Israel Watch: The Numbers Matter - Jim Fletcher - http://www.raptureready.com/rap15.html
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a part of the Israeli intelligence community, is an invaluable source for understanding the jihadists' agenda.
Recently, the ITIC released a report, in meticulous detail, shedding light on the numbers of Palestinians killed in this past summer's Hamas War.
The importance of the breakdown is multi-layered. Of major importance is the revelation of how Hamas conducted its terror war against Israeli civilians...by putting their own citizens in danger.
The ITIC concludes that slightly more than half of those killed were Palestinian civilians, put in harm's way by Hamas. One can rightly wonder why American and European political leadership, religious figures, and media types refuse - refuse - to acknowledge that Hamas is responsible for the horrible loss of life.
Look, I've been to the region many times, and as a Christian Zionist, I can say that it grieves me to see Palestinian civilians slaughtered by those who claim to lead them. I have Palestinian friends, both in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and the continued imprisonment of them, by Hamas and the PA, is heartbreaking and enormously frustrating.
A fascinating note in the ITIC report shows that Palestinian leadership actually recruits adolescents. This is an emotionally devastating reality.
A photograph in the report shows Wassim Nasr Shurab and his brother, Iyad Nasr Shurab, members of the PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] Al-Quds Battalions, killed in Khan Yunis in July. Both are pictured in a photo from a few years ago, holding a rocket launcher and other weapons, proving that they are recruited as adolescents.
My friend and colleague, Chris Quintana (pastor of Calvary Chapel Cypress, CA) recently posted on Facebook one of the most lucid statements I've yet seen, and its appearance was startling when one considers that few religious leaders and no political leaders to my knowledge inform the American public in the way Chris did.
He pointed out a crucial truth in the Terror War. We all often hear that "only" about 10 percent of Muslims worldwide are radicals. A few conservative whistle blowers (like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, and Pam Geller) point out that if this is true, at least 100 million Muslims are radicals!
What Chris pointed out, though - and this helps explain in macrocosm the report on how Palestinians are radicalized - is that a full 90 percent of Muslims worldwide are Sunni, and the Sunnis are predominant among terrorist leadership.
In other words, one could legitimately argue that we can flip the previous numbers and assume that the vast majority of Muslims at least internally agree with jihadist ideology.
(By contrast, the Iranian leadership is Shia, the "competition" with Sunnis in Islam. So, neither outcome is anything less than chilling.)
To the point of the Hamas War against Israel, the Jewish state is dealing not only with jihadist leadership, but a radicalized society fed a diet of hate for decades. This is the spotlight on the Shurab brothers. A tragedy of epic proportions.
Until world leadership steps up and admits the true nature of the problem, the jihadist agenda will continue to advance.
I am confident Israel will deal with its problems and survive.
I'm not confident at all about the rest of us.
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