VOL. 55                   WAR ON TWO FRONTS          AUGUST 2006

Dear Friends of Israel and “Or Tzion”,

While you receive already accurate information from believers in Israel about facts on the ground concerning the war against Hamas in the south and Hizballah in the north, I would like to add to it today. 

The international media fail to report the REASON for Israel's counter attack, which, I believe, is justified:

1. The leader of Hizballah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has openly declared Hizballah’s aim – the destruction of the state of Israel, annihilation of the Jewish population,and forming the state of Palestine upon Israel’s ruins. This same goal was publicly announced by the Iranian leader. 
2. Israel did not provoke Hizballah’s attack. It was Hamas who began this war - after Israel had pulled out unilaterally from the Gaza strip - by firing daily Kassam rockets upon Israel’s southern cities and abducting a 19 year old Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who has still not been released. Hizballah joined the aggression by killing 8 young Israeli soldiers and abducting 2, also not as yet released.
3. Furthermore, they began firing Katjusha rockets on the northern towns of Israel. Satellite images clearly show Hizbullah rocket launchers mounted on trucks firing 4 or 5 rockets into Israel, after which the trucks drive quickly into a village and disappear out of sight. Each time after Hizballah terrorists had emptied all of the rockets into Israel one sees those trucks driving into the village of Qana, hiding in civilian buildings.

The time had come for a devastating blow to Hizbullah’s capacity of further rocket launches from Qana. One of these buildings was hit sometime around midnight last Saturday night and curiously didn't collapse until about 8 a.m. Sunday morning. The IDF is investigating this unusual gap in timing but so far has not the faintest idea what the explanation for this gap could be except left-over explosives.

The truth about the high number of casualties for which the international media blame Israel is that the Hizballah terrorists (to whom the media refers as “guerillas” or “militants”) did not allow the villagers to leave either the buildings nor the village, using them for human “shields”. Israel customarily rains down leaflets warning the population of every coming airstrike, telling them to move into safety. The terrorists know Israel’s reluctance to strike where innocent civilians could get killed. Embedding its combat operations among helpless civilians is an old and proven method. The added benefit of this is that the world will focus on the victims and who killed them and NOT on the terrorists who are the cause of it all. There need not to have been so many dead if the villagers had been allowed to leave and hide outside the village. There was enough time from midnight to next day morning 8:00 a.m. to make it into safety.

It is an old story repeated and believed throughout the centuries, as just recently by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and even inebriated Mel Gibson – that every trouble is the fault of the Jews! Why such continuous blame? Being G-d’s elect people has put them on the chopping block.

Who wants to wipe Israel off the map? Who wants to commit another genocide against the Jewish people? Psalm 83 gives us their names. They accuse Israel of the very crimes they themselves are committing and plotting. 

What did G-d say to Adam in the Garden? 

“You may FREELY eat of EVERY tree in the garden with the exception of one.”

What did Satan say to the woman?

“HAS God said you may NOT eat of ANY of the trees in the garden?”

He is the twister of words, the father of lies, the deceiver, who turns the truth upside down and gets people to swollow his lies as truth.

But the truth is that the government of Lebanon and Hizballah are to blame for this crisis and the suffering of the Lebanese! Does Lebanon not have an army? Does Lebanon not have a governing body, which makes decisions that effect the whole country? Why then did this government look the other way when the PLO entrenched itself in the midst of Lebanon after King Hussein of Jordan succeeded in uprooting them from his country (see¹), forming a state within a state, harassing and brutally abusing and murdering Lebanese civilians while attacking Israel’s north?

Why did the Lebanese government not send in their army to immediately seize control of Southern Lebanon when Israel’s forces withdrew from this buffer zone after 20 years? Why did this government tolerate Hizballah – known for its activities and goals - within Lebanon? What’s more, why did it allow Hizballah to occupy the vacated South, turning it into a “state” within a state?

Apparently Lebanon had not learned from its history with the PLO, whose terror acts against Israel forced the IDF’s mission to dismantle the terror organization. It took Lebanon years to rebuild. Now it is like a “deja vu”, the same thing happening all over again. And who is being blamed? Israel, of course.

The pounding of Israel’s north has not stopped for over 20 days, with 140 rockets hammering Israel’s north this past Sunday (July 30) alone. Israel has not only the RIGHT to defend herself, she MUST take decicive action lest the Arab world and their terror groups conclude that Israel has been weakened enough by the unceasing terror to the point that her former invincibility has broken down. They are already “licking” the blood of slaughtered Israelis in anticipation of Israel’s defeat.

And it is the world media who is guilty of having so greatly contributed to the weakening of Israel and the strengthening of those terror groups whose men of lawlessness they call “guerillas” or “militants”.