{"id":1680,"date":"2014-06-30T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-06-30T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:10:04","slug":"supporters-of-israel-we-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/supporters-of-israel-we-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters of Israel we Thank You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Esther Korson<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a blog that I\u2019m dedicating to you! On the 17th of June, I wrote a blog entitled \u201cFree Our Boys.\u201d<\/a> On that day, I so deeply felt the pain of this nation, the togetherness, the caring and the love. And then I thought about the readers of these blogs\u2014true Believers in the Messiah of Israel\u2014and I just knew that you had to share in this tragedy together with us. We are one family. You have been grafted in to the nation and the people of Israel because you know and you serve our Messiah and King. And so I sent the blog forth, asking for your prayers and love and hope to join together with ours. Well, your response was so amazing that it simply made me cry. So many of you responded with love and with prayers\u2014the warmest of comments\u2014and it touched us very deeply. So I\u2019m writing today this post-blog blog to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. We truly are one family, and I know that your kindness and loving response blessed our Father\u2019s heart!<\/p>\n

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Kidnapped Israeli Boys<\/p><\/div>\n

So today I\u2019ll share with you some of the events that have happened recently, since you truly are a part of it all. As I shared in the previous blog, a huge search operation has been launched and continues unabated. In the fields, in the caves, in the hills, in the towns and in the villages, searches are being conducted. At the same time, Israel has been dealing with the Hamas infrastructure in Judea and Samaria\u2014an organization committed to Israel\u2019s destruction and responsible for the kidnapping of the three teens.<\/p>\n

In the midst of it all, the mothers of the three missing boys have shown incredible fortitude and bravery. They travelled last Tuesday to address the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at their meeting in Geneva. This took courage because it is a council that is notoriously anti-Israel. The UNHRC holds a debate three times a year, and has a mandate to dedicate Agenda Item 7 at every session to Israeli activities against \u2018Palestinians\u2019\u2014the only country in the world that the UN is mandated to debate every time it meets. Our dear little land! And the day when the three mothers were present, before speaking they had to listen to a two hour debate where the PLO, Syria and 35 other nations censured Israeli actions and only a few countries briefly mentioned the kidnappings. Rachel Frankel, the spokeswoman for the three, when invited to speak, said many touching things. \u201cMy son texted me, said he was on his way home, and then he was gone,\u201d she told the assembly. \u201cEvery mother\u2019s nightmare is waiting endlessly for her child to come home.\u201d She tried to personalize them by saying, \u201cNaftali loves to play guitar and basketball; Eyal loves to play sports and cook; Gil-ad is an amateur pastry chef and loves movies.\u201d She also thanked the Red Cross, the UN Secretary General for condemning the abductions and those members of the international community who have spoken in support of the teenagers. She asked that everyone do whatever they can to help bring their sons home again.<\/p>\n