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Would you do me a favor today and read this and watch this video?

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by Todd Ferguson

I'm hoping that you will invest 10 minutes of your precious time to watch this video!

It is important because it will give you a "non-media" view of the conflict in Gaza.

It is a short communication from a young lady who lives near the Gaza border in a Kibbutz and how they go about their days, generally happy, even though there is a near constant bombardment, but how that "normalcy" has changed now with Hamas digging tunnels under the Israel border to come murder and kidnap their family and children. It appears she lives in the Kibbutz just a hundred or so yards away from the tunnel where Hamas came out to attach them but was stopped in the nick of time by the IDF.

There's no bigger sadness than the loss of innocent life and the casualties in Gaza are horrifying, no doubt. Yet, it is not Israel's fault if the people don't leave when the leaflets are dropped. It is not Israel's fault if the people don't leave when Israel calls on their cell phones and texts them about their home being attacked within the next few minutes. Yes, they do that in almost every instance. (Email me if you don't believe this and I will send you the link that proves it.) It is not Israel's fault if the people don't rise up and stop Hamas from making them stay as human shields.
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Tisha B’Av and Devarim (Deuteronomy)

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Tisha B’Av and Devarim (Deuteronomy)
by Dolores Moran

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This Shabbat the scroll was opened to the book of Devarim. Parasha Devarim is always read on Shabbat Chazon (“Sabbath of Vision”), the Sabbath that precedes the week in which the tragic day of Tisha B’Av is observed. Even as he stands with the Israelites on the border of the Land of Israel—their journey almost at its end—Moses reminds them how difficult it has been to get them this far. Moses reproves the people, primarily for the sin of the scouts who returned from touring the land of Israel and caused the people to lose faith with their evil report. In fact, the entire first chapter of Deuteronomy speaks of this sin. In the 12th verse of Devarim Moses cries out: "Eicha Esa L'vadi... "How can I bear your trouble, your burden, and your bickering all by myself?!" (How can I carry this alone...)?" (Deut. 1:12). That first word of the verse, "How," has a special resonance this week. In Hebrew it is "Eichah," (pronounced ei-CHAH) and we read Devarim on the Shabbat preceding Tisha B’Av because the word, “Eicha,” recalls the opening verse of the Book of Lamentations, “Eicha yahsh’vah bah’dahd ha’ir?” “Alas, how does the city of Jerusalem sit in solitude.” We will read Lamentations this Monday night on Tisha B’Av. In Hebrew, Lamentations is called Megillat Eichah, "the Scroll of How."
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LIVE UPDATES: Operation Protective Edge, day 20

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This is a re-post from Haaretz.com

IDF tells troops in Gaza: Fire only when fired upon ● Hamas agrees to 24-hour humanitarian truce ● IDF soldier killed by mortar shell ● 15 Palestinians killed, raising death toll to 1,034.

Operation Protective Edge entered its 20th day on Sunday as Israeli ground forces continued their incursion into Gaza.

A humanitarian cease-fire that began at 8 A.M. on Saturday collapsed 26 hours later when the Israel Defense Forces announced it is resuming aerial, naval and ground strikes on Gaza in retaliation for repeated rocket barrages.

Israel's security cabinet voted on Saturday evening to extend the temporary break in fighting but Gaza militants continued to fire rockets throughout the night and the following morning. A Hamas spokesman said that any cease-fire that doesn't ensure that the IDF pulls out of Gaza and the evacuation of the wounded is not acceptable.

Early on Sunday, an Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed by a mortar shell near the Gaza border. Two other Israeli soldiers who were previously wounded in the fighting died of their wounds on Saturday evening. The latest incidents bring the IDF death toll to 43.

In Gaza, the total death toll surpassed 1,000 as the humanitarian cease-fire allowed rescue workers to recover bodies from buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes.

Latest updates:

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Israel’s US Ambassador Smashes Biased Coverage on CNN

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This is a re-post from Virtual Jerusalem

In one of the best performances by an Israeli spokesman since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Israel's US ambassador, Ron Dermer, turned the tables on a CNN anchor who tried to corner him over the deaths of children in a Gaza school that was bombed.

"What happened here is horrific," said anchor Erin Burnett, "and we don't yet even know the scale of how many children may have died. Initial reports indicate that at least sixteen are dead and the initial report said that this attack had come from Israeli tanks. As you know the Israeli military said it may have come from Hamas and a rocket which which misfired. Do you know at this point with any more certainty?"
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