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COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS to our next Pharisee Watch editorial, coming next week, WE KNOW WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE BOMBING OF CHURCHES: This week: ..FROM ISRAEL, Presbyterians divesture from Israel; THE CHICAGO LEADER on surprising compulsory health screening; BIRMINGHAM NEWS on Ethnic Cleansing evangelical style; LONDON MAIL on top Shiites and church bombings; ALJAZEERA, Baptists take cheap shot at Sudanese...and much more... Read all the stories at... (http://www.straitgateministry.org/) THE DRAFT (FOR WAR) WILL START IN JUNE 2005? By Capital Advantage The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that the U.S. may have no choice but to draft. For the full story http://www.straitgateministry.org U.S. DEBT BURDEN IS HIGHER NOW THAN DURING DEPRESSION By The Miami Herald The total amount owed -- by consumers, businesses, governments and financial institutions -- totaled $34.4 trillion at the end of 2003, according to the Federal Reserve. The economy produced $11.3 trillion of output. That makes the nation's debt triple its gross domestic product. In 1933, debt was about 2 1/2 times GDP, according to a study by the Gabelli Mathers mutual fund. For the full story, and what it means http://www.straitgateministry.org PRESBYTERIANS BACK DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL August 6, 2004 By Arutz Sheva - Israel National News With $7 billion in pension funds, Protestant group is largest organization to join divestment movement to date. ILLINOIS LAUNCHES COMPULSORY MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING for children and pregnant women August 6, 2004 By The Leader-Chicago Bureau State seeks to place all pregnant women and children on psychoactive drugs, screen for "mental defectives."-Editor TINY CAMERAS SOON TO BE AMONG CHICO POLICE TOOLS August 6, 2004 By ChicoER (California) Federally subsidized law enforcement now blur the difference between terrorism and crime watch. EVANGELIST WARNS AGAINST MIDEAST ETHNIC CLEANING August 4, 2004 By The Birmingham News (AL) "Some evangelicals have gotten caught up in the theology that before Christ can return, the Holy Land must belong to the Jews," said Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. "They're really advocating ethnic cleansing. There's no justification for that in Scripture." IRAQ'S TOP SHIITE CONDEMNS CHURCH BOMBINGS August 2, 2004 By Globe and Mail, London Muslim clerics condemned the violence and offered condolences to the dwindling Christian community. "This is a cowardly act and targets all Iraqis," Abdul Hadi al-Daraji, spokesman for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, told Al-Jazeera television. The more senior Mr. al-Sistani said: "We assert the importance of respecting the rights of Christian civilians and other religious minorities and reaffirm their right to live in their home country Iraq in security and peace." IN HEBRON August 1, 2004 By The London Review of Books Yutzhah Laor writes about an exhibition of soldiers' photographs in Tel Aviv and introduces some of the soldiers' memories of their military service. Over 500 Israeli Solders and airmen have refused to serve in the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. NEW BOOKS, TAPES, AND VIDEOS, over 160 items about every subject covered above; http://www.straitgateministry.org You may not have seen: GAZA, WAR AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT - Carlson, 60 minutes audiotape "ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL" Book by Andrew J. Hurley, TWO FOR ONE SALE The first historically documented expose' and history and the conflict of the Israeli people, documenting ownership of the land as divided in 1948 by UN resolution establishing which also recorded the basis for two states. Hurley's 345 page masterpiece details and documents how America's war policy is influenced for by the State of Israel. STRAIT GATE MINISTRY ( http://www.straitgateministry.org ) P.O. Box 14491 Scottsdale, AZ 85267 FAX 480 699 1902 To receive Pharisee Watch regularly, go to our Website or reply. (PLEASE write subscribe next to Subject.) To be blocked from future issues please reply, remove. (Please write next to the Subject only.)
