Subscribe to TNS Weekly Report by e-mail! Weekly News of Faith in Israel Week ending Shabbat, November 04, 2006 13 Cheshvan, 5767 Canadian FM: We Will Stand By Israel Last weekend Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay spoke at a gala event in Montreal organized to honor the Canadian-Jewish businessman Ralph Ben-Atar and said that the Israel-Canada relationship is based on mutual friendship and any threat to the security of Israel is also a threat to the security of Canada. He also stated that the Canadian government is not planning to "sit on the fence" in reference to international issues, and especially for those issues involving the Middle East. According to MacKay, the policies of Prime Minister Harper are driven by sticking to the values of justice and fairness. He also added that the Israeli-Canadian relationship is based on a mutual friendship and shared values, and that is how it will stay. In international relations, he added, there is a need to be determined and responsible. The message to our friends is that Canada is standing behind its obligations. MacKay rejected the criticism of Canada's "deviation from neutrality" when Canada supported Israel during the war. "Israel is a sovereign state which does not need authorization from anyone to exist or to protect its citizens. All we asked is that Israel do everything it can to prevent hurting civilians. There is no room for neutrality here. Things are clear. Hizballah is the one who attacked Israel," said MacKay. He also addressed the "Palestinian" issue and said that it is the right of the Palestinian people to live peacefully alongside Israel. MacKay went on to say, "Hamas is a terrorist organization by Canadian law and therefore there is no reason to give it assistance. As long a Hamas does not change, the Canadian policy will not change. Canada is a supporter of democratic moves, but will not accept an elected government who supports terrorism." Five Terrorists Captured Last Sunday evening a major terror plot was foiled after security forces spent hours conducting car-to-car searches for a bomber over many miles between Caesarea and Wadi Ara. Traffic was jammed all along the major traffic artery for almost six hours. Israeli police finally reported that they had arrested five suspects, four "Palestinians" and one Israeli Arab, along with a car carrying explosives. Police safely detonated the explosives in the car. Due to security concerns the police did not release any further details about the plot or the suspects. 20-year-old Arab Woman Indicted for Terror Attempt On Sunday a 20-year-old female from the Arab-Israeli town of Tira was indicted for allegedly planning an attack in the Spaghetim restaurant in Ra'anana as a part of a terror cell established by a Kalkilya resident in May of 2006. The indictment accuses Wurood Kassem of conspiring to aid the enemy in time of war, contact with a foreign agent, illegally carrying a weapon, and membership in a terrorist group. As identified in the indictment, she had received instructions from Kalkilya resident Bassal Hamad, who had decided to establish a terror cell of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade with the purpose of carrying out attacks against IDF soldiers, Israeli civilian targets, and against "Palestinians" suspected of collaborating with Israel. The indictment indicated that Kassem was asked to deliver a bomb in her vehicle from the "West Bank" into Israel and to hand it to her cousin, Mahmed Bubli of Shechem. Bubli was residing illegally in Israel, and at one time worked in the targeted restaurant. She had also been recruited for the purpose of transferring weapons from Israel into the "West Bank". "Save Yesha" Movement Founded Monday night the founding session of the new group named Meginei Eretz (Defenders of the Land) was held in Beit El. It was led by Attorney Elyakim HaEtzni of Kiryat Arba, Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Yitzik Shadmi of Halamish, and others. Close to 100 people from all over Yesha (Judea and Samaria) attended the meeting. Some of those attending were Dr. Gideon Ehrlich of Bar Ilan University, Kedumim Deputy Mayor Esther Karish, Nadia Matar of Women in Green, Beit El Mayor Moshe Rosenbaum, Rabbi Avraham Shreiber of the former Gush Katif community Kfar Darom, and a number of young outpost leaders. "No one is happy about starting new organizations," said HaEtzni [pictured, left, with Moshe Leshem], "but this one comes to meet a critical need for our very existence. The Yesha Council [of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria] has done wonderful things, and its leaders have dedicated their lives to Yesha, but they have left the settlement enterprise open and vulnerable at a critically dangerous point that endangers our very existence. By announcing in advance that they accept the 'majority decision,' even if that decision is to do to us what they did to Gush Katif, they have neutralized our ability to defend ourselves." Lieutenant-Colonel Shadmi elaborated on this point: "We refuse to adopt this defeatist policy. If they come to expel us, we will not attack soldiers or police, but neither will we go quietly. They will have to use a lot of force against us, and we will be willing to go to jail... Soldiers must be willing to say openly, on the day they enlist, that they want to serve their country in the best way possible but they will refuse any orders having to do with expelling Jews. If 2,000 soldiers say that, it will cause a change in the whole country." Former Knesset Member HaEtzni continued: "We want to help the Prime Minister tell the U.S. President, 'I would like to evacuate the communities and/or outposts, but I just can't; the army won't cooperate, and the people won't go peacefully, and there are just too many people who say they believe in the Bible. "The plan to remove Jews from Judea and Samaria is a four-fold crime. It is a crime against the Jewish religion, a crime against the concept of Jewish settlement of the Land of Israel, a crime against the State of Israel, in that it endangers the entire country, and a crime against humanity - as ethnic cleansing is generally considered. "The absurdity is that the Yesha Council itself threatens that if a compromise is not agreed upon, the case of Amona [where hundreds of youths protesting the destruction of nine Jewish houses were injured by police violence] will repeat itself... Our new organization is coming to fill the void that was created by the Yesha Council's hanging everything on the narrow shoulders of the girls in Amona." The Meginei Eretz plan is to recruit residents from all over Yesha, have them form task forces in each of their communities, and "organize those who believe that in this war it is permissible to block roads, to resist, to tell soldiers to refuse, and to employ civil disobedience." Tel Aviv Hospital Among the Best Worldwide Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv ranked seventh in the "world leaders" top 10 foreign hospital list assembled in the Newsweek magazine's recent edition. "Sourasky is one of the leading centers for treatment of patients suffering paralysis of the face as a result of neurological disorders, which often leave the corners of the mouth frozen," Newsweek said. Sourasky is part of the Tel Aviv Medical Center and also has superior standing in cardiology and other fields among international hospitals. Homosexhibitionist Parade May Not Happen In an effort to avoid violence the Israeli High Court has been asked to order the cancellation of the homosexual exhibitionist march, which has resulted in some of the apparent supporters of the parade vandalized a synagogue in Tel Aviv. Worshipers at the Geulat Yisrael synagogue in central Tel Aviv arrived Thursday morning to find broken windows and this message on one of the walls: "If we don't march in Jerusalem, you won't walk in Tel Aviv." Israeli police have begun an investigation. Former Neturei Karta member Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, who now heads the Zaka emergency rescue and recovery organization, has filed a suit with the Supreme Court against the parade. The suit demands that the march be called off in order not to endanger the public. "Already today the hospitals are preparing, police won't be allowed to go on vacations, thousands of security force personnel are being enlisted, there is tension, disturbances and demonstrations - and there's no reason for this whole mess." When asked why he is taking action against the homosexuals and not those who threaten violence against them, Meshi-Zahav said, "The marchers have the alternative of marching somewhere else, but the opponents of the parade have no alternatives." As others before him, Meshi-Zahav cites the ban on Jews entering the Temple Mount most of the year because of a fear of Arab violence. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, of the Almagor Terror Victims Association, said that if the police do not cancel the parade but rather provide increased protection, "I will petition the Supreme Court to allow and protect Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, despite the threats of Arab violence that will result." Similar homosexual marches in Israel and around the world have not limited themselves to dignified calls for equal rights, but included also exhibitionist men and women in various states of undress. "What may be acceptable in Scandinavia or Amsterdam has no place in the Holy Land," say both Jewish and Moslem leaders. Pro-Arab and anti-Israel messages are often promulgated at these marches as well. PA Terrorists Use Female Shields Against IDF Friday morning Arab women in northern Gaza were urged in a radio broadcast to go to a mosque in Beit Hanoun to serve as 'human shields' for gunmen who were being held up in the Muslim religious building surrounded by Israeli Defense Force soldiers. According to military sources a number of Arab terrorists who were wanted for Kassam rocket attacks had taken refuge in the mosque, which was also used as a storehouse for weapons and other materials. The women rushed to the building despite the exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and IDF soldiers. Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene. A similar scene occured also on Friday when Israeli special forces surrounded a house in Bethlehem and ordered the terrorists to surrender. The armed Arabs opened fire and in an ensuing shootout, one soldier was wounded by a ricocheted bullet. Two IDF companies provided backup for the front unit. Arab sources say that one woman was killed in the gunfire, but the IDF spokesman said that it could not confirm that its soldiers had hit any bystanders. Mosque Roof Collapses on Terrorists Also on Friday the roof of a mosque in Beit Hanoun collapsed on some sixty terrorists who were hiding in the building since late Thursday night. An IDF spokesman said was being used as a storehouse for ammunition and weapons. Exchanges of fire began at the mosque after the terrorists inside opened fire. Speaking on Army Radio Friday morning, Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said, "There will be no safe haven for terrorists. These are not girls from a dormitory in the mosque. They are the people firing the rockets. They are the enemy." All of these actions are in response to recent extensive Kassam rocket attacks from "Palestinian" terrorists in Gaza. Tour Israel for Hanukkah It's still not too late to join us as we explore Israel from a genuine Biblical Zionists perspective. Meet the people who are continuing the Biblical narrative in the Land today. See for yourself how ancient prophesies are being fulfilled. Discover how you too can participate in the ongoing process of Biblical Redemption. Join us for an opportunity of a lifetime, to see the real Israel from the viewpoint of those who are living the Bible today. The experience will change your life. The tour has been coordinated and will be guided by Associate Pastor Jon Klein [pictured left]. More information | Questions Tzemach News Service [TNS] is a ministry of: Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies This week's sources: Arutz Sheva, B'Sheva, Israel National News, Israel Today, Newsweek magazine, UK.news.yahoo.com, Ynet News.