What’s
in it for Hamas? The West has fallen for all the clichés: Hamas wants to end
the “occupation”. But there is no occupation. There hasn’t been a single
Israeli soldier or settler in Gaza since the evacuation of Gush Katif in 2005.
Maybe Hamas is fighting to end the “embargo”. Really? They’ve been shooting
thousands of rockets at Israel. How did these rockets get into Gaza if the
“embargo” is so air-tight? How did they build 3 kilometer long concrete terror
tunnels under the border with Israel, if they have no building materials? So
why is Hamas attacking? Read this article by Simcha Jacobovici at -- http://www.simchajtv.com/the-gaza-illusion/
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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