Friday, January 31, 2014

US WANTS PEACE DEAL BY THE END OF 2014

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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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 (PEACE TREATY) 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 ANIMAL 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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

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.

Peace plan addresses 'compensation' for Palestinian and Jewish refugees, call Israel 'Jewish' state, vague on Jerusalem

‘US framework deal puts 75-80% of settlers under Israeli rule’

Martin Indyk briefs Jewish leaders on two-state proposal, says Abbas may let remaining settlers stay as Palestinian citizens, aims for full accord by year’s end

By JTA and Times of Israel staff January 31, 2014, 2:55 am 18

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will soon present a framework for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement that the sides may accept with reservations as a basis for a final deal by year’s end, the top US negotiator told Jewish leaders.Martin Indyk, the State Department’s lead envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told the Jewish leaders on Thursday that under the framework agreement about 75-80 percent of settlers would remain in what would become Israeli sovereign territory through land swaps; he added that it was his impression that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not averse to allowing settlers who want to remain as citizens of the Palestinian state.Indyk said the framework would be presented to the sides within weeks, and that there will be “no surprises” for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, according to four people who were on the off the record call.This was because Indyk and Secretary of State John Kerry consulted closely with the leaders of both governments as Indyk’s team drafted the agreement.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas would be expected to accept the agreement, with reservations, as the basis of continued negotiations, Indyk apparently said.Making it a US-drafted framework permitted the leaders to distance themselves from politically sensitive issues, Indyk said. “There may be things we need to say because they can’t say them yet,” he said, according to the notes of one participant.Broadly, Indyk said, the agreement will address: mutual recognition; security, land swaps and borders; Jerusalem; refugees; and the end of conflict and all claims.A request for comment from the State Department was not returned.On some sensitive issues — particularly the status of Jerusalem — the framework would be vague, but Indyk went into detail on other issues that participants said was surprising.

Among these was the security arrangement for the border between Jordan and the West Bank: Indyk said a new security zone would be created, with new fences, sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles.Indyk also said that the framework would address compensation for Jews from Arab lands as well as compensation for Palestinian refugees — another longstanding demand by some pro-Israel groups but one that has yet to be included in any formal document.He said that the framework would describe “Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and Palestine as the nation state of the Palestinian people,” a nod to a key demand by the Netanyahu government that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.He said the framework would address the issue of incitement and Palestinian education for peace.Indyk confirmed that Kerry had already warned lawmakers who deal with foreign funding that the framework would require major US funding, particularly for the new Jordanian-West Bank border arrangements, the redeployment of the Israeli army, and the compensation for refugees on both sides.Indyk was relaxed and jovial throughout the call, participants said, at one point chiding callers for not asking about Palestinian incitement, considering it always comes up when he talks to Jewish communities and in his meetings with Israeli officials.A participant said Indyk still seemed rankled, however, by a report earlier this month that Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon dismissed the security proposals as “not worth the paper they were written on.” Indyk said this was “deeply insulting” to US Gen. John Allen, who worked for months on the proposals.One party to the call said Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, told participants that the parties will ultimately agree to extend negotiations beyond the nine-month timeline, expiring in April, which was first agreed upon in late July. The sides, he said, will negotiate with the expectation of reaching a final deal by the end of 2014.Indyk also promised participants that the framework that is expected to be adopted in coming weeks will be made public in order to initiate a public debate. He expressed hope that the discussion will show leaders that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians support a peace plan – but acknowledged that stiff opposition would make it very difficult to continue toward a final agreement.

US Plans Auschwitz Borders To Complete Holocaust'

Attorney Yoram Sheftel notes American and European complicity in the Holocaust, warns against submitting to current pressure.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 1/31/2014, 1:19 PM-Israelnationalnews

John Kerry (illustrative)-Flash 90

Attorney and current affairs analyst Yoram Sheftel remarked that this week, following International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is particularly timely to remember the global complicity in the Holocaust, and heed the warnings not to rely on the world again."Precisely this week it's important to remember the crimes of the European countries, Russia and the US that secretly in their hearts hoped (Nazi leader Adolf) Hitler would finish the job" and wipe out the Jewish people, commented Sheftel to Arutz Sheva.This week Mark Langfan, Chairman of American For a Safe Israel (AFSI), noted that historical documents indicate the US purposely chose not to bomb Auschwitz and halt the genocide, out of a fear that if they did so there would be an influx of Jews to America.Sheftel said that while the Holocaust may have been carried out by the Nazis and their helpers, in fact the attempted genocide was a wide-reaching global initiative. "It only took place because of the silent agreement of all the European nations, aside from the Danish and Hungarians, that wanted the continuation of the destruction."The attorney specifies that the British and Americans could have stopped the genocide, but chose not to."Britain closed the gates of the land of Israel, and refused to bomb the death camps. The American government under President (Franklin) Roosevelt, a hater of Israel, stood firm against bombing the death camps, spreading lies about a lack of military ability, but the truth is they knew that bombing the camp would reduce the murder of Jews in Europe," charges Sheftel.Drawing from the message of the Holocaust, Sheftel warns against the current pressure from Europe, which is linked to the pressure from America as reports indicate US Secretary of State John Kerry is orchestrating the European boycotts. The pressure aims to force Israel into territorial withdrawals to the 1949 Armistice lines."Without the passivity of the European nations and the US, the scope of the Holocaust would have been half as small, therefore it's clear that the attempts today to return the state of Israel to the Auschwitz borders is meant to complete what they didn't complete then," remarked Sheftel.Sheftel has previously warned that American should not be relied on, and that Kerry is displaying clear enmity to Israel.

U.S. Wants Peace by End of 2014, Indyk Tells Jewish Leaders

Kerry's "framework" will include a Palestinian state and will leave 80% of "settlers" in their homes, say Jewish leaders who met Indyk.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 1/31/2014, 2:13 AM-Israelnationalnews

Martin Indyk-Flash 90

The United States intends to achieve a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) by the end of 2014, American Jewish leaders who were briefed by envoy Martin Indyk said on Thursday.

The leaders who spoke to Channel 10 News said that Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework agreement, which was originally scheduled to be presented at the end of January, will be presented within weeks.According to these Jewish leaders, who were not named, Kerry’s agreement mentions a Palestinian state with borders based on the 1949 Armistice lines and with land swaps between Israel and the PA. 75 to 80 percent of the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria would remain in their homes even after a permanent agreement.The agreement will include a reference to the PA’s incitement against Israel and will also include a reference to compensation for Jewish refugees who came from Arab countries, the leaders told Channel 10 News. The Arabs would recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Israel would recognize the Palestinian state, and the two sides will announce the end of the conflict, they said.The Jewish officials further noted that even after the agreement is presented, the sides will not be forced to agree to it and the parties will be allowed to present their reservations, though they would be required to continue the negotiations based on the principles that appear in the document.As for the status of Jerusalem, the participants in Indyk’s briefing told Channel 10, Kerry's framework agreement will not go into too much detail on this issue and will only mention "general principles and aspirations.”Much has been said in recent weeks of the framework agreement that Kerry is planning to bring forward, but nothing official has been made public yet.On Wednesday, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times published some details of Kerry’s plan which, he said, will call for a phased Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria based on the 1949 lines, with "unprecedented" security arrangements in the strategic Jordan Valley.The Israeli withdrawal will not include certain settlement blocs, but Israel will compensate the Arab side for this with Israeli territory. The deal will call for “Palestine” to have a capital in Arab East Jerusalem and to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. It will not include any right of return for Palestinian refugees into pre-1967 Israel, Friedman said.The plan was blasted by Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, who declared that “it is not going to happen.”“Israel will not split Jerusalem nor will it withdraw to the pre-1967 lines,” Danon said, adding, “The only thing good about this plan is that the Palestinians will recognize Israel as a Jewish state. It’s about time.”Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made clear last week that whatever Kerry brings forward would not be an agreement but " a suggestion for a framework for negotiations.”“This is not an agreement, but a path to making progress,” Netanyahu told reporters in Davos.He also clarified that he will not evict any Israeli communities as part of a peace agreement. A senior source within the Prime Minister's Office later told Arutz Sheva that when Netanyahu stated that "I do not intend to evacuate any settlements or uproot a single Israeli," he meant "not just settlements and Israelis in the Jordan Valley, but any settlements and any Israelis."

Yesha Council: Indyk misleading, will uproot 150,000

Dani Dayan of pro-settlement group says that US envoy includes East Jerusalem when he promises that 80% of settlers will stay

By Lazar Berman and JTA January 31, 2014, 2:55 pm 1-The Times of Israel

The chief foreign envoy of the pro-settlement Yesha Council was not impressed with American promises that 75-80 percent of settlers would remain in what would become Israeli sovereign territory through land swaps under a future peace deal.“Martin Indyk’s vision for the Jews of Judea and Samaria is extremely misleading,” said Dani Dayan in a statement released Friday. “When Indyk speaks of 80% of our communities remaining under Israeli rule, he is including Eastern Jerusalem. Which would mean the forceful uprooting and eviction of up to 150,000 Israelis from their homes, which is morally repugnant and unacceptable to all.”Indyk, the State Department’s lead envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told Jewish leaders on Thursday that, under an American framework agreement soon to be presented to Israel and the Palestinians, 75-80 percent of settlers would remain under Israeli rule. He added that it was his impression that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not averse to allowing those of the remaining settlers who choose to do so, to stay as citizens of the Palestinian state.Indyk said the framework would be presented to the sides within weeks, and that there will be “no surprises” for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, according to four people who were on the off-the-record call with Indyk Thursday.

This was because Indyk and Secretary of State John Kerry consulted closely with the leaders of both governments as Indyk’s team drafted the agreement, he said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas would be expected to accept the agreement, with reservations, as the basis of continued negotiations, Indyk apparently said.Making it a US-drafted framework permitted the leaders to distance themselves from politically sensitive issues, Indyk said. “There may be things we need to say because they can’t say them yet,” he stated, according to the notes of one participant.Broadly, Indyk said, the agreement will address the following: mutual recognition; security, land swaps and borders; Jerusalem; refugees; and the end of conflict and all claims.A request for comment from the State Department was not returned.On some sensitive issues — particularly the status of Jerusalem — the framework would be vague, but Indyk went into detail on other issues that participants said was surprising.Among these was the security arrangements for the border between Jordan and the West Bank: Indyk said a new security zone would be created, with new fences, sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles.Indyk also said that the framework would address compensation for Jews from Arab lands, as well as compensation for Palestinian refugees — another long-standing demand by some pro-Israel groups, but one that has yet to be included in any formal document.He said that the framework would describe “Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and Palestine as the nation state of the Palestinian people,” a nod to a key demand by the Netanyahu government that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.Indyk continued that the framework would address the issue of incitement and Palestinian education for peace.He confirmed that Kerry had already warned lawmakers who deal with foreign funding that the framework would require major US funding, particularly for the new Jordanian-West Bank border arrangements, the redeployment of the Israeli army, and the compensation for refugees on both sides.

Indyk was relaxed and jovial throughout the call, participants said, at one point chiding callers for not asking about Palestinian incitement, considering it always comes up when he talks to Jewish communities and in his meetings with Israeli officials.A participant said Indyk still seemed rankled, however, by a report earlier this month that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon dismissed the security proposals as “not worth the paper they were written on.” Indyk said this was “deeply insulting” to US Gen. John Allen, who worked for months on the proposals.One party to the call said that Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, told participants that the parties will ultimately agree to extend negotiations beyond the nine-month timeline, expiring in April, which was first agreed upon in late July 2013. The sides, he said, will negotiate with the expectation of reaching a final deal by the end of 2014.The Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

PM in 1999: Jews living in Palestinian state is ‘absurd’

Interview surfaces Friday in which Netanyahu takes the very position for which he berated Bennett this week

By Lazar Berman and Gavriel Fiske January 31, 2014, 10:47 am 8-Jan 31,14

Despite this week’s semi-apology by Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett over his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to allow Israelis to live in a future state of Palestine, the spat between the factions gained new life Friday as two old interviews came to light.Makor Rishon’s Hagai Segal reported on a 1999 interview he did with the prime minister, then in his first term, in which Netanyahu called the idea of Jewish settlers living in a Palestinian state “absurd.”“Do you know anyone who would support something like that?” Netanyahu asked. “Can you find an Israeli who agree to that? Who would agree to live under Palestinian rule? That’s absurd.”“This is another way to say, We will wipe out these settlements by giving them over to the Palestinian Authority. It’s absurd.”This week, by contrast, the prime minister and his Likud allies castigated Bennett for challenging the idea that settlers could live in a Palestinian state.The interview surfaced shortly after another embarrassing statement came to light, this time showing a Jewish Home MK taking the very position for which the party panned Netanyahu. In televised comments just a few weeks ago, MK Ayelet Shaked said that Israelis should be allowed to stay in a Palestinian state and expressed incredulity that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would not allow this.If there is to be a peace agreement, Shaked told the i24 television news network in an English-language interview on December 29, 2013, “I don’t see a reason why the settlements [sic] cannot stay and live in a Palestinian state if they want “I don’t think the two-state solution will happen,” Shaked added, but she went on to ask, “Why does Abu Mazen [Abbas] want a Palestinian state cleared of Jews? I just don’t get it… There are Arab villages [in Israel] and I think they should have the same rights as myself. I think Jews can live in the Palestinian state.”Bennett, Shaked’s boss, was in a high-profile fight this week with Netanyahu over this very issue. The Jewish Home chairman reacted publicly to comments by an official to The Times of Israel saying the prime minister was insisting that Jewish West Bank settlers be given the option to remain in their homes under Palestinian rule, following the signing of a peace deal.Bennett dismissed the idea out of hand, and said that history “won’t forgive” an Israeli leader who relinquished parts of the Land of Israel under a peace deal. The row lead to a short-lived coalition crisis. Bennett on Wednesday partially apologized for his remarks, but did not change his position.On Thursday, Shaked, confronted with the apparent inconsistency of her position, criticized the statements coming from the Prime Minister’s Office this week as representing “a real offer from someone who agrees to a Palestinian state” — something she opposes — whereas her remarks to i24 were about an “imaginary scenario as an example” to expose “the racism of Abu Mazen, and nothing else.“I am very much against the dangerous idea of two states, and I don’t think it will happen,” she added.Housing Minister Uri Ariel, Jewish Home’s No. 2, defended Shaked, saying her December comments were true “in principle,” but that “in reality” Jews would not be able to live under Palestinian rule. “In principle, those who speak of peace, but do not let us live in our homes, are racist and anti-Semitic. In reality, no one believes that Hamas will allow [the safe presence of Jews in a future Palestine] to happen.”Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

HOLY SITES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK

Holy Sites on the Chopping Block? By: Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org Published: January 30th, 2014 You are currently on page: 1 2 All Pages print tell a friend Bird eye view of the Abbey of the on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate. Bird eye view of the Abbey of the on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate. Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. In February 2000, the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement calling for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem. The agreement stated that a special statute would protect, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/columns/keeping-jerusalem/holy-sites-on-the-chopping-block/2014/01/30/0/

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.(STROKE)
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
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.

GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

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.

Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim.

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Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. In February 2000, the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement calling for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem. The agreement stated that a special statute would protect, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO. Continue reading: 1 2 All Pages print tell a friend About the Author: Chaim Silberstein is president of Keep Jerusalem-Im Eshkachech and the Jerusalem Capital Development Fund. He was formerly a senior adviser to Israel's minister of tourism. Hillel Fendel, past senior editor at Israel National News/Arutz-7, is a veteran writer on Jerusalem affairs. Both have lived in Jerusalem and now live in Beit El.

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Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. In February 2000, the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement calling for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem. The agreement stated that a special statute would protect, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.

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BARACK OBAMAS JEWISH HALF BROTHER RECONNECTS TO OBAMA

No, we’re not a normal family, says Obama’s Jewish half-brother

Meet Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, the China-based son of Barack Sr.’s Jewish third wife. A dream about the biblical Daniel, he tells The Times of Israel, prompted him to reconnect with the president

By Jessica Steinberg January 30, 2014, 3:11 pm 2-The Times of Israel

It’s pretty natural to do a double-take when talking to Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, Jewish half-brother of US President Barack Obama. Even speaking on the phone from China, Ndesandjo’s deep tones and Midwestern twang are startlingly similar to those of the president.That’s a familiarity and connection that Obama Ndesandjo is counting on as he makes his way around the newspaper and television circuit, publicizing his self-published book, “Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery,” which deals in large part with his family and his presidential brother.“It’s a difficult process to write about yourself,” said Obama Ndesandjo. “Autobiographies differ from most books because they touch not only on the writer but on real, live people and have a real impact. It’s a big responsibility.”Now based in Shanghai, having lived for the last 12 years in China, where he met and married his wife, Obama Ndesandjo is a writer, musician and calligrapher who decided to write the autobiography just as Barack Obama’s journey as a politician was gaining in intensity, during his initial run for president.He is one of the president’s eight known half-siblings, born to the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., and Obama Sr.’s third wife, Ruth Ndesandjo, an American Jew from Boston. (Warning: This gets complicated.) Obama Ndesandjo grew up in Kenya — far from his half-brother who was raised in the US by his mother, anthropologist Ann Dunham, Obama Sr.’s second wife (who later discovered that her husband hadn’t divorced his first wife back in Kenya). Dunham and Obama Sr. divorced in 1962 and Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro, with whom she had Barack Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.Meanwhile, Obama Ndesandjo, whose parents married in 1964, remained in Africa with his mother and younger brother, David, when their parents divorced in 1972 following the much-discussed abusive relationship between them.The material for “Culture” started accumulating for Obama Ndesnandjo as his brother sought the presidency, and it tells his story as a mixed-race person brought up in Kenya, educated in the US and now living in China, as well as discussing the mix of cultures and the Obama family, he said.“It’s always been an issue of trying to follow my own path,” he said. “And in the process of that, I also felt it was important to talk about the Obama family and it’s important that people understand more about this family because in some ways it’s very opaque and there’s a lot of questions about it. Every question brings up more and I wanted to discuss and share more and talk about my relationship with my brother.”Clearly, it’s the material about his brother that has brought Obama Nsendangjo the most attention. He’s found that each time he’s met with Barack Obama — from their first meeting in 1988 in Kenya through several more in later years — the contacts were intense.“We are very similar,” said Obama Nsendangjo, pointing out that both have American mothers, were born a few years apart, attended Ivy League schools — Mark went to Brown (and has an MBA from Emory) — are of mixed race and, of course, had the same father and suffered from his absence or presence. Barack, born in 1961, is four years older than half-brother Mark.“In some ways, our father runs through our lives and as Barack said in his book, sons often spend their lives trying to achieve their father’s dreams or correct their mistakes,” he said. “In a sense, Barack has been trying to achieve, and I’ve been trying to correct mistakes.”

Like Barack Obama, Obama Ndesandjo also had a strong mother who “navigated choppy waters,” he said. Ruth Baker Ndesandjo, who still lives in Nairobi with her second husband, was born in the US to a family that fled the pogroms in Lithuania, and then made their way to Boston.She broke with tradition in many ways, said her son, particularly when she chose to marry a black man in the 1960s and move to Africa.

Ruth Baker met Barack Hussein Obama Sr. while he was studying at Harvard University in Boston and married him in 1964, following him to Africa. She stayed in Kenya after their divorce but broke off all ties with her ex-husband’s family. Obama Ndesandjo — whose younger brother David later died in a car accident — said he hated his father, refusing to use his name and taking his stepfather’s surname, Ndesandjo, until Barack Obama indirectly changed his mind.“I hadn’t had contact in [two] decades with the Obamas, because I had shut them out of my life,” he said. “And then I saw Barack doing such amazing things, and everywhere I turned, I saw him and I was proud of the impact he was having. My father pushed me away from my heritage, and in a sense, Barack made me proud and eventually I reached out to him.”

It was a nighttime dream that finally prompted Obama Ndesandjo to make contact with his brother, just prior to Barack Obama’s 2008 debate in Austin against Hillary Clinton.“Daniel in the Torah talks about dreams and the power of dreams,” he said. “I woke up in a cold sweat, having dreamed about Barack, and my wife was my Daniel, telling me to go see Barack. Otherwise I would have gone back to bed and eaten Grape-Nuts the next morning. It was time to reconnect.”They did, and it was their first time seeing each other in nearly 20 years. When Barack Obama became president, his half-brother visited him in the White House in 2009, but there hasn’t been much contact since between the two brothers. Obama Ndesandjo feels it’s now up to his sibling to make the next move. He knows it will take some time.“Our family’s not a normal family when it comes to smoothing things out,” he said. “We’re pretty bumpy and there are moments of intense elation and intense disappointment which have characterized my sibling relationships. We’re like a herd of calves, and putting us together like a normal family is going to be a little difficult.”

ISRAELIS ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT - STOP THE PEACE PROCESS NOW

Western Wall protest: ‘End peace talks at once’

Hundreds gather at Jerusalem holy site to pray and rally against ‘growing pressure’ to ‘forfeit lands’ to Palestinians

By Adiv Sterman and Lazar Berman January 30, 2014, 5:01 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Hundreds of right-wing demonstrators gathered at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday to voice their rejection of ongoing US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.The protesters called on the government to halt all negotiations with the Palestinians, and to resist “growing pressure” to “forfeit territories” and evacuate settlements in the West Bank.The rally, dubbed by its organizers a “gathering for anguished prayer,” was attended by Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), as well as several prominent rabbis within the settler community, including Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Dov Lior of Hebron and Rabbi Haim Druckman.The participants called for the cancellation of the “Kerry edicts.” The word “edicts” is a reference to historic anti-Jewish measures by various rulers throughout European and Muslim history, often involving expulsion or pogrom.One prayer pamphlet distributed at the rally, which was read publicly during the proceedings, read: “Please O God, give strength and courage and truth and faith to our leaders, and give them a great fear from Thee, to fill them with reverence and make them wary of harming our holy country … make them fear Thee, and not the nations of the world.”Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev, who also attended the afternoon rally, insinuated earlier in the day that US Secretary of State John Kerry was at least partially motivated by anti-Semitism in his efforts to forge a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.“The prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] is maneuvering under the obsessive and unprofessional pressures that might also bear an undertone of anti-Semitism on Kerry’s part,” Yogev told Israel Radio.Yogev’s comments came amid a public spat between Netanyahu and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett over Bennett’s reaction to a statement by an official close to Netanyahu – first reported by The Times of Israel – according to which the prime minister was insisting in the peace talks that West Bank settlers be given the choice to remain in their homes under Palestinian rule.Bennett had said on Tuesday that leaving settlers in a Palestinian state was unthinkable because, among other reasons, it would represent a reversal of Zionism and the settlers would be killed by their Palestinian neighbors. In an apparent thinly veiled reference to Netanyahu, he added that history “won’t forgive” an Israeli leader who relinquishes parts of the Land of Israel under a peace deal.Bennett was later forced to issue a semi-apology after Netanyahu’s aides threatened to fire him, saying he did not mean to offend the prime minister.Israel and the Palestinian Authority began a nine-month track of US-backed peace negotiations in July, but so far there has been little visible progress. The Palestinians warned that after the deadline, they could take legal action in the international courts against Israel over its settlement expansion on land they want for their future state.Several Israeli politicians and a host of pundits have said they believe Israel will be blamed if the current round of talks with the Palestinians fails to produce an agreement.Senior Israeli officials, including Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) and Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), have warned that absent an agreement leading to two states, Israel will face a severe backlash and be isolated economically and politically from the international community.JTA contributed to this report.

Liberman: Settlers won’t live under Palestinian rule

Foreign minister says Bennett was right to apologize to PM, then contradicts recent leak from PMO officials about settlers in Palestine

By Itamar Sharon January 30, 2014, 4:56 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday Israel has no intention of leaving Israelis to live under Palestinian rule as part of a peace deal.Liberman’s statement was at odds with a recent leak from officials in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since the Times of Israel reported on Sunday, according to PMO officials, that Netanyahu intends to insist settlers be given the option of staying in place under Palestinian rule if they so choose.During a visit to Katzrin in the Golan Heights, Liberman commented on the public conflict in recent days between Netanyahu and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett, and said Bennett was right to apologize to the premier. “One may disagree with the prime minister, and one may argue with him, but one cannot lash out at the prime minister,” Liberman said.The spat began when an official close to Netanyahu said the prime minister believed West Bank settlers must be given the option to remain in their homes under Palestinian rule under any future peace accord. “His consistent position has been that those settlements that will be on the Palestinian side of the border should not be uprooted,” the official told The Times of Israel. “Just as Israel has an Arab minority, the prime minister doesn’t see why Palestine can’t have a Jewish minority. The Jews living on their side should have a choice whether they want to stay or not.”

In a series of statements made in the days following the PMO leak, Bennett said the proposal “reflects a loss of a moral compass,” and that “our forefathers and our descendants will not forgive an Israeli leader who gives up our country and divides our capital.” He also criticized the government’s handling of peace talks, suggesting that the government’s growing fear of boycotts “is what will bring on the boycott. This is no way to handle negotiations, running frightened between the capitals of the world.”Bennett was later forced to issue a semi-apology after Netanyahu’s aides threatened to fire him, saying he did not mean to offend the prime minister.Liberman said Bennett was right to apologize for statements that were out of place.“What’s more important is that there was no intention to leave Israeli settlers under Palestinian rule,” Liberman continued. “I don’t know how or why [things were] interpreted this way… There wasn’t, there isn’t and there won’t be an intention to leave any Israeli settler under Palestinian sovereignty.”Liberman also addressed the status of the contested Golan Heights, saying any regional peace agreement should also recognize the Golan as sovereign Israeli territory.“We must reach an understanding with the international community, and particularly the US, that the Golan Heights must be an integral and inseparable part of the State of Israel,” he said.Syria claims the Golan Heights for itself, though the civil war raging there has silenced any discussion of Israel giving up the territory. Israel captured the Golan in 1967, and subsequently extended Israeli law to the area.

Jewish Home MK: Why can’t settlements stay in future Palestine?

December comments seem to contradict Ayelet Shaked’s current criticism of Netanyahu for reportedly raising the same question

By Gavriel Fiske January 30, 2014, 5:29 pm 17-The Times of Israel

In televised comments just a few weeks ago, MK Ayelet Shaked appeared to accept the idea that Jewish Israelis should be allowed to stay in a future state of Palestine, and expressed incredulity that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would not allow it.If there is to be a peace agreement, Shaked told the i24 television news network in a December 29 interview, “I don’t see a reason why the settlements cannot stay and live in a Palestinian state if they want.”“I don’t think the two-state solution will happen,” Shaked declared, but she went on to ask, “Why does Abu Mazen [Abbas] want a Palestinian state cleared of Jews? I just don’t get it… there are Arab villages [in Israel] and I think they should have the same rights as myself. I think Jews can live in the Palestinian state.”Shaked’s boss, party leader Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, was in a high-profile spat this week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over this very issue. The Jewish Home chairman reacted publicly to a statement by an official saying the prime minister was insisting that Jewish West Bank settlers be given the option to remain in their homes under Palestinian rule, following the signing of a peace deal.Bennett dismissed the idea out of hand, and said that history “won’t forgive” an Israeli leader who relinquished parts of the Land of Israel under a peace deal, leading to a short-lived coalition crisis. He later partially apologized for his remarks, but did not change his position.On Thursday, Shaked said that the statements coming from the Prime Minister’s Office this week represent “a real offer from someone who agrees to a Palestinian state,” whereas her remarks to i24 were about an “imaginary scenario as an example” to expose “the racism of Abu Mazen, and nothing else.”“I am very much against the dangerous idea of two states, and I don’t think it will happen,” she added.Housing Minister Uri Ariel, Jewish Home’s number-two, defended Shaked, saying her December comments were true “in principle,” but that “in reality” Jews would not be able to live under Palestinian rule. “In principle, those who speak of peace but do not let us live in our homes are racist and anti-Semitic. In reality, no one believes that Hamas will allow [the safe presence of Jews in a future Palestine] to happen.”Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

TURKISH LEADER SPEAKS AS HOLOGRAM TO HIS CITIZENS

REVELATION 13:12-18
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,(EU DICTATOR) whose deadly wound was healed.(FALSE RESURRECTION)
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he (FALSE VATICAN POPE) had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

REVELATION 14:9-11
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

EXODUS 20:4-6
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
ERDROGAN SPEAKS TO PEOPLE AS HOLOGRAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8GwEnrT4Ao#t=37

Turkish Prime Minister gives speech as a 10-foot hologram

By Rich McCormick on January 28, 2014 04:45 am

The Verge

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech in the city of Izmir last Sunday by way of giant hologram. Erdoğan, unable to make the trip to a party meeting in the western Turkish city, recorded his message against a green screen. In Izmir, a full-body hologram of the Prime Minister roughly 10-feet tall appeared from a coil of blue light, waving to the cheering crowd.The Turkish Prime Minister used his ethereal form to talk about upcoming municipal elections, and an ongoing corruption scandal in the country that has led to a purge of high-level officials across his government. While holograms have been used or entertainment purposes — perhaps most notably to project images of Nate Dogg and Tupac at Coachella festival in 2012 — politicians across the world have also tried to harness the technology. In 2012, Indian politician Narendra Modi broadcast 26 holograms of himself to crowds across the state of Gujarat. Modi said the use of holograms showed that India was a world leader in technology.

HOW HOLOGRAMS WORK

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170,000 ROCKETS AIMED AT ISRAELI CITIES

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

It Feels Like We're Back to the Disengagement Days"-INN JAN 29,14

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir threw his hat into the ring in expressing suspicions that the new state prosecutor (state attorney) Shai Nitzan is prejudiced against residents of Judea and Samaria and their allies. Ben-Gvir told Arutz Sheva news "what we warned would happen is now happening today. There is a feeling we're back to the days of [the Disengagement from] Gush Katif."
Ben-Gvir complained that "resources and energies are directed" toward minor issues such as "three girls caught with stickers in the Old City." Critics say Nitzan played an active role in the Prosecution's decision to carry out mass arrests of demonstrators against the government's removal of Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria in the 2005 Disengagement, and to close investigations against police officers who used violence against the demonstrators.

170,000 rockets are aimed at Israel’s cities, says IDF intel head

Aviv Kochavi lists missile threat ahead of Iran nuke program; says in time, though, cyberwarfare will prove most dramatic change on battlefield

By Mitch Ginsburg January 29, 2014, 4:44 pm 0-The Times of Israel

The head of Israel’s most powerful intelligence agency depicted Wednesday a changing battlefield in which offensive cyber capabilities will, in the near future, represent the greatest shift in combat doctrine in over 1,000 years. For now, though, he said, the 170,000 rockets and missiles pointed by enemy states at Israel represented the most pressing threat, a danger he placed even above Iran’s rogue nuclear program.“Cyber, in my humble opinion, and you don’t have to agree with me, will be revealed in a not very long time as a revolution greater than the creation of gunpowder or the usage of the aerial space at the start of the past century,” said Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. Kochavi, a former infantry officer, called the possibilities inherent in cyber warfare “nearly limitless, and that is not a metaphor.”He revealed that the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, already the largest of the army’s corps, has recently expanded further and shifted both its methodology and, more significantly, its approach. Where once, he said, a state’s intelligence service was expected to describe reality, today it must also “take part” and alter it.Like his predecessor Amos Yadlin, Kochavi, speaking at the INSS think tank’s annual conference in Tel Aviv, described a Middle East in a historic flux, producing an array of challenges and opportunities.He listed four central challenges. The first, notably listed ahead of Iran’s nuclear program, are rockets, he said. Kochavi asserted that Israel faces 170,000 rockets and missiles, and that, “for the first time in many decades, the enemy has the ability to drop considerable amounts of munitions on the cities of Israel.” In the past the threat was countered by the IAF, he said; today it is Israel’s enemies’ primary weapon and it represents an enormous intelligence challenge to counter.Kochavi, who has reportedly voiced opinions that did not dovetail with the political leadership’s interpretation of the changes in Iran, for instance highlighting the potential significance of Hassan Rouhani’s election to the presidency, steered clear of that topic in this address. He said only that the Iranian military nuclear program continues in a manner that enables Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should he decide to give the order, to sprint ahead “to one bomb or more.”

He revealed that the cyber threats facing Israel are growing “exponentially” and said that during the past year the state has faced hundreds of attacks and the intelligence community has faced dozens of attacks, “the vast majority of which were thankfully unsuccessful.”And finally, he noted the “near 360 degree” presence of Jihadist elements along Israel’s borders. A slide depicting areas under the control of militant, Salafist elements covered what looked like half of Syria and had a presence in nearly every country in the region, including Turkey, he noted. Aside from creating friction along the border regions and melting the traditional state lines, he said that the rise of sub-state groups also mean that today “90 percent of Israel’s future battlefields are in urban areas.”In the sort of wide-ranging presentation that the head of military intelligence typically gives once a year, Kochavi also focused on positive developments. The decline in the popularity and legitimacy of the radical axis of Hezbollah and Bashar Assad, alongside “the erosion” in the Muslim Brotherhood’s popularity in the Middle East, was a positive development. Additionally, he said, “the moderate Sunni states, represent a significant opportunity.”Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf states, “when you look in depth,” all share priorities that “are in confluence” with Israel’s most pressing interests.This new reality in the Middle East, he said several times, has dictated significant changes in the way Israel’s intelligence community operates. Without being overly specific, he said that intelligence had to move faster and farther out into the battlefield, so that what is known in HQ in Tel Aviv also “appears on the computers of the company commanders” in the field and at sea, and the collection of the material has to increase and grow more diverse.He repeatedly stressed the role of cyber war, both offensive and defensive, but concluded with the soldiers. “All of the good intelligence we have is because of them,” he said, showing a slide of several soldiers’ backs, hunched over computers. “They work a lot, work hard, and have extraordinary achievements.”

Netanyahu: Israel is leading West’s cyber-security fight

Hackers are killing the Internet, the prime minister says — and Israel is one of the few players that can save it

By David Shamah January 29, 2014, 3:54 pm 0-The Times of Israel

For Israel, cyber-security isn’t just about protecting information systems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in several speeches Tuesday and Wednesday, during the course of Israel’s first-ever cyber-technology show. Cybertech 2014, the prime minister said, is also a way to build an international coalition of countries that will work together to defend “the great blessings” of Internet connectivity, and enable Israel to further develop its periphery, especially in the south. “Beersheva will not only be the cyber capital of Israel but one of the most important places in the cyber security field in the world,” Netanyahu declared at the opening of the conference Tuesday.Cybertech 2014 is the brainchild of Amir Rapoport, editor of Israel Defense magazine. According to event chairman Rami Efrati, some 5,500 people from Israel and abroad visited the show to see the latest in Israeli cyber-tech. “There are so many important things going on in cyber-security here, we wanted to gather as much of it in one place and show it off to Israelis, and to the world,” Efrati told The Times of Israel on the sidelines of the conference.Among the visitors are over 450 heads of industry and cyber-security agencies from around the world, said Efrati. Among the larger delegations was the U.S. delegation, including 50 people from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, and delegations from South Korea, Mexico, NASA. Representatives of the armies of Brazil, Mexico, Italy and the Netherlands, IT companies from Colombia, Ghana, and Nigeria, and a cyber-security team from Canada were also in attendance.In his speech opening the event, Netanyahu laid out his government’s approach to cyber-security and digital literacy. Among the facets of the policy is creation of a “digital Israel,” which entails laying out fiber optic cables throughout the country and “perhaps one of the ways of reducing social gaps, closing social gaps, canceling the whole idea of the periphery. Ultimately,” said the prime minister, “it’s the fast route of knowledge that can come to every home and give everyone an equal opportunity to partake in this future.”In addition, Netanyahu said, the government is working “to create the environment that allows our entrepreneurs and allows our technologists, our young men and women, to create the devices, the products, the systems, for this new world.” He added, Israel is “exploding with creativity. We’re like a country that would have about half a billion people in terms of our cyber capabilities.”

Israel’s precarious security situation made the country’s population very security-conscious, while the country’s “extraordinary research institutions and universities, like the Technion, the Weizmann Institute,” and especially Ben Gurion University — which will be the most actively involved in cyber-security, because of its proximity to several of the new cyber-security projects being launched — gave students in Israel the tools they needed to utilize those concepts of security in the cyber world, said Netanyahu. In addition, Israel was unique in that it had a small, tight ecosystem of entrepreneurs, many of whom knew each other from school and the army.All this, Netanyahu said, prepared Israel to take a leadership role in the world on cyber-security issues. The concept of privacy, the prime minister said, was antiquated – or at least different than it used to be. “The networks are exposed. The fact that we have networks, increasing complexity of networks, interconnectivity on networks means that anything and everything can be exposed. The Internet of everything means that everything can be violated,” said Netanyahu. “The whole idea of intellectual property – that is being fundamentally challenged. The privacy of individuals – fundamentally challenged. The sanctity of our bank accounts – fundamentally challenged. And this goes obviously into public systems: power grids, traffic nets, water systems – you name it. Everything can be violated. Everything can be opened up. Everything can be also sabotaged.”The opportunities – and the need – for leadership in cyber-security is great, and Israel could supply that leadership. “We have decided to put these resources together in a coherent way and we have structured a National Cyber Bureau,” he said. “We have created a special organization to try to mesh together these elements, obviously to afford cyber defense to our critical systems, to the country; but also to see how we can share with others our experience and our talent.”In essence, Netanyahu sees Israel as leading a coalition of countries to fight the forces that sought to ruin the “blessing of connectivity” that the Internet has brought. “The top policy makers, state and non-state, have to get together. I wouldn’t try to do this in an inclusive way so it’s the new UN of the Internet; that’s not going to work because some unprincipled elements would be in that room and they would distort this effort. I think you need a coalition of the willing, of the leading states that have prowess in this area and the leading companies, to sit down and discuss. In this I think Israel is unquestionably a leading power, disproportionate to our size for the reasons I mentioned, with great talents and great resources,” Netanyahu said.Netanyahu did not mention which countries would be included in that coalition, but in a separate discussion, Dr. Eviatar Matania, director of the National Cyber Bureau, said that Israel, the U.S., Europe, Australia, and other Western countries were fighting the same enemies, whether small groups of hackers or entire nation states. When asked about China, Matania said that all countries were welcome if they were serious about working together on cyber-security. “The enemies here are well-known, they are the enemies all of us in the West are fighting,” said Matania.

In order for international efforts to work, Israel needed to – and was willing – to part with some of its “trade secrets,” sharing them with the “coalition of the willing” to advance cyber-security for all. “This requires a decision, which I have made, to relax or reduce some of the constraints that we have traditionally put on such business. The government usually puts constraints on things that have implications for national security, but we have consciously made the decision to lower these restraints because we’re taking a gamble, if you will, on the growth of these partnerships, entailing some risks.” This risk-taking, he said, is required to get us to be able to control this cyber-security jungle, to cut it down to size.”Taking those risks would eventually benefit not only the members of this coalition by enhancing cyber-security, and it will benefit Israel as well. “Everything that I’ve just described is driving the growth of hundreds of cyber companies – hundreds of them – in Israel. About half of them didn’t exist three or four years ago, and the number is growing rapidly with major investments taking place.” In a sense, cyber-insecurity was a “growth industry” for Israel, one he wishes did not exist at all, said Netanyahu, but one he fully plans to take advantage of to advance Israel’s economy. The start-ups, as well as the large multi-nationals like IBM, Lockheed-Martin, EMC, and others, saw Israel as the best place to develop cyber-security technologies, Netanyahu said.And the greatest beneficiary would be the long-ignored Negev, which the prime minister foresees as becoming Israel’s high-tech center. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had tried in vain to interest Israeli industry in developing the south. Ben Gurion “didn’t quite get the job done, but the dream was still there. What we’re doing now is something else. What we’re doing is turning Beersheba and the whole Negev into the cyber region of Israel and I think of the eastern hemisphere.“We have moved significant units of the Israeli Defense Forces to the south; we’re putting our national cyber command smack in the University of Beersheba,” stressed Netanyahu. “We have a railway line leading from Tel Aviv with a train station that literally you disembark on that point in the campus. So you have our security outfits, our university and an industrial park all within walking distance of 100 yards. That’s called a cyber-hub. It’s a big thing.”For Israel, taking on this leadership role is not a luxury if it wants to survive in the cyber-jungle, the prime minister said. Cyber-experts were fending off thousands of attacks an hour against government, military, and business systems. To survive these attacks, and to thrive as a nation, “We really don’t have a choice. I mean, we have to be good. To be here, we have to be very good, and in some cases we have to be the best.”

Netanyahu’s aides threaten to fire Naftali Bennett

PM demands apology from top minister who castigated idea of settlers staying in a Palestinian state and warned against ‘giving up our country’

By Haviv Rettig Gur January 29, 2014, 2:02 pm 4-The times of Israel

In what appears to be the worst crisis yet for the governing coalition, sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday threatened to fire Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett over his criticism of Netanyahu a day earlier.“Bennett was given a message that he has to apologize clearly and unequivocally or there will be a price to pay,” a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told The Times of Israel.On Tuesday, Bennett delivered a speech lambasting the prime minister in the wake of a Times of Israel report according to which Netanyahu wants Jewish settlers to be given the choice of living under future Palestinian rule in the West Bank if a peace treaty is sealed.“No one will teach Netanyahu what it means to love Israel or to defend it. With all Bennett’s complaints, it’s not clear why he’s clinging to his seat in the cabinet,” the official said in an unusually sharp rebuke. “Bennett’s brazen and irresponsible behavior won’t be ignored. It does damage to the interests of [Jewish] settlement [in the West Bank].”The official then added the most direct threat Netanyahu has given a coalition partner since the current government was formed last March. “If Bennett won’t apologize, he will endanger the composition of the current government. Netanyahu has enough alternatives. Even a government without Bennett will know how to secure Israel’s citizens – just like the last government, which was headed by Netanyahu, managed to do.”A senior PMO official told The Times of Israel on Sunday that the prime minister was insisting that Jewish West Bank settlers be given the choice to remain in place and live under Palestinian rule, or relocate to areas under Israeli sovereign rule. The official was explaining and elaborating on comments made Friday by Netanyahu during a press conference in Davos, Switzerland. “I have said in the past, and I repeat today: I do not intend to remove a single settlement. I do not intend to displace a single Israeli,” Netanyahu said at the conference.“His consistent position has been that those settlements that will be on the Palestinian side of the border should not be uprooted,” the well-placed official said. “Just as Israel has an Arab minority, the prime minister doesn’t see why Palestine can’t have a Jewish minority. The Jews living on their side should have a choice whether they want to stay or not.”Netanyahu first hinted at this position in his May 2011 speech to the US Congress in Washington, the official noted. “The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations,” Netanyahu said at the time. “In any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel’s borders.”During that speech, he did not explicitly state that settlers located east of the border must be given the option to stay, but he has said so in several meetings in recent weeks, the official said.Bennett has issued several denunciations of the idea since Sunday.In a speech Tuesday at the Institute for National Security Studies security conference in Tel Aviv, Bennett, who heads the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party and is opposed to an Israeli withdrawal from territory in the West Bank, blasted Netanyahu’s handling of the ongoing US-brokered negotiations.The Palestinians “understand we’re not going to evaporate, and we understand they’re not going to evaporate. There is a quiet acceptance. So to take this situation and overturn it with another Oslo-like idea… the heart breaks,” Bennett said.“Our forefathers and our descendants will not forgive an Israeli leader who gives up our country and divides our capital,” Bennett declared in what could be construed as a warning to Netanyahu. He also suggested that the government’s growing fear of boycotts “is what will bring on the boycott. This is no way to handle negotiations, running frightened between the capitals of the world.”On Sunday, Bennett posted a Facebook statement that said the idea of settlers saying on in “Palestine,” “reflects the loss of a moral compass. We didn’t experience 2,000 years of yearning for the Land of Israel so that we could live under the government of Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas). Anyone thinking of placing the lives of Jews in the Land of Israel under Palestinian rule is pulling the rug out from under our presence in Tel Aviv.“I call on the prime minister to immediately reject this terrible idea,” he concluded.In his speech on Tuesday, Bennett offered a more immediate concern with leaving Jews under Palestinian rule.“Do you know why, why Jews cannot live under Palestinian rule, why Palestinians can’t rule over Jews? Because they will kill them,” Bennett said at a conference in Tel Aviv. “And do you know how I know this? Because it has already happened.”Bennett went on to recount in gory detail some of the events of the 1929 massacre in Hebron, in which 67 Jews were killed during Arab riots, and of the lynching of two off-duty IDF soldiers in Ramallah in 2000 who had sought refuge in a Palestinian police station.Bennett’s closest confidante, MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), attempted to calm the escalating row between the two leaders on Wednesday.“Minister Bennett spoke about his moral stance regarding the idea of leaving Jews under Palestinian rule,” she told Israel Radio. “Minister Bennett never said anything personal against the prime minister. Not one word attacks the prime minister personally. But [Bennett] sees it as his duty to attack this trial balloon. Morally and practically, we feel this idea of transferring Jewish towns to Palestinian rule is a dangerous, un-Zionist act. We were not elected to stand silent,” he said.Some MKs expressed support for Bennett, while others called on him to apologize.

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, considered a member of the hawkish flank in Netanyahu’s Likud party, called Bennett “my friend,” but urged him, “specifically because of our similar views, to apologize to the prime minister. The argument over where Jews will live under a future agreement is a pointless one. Only yesterday, [Abbas] reiterated his demands for a ‘just solution’ to five million Palestinian refugees, and [said] that Jerusalem, including the Old City, will be the Palestinian capital. With such stances [on the other side], there is no chance of an agreement in any case. So why divide our forces?” Katz said.But others on the right were distinctly more disposed toward Bennett. MK Yoni Chetboun, of Bennett’s Jewish Home party, said “it is a great privilege to be reprimanded for insisting that Jews live under Israeli sovereignty. It’s time to lead with clear values in the face of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the rest of the world,” he said.Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely explained why it was important to challenge Netanyahu.“When all the tactical moves like this week’s trial balloon are taken together,” she wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, “they create a loss of direction. [Abbas’s] real face is clear to all, in light of his words and deeds. There is no need for political acrobatics to show the world which side is rejecting peace.”Those, like Hotovely, who are resisting the prime minister’s moves, she wrote, “are creating a foundation for Netanyahu to be able to say to the Americans that he doesn’t have the political base to establish a Palestinian state. We’re not planning to replace Netanyahu, but to set political boundaries.”Raphael Ahren and Spencer Ho contributed to this report.

Obama promises security for ‘Israel – a Jewish state’

State of the Union address includes gesture to key negotiating point; Kerry works to enlist interfaith support for talks

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil January 29, 2014, 6:26 am 4-The times of Israel

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama delivered a brief but ringing recognition of Israel as a Jewish state during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, reinforcing a key Israeli negotiating point in the ongoing talks with the Palestinian Authority.“As we speak, American diplomacy is supporting Israelis and Palestinians as they engage in difficult but necessary talks to end the conflict there; to achieve dignity and an independent state for Palestinians, and lasting peace and security for the State of Israel – a Jewish state that knows America will always be at their side,” Obama told both houses of Congress, gathered for the annual report.The president’s affirmation of support garnered a standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans.Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state has been a red-line demand for Israeli negotiators throughout the past six months of the nine-month period during which both sides have agreed to hold talks.Speaking earlier Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at the Institute for National Security Studies that the first of Israel’s two demands in negotiations is “recognition of Israel as the national state of the Jewish people.”Netanyahu said that the refusal of Palestinians and their supporters to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland “is the root of the conflict.”“When we talk about an agreement, we’re talking about an agreement where we will be asked to recognize a Palestinian national state. Shouldn’t we demand that the Jewish national state be recognized as well?” Netanyahu added.Obama’s administration – and first and foremost Secretary of State John Kerry – have devoted intense effort in recent weeks toward bridging the gaps between the Palestinian and Israeli negotiating positions.On Tuesday, Kerry met with a group of some 30 clergy members and scholars representing Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities in America in order to call upon them to help the administration advance the peace process.The gathering, held at Georgetown University and hosted by the university’s president, was designed to further interfaith engagement around the peace process, and participants said that there was a clear emphasis on encouraging dialogue within and among faith communities in the United States.In his remarks, Kerry offered enthusiasm and hope for the process and outlined what might be gained from a final status agreement. Some of the opportunities he identified included Israel being able to make peace and expand its relationships with the entire Arab and Muslim community, trade with foreign nations and Israeli GDP increasing overall.The State Department has recently boosted its efforts to support the peace process through community outreach, bringing aboard non-pulpit clergy and other faith leaders to engage communities.“The premise of the discussion seemed to be about the secretary’s and State Department’s desire to bring faith leaders into the dialogue to build the community level so that its not just political leaders but a public discourse,” said Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Hamas to allow 120 Fatah leaders back into Gaza

Diplomatically isolated by Egypt, Hamas tries to break the ice with Fatah and forge ‘reconciliation’ government

By Elhanan Miller January 29, 2014, 6:06 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Hamas will allow more than 120 Fatah officials banished from the Gaza Strip during the Islamist group’s violent takeover in 2007 to return to the Palestinian enclave in a bid to advance reconciliation efforts with its Ramallah-based rival.Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told satellite news channel Al-Kitab Monday evening that Hamas would soon let some Fatah leaders return to the Strip, and release a number of Fatah political prisoners from Hamas prisons, in a bid to push forward the reconciliation process.The two Palestinian movements have been unable to implement the terms of two reconciliation agreements signed in 2012; the first in Doha, Qatar, in February and the second in Cairo in May, paving the way for the establishment of a unity government headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of national elections.Nearly all of Fatah’s security and political officials were forced to flee Gaza following Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. Both Palestinian governments suppress the activities of their rivals in the territory they control.Breaking a long freeze in talks, Fatah’s chief negotiator with Hamas Azzam Al-Ahmad secretly resumed talks with Hamas’s political No. 2, Moussa Abu Marzouk, earlier this month.On January 8, Qatari news channel Al Jazeera, a station close to Hamas, reported that the secretary general of one of Gaza’s smaller factions has been engaged in mediation efforts between the two movements. Haniyeh called Abbas in early January, updating the Ramallah leader on the “goodwill gestures” Hamas has undertaken in Gaza, Hamas leader Salah Bardawil told Al Jazeera.Under increasingly growing political pressure from Egypt, Hamas’s interest in realizing reconciliation is higher than than that of Fatah, which enjoys the diplomatic support of both Egypt and Jordan.A diplomatic source speaking to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity said that Abbas had little will to cut a deal with Hamas, preferring “to see the Islamic movement sweat.”

Netanyahu: Israel not obligated by US peace plan

Prime minister refrains from directly responding to Naftali Bennett on the prospect of settlers remaining in future Palestine

By Spencer Ho January 28, 2014, 10:19 pm 7-The Times of Israel

Israel is not bound to agree to all points of an imminent US proposal for a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech Tuesday night.“The Americans are working to solidify American positions,” he said at the Institute for National Security Studies conference. “Israel does not have to accept every American position.” He said the American proposal would be presented soon.Netanyahu also reiterated his position that he does not “want a bi-national state and… this reflects the desires of most Israelis.” However, he qualified, neither does he want another “state sponsored by Iran” next door to Israel — a reference to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Lebanon — so “the Palestinian state must be demilitarized, and therefore some symbols of [its] sovereignty must be limited.”

Netanyahu also expressed some doubt as to “whether the Palestinians are really ready to grapple with the concessions they will have to make” in order to reach a peace agreement. He did give some grudging praise to the Palestinian Authority, however, saying it does not use terrorism in pursuit of its goals, unlike Hamas.

“We stand on two basic principles [that we require of the Palestinians],” he said. “The first is recognition of the State of Israel as the national state of the Jewish people. This is the root of the conflict. The conflict is not about the settlements, its not about the settlers, and it’s not about a Palestinian state. The Zionist movement agreed to recognize a Palestinian state.“The conflict is over the Jewish state… We are asked to recognize a national Palestinian state, so can we not also demand [that they] recognize a national Jewish state?” he said.

The second principle, Netanyahu said, was demilitarization. Elaborating, he said, constant incitement against Israel among the Palestinians had created a climate in which Israel required a substantial “security presence” in order to protect itself. That included a “long-term” presence in the Jordan Valley and other areas. (In a filmed address to the conference broadcast earlier Tuesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said all Israeli troops would have to leave Palestinian territory within years after a permanent accord was signed.) The best formulation to summarize Israel’s vision for a viable two-state solution, said the prime minister, was that the Palestinians establish “a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.”

Despite speaking about two states for two peoples, the prime minister refrained from directly broaching the hot topic of allowing West Bank settlers to choose whether they want to relocate to sovereign Israeli territory or remain under Palestinian rule under a future peace agreement. Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett had continued his campaign against the proposal in an earlier speech he made at the same conference.“Do you know why? Why Jews cannot live under Palestinian rule? Do you know why? Why Palestinians can’t rule over Jews?” Bennett said, reiterating a point he’d made on Facebook earlier in the day. “Because they will kill them. And do you know how I know this? Because it has already happened.”

Netanyahu did say that Israel did not want to make the Palestinians citizens of Israel — as Bennett suggests for 70,000 Palestinians in West Bank areas he would annex — and that Israel does not want “to rule over” the Palestinians.Bennett has been caught up in a war of words with the Prime Minister’s Office since a PMO official, elaborating on a statement Netanyahu made in Switzerland Friday, told The Times of Israel on Sunday that the prime minister does not intend to uproot Jewish settlements anywhere in the West Bank as part of a permanent peace deal with the Palestinians, and wants to allow settlers the choice of remaining under Palestinian rule.That comment elicited a flurry of criticism from right-wing politicians, including Bennett and many members of the prime minister’s own Likud party.An unnamed PMO official told Israel Radio on Monday that Likud MKs who spoke out against Netanyahu’s proposal were welcome to relinquish their posts. Another official took Bennett to task for behaving in a “nationally irresponsible” manner for the sake of making headlines, and hindering the prime minister’s effort “to reveal the true face of the Palestinian Authority” as an unwilling peace partner.The proposal was roundly dismissed by the Palestinian Authority, prompting a sharp condemnation from the PMO.“Nothing shows the Palestinian Authority’s unwillingness to reach an accord with Israel more than their extreme and reckless reaction to an unofficial report,” Netanyahu’s office said late Sunday. “An accord will only be reached when the Palestinians recognize the Jewish state and when the essential interests to the security of Israeli citizens are guaranteed.”In the wake of that exchange, Israel’s chief negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, implied that, rather than pursue a peace agreement in earnest, some Israeli officials have been baiting the Palestinians so as to elicit responses that could be construed as rejectionist.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

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