ISRAEL UPDATE

 January 7, 2007 – Saddam Hussein’s brutal legacy came to an end as he was executed after due process of the Iraqi legal system.

 If we calculate the estimated totals of Iraqi Kurds, Shias and other victims most analysts put the total number of dead under Hussein’s reign at 2 million people.  Yet the primary focus of this trial, judgment and execution were the 149 Shia killed in 1982 after Hussein’s motorcade came under fire as it passed by their village.

 Since the new democratic government of Iraq is so pro Shia it looks like these specific 149 take precedence over the other 2 million human beings rather than the collective atrocities of say Nazi Germany.

 After 16 years, two wars, thousands of dead and wounded, untold financial havoc and sectarian violence between Iraqi factions, in actual benefit does Hussein’s execution really mean anything?

 What is the next step for coalition forces if we are to remove dictators and establish democracies there are how many Middle Eastern Rulers that are by definition targets?

 With warring nations such as Syria and Iran, nations that threaten world security such as North Korea or nations like Saudi Arabia that finance and promote war, the question must be asked, which national leader must fall next?

 Should the L-rd tarry, at the rate it took to eliminate the threat of Suddam Hussein, it will take at least 600 years to topple the rest but the world does not have that kind of time.

 

 January 7, 2007 – It is time to collect business expenses, automobile repair, 401K donations, mortgage interests, tax deductible donations and all of the other items needed to be ready for tax day just four and ½ months from now.

 I recently read of a corporate executive that received a 54 million plus dollar Christmas bonus, boy what a stocking stuffer, taxes or not!

 For the year 2006 the European Union poured 600 million Euros into the doffers of the Newly established Palestinian terror state in Gaza and Iran was generous enough to donate 200 million to the same cause.

 One New Age group once reported that it had more money than it needed and was looking for alternative sources to distribute it to.

 The end of one year and the beginning of a new one should cause the believers to reflect on how much less time we have to contribute to G-d’s work and if we should increase.

 Watching how much money people in our nation spend on sports and entertainment makes me pause and reflect that as individuals, as a nation and the world at large is pouring untold amounts of money into temporal, fleeting things that have no eternal value.

 Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be,” Matt 6:21.   May this be a year of intensified giving to G-d’s work where it matters.

 

To be continued…