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The body of Eliyahu Asheri of Itamar has been discovered. The arab terrorists group that abducted Eliyahu said that it killed the 18-year-old Jewish “settler kidnapped in the West Bank”. Israeli security officials said Eliyahu Asheri’s body was found buried near Ramallah. They said he was shot in the head, apparently soon after he was abducted on Sunday. Note that the terrorists abductors were attempting to bargain for the life of Eliyahu to blackmail the IDF to halt its operations in Gaza, despite the fact that they had murdered him at gunpoint shortly after his kidnapping at a transportation post north of Jerusalem.

GAZA CITY [MENL] -- Egypt has deployed more than 2,500 soldiers along the Sinai-Gaza border.Palestinian sources said the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered the reinforced border presence to block the entry of Palestinians into Egypt. The sources said the deployment was also in response to Israeli and U.S. requests to prevent the smuggling of an abducted Israeli soldier into the Sinai Peninsula."The Egyptians believe that thousands of Palestinians will try to cross the border," a Palestinian source said.On Wednesday, thousands of Palestinians fled the southern Gaza Strip ahead of an Israeli military advance. The sources said most of the Palestinians were moving north toward the central Gaza Strip and east toward the coast.

Report: IAF strikes Fatah office, Hamas facility--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 30, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------IAF warplanes hit offices of the Fatah movement and a Hamas facility in Gaza City early Friday, witnesses said. There were no reports of casualties. The IDF had no immediate comment. The airstrikes followed an attack on the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza City, among more than a dozen air attacks by IDF forces in the Gaza Strip in the last few hours.

Israeli Threats Signal Possible EscalationBy RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer2 hours agoGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stepped up pressure on Palestinians Sunday, telling his military to "do all it can" to free an abducted soldier and hinting Israel might arrest more Hamas leaders.Coming just hours after an Israeli airstrike blasted offices of the Palestinian prime minister, Olmert's threat signaled the government was losing patience with diplomatic efforts to end the crisis and preparing for a possible escalation of its military offensive

In an interview with Jon Snow, Zvi Ravner, denied that Israeli strikes were "collective punishment" for the kidnapping of a 19-year-old soldier. Mr Ravner said: "This is not just about the soldier, this is not collective punishment, it's the culmination of one-year long action since we have withdrawn fully from the '67 line from Gaza and since then what we have got is a day in and day out rockets being fired into Israel. "Now the Hamas government has to decide whether it is a terrorist organisation as we suspect or are they a government. If they are a government, there is a very simple and clear cut solution, let them release our soldier, let them stop the firing of rockets."Jon Snow asked if targeting civilians with "the most sophisticated bombardment ever subjected to a defenceless people" was an act of terror. Mr Ravner said: "Please pay attention to the fact there was only one Palestinian casualty, we were very accurate. "Is the Palestinian government happy about that? What would you like us to do, to send troops in and have bloodshed? We are trying our very best, we are exercising restraint."We did it to stop them smuggling out the soldier. It will restrict their possibilities of movement throughout the Gaza Strip."

Syria Prepares to launch missiles on IsraelSituation July 6 early morning. IRAN troops are in Gaza, nuclear war is possible.Palestinian rocket attack on Ashkelon injured 8 people.Syrian and Israeli military forces are on high alert. Israeli troops have begun entering northern Gaza in larger numbers under the cover of the IAF.Syrian military forces have gone on high alert in case Israel decided to take out Damascus.Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is hiding in Syria. Could he have the Israeli soldier with him?ASHKELON, Mideast Crisis Escalation, AO:-------------------------------------------------------------------------ISRAEL issues threat to SyriaPrime Minister Ehud Olmert called the rocket fire on the coastal city of Ashkelon a majorescalation, coming after terrorist deadline set by those holding an Israeli soldier passed.Olmert ordered the army to push forward with efforts "to strike terrorists and those whosent them and those who sponsor them." The threat was clearly meantfor Syria. Israeli warplanes buzzed Syria President Bashar Assad last week. Israel holds Syria responsible for Shalit's abduction because it hosts Hamas' top leader, Khaled Mashaal. Israel says Mashaal ordered the kidnapping

Iran: IDF strikes will bring Islamic 'explosion'Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 7, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Friday that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an "explosion" in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West. Again, Ahmadinejad questioned Israel's right to exist. "This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive. I think the only way (forward) is that those who created it (the West) take it away themselves," the president told a rally in Teheran in support of Palestinians.

EU faults 'disproportionate' Israeli force in Gaza Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, whose country holds Union’s rotating presidency, says ‘EU condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated Reuters The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse.It was the first time the 25-nation bloc had made such a sharp criticism of the Jewish state in the crisis triggered by the abduction of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit from a border post by Palestinian Islamic militants on June 25.

This is a post I made early yesterday morning in keep your eyes open thread: We need to watch this situation now occuring in Israel I think it is very possiable that Iran and maybe Syria may soon get into this scurmish we could be seeing more nation aligning as we move closer to the "end times"and watch Bible prophecy being fufilled.Dont worry God is in controll

You could be right gibby if not we should learn from this just how fast things can change when God decides to move. 8 days ago nobody would have thought things could get this far out of controll this fast if you are right its going to get a whole lot worse.Like I said in another post dont worry Gods in controll

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed 61 civilians and a Hizbollah fighter on Wednesday, the deadliest toll of the eight-day-old war, as thousands of villagers fled north and more foreigners were evacuated.Hizbollah rockets killed two children in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, medics said. More Hizbollah rockets fell on the city of Haifa and one hit an empty seafront restaurant.Israeli troops crossed the border to raid Hizbollah posts and the Israeli army said two of its soldiers were killed and nine injured in fighting with Hizbollah guerrillas. Despite international concern, there was no sign Israel or its Lebanese Shi'ite foes were ready to heed the Beirut government's pleas for an immediate halt to a war that has killed at least 297 people in Lebanon and 29 in Israel.Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said more than 500,000 people had been displaced and appealed for international help."I call on you to respond immediately and without reservation to our call for a ceasefire and to provide urgent international humanitarian aid," he said in a televised address.

This is a Jewish prophecy about Jerusalem and Iran ( ancient Persia)Av is our month of August our year 2006 is the Jewish year 5766 inlight of whats going on in israel today found it interesting.The Sefer Zerubavel says that Mashiah Ben yosef stood 40 years in yerushalayim (it's the 40th year since the Six Day War) and then, the Persian king will engage Israel and it will be great trouble for Israel...The signs will come in the 6th year, in the 5th month - the month of Av - in the 6th of the month - and then, there will be a great trouble for Israel which had never existed before, and people will flee.

THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 3, 2006 -Nasrallah threatens to strike Tel AvivIn a speech on Al-Manar television Thursday,Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to launch missiles at Tel Aviv if Israel bombed Beirut. Nasrallah added that Hizbullah would stop its attacks if Israel halted attacks on Lebanese cities

August 3, 2006Thousands of Jews gathered at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to pray for the Jewish Temple to be rebuilt Because of intelligence reports of possible violence, Jerusalem police have closed the Temple Mount to all non-Muslim visitors as the nation of Israel marks the day Tish B'Av and the destruction of the two previous biblical Jewish Temples.Intelligence reports had indicated that thousands of Muslims were planning to flock to the site to protect it from Jews who were planning to visit on Tish B'Av and possibly move to start reconstruction of the next Jewish Temple. Thousands of Jewish worshippers did gather at the seven gates leading up onto the Temple Mount to read the biblical book of Lamentations as they mourned the destruction of the previous two Jewish Temples and to pray for a rebuilt Temple to be on the Temple Mount next year on Tish B'Av.

'Israel must end Hizbullah re-armament itself'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 19, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Government sources said on Saturday that Israel had no choice but to act itself to stop the flow of weapons and missiles to the Hizbullah. A senior Israeli source said that UNIFIL and the Lebanese army were not showing any intention to end the re-armament of Hizbullah, since the former were unwilling to confront the terrorist organization, Israel Radio reported