What
US Secretary of State John Kerry ultimately put forward after consulting
with Hamas allies Qatar and Turkey was a complete departure from the
Egyptian proposal and a “prize for terror,” according to Israeli officials. Israeli
government ministers who on Friday unanimously rejected Kerry’s Gaza ceasefire
proposal said a day later that the entire affair had clearly demonstrated
either the incompetence or the anti-Israel bias of America’s top diplomat. “Kerry
took the terms put forth by [Hamas leader Khaled] Mashal and then presented
them as an American [ceasefire] proposal,” one Israeli government official was
quoted as saying by Israel
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The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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