“I am Yahweh; that is My Name! I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)
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The Jerusalem Post—IDF: We Will ‘Respond with Force’ to Threats From Palestinian Islamic Jihad:
“For every Islamic Jihad response, wherever it is, Israel will respond with force and determination, not only to the Jihad but also to Hamas as well,” Major General Yoav Mordechai said.
Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Major Gen. Yoav (Poli) Mordechai issued a stern warning to Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Saturday, warning that the organization is “playing with fire” in challenging Israel.
In a YouTube video published by COGAT, Mordechai recounted, in Arabic, that Israel blew up a PIJ-owned terror tunnel two weeks ago and cautioned, “We are aware of the plot being waged by Palestinian Islamic Jihad against Israel. They are playing with fire with the residents of the Gaza Strip and at the expense of Palestinian reconciliation and the entire region.”
In October, Hamas and Fatah announced they had reached a deal for Palestinian reconciliation, including the handing over of the Rafah border crossing to a unified government at the beginning of November and full administrative control of the Gaza Strip to a unified government by December 1. The deal, announced in Cairo, was brokered by Egyptian authorities and signed exclusively by Hamas and Fatah, failing to include the PIJ, a small yet active group in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2008, when it forcibly ousted the Palestinian Authority from the area.
On October 30th, the IDF blew up a terror tunnel via a series of air strikes near the border of the Gaza Strip, an act the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed killed 12 members of the militant group.
The tunnel ran from the southern town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip to approximately two kilometers from the Israeli border community of Kissufim.
The PIJ was formed in 1981 with large funding from the Iranian government and its military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, and remains active in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The group has been classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, among other countries.
“So that it is clear: for every Islamic Jihad response, wherever it is, Israel will respond with force and determination, not only to the jihad but to Hamas as well,” Mordechai continued. “We advise the leadership of the Islamic State in Damascus to exercise caution.”
Mordechai also specifically issued a warning to the heads of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Shallah and Ziad Nahaleh, holding them responsible for future actions taken against Israel.
Shallah was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2006 for conspiracies to commit terrorism.
“The Palestinian Islamic State headquarters in Damascus and leaders of the organization– Ramadan Shallah and Ziad Nahaleh – take matters quickly into your own hands, because you are the ones who will bear responsibility,” he cautioned.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
You can rest assured that this magnanimous gesture from Israel, a fair warning, fell on deaf ears.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
This is a video of the funeral of the Palestinians who were killed inside the terror tunnel when Israel blew it up. The deceased are heroes to the Palestinian street.
This speaks volumes about their desire for peace.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
