Rabbi Moshe Laurie

Shofar Be Tzion Ministries

P. O. Box 1262

Groton, CT 06340

Regional Office

M-F, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., EST

1 860 445-7706

January 6, 2009

My Fellow Warriors,

Welcome to 2009 or the Hebrew Year 5769.  I greet you all in the Name of our Lord and Messiah and hope that you had a wonderful Christ-mass and celebration of Chanukah.

I pray that as we enter into this year you understand that the attacks are going to be going on in greater and greater ways locally, nationally and internationally.

First, I want to let you know that there are 2 special Spiritual Warfare shows on the war that will be on TCT on Wednesday, 7^th and Thursday, 8^th at 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. CST.  Also on Thursday, the 8^th, I will be live on TCT Today at 12:00 p.m. CST

As you receive this, you will see that the war in Israel is going on.  It is time and necessary for every one of us to stand with Israel’s decision, finally, to take action against the unbearable daily attack of missiles and mortar shells and cannon shells upon the sovereign state of Israel and it’s civilian population.

What you are hearing now in the news and around the world is the propaganda machines of the Arabs and even of the Europeans and others that are now coming under the thumb of Islam.  They are being threatened, attacked and in danger of losing some of their sovereignties.  If you are watching our shows, you will be kept up-to-date on these things.

I want to touch on one very important thing and that’s called the principle of proportionality.  It is being used and misused in the press by the Palestinians.  You do not hear one word about the missiles being fired from Gaza into Israel – yes, up until now, you hear that Israel was right – the missiles are coming but now Hamas is starting to roll out the bodies that they caused themselves by using willing civilian human shields.

You see, International Law under article 51 of the United Nations says that you may defend your citizens against external attack with whatever force is necessary.  The only limitation placed upon it is the principle of proportionality.  The measure of proportional force is not measured by, let’s say 3 Israelis and 500 Palestinians die, it’s not the amount of people that die, it is the number of people put in danger.  Right now, because of Hamas’ refusal to stop the unprovoked attacks on Israel, they have put between 750,000 and a million civilians under attack.

Now let me give you, quickly, the difference.  Israel built bunkers, missile alarms, and moved their civilians to relative safety whereas Hamas moved their soldiers and weapons into civilian areas, under civilian areas and fire out of people’s houses.  The classic example is when the former head of intelligence of the Israeli military told Alan Dershowitz, who has written a very good article, that Israel notified this house that they had 30 minutes to leave before it was destroyed because it was housing a manufacturing facility for rockets and a storage area for weapons.  Instead of leaving, the owner called Hamas, which then sent mothers carrying babies to that house.  This is what they do.  They just hollered that there was an attack on a UN school.  The UN school and surrounding area are firing missiles.

This thing can stop now but Hamas has to say that they will not fire missiles any more.  They will not say this because their charter forbids them.  Those of you that have the Hamas Charter know that.  Those of you that don’t can either email your request to Deskoftherabbi@aol.com or go directly to our website www.Shofarbetzion.com and download it for free from our resource page.

By the way, I want to thank you all for the support you have given up to now.

What is your job!  Pray for the mitigating power of God that there not be too many casualties on either side.   Do not forget that I informed you that this is what would happen eventually and it is going to escalate because if there is a cease fire without

any commitment on Hamas’ side not to continue firing missiles, it will be a disaster.  Even during the cease fire, Hamas fired over 100 missiles and as soon as the cease fire ended, they upped them until they were reaching all the way to the coast and ports of Israel and were threatening the nuclear facilities for no other reason then they want to destroy Israel.   They now call the ‘occupied land’ all of Israel and only the destruction of Israel and the removal of all the Jews from the land will satisfy the Hamas charter.  So your continuing job, after prayer, is to contact the US Government, the UN (Useless Nations) and all of the Senators and Congressmen that you can as they come into office now and tell them they cannot allow Israel to be forced into a cease-fire that will not assure the safety of the citizens of Israel and cause the lives being lost now to be for nothing.

I call upon you to write letters, e-mails, and articles to your local reporters, newspapers and TV stations.  But again, above all, pray because I fully believe that at this time all of Judeo-Christianity is under mortal attack and that evil believes they can win.  On the other hand, the blessings of God are pouring out across the earth.  Choose what you will receive – the blessings or the curses.

We shall stand together.  Pray for us as we continue to finish upgrading our capabilities to be coming to you in more ways than ever.  Don’t forget to look at www.Shofarbetzion.com as it has been upgraded and a lot of the resources are there for your convenience.  We have blessed people helping us with this.  We will soon have pod casting and right now, we have some downloadable things that you can access.

I ask that you will pray – write – call.  But most important, stand on the word of God and pray for His mitigating power for I fully believe we are entering into the end time and the tribulation is upon us in this great and terrible day of the Lord.  Rejoice that you are a part of it!

Blessings,

In Service to the King,

Rabbi Moshe Laurie