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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Have our leaders lost their minds?
by Newt Gingrich
I have two grandchildren, ages 5 and 7. If you're a parent or grandparent yourself, I challenge you not to think about a child you love when you read what I'm about to tell you. I challenge you not to share my disgust with the barbarians who use the blood of innocents to further their political agendas. And I challenge you not to share my contempt for the bureaucrats who think they can appease them. For the governments that think their actions don't have consequences. For the politicians who think that something - anything - good can come from allowing the killers of children to walk free. Smadar Haran, her husband Danny, and their two daughters, ages two and four, were at home in their apartment in northern Israel on the night of April 22, 1979. They were asleep in their beds around midnight when they awoke to gunfire and grenades exploding. Terrorists, sent by terrorist leader Abu Abbas to protest the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David the year before, were breaking into their building. Desperate to hide, Smadar carried her two-year-old into a crawl space above their bedroom. So terrified was she that her baby girl would cry out and alert the terrorists to their hiding place that Smadar held her hand tightly over the girl's mouth. Too tightly. By the time they were rescued hours later, the little girl was dead. Smadar had accidentally smothered her own child. 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. | |  The Editors of The Jewish Week ask: "Do [Evangelicals] support all of Israel, or just one political segment there? They claim unconditional love for Israel and the Jewish people, but too often they seem wedded to partisan factions in Israel. Do they respect the right of Jerusalem's democratic government to make key decisions about war and peace?"
God says: "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. Israel cries out to me, 'O our God, we acknowledge you!' But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. ... They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. ... Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing. ... Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien. ... Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses." (Hosea 8:1-14)
The Jerusalem Connection says: Evangelical, especially Christian Zionist, support is for all Israel. It is not based on one political segment or another, in the United States or Israel. It is not based on one of the many apocalyptic end-time scenarios that prevail today. Christian Zionists support the modern state of Israel as a partial fulfillment of God's irrevocable and inviolable covenant promise to provide a national homeland for the Jewish people in anticipation of their ultimate redemption. President Bush's "Road Map to Peace" accepted by Israel's current leadership is an act of defiance against the covenant promises of the God of Israel. Christian Zionists will continue to voice their strong opposition to the governments of Israel and the United States if they persist in these Godless policies. In this matter it would appear that Christian Zionists are more Jewish than many Jews!
 If you haven't already, please add your signature to the "Resolution Regarding Israel" for Senator John McCain. | | |  Brigitte Gabriel (born 1965) is a Lebanese American journalist and author of Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. Brigitte as a featured speaker at the Heritage Foundation tells a captivating eye witness account of the history of Lebanon since the 1970s. This is a very powerful and moving video.
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Rev. James M. Hutchens, Ph.D.
Chaplain (Brigadier General) US Army (Ret.)
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