Posted on 07/21/2006 10:12:59 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
An Israeli soldier maneuvers an armored personnel carrier at their position along the Israeli Lebanese border. Israel was amassing thousands more reservists on the Lebanese border to stage ground incursions aimed at destroying Hezbollah positions, warning it would not rule out a full-scale invasion despite mounting calls for a ceasefire.
I would use Firefox if it came with a good html editor...I am always using Mozilla's composer to make web pages.
IDF takes Maroun al-Ras according to Reuters. (confirmed by CNN)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=TopNews&storyID=2006-07-22T175100Z_01_L22735638_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-TOWN.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C2-TopNews-TopNews-2
LOL...sounds like you are set...unfortunately in my house, I have barely enough room to store a week's worth...let alone a 6 month supply..
My husband just went to fill up my SUV..about $50 I am guessing..
Shep alert!
Oh...I am NOT complaining about the gas prices..jeez louise..there are more important worries...IMHO>
No buddy, the Left wants us to lose.
There...that's better! ;o)
Your idea is being FAR too kind to Kofi, IMHO>
Lebanon’s Daily Star: Nasrallah's speech gave 5 key insights into Hizbullah's position
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=74159
From Ynet
Updates
Ground Forces Commander: IDF completes takeover of Maroun al-Ras
(20:47 , 07.22.06)
Rockets cause power outage in Nahariya and Carmiel
(20:34 , 07.22.06)
Police: house in Nahariya damaged by rocket
(20:09 , 07.22.06)
Fights break out at protest rally
(20:06 , 07.22.06)
Safed: woman severely injured
(20:02 , 07.22.06)
Palestinian factions agree to cease rocket fire at Israel
(19:24 , 07.22.06)
MDA: 1 severely injured, 2 lightly injured, 7 in shock from barrage in Carmiel
(19:22 , 07.22.06)
from Haaretz
20:46 International Red Cross opens logistical base in Cyprus to serve Lebanon (AP)
20:40 Moderately hurt Lebanese woman treated for wounds at Safed hospital (Haaretz)
19:57 4 people hurt in Katyusha strike on Safed (Channel 10)
19:43 Katyusha rockets hit Safed (Channel 10)
(seems to me Ynet is definitely doing a better job today)
lol! sorry :)
That was a wonderful presentation of Psalm 83, thank you.
Received the following in e-mail:
Remember Amalek - What the Bible says about fighting terrorism
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WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By M. Gellman ---holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, New York. Gellman is a past President of the New York Board of Rabbis.arc Gellman
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 1:24 p.m. ET July 19, 2006
July 19, 2006 - The Bible is the greatest collection of books, and I believe it to be the complex but discernable word of God. However, the Bible can also be a dangerous book when it is used as a blueprint for any particular political or military stance seeking sanction and support through a few carefully selected and often misleading segments.
On both sides of any war debate, both pacifists and provocateurs can use the Bible's authority. The same is true for the Qur'an and for the Vedas. God's will and God's ways, we must always remember if we are to be true to the message of faith, are not our own. As Abraham Lincoln cautioned, the important question is not whether God is on our side but whether we are on God's side.
However, we ought not conclude from this humble caution that the Bible is utterly recondite and irrelevant to the wars we fight. I believe that the key to the Bible's message to us in this moment is remembering Amalek.
In Deut. 25:17-19 we read: "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it."
What made Amalek so dastardly was that unlike any other enemy who attacked the Israelites fleeing slavery in Egypt from the front, Amalek attacked the rear. This meant that his soldiers could kill women and children, the elderly and the infirm and in so doing avoid engagement with the soldiers at the front. In this way he could produce maximum carnage and maximum terror. The moral problem the Bible addresses is that this is not warfare, it is the slaughter of innocents--it is terrorism.
Why, I wondered, would God command us to remember the terrorist Amalek? There are other villains in the Bible, but there is no biblical command to remember Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar, or Cyrus. We are commanded only to remember Amalek. I believe this is because the planned and plotted slaughter of innocents even during wartime cannot be condoned and must be remembered as a bright moral line which can never be crossed. Indeed our remembrance of Amalek is combined with a chilling pledge from God that is also unique in the Bible: "The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation "(Exod. 17:16).
Our enemies are just our enemies except if our enemy is Amalek. In that case our enemy is also the enemy of God. Amalek thus becomes the symbol of terrorism in every generation. He is the symbol not of evil but of radical evil.
In our generation Amalek is alive and well and killing the weak ones at the rear of the march. Amalek has attacked the rear of our line of march in Madrid and Bombay, in Jakarta and London, in Haifa and Tel Aviv, in New York and Washington, in a quiet field in Pennsylvania and in a hundred other homes and families”leaving them covered with blood and tears." Yes, one can disagree and debate how Amalek must be fought, but not that Amalek must be fought. One must report and mourn the innocents who are inadvertently killed by our soldiers in our battle against Amalek, but that remembrance must always make the spiritual moral and political distinction that our victims were killed by mistake and Amalek's victims were killed by design.
I have no new or fresh or insightful take on the latest battle in the worldwide war on Islamic fascism except the message of our president: victory is the only way. In my heart and prayers, I thank President Bush for remembering Amalek. And to all the world leaders who are used to thinking about war as just a struggle for land or oil or power, remember that this war is different and this enemy is different. If you can, come to realize that this is a war against a lover of slaughter. If you join us, then we shall not have to fight Amalek alone and he cannot again attack the weak ones at the rear of the line.
2006 Newsweek, Inc.
Fights break out at protest rally
A fight broke out during a rally in Tel Aviv protesting IDF operations in the north. A struggle began between left-wing protestors and participants in a counter-rally, when the counter-protestors attempted to take banners from the anti-war protestors. The police separated the two sides.
Later, NU-NRP activist Dana Levy climbed onto the stage carrying the sign, "Traitors, we have tired of you." Protestors took the sign from her hands and ripped it. (Attila Somflavi)
(07.22.06, 20:06)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3279766,00.html
Perhaps I should have added a sarcasm tag...
Prayers sent up for Israel!
Also disseminating Hezzie propagit about blowing up 3 tanks.
Ground Forces Commander: IDF completes takeover of Maroun al-Ras
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3279778,00.html
Commander of IDF Ground Forces, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, told journalists that the IDF completed its takeover of the village of Maroun al-Ras, on the border, which had served as a Hizbullah stronghold.
Gantz added that over a hundred Hizbullah sites in southern Lebanon were attacked Saturday. (ynet)
(07.22.06, 20:47)
If he doesn't know where Laura "has been," then he is more out of it than I thought.
Shep is STILL singing the same song..talking about Israel running with its tail between its legs..blah, blah.
BTW..I did hear someone in Washington say that Al-Maliki, is getting pressure from Shi'ite groups in Iraq to CANCEL his visit to Bush...in solidarity with Lebanon (read: Hezbollah)...
Should have seen THAT coming...BUT, al-Maliki also wants more troops sent to be in Baghdad...so, what does he do??
That was fantastic! Thanks for posting it.
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