Getting to the Truth: ‘Breaking the Silence’ vs. ‘Soldiers Speak Out’ on Cast Lead

‘Breaking the Silence’ vs. ‘Soldiers Speak Out’ on Cast Lead

Posted by elyakatz on July 19, 2009

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by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) A new controversy has broken out over the three-week Cast Lead counter-terror operation that the IDF waged in Gaza earlier this year. Two organizations have come out with video testimony from IDF soldiers reporting what they saw and heard during the intense fighting.

The first group, Soldiers Speak Out, has collected several testimonies in English in which soldiers recall witnessing war crimes perpetrated by Hamas. One describes finding rocket launchers in an ambulance whose drivers claimed to be transporting an elderly patient.

Others list the measures they took to protect Arab civilians, from withholding fire on terrorists to tidying up civilian homes after entering them for combat purposes.

The second group, Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika), has collected several testimonies of soldiers saying they saw soldiers causing damage to Arab property, or heard rumors that Arab civilians were used as human shields. Unlike the Soldiers Speak Out videos, the charges set forth by Breaking the Silence were widely reported by international media outlets, including the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, CNN and The Guardian.

While Soldiers Speak Out testimonies were given by soldiers who used their full names and identified themselves, the Breaking the Silence videos were given anonymously, and soldiers’ faces were blurred.

In March of this year, several major Israeli and international media outlets published testimony from IDF soldiers claiming that the army had committed war crimes in Gaza. Subsequent investigations showed that the reports were based on rumors and media reports, and that none of the soldiers who made serious allegations regarding harm to Arab civilians had witnessed any such incidents themselves.

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What exactly is the “Trinity”? Is it a core belief of Christianity?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: What exactly is the “Trinity”? Is it a core belief of Christianity?

Jesus said, I pray Father that they may know me and know you and I am in you and you in me and I pray they may be in us.

Trinity is a way of explaining what God is in relationship to Father, Son and Spirit.

As far as God is concerned, he said I am and left it at that.
The rest for "core" you can read I John and figure it out from there.........

Michael James Stone

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Who is the Word of God before becoming flesh, and who are the prophets calling the Lord of Host in the Old Testament?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: Who is the Word of God before becoming flesh, and who are the prophets calling the Lord of Host in the Old Testament? Who in the old Testament is Lord and who is the Lord of Host; and who is yhwh (Jehovah) the Lord God the Father or the Lord of host, the Word of God, the second person of the trinity. My dad is having me ask this question we are trying to get him saved from? Please help my mom and I God bless you.

Yud Hey Vav Hey>>>YhVh is the Name of God. God is called God. When a circumstance comes up in the Old testament that it says YhVh and We know it is the Messiah, we have to conclude it is God.

Jesus Did that.

In a simple way, it is easier to let a person read what Jesus wrote, like in Matthew, then explain theology and how to prove something that is going to cause the person to disagree and argue.

When a person 'Reads" on thier own waht Jesus said,

Its REALLY hard to argue.

Michael James Stone

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I cried when I sung at Church, why?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: I cried when I sung at Church, why? (Age: 17) I haven’t been to Church in months. So today I went. And when I was singing a song, I started to cry. I don’t know why. I just started to cry while I sang. I just felt the tears coming, and something inside me wanted to explode, as if I had so much to say and apologize for.

Is this normal?

Why do you think I cried?

Thanks.

Well all have emotions. God created them. God gave them. God designed for

all of us to have all the emotions we experience. A full spectrum of them.

He made us that way.

Why we cry isn't as important as the fact we can cry. As long as you can cry, for whatever reason, God can and does use the honesty of our emotions to get our attention. When he has our attention, he can touch the emotions and empower a way to heal damaged emotions and soul filled scars.

When we cannot be true to what we are feeling, than we are lying to ourselves and to God.

He will leave us to that lie till we are real enough to be sincere in our responses. When are real.....so is God.

Michael James Stone

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Is it just about believing that Jesus died for our sins or do we also need to have a relationship with him?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: Is it just about believing that Jesus died for our sins or do we also need to have a relationship with him? I believe he died for my sins but I don’t have the kind of relationship with God that I often hear people talk about. Basically I’m asking what do I need to do to be saved.

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Everyone that is anyone will tell you there is more and apply lots of criteria to what their personal faith is on this issue, but the bible includes many instances that cause most to realize:

IT REALLY IS UP TO GOD.

We can say we know, and pretend or contend for the faith, but when you get there, if your in Hell...............

WHOOOPS

What good was the argument?

Jesus Came for that reason. He said everyone was so bickering and arguing that if anyone did do as everyone wanted them to do, they still could not get into heaven because GOD his Father was the one Who decides.

Your Father in Heaven decides. You get to find out that decision one of two ways.
Personally or Impersonally.

You can ask Him and keep asking till you get an answer, or follow the plans most will tell you as the Gospel and get an answer from Jesus as to your state.

Since God gave His Son to die for me, I like that option. If I have to go by Man's ideas, I can, and it is a long road round about, but a walk about you might need to figure it out. God has a destiny for you, since he created you.

You will choose to either ignore it or do it and the only real way to be sure is to find out what that is and do it.

Reading the Bible helps, talking to God is great, going to church can be good. But if it is that important I would do all the research I could, because if you get into court one day, you find a judge in a traffic court, or a court of law, does not care IF you know you broke any laws. He will judge you anyways.

Me I want to get on the judges good side, because usually, in traffic court, I am more than guilty....,

If I have a relationship with the judge, in some way, I can at least "hope" he will have mercy.

A person who asks to be saved is like the man dying on the cross next to Jesus, You are guilty, but if you at least, at the very least Seeking the Lord....You shall be saved.


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