The article discusses the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. It notes that Israeli military intelligence believes Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons by the end of 2009. The upcoming months are seen as critical in thwarting Iran's ambitions. The article discusses the challenges of a potential extensive Israeli Air Force campaign against Iran's far-flung nuclear targets, given their distance from Israel and reinforced structures. Preparations for such an operation are said to be underway.

2. • FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dear lVMI Partners a nd Friends,
As you read this, I wi ll be in Elhiopia, orll:ing with-a earn cfover 00 doctors, dentists, eye surgeons,
optometrists, nu rses, evangelists and prayer warriors to help thousands o f destitute members of the
Where in the
vast Jewish Co mmunity remain ing in Addis Ababa and m ma umain areas of the No rth . We will be
e
providing medical and demal care, medicines, eyeglasses, (a laract surgery, even comea transplants!
World is
BUI mOSI importantly, we w ill be caring for lheir souls, sharing the gospel, praying with them for their
spiritual a nd physical needs and plaming bOlh wrinen and audio Bibles into thei r lives.
Jonathan
Sillce my first trip to Eth iop ia over len years ago, these dear, impoverished Jews captured my
Bemis?
heart. They continue to endure a meager existence, living in depl o rable co nditio ns. They have
been re jected by Israel sim ply because th ey have been identifi ed as N ralasha Mura/ converts to
Christian ity. V the ir neighbors shun them because th ey are Jews. The Lord h as m ade it clear to
et
me that we are committed to helping the tens of thousands thaI rema in in this terrible situati o n Please remember
until Israel finally accepts the m fo r immigrati o n or until the Messiah return s. Many of you, our to pray for Jonathan
partn ers helped to make thi s medical outreach and the permanent medical cl in ic that we h ave now as he travels
established in Addis Ababa possible and I thank you on their be half. Read Isaiah 58 if you want to around the world.
full y understand just how the lord feels about all this!!
The last week of rebruary, I led an advance team o n our second journey to India 1O scout out the february 22- March J
Bnei Menashe Co mmunity. On our firs t trip (thi s past October) we traveled to Man ipur, Indi a. Mizoram.lnd~
This time we journeyed to M izoram, India, just south o f Manipur along the Burma border. This Exploral"Y Trip 10 the
second trip was necessary due to the facl that the Kuki and Mizo tribes ( the two groups considered BneiMenashe
by many Rabb is to be descendants of the lost tribe of Menasseh) are spl it between these two areas.
Our primary purpose fo r this second trip was to determine whi ch o f these two commun ities has March9-11
the greater need so we can begin outreach where it is most needed . At thi s po int, we are ten tatively Nashville. TN
planning to conduct o ur first Bnei Menashe medical o utreach thi s October or ea rly November.
1ftIB Conference
We will keep you posted as th is develops. I am hoping that a num ber of you will jo in us for this
incredible outreach experience!
.Man:h 16 - 20
We have devoted this issue of our magazine to the cominued threat Israel faces of another war with I5IlIeI
HezboJlah and perhaps even Syria or Iran. 1110se in lhe know in Is rael have told me it is no t an issue Mao! Ministry BNcd Mteling
of M another war will occur, but rather N
if" when" the next war will break o ut None of us who study the
Bible shOUld be surpri sed about everything that is laking place th ere. After all, the prophet 2£chariah
proclaimed that in the Last Days, Israel would be an -immoveab le stone, W haled by the World.
To close o n a positive note, Is rael is about to celebrate her 60 th b irthday as a modern n ation this
May. It was 60 years ago, o n May 14 th , 1948 that David Ben Curio n declared Israel a sovereign State.
rew thought th ey would survive mo re than a few mOlllhs ... but look what the AprIll1-1J
Lord has done! The desert has bloo med a nd Israel co ntinues to grow and Adaati,Q
prosper. We will be celebrating thi s historic event this November when my BedI HaIkI CJngo.,.doii Ewnt
wife Elisangela and I, along with severa l local pastors fro m the Phoenix area,
lead a 12-day teach ing and prayer tour thro ughout the L.. nd . I d o hope you
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4. e a re often incredulous when
W we hear or read testimony
from th ose w ho helped Hit-
ler rise to power cl aim ing, "We didn't
th ink he'd really do it. " We roll our
eyes. How coul d they have do ubted ?
How ma ny times had he promi sed ..
screamed thaI he wo uld ri d Eu rope of
the "vile" Jews?
l/) He always equated the uan n ihil a-
0-
li o n o f the Jewish race " with the advent
of a second Eu ropea n war. The Jewish
People would be h is first target regard-
less of the country Germany wo uld be
at war wi th . [n 1939, he declared himself a proph et and p redi cted the
extermination of Eu ropean Jewry. It was no secret.
He made m any such "religio us" speeches to masses of hysterical
crowds, weep ing and gesturi ng th eir devoti o n. Germa ny was a "Chris-
ff
tian natio n. How d id he captivate so many Christian leaders to fo llow
h im and aband on all t hat they knew in th eir hearts was righ t and true?
FLAME: MK Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Minister o f Israel, has been
traveling and speaking and trying to wake up a sleeping western world. "It's
The Echad Flame is an exclusive 1938 and Iran is Gennany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atom ic
bom bs. ~ He keeps repeating the line over and over, hoping it wi ll sink in .
Di~ne Design pendant b~ Neshama. "Believe h im and stop him," speaking of Irani an President Mahmoud
The pendant is a hrst in ~sual declaration Ahmad inejad. '111is is what we must do. Everything else pales before this. ~
Cri ticizi ng the international com muni ty fo r not acting more fo rce-
of the Lternal names of full y in trying to prevent Iran fro m becoming a nucl ear power, he d raws
a para llel to Nazi Germa ny: "No o ne cared then and n o o ne seems to
Yahweh & Yeshua as One /echad care now." Neta nyahu wa rns th at Teh ra n's nuclear missil e p rogram
The pendant is hand cast in the "goes way beyond the destruct ion of Israel-i t is directed to ach ieve
world-wide range. It's a global p rogram in the service of a mad ideology.
precious metals of heaven, Iran's nud ear ambition s have to be slopped. ~
14 Gold & Sterling Silver and Is anyon e listen ing?
Ah mad inejad, the m adman o f Iran has p romised "a wo rl d with o ut
comes with a lovel~ sterling silver chain. z i o ni s m ~ repeatedly. He has produced multi -med ia p resentatio ns cele-
brat ing th e en d o f [srael, presem ed parades and mass rallies demon-
each pendant will include a strating his weapons, and begun to en act laws restricting freedo m s
Hidden Hebrew Hone~ teaching. with in h is cou n try. Sou n d fa mili ar? The small n umber o f Jews that
remained in the Persian state began th eir exodus last ye ar.
[ran has many will ing panicipants. Hezbo llah, in Leba no n, o n Is ra-
el 's northern border has decl ared their allegiance to Ira n , an d in tu rn has
received deadly weapons to use agai nst [srael. I-I ezb o llah has also
declared their intentio n to begin another war with Israel in comi ng
months. Iran has friends with in Israel as well. Ham as, who took over the
Gaza Strip, is in leagu e with Iran . They have b reached the border wi th
Egypt, allowi ng wea po ns to fl ow into the hands of willi ng terro rists.
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5. uring the firs t th ree decades of
D Israel's modern existence on
world maps, Iran was the on ly
regional Muslim country that had any
public dealings with the Jewish State.
Under Shi ite fundamenta list rule si nce the
late Ayato ll ah Khomeini seized power in
1979, it is now leading a global jihad (0
annih il ate its former friend .
Israeli military intelligence officials
stated in 2007 that the theocratic regime in
Tehran - which cont inues to openly enrich
uranium in defiance of repeated United
Nation's resolutions calli ng for such action
to be immediately halted- will be able to
produce destructive nudear weapons by
the end of 2009 at the latest. Therefore, the
co ming months wi ll be critica l in thwarting
Iran 's nefarious ambitions.
Various local media outlets have
reported th at comprehensive military
plans to derail the Iranian nuclear pro-
gram are being drawn up in Israeli halls o f
power. While details of such plans a re
naturally not being made public, it is
assumed that the operation would be
among the most intricate an d complicat-
ed ever ordered or undertaken by Israeli
military and politica l leaders.
R ealizing that th e wo rl d-renowned
Israeli Air Force (IAF) will play the central
rol e in any armed o peration against Iran,
three senior officers are vying to command
the highly trained force over the next few
years. With current Air Force Ch ief Elazar
Shekedystepping down this April, it seems
highly likely that his successor will oversee
any major strike u pon Iran's th reatening
nuclear program.
Military analysts agree that an exten -
sive campaign against Iran's far flun g
n ucl ea r ta rgets would undoubtedly pose
the greatest challenge that any JAF com-
mander has ever faced. Th e Shiite state's
nuclear facilities - many heavily rein -
fo rced to protect them against foreign
attack- are spread out over dozens o f
locations in most parts o f the sprawling
coun try, which is some six ty tim es the
size of tiny Israel.
More than this, Iran's western border
is over 700 miles east of Israel, with most
potential military targets more than 1,000
miles away, meaning Israel i warpla nes
would need to be refuel ed in fligh t in
order to reach those targets. Many believe
this could not be successfull y accom -
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6. plished wi th out direct American ap proval,
if nOl actual invo lvemenl. ... more than a decade
Securi ty sources tell me that at least
one large U.S. defense contracto r has been before Hitler was
busy over the past year hel ping upgrade
IAF fue l la nk capaci ty 10 support such lo ng
range missio ns. Sti ll , a nalysts agree that
appointed Chancellor of
any massive o peration agai nst Iran ia n
nuclear facilities would be extremely
Germany in 1933-he
daun ting, if not harrowing, even with full
sca le America n tactical su ppo rt and/ or told supporters at
mi lita ry part icipation .
a rally "If Iam ever
HAMA.'1 AND HITLER
Yet the apparen t need for an IAF cam -
paign against Iran is mOTe th an obvious to
really in power, the
most Israelis, given that extremist Ira nian
President Ma hmoud Ahmad inejad has
destruction of the Jews
made it abundantly clear that his country
has no intention of halting its urani um will be my first and
enrichm ent program, nor its production of
long range, North Ko rean designed missi les most important task:'
capable of attacki ng targets thro ugh out
Israel and the Middle East.
Officials in Jerusalem had ho ped that the start, fearing th at the U.S.-led Western clerical backers will not succeed in repeat-
George W. Bush would order an American coaliti on was "going after th e mouse, Sadd- ing that horrendous score, or even wo rse,
military assault againsl lran before he leaves am, allowi ng the rat next door- Iran- to in exceedi ng it.
offi ce in Ja nuary 2009. I lowever that pos- go free" (as one of them put it to me), most last November, Air Force Commander
si bili ty seemed to disappea r when 16 U.S. Israeli politicians and analysts do not exped Shekedyasked the head of his history depart-
Intell igence age ncies issued a report last the Comm ander in Chief to seemi ngly ment, Lieutenant Co lonel Motti Habakuk,
December slating "wi th high co nfi dence" brush asi de the controversial U.S. intell i- to co mpose a research pa per comparing
tha t Iran had halted its nuclear weapon's gence estimate and take on Iran. publ ic anti-Semitic statements made in the
program in 2003 . If Israel is forced to go it alone, it wi ll 1920s and 30s by Hitler with those uttered
Israeli offi cia ls agree that the cl andes- of course nOl be the fi rst time in history more recently by the rogue Iranian Presi-
ti ne program was frozen soo n after US and th at Ih is is the ease, or the first time that a dent. When he read the emotion al report,
British fo rces toppled Sadda m Hussein Persian leader has vowed to destroy the the ma ny simi lari ties it contained shocked
from power in Iraq in March of th at year, Jewish people. As Hama n's evil decree to the retiri ng IAF ch ief, who then ordered th at
but add th at they possess incontrovertible w ipe out all the Jews throughout the Per- every pil ot in h is vaulted force be issued with
evi dence that it was restarted again in late sia n Empi re was overtu rned by Israel's God a copy so thal they understood the full mag-
2005 . Therefore, the task of thwarting Iran's in a ncient days- using a beautiful Jewish nitude of the threat Iran is posing to Israel's
declared goal of wi pi ng the reborn Jewish wo ma n and her gua rd ia n uncle as Hi s very existence today.
State off of (he wo rl d map will see mingly agents- so many Israelis earnestly pray One paragraph in the research paper
fa ll on Israel's shoul ders alone. tha t thei r powerful God will miraculously was sa id to have pa rticularly startled the IAF
Bush stated du ring his firs t offi cial visi t intervene once again to thwart Iran's ini q- com mander. It noted that in 1922- more
as President to Israel last January that he uitous vow to annihi late the world's only than a decade before Hitler was appoi nted
still cons iders Iran a "grave threat to regio n- Jewish State. Chancellor of Germany in 1933 - he told
al peace and st ab i l ity ~ even if the Shiite Ha man's dem ented designs were supporters at a ra lly "If I am ever really in
regi me has indeed halted its nucl ear wea p- ch ill ingly echoed during the last centu ry power, the destructi on of the Jews will be my
ons progra m. Th is raised some hopes in in Nazi leader Adolph Hitl er's detenn ina- first and most im portan t task. ~ Soon after he
Jerusalem th at the lame-duck American lion to set up a ul l 1ird Reich on the rot-
N
was elected presi dent in a rigged vote in
leader might still order a mi litary stri ke on ting bo nes o f world Jewry. As hi story sadly 2005, Ahmadinejad spoke at a govemm en t-
Ira nian nuclear facilities, and possi bly oth - co nfirms, th e wicked German leader fu nded conference titled "A World Without
er targets in the Musl im natio n as well. slaughtered over o ne thi rd of Eu ropea n Zionism. He stated bluntly that "Israel
U
However, given th at a majori ty of Amer- and North Africa n Jews du ring his ten must be wiped off the map "- an omi nous
icans now express oppos ition to the Bush- yea rs in power. Israeli leaders are deter- statement he has repeated in va ri ous forms
initiated war in Iraq (which some of my mi ned that his contem po rary counterpart,. many times si nce then.
Israeli security co ntacts were wary of fro m Mahmoud Ah madi nejad, and his Shiite
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7. For Left: CHILLINGLY REMINISCENT of Hitler's moss
rallies, this photo captures Ahmadinejad utilizing
the very same techniques to rouse the passians of
his people.
"LIGHT SURROUNDED ME AS SOON AS I SAID "IN
THE NAME OF GOD ~ and I was surraunded by a
light until the end ofmy speech. I felt the atmosphere
had changed there, and for 27-28 minutes all the
leaders didn't blink." Thus describes Ahmadinejad
of his September 2005 speech before the U.N. He
believes thaI he is the one chosen to bring the Arab
H
Messiah, the "Mahdi or " 12th Imam ."
A WORLD WITHOUT ZIONISM was an impressive
multi-media presentatian and conference held in
Tehran in October 2005 attended by 4,000 students.
Iran's leader warned the world "Anyone who
recagnizes Israel will burn in the fire af the Islamic
nation's fury... Israel must be wiped off the mop."
[.EACE TREATY THIS YEAR? coaliti on panners, the Russian im migrant never agree to accept any treaty wi th "the
Despite the looming nucl ear th reat Yisrael Bei teinu (Israel [s My Home) party Zionist enemy/ even if it leads to the cre-
posed by Iran, George W. Bush sounded just five days after th e current Whi te House ation of a Palestinian state.
very optimistic about the prospects for a occupant wrapped up h is sho rt visit. Party Most Israeli Middle East analysts mai n-
fin al Israeli -Palesti nian peace acco rd this head Avigdo r Lieberman (who had ironi - tai n th at President Bush's rather naive
year. Speaki ng in Rama ll ah during his Jan u- ca lly been the cab inet m in ister assigned to ·vision n that a fin a l peace accord wi ll actu-
ary Middle East visi t, the America n leader keep specia l walCh on the Ira nia n threat) ally become rea lity by January 2009 would
stanled many of his listeners by proclaim- made cl ear th at he coul d not si t in a gov- only be possible if Iran is somehow first tak-
ing that he "believes a peace treaty will be ernmen t that was in dicating its willi ngness en completely out of the pi cture. While there
achieved" before he leaves offi ce in Jan uary to discuss ha nding over po rti ons of Jerusa- is even the slimmest cha nce that it can bomb
2009 . The President sai d it would feature lem to Palestini an co ntro l, as ca ll ed for by Israel into the proverbial Stone Age, radical
the estab lishm ent of a Pal estini an state the visiting American Secretary of Sta te. groups li ke Hamas, Isla mi c Jihad and the
~ l iv ing si de by side in peace with Israel." Yisrael Bei te in u's defecti on bro ught Shiite Lebanese Hezboll ah mi lit ia will never
Most Israeli poli tical ana lysts echoed O lmert's ru ling coa lition down to just 67 accede to a fina l Palestinian-Israeli peace
opposi tion leader Binyami n Netanyahu sea ts in the 120 mem ber Knesset. Analysts accord. Nor wi ll Israel's nasty northeastem
and oth ers who said such a possibility was poi nted out that if the re ligious Shas party neighbor Syria, wh ich is closely a llied with
rem ote in the extreme. They noted that fo llowed suit- as it vowed it woul d if the Ira n and fully ca pable militarily of wrecking
Pri me Minister Ehud O lmert, who hosted Israeli Prime Minister so much as hin ted any treaty on its own .
Bush and Co ndolee.zza Rice, was scraping during negotia tio ns that he was prepared
the botto m of th e popularity barrel in all to hand over any pon io n o f Judaism's
Israeli opin ion surveys, an d was th erefore holiest city on earth to Arab Musli m con-
in no position to win pub li c or Knesset trol- the Kadima led govern ment would
approval for what would undoubtedly be a probably co ll apse.
highly controversia l peace treaty. At the The fact that Palestinian Authority chief
very least, a fina l accord would most likely Mahmoud Abbas lost total control over
mandate the uprooting of hund reds of nearly half of his people last June, when the DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-
th ousands of Jews fro m their beloved Gaza Strip violen tly fell to radical Hamas hil~prl ~ l lThm ~ nrl jnllrn~ l i~t w hn
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Judea and Samaria, if not the re-divisio n of tions that Olmert's Arab counterpart is in may order his books and sign up
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8. Iran's
Nuclear
Threat:
IS It
n one of the most bizarre twists of U.s. 1. Fissi le ma teri al (enriched uranium) the officia l report, the scarier it beca me:
I foreign policy si nce the American army
fo u nd no weapo ns o f mass destruction
in Iraq, the u.s. intelligence com munity
could be diverted to hidden nuclear
si tes to create nuclear weapons.
2 . IriJJL bas lh~ l~d llli (a l a lld iwJuslr ial
N lranian entities are continuing to develop
a range of technical capabiliti es th at could
be a ppl ieu to producing nuclear weapons, R
delivered a stunning about-face in their capacity to build a bo mb. reads the report. Really?
assessm ent o f Iranian nucl ear ambitio ns. 3. Iran could produce a nucl ear weap- Here is what th e U.S. agencies are rea l·
All 16 U.S. intelli gence agencies have on anyti m e from 2010-2015. Iy saying, concludes Horowitz. NThe Irani-
concluded that Iran Slopped pu rsuing a ans are bent on achievi ng a nucl ear weap-
nuclear weapons develo pment program in Not much different at all from what o ns capabi lity, have the skill s to d o so and
the fall of 2003, due to, they say, interna- they said two years ago! So why th e sudden have established covert p rograms for doing
tional pressure. change in conclusions by the American so, are d eterm inedly expanding the uran i-
Actually, the truth is that before Mah- intelligence commun ity? um enri chment activities crucia l to such a
moud Ahmadinejad came on the Iranian In an article called N Bushwhacked Nby goal, and can be expected to agai n switch
scene (August 2005), me world community the Jerusalem Post's Editor-in-Chief David to covert stra tegies when L hey make their
really didn't put a lot of pressu re on Iran to Horowitz, he writes that afte r a dose reading final push for a nuclear device. (Jerusalem
R
stop their nuclear weapons program because of the material re leased from the National Post, 7De(07)
their focus was elsewhere-in Iraq and IrHell igence Estimate. he has come to the
Afghanistan. But the U.S. National Intell i- conclusion th at the May 2005 report and the AGENDAS SHAPE CONCLUSIONS
gence Estimate (NlE) last month gives no December 2007 report are basically the One of th e mosl astute observers in
o ther clue as to why Iran's plans to make same. What is clear, Horowitz says, is that Israel, Yuval Steinitz, m ember o f the Knes-
nuclear bombs came to a dead stop in 2003 . Iran "has made huge strides towards a nude- set's Foridgn Affairs and Defense Commit-
l wo years ago in May 1005 the 16 U. S. ar capability. Ind ispuL.bly it is constantly tee and head of its subco mmittee on intel-
intelligence agencies reported in their NIE improving its uranium enrichment ca pabi li- ligence, says both the U.S. and Israel agree
N
Nwit h high co nfi de nce that Iran cu rrently is ties. At best it is only a couple of years from
N that Iran's "civilian uranium enrich ment
determined to develop nuclear weapo ns. N a bomb, if not sooner. p rogram is continuing and could one day,
Last month th e same 16 agencies reported, Besides, Horowitz reminds us, Tehran fair ly quickly, turn in to a m ilital)' program
NWe judge with high confidence th at in fall holds the world's second largest oil and easily capable o f producing a bom b.
2003, Teheran halted its nuclear weapons natura l gas reserves. He points out that Steinitz explains the results of what he
program . "investing colossa l sums of money in u ra- ca lls the N dulum syndro me Nthat affects
pen
What is striking about this latest NIE nium enrichment and related activit ies for many intelligence agencies. c i11e U.S. H is
assessment is th at it basical ly repeats what it the sa le pu rpose of developin g alternate i nflu enced, ~ he says, Nbya po litical agenda
publicized in 200S-but with vel)' different energy sources is precisely zero." and is still trau matized by the blatant intel -
conclusions. The recent analysis continues: He states that the further he got into ligence fa ilure vis-a-vis Iraq's alleged WMD,
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9. WILL SANCTIONS HELP? IS WAR IMMINENT?
But what were the u.S. intell igence offi- A1most certainly, the NIE conclusions
cials thinking when they released such a have put the kabash on a U.S. military strike
report? Did they not know that they would on Iran's massive nuclear facilities during
take the wind out of all President George W. the remainder of George W. Bush's term. Yet
Bush's attempts to pull together the United one th ing is for sure. Israel cannot enterta in
Nations Secu rity Council to impose stronger the slightest poss ib ility of a first-mike
sanClions against Iran? Wouldn't they be against her, as one nuclear bomb would
aware that their assessment would embold- obliterate the Jewish state.
en Iran and its radical leader Mahmoud That possibility may bring Israel to face
Ahmadinejad, to actually speed up their the need for a pre-emptive strike. But the
nuclear programs, bOlh overt and covert? chances of success are not very great. There
Israeli officials aCross the board believe are hundreds of known nuclea r sites in [ran
that sanctions could make the difference. and Israel's air force assets are small com-
Heavy sanctions could so hurt the Iranian pared to u .S. missi le capabilities.
economy that the ayatollahs could be forced uThere are multi ple targets, all well -
protected, (plus] fu ll Iranian awareness that
Israel has them within range, reflects edi -
N
tor Horowitz. Besides lhat, Iran has the
expenise and the raw malerials LO rebuild
after any attack, "and a terrifying Iranian
capacity LO retaliate. W
Yet it may fall to Israel to choose
between accepting a nuclear [ran or goi ng it
and therefore does not alone to knock them out. Indeed, if th e aya-
want to be caught crying LOllahs do get the bomb, U they wouldn't
wolf again. Israel, on the even have to use it in order lO totally destroy
alher hand, must main- our Israeli economy and shatter our ltaliult-
tain a worst case scenario al psyche, obselVes Horowitz.
W
point of view. One single Another incredible da nger wou ld be if
miscalrulalion in assess- Iran supplied Hizbullah or some other ter-
mem could mean the rorist group with a nuclear weapon. ulran
end of Israel. seems to be gaining the upper hand, writes W
U A5 a result of these Horowitz. "For when all the nuances of the
traumas, explains Stein-
W latest American intell igence estimate are
itz, ueach country inter- digested, th e fu ndamental message is that
This October 1003 photo from the Notional Council of Resistance
prets the situation a li ttle offron, claimed to showa secret nuclear area being developed in Iran, as th ings sland, is serenely enriching
differen tly. Israel takes the Natanz. centrollron, to help create weapons of mass destruction the material it needs for a bomb and will
more stringent track, since within three yeors. Spokesman for the group Firouz Mahvi SQid it be able LO weaponize as soon as it wan ts
it is better to be safe than has gathered evidence of clandestine research and uranium to." (II' 7Dec07)
sorry. America takes the enrichment. (A1>PHOTO/NCOllIHO) Wi th out ever detonating a nuclear
more lax approach, so as weapon, Iran could wreak havoc both in
not to find itself in the midst of an unjustifi- to stop thei r nuclear pursuits. Sanctions are terms of international serurity and the
ablewar.~ (IP 7Dec07). the only hope for avoiding a war-now or world economy.
When it is all sai d and done, Israel and later- according to Israeli thinking. Analyst Yaakov Katz reminds at the same
the U. S., and even some European coun - But Conservative columnist Daniel Pipes time, however, Israel is aware that even if it
tries agree on the dangers. The unanswered fears that the NIE has greatly damaged the might be left alone 10 deal with Iran militari-
question is what is the time line? Is it 2009 chances that the U.N. Security Council will ly, it will need American assistance. ,Iithout
as Israel fears? Or is it 2010-2015 as the NIE now impose tougher sana ions. He fears that the codes to American fighter jets in the
estimates? the U.N. resolution will be so watered down region- particularly those operating over
Former Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz, that it will have liu.le impaa on Mr. Ahmadinejad Iraq and Afghanistan- an attack by Israel's
who is in charge of strategic dialogue wi th and company. He lashed out at the American air force would go from extremely diffiruh to
the U.S. on Iran, simply says that the U.s., intelligence agencies, calling them ushort_ almost impossible. When [srael requested
Europe and Israe l do not know enough sighted, small mi nded, blatandy part isa n intel- these codes in 199] during the First Gulf War
about Iran's attemp ts to develop nuclear ligence bureaucrats, trying to hide unpleasant to respond to Saddam Hussein's Srud attacks
weapons. The intelligence esti mate can realities, which he believes will engineer tlleir on Israel, the u.S. said no and the Israeli
N
simply be interpreted in many ways. own nightmare. (www.Daniel-Pi pes.org). planes stayed at their bases.
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10. Katz em phasizes that Israel should be somewhat unperturbed, even wilh this infor-
investing great effort in making sure that if the mation . The reason being lhat we all know
time comes, the U.S., its Number One ally, will what the Bible promises: [srael will never
deliver the needed assistance. ([bid.) cease being a nation before God (Jeremiah
31:36), o ne day all Israel will be saved,
ISRAEL'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE (Romans 11 :26) and God Himself w ill fight
GLOBAL STRUGGLE fo r Israel (Zechariah 14:3 ).
[sraeli Jo urnalist Menash e Amir puts it Israel wi ll not be thrown into th e sea.
this way. The ayatollahs have th ree ambitions However-and this is a very big uhowever w_
they plan to accomplish in three phases. the Bible does not say how many wars Israel
will have to go th rough before the end comes,
1. They want to deSlroy Israel. Th ey see before Israel is saved-both physica lly and
it as a religious imperative. "We are spiri tuall y.
on occupied Musli m territory. We must The prince of Persia, of whom the angel
be removed. W Gabriel spoke to Daniel, is obviously on the
2. They want to assert leadership over war path again. Gabriel explai ned to the
the Muslim world. And they are usi ng prophet that he, Gab riel, had no one fi ghting
A NUCLEAR REACTOR mode in Russio and Israel and the Pal estinia n issue as the with him except Mi chael, Israel's prince.
being prepared (or shipment to Bushehr in foca l point to draw the Musli m world (Daniel 10:20 )
Iron
behind them . If you will bear with me, [ d on't believe
3. Further off. they want to co nfront the success of Israel's mi litary in this existen-
T
o make a bomb, Teheran must
obtain uranium. One place we Christianity and Western culture- to tial struggle is dependent on how many Rus-
know that Iran has attempted to defeat the infidels. (Ibid., 15Dec 06) sian Jews im migrate to Israel, although th is
purchase (and may already have re- pheno meno n is clearly prophesied in the
ceived) uranium is from mines in the ConselVative opinion makers such as Old Testament. Nor is it dependent on bring-
Congo. A hidden shipment of uranium Daniel Pipes believe that the NIE report could ing Jews from Ethiopia or any other country
from there was discovered on a routine bring war closer than ever. "'The NIE has sent a to the land, although the Word of God prom-
check as it went through Tanzania in signal, sa)'5 Pipes, "to the apocalyptic- minded
W ises this will happen. It isn't even how many
Cktober 2005 on its way to Iran. (The leadership in Tehran that the danger of external hospitals or orphans Ch ristia ns give to in
Sunday Times, 6Aug06) Uranium in its sanaions has ended, that itcan go undisturbed Israel, or how many trees lh ey plant -
natural state usually has 0.7% uranium- about its bomb-building business. ~ [f the NIE alth ough th ese are good and righteous things
235, a name for a type of atom with a weakens the already shaky U.N. resolve 10 to do, and should be done.
certain number of neutrons (called invoke sanaions then the only solutio n 10 SlOp Before you wonder where I am going,
isotopes). Nuclear reactors for civilian Iran would be an attack-either by the U.S. or let me simply put the emphasis where [
use run on low-enriched uranium (LEU) Israel. (www.Daniel Pi pes.org) think it should be. Israel's future is depen -
which usually needs 3% - 5% of urani- 'Ihe day [ finished this article, I woke up 10 dent on Jew ish men, women and chil d ren
um-235. That means the uranium must the headlines: Avi Dichter: U.S. report on [ran turning back to the God of Israel, repenting
be enriched -which is what Iran claims may lead to a 'Yom Kippur' war. Avi Diner is of th eir sins an d receiving the atonemelll of
she is doing - for ~peaceful purposes.w Israel's Public Security Minister and former head God's sacrificial Lamb, Yeshua. Help will come
The uranium is enriched by changing of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and proba- from the Lord as more and more Israelis
its molecular makeup and extracting bly knows as many of Iran's secrets as any west- turn their faces towards heaven, pleading for
the desired uranium-235 isotope. The erner alive. He warns that Israel could suffer a mercy a nd help from above. The angel Michael
enriched uranium is placed in a nuclear surprise attack from Iran just as she did on Yom will bring in His troo ps at th e Lord's direc-
reactor, which initiates and controls a Kippur of 1973 when the combined annies of tives when the Jewish people call on Him to
steady nuclear chain reaction produc- Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. (Ibid., 18Dec do so.
ing energy and electricity. However, 07) For the first few days of that war, it appeared The Gospel must be preached to the
the danger to the Free World is that that Israel might be thrown into the sea. Once Israeli people. It's that simple.
Iran can take their growing stock of again, the God of Israel did not let that happen,
LEU and can rather quickly reconfigure but Israel lost more than six thousand soldiers
the uranium into HEU, highly enriched within three weeks.
, --.'
urilnium or 90% urilnium-235 - which SHIRA SORKO- RAM w ith Jonathan Bemis
can be used in nuclear weapons, if they WHAT SHOULD BE on our new set. Shira and Ari Sarko ·Ram are
THE REACTION OF the Foundersof Maozlsrael, a Messianic Jewish
,'1
have perfected the techniques. HEU is
m inistry in Israel comm ined to eva ngelism,
also the ingredient used to produce BELIEVERS~
d iscipleship and humanita rian aid. Please visit
plutonium, the ultimate isotope-of- [t might be th e tenden- WlNw.Maoztsraei.org for more informa ti on.
choice for making nuclear bombs. cy of born-again believers,
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Jews or Ch ristians, to be
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11. PROPHECY & TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES •
•
T a lyOel SIO
n January President Bush visited Israel
BY/ANMARKELL Tha Will Not Die
might think that the Palestinian and Arab ing and thrives on hatred. [n the past, those
I with many goals in mind. He longs to
see a Palestinian state before he leaves
office in January of 2009. He visited with
world could tone down theirami-[srael rheto-
ric for just three days. Instead, during his visiL
the Palestinian media intensified their de-
pushing this process along indicated that it
came with a stiff price: "'The United States
will not support the establishment of a Pales-
many leaders in Israel and the Arab world mands calling once again for the destruction tinian state, the President said in his speech
H
as it concenlS the threat of lslamo-fascism. oflsrael. As the President was in Israel talking of June, 2002, "unti l its leaders engage in a
He addressed Arab oi l leaders and warned peace, Palestinians were reigning rockets sustained fight against the terrorists and dis-
them of destabilizing the world with high down on Israeli cities. In Gaza, 20,000 terror- mantJe their infrastructure." And yet as it
prices. And he cominued to push his mes- ists were chanting about 8Bush the vampire~ stands today, even a portion of Jerusalem wil l
sage that all nations-even Islamic nations as he was promoting their cause This can be carved up and given to jihadists. Secretary
steeped in Sharia law and loving it-really only be strong delusion on the part of those Rice announced on Air Force One in January,
want and deserve true democracy. that think this idea is going to work! according to colum nist Jeff Jacoby, thai that
As Christian commentator Cal lhomas Cal Thomas continues, 8[(, after a[ 1 of policy has gone by the boards, replaced by
writes, uE.xj,ibiling far greater faith than believ- Israel's concessions, her enemies (who are one less focused on achieving peace than on
ing Jesus could walk on water, the President also America's enemies) have failed to take a maintaining a Hpcacc process."
asserted that 'peace' could be had between Isra- single step towards peace, what makes any- It would seem that the Bush admi nistra-
el, the Palestinians, and her Arab neighbors." o ne think that more concessions will tum a tion should be treating the troub lemakers as
The world has been in that delusion o ne-way street into a two-lane highway? the root of the problem, allowing them no
for years now. The delusio n that peace and H freedom is for everyone, why don't
lf assistance of any kind, much less a move-
stability in the Mideast and world will be those in oppressed Arab and Muslim states ment toward statehood, thereby rewarding
greatly furthered if there can be a Htwo-state overthrow their dictatorial leaders? Why terrorism. It would seem the statement Hwith
so luti on~ with Israelis and Palestinians liv- don't these 'un-free' people support the free- us or with the terrorists" has been dropped
ing side by side on God's covenant [and. dom in those countries to which some flee because the sentiment is o ne of bestowing
Does no one recal[ that since 1937 there instead of seeking to undermine them and statehood upon a regime thatstandsunequiv-
have been 18 formal attempts by commis- separate themselves from cu lture and nation- ocally wim lhe terrorists!
sions, conferences, resolutions, summits and allife? Their idea of freedom is to be free of It wou ld appear that America is lead-
more to persuade the Jewish lamb to liedown our freedom and impose Sharia law on all. ~ ing the global charge for the who le world
with the Arab lion? The deception and delu- The delusional push for Mideast peace in this travesty. Our nation's teaders need
sion is that the Palestinians, in conjunction which witl lead to world peace will on ly prayer for wisdom and guidance even if
with Arab and Muslim states, will stop trying bring on more instability and war-a nd they reject the results.
to destroy Israel if a new state is created in the particularly for America's only true ally in It's as bizarre as Alice's Wonderland
region. Such a state would on ly flood Israel that region, Israel. and th ere are a lot of Cheshire cats grinning
with even more enemies and encourage those Yet the White House and State Depart- in the Arab world because they know
committed to Israel's destruction. ment remain committed to achieving peace they've seduced America and other world
With the President's good intent o ne even tJ10Ugh one side glorifies suicide bomb- powers into believing lies and myths.
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12. • GUEST AU TH OR
Haftarah teachings, the Lord says,
Nthey shall dwell in rlleir land that
The Biblical
have given 10 my servatlt Jacob. And
/.hey shall dwell safely therein, and shall
build houses, and plam vinC)'ards; yea,
they slwll dwell willI confidellce, whell ,
have executed judgments lipon all those
thar despise rlJCm round about them;
Connection and /.hey shall Imow rhat , am /he
LORD their God."
The Torah reading for the week of
January 12 was Exodus 10: 1-13 : 16.
As President Bush was visiting five
to President Bush's
Middle Eastern Arab countries to discuss
the land of Israel, Iran, and Middle East
democracy, the Torah an d Haftarah spoke
of pl agues a nd judgment
Trip to Israel
NHow 100lg wilt IIwu refuse 10 hum/JIe
IIlyself before mer Let my people go, tllat
rhey lIIay serve lIIe. Else, if rhou refuse 10
let Illy people go, be/wid, 1Omorrow will ,
bring tile locusts inw thy wast And they
shall cover the face of the earth, tlwt one
By BILL KOENIG CilllllOt be a/JIe to see the earth: and they
shall ear rile residue of that which is
escaped, which remainelh unw you frolll
President George W. Bush came to Israel on a very rhe hail, and shall eat every rree which
significant date and week to discuss the division of the growetll for you oul of the field. "
NAnd the LORD said unlO Moses,
covenant land and the future ofJerusalem. Stretch ou/. thine hand over the land of
Egypt for tile locusts, thar they may come
n the Hebrew Calendar, Jan 8-9, The Torah reading for the week of up UpOIi IIJC lalld of Egypt, mId eat every
O 2008, sunset to sunset, was a New
Moon, which is very significant on
the biblical calendar. It was the date of Shevat
January 5 was Exodus 6:2-9.
The Torah a nd Haftarah readings for
the weeks of January 5 and Ja nua ry 12
herb of rlJC land, even all that rlJC hail
hath left. Alld Moses stretched fOITh his
rod over the land of Egypr, and /he
1, the first day o f the 11 th m onth. The New were very reveal i ng, too. LORD broughl an east wind upon tile
Moon is always sandified or set apart. The President Bush was in Israel from Ja n- land ail that da)j and all tllaf night; and
biblical significance ofil was not only being uary 9 to Jan uary II. He then traveled to when it was morning, the east willd
just the first of this particular month, but Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emir- brought the locusts. "
what happened on this very day, the first day ates, and arrived in Saudi Arabia o n Mo n-
The Haftarah readi ng for the week of
of the 11 th month, 3400 yrs ago: Deuterono- day, January 14, for three days and two
Jan uary 12 was Jeremiah 46: 13-28.
my 1:3,8: "And it happened, in the fortieth ni ghts before traveling to Egypt o n
The Haftarah reading stated, the word
year, in the eleventh m onth, on the first of the Wednesday, Ja nuary 16.
that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the
month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel When President Bush was in Israel, the
prop her, how Nebuchadrezzar king of
according to all that God had commanded Torah teachings were God's reminder to
Babylon should come and smite the land
him concerning them; Behold, [ have set Moses that He had established a covenant
of Egypt but destruction cometh; it cometh
before you the land; go in and possess the with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give them
out of the north.
land which the LORD has sworn to your the land of Canaan; God stated that He
fathers, to Abrah am, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to remembered that covenant; He would take "71w LORD of hosts, the God of'smel,
give to them and to their seed after them. N them to be His people; He would release saith; Behold, , will pUliish the multi-
This was not only the first day of the them from the burdens of the Eb'YPtians; tl/de of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt,
eleventh mon th, but it was also the forti- and He will b ring them to the land that He with t/leir gods, and tlleir hillgS; even
eth year since Jerusalem, Judea and Sama- gave them for their heritage. Pharaoh, and allrhem lhat lnLSl in him:
ria and the Gola n Heights were reca ptured The Haftarah readi ng for the week of And' will deliver them infO the hand of
by Israel in 1967. Jan uary 5 was Ezekiel : 28:25-29:21, in the tllOse that seell their live.(, "
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13. N Israel: for, bellOld, I ufill salle thee
O
from afar off, and th y seed from the Imrd
of their captivity; mid Jacob shall n:!tunr,
alld be in rest and at ease, atld tlotle shall
make him afraid."
Bitter Cold, Rain, Wind and Cloudy Skies
Accompanied President Bush's "Red
Carpel" Ceremonies in the Middle East
When President Bush vis ited Israe l,
th ere were mostly sunny skies and te mper-
atures in the 50s. However, when he was
received by the Arab leaders, there was bit-
ter cold, rain and winds that affected six of
his "red-carpet welco m e~ ceremo nies and
numerous other activities.
Wednesday, January 9: Presi dent Bush
arrived in Te l Aviv, Israel, 10 a red-carpet
welcome during mostly sunny skies and
temperatures in the high 50s.
Thursday, January 10: A very rare L n-o
don-style fog in Jerusalem and in Rama llah
thwarted President Bush's travel plans for
his meeting in RamaJlah with Palestin ian
President Mahmoud Abbas. Rather than tak-
ing Marine One for a IS-minute helicopter
ride, he was forced to take a 45-minute ride
in his 45-car-and-SUV-security caravan.
O nce in Ramal lah, where he received a
red carpet welcome by Preside nt Mahmoud
Abbas, the temperature was in the low to
mid-20s, windy and doudy. When the
Bush-Abbas press bri efin g was co mpl eted,
the sun came out.
Friday, January II : President Bush
departed Israel o n a very sunny and beau ti -
fu l day in Israel after to uring Yad Vashem
and Ca pernaum. 111e temperature was in
the high 50s and low 60s.
Friday, January 11 : President Hush
received a red-carpet welcome from the
Amir Sheikh Sabah AI-Ahmad AI-Saba h in
Kuwait as the thermostat was rapid ly dro p-
ping. Prior to his departure the next day the
weather was extre mely cold.
North of Kuwait, light snow fell in Bagh-
dad early on Friday in whal weather officials
said was the first time in 100 years tempera-
Top: PRESIDENT BUSH meets in Ramollah with
Mahmoud Abbas
Center: JANUARY 9, 2008 - President Bush's arrival
in Israel, here with Prime Minister Ehud almert (R)
and Israeli President Shimon Peres (L)
Bottom: PRESIDENT BUSH WITH CROWN PRINCE
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed AI Nayhan near Abu
Dhabi. SOUIKE; www.w~dl.0f9
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14. tures plunged to 32 degrees and colder. and relatio ns in the Middle East was jeop- Burns, number three at the State
Saturday, January 12: President Oush ardized later o n Wednesday by Israeli Department, has been a close coll eague of
received a red-carpet welcome from Hamad Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman, Ms. Rice for almost 20 years and she has
Bin Isa Al-Khalifa at his palace in Manama, withdrawing the " members in his party, trusted him as the point ma n fo r U.S. pol-
Bahrain, during a very cold and windy day. Israel Beiteinu, from Ehud O lmert's coali- icy not only o n Iran, but Kosovo and the
Su nday, January 13: President Bush tion leaving O lmert with a coalitio n with u.S. nuclear pact with India.
received a red-carpet welcome fro m Presi- 67 of the Knesset's 120 seats. After 26 years as a top notch, soft-spo-
dent Sheik KhaHfa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in If eigh t more Knesset members leave ken career diplomat, Burns Nhas decided it
Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, dur- Olmert's coalition, it would put his gov- was time for him to retire from the Fo reign
ing a rainy and dreary day. ern ment in da nger of collapse a nd very SelVice," Rice to ld reporters in a surprise
Monday, January 14: President Bush likely force new elections un less he cou ld a nnouncement.
was welcomed to Dubai, United Arab Emir- find others to joi n his coalition. His retirement came at a crucial time
ates by Vice President and Prime Minister for the administration of President George
of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh w. Bush's fo reign policy agenda amid no
Mohammed bin Rashid al -Maktoum, dur-
ing a rainy and overcast day.
AFP wrote he was upbeat b reakthrough in U.S. led efforts to boost
sanctions against Iran over its sensitive
President Bush received a red-carpet
welco me from King Abdu ll ah at the illler- about what even some nuclear program as we ll as to end North
Korea's nuclear weapons drive.
n<llion<ll <lirpon in RiY<ldh, S<ludi Ar<lhi<l, in Rin" <lcknowlf'cigecilhal R11Tns' ciepar-
the midst of biuer cold, brisk winds and of America's closest allies ture would be a big loss.
temperatures in the low 20s. The welcome Plus, there was a week of big losses in
ceremony was rapidly moved inside after
President Bush deplaned from Air Force
say is an unexpected and the stock market, which ended o n Friday,
Ja nuary 18, with the Dow Jones industrial
One and after the Saud i band played the
US and Saudi national anthems. The previ-
ambitious drive. An average fa ll ing 59.91 poi nts, to 12,099.30.
The New YOril Times wrote that modest
ous week had summer-like temperatures.
Tuesday, January 15: President Bush Israeli-Palestinian agree- decli ne capped a four-day 678-point
plunge that left Wall Street traders and
awoke to snow flur ries at King Abdull ah's everyday investors wondering if the worst
ra nch with temperatures in the high 30s ment has eluded U.S. was over - or yet to come.
and wind. The overnight temperature was Moreover, despite President Bush's
32 degrees.
Wednesday, January 16: President
presidents for forty years. pleading throughout his Middle East stops
to increase oil production, most members
Bush left a frigid Riyadh Wednesday morn- of the Orga nization of Peuoleum Export-
ing for his two-hour fligh t to Egypt. He The Shas Party, the party of the Ortho- ing Countries, which pumps 40 percent of
made a brief stop in Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt dox Jews, has threatened to leave Olmert's world oil, said the cartel should mai ntain
to visit with Egyptian President Hosni coali tion ifhe tampered with Jerusalem or its production level at its official meeting in
Mubarak. It was a beautiful sunny day with the Temp le Mount, they have 12 Knesset the Austrian capital on Friday, February 1.
temperatures in the low 60s. members. The freeze is a deliberate snub of Presi-
In the first day back in his office, Pres- dent Bush, who urged OPEC to hike output
The Afte rmath of Bush's Visit to Israel ident Bush huddled with the US Treasury to help further reduce high oi l prices that
Th e First 48-Hours: President Bush Secretary Henry Paulso n on an emergency stall economic growth and fuel inflation.
closed an eight-day Mideast trip Wednes- stimu lus package for the US eco nomy.
day, January 6, wi th a meeti ng wi th Egyp- The next day, Friday, January 18, Presi-
tian President Hosni Mubarak at Sharm al dent Bush presented a proposal of $ 145
Sheikh, Egypt. AFP wrote he was upbeat billion worth of tax relief as part of a plan
about what even some of America's closest to stimulate the U.S. economy amid fears
all ies say is an unexpected and ambitious that the subprime mortgage crisis, high BilL KOENIG is the President of
drive. An Israeli-Palesti n ia n agreement has energy costs, and faltering consumer confi- "Koenig·s International News." The
daily news service has readers in
eluded u .s. presidents for forty years. dence could tip the country into recession . 50 states and 79 countries. As a
The Associated Press wrote Bush had Bush said that Co ngress should work White House Correspondent and
a message for skeptical Arab states whose as soon as possible to send him legisla- a student of the B ible and cur-
help he needs to make any acco rd stick tion to Nkeep our eco nomy growi ng and rent events, Bill has documented
and who doubt the president's intention creati ng jobs." the relationship between U.s.
Mideast policy, and the swift
to personally shepherd a dea l. "I mean later that day, Condoleezza Rice's
consequences when the U.s.
what I'm saying," Bush said. dose coll eague Nicholas Burns announced pressures Israel to divide her Land. He has a web-based
President Bush's peace push in Israel that he was leaving the State Department. report available at: Wllll"Wwatch.org
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15. I
I':1tellif!e':1ce
Report
• Ahmadinejad: End of
':.. when these things begin to toke p/oce.. .Iift up your heods, bemuse your redemption is drawing neor." ,,,,,,,.
Israel is Imminent
• SNOW HOLIDAY: ARare Snowstonn Blankets • Hamas Stages
Jerusalem's Old City Media Coup; Feigns
JERUSALEM, ISRAEl - A rare Humanitarian Crisis
snowstorm swept the Middle H amas staged its most dazzling m coupedia
Eas J
t anuary 3 blanke
0, ting wh it quickly shut off all electric power sup-
en
parts of Israel in white, shut- plies to theestimated 1.5 millionGz Pales-
aa
ting schools and sending ex- tinians under itscontrol, claiming thiS was due
dIedchildreninto thestre for
ets tothe Israeli fuel blockade. The blackout began
30 JA~UAR Y 2008 - Speaking in the town snowball fights. just minutes before A Jazeera's main evening
I
of Bushehr, near the site of Ira s firs! nucle r
n' a , J lem's Old City was
erusa nel1.tscasts in Arabic and English were beamed
power plant being built with Russian help, coated in white. A few ultra- tomillionsof homes in theregionand around
Iranian President Ahmadinejad said today that O rthodox J wearing plastic
ews, the globe. Indeed, thepopular A network
rab
"I s days afe numbered." H declared, "It
srael' e bags over their hats to keep andotherswere live on thescene to report the
is time to end the puppet theatre of the fake them dry, praye and danced
d dram power outage (H political lead-
atic amas
r~ime:referri ng tothe Jewish state. at the Western Wall, Judaism's ers we e filmed holding candles in the
re arlier
H insisted tha Iran will not yield to
e t holiest site. G C parliam building. despite thefact
aza ity ent
western pressureand that Iran isreaching the S now falls in J erusalem that bright afternoon sunshin could be seen
e
-
"peak"ofi tsnuclear program. "If you (Western once or twice each winter, but shining through nearby windows). Israeli of-
powers) imagine that the Iranian nation will temperatures rarely drop low An Orthodox Jewi~h ITlDn sings at the Western Wall ficials countered- rather ineffectively most
backdown, youaremakingamistak heSJid
inthe televised speech.
R
e;
egarding Israel. Ahmadinejad said,"The
enoughfor illO s The Israeli
tick.
weather service said up to 8 ....
durln9 a snow storm In Jerusolem January 30, 2008.
inches of snow fell inthe city, which is extremely rare.
analyst m aintained- by pointing ou that
t
only one internal Palestinian power plant uses
the Is s
raeli uppliedfuel, while over half of the
religious Palestinian people will bring down TheGolan~ei g h ts andthe northern Israeli lownof Sa feD also received ahea (oal of
vy Gaza Slfip'seleciricity comes from Israel's Ash-
the las screen with itspowerful hand on the
t snow, andsnowfell throughout the West Bank. kelon facility, whichwas not at all affected by
Z ionists' puppet theater. It's tim to end the
e Although later inthe day muchofthewhiles turned to slush,the tempsdropped dur-
tuff the border crossingclosures
puppet theater of this fake reqime." ing the night and Jerusalem residentsweretrea toa
ted nother holiday of snowon T hursday.
Turning to theWe51em powers s upport- ., IRrum I'Io:ila/APSouIu)
s
in Israel, he said, ·Th o~e who remain silent
g
in light of this reqime's crim and support it
es
should know that the are taking part in the
y • FIRST TEMPLE SEAL FOUND IN JERUSALEM
bloodshed of the Palestinian people and will
JAN 17, 2008 -A 2,500-year-old black stone seal, whICh has the name
be triedinthe future. ·
"Temech" engraved on it, was found in an excavation under way just out-
D efying international pressure, Iran has
been working on producing its own nuclear side the Old City walls near the Dung Gate.
fuel, technology the West fears will be useD According to the Book of Nehemiah, the Temech family were servants
tomake atomic bombs. T ehran says itswork is of the First Temple and were sent into exile to Babylon following its de-
peaceful and hasrefuseD tos top struction by the Babylonians in 586 BC
Ahmadinejad delivered this speech two The 2.1 x 1.8-cm. elliptical seal is engraved with two bearded priests
days afte taking de
r livery of the eigh and
th
standing on either side of an incense altar with their hands raised forward
final conSignment of nuclear fuel from Russia
for Iran's Bushehr nucle plant.
ar
in aposition of worship. o1IKl;)PoIT.(OII
SOUfK[: H"'III! I PfIOTO: AfP
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