Thanks much for adding that in!
The Messianic Wings
One of the most potent images in the song of Ha’azinu is the image of the eagle hovering over his nest of fledglings (Deuteronomy 32:11). In this metaphor, God, the eagle, comes to waken the fledglings in his nest, hovers over them, spreads his wings over them and finally lifts them on his wings in redemptive flight through the sky.There are two synonyms for “wings” in this verse: kanaf, whose numerical value is 150, and evrah, whose numerical value is 208. Together, these two words equal 358, the numerical value of Mashiach. The eagle carrying the Jewish People on his wings is the Mashiach, carrying out his Divine Messianic mission. In the Torah portion of Yitro (Exodus 19:4) God also refers to the redemption from Egypt as redemption “on the wings of eagles.” Clearly, the eagle and his wings have messianic implications.
George HW Bush, during The Gulf War, felt he had to try and stop Israel from retaliating for the several dozen SCUD strikes Saddam Hussein indiscriminately launched into Israel.
One of those Russian made SCUDs landed in Tel Aviv on a theater.
Saddam was hoping to get Israel to retaliate, so to break up the “coalition” of nations (several muslim) postured to fight him.
**At the time, one of the things President Bush did to pacify and support Israel, was fly Ethiopian Jews (who were being rounded up and or killed) back to Israel, using US Air Force transports. Some of them would be housed in UN contested Israeli “settlements”. I believe this air lift was referred to as “Wings of Eagles”!
By the way, I don’t believe any of Israel should be divided up, period. So I do not agree to the words “occupied territory” or “settlements” being used.