SEA LEVEL SURGES THREATEN 1 BILLION

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Strong earthquake hits Japan. 3-Sudden sea level surges threaten 1 billion. 4-The Nation's Weather 5-Colombia volcano erupts, thousands flee 6-Wildfires Destroy 14 Homes in Georgia 7-Syria Threatens War, Olmert Dismissive. 8-Group of Rio, European Union begin 4-day meeting in Santo Domingo. 9-Iran would cut the hand of any attacker. 10-Former Hitler youth makes comparisons about Hitler and Islam. 11-Netanyahu Going Into Action to Topple Olmert. 12-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Fri Apr 20 1:14 AM EDT

APR 20,07
MAP 5.3 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 5.6 SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 6.0 SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN

APR 19,07
MAP 2.5 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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MAP 4.4 CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP 4.5 AEGEAN SEA
MAP 5.4 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.2 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA

APR 18,07
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 5.5 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.0 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 3.0 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 JUJUY, ARGENTINA

Strong earthquake hits Japan 8 minutes ago

TOKYO - A strong earthquake with preliminary magnitude 6.2 hit near islands in southwestern Japan Friday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, Japan's weather agency said. The quake struck near the island of Miyakojima, part of the Ryukyu islands chain that stretches southwest toward Taiwan, the Meteorological Agency said.Coastal areas may notice some unusual movements in the ocean's surface, but there is no danger of damage, the agency said.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

Sudden sea level surges threaten 1 billion By Michael Kahn
Thu Apr 19, 5:31 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than 1 billion people live in low-lying areas where a sudden surge in sea level could prove as disastrous as the 2004 Asian tsunami, according to new research presented on Thursday. New mapping techniques show how much land would be lost and how many people affected by rapid sea level rises that are often triggered by storms and earthquakes, a U.S. Geological Survey-led team determined.E. Lynn Usery, who led the team, said nearly one-quarter of the world's population lives below 100 feet above sea level -- the size of the biggest surge during the 2004 tsunami that pulverized villages along the Indian Ocean and killed 230,000 people.What we are suggesting is what kind of areas are at risk (in) a catastrophic event, Usery told a meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

The fact that there are that many people living at that sea level means there are probably a lot of people potentially in harm's way.The team also found that a 100-foot (30-meter) rise in sea level would cover 3.7 million square miles of land worldwide.A rise of just 16 feet would affect 669 million people and 2 million square miles of land would be lost.Sea levels are currently rising about 0.04 to 0.08 inches (1 to 2 millimeters) each year, making it unlikely such a scenario would suddenly occur across the globe, Usery said.But he said 10,000 years ago sea levels rose 20 meters in 500 years -- a relatively short span -- after the collapse of the continental ice sheets.It can happen in a short period of time if we look at the historical data, Usery said.More importantly, he said, the new mapping technique provides detail that was previously unavailable and gives policymakers better tools to prepare for potential disasters. With just a mouse click on the computer, researchers can gauge how much land would be lost at various sea levels, and where.

The team developed its own mapping projection software and then plugged in U.S. Geological Survey data on population, elevation and different types of land cover.This can be used by nations in the world to put contingency plans in place, Usery said. We haven't had data sets at this kind of resolution before.The impetus for the project came after the 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 underlined the devastating impact sudden sea level surges can have on those living in coastal areas, Usery said.Even though people know low-lying areas like the Netherlands or many parts of Asia are at risk of flooding, many do not realize just how big a risk they are facing.A 30-meter surge in Florida would leave the whole state covered except for a little plateau area, Usery said.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Thu Apr 19, 5:32 AM ET

A low pressure system was expected to pass through the Rockies and northern Plains on Thursday, bringing rain and high elevation snow. Snow advisories were in effect in areas spanning from Utah through Montana, with several inches expected in parts. High wind advisories were in effect from Arizona through eastern Montana.Rain was expected along the coast of Oregon and Northern California early Thursday and was expected to move southward along the coast throughout the day. Snow was possible in the Sierras and parts of Nevada.Rain and thunderstorms were expected in parts of the Ohio Valley and Southeast, as a small, fast-moving low pressure system works its way through the regions.

Temperatures in the 40s and 50s were expected in the Northeast and in the 70s and 80s in the Southeast. The Rockies were expected to see temperatures in the 30s and 40s, while lower-elevation areas of California were expected to have temperatures ranging from the 60s to the 80s.Temperatures in the lower 48 states on Wednesday ranged from a low of 17 degrees at Embarrass, Minn., to a high of 95 degrees at Goodyear, Ariz.

Colombia volcano erupts, thousands flee By FERNANDO VERGARA, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 18, 9:03 PM ET

NEIVA, Colombia - Thousands of people were evacuated after a long-dormant volcano erupted late Tuesday and again early Wednesday, provoking avalanches and floods that swept away houses and bridges. The Nevado del Huila volcano's eruptions were its first on record since Colombia was colonized by the Spanish 500 years ago.There are about 10,000 people living in the area around the volcano, and about 3,500 had been evacuated, Luz Amanda Pulido, director of the national disaster office, told The Associated Press after flying over the volcano in southwest Colombia.There were no reports of deaths or injuries.The eruption sent an avalanche of rocks down the volcano's sides and into the Paez and Simbola rivers, causing them to flood.

The bridges were swept away, the highway used by the indigenous in the zone was destroyed for various kilometers (miles) and the problem we have now is the lack of a route to deliver goods and medicines to the population, Police Gen. Orlando Paez said.Experts were not ruling out more eruptions.The seismic activity remains light but permanent, and we can't rule out another bigger event in the next hours or days, said Mario Ballesteros, director of the government's Institute for Geology and Mining.The Nevado del Huila, which is topped with a crown of ice, is Colombia's third-highest peak at 18,484 feet. Located 170 miles southwest of Bogota, it became active again in March with a series of internal rumblings.In 1985, the town of Armero was wiped from the map and 25,000 people were killed when another volcano, the Nevado del Ruiz, exploded and set off a series of mudslides. It was Colombia's worst natural disaster.

Wildfires Destroy 14 Homes in Georgia
Firefighters battle a wildfire near Waycross, Ga. - Provided By: The Associated Press Last Modified: 4/19/2007 3:09:55 PM

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) -- Firefighters were making slow progress Thursday against two wildfires that have forced more than 1,000 people from their homes and destroyed 14 houses as they spread over more than 45 square miles of tinder-dry forest in southeast Georgia.The fires threatened the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, one of the nation’s best-preserved wetland areas, with one reaching the outer edges of the refuge, said Eric Mosley, spokesman for the Georgia Forestry Commission.That fire — the larger of the two — burned into a wet prairie area and slowed, officials said.The smaller fire, a little over 3 square miles, had burned to within five miles of the refuge by Thursday morning but was mostly contained, said Shawn Gillette, a spokesman for the refuge.

Firefighters, helped by higher humidity, also made gains in containing the much larger fire, which was 30 percent contained Thursday morning. It began Monday near Waycross when a tree fell on a power line, then raced through the forest.Fourteen homes were destroyed, Mosley said. No deaths were reported, but several firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation or minor injuries, including a firefighter who suffered a broken leg and cuts to his hand. The cause of the smaller fire was still unknown.Southeast Georgia is extremely dry, with rainfall deficits of 6 to 8 inches for the year, officials said.The weather today is probably going to be a little bit better than it has been. The winds seem to have died down, the smoke has lifted some, said Jim Burkhart, a ranger at the Okefenokee refuge. But officials worried about stronger wind over the weekend spreading any flames.Mosley recommended that people stay away from areas affected by the fires and stay inside to avoid smoke, which can be somewhat abrasive to the lungs.Four counties in the Jacksonville, Fla. area — Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns — issued health advisories Tuesday and Wednesday because of the smoke generated by the Georgia fires.(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Syria Threatens War, Olmert Dismissive
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) APR 19,07

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday that Syria is ready for a war with Israel. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel has no intention of starting that war. Syria grows stronger every day, Assad told the Arabic Dar Al-Hayat daily, adding that Israel is a bitter enemy. He also said that contacts between Syria and Israel take place about once a month, with no results, due to Israels refusal to unilaterally withdraw from the Golan Heights. We do not know whether war will take place, but we should not disregard this possibility, Assad concluded. Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said Sunday that, If Israel rejects the Arab League peace proposal, resistance will be the only way to liberate the Golan Heights.Israel has annexed the Golan Heights, the high ground overlooking northern Israel, after liberating it from Syria in 1967 during the Six Day War. More than 40,000 Israeli Jews now live in the Golan.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded to the threats Wednesday before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He said Israel has no intention of attacking Syria and opined that Syria will not attack Israel either, but is talking about defending itself if attacked.

MK Israel Katz (Likud) slammed Olmerts response to Assads war talk during the committee meeting. You are mistaken to think that the Syrians are increasing their strength for self defense, he said, addressing the prime minister. The Syrians are planning a terror attack in the Golan Heights in the summer and are building fortifications to prevent Israel from defending itself when the attack comes. You should be warning the Syrian president, not reassuring him, Katz said. A terror attack perpetrated by Hizbullah along the Lebanese border is what triggered the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

Syria Building Advanced Missile-Launch-Bunkers

The Christian Broadcasting Network has gone into further detail about Syrias preparations for war. Missile expert Uzi Rubin describes what he terms Syrias Cape Canaveral, referring to the headquarters of the American NASA space agency. One installation features Syrian missile launchers housed in more than 30 huge concrete bunkers surrounding an operations command center. They learned the trick that even shorter-range missiles that are fired in salvos from multiple rocket launchers are very effective against Israel's civilian population, Rubin said. Another military site includes a drive-through building were chemical warheads are stored. The Scud D can hit any point in Israel from the furthermost point in Syria near the Iraqi border, Rubin says. It was done specifically in order to have this range to hit every single point in Israel.

UN Concerned

The UN Security Council issued an expression of serious concern Tuesday in response to concrete reports of the amassing of Syrian arms smuggled over the border to Lebanon. The council dispatched a mission to assess the implementation of UN resolution 1701, which brought the Second Lebanon War to a close with guarantees that the UN would prevent the smuggling of arms to the Hizbullah from Syria. The council called on Syria to take further measures to prevent arms transfers.

Group of Rio, European Union begin 4-day meeting in Santo Domingo APR 19,07

The Group of Rio-European Union meeting began on Tuesday in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, with the attendance of 50 foreign ministers and nearly 2,000 delegates. A large security force surrounded the Dominican Foreign Ministry, which will host the meeting, which ends Friday. Key topics include energy, aid for Haiti, and strengthening multilateral relations, citizens' security, the environment, fighting poverty and drug trafficking. The meeting begins Tuesday with individual meetings within each grouping. On Wednesday the coordinators of each grouping will hold meeting, and on Thursday EU foreign ministers will first meet their Common Market of the South counterparts, and later separately their Andean Community Counterparts.

Also on the program is the signing of an Economic Assistance Program, to enter into force on Jan. 1 next year. Also invited to the meeting are Javier Solana, the EU high commissioner for foreign policy and security, and Benita Ferrero, the equivalent post for the Group of Rio. The Dominican Republic is the current rotating chair of the Group of Rio, while Germany holds the EU rotating presidency.
Source: Xinhua

Iran would cut the hand of any attacker by Farhad Pouladi
Wed Apr 18, 8:53 AM ET

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday warned that its armed forces would cut off the hand of an enemy and Tehran would consider using oil as a weapon if the Islamic republic was attacked over its nuclear programme. Our army has a defensive mission and not an offensive one. But it is completely ready to confront any aggressor and cut off their hand, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a military parade to mark army day on the outskirts of Tehran.The army and armed forces must be more ready with each passing day, he told the forces outside the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Meanwhile, Iran's oil minister refused to rule out using oil as a weapon in the standoff with the West over its nuclear programme, saying that Tehran would use every means if attacked.

The Islamic Republic of Iran's policy is to supply energy as a responsibility. We are never seeking to cut the energy supplies to the world, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh told an energy conference in Tehran.

But naturally every country, which is subject to danger or attack, should use all its possibilities to defend itself and this is every country's right, he said.Analysts have said that Tehran could cause oil prices to surge if it cut off the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping channel, which would trigger a massive disruption in global supplies.The United States has refused to rule out the option of military action to force Iran to halt its atomic drive which Washington suspects is aimed at making weapons. Iran insists that its nuclear programme is peaceful.Iran's repeated refusal to suspend sensitive uranium enrichment operations has already brought two sets of UN sanctions targeting its ballistics and nuclear industries.The military parade in Tehran showed off regiment after regiment of ground forces, tanks, a new set of drones as well as medium-range Nazeat (Meteor) missiles one of which was inscribed Death to Israel.

However, Iran's longer-range ballistic missiles, which are under the control of the Revolutionary Guards, were not on display and there was no sign of any hitherto unknown weaponry.They think that with sanctions on our weapons we would be paralysed but we have succeeded in producing all we need in arms, said Ahmadinejad in the brief address.In the military parade, Iran showed off a succession of drones with names like Oqab (Eagle), Sayad (Hunter) and Azarakhsh (Thunderbolt) which it said were able to confront "any aerial or ground threat by the enemy.Also on display were Zelzal-2 (Quake) missiles which are said to have a range of 100 to 400 kilometres (60 to 250 miles) and Nazeat missiles which have a range of around 100 kilometres.Other units taking part in the parade included a regiment of motorcyclists with shoulder-launched missiles as well as divers equipped with aqualungs on top of their mini-submarines.Ahmadinejad said that despite the standoff over its nuclear programme, Iran wanted to have friendly relations with all countries, with the exception of Israel which it refuses to recognise.

Our people hold out the hand of friendship to all the peoples. We want friendly and just relations with all the peoples except the Zionist regime, he said.Ahmadinejad, who returned briefly to Tehran for the parade from a continuing trip to the southern Fars province, has repeatedly insisted that Iran has no intention of giving in to Western demands over its nuclear drive. Iran has defiantly announced that its uranium enrichment activities have reached an industrial scale although Western observers stay there is still uncertainty over what stage its nuclear programme has in fact reached.

Former Hitler youth makes comparisons about Hitler and Islam
Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com April 19, 2007

Author Hilmar von Campe, a former Hitler Youth member and German soldier, sees shocking parallels between Nazi Germany under Hitler and radical Islam. He has written an autobiography describing his life as an active participant in -- and his remorse over -- what he calls the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.In the book, titled How Was it Possible?, von Campe discusses the appeasement of the 1930s. If the British and the French had realized how evil Hitler and the Nazis were and what their real purposes were, he observes, they could have prevented another world war, if they had acted two years or so earlier.Von Campe says even though the Allies eventually defeated Hitler, his ideology survives today. The Nazi ideology comes back through the back door, so to speak, through Islam, the author asserts. And unfortunately, he notes, even Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has apparently forgotten the lessons of the past in his willingness to give in to Islamic demands in the hopes that they will become friends.

Unfortunately, in appeasing Islamic leaders, the Israeli prime minister has taken the same approach as those European leaders of the 1930s, von Campe contends. Olmert, to me, belongs to the suicide cult, he says, because the suicide cult, they believe that if you give in here a little point and there a little point, then we will make friends of Islam or whoever.However, this is a mistake, von Campe insists. Appeasement of radical Islamists does not work, he says, because if you give up one thing, then they come and want the next thing. You give them that, then they come with another one.American Family News Network - All Rights Reserved

Netanyahu Going Into Action to Topple Olmert
by Gil Ronen (INN) APR 19,07

Likud Chairman and head of the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to abandon his wait-and-see strategy and to launch a public campaign for toppling Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. In a rally held Tuesday at the Likud headquarters building Metzudat Ze'ev' in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu reportedly told his supporters this government has to go home and we need to start acting to make this happen.He told them to begin holding weekly protest vigils every Friday in busy intersections throughout Israel as well as street demonstrations. The slogan is simple, he said: You've Failed Go Home'.According to NRG, the meeting was attended by dozens of Likud branch chairmen and other central activists from all parts of Israel. Netanyahu informed them of a working plan for country-wide protest vigils with the intention of creating an atmosphere conducive to bringing down the government. Netanyahu assured the activists that he would be joining the protests on a regular basis.

Netanyahu's move appears to be timed with precision, as the date of release of the interim report by the Winograd Commission approaches. The Winograd Commission was appointed to investigate failures in the conduct of the Second Lebanon War last summer and is expected to have harsh criticism for the government and its heads. Prime Minister Olmert has received record-setting low marks of support in the polls, one of which recently gave him an amazingly low 3% support level less than the margin of error. The polls also predict the Likud will receive 30 to 35 Knesset seats compared to its present representation of 12 MKs. The polls have consistently predicted an election outcome that would make it possible for Netanyahu to handily form a coalition based on a partnership with the National Union/NRP and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, which are expected to garner about 20 seats between them, and a haredi religious party like Shas, which is expected to receive about 10 seats. In addition, a recent poll gave Arkadi Gaydamak 9 seats, assuming he will indeed form a political party as he has said he would.

In interviews he gave the press at the start of the Passover holiday, Netanyahu said he felt ripe for the position of Prime Minister and had learned his lessons from his previous term at the government's helm. He also predicted Olmert's government would fall prematurely due to public pressure. Olmert's government has thus far proven stable, despite its decline in popularity. There is some apprehension among Olmert's opponents who maintain that a deal between Olmert and the media may be in the works, in which the media would prop him up in exchange for his adoption of a far left agenda.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
April 20, 2007

Dear Friend of The Fellowship,

On May 14, 1948, Jewish leaders gathered in Tel Aviv to announce the birth of the modern state of Israel. This state, they declared, "will be open to the immigration of Jews from all countries of their dispersion; will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets. Further, it would extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples … and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people.Israel Independence Day, which will be observed next Monday, commemorates this monumental event. It is a fitting time to recall these words from the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, and to reflect upon the principles set forth in that document. And with the current volatile state of affairs in the Holy Land, it is equally important to consider the ideals expressed in the Hamas Charter, the founding document of the party currently leading the Palestinian Authority.

What kind of a nation was created by Israel's founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of the State of Israel? It is a Jewish state, but one where freedom of religion is written into law and respected in practice. It is a democratic, multi-ethnic state where differences are addressed through an orderly - though sometimes rambunctious - political process. It is a state whose founding citizens followed the call of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, to "make the desert bloom, transforming barren desert into lush and productive farmland. It is a state formed by survivors of one of the worst calamities in history, the Holocaust, which nonetheless has shown astounding levels of economic growth. It is a state that since its founding has been trying to realize the dream of peace and cooperation with its neighbors.

If you want to understand the source of the hostility between Israel and her Palestinian neighbors, you don't have to look much further than the differences in their founding documents. The Hamas charter, unlike Israel's stirring declaration of independence, is full of strident calls for attacking and eliminating Israel (which it calls the Zionist invaders) and paranoid anti-Semitic delusions about Jews' causing war and controlling the world banking system. It even flatly declares that so-called peaceful solutions … are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.With this as their foundation, perhaps it's not surprising that the Palestinians live in a society ruled by violence and chaos. It seems every day there is another murder, another innocent bystander shot in Gaza - the fruit of a bitter power struggle between rival Hamas and Fatah parties. It is a society whose leaders define success not in terms of its positive accomplishments for the Palestinian people, but by the depth of its hatred for Israel. Foreign aid money that could be used to feed hungry Palestinians, repair crumbling infrastructure, or create jobs - the unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories is 50 percent by some estimates - is routinely siphoned off to purchase weapons. Even the Palestinian Finance Minister has admitted that hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians has been misappropriated.

Years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said something that is just as relevant then as it is today: There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. This is the root of the problem. Israel wants and is willing to compromise for peace - but Palestinian leadership wants to destroy Israel more than it wants to provide a decent life for its own people. I encourage you to read the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel and excerpts from the Hamas Charter we have posted on our site and the see if you don't think they paint accurate pictures of the societies that sprang from them.Recognizing the profound difference between the two peoples' values and ethos, you can understand why Israel must defend herself - and why she depends on friends like you to pray and act for the peace of Jerusalem.With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews