The Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps

Tehillim (Psalms) Chapter 121

1. A song for ascents. I shall raise my eyes to the mountains, from where will my help come? 2. My help is from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 3. He will not allow your foot to falter; Your Guardian will not slumber. 4. Behold the Guardian of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5. The Lord is your Guardian; the Lord is your shadow; [He is] by your right hand. 6. By day, the sun will not smite you, nor will the moon at night. 7. The Lord will guard you from all evil; He will guard your soul. 8. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from now and to eternity.

The Passover massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya took place eight years ago today.

PM Ariel Sharon held a press conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting, at which he said:

Israel will act to crush the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure, in all its parts and components, and will carry out comprehensive activity to achieve this goal.

Also eight years ago today, George Bush said in remarks to emergency workers in Greenville SC that he had made it clear that

"if anybody harbored a terrorist, or they fed a terrorist, or they hid a terrorist, they're just as guilty as the murderers who took innnocent life..."

Who was it who said, "Put not your faith in princes" ?

Ah yes, it was David HaMelech, King of Israel. The exact quote is from Tehillim Chapter 136:

3. Do not trust in princes, in the son of men, who has no salvation. 4. His spirit leaves, he returns to his soil; on that day, his thoughts are lost.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the IDF on Tuesday night arrested the terrorist mastermind of the Pesach bombing.

.... Since 2002, military sources said, Jaber has been actively working to set up a Hamas military force in Tulkarm modeled after the Executive Force, which defeated Fatah forces and conquered the Gaza Strip in June. He was directly involved in financing the force, purchasing weaponry and recruiting fighters.

On Tuesday night, soldiers from the Nachshon Battalion, led by Lt.-Col. Nir Bar-On, received intelligence from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) that Jaber might be hiding in the home of one of his associates in Kfar Bala, on the outskirts of Tulkarm.

Bar-On and his men surrounded the home and took Jaber completely by surprise, capturing him without firing a single shot.

"Over the years, many units have tried to catch him, including Nachshon, which on a number of occasions was sent to homes of his associates looking for him," Bar-On said Wednesday.

Bar-On said that Jaber was an elusive terrorist who did not use regular means of communication for contacting Hamas operatives or family members. Over the years, the IDF arrested a number of close associates, slowly closing in on Jaber.

"He was a very secretive and cautious man who has been on the run for six years," the Nachshon commander said. "Capturing him today, six years after the attack and a day before [its] anniversary, is symbolic and shows how the IDF and the Shin Bet do not rest or stop even for a moment to protect the state of Israel."

Now that's what I would call a real "peace process."

Here is the Traveler prayer book used by the Israeli Nachshon special unit soldiers. The book comes with a leather carrying case decorated with the travelers prayer as well as the Nachshon insignia (and it can all be yours for only $11.50