“Northern Israel Residents: Not the Time to Move Back Home” This is Something to Think About 12.09.24

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“Northern Israel Residents: Not the Time to Move Back Home”

Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”

Air Date Monday, December 9, 2024

Bill Bunkley with Something to Think About

One of the highlights of my pilgrimage tours to Israel and Jordan is visiting Ethan Oren of Kibbutz Malkiya, a settlement directly on Israel’s border with Lebanon. It is a tourist and agricultural community of Jews who, before the October Hezbollah terrorist attacks, produced crops of grapes, kiwi, and wine.

It is primarily a ghost town today, as many buildings took direct hits from Hezbollah, and fires from falling projectiles scorched the fields. Since most residents fled months ago, a skeleton force of the kibbutz farmers has been there to care for the crops.

Kibbutz Malikiya will be back someday, but not today.

Residents are not returning to the Kibbutz during the ceasefire, instead waiting until Israel’s IDF is allowed to finish its mission to destroy the Hezbollah terrorist organization.   

My question to you is, can you blame them?

Bill Bunkley is an 19-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays across central Florida from 3 to 6 pm. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 29 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church. 

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