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Amen LiteralD! Amen!
Pray for the Peace and Salvation of Israel and the Jewish People! ![[Prayer]](graemlins/prayer.gif)
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Psalm 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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All I can say is that we must pray for the nation of Isreal in this most troubling time.
Isreal has faced much opposition before and they will even more so in the future, so we must pray for the nation.
Thank you all
God Bless...
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Rage Against Israel Spreads Across Mideast
Monday, March 22, 2004
Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Anti-Israel demonstrations erupted in the Middle East Monday on word of Israel's killing of the spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas, and hopes for recent Arab moves to reinvigorate the region's peace process were dimmed by shouts for revenge.
Arab rage over the death of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship at daybreak as he left a mosque near his Gaza Strip home, reverberated across the Middle East. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had been using his influence to press ahead with peace efforts, called it "cowardly."
Asked about its likely impact on the peace process, he replied: "What peace process?"
Mubarak canceled already controversial plans for a few Egyptian legislators to participate in a celebration Tuesday in the Israeli parliament of the 25th anniversary of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. The treaty was the first between Israel and an Arab state.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat declared three days of mourning for the quadriplegic sheik and said the Israelis had "crossed all red lines." His prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, called the killing "one of the biggest crimes that the Israeli government has committed."
Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest and most influential Islamic movement in the Middle East, issued a warning to all Americans and Israelis.
"There can be no life for the Americans and Zionists in the region," Akef told the pan-Arabic television Al-Jazeera. "We will not rest until they (Israelis) are expelled from the region."
Amid the outpouring of anger, U.S. officials urged restraint.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said: "The United States urges all sides to remain calm and exercise restraint."
Arab political analysts called Yassin's killing an affront to Egypt's efforts to bring about a cease-fire between Palestinian militant groups and Israel, and warned that the move will only fuel violence.
"This is an embarrassment to Egypt," said Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam with Egypt's Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. "Egypt was directly involved in bringing Hamas and Jihad closer to the Palestinian authority and bringing about a cease-fire. Targeting Yassin is a direct blow to these efforts."
The Yemeni Foreign Ministry said all efforts to peacefully resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict collapsed with Yassin's killing. And Jordan's prime minister, Faisal al-Fayez, said it jeopardized peace prospects.
"We in the government condemn strongly this heinous crime and affirm this act will escalate the circle of violence and instability in the region and will lead to more bloodshed," al-Fayez said in a statement.
More than 5,000 Sudanese, including Islamic opposition leader Hassan Turabi, converged on the Hamas press office in Khartoum to express their condolences, witnesses said.
In Egypt, about 7,000 students gathered in a spontaneous demonstration in Cairo's Al-Azhar University, a leading theological school, as soon as word got out of Yassin's death.
"When Sharon crosses the line, we must kill him and his soldiers," the students chanted.
About 3,000 students in Yemen demonstrated at the San'a University campus, accusing the United States of giving "the green light to Israel to assassinate Sheik Ahmed Yassin."
A Saudi in the kingdom's eastern city of Khobar said people were glued to their televisions watching the developments.
In Lebanon, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated near the southern city of Sidon and the northern city of Tripoli, burning car tires and homemade Israeli flags. Tripoli mosques blared Quranic verses. More demonstrations were called for later in the day in Lebanon and Jordan.
In Kuwait, one of America's closest allies in the Arab world, the prime minister, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, predicted violence will increase.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the world is partly to blame for Yassin's assassination through its "indifference" to previous Israeli actions against the Palestinians.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407399.html
Hamas: Sharon has opened the gates of hell
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, News Agencies and Haaretz Service
Hamas leaders vowed Monday to "cut off" the head of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, after their spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in a missile strike by Israeli helicopter gunships in Gaza City.
"Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head," leaders of the radical Islamic group vowed.
"Words cannot describe the emotion of anger and hate inside our hearts," said Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh, a close associate of Yassin in Gaza. He said that "the enemy should expect a response that will turn the ground under his feet to hell ... All of Palestine will turn into a volcano that will burn up the enemies."
Top Hamas official Abdel Aziz Rantisi said "Yassin is a man in a nation, and a nation in a man. And the retaliation of this nation, will be of the size of this man. You will see deeds not words." Rantisi himself was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in June 2003, when a helicopter launched missiles at his car.
The group vowed that Islamic groups around the world will join together to retaliate for the assassination and implied that the United States could be a target.
"The Zionists didn't carry out their operation without getting the consent of the terrorist American Administration, and it must take responsibility for this crime," Hamas said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "All the Muslims of the world will be honored to join in on the retaliation for this crime," the statement said.
The threat against the United States would represent a change of tactics for the militant group, which has always said its fight was with Israel and not with the United States.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians, many in tears, poured into the streets of Gaza City immediately after the strike. Gunmen fired into the air and militants threw dozens of pipe-bombs to express their outrage. The Palestinian Authority declared three days of mourning.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militant group connected to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, declared war on Israelis in response to the assassination. "War, war, war on the sons of Zion. An eye for an eye. There will be a response within hours, God willing," the group, which has killed said in a statement.
The armed wing of Fatah said in a statement that "he who signed the order to assassinate Yassin has effectively signed the death warrant of hundreds of Israelis." It said that all Zionists, both in Israel and abroad, is now an assassination target for the organization.
PA officials condemned the attack. "This is a crazy and very dangerous act. It opens the door wide to chaos. Yassin is known for his moderation and he was controlling Hamas and therefore this is a dangerous, cowardly act," said Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia.
"Assassinations, incursions, walls, will not produce peace and security, on the contrary, it will just add fuel to the fire," said Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat.
Sufyan Abu Zaydeh, a Palestinian Authority official, said the killing of Yassin was reminiscent of Israel's assassination of Hamas bombmaker Yehiye Ayash in Gaza in January 1996. Hamas responded to the killing of Ayash, nicknamed "The Engineer" by Israel, with a series of deadly suicide bombings inside Israel that killed close to sixty people in the space of 10 days. Yassin's killing, Abu Zaydeh said, would spark "a harsh wave of attacks."
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