DEBKAfile reports: Accusations from Paris that Iran is building new clandestine military nuclear plant south of Natanz
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a godsend for President Bush. President Sarkozy came just in time after Prime Minister Blair's departure. Who could have guessed that France would support the U.S. in pressuring Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Abbas to UN: Stop Israel

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas spoke to members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, asking them to put a stop to IDF operations in Gaza. 11 people, at least seven of them terrorists, were killed during operations on Wednesday and Thursday. An eighth terrorist was reportedly killed on Thursday night shortly after firing a rocket towards Gabim.Abbas plans to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and ask him to pressure Israel to stop the operations. Earlier in the day Hamas criticized Abbas for failing to speak out against the operations, accusing him of “cooperating with the occupation... in order to eliminate Hamas.”

Police flood Jerusalem amid unrest fears
Israel deployed 4 000 police throughout Jerusalem on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, preparing for a possible backlash from Gaza strikes earlier in the week, police said.

Isaiah 11:
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.

12 He will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of Israel;
he will assemble the scattered people of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.

13 Ephraim's jealousy will vanish,
and Judah's enemies will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.

14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia [Gaza] to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.
They will lay hands on Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be subject to them.