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War Update - SUNDAY AUGUST 6, 5:30 PM |
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8/6/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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As the Israeli public mourns the highest daily death toll so far in 26 days of intense Hizbullah rocket attacks upon northern Israel—and that after learning that another five soldiers were killed yesterday during heavy fighting in Lebanon—the Lebanese government has rejected the United Nations draft ceasefire proposal put forward yesterday in New York. |
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War Update - SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 7:00 PM |
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8/5/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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With the United States and France announcing an agreement within the past hour on a draft ceasefire resolution at the United Nations—but not apparently an immediate one—three more Israeli civilians—initially identified as three sisters—were killed today when a Hizbullah rocket made a direct hit on their private family home in the hard hit coastal town of Nahariya. |
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War Update - FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 7:00 PM |
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8/4/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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Its been another day of death and destruction here in the Holy Land as well over 100 Hizbullah rockets killed and wounded three more Israeli civilians, while also setting homes, businesses, cars, forests and fields on fire. |
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War Update - THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 7:00 PM |
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8/3/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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Israel suffered its one of its worst civilian casualty death tolls of the war today, as Hizbullah’s 23 day deliberate rocket assault upon known civilian centers throughout northern Israel continued unabated. Seven Israeli civilians had been slain by sundown, even though the number of rockets fired by then was less than half that of yesterday’s record 215. Three perished when Syrian-and Iranian supplied rockets came crashing down around the hard hit border town of Ma’alot, which made world headlines in May 1974 when PLO terrorists attacked an apartment building and then took hostage over 100 Israeli pupils huddled inside the communities high school, leaving over 20 teenagers dead. Another four people were killed today in the mixed Arab-Jewish port town of Acco, located due north of Haifa. |
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War Update - WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 8:30 PM |
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8/2/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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Jews throughout Israel began marking the fast day of Tisha b’Av (the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av) at sundown this evening, when Jeremiah’s Book of Lamentations is traditionally read. The prophets mournful words concerning the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem will reverberate even more over the next 24 hours after northern Israeli cities and towns were struck today by the largest number of rockets since the 1967 Six Day war, and as senior officials in neighboring Syria and Iran warn that they are “prepared to defend Lebanon from Zionist agression.” |
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War Update - August 1st, 2006 |
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8/1/2006 • From Jerusalem |
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Israeli military commanders were given government permission late last night to widen their operations in southern Lebanon, with the goal to drive all Hizbullah ground forces and rocket launchers north of the Litani River. They hope to achieve this goal before Friday, when growing international diplomatic pressure to end the fighting is expected to reach a climax. Yasser Arafat’s PLO fighters were driven out of the same area—some 15 to 18 miles north of the Israeli border on average, and about 25 miles wide—in just a few hours in 1982, but they were not as heavily armed or well trained as the Iranian-backed Lebanese fighters. |
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War Update July 27 |
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7/27/2006 • Jerusalem |
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A Hizbullah rocket set a chemical-filled factory ablaze in the northern Galilee town of Kiryat Shmona late this afternoon, sending the chemicals up in smoke. However no casualties were reported in the attack. The town of nearly 20,000 is nearly empty of its residents, who earlier fled to safer locations further south. Four homes also took direct hits in today’s rocket strikes |
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War Update July 26 |
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7/26/2006 • Jerusalem |
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Over 120 Hizbullah rockets bombarded many parts of northern Israel this afternoon, including Tiberius and Haifa, wounding over 30 people by 5:00 PM, one critically. This came after Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened again last night to send longer range rockets upon Tel Aviv, which has been placed under a major security alert this afternoon after intelligence information was received that a terror attack was about to be launched in the area. |
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THE ROARING IRANIAN RAT |
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7/25/2006 • World Net Daily |
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Here is my latest commentary for the World Net Daily web site, to be published on Thursday. It naturally concerns the current Mideast crisis, focusing especially on how American policy toward Iran over the years has contributed to the crisis. Some readers in particular may not like my comments as to how the war in Iraq has affected the situation, but it has been my consistent position regarding that controversial issue since before the battle began in March 2003. I warned then in a WND commentary that the situation there would probably end up closely resembling what Israel encountered in Lebanon in the 1990s, as has sadly been exactly the case.
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War Update July 25 |
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7/25/2006 • Jerusalem |
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As visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem—calling for a “sustainable ceasefire,” in other words not necessarily an immediate one—a 15 year old Druze girl was sadly slain when Hizbullah rockets crashed down on a mixed Arab-Druze village in the Galilee region. The rocket made a direct hit on her family home in the village of Marar, located next door to the community mosque. Several other residents of the mixed Arab Muslim, Druze and Arab Christian village were wounded in the strike. |
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