Wednesday, December 31, 2008

UPDATED EVENTS SPIRILING OUT OF CONTROL

Nahum Chapter 1

א מַשָּׂא, נִינְוֵה--סֵפֶר חֲזוֹן נַחוּם, הָאֶלְקֹשִׁי. 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
ב אֵל קַנּוֹא וְנֹקֵם יְהוָה, נֹקֵם יְהוָה וּבַעַל חֵמָה; נֹקֵם יְהוָה לְצָרָיו, וְנוֹטֵר הוּא לְאֹיְבָיו. 2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God, the LORD avengeth and is full of wrath; the LORD taketh vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies.

Israeli cabinet resolves to continue the Gaza operation

December 31, 2008, 4:01 PM (GMT+02:00)

On Day 5 of the Gaza operation, prime minister Ehud Olmert said: "Israel held back for years and finally decided to try a ceasefire. But it was violated by Hamas." His office said the French 48-hour truce idea was not on the table. There are others, Olmert said, but none are realistic enough to discuss. If conditions change and a solution that guarantees a better security situation in southern Israel comes up, we will reconsider. But we are not there yet.

Nevertheless, foreign minister Tzipi Livni travels to Paris Thursday, Jan. 1, ahead of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Israel next Monday.

Livni looks at Beersheba...

Livni looks at Beersheba classroom damaged by rocket.
Photo: AP

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Hamas broadens rocket scope to Gedera Wednesday, firing every few minutes

DEBKAfile Special Analysis

December 31, 2008, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

An improved Grad rocket landed on open ground in the Yoav Council region, location of the towns of Beersheba, Kiryat Malachi, Ofakim and Netivot as well as Kiryat Gat, the only town not targeted by a Hamas rocket so far. But the Lachish region east of Kiryat Gat was.

Gedera, some 35 km from the Gaza Strip, reported a hit later. On Day 5 of the Gaza conflict, Wednesday, Dec. 31, Hamas loosed a massive hail of rockets and missiles every few minutes. They claimed 9 Grad rockets had been fired. DEBKAfile's military sources attributed the clear signs of Hamas recovery to three causes:

1. Heavy rain and mist over the region which limited visibility and inhibited Israeli air force action against missile sites in Gaza.

2. Hamas had restored its chain of command for organizing and directing missile squads and stepping the tempo of launches. Its leaders are still hiding underground.

3. By Tuesday, Hamas had managed to transport large quantities of missiles from underground caches to firing positions near the Israeli border.

Belatedly, by Tuesday night, the Israeli war command appreciated its error in omitting to launch the IDF ground operation Monday, Day 3 of the Gaza offensive. Instead of opening up then with a limited incursion that would evolve into a broad ground operation, Israeli leaders wasted precious time in futile discussions on international demands for a ceasefire, which had no chance of holding up. Defense minister Ehud Barak, instead of running the war, spent hours on the phone with French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, before he, prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni, finally agreed that the French 48-hour truce proposal was unrealistic.

Now, Israeli tanks and armored forces will have to wait for the weather to clear while watching Hamas broaden its swathe of attacks.

Wednesday, Hamas fired 35 missiles and rockets in two and-a-half hours, striking targets in an area that stretched from relatively near locations like Sderot, Shear Hanegev and Ashkelon, to the farther 40 km-extremity of Beersheba, Ashdod, Yavne, up to the outer limits of the Yoav Council and finally Gedera.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hamas is suspected of having acquired rockets with a range of 50-55 km, bringing them ever closer to central Israel. They estimate that Hamas is holding this weapon in reserve for the potential Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. It is also disclosed that the Israeli air force mounted its second attack on the Philadelphi border zone's smuggling tunnels Tuesday, Dec. 30, after learning that Hamas had repaired some of the 40 tunnels first bombed Sunday.

The Air Force has revised its estimate of the quantity of Hamas missile stocks destroyed down from 50 percent to 10-15 percent. This means that their remaining stock is more like 8,000 than 6,000, including at least 100 long-range extra-punch Grad rockets. They can therefore keep up a high level of firing for around 80 days.

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AMOS CHAPTER 1 - VERSE 7
ז וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי אֵשׁ, בְּחוֹמַת עַזָּה; וְאָכְלָה, אַרְמְנֹתֶיהָ. 7

So will I send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof;
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More Than 200 Killed As

Israel Drops 100 Tons Of Bombs In Gaza City

The BBC Reports December 27, 2008

Massive Israeli air raids on Gaza

Israeli F-16 bombers have pounded targets across the Gaza Strip, killing more than 200 people, according to local medical workers.

Most of those killed were policemen in the Hamas militant movement, which controls Gaza, but women and children also died, the Gaza officials said. About 700 other people were wounded.

U.S. Blames Hamas For Violence
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CLARIFICATION

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I HAVE FOR YEARS MADE A SEMI FLUID FOR VERY DIFFICULT TRIGGER PULLS THAT IS A MIXTURE OF THREE INGREDIENTS BUT IT IS PURE "WHITE" BUT I VERY SELDOM EVER USE IT. IT MUST BE SHAKEN TO GET ALL THE INGREDIENTS IN SUSPENSION AND I NEVER LIKED THAT ASPECT OF IT. I DO NOT STOCK IT AND I DO NOT BUY IT AND ONLY MIX IT WHEN I ABSOLUTELY MUST TRY SOMETHING TO HELP A VERY HARD TRIGGER PULL.

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Day 5 of Gaza operation: Beersheba under intensive Hamas rocket attack. Hotel on fire

December 31, 2008, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

Contrary to previous report, the hotel fire was not caused by the fifth improved Grad rocket which hit Beersheba Wednesday, Dec. 31, on Day 5 of the Israeli operation against Hamas.

Four Grad Katyushas exploded in built-up areas. One dropped through the ceiling of an empty classroom, others exploded near an apartment building and one on empty ground outside the city. Twenty-one shock victims were hospitalized.

Beersheba's 250,000 citizens were ordered to shelter in solid buildings and schools shut until further notice. So too for the first time were the people of Omer and Hatzerim. Beersheba University has suspended studies. Missiles also struck Netivot, Ofakim,Yavne, the Eshkol farming district and Sderot, causing damage and light injuries.

Altogether 200,000 children in the areas targeted by Hamas are prevented from attending school. Local radio stations update Homeland Command directives to residents in several languages - including Russian and Amharic for new immigrants.

Beersheba is the largest town and the most distant, 40 km from Gaza, ever to come under rocket attack. The first two rockets were fired Tuesday night, Dec. 30. They sent 54 people in shock to hospital, half of them children, and damaged an empty nursery school.

Tuesday, as Palestinian missile and rockets against several Israeli towns and villages mounted to 50, Israel called up another 2,500 reservists and its military spokesman denied any recommendation to accept a 48-hour ceasefire.

The call-up order raised the number of reservists Israel has mobilized for the Gaza operation to 9,200. Israeli tank, infantry, armored and artillery units are massed outside the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip awaiting orders to go in.

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While Jewish monotheism rejected the polytheistic concept of a specific deity responsible for death on earth (as was popular, for example, among the Canaanites), remnants of the polytheistic influence is evident in biblical descriptions of God's host of angel servants in general, and of the angel of death in particular. The "Angel of the Lord" who smites human beings is called the destroyer and is described as standing between earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand.[1] This angel, however, is a temporary messenger, and even the verses where death is personified do not point to a permanent angel responsible for terminating life on earth.[2]

In post-biblical times the concept of an Angel of Death as an independent being emerged. The Angel of Death came to be associated with not only those episodes of death, cruelty, and wretchedness described in the Bible — such as the plagues in Egypt — but also with the dreadful ogres and demons which make their way into the oral tradition (as in does into the ancient Near Eastern and medieval European traditions). This Angel of Death is an active supernatural being who acts independently of God's will; he fights, harms and destroys man at his own initiative.


And the Angel of the Lord went out and attacked the Assyrian camp;
One hundred eighty-five thousand.
And when they arose in the morning, they were all dead bodies. (Isaiah 37:36)

Angel of Death I: Malach ha-Mavet, Severe Agent of God

Angel of Death: (Malakh ha-Mavet, Mar Mavet, Malach Ahzari). God’s agent of death in the world and the most dreaded of all numinous beings.

["The end of man is to die" - Microscript illustration found at www.isidore-of-seville.com/]

First mentioned in Biblical literature simply as Mavet (personified Death), ha-Mashchit (the Destroyer), Malach-Adonai (Angel of the Lord),
And the Angel of the Lord went out and attacked the Assyrian camp; One hundred eighty-five thousand.And when they arose in the morning, they were all dead bodies. (Isaiah 37:36)
in later literature the title “Angel of Death” becomes conventional. God created the Angel on the first day, along with light.
The notion of an angel bringing death probably arose out of the widespread belief in the Bible that those who look upon God would die. In Judges 13:22-23, this logic was also applied to seeing the Malach Adonai.

The various legends about the Angel are so diverse it is hard to reconcile them all. Some traditions fuse the Angel with God's other severe agents, ha-Satan and the Yetzer ha-Ra (See earlier entries A Necessary Evil: The Yetzer ha-Ra and Did Satan Fall?: The Devil is in the Details ). Others identify the Angel with Samael [“The Gall of God”](See Samael: Demon Prince, Consort of Lilith). Another strand of tradition teaches that the same angel that brings a soul into the world is also the one who will bring it back. There are also traditions concerning Domah, the angel of the grave, who pronounces the initial judgment against the soul while it still clings to the body. In some texts, he functions exactly as the Angel of Death does. Perhaps in an attempt to pull all the strands together, according to a late tradition there are actually six angels of death: Gabriel over kings; Kapziel over youths; Mashbir over animals; Mashchit over children; Af and Chemah over man and beast (Beit ha-Midrash, 2:98).

According to the Talmud, death is the slowest of all the angels, except in times of epidemic, when he is the fastest. The Malach ha-Mavet is monstrous in appearance: full of eyes that see all creatures (Ber. 4b), and can appear with seven dragon heads (Testament of Abraham). He is robed in a mantle that allows him to change appearance. Death can command hosts of demons (Gen. R. 26). Some traditions hold the Angel was created on the first day, along with darkness, while others say he arose after the first sin (PdRE 13; A.Z. 22b; Zohar I: 35b).
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VIDEO: Obama roasts Emanuel, says he’s the ‘Angel of Death’ for GOP

CSPAN rebroadcast a roast from 2005 where Barack Obama takes on his future White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel


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OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
Eligibility case finds 'standing'?
New suit claims unique state law enables citizens to demand proof


Posted: December 30, 2008
9:54 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily


Attorney Stephen Pidgeon

A new case challenging Barack Obama's natural-born citizenship and, therefore, constitutional eligibility to serve as president has the potential to clear a hurdle that caused several other similar cases' dismissal: the issue of "standing."

In the case brought by Pennsylvania Democrat Philip Berg, for example, a federal judge ruled against the lawsuit in deciding Berg lacked the "standing" to sue, arguing that the election of Obama wouldn't cause the plaintiff specific, personal injury.

In Washington state's Broe v. Reed case, however, plaintiff's attorney Stephen Pidgeon says a unique state statute grants everyday citizens the required standing.

"These lawsuits have pointed their fingers at the various secretaries of state and said, 'You handle the elections, it's your job [to verify Obama's eligibility],'" Stephen Pidgeon told WND, "and the secretaries of state have said, 'No, it's not our job. You the voter have to prove he was ineligible.' But when the voters try to do it, the courts tell them they have no standing. So it presents a catch-22.

"Here, we have standing by means of statute," Pidgeon continued. "This particular statute provides for any registered voter to challenge the election of a candidate if the candidate at the time of the election was ineligible to hold office."

Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 200,000 others and sign up now!

Further, Pidgeon explained, "In Washington we also have a constitutional clause in Article 1 that says the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of land, so it's very much a state issue that the secretary of state has a duty to enforce the U.S. Constitution.

"He doesn't think he does; we think he does. That's really the issue before the court," Pidgeon said.

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OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
Berg files new challenge to eligibility
'There is nothing more important than our U.S. Constitution'

Posted: December 30, 2008
10:05 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A lawyer who already has two conferences pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president has filed a new lawsuit, this one on behalf of a retired military colonel who would need to know whether to follow any orders issued by Obama as commander-in-chief.

Philip Berg's earlier case and a request for an injunction in the case are scheduled for conferences with the justices on Jan. 9 and Jan. 16.

The new case, filed with co-counsel Lawrence J. Joyce, was submitted to U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and names as defendant "Barry Soetoro a/k/a Obama."

It demands to know Obama's real name and his constitutional qualifications to occupy the Oval Office. The plaintiff is Gregory S. Hollister, a resident of Colorado Springs, who has "standing" and "needs a decision so he knows whether or not to follow any order of Soetoro a/k/a Obama."

Berg reported the case is in the nature of an interpleader, shifting the burden of proof to Obama and Joe Biden.

"I am determined, on behalf of the 320 million citizens in the United States, to see that 'our U.S. Constitution' is followed. Specifically, in the case of Soetoro a/k/a Obama, does he meet the constitutional qualifications for president?" Berg said.

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Mr. President! Free Ramos and Compean
Thousands signing petition to pardon Border Patrol agents

Posted: December 15, 2008
10:01 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – More than 26,000 people want President Bush, in the few days left of his presidency, to take action to free imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, and have signed a petition seeking freedom for the two that is part of a campaign launched by WND Editor Joseph Farah.

"I am calling on President Bush to do the right thing before he leaves office Jan. 20," said Farah. "These are the pardons or sentence commutations the American people want to see more than any other. We don't want to see any more drug dealers freed. We don't want to see any other millionaires get pardons. We don't want to see any other well-connected crooks have their sentences overturned. We want to see Ramos and Compean out and their reputations restored."

Ramos and Compean are serving sentences of 11 and 12 years respectively for the shooting of an illegal alien drug smuggler in the line of duty. The drug dealer received only minor injuries and was given full immunity from prosecution by the federal prosecutor in return for his testimony against the agents.

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ARAB RUN OVER BY A BRADLEY
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SHEIKH AHMED YASSIM - DOA - HIT BY AN ISRAELI MISSILE

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SPIRITUAL LEADER AND FOUNDER OF HAMAS KILLED BY ISRAELI MISSILE - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin

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First rockets hit Beersheba, Israel calls up 2,500 more reservists

December 30, 2008, 11:36 PM (GMT+02:00)

This call-up order raises the number of reservists Israel has mobilized for the Gaza operation to 9,200. Beersheba, capital of the Negev and 40 km from Gaza, was attacked for the first time by two improved Grad rockets Tuesday night, Day 4 of the Israeli operation. One hit an empty nursery school. There were 34 shock victims hospitalized.

Beersheba is the largest town (250,000 population) and the most distant from Gaza ever to come under rocket attack.

Israeli artillery opened cross-border fire on potential rocket sites inside Gaza. Hamas kept up its missile and rocket attacks against an expanding circle of Israel towns, 35 by nightfall.

Israeli tank, infantry, armored and artillery units are massed outside the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip awaiting orders to go in. Tuesday, Dec. 30 – Day 4 of Israel's Gaza offensive, Beersheba, capital of the Negev, was attacked for the first time by two missiles Tuesday night, one hit an empty nursery school. Israeli artillery opened cross-border fire on potential rocket sites inside Gaza.


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  • Dec. 30: Palestinian mourners carry the body of 4-year-old Haya Hamdan who was killed in an Israeli missile strike with her sister, Lama, 12, not seen, during their funeral in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: The body of 4-years-old Palestinian girl, Haya Hamdan, killed with her sister, Lama, 12, in an Israeli missile strike, is seen, during her funeral in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: A Palestinian woman collects children's toys from a kindergarten that was damaged in an Israeli missile strike in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: Israeli soldiers sit atop a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: An Israeli soldier carries his bags past tanks at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: Israeli soldiers work on a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: An Israeli soldier prays in front of a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
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YELLOWSTONE EARTHQUAKE SWARM:

Quakes Rock National Park For Third Straight Day

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G-D HAS NO RULES OF ENGAGEMENT AND HE HAS NO MERCY FOR HIS ENEMIES. THIS IS WHAT HAS CRIPPLED THE AMERICAN FORCES AND THE UK SINCE 1945 AS IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19, 20 - READ IT NOW

Israel faces threat of Gaza conflict spreading to northern frontier with Lebanon

Palestinian fighters based in southern Lebanon may be preparing to retaliate for the assault on Gaza by striking across the border and opening a second front against Israel.

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« Indian Border Security Force troops patrol the Pakistan border December 27 as tension rises between New Delhi and Islamabad.
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Pakistan, India on War Footing

December 30, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com

As India and Pakistan maneuver toward war, the U.S. loses out.

Pakistan withdrew 20,000 troops from its Afghan border and redeployed them along the Indian border last week. As Pakistan focuses on the prospect of fighting India instead of fighting the Taliban, the United States is going to have more trouble in Afghanistan.

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Three Israelis killed, 32 injured in 100 Hamas missile attacks Monday

DEBKAfile Special Analysis

December 30, 2008, 11:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

Israeli tanks still unmoved

Israeli tanks still unmoved

On Day 3 of Israel's Gaza operation, Dec. 29, Hamas hit back hard with volleys of rockets and missiles at points closer to central Israel than ever before. The three Israelis killed were IDF career officer, Sgt. Maj. Lutfi Nasr e-Din, 38, from Daliat Hacarmel, at Nahal Oz, a woman motorist, Irit Sheetrit, 39, mother of four, who sought shelter in the Ashdod bus terminus, 30 km from Gaza; and earlier in Ashkelon, Hani al-Mahdi, 27, a construction worker from the Bedouin Negev village of Ar'ur.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Monday, Hamas had recovered sufficiently from Israel's air offensive to bring out its new Iranian Grad rockets to expand their range up to 40 km and launch them over the heads of the hundreds of Israel tanks, armored cars and artillery piled up outside the gates of Gaza and awaiting the order to move in.

At the Nahal Oz facility, in addition to the fatality, seven soldiers were injured, one critically, by incoming Palestinian mortar fire. Hamas' night barrage also struck Ashdod, Ofakim, Yavne (25 minutes drive from Tel Aviv), Netivot, Ashkelon, Sderot, Shear Hanegev. Ashkelon was battered day and night. The last round targeted school yards, kindergartens and bus stations. Ofakim, like Yavne, was hit for the first time by 3 missiles and suffered five injured.

Following this barrage, the Homeland Command extended the radius of schools that would not reopen Tuesday, Dec. 30, after the Hanukkah holiday from 20km to 30km. A quarter of a million Israelis are now on active missile alert around the clock.

Overnight, the Israeli air force pounded the Hamas-ruled government compound in Gaza City, hitting the prime minister's office, and the foreign, finance and interior ministry buildings and Hamas command centers. The Palestinians report 10 people killed, raising their death toll in three days to 360. All senior Hamas officials and commanders are ensconced safely in underground bunkers with their weapons caches.

Following this barrage, the Homeland Command extended the radius of schools that would not reopen Tuesday, Dec. 30, after the Hanukkah holiday from 20km to 30km. Beersheba, Gedera and Kiryat Gat are braced for attack. A quarter of a million Israelis are now on active missile alert around the clock.

Overnight and early Tuesday, the Israeli air force pounded the Hamas-ruled government compound in Gaza City, hitting the prime minister's office, and the foreign, finance and interior ministry buildings and Hamas command centers. The Palestinians report 10 people killed, raising their death toll in three days to 360. All senior Hamas officials and commanders are ensconced safely in underground bunkers with their arms caches.

They can only be dug out by special forces and armored units on the ground.

The crucial battle of Gaza is therefore still to come, as indicated by Israel's deputy chief of staff Maj. Gen. Israel Harel, when he warned Monday that the hardest part of the campaign is still ahead.

Hamas tacticians pin their hopes on the overcast, rainy conditions forecast for the rest of the week to slow Israeli air attacks, delay an incursion, and further intensify their cross-border missile onslaught.

Homeland Front, police forces, 200 ambulances, 2 medical helicopters and hospitals are on alert around the clock at all targeted locations. Hospitals in central Israel are also on the ready.

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Israel's crucial Gaza invasion is ready to go after three-day air assault

DEBKAfile Special Analysis

December 29, 2008, 9:10 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israeli tanks stand by for order to go

Israeli tanks stand by for order to go

DEBKAfile's military sources report that, after being knocked sideways by three days of massive Israeli air strikes, and more than 315 dead, Hamas appeared to have recovered its bearings sufficiently to pound Israel with more than 70 Qassam missiles and two Grad Katyusha rockets Monday, Dec. 29, on Day 3 of the operation.

Its spokesmen again reject a ceasefire. Among the 100 targets struck by Israeli bombers was a Hamas truck loaded with Grad rockets for distribution to rocket crews. The trucke blew up in Jebalya in northern Gaza.

Its tacticians pin their hopes on the overcast, rainy conditions forecast for the rest of the week to slow Israeli air attacks, delay an incursion, and further intensify their cross-border missile onslaught.

Monday, their missile crews focused on the Israeli towns of Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot and the Eshkol farming region just across the border. One Israeli construction worker was killed at an Ashkelon building site and 18 injured when a Grad slammed into a half-finished building.

The Palestinian terrorists are now about to again broaden the radius of their attacks by launching their new Iranian rockets against the important towns of Beersheba, Ashdod and Kiryat Gat.

Among the 100 targets struck by Israeli bombers was a Hamas truck loaded with Grad rockets for distribution to rocket crews. The truck blew up in Jebalya in northern Gaza.

The planners of the Israeli air offensive turned Monday to "second-tier" targets, such as Hamas' political offices and wings of the Islamic University in Gaza City, afterits high-profile leaders went into hiding in the underground bunker network designed by an Iranian general deep under the surface of the Gaza Strip.

They can only be dug out by special forces and armored units on the ground.

The crucial battle of Gaza is therefore still to come, as indicated by Israel's deputy chief of staff Maj. Gen. Israel Harel, when he warned Monday that the hardest part of the campaign is still ahead.

Prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni conferred in Tel Aviv Monday night to determine the next phase of the Gaza offensives.

Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah told a mass rally in Beirut Monday that Hamas' most effective weapon is time; by holding out, it can wear Israel down and prevail.

He was using the 2006 Lebanon war as an analogy for the Gaza campaign. Then, a massive Israeli offensive in the first days of the war failed to break Hizballah, By sustaining the blasting of its cities, the Lebanese terrorists ultimately cancelled out Israel's gains.

He may not have realized that Israel's defense minister and chief of staff were both appointed after that debacle. Their most important guideline was to learn from its lessons.

Hamas' trouble is the lack of a conspicuous war leader. Its politburo chief Khaled Meshaal is visible but because he is based in Damascus away from the action, he does not carry much clout. The flamboyant Hizballah leader, Nasrallah, appears to have appointed himself senior strategist.

So far, this Tehran-sponsored Lebanese Shiite leader is making his mark verbally, but his repeated fiery rhetoric day after day aims at goading Iran and Syria, Hamas' avowed patrons, into intervening in the Gaza crisis to rescue Hamas, so dragging in the other Arab governments.

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  • Dec. 30: Palestinian mourners carry the body of 4-year-old Haya Hamdan who was killed in an Israeli missile strike with her sister, Lama, 12, not seen, during their funeral in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: The body of 4-years-old Palestinian girl, Haya Hamdan, killed with her sister, Lama, 12, in an Israeli missile strike, is seen, during her funeral in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: A Palestinian woman collects children's toys from a kindergarten that was damaged in an Israeli missile strike in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: Israeli soldiers sit atop a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: An Israeli soldier carries his bags past tanks at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: Israeli soldiers work on a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 30: An Israeli soldier prays in front of a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.
  • Dec. 29: In this photo released by Israel's Government Press Office, Israeli rescue workers evacuate a wounded Israeli from a construction site where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza hit, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israel. One Israeli was killed and seven others were injured in the attack, Israeli medical sources said. Israel's air force obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of its overwhelming Gaza assault Monday, striking a house next to the Hamas premier's home, devastating a security compound and flattening a five-story building at a university closely linked to the Islamic group
  • Dec. 29: Israeli border police officers react from tear gas during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers that erupted following a demonstration against the Israeli missiles strike on Gaza, at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. Israel's overwhelming air campaign against the Gaza Strip entered its third day Monday, as missiles struck targets and wreaked unprecedented destruction in Gaza, reducing buildings to rubble, and the death toll continues to rise.
  • Dec. 29: Palestinians gather around the ruins of a building after an Israeli missile strike hit the home of a Hamas member in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel's air force obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of its overwhelming Gaza assault Monday, striking a house next to the Hamas premier's home, devastating a security compound and flattening a five-story building at a university closely linked to the Islamic group.



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THIS IS A MUST READ - PAKISTAN

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SPIRITUAL LEADER AND FOUNDER OF HAMAS KILLED BY ISRAELI MISSILE - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin


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AMOS CHAPTER 1
- VERSE 7


ז וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי אֵשׁ, בְּחוֹמַת עַזָּה; וְאָכְלָה, אַרְמְנֹתֶיהָ. 7
So will I send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof;



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Russia braced for unrest

By Isabel Gorst in Moscow and Anuj Gangahar in New York

Published: December 26 2008 19:53 | Last updated: December 26 2008 19:53

Russia is bracing for further unrest as the rouble on Friday slid to a new low against the euro after a succession of moves to devalue its currency.

A cut on Friday extended six weeks of devaluations by Russia’s central bank designed to offset the impact of the global economic crisis and falling oil prices as the country’s main export commodity approached its lowest level since 2004.

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FM spokesman in Tehran: Iran begins preparing operations against Israel

DEBKAfile Special Report

December 29, 2008, 2:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

On Monday, Dec. 29, Day 3 of Israel's Gaza operation, the spokesman said Iran had embarked on preparations for operations against Israel in line with the directives laid down by supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khameini in his speech Sunday.

in his speech, Khameini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to stand up and defend Palestinians against Israel. He said "true believers" were "duty-bound to defend" the Palestinians. Khamenei did not spell out what he intended. The foreign ministry statement said believers killed in their cause would be counted martyrs.

A group of hardline clerics is signing up volunteers to fight "against the Zionist regime" in the Gaza Strip "in either military, financial or propaganda fields." This is reported by the semi-official Fars news agency.

Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari told the Iranian news agency IRNA that it was time for Iran and Arab nations to go to war with Israel.

DEBKAfile: Egypt has led widespread Arab voices blaming Hamas for the Gaza crisis and accusing Iran of manipulating the Palestinian cause as a power play for its own ends.

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Talking to heads of local authorities in Gaza rocket range, Brigadier General Dan Harel says operation only in beginning, but 'after operation no Hamas building will be left standing in Gaza'. Home Front Command chief instructs council heads to prepare bomb shelters

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LOOKING BACK

A setback for the Bush doctrine in Gaza
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 14 June 2007

Armed members of Hamas blow up the Palestinian Preventative Security headquarters and intelligence headquarters in Gaza Strip, 14 June 2007. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)

The dramatic rout of the US and Israeli-backed Palestinian militias in Gaza by forces loyal to Hamas represents a major setback to the Bush doctrine in Palestine.
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Americans drop dead as police get Taser-happy
Are cops underestimating stun gun's lethal power?

Posted: December 28, 2008
4:59 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily


The TASER X26, a top law enforcement model

Even though the news is inundated with stories of people dying after being stunned by Tasers, police departments all over the nation are adding the electric-shock weapons to their arsenals, convinced the benefits outweigh the risks.

Research by WND revealed several news stories from just this month of police departments newly equipping themselves with the electric stun guns, including law officers in Maryland, Florida, New York, Michigan and even a small community of 15,000 in Pennsylvania, where the 22 full-time officers will be receiving 12 new Tasers.

In other cities, the number of Tasers already in use is skyrocketing: Durham, N.C., plans to double its police arsenal from 110 to 235, and a Georgia police chief is hoping to add 1,000 more stun guns to the Atlanta metro.

The Taser company's website includes testimonials from dozens of police departments, from nearly every state in the U.S.; and a statement from New York's Deleware County Sheriff's Department – which armed itself with Tasers last week – claims 13,400 law enforcement, correctional and military agencies in 44 countries use the device, having fired it on a cumulative total of more than 624,000 people.

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The Taser stun gun is the most common brand of a conductive energy device, or CED, which fires 50,000 volts of electricity through its target from as far as 35 feet away, causing uncontrollable muscle contraction and temporary immobilization.

For many of law enforcement agencies now using the device, the Taser is viewed as a safe alternative to guns, nightsticks or physical force in restraining uncooperative subjects.

In Johnsonburg, Pa., Police Chief Bryan Parana is proud to boast the first police department in his county to use Tasers.

"It's one of the most researched electronic devices out there. What I want to get across is it's not electrocution," Parana told the DuBois Courer-Express, "It is an electronic device which incapacitates."

The safety of the device, however, is becoming a matter of hot debate, and, as more and more news stories are beginning to reveal, it's an electric device that can also kill.

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More gun shows = fewer murders

Posted: December 29, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

I'll bet that's a headline you've never seen before.

You will probably never see it, again.

But it's the truth.

With a new Congress and a new president taking office next month, you are bound to hear more calls for closing the so-called "gun-show loophole," that permits American citizens in many states to buy guns without ridiculous and counterproductive waiting periods.

There will be an all-out effort to renew the slow, plodding, incremental, long-term goal of banning and restricting the sale of as many firearms as possible. It will likely start with gun shows – one of the easiest targets of the gun-grabbers.

They will cite all kinds of bogus statistics to support their claims that gun shows spell nothing but death and destruction.

What they won't cite, however, is a groundbreaking study of the impact of gun shows on homicides. They can't – because it shows just the opposite of what they claim to be true.

Mark Duggan and Randi Hjalmarsson of the University of Maryland and Brian A. Jacob of the University of Michigan teamed up to examine the evidence in a scientific study of the impact of gun shows on murder and suicide and accidental deaths.

What they found is shocking because it supports the headline above.

They looked at 3,417 gun shows in two very different states – Texas and California – during an 11-year period. And they examined vital statistics data on suicides, homicides and accidental gun deaths in the weeks following them.

What were the results?

"We find a sharp decline in the number of gun homicides in the weeks immediately following a gun show," they concluded. Furthermore, in Texas they found "gun shows reduce the number of gun homicides by 16 in the average year."

Once again, here's hard evidence of the theory that more guns equals less crime. And it shouldn't shock us. It only does because we've been so conditioned to accepting the illogic of the gun-grabbers that states the opposite as fact – without any evidence to support it.

Think about it.

If you are a criminal, are you more likely to target someone who is armed or unarmed?

The answer is as obvious as the .45 on my desk.

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Genesis Chapter 12

א וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-אַבְרָם, לֶךְ-לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ. 1 Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.
ב וְאֶעֶשְׂךָ, לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל, וַאֲבָרֶכְךָ, וַאֲגַדְּלָה שְׁמֶךָ; וֶהְיֵה, בְּרָכָה. 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
ג וַאֲבָרְכָה, מְבָרְכֶיךָ, וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ, אָאֹר; וְנִבְרְכוּ בְךָ, כֹּל מִשְׁפְּחֹת הָאֲדָמָה. 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'