince Lombardi</span></a>. He elected to enroll at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States Military Academy"><span style="color: blue;">United States Military Academy</span></a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point,_New_York" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="West Point, New York"><span style="color: blue;">West Point</span></a>. As a junior in 1954, he was named to the All-America team as an end. The following season, Army head coach Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Blaik" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Red Blaik"><span style="color: blue;">Red Blaik</span></a> asked him to move to quarterback. Holleder clearly lacked the skills to be a productive passer, but Blaik felt that his leadership skills were important and would help the struggling team improve. Blaik's move was ridiculed but it paid off. The team finished with a record of 6-3-0, including a rousing upset of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Academy" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="United States Naval Academy"><span style="color: blue;">Navy</span></a> that led to Holleder's appearance on the cover of <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Sports Illustrated"><span style="color: blue;">Sports Illustrated</span></a></em>. One of Holleder's classmates at West Point was General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Schwarzkopf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Norman Schwarzkopf"><span style="color: blue;">Norman Schwarzkopf</span></a>. They both graduated in the Class of 1956.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5189" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Giants" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="New York Giants"><span style="color: blue;">New York Giants</span></a> selected Holleder in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_NFL_Draft" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="1956 NFL Draft"><span style="color: blue;">1956 NFL Draft</span></a> college draft, however Holleder was not interested in a professional football career. After graduating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="West Point"><span style="color: blue;">West Point</span></a>, he continued to serve in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="U.S. Army"><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Army</span></a>. Over the next ten years he rose to the rank of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Major"><span style="color: blue;">Major</span></a>, serving posts in Hawaii and Korea, and in between returning to West Point for three years as an assistant football coach, recruiter, and scout.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">In 1967, Holleder, now a Major, requested to be sent to Vietnam, where he became the Operations Officer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Brigade,_1st_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (United States)"><span style="color: blue;">1st Brigade</span></a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._1st_Infantry_Division" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="U.S. 1st Infantry Division"><span style="color: blue;">1st Infantry Division</span></a>. [My dead brother Arthur, served as a Sgt. E5 in the Big Red One!]</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Major Holleder was killed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ong_Thanh" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Battle of Ong Thanh"><span style="color: blue;">Battle of Ong Thanh</span></a> on Tuesday October 17, 1967. While he and his commanding officer were overflying the battle in a helicopter, where they observed the entire command unit on the ground had been killed and the remaining men were in serious trouble. Don volunteered to organize a rescue effort. Upon landing, Don secured three volunteers and rushed to the battle site. Running far in front of his volunteers, he was gunned down and killed by a sniper. The battle is documented in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Pulitzer Prize"><span style="color: blue;">Pulitzer Prize</span></a>-winning reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Maraniss" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="David Maraniss"><span style="color: blue;">David Maraniss</span></a>’ book <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Marched_into_Sunlight" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="They Marched into Sunlight"><span style="color: blue;">They Marched Into Sunlight</span></a></em> and Terry Tibbetts' book <em>A Spartan Game, the Life and Loss of Don Holleder</em>. A film of the story is being produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Tom Hanks"><span style="color: blue;">Tom Hanks</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5191" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">In 1974, the football stadium in his hometown was renamed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holleder_Memorial_Stadium" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Holleder Memorial Stadium"><span style="color: blue;">Holleder Memorial Stadium</span></a> in his honor. The stadium was home to the football team of his high school Alma Mater, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas_Institute" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Aquinas Institute"><span style="color: blue;">Aquinas Institute</span></a>. In 1985 the stadium was torn down where the Holleder Technology Park now stands on the site, bisected by Holleder Parkway.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5193" lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">In 1985, he was inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="College Football Hall of Fame"><span style="color: blue;">College Football Hall of Fame</span></a>, and that same year, West Point's basketball/hockey arena was named in his honor (The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_W._Holleder_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Donald W. Holleder Center (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue;">Donald W. Holleder Center</span></a>). Each year, the Army football team recognizes one of their players with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Lion_Award&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Black Lion Award (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue;">Black Lion Award</span></a>, [The Black Lions were the 1<sup>st</sup> Brigade of the Big Red One,] given "to a player who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder, leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self sacrifice and, above all, an unselfish concern to put the team ahead of himself."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on April 27, 2012.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Holleder#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></a></sup></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Donald Walter Holleder is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, what is not revealed in the Wikipedia report is that 1<sup>st</sup> Lt. Clark Welch, a very knowledgeable COMBAT OFFICER was against Lt. Col. Terry Allen’s plan of walking up on the enemy.<span> </span>Welch wanted to walk the Artillery up on where he knew the enemy was.<span> </span>But, that didn’t fly with Lt. Col. Allen, nor with Brig. Gen. Coleman, the Division’s Deputy Commander. Clark Welch was long and sinewy, his frame always tiling forward slightly, ready to move, the first lieutenant from New Hampshire was a soldier’s soldier in the most elemental sense.<span> </span>His boys called him BIG ROCK.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the briefing held the day before the Battle of Ong Thanh, Lt. Colonel Terry Allen,<span> </span>son of famous WWII General Terry Allen Sr., got caught up in his own ego, and said, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“WE’VE GOT THEM WHERE WE WANT THEM.<span> </span>TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY FOR THE BLACK LIONS.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Welch looked at the map that Allen showed, thinking, in disbelief, “Man, it can’t be.<span> </span>I have very good eyes and very good hearing and it can’t be.<span> </span>I must be misunderstanding that.<span> </span>That’s a @#&+ showing us going south.<span> (</span>Welch’s boys had killed two enemy soldiers and brought their bodies in.) <span> </span>We’re going to attack right into them?”<span> </span>It made little sense to Welch.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span>They knew where the enemy troops were;<span> </span><span> </span>why not bomb them with B-52s and napalm, and then tiptoe in with a small force to see what effect they had had, then tiptoe out again and bomb them again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Allen asked, “Any questions?”<span> </span>“”Sir, I….” Welch said.<span> </span>That was as far as he got. Allen stared him down, stating, “If you’re not ready to lead, we’ll get Alpha to lead.”<span> </span>“Sir,” Welch said.<span> "</span>We’ll talk about it later,” Allen responded.<span> </span>Allen later called Welch in and Welch made his view plain, “Sir, we’re going to get our @#& kicked, Sir.<span> </span>I was right there.<span> </span>I believe that the base camp.<span> </span>And, we’re going to sneak up on them?”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The battle at Ong Thanh was a costly affair for the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">During two hours of fighting the 2nd Battalion lost 64 men killed in action, including Lieutenant Colonel Terry Allen and every member of the Battalion Command Group, as well as 75 wounded and 2 missing</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">.<sup id="yiv6013182257cite_ref-Keating.2C_p._36_2-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ong_Thanh#cite_note-Keating.2C_p._36-2" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></a></sup> For their efforts in the battle, 13 American soldiers were awarded the Silver Star, while Allen and Welch received the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Distinguished Service Cross (United States)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Distinguished Service Cross</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">. Forward Observer Second Lieutenant </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_B._Durham" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Harold B. Durham"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Harold B. Durham</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, who was attached to the 2nd Battalion on the day from the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, was posthumously awarded the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Medal of Honor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">Medal of Honor</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> for his heroic actions.<sup id="yiv6013182257cite_ref-Keating.2C_p._36_2-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ong_Thanh#cite_note-Keating.2C_p._36-2" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></a></sup> Despite the losses that had been inflicted on the 2nd Battalion by the Viet Cong, the U.S. military told the media that the fight at Ong Thanh had resulted in a major American victory.<sup id="yiv6013182257cite_ref-McPhee.2C_p._358_24-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ong_Thanh#cite_note-McPhee.2C_p._358-24" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[24]</span></a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">General Hay initially portrayed Ong Thanh as an American victory and cited 101 enemy dead in the battle. </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5214" lang="EN" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, American veterans who survived the ordeals of the battle were adamant they were ambushed and defeated by the Viet Cong's 271st Regiment. The estimate of 101 enemy dead officially provided by the U.S. military was likely much inflated to emphasize the scale of the 'American victory.'</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5199" lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5198" style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span> </span>Furthermore, the American soldiers under Allen's command lacked fighting experience, whereas the Viet Cong soldiers of the 9th Division were among some of the best light infantry in the world with years of experience. The Viet Cong 271st Regiment, after their victory at Ong Thanh, withdrew back towards their base area near the Cambodian border.<sup id="yiv6013182257cite_ref-26"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ong_Thanh#cite_note-26" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5201" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">HOPEFULLY PREACHERS, FOR SOME OF THE BATTLES YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE FACE ON THIS WEDNESDAY IN AUGUST OF 2015, THERE ARE SOME LESSONS IN THE ABOVE THAT WILL HELP YOU AND THEM.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440594945278_5210" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL</span><span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span>Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-17399338958501792362015-08-25T17:08:00.001-07:002015-08-25T17:08:30.142-07:00Kicking the Can Down the Road<div class="yiv5468035474MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440546782188_5285" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">THE IBD SAYS THAT The Iranian Ayatollah said recently, </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;"> "<em>Every human being has to wage jihad. Allah is my witness that if I were not old and sick, I would be the first person to make jihad against Israel.</em>"</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Somehow Brethren, it is even more apparent we need to stop this bad deal BHO-Kerry and company commited the USA to.<br /><br />You know this is a bad deal. It doesn't stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Even if they abide by the deal, which is highly unlikely, </span><em><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">we are merely kicking the can down the road</span></em><em><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"> and allowing them to develop nuclear weapons in 10-15 years</span></em></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> , with the blessing of the world community. We must stop this bad deal. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The loss of anytime, anywhere inspections have crumbled the ability for the United States to enforce the deal. Iran will be notified 24-days before inspection of the inspection location and of the classified way we gathered intelligence of where to inspect. </span><em><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">In the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu, "can you imagine giving a drug dealer 24 days’ notice before you inspect the premises?”</span></em></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> We must stop this bad deal. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our very own State Department labels Iran as one of only three state-sponsors of terrorism. Their network of evil stretches far beyond the Middle East where they train, fund, and equip terrorist. </span><em><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">An independent commission declared that Iran harbored and provided safe passage to the heinous terrorists that carried out the attacks on September 11th, 2001.</span></em></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> What then will happen when we allow them to develop nuclear weapons and give them billions of dollars of sanction relief? We must stop this bad deal. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">We must put pressure on Congress to reject this deal and prevent our children from inheriting a dangerous nuclearly-armed regime.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> We have four Senators that are undecided, but leaning towards supporting the deal. We must not let this happen. If you live in the states where </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">Senators Ben Cardin, Md, Cory Booker, NJ, Michael {No Child Left Behind,] Bennett, Colo., and Joe Manchin, W. Va., </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> are, then please listen to ole jav’s admonition and put all the pressure you can on them to not allow the IRAN DEAL to stand as this bad deal, BHO-Kerry and company, commited us to.<br />PLEASE USE The Iranian Ayatollah’ quote, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;"> "<em>Every human being has to wage jihad. Allah is my witness that if I were not old and sick, I would be the first person to make jihad against Israel.</em>"</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Write a nice letter. Make nice Phone Calls. But, somehow, make your presence known, Pastors. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> For lawmakers not convinced that the Iran deal is a rotten deal (in large part because it guarantees that Iran will develop an industrial-size nuclear weapons program and assistance in upgrading its aggressive action in the region), the revelation of the side letter concerning the Parchin military site might do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> U.S. News explains: “According to a draft document viewed by AP, Iran has agreed to cooperate with the U.N. in answering longstanding allegations about possible past work to develop nuclear weapons at its Parchin plant — but only with the Iranians conducting the inspections themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Iran would collect its own environmental samples on the site and carry out other work usually done by IAEA experts. The IAEA will be able to review the Iranians’ work after the fact. The deal on Parchin was between the IAEA and Iran. The Obama Administration was not a direct party to the agreement, but apparently was aware of it. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Any IAEA inspection of a country suspected of nuclear irregularities is usually carried out by agency experts. They may take swipes of residue on equipment, sample the air or take soil samples in attempts to look for signs of clandestine work on atomic arms or other potentially dangerous unreported activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The document on Parchin, however, will let the Iranians themselves look for signs of the very activity they deny — past work on nuclear weapons. It says ‘</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iran will provide’ the agency with environmental samples. It restricts the number of samples at the suspect site to seven and to an unspecified number ‘outside of the Parchin complex’ at a site that still needs to be decided.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This takes “trust us” to a whole new level</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and severely undermines the administration’s claim that the deal has a super-duper inspection scheme. In fact, as the report notes, “Olli Heinonen, in charge of the Iran investigation as IAEA deputy director general from 2005 through 2010, says he can think of no similar arrangement — a country essentially allowed to carry out much of the probe of suspicions against it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Mark Dubowitz, a widely respected sanctions guru, states, “A major part of the story that hasn’t been reported is what kind of precedent this establishes for access to future military sites.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> He continues: “Is this technical arrangement a one-off as it relates to Parchin or will this be the new normal for all other military sites?</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The former is concerning enough. The latter would be truly alarming. And, Brethren, we cannot sit still and let this bad deal be validated by the US Senate. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since Iran repeatedly has claimed that the IAEA isn’t getting ‘access’ to military sites, is this technical arrangement how a compromise with Iran was reached?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In short, he concludes, “If that’s the case, no weapons inspectors will ever see the inside of an Iranian military base.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> So why is this so crucial? </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">With respect to this deal, it obviously provides</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial black, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Iran with a </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333339691162px;">road map</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> to cheating. It is one more signal to </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Iran </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">along with our refusal to blow the whistle on noncompliance during the interim deal — that it will be given wide berth to keep its program alive. In essence it is a flashing red light screaming: We are not serious about this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “If this were not so dangerous and tragic, it would be worthy of an Onion parody,” says an official at a pro-Israel organization. “Letting the Iranians participate in their own inspections renders the verification regime about Iran’s past nuclear work meaningless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Moreover, it sets a very dangerous precedent for inspection of future suspect military sites.” The official argues, “This new stunning revelation is why all those on record as supporting the deal should reconsider, and all those undecided should oppose it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> But even worse if this deal goes through, every other arms arrangement and inspection regime would be undercut. Every regime will want to inspect itself. I mean, if Iran gets to, why not other countries?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Non-Proliferation Treaty already was getting thrown under the bus (because we allow a bad actor to keep enriching), but the deal may fatally wound all other inspection arrangements. The source at the pro-Israel organization wisecracks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Because of this unique arrangement in inspections we have a new technical term of art: Iranian selfies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">President Obama’s deal is not only a bad deal and worse than no deal. It is also destructive of all current and future attempts to control and prevent WMDs. In that regard it is not merely ineffective, but hugely dangerous as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The president is asking serious Democrats to make themselves look like fools by going along with this farce. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., laid out the outlines of a better deal, one that Congress should implore the administration to seek. He can add one more item: Don’t allow a regime that has cheated for decades and concealed its weapons program to inspect its own program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Seeing Iran as a threat then provokes us to look at The threat behind the New Korean Hostilities: A Sense Of American Weakness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> North Korea’s nuclear-armed dictator Kim Jong-un announced his forces are in a “quasi-state of war” as they fire artillery into South Korea. Behind it are doubts of U.S. resolve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Just months before Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea in the summer of 1950, beginning the Korean War in which over tens of thousands of Americans gave their lives, Secretary of State Dean Acheson let it be known that the Koreas were outside America’s “defense perimeter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> No one in the Obama administration may have made a statement projecting such provocative weakness directly in Pyongyang’s direction. But actions speak louder than words, and with our withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, and our appeasement of</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iran, President Obama is letting it be known that the world</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">s lone superpower doesn</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">t do ground wars anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “When I ran for president eight years ago as a candidate who had opposed the decision to go to war in Iraq, I said that America didn’t just have to end that war,” Obama said at his recent American University speech defending the Iran nuclear deal. “We had to end the mindset that got us there in the first place.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Obama, “it was a mindset characterized by a preference for military action over diplomacy.” And one of his favorite talking points is that the U.S. must avoid “getting dragged into another ground war.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> That is clearly music to the ears of his Democrat Party base. But to America’s enemies around the world, it’s the sound of U.S. weakness — and the opportunity for aggression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We may have about 29,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea right now, but about a decade ago we had more than 40,000; in Ronald Reagan’s second term we had 45,000. But what difference do numbers make if we are unwilling to use them if and when the enemy launches a war?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The exchanges between oppressive North Korea and free South Korea are the most ominous hostilities between the two powers in many years. It could dissipate as past exchanges have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Then again, supreme leader Kim Jong Un and his military advisors may well have determined that the second half of the second term of a president “elected to end wars” is the perfect time to strike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> After all, if Obama is so adamant that “another prolonged ground war in the Middle East” is “not in our national security interest,” what would ever convince him that a major ground war in the Korean Peninsula would be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Another sign of U.S. weakness that can’t have gone unnoticed by Kim and his henchmen is found elsewhere in Asia. Politico reported last month of friction between the White House and the Pentagon regarding artificial islands in the South China Sea upon which China claims as territory:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Military officials and congressional hawks want the U.S. to make a major demonstration by sending warships within 12 miles of the artificial islands and make clear to China that the U.S. rejects its territorial claims.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> By not doing so, they charge, the administration “is tacitly accepting China’s destabilizing moves, which are seen by U.S. allies in the region such as Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam as highly threatening.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The giant platforms could be mobile, and U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris last month warned they could be used as bases for Chinese bombers, fighters, ships and surveillance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Whether it’s North Korea invading the south, or China invading free Taiwan, our downsized military which can no longer fight two major wars simultaneously, is led by a commander-in-chief who repeatedly makes it clear that he won’t commit troops to a mission to repel aggression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.533332824707px;">Now, I am sure some of you may say, “Don’t listen to ole jav, he will get you killed.” But, in doing so, he may keep someone else from dying, as the Train heroes did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.533332824707px;">As a young ‘sojer-boy’ I learned you have to put your life on the line. Those heroes on the train did that.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440546782188_5302" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.533332824707px;">AND, AS WE PRAY FOR OUR NATION, LET US REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!!!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-81153506905606207072015-08-21T06:26:00.001-07:002015-08-21T06:26:01.683-07:00Teeth Problems<div class="yiv3982473471MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4495" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">TODAY I WRITE CONCERNING MY TEETH PROBLEMS, JOY WESSON & KIMBERLY, AND THEN THE NATION OF ISRAEL.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">First, my teeth:</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4499" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4498" style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Ole jav had three abscessed teeth as he came to find out this morning.<span> </span>You can see the pictures my Dentist took of my mouth as they did three root canals on me starting at 8:00 AM this morning.<span> </span>I feel as if a mule has kicked me in my mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">When Dr. Reville had put the temporary caps on, this then is what ole jav looks like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a few days The LORD WILLING, I shall get the permanent caps and be able to put this physical problem behind me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Second, here is Joy Wesson’s EM</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that she sent me of Kimberly’s statement when they pulled her Daddy’s body up on the Ocean Side down by the Dominican Republic.<span> </span>This is an amazing testimony for a 15 year old girl:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The day my daddy went to Heaven, I remember sitting on the beach after having been able to get out of the water myself and helping the other teenagers get to safety.<span> </span>Seeing<span> </span>Bro. Ben and the other men, pull my daddy out of the water lifeless….it scared me as I had never seen him like that before.<span> </span>He was always so strong and made me feel secure. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was sitting there on the beach I was very upset and kept crying and asking God to help me understand because I couldn’t believe what was happening….I didn’t understand why God took away my daddy when all my friends around me would have their dads with them until they get married and have children.<span> </span>I couldn’t believe God would take away my dad when I was only 15.<span> </span>The Lord helped me realize that although my friends have their dads with them I had had such a great relationship with my dad that many of them had commented to me just a couple of days previously how they envied the relationship that I had with my daddy.<span> </span>He had loved me deeply and let me know how special I was to him. For the 15 years I had with my dad, I had more love from him than most of my friends would<span> </span>experience in their life-time with their dad</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4456" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4455" style="font-family: Calibri;">As the hours went by, I realized another<span> </span>blessing in that the Lord let me be the oldest child of my family. Unlike my younger sisters<span> </span>who had only 9 or 10 years with their dad,<span> </span>I had gotten<span> </span>to spend 15 years with my daddy.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4459" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4458" style="font-size: small;">Brethren, THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS tells us to take CARE for the widows and fatherless.<span> </span>Joy Wesson and her four Children, Kimberly, Stephen, Ashlyn, and Katlyn, fall into those two categories.<span> </span>Our grand-daughter Katherine took a call this week from one of Josh & Joy’s supporters.<span> </span>The Pastor told Katherine his church would continue to support them for one month then stop it.<span> </span>HOW SAD that an Independent Baptist Pastor doesn’t have enough spiritual sense to see that NOW is the time when Joy and her family definitely need that continued support.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Israel’s military preparedness is gearing up in the face of Iran’s drive to engineer border aggression across a broad spectrum. This drive has accelerated sharply since the July 14 nuclear accord empowered the Islamic Republic as top dog in the Middle East. With the Hizballah of south Lebanon already in Tehran’s pocket, secret Iranian emissaries have for the first time opened direct talks with Syrian rebel and Palestinian groups and are egging them on to activate a new South Syrian front against Israel.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was this looming showdown that sent Israel’s top leaders on visits to the Golan and IDF Northern Command headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 18.<br /> Prime Minister <strong>Binyamin Netanyahu</strong>, Defense Minister <strong>Moshe Ya’alon</strong> and IDF Chief of Staff <strong>Lt. Gen. Gady</strong> <strong>Eisenkott</strong> inspected the military forces strung out on the Golan and Lebanese borders. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They were then briefed on their disposition against the proliferating threats by OC Northern Command <strong>Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi</strong> and the heads of the IDF divisions and brigades.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Six alarming events, multiple new fronts</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4463" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Netanyahu told the troops: “We are here for a close look at the forces and their disposition” and are satisfied that “we are ready to face up to any scenario.” He added: “Anyone wishing to harm us, we will harm them.”</span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4487" style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The defense minister [our friend Boogie Ya’alon,] <span> </span>accused Iran of seeking to “inflame the region.”<br />This was the second time in three days that Israel’s security authorities had mentioned the nation’s military preparedness opposite the Syrian Golan and Lebanese borders</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They had in mind six events, disclosed here by <strong>ME</strong> military and intelligence sources:</span></div>
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<br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4464" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Iranian Al Qods Brigades officers serving in Syria are for the first time in dialogue with certain Syrian rebel leaders. Tehran has hitherto refrained from contacts with President <strong>Bashar Assad’</strong>s enemies. But as the Syrian war enters its fifth year, the ability of his army and Hizballah ally to pull ahead and win the war is declining. And so, in the last couple of weeks, Tehran has switched course, turning away from the military option to open up highly confidential talks with Syrian rebel groups in search of a political solution for ending the war.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why not employ Syrian rebels to fight Israel?</span></strong><br /><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4466" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Tehran’s tactics typically turn to more than one goal. If Iran’s talks with the Syrian rebels ripen into cooperation, its strategists see no reason why they can’t serve a second purpose, namely, the displacement of the US, Jordanian and Israeli footprint in southern Syria, won in the past three years by fostering select Syrian rebel groups.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This goal slipped through Iran’s fingers on the battlefield. The Syrian army and Hizballah forces were beaten back last year when they tried to oust the rebels from the Golan town of Quneitra and the southern Syrian town of Deraa. This setback left Tehran disappointed in its plan to plant a Hizballah missile base on the Syrian Golan face to face with Israeli military positions.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. If they are won over, Israel and Jordan will face a new Iranian-backed belligerent right on their borders for the first time. Neither can rely on the Americans to head off them off when the Obama administration was itself responsible for conferring on Iran its empowered status.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>In fact, Washington is more than likely to lend the Iranians a helping hand, commending their outreach to the Syrian rebels for a diplomatic resolution of the Syrian war, and playing down Tehran’s aggressive designs as a collateral issue.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tehran digs out three fanatical terror groups for the Golan front</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4468" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. The creation of a new Eastern Front for “effacing” Israel was first revealed <span> </span>Monday, Aug. 17.<br /> Alarming intelligence reports reaching Israel in the last two weeks depict Iranian Al Qods Brigades and Hizballah officers in the midst of fashioning a new terrorist network for mounting mass-terrorist attacks inside Israel from a new base on the Syrian-Israeli Golan border.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Iran and Hizballah are handing out anti-tank and anti-air missiles to enable terrorists to seize small Israeli locations or urban districts and hold out against an Israeli tank and attack helicopter counter-offensive.<br /> Our counter-terrorism sources disclose the three radical terrorist movements staffing the new network:<br /> One is the hard-line rejectionist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC).<br /> Another is the Golan-based Syrian Druze group known as Liberators of the Golan. It is headed by the notorious <strong>Samir Kuntar</strong>, a Lebanese Druze and former PLO member, who was responsible for the 1979 Nahariya outrage, one of the most brutal terrorist atrocities Israel has experienced.</span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440162697861_4484" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also harnessed to Iran’s new Golan terror organization is the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) which is made up of radical Christian terrorists. This old timer violent group, which is run by Syrian intelligence, took part in the 1982-3 Hizballah bombing massacres at the US Embassy and Marine headquarters in Beirut.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word in Israeli intelligence is that SSNP activists have arrived in the Quneitra district of the Golan.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">West Bank to receive Iranian missiles – with Abbas’ approval</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. The West Bank Palestinian leader, Palestinian Authority Chairman <strong>Mahmoud Abbas</strong>, appears to approve the latest Iranian plans.</span><br /> </div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This past </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Monday revealed the secret presence in Tehran of Abbas’ personal representative, PLO executive member <strong>Jmail Majdalani</strong>. After he was found out, he denied he was setting up a visit to Tehran by Abbas and claimed he was there to “break the ice” between Iran and the PLO and discuss exchanging ambassadors between Tehran and Ramallah.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Arming Palestinians with missiles, not just in the Gaza Strip, but on the West Bank too, would gravely imperil Israel’s heavily populated heartland and commercial hub. Tehran is additionally working on a project for bringing the most pernicious terrorist groups in history, forerunners of ISIS, to the Syrian Golan on the edge of northeastern Israel. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They would sharpen the efforts of Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip to “efface” Israel, in the phrase of Iran’s supreme leader <strong>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</strong>.</span><br /> </div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-67900005311353151832015-08-19T11:15:00.001-07:002015-08-19T11:15:07.099-07:00Lone Soldiers To Israel<div class="yiv2944979975MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440003232349_3251" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a planeload of 232 immigrants from North America on Tuesday that he is proud of them for leaving behind the creature comforts of their previous homes to become a part of the Jewish state.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440003232349_3178" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The immigrants arrived aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliya charter flight. They included 29 families with their 75 children as well as nine couples and 86 singles, </span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">including 59 who will be joining the IDF as lone soldiers, without close relatives in Israel.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">“This land is your land,” Netanyahu told the immigrants in a videotaped message. “You have exercised your right to become active participants in Jewish history, making Israel stronger and yourselves stronger.<br /> Your success is our success.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Construction Minister Yoav Galant, the representative of the government at the ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport, spoke of the difficulties his mother, Fruma, had to overcome to move to Israel on the legendary ship Exodus. He expressed hope that the immigrants would similarly overcome challenges and integrate successfully.<br />“Think about your fathers, grandfathers and the past 14 generations who hoped and prayed to come next year to Jerusalem,” Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky told the crowd. “You did it. You are part of history.”<br />Sharansky told The Jerusalem Post at the event that although he had greeted countless immigrants, he was still touched by every each planeload that comes.<br /><br />“Every immigrant who arrives completes a 2,000-yearold journey,” he said. “Here we have the completion of 232 2000-year-old journeys, so it’s extra special.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yoah Galant </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">began his military career in 1977 as a naval commando in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayetet_13" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Shayetet 13"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">13th Flotilla</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. In 1992, Galant was earmarked by then-navy commander </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Ayalon" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Ami Ayalon"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Ami Ayalon</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> for the command of the 13th Flotilla, a position he was meant to take up in 1994. Galant preferred not to study during the two remaining years, and instead moved into the ground forces and in 1993 took up command of the Menashe (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenin" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Jenin"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Jenin</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">) Brigade of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Division" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="West Bank Division"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">West Bank Division</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.<span> </span>Galant went to 13</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"> Flotilla, the the Gaza Division, the 340 Armored Div., and rose to Major General where he became Military secretary of the Prime Minister.<span> </span>In 2005 he became Southern Division Commander and I met him at a Givati Brigade affair when Guy Markizano was his aide and Guy Biton his operations officer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Members of the Samouni family had been sheltering in one of the house, trying to avoid attracting the attention of Israeli soldiers who were in the area, who had previously gathered them into that particular house. On Monday morning, 5 January 2009, four men left the house to gather firewood for cooking. Next to the house was a small wooden structure, and the men had reportedly begun climbing on this to take the boards apart. This activity was seen in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">aerial drone</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> photographs, and the poles that the men were carrying were mistakenly identified as rocket-propelled grenades by an Israeli Givati Brigade commander operating from a remote location. One soldier later testified to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Silence_(non-governmental_organization)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Breaking the Silence (non-governmental organization)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Breaking the Silence</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that soldiers had received information that a rocket-propelled grenade squad were located in the area. On seeing the drone photographs, the Israeli commander called for a missile strike against the men outside the house; they ran into the Samouni house for shelter, which was then struck twice with subsequent missile fire.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">When Ilan Malka commanded the Givati Brigade, (He is the IDF officer that recommended I go and visit Beit Kobi, the home of Kobi, a SSgt killed while under Dani Okin.)<span> </span>Kobi’s mother, Aviva Ichlebaum, started Beit Kobi as a HOME FOR LONE SOLDIERS.<span> </span>I HAVE STAYED IN THAT HOME AND REALLY APPRECIATE AVIVA AND WHAT SHE DOES FOR LONE SOLDIERS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">2 Chronicles 20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440003232349_3247" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.<span> </span>[The Scriptures makes this plain.<span> </span>The land over there being fought over is God’s possession, when then HE gave to the sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to possess.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span>15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; </span></span><span style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">for the battle is not yours, but God's.</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-9646952210412613432015-08-18T10:18:00.002-07:002015-08-18T10:18:58.997-07:00Thank you to all who have stood with the Yedidim of Israel<div class="yiv1419362203MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8331" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8408" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">They struck 10,684 targets including 3,262 ISIS buildings, 119 commandeered tanks, 1,202 vehicles and 2,577 fighting positions.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;">Eight facts more closely approximate the real state of the war one year after its launch.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;">Why only “populated areas” are counted!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Col. Ryder referred to ISIS losses in “populated areas.” But what about the rest of the territory the jihadis seized in the two countries? When all the captured land is taken into account, the Islamist State proves to have lost no more than an estimated 9 percent of the areas it seized as of June 2014.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2. The coalition’s territorial gains are therefore minimal. The only significant one was the partial recovery of the Iraqi town of Ramadi. That was achieved mainly by pro-Iranian Shiite militia fighters who turned it into a ghost town.</span><br /> </div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8384" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">3. The grand total of air strikes, most of them carried out by US warplanes, sounds impressive. But it boils down to no more than an average of 1.8 strikes per day (compared with 115 carried out by the Israeli Air Force in its last Gaza campaign.) And, according to the US Senate’s Armed Forces Committee, American bombers routinely return to base with two-thirds of their ordnance unused.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ISIS recoups manpower losses by influx of volunteers!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">4. The war in Iraq is at a standstill. The Iraqi army and pro-Iranian Shiite militias have in recent weeks been stalled on both the central and western fronts. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8406" style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">5. In Syria too, no coalition force has posed a military threat to the towns and areas captured by ISIS, whether in the north, the center or the east.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Brethren, as I look at the insignificance of how BHO and our military are doing today in the war against ISIS, I am reminded that you and I, like President Harry Truman in 1947, can be the “Cyrus” of our day in standing with the JEWS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span>6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span>7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span>8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8387" style="font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I APPRECIATE SO VERY MUCH ALL OF YOU PREACHERS ----WORLD-WIDE---- WHO STAND WITH US AS WE STAND WITH THE JEWS.<span> </span>WE COULDN’T DO WHAT WE DO WITHOUT YOUR PRAYER AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439917013118_8389" style="color: black; font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">BRETHREN, 75 year ole JAV does have a number of physical difficulties---Atril Fib, High Blood Pressure, A grape-fruit sized tumor in his gut, a diseased gall bladder, hip and foot problems, and now a problem in his ability to stay on balance, but his resolution is that ---as long AS THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS ALLOWS him to have the strength to do so, he will continue to exhort Christians world-wide to try to be a blessing to the Jews, in Israel, America, and world-wide.<span> </span>And he will try to tell gentile sinners ABOUT OUR SAVIOUR, FOR WHOM WE ARE INDEBTED TO THE JEWS’ PROVISION!!!!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-22649351795536703502015-08-17T13:52:00.001-07:002015-08-17T13:52:23.525-07:00I resolve to exhort Christians to be a blessing to the Jews!<table id="content-grid" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Bob Ross called me this morning to tell me that Dr. Sylvester Matthews had told him this morning that ole jav missed the raised hand of a lady in a purple dress who lifted her hand that she had prayed the sinners prayer, CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, at the same time Joy Wesson’s uncle, the 6’5” feller, did last Friday in Josh Wesson’s funeral in Sulphur, La. PRAISE THE LORD! From Thursday to Sunday the Lord allowed me to be involved in the salvation of 8 gentile sinners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our Church, Windsor Hills Baptist, we sing the words of 1 Chronicles 16:8-11.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In our Church we believe the words of 1 Chronicles 16:15-17, which tells us specifically that the LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS, JEHOVAH GOD, MADE AND CONFIRMED A COVENANT TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB about that Land that the “Ishamelite-False-Replacement-Doctrine-Rejects” fight the Jews tooth and nail about even unto this day!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.6800003051758px;">15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.6800003051758px;"> 16 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Security in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has swerved into a grim impasse. President <strong>Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi</strong> appears to have been outplayed by a marriage of convenience between the Islamic State’s Sinai affiliate and the radical Palestinian Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. The Obama administration this week decided to disband the Multinational Force and Observers, after the MFO had monitored the 1979 Israel-Egyptian peace accord for decades.<br />This was another US step back in the face of ISIS.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. President El-Sisi and the Egyptian army have put on hold their operational plans for demolishing terrorist strongholds and fallen back on defending military bases, while engaged in interminable haggling with local Bedouin chiefs to get them to stop providing the Islamists with fighters and intelligence.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These ISIS commanders are the idols of the young tribesmen, who defy their elders to fight in Islamist ranks.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">US abandons Sinai mission. A Croat hostage is “executed”!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">The MFO included a US command group at Gora in northern Sinai and a battalion of paratroops based in the southern town of Sharm el-Sheikh – 1,000 troops in all – who were charged with overseeing the restrictions laid down under the Israel-Egyptian peace treaty.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Wednesday, Aug. 12, the ISIS affiliate, the Sinai Province, released a photo showing the execution of the 30-year old Croatian <strong>Tomislav Salopek</strong>. An employee of the French oil and gas company CGG Ardiseis, he was taken hostage outside Cairo on July 22. The caption in Arabic read that he was killed "for his country's participation in the war against the Islamic State."</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most of the peninsula, except for two northern and southern enclaves, is now left under the domination of Ansar Beit Al-Magdis, under its new name, the Sinai Province of the Islamic Caliphate.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISIS and Hamas in cahoots to oust Egypt from Sinai!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. ISIS and Hamas have gone into business together – a secret which both partners deny. Hamas claims to be fighting the Salafi radicals in the Gaza Strip, who occasionally shoot rockets into Israel, while ISIS pretends to seek to overthrow Hamas rule of the Palestinian enclave.</span><br /> </div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-71478534804543119662015-08-14T06:45:00.003-07:002015-08-14T06:45:23.252-07:00Do you know that you would be in heaven if your body died?<div class="yiv7963914259MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2597" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2488" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2487" style="font-size: small;">Last evening this ole man went to sleep but he couldn’t stay asleep, with so many things on his mind about Josh Wesson’s funeral in Sulphur, La.<span> </span>Please pray for Mrs. Joy Wesson and her children- Kimberly, Stephen, Ashlyn, and Katlyn, in the home-going of her husband, and the children’s father.<span> </span><span> </span>Tomorrow, the Lord Willing, we will be a part of THE GRADUATION SERVICE for as fine a man as I have ever known, Josh Wesson.<span> </span>Now, you folks who know me, know that I do not pass out “accolades” [if that is the right word,] easily.<span> </span>You have to do something for me to say “you are doing something.”</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2576" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2575" style="font-size: small;">When we arrived at the Holiday Inn Special where Susan Burns had made reservations for us, in a Motel close to Grace Baptist Church,<span> </span>Tom, Esther and I went in to register.<span> </span>Tom was a blessing to his ole dad and would not let me pay for my room, which, when I saw it is a beautifully nice room.<span> </span>At the desk were Diamond Morris, Rodrick Cropp, & Willie Edwards.<span> </span>After Tom talked a while I said, “Let me tell you folks why we are here.”<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2491" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558645481_2490" style="font-size: small;">Then Joy gave Tom and I and Pastor Arvin the Newspaper LISTIN DIARIO.<span> </span>It’s headlines says, PASTOR RESCATO’ A 5 JO’VENES PERO PERDIO’ LA VIDA AHOGADO!<span> </span>Joshua Stephen Wesson Pastoreaba La Iglesia Bautista El Faro, En Santo Domingo Norte.<span> </span>“Jish fue capaz de sacar a los otos chicos y estaba tratando de salvar a otro, pero no lo pudo hacer” Donna Scheppers madre de una adolescente!!!!</span></span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-3265766352474707802015-08-10T16:08:00.001-07:002015-08-10T16:08:09.036-07:00"Just do what you are told and don't ask and questions."<div class="yiv4795711925MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439247314479_2844" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again, let me ask you to pray for Mrs. Joy Wesson and her children, Kimberly, Stephen, Ashlyn, and Katelyn, in the home-going of her husband and the children’s father, Josh Wesson. He was as fine a human as ole jav has ever known. Hyles Anderson founder, Russell Anderson, thought highly of Josh, and I think I’ve mentioned this already, but it bears repetition, Russ would ask, “Josh, what is the secret of your success?” Josh would reply, "JUST DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD AND DON’T ASK ANY QUESTIONS!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaiah 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;"> 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the New Testament, we read in 1 Corinthings 15: 1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I told Josh’s dad, Joel Wesson, this morning, that GOD WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY, as we read in Scriptures, </span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8266677856445px;">and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, we covet your prayers in the behalf of this newly made widow and her children, for all the details of returning his body for the funeral here in America. Yesterday, there in the Dominican, they had a funeral service. Their auditorium seats 200, but about 450 Dominicans packed in for Josh’s funeral. What a blessing!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When a combined Saudi-United Arab Emirates naval, armored , commando and air force landed by sea at the Yemen port of Aden Tuesday, Aug. 4, it faced hardly any resistance. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels had fallen back, permitting the incoming force to clinch its conquest of the Red Sea port, contrary to all Western predictions.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Long convoys of heavy Saudi Abraham M1 tanks and French made Leclerc tanks contributed by the UAE were soon tearing up the road north of Aden to their next objective.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Among the heavy vehicles freighted in by air for the combined force were hundreds of armored personnel carriers - some Russian-made BMD3s, others Humvees made in America - all fitted with short-range ground-to-ground missiles - as well dozens of US-made mine-resistant, ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles designed to withstand roadside bombs.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Military sources report that the Houthi insurgents have nowhere near the quantity or quality of equipment and weaponry to withstand this scale of offensive. So they retreated in the face of the Saudi-UAE advance.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It took the invaders three days to capture Yemen’s biggest air base at Al-Anad, 48 km north of Aden, and prepare it for the takeoff of planes for air strikes. They then headed at speed to their next target, Houthi-held Taiz, 175 km north of Aden.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Houthis are sacrificed to Tehran’s broader interests!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By Wednesday, Aug. 6, three quarters of Taiz province and most of Lahej province had fallen to the incoming armies. The ability of their heavily armored forces to cover 58km a day, attested strongly to the lack of resistance they faced.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">According to <strong>ME</strong> military sources, this rapid military advance would not have been possible unless Iran had given the Saudis advance intelligence on the Houthi deployments, and withheld from the insurgents third and fourth-generation anti-tank rockets for impeding the advance of Saudi and UAE tanks. Tehran had even cut by half the ammunition supplied for Houthi firearms.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In just a few days, the Houthis were brought so low that their leader <strong>Abdul Malik Al-Houthi</strong> was forced to admit that his group had “suffered a defeat in the south in recent days” and he was “open to a political solution.”</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is not known if Tehran has confided its plans to its protégé, the Houthi leader, or told him that his rebellion is over and he must look forward to abandoning his conquests in Sanaa and pulling back to the Houthi stronghold of Saada in the north – or that he will be making way for the return from exile of his archenemy, President <strong>Abd Rabo Mansour</strong>, to form a new government with Houthi participation.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This plan is part of the package of understandings reached in Doha this week at a conference led by the American, Russian and Saudi foreign ministers. The Yemeni insurgent movement is the first, but not the last, to be sacrificed for these understandings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">On all this let me quote for you our friend Caroline Glick:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 14pt;">Today Iran is harming America directly in multiple ways. In President Barack Obama’s defense of his nuclear deal with Iran Wednesday,he said there are only two types of people who will oppose his deal –Republican partisans and Israel- firsters – that is, traitors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 14pt;">At American University, Obama castigated Republican lawmakers as the moral equivalent of Iranian jihadists saying, “Those [Iranian]hard-liners chanting ‘Death to America’ who have been most opposed to the deal... are making common cause with the Republican Caucus.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 14pt;">He then turned his attention to Israel. Obama explained that whether or not you believe the deal endangers Israel boils down to whom you trust more – him or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And, he explained, he can be trusted to protect Israel better than Netanyahu can because “[I] have been a stalwart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The truth is that it shouldn’t much matter to US lawmakers whether Obama or Netanyahu has it right about Israel. Israel isn’t a party to the deal and isn’t bound by it. If Israel decides it needs to act on its own, it will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">The US, on the other side, will be bound by the deal if Congress fails to kill it next month. So the real question lawmakers need to ask is whether the deal is good for America. Is Obama right or wrong that only partisan zealots and disloyal Zionists could oppose his great diplomatic achievement? To determine the answer to that question, you need to do is ask another one. Does his deal make America safer or less safe? The best way to answer that question is to consider all the ways Iran threatens America today, and ask whether the agreement has no impact on those threats, or whetherit mitigates or aggravates them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Today Iran is harming America directly in multiple ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">The most graphic way Iran is harming America today is by holding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Then there is Iranian-sponsored terrorism against the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">In 2011, the FBI foiled an Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">One of the terrorists set to participate in the attack allegedly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">penetrated US territory through the Mexican border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">The terrorist threat to the US emanating from Iran’s terrorist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">infrastructure in Latin America will rise steeply as a consequence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">of the nuclear deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">As The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady wrote last month,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">the sanctions relief the deal provides to Iran will enable it to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">massively expand its already formidable operations in the US’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">backyard. Over the past two decades, Iran and Hezbollah have built up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">major presences in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Iran’s presence in Latin America also constitutes a strategic threat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">to US national security. Today Iran can use its bases of operations in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Latin America to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack on the US from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">a ballistic missile, a satellite or even a merchant ship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">The US military is taking active steps to survive such an attack, which</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">would destroy the US’s power grid. Among other things, it is returning the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to its former home in Cheyenne Mountain outside Colorado Springs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">But Obama has ignored the findings of the congressional EMP Commission</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">and has failed to harden the US electronic grid to protect it from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">such attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">The economic and human devastation that would be caused by the destruction of the US electric grid is almost inconceivable. And now with the cash infusion that will come Iran’s way from Obama’s nuclear deal, it will be free to expand on its EMP capabilities in profound ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Through its naval aggression in the Strait of Hormuz Iran threatens the global economy. While the US was negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran, the Revolutionary Guards unlawfully interdicted – that is hijacked – the Marshall Islands-flagged Maersk Tigris and held its crew hostage for weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Iran’s assault on the Tigris came just days after the US-flagged Maersk Kensington was surrounded and followed by Revolutionary Guards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">ships until it fled the strait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">A rational take-home message the Iranians can draw from the nuclear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">deal is that piracy pays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Their naval aggression in the Strait of Hormuz was not met by American</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">military force, but by American strategic collapse at Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">This is doubly true when America’s listless response to Iran’s plan to use its Houthi proxy’s takeover of Yemen to control the Bab el-Mandab strait is taken into consideration. With the Bab el-Mandab, Iran will control all maritime trafficfrom the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439247314479_2883" style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt;">Rather than confront this clear and present danger to the global economy, America abandoned all its redlines in the nuclear talks.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439247314479_2860" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">NOW BRETHREN, WHAT CAN WE AMERICANS TRUST BHO TO DO? <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439247314479_2859"> </span>NOTHING TO HELP THE LITTLE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL!</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439247314479_2857" style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">THEREFORE WE NEED TO REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS AS WE PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!!!!</span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-48747585854804746402015-08-08T10:21:00.001-07:002015-08-08T10:21:56.025-07:00Pray For The Wesson Family<div class="yiv7789956474MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439053545137_2737" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Scriptures tell us in Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: <br /><br />Now, there is no one you’ve ever known more deserving of eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire than the author of the lines you are reading. The ole poor boy from the Panhandle of God’s Texas was a wicked sinner, and did not deserve God’s Salvation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday Mrs. Vineyard and I, Tom and Melissa, and Joe and Sheryl Finn, visited Joel and Gwen Wesson, and their grand sons, Jimmy and Nathan Post. Joel and Gwen’s son, Josh Wesson, one of the finest Christians I’ve ever been privileged to know, drowned yesterday in the ocean somewhere in the Dominican Republic as Josh was attempting to save the life of a sister church’s youngster who had gone down in the Ocean. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Psalms 116:13, the Psalmist declared: Psalms 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.<br /><br />Joel Wesson told us how, Josh, as a little lad, called upon the name of the Lord. That is THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION OF OUR SINFUL SOULS. In Enoch’s day, the Bible Declares in Genesis 4:16, “….then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.” The Bible tells us about Abraham, “And he believed in the Lord: and he counted it to him for righteousness.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">My wife had me read for them then verse 15, which declares: "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a little lad, when Josh Wesson called on the name of the Lord, God Almighty counted that to him for righteousness. Sometime down life’s road Josh heard the CALL OF THE LORD and surrendered to take the LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL to the poor Dominicans. In Bible college he met and married Joy. In 1996, WHBC had the privilege of taking Josh and Joy on for monthly support, as the 31</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"> of 52 Missionaries we took on that year for monthly support as they raised support to go to the Dominican Republic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">GOD gave to Josh and Joy 4 children, Kimberly, Stephen, Ashlyn and Katelyn. When those 4 younguns awoke yesterday they didn’t know it would be the last day they would see their earthly father down here. A time of grieving is going to be very painful for the Wessons. We are asking for your prayers in their behalf.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, let me mention some other ‘LIGHT BEARERS’ whom God Almighty chose to bring home to heaven at a time we poor mortals would deem “early.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">He was the pastor of St. Peters, Dundee for seven years until 1843, a period of time which ended in his death when he was only in his thirtieth year. He preached 'as a dying man to dying men'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">His sermons were spiritual and forceful and attended with wonderful power and fruitfulness at a time of undeniable revival - they are still models for today's preachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">As an eyewitness said of him 'He preached with eternity stamped upon his brow. I yet see his seraphic countenance, and hear his sweet and tender voice. I was spell bound, and would not keep my eyes off him for a moment. He announced his text - What a sermon! I trembled, and never felt God so near. His appeals went to my heart, and, as he spoke of the last day in the darkening twilight, for once I began to pray!'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">McCheyne's life is an inspiration to us all. This popular biography tells us about his life and loves, indeed all that was dear to him, and humbles us to find a greater love for God in our daily lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SECOND, DAVID BRAINERD:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">On 1 April 1743, after a brief period serving a church on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Long Island"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Long Island</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">, Brainerd began working as a missionary to Native Americans, which he would continue until late 1746 when worsening illness prevented him from working. In his final years, he also suffered from a form of depression that was sometimes immobilizing and which, on at least twenty-two occasions, led him to wish for death. He was also affected by difficulties faced by other missionaries of the period, such as loneliness and lack of food.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">His first missionary task was working at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaunameek&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Kaunameek (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Kaunameek</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housatonic_Indian&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Housatonic Indian (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Housatonic Indian</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> settlement near present day Nassau, New York, twenty or thirty miles from missionary John Sergeant who was working in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Brainerd remained there for one year. During this period he started a school for Native American children and began a translation of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Psalms"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Psalms</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Subsequently, he was reassigned to work among the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenape" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Lenape"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Delaware Indians</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> along the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_River" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Delaware River"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Delaware River</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> northeast of</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem,_Pennsylvania" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Bethlehem, Pennsylvania"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Bethlehem, Pennsylvania</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, where he remained for another year, during which he was ordained by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newark_Presbytery&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Newark Presbytery (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Newark Presbytery</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. After this, he moved to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossweeksung&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Crossweeksung (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Crossweeksung</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="New Jersey"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">New Jersey</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">, where he had his most fruitful ministry. Within a year, the Indian church at Crossweeksung had 130 members, who moved in 1746 to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranbury,_New_Jersey" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Cranbury, New Jersey"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Cranbury</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"> where they established a Christian community. In these years, he refused several offers of leaving the mission field to become a church minister, including one from the church at East Hampton on Long Island. He remained determined, however, to continue the work among Native Americans despite the difficulties, writing in his diary:</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">'[I] could have no freedom in the thought of any other circumstances or business in life: All my desire was the conversion of the heathen, and all my hope was in God: God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts'.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">In November 1746, he became too ill to continue ministering, and so moved to Jonathan Dickinson's house in</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Elizabethtown</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. After a few months of rest, he travelled to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title-off="" title="Northampton, Massachusetts"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Northampton, Massachusetts</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">, where he stayed at the house of Jonathan Edwards. Apart from a trip to Boston in the summer of that year, he remained at Edwards's house until his death the following year. In May 1747, he was diagnosed with incurable consumption; in these final months, he suffered greatly. In his diary entry for 24 September, Brainerd wrote:</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">'In the greatest distress that ever I endured having an uncommon kind of hiccough; which either strangled me or threw me into a straining to vomit'.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">During this time, he was nursed by Jerusha Edwards, Jonathan's seventeen-year-old daughter. The friendship that grew between them was of a kind that has led some to suggest they were romantically attached. He died from tuberculosis on 9 October 1747, at the age of 29. He is buried at Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton, next to Jerusha, who died in February 1748 as a result of contracting tuberculosis from nursing Brainerd. His gravestone reads:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;">THIRD, JIM ELLIOTT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> [Whom Josh Wesson’s Nephew, Jimmy Post, favors, according to ole jav!]</span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.9799995422363px;">As a little boy growing up in Portland, Oregon, Jim Elliot listened carefully as visiting missionaries told about life on faraway missions fields. He asked them questions and dreamed about being a missionary himself some day. It made him sad that so many people in other countries died without knowing about God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Long Boat Trip<br />On February 2, 1952, Jim Elliot waved goodbye to his parents and boarded a ship for the 18-day trip from San Pedro, California to Quito (Kee-toe), Ecuador, South America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He and his missionary partner, Pete Fleming, first spent a year in Quito learning to speak Spanish. Then they moved to Shandia (Shan-dee-ah), a small Quichua (Kee-chew-wah) Indian village to take the place of the retiring missionary. Jim and Pete studied hard to learn the language and fit in. Their hard work paid off; in six months, both were speaking Spanish well enough to move to Shandia. When they arrived in Shandia, they also had to learn the speech of the Quichuas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Planning to reach the Aucas<br />Three years later many Quichuas had become faithful <a href="http://www.christianity.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3399cc;">Christians</span></a>. Jim now began to feel it was time to tell the Aucas about Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Aucas had killed many Quichuas. They had also killed several workers at an oil company-drilling site near their territory. The oil company closed the site because everyone was afraid to work there. Jim knew the only way to stop the Aucas from killing was to tell them about Jesus. Jim and the four other Ecuador missionaries began to plan a way to show the Aucas they were friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nate Saint, a missionary supply pilot, came up with a way to lower a bucket filled with supplies to people on the ground while flying above them. He thought this would be a perfect way to win the trust of the Aucas without putting anyone in danger. They began dropping gifts to the Aucas. They also used an amplifier to speak out friendly Auca phrases. After many months, the Aucas even sent a gift back up in the bucket to the plane. Jim and the other missionaries felt the time had come to meet the Aucas face-to-face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">One day while flying over Auca territory, Nate Saint spotted a beach that looked long enough to land the plane on. He planned to land there and the men would build a tree house to stay safe in until friendly contact could be made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The missionaries were flown in one-by-one and dropped off on the Auca beach. Nate Saint then flew over the Auca village and called for the Aucas to come to the beach. After four days, an Auca man and two women appeared. It was not easy for them to understand each other since the missionaries only knew a few Auca phrases. They shared a meal with them, and Nate took the man up for a flight in the plane. The missionaries tried to show sincere friendship and asked them to bring others next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For the next two days, the missionaries waited for other Aucas to return. Finally, on day six, two Auca women walked out of the jungle. Jim and Pete excitedly jumped in the river and waded over to them. As they got closer, these women did not appear friendly. Jim and Pete almost immediately heard a terrifying cry behind them. As they turned they saw a group of Auca warriors with their spears raised, ready to throw. Jim Elliot reached for the gun in his pocket. He had to decide instantly if he should use it. But he knew he couldn't. Each of the missionaries had promised they would not kill an Auca who did not know Jesus to save himself from being killed. Within seconds, the Auca warriors threw their spears, killing all the missionaries: Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming and Jim Elliot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When he graduated at the age of sixteen, his parents gave him a gift: a trip around the world. He was not on his own as a sixteen-year-old; he was with Walter Erdman, a minister and a missionary. They visited numerous countries, and along the way, Borden’s calling became very clear to him: he would be a missionary. On this trip, he saw firsthand what they called in those days “heathenism”— entire people groups without a gospel witness. This left such an impression on this young seventeen-year-old that he knew he wanted to give his life to missions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When he returned to the United States in 1905, he went to Yale University. There, he excelled at academics and in all sorts of athletics. He was on the boxing team, he was involved in yachting, and he was engaged in track and field. Between his academic and athletic abilities and his leadership skills, Borden clearly stood out. And with his family connections, Borden could’ve done anything with his life, but he remained committed to his calling to be a missionary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When he graduated from Yale, he knew he needed more education and training, so he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was there from 1909 to 1912. This was still the conservative era at Princeton Seminary, before the liberal takeover. He had J. Gresham Machen as a professor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When he graduated in 1912, he was ordained and came under the auspices of the China Inland Mission. He spent a few months in New York City working with some missions agencies to learn firsthand, similar to an internship, how missions work operates. And it was about this time that he became aware of a people group in China—ten million Muslims without a gospel witness among them. This was a very difficult people group to reach and a very difficult people group to get to, but Borden was committed to this group as his calling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">He decided that he would go to Cairo to learn Arabic so that he could minister to these Muslims in China. He left America in December 1912. On March 21, he was taken ill with spinal meningitis; nineteen days later, he died. April 9, 1913, was the date. He never made it to China.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">We should note two things about his legacy, however. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The first is his will</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">. In his will, he left his entire fortune, well over one million dollars, to Christian causes. But he also put in his will this specification: this money was to go to missionaries and teachers who are sound in the faith, believing in such fundamentals as the doctrine of the divine inspiration and authority of Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity, including the deity of Christ, and the doctrine of the atonement through the substitutionary death of our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The other piece of his legacy is his Bible. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When he died, his Bible was returned to his parents. When they opened it, they saw on the flyleaf these words, written by William Borden: “No reserves.” Those words were written over the date when he decided that he would not take up a role in the family business but that he would become a missionary. At a later date, he wrote these words, “No retreat.” And then, during his illness after March 21 and shortly before his death on April 9, he wrote these words: “No regrets.” No reserves. No retreat. No regrets. This is the life of William Borden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday Josh Wesson “crossed the river” and he “rests now in the shade on the other side.” Josh was a tremendous vocalist. My Favorite Song he sang was ‘THERE IS A RIVER!’ I TOLD HIS FOLKS YESTERDAY THAT I WOULD GUESS I HEARD JOSH SING THAT SONG 100 TIMES. JOSH AND HIS DAD, WOULD GO TO CANADA FISHING WITH RUSSELL ANDERSON AND I. RUSS WOULD SAY, “JOSH, SING THAT RIVER SONG.” JOSH WOULD. [I AM NOT SURE THIS IS THE EXACT VERSION SANG FROM, BUT, I SHALL PUT IT IN.]</span></span></div>
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Yedidim of Israelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790180386402612107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255688575514970219.post-73943828747946882082015-08-07T15:04:00.001-07:002015-08-07T15:04:53.942-07:00God Makes No Mistakes<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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Please pray for the family of Josh Wesson, missionary to the Dominican Republic. </div>
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He and some other churches were together beside the ocean there, and a young man went out to far and went under. Josh went out to save the young man, and both young man and Josh drowned. </div>
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<br />Pray for Joy, Kimberly, Steven, Ashlyn, and Katelyn. </div>
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There will be a multitude of details that his wife, Joy, will have to sort out regarding funeral arrangements and so forth. <br /><br />Pray for the missionary family that works over there with them-the Scheper family. </div>
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GOD NEVER MAKES ANY MISTAKES!</div>
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Jim Vineyard </div>
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