This week, for all the headlines cited below, please join us in proclaiming THIS DECREE:
"In that day you will say: "Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His name is exalted." (Isaiah 12:4)
1. Rice headed to Middle East - Ynet News
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office is busy these days preparing for the impending arrival of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as a scheduled meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
2. 'Mideast war this summer' - Ynet News
If Israel doesn't vacate the strategic Golan Heights before September, Syrian guerrillas will immediately launch "resistance operations" against the Golan's Jewish communities, a top official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath party told WND.
3. Olmert to Assad: "I am ready for direct talks" - ICEJ News
PM urges Syrian President to negotiate without US mediation.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this morning issued a direct invitation to Syrian President Bashar Assad to begin direct peace negotiations between the two nations. "Bashar al-Assad, you know that I am ready for direct talks with you," Olmert said, speaking to Al-Arabiya television. "I will be happy if I could make peace with Syria. I do not want to wage war against Syria," he added.
4. 'Hamas army' established in Gaza, intelligence source says - Ynet News
Hamas' military industry is giving serial production numbers to the roadside charges and Qassam rockets it manufactures, a senior intelligence officer in the Southern Command told Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi during his visit to the rocket-battered town of Sderot on Monday.
5. Ten EU FMs call for int'l force in PA - Jerusalem Post
A group of 10 EU foreign ministers has called for an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling the road map peace plan dead.
