Despite
Netanyahu's declaration, as detailed in this update last week, that:
"Israel is waging an all-out war on Palestinian terrorism", and
despite the enhanced measures against terrorists that have been put in place,
we are seeing a substantial and dramatic increase in fatal attacks by young
Palestinian terrorists against Israelis. This does not seem to be an organized
or planned operation. In almost all the incidents so far the terrorists were
"lone wolf" attackers with no apparent terror group affiliation, and
the targets were mostly random "soft" targets: a family walking home
in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, a child on a bike, people waiting in a
bus stop or riding a bus, or just walking in the street. Read Gil Elan’s latest
blog at -- http://swjcdallas.blogspot.com/2015/10/will-knife-and-dgger-morph-into-gun-and.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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