Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Identity Network - Prophetic Word for 2014 by Doug Addison


A New Gate will Open in Heaven
Doug Addison

God is opening a gateway into the heavenly realm in 2014 for deeper revelation and greater power. This is the start of a new season and the drought we have been experiencing in the Kingdom over the last few years is now over. 

Expect an increase in your spiritual gifts, dreams, visions and supernatural encounters. This will open the opportunity for you to step up to a new level and see results for your efforts. 

"After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, 'Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.'" 
Revelation 4:1 

Three Moves of God 

We will see the start of a new move of God that will come in phases over the next few years. This year God is breaking a spiritual drought we have been in since 2008. I had a dream where an angel came and told me the humidity level right now is at eight, which is the number of new beginnings. 

"For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants." 
Isaiah 44:3  

The first part of this new movement of God will involve a time of refreshment for those who are weary. You will experience mini-renewals of His presence and gifts in your life. Many people have been suffering from hope deferred for so long that they need to soften up and be recharged. 

The second part of this movement will be a new rain of the Holy Spirit that will come upon those that are seeking all that God has for them. This movement will look very strange, as all types of people will begin to be drawn to God. In the midst of this, a new generation will begin to awaken to God's love, power and acceptance. 

The next phase will bring God's power like we have not experienced before. This will be a new level of God's fiery presence and healing. This is a start of a new healing movement with miracles, signs, wonders, and deeper revelation. 

Prophetic Words from 2009 

God showed me that many prophetic words from the year 2009 that were intended to be fulfilled in 2010 were actually delayed until now. I went back, checked my journal and sure enough I found many prophetic words in 2009 that never came about that are happening right now. 

I also got a confirming email from a friend whose prophetic word that I gave in 2009 is now beginning to happen. Go to your journal and look for prophecies or dreams from 2009. Get ready for them to unfold now at a greater level. 

Reconciliation Instead of Accusation 

The spirit of accusation has been dominating the Church for the past few years making an unhealthy environment. When we accuse others without trying to find solutions, we must be careful that we are not coming into agreement with darkness over a person instead of God's purposes. One of the names given to Satan is the accuser of believers (Revelation 12:10). 

We need to be very careful to not accuse others but build them up instead. God is releasing a spirit of reconciliation to offset the strong negative accusation. There are many Bible verses that talk about blessing people instead of cursing them (Romans 12:14). 

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." 
2 Corinthians 5:18 

Happy Birthday 

This year everyone will receive a new gift from God on his or her birthday. This might be a greater measure of the gifts you already have, new gifts of healing, prophecy, serving, etc. So get ready to receive birthday presents with a greater level of God's presence. You can expect a present of God's presence. 

Gifts and Callings Rearranged 

In the same spirit of giving, this year God is freeing up gifts and callings that have been given to people who have stopped using them or from people who have gone to Heaven. Many of these spiritual gifts and callings will be given to those who have been humble, seeking God and have not built themselves up or have operated in pride. 

God is lifting up those who have been humble. Some of them are the least expected. Those who receive these gifts and callings will have a sudden acceleration in their life, ministry or businesses. But people who have been building their lives, ministries and using others for their own gain will experience decline. God's love is still with them but they will no longer have the edge they once had. 

Jezebel Spirit Exposed 

2014 will be a year that the Jezebel spirit will be exposed throughout the church, government, and businesses. People who have been operating with this divisive and dividing spirit will be revealed. God will be revealing a new strategy to remove the grips and tentacles of the Jezebel spirit which has resisted and hindered previous moves of God over and over. 

God's New Agenda

God has an agenda this year to bring healing and reconciliation to people who have been wounded or rejected by Christians. There is such a large number of people who have been wounded by Christianity. This should not be. God's love is for everyone and we must show it to those who need it the most. 

Quite often these are the ones who might be offended by this or have different viewpoints. God is drawing in the spiritual outcasts right now and dragging a net along the bottom that will pull up people from all walks of life. 

In order to be part of God's agenda we must love unconditionally and be willing to walk with people who have been rejected and wounded. Love and lots of grace is required to be part of this new move coming to the spiritually outcasts. 

Yes, God is on the move among the tattooed and pierced, those who are into zombies and vampires, gay and lesbians, new age people, and those of various political parties that are currently not accepted by many Christians. God is moving powerfully among women and promoting many into positions of new authority. 

Financial Ruin has been Broken 

Five years ago the US and much of the world experienced a great financial downturn. One of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history occurred in September of 2008. We will now see a five-year turnaround from that downturn. God is opening up opportunities right now for people to be repaid for any losses during that time. 

Also, there are kingdom financial strategies being released from Heaven that will radically turn your financial situation around if you listen and act. 

It is important to not pay attention to negative reports or get caught up in believing we are all going down. This is a time to take action and it is very similar to what Isaac experienced in Genesis chapter 26. During a great famine on Earth, Isaac listened to God and took a different direction than what most people were doing at the time. In verse 12 it says that he reaped 100 times during the famine. 

Genesis 26:12 "Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him." 

2014 is a year of God's mercy upon us. God is promoting people who have loved, shown mercy and not cut down others or driven them deeper into darkness. This is an exciting time to be alive because if you have suffered, experienced losses or repeated attacks of the enemy, God is repaying you right now. All you have to do is ask and respond. Walk through the new golden gates being opened! 

Here's to a year of breakthrough and turnaround. May God richly bless you with every gift you need to succeed this year. 

Doug Addison
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Mario Maxwell: God Is Sending Supernatural Help (The Elijah List)

Mario Maxwell:
God Is Sending Supernatural Help

Mario MaxwellFor many people, 2013 was one of the most difficult and challenging years that they've ever experienced. In 2013 there were all sorts of tests, trials, and tragedies that left many of us wondering if we would be able to make it another day. 

All sorts of adversity came to our doorways to convince us that we would not come out of what we were facing; yet through it all, somehow, some way, we endured! With tears in our eyes, with pain in our hearts, through sickness, through depression, through poverty, through calamity we kept pressing and kept pressing until this very day!

Through the strength of God, we rose up to meet our challenges and we prevailed! Like Paul, we were hard pressed on every side, yet we were not crushed! We were perplexed, but not in despair! Many of us were persecuted and even cast down, but never forsaken by our Father. We were not destroyed, because we believed to see the goodness God promised us in the land of the living! Our faith kept us standing! 

Our faith kept us pressing every day, and it is that faith that's about to bring us into some of the greatest breakthroughs that we have ever seen!

Stand in faithThough faith in God has been the force that's emboldened and empowered us to keep standing, it is also the very thing that the enemy hates and seeks to destroy. 

It is because our faith and our position with God is something he can never get back, so he doesn't want anyone else to have it either! 

That's why you must keep worshipping, you must keep praising and serving God passionately! It torments the enemy because it reminds him of what he lost and can never get back again!

God Will Not Forsake You

In Daniel 6, a story unfolds about a powerful Believer named Daniel who was targeted and attacked just because of his faith. The Bible records that King Darius named 120 princes to rule over the land, and three presidents to rule over them, one of which was Daniel. Darius favored Daniel because he had an excellent spirit and was faithful over everything with which he was entrusted. 

Both God and King Darius knew that whatever they trusted Daniel with that he would keep it faithfully and wouldn't lose anything. Daniel's favor caused the other presidents, princes, captains, counselors, and other government officials to set a trap to kill Daniel, and they knew that the only flaw that Daniel had was that he served his God so passionately!

The presidents and princes that conspired this trap weren't ignorant about who Daniel was. Scholars believe that during this time, Daniel was between 80-90 years old. That's more than enough time for Daniel's reputation of how he prayed and got results to spread throughout the land. 

People knew about how, as a teenager, Daniel fasted and prayed and obtained favor from his captors. They knew about his friends who defied Nebuchadnezzar's orders and came out unsinged from the fiery furnace. They knew about the power of prayer that Daniel wielded to interpret mysteries and rule over nations.

Never forsakenEven though Daniel knew that if he continued to love his God and serve him through prayer it would be a sure death, he refused to stop! When Daniel learned about the decree that was set in motion, he went straight to his house, opened his windows, and let his actions declare that nothing would separate him from the God he served! 

When the other officials saw what Daniel was doing, they went to the king and made him have Daniel thrown into the lion's den.

Once Daniel was thrown into the lion's den, the king stayed up all that night and couldn't eat a thing because of his concern for Daniel. The king didn't realize the true purpose of the decree he set in motion, and on the outside, Daniel could have easily felt betrayed and hurt by the king that had favored him; but Daniel understood a very powerful principle: Even though the weapon may form against you, it's not always responsible for the assignment! 

Sometimes the very people you trust may turn on you or disappoint you, but you've always got to be prepared to forgive them! 

Forgiveness is what keeps you out of bondage and allows you to live in freedom while others are in spiritual and emotional chains.

The next morning, the king hurried to the lion's den and wondered if Daniel made it through the night. Daniel greeted the king and proclaimed "Oh king, live forever!" Daniel knew he had prevailed because God was with him, so he didn't come out of the dark place bitter and angry.

Daniel came out full of joy because he knew that he would ultimately see victory because God would not forsake him!

ALL Your Prayers Are Being Heard

Many people are discouraged because they feel like their prayers are not being answered; they feel like God has forsaken them! Prophecies have not come to pass like they thought, things that were promised have not yet manifested, and you feel alone in the battle you are having to fight! You say, "Maybe I didn't pray enough," or, "Maybe I did something wrong that's keeping God from hearing me!" 

God wants you to understand today that you didn't pray wrong and He's not refusing you! It's not your prayer that's being blocked, it's your answers!

Look at what Daniel 10:12-13 says:

"Then he continued, 'Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia'" (Daniel 10:12-13, NIV).

ElijahList Prophetic Resources

The minute you started praying, God heard you! He had already answered, but your answer has been delayed because of the princes of resistance that are assigned to stop the manifestation of what God spoke! 

Because of the weight of what was about to be revealed, the enemy sent a prince to resist the answer God released!

The Hebrew word for prince means "ruler, chief, captain, principal, commander, leader, governor, and taskmaster." In other words, the enemy sent one of his most powerful agents, because only power can take out power! God's response was to send one of the chief princes, one of the strongest angelic beings, Michael the archangel, to release what the enemy tried to hold back!
Jesus, the Prince of Peace
There is another Prince that's about to step on the scene, and His name is Jesus Christ, the PRINCE OF PEACE!

The Prince of Peace is about to step into your situation! 

Supernatural help is coming in your time of trouble!
God is about to bring you out of the lion's den, out of the darkness of your calamity, and He's going to bring forth His PEACE in your trouble! 

As you moved out of 2013 and into 2014, I declare that the Prince of Peace, the Lord who made Heaven and Earth, will invade your situation and bring you perfect peace!
• I declare that the power of God is being released in your life to make your enemies be at peace with you!
 • I declare that voice of the Lord is being released into your life to speak peace to every storm that is raging against you!

• I declare that Jesus Christ is your peace! I declare every form of separation and division formed between you and your promise is being destroyed by the peace of God that surpasses all understanding!

• I declare that the God of peace will crush the enemy under your feet, and that you will walk into the grace of God that will release you into a new season, in Jesus' name!
I speak the blessing of the Lord upon your life and declare that supernatural help has come!

Yours in releasing the fullness of your God-given destiny,

Dr. Mario Maxwell
New Divine Destiny Christian Center / Mario Maxwell International Ministries

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Website: destinycity.tv / mmim.org

Dr. Mario Maxwell is an international prophetic voice who has traveled and ministered extensively across the globe, carrying an apostolic and prophetic anointing to advance the Kingdom in churches, cities, states, and nations. His travels have been filled with signs, miracles, transformed lives, and revival. 

As Senior Pastor of New Divine Destiny Christian Center, Dr. Maxwell leads a thriving, multi-cultural apostolic and prophetic Body of worshippers on the path to destiny.

Zola Levitt Ministries (ZLM) - Journey of Restoration (Israel tour) - with Myles & Katherine Weiss (videos)



Katharine and Myles Weiss, ZLM

Watch as Myles and Katherine Weiss take you on a tour of Israel.
Click here: Zola Levitt - Journey of Restoration (Israel tour)

Series: “Journey of Restoration”
In these ten programs, we’ll take you with us on a tour of Israel. 
Our Messianic Sabra(native-born) guide opens the Bible with 
the Hebrew language at his command. You will be enriched as 
Myles and Katharine tag-team with our local guides. You will
 meet “living stones” of the Body of Messiah in the Land, some 
of whom we support through ZLM.


Episode: “Yeshua’s Galilee Ministry”

After a visit to the Jesus Boat Museum, we board a boat on 
the Sea of Galilee where Myles teaches about the Lord’s 
authority over all. On the Mount of Beatitudes, Yuval and 
Myles read the Beatitudes in Hebrew and English. At 
Capernaum, Myles teaches about the Lord’s miracles, 
especially the miracle of salvation. At the Jordan River, 
many pilgrims rededicate their lives in baptism.


INFORMATION
Episode 2 of 10
Production Code: 1403
Type: Episode
Play Time: 28:31
Series Year: 2014
Closed Captioned

Hosts: Myles & Katharine
Guests: Yuval Shemesh

Air dates: 2014-Jan-12

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Episodes in this series
The Journey Begins
Yeshua’s Galilee Ministry
Reforestation and Revelation
Up to Jerusalem
Resistance and Rest
Holy Places, Holy Moments
In the Footsteps of History
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness

Love For His People Editor's Note: I like watching 
Myles and Katharine on the Zola Levitt Ministries 
(ZLM) show. Having watched Zola himself in the early 
days, I was drawn to the love for Israel through 
his words and presentations. 

Steve Martin

Remarkable Pictures of Extinct Jewish Communities, Part 3 - Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 13 Jan 2014

Original caption: "Jew Tailor in his Booth on a Street in Old Cairo"

(Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography at UCR 
ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside) 





























We present Part 3 of a series of vintage pictures on the Jews of the Middle East.  Like the communities in previous features -- Baghdad, Mosul, and Constantinople (Istanbul) -- the Jews of Cairo, Alexandria, and Damascus are on the verge of extinction. 

Some of the pictures presented here show both the poverty and the wealth of the various Jewish communities.

Egypt

Cairo:  In 1948, the Cairo Jewish community numbered an estimated 55,000. Pogroms and imprisonment caused almost all of the Jews of Egypt to emigrate.

Zaoud-el Mara (Jewish Quarters) Alexandria, 
Egypt.  A Library of Congress photo dates
this picture from 1898.









Alexandria:  According to a Jerusalem Post article from 2008, Alexandria "is said to have boasted a community of tens of thousands of Jews of both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi descent, but some were expelled as French or British citizens during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Others were expelled and/or imprisoned for up to three years during the Six Day War. Some, too, left on their own accord, feeling that there was a brighter future for them as Jews in countries like Israel, America and Australia."



There are believed to be around 40 Jews living in Egypt today.



Syria - Damascus
 "Beautiful shaded court of a Jewish Home in Damascus, Syria."
Look at the details of the picture.

(Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography at UCR 
ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside) 


The Damascus Jewish community numbered an estimated 15,000-17,000 in 1918.  Riots, government discrimination, and imprisonment caused almost all of Syrian Jewry to flee.

Today, perhaps a few dozen Jews live in Syria, but the savage civil war has also engulfed old Jewish neighborhoods and ancient synagogues.

At the start of the 20th century, several wealthy Jewish families lived in Damascus, and photographs of their homes are presented here.

Enlarging the photos disclosed 
several interesting details.


The matron of the home?


Children of the home?





















Grand Mosque and Damascus from the Jewish 
Quarters, Syria. Three women on a balcony 
overlooking city. 

Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum
 of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, University 
oCalifornia, Riverside) 




 Court of a Wealthy Jew’s Home in Old 
Damascus, Syria. See also here.

Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography
 at UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside) 































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The Times of Israel: Left for dead in 1948: The battle that shaped Arik Sharon

Left for dead in 1948: 

The battle that shaped 

Arik (Ariel) Sharon


Battalion commander Sharon, 20, was shot in the abdomen and would have died, but for the heroism of a 16-year-old soldier, wounded himself, who dragged him through the Latrun killing fields to safety


 January 12, 2014

Ariel Sharon in 2002 revisits the scene of the 1948 Latrun battle. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon, GPO)
Ariel (Arik) Sharon n the fields of Laturn

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Mitch Ginsburg Mitch Ginsburg is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.

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The formative moment of Ariel Sharon’s life came in May 1948; not with the Declaration of Independence – which he heard on the radio wafting out of an open window on his way to kiss his girlfriend Gali before a mission – but with the battle for Latrun, 11 days later, in which he was left for dead.

At the time, Jews and Palestinians had been fighting for six months. Arab forces controlled the ridges along the road to Jerusalem, barring the delivery of anything beyond sporadic convoys of food and water. The corridor to the capital, dominated by the town of Latrun and the Crusader castle looming over the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road, was held by Jordanian troops and Palestinian militia.

The Haganah’s 7thBrigade, a newly formed unit mostly manned by Holocaust survivors, some of whom had never before fired a weapon, was given the task. Sharon, then still known as Scheinerman, commanded the 1stPlatoon of B Company of the 32ndBattalion, the only battle-hardened fighting force in the brigade.

On May 25, in the afternoon, he lay in the shade of an olive grove and wrote a letter to his parents. It was published years later in Ram Oren’s account of the battle, “Latrun,” and speaks both to Sharon’s underappreciated facility with words and his view, as the quintessential sabra, of the European Jewish refugees and their plight: “My platoon and I are lazing in an olive grove, passing the heat of the day, thinking pre-battle thoughts, blending with the water-smoothed stones and the earth, feeling part and parcel of the land: a rooted feeling, a feeling of a homeland, of belonging, of ownership. Suddenly a convoy of trucks stopped next to us and unloaded new, foreign-looking recruits. They looked slightly pale, and were wearing sleeveless sweaters, gray pants, and striped shirts. A stream of languages filled the air, names like Herschel and Yazek, Jan and Maitek were thrown around. They stuck out against the backdrop of olives, rocks, and yellowing grains. They’d come to us through blocked borders, from Europe’s death camps.

“I watched them. Watched them strip, watched their white bodies. They tried to find fitting uniforms, and fought the straps on their battle jackets as their new commanders helped them get suited up. They did this in silence, as though they had made their peace with fate. Not one of them cried out: ‘Let us at least breathe the free air after the years of terrible suffering.’ It is as if they’d come to the conclusion that this is one final battle for the future of the Jewish people.” [The letter was republished in "Ariel Sharon: A Life," a 2006 biography, which this reporter translated.]

The plan was to attack at midnight. The commanders, though, quarreled through the dark hours of the night and only sent the troops into the field at 4 a.m. Sharon, 20 years old, led the battalion into battle.

The landscape in which the battle for Latrun was fought in 1948. The Trappist monastery can be seen in the distance (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash 90)

The column cut through the fog and the rigid wheat and promptly came under Jordanian fire. In his autobiography, “Warrior,” written with David Chanoff, Sharon said that, under machine gun fire, he “sensed rather than saw men dropping suddenly or sliding slowly into the fog.”

Shortly after five in the morning, “in a moment of startling swiftness,” the sun burnt away the haze, and the platoon, which had been leading several hundred men, found itself alone on an open patch of earth. The olive grove above them, on Latrun hill, “looked like it was spitting fire.”

Sharon led the platoon to a gully, a small indentation in the earth that provided the most meager cover, and took stock: his sergeant had been wounded. The platoon radio took a bullet and was inoperable. None of them had water, as canteens had not been found before the battle, and behind them, the wheat fields burned from the artillery rounds. Up ahead, through the billowing smoke, the Jordanian troops laid down long bursts of machine gun fire.

They were trapped.

“On the bright side,” Sharon wrote, “we had a good supply of hand grenades and ammunition for our Sten guns and Czech rifles.”

Maj. Gen. Sharon, standing alongside the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo credit: GPO/ Flash 90)

The slightest movement from members of the 1st Platoon provoked enemy fire. Soldiers who shifted carelessly were shot and dragged to the back of the gully, where an oozing, muddy trickle of water turned red with blood. Flies and gnats descended on the wounded. Jordanian Bedouin soldiers began flitting out of the olive grove and launching frontal assaults. Only when they were within 40 yards of the position, and only after the Hagannah soldiers heard the calls of Itbah al-Yahud, kill the Jews, did they open fire, repulsing wave after wave of Arab offensives.

Sharon was plagued by thirst and desperate for the day to darken into night. He re-wound his watch so often, he told Chanoff, that the stem came off in his hand.

By one in the afternoon, half of the platoon was dead and nearly all the rest were wounded, and Sharon, who had entered the battle with one arm in a cast, was shot in the abdomen. “Raising myself to see what was happening, I felt something thud into my belly, knocking me back. I heard my mouth say ‘Imah’ – mother, and the instant it was out I glanced around to see if anybody had heard,” he wrote in “Warrior.”

A little later in the afternoon, a palpable shift descended on the battlefield. The Israeli guns opened fire, and Sharon, completely cut off from the rest of the force, told his men to get ready for a charge. He was sure the Israeli artillery was the precursor to a larger offensive. But looking over his shoulder, amid a sudden calm in the barrage, he saw how mistaken he had been: the artillery fire had enabled the brigade to retreat. The hills behind him, where the 72nd Battalion had guarded their flank, were covered with Palestinian villagers. 

“I looked back and saw that I had misinterpreted the sudden silence,” he wrote in a piece for Yedioth Ahronoth in 1998 and which was reprinted in his son Gilad’s memoir, ‘Sharon: The Life of a Leader.’ “The entire mountainside behind us was covered with Arab villagers. They butchered our wounded, the ones left in the field by other units.”

“All around me,” he continued, “the dead and the wounded. All friends, all from the Sharon region, most from a single village. People you grew up with. Here they were, right in front of you, in this awful field, close to death, and there was nothing you could do for them. They were lost. ”

One of them, Simcha Pinchasi, described in “Warrior” as “a wonderful boy from Kfar Saba,” had been hit in both legs and couldn’t move. He’d been manning the machine gun all day. “With a look and a quick nod he indicated that he would cover the withdrawal,” Sharon wrote. “But Arik,” he said, “before you go, give me a grenade.” I gave it to him, knowing there was no hope whatsoever, not for him and most likely not for the rest of us either. There was no one whom I could ask to carry him, just as there was no one who could carry me. Our eyes caught for a moment, then I turned to go. And as I did I had a momentary image of his parents as they were when I last saw them in their village.”

The order to retreat and leave men like Pinchasi behind, he said years after the battle, was the most difficult one he ever had to issue. “There were others, of varying magnitudes, of different degrees of responsibility, but none was as grave as that one,” he wrote in the Yedioth Ahronoth article. “I looked at my wounded. I knew I was seeing them for the last time. I knew they would be butchered. I gave the order. For the first and last time in my life as a commander, I gave the order: retreat, retreat and leave the wounded in the field.

“There was no choice. I had to save the few that were still alive. I lay there, tormented by pain. The few who were able to move, passed me by. “Should we leave you here, too?” Yes, me too. I saw the eyes of those who fled. They contained shock and sorrow, immense pain. That look accompanies me to this day, always.”

Eventually, after pointing the way and parting with Pinchasi, Sharon set out on his own, dragging his body across the smoldering earth. Sure that he would not be able to clear even one rocky terrace, he slithered along, with “the sounds of the pillage and the slaughter being perpetrated by the villagers knock[ing] upon my eardrums.”

One soldier, a native of one of the villages near his hometown of Kfar Malal, “looked at him long and hard” at the nature of his wound and his blood-soaked uniform, and “parted with him in silence,” according to the account in Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom’s “Ariel Sharon: A Life.”

Yakov Bugin, a 16 year-old soldier under his command, who had just joined the platoon and who himself had been shot in the jaw and was missing a large part of his face, found Sharon on his back, eyes open, looking at the sky. Sharon, unable to remember the soldier’s name, told him to “run, escape, save yourself.”

Bugin, though, wordlessly helped him through the hellish vista, boosting him up over terraces and relying on Sharon’s infallible sense of direction to guide them back through the killing field. “We had no choice but to stand tall and walk through the field in full view of the armed Palestinian peasants,” Bugin told Hefez and Bloom. 

“Once we stood up, we could see the Arabs shooting our wounded right beside us. They saw us, but luckily they were too busy looting the bodies to raise their weapons and kill the two miserable, bleeding soldiers limping past…All they would have had to do to kill us is raise their weapons to their shoulders. They wouldn’t even have had to run. That’s how Arik and I made our way through the field, surrounded by Arabs, until we slowly distanced ourselves from them. We were lucky that Arik knew the area well and that he had binoculars, which helped us find the area for wounded soldiers.”

They continued like that for hours, until Sharon, spotting the jeep that would rescue them, passed out.

But he did not forget the experience. As commander of the Paratroops and Unit 101, Israel’s first true elite force, he made it an ironclad rule that the injured never be left in the field. And when, in September 2001, he became the first Likud prime minister to say that Israel “wants to give the Palestinians what no one else ever has: the opportunity to establish a state of their own,” he did so, not by coincidence, at Latrun.

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