1. The Price of Appeasement: Extracts from Steven Shamrack
From: Steven Shamrak <StevenShamrak_b@mail2world.com>
Extracts Only: For full text send e-mail to author
“United States has openly joined the Muslim war against Israel, and against the United States, and against the rest of the civilized world under the idiotic pretence of building democracy among people who hate democracy as much as they hate everything else that comes from the West, with the exception of money and weapons.” - by Zack Lieberberg.

Britain Suddenly Discovers the "T" Word. "It has long been recognized by the British Islamists, by the British government and by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees a degree of freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt [anovertlypro-terroristIslamist], the terrorist strikes will continue to be planned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here." by Mohamed Sifaoui, the author of Inside Al-Qaeda. (Appeasement of Muslim terrorism has not and will never work. It is only facilitates further escalation of Islamic terror worldwide.) http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2742 http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=646

Bush extends PLO office. President Bush allowed the PLO office in Washington to stay open for another six months. Congress has passed a law ordering its closure, but Bush waived the provision though he noted that the PLO has not met the law’s requirement to end terrorism. Previous presidents also have allowed the office to stay open. (This is how US is fighting Islamic terrorism and disregarding her own laws.)

"This nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will take the fight to the enemy. We will defend our freedom." - President George W. Bush, June 28, 2005. - It is time for Israel to do the same and to not allow any ’friends of Israel’ to interfere in our determination to establish a truly independent Jewish state.

At the end of G8 summit, Tony Blair made a point of announcing personally - one day after the attack on London by Islamic terrorists - the aid package of $3bn a year to help the ‘Palestinians’.
G8 leaders were not able to agree on saving world from global warming, stopping world poverty and ecological destruction in Africa and South America. But wasting money on murderous and corrupt thugs comes naturally to them.

US law prevents using taxpayers' money to fund institutions that support terrorism. This formality does not stop USAID from spending millions on helping Arab Palestinian terrorist organisations. This year, USAID has paid out $7 million to PA universities, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate freely. They recruit suicide bombers from among the students and glorify terror against Israel and USA.

Only recently, US president George Bush has agreed to pay $275 million directly to the Palestinian Authority. This will definitely put more funds in the 'militants' payroll.

2. Brit-AM on Hosea 9: Arab Moslems Liable To Bring Disaster to Ephraim
In our book "Ephraim. The Gentile Children of Israel" (1st edition 1995, 2nd edition 2001)
we pointed out that according to the Hebrew text of Hosea chapter nine "Ephraim" would attempt
a rapport with the Aram Moslems and that this could end in tragedy for Ephraim:
http://britam.org/hosea9.html
Hosea chapter nine
"THEY WILL NOT DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE LORD, EPHRAIM SHALL RETURN TO MITSRAYIM (EGYPT) AND EAT UNSANCTIFIED BROTH IN ASSYRIA (9;3).

"FOR BEHOLD THEY ARE GONE DUE TO LOOTING EGYPT [Mitsrayim], MOPH [Memphis] GATHERS THEM, MACHMAD [i.e. Mahomad* k] BURIES THEM, THEIR SILVER ENSNARED, THE THORN IN THEIR TENTS [tabernacles] INHERITS THEM (9;6).

"THE DAYS OF VISITATION HAVE ARRIVED, THE DAYS OF PAYMENT HAVE COME, ISRAEL SHALL KNOW, THE PROPHET IS EVIL, MAD*l [Hebrew: "Meshuga"] A MAN OF SPIRIT BECAUSE OF YOUR TRANSGRESSION AND OF GREAT HATRED (9;7):
. "Evil is the Prophet, mad is the man of spirit":
This is translated in the KJ (Hosea 9;7) as :"the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad".

"EPHRAIM LOOKED OUT WITH THE GOD OF THE PROPHET, A HIDDEN SNARE ON ALL HIS PATHS, HATRED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS GOD (9;8):.
The said verses may well contain a hint that Ephraim will attempt some type of rapport with "the god of the prophet" and this will not turn out well.

3. Climate Change
The Present Situation: An east to understand interesting introductory scientific overview:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

4. What Was the G-8 Meeting?

Frontpage headlines

http://dublin.usembassy.gov/ireland/washfile2.html

The July 6-8 meeting at the Scottish golf resort of Gleneagles in the United Kingdom brought together U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and U.S. President Bush.
G8 Countries State Common Approach to African Aid, Climate Change

Undaunted by terrorist attacks in London, leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations agreed to effectively double assistance to Africa, advance peace in the Middle East through Palestinian aid, and establish a plan of action to combat global climate change.

The July 6-8 meeting at the Scottish golf resort of Gleneagles in the United Kingdom brought together U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and U.S. President Bush.

At the conclusion of the summit, the G8 released a communiqué detailing their common approach to Africa, climate change, the Middle East peace process, Iraq, and counterterrorism.

5. Proverbs 3:11-18: The Verses

[Proverbs 3:11] MY SON, DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD; NEITHER BE WEARY OF HIS CORRECTION:

[Proverbs 3:12] FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CORRECTETH; EVEN AS A FATHER THE SON IN WHOM HE DELIGHTETH.

[Proverbs 3:13] HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT FINDETH WISDOM, AND THE MAN THAT GETTETH UNDERSTANDING.

[Proverbs 3:14] FOR THE MERCHANDISE OF IT IS BETTER THAN THE MERCHANDISE OF SILVER, AND THE GAIN THEREOF THAN FINE GOLD.

[Proverbs 3:15] SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES: AND ALL THE THINGS THOU CANST DESIRE ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED UNTO HER.

[Proverbs 3:16] LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT HAND; AND IN HER LEFT HAND RICHES AND HONOUR.

[Proverbs 3:17] HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE.

[Proverbs 3:18] SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THEM THAT LAY HOLD UPON HER: AND HAPPY IS EVERY ONE THAT RETAINETH HER.

5. New Immigrants
520 New Immigrants from North America (USA and Canada) arrived on Wednesday in an organized
combined operation.

6. Arab Terrorist Bombing Netanya
The death toll in the bombing in Netanya rose to four on Wednesday after a fourth woman died of her wounds.
Three women were killed outright and 70 more wounded when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded Netanya mall Tuesday evening (JP).

7. IDF LIberate Obliged to Liberate Jenin Again
The IDF re-occupied the Arab city of Jenin capturing and destroying a large amount of explosives and
shooting a PLA (i.e. PLO) militant who engaged them them in gunfire.

8. BC for the Record
Barry Chamish has publicly admitted to being a supporter of the John Birsh Society.
He also believes that Beings from Outer Space are taking over the earth and manipulating
everybody. He has written a book on the subject called "The Return of the Giants"
details of which are listed by Google on about 20 different sites.
BC is a columnist.
The name "Chamish" in Hebrew means "Fifth".
A "Fifth Columnist" is an enemy agent who pretends to be your ally.

9. "Abraham X" is Revello?
Remember "Abraham X" alias "Sonia" alias King Nebuchadnessar
alias several Other Pseudonyms
who wrote insulting lies about us and sent numerous harassing e-mails
to some of those whose e-mail addresses
had appeared in our Postings?
He never would offer a genuine identification of himself.
At all events the person officially responsible for his website is
Alexandro Revello of Italy. Additional evidence strongly indicates
that Revello himself is our culprit.
Revello is listed as an advocate.
He could yet turn out to be a front man for another party but the profile
of Abraham X fits what is known about Revello.
Revello was contacted by both English and Italian speakers but declined to offer
any explanations and broke off contact.
If the offences were not committed by himself he has only to say so.
Registrant:
alexandro revello
Address:
v. guardia piemontese, 5
torre pellice, to 10066
Italy

1. Moslem Hatred of Britain, the USA, and the Jews
"Annihilate the Infidels"
A Study of the Ongoing
Anti-British Religious Hatred in the PA
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

{Excerptds Only]:
Less than 24 hours after the July 7 terrorist bombings in London, a
Palestinian Authority Television sermon called for the extermination of
every single Infidel:
"Annihilate the Infidels and the Polytheists! Your [i.e. Allah's] enemies
are the enemies of the religion! Allah, disperse their gathering and break
up their unity, and turn on them, the evil adversities. Allah, count them
and kill them to the last one, and don't leave even one."
[Suleiman Al-Satari, PA TV, July 8, 2005.

View an excerpt of this sermon online here]
http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Sermon080705.asx

This call for the genocide of all Infidels is particularly striking coming
as Britain was still reeling from the London terror attacks - especially
since PA religious usage routinely includes Britain in the "Infidel"
category.

The following is a review of some of this religious hate expression towards
Britain as reported in the PA media.

Britain is among the Infidels

"The Infidel countries under the leadership of the US made up an excuse and
justification to wage their dirty war [post 9-11 war in Afghanistan] against
Islam and the Muslims... Concerning evil Britain, which directly brought
about this corrupt entity [Israel] on Palestinian land. Britain forgot that
it is the height of terror and the height of hatred against Islam and
Moslems."
[Yusuf Abu Sneina, Iman of Al-Aqsa Mosque, PA Radio, December 28, 2001.

Prayers to Allah to destroy Britain

Dr. Ikrime Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem, highest-ranking Islamic figure in the
Palestinian Authority, just 18 days before the September 11 attacks against
America in 2001:
"Oh, Allah, destroy America and its supporters and collaborators. Oh Allah,
destroy Britain and its supporters and collaborators."
[Ikrime Sabri, PA Radio, August 24, 2001.

"We shall rule Britain"- the ultimate victory is predetermined
"The Palestinian nation is the strongest on earth. Look at all the
civilizations! Look at all the states! Look at all the civilizations and
forces and empires. To where did Great Britain disappear..?
We [Muslims] have ruled the world and a day will come, by Allah, and we
shall rule the world [again]. The day will come and we shall rule America.
The day will come and we shall rule Britain."
[Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, May 13, 2005.

Britain hated because of Israel's existence
"Those [Jews] do not know what a homeland is and do not know what a land
is... Concerning Palestine, it belongs to us...
They came, expelled from every land, came to this country and
claming to have a national homeland on the land of Palestine, with the help
of Britain. That vengeance still stands between us and them; [a vengeance]
that will not be forgotten except by a coward or traitor."
[Ibrahim Mudayris, PATV, April 4, 2004]

"In 1917 of the previous century, Palestine was conquered by Britain, on
whom we place full responsibility for the events in this land. At this
opportunity, we put the responsibility on Britain [for the creation of the
state of Israel] and say: we will never forget our revenge! We will never
forget our revenge on Britain, who cannot escape the burden of its
historical, political and moral responsibility because of what it committed
on the land of Palestine...
"Britain [is the one] that promised them [i.e. Jews] the establishment of a
national homeland on the land of Palestine. Why? Because Britain resented
the Jewish presence there, in Britain, and wanted to be relieved of them..."
[Ibrahim Mudayris, PATV, May 13, 2005.

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Brit-Am Note: The above is ONLY an excerpt. For more examples plus on-line
recordings of the said sermons contact the Palestinian Media Watch
or see
Website: www.imra.org.il
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis

2. Jewish Teenage Girls Killed in Netanyahu by Arab Terrorists
Who Prefer to Attack Women and Children
+++HAARETZ 13 July '05:
"Teenagers killed in Netanya bombing are buried in joint funeral"
[IMRA: We stress again that terrorists prefer to kill women. Suicide
bombers on buses , in dining places or at assembly points such as shopping
malls place women at special risk by getting as close as possible to them
before detonating.]
By Ron Bousso and Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service, and
Agencies
EXCERPTS:

Two 16-year-old girls, good friends from Tel Aviv who were killed in
Tuesday's suicide bombing in Netanya, were laid to rest in a joint funeral
at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Cemetery on Wednesday.

Teenage friends Rachel Ben Abu and Nofar Horvitz were among four women and
girls killed in the bombing. The other two are Yulia Weltshin, 31, and
Anna Lifshitz, 50, who died of her wounds Wednesday. Both were from Netanya.

Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA
Website: www.imra.org.il

3. Statistical Terms of Interest
From: Glen Todd
Average is the familiar "add them all up and divide by the number of items".
Mean (or median) is the one where half of your data points are above and
half are below. Mode is the one that we use here; the most common value.
Mode can NOT have a value that isn't represented in the set of data points.
Average most definitely can. Median is trickier, and depends on whether
you've got an odd or even number both of data points and of unique values.
Glen

Brit-Am Note: These terms can be important. If all the subjects counted are more or less
the same then it does not matter much what term is used but if there is great disparity amongst
them it does. We often use or understand the term "average" in the wrong way.
Example:
If we have 7 persons: One has 70,000 and the other six have 7,000 each
we add up the total and get 77,000 then divide the total by 7 and we have an
average of 11,000 but this would lead us to believe that most of them have
more than they do.
We have:
70,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
The middle number (no.4) is the median number and this gives us 7000
which in this case is a more correct idea of what most people have.
Most people people in our list have 7000 and this is also the modal
because of the figures involved.
If however we had:
70,000
13,000
7,500
6,500
5,000
5,000
5,000
Then the average would still be 11,000
The Median (Middle) would be 6,500
and the modal (most frequent) would be 5,000
Each of these figures are useful.
The Average gives us an idea of how much is spread through the total.
The Median tells us what the "middle" (frequently confused with Average)
situation is.
The Modal lets us know what the most frequent figures are.

4. Royal Descent?
According to a posting I saw recently:
Take any King of England and you will find that in the U.S, Canada,
and the UK there are probably 5 or 6 million people today who can accurately
claim their descendants. The same applies to the Kings of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland
albeit in these cases the number of descendants will probably be less
but they will still be plentiful.

5. Temple Institute
Temple Institute: Interesting Articles on Temple Matters
http://www.templeinstitute.org/main.html

6. Brit-Am Doldrums?
Visits to the Brit-Am Website are down.
Purchases of Brit-Am Publications have Diminished.
The Number of those giving offerings has dwindled.
Fewer people are sending letters.
We are speaking about an organization that at the best of times was sometimes struggling to get by
and with the help of a few good people had only barely managed to pull itself up by its own
bootstraps.
We hope this is only a temporary phenomenon.

Despite the above we are optimistic at present about everything and a have a feeling that the Almighty is on our
side and have received signs to that effect.
You should feel the same.
Please try to understand us, identify with us, and work together with us
as you have done in the past or as others have done before you.
We have a good message and a true one.
The future of Brit-Am and its success is as dependent upon you as much as upon us, if not even more so..

We hope to shortly update the Website and offer new articles of interest.
Badges of metal and cloth depicting the Brit-Am Rose (without any text
or anything else, just the Brit-Am Rose)
will (God willing) be produced.
See the Brit-Am Rose on the spine of our recent publications or at:
http://britam.org/Roses.html
I do not think that production will be overduly expensive and as soon as we have
the money we will go ahead with it.

We have several other projects (publications, advertisements, etc) in preparation
all of which are promising.
Keep Brit-Am in mind.
Yair Davidiy
on behalf of Brit-Am
Jerusalem
Israel

Upcoming Brit-Am Meeting in Jerusalem, all welcome, see next post of
"Brit-Am Now" for details.

7. Proverbs 3:19-27. The Verses
[Proverbs 3:19] THE LORD BY WISDOM HATH FOUNDED THE EARTH; BY UNDERSTANDING HATH HE ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS.

[Proverbs 3:20] BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP, AND THE CLOUDS DROP DOWN THE DEW.

[Proverbs 3:21] MY SON, LET NOT THEM DEPART FROM THINE EYES: KEEP SOUND WISDOM AND DISCRETION:

[Proverbs 3:22] SO SHALL THEY BE LIFE UNTO THY SOUL, AND GRACE TO THY NECK.

[Proverbs 3:23] THEN SHALT THOU WALK IN THY WAY SAFELY, AND THY FOOT SHALL NOT STUMBLE.

[Proverbs 3:24] WHEN THOU LIEST DOWN, THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID: YEA, THOU SHALT LIE DOWN, AND THY SLEEP SHALL BE SWEET.

[Proverbs 3:25] BE NOT AFRAID OF SUDDEN FEAR, NEITHER OF THE DESOLATION OF THE WICKED, WHEN IT COMETH.

[Proverbs 3:26] FOR THE LORD SHALL BE THY CONFIDENCE, AND SHALL KEEP THY FOOT FROM BEING TAKEN.

[Proverbs 3:27] WITHHOLD NOT GOOD FROM THEM TO WHOM IT IS DUE, WHEN IT IS IN THE POWER OF THINE HAND TO DO IT.

Jerusalem News-364
1. SAUDIS ALLOWED TO FUND AL QAIDA
2. International Terrorism This Week
3. Steven Shamrak: We Have the Same Enemy
4. Linda Bedwell: Items in support of Israel...
5. New Age Ideology: Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish

1. SAUDIS ALLOWED TO FUND AL QAIDA
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Extracts Only
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia
continues to allow citizens to finance Al Qaida, including its insurgency
campaign in Iraq.

U.S. officials said that despite numerous appeals the Saudi kingdom has not
arrested financiers of Al Qaida or related groups. They said the kingdom has
also failed to freeze the assets of leading Saudi financiers of Islamic
insurgency groups.
for further details.
contact Middle East Newsline at:
editor@menewsline.com
--------------------------------------------
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il

2. International Terrorism This Week
Interesting Notes:
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/home/link.php?file=../html/article.html?id=5902
Interesting short article on recent terrorist activities from
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

3. Steven Shamrak: We Have the Same Enemy
From: Steven Shamrak <StevenShamrak_b@mail2world.com>
Subject: Yin and Yang of ME Politics * Rocket from Gaza * Contribution to World
Yin and Yang of ME Politics.
By Steven Shamrak
Extracts Only

Just one day after the London bombings by Islamic terrorists, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced, quite inappropriately, the G8's 9 billion dollars 'aid package' to the Palestinian Authority (PA). For the next three years the infrastructure of terror will receive extra 3 billion dollars a year from Western countries. Arab Palestinian terrorists are so happy and grateful for this generous gift! To leave no doubt of their appreciation, they unleashed the suicide bombers and a rain of rockets on the Israeli population.

Nobody pays attention to the fact that the same ideology of hate motivates Arab Palestinian terrorists in Israel and Al-Qaida 'militants' worldwide. Billions of dollars are flowing into the hands of PA terrorists each year. They promised peace at Oslo. But the terror never stopped!

In 1992, United Nations Security Council Resolution 799 reinforces the Fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 to all the 'Palestinian' territories occupied by Israel since 1967, and affirms that deportation of (any) civilians constitutes a contravention of its obligations under the Convention. The resolution does not exclude Jews. Sharon and his cronies are in the process of violation of International Law! They must be charged with the crime against humanity and stand trial! The silence and inaction of the UN has exposed the deep anti-Semitic nature of the organization and has nullified the Law, which was adopted with the prime purpose - to prevent Jews from taking control over the Jewish ancestral land.

We Have the Same Enemy. The Israeli Mossad has confirmed that the explosives used in London's terrorist attacks were the same explosives used by two British homicide bombers who killed three people in Tel Aviv's Mike's Place last year.

Suicide Blast in Israel. The death toll of suicide Netanya bombing rose to five. Among the wounded was a 6-year-old girl who was badly burned. The bomber was a member of Islamic Jihad from the West Bank. 40 minutes earlier, a car-bomb exploded prematurely in the Samaria.

Dates are Back to Life after 2000 years. Israeli researchers have germinated a sapling date palm from 2,000-year-old seeds found on Masada, saying their research could benefit future generations.

Control Bacteria Without Use of Antibiotics. A method for controlling bacterial activity without antibiotics by interfering with their communication process has been developed by a young Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Adel Jabbour. The method focused on disruption of communication between bacterial biofilms called "quorum sensing," which controls their collective.

4. Linda Bedwell: Items in support of Israel...

Shalom Yair,

Here is another place for purchasing items in support of Israel. This is taken from the message below:

If you would like to order ORANGE items (T-Shirt, Wristband, or Ribbon) to wear and show your solidarity with the communities call our toll free number at 1-800-551-3207.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Troup
Christian Friends of Israeli Communities

email: cfoic@cfoic.com
phone: 800-551-3207
web: http://www.cfoic.com

5. New Age Ideology: Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish
New Age Ideology is a driving force behind part of the liberal
and libertarian trends of modern society. Even liberal Christians and Jews have been infected by
this movement.
The movement has strong Nazi-like tendencies as pointed out in the past by subscribers of Brit-Am
but the point is worth repeating in view of recent events
and the increasing power of New Age tendencies.
Alice A Bailey was a founder of this movement and her works are still studied by adherents of it.

Hannah Newman in a recent essay notes:

<<Zionism is also given attention by Bailey -- described as an
"entrenched evil [that] must be routed before He for Whom all men wait
[Maitreya, the World Teacher {their "messiah"}] can come." (Rays & Initiations) So it
should surprise no one that global enlightenment specifically requires the
elimination of the Jewish State. Here we have a possible explanation for
why the UN has been in the forefront of anti-Israel activity, and why the
New Liberals (both the "secular religion" of humanism and the liberal
streams of Christianity) are increasingly embracing anti-Zionism with
something less than intellectual explanations. >> Hannah Newman

1. The Retreat From Gaza Also Threatens the USA!

http://nationalreview.com/lerner/lerner200507190732.asp
July 19, 2005, 7:32 a.m.
Eyeless in Gaza
What the terrorists know that we don’t.
By Barbara Lerner
Extracts Only:

We think Gaza is all about Israel and the Palestinians; our enemies know it's mainly about us. We think we are encouraging Israel to hand Gaza over to Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party, local Palestinians with purely local ambitions ambitions that encompass the whole of Israel, perhaps, but nothing beyond it ambitions that have nothing to do with us. Our enemies know that behind a Fatah fig leaf, we are handing Gaza over to Hamas, an international terrorist organization of global reach and ambition that is one of America's deadliest enemies. We think Hamas only attacks Jews. They ["our Islamofascist enemies"] know that Hamas is a main recruiting agent for Arab jihadists, not just from among the 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and from the much larger numbers of Palestinians scattered in strategic enclaves throughout the region and the world, but for other Arabs too. We think Hamas sends all these jihadists only to Israel. They know Hamas sends a never-ending stream of them to Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Kashmir, Lebanon and, most critically for us right now, to Iraq. And when our press insistently refers to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the master terrorist who directs the foreign jihadists in Iraq, as "a Jordanian," our enemies laugh. They know Zarqawi has always called himself a Palestinian, and is recognized as such, in Jordan and throughout the Middle East.

To see what Hamas control of Gaza will mean for us in Iraq, we have to see it as our enemies do not just Hamas, but its parent organization, the Brotherhood, and its longtime partners Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and the Wahhabi and Salafist movements. To do that, forget Israel entirely for a moment. Look only at the terror war against America, and at the geography of Islamofascism that supports it. Place Gaza in that context, and its strategic location jumps out at you. Control of Gaza gives Hamas and its partners direct access to the land border with Egypt, as well as access by sea to terrorist supply ports in Lebanon and Syria, and from them, overland, to the terror training camps in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran and to the ratlines from Syria into Iraq.

The good news is that unlike the Biblical Samson, we are not irrevocably blind, only seduced and blindfolded by a mix of propaganda, ideology, and wishful thinking that prevent us from seeing reality. If we tear off our blindfold and call a halt to the Gaza retreat before August 17, we will save ourselves and our friends in Iraq much anguish, and save our Israeli friends and perhaps our Lebanese friends too. And if we do it boldly, proclaiming our determination to defeat Islamofascist terror in Gaza as we are defeating it in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will bring a final American victory much closer.

2. Some Palestinian Workers in Gaza Want Israelis to Stay
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45354
Extract:
The workers also say they fear the domestic consequences of Israel's Gaza withdrawal.
"We know once Israel leaves, Hamas is in power. A lot of the Palestinians in Gaza are really upset about this because life won't be good for us," said Mahmoud.
With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza evacuation plan drawing closer, and Hamas swiftly gaining power in the area, analysts have pointed to worrying signs the terror group will use its gains to impose a Taliban-like Islamist regime on the Palestinians in Gaza.

3. Nearly one million tourists enter Israel in first six months
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Nearly one million tourists enter Israel in first six months of
2005; 29 per cent rise in number of June arrivals

Tourism Ministry Spokesman's Office
Reference No: 2005-0005-589
Press Release

Nearly one million tourists enter Israel in first six months of 2005; 29 per
cent rise in number of June arrivals

Two thousand people arrived aboard cruise ships in June 2005 compared to none in
June 2004.

"We are witnessing enormous momentum in tourism," says Israeli Tourism
Minister Avraham Hirchson. "The rise heralds a new era for the Israeli
economy."

Israel's Ministry of Tourism anticipates that nearly two million tourists
will visit the country by the end of 2005.

IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il

4. Pictures from Demo
Pictures from the Tail End of the Massive Demonstration at Kefar Maimon
against the Retreat that has been termed "Disengagement"
http://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/8469.shtml

5. Proverbs 3:15-17 Verses and Commentary
[Proverbs 3:15] SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES: AND ALL THE THINGS THOU CANST DESIRE ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED UNTO HER.
"RUBIES": Hebrew "peninim" probably meaning "pearls".
The Knowledge of the Biblical Way, of the Wisdom in Scripture, is worth more than fine jewels.

[Proverbs 3:16] LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT HAND; AND IN HER LEFT HAND RICHES AND HONOUR.
People who go on the right path live longer, are better off materially, and are more honored and respected than they otherwise would be. They are also far ahead of those who may begin from a higher starting point but do not go along the same straight path. This is true for a person for most of their life or for a community or social group on the whole. There are exceptional cases and exceptional periods that confuse matters but on the whole this principle of reward in this life (as well as the next) does hold.

[Proverbs 3:17] HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE.
If you go in the Biblical Path you will be more positive towards yourself and others and this will result in a harmonious and pleasant existence with other people appreciating you and your lifestyle contributing to the welfare of all.

Jerusalem News-366
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
MOST KFAR MAIMON PROTESTORS GO HOME
YAD VASHEM HONORS FIVE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES
2. International Christian Embassy Press Release
3. Photos From the Demonstration

1. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
July 21, 2005, 14 Tammuz 5765
MOST KFAR MAIMON PROTESTORS GO HOME
By Hillel Fendel

The 48-hour mass protest against the expulsion ended in the Negev
community Kfar Maimon around 11 PM Wed. night. Several hundred people
remained afterwards, and activity will be renewed next week.

The police opened the gates to the moshav this morning (Thursday),
allowing free entry and exit for the first time since Monday evening.
Most of the estimated 10-15,000 protestors left during the course of
the night, and several hundred are expected to remain today.

The protestors circled the gates of the town last night from within,
many of them dancing and singing with a Torah scroll, but did nothing
to clash with the security forces. Hundreds of people spent well over
an hour speaking "heart-to-heart" with policemen and soldiers,
explaining their opposition to the expulsion of Jews from their homes
in the Land of Israel.

One little girl, aged approximately 11, was shown on national
television giving an impassioned speech to policewomen, who did not
remain unmoved: "Could you ever imagine evacuating your own mothers
from their homes? Could you? And what kind of word is this, to
evacuate? We evacuate garbage, or enemies - but not brothers!"

The chant "Soldier, Policeman, Refuse the Order," was replaced last
night with, "Soldier, Policeman, We Love You, We Love the IDF." Some
demonstrators walked around with megaphones, proclaiming, "We're not
the enemy; we love you. Go fight the real enemy."

The singing and hear-to-heart talking contrasted starkly with the
scenes of chain-link fences and even barbed wire separating between
rows of security forces and idealistic citizens.

In announcing the end of the Kfar Maimon event, the organizers told
the crowds that in the merit of the 20,000 soldiers and policemen
deployed around Kfar Maimon, 1,000 people had succeeded in making
their way to Gush Katif last night. The police later reported,
however, that they had arrested some 300 suspects trying to
"infiltrate into a closed military zone."

The crowds - families, old and young, religious and secular - sang
HaTikvah and Ani Maamin (I Believe in the Coming of the Messiah), and
then began to disperse. Many made their way by police-supplied bus,
or other vehicles, or by foot, to Netivot, 7 kilometers away, where
they had left their cars on Monday night, when the protest started.

Ami Shaked, the security officer of Gush Katif - a self-proclaimed
non-religious Jew - told the giant crowds at Kfar Maimon last night,
"We will continue to light up the orange color around the world, and
this gives strength to the residents of Gush Katif in maintaining
their daily lives. 'Not by military might or force, but by My spirit,
G-d said' - keep smiling, keep lighting up, and that's how we will
win."

YAD VASHEM HONORS FIVE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES
By Hillel Fendel

A ceremony posthumously honoring five non-Jews who saved Jews during
the Holocaust was held today (Thursday) at the Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum in Jerusalem.

The awards were bestowed upon Yevgenia Morozova (Belarus), Stoicheva
Stanka (Bulgaria), Feodor Melnik (Ukraine), and Steponas and Viktorija
Zrelskis (Lithuania). Relatives of the five received the Righteous
Gentile awards in their names.

The ceremony was conducted in Hebrew and Russian, with the
participation of two of the survivors - Sofa Kremen Grinshtein and
Medi Hillel - and relatives of other survivors.

Yad Vashem provided background information on the five righteous
rescuers. Yevgenia Morozova, for instance, risked her life several
times to host Sofia and Galina Levina and their family after the Minsk
ghetto was established in August 1941. Yevgenia obtained forged
documents for the two sisters, and pretended they were her relatives.
On one occasion, the sisters were stopped in the street by a policeman
who suspected they were Jewish. They asked the policeman to go to
Yevgenia's house, and she convinced him that they were her cousins and
were not Jewish. This was especially dangerous, as Sofia and Galina's
father had been a well-known pediatrician in Minsk before the war,
thus that it was likely that the policeman could have been a former
patient.

Stanka Stoicheva of Bulgaria hid Leah Farchi, a young pregnant wife
whose husband had been sent to forced labor, in her home in
Gergoviste. At one point during the pregnancy, Leah's life was in
danger, but it wasn't possible for her to go to the hospital without
the proper permit. Stanka, a midwife by profession, took it upon
herself to help Leah give birth with the basic means at her disposal,
and thus she saved both the lives of Leah and the baby, Medi. Leah
and Medi then remained in Stanka's house, and she took care of all
their needs.

Feodor Melnik of Ukraine saved young Sofa Kremen, whose parents had
been murdered in an action in August 1942, by hiding her in the the
attic of his work place. He later smuggled her to his parents' home,
and from there to the ghetto in Shargorod, which was under Romanian
control, where she remained until liberation in March 1944.
Immediately after liberation, Melnik was drafted into the Red Army and
fell in battle in 1945. Sofa later testified that Melnik also aided a
Jewish family by the name of Krasnyanski.

Steponas and Viktorija Zrelskis hid their friends Isaak and Pesia Katz
of Kovno, Lithuania from August 1943 until August 1944 in a bunker
they built especially for them under their granary. They padded the
bunker with straw and put a wooden bed in it.

More information about the Righteous Among the Nations program is
available at
"http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous/home_righteous.html."

2. International Christian Embassy Press Release

From the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
SPECIAL ICEJ RELEASE ON DISENGAGEMENT
[] FOR RELEASE - 21 JULY 2005

FOR ZION'S SAKE WE WILL
NOT KEEP SILENT

1 "For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.

3 They have cast lots for My people,
Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,

And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:1-3 (NKJV)

The Bible is clear about the fact that those nations that divide the Land of Israel will incur the disfavour of God. So, the conflict now unfolding in Gaza has serious implications for all the world. The Land of Canaan belongs to God! He has bequeathed it to the Jewish people as an everlasting possession as part of His plan for world redemption. To meddle with that which God has given is a grave oversight. The nations must be warned and even though they happily discount the reality of the God of Heaven, they will soon hear from Him and are!

On the other hand, the prophets have always spoken to Israel about her spiritual condition. Her departure from serving the God of her forefathers has always led to judgment, anguish and trouble within her borders. In addition the God of the Bible has always warned Israel about making alliances with foreign nations that in the end bring her to a place of compromise and land forfeiture. Israel is called upon to trust God fully.

The present drama unfolding in Gaza is therefore complex and cannot be reduced to simplistic deductions. As an organization that has a proven track record of standing with Israel, we do speak out today in the following way:

(1) We are convinced that Israel is placing herself in grave and serious danger by the "Gaza pullout". We are not persuaded at all of the peaceful intentions of the Palestinian people. On the ground in Gaza, where the majority influence is Hamas, they unashamedly declare their desire to remove the Jews from what they call "Muslim soil". They will most definitely continue their violent struggle from their new vantage point after disengagement. We fear that Kassam missiles will soon rain down on Ashdod and Ashkelon.

(2) We affirm that all nations participating in the present process to divide the land will eventually fall into the hands of the Living God. He has not changed and those nations like Assyria, Babylon and Rome that engaged in "this business" are now extinct. Why should it be different in the future?

(3) We lovingly call upon Israel to call for a Day of Humility and Repentance. The God of the Bible has always responded to your cry and will do so now. We will never tell you what to do because we respect your democracy but we feel that we must urge you to cast yourselves upon the God who has borne you on "Eagles' wings" for centuries. He will not fail you now. He will hear your cry when you call upon Him with all your heart (2 Chronicles 7:14).

(4) We urge the Church to come to a place of urgent and persistent prayer. Israel is in real danger. The avalanche of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in the world is alarming. Now is the time to rise up and pray. Pray for Israel's leaders, pray for wisdom, pray for deliverance and pray for Israel's redemption. Please note that we have often stated that to pray for Israel without reference to her spiritual condition is to disconnect yourself from the purpose of God. God is dealing with Israel and in the end He will have His way with her.

(5) We urge Christians everywhere to reject all forms of anti-Semitism and to pray for the Jewish communities of Gaza. These precious people were encouraged to settle in the region by a government that is now determined to remove them. Whatever the debate may be in Israel about this, the undeniable fact is that we are looking at a very real human tragedy. Men, women and children are being uprooted from their homes and familiar surroundings with very painful and traumatic consequences. They need our prayers and comfort.

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is fully committed to the above position and always has been. We urge all our supporters to act now and help us fulfill our calling to be a light of love and comfort to Israel.
Malcolm Hedding
Executive Director
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

3. Photos From the Demonstration
Some Very Good Photographs: Well worth viewing
http://jr.co.il/rally/r075.htm

Some More Photos
PHOTO DIARY of the march in Israel, continued (From: Shoshanna Walker rosewalk@concentric.net)
http://community.webshots.com/album/399535889nVOzmu
http://community.webshots.com/album/399617773uAEZhs (Jonathan Stein)
http://www.alfassa.com/gaza/ (Shelomo)
http://www.jr.co.il/rally/r070.htm , http://www.syii.tv

Israeli gov't admits: US Pressures Determine Retreat Policy

David Bedein, Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency, Beit Agron Int'l Press Center, Jerusaem. Tel. 02 5300125

The U.S. Department has made it clear to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: It wants the Jews out of the Katif district of Gaza by August 15th, with no excuses.

The Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, came to Jerusalem and pleaded with Sharon to reconsider his plan to retreat from Katif, which involves Israel's obliteration of the 21 Jewish communities there, including 325 thriving Jewish farms and 86 synagogues and Jewish study centers

Sharon's answer to Rabbi Cohen: "This is what the U.S. State Department is demanding that I do, and I must do it".

It does not matter that half of the 9000 Jews who live in Katif have no where to go, with their relocation plans still left up in the air.

It does not matter that the Israeli government cannot offer more than two containers to each family to help them remove their possessions.

It does not seem to matter that the experts in Israel's security establishment are warning that the result of Israel's hasty retreat will be the creation of a new Islamic terror base.

Sharon is now making it clear that he is under pressure from the U.S. government, and that its that.

Yet one of the common assumptions over the past two years is that The Sharon government's plan to expel Jews from Gaza and the Northern Samaria and unilaterally hand the area over to an independent Palestinian entity had been an entirely autonomous Israeli decision.

Yet it can now be determined that the US government was behind it all along

In meetings with concerned American citizens, Danny Ayalon, Israeli ambassador to the U.S, clearly states that Sharon's disengagement plan is part of an overall Israeli-American agreement.

In late June, Ayalon met with representatives of the Orthodox Union, one of the largest contingents of United States Orthodox Jews, and told them clearly that "Prime Minister Sharon is left with no choice. He is doing exactly what the U.S. expects him to do"

In an interview with the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles published on June 22nd, 2005, Ayalon reversed earlier Israeli government statements, saying that Israel does not expect the Palestinian Authority (PA) to dismantle terrorist infrastructure until after the planned expulsion, mentioning that ending terrorism and anti-Israel incitement had been conditions Israel had demanded from the PA before carrying out the plan. However, Ayalon indicated that the agreement with the U.S. was more important than an agreement with the PA.

Furthermore, the Israeli ambassador asserted that "Disengagement has to be viewed in the context of Israel-United States relations…"This pullout did not follow an agreement with the Palestinians, but it followed something which is much more important, an agreement with the United States. Disengagement is something that creates a common agenda between us and the United States."

When asked how much the withdrawal depends on the Arabs, since the Israeli agreement is with Washington, Ayalon altered previous Israeli government demands that the PA control terrorism before the pullout.

This week's sudden announcement of the resignation of Israel Finance Minister Netanyahu was aimed at the US State Department more than the Israeli public.

In the final interview given by Netanyahu to the Jerusalem Post on August 5th, 2005, two days before his resignation, he indicated that the current policy pursued by the government of Israel should be perceived as a threat to the security interests of the U.S. and of all western countries, since it creates a terror base in Gaza, since the Palestinian Authority has incorporated the Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations instead of dismantling them..

Yet the position of the U.S. State Department remains undaunted: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon must dismantle and withdraw any and all Israeli presence from every Jewish community in the Katif district of Gaza by mid-August.

Sources in the Palestinian Authority and the U.S. government confirm that the U.S. now urges that Palestinian armed forces be immediately moved into these Jewish communities in mid-August, as Israel forcibly removes Israeli Jewish citizens who have lived there for more than thirty years. That could mean that the Palestinian Authority armed forces will be allowed to pursue and punish any Jews who cling to their property as the Israeli army is retreating.

U.S. Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice also demands that Israel find a way to assure Palestinian Arabs some kind of safe passage that will enable Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza to traverse Israel in order to reach their fellow compatriots in the other parts of the Palestinian Arab self-ruled areas in Judea and Samaria.

Rice is also demanding that Israel allow additional arms and ammunition to flow to the Palestinian Authority, ignoring the fact that the arms and ammunition supplied to the PA between 1993 and 2000 were turned against Israeli citizens since the fall of 2000, with a human toll of 1,073 people murdered in cold blood by armed Arab terrorists. And when special U.S. presidential envoy, General William Ward, was asked two weeks ago by the U.S. International Relations Committee if the U.S. could account for the weapons that it had supplied to the Palestinian Authority in the mid-nineties, Ward's answer was in the negative.

Rice seems to not know or nor care that the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fateh organization, remain at war with the state of Israel, with one purpose in mind: the liberation of Palestine, from the Jordan River until the Mediterranean Sea.

When Israel Minister of Defence Shaul Mofaz objected to Rice's demand for a safe passage for Palestinian Arab residents from Gaza to the west bank, sources at the Israel Ministry of Defence confirmed to the media that a screaming match occurred, with the U.S. Secretary of State clarifying that she will not accept "no" for an answer in this regard.

Another recently resigned Israel government minister, Natan Scharansky, confirms that the motivating factor for Sharon's retreat remains the pressure that he is under from the American government and the other democracies abroad.

Sharansky wonders why it is that the world's democracies, led by the United States of America, are so keen to witness the creation of a new anti-democratic and anti-western and anti-American Islamic state in the Middle East.

Questions to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv as to why the U.S. State Department would push Sharon in this direction have remain unanswered.

Israeli government officials do report that they are inundated with calls ad e-mails from thousands of American Jews and Christians who question the judgment of Israel's Prime Minister in regards to the inherent dangers of his disengagement policy.

The time has come to ask the question: Why do U.S. citizens not challenge the pressures that the U.S. State Department brings against Israel in this regard?

If the U.S. State Department relents on its pressure against the government of Israel, Israel will reconsider its plans for a hasty retreat from its Jewish communities in the Katif district of Gaza.

The ball lies with the citizens and the Congress of the United States of America.

Jerusalem News-369: The Retreat in Progress and Other Matters
Contents:
1. The Situation Now
2. Enemy Jubilation
3. OTHER MATTERS: Archaeology

1. The Situation Now
Police and soldiers have attempted to enter the settlements
and in some cases have done so but at present they are only handing out
evacuation notices and are giving the settlers 48 hours to leave.

In some settlements the authorities have been refused entry.

IN SOME of the mainly non-religious SETTLEMENTS most of the families are leaving
at present of their own will

Latest estimates:
The authorities thought that 80% would leave on their "own".
Less than 50% per cent of the settlers are leaving on their own while another half are refusing to leave.
Even amongst those who "agreed" to leave peaceably there are those who are changing their mind.
This is despite that by refusing to leave peacefully the settlers are placing in great jeopardy
claims to compensation, i.e. their economic future.

More than 6000 sympathizers (mainly youths and young men) have succeeded in
"smuggling" themselves into the settlements to strengthen resistance to the evil decrees.

500 disengagement opponents were arrested last night. Thousands attempted to join the
settlements but most were prevented by police and army forces.

Up to half the soldiers being sent at the last minute are refusing to do anything.
Rabbi Ovadiah Yoseph of the important Shas Party has ordered all his Knesset Members
to go to the area.

Media coverage is on the whole antagonistic to the settlers.
The potential use of violence by the authorities is always present in the atmosphere.

The intention of the government is to either begin with the evacuation BY FORCE of three settlements
in one of which my son and his family are present. This is planned to take place within
the next two days.
OR
to leave the larger "refractory" settlements to the last and attempt to evacuate them next week.

The Government has approved the demolition of 20 more settlements
thus removing one of the hoped-for impediments to completion of the process.

For a detailed update with pictures etc
see
the Arutz-7 Report
http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=87748
August 15th, 2005

see also the Jerusalem Post updates:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123986010222

IDF SPOKESPERSON AND ISRAELI POLICE UPDATE:

IDF and Israeli police officers are handing the Israeli residents of the
Gaza Strip a letter signed by the GOC southern Command notifying them
that according to the "Implementation of the Disengagement Plan 2005"
Law, their presence in the area is illegal. For the time being, the
letter has been handed out in the communities of Elei Sinai, Nisanit,
Dugit and Morag.

NOTE: THERE IS STILL TIME AND IT IS NOT AS HOPELESS A SITUATION
AS IT SEEMS. WE CAN STILL DO SOMETHING.

2. Enemy Jubilation
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3128119,00.html
Hamas: Pullout beginning of Israel's end
Terror group leader Khaled Mashaal overjoyed, says Gaza exit constitutes important turning point in Palestinian-Israeli conflict. 'Resistance is our strategic choice, we won't put down our weapons,' he says
Celebrating the pullout: The implementation of the disengagement plan marks "the beginning of the end for Israel," says Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.

Syria: Pullout an Israeli defeat

3. OTHER MATTERS: Archaeology
New Archaeological Sites of Great Interest
a. Gath -the Philistine City
Gath the Philisitine city in archaeology
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=610127

b. The Newly-Found Palace of King David
The newly-found palace of King David and political prejudice amongst
free-thinking archaeologists:
http://www.jewishexponent.com/ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=659\

More on the same theme:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19082

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123640629316

Also
Monumental Water System of Biblical Times Uncovered By Archaeologists near
Jerusalem. A unique find of very impressive dimensions dating from the time of
King Hezekiah or earlier

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=26372

Archaeological Digs at Beth Shemesh

From: "Joseph I. Lauer"
Subject: [ANE] Haaretz: Beth Shemesh digs in light of the United Monarchy
(Hebrew)

The following updates last week's posting concerning a Hebrew-language
article in Ha'aretz about excavations in Tel Beth-Shemesh. According to the
article, the findings establish the existence of a strong central government
in Jerusalem in the tenth/ninth centuries BCE, which is considered to be the
time of the early monarchy, the time of David, Solomon and their successors.
Dr. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman, from the Archeological Institute
of Tel-Aviv University, are directing the excavations, which began in 1990.
1. An informal translation of the beginning of the Ha'aretz article
states: "A corner of a monumental wall next to a massive observation tower;
a large public structure of over 250 square meters; a subterranean reservoir
with a capacity of about 800 cubic meters of water in case of siege; an iron
foundry where dozens of arrow-heads were discovered among other items -
these are some of the impressive structures built in Tel Beit Shemesh in the
second half of the 10th century and early 9th century BCE." Although the
wall that surrounded Tel Beit Shemesh was previously attributed "to the
Canaanite Period (the second millennium before the common era ).... now it
turns out that parts of it were impressively rebuilt early in the Judean
kingdom."
The article concludes: "Relying on new developments in anthropology,
which regard border regions important as social arenas and a source of
insight about what goes on in the political and cultural center, [Dr.
Bunimovitz and Dr. Lederman] propose 'a view from the border' into the heart
of the Judean state. Even if findings are scant in the very center of the
state, in Jerusalem, in fringe and border regions, like the Shephela and the
Beersheba valley, it is possible to witness firm signs for the existence of
a centralized Israelite political body already at the end of the 10th
century and the beginning of the 9th century before the common era.
According to the scholars, this can be learned from the sharp change of the
character of the site during that period and also from the extent of the
construction projects unearthed in Tel Beit Shemesh: the massive
fortifications, the large public structures, the iron workshop and the
subterranean reservoir, could have been built only by public initiative
originating in the capital, Jerusalem."
2. Asked about the Ha'aretz article, Dr. Lederman replied in an e-mail:
"The article in Haaretz was based on our on-going research at Tel
Beth-Shemesh, which is now being summarized in a book which will be
published soon at Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, Monograph
Series (it will be published in English). A preliminary summary of our
research dealing with the topic of evidence for the rise of central
political power already at the end of the 10th or early 9th centuries BCE
was published a few years ago: Bunimovitz, Shlomo and Lederman, Zvi, 2001,
The Iron Age Fortifications of Tel Beth-Shemesh: a 1990-2000 Perspective.
Israel Exploration Journal 51:121-147."
In response to another e-mail, Dr. Lederman wrote, in part:
"... the iron smithy at Tel Beth-Shemesh ... is the earliest known, and
from a very crucial period of transition from bronze to iron. We were able
to find such a workshop due to a very careful method of excavations that we
have conducted. My guess is that installations like this existed in other
sites, but yet were not found or identified.
"Indeed, the archaeological records do not point to any big industrial
shift until later in the 8th century BCE. This progress and development was
not able until the great superpowers revived, and especially with the rise
of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
"Iron was known (and used) already from the 15th century BCE. It was
only in the 10th century BCE when iron became a daily utilitarian metal, for
daily use - not swords and spears, but plowshare, nails, hoes, etc."
"The incorporation of an iron workshop right at the time in the newly
built royal administrative walled city at the border with Philistia is of a
great interest - not just for us, but for all scholars and interested
people.
"Our initial work at the iron smithy was stopped. We need to change our
methods and approach to deal with such a rare find. ..."

Joseph I. Lauer
Brooklyn, New York

Jerusalem News-370: The Retreat and Expulsion
Contents:
A. Brit-Am Reactions
1. William Rasmussen
2. Anita Patnoe
3. "The Walkers"
4. askarbek
5. Shirley Tough

B. Yair Davidiy: Personal

C. News

1. William Rasmussen

From: William Rasmussen <brasshalom@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: More Brit-Am Appeals and Responses-Shalom from Bill Rasmussen!

Shalom Achi Yair: Let me add the voice of my wife Mai, my son Yehoshua and myself in praying for you and the settlers. We have called/e-mailed, petitioned President Bush, our Senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman [who is Jewish], Ariel Sharon and Knesset members who are against the disengagement plan.

There seems to be a conflict regarding the directive to remove the settlers. Women in Green says that pressure from President Bush has been responsible in implementing the disengagement plan by Ariel Sharon. This also was reported on the Jerusalem Post as well as Brit Am. Daniel Pipes said that it is a unilateral decision by Ariel Sharon and is not being directed by President Bush. In any event, we know that the primacy of the decisions lies at the doors of President Bush, the State Department and Ariel Sharon.

Brit Am members should pray over these 2 verses from scripture:
(1. Leviticus 25:23: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity for for the land is mine; for you
are sojourners and residents with me."

(2. Amos 9:15: "I will plant them upon their land and they will never again be uprooted from
their land that I have given them, says HaShem."

President Bush, the State Department, Ariel Sharon and the Knesset members in favor of the disengagement plan need to know that the land is not theirs to give away. Any move to do so will only bring disaster upon their heads. There are multitudes at the ready who are willing to do whatever is necessary to prevent the partitioning of Eretz Yisrael. Perhaps HaShem will use this ugly episode to provoke an interest in the return of the Northern Kingdom and see the demise of the Arab interlopers who have illegally possessed the land given to HaShem's chosen people.

Shalom v'b'richot, Bill Rasmussen

2. Anita Patnoe
Subject: Gaza pull-out

Dear Yair,

I just wanted to tell you that my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time. I'm praying for your whole country and an end to what appears to be insanity on the part of our government.

I e-mailed President Bush this morning.
Thank you for including the info that you did in your recent e-mails.

God bless you and yours during these dificult times.
Anita

3. "The Walkers"
Dear Yair,
Thank you for all the work you are doing on our behalf!
I e-mailed every Christian radio station in Tennessee with a sample of the
letter you wrote and asked them to inform their listeners that it is
imperative that they call their congressmen, representatives and Pres. Bush
immediatetly, TODAY. I also sent letters to two newspapers in my area, and
of coursed called and e-mailed my congressmen, representative and P.Bush
myself. I am also praying and crying to H'....
May H' bless and keep His land and people,
Regina Walker

4. askarbek
White House Automated response:

On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
...snip...
implemented. In the future please send your comments to
comments@whitehouse.gov.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.

5. Shirley Tough
Shalom Yair,
My thoughts and prayers are with you, your family and all the others being moved from areas in Gaza. I search my mind for some way to help but this is all I know to do and pray off and on through the day or night whenever I am awake. Please take care of yourself. Thoughts in my mind are - there will come a time when the bad neighbor will continue to misbehave until Israel has to take action against them at a later date. Seems some people who claim to worship God don't know when He's telling them what they're doing isn't right and they need to stop it.
Regards,
Shirley Tough

B. Yair Davidiy: Personal
Contact with my son and his family has been cut off.
The Radio reports that the Authorities have entered the settlement
and expect by this evening to complete its evacuation.
The radio also says that the residents are short of water since an Army bulldozer broke the main water pipe.
The Army is giving them water.

C. News
http://israelnationalnews.com/
1. Terrorism Continues
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas is speaking about further withdrawals through negotiations, both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are reiterating that they have no intention of disarming, that their weapons are legal and that they intend to continue armed attacks until the total liberation of all Palestine.

2. Jewish Man Shoots at Arabs
A Jewish man, Asher Weisgan, opened fire upon Arab workers at the entrance to the Shilo industrial zone Wednesday afternoon, killing three of them
and injuring two.
Shiloh is in the area of Samaria.
The IDF is sending increased forces to the area.

3. Kfar Drom Under Siege
Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124245484874

YNet
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3129462,00.html

4. UN Funds Banners in Gaza Against Israel
The banners read:
"Gaza Today. The West Bank and Jerusalem Tomorrow."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124245485186

5. Palestinian Bomb Plot Foiled
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124245483609
Security forces have uncovered a plot masterminded by the Islamic Jihad to attack evacuating forces or Gaza settlers during disengagement..

A 10-kg explosive-belt was found hidden in a solar water heater at the Muwassi Palestinian enclave in Gush Katif Wednesday morning.

According to officials, two of the cell members were supposed to be suicide bombers who were expected to wear IDF uniforms.

1. Timothy F Murray: Gaza
From: Timothy F Murray <tfmurray@juno.com>

Shalom, Yair--
The following sentence from the Wall Street Journal jumped out at me today in a longer story--

"But Israel cannot be expected to make further wrenching withdrawals if the message from the international community is that they are never enough."

Couldn't have said it better. And my sense is that that is EXACTLY the message Israel can expect to continue to hear from the international community.
It's time for Israel to be proactive, and seize her own destiny. May the House of Joseph cease its impatient prodding and come to the aid of Judah.
Tim Murray

2. Evacuation of Kfar Darom Completed
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Extracts:

IDF Spokesperson's Office August 18th, 2005

Evacuation of the community of Kfar Darom, in the central Gaza Strip,
completed

Today, August 18, 2005, the evacuation of the residents of the community
of Kfar Darom has been completed, according to paragraph 22B of the Law
of "Implementation of the Disengagement Plan 2005".

Joint IDF and Israel Police forces began evacuating the residents of
Kfar Darom this morning and completed in the evening hours. Over 655
Israelis were evacuated from the community, 160 assailants were arrested
by Israel Police forces.

During the evacuation process hundreds of people barricaded themselves
in several areas in the community. The evacuation of the religious
seminary in the community was relatively quick, and afterwards the
forces completed the evacuation of over 70 Israelis who barricaded
themselves in the vegetable factory.

Approximately 200 civilians, most of them youngsters, were evacuated
from the community's synagogue, after repeated attempts by IDF to have
the people leave willingly failed.

31 soldiers
and policemen were lightly wounded; some of them were hit by the
substance presumed to be acid.

During the evacuation, an IDF armored vehicle accidentally hit a water
pipe near the community of Kfar Darom, and the water supply to the
community was cut off. Until the pipe was fixed the security forces
supplied bottled water to those in the community.

3. Timothy F Murray: Thoughts
<tfmurray@juno.com>
Subject: Re: The Retreat and Expulsion
Shalom, Yair--
My prayers go up daily for the "peace of Jerusalem" and all the
Land.
I (as so many others) am totally mystified about this withdrawal.
What will it accomplish? When (not if) terrorism escalates from the
borders of a Palestinian Gaza, what then? Will the government admit it
was all a tragic mistake? Will the 30 years of sacrifice all be
acknowledged, but too late? Will the IDF have to keep going in,
suffering casualties, and accomplishing what?
What will have been accomplished--aside from making what every
thinking person must believe is an EMPTY GESTURE? Will world opinion
suddenly embrace Israel with warmth and fuzzy feelings? Not at all:
what's going to happen is that world opinion will demand more, more,
more--until Israel is only a memory. Someday, Israel must ignore world
opinion, claim her national rights, and defend herself.
Yet, when all is said and done, the Land belongs to Israel,
including Gaza, and the words of Scripture will be realized, as Judah
possesses Gaza and all its towns, from the Brook of Egypt all the way
north. What's going on right now is a terrible detour, but only a
detour.
Meanwhile, may God care for your family.
Tim

4. Terror attack on British MPs foiled
Source: The Age
http://theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/terror-attack-on-british-mps-foiled/2005/08/21/1124562751494.html?oneclick=true
BRITISH police believe they have foiled an attempt by terrorists to attack the Houses of Parliament with nerve gas or a chemical "dirty bomb". Police uncovered the plot in coded emails on computers seized from terrorist suspects in Britain and Pakistan, according to The Sunday Times.

5. Nancy MIller: US Not to Blame
From: Nancy Nancy
Subject: RE: "Brit-Am Now"-585
8. Yair Davidiy: Gush Katif Personal
My son and his family have left Gush Katif along with the members of the settlement
they were staying in. The US-induced retreat from the area is continuing.

There is nothing US-induced about this. And if you want to disagree, then I would like prove that this is US-initiated. I get so tired of every time something happens like this that it is blamed on the US. When are we going to take some responsibility, especially anyone who voted for Sharon?

This was Sharon's idea from the outset. He took it to Washington and sold it. He would be doing this whether anyone in the world agreed with him or not. He has used it as an excuse to get more money from the states. I am constantly amazed at how surprised everyone is that Sharon is doing this.
This, or similar, was in his game plan BEFORE he was elected. This is why I didn't vote for him. All he said during campaigning for his first term was 'painful concessions' would be required. Over and over I heard this. Thus, as someone who would normally have voted for the Likud representative, I switched my vote to Natan Sharansky. Coming off Barak, I frankly thought Sharon had plans to give a part of Jerusalem away. He may still have that plan. But bottom line, I knew he was planning to give land away, and so I didn't vote for him. Sharon created this whole thing. It was his idea from the outset and remains his. He wants to implement HIS idea, and he really doesn't care who agrees with him or not.

6. News Points
The settlement of Netsarim in Gush katif is supposed to be evacuated today.
Jewish settlers and soldiers still scattered throughout the Gaza area
while the destruction of the settlements is in progress.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 23, 2005) the evacuation of settlements in the
Northern Shomron (Samaria) is scheduled to begin but may encounter difficulties.

Is it true that security around Condoleeza Rice has been strengthened?
What does "Condoleeza" mean?

From: Guysen Isra News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Mailinfo Guysen Israel News - August 21st, 2005

[]Southern District police chief Cmdr. Uri Bar-Lev said on Saturday that there were no more than 1500 infiltrators in Gaza on the eve of the withdrawal.

23:05 In Berlin, some 500 neo-Nazis demonstrated Saturday in memory of Rudolph Hess, Hitler's dauphin. Three hundred opponents tried to disturb the rally and confronted the far-right activists. (Guysen.Isra l.News)

7. "A Done Deal"
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614606.html>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614606.html
Some will say that democracy won through the use of well-trained officers. Some will say that the ease with which Gush Katif was evacuated shows that any settlement can be evacuated with a determined political leadership. Others will say the whole thing was a carefully constructed show from the start: The settlers knew the withdrawal was a done deal and let their youth let off some steam. They wanted to be portrayed as patriotic on the one hand, but were distressed over the collapse of their entire world on the other. The leaders were divided into those who called for resistance and those who opposed it. Sometimes both sides were embodied in a single individual.

1. Steven Shamrak: Sundry Topical Points
<StevenShamrak_C@mail2world.com>

“The core source of Islamic terrorism is Saudi Arabia. This is the place where Bush's millions came from.

Lesson of Jewish Humanism. A 21-year-old Palestinian woman injured in a domestic cooking accident stitched a set of explosives into her clothes and tried to walk to the hospital. During interrogation by the soldiers at the checkpoint, she admitted that she was on her way to blow up the hospital and kill as many doctors, other medical personnel and patients as she could. She had been receiving the same quality of medical help as an Israeli citizen, even though her home was in the Gaza Strip. (No one has the moral right to lecture Jews on Humanism! Those who do are not even close to the height of the Jewish sense and height of Humanity)

“Israel has shown the world that it can dismantle such enclaves with relative ease, despite the settlers' tears, anguish and occasional violence. Having set this precedent, Israel will likely come under increasingly intense pressure to do the same in the West Bank” - by Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer Our enemies are never satisfied! But it should works both ways. Due to the inaction of International community to privet the forced deportation of Jews from Gaza, Israel has received green light, and can now legally able carry out a resettlement of all Arabs from Jewish land now!

Most Christian Churches still anti-Semitic. Anglican Church leaders have voted to call on their member churches to reconsider their investments in Israel. The Anglican Consultative and the United Church of Christ have called on members to employ “economic leverage” against Israel, including possible divestment. (Why are the leaders of Christian church not so tough on Muslim states, like Sudan, sponsors of terror against Christians? Why they do not value the lives of their own member,s killed and displaced by the PA!)

[Brit-Am Note: Steven Shamrak puts out a regular newsletter of his own
from which these excerpts are taken. Brit-Am does not necessarily agree
with Shamrak on every point but If you are interested in more of the same
contact
Steven Shamrak <StevenShamrak_C@mail2world.com>

2. Jeremy Birningham: Comments
From: J B <jeremiah_71@hotmail.com>
Subject: Settlers did not want this

This pull-out from Gaza is an outrage and every moral person in the world should be upset with the lack of justice and manipulation the Settlers have had pushed on them. I have heard a few times that the Settlers new this withdrawal was going to happen and they where ready to give up their homes and businesses. That is bull. The Settlers where in Gaza because they are Zionists and love God and the Land and they believe in the dream which one day will be a reality.

3. North Samaria Settlements Cleared of Jewish Settlers

Sa-Nur and Chomesh are Destroyed
21:13 Aug 23, '05 / 18 Av 5765
Arutz-7
Over 8,000 police/army forces took part in the forced eviction of residents and supporters from Sa-Nur & Chomesh in the Shomron. The communities are destroyed and the residents' future is uncertain.

4. Help for Homosexuals
http://www.jonahweb.org/

5. Palestian Terrorists to be Rewared by USA
PA to receive $50m. from US
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124850016739

US Consul General Jacob Walles will transfer $50 million to PA Finance Minister Salam Fayyad on Wednesday to go towards repairing infrastructure and new construction in Gaza.

On Tuesday, Palestinian Authority Minister for Civilian Affairs Mohammad Dahlan said that after Israel completes its Gaza withdrawal, 30 infrastructure projects, totaling $500 million, would be launched.

Dahlan said the projects would be funded by donations from around the world.

The UAE announced last month that it would donate $100 million to build a new city for some 30,000 Palestinians on the rubble of Morag. Earlier this week, the PA approved the request. The city, which will consist of 3,000 housing units, will be named after UAE ruler Khalifa Bin Zayed.

6. US Administration and Rest of the World Still Not Funding Brit-Am
Despite the fact that Brit-Am has one of the most important messages concerning the present and future
well-being of the inhabitants of the USA, UK, Israel, Canada, Australia, South Africa,
New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, and Switzerland
(and numerous other entities) the governments of none of these nations has seen fit to advance any funds whatsoever to assist
Brit-Am. We are disappointed and would register a protest with a responsible body if one existed.

7. Response to Islam
by Rabbi Avraham Feld
A new book "Response to Islam"
by Rabbi Avraham Feld will probably be posted in HTML format on the Brit-Am
web-site within the next few days.
Similar works, by Brit-Am, are in preparation.
There is no charge for these works which are posted as a public service.
Nevertheless costs are incurred in preparing and maintaining this service and
this should be kept in mind.
The work by Rabbi Feld deals with contemporary issues in the spirit of Brit-Am articles
that may already be seen on our site,
e.g.
The New Middle East
by Yair Davidiy
http://britam.org/new-middle-east.html

The War With Iraq
MESSAGE TO OUR SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS CONCERNING
THE PRESENT CONFRONTATION
by Yair Davidiy of http://britam.org
http://britam.org/war3.html

We may also post to our Web-Site extracts (that originated with
us as distinct from quotations from other sources) from past postings of "Jerusalem News".

Nevertheless, ALL of this is exceptional.
Our EMPHASIS will remain Biblical and Historical evidence and insights
concerning the Hebrew Origins of Brit-Am peoples.

Jerusalem News-374
Contents:
1. The Emergence of China (Land of Magog?)
2. Eddie Chumney: THE WATCHMAN REPORT (Extracts)
3. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
[Extracts}
(1. ARAB TERRORIST MURDERS JEWISH STUDENT IN OLD CITY
(2. TERRORISTS FIRE ROCKETS AS ISRAEL WITHDRAWS
(3. FIVE TERRORISTS KILLED IN TUL KAREM
4. Murder of Jewish Rabbinical Student by Arab Witnessed by Brit-Am Supporter
5. Jerusalem Post Report of Murder (Extracts Only)

1. The Emergence of China (Land of Magog?)
The Age
http://theage.com.au/news/national/china-boom-sets-our-course/2005/08/24/1124562921547.html?oneclick=true#
China boom sets our course
By Tim Colebatch and Barry Fitzgerald
August 25, 2005
[Extracts Only]
AUSTRALIA'S economy is set to ride a wave of prosperity enjoyed by China, which is about to overtake the US as the driving force of the world's economic growth.

China's massive economy is expected to expand by more than 10 per cent over the next decade, the biggest economic expansion the world has seen.

Its already phenomenal growth will increase to even higher levels as market reforms, high savings and a vast pool of surplus labour combine.

China experts Ross Garnaut, of the Australian National University, and Yiping Huang, of Citigroup, forecast that far from slowing, as financial markets have assumed, China's growth is likely to accelerate as its economic problems recede, and its market reforms pay even higher dividends.

ANU economist Ligang Song predicted that China's strong growth in demand for resources would last for at least another 15 years, tempered only by sorely-needed improvements in efficiency and a gradual restructuring towards service industries. Professor Garnaut hailed China as a success story that had defied a generation of critics.

For 25 years, China has averaged growth of 9.5 per cent a year, easily the highest in the world, and increased its share of global output from 3.2 to 13.6 per cent. If the forecasts are right, it will overtake the US within a decade to become the world's biggest economy.

Mr Huang said China still has up to 250 million surplus workers in agriculture, and is already investing 45 per cent of its GDP (compared to 25 per cent in Australia). But he said that could rise even higher, as it gradually shifts from investing in low-yield US Treasury bonds to more rewarding investments at home.

CHINA GROWTH ENGINE OF THE WORLD

China is now the world's second-largest economy, twice the size of Japan.

China as per cent of world output
1980: 3.2%
2005: 13.6%
Last year China generated a quarter of the world's economic growth, more than the US.

China's average growth rate
1980-2005: 9.5%.
2005-15: (forecast) 10%-plus.
On current trends, China will over take the US by 2015 to become the world's largest economy.

2. Eddie Chumney: THE WATCHMAN REPORT (Extracts)
From: newsgroup@hebroots.org
Extracts:

BUSH ON ISRAEL WITHDRAWAL: Yaron Deckel, of Israeli Television Channel 1, asked President George W. Bush the following question on August 11, 2005, at Crawford, Texas: "As a believer, Mr. President, what do you say to Jewish believers who think that God sent them to settle in the biblical Israel and they will not obey any decision of elected government?" President Bush: Well, you know, there are admonitions in the Bible that does talk about the role of government relative to man. And Israel is a democracy and democracies are able to express the will of the people. The Prime Minister is expressing what he thinks is in the best interests of Israel and the people will decide, ultimately, whether or not that decision makes sense. - http://www.watch.org/

Hamas: Christian Zionism is our enemy - | August 22nd, 2005 | By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff August 22nd, 2005 The Hamas terrorist organization has singled out Christian supporters of Israel, putting them on notice that it views their actions as "criminal," making them enemies of the Palestinian Arabs. In an interview published in the Arabic language newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat last Thursday, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Gaza-based Hamas leader said, surprisingly, that his organization did not regard the West as the enemy. "We do not consider the West as an enemy but we believe Christian Zionism is criminal," he said. While no Arab nationalist or Islamic... - http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=647

WATCHMAN COMMENT: President Bush has stated that 'withdrawal' from Iraq will be viewed as 'weakness' but 'withdrawal' of Israel from the Gaza will promote peace.

ISRAEL: HAMAS IS DEVELOPING MISSILES… Israel’s military is charging that tens of thousands of dollars are being spent by Hamas to improve the range and capabilities of its missiles. Media reports say that the improved missiles will be launched at Israeli cities from the northern West Bank, as well as strategic targets such as Ben Gurion International Airport. The funding allegedly comes from the Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorist organization. - The Media Line Israel - http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=10966

USA AND INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE BUILDING FOR MORE ISRAELI EVACUATIONS: SOONER THAN LATER… Although still incomplete, one effect of Israel’s unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip has been to accelerate international pressure for additional withdrawals from post- 1967 territories. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the point in an interview in the New York Times, saying that while she sympathizes with the plight of those Jews being removed from their homes, "It cannot be Gaza only." Rice was also clear that it is not only a matter of accepting the idea, but of doing so in short order.... - http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=10988

Abu Mazen declares in Gaza: The Great Jihad has begun - August 20, 2005, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00) - The Palestinian leader demanded Saturday that Israel hand over fully evacuated land in West Bank too, after Gaza. He set the Palestinian general election date for Jan 25, 2006. DEBKAfile: Abbas is increasingly borrowing from Hamas threatening rhetoric. It is now promising to carry on its terrorist campaign in the West Bank.... - http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=588

Religious Belief Is Falling Faster Than Church Attendance - The generational decline is too advanced to reverse as the proportion of people who believe in God is declining faster than church attendance. Dr David Voas, who oversaw the study at the University of Manchester, said, "The dip in religious belief is not temporary or accidental, it is a generational phenomenon - the decline has continued year on year," he said. "The fact that children are only half as likely to believe as their parents indicates that, as a society, we are at an advanced stage of secularization." - http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story158.htm

Ex-homosexual & Christians threatened with death - San Diego 'gay' activists call for 'suppression,' 'elimination' of Christians -- WND -- http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45879

3. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
August 25, 2005, 20 Av 5765
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com

[Extracts}
HEADLINES:
(1. ARAB TERRORIST MURDERS JEWISH STUDENT IN OLD CITY
(2. TERRORISTS FIRE ROCKETS AS ISRAEL WITHDRAWS
(3. FIVE TERRORISTS KILLED IN TUL KAREM

(1. ARAB TERRORIST MURDERS JEWISH STUDENT IN OLD CITY
By Israel National News Staff

Shmuel Matt, 21, a British yeshiva student, was murdered by an Arab
terrorist in the Old City Wed. night, 24 hours after the last of the
Disengagement expellees arrived in their temporary quarters.

The terrorist stabbed Matt to death, and similarly wounded his friend,
in an attack near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

The murderer stabbed his first victim in the leg at around 8:30 PM on
David Street. The young man suffered moderate injuries and managed to
reach the nearby police station, where he reported he was attacked
with a kitchen knife.

Police rushed to the scene and discovered a second stabbing victim -
Shmuel Matt - with stomach wounds. Medics tried to resuscitate him as
he was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where he died while
undergoing an operation. Police discovered the 30-centimeter
(12-inch) knife at the scene.

The first victim was hospitalized at Shaarei Zedek Hospital.

Both victims were studying at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, not far
from the Old City. Shmuel Matt arrived in Israel about 18 months ago,
and was scheduled to be married this coming November.

The attacker was described as being in his 30s, and police set up
roadblocks in pursuit of him at all entrances to Jerusalem.

(2. TERRORISTS FIRE ROCKETS AS ISRAEL WITHDRAWS
By Ezra HaLevi

Days after the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, and while the destruction
of the communities there continues, rockets have already been fired
upon towns both in the Negev and northern Israel.

Over 5900 rockets and shells were launched from
Arab Gaza at Israeli targets over the last few years.

Shas party MK Eli Yishai said that the rockets fired at Sderot were
just an “appetizer” compared to what is to come.

(3. FIVE TERRORISTS KILLED IN TUL KAREM
By Hillel Fendel

An IDF unit in the Tul Karem refugee camp last night