The terrorists were killed by Israeli forces before they could succeed in murdering other families in the village. A fire started in the house and the bodies were burned. When the father and eldest son came to the house and saw the terrible sight, they could not believe their eyes. They were shocked and stood hugging each other, crying and kissing the burned corpses of their family. These cruel, satanic murders were after the terrorists had murdered six innocent Israelis on Wednesday including babies and children and another 19 innocent Israelis on Tuesday also including children. Both these attacks took place in Jerusalem. An Israeli poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, wrote a poem after a terrible pogrom in Kishinov, Ukraine, where many families, hundreds of Jews — many babies and children — were murdered by those carrying out the pogrom. In the poem he wrote that a murderer of a baby or small child could not be created even by satan. The same goes for the murders in Itamar. How can a human being who G-d created in His image, direct his weapon against a baby or a child or their mother and kill them in cold blood? These are not humans, surely not created in the image of G-d. Even satan could not create such cruel murderers. It shows the character of the inhuman enemy that Israel is facing and has faced not only over the last few years but for more than a hundred years since the great G-dly regathering of the Jewish people began. Thousands of innocent Jews, including babies and children, have been killed in their land. We shall never forget the cruel pogroms and murders that they carried out. These include attacks like those of 1929 in Hebron when they attacked the Jewish community in the city and murdered families — fathers, mothers, children and babies — abused the bodies and then burned them and their houses. The Jewish community had never left Hebron and had succeeded in surviving their enemies and never went into exile. The victim of the first murder by Arabs in modern Israel was my forefather in the year 1856. He was murdered in the Old City when he was stabbed in his back only because he started the G-dly Zionist revolution in Jerusalem and the land of Israel 50 years earlier and only because he was Jewish. On 11 September 2001, Arab Islamic terrorists and murderers murdered more than 3,000 innocent Americans in the Twin Towers in New York. Now they continue to threaten America and are plotting to murder other Americans in terror attacks. On 21 June 2002 one of their plans was publicised in which they are preparing to blow up petrol tankers in American neighbourhoods and to murder innocent Americans. Today (23 June) a cassette of Osam bin Laden was published in which it is stated that they will continue to murder innocent Israelis and Americans, Jews and Christians.
Israel is today stating very clearly to those cruel enemies that we are so strong. They will never break us. Do they know why? It is because the G-d of Israel — the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — is fighting together with us. It is because His Israeli soldiers are strong, brave, courageous, and moral. They are determined to fight for G-d and the land that He gave them in an eternal covenant more than 4,000 years ago — a very long time before the Arabs and Islam existed in the world. They are determined to defend and fight for G-d’s end-time vision to redeem the people and land of Israel, to settle it by the Children of Israel as G-d commanded, to prepare for the rebuilding of the house of G-d in Jerusalem where G-d will again dwell among His people and all the world, to open the gates for the coming of Mashiach ben David, and for the establishment of the kingdom of G-d, not only in the land of Israel, but all over the world. This is the meaning of the battle that the G-d and people of Israel are today undertaking against satan and his cruel forces. Israel is walking with G-d on a road of vision which will bring redemption and a real peace, not only to Israel, but to all the world. Who can stop G-d and His Israeli army? For thousands of years G-d taught us that together with Him we shall never be a minority but the majority and the evil enemy will become a small minority which will be harshly judged by G-d. Israel today, together with G-d, is very strong and even more than at any time in the past the great G-dly end-time vision continues to be fulfilled each day in the land of Israel. Soon the climax will come to pass. The entire world is in a time of testing. We pray that they will open their eyes to understand that G-d is again with Israel in the holy land, that their destiny is deeply connected with the destiny of Israel and that they will face this test and challenge. The village of Itamar was founded after the G-dly Six-Day War of 1967 not far from Shechem, the capital of the ten tribes in Samaria. One of the goals of the cruel enemy is to stop the resettling of the land by the children of G-d. From the early times, G-d commanded the Children of Israel to settle the Promised Land of Israel. This is the most important commandment among the commandments of G-d to Israel. This commandment is the foundation for G-d’s plans with Abraham and Israel and mainly His end-time plans with Israel which will be a condition and opening for G-d’s redemptional end-time plans for all the world. This is the clear word that G-d spoke repeatedly to Israel in His Word before all mankind. "And it was after the death of Moses the servant of the L-rd that the L-rd spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, 'Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross over the Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I give to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that I have given to you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the Torah, which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Torah shall not depart from your mouth; but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written on it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous; be not afraid, nor be dismayed; for the L-rd your G-d is with you wherever you go.'" (Joshua 1:1-9) This commandment of G-d to Israel is today the foundation of the end-time State of Israel. After 2,000 years of exile, G-d is regathering His people to the land. We can hear the Word of G-d telling Israel in these exciting and critical days that His end-time vision is to be fulfilled. "Behold, the days come, says the L-rd, when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; they shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says the L-rd your G-d." (Amos 9:13-15) Everyone is invited to come and see the village Itamar, one of these miracles which G-d is doing and fulfilling with His people in the land that He gave them. The villages and cities which were ruined have been brought back to life in Itamar and other places that have been settle and rebuilt since 1967 by His Word and end-time miracles. The end-time word of G-d through the prophet Amos is becoming a reality in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and all over the land of G-d and Israel. Nobody can stop it because this is the word of G-d and His commandment. Itamar is one of the successful villages that were rebuilt. They are planting vineyards and all types of orchards, fields of wheat, barley and vegetables. They raise sheep, cattle, poultry and eggs. All this is organic farming. This is exactly as our ancestors did in this place. What a wonderful sight it is to see all the end-time promises with Israel becoming a reality. Why are our enemies so blind that they cannot see and understand this and stop their cruel fight against the G-d and people of Israel which has no chance of succeeding? Why are the so blind that they cannot understand that this G-dly event is irreversible and that their own judgement is soon to come because their anti-G-dly and inhuman behaviour? Itamar is a religious village. They work the ground and live their lives according to the Laws of G-d to Israel in the Torah. They raise their children on the Torah and the Word of G-d. They are determined to renew the Biblical, G-dly type of Israeli life. They support the historical struggle for the reliberation of the Temple Mount by Israel and the rebuilding of the house of G-d. Many of them participated in the struggle and campaign of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement for the rebuilding of the Temple. It is so exciting that at the same time when G-d speaks through Joel about the mountains and hills which will come back to life in the Promised Land through His people, Israel, He promises that "a fountain shall issue from the house of the L-rd and shall water the valley of Shittim". The link between Itamar and all the other resettled cities and villages in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and the rebuilt house of G-d is very clear. The fountain which has started to go out from the hill of G-d is today watering Itamar and all these G-dly settlements both spiritually and practically. We know and trust G-d’s promises, that very soon the temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and this holy fountain of G-d will flow even stronger and water the G-dly village of Itamar and all the others all over the Promised Land. We are really privileged to live at such a great time. Together with G-d we shall overcome what G-d called the birth pains of redemption and we shall see this great time of the G-dly fulfilment in our lifetime. This is the clear Word of G-d in these exciting and critical days not only to Israel but to its enemies as well. "And it shall come to pass on that day, that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall issue from the house of the L-rd, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done against the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall remain for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For though I have acquitted them, I have not acquitted those who shed their blood. And the L-rd dwells in Zion." (Joel 4:18-21) In G-d we trust |