You can get daily emails on the action over Israel. Not censored by the USA media: info@jnnnews OBAMA AUTHORIZES AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQ TO COUNTER ISIL/ISIS TERRORISTS: US President Barack Obama announced Thursday: Today I authorized two operations in Iraq - targeted airstrikes to protect our American personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death. In recent days, these terrorists have continued to move across Iraq, and have neared the city of Erbil, where American diplomats and civilians serve at our consulate and American military personnel advise Iraqi forces. To stop the advance on Erbil, Ive directed our military to take targeted strikes against ISIL terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst. Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that some 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. “There are children dying on the mountain, on the roads,” said the Iraq representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “There is no water, there is no vegetation. They are completely cut off and surrounded by Islamic State. It’s a disaster, a total disaster.” Meanwhile, Islamic State fighters on Thursday seized control of the countrys largest Christian city, Qaraqoush. They told its residents to leave, convert or die, which sent tens of thousands of civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area. (White House/Washington Post/CBS) TROUBLING DOUBLE STANDARD: OUTCRY OVER GAZA DEATHS BUT NEAR SILENCE OVER IRAQ, SYRIA: From Iraq comes news that 40,000 Yazidis, a religious minority chased from their homes by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), are dying from lack of food and water. These stranded refugees are in danger of joining, in harrowing numbers, the 6,000 other Iraqi civilians butchered this year by ISIS. No less victimized at the moment are the Kurds, gruesome photos of whom were paraded by ISIS on Twitter, and Iraq’s Christian communities, decimated in the recent blitz of Mosul. Renounced even by Al Qaeda for its brutality, ISIS is making life unlivable in Iraq and beyond. Of course, it’s not just the region’s religious minorities facing expulsion and massacre. The Syrian civil war’s death toll has exceeded 170,000. Conservative estimates count civilians a third of the total dead, including 15,000 women and children; others have reported a much higher percentage of innocents. Children are still the primary victims of Boko Haram in Nigeria and in South Sudan, and if anyone thinks that innocent civilians are being spared daily horror in Libya, Mali, Eastern Ukraine and North Korea, they haven’t been reading the news. The protesters, commentators, NGO workers, human rights activists, and others, who spent the last month vilifying Israel’s campaign in Gaza more than Arab regimes did, are not ignorant of these non-Gaza tragedies. Many of those who found themselves more outraged by Israel than by ISIS are, in fact, educated, globally-engaged westerners who sincerely believe Israel’s war against Hamas violated morality and international law. One main reason for this is plain old antisemitism, masquerading as anti-Zionism. Observing mass protests, where Europeans hurl firebombs at local synagogues to protest decisions being made 2,000 miles away by a government in Jerusalem, one can see the world’s oldest hatred at work. (Fox) NETANYAHU: THE BATTLE AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISTS: “WILL SOON COME TO A THEATER NEAR YOU”: Israeli PM Netanyahu said in a media interview Friday that the threat from Islamic terrorists is real, and will spread to other countries if the terrorists are not stopped. This is a danger Ive been pointing to, its not a spin, its not a whim, it is a clinical diagnosis of a pathological movement that is sweeping our area but will soon come to a theater near you and it has to be stopped now. Netanyahu said the terrorists are under Irans nuclear umbrella, adding, If Iran itself can intimidate the US with intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads, then we bring history into a different threshold altogether. (Fox) “He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction.” Isa 30:28
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