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My First Air-Raid Siren
By Elisabeth Hinze
I’ve never heard an air-raid siren before.
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On Tuesday night at about 22:00 the air-raid siren started wailing here in Jerusalem. I’ve never heard an air-raid siren in my life. But there’s just no mistaking the sound. You know what it’s for. It’s an odd feeling really. What with everything going on, I knew it might happen. Half expected it could. And I didn’t. Because when I heard the sound, it came as a complete surprise.
For a second or two the shock gets you. What to do? Where to go? Then instinct takes over. Put on shoes, grab phone, call Bella the basset hound. Who is epically excited about the unexpected walk this late at night. On our way down Bella and I stop at the couple’s flat below us. They have three little ones. I grab the oldest. Her tiny face is terrified. For the first time I realise that I might be terrified too.
It’s an odd little procession flopping down on the bomb shelter’s floor – three adults in their pyjamas, three children, an ecstatic dog and two cats who didn’t want to miss any of the action. Seconds later there are four dull thuds. I fight the urge to giggle hysterically past the lump in my throat. Where did they fall? On what? I have never, in all my life, heard rockets explode. It’s surreal. I mean, where I come from we have grown kind of used to violence happening all around us. But this is something different. Something that is supposed to happen only in movies.
The rules are as follows: hear air-raid siren, proceed to bomb shelter. Wait there for 15 minutes. If another siren sounds, stay put. If not, resume daily life. Because really, what else can you do?
After about ten minutes in the shelter I hear the street musicians in the square outside our house playing again. The train rumbles past our front door. Life as per usual. Indeed, what else can you do? We wait the mandatory 15 minutes and then go back up. I let Bella the basset hound crawl into bed with me.
Israel Under Fire
I dream that I’m at a type of summer camp – many of the friends I’ve met here in Israel are with me. There are open spaces, a forest, sunshine, a camp fire at night. On the first morning of the camp I see three Boeing airplanes circling above, dropping thousands of rockets right on top of us. But it’s like we are under an invisible dome covering. The rockets veer off to the left and right, exploding right at the edges of our camp site. I wake up remembering the words of Psalm 91:4, “He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.”
Please continue to pray for the people of Israel. But please also pray for the people in Gaza – for God to touch their hearts and open their eyes.
You can pray in real time as missiles are fired on Israel by downloading the ‘Red Alert’ or ‘צבע אדום‘ app from Google Play. Or
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There was a story yesterday where I posted a comment there are so many evil out there who make all sorts of noise. Radical Muslims are among these, to where there’s this concept floating around they will take over the world, a concept that has its origins in statements made by these delusional, vile criminals themselves, splashed all over the news. The point was that there’s a large world out there that will never, ever countenance what these wicked men are doing in their own Muslim lands, or firing indiscriminate rockets at civilians in Israel, my opinion that Islam is dead on arrival with respect to taking the world, pointing out that not even Egypt could stomach the Muslim Brotherhood. People around the world reject torture murder and oppression, reject genocide and have no desire whatsoever to go back to the Dark Ages. So, there are a multitude of sane people who don’t make a lot of noise, don’t get any mention in the press, but people of moral conscience who are very much with Israel, many, many of us in the Christian community who are attentive and with you in Israel, despite all the hatemongers who make all the noise and their creatures of Satan who promote that noise.
Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
God’s promises are true and without revocation,
Genesis 12
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Psalms 132
11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
“But please also pray for the people in Gaza – for God to touch their hearts and open their eyes.”
The Lord bless your faith and ability to see the glass half full. Regrettably, God is always reaching out, trying to touch hearts and minds, trying to open eyes, His Spirit pervading the world, but there’s the component of the willingness of man to listen and accept the Lord’s drawing, a willingness to repent and change, and these Muslims are so drunk on a faith the opposite they reject, outright, any alternative view, rather are of a genocidal “faith” towards all others on the planet. It’s a shame, but I believe, to be based in reality, we also have to see intransigent evil for what it is, realizing that God never forces faith on anybody, will not create obedient robots. I most pray, under the circumstances, and if peace proves illusive, that the Lord fight with Israel in trying times to come, that He be Israel’s shield and defender, that He guide the rockets to waste land! I also believe there’s a time for war, that Israel must react with strength, that an “eye for an eye” has a place when self defense, defending your people, becomes the imperative.