Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
Update 15 November
A weekly reflection on current global affairs concerning Israel and
the Jewish people from a Biblical perspective.
The conflict this week in Gaza is a further sign that tensions in the region are building. While Israel has been able to eliminate a number of the main terrorist leaders, the cease-fire is fragile, and the fight against Islamic Jihad will only get more intense.
The USA is playing politics with Iran and Turkey, leaving Israel in the cold.
In the meantime, Europe continues its blind policy of demanding that Israeli settlers (ie Jews) are delegitimized, and removed from the Old City of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
One senses that Israel is becoming more and more isolated, and left alone to deal with the threats that surround it.
Israel confronts Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Damascus
Egypt has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad terror group to end two days of intense fighting in Gaza that saw hundreds of rockets fired into Israel and 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said early Thursday.
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The Jewish Agency will continue closely monitoring the situation, providing support and assistance to those affected by any further rocket fire.
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Islamic Jihad is operating not only from Gaza. A building bombed overnight in Damascus – probably by Israel - was the home of Akram al-Ajouri, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. The terror group said Ajouri survived the attack, but his son was killed.
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US rejects Israel’s call to condition aid to Lebanon on dealing with Hezbollah
The USA has rejected the call by Israeli officials not to give any aid to Lebanon unless the country tackles Hezbollah’s missile program. “In discreet talks with various capitals, we made it clear that any aid meant to guarantee the stability of Lebanon needs to be conditioned on Lebanon dealing with Hezbollah’s precision-guided missiles,” a senior official Israeli official said recently. “Anything short of that will be problematic, in our eyes.”
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European Court of Justice requires labeling of “Israeli settlement” products
A legal analysis of the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Psagot Winery Case, concerning the question how products imported into Europe from the “occupied Palestinian territories” should be labeled, shows that the reasoning of the ECJ is seriously flawed.
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