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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Infamy
by Naomi Ragen
I was a new oleh when the PFLP and two Germans hijacked a plane full of Israelis to Entebbe. I remember well those nail-biting days, the moral dilemma of freeing dangerous terrorists for live hostages; the idea that negotiations would just lead to more hijackings. But what other choice did we have? After all, they were in Uganda, so far away. We found a way. I will never forget the morning of July 4, 1976, waking up to the news. Our soldiers had gone in, at great personal risk. They had saved almost everyone, and killed the terrorists. We were not helpless victims anymore, the Jews. No, we were clever, and resourceful and courageous. We showed the world how to behave. We led the way. I wake up this morning of July 16, 2008 with quite another feeling. Our soldiers, kidnapped on our own land, not across any international border, are brought back to us in caskets after two years of sadistic playfulness with the hearts of their families by Hezbollah terrorists, who led us to believe they were alive. And in exchange for dead bodies, we turn over a despicable baby-killer, Sami Kuntar.
Oh, you will hear the boosters of the Israeli government sigh. What can we do? We are civilized and they are not. We care about our soldiers and their families.
No, I'm afraid you do not. If you cared, then you would have a death penalty for people like Kuntar, so that they too can be released in caskets. And if you cared, you would be intelligent enough, seeing our soldiers brought back to us dead, to have put a bullet through Kuntar and then turned him over to his friends. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Gary Bauer, a top Christian Zionist leader said: "Israel's decision to conduct a prisoner exchange with Hizballah, just like any other bargain with terrorists, is destined to encourage more violence against the Jewish state. Israel has unfortunately made a move here that will guarantee more suffering and more deaths and more kidnappings by Israel's enemies."
Bauer went on to blast the international community, which is fond of criticizing Israel over every alleged violation of the rules of war, for failing to take Hizballah to task for using the bodies of Israeli soldiers as bargaining chips and for not allowing its captives to be examined by the Red Cross.
God says: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them. ... When I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengence on my adversaries and repay those who hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders. Rejoice, O nations, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants: He will take vengence on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people." (Deuteronomy 32:35, 41-43).
The Jerusalem Connection says: Appeasement efforts and gestures of good will on the part of Israel to Jihadists is a proven failure. It is seen as a sign of weakness and will only encourage further attempts of kidnapping. Israel's rationale for the prisoner exchange with Hizballah was that "it was the moral thing to do." On the contrary, the moral action would have been to act in compliance with God's Word, "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man" (Genesis 9:6). Samir Kuntar should have been executed when he was captured. Israel's refusal to impose capital punishment for capital crimes is an act of defiance against the God of Israel.
 If you haven't already, please add your signature to the "Resolution Regarding Israel" for Senator John McCain. | | |  Hizbollah traded the bodies of two Israeli soldiers for notorious Lebanese terrorist Samir Kantar (pictured) and four other militants. The remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters were also returned to Beirut. Kuntar, Israel's most notorious prisoner, was sentenced to three life terms for killing an Israeli man in front of his four-year-old daughter, then killing the little girl by smashing her skull with his rifle butt. Kuntar returned to Lebanon for a hero's welcome.
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