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Israeli ultimatum: Hamas must turn over all rocket stocks to third party

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

January 12, 2009, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)

IDF poised for next stage

IDF poised for next stage

Israel and Egypt are playing hard ball with the Hama delegation who arrived in Cairo Saturday to seek a ceasefire in Gaza hostilities. This is reported by DEBKAfile's military sources Monday, Jan. 12, Day 17 of the Gaza offensive.

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said Monday: We are closer than ever before to ending the rocket fire and getting Hamas' arms traffic under control.

As Israel tightened its military pressure with added reservists units, Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman rejected Hamas negotiators' appeal for compromises and told them the deal on offer was take-it-or-leave-it: Accept or face an all-out Israeli assault on all fronts.

DEBKAfile's analysts note that this was the first time the Egyptian government has used Israeli military gains as currency to further its national interests, namely, breaking the back of an Islamist movement deemed a destabilizing element for the Mubarak regime.

Suleiman informed the Palestinian delegation that Israel was holding out for Hamas to collect all its rocket and missile stocks and weapons in the hands of other Palestinian terrorist groups and turn them over to a third party. This party would also take charge of security in the Philadelphi Corridor.

Hamas would be given a month to implement the handover, but no longer.

Israel was also adamant about retaining its army on the battle lines held in the Gaza Strip when the ceasefire goes into effect until a new military mechanism is put in place on the Philadelphi Corridor and has proved capable of effectively stemming the arms traffic entering through tunnels from outside sources.

Some of the smuggling is still going on - but at a much reduced pace since the Israeli aerial bombardments began 17 days ago. The number of firings has dropped from 60 to 23.

The Hamas negotiators also ran into a blank Egyptian wall when they proposed setting a six-month time cap on the proposed ceasefire and reopening the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Sinai as a face-saving gesture to mark the onset of a truce. Suleiman said firmly that Rafah would reopen only when all six Gaza crossings into Israel were reactivated by Palestinian Authority personnel and European military monitors.

He said that Cairo was consulting with Jerusalem on the possible transfer of the two halves of Rafah - the Gazan and the Egyptian - to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Sunday, an Egyptian military plane ferried the Hamas-Gaza delegation to Damascus to seek the endorsement of hardline Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal for the truce terms dictated by Egypt and Israel. Gen. Suleiman directed them to pass this message on to Meshaal: Give up your illusions; Hamas' only remaining option now is to bow to the Middle East Quartet's primary condition: Recognize Israel.

Israel's negotiator Amos Gilead put off his mission to Cairo from Monday to await the return of the Hamas-Gaza delegates from Damascus. All parties are clear that a negative Hamas response will signal the onset of the next stage of Israel's Gaza offensive.

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« Palestinian supporters of Hamas in the West Bank protest Israel’s operation in Gaza.
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Hamas Support Grows in West Bank

January 9, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

Is Hamas about to gain control of the West Bank?

The current Israeli counteroffensive against Gaza is stirring support for Hamas in the Fatah-controlled West Bank. Fatah-backed security forces have already had to break up large pro-Hamas rallies in both Hebron and Ramallah—using tear gas against their own people for the first time in Palestinian history. Such heavy-handed crowd-control techniques, however, have only served to intensify resentment against Fatah.

“The Palestinian Authority is preventing people from going to the streets,” said one angry Palestinian lawyer living in the West Bank. “They only want their point of view to pertain, and they share the view of Israel and the United States that Hamas should be crushed. They only want Fatah here, they don’t want anyone else, despite the fact that 80 percent of the people are in total solidarity with Gaza and against the repression of the Palestinian Authority.”

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Meshaal Intervenes to Stop Hamas-Gaza from Succumbing to a Ceasefire

DEBKAfile Special Analysis

January 10, 2009

Saturday, Jan. 10, Day 15 of Israel's Gaza Strip offensive against Hamas, top Palestinian leaders gathered in Cairo for ceasefire talks with Egyptian officials.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Jemal Abu Hashem, who rarely appears on public, Salah Bardaweel, leader of Hamas parliament faction, and Heiman Ta'a, member of the military wing's command, were allowed to exit Gaza Friday after signaling their willingness for the first time to discuss an unconditional ceasefire.

After traveling to El Arish in northern Sinai Friday, they were flown to Cairo by an Egyptian military plane.

Saturday, they were joined by two colleagues from Damascus, Hamas' senior operations chief Imad al Alami and politburo member Muhammad Nasser. Separately Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority chairman and head of the rival Fatah also arrived in Cairo.

The Hamas delegates were preparing for their talks on Egypt's ceasefire proposals to begin Sunday with intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman, when their Damascus leader, Khaled Meshaal, dropped his bombshell.

Speaking over Damascus TV, he declared Hamas must fight on until Israel ends its military offensive, withdraws from the Gaza Strip and opens the enclave's crossings. Egypt too must open the Rafah gate. Hamas would never accept any restrictions on its armament – a hint at Israel-Egyptian plans to block the Philadelphi route – and would treat international monitors as an "occupation" force.

Meshaal demanded an immediate Arab summmit which Egypt and Saudi Arabia have firmly refused. Israeli losses were much higher than admitted, he said, adding that Saturday, Hamas rockets had hit Israel's Palmachim missile and satellite base more than 50 miles away.

DEBKAfile's sources report that the Hamas leader's emotional tirade raised suspicions in Jerusalem that he may have obtained pledges from Tehran and Hizballah for a last-ditch operation to save Hamas from collapse. They also noted the widening rift between Hamas-Damascus and Hamas-Gaza, which is paying dearly for Palestinian "resistance."

The Hamas leaders' resort to Egypt's good offices three days after rejecting its proposals came after the failure of the UN Security Council resolution of Friday night, which stressed the urgency of a ceasefire and called on member-states to help "prevent illicit trafficking in arms and ammunition and to ensure the sustained reopening of the crossing points…"

Hamas also turned down the UN motion, while Israel said it was "unworkable" as long the rockets kept coming.

Our military sources report that Hamas was preparing to haggle over ceasefire terms, chiefly the opening of the crossing points, to save face, but had come closer than ever before to accepting a pause, any pause, without counter-demands – until Meshaal intervened.

Six developments brought Hamas near to breaking point, our military sources disclose:

1. Desertions are spreading among the 18,000 rank and file and police officers, who were left out in the open to shoot missiles and rockets and fight off Israeli attacks, while Hamas leaders and commanders stayed under cover in bunkers.

Seeing the fading resistance, Hamas' Grad rocket specialist, Ami Mansi, emerged from hiding Saturday and took over a mortar position against Israel troops. Quickly identified, he was killed by an Israeli helicopter missile with two aides. That night, Al Qaeda's Gaza commander, Ghassen Maqdad, was killed in Khan Younes in the south.

2. The Hamas hard core of fighters, estimated at 3,500 before the war, has suffered painful losses - at least 550 men, including high profile operatives. Israeli forces continued to press forward Saturday, disabling Hamas' bunker hideouts, booby-trapped tunnels and buried passages designed to serve as escape hatches and the abduction of Israeli soldiers. Their missile production workshops have been destroyed but Hamas is not finished yet, say Israeli military sources.

Saturday, 12 Israeli soldiers suffered minor injuries.

3. Signaling an intense push ahead, Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over the Gaza Strip Saturday with this warning: "The IDF will soon raise the level of attacks on tunnels, weapons caches and terrorists. For your own safety and that of your families, keep your distance from places where terrorists are hiding, active and store weapons."

4. The commander of Hamas' military wing, Muhammad Jabry, has lost his credibility after failing to follow through on his vow that Israeli troops would never set foot in Gaza City. Our military sources disclose that as of Saturday, the Gazan capital is virtually defenseless after desertions left Hamas bunkers, defensive tunnels and anti-tank positions unmanned.

Hamas tacticians have decided to deploy their dwindling manpower to maintain the missile and rocket-fire, which began dipping from 40 Thursday, to 30 Friday and 20 Saturday.

5. The southern town of Rafah is in the same dire straits as Gaza City.

6. Gaza's population is increasingly estranged from its invisible Hamas rulers, accusing them of fighting their battles to the last civilian. Hamas has planted booby-traps, weapons caches and firing positions in private homes, so that civilians take the brunt of explosions and counter-attacks.

DEBKAfile's military sources report senior IDF commanders are anxious to build on Hamas' weakness at this moment to step up the tempo of their offensive and finally push Hamas to the wall. Israel will then be placed in position for attaining its targets – an end to Hamas' eight-year missile assault on the South and its ability to rearm as well as the release of the captive Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit.

But Meshaal's intervention may have put paid to a promising diplomatic initiative in Cairo.

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LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26
יב וְהִתְהַלַּכְתִּי, בְּתוֹכְכֶם, וְהָיִיתִי לָכֶם, לֵאלֹהִים; וְאַתֶּם, תִּהְיוּ-לִי לְעָם. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be My people.
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IDF Soldiers in Prayer with Torah & Tefillin
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Back to back, IDF soldiers say the Shema prayer in Tallit and Tephillin.
A Minyan and Torah Reading in a War Zone.
Chabad Yeshiva students bring a Torah scroll to an IDF unit.
Torah Reading Foreground. Army Tank Background.
May Tallit and Tefillin be one more merit to protect them.
Jacob, our forefather, prepared to encounter his brother Esau, with a gift, with prayer and by preparing for war.


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Soldiers of the Haredi unit 'Netzah Yehudah' (נצח יהודה) pray atop Masada.

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US consigns 3,000 tonnes of "ammunition" to Israel

January 10, 2009, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)

The US Navy's Military Sealift Command is hiring a merchant ship to carry the arms on two separate journeys from the Greek port of Astakos to Israel in mid-to-late January, according to Reuters. A 'hazardous material" designation on the manifest mentions explosive substances and detonators, but no other details. One broker said that the size of a shipment of this kind has not been seen for years. DEBKAfile's military sources note that the Israel's air, ground, tank and sea offensive against Hamas in Gaza entered its 15th day Saturday, Jan. 10.

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FROM www.defensereview.com

Viridian Green Laser Sights for Tactical Weapons: Green Beats Red
Sighting and Night Vision Equipment By David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com

All photographic images contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are the exclusive property of DefenseReview.com. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. All photos were shot with an Olympus Stylus 790 SW 7.1-megapixel digital camera, which is advertised as "shock + waterproof".

January 9, 2009

When most people think about lasing a target, they think in red. Red lasers have dominated the tactical weapons laser business since its inception. However, a company called Viridian Green Laser Sights, a subsidiary of Laser Aimings Systems Corporation (LASC), has gone green, making green laser sights (and laser sight/white light illuminator combos) as opposed to red ones, and thus separating themselves from the rest of the pack, which includes more well-known and established companies like Insight Technology (a.k.a. Insight Tech Gear) and Laser Devices, Inc., both of whom market red laser sights. That being said (or written), Surefire has been experimenting with green laser sights in an R&D capacity for rifles and shotguns for years.

DefenseReview got the opportunity to handle and examine Viridian green laser sights/targeting lasers and laser/white-light combos at Viridian's booth at SHOT Show 2008. While we were there, we spoke with Brian Hedeen, President/CEO of Virdian, who took us through...

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HAL LINDSEY - "GAZA"


G-D HAS NOW RE-INVOKED THIS SAME SCENARIO

GENESIS CHAPTER 11

ד וַיֹּאמְרוּ הָבָה נִבְנֶה-לָּנוּ עִיר, וּמִגְדָּל וְרֹאשׁוֹ בַשָּׁמַיִם, וְנַעֲשֶׂה-לָּנוּ, שֵׁם: פֶּן-נָפוּץ, עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ. 4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
ה וַיֵּרֶד יְהוָה, לִרְאֹת אֶת-הָעִיר וְאֶת-הַמִּגְדָּל, אֲשֶׁר בָּנוּ, בְּנֵי הָאָדָם. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
ו וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה, הֵן עַם אֶחָד וְשָׂפָה אַחַת לְכֻלָּם, וְזֶה, הַחִלָּם לַעֲשׂוֹת; וְעַתָּה לֹא-יִבָּצֵר מֵהֶם, כֹּל אֲשֶׁר יָזְמוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת. 6 And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
ז הָבָה, נֵרְדָה, וְנָבְלָה שָׁם, שְׂפָתָם--אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִשְׁמְעוּ, אִישׁ שְׂפַת רֵעֵהוּ. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
ח וַיָּפֶץ יְהוָה אֹתָם מִשָּׁם, עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיַּחְדְּלוּ, לִבְנֹת הָעִיר. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
ט עַל-כֵּן קָרָא שְׁמָהּ, בָּבֶל, כִּי-שָׁם בָּלַל יְהוָה, שְׂפַת כָּל-הָאָרֶץ; וּמִשָּׁם הֱפִיצָם יְהוָה, עַל-פְּנֵי כָּל-הָאָרֶץ. {פ} 9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. {P}


First signs of Hamas cracking, Israel lets Gazan delegates leave for Cairo

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

January 10, 2009, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israel's Gaza offensive on 15th day

Israel's Gaza offensive on 15th day

As Hamas showed first signs of cracking under Israel's massive 14-day assault, three Gaza leaders were allowed by Israel and Egypt to make their way secretly to Cairo for a second round of ceasefire talks – this time without conditions.

DEBKAfile's military sources report Jemal Abu Hashem, who rarely appears on public, Salah Bardaweel, leader of Hamas parliament faction, and Heiman Ta'a, member of the military wing's command were allowed to exit Gaza, Friday, Jan 9 and make their way to the northern Sinai town of El Arish. From there, an Egyptian military flight flew them to Cairo. They were permitted to leave after consenting to an unconditional ceasefire, dropping their demand for open Gaza crossings and accepting that Israeli forces would hold their present lines.

More details about this developing story later.

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G-D'S WARRIORS - NO RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - NO MERCY FOR THE ENEMY - THE RULES HAVE NOW CHANGED AS G-D IS NOW IN CHARGE - READ DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28...




GAZA

PROVERBS CHAPTER 3

כה אַל-תִּירָא, מִפַּחַד פִּתְאֹם; וּמִשֹּׁאַת רְשָׁעִים, כִּי תָבֹא. 25 Be not afraid of sudden terror, neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;

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Obadiah Chapter 1

א חֲזוֹן, עֹבַדְיָה: כֹּה-אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה לֶאֱדוֹם, שְׁמוּעָה שָׁמַעְנוּ מֵאֵת יְהוָה וְצִיר בַּגּוֹיִם שֻׁלָּח--קוּמוּ וְנָקוּמָה עָלֶיהָ, לַמִּלְחָמָה. 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.'
ב הִנֵּה קָטֹן נְתַתִּיךָ, בַּגּוֹיִם: בָּזוּי אַתָּה, מְאֹד. 2 Behold, I make thee small among the nations; thou art greatly despised.
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Watch Obama commercial they don't want you to see
Fox, CNN, MSNBC refuse ads questioning Barack's eligibility

Posted: January 08, 2009
12:14 am Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Barack Obama's campaign officials and transition office repeatedly have rejected reporters' requests for comment on questions raised over his lack of documentation regarding his birth and the resulting concerns over his eligibility to be president. Now a number of media organizations apparently don't want questions raised either.

WND columnist Janet Porter told WND she found that out when her organization, Faith2Action.org, tried to purchase airtime to publicize information about the eligibility concerns.

She told WND that national networks

that refused to sell her time for a 60-second commercial included CNBC, MSNBC, Headline News, CNN and Fox. Washington, D.C., outlets for the same organizations did the same.

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Two strategic Gaza towns Jebalya and Rafah within Israeli military sights

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 9, 2009, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)

Explosion near Rafah town

Explosion near Rafah town

Thursday night, Jan. 8, Israeli forces fought their way into Jebalya in the northern half of the Gaza Strip, showing they were not deterred from going forward into the adjoining densely-packed alleys of Gaza City's downtown. Significantly, most Hamas leaders hail from Jebalya.

Rafah, which is split between southern Gaza and northern Sinai, is the key to control of the Egyptian border and the strategic Philadelphi border route with its smuggling tunnels.

Israel's emissary to Cairo, Amos Gilead of the defense ministry, returned home Friday, Jan. 9, reporting he had found nothing in Egypt's ceasefire proposals worth his government's consideration.

DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report that Thursday, Hamas leaders and commanders emerged from their underground hideouts for their first look at the devastation wrought in 13 days of Israeli aerial bombardment. They took advantage of the pause in Israel's military operations for supplies to reach the Gaza population to come out of their holes but soon headed back to safety.

IDF commanders hoped their lust for battle would be cooled by the sight of Gaza in ruins and they would be shocked enough to give up and stop fighting. This would settle the serious argument among Hamas leaders in both Damascus and Gaza over Egypt's ceasefire proposals.

Politburo chief Khaled Meshaal flatly rejects them and favors breaking off contacts with Cairo altogether. Mussa Abu Marzouk would accept them. He is backed by Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh who maintains that Egypt is Hamas' only remaining lifeline which it dare not jeopardize.

However, the military arm in Gaza and its heads, Khalil al Haya, Said Sayam and Muhammad Jabry, are strongly in favor of severing ties with Egypt and fighting on.

Our sources disclose that the Hamas extremists are finding time for the brutal persecution of their rivals, the Palestinian Fatah. Under cover of the general mayhem, Hamas gangs are kidnapping Fatah operatives and executing them. Their bodies are tossed onto the mountains of uncollected garbage and their kinsmen informed where to find them. Hamas leaders are convinced their rivals are plotting to exploit the fighting to overthrow their regime.

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Eligibility issue to follow Obama into Oval Office Supreme Court sets 'natural born' conference to follow inauguration


Posted: January 08, 2009
12:14 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A legal challenge that alleges Barack Obama isn't a "natural born" citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States will follow the Democrat into the Oval Office, with a U.S. Supreme Court conference on the dispute set after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The court's website today announced that a fourth case on the issue will be reviewed by justices Jan. 23.

The court previously heard two cases in conference – private meetings at which justices consider which cases to accept – and denied both Cort Wrotnowski and Leo Donofrio full hearings.

The court now has a conference scheduled Friday on a case raised by attorney

Philip Berg, with another conference on a matter related to the same Berg case on Jan. 16. Then today the court website revealed the case Gail Lightfoot et al v. Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, will be heard in conference Jan. 23.

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The War Against the Jews
By: David Horowitz
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Over the weekend we heard that OBAMA had tried to "go off the reservation" with decisions of his own but was "put in his place" by the CLINTONS. Yesterday we learned what that was all about with the appointment of CLINTON puppet LEON PANETTA to head the CIA.
PANETTA has no Intel background or experience, was CLINTON'S White House Chief of Staff and this appointment removes any remaining doubt about a CLINTON takeover of the "OBAMA administration".

Whatever they are using to blackmail OBAMA must be really serious, perhaps his birth in Kenya or perhaps it is "sexual" in nature as reported by several websites.

The how/what of it does not matter, only that the completely corrupt CLINTON/CIA nexus is back in place which is the opposite of all we have expected and written about, i.e. a return to Law and Order in the U.S. via a return to the Constitution including announcements and exposure. This is a very serious and frightening development. This group kills their enemies openly, often and without hesitation.

Perhaps a dozen CLINTON minions now surround OBAMA in all key areas of government which represents a highly visible continuation of the status quo and continued Illuminati control of all key aspects of the American Government.

This is not the time for jokes or "i told you so".

This is a time for every OBAMA supporter and every American with a brain still operable to OBSERVE the obvious ramifications of control of the U.S. Government reverting back to BUSH's utterly corrupt partners BILL and HILLARY CLINTON.

OBAMA will play stage manikin/mime satisfying the minorities need for "one of their own", the ignorant mass's need for a talker with a big smile and baskets of candy to throw to the adoring crowds and the "Internationalist/Globalist" need for someone capable of selling the NWO/World Government and the accompanying death of the Republic/Constitution by deceit rather than confrontation.
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« Government money creation will send the dollar under even more.
(Dreamstime)

Prepare for Dollar Collapse, Warns Ex-Bank of England Policymaker

January 8, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

After years of unabashed and reckless borrowing, the chickens are coming home to roost.

Americans must ready themselves for a massive devaluation in the dollar as international investors dump their U.S. assets, says a former Bank of England policymaker. Relying on the kindness of foreigners to finance our standard of living may be about to be revealed as irresponsible folly.

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Eligibility issue to follow Obama into Oval Office
Supreme Court sets 'natural born' conference to follow inauguration

Posted: January 08, 2009
12:14 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A legal challenge that alleges Barack Obama isn't a "natural born" citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States will follow the Democrat into the Oval Office, with a U.S. Supreme Court conference on the dispute set after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The court's website today announced that a fourth case on the issue will be reviewed by justices Jan. 23.

The court previously heard two cases in conference – private meetings at which justices consider which cases to accept – and denied both Cort Wrotnowski and Leo Donofrio full hearings.

The court now has a conference scheduled Friday on a case raised by attorney

Philip Berg, with another conference on a matter related to the same Berg case on Jan. 16. Then today the court website revealed the case Gail Lightfoot et al v. Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, will be heard in conference Jan. 23.



Five rockets from Lebanon hit northern Israel, Israeli tanks in Philadelphi corridor

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 8, 2009, 11:34 AM (GMT+02:00)

After five rockets from Lebanon exploded in the Nahariya-Kabri district, early Thursday, Jan. 8, West Galilee police ordered people to stay under cover, like citizens in the south for the past month. One rocket hit a home for retired citizens. Three were injured and 11 went into shock. Israeli aircraft and artillery shelled the source of fire. Schools were closed in the area and public shelters opened. Lebanese TV reported the rockets were fired from Wadi Hamoud south of the Litani River. Ashkelon and Ashdod also took rockets.

In the south, tanks joined the massive Israeli air-artillery assault Israel launched Wednesday night to destroy Hamas' smuggling tunnels, as an Israeli envoy headed for Cairo to discuss a ceasefire.

Wednesday, Jan. 7, Cairo presented Hamas with an ultimatum to reply to Egypt's ceasefire proposals by 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8. The Palestinian terrorist group was not expected to meet the demand.

DEBKAfile reports: In the last 24 hours, the US, Israel and Egypt were clearly working in harness. In New York, the US acted for the second time to block a UN Security Council ordering an unconditional ceasefire; from Cairo, Egypt shut off Hamas' diplomatic options, while Israel embarked on a military operation to pre-determine a key outcome of the Gaza conflict: Hamas' inability to rearm.

Leaflets dropped in advance by the Israeli air force warned the 30,000 dwellers in the targeted Rafah region to leave their homes.

Hamas' Southern Brigade is deployed in this strategic sector of the southern Gaza Strip under the command of a high-ranking commander called Al-Attar. Its operatives tried and failed to stem the flight from the Yibne and Block O Rafah refugee camps and Rafah's Tel Sultan

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel pounded this Hamas lifeline for arms supplies and reinforcements for days by air and sea. The new operation aims to finish the system off for good by clearing the critical 300 meters between Rafah and Philadelphi, where the openings to the thousands of smuggling tunnels are concealed by buildings.

For Hamas-Damascus and Hamas-Gaza alike, bowing to the Egyptian ultimatum and accepting the proposal intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman put before its representatives in Cairo Tuesday would be seen as a surrender to the Israeli army.

Israeli defense ministry official Amos Gilad flies to Cairo Thursday to start talks on Egypt's ceasefire proposals.

DEBKAfile also discloses that the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert sent his political adviser Shalom Turjman to Washington Wednesday night.

Earlier that day, the Israeli defense cabinet decided to continue the military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip while also discussing the ceasefire proposals received from Egypt.

A growing number of cabinet ministers advocated expanding the military operation against Hamas and bringing it to the point of resolution, supporting the view held by Olmert and the military high command.

US, Egypt, Jordan, Germany and Israel are working together on Gaza ceasefire package

DEBKAfile Exclusive Reprot

January 6, 2009, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israeli mobile artillery in Gaza

Israeli mobile artillery in Gaza

DEBKAfile's Washington sources disclose that Washington, Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem are hammering out the lines of a ceasefire deal that will be contingent on the state of combat in the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem accepts the proposition that the ceasefire lines will follow the lines of combat reached in the Gaza Strip in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Egyptian and Jordanian forces will then enter the Gaza Strip.

Prime minister Ehud Olmert told visiting European Union ministers Monday, Jan. 5, that diplomacy is in progress to find an "international blanket for damping down the blaze in Gaza." He did not elaborate, but, according to our sources in Washington, he was referring to Egypt as the prime mover in a ceasefire solution – not the US.

Alongside the overt diplomatic drive for a ceasefire, Washington is quietly moving ahead on a package in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt – which is managing the Hamas track – and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Israel will hold the lines established on the day the ceasefire went into effect for a two-three month trial period. Egyptian and Jordanian units will remain in the enclave until a pre-set date. An international mechanism will prevent Hamas from rearming.

Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman outlined this deal for the Hamas delegation, headed by operations chief, Imad Al Alami, which arrived in Cairo Monday night, after finally agreeing to discuss a truce. It was clear to both sides that he was dictating honorable terms for a Hamas capitulation, as Israeli forces entered the third and most dangerous phase of their Gaza offensive, the entry into Gaza's densely built-up areas.

Tuesday saw heavy Israeli-Hamas street battles in Gaza City after a night of heavy Israeli aerial and naval bombardment. Israel forces engaged Hamas in Khan Younis in the south and hit the southern arms smuggling tunnels of the Philadelphi route and Rafah by air and land.

Hamas attacked the Israeli troops holding the Netzarim belt cutting Gaza City off from the south at Deir al Balakh.

This phase of Israel's Operation Cast Lead follows Phase 1, the heavy aerial bombardment of Hamas military and government infrastructure, and Phase 2, the ground, tank and artillery incursion on Jan. 1, which split the 360-sq km Gaza Strip into three segments.

The outcome of the toughest challenge of the ongoing Phase 3 for flushing out Hamas operatives mingling with urban populations and reducing their rocket-firing capabilities will determine the ceasefire lines for ending the conflict. Meanwhile Hamas was still able to keep up its constant rocket and missile fire by Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 6.

Our diplomatic sources report that the German chancellor's involvement in the US initiative has left French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire proposal more or less standing. In any case, it was rejected by Israel except for his proposal to open a corridor for wounded Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment.

The next UN Security Council meeting on the Gaza crisis is also likely to break up for a second time without accord on a ceasefire resolution.

Sarkozy continues his whirlwind Middle East tour in Damascus and Beirut Tuesday.

Massive Israeli assault on Hamas smuggling tunnels, Egyptian ultimatum to Hamas

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

January 7, 2009, 11:21 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israeli artillery smoke bombs

Israeli artillery smoke bombs

Wednesday, Jan. 7, Cairo presented Hamas with an ultimatum to reply to Egypt's ceasefire proposals by 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8. That night, Israel launched a massive air and artillery assault on Hamas arms smuggling tunnels running under the Philadelphi route along the Egyptian border and adjoining houses in Rafah. Leaflets dropped in advance by the Israeli air force warned the 30,000 dwellers in the targeted region to leave their homes.

Hamas' Southern Brigade is deployed in this strategic sector of the southern Gaza Strip under the command of a high-ranking Hamas commander called Al-Attar. Its operatives tried and failed to stem the flight from the Yibne and Block O Rafah refugee camps and Rafah's Tel Sultan

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel has been pounding this Hamas lifeline for arms supplies and reinforcements by air and sea for days. Dozens of tunnels were demolished but enough of the system remained for Hamas to restore it if given the chance. With the new assault Israel is determined to destroy the entire network for good.

For Hamas-Damascus and Hamas-Gaza alike, bowing to the Egyptian ultimatum and accepting the proposal intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman put before its representatives in Cairo Tuesday would be seen as a surrender to the Israeli Defense Forces.

The ultimatum may have been coordinated with the Israeli assault on the tunnels.

Israeli defense ministry official Amos Gilad and Olmerts envoy Yoram Turbovitch fly to Cairo Thursday to start talks on Egypt's ceasefire proposals.

DEBKAfile also discloses that the Israeli prime minister sent his political adviser Shalom Turjman to Washington Wednesday night.

Earlier, the Israeli defense cabinet decided to continue the military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip while also discussing the ceasefire proposals received from Egypt.

A growing number of cabinet ministers advocated expanding the military operation against Hamas and bringing it to the point of resolution, supporting the view held by prime minister Ehud Olmert and the military high command.

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  • Jan. 6: A Palestinian medic walks with a wounded girl who, according to Palestinian medical sources, was injured in Israeli forces' operations in Gaza, in Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hits in an open space near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians dig out the body of a young boy from the rubble of a house belonging to the Al Dayah family that collapsed following Israeli forces' operations in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Flares and smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations in Gaza are seen from the Israeli side, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians lift a body near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 6: An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza from its position outside the central Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier is hit by an empty artillery shell, thrown by a comrade, at their position outside the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip is unloaded from an army helicopter as it arrives at Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier directs a mobile artillery unit near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian children, who according to Palestinian medical sources, were killed in an Israeli strike are seen at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian man holds his head in his hands as he reacts at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man who according to Palestinian medical sources was hurt in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier peers out of his tank as he moves towards the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians who fled their homes from Israeli forces' operations gather in an UNRWA school building in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Ja. 5: An Israeli woman walks under the damaged roof of a temporarily closed food market minutes after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit Sderot, southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without stopping the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli attack helicopter fires a self-protection flare, top left, and a missile, bottom, towards targets in Gaza as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians walk past a destroyed mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian medic carries the body of a baby allegedly killed by an Israeli tank shell, in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian woman walks down the street as smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations rises over a building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Israeli soldiers drive their tank on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 4: An Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a target in the Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza border. Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed forward with its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, even as a stream of European leaders headed for the region to press for a truce.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man, foreground, as another man tries to help another in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: An Israeli army mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza.
  • Jan. 4: Black smoke billows in the background as Israeli infantry soldiers take position on the border before entering the Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 4: Smoke caused by explosions rises over Gaza City.
  • Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 3: An explosion and illumination flares fired by Israeli forces are seen above the northern Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.
  • Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
  • Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
  • Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
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NO RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FROM G-D'S WARRIORS .... NO MERCY FROM G-D'S WARRIORS - THE RULES HAVE NOW CHANGED.

Israeli 'eyes' fixed on Lebanon

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:14:40 GMT


Tel Aviv has warned Hezbollah against intervening in the war on Gaza after Israeli fighter jets conducted overflights into Lebanon.

In a veiled reference to Hezbollah on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tel Aviv is on high alert to respond to any threat coming from its northern fronts.






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Israel declares unilateral daily three-hour ceasefire for humanitarian corridor

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 7, 2009, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)

A Hizballah Fajr-5 rocket hits Afula in 2006

A Hizballah Fajr-5 rocket hits Afula in 2006

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel announced Wednesday, Jan. 7 a three-hour daily halt in military operations from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. as a goodwill gesture for the passage of humanitarian aid. Israel will suspend attacks in certain areas – though not the entire territory - to allow people to get supplies. The measure took immediate effect. Ashkelon took 4 rockets as the Israeli pause began.

Hamas' missile fire continued. More food, medicines and fuel supplies entered Gaza from Israel Wednesday.

The Israeli Gaza offensive has cut by half the daily missiles/ rocket level from Gaza by wiping out 60 percent of Hamas' missile stocks, demolishing its production facilities and knocking out of action the Philadelphi smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian border. However, DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hamas appears to have preserved an unused stock of Iran-made Fajr rockets capable of hitting central Israeli towns, such as Rehovot and Rishon Lezion, 16 km short of Tel Aviv.

And if the Israeli assaults on the Philadelphi border route were to be halted at this point, Hamas could restore part of its supply network within 3-6 weeks.

Tuesday, Jan. 5, Rehovot mayor Shuky Furer assured his town it was out of Hamas' rocket range. Military sources are less confident. Whereas the Homeland Command decided to leave the town out of its emergency planning, intelligence sources do not rule out the possibility that Hamas has kept hidden in one of its bunkers long-range rockets with ranges of 70-75 km, which would put Rehovot and Rishon within their sights and also the nuclear installation at the Negev town of Dimona.

Suspicions of a concealed stock of Iranian-made Fajr-3 - or the more advanced Fajr-5 rockets - was strengthened Monday, when the Hamas military spokesman threatened to target Rehovot, Rishon Lezion and even Tel Aviv. At the same time, the stock cannot be very large and is likely preserved as a "doomsday weapon" against Hamas' total collapse. External go-betweens have cautioned Hamas that firing long-distance weapons would provoke harsher retaliation than the Israeli Air Force has meted out till now.

Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah tried more than once to bomb Tel Aviv in the 2006 Lebanon War, but every time he set up a launcher, the Israeli air force struck them down. But the Faj-5 rockets he received from Iran did hit the sand dunes of Caesaria north of Tel Aviv, as well as Afula and the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.

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COMMENTARY

I was hit by Lightning in 1984 in Katy, Texas and my wife and son saw the entire scenario from a safe distance. I did survive but it was a miracle. I have never been the same. The things that changed was my communication and my senses that I never understood before.

When G-D decides to strike there is absolutely no warning, there is no mercy and you must just pray to your own G-D - of course with all the countless religions there is but one G-D that has created this earth and this current situation. We have now reached a crossroads, a fork in the road so to speak, I do believe we are headed in the path of destruction and we are in for a rough ride.

This strange story started when I was 13 years old and my wonderful Russian Grandmother died. ( SHE DIED ON MY BIRTHDAY ).... When I was 15 years old I was on a plane alone from Miami to New York, the flight was packed with about 250 strangers of which I was alone. I had been visiting my Father who was working temporarily in Miami, Fl. I was going home to Brooklyn, NY. I was never on a plane before, this was the very first time. I was sitting in the isle seat behind the right wing and about one hour into the flight the right wing was in flames and we started to lose altitude. I NEVER SAID A WORD TO ANYONE THAT I REMEMBER.

People were screaming and I looked out the left widow toward the left wing and before long the entire left wing appeared to be in flames. THIS IS ALL TRUE. Engines on both wings were in flames and we dropped thousands of feet and the plane shook violently. I sat there alone like a moron while everyone was carrying on, I did not know what to say or what to do, I was helpless. I saw people with Rosary beads in their hands everywhere I looked.

Why the Captain never tried to land this 4 engine plane some where is beyond me. His name was Capt. McAllister. I will never forget it as I spoke with him after the flight. He was able to finally extinguish the flames on the right wing engine, and later on he extinguished the flames on the left wing engine and we operated on barely two engines. THIS WAS A FOUR ENGINE PROP PLANE THAT WAS FALLING APART AT 33,000 feet.

After some time and after we fell thousands of feet he managed to put the fire out on the left wing engine and we barely made it after 6 long hours in the air to the major NY city airport. No one met me at the airport as I was only 15 years old - I WAS ALONE - and I had to find what ever luggage I had and take many trains to Brooklyn, where I lived. My Father was frantic in Miami trying to locate me and my Mother was frantic in Brooklyn trying to locate me.

I had to walk about 5 blocks from the train with my luggage to where I lived at East 4th street in Brooklyn, NY. I had no idea that this was just the very beginning of the turmoil that G-D had in store for me on this very Earth he created. This is a true story and this is a drop in the bucket of what I have already endured and the worst is yet to come.

You must never give up your faith or your prayers, this is not going to go well for any of us but those that have total faith in G-D will survive in either this world or the next.
I am a loyal and faithful AMERICAN but I have RUSSIAN BLOOD.

CONTINUED

I never had a childhood like other kids, I learned at a very young age that I was not in control of events or of my life, there was a G-D that no one could explain, I attended HEBREW school at age 7 years old until I was 14 years old aside from my regular school like the other kids. This was not an option in my life.

Brooklyn was a violent place to live and unless you learned the ways of the streets and how to survive there was a good chance that you would not. Gangs controlled every few blocks of territory and that did not have a bearing on the Mafia controlled interests and the dead bodies were a ritual in places like Canarsie which is a section of Brooklyn.

People were actually stupid enough to believe that they controlled their own destiny, very few people understood that only G-D controlled events. If there is so much free will as so many clergy proclaim then how can so much of the old testament be actual prophecy of what is going to happen to you and me. Even now and today, these geniuses think they can fix all these problems by printing bailout money, well its too late, they have no idea that they are no longer in control.

Nothing is going to work unless G-D wants it to work, its that simple. Now they are all running back to Kissinger for advice - well if he was so smart why didn't he fix everything when he was in control so many years ago instead he failed like all the rest. His hop scotch diplomacy never worked then and his new world order can only work if G-D allows it. These "ELITE" still do not get it.

You are now looking at the next Clinton third time, just ask your self why, I will not give you the answer, only you can figure this out and its clear as day if you listen to your G-D. I think Mr. Obama is a bright young man but he is in way over his head and actually no man on this earth can solve this ongoing problem that this world now faces.

These ELITE people put their clothes on just like you do and they take a bath and or shower just like you do and they eat just like you do and we all get sick from time to time just like the ELITE does. I know my weaknesses but they do not, I know my G-D but they do not. I know how to talk to my G-D but do they ?? I really do not know. I am not of the privileged, G-D has always given hard lives to the ones he loves the most.

I spend most of my spare time at night reading the OLD TESTAMENT and I read about the HEBREW PROPHETS and the very difficult lives they lived, especially "JOB"... I often read my MASONIC BIBLE WHICH IS SOME WHAT DIFFERENT. I still have my Fathers Masonic Bible as well. We have truly lost our beloved country because of human greed and now we will pay the price for this totally scandalous act againgst the only living G-D that gave us every opportunity to do the right thing and we did not.

I am disgusted with the "EREV RAV" traitors of my own people and I can never forgive them for what they have done and they will answer to their G-D in due time just like RABIN and SHARON and the rest of them.

This entire world is now out of control. I see the one American Political party taking us to HELL on a high SPEED TRAIN and the other American Political Party taking us to HELL on a high SPEED JET PLANE. IT DOES NOT MATTER BECAUSE OUR DESTINATION IS THE VERY SAME.

Please say a prayer to your G-D for your country and your world as more things are achieved through prayer than this world dreams of.

CONTINUED: THURS. 1-8-09

Back to Brooklyn in a condensed version. My story is far more involved to get into real detail here and now but my son Charles will always have my writings when I am dead. I really loved the Brooklyn that I grew up in and I never wanted to leave, but circumstances left me no choice. It was right after the KOREAN war when my dear friend FRED JOFFE and I went to the US MARINE base at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and wanted to join, because things were heating up in South East Asia. Fred died of cancer many years ago and I think of him quite often, he went to New Utrict High School in Brooklyn.

I went to Erasmus Hall High School and in my school was Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond. When I confronted my Father about Joining the Marines at such a young age he came unglued and I always tried to obey his wishes as G-D taught me to honor thy Father and Thy Mother and I never deviated from that strict order. I was very mentally stronger than anyone in my family all those years and they needed me to help them.

My two cousins that I was very close two migrated to Israel and I thought about going to Israel to join the IDF in order to fight for the country of Israel, but my Father needed me more so I had to stay and help him which I did until the day he died. After I broke my BACK in 6 places which I will not go into at this time I had to change my life, there was no teenage years or childhood like other kids, my very survival was at stake but my life was to take on a role of dedication to help my Father and my Mother and my Brother was beyond help.

I lived a life of great extreme danger from here on out like nothing the average person would ever consider doing. I went swimming in shark infested waters off miami beach and when the shark fins got too close I gave that up. I had 300 lb. sharks within 20 feet of me in water that had such undertow that it is a miracle that I was able to make it back to the boat.

I hunted poisonous snakes alone wearing sandals and light weight shoes in the Florida keys among the Hammocks and stream beds where they sun bathed. I shot most of them, mostly pygmy rattlers and some moccasins. Had I taken a serious bite, its doubtful that I could have made it to any hospital in time as I was too deep into the Everglades. I put all my faith in G-D. My Father was Furious with me. I kept a few live snakes in a cage in my Fathers utility room.

It took me years to recover from my back injury, and when I did I fought in Martial art schools and my Father read me the riot act. He was right of course and I tried to always talk to him and have him see it my way but that never worked very well. I even taught teen age classes of kids how to protect themselves for a long time. I liked living on the edge. I always knew that G-D's angels were with me round the clock.

Its when I decided to get into Law Enforcement that my Father and my Mother really got angry with me. I went to the Police Academy for 9 months and my Father was mad but he finally accepted it. I liked to live on the edge, I liked to live a very dangerous life. I only worked the "GHETTO" in Florida, I will not name the area, but they all wanted me dead and I felt comfortable dealing with people like that. The corrupt Police were no better, they in some ways were worse because they took bribes and they could be bought. I COULD NOT BE BOUGHT, MY SOUL WAS NEVER FOR SALE.

All the people that hated me are now dead, the corrupt Police I knew are now dead and I am still here because G-D wants me here. I got into gun work because my pistol jammed every other shot and I could not find one person that really was that good enough to understand it as well as I do at this point in time.

People do not know about pain, many think they do but most do not, unless a person has a severe kidney stone they do not understand pain. I have been there many years ago.

Some might ask why am I still alive, well its because I have a mission that is not complete, that is the real answer. My Father never liked my first two wives but he liked my third and present wife and he loved my son Charles. He made me promise that I would do all I could for them. My Father died at 64 years old and my Mother lived until almost 100 years old and I really tried never to let them down, sure I disappointed them in my extreme life style but I did apologize to both of them in the end and I always helped support them as per G-D's instructions to me.


I have intentionally barely touched the surface of what my life has been like. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of my deceased loved ones especially all my dogs. I am not even angry at my Dog Fred that bit me in the face and I almost lost my right eye in Miami 30 years ago, he did not mean it, he was sick. For an old man I remember everything, I can only have memories and regrets at this point in time and reflect on the good and the not so good times.

In looking back at what used to be a wonderful country, it is very clear to me that G-D has set up this entire scenario of the decline of AMERICA as it is unfolding right before your very eyes. He has allowed a third Clinton term to take place without the responsibility and it will crumble because both political parties have no clue what they are doing and they can no longer agree on anything. You are seeing the very decline of not only the WEST, but of the entire GLOBE, that only G-D could have achieved.


There is so much more I could tell you but for now I will save that for another day. I want to thank all of you for reading my commentaries. Have a better day.

Teddy Jacobson




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WHY WOULD "OBAMA" HIRE THIS MAN AND ALL THE OTHER "CLINTON" PEOPLE ??



DO YOU WANT THIS MAN IN CHARGE OF YOUR NATIONAL SECURITY ??


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HAMAS

By: Jacob Laksin
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WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE A TRUE VALID CERTIFIED COPY OF YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. ??

IF A POLICE OFFICER STOPS YOU AND ASKS TO SEE YOUR VALID DRIVERS LICENSE ARE YOU GOING TO REFUSE TO SHOW IT TO HIM ??

Supreme Court to take up eligibility question again
Conference to evaluate claims president-elect isn't qualified

Posted: January 06, 2009
9:26 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – A conference is scheduled Friday at the U.S. Supreme Court during which justices will consider behind closed doors – again – taking up a case that could put to rest the questions about whether President-elect Barack Obama qualifies to occupy the Oval Office under the Constitution's requirement that he be a "natural born" citizen.

Twice before the justices have heard the questions, and twice before they've decided to ignore them.

The lingering questions continue to leave a cloud over the impending presidency of a man whose relatives have reported he was born in Kenya and who has decided, for whatever reason, not to release a bona fide copy of his original birth certificate in its complete form.

Join the campaign to urge the Supreme Court to take the eligibility question seriously by FedExing the justices.

WND columnist Janet Porter today in her column raises some of the more significant consequences that could result should the questions continue without answers.


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WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Congress' plan would let AG 'ban guns at will'
2nd Amendment critics are 'ready to run wild'

Posted: January 06, 2009
10:05 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


A perfect storm is developing for Second Amendment opponents that could allow President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general – Eric Holder – to "ban guns at will" despite the 2008 affirmation from the U.S. Supreme Court that U.S. citizens have a right to bear arms.

The situation was described with alarm by Alan Korwin, author of Gun Laws of America, in a recent commentary.

He cited Holder's known support for gun bans – the former Clinton administration official endorsed the District of Columbia's complete ban on functional guns in residents' homes before it was overturned by the Supreme Court.

And Korwin pointed to overwhelming Democratic majorities in Congress as well as Obama's known support for gun restrictions and his presence in the Oval Office.

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  • Jan. 6: A Palestinian medic walks with a wounded girl who, according to Palestinian medical sources, was injured in Israeli forces' operations in Gaza, in Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hits in an open space near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians dig out the body of a young boy from the rubble of a house belonging to the Al Dayah family that collapsed following Israeli forces' operations in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Flares and smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations in Gaza are seen from the Israeli side, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians lift a body near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 6: An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza from its position outside the central Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier is hit by an empty artillery shell, thrown by a comrade, at their position outside the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip is unloaded from an army helicopter as it arrives at Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier directs a mobile artillery unit near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian children, who according to Palestinian medical sources, were killed in an Israeli strike are seen at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian man holds his head in his hands as he reacts at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man who according to Palestinian medical sources was hurt in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier peers out of his tank as he moves towards the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians who fled their homes from Israeli forces' operations gather in an UNRWA school building in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Ja. 5: An Israeli woman walks under the damaged roof of a temporarily closed food market minutes after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit Sderot, southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without stopping the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli attack helicopter fires a self-protection flare, top left, and a missile, bottom, towards targets in Gaza as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians walk past a destroyed mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian medic carries the body of a baby allegedly killed by an Israeli tank shell, in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian woman walks down the street as smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations rises over a building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Israeli soldiers drive their tank on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 4: An Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a target in the Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza border. Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed forward with its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, even as a stream of European leaders headed for the region to press for a truce.
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  • Jan. 6: A Palestinian medic walks with a wounded girl who, according to Palestinian medical sources, was injured in Israeli forces' operations in Gaza, in Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
  • Jan. 6: Smoke rises after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hits in an open space near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians dig out the body of a young boy from the rubble of a house belonging to the Al Dayah family that collapsed following Israeli forces' operations in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 6: Flares and smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations in Gaza are seen from the Israeli side, in southern Israel.
  • Jan. 6: Palestinians lift a body near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 6: An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza from its position outside the central Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier is hit by an empty artillery shell, thrown by a comrade, at their position outside the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip is unloaded from an army helicopter as it arrives at Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier directs a mobile artillery unit near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian children, who according to Palestinian medical sources, were killed in an Israeli strike are seen at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian man holds his head in his hands as he reacts at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man who according to Palestinian medical sources was hurt in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier peers out of his tank as he moves towards the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians who fled their homes from Israeli forces' operations gather in an UNRWA school building in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Ja. 5: An Israeli woman walks under the damaged roof of a temporarily closed food market minutes after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit Sderot, southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without stopping the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive.
  • Jan. 5: An Israeli attack helicopter fires a self-protection flare, top left, and a missile, bottom, towards targets in Gaza as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians walk past a destroyed mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian medic carries the body of a baby allegedly killed by an Israeli tank shell, in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: A Palestinian woman walks down the street as smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations rises over a building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Israeli soldiers drive their tank on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 5: Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
  • Jan. 4: An Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a target in the Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza border. Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed forward with its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, even as a stream of European leaders headed for the region to press for a truce.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man, foreground, as another man tries to help another in Gaza City.
  • Jan. 4: An Israeli army mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza.
  • Jan. 4: Black smoke billows in the background as Israeli infantry soldiers take position on the border before entering the Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 4: Smoke caused by explosions rises over Gaza City.
  • Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
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LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19, 20

« British soldiers watch as a tank rolls past in Iraq.
(Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain to Lose Tank Manufacturing Capability?

January 2, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

Another strategic industry is set to disappear from Britain. A painful lesson is coming.

Does anybody really think Britain could survive a serious military confrontation?

It is the government’s job to defend its people, but can a nation that is forced to import its weapons really expect to keep its enemies at bay?

The British government may be about let the nation’s tank manufacturing capability wither away. And with nary a whimper.

British defense company bae Systems announced that it is now looking into closing the only tank factories in the United Kingdom, in response to government spending cuts. The announcement came after the Defense Ministry scrapped an order for 2,000 armored utility vehicles in December.

According to bae, the company urgently needs new orders for manufacturing work to keep its factories active and sustain key engineering skills.

“If the government wants an indigenous armored-vehicle capability in the UK, they need to buy something soon from bae,” said Nick Cunningham, a defense and aerospace analyst at Evolution Securities in London. “Otherwise bae will have to restructure and scale back its manufacturing business, which could even include selling it or closing it down.”

bae is the last heavy-duty combat vehicle manufacturer in the nation. If bae goes, the military will be forced to rely on other nations to provide for its military needs, parts, and maintenance.

Bernard Jenkin, a Conservative Party lawmaker who sits on Parliament’s defense committee, says the “next-generation battle tanks will be a multinational endeavor” (emphasis ours).

Quentin Davies, the procurement minister, recently suggested that the government was more focused on Britain retaining the ability to maintain and upgrade the vehicle platforms as opposed to being focused on where armored vehicles for future requirements were built.

It seems that the ability to construct tanks on British soil is no longer a priority for the British government.

What naive and dangerous thinking. Allowing domestic military manufacturing to disappear or move offshore is sheer arrogance and folly.

Over 90 years ago, during World War i, Britain was the nation that invented the tank. Designed to break the trench warfare deadlock, the multi-ton iron behemoths struck terror into the enemy and played a major role in breaking German lines during the Battle of the Somme.

Then during World War ii, it was British tanks that helped sweep the Italians from North Africa and defended the continent and the route to the Middle East from the Nazis until more tanks from America arrived to turn the tide.

But the concept of national self-sufficiency goes far beyond just tank production capability. And even beyond other military procurement. The UK has also undergone a massive economic outsourcing as well.

Britain will rue the day it allowed so much domestic industry to become foreign owned and offshored.

Britain’s days of military greatness are long gone. Britain is a silly dove. Its strength is spent. Grey hairs cover its head, yet it knows it not (Hosea 7:8-11). Like an old and crippled fighter, it languishes in past greatness, confusing past victories with current capabilities. And now its veneer of military strength is being ripped apart for all to see.

For more, read “Selling Britain’s Corporate Crown Jewels” and “Britain Cuts Military.”

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WHAT DOES "PALESTINE" MEAN?

It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.

The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The Philistines were mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the time of Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "Syria Palaestina".

The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina"; which is derived from the Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea.

The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.

This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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