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Israel police denies settlers killed Palestinian shepherd SEPT 29,08
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli police on Monday denied claims that Jewish settlers shot a Palestinian shepherd, saying the teenager found dead in the West Bank was killed by shrapnel from a grenade that he was handling. The autopsy showed the shepherd was killed from shrapnel from an explosion and not from gunshots, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.Investigations at the scene confirmed that the young man was killed by the explosion of a rifle grenade which he handled and that he either found there or was given to him, Rosenfeld said.He ruled out the possibility that the grenade, of the type used by the Israeli army, was fired by residents of a nearby Jewish settlement.Palestinian security officials said on Sunday the shepherd, identified as Yehia Apa Riham, 18, was shot dead by Israeli settlers.The young man was among a group of shepherds grazing flocks south of the city of Nablus and near Itamar settlement on Saturday when they were attacked by settlers, the security sources said.Several violent attacks by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have been reported in recent months.
Olmert says Israel must give up almost all West Bank by Patrick Moser
SEPT 29,08
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel must give up virtually all the occupied West Bank including east Jerusalem, insisting in an interview published on Monday this was key to achieving peace with the Palestinians. We have to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, the meaning of which is that in practice we will withdraw from almost all the territories, if not all the territories, said Olmert, who now heads an interim government following his September 21 resignation.We will leave a percentage of these territories in our hands, but will have to give the Palestinians a similar percentage, because without that there will be no peace, he told the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot newspaper.Including in Jerusalem, he said in reference to the predominently Arab eastern part of the Holy City which Israel occupied and annexed after the 1967 war and which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.His comments are expected to stir deep controversy. Israel officially considers Jerusalem its eternal, undivided capital, a view Olmert -- a former mayor of the city -- said he shared for many years.I am not trying to justify retroactively what I did for 35 years. For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at reality in all its depth, said Olmert.But he stressed that giving up parts of the city is key to Israel's security, pointing to deadly July attacks by Palestinians from east Jerusalem who ploughed through crowded streets with bulldozers.Whoever wants to hold on to all of the city's territory will have to bring 270,000 Arabs inside the fences of sovereign Israel. It won't work, Olmert said.
A decision has to be made. This decision is difficult, terrible, a decision that contradicts our natural instincts, our innermost desires, our collective memories, the prayers of the Jewish people for 2,000 years.Reacting to the interview, Palestinian negotiatiator Saeb Erakat said Israel must translate these statements into reality if it is serious about wanting to achieve a peace accord.We haven't seen these statements translated into a piece of paper, into a concrete offer, he told AFP, stressing that the road to peace is through ending the occupation and (Israeli) settlements in the West Bank.Long-dormant negotiations were revived at a US-hosted conference in November, with both sides pledging to reach a peace deal by the end of the year.While little visible progress has been achieved since, Olmert expressed the conviction that we are very close to reaching agreement.He said that also applied to indirect negotiations with longtime foe Syria which were relaunched in May after a eight-year hiatus, with Turkey acting as a go-between.He made it clear peace would come at a price for both sides, with Israel giving up the annexed Golan Heights and Syria ending its current ties with Iran and no longer backing the Hamas terrorism, the Al-Qaeda terrorism and the jihad in Iraq.He warned however that there was no risk-free solution, without ruling out military confrontation in Syria in the coming years or renewed bloodshed in the West Bank.We don't know, for example, what will happen in the Palestinian Authority after January 9, 2009, he said.On the one hand, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, whose term ends that day, could remain in power with some manipulation, he said.
But we believe that there is a very great danger that there will be a bloody clash, which will thwart any possibility of continuing negotiations and perhaps will force us to be involved in the confrontation, with bloodshed, with everything that could happen as a result.Olmert formally submitted his resignation on September 21 amid deep political turmoil over a series graft allegations that caused police to recommend criminal indictments. He will remain interim premier until a new government is formed. The governing Kadima party's newly elected leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is scrambling to put together a coalition in order to avert snap elections that could put the right-wing Likud party in power.
Israel should quit most occupied land: Olmert By Jeffrey Heller
SEPT 29,08
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel should withdraw from nearly all territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace with the Palestinians and Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Monday as telling a newspaper. Olmert, in a caretaker role since quitting on September 21, said he was breaking new ground in calling for a broad pullback from the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians hope to establish a state, and in the annexed Golan Heights, which Syria wants back.(I am saying) what no previous Israeli leader has ever said: we should withdraw from almost all of the territories, including in East Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights, Olmert, who resigned over corruption allegations, told Yedioth Ahronoth.The Israeli daily called it a legacy interview, published on the eve of the Jewish new year, in which Olmert went further in making offers for peace than he ever did publicly when he was in active office, with greater power to see them carried out.We wish we had heard this personal opinion ... (before) he resigned, said Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki. It is a very important commitment but it came so late. We wish this commitment can be fulfilled by the (next) Israeli government.According to Western and Palestinian officials, Olmert has proposed in peace talks with the Palestinians an Israeli withdrawal from some 93 percent of the occupied West Bank, plus all of the Gaza Strip, from which Israel pulled out in 2005.Olmert has said repeatedly that Israel intends to keep major Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank in any future peace deal with the Palestinians.A peace agreement, Olmert has said, would mean Israel would have to compensate the Palestinians for the land it hopes to retain by close to a 1-to-1 ratio.In exchange for the settlement enclaves, Olmert has proposed about a 5 percent land swap giving the Palestinians a desert territory adjacent to the Gaza Strip, as well as land on which to build a transit corridor between Gaza and the West Bank.The negotiations, which Olmert has vowed to continue until he leaves office when a new government is formed, have shown few signs of progress and both sides acknowledge chances are slim of meeting Washington's target of a deal by the end of the year.
VIABLE STATE
Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmed Qurie, speaking before Olmert's interview, said annexation of settlements would prevent the Palestinians from creating a viable and contiguous country.We can't have a state with settlements dividing the land, Qurie said.Another senior Palestinian negotiator said tracts Olmert proposed to exchange in a peace deal are lands we don't want.Olmert has also engaged Syria in indirect negotiations with Turkish mediation. In the interview, he said peace would be impossible without eventually giving up the Golan Heights.He has so far put off talks on sharing Jerusalem and ruled out a so-called right of return for Palestinian refugees, a central Palestinian demand. On both issues, there is strong opposition in Israel to significant concessions.Olmert, who could face criminal indictment in a corruption investigation, will remain prime minister until a new government is approved by parliament. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is trying to form a coalition.
(Additional reporting by Wafa Amr in Ramallah; Editing by Dominic Evans)
UN nuclear inspector urges more openness from Iran By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer SEPT 29,08
VIENNA, Austria - A six-year probe of Iran has failed to rule out the possibility that the country may be running clandestine nuclear programs, the chief U.N nuclear inspector said Monday, urging the country to end its secretive ways. Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also warned a 145-nation conference that his organization is increasingly stretched in trying to monitor responsibilities that include nonproliferation in countries like Iran and preventing terrorists from acquiring the bomb.All is not well with the IAEA, ElBaradei said, asking the opening session of the agency's general conference for more money and authority.The meeting has traditionally been an annual chance for the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency's member countries to plan general nuclear policies that range from strengthening nonproliferation to programs of medical and scientific benefit.Decisions have been traditionally made by consensus, a practice that had led all sides to bridge sometimes substantial differences and compromise on most issues for most of the general conference's 52-year history. A vote on any topic is unusual and considered a huge dent in the meeting's credibility.But Arab countries, backed by Iran and frustrated over Israel's refusal to put its nuclear program under international purview, are pushing to force a vote for the third year running.After losing the vote two consecutive years, Islamic nations are threatening to up the ante this year, warning they will call for a ballot on every item, no matter how uncontroversial.As in the past two years, Islamic IAEA members are expected to put forward a resolution urging all Mideast nations to refrain from testing or developing nuclear arms and urging nuclear weapons states to refrain from any action hindering a Mideast nuclear-free zone.
Israel, widely considered the only Mideast nuclear weapons state, objects to being singled out as it was in a separate Arab-backed resolution that was defeated last year and is pursuing a vote on the more general nuclear-free zone measure.Focusing on Israel by name is substantially unwarranted and flawed, said a letter prepared for review by the conference from Israel Michaeli, the Jewish State's IAEA representative.Sponsors of the item should instead address the most pressing proliferation concerns in the Middle East, the letter said, alluding to Iran's refusal to stop uranium enrichment in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and allegations that Iran once planned to make nuclear weapons.On Saturday, the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution critical of Iran and in his comments Monday, ElBaradei urged the country to implement all transparency measures ... required to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.This will be good for Iran, good for the Middle East region and good for the world, he said.
Iran, along with ally Syria, figures directly at the Vienna conference because they are among four nations seeking their region's nomination for a seat on the IAEA's decision-making 35-nation board.Iran is running to counteract a U.S. push to have Afghanistan or outsider Kazakhstan elected over Syria, which is under IAEA investigation for allegedly hiding a secret nuclear program, including a nearly completed plutonium producing reactor destroyed last year by Israel.Afghanistan has so far refused to bend to pressure to withdraw from the race, diplomats told the AP. Without agreement, it will come to another — almost certainly divisive — vote.On the Net: http://www.iaea.org
Little holiday joy in Gaza, but tunnelers thrive By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Mon Sep 29, 5:32 AM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - There was little joy in the Gaza Strip on Monday as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan drew to a close and 1.5 million Palestinians scraped together their meager resources to celebrate the feast of Eid al-Fitr. Sealed off by Israel since it pulled out troops and Jewish settlers three years ago, and now run by the Islamist group Hamas, Gaza displays classic symptoms of a land under siege.
Border crossings to Israel and Egypt are as good as closed. No freighters anchor off the Mediterranean shore. Israel controls, and has shut down, air and sea approaches. Goods are scarce, prices high, and smuggling thrives no matter the danger.At least 43 people have been killed this year in the collapse of secret tunnels to Egypt that provide a precarious lifeline for traders and intrepid travelers with cash to spare.
The crossings have been closed and the siege has been tightened and there is no other way, said Sami Bashir, foreman of a tunneling crew.Without the tunnels we would have been strangled by the Israeli siege, said clothing merchant Khaled Adna.
Tunneling has flourished since Hamas took over in Gaza in a week-long Palestinian civil war last year and the Israeli blockade hardened. There are hundreds of makeshift earthworks barely concealed behind tents along the border.A six-month ceasefire agreed in June by Hamas and Israel permits limited trade of mostly food and tiny amounts of construction materials. Hamas and its allies have largely held off firing rockets into Israel. Israel has held off its raids.Gaza markets were crowded ahead of Eid but demand was weak and choice very limited, merchants and buyers agreed.Faced with a choice between buying new clothes or food for their children, people buy food, said Ehab Qassem, a 25-year-old university student selling clothes in Palestine Square. The mood is not joyful, it is sad and tragic.As with other dates in the Muslim lunar calendar, the end of the Ramadan fast and start of the Eid feast is timed according to sightings of the moon. It may be as early as Monday evening.
DIVIDED HOUSE
Residents of Gaza blame their predicament in part on the deep split in Palestinian ranks, between Hamas and the secular Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He runs the Israeli-occupied West Bank, about an hour's drive to the west of Gaza -- if such a drive were possible for local people.The two sides should be ashamed of themselves, said Ibrahim Abu Amra, an employee of the Health Ministry.
They should sit together and form a unity government. Unless they do that, we will get lost, the Palestinian people will get lost, said Abu Amra, a father of seven.
Israel tightened the blockade after Hamas, which wants to destroy the Jewish state and had led a government after winning an election in 2006, routed Fatah forces in June 2007. Political and social divisions have since worsened. Failing a breakthrough in unity talks sponsored by Cairo there may be further violence.
Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman conducted separate talks with the two sides throughout September. He met Fatah last week and will see Hamas officials on October 8. A Fatah official said on Monday that all factions may convene in Cairo on November 4.Either Hamas and Fatah are reconciled this time or we may be going to hell, commented Gaza taxi driver Ali Hassan. Meanwhile, the tuneless get rich. It costs about $250 to traverse approximately 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) underground from Gaza to the Sinai border zone, or $1,000 for the VIP tunnel fare which includes electric lighting and a mobile phone signal. The typical caller is probably saying: I'm half-way through and I'm still alive joked one Gaza resident. Gaza's border with Egypt is only 14 km long (9 miles), coming inland from the sea, and the tunnel builders make no great effort to conceal their diggings. Gazans say Egyptian officials take their cut of the underground trade in bribes. As with its conventional border crossing at Rafah, Egypt has come under pressure from Israel also to close the tunnels down, and Hamas has accused Egypt of causing the deaths of several Palestinians by pumping gas into the tunnels or blowing them up. Bashir, supervising diggings at a tunnel, said his crew knows the risks: They have no choice, he said. There is no work in Gaza and death is a destiny and it will not happen until someone's time is up.
Syria, Iran and Israel in focus at IAEA conference by Simon Morgan
Mon Sep 29, 5:02 AM ET
VIENNA (AFP) - The UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference started Monday with a showdown looming over efforts by Syria and Iran to get a seat on the IAEA board and Islamic countries railing against Israel's nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 145 member countries gathered in Vienna for the 52nd general conference, an annual week-long meeting for drawing up general policies on a whole range of issues, from non-proliferation, nuclear terrorism to medical applications of nuclear technology.This year, however, proceedings look set to be dominated by two key issues: the possible candidature of either Syria or Iran for a seat on the IAEA's 35-member board; and Islamic countries' anger over Israel's nuclear weapons.
Israel is widely believed to be the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear arms, but it refuses to open up its programme to international inspections.In the past two years, Islamic countries have put a resolution urging all Middle East nations to refrain from testing or developing nuclear arms. It urges nuclear weapons states to refrain from any action hindering a Middle East nuclear-free zone.Last year, they even singled out Israel as a nuclear threat in a separate resolution.Angered at the move, Israel put the resolution to a vote and the resolution was duly defeated.Nevertheless, the issue could come to a head again this year, since Arab states have again tabled an item this time entitling it Israeli nuclear capabilities.Diplomats said Israel could again force a vote on the Middle East nuclear-free zone resolution unless the second item is withdrawn.The next key issue looks set to be the candidature of Iran and Syria for a possible seat on the IAEA board, much to the consternation of Western states.Board members are designated and elected each year by the general conference.And a seat is set to become free this year with the expiry of Pakistan's one-year term.The seat is to be allocated to another country within the so-called Middle East and South Asia (MESA) group. Diplomats close to the IAEA have told AFP there are four possible candidates: Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.MESA has until the end of the general conference to decide on a single candidate and the choice is normally adopted by consensus.
The problem is that both Iran and Syria are currently in the dock over their purported clandestine nuclear work. Their nomination would almost certainly run into resistance if MESA decided to choose either of them, diplomats said.And that could mean that a vote would have to be called at the conference, unprecedented in the IAEA's history.The IAEA has been investigating Iran's contested nuclear programme for the past five years, but has so far been able to determine whether the activities are entirely peaceful as Tehran claims.Western powers accuse the Islamic republic of using technology for nuclear energy as a guise to build an atomic bomb.
The United Nations Security Council has slapped three rounds of sanctions on Iran over its refusal to come clean about its nuclear programme and its refusal to cede to international demands to cease uranium enrichment. This process can be used to make the fissile material for a nuclear bomb. Syria, which last sat on the IAEA's board in 2006, is also at the centre of controversy. The United States has alleged it was building a covert nuclear facility at a remote desert site called Al-Kibar until it was destroyed by Israeli bombs in September 2007. Damascus allowed a three-member team from the IAEA to visit Al-Kibar in June, but has since refused any follow-up visit. A diplomat close to the IAEA told AFP on Friday that an official request to visit three or four other sites allegedly involved in clandestine nuclear activities had so far gone unanswered. Speaking on condition of anonymity, diplomats said that the United States would not be happy if MESA decided to name either Syria or Iran as their candidate for a seat on the board. Thus, Western states were hoping that MESA would choose a candidate that would allow the nomination to be adopted by consensus, that is to say, neither Syria nor Iran, one diplomat said.
Israel orders closure of West Bank ahead of Jewish New Year Sun Sep 28, 7:44 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel closed the West Bank on Sunday at midnight ahead of the celebration of the Jewish New Year festival of Rosh Hashana, amid fear of attacks by Palestinian militants. An army spokesman said in a statement that the measure would be lifted on Wednesday at midnight (2100 GMT).The Israeli army believes that the Jewish New Year is a very sensitive moment, the spokesman said.Therefore the Israeli army will raise its alert level to make sure people are safe while keeping the daily life of the Palestinian population as normal as possible.The West Bank is routinely closed before Jewish holidays for fear of attacks.Since the start of the second intifada in September 2000, the West Bank has been partially blocked off, with Israel authorising only tens of thousands of Palestinians to travel to the Jewish state every day.The Gaza Strip has been cut off since the Islamist Hamas movement took over the region in June last year.
Olmert blames extreme right for historian attack Sun Sep 28, 11:37 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday blamed an extreme right-wing group for an attack on an Israeli peace campaigner and warned that the country was facing an ill-wind of extremism. Police and interior security were given orders to do their utmost to arrest the culprits as soon as possible, he told journalists after historian Zeev Sternhell was wounded by a pipe bomb at his home in Jerusalem on Thursday.This appears to be the work of a clandestine group (from the extreme right), Olmert said.He said there was a direct link between the attack on Sternhell and the assassination of former premier Yitzhak Rabin, who was gunned down by a right-wing Jewish extremist in 1995 for his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians.An evil streak of radicalism, malice, hatred and disregard of state law is threatening Israeli democracy, he told a cabinet meeting.The Maariv newspaper said that the attack on Sternhell was carried out by a clandestine right-wing group which has carried out four other attacks using the same methods and explosive devices.Sternhell suffered light injuries to his right leg when the bomb exploded as he was trying to close the door of his house. Fliers found in nearby streets called for the killing of left-wing activists.Sternhell frequently contributes to the liberal Haaretz newspaper, writing columns critical of Israel's right-wing settlement movement and in favour of a negotiated peace with the Palestinians.On Friday he himself blamed Jewish extremists, saying only the extreme right could have perpetrated this crime, either an individual or a cell.A delegation of rabbis visited Sternhell on Sunday charging that the attack was against democracy and Judaism, public radio said.
Hamas releases Fatah prisoners Sun Sep 28, 9:13 AM ET
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Hamas rulers of Gaza said on Sunday they released five leaders of the rival Fatah faction as well as 30 other prisoners ahead of celebrations marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. We are releasing these men as we hope the leaders in the West Bank will do the same for the Hamas prisoners, a spokesman for the Islamist movement told AFP.The release comes ahead of Wednesday's Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.Hamas-led security forces in July rounded up Fatah members after a deadly beachside bombing, but released 150 of them a few days later.Hamas had blamed the bombing on Fatah, which denied any involvement in the attack and later launched its own tit-for-tat arrest campaign in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Hamas ousted troops loyal to secular Palestinian president Mahmhoud Abbas from the Gaza Strip when it seized power in the coastal enclave in June 2007.
Israel's Olmert to visit Russia next week Sun Sep 28, 6:23 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will travel to Moscow next week for talks about Iran's nuclear programme and other issues, a government official said on Sunday. Olmert, who stepped down on September 21 but remains at the helm of a transitional government, will start his two-day trip on October 6, the source said.
Olmert and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss Iran and other issues, the official said.Israel considers Iran to be its greatest threat because of Tehran's accelerating nuclear programme.Both Israel and the United States accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, while Tehran has insisted its atomic programme is entirely peaceful.Media reports on Sunday said the United States recently deployed an anti-missile radar system in Israel mainly aimed at warning of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.Israeli officials have also expressed concern at reports that Russia was willing to sell weapons to Syria, a long-time foe of the Jewish state.
During a telephone conversation last month, Olmert told Medvedev it would be a waste for Syria to spend billions of dollars on buying weapons that Israel would eventually destroy, Israeli media reported.
US operates anti-missile radar in Israel: report Sun Sep 28, 1:40 AM ET
JERUSALEM, (AFP) - The United States has recently deployed an anti-missile radar in Israel that is mainly to warn of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles, Israeli state radio reported Sunday. The radar with a range of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) is sited in the south of the country, the radio added.It is operated by a permanent 120-strong US army staff.Questioned by AFP, a defence ministry spokesman said he did not know about such a deployment.A senior Pentagon official had said in late July that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates agreed to explore deploying a powerful missile defense targeting radar in Israel.The idea here is to help Israel create a layered missile defense capability to protect it from all sorts of threats in the region, near and far, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Besides the radar, Gates also agreed to explore sharing missile early warning launch data, as well as US funding for two costly Israeli projects designed to counter short-range rockets and mortars, he said.The official said deploying the X-band radar was a near-term proposition, adding all this is moving pretty quickly.We are going to station this land-based system there, and the Israelis would plug into it, said the official.An X-band radar is a powerful phased array radar that can target the warhead of a long or medium range missile in space. The United States has deployed one in Japan and plans to install a larger X-band radar in the Czech Republic.The official linked the assistance to the US administration's push for progress on a roadmap for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.But it appeared to be more directly related to Israel's concern about Iran's nuclear program.
No interim peace deal with Israel, Saudi says By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 27, 8:53 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS - Arab nations will totally reject any partial or interim solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because historically such arrangements have become permanent, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Saturday. While supporting current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to reach a comprehensive final solution, Prince Saud Al Faisal said the least that we expect from Israel during these negotiations is that it should halt all settlement operations.The continuation of settlement activity in the occupied Arab territories renders the negotiations meaningless and makes it difficult for us to convince our peoples of the feasibility and benefits of achieving peace, he said.At a Security Council meeting Friday on Israeli settlements, held at Saudi Arabia's request, Saud said the settlement problem is the one issue that threatens to bring down the whole peace process.He said that addressing it was the only way to save the peace deal brokered in Annapolis, Maryland, early this year by President Bush's administration, which set the goal of achieving a substantive peace accord by January 2009 when he leaves office.Saud took up the issue again in a speech he was scheduled to give to the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting. He did not deliver the speech and it was distributed to all U.N. members, said Brenda Vongova, the assembly president's assistant spokeswoman.The foreign minister said Arabs have affirmed their commitment to a just and comprehensive peace based on international law and have not yet received the same commitment from Israel.
Please allow me, on behalf of the Arab Group, to make it absolutely clear that we will totally reject any partial or interim solutions, because history has taught us that such solutions tend to become permanent, he said.While peace negotiators representing Israel and the West Bank's moderate Palestinian leadership privately report progress, the talks are taking place in a vacuum, and haven't been accompanied by serious goodwill gestures that could help them succeed.Israel's corruption-tainted prime minister Ehud Olmert, who launched the talks together with the Palestinian president, has stepped down, the Palestinians remain deeply divided, and time is running out.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reminded the Security Council on Friday that just one year ago, there was no peace process, and noted that Israel and the Palestinians continue their negotiations, along with many other partners.In his speech to the General Assembly, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said it was time for the Mideast to develop new regional frameworks to overcome our long-standing challenges and ensure stable and lasting peace.He said it was time to consider the possibility of creating an organization that would include all states in the Middle East, without exception, to discuss long-standing issues openly and frankly to reach a stable and durable understanding between all parties.U.N. diplomats pointed to the words without exception as significant because that would mean Israel's inclusion.Many Arab leaders called for a peaceful solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Tehran insists it is purely peaceful and aims to produce nuclear energy but the U.S. and many Western nations suspect Iran's goal is producing nuclear weapons.Saudi Arabia's Saud expressed hope that Iran will take practical steps to ensure a peaceful and rapid solution to the problem of the Iranian nuclear program and save the region from devastating conflicts, futile arms races and serious environmental hazards.
Rice and Syria FM hold talks on regional peace efforts Sat Sep 27, 6:26 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed on Saturday she met her Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, to discuss Middle East peace efforts despite renewed criticism from Washington over Syria's policies. Muallem told the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya that the meeting in New York on Friday was positive and marked the start of an upcoming dialogue.He said the US secretary of state had voiced optimism about regional developments, particularly the resolution of the longstanding deadlock between pro- and anti-Damascus factions in Syria's smaller neighbor Lebanon.Syrian and US diplomats said the talks touched on Iraq, Lebanon and Middle East peace negotiations.Rice said she held a brief meeting with Muallem at the Iftar evening meal breaking the daily Ramadan fast.I did on the margins of the Iftar last night have an opportunity to speak with my Syrian colleague for about, I think, 10 minutes, just to talk a little bit about the regional situation and some of the emerging efforts there, she said.Rice, speaking before a meeting with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, said the United States remained ready to assist in securing a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The United States has always said that at the time when it would be helpful, the US would of course be willing to play a role, Rice said.We recognize that a comprehensive peace has to have moving along all tracks, but of course, our focus is on the Israeli-Palestinian track. We believe that it is the one that is the most mature.
Muallem said Rice had expressed hope that indirect contacts between Syria and Israel on resuming peace talks would continue and said Washington was prepared to have an input in them.Syria has held four rounds of preliminary contacts with Israel through Turkish mediators since May. A fifth round was postponed at Israeli request earlier this month.Muallem reiterated Syria's longstanding position that a US role will be required if and when the two sides eventually relaunch direct negotiations broken off eight years ago.In Damascus, the official SANA news agency said that the meeting with Rice had been held at her request.It was her second with Muallem since November 2007 when they held talks on the sidelines of a conference on Iraq. The two first met in May last year during another gathering on Iraq.Their latest talks came after US President George W. Bush slammed Syria in his farewell address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.A few nations -- regimes like Syria and Iran -- continue to sponsor terror, Bush charged.Washington has also accused Damascus of failing to give adequate cooperation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in its investigation into a mystery facility bombed by Israel in September last year that US officials have charged was a nuclear plant.Chilly relations between Syria and the United States grew more tense after the United States accused Damascus of being behind the assassination of Syrian Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 and recalled its ambassador from Syria.
Hamas says Mideast Quartet is pro-Israel Sat Sep 27, 3:10 PM ET
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Islamist Hamas movement on Saturday denounced statements made in New York by the Middle East Quartet, claiming the diplomatic group is biased towards Israel. The position of the Quartet reflects a pro-Israeli bias, the Palestinian movement that rules the Gaza Strip said in a statement.Hamas also criticised the diplomatic group, made up of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States, for calling on Palestinians to put an end to acts of terrorism against Israel.It is perfectly unjust to qualify as terrorism the Palestinian resistance, which is perfectly legitimate, the movement said.A ministerial session of Quartet members ended on Friday with a call for Palestinians and Israelis to make every effort to conclude a peace agreement before the end of the year.Quartet members also expressed deep concern about increasing (Israeli) settlement activity, which has a damaging impact on the negotiating environment and is an impediment to economic recovery and called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity.Hamas said that didn't go far enough.It is not enough for the Quartet to express its concern over settlements, action is needed the statement said.Continued construction of homes for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank is seen as a major obstacle to reaching a peace deal.
Quartet urges Israel, Palestinians to seal peace deal this year by Ezzedine Said Fri Sep 26, 6:57 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The Middle East diplomatic quartet on Friday pressed Israel and the Palestinians to seal a peace deal this year and expressed deep concern over continuing settlement expansion by the Jewish state in the West Bank. A ministerial session of quartet members -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- ended with a call on the parties to make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008.Quartet members expressed deep concern about increasing (Israeli) settlement activity, which has a damaging impact on the negotiating environment and is an impediment to economic recovery and called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity.They also reiterated that the parties must avoid actions that undermine confidence and could prejudice the outcome of the negotiations.In August, Israel approved construction of 400 new homes in a Jewish neighborhood in annexed east Jerusalem and invited bids for construction of another 416 settler homes in the occupied West Bank.The construction of settlements -- viewed as a major obstacle to reaching a peace deal -- has nearly doubled since 2007, despite Israel's pledge to freeze such activities, the Israeli watchdog Peace Now said last month.At a Security Council debate specially convened on the issue, Arab countries earlier Friday slammed Israel over its settlement expansion policy.
Settlement makes the creation of a viable Palestinian state impossible, Prince Saud al-Faisal said during the council debate.The only path to Israel's security is peace and it is time for Israel to understand that it cannot continue to exempt itself from behaving in accordance to international law, said the Saudi foreign minister, whose country formally called for the debate Monday.Meanwhile UN chief Ban Ki-moon pointed out that the quartet noted with appreciation the parties' suggestion to brief the quartet on their ongoing negotiation process with due regard for the confidential and bilateral nature of the discussions.The quartet expressed its interest in coordinating such a meeting in the region at a date to be determined, the text said. We welcome, and we are going to determine the date in the region later, sometime this year.The quartet also condemned acts of terrorism against Israelis, including any rocket attacks emanating from the Palestinian territories, and stressed the need for further Palestinian efforts to fight terrorism.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told the council that the Israeli settlement blocs will not allow for the emergence of a viable Palestinian state because they divide the West Bank into at least four cantons.How can I convince my people of the necessity of peace with Israel when settlement construction continues? he added.But Israel's new UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev told council members that while the settlements are a delicate issue, they are not an obstacle to peace.They have been used here as another instrument to bash Israel instead of addressing the realities on the ground, she added.
There is much that those in the region can do to support that (peace) process, but it is not about more UN meetings, Shalev said. It is, first and foremost, about commitment to prepare the people of the region for the price of peace, to accept the true meaning of peace.In her remarks to the Council, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shifted the focus from the settlement issue and instead urged Arab countries to consider ways they might reach out to Israel.She added that the Arab world needed to fully understand that Israel belongs to the Middle East and will remain in the Middle East. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country currently chairs the European Union, meanwhile restated the EU view that Israeli settlements, wherever in the occupied Palestinian territories, are illegal under international law.In Annapolis, Maryland last November, Israel and the Palestinians revived negotiations toward resolving core problems like the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a future Palestinian state and refugees. The parties set the goal of a peace deal by the end of 2008, but that target is looking increasingly difficult to meet.
Iranians mock Holocaust on annual Jerusalem Day Fri Sep 26, 4:25 PM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranians chanted Death to Israel on Friday as Islamist students unveiled a book mocking the Holocaust in an Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day annual parade to show solidarity with the Palestinians. And in Gaza City, the Islamist Hamas movement that has ruled the impoverished Palestinian territory since June 2007 marked the day by calling for more suicide attacks on Israel.The book Holocaust, published by members of Iran's Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary.Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran's Palestine Square.The cover shows a Jew with a crooked nose and dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground.Inside, bearded Jews are shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads the number 5,999,999.Another illustration depicts Jewish prisoners entering a furnace in a Nazi extermination camp and leaving from the other side as gun-wielding terrorists.Yet another shows a patient draped in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.Iran does not recognise the Jewish state, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation by repeatedly predicting Israel is doomed to disappear and branding the Holocaust a myth.
The commentary inside the book includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt that the massacre of Jews took place and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II.One comment, in a question-and-answer format, reads: How did the Germans emit gas into chambers while there were no holes on the ceiling? Answer: Shut up, you criminal anti-Semite. How dare you ask this question? In 2006, the Islamic republic hosted a conference of Holocaust deniers and revisionists and a mass-circulation Iranian newspaper held a cartoon competition on the subject.On Friday, tens of thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran, chanting Death to Israel, declaring solidarity with the Palestinians and calling for Jerusalem and Israel to be handed to the Palestinians.Demonstrators carried placards bearing slogans including Israel will be destroyed, Palestine is Victorious and Holy war until victory, and they also torched American and Israeli flags.In Gaza, a Hamas parliamentarian called for more suicide attacks against Israel as thousands of Palestinians marched to mark Al-Quds Day.We call on all the factions to undertake efforts to contain the enemy and halt its aggression by planning martyrdom operations, Ahmed Abu Helbiya told a crowd of more than 2,000 protesters.Friday's Iran protest follows a fresh verbal attack on Israel by Ahmadinejad.In an address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters.Quds Day was started by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic, who called on the world's Muslims to show solidarity with Palestinians on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan. The demonstration was held under an official slogan: The Islamic world will not recognise the fake Zionist regime under any circumstances and believes that this cancerous tumour will one day be wiped off the face of the earth.
Russia renews push for pan-European security pact
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today SEPT 29,08 @ 09:26 CET
Russia has reiterated its call for a pan-European summit aimed at creating a reliable collective security system in Europe, arguing that existing structures did not pass the strength test during the conflict in South Caucasus last August.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly ministerial meeting on Saturday (27 September), Russian foreign minister Sergej Lavrov claimed such a new system was needed to guarantee equal security for all states.The solidarity of the international community fostered on the wave of struggle against terrorism turned out to be somehow privatised, he said in a reference to the post-9/11 war on terror and the United States, AP reports. The minister added that it was impossible or even disastrous to try to resolve the existing problems with the blindfolds of the unipolar world.It is not the first time that Moscow raised the idea of providing a pan-European security shield.In June, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for a legally-binding European Security Treaty that should handle arms control, drug trafficking, organised crime, terrorism and irregular immigration. Such agreement would embrace the whole Euro-Atlantic space from Vancouver to Vladivostok, including Russia, the EU, all of Europe's non-EU states, the US and Canada, Mr Medvedev said at the time. According to minister Lavrov's own words, the pact should be a kind of Helsinki 2 - referring to an accord signed in the Finnish capital by 35 nations in 1975 to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. At the time, it was seen as an important step towards reducing Cold War tensions as well as a diplomatic boost for the Soviet Union due to the documents' clauses on the inviolability of national borders and respect for territorial integrity. It is a process involving all participants who would reaffirm their commitment to fundamental principles of international law such as the non-use of force and peaceful settlement of disputes, sovereignty, territorial integrity, non-interference in the internal affairs and inadmissibility of strengthening one's own security by infringing upon the security of others, Mr Lavrov said about the security pact idea, AFP reports.
Russia has been complaining about US missile shield plans in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as about NATO expansion to the East. The recent conflict in South Caucasus is seen as another signal that Moscow wants to play a major role on the world stage and is prepared to take unilateral action if the West does not take note.
In a sign of thawing relations with post-Georgia war Russia, the so-called Middle East "quartet" - counting Russia, the EU, the US and the UN - on Saturday agreed to hold an international conference on the region in Moscow next Spring, Russian newswire Ria Novosti reports.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
BILL TO FOLD UN
REVELATION 20:11-15
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
WELL THE LAKE OF FIRE JUDGEMENT FOR THE LOST OR SINNERS CAN NOT HAPPEN FOR AT LEAST 1007 YEARS. THE RAPTURE HAS TO OCCUR, THEN THE 7 YR TREATY HAS TO OCCUR, THEN THE EU WORLD DICTATOR (FALSE MESSIAH) AND THE FALSE PROPHET HAS TO BE THROWN ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. AND THEN SATAN HAS TO BE BOUND IN THE ABISS FOR ABOUT 900 YEARS AT LEAST, AND FINALLY 1000 YRS LATER THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT OF THE LOST SINNERS FOREVER IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. ALL THE LOST FROM ADAM TILL THE END OF THE MILLENIUM ARE CURRENTLY IN TORMENT IN HELL, THEIR SOULS ARE BEING TORTURED. AT THE END OF JESUS' 1000 YEAR RULE, THE LOSTS BODY AND SOUL WILL BE REUNITED TOGETHER TO BE JUDGED BY JESUS AND THEN THEY ENTER THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER AS STATED IN THE VERSES ABOVE.
The Lake of Fire expected this year?! Enoch's 70 generations of 70 years set to expire September 24, 2008 8:57 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
The author of a unique best-selling book on the year 2012 and the return of biblical Nephilim claims mankind may be on the precipice of an earth-shaking event far beyond the imagination of most people. In Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Thomas Horn quotes the prophet Enoch concerning the history of powerful angels who descended from heaven onto Mt. Hermon in the days of Jared and used women to produce giant offspring.But the history surrounding these demonic beings may not remain in the past. In fact, things may be about to get very scary, Horn claims.Enoch was the son of Jared, father of Methuselah and great-grandfather of Noah, whose writings provide the most detailed account of the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the infamous Nephilim (the bene Elohim Genesis 6:1-2).While the book of Enoch is no longer included in most versions of the Bible, Enoch's writings are quoted in the New Testament in at least two places, and he is mentioned by name in both the Old and New Testaments, including Jude 14-15 where one of his prophecies is cited.During the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, pre-Maccabean fragments of the Book of Enoch were found, illustrating that the ancients held these texts to be sacred. The finding at Qumran also helped scholars to verify the book's antiquity.In addition, many early Church Fathers considered the Book of Enoch to be inspired, including Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen and Clement of Alexandria.
Horn believes this is important, because if Enoch was truly a prophet, then the world may be in for one hell of a surprise, and soon. His concern stems from several specific parts of the book of Enoch.In the tenth chapter of the book of Enoch, it says the Watchers who were judged during the flood would be bound beneath the hills of the earth for seventy generations, until the day of their final judgment in which they will be released from those confines and thrown into an abyss of fire, to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.But in the fifteenth chapter, Enoch writes about the deceased offspring of the Watchers, the giants or Nephilim, and says that they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men... until they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.
These prophecies of Enoch mirror those of other apocryphal works, which indicate a specific future date in which the Watchers will rise for a judgment that will be for ever and ever (Enoch 10:12) and also when the giant offspring of the Watchers will return to wreak havoc upon earth.Of immediate concern, Horn warns, is the seventy generations that Enoch said would transpire from the time of the flood until the date of these events.
Why is this important?
Because according to modern research, the roughly estimated date for the biblical flood is between BC 4800 and 4900. When you consider that a prophetic generation is 70 years based on Psalm 90:10 (The days of our years are threescore years and ten), Enoch's 70 generations times 70 years equals exactly 4900 years forward from the flood, bringing us to the current hour.Is mankind therefore standing on the threshold of Watchers being thrown into an abyss of fire, and giants returning? Does Enoch's dating of the final judgment as occurring following 70 generations from the flood also indicate a looming time frame for the Judgment seat of Christ? In Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Horn points to additional prophecies, which he believes could support this timing of Enoch's 70 generations and a catastrophic soon return of the Watcher's offspring, which would lead to men's hearts failing them for fear when seeing what is coming upon the earth. (see Luke 21:26)As an example, he points to the thirteenth chapter of the book of Isaiah, where it describes the destruction of Babylon (Iraq) at the end of time, something many Christians believe could be imminent given the U.S. military presence and uneasiness there. Yet as soon as the narrative begins, the Lord commands, Open the gates, ye ruler. I give command and I bring them: Giants are coming to fulfill my wrath (Isaiah 13:3) Septuagint.Horn says the word translated here as Giants is Gibborim, beings that, according to him, many scholars hold as having been the offspring of the Watchers and Nephilim.So perhaps, he concludes, the timing of the 70 generations of Enoch coming to an end, and the military buildup in ancient Babylon/Iraq is not coincidental. Perhaps both of these prophets saw the same thing happening at the same time. The ramifications of what this portends may be more than most people can handle, and the return of the Nephilim sooner than we think.
First Jewish holy man to address Catholic synod -- Vatican
Agence France-Presse 22:50:00 09/24/2008
VATICAN CITY—An Israeli rabbi will become the first Jewish holy man to address a Roman Catholic synod when it convenes next month to discuss the Bible, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Wednesday.It's the first time a rabbi has been invited to speak before the synod, Lombardi told Agence France-Presse, noting that Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Grand Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, would speak on the second day of the October 5-26 event gathering Catholic bishops from around the world.The second such gathering to be presided over by Pope Benedict XVI since his election in 2005 will have the theme The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church.More than 200 bishops are expected to attend the synod, a consultative body created in 1965 to ease contacts between bishops and to help the pope set policies for running the Church.Cohen told the Washington-based Catholic News Service (CNS) in Jerusalem that the invitation was a signal of hope (bringing) a message of love, coexistence and peace for generations.He was due to speak on the Jewish interpretation of the Bible, whose first five books comprise the Torah, Judaism's most holy sacred writings.
Cohen told CNS he was able to recite almost the entire Torah by the time he was eight years old.Benedict has continued the conciliatory steps taken by his predecessor, Polish-born John Paul II, to improve inter-faith relations, but has sometimes stumbled.Most recently he allowed the reintroduction of a controversial Good Friday prayer calling for the conversion of Jews.However in April the German-born pontiff won some Jewish hearts and minds when he became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to visit a synagogue in the United States.
LIKE THE ANGEL TOLD DR DOCTORIAN THE UN WILL FOLD DUE TO THE MIDEAST CRISIS.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Bill would boot U.N. from U.S.Tancredo cites anti-American, anti-Jewish grandstanding.September 24, 2008 11:06 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – With the clock ticking on his final days in Congress, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a former presidential candidate, is introducing a flurry of controversial legislation – the latest, a bid to kick the United Nations out of the U.S.The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe, Tancredo said. The U.N.'s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for this ineffective organization to pack its bags and hit the road.This week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is back in New York to address the U.N. His speech has drawn thousands of protesters in New York City.Tancredo's bill, dubbed the U.N. Eviction Act, would direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to initiate condemnation proceedings against all United Nations properties within the United States, and sell the property to the highest bidder on the open market. The proceeds will be given to the Treasury Department to pay down the national debt. The bill would also bar the future purchase of property in the United States or U.S. territories by the U.N. or any of its agencies, and revokes the diplomatic privileges and immunities that U.N. officials and representatives currently enjoy.
I refuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to host Islamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so they can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks from Ground Zero, Tancredo continued.Tancredo said the U.N. is an organization known for its bureaucracy and has become a showcase for anti-American dictators like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and, of course, Ahmadinejad. He said it has also become little more than a rubber stamp for Chinese and Russian foreign policy initiatives – blocking membership by the democratic nation of Taiwan in the world body, and failing to take any meaningful steps to halt the ongoing genocide in Sudan or the illicit nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.If the U.N. is so keen to accommodate the foreign policy demands of rogue nations and dictatorships, perhaps the world body might be more comfortable relocating to one, concluded Tancredo. I'm sure Ban Ki-Moon will have no trouble securing a new location in downtown Pyongyang or Tehran.Last week, Tancredo made news by introducing legislation to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold in the U.S. legal system, as it has in other countries.HR 6975, the Jihad Prevention Act, would allow American authorities to prevent advocates of Islamic law, or Shariah, from entering the country, revoke the visa of any foreigners that champion it and revoke naturalization for citizens that seek to implement it in the U.S.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
YES ACTUALLY THIS BAILOUT WILL PROBABLY BE DONE WHICH WILL GIVE THE FED INCREDIBLE POWERS WHICH THEN THE EU WILL BECOME CLOSELY RELATED WITH AMERICA IN THIS VENTURE AND THE EU WILL PROBABLY BE ALLOWED TO HAVE MEMBERS OF THE EU IN THIS POWER ALSO. IN BEHIND THE SCENES THEN THE EU WILL BE LEADING THIS NEW POWER HUNGRY ELITE AND WHEN THE CRASH FINALLY COMES IN THE FUTURE, THE EU WILL THEN RUN THIS SYSTEM AND CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH THE ECONOMY JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS MUST HAPPEN. THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT BUT IT COULD EXPLAIN HOW THE EU WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLDS ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
EU chief urges next US president to work closely with Europe Wed Sep 24, 3:01 PM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday urged the next US president to work with the EU to confront challenges like the financial crisis, ties with Russia and climate change. In these times of uncertainty, the EU needs the US and, yes, the US needs the EU more than ever, the head of the EU's executive arm said in a speech delivered at Harvard University, near Boston and distributed in Brussels.On the global financial crisis, Barroso said that the degree of interdependence of our economies requires careful coordination, not just in the coming weeks, but, crucially, in the longer term.We need clear and effective rules, maybe commonly agreed rules, where appropriate, to ensure transparency and confidence in the market, he said, in the speech: A letter from Brussels to the next President of the United States of America.With the conflict in Georgia weighing heavily on international relations with Russia, Barroso said that it is essential that we, on both sides of the Atlantic, continue to work together closely, that we stay the course.This is a time for cool heads, not Cold War, he said.
More generally, he called on the eventual winner of the November presidential poll -- either Republican candidate John McCain or his Democratic rival Barack Obama -- to work with Europe toward a new multilateralism.We have the transatlantic marketplace, NATO, the Transatlantic Economic Council and other instruments, he said. But I think we should move beyond this and set an agenda of common action for a new multilateralism that can benefit the whole world.US President George W. Bush, who has been in power for nearly eight years, has been accused of bypassing the United Nations, and Barroso said we need a renewed politics of global engagement, particularly with international institutions.He also urged Washington and Brussels to show joint leadership in the fight against climate change.We have a moral obligation to offer real, deep cuts in emissions in the medium term, not least because we are responsible for the bulk of past emissions, he said.But we also need China and India to play their part in moving as quickly as possible to a low carbon economy, he said. So we must engage with India and China in a real dialogue on this.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
WELL THE LAKE OF FIRE JUDGEMENT FOR THE LOST OR SINNERS CAN NOT HAPPEN FOR AT LEAST 1007 YEARS. THE RAPTURE HAS TO OCCUR, THEN THE 7 YR TREATY HAS TO OCCUR, THEN THE EU WORLD DICTATOR (FALSE MESSIAH) AND THE FALSE PROPHET HAS TO BE THROWN ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. AND THEN SATAN HAS TO BE BOUND IN THE ABISS FOR ABOUT 900 YEARS AT LEAST, AND FINALLY 1000 YRS LATER THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT OF THE LOST SINNERS FOREVER IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. ALL THE LOST FROM ADAM TILL THE END OF THE MILLENIUM ARE CURRENTLY IN TORMENT IN HELL, THEIR SOULS ARE BEING TORTURED. AT THE END OF JESUS' 1000 YEAR RULE, THE LOSTS BODY AND SOUL WILL BE REUNITED TOGETHER TO BE JUDGED BY JESUS AND THEN THEY ENTER THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER AS STATED IN THE VERSES ABOVE.
The Lake of Fire expected this year?! Enoch's 70 generations of 70 years set to expire September 24, 2008 8:57 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
The author of a unique best-selling book on the year 2012 and the return of biblical Nephilim claims mankind may be on the precipice of an earth-shaking event far beyond the imagination of most people. In Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Thomas Horn quotes the prophet Enoch concerning the history of powerful angels who descended from heaven onto Mt. Hermon in the days of Jared and used women to produce giant offspring.But the history surrounding these demonic beings may not remain in the past. In fact, things may be about to get very scary, Horn claims.Enoch was the son of Jared, father of Methuselah and great-grandfather of Noah, whose writings provide the most detailed account of the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the infamous Nephilim (the bene Elohim Genesis 6:1-2).While the book of Enoch is no longer included in most versions of the Bible, Enoch's writings are quoted in the New Testament in at least two places, and he is mentioned by name in both the Old and New Testaments, including Jude 14-15 where one of his prophecies is cited.During the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, pre-Maccabean fragments of the Book of Enoch were found, illustrating that the ancients held these texts to be sacred. The finding at Qumran also helped scholars to verify the book's antiquity.In addition, many early Church Fathers considered the Book of Enoch to be inspired, including Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen and Clement of Alexandria.
Horn believes this is important, because if Enoch was truly a prophet, then the world may be in for one hell of a surprise, and soon. His concern stems from several specific parts of the book of Enoch.In the tenth chapter of the book of Enoch, it says the Watchers who were judged during the flood would be bound beneath the hills of the earth for seventy generations, until the day of their final judgment in which they will be released from those confines and thrown into an abyss of fire, to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.But in the fifteenth chapter, Enoch writes about the deceased offspring of the Watchers, the giants or Nephilim, and says that they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men... until they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.
These prophecies of Enoch mirror those of other apocryphal works, which indicate a specific future date in which the Watchers will rise for a judgment that will be for ever and ever (Enoch 10:12) and also when the giant offspring of the Watchers will return to wreak havoc upon earth.Of immediate concern, Horn warns, is the seventy generations that Enoch said would transpire from the time of the flood until the date of these events.
Why is this important?
Because according to modern research, the roughly estimated date for the biblical flood is between BC 4800 and 4900. When you consider that a prophetic generation is 70 years based on Psalm 90:10 (The days of our years are threescore years and ten), Enoch's 70 generations times 70 years equals exactly 4900 years forward from the flood, bringing us to the current hour.Is mankind therefore standing on the threshold of Watchers being thrown into an abyss of fire, and giants returning? Does Enoch's dating of the final judgment as occurring following 70 generations from the flood also indicate a looming time frame for the Judgment seat of Christ? In Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Horn points to additional prophecies, which he believes could support this timing of Enoch's 70 generations and a catastrophic soon return of the Watcher's offspring, which would lead to men's hearts failing them for fear when seeing what is coming upon the earth. (see Luke 21:26)As an example, he points to the thirteenth chapter of the book of Isaiah, where it describes the destruction of Babylon (Iraq) at the end of time, something many Christians believe could be imminent given the U.S. military presence and uneasiness there. Yet as soon as the narrative begins, the Lord commands, Open the gates, ye ruler. I give command and I bring them: Giants are coming to fulfill my wrath (Isaiah 13:3) Septuagint.Horn says the word translated here as Giants is Gibborim, beings that, according to him, many scholars hold as having been the offspring of the Watchers and Nephilim.So perhaps, he concludes, the timing of the 70 generations of Enoch coming to an end, and the military buildup in ancient Babylon/Iraq is not coincidental. Perhaps both of these prophets saw the same thing happening at the same time. The ramifications of what this portends may be more than most people can handle, and the return of the Nephilim sooner than we think.
First Jewish holy man to address Catholic synod -- Vatican
Agence France-Presse 22:50:00 09/24/2008
VATICAN CITY—An Israeli rabbi will become the first Jewish holy man to address a Roman Catholic synod when it convenes next month to discuss the Bible, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Wednesday.It's the first time a rabbi has been invited to speak before the synod, Lombardi told Agence France-Presse, noting that Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Grand Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, would speak on the second day of the October 5-26 event gathering Catholic bishops from around the world.The second such gathering to be presided over by Pope Benedict XVI since his election in 2005 will have the theme The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church.More than 200 bishops are expected to attend the synod, a consultative body created in 1965 to ease contacts between bishops and to help the pope set policies for running the Church.Cohen told the Washington-based Catholic News Service (CNS) in Jerusalem that the invitation was a signal of hope (bringing) a message of love, coexistence and peace for generations.He was due to speak on the Jewish interpretation of the Bible, whose first five books comprise the Torah, Judaism's most holy sacred writings.
Cohen told CNS he was able to recite almost the entire Torah by the time he was eight years old.Benedict has continued the conciliatory steps taken by his predecessor, Polish-born John Paul II, to improve inter-faith relations, but has sometimes stumbled.Most recently he allowed the reintroduction of a controversial Good Friday prayer calling for the conversion of Jews.However in April the German-born pontiff won some Jewish hearts and minds when he became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to visit a synagogue in the United States.
LIKE THE ANGEL TOLD DR DOCTORIAN THE UN WILL FOLD DUE TO THE MIDEAST CRISIS.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Bill would boot U.N. from U.S.Tancredo cites anti-American, anti-Jewish grandstanding.September 24, 2008 11:06 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – With the clock ticking on his final days in Congress, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a former presidential candidate, is introducing a flurry of controversial legislation – the latest, a bid to kick the United Nations out of the U.S.The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe, Tancredo said. The U.N.'s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for this ineffective organization to pack its bags and hit the road.This week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is back in New York to address the U.N. His speech has drawn thousands of protesters in New York City.Tancredo's bill, dubbed the U.N. Eviction Act, would direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to initiate condemnation proceedings against all United Nations properties within the United States, and sell the property to the highest bidder on the open market. The proceeds will be given to the Treasury Department to pay down the national debt. The bill would also bar the future purchase of property in the United States or U.S. territories by the U.N. or any of its agencies, and revokes the diplomatic privileges and immunities that U.N. officials and representatives currently enjoy.
I refuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to host Islamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so they can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks from Ground Zero, Tancredo continued.Tancredo said the U.N. is an organization known for its bureaucracy and has become a showcase for anti-American dictators like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and, of course, Ahmadinejad. He said it has also become little more than a rubber stamp for Chinese and Russian foreign policy initiatives – blocking membership by the democratic nation of Taiwan in the world body, and failing to take any meaningful steps to halt the ongoing genocide in Sudan or the illicit nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.If the U.N. is so keen to accommodate the foreign policy demands of rogue nations and dictatorships, perhaps the world body might be more comfortable relocating to one, concluded Tancredo. I'm sure Ban Ki-Moon will have no trouble securing a new location in downtown Pyongyang or Tehran.Last week, Tancredo made news by introducing legislation to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold in the U.S. legal system, as it has in other countries.HR 6975, the Jihad Prevention Act, would allow American authorities to prevent advocates of Islamic law, or Shariah, from entering the country, revoke the visa of any foreigners that champion it and revoke naturalization for citizens that seek to implement it in the U.S.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
YES ACTUALLY THIS BAILOUT WILL PROBABLY BE DONE WHICH WILL GIVE THE FED INCREDIBLE POWERS WHICH THEN THE EU WILL BECOME CLOSELY RELATED WITH AMERICA IN THIS VENTURE AND THE EU WILL PROBABLY BE ALLOWED TO HAVE MEMBERS OF THE EU IN THIS POWER ALSO. IN BEHIND THE SCENES THEN THE EU WILL BE LEADING THIS NEW POWER HUNGRY ELITE AND WHEN THE CRASH FINALLY COMES IN THE FUTURE, THE EU WILL THEN RUN THIS SYSTEM AND CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH THE ECONOMY JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS MUST HAPPEN. THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT BUT IT COULD EXPLAIN HOW THE EU WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLDS ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
EU chief urges next US president to work closely with Europe Wed Sep 24, 3:01 PM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday urged the next US president to work with the EU to confront challenges like the financial crisis, ties with Russia and climate change. In these times of uncertainty, the EU needs the US and, yes, the US needs the EU more than ever, the head of the EU's executive arm said in a speech delivered at Harvard University, near Boston and distributed in Brussels.On the global financial crisis, Barroso said that the degree of interdependence of our economies requires careful coordination, not just in the coming weeks, but, crucially, in the longer term.We need clear and effective rules, maybe commonly agreed rules, where appropriate, to ensure transparency and confidence in the market, he said, in the speech: A letter from Brussels to the next President of the United States of America.With the conflict in Georgia weighing heavily on international relations with Russia, Barroso said that it is essential that we, on both sides of the Atlantic, continue to work together closely, that we stay the course.This is a time for cool heads, not Cold War, he said.
More generally, he called on the eventual winner of the November presidential poll -- either Republican candidate John McCain or his Democratic rival Barack Obama -- to work with Europe toward a new multilateralism.We have the transatlantic marketplace, NATO, the Transatlantic Economic Council and other instruments, he said. But I think we should move beyond this and set an agenda of common action for a new multilateralism that can benefit the whole world.US President George W. Bush, who has been in power for nearly eight years, has been accused of bypassing the United Nations, and Barroso said we need a renewed politics of global engagement, particularly with international institutions.He also urged Washington and Brussels to show joint leadership in the fight against climate change.We have a moral obligation to offer real, deep cuts in emissions in the medium term, not least because we are responsible for the bulk of past emissions, he said.But we also need China and India to play their part in moving as quickly as possible to a low carbon economy, he said. So we must engage with India and China in a real dialogue on this.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
PEACE DOUBTFUL THIS YEAR
Israeli, Palestinian peace deal unlikely before Bush leaves SEPT 25,08
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians have made progress since last year's talks in Annapolis, but were unlikely to produce a comprehensive deal before the next US president takes office, lawmakers were told Thursday. Since Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and then Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert relaunched the peace process in Maryland in November, we have seen significant advances ... and substantial progress, a top US diplomat in charge of Middle Eastern affairs, David Welch, told a Senate subcommittee.Among the advances were improved security cooperation between Israelis and the Palestinians and greater fiscal oversight in the Palestinian Authority, said Welch.But he fudged when pressed by Senators John Kerry, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Hagel on whether the key goal set at Annapolis -- a comprehensive peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians by the time President George W. Bush leaves office in January -- was within reach.We have, I think it's 116 days left of the Bush administration, said Kerry.We have 40-plus days until there's an election here; we may or may not see a government in the next weeks in Israel, and President Abbas? Let's see what happens when his term is up in January, he said, pointing to some of the political potholes on the road to a peace deal.Hagel said he has seen a downturn in stability and security in the Middle East during Bush's two, four-year terms, and repeated Kerry's question about what results could be expected from the peace process before the next US president takes office in January.Welch answered: I would like to see that this negotiating track that we embarked on does move ahead.Ideally, it would produce an agreement. If it doesn't, it must be continued, and continued on a substantial basis. We try to build that every single day, he said.The career diplomat said the fact that a state called Palestine has become an articulated goal was another sign that the peace process was moving forward.At last year's meeting in Maryland, which ended a seven-year freeze in the peace process, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to create a mechanism to monitor implementation of a roadmap for peace, which calls for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside a secure Israel.
But Kerry said the acceptance of the idea of a Palestinian state doesn't satisfy anybody any more in terms of accomplishment or big change.Ground on that notion was broken a long time ago. The debate now is over how Swiss-cheesy this new state is going to look -- what sort of rights of access are going to go with it, what happens to the (Israeli) settlements, and so forth, he said.During a visit to Washington in April -- five months after Annapolis -- Abbas told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the continuation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank were the main obstacle to a peace deal.
U.N. Security Council to debate Israel settlements By Louis Charbonneau
Thu Sep 25, 7:09 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council has agreed to end months of silence and discuss Israeli settlement activities on land the Palestinians want for a future state, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday. The meeting will take place on Friday, the same day the Middle East Quartet -- Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations -- will convene on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss the peace process.The meeting was requested by Saudi Arabia with the backing of Arab foreign ministers, who met in New York to discuss the settlements issue on Wednesday.Western diplomats said the council was not expected to take any action by issuing a joint statement or resolution. The 15-nation Security Council has been unable to reach a consensus on anything related to the Middle East for months.In an interview with al-Hurra television, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made no attempt to hide the fact that she would saw no point in Friday's council session.At this point I just don't see the value in doing so, she said. But the Security Council can take these issues up at any time.But let's take it up in the Quartet, which is the appropriate and internationally recognized forum for these issues, she added.The main reason for the council deadlock, Western diplomats say, has been U.S. frustration with debates on the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip earlier this year and Arab states' refusal to denounce the militant group Hamas, which seized power in Gaza last year and advocates destroying Israel.The U.S. delegation has complained that council sessions on the issue have not been constructive, mostly due to the presence on the council of Libya, a long-time foe of the Jewish state.Arab diplomats have accused Washington of blocking council discussion of Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, a problem they say is undermining the peace process.Israel says the Palestinians have failed to meet their obligation to rein in militants.According to a report by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, Israeli authorities and settlers have seized land in the West Bank for security zones around Jewish settlements beyond an Israeli-built barrier.The barrier is deemed illegal by the World Court because it is being built in part on occupied territory, but Israel says it is necessary to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out.The Palestinians condemned the project as a land grab and say settlement expansion could deny them a viable state. (Additional reporting by Haitham Haddadin; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Bush meets with Middle Eastern leaders By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Thu Sep 25, 5:50 PM ET
WASHINGTON - In separate meetings with Middle East leaders Thursday, President Bush applauded Lebanon's efforts to forge a national reconciliation and told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the administration has not given up hope on an agreement to create a Palestinian state. I appreciate your determination and your desire to have a Palestinian state, Bush told Abbas in front of reporters before an Oval Office meeting. I share that desire with you. It's not easy.Bush said the administration will continue to work with Palestinian authorities on security matters and on helping to coordinate international economic assistance.As you know, I've got four more months left in office and I'm hopeful that the vision that you and I have worked on can come to pass, he added.Abbas, seated beside Bush, told the president that he was thankful for U.S. support.Hope remains, Abbas said. We cannot live without hope.According to Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who attended the meeting, Abbas said Palestinians are seeking a comprehensive agreement on all the issues, without any exception. Either there will be an agreement on all the issues or there will be no agreement.Mideast peace talks were relaunched at a U.S.-hosted summit last November, and with prodding from the U.S., Israel and the Palestinians set a year-end target for reaching a final peace accord that would end six decades of hostilities.Despite months of negotiations, there have been no apparent breakthroughs, and the sides remain at odds over key issues like the final borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state, the competing claims to Jerusalem and the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees.Negotiations have been stalled by the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who stepped down amid a string of corruption allegations. Tzipi Livni, Israel's prime minister-designate, has signaled that she will keep peace negotiations going.In an earlier meeting Thursday, Bush lauded efforts by Lebanon's new president to promote reconciliation in a country the United States considers key to combatting extremism in the Middle East.In remarks at the outset of the Oval Office meeting with President Michel Suleiman, Bush said he has watched carefully the public statements that Suleiman has made since taking office in May.Your statements impressed me and we're most impressed by the national dialogue that you're holding in an attempt to seek reconciliation, Bush said. The United States is proud to stand by your side. Our mission is your mission: a country that is strong and capable, a country where people can make a peace.
Suleiman, seen as relatively friendly with Syria, was installed as president in a compromise after Hezbollah blocked pro-Western factions from electing a politician who took a harder-line stance against Syria. Clashes last May between Syrian-backed Hezbollah and pro-government loyalists in Beirut and other areas left 81 people dead and more than 200 wounded.Sitting beside Bush in the Oval Office, Suleiman said his country shares many U.S. values, including the promotion of liberty and the fight against terrorism. And he thanked Bush for his administration's support of the Lebanese government, particularly efforts to bolster the Lebanese army.There are so many things in common between the American people and the Lebanese people. We are here also to reaffirm our rights to have a prosperous Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, Suleiman said. Mr. President, we are also here to affirm the need to liberate all Lebanese territories and also to make it clear that the future of Palestinian refugees is in their homeland, not in Lebanon.The U.S. financial crisis took center stage at the White House later Thursday when presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and congressional leaders met with Bush on a rescue plan for financial markets.Those meetings were last-minute additions to Bush's schedule. Already on the calendar were Bush's meetings with Abbas, Suleiman and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Washington to rally congressional support for a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
Israeli historian critical of settlements wounded in bomb attack by Jean-Luc Renaudie Thu Sep 25, 2:13 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell, known for his criticism of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, was wounded when a pipe bomb exploded at his home on Thursday, police said. Sternhell suffered light injuries to his right leg when the bomb exploded as he was trying to close the door to his house and was hospitalised in Jerusalem.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said an investigation was underway and that police searching for evidence found fliers in nearby streets calling for the killing of left-wing activists.We found fliers offering a reward of 1.1 million shekels (320,000 dollars, 221,000 euros) for attacking and killing members of Peace Now, he said.Peace Now, an Israeli rights group devoted to ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories, blamed extreme right-wing groups for the attack.Law enforcement authorities must abandon their lenient policy when it comes to law-breakers from within the settler community and their supporters, the group said.Those who don't enforce the law on violent settlers in the territories will find (themselves) with a Jewish terror organisation in the heart of Israel.
Military radio also quoted Sternhell as saying: If the attack was carried out by a certain political movement, then we must mobilise in order to avoid the collapse of our democracy.Sternhell frequently contributes to the liberal Haaretz newspaper, writing columns critical of Israel's right-wing settlement movement and in favour of a negotiated peace with the Palestinians.In one of his more controversial articles he said: If the Palestinians exhibited more foresight, they would have concentrated their actions against the settlements instead of attacking women and children (in Israel).He has also staunchly opposed the Israeli blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, calling it both immoral and ineffective.Interim prime minister Ohud Olmert and his would-be successor were among several Israeli figures who condemned the attack.Olmert called for a speedy investigation to bring to justice the culprits, military radio said, while Tzipi Livni said in a statement that the attack was inadmissible.Ultra-nationalist lawmaker Geula Cohen condemned the attack in an interview with public radio but denounced Sternhell's political positions.Of course I strongly condemn this act, but we must not forget that Zeev Sternhell has in the past called for tanks to destroy the settlements and incited (Palestinian) terror organisations to kill settlers, she said.Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that we will not allow anyone, from any dank corner of Israeli society, to persecute anyone else, he was quoted as saying by Ynet News.A group of protesters meanwhile demonstrated in Jerusalem agains the attack.Sternhall, who was born in Poland in 1935, fled the Nazi Holocaust. He teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in the emergence of fascism, and is an expert on extreme right-wing ideologies in France. In February he was awarded the 2008 Israel Prize in political science.
Diplomats: US asks IAEA for full Syria report By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 25, 2:12 PM ET
VIENNA, Austria - The United States asked the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency Thursday for a fuller accounting of its probe of Syria's alleged efforts to secretly develop a plutonium-producing facility at a site bombed by Israel. A senior Syrian envoy in turn accused Washington of using twisted logic in pressuring his country instead of condemning the Israeli attack.When you shield the aggressor and when you accuse the victim it is ... being not only an accessory to the crimes committed, but also encouraging more crimes, Syrian Ambassador Mohammed Badi Khattab told The Associated Press.He urged whatever U.S. administration takes office next year to play a more active role in Turkish-mediated Syrian-Israeli efforts to reach a peace agreement.Without the U.S. being in the negotiations, there is no guarantee that what you agree upon will be implemented, he said. Because the U.S. is the only country that has this unique relationship with Israel, ... (it) has the duty to influence its position in moving forward, said Khattab.The United States has hung back from directly engaging Syria, insisting it must stop support for Lebanon's Hezbollah and other groups labeled by Washington as terrorists.Khattab is also his country's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency. He spoke after U.S. chief representative Gregory L. Schulte suggested his country was dissatisfied with a brief oral report on the status of an IAEA probe of allegations that Syria was working on covert nuclear program that included a nearly finished reactor bombed by Israel a year ago.Given the gravity of the issue ... the United States looks forward to a comprehensive report ... detailing, in writing, the status of the investigation at the November meeting of the 35-nation IAEA board, Schulte told board members, in comments to the closed meeting made available to reporters.
Detailing allegations of months of efforts by Syria to alter the Al Kibar site and rid it of any evidence it was a nuclear facility, Schulte asked: What does Syria have to hide? In his oral report Monday, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the board meeting that preliminary results from environmental samples taken in June from the bombed site came up with no indication to back the claims that the destroyed target was a nuclear facility.He also said that Syria would decide on whether to provide more information and allow further IAEA visits depending on the results of the samples taken during the first visit — implying that Damascus could shut the doors on the probe if the all the samples come up empty.Pressed whether Syria would permit further visits, Khattab said: We are not opening the door, and we are not closing the door until after the results come in.The issue is significant because of concerns that the investigation could grind to a halt if the samples show no nuclear-related traces and Syria uses that finding to declare the probe closed.That could cripple international efforts to probe whether the site in a remote part of the Syrian desert was a near-finished plutonium-producing reactor built with North Korean help, and that Damascus continues to hide linked facilities.IAEA inspectors looking for unreported nuclear activity usually test for radioactivity. But in this case, their mission was more difficult.According to intelligence given to the Vienna-based agency by the U.S., Israel and a third, unidentified country, the alleged reactor was not yet completed at the time of the Sept. 6, 2007, bombing. That meant no nuclear material would have been present.So the inspectors looked for minute quantities of graphite, which is used as a cooling element in the type of North Korean prototype that was allegedly being built.But — if they were interested in a cover-up — the Syrians would have scoured the region to bury, wash away and otherwise remove any such traces.
Israeli professor wounded in Jerusalem bomb attack By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 25, 10:57 AM ET
JERUSALEM - A pipe bomb exploded Thursday outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists. Investigators found posters in Professor Zeev Sternhell's neighborhood offering a $320,000 prize to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a dovish Israeli group whose views Sternhell shares.If extremists were behind the attack, it would be one of the worst instances of political violence inside Israel since an opponent of peace negotiations with the Palestinians murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.Human rights groups say settlers have been increasingly using violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, in what appears to be an attempt to deter Israeli authorities from making any attempt to evacuate settlements.The settlement movement fervently opposes the peace talks and rejects the territorial withdrawal a deal would require.A person close to Sternhell's family said, without elaborating, that the professor had received threats in the past. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of the incident's political sensitivity.The bomb was planted on the doorstep of Sternhell's home in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood, exploding when he opened the door, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. The assailants were not apprehended.
Sternhell had minor shrapnel wounds in one leg and will remain hospitalized at least until Friday, authorities said.An internationally known scholar on fascism and a Holocaust survivor, he was awarded the country's highest honor, the Israel Prize, this year. The award drew criticism from settlers and their supporters.National police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said investigators believe the attack was ideological.Itamar Ben-Gvir, an activist with a fringe settler group calling itself the National Jewish Front, said I don't denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved.In a statement, Peace Now identified Sternhell as a veteran supporter and said Israeli authorities shared responsibility for the attack for not cracking down on settler violence in the West Bank.Peace Now's head said he was placed under police protection after the attack, but Rosenfeld could not confirm that.The attack drew condemnation from Israeli politicians, including some from hard-line parties.Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni said in a statement that Israel could not gloss over the attack, which she described as intolerable.It's the responsibility of the state and its people to denounce these events before they occur, Livni said.Settlers regularly clash with Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the West Bank, but the use of weapons against political opponents in Israel is uncommon.There have, however, been precedents. A pro-settlement extremist shot and killed Rabin, who was spearheading efforts to strike a peace deal. Another extremist killed a member of Peace Now with a grenade at a 1983 peace protest.
Israel's Peres says Ahmadinejad taking world for a fool Thu Sep 25, 4:53 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres sharpened his attack on Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday, accusing him of taking the world for a fool in his statements to the UN General Assembly. (Ahmadinejad) has committed a fatal error, and is taking the world for a fool. He thinks he is an absolute prophet, proclaiming that there is no more hope for the United States or Israel, Peres told Israeli public radio.It is shameful to Islam, to all religions, to the United States, and to democracy. His voice does not come from heaven but hell and one day it will pass away like a breeze, he said in the interview conducted in New York.Israel has long considered Iran its greatest threat, both because of Tehran's accelerating nuclear programme and repeated statements by its leaders predicting the demise of the Jewish state.In a blistering speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Peres said Iran was at the centre of violence and fanaticism and had built a danger to the entire world.Israel and the United States accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, while Tehran has insisted its programme is entirely peaceful and vowed to proceed despite three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions.Israel is the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear armed state with an estimated arsenal of 200 warheads.Neither the United States nor Israel has ruled out a military response to the Iranian nuclear standoff, and on Thursday Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said all options remain on the table.Iran continues to exert every effort in its activities to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, he said in a statement.For now there is still time for addressing the issue diplomatically, but we believe we must not renounce any option and we do not think anyone else in the world should either, he added.In his own address to the assembly on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad lashed out at what he called international bullying and vowed to press ahead with Iran's nuclear drive.As for Israel, he said the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters.
Aid agencies say Middle East peace Quartet failing Thu Sep 25, 12:09 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Aid agencies accused the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators on Thursday of failing in its mission and urged it to show it was up to the task.
The agencies issued a critical report just before the Quartet -- Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations -- meets in New York on Friday to discuss the peace process.The Middle East Quartet is failing -- making inadequate progress toward improving the lives of Palestinians (and not) improving the prospects for peace, a coalition of 21 aid agencies and human rights organizations said in a statement.CARE International U.K., Christian Aid, Oxfam and Save the Children were among the agencies behind the report.They said this week's meeting would take place at a critical moment for the quartet to demonstrate that it can play an effective role in bringing peace to the Middle East.Unless there is a swift and dramatic improvement, it will be necessary to question what the future is for the Middle East Quartet, it said.U.S. President George W. Bush launched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Annapolis, near Washington, last November, seeking a deal on the establishment of a Palestinian state before he leaves office next January.The agencies said the deadline seemed unlikely to be met.They added that the visible progress on the ground demanded by the Quartet when it met in Berlin in June had not materialized.On five of the Quartet's 10 objectives, such as improving access to Palestinian territories, there had been no change or a marked deterioration, they said.
Despite efforts by Quartet members to signal opposition to the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, there had been an acceleration in construction and no serious attempts by the Israeli authorities to dismantle outposts, they said.The Quartet had failed to secure the removal of Israeli checkpoints and other obstacles that would allow Palestinians to see a tangible improvement in their daily lives, the agencies added.There is no new reality in the West Bank: The economy continues to stagnate and the blockade of Gaza continues, the report said.The Quartet had secured substantial funding pledges but this had not yet led to the prompt delivery of projects or improved the lives of Palestinians, they said.(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)
Israeli police break up Jerusalem terrorist cell Wed Sep 24, 2:06 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli police announced on Wednesday the smashing of a terrorist cell from east Jerusalem believed responsible for the killing of two border policemen and of preparing other attacks. Alleged cell leader Mohammed Halal Abu Sneineh, 21, from the Anata neighbourhood, and two other unnamed suspects were arrested around 10 days ago on charges of murder and attempted murder, a police source said.Four other suspected members of the ring are already in jail.The Jerusalem district court initially ordered a blackout on news of their detentions at the request of the domestic security agency, Shin Beth.The two policemen were killed in east Jerusalem, one in January and the other in July. The three suspects are also suspected of wounding two others and of planning an attack on yet another one.
Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franco told journalists on Wednesday that 250 residents of east Jerusalem had been arrested on security grounds since the beginning of 2008.News of the arrests comes just two days after a young man from east Jerusalem rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring 13 people before being shot dead.Exactly two months earlier, on July 22, a Palestinian wounded 16 people when he turned an earth mover on passers-by and vehicles in Jerusalem.That incident mimicked one 10 days earlier in which another Palestinian, also in an earth mover, killed three Israelis and injured more than 45.On March 6, a Palestinian gunman killed eight students at a Jewish religious school in the worst attack Jerusalem had seen in years.All three assailants were shot dead immediately after the attacks and all were from east Jerusalem, prompting widespread calls for a return to a policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians who launch deadly attacks.
Israel's Olmert to be quizzed again in graft probes Wed Sep 24, 1:01 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Ehud Olmert, who stepped down as Israel's prime minister, will be questioned next week for the eighth time since claims of graft emerged in May, the police said on Wednesday. The questioning will be conducted next Thursday morning (October 2) at the official residence of the prime minister, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.Earlier this month police recommended indicting Olmert over suspicions he had unlawfully accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from a US businessman and for billing the same overseas trips several times over, allegedly using the ill-gotten gains to pay for private trips.Olmert, 62, insists he is innocent but stepped down on Sunday after his centrist Kadima elected Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as new party leader. He nevertheless remains interim prime minister until a new government is formed.Olmert has already been questioned seven times since allegations emerged in May that he had accepted funds illegally from wealthy US financier Morris Talansky to finance his political campaigns and his lifestyle.
Palestinians win Livni pledge on talks By Wafa Amr
Tue Sep 23, 6:18 PM ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurie won an assurance from Israeli prime minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Tuesday that peace talks will not stall while she tries to form a new coalition government. in an interview with Reuters following their meeting, Qurie warned that violence could erupt if the talks collapsed.The Palestinians will continue to negotiate. But, if the talks reached a dead end, what do we do? Capitulate? Resistance in all its forms is a legitimate right, Qurie said.He said he had had a good first meeting with Livni, his Israeli negotiating counterpart and currently foreign minister, since her appointment as prime minister-designate on Monday.Livni reassured me she would continue the peace process without accepting any conditions.In a statement issued by her office, Livni urged the Palestinians not to resort to violence which will not achieve for the Palestinians any national objective.Israeli officials denied that Livni made any promises about the contents of the negotiations going forward. Some prospective coalition partners object to including Jerusalem in the talks.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said after the meeting: Livni assured her Palestinian counterpart that the meetings and working sessions will continue in the same format, with no change, even through the period in which she is trying to put together a governing coalition.But he added: She made no promises, such as the one he (Qurie) alluded to, concerning the contents of the talks.Referring to the goal set by U.S. President George W. Bush last November, Qurie said he had great doubts about finalizing a deal this year.
He said Palestinian leaders were considering their options if talks failed to produce a deal that would lead to independence.If they lost hope in negotiations and became convinced Israel was not prepared to end its occupation, renewed attacks against Israelis were possible.Asked whether he was saying the Palestinians might resume suicide bombings and attacks inside Israel, Qurie responded: All forms of resistance.Livni, now trying to form a new coalition government to carry on peace talks that have so far produced little progress, made a similar warning in August.
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Bush launched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Annapolis last November, seeking a deal on the establishment of a Palestinian state before he leaves office in January 2009.Qurie said talks on sensitive final status issues such as the fate of Jerusalem, refugees, and borders have been marred by continued Jewish settlement expansion on occupied land.The change of government in Israel following the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes it difficult for Israel to make decisions under such conditions, and time is running out, he added. The Palestinians were also unable to make decisions, as their attention was diverted by internal divisions as a result of Hamas' coup in Gaza, and power struggles, Qurie said.
Israel has said it would not implement any deal it signs with the Palestinians until the government of President Mahmoud Abbas re-establishes control of the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist Hamas group seized in June 2007. Qurie said Palestinian options include abandoning the proposed two-state deal for a one-state solution absorbing Jews and Arabs into a single country -- something few Jews are willing to countenance. Olmert has proposed a partial deal that would set aside the most intractable issue -- divided Jerusalem. Qurie said partial deals only brought disasters in the past. We want a detailed, comprehensive accord that would end occupation, he said. (Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Jon Boyle)
German FM eyes peace progress with new Israeli goverment Tue Sep 23, 1:10 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday said a Middle East peace deal was unlikely this year, but hoped the process could be kickstarted as soon as a new Israeli government is formed. Steinmeier told reporters at the start of the United Nations General Assembly's annual debate that he would be meeting regional leaders throughout the week to assess progress and offer support for reconciliation efforts.It is an opportunity to see where we are almost a year after the Annapolis conference, he said, referring to a US-hosted conference in November when the goal of a Mideast peace deal by the end of 2008 was set.My view is that we have not come as far as we would like but we have come farther than many pessimists feared last year.Steinmeier is to meet here Tuesday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem and on Wednesday with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
He urged the quick formation of a new Israeli government following the resignation of scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday.Steinmeier added that the Palestinians had made progress in stabilising the West Bank with better security and the beginnings of economic growth.Germany has pushed for the so-called Middle East Quartet grouping the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union to redouble its efforts to reach a durable peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.Berlin hosted a security conference in June where international donors committed 242 million dollars to bolster the Palestinian police and justice system to help pave the way to a viable state.Steinmeier said it would likely only be sensible for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to call a new Quartet meeting when a new Israeli government is in place.He hailed Turkish efforts since May to mediate between Israel and Syria as a major contribution to regional stability, and hoped further progress could be made this week so Syria and Lebanon could open diplomatic relations this year.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians have made progress since last year's talks in Annapolis, but were unlikely to produce a comprehensive deal before the next US president takes office, lawmakers were told Thursday. Since Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and then Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert relaunched the peace process in Maryland in November, we have seen significant advances ... and substantial progress, a top US diplomat in charge of Middle Eastern affairs, David Welch, told a Senate subcommittee.Among the advances were improved security cooperation between Israelis and the Palestinians and greater fiscal oversight in the Palestinian Authority, said Welch.But he fudged when pressed by Senators John Kerry, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Hagel on whether the key goal set at Annapolis -- a comprehensive peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians by the time President George W. Bush leaves office in January -- was within reach.We have, I think it's 116 days left of the Bush administration, said Kerry.We have 40-plus days until there's an election here; we may or may not see a government in the next weeks in Israel, and President Abbas? Let's see what happens when his term is up in January, he said, pointing to some of the political potholes on the road to a peace deal.Hagel said he has seen a downturn in stability and security in the Middle East during Bush's two, four-year terms, and repeated Kerry's question about what results could be expected from the peace process before the next US president takes office in January.Welch answered: I would like to see that this negotiating track that we embarked on does move ahead.Ideally, it would produce an agreement. If it doesn't, it must be continued, and continued on a substantial basis. We try to build that every single day, he said.The career diplomat said the fact that a state called Palestine has become an articulated goal was another sign that the peace process was moving forward.At last year's meeting in Maryland, which ended a seven-year freeze in the peace process, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to create a mechanism to monitor implementation of a roadmap for peace, which calls for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside a secure Israel.
But Kerry said the acceptance of the idea of a Palestinian state doesn't satisfy anybody any more in terms of accomplishment or big change.Ground on that notion was broken a long time ago. The debate now is over how Swiss-cheesy this new state is going to look -- what sort of rights of access are going to go with it, what happens to the (Israeli) settlements, and so forth, he said.During a visit to Washington in April -- five months after Annapolis -- Abbas told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the continuation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank were the main obstacle to a peace deal.
U.N. Security Council to debate Israel settlements By Louis Charbonneau
Thu Sep 25, 7:09 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council has agreed to end months of silence and discuss Israeli settlement activities on land the Palestinians want for a future state, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday. The meeting will take place on Friday, the same day the Middle East Quartet -- Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations -- will convene on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss the peace process.The meeting was requested by Saudi Arabia with the backing of Arab foreign ministers, who met in New York to discuss the settlements issue on Wednesday.Western diplomats said the council was not expected to take any action by issuing a joint statement or resolution. The 15-nation Security Council has been unable to reach a consensus on anything related to the Middle East for months.In an interview with al-Hurra television, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made no attempt to hide the fact that she would saw no point in Friday's council session.At this point I just don't see the value in doing so, she said. But the Security Council can take these issues up at any time.But let's take it up in the Quartet, which is the appropriate and internationally recognized forum for these issues, she added.The main reason for the council deadlock, Western diplomats say, has been U.S. frustration with debates on the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip earlier this year and Arab states' refusal to denounce the militant group Hamas, which seized power in Gaza last year and advocates destroying Israel.The U.S. delegation has complained that council sessions on the issue have not been constructive, mostly due to the presence on the council of Libya, a long-time foe of the Jewish state.Arab diplomats have accused Washington of blocking council discussion of Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, a problem they say is undermining the peace process.Israel says the Palestinians have failed to meet their obligation to rein in militants.According to a report by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, Israeli authorities and settlers have seized land in the West Bank for security zones around Jewish settlements beyond an Israeli-built barrier.The barrier is deemed illegal by the World Court because it is being built in part on occupied territory, but Israel says it is necessary to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out.The Palestinians condemned the project as a land grab and say settlement expansion could deny them a viable state. (Additional reporting by Haitham Haddadin; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Bush meets with Middle Eastern leaders By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Thu Sep 25, 5:50 PM ET
WASHINGTON - In separate meetings with Middle East leaders Thursday, President Bush applauded Lebanon's efforts to forge a national reconciliation and told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the administration has not given up hope on an agreement to create a Palestinian state. I appreciate your determination and your desire to have a Palestinian state, Bush told Abbas in front of reporters before an Oval Office meeting. I share that desire with you. It's not easy.Bush said the administration will continue to work with Palestinian authorities on security matters and on helping to coordinate international economic assistance.As you know, I've got four more months left in office and I'm hopeful that the vision that you and I have worked on can come to pass, he added.Abbas, seated beside Bush, told the president that he was thankful for U.S. support.Hope remains, Abbas said. We cannot live without hope.According to Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who attended the meeting, Abbas said Palestinians are seeking a comprehensive agreement on all the issues, without any exception. Either there will be an agreement on all the issues or there will be no agreement.Mideast peace talks were relaunched at a U.S.-hosted summit last November, and with prodding from the U.S., Israel and the Palestinians set a year-end target for reaching a final peace accord that would end six decades of hostilities.Despite months of negotiations, there have been no apparent breakthroughs, and the sides remain at odds over key issues like the final borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state, the competing claims to Jerusalem and the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees.Negotiations have been stalled by the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who stepped down amid a string of corruption allegations. Tzipi Livni, Israel's prime minister-designate, has signaled that she will keep peace negotiations going.In an earlier meeting Thursday, Bush lauded efforts by Lebanon's new president to promote reconciliation in a country the United States considers key to combatting extremism in the Middle East.In remarks at the outset of the Oval Office meeting with President Michel Suleiman, Bush said he has watched carefully the public statements that Suleiman has made since taking office in May.Your statements impressed me and we're most impressed by the national dialogue that you're holding in an attempt to seek reconciliation, Bush said. The United States is proud to stand by your side. Our mission is your mission: a country that is strong and capable, a country where people can make a peace.
Suleiman, seen as relatively friendly with Syria, was installed as president in a compromise after Hezbollah blocked pro-Western factions from electing a politician who took a harder-line stance against Syria. Clashes last May between Syrian-backed Hezbollah and pro-government loyalists in Beirut and other areas left 81 people dead and more than 200 wounded.Sitting beside Bush in the Oval Office, Suleiman said his country shares many U.S. values, including the promotion of liberty and the fight against terrorism. And he thanked Bush for his administration's support of the Lebanese government, particularly efforts to bolster the Lebanese army.There are so many things in common between the American people and the Lebanese people. We are here also to reaffirm our rights to have a prosperous Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, Suleiman said. Mr. President, we are also here to affirm the need to liberate all Lebanese territories and also to make it clear that the future of Palestinian refugees is in their homeland, not in Lebanon.The U.S. financial crisis took center stage at the White House later Thursday when presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and congressional leaders met with Bush on a rescue plan for financial markets.Those meetings were last-minute additions to Bush's schedule. Already on the calendar were Bush's meetings with Abbas, Suleiman and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Washington to rally congressional support for a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
Israeli historian critical of settlements wounded in bomb attack by Jean-Luc Renaudie Thu Sep 25, 2:13 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell, known for his criticism of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, was wounded when a pipe bomb exploded at his home on Thursday, police said. Sternhell suffered light injuries to his right leg when the bomb exploded as he was trying to close the door to his house and was hospitalised in Jerusalem.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said an investigation was underway and that police searching for evidence found fliers in nearby streets calling for the killing of left-wing activists.We found fliers offering a reward of 1.1 million shekels (320,000 dollars, 221,000 euros) for attacking and killing members of Peace Now, he said.Peace Now, an Israeli rights group devoted to ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories, blamed extreme right-wing groups for the attack.Law enforcement authorities must abandon their lenient policy when it comes to law-breakers from within the settler community and their supporters, the group said.Those who don't enforce the law on violent settlers in the territories will find (themselves) with a Jewish terror organisation in the heart of Israel.
Military radio also quoted Sternhell as saying: If the attack was carried out by a certain political movement, then we must mobilise in order to avoid the collapse of our democracy.Sternhell frequently contributes to the liberal Haaretz newspaper, writing columns critical of Israel's right-wing settlement movement and in favour of a negotiated peace with the Palestinians.In one of his more controversial articles he said: If the Palestinians exhibited more foresight, they would have concentrated their actions against the settlements instead of attacking women and children (in Israel).He has also staunchly opposed the Israeli blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, calling it both immoral and ineffective.Interim prime minister Ohud Olmert and his would-be successor were among several Israeli figures who condemned the attack.Olmert called for a speedy investigation to bring to justice the culprits, military radio said, while Tzipi Livni said in a statement that the attack was inadmissible.Ultra-nationalist lawmaker Geula Cohen condemned the attack in an interview with public radio but denounced Sternhell's political positions.Of course I strongly condemn this act, but we must not forget that Zeev Sternhell has in the past called for tanks to destroy the settlements and incited (Palestinian) terror organisations to kill settlers, she said.Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that we will not allow anyone, from any dank corner of Israeli society, to persecute anyone else, he was quoted as saying by Ynet News.A group of protesters meanwhile demonstrated in Jerusalem agains the attack.Sternhall, who was born in Poland in 1935, fled the Nazi Holocaust. He teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in the emergence of fascism, and is an expert on extreme right-wing ideologies in France. In February he was awarded the 2008 Israel Prize in political science.
Diplomats: US asks IAEA for full Syria report By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 25, 2:12 PM ET
VIENNA, Austria - The United States asked the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency Thursday for a fuller accounting of its probe of Syria's alleged efforts to secretly develop a plutonium-producing facility at a site bombed by Israel. A senior Syrian envoy in turn accused Washington of using twisted logic in pressuring his country instead of condemning the Israeli attack.When you shield the aggressor and when you accuse the victim it is ... being not only an accessory to the crimes committed, but also encouraging more crimes, Syrian Ambassador Mohammed Badi Khattab told The Associated Press.He urged whatever U.S. administration takes office next year to play a more active role in Turkish-mediated Syrian-Israeli efforts to reach a peace agreement.Without the U.S. being in the negotiations, there is no guarantee that what you agree upon will be implemented, he said. Because the U.S. is the only country that has this unique relationship with Israel, ... (it) has the duty to influence its position in moving forward, said Khattab.The United States has hung back from directly engaging Syria, insisting it must stop support for Lebanon's Hezbollah and other groups labeled by Washington as terrorists.Khattab is also his country's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency. He spoke after U.S. chief representative Gregory L. Schulte suggested his country was dissatisfied with a brief oral report on the status of an IAEA probe of allegations that Syria was working on covert nuclear program that included a nearly finished reactor bombed by Israel a year ago.Given the gravity of the issue ... the United States looks forward to a comprehensive report ... detailing, in writing, the status of the investigation at the November meeting of the 35-nation IAEA board, Schulte told board members, in comments to the closed meeting made available to reporters.
Detailing allegations of months of efforts by Syria to alter the Al Kibar site and rid it of any evidence it was a nuclear facility, Schulte asked: What does Syria have to hide? In his oral report Monday, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the board meeting that preliminary results from environmental samples taken in June from the bombed site came up with no indication to back the claims that the destroyed target was a nuclear facility.He also said that Syria would decide on whether to provide more information and allow further IAEA visits depending on the results of the samples taken during the first visit — implying that Damascus could shut the doors on the probe if the all the samples come up empty.Pressed whether Syria would permit further visits, Khattab said: We are not opening the door, and we are not closing the door until after the results come in.The issue is significant because of concerns that the investigation could grind to a halt if the samples show no nuclear-related traces and Syria uses that finding to declare the probe closed.That could cripple international efforts to probe whether the site in a remote part of the Syrian desert was a near-finished plutonium-producing reactor built with North Korean help, and that Damascus continues to hide linked facilities.IAEA inspectors looking for unreported nuclear activity usually test for radioactivity. But in this case, their mission was more difficult.According to intelligence given to the Vienna-based agency by the U.S., Israel and a third, unidentified country, the alleged reactor was not yet completed at the time of the Sept. 6, 2007, bombing. That meant no nuclear material would have been present.So the inspectors looked for minute quantities of graphite, which is used as a cooling element in the type of North Korean prototype that was allegedly being built.But — if they were interested in a cover-up — the Syrians would have scoured the region to bury, wash away and otherwise remove any such traces.
Israeli professor wounded in Jerusalem bomb attack By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 25, 10:57 AM ET
JERUSALEM - A pipe bomb exploded Thursday outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists. Investigators found posters in Professor Zeev Sternhell's neighborhood offering a $320,000 prize to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a dovish Israeli group whose views Sternhell shares.If extremists were behind the attack, it would be one of the worst instances of political violence inside Israel since an opponent of peace negotiations with the Palestinians murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.Human rights groups say settlers have been increasingly using violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, in what appears to be an attempt to deter Israeli authorities from making any attempt to evacuate settlements.The settlement movement fervently opposes the peace talks and rejects the territorial withdrawal a deal would require.A person close to Sternhell's family said, without elaborating, that the professor had received threats in the past. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of the incident's political sensitivity.The bomb was planted on the doorstep of Sternhell's home in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood, exploding when he opened the door, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. The assailants were not apprehended.
Sternhell had minor shrapnel wounds in one leg and will remain hospitalized at least until Friday, authorities said.An internationally known scholar on fascism and a Holocaust survivor, he was awarded the country's highest honor, the Israel Prize, this year. The award drew criticism from settlers and their supporters.National police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said investigators believe the attack was ideological.Itamar Ben-Gvir, an activist with a fringe settler group calling itself the National Jewish Front, said I don't denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved.In a statement, Peace Now identified Sternhell as a veteran supporter and said Israeli authorities shared responsibility for the attack for not cracking down on settler violence in the West Bank.Peace Now's head said he was placed under police protection after the attack, but Rosenfeld could not confirm that.The attack drew condemnation from Israeli politicians, including some from hard-line parties.Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni said in a statement that Israel could not gloss over the attack, which she described as intolerable.It's the responsibility of the state and its people to denounce these events before they occur, Livni said.Settlers regularly clash with Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the West Bank, but the use of weapons against political opponents in Israel is uncommon.There have, however, been precedents. A pro-settlement extremist shot and killed Rabin, who was spearheading efforts to strike a peace deal. Another extremist killed a member of Peace Now with a grenade at a 1983 peace protest.
Israel's Peres says Ahmadinejad taking world for a fool Thu Sep 25, 4:53 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres sharpened his attack on Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday, accusing him of taking the world for a fool in his statements to the UN General Assembly. (Ahmadinejad) has committed a fatal error, and is taking the world for a fool. He thinks he is an absolute prophet, proclaiming that there is no more hope for the United States or Israel, Peres told Israeli public radio.It is shameful to Islam, to all religions, to the United States, and to democracy. His voice does not come from heaven but hell and one day it will pass away like a breeze, he said in the interview conducted in New York.Israel has long considered Iran its greatest threat, both because of Tehran's accelerating nuclear programme and repeated statements by its leaders predicting the demise of the Jewish state.In a blistering speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Peres said Iran was at the centre of violence and fanaticism and had built a danger to the entire world.Israel and the United States accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, while Tehran has insisted its programme is entirely peaceful and vowed to proceed despite three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions.Israel is the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear armed state with an estimated arsenal of 200 warheads.Neither the United States nor Israel has ruled out a military response to the Iranian nuclear standoff, and on Thursday Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said all options remain on the table.Iran continues to exert every effort in its activities to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, he said in a statement.For now there is still time for addressing the issue diplomatically, but we believe we must not renounce any option and we do not think anyone else in the world should either, he added.In his own address to the assembly on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad lashed out at what he called international bullying and vowed to press ahead with Iran's nuclear drive.As for Israel, he said the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters.
Aid agencies say Middle East peace Quartet failing Thu Sep 25, 12:09 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Aid agencies accused the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators on Thursday of failing in its mission and urged it to show it was up to the task.
The agencies issued a critical report just before the Quartet -- Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations -- meets in New York on Friday to discuss the peace process.The Middle East Quartet is failing -- making inadequate progress toward improving the lives of Palestinians (and not) improving the prospects for peace, a coalition of 21 aid agencies and human rights organizations said in a statement.CARE International U.K., Christian Aid, Oxfam and Save the Children were among the agencies behind the report.They said this week's meeting would take place at a critical moment for the quartet to demonstrate that it can play an effective role in bringing peace to the Middle East.Unless there is a swift and dramatic improvement, it will be necessary to question what the future is for the Middle East Quartet, it said.U.S. President George W. Bush launched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Annapolis, near Washington, last November, seeking a deal on the establishment of a Palestinian state before he leaves office next January.The agencies said the deadline seemed unlikely to be met.They added that the visible progress on the ground demanded by the Quartet when it met in Berlin in June had not materialized.On five of the Quartet's 10 objectives, such as improving access to Palestinian territories, there had been no change or a marked deterioration, they said.
Despite efforts by Quartet members to signal opposition to the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, there had been an acceleration in construction and no serious attempts by the Israeli authorities to dismantle outposts, they said.The Quartet had failed to secure the removal of Israeli checkpoints and other obstacles that would allow Palestinians to see a tangible improvement in their daily lives, the agencies added.There is no new reality in the West Bank: The economy continues to stagnate and the blockade of Gaza continues, the report said.The Quartet had secured substantial funding pledges but this had not yet led to the prompt delivery of projects or improved the lives of Palestinians, they said.(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)
Israeli police break up Jerusalem terrorist cell Wed Sep 24, 2:06 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli police announced on Wednesday the smashing of a terrorist cell from east Jerusalem believed responsible for the killing of two border policemen and of preparing other attacks. Alleged cell leader Mohammed Halal Abu Sneineh, 21, from the Anata neighbourhood, and two other unnamed suspects were arrested around 10 days ago on charges of murder and attempted murder, a police source said.Four other suspected members of the ring are already in jail.The Jerusalem district court initially ordered a blackout on news of their detentions at the request of the domestic security agency, Shin Beth.The two policemen were killed in east Jerusalem, one in January and the other in July. The three suspects are also suspected of wounding two others and of planning an attack on yet another one.
Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franco told journalists on Wednesday that 250 residents of east Jerusalem had been arrested on security grounds since the beginning of 2008.News of the arrests comes just two days after a young man from east Jerusalem rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring 13 people before being shot dead.Exactly two months earlier, on July 22, a Palestinian wounded 16 people when he turned an earth mover on passers-by and vehicles in Jerusalem.That incident mimicked one 10 days earlier in which another Palestinian, also in an earth mover, killed three Israelis and injured more than 45.On March 6, a Palestinian gunman killed eight students at a Jewish religious school in the worst attack Jerusalem had seen in years.All three assailants were shot dead immediately after the attacks and all were from east Jerusalem, prompting widespread calls for a return to a policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians who launch deadly attacks.
Israel's Olmert to be quizzed again in graft probes Wed Sep 24, 1:01 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Ehud Olmert, who stepped down as Israel's prime minister, will be questioned next week for the eighth time since claims of graft emerged in May, the police said on Wednesday. The questioning will be conducted next Thursday morning (October 2) at the official residence of the prime minister, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.Earlier this month police recommended indicting Olmert over suspicions he had unlawfully accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from a US businessman and for billing the same overseas trips several times over, allegedly using the ill-gotten gains to pay for private trips.Olmert, 62, insists he is innocent but stepped down on Sunday after his centrist Kadima elected Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as new party leader. He nevertheless remains interim prime minister until a new government is formed.Olmert has already been questioned seven times since allegations emerged in May that he had accepted funds illegally from wealthy US financier Morris Talansky to finance his political campaigns and his lifestyle.
Palestinians win Livni pledge on talks By Wafa Amr
Tue Sep 23, 6:18 PM ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurie won an assurance from Israeli prime minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Tuesday that peace talks will not stall while she tries to form a new coalition government. in an interview with Reuters following their meeting, Qurie warned that violence could erupt if the talks collapsed.The Palestinians will continue to negotiate. But, if the talks reached a dead end, what do we do? Capitulate? Resistance in all its forms is a legitimate right, Qurie said.He said he had had a good first meeting with Livni, his Israeli negotiating counterpart and currently foreign minister, since her appointment as prime minister-designate on Monday.Livni reassured me she would continue the peace process without accepting any conditions.In a statement issued by her office, Livni urged the Palestinians not to resort to violence which will not achieve for the Palestinians any national objective.Israeli officials denied that Livni made any promises about the contents of the negotiations going forward. Some prospective coalition partners object to including Jerusalem in the talks.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said after the meeting: Livni assured her Palestinian counterpart that the meetings and working sessions will continue in the same format, with no change, even through the period in which she is trying to put together a governing coalition.But he added: She made no promises, such as the one he (Qurie) alluded to, concerning the contents of the talks.Referring to the goal set by U.S. President George W. Bush last November, Qurie said he had great doubts about finalizing a deal this year.
He said Palestinian leaders were considering their options if talks failed to produce a deal that would lead to independence.If they lost hope in negotiations and became convinced Israel was not prepared to end its occupation, renewed attacks against Israelis were possible.Asked whether he was saying the Palestinians might resume suicide bombings and attacks inside Israel, Qurie responded: All forms of resistance.Livni, now trying to form a new coalition government to carry on peace talks that have so far produced little progress, made a similar warning in August.
PREOCCUPATIONS
Bush launched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Annapolis last November, seeking a deal on the establishment of a Palestinian state before he leaves office in January 2009.Qurie said talks on sensitive final status issues such as the fate of Jerusalem, refugees, and borders have been marred by continued Jewish settlement expansion on occupied land.The change of government in Israel following the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes it difficult for Israel to make decisions under such conditions, and time is running out, he added. The Palestinians were also unable to make decisions, as their attention was diverted by internal divisions as a result of Hamas' coup in Gaza, and power struggles, Qurie said.
Israel has said it would not implement any deal it signs with the Palestinians until the government of President Mahmoud Abbas re-establishes control of the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist Hamas group seized in June 2007. Qurie said Palestinian options include abandoning the proposed two-state deal for a one-state solution absorbing Jews and Arabs into a single country -- something few Jews are willing to countenance. Olmert has proposed a partial deal that would set aside the most intractable issue -- divided Jerusalem. Qurie said partial deals only brought disasters in the past. We want a detailed, comprehensive accord that would end occupation, he said. (Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Jon Boyle)
German FM eyes peace progress with new Israeli goverment Tue Sep 23, 1:10 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday said a Middle East peace deal was unlikely this year, but hoped the process could be kickstarted as soon as a new Israeli government is formed. Steinmeier told reporters at the start of the United Nations General Assembly's annual debate that he would be meeting regional leaders throughout the week to assess progress and offer support for reconciliation efforts.It is an opportunity to see where we are almost a year after the Annapolis conference, he said, referring to a US-hosted conference in November when the goal of a Mideast peace deal by the end of 2008 was set.My view is that we have not come as far as we would like but we have come farther than many pessimists feared last year.Steinmeier is to meet here Tuesday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem and on Wednesday with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
He urged the quick formation of a new Israeli government following the resignation of scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday.Steinmeier added that the Palestinians had made progress in stabilising the West Bank with better security and the beginnings of economic growth.Germany has pushed for the so-called Middle East Quartet grouping the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union to redouble its efforts to reach a durable peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.Berlin hosted a security conference in June where international donors committed 242 million dollars to bolster the Palestinian police and justice system to help pave the way to a viable state.Steinmeier said it would likely only be sensible for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to call a new Quartet meeting when a new Israeli government is in place.He hailed Turkish efforts since May to mediate between Israel and Syria as a major contribution to regional stability, and hoped further progress could be made this week so Syria and Lebanon could open diplomatic relations this year.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
ISAIAH 54 JERUSALEM - 7 YR TREATY
I MUST THANK JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE EARTH FIRST AS WELL AS CHAIM RICHMAN OF TEMPLE TALK FOR REVEALING THIS TRUTH TO ME THAT GOD (JESUS)HELPED ME PUT TOGETHER HERE.
HERES THE SHOW I GOT THE INFORMATION (INSPIRATION) FROM SEPT 16,08 SHOW.
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ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
ISAIAH 54:1-10 (PROPHETIC VISION OF JERUSALEM)(ISRAELIS REDEMPTION)
1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
ISRAELIS SAY THE BARREN ONE THAT HAS NOT GIVEN BIRTH IS JERUSALEM. ITS A PROPHECY OF JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF THE REDEMPTION. THE PROPHET MAKES A COMPARISON TO JERUSALEM AS A BARREN WOMAN, WHOS SITTING DESOLATE AND IN THE END SHE GIVES BIRTH AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THE TREMENDOUS JOY SHE FEELS. AT THE TIME OF THE REDEMPTION ALL OF HER CHILDREN WILL COME BACK INTO HER AND IT WILL BE AS SHE GAVE BIRTH.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
SO WHEN DOES ISRAELS INHERITED LAND ENLARGE? THROUGHT WW3 GOD WILL GIVE THE GENTILE LAND, ARAB - MUSLIM LAND TO ISRAEL IN WW3 DURING THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 OR DANIELS 70 WEEK IN DANIEL 9:24-27. LEFT OF JERUSALEM ON A WORLD MAP IS EGYPT AND LIBYA,SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA. AND RIGHT ON THE WORLD MAP IS SAUDI ARABIA, SYRIA, IRAQ AND IRAN.
I BELIEVE THIS VERSE IS TALKING ABOUT WAVE 1 OF WW3 WHEN THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM HORDE MARCH TO JERUSALEM BUT GOD DESTROYS 5/6TH OF THEIR ARMIES AND GIVES ISRAEL THE LAND PROMISED THEM IN THE BIBLE OR MOST OF IT BECAUSE ALL THESE MUSLIM NATIONS ARE MENTIONED IN EZEKIEL 38:5-7 AS BEING LEAD BY RUSSIA AND COMING AGAINST ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.
WW3 THE 1ST WAVE THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 38:4-7
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
THIS THEN GIVES US A CLUE THAT THE 1/6TH OF THE ARMIES LEFT FROM THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM HORDE WILL BE FROM RUSSIA,GERMANY,TURKEY AND AFICAN NATIONS. NOW HOW COULD I POSSIBLY KNOW THAT? WELL ALL THE NATIONS MENTIONED IN VERSE 5 ARE LEFT AND RIGHT OF JERUSALEM ON A WORLD MAP. AND THE REMAINING COUNTRIES SHOULD BE THE 1/6TH THAT SURVIVE AND GET PUSHED BACK TO THE SIBERIAN DESERT FROM VERSE 6.
THIS THEN FITS PERFECTLY WITH WAVE 2 OF WW3 ALIGNMENT WHEN CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST AS WELL AS RUSSIA-GERMANY,TURKEY AND AFRICAN NATIONS MARCH AGAINST ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:40-44
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
ISN'T JESUS OUR GOD AWESOME, HE LITERALLY PUT TURKEY IN VERSE 6 INSTEAD OF VERSE 5 BECAUSE THE 2ND WAVE WILL COME TO THE MIDEAST VIA TURKEY. HERES THE REST OF THE RESULT OF WW3 2ND WAVE.
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past;(WW3 WAVE-1) and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.(WAVE 2 AND 3 OF WW3)
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
ISAIAH 54-4-10
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I FORSAKEN THEE, THE THEE HERE IS THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 WHEN ISRAEL IS DECIEVED INTO THINKING THE EU WORLD DICTATOR IS THE MESSIAH. ITS DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION OR PEACE TREATY THAT THE JEWS FROM NEW YORK WILL FLOCK TO ISRAEL BY THE MILLIONS. AS IT SAYS IN VERSE 7-10. THE WRATH OF THE LORD IS THE 2ND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND GOD WILL SHOW HIS MERCY AND BRING THE ISRAELIS HOME.
ISAIAH 54:7-8
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
ISAIAH 54:9-10
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
AND WHEN WILL THE DAYS OF NOAH BE OUR DAY (THE LAST DAYS) WHEN THE SEA AND WAVES WILL BE ROARING.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
MATTHEW 24:27-30
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is,(WW3) there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YR TRIBULATION OR PEACE TREATY THE TRUE MESSIAH JESUS COMES TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE FROM JERUSALEM AND COMFORT THE ISRAELIS AS WELL AS REBUILDING THE 4TH TEMPLE 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM AS THE 4TH TEMPLE IS TO BIG TO FIT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT. THIS TEMPLE IS IN EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 40-48 WERE JESUS WILL RULE FROM FOR THE THOUSAND YEARS, THEN FOREVER.
ISAIAH 54:11-17
11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE AND REIGN FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER AND WE COME BACK WITH HIM ON WHITE HORSES.
ACTS 1:10-11
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
ZECHARIAH 14:4
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
REVELATION 19:11-16
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
HERES THE SHOW I GOT THE INFORMATION (INSPIRATION) FROM SEPT 16,08 SHOW.
PART 1
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ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
ISAIAH 54:1-10 (PROPHETIC VISION OF JERUSALEM)(ISRAELIS REDEMPTION)
1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
ISRAELIS SAY THE BARREN ONE THAT HAS NOT GIVEN BIRTH IS JERUSALEM. ITS A PROPHECY OF JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF THE REDEMPTION. THE PROPHET MAKES A COMPARISON TO JERUSALEM AS A BARREN WOMAN, WHOS SITTING DESOLATE AND IN THE END SHE GIVES BIRTH AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THE TREMENDOUS JOY SHE FEELS. AT THE TIME OF THE REDEMPTION ALL OF HER CHILDREN WILL COME BACK INTO HER AND IT WILL BE AS SHE GAVE BIRTH.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
SO WHEN DOES ISRAELS INHERITED LAND ENLARGE? THROUGHT WW3 GOD WILL GIVE THE GENTILE LAND, ARAB - MUSLIM LAND TO ISRAEL IN WW3 DURING THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 OR DANIELS 70 WEEK IN DANIEL 9:24-27. LEFT OF JERUSALEM ON A WORLD MAP IS EGYPT AND LIBYA,SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA. AND RIGHT ON THE WORLD MAP IS SAUDI ARABIA, SYRIA, IRAQ AND IRAN.
I BELIEVE THIS VERSE IS TALKING ABOUT WAVE 1 OF WW3 WHEN THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM HORDE MARCH TO JERUSALEM BUT GOD DESTROYS 5/6TH OF THEIR ARMIES AND GIVES ISRAEL THE LAND PROMISED THEM IN THE BIBLE OR MOST OF IT BECAUSE ALL THESE MUSLIM NATIONS ARE MENTIONED IN EZEKIEL 38:5-7 AS BEING LEAD BY RUSSIA AND COMING AGAINST ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.
WW3 THE 1ST WAVE THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 38:4-7
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
THIS THEN GIVES US A CLUE THAT THE 1/6TH OF THE ARMIES LEFT FROM THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM HORDE WILL BE FROM RUSSIA,GERMANY,TURKEY AND AFICAN NATIONS. NOW HOW COULD I POSSIBLY KNOW THAT? WELL ALL THE NATIONS MENTIONED IN VERSE 5 ARE LEFT AND RIGHT OF JERUSALEM ON A WORLD MAP. AND THE REMAINING COUNTRIES SHOULD BE THE 1/6TH THAT SURVIVE AND GET PUSHED BACK TO THE SIBERIAN DESERT FROM VERSE 6.
THIS THEN FITS PERFECTLY WITH WAVE 2 OF WW3 ALIGNMENT WHEN CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST AS WELL AS RUSSIA-GERMANY,TURKEY AND AFRICAN NATIONS MARCH AGAINST ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:40-44
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
ISN'T JESUS OUR GOD AWESOME, HE LITERALLY PUT TURKEY IN VERSE 6 INSTEAD OF VERSE 5 BECAUSE THE 2ND WAVE WILL COME TO THE MIDEAST VIA TURKEY. HERES THE REST OF THE RESULT OF WW3 2ND WAVE.
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past;(WW3 WAVE-1) and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.(WAVE 2 AND 3 OF WW3)
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
ISAIAH 54-4-10
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I FORSAKEN THEE, THE THEE HERE IS THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 WHEN ISRAEL IS DECIEVED INTO THINKING THE EU WORLD DICTATOR IS THE MESSIAH. ITS DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION OR PEACE TREATY THAT THE JEWS FROM NEW YORK WILL FLOCK TO ISRAEL BY THE MILLIONS. AS IT SAYS IN VERSE 7-10. THE WRATH OF THE LORD IS THE 2ND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND GOD WILL SHOW HIS MERCY AND BRING THE ISRAELIS HOME.
ISAIAH 54:7-8
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
ISAIAH 54:9-10
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
AND WHEN WILL THE DAYS OF NOAH BE OUR DAY (THE LAST DAYS) WHEN THE SEA AND WAVES WILL BE ROARING.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
MATTHEW 24:27-30
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is,(WW3) there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YR TRIBULATION OR PEACE TREATY THE TRUE MESSIAH JESUS COMES TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE FROM JERUSALEM AND COMFORT THE ISRAELIS AS WELL AS REBUILDING THE 4TH TEMPLE 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM AS THE 4TH TEMPLE IS TO BIG TO FIT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT. THIS TEMPLE IS IN EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 40-48 WERE JESUS WILL RULE FROM FOR THE THOUSAND YEARS, THEN FOREVER.
ISAIAH 54:11-17
11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE AND REIGN FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER AND WE COME BACK WITH HIM ON WHITE HORSES.
ACTS 1:10-11
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
ZECHARIAH 14:4
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
REVELATION 19:11-16
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
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