For Zion’s sake I will not be silent for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be still. Isaiah 62:1

AISH.com has posted a video that asks a very critical question regarding our relationship with the Lord.  ”Charlie Harary Film- Rosh Hashana: What’s Love Got to Do with It?  A surprising way to prepare for the High Holidays”  View below or at the AISH website

As a Christian who is in support of Israel  the above asks and answers a good question about the purpose of the Jewish month of Elul.

We should always keep our relationship with G-d foremost in our daily lives and actions.  John J. Parsons of Hebrew for Christians has written a short devotion which might be of interest: “Turning Back to God – An Elul Meditation“.

View a worship song via  CalvaryAurora ’s channel at YouTube “Calvary Aurora Worship – I Love Your Presence“, led by Ian Dizon.  View below

For Zion’s sake I will not be silent for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be still. Isaiah 62:1

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isa 62:6-7)

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Ryan Mauro of World Threats and NewsRealBlog was recently interviewed by OyVaGoy’s Chas Newkey-Burden about his thoughts about his recent visit to Israel, via mytrip channel at YouTube:  ”Ryan on the last day.avi“.  The trip was sponsored by Stand With Us.  View the video below:

and via oyvagoy channel at Youtube:  ”Jerusalem Post interview“

via mytrip channel at YouTube ” Dan at the Western Wall – August 4th“

From the Notes:

“Dan repeatedly voiced his impressions of the area, which holds personal significance to him as a Christian who grew up learning about it. “When I was younger in Sunday school, my mom taught me about Jesus in the market. I can’t believe it was here… wow, wow… this is emotional, profound.”

Some of the bloggers mentioned that they had been unaware that non-Muslims were permitted to visit the site. Reacting to the rule that Jews, while allowed to physically visit the site, are forbidden from practicing any Jewish ritual there, Dan said, “if it’s holy for the Muslims and holy for the Jews, why are Jews not allowed [to pray there]?” He added that “coming from the West, you have very little knowledge of what’s going on [in Israel] and there’s so much misinformation. And then you come here and discover it’s completely different.” View video below

More about their trip may be found at:

• OyVaGoy Let’s Talk About Food, Baby
• mytrip channel at YouTube
• NewsRealBlog Ryan Mauro’s Last Day in Israel: I Stand With Israel
• Shanghai Exposed “Lansing to Shanghai to Jerusalem – Dome Magazine Column“
• Stand With Us A Once in a Lifetime Journey by KKL-JNF.  The article posted said in part

“At the beginning of August, a group of world renowned bloggers landed in Israel. They were part of the Once in a Lifetime – 2010 project, the goal of which was to allow them to see and experience daily life in Israel, and then present their impressions to their readers

The project is an initiative of 24 students from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who are members of StandWithUs, a fellowship that selects and trains 150 student leaders from six Israeli universities to become life-long ambassadors for Israel. As part of the project, an international competition was held on YouTube that challenged young people to submit a one-minute video on YouTube explaining why they should win the all-expenses paid trip to Israel. The competition was won by Ryan Mauro, an American student studying for his master’s degree in Political Science, coincidentally also a blogger. Ryan joined three other internationally acclaimed bloggers who were chosen to participate in the project – Dan Redford from the USA, Sun Jinyi from China, and Chas Newkey-Burden from Great Britain, all of whom have audiences of between thirty to forty thousand viewers.

The group spent ten days in Israel, during which they became acquainted with different aspects of the country by visiting historical sites and sites related to Jewish heritage such as the Western Wall, Massada and Yad Vashem. They also visited the village of Abu Ghosh, where they learned about coexistence, along with tension spots such as the Security Fence. The group also stayed in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where they experienced Israel’s nightlife, art and culture. The bloggers were also invited to the Knesset, where they met some of Israel’s foremost lawmakers.

Ryan Mauro: “This experience will impact my life very powerfully, since I chose to dedicate my life and career to issues that are very important to Israel – democracy and human rights, among others. When I get back, I’ll have new stories, facts and experiences to share, and the way I relate to various issues has been powerfully affected.”….  Read the whole thing

• View Sun Jinyi from China’s blog (although in Chinese, there are beautiful photos)   http://blog.sina.com.cn/sunjinyi824 . View her video profile at mytrip channel at YouTube
• World Threats Oy Va Goy blog interviews Ryan Mauro in Israel & Ryan Mauro and fellow bloggers in Israel on Jerusalem Post TV

With thanks to the blogs OyVaGoy, NewsRealBlog, Shanghai Exposed,  Stand With Us, Sun Jinyi from China’s blog, and World Threats

GiladGreetings.org and Vimeo have posted on their websites a  short song  - “Greetings For Gilad“, noting that

“This video contains original lyrics and music and was written to motivate people of all faiths around the world to express solidarity with Gilad Shalit”  View the video at the GiladGreetings website or at Vimeo.

Read further about this outreach at the website which includes a message there from Elie Weisel, and  send a message of support to Gilad.

Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents discussed this outreach to send a birthday or a Rosh HaShanah/New Year Greeting to Gilad Shalit on the August 15th Jewish Moments in the Morning program on August 20th with Nachum Segal.  Listen to this program at the website or via MP3 audio.  Discussion about Gilad Shalit begins at about 15:15 minutes.

Update:  via IsraelNationalTV’s channel at Youtube: “190810 kahane” has an interview with Rabbi Nachman Kahane about the 5 year anniversary of the destruction of synagogues in Gush Katif after the ‘disengagement’, a service  held at the Hurva this past week. View video below

Update:  It has now been 5 years since the expulsion from Gush Katif as noted by Jeffy Jacoby in his article in the Jewish World Review: “The ‘disengagement’ disaster, five years on“.  He wrote in part that

“Five years ago this week, the Gaza Strip was forcibly purged of its Jews. In the largest non-combat operation in the history of the Israeli Defense Forces, 50,000 troops were deployed to expel some 9,000 residents and destroy the 21 pioneering communities in which some of them had lived for nearly four decades. (Four communities in northern Samaria on the West Bank were also evacuated.)

The name given to this expulsion by Israel’s government, then headed by Ariel Sharon, was “disengagement.” The name implied, and a majority of Israelis appeared to believe, that by totally withdrawing from Gaza they would no longer be trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with Gaza’s hostile and sometimes violent Arabs”. Read the whole thing as Jacoby looks at the outcome (or fruit)  of the ‘disengagement’.

View a set of videos via the democast channel at YouTube: “Poignant Gush Katif withdrawal from Gaza documentary- Part 1 of 2 (English & Hebrew with subtitles)” which will bring back to memory this sad event.

From the Notes:

“Religious Jews’ lives are uprooted by fellow Jews for Israel’s sacrifice towards Palestinian autonomy (ultimately resulting in increased Palestinian aggression against innocent Israeli civilians), in this emotionally-charged socio-political event from August 2005.”  View Part 1 and Part 2 at the democast website at YouTube.

See some of our previous posts about Gush Katif, the people there and the difficult trauma of people being forced from their homes.  May it never happen again:

2008:

• More Help Needed for the Gush Katif ‘Refugees’ (Expelees)! …Still Waiting …. (Updated)
• Gush Katif – 3 years and still waiting
• Expulsion 2: Preparing the People by Rachel Saperstein

2009

• Remembering … Gush Katif and Netzarim (Updated)
• Gush Katif – Remember and Never Forget (Updated)

2010

• Expulsion from Gush Katif – Adding Insult to Injury
• and Remembering Gush Katif 5 Years Later!

With thanks to democast and Jewish World Review

Via maozisrael’s channel at Vimeo and the MaozIsrael website:  ”Maps of Israel“.

From the Notes:

“This video is a visual depiction of the history of the geography of the land of Israel. It chronicles the boundaries and rulers of the land from 2,100 B.C. through 2,010 A.D. This video is historically accurate and is meant to empower its viewers with factual information”  View below, at Vimeo, or at MaozIsrael’s website.

The Maps of Israel from maozisrael on Vimeo.

“Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth” ( Jeremiah 31:8 )

and …

“LORD God of Israel, hear our prayers for Your People and Your Land, and when You hear from heaven Your dwelling place, we beseech You, perform that good thing which You have promised to the house of Judah; Your word which You are watching over to perform.”  (With thanks to Jerusalem Newswire’s Praying the Word for Israel)

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“Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Holy Mountain…. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness…. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall become times of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah; therefore love truth and peace.” (Zechariah 8;3,7-8,18-19).

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As a result of the recent clash and loss of life at the Israeli border with Lebanon many have begun to ask whether or not it would be wise for the United States to continue to supply arms to Lebanon and other countries in the region.  Network Global News provided such analysis in ”STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT — XXVII“, giving background information about the border incident itself ..

“SHOULD THE U.S. CONTINUE MILITARY SUPPORT TO LEBANON?

When former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed a cease-fire agreement on August 14, 2006, after the Second Lebanon War, UN Security Resolution 1701 was adopted. Most Israelis were skeptical, because they did not believe that Lebanon’s terror group, Hezbollah would abide by the agreement, and they were right.

According to the minutes of the UN meeting that transpired, “the Security Council created a buffer zone free of ‘any armed personnel’ –- both Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops — between the United Nations-drawn Blue Line in southern Lebanon and the Litani River (12 miles from the Israeli border), and called for both Israel and Lebanon to support a permanent ceasefire and comprehensive solution to the crisis.”

The text also emphasized, “the importance of the government of Lebanon extending its control over all Lebanese territory,” and called upon that government, “to secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the entry, without its consent, of arms or related material.” It further decided, “that all States shall take the necessary measures to prevent, ‘by their nationals or from their territories or using their flag vessels or aircraft’, the sale or supply of arms and related material of all types, to any entity or individual in Lebanon.” (www.un.org)

The Power and Influence of Hezbollah

Since then, Iran and Syria have sent truck loads of advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah terrorists, which have been allowed in by the Lebanese government, and ignored by the Lebanese army. Thanks to the Iranians and Syrians, Hezbollah has acquired 40-50,000 short, medium and long-range missiles which can now penetrate into the heart of the Jewish State, potentially hitting major Israeli population centers like Tel Aviv. In addition, Hezbollah has reportedly received Scud missiles from Syria, and the terrorist group is being trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

What Israel had hoped for was that UNIFIL “peacekeepers” assigned to south Lebanon, would keep Hezbollah from building up its forces and military arsenal south of the Litani River. Instead, Hezbollah now has missiles and weapons stored in homes, schools, mosques and hospitals in 160 south Lebanese villages close to the Israeli border. They have at least 200 fighters at the entrances to those villages, and have prepared explosive devices and booby traps for the IDF, in the event of a future war. At least 20-30,000 militia fighters are part of Hezbollah forces today….  Read the whole thing

Other articles and analysis about the border clash below (accumulation of links from the week):

Bridges For Peace Prayer Focus:  

“Pray that the truth of this incident will quickly come to the fore, silencing those that would blame Israel for this outrageous action. Pray that there will be no escalation of violence in the area. Pray for the families of those who lost their lives in this tragic incident.

Scripture:  ”For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is destruction; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue. Pronounce them guilty, O God! Let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You” (Psalm 5:9-10).

• AFP  Lebanese military leaders meet after border clashes with Israel  /  Netanyahu: Israel will Respond Forcefully to Further Attacks   / VIDEO  Hezbollah to strike heart of Israel if Lebanon attacked  Hezbollah is ready to strike the heart of Israel in the event of a new aggression on Lebanon, the party’s deputy chief said on Wednesday, a day after deadly clashes between Lebanese and Israeli troops. In an exclusive AFP interview, Sheikh Naim Qassem said “any aggression on Lebanon” would give the militant group “the complete right to retaliate”.Duration: 01:28 / VIDEO Israel nixes tension after Lebanon clash  1:52 min
• Arutz7  Three Lebanese Soldiers Killed in Clash with IDF  /  Netanyahu to Lebanon, Hamas: ‘Don’t Test Us‘  VIDEO
• AtlasShrugs  Act of War: Hezb’Allah Fires Upon, Kills Israeli Defense Force Soldiers — Calls Media for Cover 
• BBC   Lebanese Army Sniper Kills Israeli Commander in Border “Ambush” /  Israeli troops ‘on own side’ in Lebanon clash, UN says  Israeli troops are continuing to clear trees in co-ordination with Unifil The UN peacekeeping force says Israeli soldiers were operating on their own side of the border when fighting broke out with Lebanese troops on Tuesday.
• Bible Prophecy Today  Nathan Jones  Psalm 83 Averted for Now / Bill Salus  Tensions in Lebanon Hinder Mideast Peace! /  Dr. James M. Hutchens  Tensions Rising in the Mideast  /  Sean Osborne  On the Brink   
• Bridges For Peace  MP3  IDF Attacked by Lebanese Army
• Caroline Glick’s excellent article via Jewish World Review ”Are you aware that HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF TAX-PAYER DOLLARS are going toward training armies that don’t hide their goal of destroying Israel? By Caroline B. Glick  What you need to know about Israel’s American-made foes
• CFR  Defusing Lebanon’s Powder Keg Interviewee:  Mohamad Bazzi, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations  Interviewer:  Deborah Jerome, Deputy Editor, CFR.org
• CICWeb  CIC BACKGROUNDER  The Lebanon Border Clash, August 3
• CNN  Tensions rise as deadly border clash erupts between Israel, Lebanon
• CNSNews  U.N. Backs Israel’s Position on Border Clash, But Israel’s Arab-Islamic Critics Are Not Backing Down / Border Clash Puts Spotlight on US-Backed Lebanese Army’s Stance on Hezbollah
• EU  Statement by High Representative Catherine Ashton on Israel-Lebanon border incident:
• CSIS  U.S. Provided Lebanese Army with Sniper Rifles – Aram Nerguizian and Anthony Cordesman
• Update:  Daled Amos  VIDEO  UNIFIL Video On The Making Of The Blue Line
• David Dolan via Prophecy Today Radio Program:  MP3 Listen to – Middle East News Update  covering the past week’s events, including the Lebanon border clash. And, via an email: 

“Clash With Lebanon:  “Shalom from Ashkelon, I am the coastal Israeli city just north of the Gaza Strip, staying at friend’s home and having a short working break near the sea, mainly doing research and an outline for my new novel.  As I write it is nearly ten at night, and several Israeli Air Force jets are screeching low overhead.  The military is on very high alert after today’s very serious clash on the northern border with Lebanon.  IDF officials say that Lebanese army troops (official government forces, not Hizbullah militiamen who are spread out throughout the south of the country) fired on Israeli troops without provocation. The soldiers were clearing some trees on the Israeli side of the border in order to have a better view into nearby Lebanese territory when UN soldiers suddenly showed up along with Lebanese troops and frantically ordered them to stop the rather routine work.  Soon afterwards the Lebanese army opened fire and the IDF replied in kind.  An IDF reserve officer, a father of 4 children, was instantly killed, and another soldier, born in Ethiopia, was severely wounded.  His life hangs in the balance tonight in a hospital in Haifa.  Three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist who works for Hizbullah television were also killed in what was the most serious incident along the border since the 2006 war.
    Interesting enough, the family name of the slain IDF reserve battalion commander, Lt Col Dov Harari, is almost identical to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.   A UN report is expected to be released very soon, blaming a Hizbullah assassin for murdering Hariri’s father in 2005 while he was also serving as prime minister. The report leaves the Iranian and Syrian backed militia with an urgent reason to start a conflict with Israel in order to divert attention away from its own crimes inside of Lebanon.
    The latest tensions actually began last Friday with a rocket attack upon the city I am staying in.  I heard the explosion at 8:20 in the morning as a Chinese-built Grad rocket fired from Gaza exploded about one mile away.  Then we had a serious Kassam rocket attack the next evening upon a building in nearby S’derot, which left no casualties only because it was a Saturday evening when the public building is closed, and then five rockets were aimed at the southern port of Eilat from Egyptian territory yesterday, which ironically only wounded several people in nearby Jordan.
    So all of this, and especially today’s clash, could be the prelude to a possible new regional war, as the Israeli media is reporting tonight, this time probably far more severe than the 2006 conflict with Hizbullah, since this time the Syrian and Lebanese armies may well be directly involved, and possibly Iran as well.  Please keep us in prayer.  David Dolan” 

• David Frankfurter  UNIFIL complicit in Lebanese ambush?
• Debka  The Lebanese army emerges as Israel’s new pro-active foe /Ditched by Assad, Hizballah may go to war / Israel threatens to destroy hostile Lebanese border positions / Iranian intelligence officers tour Lebanese border, study IDF lines
• Earth Times  UNIFIL: ISRAELI FORCE FIRED ON WAS ON ISRAELI SIDE OF BORDER  / UN Security Council to discuss Israel-Lebanon border incident
• ForeignPolicy  The Cable   Border skirmish raises questions about arming Lebanese troops  by Josh Rogin
• FresnoZionism  Israeli soldiers attacked at Lebanese border  / Another kind of double standard
• GLORIA Center   Illusion and Reality Clash in Lebanon  By Jonathan Spyer
• Haaretz  3 Lebanese soldiers, journalist killed in clash on Israel-Lebanon border  / Assad: We’ll support Lebanon in face of criminal Israeli aggression  UN peacekeepers urge ‘maximum restraint’ after Israeli and Lebanese soldiers exchange fire along border, killing 4 Lebanese. / Hizbullah Allies in Lebanon Army Seen Behind Attack / U.S.: Lebanese Fire on Israeli Troops Was Totally Unjustified 
• HonestReporting  Aerial Photograph Shows IDF Operating in Israeli Territory  /  Canadian Media Bark up the Wrong Tree in Lebanon Ambush   / Special Alert: Media Collusion in Lebanon Ambush  What were photographers and journalists doing at the scene of the incident before a deadly exchange of fire between Lebanese and Israeli forces?
• IDF  GOC Northern Command: “This was a planned ambush”. Lt. Col. Harari was shot and killed and UNIFIL-IDF-LAF Tripartite Meeting
• IDFSpokesperson  LAF Opens Fire at IDF Force on Northern Border, 3 Aug 2010
• Israel Today  Israeli commander killed in Lebanon border clash / Israeli, Lebanese generals meet after border flare-up
• Jerusalem Post  ‘At least four Lebanese killed in border clashes‘ /  ‘IDF soldiers did not cross border‘  / Assad: Israel trying to destabilize ME Lebanese, Syrian leaders respond to clash on northern border.  /Also:  Photo gallery: Unrest on the northern border /  ‘Kiryat Shmona mayor: Residents don’t need to enter shelters’ / Editorial: Assad’s Lebanon / Death of the Iranian ‘fig leaf’ in Lebanon  / Report: Lebanese Used Delay to Prepare Ambush /  Lebanese Army Confirms It Fired First  / UNIFIL Confirms IDF Claims  / Nasrallah: ‘Lebanese army heroic‘ /  Congressmen Threaten to Reassess U.S. Military Aid to Lebanon – Hilary Leila Krieger / Attacked by Lebanon – Editorial / Israel: Advanced Weaponry Given to Lebanese Military Could Reach Hizbullah – Hilary Leila Krieger / Lebanese Army Showing Increasing Hostility – Yaakov Katz
• Jerusalem Pulse Radio  MP3  DAILY NEWS AUG 3 – Artillery exchange along northern border of Israel/Lebanon • Missiles fired at Israeli resort town of Eilat /  DAILY NEWS AUG 6 – Israeli, Lebanese generals meet after border flare-up • Israeli general opposes Ground Zero mosque 
• Jewish Policy Center Blog  Israel-Lebanon Clashes Highlight 1701’s Frailty  by Samara Greenberg
• Jewish Institute for National Ssecurity Affairs  The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Fired on Israel
• John Batchelor Show  MP3 TUESDAY HOUR 1  Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily, Twitter, & Aaron Klein Investigative Radio   re Lebanon Border Clash LISTEN TO MP3 (final interview) /  also see  World Net Daily  Aaron Klein  Israel-Lebanon clashes ’staged provocation‘ /  Did Iran just attack Israel’s borders? / and THURSDAY 8/5 HOURS 2 AND 3   with Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents & Daily Alert re   LISTEN TO HOUR 2   LISTEN TO HOUR 3, interviews with David Shenker of the WashingtonInstitute; (see Israel-Lebanon Tensions and the Hariri Assassination Investigation – David Schenker, Andrew J. Tabler, and Jeffrey White)LEBANON BORDER CLASH; Michael Ledeen re IRAN)
• Just Journalism  Lebanon border clashes: Just Journalism speaks to IDF and UNIFIL /  Lebanon border clashes: UNIFIL backs Israeli claim on location of border maintenance work  / VIEWPOINT: Media responses to Israeli blamelessness 
• Mere Rhetoric  After Lebanon Border Ambush, Reuters First Out Of The Gate With Demonstrably False Anti-Israel Propaganda  / Did Lebanon Use American Weapons To Attack Israel? / PHOTOS   Photos Confirm Lebanon Used American Weapons To Attack Israel / TOCS, “Lebanese Complicity” At 4:30pm, Lebanon’s Border Ambush, US Security Assistance, UNIFIL, Etc.
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel  Lebanese army opens fire at IDF force on northern border with updates / Prime Minister: Lebanon Responsible for Border Clash
• MyRightWord  Where Was Israel’s Media Presence?
• NY Conflict Examiner  Lebanon-Israel border clash: Update
• NYTimes  U.N. Supports Israeli Account of Border Clash by Isabel Kershner
• OilPrice.com  CLASH ON ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER HOLDS POTENTIAL FOR STRATEGIC ESCALATION Written by Yossef Bodansky   
• PajamasMedia  Israeli Officers Ambushed on Northern Border / What the World Isn’t Being Told about the Israeli-Lebanese Border Incident  by Richard Landes 
• Palestine Information Center  Turkey concerned over Israeli military escalation in south Lebanon
• Prime Minister’s Office  The International Community Must Condemn Attacks on Israel – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• StandForIsrael    Rabbi’s Commentary  Fighting Erupts at Israel’s Northern Border
• STRATFORvideo at YouTube   Dispatch: The Israeli-Lebanese Border Skirmish 
• Telegraph.co.uk  HIZBOLLAH THREATENS TO JOIN VIOLENCE ON LEBANESE BORDER WITH ISRAEL 
• UN  UN URGES RESTRAINT AFTER EXCHANGE OF FIRE ALONG ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER / UN STEPS IN TO DEFUSE TENSIONS ON ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER / YouTube VIDEO    UN steps in to defuse tensions on Israeli-Lebanese border
• Washington Post  UN: Tree in Lebanon-Israel Clash Was in Israel
• Washington Times  5 dead in Israel-Lebanon skirmish  U.S. ‘concerned’ by border tensions
• Ynetnews  Report: Israeli and Lebanese Forces Exchange Fire on Northern Border / IDF: Presence of Cameramen, Journalists Proves It Was a Planned Ambush /  Can Lebanon’s Army Be Trusted? – Roee Nahmias /  Report: U.S. Transferred $720 Million to Lebanese Army Since 2006 – Doron Peskin / Lebanese General: Soldiers Who Opened Fire on Israeli Troops Were Following Orders – Roee Nahmias / Lebanon Must Prevent Provocations or Pay the Price – Giora Eiland