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May 15 08 12:07 PM

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Hours after a Grad-type Katyusha rocket slammed into an Ashkelon mall Wednesday evening, wounding more than a dozen people, Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised residents of the city that Israel will not suffer continued attacks without responding.

"You guys need to bite your lips, but not for [long]," Barak said during a tour of the scene.

"This incident is not simple, and proves that despite the hits that the Palestinians are sustaining in Gaza, they are still shooting," he said, adding that "if the rocket had hit a roof of a house, I would've been going to a funeral."

Fifteen people were wounded, including four seriously, by a Grad-model Katyusha rocket that hit a shopping center in Ashkelon just hours after US President George W. Bush arrived to celebrate the state's 60th anniversary on Wednesday.

The rocket, fired from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, struck the Hutzot Mall in southern Ashkelon, causing considerable damage. Several people were initially trapped under the rubble. The four people in serious condition included a 24-year-old woman and her young daughter. In addition, 87 people were treated for shock.

"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." ~~John 15:5~~

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May 15 08 12:10 PM

Quite honestly, I don't know what he's waiting on.

And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
ESV Numbers 33:53

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May 15 08 4:53 PM

Wow, that's and interesting article! I couldn't resist posting a couple of snippets:



Iran Behind Beirut Takeover, Eyes Israel

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:53 AM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size


Senior Iranian officials were directly involved in planning and carrying out Hezbollah’s successful takeover of Beirut last week, and believe that their victory is the first step in a new war on Israel and stepped up attacks in Iraq, sources in Tehran tell Newsmax.


The envoy, Seyed Hussein Ghanon, arrived in Tehran on the morning of Friday, May 9, to personally brief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following a telephone call between the Iranian Supreme Leader and Nasrallah, in which Khamenei pledged full Iranian government support for the Hezbollah takeover of Beirut.



Iran ordered its Revolutionary Guards garrison in the Bekaa Valley to move military hardware from that region into Beirut on Wednesday evening, sources in Tehran said. By Thursday evening, at least 58 Guards officers were directing combat operations in Beirut, side-by-side with their Hezbollah allies.


Advisers to Ahmadinejad have been arguing since Friday that the Hezbollah victory should be the first step in a two-pronged attack on Israel in the coming months, Newsmax sources in Tehran say.


Hezbollah fighters will attack Israel from the north, while Iranian-backed Hamas fighters will step up pressure on Israel from Gaza and the south, the sources said.


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