The War Between Lebanon & Israel:
As of today, Israel has been at war with Hamas in Gaza for a total of 260 days.
260 days (about 8 and a half months) we, here in Israel, has been locked into a messy war, that we truly never asked for. With our enemies’ surroundings, and even at times, our enemies living right next to us. Israel and our people, all Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs have had to live with:
- Intense daily bombings
- Fires, lootings, Shooting & Stabbings
- Enemy drones infiltrating our airspace
- Over 300 Iranian Missiles launched in the largest attack ever seen in the Middle East
- Families still displaced from their homes and lives
- Dealing with the loss of loved ones who died on October 7th
- To even families sleeping outside government buildings in protest, asking for the IDF and the government to bring their loved one’s home…
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Israel and Our Suffering from the hands of Terrorism
All in all, to say, that Israel has suffered horribly at the hands of terrorism, and in the throes of war, things get worse by the day. If you were to ever come to Israel right now and walk the streets. You would notice the tension that sits on the backs of everyday people as they go to work, take their kids to school, just really never knowing if today could be your last due to this war. You could also take the time and ask every Israeli both Jewish and Arab, and they would tell you resoundingly that we want all this war to be over, and to live in peace. But we don’t see peace on the horizon anytime soon, unfortunately.
Life here in Israel is not the same anymore. And looking into the far future at your life and making plans is not a luxury that Israelis have anymore. Living in a war truly makes you look and take things day by day. Even as we try to stitch the pieces of our lives back together again, we are constantly pushed back into the fight when we receive news of an elderly Israeli man, shot and burn to death in his car by Arab terrorists in the west bank, all while he was on his way just to buy vegetables and produce for himself and his family. Or when we see our sons and daughters serving in war, coming home mentally scarred from the horrors they have seen and experienced all while having to relive their worst days, over and over again daily in therapy. The very fabric and life of families, forever changed by trauma and PTSD.
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Israel Has Faced This Enemy Before
Life truly has changed and intensified but as we write these things of our reality to you, our reader, we are faced with an even larger issue at hand. The ground here in Israel shakes with rumors and whispers of a much pending larger scale war, one with a terrorist country that is more well prepared than their Hamas counterparts. Israel is in the beginning stages of going to full-time, active war with Lebanon. A country know for their terrorist activities, and who uprooted friendly Christain and Druze Lebanese people from their homes during the years of 1975-1990. Which seen more than one million people leave Lebanon in a mass exodus during those years. All this done by the hands of Terrorist groups practicing Islam and self proclaiming their “peace” in the name of their twisted religion. Even after they persecuted their own Arab brothers and sisters. Ironic, isn’t it? Seems to us that the prophecy that the Lord himself gave to Hagar, regarding Ishmael her son, in Genesis 16 is coming truer and truer with each passing day, month, year and century. We would encourage you all to open your Bibles and learn about this as well as remember that this war, is even more spiritual than physical. And truly this is a war against good and evil.
The truth in fact, is that this is the not the first time we have seen our beloved country of Israel having to bear arms against Lebanon. All while having to bear the mantle of being called a persecutor from countries all over the world, all while we try to defend the lives of normal day-to-day people, wanting to live in peace. Lebanon has its eyes set on joining and helping to intensify the fighting with their proxy terrorist brothers, Hamas. All while being fed, equipped and funded by the horrible, genocidal maniac leaders of Iran. They themselves recently lost their leader, Ebrahim “The Butcher” Raisi, in a freak helicopter crash. And we can guarantee you reader, that he didn’t receive his nickname cause of his love for people, or that he killed many Jewish people. But in fact, he is responsible for the persecution of more tens of thousands of his own people and even more than 30,000 Arab and Persian people, and that was all just in the past 5-6 months prior to his death. So think on his lifetime of ruling and imagine the innocent lives and whole generations of families that he wiped out, all in the name of Islam. Which has been called a “Peaceful religion” by the protestors calling upon the extinction of Israel and the Jewish people. But for sure, this war that Israel will experience will be looked at over the years to come as a defining moment in the lives of all Israelis, and in the lives of our dear sons and daughters who will be called upon, once again, to defend the lives of all Israelis here in our country.
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The Intense War Between Lebanon & Israel, Coming Soon.
Even as we write this article on the beginning stages of war, we recently experienced a drone incursion and bombing that was seen and felt only ten minutes away from our homes and offices here at OMEA.
The intensifying war with Lebanon is coming soon. With the government of Israel, calling upon an extra 350,000 reserve soldiers in the next coming months to help hold the border and support active troops on the ground. So, we here wait in anticipation for what will happen next. And all of us here in OMEA, One Middle East Agency, are preparing for the possibility that the Lord will call upon us to steward many more resources, funds, food and aid to help displaced Israelis in this future conflict. We humbly ask that as you lay your head down at night, in peace, that you pray for our country of Israel. Pray that the Lord will reign in the hearts of all men and women here in Israel, pray that all our team members and our families will be safe from the missiles that will come. And that His hands will be the iron dome over our people and lives. As well as for every moment that we can steward for the Lord to the best of our abilities, for His glory and His Kingdom and that this war will end and the hostages return home, alive an in one piece to their families. Readers, there is still al large uphill struggle to come, and we need all of the love, prayers and help we can get. Until next time, shalom from all of us here in Israel and speak soon.
