Friends

(Part Two) Israel's Enemies & Wars

A true friend is more valuable than gold.

"This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ^{Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:12-13}

^{Just as Jesus called us friends, and died on the Cross for us.}

A Friend

SOMEONE WHO YOU CAN SHARE YOUR INNER FEELING WITH

KNOWING YOU WON'T BE JUDGED OR REJECTED

SOMEONE WHO GIVES FREELY

WITHOUT EXPECTATION OR MOTIVATION

SOMEONE WHO LETS YOU BE WHO YOU ARE

IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE, IT'S UP TO YOU

SOMEONE WHO IS THERE WHEN YOU ARE HURTING

OFFERING TRUE TENDERNESS

SOMEONE WHO SEES YOUR BEAUTY

YOUR TRUE BEAUTY

SOMEONE WHO GIVES YOU SPACE WHEN IT' S NEEDED

WITHOUT HESITATION

SOMEONE WHO LISTENS

TO WHAT YOUR'RE REALLY SAYING

SOMEONE WHO WILL CONSIDER YOUR DIFFERENT BELIEFS

WITHOUT JUDGEMENT

SOMEONE WHO YOU ALWAYS FILL CLOSE TO

EVEN WHEN THEY ARE FAR AWAY

SOMEONE WHO IS COMFORTABLE TO BE WITH

ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, DOING NOTHING

A FRIEND IS A SPECIAL GIFT

TO BE CHERISHED FOREVER

DATUS

rearanged into Western English by Frank Duncan

Israel Wars & Maps

|The Big Picture| (Click)

There's not a day that Israel is not at war. Arab rockets land on Israeli soil most evey day. Suicide bombers blow themselves and innocent victims up to often to count. The major wars are listed below:

1948 War of Independence

1956 Sinai Campaign

1967 Six-Day War

From War to War

1973 Yom Kippur War

1982 Operation Peace for Galilee

1982 "Operation Opera" Destruction of Iraq's Nuclear Facility

1991 The Gulf War

2006 The Second Lebanon War

Israel's War of Independence (1947 - 1949)

In human terms, the War of Independence was Israel's costliest war, with over 6,000 Israelis were killed and 15,000 wounded. It was one of the few instances when Israel faced almost equal forces: 35-45,000 Israeli soldiers faced 42-54,000 in the combined Arab armies. The war consisted of 39 separate operations, fought from the borders of Lebanon to the Sinai Peninsula and Eilat.

The Sinai Campaign (Operation Kadesh - 1956)

The Sinai Campaign was fought to put an end to to the terrorist incursions into Israel and to remove the Egyptian blockade of Eilat.

The Six-Day War (June 1967)

Within the brief span of six days, the IDF overran the Sinai peninsula; took the entire West Bank of the River Jordan; and captured a great part of the Golan Heights. The culminating event was the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The War of Attrition (1968-70)

Following the Six-Day War, a static exchange of artillery fire along the entire Bar Lev line on the Suez Canal, escalated into the War of Attrition.

The Yom Kippur War (October 1973)

The war, which started on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, was the fiercest Arab-Israeli war since the 1948 War of Independence. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, catching Israel off guard.

The Lebanon War: Operation Peace for Galilee (1982)

Operation Opera destroying Iraqi Nuclear Facility (1982)

A ceasefire with Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon declared in July 1981 was broken: the terrorists continued to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in Israel and abroad, and the threat to the northern settlements became unbearable. On June 6, 1982, the IDF launched Operation Peace for the Galilee. In June of 1982, Israel bombed the Nuclear Facility in Iraq in "Operation Opera."

The Gulf War (1991)

In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened to attack Israel with various types of weapons, including non-conventional ordnances. For the first time in Israel's history, the entire country faced a real threat of destruction.

The Second Lebanon War (2006)

On July 12, 2006 eight IDF soldiers were killed and two kidnapped on the border with Lebanon, in an attack by the Hizbullah terror organization.

Israel Stricks Syrian Nuclear Facility. (2007)

In September of 2007 Israel bombed a Syrian Nuclear Facility which is thought to have been fuelled by North Korean Plutonium.

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