Here is a wonderful organization that keeps you involved in being a supporter of Israel. Also, if you sign up, they also keep you up to date on the latest news without the world spin. Highly recommended.
http://www.cufi.org/
Here's a great article from the latest Newsletter by David Brog
A Present for the Start of the New School Year- September 4, 2007
Summer is over and it's back to school. Not only here but in Israel, this week started with mothers dressing their children in new school clothes, packing their lunches, and nervously dropping them off at school.
But in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, the mothers were nervous about more than whether their children will make friends or drink their milk. Sderot is well within range of the Kassam rockets that Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire into Israel from Gaza on an almost weekly basis. During the summer, many mothers had threatened to keep their children home at the start of school because of fears that school buildings are inadequately protected.
In Israel paranoia is, too often, simply foresight. A rocket fired from Gaza on Monday morning landed in the courtyard between a day care center and an elementary school. Both buildings were full at the time -- yesterday was not a holiday in Israel. Yet miraculously no one was seriously injured in the attack. According to Sderot's police chief, the rocket hit a tree in its path, quite possibly preventing it from having a more deadly impact.
The terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing this and six other missiles at Sderot yesterday. On their website, Islamic Jihad boasted that these missiles were "A present for the start of the new school year."
The barbarity of this comment is hardly surprising, yet it somehow still stings. Clearly, the people who wrote this were not shocked to learn that their missiles hit a school. They were not calling for inquiries into how the missiles could have strayed so far from military targets. They were, on the contrary, quite pleased with themselves.
But of course, hitting schools and other non-military targets is exactly what happens when you fire rockets indiscriminately into population centers. This is also exactly what happens when you blow yourself up in cafes and on buses. Killing innocents is the whole point. Terrorists derive their name from the fact that their goal and purpose is to strike terror into the heart of the general public. And if causing terror is your aim, then there is no better target than babies and school children.
CNN and the like would have us believe there is a "cycle of violence" in the Middle East. They would equate terror attacks such as this with the response from Israel and America to terror -- which is to stop the terrorists from perpetrating such attacks. Let this attack and the sick claim of responsibility that followed it serve as yet another clear reminder of the wide chasm which separates the terrorists from those who seek to defend us from them.
There is no moral equivalence here. There is only moral revulsion.
Whew!
Mr. Brog is also the author of "Standing with Israel" .
Book description from Amazon.com as follows for those of you that might be interested!
- "Many people do not understand or know how to explain Christian Zionism. Some question why evangelicals should support Israel. Based on theological and historical research, David Brog makes persuasive appeals to Christians to embrace Israel and to Jews to overcome their fears of Christian Zionists.
Focusing on a subject that has been covered by various national media, including the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, and Nightline, Standing With Israel goes beyond politics to: • Profile leading Christian Zionists and detail the views and motives that drive their politics. • Spotlight Jews who have been at the forefront of forming a budding alliance with Israel’s Christian allies. • Explain why so many American Jews are deeply uncomfortable with this outpouring of Christian support."
Good stuff!
God bless!
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