Israeli-Lebanon Border is Quiet

Israel attacked and killed some Iranian and Hezbollah soldiers a few days ago who got too close to the Israeli border.  Yesterday, Hezbollah shot some missiles at an Israeli convoy and killed a few soldiers and wounded more.

Today it appears that neither side wants to escalate this into a full on war.  Both sides will talk tough but maybe this will be enough to release the tension for a few more weeks or months.

JERUSALEM — Israel and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia appeared Thursday to be seeking calm a day after exchanging lethal fire across a fractious frontier that raised concern of another war erupting between the arch-enemies.

The tense border area between the two countries appeared quiet Thursday morning, with no fire traded between Israel and the Hezbollah fighters, although both sides were on high alert. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported an Israeli “reconnaissance plane” flying over Lebanese airspace Thursday morning.

Wednesday’s clashes began with a Hezbollah attack that killed two Israeli soldiers near the border — one of the most serious flare-ups of violence in the area since a 34-day war in 2006. It immediately raised tensions in the volatile tri-border zone now close to positions held by Syrian insurgent rebels, including Islamist factions. A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper was also killed in the violence, prompting Spain’s U.N. ambassador to blame Israeli fire.

On Thursday, Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, said that he was informed by the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon that Hezbollah wanted to refrain from an escalation.

“Indeed, a message was received,” he said during an interview with Army Radio, adding that the U.N. maintains indirect “lines of communication” between Israel and the Shiite militia group.

Yaalon’s claims could not be verified, and Hezbollah officials were not immediately available for comment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, laid the blame squarely on Iran for the attack.

“It is Iran that is responsible,” he said at a memorial Thursday for former prime minister Ariel Sharon. “This is the same Iran that is now trying to achieve an agreement, via the major powers, that would leave it with the ability to develop nuclear weapons,” he said.

Netanyahu warned Hezbollah not to escalate. “I suggest that all those who are challenging us on our northern border, look at what happened in Gaza,” he said, referring

to last summer’s 50-day war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead and swaths of Gaza in ruins.


He later sharpened his warnings, singling out Iran and saying those “behind the attack today will pay the full price.”

Here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/lebanese-israeli-border-quiet-after-concerns-of-another-war-erupting/2015/01/29/3cea96c6-a789-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html

So yes, Jerusalem and Israel continue to be in the news every day...just as the Bible said they would in the very Last Days.  Remember people, Israel didn't exist until 65 years ago...and NO ONE cared about Jerusalem for the past few thousand years!!  It's only been in the LAST DAYS (past 45 years) that the world simply can't take it's attention off this tiny strip of country and this tiny little city that's sitting on a hill in a desert.

It makes NO LOGICAL SENSE!

Sometimes I like to read the comments following the article.  As with any article involving Israel or Jews, it doesn't take very long to find comments about the nasty Jews and how all they to do is destroy the "poor" Arabs or Persians.

This one comment even thinks Israel better focus on peace....or they may be destroyed.  Check it out;
I hope for their sake that the Israelis elect a center left government before right wing politicians like Netanyahu, Lieberman and Bennet drive the country over the cliff. These right wingers are living in what they believe are "the good old days" when if Israel was attacked, they could count on a guaranteed win due to superior armaments and the skill of their troops. 

The reality today is a different story. Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria have a huge arsenal of missiles that make Hamas' armaments look like toys; and Hamas has undoubtedly retained a lot of its inferior but still lethal missiles from the recent war and added to the arsenal. ISIS is at the border and its the richest terrorist group in the world. If the armed enemies outside Israel and the occupied territories attack all at once, there will be an infintada in the West Bank. In sum, Israel may be overwhelmed. 

To make matters worse, Israel has alienated the Obama Administration which administers US foreign policy, and there is a definate possibibility, given Netanyahu's rudeness and insult to the President by not following protocol, that the US will abstain from the next successful peace mandate in the UN, thereby forcing Israel by international law to quit stalling and allow formation of a Palestinian State.  

Israel needs to focus on peace, IMMEDIATELY, or it may be destroyed.

It's pretty clear by this comment that this dude doesn't read and/or believe what the Bible says. If he did, he would never make such a comment.  Bible readers know that once God regathers Israel from the nations....it will NEVER be totally destroyed.

The nations around Israel are the ones who better start focusing on peace....because one day they will be destroyed. That day is coming.

Amos 9:14-15

14     and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.
“They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant Israel in their own land,
    never again to be uprooted
    from the land I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.