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“The Terrorist ‘Peacemaker’”
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 28, 2008
INTERVIEW SNIPPET: “Frontpage Interview guest today is Kenneth Levin, a clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a Princeton-trained historian, and a commentator on Israeli politics. He is the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege.”
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
“Palestinian Territories, Israel: Ariel pastor targeted
- requesting prayer for critically injured son”
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “AUSTRALIA (ANS) — Ariel is a large town deep in the Palestinian Authority-administered West Bank. To Jews it is the capital of Samaria, while to Arab Muslims it is just another unwanted Jewish settlement.
Pastor David Ortiz, a Messianic Jew whose four oldest children have all served in the Israeli Defence Forces, has been living in Ariel with his family,
pasturing a small Messianic congregation and witnessing to West Bank Arab Muslims for many years. For this he has been shot at, beaten and stoned, while Hamas has issued a fatwa against him for the crime of leading a Muslim to faith in Jesus. On top of this, rejection and open hostility from radical Orthodox Jews can be both threatening and hurtful.
On Good Friday, a Hebrew Purim package was delivered to the Ortiz’s house. It looked inviting, but as Ami Ortiz (15) opened the package a powerful, professionally-made, shrapnel-filled bomb was detonated.
While Ami’s survival is nothing short of miraculous, he is in great need of prayer for healing. Ami’s body is very badly burned and heavily lacerated. Shrapnel tore through his neck; both his arms are broken; he has lost two toes; one eye was penetrated by shrapnel and might not recover; while ten pieces of shrapnel (hot metal bolts) penetrated his lungs. One lung remains collapsed. Ami is in a medically induced coma.
This family is paying a very high price for their faithfulness to the gospel. The bomb was so powerful it also caused extensive damage to the family’s home. Authorities are investigating. The culprits have not yet been identified.”