Former Muslim Brotherhood Member Now Peace Activist
“In Israel, in order to be a realist,
you must believe in miracles.”
you must believe in miracles.”
—David Ben Gurion—
Walid Shoebat, Shoebat Foundation — Headlines in Israel claim miracles are protecting the Jews during the Gaza Strip ground war, with one headline proclaiming that Hamas terrorists are complaining about God changing the direction of rockets in mid-air.
In a related report by The Inquisitr, Hamas leader are worth millions of dollars and critics claim they have been skimming money from donations. The issue of donations also came up in regards to the support provided to the Gaza Strip by Israel since the Hamas tunnels were built with cement provided by the government.
As the Gaza ground war has heated up, there has also been a surge of anti-Israel demonstrations which have turned into chaos where looting and car burning has taken place. The war in Gaza has caused some to question whether Israel has the right to defend itself and its citizens, with Hamas clearly answering “no” to that question.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry publicly supported “Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets that are continuing to come in” but when Kerry was caught talking on an open mic he was heard complaining, “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation — hell of a pinpoint operation. We’ve got to get over there. We ought to go tonight. I think it’s crazy to be sitting around.”
If you go by the headlines of local newspapers in Israel, the Jews under attack by Hamas rockets have another hidden defense: God himself. The Jewish Telegraph opens with a quote from David Ben Gurion, who once said, “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” The article claims that even the Hamas have become frustrated with Israel’s miracles:
The Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles. It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural. How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles. As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: ‘We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.’ Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our ‘start-up nation’ is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.
The theme of miracles protecting Israel during the Gaza war is not limited to this newspaper. Another news source called Arutz Sheva reported earlier in the month the importance of miracles to the Jewish people:
The Jewish nation’s existence for six millennia is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our belief; it is a gem of Jewish folklore. It is a source of our hope in the dark, and it is a gift of our dreams. And we know why – because these miracles are true.
As evidence for these miracles, the writers related the story of how a Jewish woman gave birth to triplet boys in the time frame when the three Israeli boys were killed near the beginning of this Gaza conflict. » Full Article
H/T: Inquisitr
Biography of Walid Shoebat
Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler. Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho. As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel. After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities. In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy. Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media. » Full Bio» Walid Shoebat | Website
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LAW OFFICERS RIP DC GRIDLOCK IN IMMIGRATION CRISIS
Independent. American.
“When We See This President Stomp On
Our Constitution And Who We Are As A Nation,
It’s Unacceptable”
Our Constitution And Who We Are As A Nation,
It’s Unacceptable”
By Todd Beamon, Newsmax — Two of the nation's top law-enforcement officials on the front lines of the illegal immigration crisis on Tuesday slammed the stalemate shaping up in Congress over President Barack Obama's $3.7 billion emergency request to address the issue.“The Congress’ and the president’s inaction
to address this crisis is a joke,” said Pinal (Ariz.) County Sheriff Paul Babeu. "They are divorced from reality.”
to address this crisis is a joke,” said Pinal (Ariz.) County Sheriff Paul Babeu. "They are divorced from reality.”
"This is where the American people are furious with their lack of action and their inability to solve core issues," he said.
Babeu's frustration erupted as political realities threatened to derail any action on Obama's request to respond to the deluge of illegal minors who have been arrested at the U.S. border in south Texas in recent months.
Don Reay, executive director of the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, laughed at the specter of more partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill.
"Real simply, here we go again," Reay said. "This is an across-the-aisle issue."
The debate over Obama's proposal heated up after House Democrats pledged to slash the president's request by $1 billion and to include $225 million to help Israel battle Hamas militants in Gaza and $615 million to fight wildfires raging in the West.
But Republican House Speaker John Boehner demanded again that any request include changes to a 2008 law that would speed up deportation of illegals from such Central American countries as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
"I don't believe the American people will support sending more money to the border unless both parties work together to address these policies and actually solve this problem," Boehner said.
The threat of a stalemate led Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn to acknowledge that "unfortunately, it looks like we're on a track to do absolutely nothing."
Cornyn, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, and Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar introduced legislation earlier this month that would allow Border Patrol agents to turn back illegal minors without holding hearings in hugely backlogged immigration courts.
Congress begins its five-week summer recess on Aug. 1.
In the meantime, illegal minors continue to storm the border after crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico. Since Oct. 1, more than 57,000 illegal minors have been apprehended — and many of them are being held in shelters on military bases in California, Oklahoma and Texas.
The accommodations cost American taxpayers $252 per child per day. The administration has now estimated that 90,000 illegals could be arrested by the end of September.
Efforts to house illegals in various communities around the country have sparked heated protests from local residents. Nearly 40 demonstrations have taken place in Los Angeles and southern California, while others were being planned in Dallas, Philadelphia, and Little Rock, Ark.
In their Newsmax interviews, Babeu and Reay were angered that the Capitol Hill sniping could keep funds from getting to those working in the trenches.
"I wish that those in Congress and those in the executive branch would start thinking as Americans, rather than Republicans or Democrats," Reay said.
"America's in crisis. America has a major problem — and because of politics, we have no attempts to compromise to move forward. So, we remain in stalemate. Everybody has some fault here."
Reay said he was troubled that the burden for caring for the illegals has fallen on local residents.
"It has had an impact on the social services, the charities that are stepping up to help. Quite frankly, law enforcement — the Border Patrol, the deputies, the police officers — have helped out of their pockets. They're part of the community. They have ownership in their communities.
"Nobody's going to turn away a child," Reay added, "but the fact is we have a bigger picture here with the rule of law. When are we going to get control of our borders? That is an issue."
Without that, Babeu said, Obama would be wasting any emergency funds he gets from Congress.
"President Obama may as well throw this money out the window, because this is a one-time Band-Aid," he said. "It does not address the core issue, an unsecured border.
"By turning this as purely a humanitarian crisis without fixing the 2008 deficiencies of the law, President Obama is sending a message to future illegals that if you get to the border, you're home free."
Babeu illustrated his frustration this way, reflecting on the latest government estimates: "What comes next? How does President Obama say no to the next 90,000? He doesn't — and then, there's another $3.7 billion."
“If we don’t stand for the rule of law, this just further undermines who we are as Americans. This number is going to be far greater, and the problem never gets addressed, never gets solved.”
“For every other American, the law applies to us — yet when it comes to immigration, it appears that there is no law, because there is no consequences for breaking the law,” Babeu said.
The sheriff supports Texas Gov. Rick Perry's plan to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops on the border.
"That's the point at which we have arrived now in our country," Babeu said. "It's a very sad and disheartening point — not just for Americans, but certainly for those of us in law enforcement.
"When we see this president stomp on our Constitution and who we are as a nation, it's unacceptable.
"We're at a time where this federal power grab has reached its pinnacle — and this has to stop," Babeu said. "This president has been on the march for a power grab of the executive office, and it's got to be stopped." » Full Article
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Netanyahu: ‘A Man’s Gotta Do,
What A Man’s Gotta Do’
What A Man’s Gotta Do’
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Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, was interviewed by NBC News’ Brian Williams, explaining that while he’s extremely saddened by reports of rising civilian casualties, he affirmed that Israel must defend itself from relentless bombs from Hamas terrorists.
Netanyahu explained to Williams that at some point, if it’s your country getting bombed, you’d say to your leader, “A man’s gotta do, what a man’s gotta do,” quoting the old American idiom.
“But, you know, at a certain point you say what choice have you got? What would you do?” Netanyahu asked Williams. “What would you do if American cities, where you’re sitting now, Brian, would be rocketed, would absorb hundreds of rockets?” he asked.
Hearing no answer from Williams, Netanyahu answered his own question, predicting what any citizen would tell their leader under similar circumstances.
“You know what you’d say? You’d say to your leader, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and a country’s gotta do what a country’s gotta do.”
Netanyahu reiterated that the country can’t sit idly by while getting pummeled by Hamas rockets, telling Williams, “We have to defend ourselves. We try to do it with the minimum amount of force, with targeting military targets the best as we can, but we’ll act to defend ourselves. No country can live like this.”
“It’s very saddening to see any of these civilian deaths. It’s terribly saddening,” Netanyahu said to Williams who had asked him how he viewed the reports of increased causalities from a father’s point of view. “We regret every one of them, and we don’t seek to have even one civilian death. We’re targeting Hamas terrorists,” Netanyahu answered.
Netanyahu said that the Hamas terrorists have broken “every norm in the book,” and are purposely placing civilians in harm’s way, even refusing them from being treated at a hospital Israel opened in Gaza.
“I can tell you that we opened up a humanitarian field hospital on the edge of Gaza , and Hamas doesn’t let the people come there. They’re hiding rockets in hospitals. They’re hiding arms in hospitals. They’re shooting from hospitals. They just don’t care. They break every norm in the book, every rule in the book. I mean, committing triple war crimes–targeting civilians, hiding behind civilians, piling civilians in places where they’ll be placed in harm’s way.”
“I think to the extent there’s any blame, it should be laid squarely at Hamas’s door because these are not symmetrical conditions,” he continued.
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Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. ~ Psalm 83:1-5—Daily Cartoon—
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