Esau's Porridge: Puppies & Snakes~Tamar Yonah

Puppies & Snakes

by Tamar Yonah

Av 16, 5769, 8/6/2009

I walked into the back room and my two older kids were watching the news. "Ima, (mother) look at this news report."

I stopped what I was doing and stood to watch a clip that Israel's channel 10 news showed of a Lebanese military training camp. They showed the usual 'tough guys' in camouflage uniform running through obstacle courses and looking macho. Then they showed how youth were coming there after school to train as well. They were way underage; some looked like they were only 13 years old. The kicker here is what the young men did next to show how tough they were to the others.

As they were lined up, a big box was brought out and opened up in front of them. Inside the box were live, slithering snakes. One of the head soldiers there bent down and pulled out the snakes, handing them to the other 'youth' there, and holding them in tow, almost on cue, they all brought their faces down to the snakes and took bites out of them and ate them while they were still alive.

Don't believe me? Watch this (shorter version) video, but I am warning you, it is graphic.

These are the enemies Israel has to contend with. And the interesting thing here, is that Lebanon is considered to be one of the more 'moderate' Arab countries.

Can you imagine what the more intolerant Arab countries do????

I remember years ago watching another news report showing how – I think it was kids from the Palestinian Authority- were all lined up in a court yard in different rows. They were kids, I'd say between 7 and 10 years old. My memory is foggy, because it was so awful, I didn't want to remember. But what I recall is the news showing these kids – also in some type of uniform, boys, and girls, but in separate sections, holding the cutest little puppy dogs. They must not have been more than a couple of months old, if that. Now, if I remember, these kids were given these puppies to care for, play with, feed, etc… After a month or so, at their (graduation?) ceremony from their military training, they came with their little puppies that they playfully held, and at a count and then an order from their leader, were instructed to either break the puppies' necks, or to strangle them. Either way, the result was the same. I recall something about them chanting in Arabic, ""This little dog is like a Jew. This is what I do to Jewish dogs." And then, hands around the neck, they twisted it and broke the neck or strangled them. I don't remember, I don't want to remember.

What does it take to get a kid attached to a cute little puppy, and then order them to kill them with their own hands? Did they give names to their puppies? These 'people', the International community tells us, are supposed to be our peace partners. These are the 'moderates': Lebanon and our 'Palestinian Peace Partners'.

How should Israel respond when these are the enemies she has to contend with?

Who's the puppy and who's the snake?

Tehran prepares to declare three detained Americans "Israeli spies"

OOPS....,They may be right....,

I hate to say it..., but this is more than a lark of some college preppies doing a backpack hike especially since Israel does have operatives in Iran and does use "distant" connected persons through a system of blinds to co-opt intelligence.

US Intel went High Tech with less Operatives, and Clinton has Upgraded State to incorporate more "secretaries" specializrd in certain countries, but all nations use free lancers and buy Intel.

This may be the case here....,

Tehran prepares to declare three detained Americans "Israeli spies"

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 6, 2009, 10:20 PM (GMT+02:00)

On Aug. 5, the day of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration as president, Tehran officials said they could not confirm or deny Iran was holding three American journalists detained on July 31 while crossing from Iraq into Iran on the Kurdistan border.

According to DEBKAfile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing to claim the three captives, Jewish Americans, are Israeli spies, arousing fears in Washington and Tehran that the newly elected president plans to use his captives as a stick to humiliate the Obama administration and force an apology for the way it treated him.

Ahmadinejad is furious over the White House's refusal to congratulate him on his reelection, although Washington did say that the US recognizes him as the president of Iran.

He is plotting to use the three Americans to provoke a new crisis between his government and Washington. Mustafa Najr will therefore not be reappointed defense minister but interior minister instead so as to put a hardliner in charge of the American detainees.

To turn the screw, Tehran will spread a thick smoke screen over their fate after which they will be accused of having been assigned by Israeli and US intelligence to spy on Iran.

They are identified as Shane Bauer from California, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation and New American Media,

his partner Sarah Short, age 30 from California, who writes for “Matador”,

and Joshua Steel Petel, age 27 from Oregon, who attended a New York yeshiva and writes for Jewish Week.

The Petel family have their origins in Iraq, and Joshuah told his friends he was going on a roots tour of places from which his family emigrated to the US.

Our Washington sources report that in discussions held over the past few days at the State Department and the National Security Council, an estimate was formed that the capture of the three American journalists by Iran is nothing like the case of the two American journalists Euyna Lee and Laura Ling, whose release Bill Clinton obtained on a mission to North Korea this week.

No high-ranking American figure would have a chance of a welcome in Tehran such as the US former president received in Pyongyang.

The Iranians will instead demand an exorbitant diplomatic price for the three Americans' freedom, which the US will not want to pay.

If the affair is not handled carefully, US diplomatic sources warn, it has the potential of deteriorating very quickly into Obama's "Irangate" - a repeat of the 1985 episode which bedeviled the Reagan administration for many months after the US and Israel were found sending a high-ranking delegation to Tehran with an offer of weapons in return for the release of US hostages abducted by the Hizballah in Lebanon.

Tehran may well involve Hizballah this time too, adding the Lebanese Shiite organization's demands from Israel on top of its own.

Assemblies of God Elects First Female Leader

By Audrey Barrick

Christian Post Reporter

Thu, Aug. 06 2009 12:20 PM EDT

The Assemblies of God elected its first woman to the Executive Presbytery during its biennial meeting on Wednesday.

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"It's a wonderful moment for the church to recognize God lays his hand on women and say they bring something to the table," the Rev. Beth Grant, who was elected on the second electoral ballot, told The Ledger.

Thousands of ministers and delegates at the 53rd General Council in Orlando, Fla., greeted Grant's election with a standing ovation.

Grant, a missionary in India and coordinator of the Women in Ministry Network, addressed the crowd saying, "We as a movement are who we are because women went to the ends of the earth with nothing more than the call of God. We are here today and we in this vote are saying thank you God for the women in our Movement."

Two years ago, the General Council of the nearly 3 million-member Pentecostal denomination approved a resolution to add two executive presbyter positions for an ordained woman and an ordained pastor under the age of 40.

Although women have been allowed to serve in pastoral roles for decades, female ministers have never taken a seat in the denomination's top leadership.

Even before being elected to the second highest policy-making body, Grant made some history at the previous General Council in 2007 when she advanced to the final rounds of balloting for assistant general superintendent.

She told The Ledger that the executive leadership of the Assemblies of God really believes women in leadership is biblical.

"The call of God is not a gender issue, it's an obedience issue," she told the Lakeland, Fla., newspaper. "Being female is not excuse for not fulfilling God's purpose for your life."

In her brief address at the General Council, Grant declared it time for men and women together to say "Yes, God, we are going to work together for the glory of God and for His mission in our world."

She asked for prayers, noting her new role is unchartered territory.

In other business Wednesday night, R. Bryan Jarrett, pastor of North Place Church in Sachse, Texas, was elected the under 40 years old executive presbyter.

George O. Wood was re-elected as general superintendent of the denomination.

"God has a great future for this Church until Jesus comes. I’m just exceedingly blessed beyond measure to have this opportunity to serve you," Wood said.