Last
week's deadly rocket fire between Israel and Syria was not an
accidental falling of munitions inside Israel during one of the Syrian civil
war battles, nor was it just another minor tit-for-tat exchange started by a
terrorist organization for whatever reason. On the contrary - it was a major
event that gives us a good indication of Iran's strategy, based on its
long-term declared goals: eradication of Israel, establishment of hegemonic
control over large swathes of the Middle East and an ongoing,
death-by-a-thousand-cuts humiliation of the United States. What
happened last week? On Thursday, for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in
1973, four rockets were deliberately fired at an Israeli community in the
Galilee from an area under the control of Bashir al-Assad's military. Read the
complete blog at -- http://swjcdallas.blogspot.com/2015/08/irans-strange-syrian-gambit.html
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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