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That Is the Only Hope for This Nation! 07/06/2021 NEWS AM - Rep. Lauren Boebert was ON FIRE! Lauren Boebert: “Democrats Keep Running Their Mouths. We’ll Keep Adding to our Arsenals.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-6yJ1QylVU&t=76s [This may not be a music video, but it is music to our ears. – rdb] "There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream." -- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress, & Assistant Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt Read the Prophets & PRAY WITHOUT CEASING! That is the only hope for this nation! Please Pray that the world would WAKE UP! Time for a worldwide repentance! Remember ALL US soldiers fighting for our freedom around the world These Pray for those in our government to repent of their wicked corrupt ways. Folks Pray for EL – Had clot embolized to brain – successful ‘clot buster’ but long road to go. In Pray for BB – Severe West Nile Fever –still not mobile- improving! Prayer- Pray for RBH – cancer recurrence Check often Pray for DH – Mother removed self from hospice but doing poorly. They Pray for GB – bad reaction from Cancer drug Change! Pray for Ella – Child with serious problems NOTE: Our prayer list was getting very long and there will little follow up. If you have people you want to have on the list please resubmit since we are revising it now– rdb] Pray that The Holy One will lead you in Your preparations for handling the world problems. – Have YOU made any preparations? Genesis 33:6And the slave-girls came near, they and their children; and they bowed. 7And Leah and her children also came near and bowed. And afterward Rachel and Joseph came near and bowed. 8And he said, Whose is all this camp which I met? And he said, To find favor in the eyes of my lord. 9And Esau said, I have much, my brother. Let what you have be to yourself. Bennett speaks with Russia’s Putin for first time since becoming PM Two leaders discuss Moscow’s regional role, efforts to return Israeli civilians and remains of soldiers held in Gaza; agree to meet soon By TOI staff Today, 4:37 pm Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2021. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) For the first time since he took office last month, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister’s Office said Monday. The two leaders discussed a number of security issues, with Bennett thanking Putin for the role his country plays in maintaining regional stability as well as efforts by Russia to assist in the return of Israeli civilians and the remains of Israeli soldiers held in the Gaza Strip, the PMO said in a statement. They agreed to hold a meeting together in the near future, according to the statement. Bennett also thanked Putin for the good wishes he sent after the new government was confirmed on June 13. Previous prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in power for over 12 consecutive years, met face-to-face with Putin, who gained power in 2012, many times over the course of their respective lengthy terms in office. During Monday’s phone call, Bennett expressed his appreciation for the historical connection between the Russian people and the Jewish people, the statement said, adding that the two men talked about the role of Russian immigrants to Israel as a “bridge between the countries.” Since the then-Soviet Union lifted restrictions in 1989, over a million Russians have immigrated to Israel. Israel and Russia have maintained close coordination over their militaries’ activities in Syria, and Putin has often served as a mediator on Israel’s behalf. In February an Israeli woman who crossed into Syria caused a major international incident. She was returned to Israel via Russia after over a week of diplomatic wrangling, but at a steep cost that included the release of Syrian captives in Israel, and reportedly involved Israel buying coronavirus vaccines for Syria. The woman, whose identity is barred from publication, was indicted for her actions on charges including illegally exiting the country. In January 2020 — shortly before elections in March of that year — Netanyahu traveled to Moscow to escort home Naama Isaachar, who was sentenced to more than seven years in a Russian prison on drug charges, and was freed after Putin’s intervention. And in April 2019 — just days ahead of the election that month — Netanyahu announced that the body of Zachary Baumel, an IDF soldier missing since 1982, had been discovered and was being returned to Israel for burial. Putin said that Russia aided in the search for Baumel’s remains, and reports of other Russian efforts to recover the remains of other missing Israelis have circulated since then. Russian forces have been helping Syrian President Bashar Assad put an end to his country’s devastating civil war, while Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes over recent years in Syria that it says are aimed at stopping Iranian military entrenchment in the country. The two militaries reportedly operate a line of communication to prevent their forces from clashing in Syria. In 2018, relations between Israel and Russia became strained when Syrian forces shot down a Russian plane during an Israeli airstrike on the Latakia province of Syria, but their ties quickly recovered. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-speaks- with-russias-putin-for-first-time-since-becoming-pm/ Ahead of vote on reunification law, PM urges ‘responsibility’ from opposition Interior minister says she hopes to clinch majority by day’s end; Lapid argues it won’t be disaster if law doesn’t pass, says it is a tool to maintain Israel’s Jewish majority By TOI staff and Aaron Boxerman Today, 6:41 pmUpdated at 9:25 pm Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses a Yamina party meeting at the Knesset, on July 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned opposition parties not to cross the “red line” of harming Israel’s national security ahead of a Monday night Knesset plenum vote on the Palestinian family reunification law, for which the government will likely need to enlist the assistance of non- coalition parties. “There are some things you don’t play with. The nation needs control over who comes in,” Bennett said in a statement to the press at the opening of a faction meeting of his Yamina party. “National security is a red line.” The family reunification law, which blocks the automatic granting of Israeli citizenship or residency to Palestinians on the basis of marriage to an Israeli, was first enacted in 2003, and has been extended annually. The law was initially passed after some 130,000 Palestinians entered Israel via family reunification between 1993 and 2003, including during the Second Intifada onslaught of Palestinian terrorism. The stated prime concern at the time was that some Palestinians gaining Israeli status would engage in terrorism, but there was also a demographic goal: The security establishment’s assessment is that some 200,000 Palestinians would gain Israeli citizenship or residency each decade were it not for this legislation, Channel 12 reported. The deadline for reextending the legislation is midnight on Tuesday. While previous right-wing governments have had no problem extending the law year after year, the new coalition’s inclusion of left-leaning parties that object to the legislation’s impact on civil liberties has placed its renewal in jeopardy. The left-wing Meretz and the Islamist Ra’am coalition parties have declared that they will not back the law, and as a result, it failed to pass a key Monday vote in the Knesset Arrangements Committee that would have allowed it to be transferred to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. If that vote had passed, the latter panel would have been tasked with reextending the law instead of the Knesset plenum, which the coalition thought would have made its passage more likely. [This gives you a bit of an idea of just how little concern the leftists have for maintaining the God Given state of Israel and preserving their inheritance. When people are essentially areligious and don’t understand the Bible the could care less about what The Holy One’s laws and instructions for them might be. – rdb] Right-wing opposition parties led by Likud and Religious Zionism have pledged to vote against the law in an effort to embarrass the new government, saying that if it doesn’t have the votes to pass legislation it claims is critical for Israel’s security, it has no legitimacy to continue functioning. MORE- https://www.timesofisrael.com/ahead-of-vote-on-reunification-law-pm-urges-responsibility-from-opposition/ [The last statement demonstrates jus thow petty some of the right-wing groups are because they would destroy their country because of their selfish lust for power. – rdb] Israel confirms vaccine less effective against Delta variant, eyes third dose PM Bennett instructs Health Ministry to promote medical studies into long-term efficacy of Pfizer vaccine to provide decision-makers with ‘vital information’ on booster shots By TOI staff Today, 8:12 pm Israel’s Health Ministry released data on Monday showing that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine appears to largely prevent hospitalization and serious cases, but is significantly less effective against preventing the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. [What is the object of caring for a patient with a disease? It is to cure the disease.
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