 welcome back to prophecy today radio the program that looks at current events in the light of bible prophecy this is the portion of our program it's called our middle east news update we look at news coming out of the middle east in general but israel in particular to do that we have a journalist with us who has over 30 years of experience reporting in israel dave dolan dave thanks for being with us today it's good to be with you rick thank you well dave as always you give us an