{"id":506,"date":"2007-06-01T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/01\/fire-in-the-fields\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:58:57","slug":"fire-in-the-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/fire-in-the-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/122607\">Arutz-7<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of two Kassam rockets fired from Gaza at Israel Thursday morning, one \u00a0landed  at the entrance to a kibbutz in the western Negev. No one was hurt, but a wheat  field was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Just two days ago, Agriculture Minister Shalom Simchon announced that the  farming communities around Gaza would be eligible for a total of 800,000 shekels  ($200,000) for the purpose of quickly harvesting their fields. Many wheat fields  have been burnt in the past two weeks by Kassam rockets, just as they were about  to be harvested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me of the story in Judges where Samson catches 300 foxes, ties  them together in pairs, and lights the tails on fire so that the foxes \u00a0run  throughout the standing grain (15:3-5). \u00a0 The place where the missiles landed is  south of the Sorek Valley, and the antagonists are different (Palestinians are  not related to the Philistines, despite their use of the name), but there are  still a number of similarities (fire, harvest time, back and forth cycle of  violence). \u00a0 Here&#8217;s one similarity that the politicians and media never mention:  God uses the enemies of Israel to provoke his people to repentance. \u00a0  Unfortunately, they were slow to seek God in Samson&#8217;s day and they are slow in  our day as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Arutz-7: Of two Kassam rockets fired from Gaza at Israel Thursday morning, one \u00a0landed at the entrance to a kibbutz in the western Negev. No one was hurt, but a wheat field was set on fire. Just two days ago, Agriculture Minister Shalom Simchon announced that the farming communities around Gaza would be eligible\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/fire-in-the-fields\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}