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This was no
prisoner exchange

By Melanie Phillips

 

No decent person can fail to be moved by the return of Gilad Shalit. Yet this deal ultimately represents a triumph of heart over head.

I have been watching on TV the drama unfold in Israel and Gaza as the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was released after five years in Hamas captivity in exchange for the release from Israeli prisons of more than 1000 Arab terrorists. The first pictures of him in a brief interview on Egyptian TV were unsettling, even if not surprising: painfully thin, pale and with deeply sunken eyes, he looked very different from the smiling 19 year-old that became the iconic image of the campaign to secure his release.
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HANUKKAH

BY Rev. WillemJ.J.  Glashouwer

The Hebrew word ‘Hanukkah’ means ‘consecration’. This festival commemorates the cleansing and reconsecration of the second Temple in the year 165 B.C., after the Maccabees’ rebellion against the Syrian occupiers who had desecrated the temple. It begins on 25 Kislev (sometime in December) and lasts for 8 days. Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Old Testament, but it is referred to in the New Testament, in John 10:22, where it is called ‘the Festival of Dedication’. The Lord Jesus celebrated this feast. John 10:22-23 “...Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the Temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade...” More...