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  • #46
    Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

    Very sobering to read these reports. I appeciate your continued posting of them Andy.

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    • #47
      Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

      Today's Report

      WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 8:30 PM

      Jews throughout Israel began marking the fast day of Tisha b’Av (the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av) at sundown this evening, when Jeremiah’s Book of Lamentations is traditionally read. The prophets mournful words concerning the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem will reverberate even more over the next 24 hours after northern Israeli cities and towns were struck today by the largest number of rockets since the 1967 Six Day war, and as senior officials in neighboring Syria and Iran warn that they are “prepared to defend Lebanon from Zionist agression.”

      A 35 year old Israeli farmer was killed this morning on Kibbutz Sar north of Nahariya. The man instantly perished when a rocket crashed down next to him as he was out riding his bicycle, pummeling his body with shrapnel and ball bearings. He leaves behind a wife and two young daughters. Israeli television tonight showed the blood-stained site of the attack, noting that his faithful dog had refused to leave the spot where he was killed throughout the day.

      Around 35 Israelis were injured elsewhere, one woman critically, as rockets struck in over 20 locations, including in Tiberius (whose streets and beaches were virtually empty all day), Safed, Nahariya, Haifa, Afula, Kiryat Shmona, and the port of Acco near Haifa. Five homes and cars were set on fire as over 210 rockets blitzed northern Israel. (Hizbullah claimed it had shot over 300 rockets by dusk). Today’s death brings the Israeli civilian toll up to 20, with 35 soldiers killed so far, including three who perished during heavy clashes yesterday. One was a Jerusalem resident who had immigrated to Israel from Philadelphia. He cut short a visit with his family there to rush back here to join his unit soon after the war began three weeks ago.

      More ominously, Hizbullah fired at least one “Kybar-1” rocket today, landing over 40 miles south of the Lebanon border—the furthest penetration so far. The rockets carry an explosive payload nearly five times more powerful than the nearly 2,000 Katyusha rockets that have struck Israel since the conflict began exactly three weeks ago today. The Syrian-made rockets have a range over four times that of most Katyushas, which explains why one landed not far from the Israeli town of Beit Shean, due east of where five of the rockets struck around Afula last Friday. Another rocket actually landed in the Gilboa mountain range (where King Saul was slain over 3,000 years ago), just two miles east of the Palestinian town of Jenin in northern Samaria—demonstrating that Hizbullah’s rockets can also kill the very Palestinians that the Shiite group is supposedly supporting.

      ARMY ACTION INTENSIFIES

      Wednesday’s rocket barrage came as the army significantly stepped up its ground offensive throughout southern Lebanon. Over 8,000 soldiers are now operating inside the country. Heavy fighting was reported in several locations. A number of army tanks were hit by Hizbullah anti-tank rockets, but no IDF casualties were reported. The stepped up action is coming far too late according to many Israeli opposition politicians and military analysts, who particularly blame Labor party members of Prime Minister Olmert’s Security Cabinet for unnecessarily putting off the inevitable. Army leaders say they need around two more weeks to completely push Hizbullah fighters and rocket launchers north of the Litani River. However it is expected that the United States and Great Britain will fully support an immediate ceasefire call at the United Nations by the end of this week, or early next week at the latest. So the army is now in a race for time.

      However, PM Olmert made clear that his forces will stay put inside Israel’s former border Security Zone until some sort of international peacekeeping force is sent to the region. That is expected to take some months, particularly since few expect Hizbullah’s defiant leaders—fully backed by Syria and Iran—to stop attacking IDF positions, even if the Lebanese government calls upon then to halt. In fact, one Lebanese cabinet minister told Sky News today that the government “fully supports Hizbullah’s resistance” against Israel’s clean out operation. Political analysts on Israel radio said the comment probably indicates that Lebanese officials suspect that Syria might be about to regain its dominant control over Lebanon due to growing street support for its Hizbullah surrogates.

      Olmert maintained that Hizbullah has been decimated by the three week IDF operation, with over 700 positions destroyed. However the comment came before today’s severe rocket barrage began mid-morning, which was said to have caught the Premier by surprise. Olmert also opened a deep political fissure here in Israel by restating his full commitment to his declared intention to tear down dozens of Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria in the near future, uprooting an estimated 80,000 Jews from their homes. Several opposition politicians blasted the comment, noting that some of the IDF’s best fighters come from the very communities slated for destruction. Reminding such soldiers that their homes may soon be turned into rubble, like many have where the men are struggling to subdue Hizbullah fighters in southern Lebanon, was extremely poor timing they charged.

      Meanwhile Israeli government and military leaders are keeping a wary eye on nearby Syria, where the visiting Iranian foreign minister met today with senior Syrian officials. Afterwards, the Iranian politician again stated his country’s determination to continue to fully back Hizbullah in its fight “to repel the Zionist invasion forces.” A similar statement was made today in Tehran by Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khameini. Syria’s Baathist leaders echoed the threatening comments while rebuking Israel for carrying out a daring helicopter raid overnight into the town of Baalbek, located some 60 miles north of Israel and less than 10 miles west of the Syrian border. The Bekaa Valley town, dubbed “Little Tehran” by some Lebanese, has been a Hizbullah stronghold since 1982. The IDF said it captured five Hizbullah militiamen in the town, and killed another 10, all hiding out in the local Iranian-built hospital. However they did not succeed in locating an unnamed “senior Hizbullah commander” that they hoped to find in the building.



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      DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

      HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

      ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
      You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

      TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

      TO SUBSCRIBE (or to unsubscribe), GO TO his web site, www.ddolan.com or to: http://www.ddolan.com/subscribe.asp

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      • #48
        Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

        Thanks again for this valuable and insightful source -

        It's sad to learn of the big disconnect between what have been Olmert's tough words all along - but up until just in the last couple of days not authorized into IDF actions on the ground.

        We know the IDF has been seeking the approval for days to get serious, and now in the rush to get it done quickly the IDF may actually incur greater losses than if they had been authorized even a week ago to swarm into Lebanon.

        Between that, and Olmert's blind committment to ripping out WB settlements his gov't may not last all that long?

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        • #49
          Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

          Thursday's update

          THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 7:00 PM

          Israel suffered its one of its worst civilian casualty death tolls of the war today, as Hizbullah’s 23 day deliberate rocket assault upon known civilian centers throughout northern Israel continued unabated. Seven Israeli civilians had been slain by sundown, even though the number of rockets fired by then was less than half that of yesterday’s record 215. Three perished when Syrian-and Iranian supplied rockets came crashing down around the hard hit border town of Ma’alot, which made world headlines in May 1974 when PLO terrorists attacked an apartment building and then took hostage over 100 Israeli pupils huddled inside the communities high school, leaving over 20 teenagers dead. Another four people were killed today in the mixed Arab-Jewish port town of Acco, located due north of Haifa.

          Analysts said the relatively high casualty rate may be at least partially due to growing public weariness with having to spend many hours every day in crowded bomb shelters, made worse by an intensifying mid-summer heat wave and today’s Tisha b’Av fast day—observed by many Israelis. On top of that, the radical Shiite group fired rockets and mortar shells into Israel for the first time during the night, causing many citizens to rush to shelters where they stayed put until dawn.

          Meanwhile three IDF soldiers were confirmed to have died—the third in just the past few minutes—when their tank was struck by Hizbullah fire in southern Lebanon. As of this morning, 81 soldiers were in several hospitals being treated for wounds sustained in the war, three of them in very serious condition. Nearly 30 civilians were also being treated before today’s deadly rocket blitz added to that number. Unconfirmed foreign media reports say at least two additional soldiers have also been killed during today’s fierce clashes with highly-trained Hizbullah fighters.

          As more IDF troops pour into south Lebanon, the Israeli government has stated that army commanders have been instructed to establish at least a six kilometer (about three and half mile) wide enclave by this evening. The army will then use that sanitized border zone—where some 25% of the 2,000 plus Hizbullah rockets that have struck Israel have been fired from—to push forward up to the Litani River.

          The action will effectively recreate the buffer “security zone” that existed from June 1982 until May 2000. IDF forces will continue to clean out local pockets of Hizbullah fighters as necessary, say army commanders, until some sort of international force can take possession of the border area—finally fulfilling UN Resolution 1559 to clear the area of non-governmental militias while allowing the Lebanese army to take control of the zone. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today that an international force of at least 15,000 soldiers will be needed to control the zone. Efforts to create such a force are beginning at the United Nations in New York.


          QUESTIONABLE NUMBERS

          In Beirut, several Lebanese government leaders continued to justify Hizbullah’s daily deliberate attempts to slaughter Israeli civilians. They did this while claiming that around 900 Lebanese civilians have perished in the three week war. However Israeli officials are skeptical of that claim, noting that Hizbullah militiamen often engage in battle while wearing civilian clothes, and so can more easily pass as civilian casualties. For instance they note that Hizbullah claimed that 15 civilians were killed during a daring IDF helicopter raid into Baalbek Tuesday night, whereas soldiers involved insisted, with videotape evidence, that all were armed fighters who engaged them in combat.

          The number of Lebanese civilians confirmed to have been slain in an IDF Air Force bombing in the town of Qana on Sunday has been dramatically reduced today, from some 54 to 59, to 28. A local Lebanese hospital confirmed the smaller figure after the international group Human Rights Watch said it could only confirm 28 victims, 16 of them under age 20. However it said another 13 people who were earlier said to be in the building are unaccounted for, despite massive efforts to pull all of the victims out of the rubble. The group confirmed Israeli contentions that they may have previously fled the town, as all civilians were instructed to several days before the air raid was launched.

          An army investigation into the tragedy released today said that some 150 Hizbullah Katyusha rockets had been launched from inside and right around the town in the days before the air bombing took place. The army report insisted that IDF commanders had hard intelligence that Hizbullah had fired and hidden rockets inside the four story civilian building that was struck, declaring again that it was not known in advance that civilian non residents of the building had taken shelter in its basement.

          While various international human rights and aid organizations continued to loudly condemn Israel over the inevitable deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians in a war started by a rouge Lebanese militia operating completely away from governmental supervision along Israel’s border for over six years, the militia’s ultimate sponsor vowed again today to wipe out millions of Jewish and Arab civilians living in the world’s only Jewish-run state. The pledge also included indirect, but clear threats to overthrow pro-west governments ruling in Jordan and Egypt.

          As usual, the vow to wipe Israel off of the face of the Middle East map—which experts agree could only be accomplished in a horrific nuclear war that would undoubtedly leave millions dead and injured—was made by deranged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He told an emergency Islamic conference in Malaysia that the “main solution to the regional crisis is the elimination of the Zionist regime.” But possibly reflecting the fact that his country’s surrogate Lebanese Shiite force is currently being pummeled in Lebanon, he added that “at this stage” he was demanding “that an immediate ceasefire be implemented.”

          The Iranian leader went on to condemn “regional Muslim powers” that had supposedly betrayed the Islamic cause by “doing deals under the table with the Zionist enemy”—presumably a reference to peace treaties in force between Israel, Jordan and Egypt. It should be recalled that Iran and Syria crushed an American-brokered peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon in 1983 (I actually attended the signing ceremony at a hotel in northern Israel) by unleashing a flood of Hizbullah terror attacks upon American and French peacekeeping forces, along with attacks upon Israeli forces who would have quickly evacuated the country if the treaty had not been wiped out before it could be implemented.

          I will be interviewed about the ongoing Israeli-Hizbullah conflict on a Dallas-based Christian radio program that was featured earlier this week on CNN. The hour long program will air on Friday at 4:00 EST, which is 1:00 PM PST or 20:00 GMT. You may go to this link to listen live: http://www.endtime.com/radio.asp



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          DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

          HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

          ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
          You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

          TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

          TO SUBSCRIBE (or to unsubscribe), GO TO his web site, www.ddolan.com or to: http://www.ddolan.com/subscribe.asp

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          • #50
            Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

            BTW, I emailed brother Dolan and told him about the 2.2+ million hits last month and he was VERY appreciative that we're helping to get the word out to the world by posting his info out here every day.

            I have no intention of stopping as long as Israel is at war...and as long as he keeps sending them. Let's make a committment to pray for his safety (and his ministry!) as this dear brother is right in Jerusalem.

            I'll not soon forget his testimony of what it was like to be within a few hundred yards of a terrorist hit on a bus in Jerusalem. His description left a very vivid image on my mind. As he raced over to his window - the things he saw...

            Such a SICK world we live in.

            FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 7:00 PM



            Its been another day of death and destruction here in the Holy Land as well over 100 Hizbullah rockets killed and wounded three more Israeli civilians, while also setting homes, businesses, cars, forests and fields on fire. As was the case yesterday when three of eight civilian deaths were non-Jews—all of them Arab teenagers who were tending sheep near the town of Ma’alot, including one girl—today’s attacks left a 27 year old Druze woman dead in the Galilee Arab-Druze town of Marar, and another Arab killed in the village of Maj al Qum. (The third victim has just been announced, but not yet identified). One other person was severely wounded, and is expected to die, as rockets crashed down in many communities, one of them a northern Galilee kibbutz. Dozens were treated for shrapnel wounds and for shock. Police officials said a new, more deadly short range Syrian-made rocket was introduced into the conflict today, dubbed the 302. It carries a far more powerful warhead than previous Katyusha rockets fired at Israeli civilian centers until now—some 100 kilos of explosives—another possible step up to a direct Israel-Syrian clash in the coming days.



            Today’s heavy Hizbullah assaults came after the deadliest day so far for Israel in the current conflict. Fourteen people, six of them soldiers and eight civilians, were killed on Thursday. Emotional funerals were held earlier today for a father and his 15 year old daughter who were slaughtered in a rocket attack on the mixed Arab-Jewish ancient port town of Acco—with the grieving wife and mother crying out the word “abba!!” as she was literally carried to the twin grave sites. Three other civilians killed in the stricken town yesterday were also buried today, including a middle aged woman. Four of the six IDF soldiers slain in heavy fighting in southern Lebanon yesterday and overnight—most of them teenagers—were also laid to rest in various parts of the small country. Foreign news reports say additional soldiers perished today, but that has not yet been confirmed by IDF officials.



            TEL AVIV ON BRINK OF ATTACK?



            With the Israeli death toll rapidly mounting, the Olmert government authorized the Air Force to go back into action around the Lebanese capital city of Beirut. Within the last hour, a Hizbullah target has been struck inside the city. When intelligence information arrived during the night that Syria was smuggling in weapons to aid Hizbullah fighters along the coastal road north of Beirut, (the information probably coming from Lebanese Maronite Christians who live in the area and are loathe to see Sheik Nasrallah and Syria take over their country), several bridges along the road were bombed. The coastal road runs directly up to Syria’s strategic port city of Latikiya.



            As the Sabbath begins, Tel Aviv residents are now waiting to see if Sheik Nasrallah will fulfill his threat, made in a speech last night, that he would strike Israel’s largest urban center with powerful Iranian made Zelzal missiles if Beirut was hit again by IDF bombs. Speaking on Israel radio and TV outlets today, several Israeli military analysts have pointed out that such a specific threat was probably made with Iranian acquiesce, if not direct command. It is believed that Iranian Revolutionary Guards operating for many years in Lebanon have direct control over the long-range missiles. Israeli officials have warned that any missile attack upon the Tel Aviv coastal zone—which includes Ben Gurion Airport—would provoke a massive response. In fact, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, Ma’ariv, carries a bold front page headline today declaring in Hebrew that a senior IDF commander has warned that Beirut would suffer severely if Tel Aviv is attacked.



            Further indicating that we may be on the brink of a much larger regional war, large anti-Israel rallies were held today in many Muslim countries, including Turkey, Shiite-ruled Iran and Shiite-dominated Iraq. Tensions here in Jerusalem were evident this afternoon as dozens of Palestinians clashed with police and paramilitary forces near the Old City. This came after Israeli officials—fearing a new warfront could develop in Judea and Samaria—banned all males under age 45 from attending Friday Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount. Hundreds of Orthodox Jews held a peaceful parade around the Old City on Wednesday night to protest the fact that police banned all non-Muslims from ascending the Temple Mount during the Jewish fast day of Tisha b’Av.



            I will be giving another radio update on the escalating war today on the Moody Broadcasting Network. The interview will begin at 5:00 PM EST, or 2:00 PST, which is 21:00 GMT. If you are not in listening range of one of their many network and affiliate stations, you can listen on line at www.mbn.org. A one hour in-depth interview concerning the background of the war, taped for the Dallas-based program Politics and Religion last night, will air one hour earlier. That can be heard live on line at www.endtime.com/radio.asp I will also be giving an update tomorrow at 1:00 PM EST, or 16:00 GMT on the radio program Prophecy Today, which can be heard live on line at www.prophecytoday.com Thanks again for your prayers—they are clearly needed and appreciated.



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            DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

            HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

            ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
            You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

            TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

            TO SUBSCRIBE (or to unsubscribe), GO TO his web site, www.ddolan.com or to: http://www.ddolan.com/subscribe.asp

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            • #51
              Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

              Saturday...

              SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 7:00 PM



              With the United States and France announcing an agreement within the past hour on a draft ceasefire resolution at the United Nations—but not apparently an immediate one—three more Israeli civilians—initially identified as three sisters—were killed today when a Hizbullah rocket made a direct hit on their private family home in the hard hit coastal town of Nahariya. Other rockets landed in Haifa, Kiryat Shmona (where a house was set on fire, along with more forest land) and various other communities in northern Israel, leaving more civilians injured and widespread damage. Today’s attacks came after Hizbullah rockets were ominously fired last evening at the coastal town of Hadera, just 20 miles north of the greater Tel Aviv area and only five miles from another major urban center, Netanya. Although no damage was reported, it was the deepest penetration so far during Hizbullah’s 25 day rocket blitz against Israeli population centers all across northern Israel. Meanwhile another IDF soldier has been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon, while several others were wounded. The army launched overnight helicopter raids into the area’s biggest town, Tyre, in search of Hizbullah fighters and rocket positions. They did that while warning residents of the larger city of Sidon, about 10 miles further north of Tyre, to immediately leave their homes so the IDF can conduct operations against Hizbullah positions located there.



              Israeli analysts said the radical Lebanese group might have been attempting to hit a major electric power plant located in Hadera, one of the two largest plants supplying electricity to the small country. The attack, believed to have been launched from the Sidon area, was followed by televised warnings from Israel’s Home Command for all citizens residing in the center of the country, including Jerusalem, to be prepared to go to bomb shelters at the first sound of sirens. This came only hours after Iranian officials publicly admitted for the first time that they have provided long-range Zelzal missiles to Hizbullah (thought to be under direct Iranian control) that can travel some 130 miles, placing most of Israel’s 6.3 million citizens under threat. The missiles are said to carry 400 kilogram warheads, meaning they could potentially destroy whole buildings, if not entire city blocks.



              Home Command officials last night indicated that even though Jerusalem is not considered to be a likely target of Zelzal attacks, residents of Israel’s capital will probably also be ordered to their shelters if the powerful Iranian rockets are directed anywhere at the middle of the country (greater Tel Aviv is only some 25 miles northwest of Jerusalem’s western suburbs). Officials also warn that any such missile attack will probably lead to the immediate cancellation of most foreign air traffic into Ben Gurion Airport, as occurred when Iraqi Scuds struck the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in 1991. Economic analysts say international insurance companies would probably not allow foreign airlines to continue operating normally if Hizbullah missiles strike such an expanded war zone. They note this would do further damage to Israel’s hard hit economy, already suffering significantly due to a virtual business shutdown in one-fourth of the country for over three weeks now and the beginnings of an overseas tourism slump.



              Fear of a possible Zelzal strike increased after Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah vowed to launch rockets at Tel Aviv if Israeli jets continued to strike Beirut. The threat did not stop the Air Force from striking Hizbullah strongholds in Beirut’s southern suburbs once again overnight. Although international media outlets claimed Nasrallah was only speaking of an Israeli air attack on central Beirut—which has not been bombed by Air Force warplanes—he actually said in his televised speech Thursday night that if Israel “bombs our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity. We will bomb Tel Aviv.” His contemptuous reference to Israel as a “usurping entity” further confirms that Hizbullah sees the escalating conflict, which it sparked by arming to the teeth over the past six years, periodically attacking northern Israel, and then suddenly kidnapping two IDF soldiers and killing seven others on July 12th after illegally infiltrating across the UN-sanctioned border, is part of a greater Islamic duty to wage jihad until Israel is completely destroyed. This exactly echoes the group’s Iranian masters, along with its Palestinian ally Hamas.



              TECHNICAL NOTE: Some have written to say they do not always get my notices of radio or TV appearances in time to tune in to the programs. This is due the fact that this list has many thousands of subscribers, growing every day, and the system can only deliver a certain number of e mail messages every minute to subscribers. I will try to give as much advance notice as I can of such appearances. Speaking of which, a personal style 15 minute interview focusing on my life and work here in Israel is scheduled for broadcast on the Moody Network this coming Monday at 6:15 EST, which is 3:15 PST and 22:15 GMT. You can listen live via the web at www.mbn.org





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              DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

              HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

              ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
              You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

              TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

              TO SUBSCRIBE (or to unsubscribe), GO TO his web site, www.ddolan.com or to: http://www.ddolan.com/subscribe.asp

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              • #52
                Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                Sunday...

                SUNDAY AUGUST 6, 5:30 PM



                As the Israeli public mourns the highest daily death toll so far in 26 days of intense Hizbullah rocket attacks upon northern Israel—and that after learning that another five soldiers were killed yesterday during heavy fighting in Lebanon—the Lebanese government has rejected the United Nations draft ceasefire proposal put forward yesterday in New York. This action virtually guarantees that the intensifying fighting in Lebanon will continue for the time being. The rejection—mainly based on Lebanese opposition to any IDF forces remaining in south Lebanon until an international force can replace them—came just after an intense barrage of over 80 rockets landed in the upper Galilee region in the space of just 15 minutes around noontime. One rocket landed on the edge of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, located in the burning Naphtali hills above the border town of Metulla.



                The Katyusha crashed down in the midst of a group of reserve soldiers who were resting and saying prayers next to the kibbutz cemetery before joining the battles raging just across the border in southern Lebanon. Nine men were instantly slaughtered as rocket shrapnel and ball bearings riddled their bodies, and four others were severely wounded, one of whom has just died. Doctors say at least one more of the wounded will probably not survive. Israeli families are now being informed around the country that their loved ones have perished. A civilian resident of the kibbutz was also killed and nine others wounded. IDF officials say the rocket was fired from beyond the Litani River. Over 200 Hizbullah rockets have struck all across northern Israel so far today, wounding civilians in several locations and causing extensive damage. The bombardments came as news was released that a Hizbullah militiaman who participated in kidnapping two IDF soldiers on July 12th—which sparked the current conflict—has been captured and is being interrogated.



                I know Kfar Giladi quite well, having written about it in my first book, Holy War for the Promised Land. I noted that the Israeli family who hosted me for Sabbath meals the year I lived and worked on nearby Kibbutz Hagoshrim had close friends who lived there. In April 1980, just a few months before I arrived in the area, Palestinian terrorists infiltrated across the Lebanese border and took captive a number of Kfar Giladi adults and children in the kibbutz kindergarten. Undoubtedly sensing tension from their frightened Israeli caregivers, one of the baby girls could not be comforted. After shouting out commands for the caregivers to somehow shut up the crying infant, one of the terrorists grabbed his Kalashnikov rifle and violently struck the baby’s head with it, killing her instantly. The tiny girl was the daughter of my kibbutz family’s friends. The baby’s remains lie in the very cemetery where nine Israeli reserve soldiers—many of them undoubtedly husbands and fathers—were slaughtered in today’s deadly rocket attack.



                Earlier today, I received an e mail from a longtime subscriber to this news service, also named David, who is an American-born Israeli messianic believer and an acquaintance of mine. He informed me that his apartment had been largely destroyed when a rocket struck next to his building last Thursday. The blast set the building’s natural gas canisters on fire, which quickly spread to the building, destroying several apartments, including David’s. He has now moved in with his parents.



                Last evening, I kept thinking about another American-born Israeli believer, Adam, who had worked with his wife until recently with one of my closest friends here in Jerusalem. I received word last week from his father-in-law, who established a Christian prayer center here in Jerusalem several years ago, that Adam was being called up to active reserve duty in south Lebanon. I was especially thinking last night how difficult this must be for him—to be suddenly yanked out of normal daily life away from his wife and two young children, and sent into a deadly combat zone. Adding to this, his wife is pregnant with twins. I felt an extra tug to pray for them, and especially Adam, last night. Then today I learned from my friend that Adam had been in intense combat yesterday, and actually spotted a Hizbullah fighter hurling a hand grenade directly at him from a small launcher. Thankfully, the hand grenade exploded in the air before it could strike him. However the action naturally left him shell shocked, and he has been removed from the battle in order to rest.



                ISRAELI SUFFERING


                I write all of the above after receiving several rebukes from readers of these war updates for focusing more on Israeli suffering and casualties than on the tragedy engulfing Lebanon. I worked and served in south Lebanon for two years, and personally know a number of Lebanese who have been caught up in the fighting. Indeed, their situation is a catastrophe, and I grieve over it. But I am not now stationed in Lebanon, so it is difficult for me to give an accurate account of what is going on there. On top of that, I think we must constantly keep in mind the ultimate reason why hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians are suffering displacement and other serious grievances today. It is the result of an unprovoked major act of war (infiltrating across an international border and kidnapping and killing soldiers while lobbing rockets at army and civilian centers in the area) carried out by some of their fellow countrymen who were allowed by their government, for whatever reason, to establish a large, heavily armed paramilitary force all along their southern border equipped with thousands of deadly short and long-range rockets, anti-tank missiles, hand grenades, etc. Of course, the local residents could not stop this if their government was either unwilling or unable to do so (some of both is the case, I suspect). But the fact is that a fair portion of the south Lebanese citizens who have been forced to flee the fighting are Shiites who DO support Hizbullah, which is why the militia could take over and control the area with little domestic opposition.



                Israeli bombs have obviously killed many Lebanese civilians during the intense conflict, even if the numbers presented by officials in Beirut are probably exaggerated for propaganda purposes (a media war is also raging after all). Certainly EVERY Lebanese citizen is suffering to some degree due to IDF attacks on roads and other public infrastructure, and for many other reasons. But the Israeli public is hardly unaffected as their sons, husbands, brothers, fathers and friends join the intense ground battles to push back Hizbullah rockets from the border. Added to this is the fact that some 300,000 northern residents have also been displaced from their homes that are under daily attack from deadly Hizbullah rockets. Another 700,000 citizens have remained behind in the war zone, living in bomb shelters or rushing to them when warning sirens suddenly sound. Many Israeli families are hosting the northern refugees, just as many Lebanese citizens are housing their relatives or friends from the south. Over 40 Israelis have been killed, and many others seriously wounded, in the daily Hizbullah bombardments, including an Arab-Israeli woman and her two daughters who were slaughtered yesterday (the fact that they were all females, and Arabs at that, has mysteriously not been mentioned in most of the international TV reports I have seen over the past 24 hours).



                More than this, no one in Israel is stating that their ultimate goal is to wipe Lebanon off of the world map (although you would think they were listening to some Lebanese government leaders). However that is exactly what Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and his Iranian patrons are stating. If you are Jewish and familiar with your people’s tortured history, as most obviously are, then such a threat alone is enough to spark anxious nightmares and intense internal suffering.



                The international media continues to focus much more on Lebanese than Israeli suffering, which is another reason why it is redundant for me to do so. Certainly many of the pictures and stories from Lebanon are truly horrendous. But let us not forget that Israel thought it had left Lebanon for good in May 2000 and had no desire to ever return there, nor any claims on Lebanese territory. The IDF is certainly not deliberately targeting civilians, although they have inadvertently done so, as will sadly take place in any hot war. The fact that Hizbullah cowardly operates for the most part from built up Shiite civilian areas, and not from any marked military bases, obviously is a major factor in the relatively high Lebanese civilian death toll. The Shiite group also continues to deliberately fire its vast arsenal of rockets at Israeli population centers every day in order to kill and wound a maximum number of civilians, including fellow Arabs. Now, its jihad-crazed leader is threatening to fire long-rang Iranian missiles at Tel Aviv, which could easily set off a massive regional war.



                The Bible tells us that God often allowed Israel’s enemies to strike them in order to discipline or punish His people. There is no reason to think this is not the case today. In fact, an Israeli friend who is not very observant told me just today that he thinks the current crisis is connected to statements from former and current Israeli leaders that the country’s strong military forces will bring them ultimate victory. “We can only prevail with Elohim’s help,” stated my friend. I certainly agree that Israel deserves some chastisement at this time, as does my own native United States, along with every country on earth, including Lebanon. Still, Israel’s enemies openly state that their aim is to finish what Hitler began over 60 years ago. According to the Bible that I read, that will not occur.



                Let me end with some more good news. A Lebanese man that I worked with in the mid-1980s, Joseph Haddad, is now a congregational leader in the Haifa area. He recently arrived here in Jerusalem with some 50 of his Lebanese congregants—most of them Christian refugees from Hizbullah’s 2000 takeover of the southern portion of their country. They were all financially able to leave the war zone due to a generous gift from a fellow believer. Members of the group shared their emotional experiences yesterday at one of Jerusalem’s largest messianic congregations, where they were warmly embraced by their Israeli brethren. Don’t expect to see that on CNN or the BBC.



                As I noted yesterday, a special interview about my life and work here in Israel is slated to be broadcast by the Moody Network on Monday. It is scheduled to air at 6:15 EST in North America, which is 3:15 in the west, and 22:15 GMT. The interview can be heard on line at that time via this link: www.mbn.org One final note: Some have written to ask what has become of the international “Gay Pride” Parade scheduled to be held in Jerusalem this Thursday. It was quietly cancelled two weeks ago due to the security situation.



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                DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

                HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

                ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
                You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

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                • #53
                  Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                  Monday...


                  MONDAY AUGUST 7, 8:00 PM



                  Late news reports say that an unmanned Hizbullah drone loaded with powerful explosives has been shot down by IDF forces off of the coast of Haifa, some 20 miles south of the Lebanese border. The drone was thought to be heading toward Tel Aviv. Hizbullah has sent several such drones across the international border in recent years. This came after another day of heavy Hizbullah rocket fire upon northern Israel, with over 100 missiles landing in Tiberius, Safed, Ma’alot, and many civilian communities by dusk. The largest barrage—described by people on the scene as nearly nonstop during the day—has once again been directed upon the often blitzed town of Kiryat Shmona, where I lived for two years from mid-1982. Several homes there are currently on fire after taking direct strikes. Three residents were wounded in one of those attacks. The once beautiful pine tree lined Naphtali hills that loom up behind the town, which some had compared to portions of the Alps or the Rocky Mountains, are on fire yet again in dozens of places. Weary firefighters, many of them volunteers from the center of the country, say they are running low on supplies to deal with the constant rocket-ignited conflagrations.



                  As northern residents grow ever more weary of the daily Hizbullah onslaught, officials in Jerusalem are warning that significantly stepped up Air Force bombings in Lebanon can be expected by the end of this week if the daily barrages do not let up by then. This comes amid assessments that the Lebanese government is doing next to nothing to try to reign in the rogue militia that plunged its country into this escalating conflict. Air Force jets were once again in action today, bombing south Beirut this morning and within the last few minutes, along with other suspected Hizbullah targets near Sidon and other locations. Around 20 people were reportedly killed in the strikes, including women and children. However Israeli officials remain extremely skeptical of Lebanese civilian death toll claims, especially after it became clear that the numbers who perished in Qana early last week was greatly exaggerated. Such skepticism was greatly reinforced this evening when a “correction” was issued from the Lebanese Prime Minister’s office. During a teary speech this afternoon at an emergency Arab League summit meeting in Beirut, PM Fuad Seniora claimed that Israel had just “carried out a massacre of 40 people” in the border town of Hula. His office has just admitted that the numbers were slightly off the mark—only one person actually died in the southern village near Metulla.



                  Today’s Hizbullah rocket assaults followed a series of powerful rocket strikes last evening upon the port city of Haifa, killing two Arab Christian residents of the city and a Jewish man visiting from a nearby suburb. All three victims were buried under the rubble of several apartment buildings that took direct hits. An elderly doctor also died of a heart attack when rockets landed near his home. Over 40 people are still hospitalized in Haifa following the massive attack, several in very serious condition. The latest rocket blitz prompted the city’s Rambam Hospital, one of the largest in Israel, to move all patients to the basement who were in wards facing the north—the direction of Lebanon. Doctors and nurses admit it will be difficult to adequately care for the hundreds of affected patients in the crowded basement, but realize that hospital administrators had no other choice given the constant rocket onslaughts upon northern Israel by Hizbullah forces.



                  Meanwhile a series of funerals have been going on all afternoon in many localities around the country for the 12 reserve soldiers killed when a Hizbullah rocket landed in their midst on Kibbutz Kfar Giladi at noon yesterday. Most of the slain Israeli men, ranging in age from mid-20s to mid-40s, had wives and young families. Funerals are also going on for the five regular army soldiers killed in clashes with Hizbullah fighters yesterday. In all, 20 Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed on Sunday, making it by far the deadliest day so far of the 27 day conflict. Normal television programming was suspended on all three Israeli channels throughout the day, making the sense of growing conflict all the more evident in every part of Israel.



                  Another soldier has been confirmed dead today amid reports that several other casualties will be announced this evening after family members have been notified. An untold number have been wounded. Nearly 50 IDF soldiers have been killed so far, along with 43 civilians. Most of the civilian deaths in recent days have actually been Israeli Arabs. Today’s confirmed IDF death came during fierce clashes in the Lebanese Shiite town of Bint Jabail, which army commanders thought they had previously brought under control. With border clashes continuing, northern Israeli residents are said to be wondering if Hizbullah’s fanatic Muslim guerilla fighters—who hide among civilians and often shoot their rockets from towns and villages, and are told they will go to the highest heaven if they perish since they are fighting in a jihad war against the detested Jews—will actually be pushed back from the border area before a ceasefire is enforced. Military analysts agree that the Iranian and Syrian backed highly-trained fighters are proving to be much tougher to deal with than previous conventional Arab forces and Palestinian fighters. Meanwhile more Israeli civilian men are quietly receiving call-up orders to report to reserve duty.



                  In Beirut, PM Fuad Seniora gave an emotional speech to the visiting delegation of Arab League officials. Without ever admitting that some of his own citizens had sparked off the conflict with Israel by launching an unprovoked attack across the international border, the Sunni Muslim leader called upon “his brotherly Arabs” to unite behind Lebanon in its “struggle against the Zionist enemy.” Israeli officials were said to be distressed by his use of such a term, which some analysts note could technically be considered a declaration of war that would justify Israeli strikes upon Lebanese government positions. However few here anticipate that Israel will move away from mainly hitting Hizbullah positions and weapons supply routes overland from Syria and from the Mediterranean Sea. Analysts also noted that Seniora claimed that Israeli forces were now “occupying” his country, despite the fact that they are barely in control of the southern border strip right next to Israel. The increasingly bellicose Lebanese leader then claimed his country had “joined the Palestinians and Iraq” in being occupied by “foreign forces,” indicating his true feelings about the US-British attempt to bring stability to Iraq.



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                  DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

                  HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

                  ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
                  You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

                  TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

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                  • #54
                    Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                    Tuesday...

                    TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 6:00 PM

                    The daily Hizbullah rocket barrage upon communities all across northern Israel continued unabated today, with over 120 rockets being fired across the Lebanese border by 6:00 PM. Several more buildings in the hard hit town of Kiryat Shmona were set on fire. Reports from the town today say the center has been virtually destroyed in the past week of heavy rocket assaults. This came as the government announced it would bus hundreds of local residents who lack the finances to evacuate the besieged town to safer locations further south. Many said they could not face a fifth week of constantly living in underground shelters. Two Israelis were wounded when shrapnel struck them in a western Galilee village this afternoon, and another civilian was hurt within the past hour in the often struck town of Ma’alot. Other rockets fell in the towns of Safed, Tiberius, Carmiel and Nahariya. This came after the army confirmed it had shot down an Iranian-made Hizbullah drone aircraft last evening off the coast of Haifa.



                    The army confirmed that three reserve soldiers were killed overnight as intense fighting raged near the town of Bint Jabail. One soldier from a Jerusalem suburb died after his armored vehicle was hit by a Hizbullah anti-tank rocket. This brings the number of confirmed IDF deaths to 65. Several other soldiers were wounded and evacuated from the action today. The army said it captured five Hizbullah fighters as they were attempting to set up an anti-aircraft rocket position. One of yesterday’s IDF casualties was from a family I knew when I studied Hebrew on a Jezreel Valley kibbutz, Beit Hashita, in 1982. Proving that nothing is new under the sun, the language course ended prematurely when IDF forces first entered Lebanon en masse in June of that year to push back rocket-firing PLO fighters from the border.



                    With the Israeli Air Force carrying out over 80 sorties in Lebanon overnight and today, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated today that the inner Security Cabinet may be asked to significantly expand the ground operation in southern Lebanon when it meets in special session tomorrow morning. This comes amid mounting criticism of the campaign—which has just led to the replacement of the senior northern army commander—with many military analysts and right-wing politicians charging that massive force should have been deployed in the early days of the conflict. They say the government coalition, made up primarily of former Likud party members and Labor politicians, failed to take the bull by the horns due to their dovish views. The use of overwhelming force was the exact strategy adopted in the 1982 “Peace for Galilee” operation, in which vastly outnumbered and outgunned PLO fighters were driven from the entire border region in just a couple hours. Critics, who are still speaking fairly softly due to the ongoing conflict, say the failure to deploy any ground forces inside south Lebanon at the start of the conflict, and the over-reliance on Air Force bombings, has resulted in far more rocket assaults upon northern Israel than should have occurred. They add that the initial light ground assault only emboldened Hizbullah, which can now claim a moral and political victory, and possibly even increase its ultimate influence over the weak Lebanese government.



                    ON THE FRONT LINES



                    I received an e mail today informing me that around 30 south Lebanese evangelical Christians, some of whom I worked with during the early 1980s, were unable to get out of their small border community before the conflict intensified, and are now spending each night in the basement of their church. I have sent information to the army spokesman’s office about their presence amid concerns that Hizbullah fighters might try to draw IDF artillery fire upon the church by launching rockets from near the building.



                    I want to thank the hundreds of readers who have written encouraging notes in the past few days, particularly in reaction to my commentary sent out on Sunday. Some Christian readers have asked how they might pray more effectively for those directly involved. One obvious way is to intercede for the Lebanese Christians mentioned above who are suffering due to the conflict. Another is to pray for the young IDF believers who have been sent into the battlefield, along with all Israeli soldiers serving in the line of fire. A list of the believer’s names is below (some had requested that only their first names be released). I personally know many of these fine people, along with their parents.



                    David Boskey, Daniel Boskey, Naphtali Greenburg, Stefan Silver, Joel Golden, Elisha Ben Haim, Assi, Gil, Alon Williams, Reuven Miller
                    Daniel Miller, Yossi Schweig, Rami Morrison, Shmuel, Eli Abramov, Dima Mazurovsky, Yigal Gittelman, Kolya Rybin, Fyodr, Joshua Meyers, Herman Haustein, Gidon Harverson.



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                    DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1980. His new DVD, titled “FOR ZIONS’S SAKE—REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF THE BIBLE,” is now available on both PAL and NTCS versions. Details are posted at his web site, www.ddolan.com

                    HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Broadman & Holman), his latest book, is an overview of the history of the Israel and of the bitter Arab-Israeli conflict that rages there, plus some autobiographical details about the author’s experiences living in the land since 1980. It especially examines the important role that militant Islam plays in the conflict.

                    ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? (Baker/Revell), which examines the political and biblical prospects for a regional attack upon Israel, settlement in the disputed territories, and related topics, is also available for purchase, along with an updated edition of his end-time novel, THE END OF DAYS (21st Century Press).
                    You may order these books at a special discount price by visiting his web site at www.ddolan.com, or by phoning 888-890-6938 toll free in North America, or by e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org

                    TO RECEIVE THESE FREE ISRAEL UPDATES DIRECTLY, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE DAVID DOLAN'S UPDATE AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM THIS ADDRESS. THE LIST WILL NOT BE TRADED OR SOLD.

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                    • #55
                      Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                      I wonder in the midst of the fighting whether Israeli are listening and returning to their Yeshua the Messsiah? Are there reports of revival because of the conflicts looming large over Israel?

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                      • #56
                        Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                        I've not heard of that although I know God does have a way of working in the midst of tragedy and fear such as what they are experiencing over there.

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                        • #57
                          Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                          I’m a little concerned as I’ve not heard from David Dolan yet today – it’s much later than usual. I hope/pray he is safe.

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                          • #58
                            Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                            Lifting David up in prayer.

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                            • #59
                              Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                              Originally posted by Andy
                              I’m a little concerned as I’ve not heard from David Dolan yet today – it’s much later than usual. I hope/pray he is safe.
                              He did say that his internet provider was having technical problems due to the events in the north - so it may just be a case of a server that is down?

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                              • #60
                                Re: Mideast Crisis: By David Dolan

                                Originally posted by TomT
                                He did say that his internet provider was having technical problems due to the events in the north - so it may just be a case of a server that is down?
                                I am able to ping his server/ISP with less than 22ms responses - very acceptable responses. I don't think that's it.

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