The Scriptorium

The media and the terrorist supporters on the left are nuts if they think there can be any meaningful ceasefire in the Middle East. The Quran itself instructs Muslims to use treaties and ceasefire agreements as a time to prepare for war. Hezbollah has been doing just that for years, and they’re not about to stop fighting as long as the “world community” will defend them and there are any of them still alive to sacrifice themselves for Allah.

A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party sent a letter to hundreds of Fatah members today asking them to prepare for an “escalated battle” against Israel while the Jewish state continues its military campaign in Lebanon, WND has learned.

The letter, written by Bani al-Hassan, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee and a former Fatah Interior Minister, also was sent to members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group, the declared “military wing” of Abbas’ party.

“You the fighters are the new generation that will bring us victory over Israel,” Hassan wrote in the letter, which was obtained by WND from a Fatah official.

Syria and Iran won’t sit by and miss out on their chance at paradise either. It looks more and more each day like this could be the beginning of a fulfillment of prophecy. If the war escalates and Russia continues to help the Arabs (especially if they participate in a “peace keeping” force), all the players will be in place for the war of Gog and Magog that is to take place before the tribulation. The good news is, the good guys win.

I have to question Olmert’s sanity when he makes comments like this. While rockets are killing civilians and reaching farther into Israeli cities, terrorists are using Gaza as a base from which to kill Jews, and Muslims make daily threats to destroy the nation of Israel, Olmert is already bragging that the war in Lebanon will pave the way for more land give-aways. The terrorists launch attacks and kill Jews, and the left rewards them with the very thing they are fighting and killing for. How encouraging it must be to the cowards in Lebanon to hear that their campaign of terror is already paying off. Why stop doing what continues to work so well?

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’ s declaration Wednesday that the war in Lebanon will create new momentum for further West Bank pullouts was met by a harsh response on the part of right-wing parliamentarians as well as members of the PM’s own Kadima party.

“The backing Olmert received (for the war) went to his head,” Knesset Member Zvi Hendel (National Union) said in response to Olmert’s comments, which seemed to stun rightist Knesset members. “How many missiles and rockets need to fall on the North and South in order for Olmert to understand that state security cannot be achieved through bragging…and splitting the nation?”

The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip (Yesha), meanwhile, said in a statement that “the continuation of the blind rush to realignment provides terrorism with a backwind and encourages Nasrallah to continue until all his objectives are achieved. It appears Olmert is interested in breaking up the consensus around the war, while this tough time calls for finding the common denominator.”

Hezbollah launched a record number of rockets into Israeli towns last night, reaching as far as the West Bank for the first time. A million Jews are now living in bomb shelters in Israel now, and the media is still asking when Israel is going to agree to a cease fire. It’s rare to hear any of the them acknowledge that Hezbollah will never agree to stop killing Jews. To the liberals in the MSM, it’s perfectly reasonable to demand that Israel stand down and live with rockets raining down on their civilian population centers. They only have a problem with civilian deaths when Muslims (terrorist or civilian – what’s the difference?) die in an Israeli attack. It’s the most sickening display of anti-semitism I’ve seen in a while.

Israel pressed the first full day of a massive new ground attack, sending 8,000 troops into southern Lebanon on Wednesday and seizing five people it said were Hezbollah fighters in a dramatic airborne raid on a northeastern town. Hezbollah retaliated with its deepest strikes yet into Israel, firing a record number of more than 160 rockets.

Diplomatic efforts faltered, with France saying it will not participate in a Thursday U.N. meeting that could send troops to help monitor a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. France, which may join or even lead such a force, said it does not want to talk about sending peacekeepers until fighting halts and the U.N. Security Council agrees to a wider framework for lasting peace.

Why does it not surprise me that France won’t participate in a peace keeping force until there’s been a complete cessation of fighting?