Posted on 07/23/2007 9:44:31 AM PDT by Fennie
GOLAN HEIGHTS - Israel has visibly beefed up its military presence here in the Golan Heights while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and - for the first time in 30 years - has opened a strategic border road to civilian traffic in a move some Israeli security officials worry could help facilitate guerilla attacks against Golani Jewish communities.
A tour of the Golan Heights yesterday found multiple Israeli army positions local residents and soldiers stationed here say were established within the past few weeks. More tanks have been patrolling the area, with several tanks setting up shop in strategic positions looking down on Syria. Makeshift military outposts have been erected and Golan checkpoints fortified.
Several old Israeli Defense Forces military installations in the Golan were reopened the last two months. According to local soldiers, the installations have been largely unused since the 1980s.
In several Golan positions near the Syrian border, IDF tractors cleared the way in recent weeks so that tanks can amass in the area if needed, said soldiers stationed here.
The security officials confirmed the stepped-up military presence of Syrian troops deployed near the Syrian side of the Golan Heights with strengthened forces after carrying out increased training the past few months...
It’s the 23rd, isn’t it? I’m waiting for an Israeli smackdown of the arab world...
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Tish`ah Be'Av is on the 24th. It begins on the night of the 23rd.
Get a Jewish calendar, people! There are plenty online.
I was going off the “reports” that there was going to be an arab offensive of the 23rd... which, of course, will become an arab spanking.
Sorry. The other day everyone was putting Tish`ah Be'Av a day early. It's today. And so far as I know, nothing's happened, barukh HaShem.
For the uneducated, please explain Tish’ah Be/Av. Thanks.
The blackest day in the Jewish calendar (today), on which both temples were destroyed, the Bar Kokhba' revolt defeated at Betar, the Talmuds burned in medieval France, the Jews expelled from Medieval England and from Spain and Portugal (1492), World War I began, etc.
It was the night of Tish`ah Be'Av when the Israelites in wept upon receiving the report of the twelve spies (Numbers 13), so G-d decreed that since they wept that night for no reason He would make that night a night of true tragedy throughout Jewish history.
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