EARTH CHANGED AFTER SUMATRA QUAKE

1-This week with Rabbi Eckstein. 2-Russia asked to push Israel for immediate ceasefire. 3-Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc mulls shadow govt. in firm opposition. 4-PM Blair responds to criticism over Lebanon. 5-Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria. 6-Disproportionate' is 60 Years of Arab Assaults. 7-Study: Earth changed after Sumatra quake.

MATTHEW 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end(of the age of grace, not the world it goes on forever) come.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein August 4, 2006
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS

Dear Friends,

The Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av ended last night at sundown. On this day (the ninth of the month of Av on the Jewish calendar) in the years 586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E., respectively, the first and second Temples in Jerusalem, the holiest places of Judaism, were destroyed by invaders.Throughout history, great tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on this date. Accordingly, Tisha B'Av is a day of great mourning - a reminder to all Jews that they are always vulnerable to persecution and attack simply for being Jews.

The call to mourn seemed especially appropriate this year - and indeed still seems appropriate today even though Tisha B'Av has ended. Dozens of Israelis have been killed since Hezbollah launched its war of aggression weeks ago. Rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists continue to fall in the north of Israel, sometimes at the rate of hundreds each day. Three of Israel's soldiers - kidnapped weeks ago - remain missing. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis now call a bomb shelter home.

These are solemn times. But they are also times when the Israeli people are united. They know that victory in this war will require strength, resolve and patience. During The Fellowship's recent relief missions to the north I have visited many bomb shelters. In each case, the feeling of the Israelis I have spoken to has been the same. Yes, the living conditions here are cramped and uncomfortable, they say. We fear for our lives and our livelihoods. But, with God's help, we will survive.

We just pray that the army is able to do what it has to do to destroy the terrorists, and that they are able to do the job completely.I have never been so proud of my countrymen. And I am equally proud of and grateful for The Fellowship partners who have given so generously in the past few weeks to our Israel Emergency Fund. Your support has been critical in providing for the needs of Israelis living in the war zone. And it has helped them realize that, whatever dangers and difficulties they face, they are not facing them alone.

I ask you to please continue your support of our Israeli Emergency Fund and your heartfelt prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.

Together, we will see Israeli through this current crisis.

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Founder and Chairman
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EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 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.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

04/08/2006 - 10:31:28 AM
Russia asked to push Israel for immediate ceasefire

Lebanon’s parliamentary majority leader today appealed to Russia to push Israel for an immediate ceasefire in its military offensive against Hezbollah, news reports said.We are appealing to you to use your relations with Israel in the interests of an immediate ceasefire,Saad Hariri was quoted as saying in a meeting with Security Council head Igor Ivanov.Only an immediate ceasefire can create the terms for a political resolution of all questions in the region. We are demanding this and will demand it, in the United Nations and in talks with our partners, Ivanov was quoted as saying.Britain and the US, which like Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, have resisted pressure for a resolution demanding an immediate truce, arguing that it must come with simultaneous steps to ensure that Hezbollah cannot threaten Israel.Hariri said he hoped the peace plan put forward by Lebanese
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora would be included in a UN resolution and we hope that a ceasefire will be secured next week,Interfax said.

Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc mulls shadow govt. in firm opposition

KIEV, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc will form a strong opposition and may establish a shadow Cabinet

along European lines, a deputy leader of the bloc's parliamentary faction said Friday. Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko's first prime minister and ally on the streets in the 2004 popular protests known as the orange revolution, was the only leader of a major political movement who refused to sign Thursday a national unity agreement aiming to end the country's protracted political crisis.

And Oleg Bilorus said the faction would form a firm opposition to the new government, which should be led by Tymoshenko's long-time rival, Viktor Yanukovych, if he is confirmed as prime minister as expected in a Friday vote. We will form a
systematic, constructive and strong opposition, which will make use of all existing European models of the parliamentary struggle, including the formation of a shadow Cabinet,Bilorus said. Bilorus said that the bloc, which has 129 seats in the 450-member Supreme Rada, would not attend the Rada's sessions in a protest against the formation of the grand coalition and Yushchenko's decision to back Yanukovych for the prime minister's job.

The bloc was the leading force in the first parliamentary coalition to emerge after the March 26 elections, but the alliance collapsed when the Socialists defected to join Yanukovych's Party of Regions. He said the faction would not take part in the vote on Yanukovych for the prime minister's post, but would appear on the Rada's sidelines during ballots to elect members of the country's Constitutional Court.

PM responds to criticism over Lebanon

The prime minister's monthly press conference, in which he defended his stance on Lebanon, is covered by most of Friday's papers.

Tony Blair suggested there will be agreement on a United Nations resolution designed to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanon within the next few days.He continued to insist that the underlying problems between the two countries must be dealt with,
and any deal must address the concerns of both Israel and Lebanon.

Having spoken to both President Bush and Lebanese leader Fouad Siniora, Blair said the remaining differences are very slight over the resolution.Rejecting suggestions that his stance has been too pro-Israel, Blair said: The solution will not come by condemning one side.

The Guardian describes his comments as the beginning of a fightback against his backbench critics.But, under the heading Blair in crisis, the Telegraph focuses on his apparent admission that there are divisions in the cabinet.Many of the papers also report on a leaked memo from the outgoing British ambassador to Iraq warning the government that the country was more likely to descend into civil war and division than become a democratic state.And the the Mail highlights a New Statesman claim that the prime minister knew that the Israelis planned to attack Hizbollah before the militia kidnapped or killed any soldiers.

Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria. Hezbollah renewed attacks on northern Israel, killing two civilians in a barrage of 120 rockets.An Israeli airstrike hit dozens of farm workers loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border, killing 28, the workers' foreman and a Lebanese official said.Five Lebanese civilians were killed and 19 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes north of the capital in Christian areas where Hezbollah has little support or presence, including the picturesque coastal resort of Jounieh.

In separate air raids near Beirut's airport and southern suburbs, a Lebanese soldier was killed and two soldiers and four civilians were wounded, security officials and witnesses said. The predominantly Shiite Muslim sector is largely controlled by Hezbollah guerrillas. Israel said Hezbollah facilities and a Hamas office were targeted.Two Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a southern Lebanese village where the militant group had been launching rockets, the army said.

The Israeli attacks on the four bridges on the main north-south coastal highway linking Beirut to Syria severed the only remaining major road link between Lebanon and Syria. The 90-minute drive to the Syrian border takes at least double the time on the small coastal road that remains open.

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, a staunch pro-Syrian and close ally of Hezbollah, charged that Israel is trying to pressure Lebanon to accept its conditions for a cease-fire , which include Hezbollah's disarmament and ouster from a swath of south
Lebanon.

The Israeli enemy's bombing of bridges and roads is aimed at tightening the blockade on the Lebanese, cutting communications between them and starving them,Lahoud said. He linked the new raids to Israel's failure to win quick victory in the south, where Israeli soldiers have been mired in ground battles with Hezbollah guerrillas for several days.An Israeli army spokesman, Capt. Jacob Dallal, said Israel targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons from Syria.

International aid agencies said Friday said the road bombing would slow down aid shipments to needy civilians in central Lebanon and the coastline around the capital, Beirut, where the bulk of the population lives.Border crossings in the east have been shut by airstrikes. Israel has imposed a naval blockade and has hit the international airport to seal off Lebanon's sea and airspace.This is Lebanon's umbilical cord,Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told The Associated Press. This (road) has been the only way for us to bring in aid.

We really need to find other ways to bring relief in.In the farm attack near al-Qaa, a town about six miles from a Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanese civil defense official Ali Yaghi said at least 28 people were killed.Yaghi said at least 12 workers were wounded and some were likely buried under rubble. A bulldozer was brought to the site to try to uncover survivors, he said. The Israeli army said it had attacked two buildings where it suspected weapons were being stored, and it was checking reports that it had hit a vegetable storehouse and civilians.

In Israel, police said 120 rockets had fallen, including one that crashed into a house in the Israeli Arab town of Mughar, killing a woman. An Israeli man was killed near the border town of Kiryat Shemona.Police commander Dan Ronen said 45 rockets had fallen within one half-hour period. More than three weeks into the fighting, six Israeli brigades — or roughly 10,000 troops — were locked in battle with hundreds of Hezbollah guerrillas in about 20 towns and villages in south Lebanon. Israeli artillery intensified bombing there overnight, sending as many as 15 shells per minute against suspected Hezbollah strongholds. Defense Minister Amir Peretz has told top army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani River, about 20 miles north of the border. That would require further approval by Israel's Security Cabinet and could lead to far more casualties. Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast by the group's Al-Manar TV station that guerrillas had killed six Israeli soldiers near the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Markaba.

The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed and two wounded by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a village where the militant group had been launching rockets. Despite Israel's efforts, Hezbollah launched at least 200 rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, in a new tactic of simultaneously firing a large number of rockets. Hezbollah's leader offered to stop attacking if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel's United Nations ambassador, Dan Gillerman, said that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's offer of a truce was a sign of weakness ... and he may be looking for a way out.

Gillerman warned against a threat by Nasrallah to launch rockets on Israel's commercial center, Tel Aviv. We are ready for it, and I am sure that he (Nasrallah), as well as his sponsors, realize the consequences of doing something as unimaginable and crazy as that, the Israeli ambassador told CNN. On the second front of its offensive against Islamic militants, Israel began pulling tanks out of southern Gaza after a two-day incursion that killed eleven Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy.

The fighting in Gaza, which began June 25 after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, has killed a total of 175 Palestinians,
the U.N. reported, adding that it was concerned that with international attention focusing on Lebanon, the tragedy in Gaza is being forgotten.The offensive in Lebanon began after another cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers.

According to an Associated Press count, at least 530 Lebanese have been killed, including 454 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry; 26 Lebanese soldiers; and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people — or about a quarter of Lebanon's population — had fled the fighting. Seventy-two Israelis have been killed — 43 oldiers and 29 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said the United States and France have come a long way in negotiating a Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate end to Middle East hostilities,said. In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as the first phase in ending the conflict. It was the most concrete signal yet that the U.S. may be willing to compromise on the stalemate over how to end the fighting.

Israel, backed by the United States, has rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire, saying it wants an international force or the Lebanese army to deploy in southern Lebanon to prevent future Hezbollah attacks.

A P reporter Ravi Nessman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Disproportionate' is 60 Years of Arab Assaults
Commentary by Willy E. Gutman ,Friday August 4, 2006

I arrived in Israel shortly after its rebirth in 1948. I was 12. War erupted when Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq joined in a simultaneous assault against Israel. The war raged on for a year. Simultaneously, the infant state, poorly armed and barely released from the clutches of the British mandate, suffered daily incursions by Palestinian marauders who went on a door-to-door rampage of bloodletting during which hundreds of Jews - men, women and children - many born in Palestine and whose roots went back to biblical Israel - were massacred in their beds as they slept. In Jerusalem, where I lived, the Grand Mufti, an outspoken fan of Hitler, engineered nightly sorties during which movies houses were firebombed, synagogues were torched, drivers were ambushed on open roads, women were raped and young children were tossed in the air and skewered on bayonets.

From 1949 to 1956, a tenuous truce was punctuated by daily Arab raids. Tensions mounted when Egypt blockaded the Suez Canal, denying passage to Israeli, French and British ships. In 1956, Israeli forces, commanded by Moshe Dayan, launched a combined air and ground assault into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, capturing several key objectives, including the Gaza strip and Sharm el Sheikh.

Israel withdrew from these positions in 1957. Syria, Egypt and Jordan increased their incursions into Israel during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrillas supported by Syria. Arab threats and provocations continued until 1967, when Israel launched a massive air assault that crippled Arab air capability. With air superiority protecting its ground forces, Israel took the Sinai Peninsula in three
days. It then captured Jerusalem's Old City and gained the strategic Golan Heights on the Syrian border.

In 1973, Egypt launched a two-pronged assault on Israel while the Syrians, supported by Jordan, Iraq and Libya, advanced from the north. Israel was caught off guard but soon forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a foothold on the west bank of the Suez Canal. The 1973-74 War led to the signing of the Camp David accords. In 1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from bases in Lebanon, launched an air raid on Israel. Israel retaliated, sending troops into southern Lebanon and occupying a strip 4 to 6 miles deep designed to protect Israel's border. Rocket attacks and nightly raids against Israel continued. In
1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the PLO in southern Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-brokered plan whereby PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985. The latest chapter in the ongoing conflict began July 12, when guerrillas from the Islamic group, Hezbollah, the powerful and influential Lebanese Party of God, crossed into Israel and attacked an Israeli patrol, killing three and capturing two others.

The operation began with a diversionary attack of rockets and mortar shells fired at Israeli towns and military posts. Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the men were taken to set up a prisoner exchange with Israel. Israel's prime minister,
Ehud Olmert, declared the attack an act of war on Lebanon's part and promised a strong response. An Israeli tank stationed nearby attempted to pursue the captors into Lebanon but was hit by an improvised explosive device, killing all four crew members.

Another Israeli soldier died during an attempt to recover the bodies from the disabled tank. After Hezbollah's cross-border raid, the Israeli military launched air, naval and ground attacks at Hezbollah targets across Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets into northern Israel, many reaching as far south as the port city of Haifa. Hezbollah also damaged an Israeli warship 10
miles off the Lebanese coast with an Iranian-made unmanned drone. Rational people will surely agree that being on the receiving end of a daily shower of missiles - for years - is sufficient provocation to strike back at a fanatic and well organized phalanx of terrorists. Israel, reborn from the ashes of the Holocaust, was attacked five times by its neighbors in less than 60 years. It has suffered repeated assaults by lunatics who blow themselves up in buses, marketplaces and restaurants. Suicide bombers are just the more extreme emissaries of a large, seething, teeming throng of Muslims who, given the chance, would cheerfully slit the throat of every Jew they met.

For a pithy and telling synthesis of the Muslims' mindset and intentions, here's what al-Qaida's Ayman Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden's deputy, said recently: All the world is a battlefield open in front of us. The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires. It is a jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq. The Muslims have not forgotten the Crusades,
which they claim the West is still waging. But this time, they intend to wipe out the Jews who once shared their fate at the hands of the Crusaders. What we are witnessing is well beyond Israel's battle for survival. The Western world, its values, freedoms, civilization and evolution are now in peril. A strong and resolute Israel is the key to stability in the Middle East. If Israel falls, we all fall. Willy E. Gutman of Tehachapi is a veteran journalist on assignment in Central America since 1991. His column reflects his own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal.

LUKE 21:26
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Study: Earth changed after Sumatra quake

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined Earth's gravity changed as a result of the giant 2004 Sumatran earthquake. The discovery marked the first time scientists have used satellite data to detect changes in the Earth's surface caused by a massive earthquake. The discovery signifies a new use for data from NASA satellites and offers a possible new approach to understanding how earthquakes work. The 9.1-magnitude December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in the Indian Ocean produced a tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people, while displacing more than 1 million others. The event followed the slipping of two continental plates under the seafloor that raised ocean bed in the region by several feet for thousands of square miles.

The earthquake changed the gravity in that part of the world in two ways that we were able to detect,said Shin-Chan Han, a research scientist at Ohio State University. He and colleagues determined the quake triggered the massive uplift of the seafloor, changing the geometry of the region and altering previous global positioning satellite measurements of the area. And the density of the rock
beneath the seafloor shifted, producing detectable gravity changes.2006 United Press International