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Israel Must Beware

FIVE TRAPS IN FRONT OF THE PRIME MINISTER

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. Isaiah 62:6 May we all beseech the Lord - after the wonderful way He anointed and used Bibi's speaking in Washington DC - that he will not now fall into the five following traps: That he will NOT take the Kadima Party which is under the curse of the disengagement into his government, thereby forming a disastrous unity cabinet. That he will NOT go to Paris to try offset the danger of a unilateral United Nations' vote for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. (Neither France nor the other Europeans will do Israel any good.) That he will NOT free Marwan Barghouti as part of a deal with Hamas to get Gilad Shalit back from his terrible 5 year imprisonment ordeal. Barghouti is the only charismatic Palestinian leader who could dangerously truly unite Fatah and Hamas. This move would be the same mistake, for Israel, as Prime Minister Menachem Begin's freeing Arafat and his men to leave Beirut after the first Lebanon war. By letting Arafat go then, Israel created the problem brought about by his renewed rise to power, and the subsequently disastrous Oslo accords. By freeing Barghouti, Israel will likely create a huge existential problem for herself. For as God said to Israel's leader in the past "Thus says the Lord: 'Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.' " (1 Kings 20:42) That the Prime Minister and his Minister of Defense would not be overly concerned by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan's public and critical attack on them saying that Israel should have accepted the 2002 Saudi peace plan for a return to the pre-1967 lines. Every sensible Israel's knows that, if this was indeed his opinion, also all his present remarks need to be filtered through the realization of his own extreme political opinions which sadly may have influenced his view of the facts he knows so well as head of the Mossad. Maybe the most important trap for Israel and her leaders - both religious and political - to evade, is to agree that this nation can behave and live like the goyim. Tel Aviv is already a clear example and warning of this trend and soon Jerusalem, in spite of all the religious Jews living there, could follow suite. Again and again in the history of Israel described in the Tanach, we read the repeated warning of God that if His people follow the ways and abominable practices of the *goyim, the result would be that the land would spew them out. Israel's army alone will not be able to protect this nation from God's judgment. May Israel therefore not fall into these traps, I pray. *the goyim are non-jews..gentiles! Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director

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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 56 MEN WHO SIGNED “ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?”

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned..

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. According to history a great number were Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One who to this day is recognized by Ministers today was Thomson, who gave us the “Thomson Chain” Study Bible.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay; His family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed, the enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4^h of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to 'ask for the price they paid. Remember: freedom is never free!

I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many people as you can, please. It's time we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.