Pray for Israel!!

I'm afraid for all of my friends in Israel.

I say a prayer each night for Jews in that small country at the far end of the Med - surrounded by fanatical terrorists who have pledged to exterminate them.

I place my faith and trust in the strength and resolve of the Israeli military and the Israeli people - - many of whom will I fear, continue to die in order to protect themselves and their families against renegade Islamic and Arab terrorists.

With everyone here in the U.S. holding their breath awaiting the historic inauguration of America's first black President, nobody seems to realize that 2009 could mark the beginning of the end of the Jewish State of Israel! Why? I'll answer this way....Two weeks ago I watched a televised account of New York JEWS protesting Israel's bombing of Hamas targets in Gaza. Here were a group of American Jews supporting Hamas/Palestinian protesters outside the United Nations. Look at it a different way.......

• Here were Jews
• supporting a group of Arab/Islamic terrorists
• dedicating to killing Jews!!

Nuts enough for you?

What many Americans - and I ESPECIALLY include ALL JEWISH Americans in this group - fail to understand about "the changing of the guard" down in Washington, is this. President elect Barack Obama has PLEDGED to cut the U.S. military budget. He has also pledged to support aid to less fortunate countries around the world. But, he has NEVER made a clear concise declaration about continuing Israeli military aid. A betting person might deduce that the "changing of the guard" for Israel in all probability means some change to the amount of military aid Washington will send to Israel. For me, this "undeclared declaration" SCREAMS that Israel is on its own in its fight for survival.

My reasoning? Well, ya see, President elect Obama believes that with his smile and his presence, he can foster immediate communications and trustworthy negotiations between Israel and those who want to kill Israeli's. It's true! Barack Obama believes he can "talk" Islamic and Arab homicide bombers into not wanting to kill Jews! I ask you, how egotistically ridiculous is that? At the very least his "notion" will allow Hamas to re-supply its cache of rockets in the Gaza. At the very worst.... well, I don't want to think about the very worst.

One thing's for certain, Benjamin Netanyahu's statement years ago is still 1000% true! He said......

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Hmmmm. Let's think about that. Understand that in the last year - since Israel agreed to a cease-fire with Gaza and Lebanon - over 3000 Katyusha rockets - have rained down on Israeli women & children from Gaza! 3,000! Has the American Press reported the Arab/Islamic breaking of the ceasefire? Of course not. When Israel proved that the rockets were once again being smuggled into Gaza through more than 60 tunnels from suppliers in Egypt, did the U.N. act to condemn Hamas or Egypt? Certainly not! But when Israel said "ENOUGH" and bombed the Hamas rocket sites and strongholds - Dear Lord the U.S. & World Press couldn't condemn Israel fast enough for their "disproportionate response!!"

This is why I truly fear that without "a great cry" going up throughout the United States, Israel faces a very very tough 2009!!! Join me in a PRAYER FOR ISRAEL.

We pray for Israel,

Both the mystic ideal of our [ancestors'] dreams,

And the living miracle, here and now,

Built of heart, muscle, and steel.

May she endure and guard her soul,

Surviving the relentless, age-old hatreds,

The cynical concealment of diplomatic deceit,

And the rumblings that warn of war.

May Israel continue to be the temple that magnetizes

The loving eyes of Jews in all corners:

The Jew in a land of affluence and relative peace,

Who forgets the glory and pain of his being,

And the Jew in a land of oppression whose blooded fist

Beats in anguish and pride

Against the cage of his enslavement.

May Israel yet embrace her homeless, her own,

And bind the ingathered into one people.

May those who yearn for a society built on human concern

Find the vision of the prophets realized in her.

May her readiness to defend

Never diminish her search for peace.

May we always dare to hope

That in our day the antagonisms will end,

That all the displaced, Arab and Jew, will be rooted again,

That within Israel and across her borders

All God's children will touch hands in peace.

(Nahum Waldman, Likrat Shabbat: Worship, Study, and Song)

DUM SPIRO SPERO!!