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“All Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” —Zola Levitt

I would have to agree with my late husband. Look around the world and most of the conflicts are with the Muslims. I am grateful that there are people who are sounding the alarm in Zion. Thank you!

And speaking of “thank yous,” I do want to thank Greg, our web master, for helping me with the blog. He makes me look like I know what a blog is.

How many times can I say that I have been serenaded at breakfast by the piano. This morning was an almost all American program. Cole Porter, even the theme from Godfather was played. Just delightful.

After breakfast, I felt the need to go to the Old City. I wanted to pray at the Western Wall. I just haven’t been down to the Jewish Quarter enough this trip. So, off I went—I walked the whole way. It was only about a 15-minute walk. It is still the upward hills that get me tired, but I arrived and headed to the Wall. It is Bar Mitzvah day and there were lots of people at the wall. The wall is divided between the women’s side and the men’s. Women cannot go on the men’s side, (and vice versa) so the women stand on chairs some of them throw candy at the Bar Mitzvah boy. It is more of a Sephardic tradition than Askanazi. I had to laugh because some of the candy is hard and it hits the men on the head.

I was quite taken with God’s promise of these young men becoming men. A new generation of Jews. Quite positive in a world that is on the brink of madness. I prayed and then headed to visit with some friends at the shops.

Visited with Israel at Blue and White. Always good to see him. He said that lots of people were in the Cardo yesterday. I knew that when I went by the Temple Mount and saw all the buses lined up outside the walls. It really looked like lots of people yesterday. It is good for their business. I must say, I thought tourism was over, but everywhere I go, there are tourists.

I read in the Jerusalem Post this morning that June was Ben Gurion Airport’s busiest month. “More than 860,000 passengers on 6,288 international flights passed through the airport last month, making June the busiest month this year. The June figures keep the airport on pace to process an estimated 9.24 million travelers this year, the highest number of any year except 2000.” That just means that there are planes traveling through Israel on their way to other countries. I think that in 2000, the number of tourists in Israel was about 2 million.

The weather has just been great: Mid 80’s again with a great breeze—cool in the shade and then warm when I am out walking in the sun. I bet I have eaten a half-dozen whole watermelons since I have been in Israel. They are just so sweet and good.

More news from the Jerusalem Post:

Front Page: Trouble finding 250 eligible prisoners hinders release.
The difficulty in finding 250 Fatah security prisoners who have been in jail for a long time but do not have “blood on their hands” is the reason the cabinet was not asked Sunday to approve the prisoner release Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced last week at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Other News: Following UK boycott call, U.S. university heads to arrive today.
The heads of several American state universities and university systems will arrive in Israel on Monday for a week of briefings by Israeli educations officials, politicians, and academics, as well as prominent Palestinian leaders. The trip isn’t about advocacy, says the AJC’s (American Jewish Committee) Eran Lerman. We’re going to talk about the need to sustain an open environment for debate, a reality in which support for Israel is not outside the scope of political correctness. It’s important that the issue of Israel not be suppressed, he said. Academic life in America has become more oppressive and repressed than American society outside the campuses, and this is due to the imperative of political correctness. There are issues that can be openly discussed in American society, but universities are overly sensitive, Lerman added.
Comment: I am hoping to see some of them before I head back to the States. I’ll help them understand Israel. Just give me five minutes.

Iran Blasts Blair’s Appointment an Envoy.
Comment: Got to be good news for everyone, if Iran is upset with Blair.

Web holds key for country’s Exporter’s.
Almost 90 percent of Israel’s exporters either currently operate, or are in the process of creating, an Internet site for their companies, reported a survey conducted by the Israel Export Institute and Google-Israel.

Hizbullah rockets disturbed the peace of dolphins, whales too.
Hizbullah rockets fired during the Second Lebanon War caused dolphins and whales off the Mediterranean coast to wander slightly, according to researchers at the University of Haifa. Neither dolphins nor whales abandoned their “homes” in the sea, but there were fewer in these areas, as they temporarily wandered north or south during the war, the researchers said.

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