News Updates:

• Cpl. Shalit is apparently still in the Gaza Strip.
  
• The second young man kidnapped is still being held by terrorists, who are threatening to kill him on live television.
  
• A third Israeli, a man in his 60s from Rishon leTzion, may have been kidnapped.
  
• The IDF has received the go-ahead to proceed with the second phase of Operation Summer Rains. No details have been released. (Thank G-d. See, Geraldo, you don't always need to tell the world EVERYTHING.)
  
• The IDF has bombed strategic bridges & roads in Gaza, cutting off roads out of the area. They've also bombed the power plant that serves the area.
  
• Israeli Air Force jets buzzed over the summer palace of Syrian President Assad.
  
• Yhudah & Shomron residents are setting up their own road blocks to keep palestinians out of Israel.
  
• At this point, most Israelis are acknowledging that we are in an all-out war, even if the world media isn't admitting it.
  

Resources in the Land (Also, see previous post):
Israel Matzav
Israel National News
Israel National Radio Live News Updates in English every half-hour.
Israel & the Sin of Expulsion
Hashmonean has more visuals.


Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?

The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.

"Let us break their chains," they say,
"and throw off their fetters."

The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.

Then he rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

"I have installed my King
on Zion, my holy hill."

I will proclaim the decree of the LORD :
He said to me, "You are my Son;
today I have become your Father.

Ask of me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.

You will rule them with an iron scepter;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery."

Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.

Serve the LORD with fear
and rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and you be destroyed in your way,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 2

Israel, IDF, Operation Summer Rains, hamas, Gaza