JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
Palestinian victims describe being used as shields by Hamas
Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by
Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from
using them as human shields. They described how for years Hamas has used
their property and homes as shields for military installations from
which to launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms.
According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the
legs by Hamas.
WHY IS OBAMA SUCH A ARAB-MUSLIM
SUPPORTER.AND WORSHIPS EVERY COMMUNIST MUSLIM LEADER THAT COMES TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.AND THIS IS THE REASON SO MANY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE
ARAB-MUSLIMS.
OBAMAS MAKEUP
50% ARAB
42% WHITE
08% BLACK
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas
representative Fathi Hammad months before the war, articulating the
Hamas ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters:"For
the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women
excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad
fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians]
created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad
fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to
the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death as you desire life.'"
ZEPHANIAH 2:1-7
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before
the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the
LORD’S anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek
meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive
out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.(ITS NO
ACCIDENT THAT IN THIS GAZA WAR ITS ASHKELON-ASHDOD AND THE MURDERER
HAMAS IN GAZA WERE MOST OF THE BOMBING ARE)(THIS IS PROPHECY COMING TO
PASS BIGTIME)
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,(GAZA) the
nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O
Canaan, the land of the Philistines,(PALESTINIANS) I will even destroy
thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast (GAZA) shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7
And the coast (GAZA) shall be for the remnant of the house of
Judah;(ISRAEL) they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon
shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit
them, and turn away their captivity.(BY THIS PROPHECY I PREDICT ISRAEL
WILL RETAKE GAZA SO ISRAELIS AROUND THE WORLD CAN IMMIGRATE THERE AND
BUILD HOMES AND LIVE)
ISAIAH 14:29-32
29 Rejoice not thou,
whole Palestina,(ARABS-PALESTINIANS) because the rod of him that smote
thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent.(BOMBS)(WARFARE)
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root
with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O
city; thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS) art dissolved: for there shall come
from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD
hath founded Zion,(JERUSALEM) and the poor of his people shall trust in
it.
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IN DEPTH LOOK WERE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS BURRIAL SPOT IN ISRAEL-JORDAN
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h009.htm
2 PETER 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.
PSALMS 90:4
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE
DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH
CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH
YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN
FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD
ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCUR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at
the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till
you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a
hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8
Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten
thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
EZEKIEL 39:11-21
11 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves
in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it
shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog
and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of
Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD
SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to
them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing
through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the
face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall
they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a
man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE
AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every
man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING
THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell
in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR
BRETHERN JEWS)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH (BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
IS THIS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO GET SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND BY GOD BY DESTROYING THE ARAB NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXbRO9gfxY&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) 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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
And
here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either
through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and
only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this
land in the future.(ALL MOSTLY PSALMS 83 ARABS)
Egypt east of the
Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern
part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen
13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL
THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT
ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed
me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the
crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-05:07PM
THERE SAYING IN THESE GAZA SO
CALLED SHELTER CAMPS FOR THE HUMAN SHIELDS-THAT DEATH WILL SOON BE
FOLLOWING.THEY HARDLY GOT ANY WATER. FOOD IS RUNNING OUT.THERE SAYING
THE GAZANS WILL BE SOON GETTING DISENTARY AND OTHER DISEASES AS A RESULT
OF THE LIVING CONDITIONS IN THESE SHELTERS.THERE SAYING ONCE DISEASES
START IN THESE SHELTERS.ALL KINDS WILL DIE.THIS 1,800 DEAD WILL LOOK
LIKE A PICNIC COMPARED TO THE DEATH FROM THE SHELTERS FROM DISEASE AND
FAMINE. MAYBE GOD WILL KILL OFF MORE ARAB-HAMAS MEMBERS BY DISEASE THEN
WAR IN THIS CASE.WE WILL SEE WHAT DOES IN THIS CASE.OR WILL ISRAEL
FINALLY JUST KEEP BOMBING. WHAT GOD HAS IN MIND FOR THE ARAB-HAMAS
MURDERERS HE WILL FULFIL THREW ISRAEL.THE ONLY THING I DON'T
LIKE-TOMORROW IS THE 9TH OF AV IN ISRAEL-WHICH ONLY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO
ISRAEL ON THIS DAY.ISRAEL WILL REALLY HAVE TO BE ON ALERT TOMORROW.I
FEEL HAMAS WILL BE DOING SOMETHING BAD TO KILL A PILE OF ISRAELIS.THIS
IS NOT A DAY FOR ISRAEL TO BE PLANNING TO MUCH.I WOULD TELL ISRAEL TO
JUST TAKE A BRIEF BREAK TOMORROW AUG 4TH TILL THIS DAY IS OVER.THEN GO
AFTER HAMAS-ARABS HEAVY ON THE 5TH AGAIN.
IN THE BELOW
SCRIPTURES IT TELLS US THIS EXACTLY.FIRST WAR.THEN FAMINE.AND DEATH BY
INCURABLE DISEASE-WEAPONS-FAMINE AGAIN AND ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE.IN
THE FUTURE 2 BILLION DIE WITH THESE FOUR PLAGES AS A RESULT OF WAR QUIT
OVIOUS AND ATOMIC WARFARE.
FIRST COMES WAR-THEN DISEASE-DEATH RESULTS
REVELATION 6:4-6
4
And there went out another horse that was red:(WAR) and power was given
to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say,
Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him
had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the
midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three
measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the
wine.(FAMINE-A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD).
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-04:07PM
KHALED MESHAAL-HAMAS MURDERER LEADER
SAYS IF ISRAEL GETS ALL ITS TROOPS OITTA GAZA-OPEN ALL BORDERS SO WE CAN
GET WEAPONS IN TO KILL EVERY JEW-THEN WE HAMAS-ARAB MURDERERS WILL
ACCEPT A CEASE-FIRE. PEOPLE UNDER 30 OR UNDER HATE ISRAEL AND SUPPORT
THE MURDERERS HAMAS.PEOPLE 31 AND OVER SUPPORT ISRAEL MOSTLY.WHY IS THIS
THE CASE.I BELIEVE THE THIRTY UNDER CROWD ARE GODLESS.ITS BEEN AT LEAST
40 YEARS SINCE PRAYER AND THE BIBLE WAS TAKIN OUTTA SCHOOL.SO THE YOUNG
ARE COMPLETELY GODLESS IN SCHOOLS THESE DAYS.AND THE SCHOOLS TEACH
EVERY SIN GOING-BUT DISQUISE IT AS A HUMAN RIGHT AND FOR THE GOOD OF THE
EARTH OF COURSE.AND IF SOMEBODY IS AGAINST THE SINS THE GODLESS SCHOOLS
TEACH THESE DAYS.YOUR A BIGOT-HATER-RACIST AND CLOSED MINDED. AND THEM
PEOPLE HAVE TO BE SHUT UP OR REMOVED FROM THE EARTH BY SOME ENLIGHTENED
DEMON TO BE RE-INCARNATED AND RE- EDUCATED TO FIT IN WITH THE GODLESS
WORLDLY SINNERS BELIEF. THESE NEW AGE NUTCASE BELIEFS ARE TAUGHT IN
SCHOOLS.BUT READ A BIBLE IN SCHOOL.- OR TEACH THAT GOD CREATED
EVERYTHING INCLUDING HUMANS-WE WERE NOT CREATED FROM SCUM FOR THE
NUTCASE EVOLUTION CROWD.IF YOU BELIEVE BIBLE TRUTH YOU MUST BE BANNED OR
KICKED OUTTA SCHOOL-JOB ETC. WHATEVER THE GODLESS WORLD THINKS IS
RIGHT.BUT THAT WILL END SHORTLY WITH THESE ISRAEL-CHRISTIAN-JEW HATERS
BEING DESTROYED.GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED.1,803 GAZANS-ISRAEL HATERS ARE
KILLED AND 71 ISRAELIS KILLED IN THIS WAR-NOT PEACE KEEPING MISSION IN
GAZA.
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-01:25PM
ROBERT SERRY U.N SPECIAL ENVOY TO
THE MIDEAST ADMITTED THAT IT WAS HAMAS-ARABS THAT BROKE THE 7TH
CEASE-FIRE THE OTHER DAY.BAN KI-MOON THAT LUNATIC SAID ISRAEL BOMBING
THE SCHOOL TODAY WAS A MORAL OUTRAGE AND A CRIMINAL ACT.I WOULD LIKE TO
ASK BAN KI-MOONEY THE LOONEY.IF ITS A MORAL OUTRAGE AND CRIMINAL ACT
AGAINST ISRAEL.WHAT IS IT AGAINST HAMAS AND THE USELESS UNITED NATIONS
FOR TEAMING UP AND WHORING WITH EACH OTHER BY HIDING MISSLES AND
ROCKETS IN THESE SCHOOLS-HOSPITALS-HOMES IN GAZA.THEN HAMAS HAS THE GALL
TO SHOOT THEM HIIDEN ROCKETS RIGHT FROM THE U.N OWNED AND LOOKED AFTER
BUILDINGS AND SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS.IF HAMAS SHOOTS ROCKETS FROM THESE
PLACES-ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO SHOOT BACK AND KILL THOSE MURDERERS WHO ARE
SHOOTING AT THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS.THIS IS A WAR -NOT A PEACE KEEPING
MISSION AS I KEEP SAYING.AND JUST BECAUSE HAMAS AND THE UNITED NATIONS
WORK TOGETHER TO USE HUMAN SHIELDS AGAINST ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY DON'T
THINK ISRAEL WILL THEN SHOOT MORTORS AT THESE PLACES.BUT ISRAEL DOES
RETALIATE AND THEN ISRAEL GETS THE BLAME FOR KILLING INNOCENT GAZAN
ARABS - OUR POOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN.WELL THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD BE
FOLDED IMMEDIATELY FOR GENICIDE AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST ISRAEL.AND
FORCING ISRAEL TO KILL ARABS IN GAZA SO HAMAS AND THE UNITED NATIONS CAN
PUT IN COMPLAINTS AGAINST ISRAEL WHEN THESE PLACES ARE HIT.AND HAMAS
ALSO SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES AND GENICIDE OF HUMAN
SHIELDS-FORCING ISRAEL TO KILL ARABS SO HAMAS CAN GET FUNDING AND EARN
MORE JIHAD MURDERERS AGAINST ISRAEL.SO MOONEY.IS WHAT YOUR U.N AND HAMAS
ARE DOING IS WAY WORSE THEN A MORAL OUTRAGE AND CRIMINAL ACTS.USE AND
HAMAS ARE COMMITTING GENICIDE AGAINST THE GAZAN ARABS AND ISRAEL.AS WELL
AS COMMITTING WAR CRIMES AGAINST ISRAEL BY LETTING HAMAS HIDE
ROCKETS-MISSLES AND WHATEVER ELSE IN UNITED NATIONS BUILDINGS.AND
SHOOTING 3,200 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-10:25AM
SINCE THE IDF HAS PULLED OUT OF
NORTHERN GAZA TODAY.HAMAS HAS BEEN SHOOTING THE MOST ROCKETS OUTTA THERE
SINCE OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE OR AS I CALL IT OPERATION ATOMIC
DEFENCE OF ISRAELI CITIZENS HAS BEGAN 27 DAYS AGO.HERES PROOF ISRAEL HAS
TO OBLITERATE EVERYTHING IN GAZA.AND RETAKE GAZA AS THEIRS AGAIN.NOW
1,380 ROCKETS HAVE BEEN FIRED BY HAMAS INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL HAS DESTROYED
4,226 HAMAS-WEAPONS PLACES HIDDEN AND OF THE 1,750 DEAD IN GAZA-50 % OR
875 OF THE KILLED ARE HAMAS MEMBERS OR AFFILIATES.SO THIS 70% CIVILIANS
KILLED NUMBER BY THE ARABS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE LIES.
MARK
REGEV-HAMAS HAS BROKEN ALL 7 CEASE-FIRES.WE ISRAELIS ARE NOT INTERESTED
IN ANY CEASE-FIRE RIGHT NOW.HAMAS HAS SHOT AT LEAST 30 ROCKETS INTO
ISRAEL ALREADY TODAY.ISRAEL WILL DO WHATEVER IT HAS TO DO TO PROTECT ITS
CITIZENS.WE WILL STOP THESE HAMAS MURDERERS (EVEN IF WE GOTTA USE THE
ATOMIC BOMB ON GAZA).THANKS TO IRON DOME WE HAVE STOPPED 300 HAMAS
ROCKETS FROM DESTROYING OUR ISRAELIS IN MAJOR CITIES TEL AVIV-JERUSALEM.
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-09:30AM
THE PALESTINIAN ARABS WILL NEVER
CHANGE THEIR HATE AGAINST ISRAEL.NO MATTER IF THEY CLAIM THEY WANT PEACE
WITH ISRAEL.AND A JORDANIAN WAS ON ISRAEL RADIO TODAY SAYING THAT SOME
ARAB COUNTRIES WANT ISRAEL TO CRUSH HAMAS AND THESE ARAB COUNTRIES WANT
ISRAEL TO RETAKE GAZA AND GET IT BACK IN ISRAELS HANDS.THESE ARABS ARE
SICK AND TIRED OF HAMAS USING THEIR PEOPLE AS HUMAN SHIELDS.AND THESE
ARABS ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING KILLED BY HAMAS IF THEY DEMONSTRATE
AGAINST HAMAS'S BARBARIC WAYS.EVEN GAZANS ARE SAYING THEY WANT HAMAS
KILLED OFF FOR KILLING OUR PEOPLE AND THEN WHEN WE DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
HAMAS TO STOP THIS WAR.HAMAS KILLS US INSTANTLY.AT LEAST 40 WERE KILLED
IN GAZA THIS WAY BY HAMAS FOR DEMONSTRATING AGAINST HAMAS FORCING THIS
WAR TO GO ON.SINCE THIS WAR HAS STARTED.AND AT LEAST 13 ROCKETS HAVE
BEEN SHOT INTO ISRAEL BY HAMAS SINCE 8:15AM TODAY.SO THERES NO WAY HAMAS
WANTS ANY CEASE-FIRE.OR WANTS THIS WAR STOPPED IN ANY WAY TILL EVERY
ISRAELI IN ISRAEL IS KILLED.
Israel, We Stand With You-By Rabbi Mordechai Levin
The
following facts have long been unacceptable to many Arabs: that the
land of Israel is the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland; it is where we
had a Jewish kingdom for centuries; there is now a Jewish state within
Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital.Even after signing peace accords
with Egypt and Jordan, Israel continues to face a combination of
threats. To the east, Iran is advancing its nuclear project to produce
nuclear weapons, and its president pledges continuously that Israel will
be wiped out from the earth.To the north, the Lebanese terrorist
organization Hezbollah, which also promises to destroy Israel – and
functions as an Iranian proxy – has re-armed since its war with Israel
in 2006.To the south, Israel faces the terrorist Hamas movement, which
controls the Gaza Strip. Its stated goal is the elimination of the
Jewish state and the establishment of an Islamic nation enveloping all
of Israel – what they call Palestine.Since 1947 when the United Nations
agreed upon the creation of a Jewish and a Arab state, the Palestinians
have been offered a nation state in a divided land. And they have turned
the offer down, for it has always been more important to expel the Jews
than to have a Palestinian state.
Hamas in the south – as
well as Hezbollah in the north – deliberately locates its missile
launchers, weapons factories, rockets and militants, in schools, mosques
and densely populated areas. Hamas launches rockets from neighborhoods,
schools, markets and mosques.
Its strategy of attacking
Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields is
responsible for the suffering in Gaza. A well-known cartoon describes an
Israeli soldier and a Palestinian terrorist shooting at each other. The
Israeli soldier is standing in front of a baby carriage protecting the
baby. The terrorist is firing from behind a baby carriage, using the
baby as a shield.The residents of Israeli towns have only several
seconds from rocket launch time to run into a shelter. Imagine spending
every day over several years waiting for a loud siren signaling that you
have 15 seconds to find shelter. What would we do? How would we go to
work? How would we send our children to school? Imagine what America’s
reaction would be if Cuba spent years launching rockets at our
southeastern coast. No sovereign state would resign itself to having
its cities bombarded. That is the reason for the military campaign that
Israel launched.Israel had no choice but to launch a military attack
against Hamas. Israel’s operations were defensive, a response to the
thousands of rockets that have been fired from Gaza into Israel. It has
gone to extreme lengths to avoid killing civilians, but the necessary
military actions have sadly resulted in the deaths of innocents.Every
death is a tragedy, whether the victim is an Israeli or a Palestinian.
You can’t be a decent human being without being affected. And what is
so appalling is that nothing that has happened in Gaza needed to happen.
All it took to avoid all the suffering was for Hamas to end firing
rockets on Israeli civilians.We hope a time will come when Israelis and
Palestinians will live together in peace, no longer attacking one
another, but helping one another to live in peace and security, in
freedom and dignity.Even during this time, we hope and pray for the day
when Israelis and Palestinians will build a place of peace and progress
in the Middle East. Israel, we stand with you!
http://www.rabbilevin.net/israel-we-stand-with-you/
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-08:30AM
RICK PERRY HAS NOW COME OUT AND SAID
HE SUPPORTS ISRAEL AND SAYS OBAMA IS FORCING CEASE-FIRES DOWN ISRAELS
THROAT.AND THE HAMAS- ARABS IN RAFAH WERE HIDDEN BOMBS ARE PUT IN
USELESS UNITED NATIONS SCHOOLS.ARE ACCUSING ISRAEL OF KILLING 10 IN A
RAFAH UNITED NATIONS SCHOOL WERE 3,500 HUMAN SHIELDS BY HAMAS COULD HAVE
BEEN.OF COURSE HAMAS-ARABS SHOT ROCKETS FROM THIS SCHOOL IN
RAFAH.ISRAEL THEN RETALIATED.AND ONCE AGAIN ISRAEL GETS ACCUSED OF
KILLING POOR ARABS IN RAFAH WHEN HAMAS SHOT ROCKETS FROM THE SCHOOL AT
ISRAEL. AND ISRAEL LET HAMAS HAVE IT.THEN ON CBC THAT UNITED NATIONS
NUTCASE CHRIS WAS ON SAYING THAT ISRAEL TOLD THE ARABS IN RAFAH TO LEAVE
THEIR HOMES.AND ALL THE ARABS WENT TO THIS USELESS UNITED NATIONS
SCHOOL WERE HAMAS SHOT THE ROCKETS AT ISRAEL FROM.CHRIS SAYS ISRAEL HAS
GOT TO QUIT FIRING AT SCHOOLS WHEN HAMAS-ARABS ARE SHOOTING
ROCKETS-MISSLES AT ISRAEL FROM THESE U.N SCHOOLS.AND US HERE IN CANADA
CUT OFF OUR FUNDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS SCHOOLS IN GAZA I HEARD THIS
MORNING BY CHRIS G OF THE USELESS U.N.CHRIS WAS BEGGING CANADA TO START
THE FUNDING AGAIN TO THE SCHOOLS IN GAZA. BECAUSE WE NEED THE MONEY SO
BAD BECAUSE THOSE POOR ARABS- HAMAS KIDS WILL NEED SCHOOLS SO BAD SO
HAMAS AND THE UNITED NATIONS CAN WHORE TOGETHER AND HIDE ROCKETS AND
MISSLES IN THESE SCHOOLS. AND THESE KIDS THAT GO TO THESE SCHOOLS CAN BE
HUMAN SHIELDS FOR HAMAS- ARABS WHEN THEY SHOOT ROCKETS AT ISRAEL TO TRY
TO KILL EVERY JEW IN ISRAEL.8 ROCKETS WERE SHOT BY HAMAS AT ASHKELON IN
THE LAST 15 MINUTES-SINCE I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO TAMAR YONAH ON
ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO SINCE 8AM.3,135 TOTAL ROCKETS SHOT AT INNOCENT
ISRAELIS BY HAMAS IN THIS 27 DAY WAR SO FAR.HAMAS IS BEGGING FOR GAZA TO
BE TOTALLY FRYED.AND I HOPE ISRAEL DOES FRY EVERY SPOT IN GAZA.SO
ISRAEL CAN HAVE PEACE FOR A WHILE.ISRAEL YOU HAVE GOT TO BOMBARD GAZA
EVERYWHERE AND TAKE BACK GAZA AS YOUR LAND NOW.
UPDATE AUGUST 03,14-12:00AM
THE KIDNAPPED ISRAELI SOLDIER 2ND LUTEN HADAR GOLDIN IS CONFIRMED KILLED.HAMAS KIDNAPPED HIM.THEN ISRAEL SHUT OFF ALL THE WAYS OUTTA RAFAH.ISRAEL SHELLED THE RAFAH AND THE CAPTURES AND OVIOUSLY HADAR WAS KILLED WITH THE HAMAS MURDERERS.YESTERDAY HAMAS ADMITTED A GROUP OF THEIR MURDERERS WERE NOT HEARD FROM IN RAFAH AND PRESUMED KILLED BY ISRAELI MORTARS.WELL FOR ONCE THE HAMAS MURDERER LEADER NEVER LIED.THE MURDERER KIDNAPPERS WERE KILLED.67 ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN KILLED NOW IN THIS WAR.I WAS WRONG ABOUT HADDAR I JUST FOUND OUT HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION NOT KIDNAPPED BY THE HAMAS- ARAB MURDERERS.
IDF declares missing soldier Hadar Goldin as deceased-The IDF declared missing IDF officer Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, said to have been captured by Hamas, dead.By Uzi Baruch-First Publish: 8/3/2014, 2:09 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The IDF spokesman announced early on Sunday morning that at 11:25 p.m.on Saturday, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Brigadier Gen. Rafi Peretz, declared the death of IDF officer, Lt. Hadar Goldin, who fell in the Gaza Strip on Friday.The decision was made according to the findings of a special board, headed by the rabbi, who examined the details of the incident and related to medical, halachic and other relevant considerations.The message was delivered to the family by the Head of Personnel, Major General Orna Barbibay and Chief Military Rabbi, Brigadier - Gen. Rafi Peretz.Earlier, after the end of the Shabbat, Goldin's parents expressed their shock at rumors that the IDF was beginning to withdraw from Gaza, and urged the government not to abandon their son."I am a Battalion Commander in the reserves, I performed reserves duty until I was 50. (IDF Chief of Staff) Benny Gantz was my commander and it cannot be that he gave an order to the IDF to leave when there is still a soldier inside (the Gaza Strip.)" said his father Dr. Simcha Goldin outside their family home in Kfar Saba near Tel Aviv."I cannot imagine that the army would abandon one of its fighters," he continued, expressing hope that reports of an impending unilateral withdrawal were unfounded."We received tremendous support, because our boys had gone to protect the south and the Gazan belt communities - and I cannot believe that he residents of the Gaza belt would accept that a soldier who went out to defend them has been abandoned.""I demand that the state of Israel not leave Gaza without bringing my child back home to me, and not abandon my son, and not abandon any son that has gone out to defend it," said his mother Hedva, her voice breaking."Hadar is alive, and I don't want to hear any other possibility," she added, clearly distraught.
Ya'alon Vows to 'Cripple Terrorism'-Defense Minister praises IDF's 'devotion to the mission,' says Israel 'has no illusions about Hamas.'By Uzi Baruch, Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 8/2/2014, 11:09 PM / Last Update: 8/2/2014, 11:48 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon spoke Saturday night, providing updates on progress with Operation Protective Edge as it wraps up its twenty-sixth day. Ya'alon first related to Hamas's attacks on - and abduction of - IDF soldiers. "Hamas members are those who violated the cease-fire led by the United States and the United Nations," Ya'alon stated. "They are the ones who killed Major Benaya Sarel and First Sgt. Liel Gidoni, of blessed memory, and kidnapped Second Lt. Hadar Goldin.""I would like now to give strength and support to Goldin's family, as well as the family of Golani soldier Oron Shaul, of blessed memory, whose gravesite remains unknown at this time," he added.Ya'alon then turned to the matter of the IDF's future in Gaza. "We are near completion of our mission to destroy and neutralize terror tunnels in the Gaza offensive, and so far very impressive work has been carried out by commanders and IDF soldiers," he said. "This operation is not simple; it is very complex, it is backed by excellent intelligence information, and it is worth noting the commanders' and fighters' determination and devotion to the mission.""We have paid a heavy price during this mission," he continued. "Our best soldiers have fallen and been injured in battles for the realization of this important task: removing the threats to communities near the Gaza border fence.""Concurrent with the destruction of the tunnels, the IDF continues to significantly damage Hamas and other terrorist organizations, especially through powerful airstrikes," he added.The Defense Minister vowed to continue to fight Hamas. "There will be no mistakes: Hamas will pay a heavy price [for its terror]," he said. "We are determined and uncompromising in our efforts to continue destroying the terrorist infrastructure; we have killed hundreds of terrorists who have attacked us with weapons, missiles, and rockets.""In one night alone, the IDF has destroyed the facility of the Islamic University in Gaza, where under the guise of academic development in chemical labs, they have built rockets which are fired at Israel," he continued. "We are determined to continue to strike Hamas. We will not compromise the security of Israeli citizens."Ya'alon then thanked IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, Southern Command Chief Shlomo Turgeman, the IDF, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), for "showing commitment, determination, and professionalism" and "just doing a great job.""Aware of the danger, but also the size of the mission, our soldiers operate from the belief in the righteousness of the campaign," he added. "They are unable, and we will not, rest until they return peace and security to the citizens of Israel.""We have no illusions about Hamas," he continued. "They are a murderous terrorist organization that lies again and again, and uses its citizens as human shields.""Every citizen [of Gaza] who is injured causes us pain," he added. "Yet we know the residents of the Gaza Strip voted Hamas terrorism into power, founded a Hamas terror state that fires at Israel from hospitals, schools, clinics, and mosques.""Where Hamas is - terrorism is," he concluded. "And we will cripple that terrorism uncompromisingly, at full force."Earlier Saturday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the operation "for as long as necessary" - despite reports that the IDF was continuing to pull out of some areas of Gaza.The IDF, meanwhile, is still looking for Lt. Goldin, who was kidnapped by terrorists on Friday.
Netanyahu to US: Don't second guess me on Hamas-Associated Press-By MATTHEW LEE -aug 2,14-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Following the quick collapse of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Palestinian militants on Israel.Sources familiar with conversations between Netanyahu and senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, say the Israeli leader advised the Obama administration "not to ever second guess me again" on the matter. The officials also said Netanyahu said he should be "trusted" on the issue and about the unwillingness of Hamas to enter into and follow through on cease-fire talks.The Obama administration on Friday condemned "outrageous" violations of an internationally brokered Gaza cease-fire by Palestinian militants and called the apparent abduction of an Israeli soldier a "barbaric" action.The strong reaction came as top Israeli officials questioned the effort to forge the truce, accusing the U.S. and the United Nations of being naive in assuming the radical Hamas movement would adhere with its terms. The officials also blamed the Gulf state of Qatar for not forcing the militants to comply.With the cease-fire in tatters fewer than two hours after it took effect with an attack that killed two Israeli troops and left a third missing, President Barack Obama demanded that those responsible release the soldier.Obama and other U.S. officials did not directly blame Hamas for the abduction. But they made clear they hold Hamas responsible for, or having influence over, the actions of all factions in the Gaza Strip. The language was a distinct change from Thursday when Washington was focused on the deaths of Palestinian civilians."If they are serious about trying to resolve this situation, that soldier needs to be unconditionally released as soon as possible," Obama told reporters. He added that it would be difficult to revive the cease-fire without the captive's release."It's going to be very hard to put a cease-fire back together again if Israelis and the international community can't feel confident that Hamas can follow through on a cease-fire commitment," he said. His comment reflected uncertainty in the U.S. and elsewhere that Hamas was actually responsible for the incident or if some other militant group was to blame.At the same time, Obama called the situation in Gaza "heartbreaking" and repeated calls for Israel to do more to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties.Despite the collapse of the truce, Obama credited Kerry for his work with the United Nations to forge one. He lamented criticism and "nitpicking" of Kerry's attempts and said the effort would continue.Kerry negotiated the truce with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon in a marathon session of phone calls over several days while he was in India on an official visit. Kerry had spent much of the past two weeks in Egypt, Israel, the West Bank and France trying to mediate a cease-fire with Qatar and Turkey playing a major role because of their close ties with Hamas.Those efforts failed with Israel saying it could not trust Hamas and some Israelis and American pro-Israel groups complaining that the U.S. was treating the group — a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the State Department — as a friend.Late Thursday, however, Israel accepted Kerry and Ban's latest proposal, despite its reservations. Once the truce was violated, though, Israeli officials hit out at not only Hamas, but the United States and Qatar for its failure.An Israeli official said the Netanyahu government viewed both Hamas and Qatar as having violated the commitment given to the U.S. and the U.N. and that it expected the international community to take practical steps as part of a "strong and swift response," especially regarding the return of the abducted soldier.In a phone call with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, Netanyahu vented his anger, according to people familiar with the call.Netanyahu told Shapiro the Obama administration was "not to ever second-guess me again" and that Washington should trust his judgment on how to deal with Hamas, according to the people. Netanyahu added that he now "expected" the U.S. and other countries to fully support Israel's offensive in Gaza, according to those familiar with the call. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter by name.They said Netanyahu made similar points to Kerry, who himself denounced the attack as "outrageous," saying it was an affront to assurances to respect the cease-fire given to the United States and United Nations, which brokered the truce.___AP National Security Writer Lara Jakes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, contributed to this report.
Israel says Hamas will pay heavy price for more attacks-Reuters-By Giles Elgood and Nidal al-Mughrabi -AUG 2,14-YahooNews
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) - Israel will go on fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip even after the army completes its core mission of destroying the cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian militants to attack its territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.As Israeli television showed live footage of some tanks withdrawing from Gaza in an apparent winding down of the 25-day campaign, Netanyahu said Hamas would pay an "intolerable price" if it continued to attack Israel.Israel began its air and naval offensive against Gaza on July 8 following a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other guerrillas, later escalating into ground incursions.Shelling exchanges continued earlier on Saturday, pushing the Gaza death toll given by Palestinian officials up to 1,675, most of them civilians. Israel has confirmed that 63 soldiers have died in combat, while Palestinian shelling has also killed three civilians in Israel.Netanyahu's comments came as Israel signaled it was taking action to withdraw on its own terms, saying it would not attend talks in Cairo this weekend aimed at achieving a new truce.In some areas of Gaza, witnesses saw Israeli tanks pulling back towards the border, while the Israeli military gave Palestinians who had fled one town the all-clear to return.Israel's main goal in its incursion into Gaza last month was to destroy Hamas's network of tunnels, and the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) said they were close to achieving that.More than 30 tunnels and dozens of access shafts have been unearthed and were being blown up, the military said."Our understanding is that our objectives, most importantly the destruction of the tunnels, are close to completion," a military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, said.Netanyahu said in a televised speech that military action would continue even after that goal is achieved."After completing the anti-tunnel operation, the IDF will act and continue to act, in accordance with our security needs and only according to our defense needs, until we achieve our objective of restoring security to you, Israel's citizens," he said.
"PAY FOR EVERY MINUTE"Hamas said it was absurd for Israel to claim to have destroyed all the tunnels. "Netanyahu will pay for every minute he spends carrying out more aggression against our people," a spokesman said.Several ceasefires between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates the Gaza Strip, have failed to take hold or quickly collapsed, most recently on Friday after two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third went missing in an ambush.Israel accused Hamas of seizing Second-Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, and the United States blamed the group for a "barbaric" breach of the truce. The United Nations was more guarded in its censure of Hamas but demanded Goldin's release.Israeli forces have been searching for Goldin in southern Gaza, but his family expressed alarm at reports of an Israeli pull-out."I demand that the State of Israel not leave Gaza until it brings my son home," Goldin's mother, Hedva, told reporters.Hamas said it believed its gunmen had struck before Friday's ceasefire began and that if they captured Goldin, he probably died with his captors in heavy Israeli barrages that followed.In Cairo, a Palestinian delegation arrived for new truce talks, which would include Hamas's demand Egypt ease movement across its border with blockaded Gaza. Turning its back on those negotiations, Israel said it would not send envoys as scheduled."They (Hamas) cannot be trusted to keep their word. They cannot stop (firing) because, for them, a ceasefire at this stage, whether by arrangement or not by arrangement, would mean acknowledging the worst possible defeat," Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told Israel's Channel Two TV.Hamas, its guerrillas massively outgunned by a Jewish state it considers an eternal enemy, said it would prevail.Any unilateral pullout by Israel would mean "it has failed to achieve any of its goals and would be a clear defeat for the occupation army and for its leaders," Hamas's bloc in the Palestinian parliament said in a statement. "Gaza resisted, endured and will achieve victory."
"EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE"Israel said Palestinians on Saturday launched 74 rockets across the border, most of which fell harmlessly wide while seven were shot down by its Iron Dome interceptor, including over Tel Aviv.Crowded Gazan towns close to the Israeli border have seen devastating clashes and the flight of tens of thousands of Palestinians as tanks and troops swept in to confront dug-in guerrillas.The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said 520,000 people had been displaced by the fighting - more than a quarter of Gaza's population.Israel said on Saturday evacuees from Beit Lahiya, a northern town of 70,000 residents, could return. But fear still gripped the townspeople."No one has told us to go back," said Talab Manna, a 30-year-old father of seven camped out at a U.N.-run school serving as a refugee haven. "We can't risk going back and being bombed by the Israeli forces."Quoting a senior military officer, Israel Radio said the condition of the missing soldier was not known. It said Goldin was last seen next to the two troops killed by a Hamas suicide bomber - suggesting he may not have survived and his captors had a corpse.Hamas had long threatened to capture Israelis for a prisoner swap. In 2011, Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier snatched by Hamas five years earlier. Israel has twice freed prisoners for the bodies of soldiers held by Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.The Rafah clash in which Goldin was reported to have been captured triggered Israeli shelling from the middle of Friday morning that killed 150 Palestinians. By afternoon, Israel declared an end to the truce - which was meant to have lasted 72 hours. Rafah residents said they had received recorded telephone warnings from Israel to stay indoors during a barrage that wreaked widespread ruin."It was like an action movie - explosions everywhere, cars flying up in flames, people crushed under houses that were bombed," local man Bassim Abed told Reuters.(Additional reporting by Dan Williams and Ori Lewis in Jerusalem, Mostafa Hashem and Oliver Holmes in Cairo; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
08/ 2/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-“Francis reacts to Gaza as John XXIII did to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962”-“Vatican Insider” interviews Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference’s commission for cooperation between Churches and of the “Missio” foundation: “There is nothing futile in taking action to promote peace”-GIACOMO GALEAZZI
vatican city-“People also said John XXIII’s message to the Americans and Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was futile. But history proved otherwise.” Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico – who is President of the Italian Episcopal Conference’s Commission for Cooperation between Churches and of the “Missio” foundation, a spiritual assistant of the Community of Sant’Egidio and a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints – talks to Vatican Insider about the prospects and objectives that are pushing Vatican diplomacy to strive to help end to hostilities in Gaza through appeasement. And also to the international community’s attention to the tragic situation faced by Christians in Jesus’ homeland.The Vatican Secretariat of State sent a “nota verbale” to embassies accredited to the Holy See, to remind them of the Pope’s recent appeals for the Middle East delivered during the last few Angelus prayers. What does the Vatican aim to achieve with this initiative? “The conflict has now become highly complex, with many international players and difficult diplomatic initiatives such as Egypt’s attempted mediation. Pope Francis has sent out a number of appeals for prayers in light of the escalating violence in the Middle East and especially on the intensification of violence in the Gaza Strip. There is nothing futile in taking action to promote peace. Prayer does have an effect and we must not back away from our spiritual responsibility. Appeals inspired by faith and diplomacy are both useful as means of questioning the actions of parties at war and also as a means of getting the international community to take the issue to heart.”Are religions doing little to promote peace?“Religions could have done more. All one needs to do is step inside the Holy Sepulchre and witness the tiny spaces dividing them to realize how Christians are not setting a good example with their rivalries in this troubled part of the world. We cannot just stand by and watch as so many innocent people, women, children and elderly are massacred. Indifference fuels feelings of revenge and hatred. Children growing up in the Middle East, in this climate of head to head conflict, develops a sense of enmity, which will be difficult to erase from their souls later on in life.”What possible solution would you suggest? “Education needs to be the starting point. Peaceful coexistence will never be possible if Israeli and Palestinian children don’t start to learn to understand one another. No one has the right to give into anger, revenge or further violence. There is no justification for this. One cannot help but feel a sense of horror and indignation when they witness people dying like this. Repugnance is the only possible reaction. Change comes from within ourselves.”What can Catholics do? “Diplomacy alone cannot bring change. Change must come from within our own consciences. Intolerance is also spreading in our part of the world. Alarming cases of hatred and closed-mindedness are also witnessed in our cities, which are miles away from the Middle Eastern scenes of conflict. They are a consequence of a culture of contempt that has spread in recent years: contempt toward foreigners and Roma people especially, but also generally towards others, particularly the vulnerable. There is widespread violence in our own societies as well: violent feelings, words and attitudes, which manifest themselves in continuous fighting, in anger, in a lack of respect and in people’s aggressive reactions the minute someone so much as touches them or hurts them. Blind rivalry is destructive and sterile and undermines the very foundations of a community.What is the danger? A climate of widespread hostility? “The danger right now, in this difficult time, is the false belief that a scapegoat will solve things: we can only save ourselves together. Racism and intolerance are sicknesses which distort the image of a community, making it more ugly and less livable for everyone. Intolerance casts our minds back to dark moments in history that bring nothing but pain and destruction. A new culture of dialogue is needed, not one of contempt. Most importantly, verbal violence needs to stop: too often in recent years, words have contributed to that culture of rejection which has led to the contaminated and oppressive climate that currently surround us.”
