Saturday, May 07, 2016

IS AMERICA AND CANADA GETTING THE GOVERNMENT THEY DESERVE DUE TO GODLESSNESS AND ISRAEL HATE.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

ISAIAH 8:12
12  Say ye not, A confederacy,(CONSPIRACY) to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy;(CONSPIRACY THEORY) neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

JEREMIAH 17:9
9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

MATTHEW 24:7
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

UPDATE-MAY 05,2016-11:43AM-BY STAN L BOWMAN JR (SOME OR ALOT WILL BE OFFENDED)(BUT I AM ONLY SPEAKING TRUTH IN LOVE OF COURSE)(NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE THINK)(OR SHOULD I SAY FOR CHRISTIANITIES SAKE)(THIS DENATELY WILL NOT GO OVER WELL WITH THE PEACE-JOY-LOVE ALL LUKEWARM CHRISTIANITY MOVEMENT)

FIRST WE START WITH CANADA.


IN THE 60S WE TOOK THE BIBLE AND PRAYER OUT OF SCHOOLS. TODAY WE GOT CHURCHES THAT HAVE GONE LUKEWARM. AND AGREE WITH EVERY SIN OF THE WORLD THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE AGAINST. CHRISTIANS ARE ALSO INTO THIS END OF THE WORLD CULT. BELIEVE IN SPACE ALIEN INVASIONS. DENY JESUS IS GOD. BUT LOVE THEIR EARS TICKLED BY ANY OUT OF THIS WORLD CONSPIRACY THEORY. AND WILL BELIEVE THEM-BUT WILL NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE ANY MORE.

WELL AS A RESULT WE IN CANADA GOT A LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU THAT LOVES TAKING SELFIES WITH ALL THE GIRLS AND WOMEN. WE GOT A LESBIEN LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT LEADER OF ONTARIO-KATHLEEN WYNN. WE GOT A GOVERNMENT FULL OF MUSLIMS AND SIHKS AND GAYS. AND WITH THIS LATEST LIBERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY CLAIM WOMENS RIGHTS WHICH MEANS THEY AGREE WOMEN CAN MURDER GODS CREATED CHILDREN BY ABORTING THEM. THEY SUCK HOLE UP TO ISLAMIC-MUSLIMS. AND INDIANS RIGHTS. INFACT THEY SUCK HOLE UP TO EVERY MINORITY BUT BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS WHO ARE HATED AND CALLED BIGOTS-RACIST-HATERS-ISLOMOPHOBES WHO ARE NOT OPEN MINDED. THESE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS IN CANADA NOT ONLY MURDER BABIES BEFORE THEIR BORN. BUT NOW THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WANT TO KILL OFF OUR PARENTS EARLY. BUT ALLOWING DOCTOR ASSISTED SUICIDE. AND THIS FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ENVIROMENTAL MOVEMENT. PAY YOUR CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING-FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH. AND FOR THE CHILDREN OF COURSE. MEANWHILE THESE HYPOCRITICAL LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS ABORT (MURDER) THE CHILDREN BEFORE THEIR EVEN BORN. BUT I GUESS IN A LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS EYES. ITS FOR THE GOOD OF POPULATION CONTROL. AND FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN TO CONTROL THEIR OWN BODIES. AND HAVE ALL THE SEX THEY WANT. AND THEN WHEN THEY GET PREGNANT. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CHILD. SO THEY CAN MURDER IT-THREW ABORTION. AND CALL IT A WOMENS RIGHT. THEN THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WANT PROSTITUTION LEGALIZED. ITS NOT PROSTITUTION ANY MORE. ITS A WAY OF MAKING A LIVING FOR PREMISCOUS WOMEN. ADDICTED TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS CLAIM. YOU CAN BET BY ME SAYING THESE TRUTHS. I WILL BE CALLED A WOMEN HATER AND A BIGOT. AND WHATEVER ELSE. BUT I COULD CARE LESS. I AM GONNA SPEAK TRUTH OF HOW OUR COUNTRY IS BECOMING GODLESS AND A LOVER OF EVERY SIN GOING. AND OF COURSE THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WANT MARIJUANA LEGALIZED. SO THEY CAN GET ALL THE TAXES OFF IT TO FILL THEIR LUST FOR CORRUPTION.GREED AND FILL THEIR ACCOUNTS WITH BRIBES TO MAKE THE SIN LEGALIZED. AND OF COURSE THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WANT TO FLOOD CANADA WITH 300,000 MUSLIMS BY 2017. SO ISLAM CAN FORCE OUR WOMEN TO GO BY ISLAMIC-SHARIA LAW. BY FORCING WOMEN 24 HOURS A DAY TO WEAR TOWELS AROUND THEIR HEADS. AND BLANKETS AROUND THEIR BODIES. OR THEY CAN BE KILLED BY ISLAMIC-MUSLIM MEN UNDER THE GUISE OF THE SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGIN-HONOR KILL. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COUNTRY GOES GODLESS AND IS A ISRAEL HATER AS WELL. I JUST WISH STEPHEN HARPER AND THE CONSERVATIVES WOULD HAVE WON OUR GOVERNMENT LAST OCTOBER INSTEAD OF THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS. AT LEAST STEPHEN HARPER WAS A CHRISTIAN-AND BIG TIME ISRAEL SUPPORTER. BUT NOW SINCE THE GODLESS LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS ARE IN POWER. EVERY SIN YOU THINK OF IS BEING LEGALIZED. THE BIBLE TOLD US IF THE RIGHTOUS CHRISTIAN LEADERS RULE WE WOULD PROSPER. BUT GET A GOD AND ISRAEL HATER PARTY IN GOVERNMENT WE ARE CURSED. AND WE ARE CURSED BY ALL THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT LAWS THAT WILL BE FORCED ON US CHRISTIANS. NEXT THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WILL BE CALLING FOR A MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN EVERYBODY IN CANADA. SO THEY CAN TRACK OUR EVERY MOVES. THEN THIS WILL COMPLETE THE CONTROL FREAK-SIN LOVERS-TRACK ALL EVERY MOVE. I HAVE A FEELING CANADA AND AMERICA HAS GOTTEN TO FAR INTO SIN AND DEFECTION TO TURN BACK. AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD JUDGEMENT HAS GOT TO BE CLOSE. SO LOOK UP CHRISTIANS-WE GO HOME TO JESUS FIRST FOR THE 7 YEARS. BEFORE THE 7 YEARS OF GODS JUDGEMENT COMES ON THE WHOLE WORLD DUE TO GOD-JESUS AND ISRAEL HATE. SIN CAN ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED OR LEGALIZED FOR SO LONG. TILL GOD GETS SICK TO HIS STOMACH OVER THE SINS ON EARTH. AND THE JUDGEMENTS HAVE TO OCCUR. TO STOP THE WORLDS LOVE AND WORSHIP OF THE SINS. ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS. WE CHRISTIANS WANNA HEAD HOME WITH YOU FOR 7 YEARS. THEN RETURN TO EARTH WITH YOU. TO RULE FROM YOUR RIGHTEOUS KINGDOM REIGN FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER-NEVER ENDING. WE IN CANADA ARE GETTING THE GOVERNMENT WE DESRVE. UNTIL WE GET GOD AND HIS WORD BACK IN CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY.

NOW TO AMERICA.

WELL DONALD TRUMP HAS JUST BEEN NOMINATED AS THE REPUBLICAN YESTERDAY TO GO AGAINST MOST LIKELY HITLARY 2ND ROTTEN LIAR CLINTON FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. I'M GOING BY T.D HALES DREAM GOD GAVE HIM. THAT SAYS DONALD TRUMP WILL BE AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT. AND HOW THE DIVISION IN CHRISTIANITY HAS LEAD TO A DECEIVER BEING THE NEXT PRESIDENT. OBAMA LEAD THE WAY FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS WITH ALL HIS LIES AND DECEPTION AND CAUSING DIVISION IN AMERICA. AND I PREDICT TRUMP WILL EVEN BE WORSE. BECAUSE HE CAN PRETEND AND SAY ANYTHING TO WHATEVER CROWD HES TALKING WITH. AND CAN MAKE THEM BELIEVE HIS LIES BY TICKLING THEIR EARS. BY SAYING WHATEVER THEY WANNA HEAR. BUT NOW THAT TRUMP HAS DECEIVED MOST OF THE CHRISTIANS TO VOTE FOR HIM. AND HE IS NOW THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. IT WILL NOT MATTER IF TRUMP OR HITLER 2ND WINS THE PRESIDENCY. EITHER ONE WILL BE A DECEIVING LIAR. SO NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS THE NOMINEE. THE CHRISTIANS WERE DELUDED. AND NOW THE DECEIVED CHRISTIANS ARE FORCED TO STAY WITH TRUMP. AND VOTE FOR HIM AS PRESIDENT. OR THEY WILL BE FORCED TO VOTE FOR THE OUT RIGHT-BIGGEST LIAR GOING-HITLER 2ND CLINTON. I GOTTA ADMIT. AT LEAST EVERY CHRISTIAN KNOWS THAT EVERY THING THAT COMES OUTTA CLINTONS LIPS IS A BIG FAT LIE. AND THAT SHE WILL OUTLAW CHRISTIANITY AS A RACIST-HATE-BIGOTED-ISLOMOPHOBIA RELIGION. THAT HAS TO BE ELIMINATED. FOR THE PEACE IN THE WORLD AND THE CHILDRENS SAKE OF COURSE.THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WILL SAY. SO NOW THE CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN DECEIVED. AND ARE NOW FORCED TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP. BECAUSE THEY KNOW IF CLINTON IS ELECTED PRESIDENT. CHRISTIANITY WILL BE OUTLAWED. SO CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA. THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL AMERICA LIKE IN KING BELSHAZZARS 1,000 PLUS PEOPLE PARTY HARDY DRINK-POT-ORGY FEST. IN NEBUCHADNEZZERS DAY. YOU CAN NOT USE ISRAEL AS A MAT-AND THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. WITHOUT GOD GIVING USE A LEADER USE DESERVE. THAT EVEN THE CHRISTIANS WILL BE DECEIVED TO BELIEVE THE PRETEND DECEIVERS LIES. THAT TICKLE THEIR EARS. AND MAKE THEM WANNA VOTE FOR HIM. I THINK GOD THREW TED CRUZ ON MAY 3RD. REVEALED THE TRUE DONALD TRUMP. BUT INDIANA A SO CALLED CHRISTIAN STATE. BELIEVED THE DECEIVER. AND THREW THE TRUE CHRISTIAN UNDER THE BUS. AND NOW SINCE THE DECEIVER HAS WON THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEESHIP. THE CHRISTIANS WILL BE FORCED TO GO WITH THE DECEIVER. OR WILL BE FORCED TO VOTE FOR THE CHRISTIAN OUT LAWER-HITLER 2ND ROTTEN LIAR CLINTON. YEP-AMERICA WILL BE GETTING THE LEADER THEY DESRVE. JUST LIKE US IN CANADA. HAVE GOTTEN THE LEADER WE DESRVE. FOR BEING A GOD-JESUS-ISRAEL HATING COUNTRY. AND LOVE THE WORLD MORE. THANK JESUS THAT WE GO TO HIM BEFORE ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ON THIS GOD-JESUS-ISRAEL HATING WORLD. LIKE I SAY. GOD IS GONNA CONVINCE THE WORLD HE RULES-NOT THE GODLESS LEADERS THE WORLD HAS NOW. ONCE JESUS RULES-SIN WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD. AND TRUTH AND TRUE JUSTICE WILL BE DONE. 

CRUZ ON TRUMP VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkDHc6k0P3A (MAY 3,16)
IS TRUMP A TOWER OF BABEL BUILDER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/is-america-counting-on-tower-of-babel.html

Friday, May 06, 2016

CHRISTIAN LEADER CALLS UN TEMPLE MOUNT RESOLUTION A THREAT TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
temple mount jerusalem-Jerusalem's Old City and the Temple Mount. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Christian Leader Calls UN Temple Mount Resolution a Threat To Jews and Christians Alike-By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 6, 2016 , 9:26 am-BREAKINGISRAELNEWS   

“Also the aliens, that join themselves to the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by My covenant. Even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon Mine altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” Isaiah 56:6-7 (The Israel Bible™)-Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a Christian representative to the UN, is calling for Christians to condemn the UNESCO resolution that declared the Temple Mount to be a Muslim holy site, saying the move was worse than Holocaust denial, threatening Jews and Christians alike.Cardoza-Moore is the UN Special Envoy for the World Council of Independent Christian Churchs (WCICC) and President of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN) which represent more than 40 million pro-Israel Evangelicals worldwide and more than 13,000 global PJTN Watchmen.Cardoza –Moore took part in meetings at the UN on Thursday, Holocaust Remembrance day,  which she noted as an auspicious time to decry the recent UN resolutions declaring the Temple Mount, Rachel’s Tomb, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and even the Kotel (Western Wall) to be exclusively Muslim sites.“This message is particularly important on Holocaust Remembrance Day, because we cannot afford to stand by as Jewish history is publicly denied by an organization of the United Nations,” said Cardoza-Moore.“Denying the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount is tantamount to denying the existence of the Jewish people and is therefore even more grave than Holocaust denial.”She warned that moves that delegitimize Israel’s historic right to the land and its holy sites will perpetuate the violence centered around the Temple mount.“By deliberately ignoring the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, UNESCO violates the human rights of Jews everywhere, as well as those of Christianity, whose beliefs and heritage include the spiritual and historical connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and all of Israel,” Cardoza –Moore said, adding, “UNESCO is also obligated to promote and educate about religious tolerance.”“With its denial of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and its holy sites, UNESCO harms any prospect of peace and vicariously supports a radical ideology that denies the Jewish connection to the land of Israel and its holy sites.”“Christians recognize the historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and all of the ancient biblical sites in Israel. Christians also recognize that if we do not defend Israel’s biblical and historic connection to the Land, Christians will ultimately lose their historic connection as well,” said Cardoza-Moore.“We are calling on all Christians to contact UNESCO and condemn this attempt to re-write biblical history and replace it with political propaganda.”She warned that “with the rise of global, genocidal anti-Semitism, as well as the global push to boycott, divest and sanction Israel, on this Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), as the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history, Christians, Jews and people of conscience must commit to make a stand and say never again.”PJTN Watchmen are also calling on UNESCO to condemn the deliberate destruction of artifacts buried beneath the Temple Mount. This destruction has been carried out by the Waqf, the Islamic religious authority, for over a decade in an attempt to physically eradicate and deny a historically accurate narrative connecting Jews and Christian to the site.

UNESCO adopts resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount - Resolution refers to Temple Mount area solely as Al-Aksa Mosque/Al-Haram Al Sharif, except for two references to the Western Wall Plaza that were put in parenthesis.-MAY 6,16-JP

UNESCO’s Executive Board in Paris on Friday adopted a resolution whose language ignores Jewish ties to its holy religious site of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall area in Jerusalem’s Old City.The broad-ranging resolution condemns Israeli actions in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip but focus in large part on Israeli actions with regard to the Temple Mount and Western Wall Plaza.Judaism, Christianity and Islam all consider the Temple Mount to be a holy site, but the UNESCO Resolution referred to the area solely as al-Aksa Mosque/al-Haram al Sharif, except for two references to the Western Wall Plaza that were put in parenthesis. The text also referred to the plaza area by the Western Wall as al-Buraq Plaza.In October, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization backed away from reclassifying the Western Wall as solely a Muslim holy site, but is now using language that almost solely refers to it as such.April’s resolution reaffirmed that the Mughrabi Ascent, which starts at the Western Wall Plaza, is an integral and inseparable part of al-Aksa Mosque/al-Haram al-Sharif.The resolution calls on Israel to restore the status of the Temple Mount to what it was prior to September 2000 when the second intifada broke out. At that time, according to the resolution, the Jordan Wakf had full control of al-Aksa Mosque/ al-Haram al Sharif including maintenance and restoration work and regulating access.The site currently is under the full authority, but not full control, of the Islamic Wakf. Only Muslims are allowed to pray at the Aksa complex, but Jews and members of other faiths are allowed to visit.Israel controls the access to the site, and has persistently rejected all claims that the status quo at the site has been changed.UNESCO called on Israel not to restrict Muslim worshipers from accessing the Aksa Mosque site and condemned the violence that occurred there in the fall, but focused solely on Israeli actions in those incidents and not the violence of the Muslim rioters.It condemned Israeli plans to build a prayer space for Women of the Wall by Robinson’s Arch, although it did not mention the group by name.The resolution also charged that Israel had placed “Jewish fake graves” in other Muslim cemeteries located on Wakf property east and south of the Aksa mosque.Aside from its condemnations with regard to Jerusalem, the resolution deplored the “new cycle of violence, since October 2015, in the context of the constant aggressions by the Israeli settlers and other extremist groups against Palestinian residents including schoolchildren, and asks Israel, the Israeli authorities to prevent such aggressions.” It did not mention the 34 fatalities from Palestinian attacks.UNESCO also said it regretted Israel’s failure to comply with its request to remove from its National Heritage list, the Cave of the Patriarch/Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb/Bilal bin Rabah mosque in Bethlehem.The 58-member board approved resolution 19 with 33 votes in favor, six against and 17 abstentions. Ghana and Turkmenistan were absent all together.Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States opposed the resolution outright, while France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among those who supported it.A second resolution that more globally condemned Israeli actions, passed with 45 votes in favor, one vote against – the United States – and 11 abstentions.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the move as another “absurd” UN resolution.“UNESCO ignores the unique Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the site of two temples for 1,000 years, and the place to which Jews prayed for thousands of years,” he said in a statement Saturday night. “ The UN is rewriting a basic part of human history and proving that there is no low to which it will not reach.”Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Friday night distributed copies of the resolutions to the media and slammed the decision.He penned a letter to the UNESCO director- general Irina Bokova in which he called the resolution a “disgraceful attempt to rewrite history and rewrite reality as part of a sustained political campaign against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.“This resolution was an utterly irresponsible intervention in one of the most complex places in the Middle East. UNESCO prides itself on promoting tolerance, interfaith and inter-cultural dialogue, yet it passes resolutions which erase the Jewish people from the historical narrative,” Lapid said.He warned that the UNESCO resolution feeds the type of incitement that fueled the violence that began around the time of the Jewish New Year.“The decision by UNESCO feeds this incitement and so contributes to the wave of terrorism. It will lead directly to more attacks against innocent Israeli civilians and you cannot avoid responsibility for that,” Lapid said.“This latest one-sided resolution is a stain on the United Nations,” he wrote, urging Bokova to publicly declare her opposition to it.“You must not allow UNESCO to be hijacked as part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel and isolate the Jewish people,” he said.Herb Keinon contributed to this report.

THE USELESS UNITED NATIONS IS IN NEW YORK.AMERICA IS NOT STOPPING THIS STEALING OR DIVIDING OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT FROM ISRAEL. SPELLS TROUBLE FOR AMERICA.IT MAY BE DIVIDED BY QUAKES FROM GOD.

Small magnitude earthquake swarm continues at Mount St. Helens-May 05, 2016-USGS

Beginning March 14, 2016, a number of small magnitude earthquakes have occurred beneath Mount St. Helens, at a depth between 2 and 7 km (1.2 to 4 miles). Over the last 8 weeks, there have been over 130 earthquakes formally located by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and many more earthquakes too small to be located. The earthquakes have low magnitudes of 0.5 or less; the largest a magnitude 1.3. Earthquake rates have been steadily increasing since March, reaching nearly 40 located earthquakes per week. These earthquakes are too small to be felt at the surface.The earthquakes are volcano-tectonic in nature, indicative of a slip on a small fault. Such events are commonly seen in active hydrothermal and magmatic systems. The magma chamber is likely imparting its own stresses on the crust around and above it, as the system slowly recharges. The stress drives fluids through cracks, producing the small quakes. The current pattern of seismicity is similar to swarms seen at Mount St. Helens in 2013 and 2014; recharge swarms in the 1990s had much higher earthquake rates and energy release.No anomalous gases, increases in ground inflation or shallow seismicity have been detected with this swarm, and there are no signs of an imminent eruption. As was observed at Mount St. Helens between 1987-2004, recharge can continue for many years beneath a volcano without an eruption.

Small magnitude earthquakes detected at Mount St. Helens.March 18, 2016-USGS

On March 14, 2016, the seismic network at Mount St. Helens began detecting small magnitude earthquakes at a depth of 3–4 km beneath the crater. Twelve earthquakes have been formally located and the local seismic network detected at least 100 earthquakes too small to be recorded on enough seismometers to calculate a location. Many of the earthquakes have similar seismic signatures, suggesting they are occurring in the same area as the located earthquakes. According to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the largest earthquake over a four-day period was a Magnitude 0.7, an event that would not be felt even if you were standing on the surface above it.These types of volcano-tectonic earthquakes beneath Mount St. Helens are likely associated with the recharge of the volcano. After the 2004-2008 eruption, subtle inflation of the ground surface and seismicity indicate that the magma reservoir beneath Mount St. Helens is slowly re-pressurizing, as it did after the conclusion of the 1980-1986 eruption. This is to be expected and it does not indicate that the volcano is likely to erupt anytime soon. Re-pressurization of a volcano's magma reservoir is commonly observed at volcanoes that erupted recently, and recharge can continue for many years without an eruption.  

Thursday, May 05, 2016

THOUSANDS MARK HOLOCAUST REMEMBERENCE DAY AT AUSCHWITZ.YESTERDAY.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

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)

Thousands mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz-Jews from around the world, students and Israeli officials gather at Nazi death camp for annual March of the Living-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff May 5, 2016, 10:22 pm

Thousands of young Jews from 40 nations marched alongside a handful of Holocaust survivors and Polish teenagers Thursday in homage to the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in southern Poland.Now a memorial and museum run by the Polish state, the site is symbolic of Nazi Germany’s genocide of European Jews. One million perished there between 1940 to 1945.Survivor Feiga Francis Schmidt Libman, 81, told AFP she lost her grandmother, aunt and cousins at Auschwitz.Her father died at Dachau, another Nazi camp located in Germany, but she and her mother survived the ordeal of life in the Stutthof camp. She was just 10.“I want them (young people) to know that hatred kills,” Libman, now a great grandmother, told AFP. “I have a motto: if you have hatred in your heart, there is no room for love. I want everyone to be nice to each other and it doesn’t matter if you pray in a synagogue, if you pray in a church or if you pray in a mosque.“We are all the same and we should love each other and try to get along because there is beauty and goodness in all of us.”The doleful sound of the shofar — a traditional Jewish ram’s horn symbolic of freedom — marked the start of the march in brilliant sunshine in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, where Nazi Germany built the death camp in 1940.Participants walked through the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Will Set You Free) gate at Auschwitz, before marching two miles (three kilometers) to Birkenau, the main extermination site.Held for the 28th time, organizers say the annual March of the Living is the world’s largest single Holocaust memorial event.It marks Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.“I’m afraid that Europe and maybe some other parts of the world didn’t learn much (from the Holocaust),” Dr Shmuel Rosenman, march chairman, told AFP.He urged governments to enact tough legislation “against anti-Semitism, racism, fascism.”Yossi Fischer, a 19-year-old New Yorker, said that his great grandfather was the lone survivor among his relatives, all of whom perished at Auschwitz.“They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around.”Eight Knesset members from across the political spectrum attended the annual event, including Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked who addressed modern-day anti-Semitism in her remarks to participants after the march.“Many in Europe, even in modern Europe of 2016, are only willing to accept the Jew in one role and one role only: that of a victim. A perpetual victim,” she said.“A strong and thriving State of Israel, one which wins its wars and overcomes its enemies, is a state that many in Europe find difficult to accept.“Does such a state have a place in the world? Does it have a right to exist? Here in Birkenau I will say this: The existence of the State of Israel is justified in every moment. Even when it enjoys, as we do today, a time of prosperity. Even in days of great strength.“We must remember that even today, there are those who call for the destruction of the Jewish people.‘They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around’-“From this place, I call upon you and upon all the countries that you represent here: Study the lessons of the most terrible of horrors and do not let their seeds sprout anew,” Shaked said.Also in attendance was Zionist Union MK Yael Cohen Paran, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.“It’s a really important day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the March of the Living symbolizes the victory of the Jewish people over the terrible Nazi Shoah. Nearly all of the relatives of my grandparents died in the Holocaust, and being here is very meaningful to me, like coming full circle,” Paran said. “I haven’t started to cry yet but I am sure I will.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stayed in Israel to attend official state memorial events, addressed the 10,000 participants via videolink.“It is here that the Jews were burned to death, millions perished and nobody lifted a finger, so it was a double tragedy: the tragedy of extermination and the tragedy of neglect,” he said.“The March of the Living represents the rebirth of the Jewish people, the rebirth of the Jewish sate, the rebirth of the Jewish commitment to defend ourselves against those who wish to destroy us.”Historical records show that six million European Jews perished under the Nazi German genocide during World War II.In 1944, some 430,000 Jews were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train from Hungary. Most were immediately put to death in gas chambers, while the others shared the fate of all of the camp’s inmates: forced labor, hunger and disease that most often led to death.More than 100,000 non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and anti-Nazi partisans also died at the infamous death camp in occupied Poland. The Soviet Red Army liberated it in 1945.The March of the Living began in 1988 as a biennial event, but was soon staged yearly.So far, almost 200,000 Jewish youths have taken part in the march, according to the International March of the Living organizers, who intend it to be an element of education for new generations.

PM scolded Ya’alon over IDF deputy chief’s Holocaust remarks-Yair Golan sparks controversy after appearing to compare Israel to Nazi Germany in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech-By Tamar Pileggi May 5, 2016, 8:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reprimanded Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon over the IDF deputy chief of staff’s Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Wednesday, during which he appeared to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.During a “tense” late-night phone call on Wednesday, Netanyahu told Ya’alon that Maj. Gen. Yair Golan’s remarks were “unacceptable,” Hebrew media reported.Amid criticism of his comments by senior politicians as well as an outcry on social media, Golan on Thursday walked back his statement, saying his address was not meant to compare the actions of Israel or the IDF to those of the Nazis.“It is an absurd and baseless comparison and I had no intention whatsoever of drawing any sort of parallel or to criticize the national leadership,” Golan said in a statement communicated by the IDF Spokesperson’s unit.Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office told the TV station that Netanyahu welcomed Golan’s statement.“With all due respect to the deputy chief of staff, the prime minister believes he erred in his remarks, and so it’s good that he explained them,” PMO sources said.According to Channel 2, IDF officials insisted Golan’s clarification had nothing to do with Netanyahu’s reprimand, and said the army would have issued a statement on Golan’s remarks regardless.In sharp contrast to Netanyahu, Ya’alon dismissed the widespread criticism of Golan, saying he had “full confidence” in the “valued and accomplished” deputy chief of staff.“These attacks on him are intentional, distorted interpretations of something he said yesterday, and are part of a wider, alarming campaign to cause political damage to the IDF and its officers,” Ya’alon said in a statement on Thursday.“We cannot afford to let that happen,” he added. “The job of every IDF commander, especially a senior commander, is not just to lead soldiers into battle, but also obligates him to lead the way in establishing values.”The strained conversation between Ya’alon and Netanayhu was reported as an indication of deteriorating relationship between the two.Controversy over Golan’s comments continued to snowball Thursday even after the IDF issued his clarification, with some politicians expressing dismay over both the content of his claim and its timing, and others backing him.Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sharply criticized Golan as “confused” and showing “contempt for the Holocaust,” while opposition leader Isaac Herzog praised Golan for exhibiting “morality and responsibility.”On Wednesday night, Golan told the audience during the central state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial that he saw trends in Israel today that are similar to those in Europe prior to the Holocaust, warning against growing callousness and indifference toward those outside of mainstream Israeli society.“If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016,” Golan said at the event.While his critique of Israeli society was likely aimed at support for Jewish extremist actions, Golan specifically touched upon the issue of moral flaws within the army, saying the strength of the IDF was its ability to thoroughly investigate and punish wrongdoers “and take responsibility for the good and the bad,” without justifying their actions or attempting to cover them up.“We believe truly in the justness of our path, but not everything we do is just,” he said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

No joking matter: 1940s political cartoons warned US of Holocaust-Proof of America’s awareness of genocide against European Jews lay in the funny papers, where cartoonists used pens to eviscerate US politicians’ apathy-By Cathryn J. Prince May 5, 2016, 8:41 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

NEW YORK — Long before becoming a beloved children’s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of the Third Reich.In fact, Geisel belonged to a small but determined cadre of American editorial cartoonists who, as early as 1933, sounded the alarm about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Now the work of these legendary cartoonists is featured in Dr. Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe’s new book, “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust.”But beyond resurrecting these cartoons from history’s margins, the book upends the narrative that Americans were unaware of the mounting barbarism.“There is a popular misconception that what Hitler was doing was not known to the American public until the camps were liberated,” Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told The Times of Israel. “When you look at the newspaper coverage at the time you see a great deal was known long before that. And the number of editorial cartoons further illustrates how widely known Hitler’s atrocities were before the end of the war.”That cartoonists addressed the threat of Nazi Germany so early fits in with how they view their role in society, said Yoe, an Eisner Award-winning comics historian and the former creative director for Jim Henson’s Muppets and Nickelodeon.“Cartoonists are often progressive. They give a voice for people who are struggling and they can speak for those who need a voice. They care about social laws and issues,” he said.Through more than 150 rare political cartoons, historical explanations and commentary, the authors tell how these cartoonists implored American politicians and private citizens alike to act against Nazi Germany and save Jewish lives.Readers will view Kristallnacht, book burnings, the voyage of the doomed refugee ship St. Louis, the struggle over America’s refugee policy, the gas chambers, the cattle car trains, and the Nuremberg Trials, through the eyes of watchdogs such as Herbert Block of the “Washington Post,” Jay “Ding” Darling of the “New York Herald Tribune”, and Edmund Duffy of “The Baltimore Sun.”As the authors write in the book’s introduction, successful editorial cartoons poke, prod and provoke. Not only did they command attention in the US, they drew a response from Nazi Germany.“In fact Hitler put out two volumes of cartoons showing what the world was saying about Nazi Germany. They collected cartoons from abroad as a way to say, ‘They’re lying about us and about what is really happening.’ It was their way to refute the accusations being made against Nazi Germany,” said Dr. Steven Luckert, Senior Program Curator at the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Without choosing a favorite cartoonist, Yoe said he’s long been drawn to the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Daniel Fitzpatrick, who worked in charcoal. His 1935 cartoon “Swastika Over Germany” depicts a swastika formed by a bent and chained person.“He drew very simple, yet very forceful cartoons. You have to be a very good artist to get an idea across like that,” Yoe said.As the author of 16 books on the Holocaust and Jewish history, Medoff said the cartoons offer a fresh way to teach the story of the Shoah.“One important point that strikes me again and again is it’s really hard for teens to relate to the Holocaust because it seems so long ago, so very far away,” said Medoff. “They read ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and often Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ but this sticks in their minds in a way a 250-page text book does not.”Luckert agreed, saying cartoons offer a succinct way to convey an argument. As such, cartoons often feature in the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions.Many of the cartoonists were Pulitzer Prize-winning muckrakers. Some were the targets of racist mobs. And some, like Eric Godal and Arthur Szyk, were Jewish refugees whose parents were trapped in Hitler’s Europe.“That added a poignant twist. I thought I was writing a book about well-meaning cartoonists who were trying to make a difference. I didn’t realize how they [Godal and Szyk] were personally impacted,” Medoff said.Originally from Germany, Godal narrowly escaped the Gestapo in 1933 and after settling in the US started working as a cartoonist for several publications. One of his cartoons in 1938, “The Wandering Jew” showed a Jewish refugee crisscrossing the globe, according to the book. A year later his own mother, Anna Marien-Goldbaum, and 936 other German Jewish refugees boarded the “St. Louis,” hoping to be granted safe haven in the US.She sent two letters, from an aged mother on the wandering steamship to her son Godal the artist in New York. She wrote of holding out hope that President Franklin D. Roosevelt “and other influential people will help us… I shall not lose courage until the happy end is reached.”Roosevelt did not help and the “St. Louis” returned to Europe. Many of the passengers, including Godal’s mother, perished in Nazi concentration camps. Later Godal would pen one of the harshest critiques of Roosevelt in a cartoon captioned “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for consideration.” It shows an apathetic Roosevelt passing off a memorandum about how the Nazis were murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews monthly.More than 70 years after the war ended, it’s difficult to gauge the impact cartoons had on public opinion and policy — for while the US government didn’t intercede on behalf of Jewish refugees, individuals such as Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha rescued an anti-Nazi member of the Czech parliament by sneaking him out of a hospital morgue in a body bag.“Even if you can’t measure it in an obvious way it doesn’t mean the cartoon didn’t have impact,” Medoff said. “The public’s appreciation of editorial cartoons is still great, they still really pack a punch and can be taken seriously as political commentary.”

Palestinian woman killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza-Several injuries also reported in southern Strip after IAF strikes on 4 Hamas sites; PM to convene emergency cabinet meeting-By Times of Israel staff and AFP May 5, 2016, 8:58 pm

A Palestinian woman was killed when Israeli tank shells hit her home east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the southern city’s Nasser hospital said.The Israeli fire came in response to a spate of mortar attacks on troops along the Gaza border fence since Tuesday.The woman was identified by the hospital as Zeina al-Amour, 54.The Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news agency Shehab posted photos on Facebook from the aftermath of the tank fire.Palestinian media also reported that a number of people were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the area of Rafah on Thursday, also in the southern Gaza Strip.The Israeli Air Force confirmed its aircraft hit four military posts belonging to Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Palestinian enclave, Thursday afternoon.The air raids came after Palestinians fired another round of mortar shells from the southern Gaza Strip Thursday afternoon at Israeli troops operating on the Gaza frontier. IDF forces responded with tank fire, shelling nearby “suspicious” sites believed to be the source of the mortar launches, the military said.“Since May 3, 2016, Hamas has repeatedly fired and launched mortar rounds against forces during operational defensive activities adjacent to the security fence with the Gaza Strip. This is the 10th incident in the past two days,” the military said in a statement Thursday.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene an emergency meeting of the security cabinet later Thursday evening to discuss the escalation in violence along Israel’s southern border.Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned Hamas that Israel would not tolerate any attempts to disrupt the lives of its citizens.“Terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip need to know that if they try to disrupt our lives, they will delivered a severe blow,” he said at a service to mark the end of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “We will not tolerate a return to a routine of shooting and attempts to harm our civilians and soldiers. We will take firm action with an iron fist, as we have in the past few days, against the terrorist organizations in the Strip, led by Hamas, which is responsible for the shooting and incidents in Gaza.”Earlier in the day, the IDF revealed that it had discovered a Hamas “terror tunnel” burrowing into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. It was the second such tunnel discovered in a month.Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, head of the IDF’s Southern Command, issued an order declaring the surrounding area a closed military zone.Zamir’s order pertains particularly to the area surrounding Kibbutz Sufa, which sits a few kilometers north of the Kerem Shalom crossing.Thursday was the third day in a row in which IDF troops on the border came under mortar fire, as they worked to uncover the new tunnel on the Gaza side of the border fence.No troops have thus far been injured in the attacks, though some engineering vehicles have been damaged, according to the army.The second tunnel, which is slated to be destroyed in the coming days, is 28 meters (90 feet) deep and was located just a few kilometers from the location of another tunnel discovered and destroyed last month, the army said.It was not immediately clear if the tunnel was newly constructed or if it remained from the 2014 Gaza war.Despite the increased tension along the border with Gaza in recent weeks, the years since the 2014 conflict, known as Operation Protective Edge, have been the quietest in over a decade, in terms of rocket fire and attacks coming from the coastal enclave.Since the discovery of the first attack tunnel last month, the IDF and the Israeli government have stressed there are no indications of an imminent large-scale conflict with the Hamas terrorist organization.Hamas has similarly voiced through proxies that it does not wish to renew conflict with the Jewish state at this point in time.

Iranian commander threatens to close Strait of Hormuz to US-Hossein Salami also says in speech aired on state TV that ‘Americans cannot make safe any part of the world’-By AP May 4, 2016, 1:22 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

TEHRAN, Iran — The deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they “threaten” the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.The comments by Gen. Hossein Salami, carried on state television, follow a long history of both rhetoric and confrontation between Iran and the US over the narrow strait, through which nearly a third of all oil traded by sea passes.The remarks by the acting commander of the Guard also follow those of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who on Monday criticized US activities in the Persian Gulf. It’s unclear whether that signals any new Iranian concern over the strait or possible confrontation with the US following its nuclear deal with world powers.The US Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In his remarks, Salami said that “Americans should learn from recent historical truths,” likely referring to the January capture of 10 US sailors who entered Iranian waters. The sailors were released less than a day later, though state TV aired footage of the sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads.“If the Americans and their regional allies want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz and threaten us, we will not allow any entry,” Salami said, without elaborating on what he and other leaders would consider a threat.He added: “Americans cannot make safe any part of the world.”The US and Iran have a long history of confrontations in the Persian Gulf. They even fought a one-day naval battle on April 18, 1988, after the near-sinking of the missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts by an Iranian mine. That day, US forces attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or damaged six Iranian vessels.A few months later, in July 1988, the USS Vincennes in the strait mistook an Iran Air flight heading to Dubai for an attacking fighter jet, shooting down the plane and killing all 290 people aboard.US Navy officials say they face near-daily encounters with Iranian naval vessels. In January, an unarmed Iranian drone flew over a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, the first since 2014, according to Navy records obtained by The Associated Press.The US has also criticized what it called a “highly provocative” Iranian rocket test in December near its warships and commercial traffic. Iran said it has the right to conduct tests in the strait and elsewhere in Gulf.Iran also sank a replica of a US aircraft carrier near the strait in February 2015 and has said it is testing “suicide drones” that could attack ships.

Trump: Israel should keep building West Bank settlements-Republican front-runner rejects construction freeze as precursor to peace talks with Palestinians, blasts ‘devastating’ Gaza rocket fire into Israel-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 1:53 am

Israel should keep building settlements in the West Bank, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday, linking construction to the continued rocket threat that Israel faces from the Gaza Strip and which has seen it drawn into three wars against Hamas-run Gaza in recent years.In an interview with the British Daily Mail on Tuesday, Trump said there should be no pause in settlement construction, a position at odds with that of the Obama administration, which in 2009 encouraged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to implement a freeze new construction for 10 months in an effort restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate until the very end of the freeze, which Netanyahu then refused to extend.Asked if there should be a pause in settlement building, Trump was quoted answering as follows: “No, I don’t think it is, because I think Israel should have – they really have to keep going. They have to keep moving forward… I don’t think there should be a pause… Look: Missiles were launched into Israel, and Israel, I think, never was properly treated by our country. I mean, do you know what that is, how devastating that is?”“You have hundreds and, I guess, thousands of missiles being launched into Israel, who would put up with that? Who would stand for it?” he added.In July 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in an effort to stop rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into Israel, which came after Operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank following the kidnapping and murder by a Hamas-affiliated cell of three Israeli teenagers earlier that summer. Over the course of the 50-day war, Hamas and other Gaza terror groups launched thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel.Sporadic rocket fire into Israel continues, to which Israel usually responds with air strikes.Trump’s stance favoring settlements is at odds with traditional US opposition to the settlement enterprise. Settlements are seen as an impediment by proponents of the two-state solution, which who would see a Palestinian state alongside Israel in most of the West Bank and all of Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, dismantling all settlements there. Hamas took over in a coup against the Palestinian Authority in 2007.Trump said that despite supporting continued settlement building — a sticking point for the Palestinians who insist all construction must stop while negotiations take place — he’d like to help restart peace talks.“With all of that being said, I would love to see if peace could be negotiated. A lot of people say that’s not a deal that’s possible. But I mean lasting peace, not a peace that lasts for two weeks and they start launching missiles again. So we’ll see what happens,” he said.Asked about Netanyahu, Trump said he was a “very good guy” whom he didn’t know that well.“I think I’d have a very good relationship with him,’ Trump said, adding that he thinks “Obama has been extremely bad to Israel.”Israel began building settlements in the West Bank after it captured the territory, hitherto controlled by Jordan, in the Six Day War in 1967. Today, over 250,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements and outposts.

Trump says he will try to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace deal-‘You got to use our best people. And I know the best people,’ GOP front-runner says at Terre Haute rally ahead of Indiana primary-By Times of Israel staff May 3, 2016, 4:26 am

Claiming he’d “never met a person from Israel that didn’t want to make that deal,” Donald Trump said if elected president he plans to try to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty.“I am going to try and make that deal just because — man, would that be a beauty – if you like deals. I like deals,” the Republican presidential front-runner said at a rally Sunday in Terre Haute ahead of Tuesday’s Indiana primary, according to Jewish Insider.“A lot of my Jewish friends say, ‘You will never be able to make the deal’ because there are so many years of hatred, especially on the other side,” Trump added. “You know, they [the Palestinians] grow up as young children hating, hating, hating Israel. I think the deal can be made. But we got to be smart, and we got to use our best people; gotta use me, but you got to use our best people. And I know the best people.”In the speech, Trump also said the United States should use its clout as a major funder to demand that the United Nations do more to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Trump’s first foreign policy speech last week did not mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than criticizing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for being too critical of the Jewish state.

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

THE IDF HAS TO TAKE CARE OF ARAB MURDERERS (HAMAS) ON ISRAEL HOLOCAUST DAY YESTERDAY.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

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)

PM lambastes modern day anti-Semitism as Israel remembers Holocaust-We’ve not done enough for survivors, PM and president lament as Jewish state marks annual memorial to the 6 million slain by the Nazis-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 9:33 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his speech at the start of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day to hit out Wednesday at Islamist extremists and Europeans for continuing to incite against Jews and question the Jewish state’s right to exist, which he said was tantamount to anti-Semitism.The Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem hosted the ceremony that began the memorial, during which six survivors were to each light a beacon — one for every million Jews slain. Sara Kain, Robert Tamashof, Jehosua Hesel Fried, Joseph Labi, Chaim Grosbein and Lonia Rozenhoc were chosen to light the symbolic torches this year.“Slander comes before destruction. Today millions in the Muslim world read and hear threatening lies about the Jewish people. They say Jews are the descendants of monkeys and pigs, they say Jews drink the blood of their enemies,” Netanyahu said during the ceremony. Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, he said, would not have been surprised by anti-Jewish comments on social media.“This incitement comes from Islamic extremism and the Arab world. But in the last years it has been joined by incitement no less destructive from the Western world. British parliamentarians, Swedish officials and French thought leaders,” he said.“If over the years, anti-Semites portrayed Jews as enemies of humanity, today they portray the Jewish state as the enemy of humanity. There is no end to these lies,” he added.The prime minister also lamented what he called Israel’s failure to provide a sufficiently decent life for its Holocaust survivors. President Reuven Rivlin was correct in admitting that the country had failed in this regard, Netanyahu said, referring to comments made by the head of state before the prime minister took the podium.For years we haven’t done enough,” Netanyahu said, but added that the government would increase its support for survivors “because it’s our obligation.”“I came here today, to ask each one of you for forgiveness,” Rivlin said. “We did not understand, we did not want to understand, and we have not done enough.”The president also lashed out at ongoing anti-Semitism around the world.“Anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are not a fad, it is a difficult chronic disease. We will forever pursue the blood of our brothers and sisters, which screams at us from within the earth. We will continue to pursue the deniers, those who want to forget, and those who want to blur history,” he said.“We will forever know how to protect ourselves by ourselves. The Holocaust will forever place us, the Jewish people, as eternal prosecutors on the stage of humanity, prosecutor against anti-Semitism, racism and ultra-nationalism.”The theme of this year’s commemoration is the struggle to maintain the human spirit during the Holocaust, Yad Vashem said ahead of the remembrance day.The solemn event is marked by music, speeches by leaders, the lighting of memorial candles and the saying of Kaddish, the sacred Jewish prayer for the dead.On Wednesday, a siren will sound at 10 a.m. across Israel, signalling the start of a two-minute silence for the victims of the Holocaust.The siren will be followed by ceremonies honoring those who lost their lives. The central event will again take place at Yad Vashem, where dignitaries will lay wreaths next to a monument commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. A ceremony will also be held at the Knesset.On Thursday afternoon, thousands of people are expected to take part in the annual March of the Living in Poland, from Auschwitz extermination camp to the adjacent Birkenau site.

Israel jets said to strike Gaza, in response to Hamas mortar fire-Israel warns Strip’s terrorist rulers to stop shelling troops at border or face harsher response; flare-up may be response to IDF operation to seek and destroy terror tunnels-By Ilan Ben Zion May 4, 2016, 7:52 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Israeli officials on Wednesday warned Hamas to cease firing mortars at IDF troops on the border with the Gaza Strip or face a strong response from the army. Soon after Israeli jets were reported to have fired on targets in southern Gaza.The officials conveyed the warning to the Palestinian Islamist terror group through intermediaries, the Walla news site reported.“We responded firmly, and we also conveyed stern messages to them,” senior defense officials told Ynet.Israel’s warning came following six instances of cross-border fire from the Gaza Strip in the past day, including five mortars fired at Israeli troops near the border. The soldiers responded with tank fire, with at least one shell reportedly striking a power station in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya. Another report said a shell struck a house in Gaza City as well.Shortly thereafter, Palestinian media in the Gaza Strip reported Israeli planes carrying out several bombing runs striking targets near the southern city of Rafah. There were no immediate reports of injuries.The IDF had no immediate comment on the reported airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.Earlier Wednesday, following the initial cross-border exchanges, Hamas evacuated schools and headquarters in Gaza City.The IDF also banned farmers from working along the border following Wednesday’s incidents.The military confirmed Wednesday that it was operating to locate Hamas attack tunnels burrowed beneath the border with southern Israel. Last month, the IDF located and destroyed a Hamas tunnel near the Kerem Shalom crossing. The IDF believes the new attacks on troops on the border — including gunfire at engineering corps machinery operating near the fence — mark a bid by Hamas to prevent the army from locating and destroying tunnels the group has dug since summer 2014.Israel’s Channel 10 indicated that the new flare-up at the border may have begun because Israel discovered “a tunnel or something.” Hamas has been digging attack tunnels toward, and possibly into Israel, rehabilitating and expanding the attack tunnel network destroyed by Israel in the 2014 war.Israel is determined to keep hunting down all the Hamas tunnels, and Hamas has the dilemma now of using them to attack Israel or risk Israel finding them, the TV report said. It added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently that Israel had used new technology to uncover the Hamas tunnel dug into Israel last month, and that Hamas is worried that Israeli technology might indeed render its prized tunnel network vulnerable.Two weeks ago, in a Times of Israel analysis piece, Avi Issacharoff highlighted the dilemmas as follows: “Israel faces no simple dilemma in grappling with the tunnel problem because, plainly, tackling the tunnels at root requires activity on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border and perhaps a wider solution regarding Hamas. For Hamas, the dilemmas are just beginning. What will it do if it establishes that the various hints in the Israeli media about improved technology enabling tunnel detection turn out to be true, and its network of tunnels is known to Israel? Will it maintain its current policy of restraint, keeping things quiet? Or, to the contrary, might it move into accelerated action because it fears that this prized strategic asset, this network of terror tunnels, may be about to topple domino-style — exposed and destroyed by Israel?”

IAF warplanes hit Hamas targets in Gaza following mortar fire at IDF troops-No reports of injuries in Strip after strikes near Rafah; army speculates shelling of its troops may be response to border operation to seek and destroy terror tunnels-By Ilan Ben Zion May 4, 2016, 8:49 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Israeli Air Force warplanes struck five Hamas targets near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Wednesday evening, in response to mortar fire from the terror group at IDF troops on the border, the army said in a statement.The IDF confirmation came after Palestinian media reported IAF planes carrying out several bombing runs, striking targets near Rafah.There were no immediate reports of injuries.IDF Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said in a statement that Israel “will continue to operate in order to protect the civilians of Israel from all Hamas terrorist threats above and beneath ground.”“Our efforts to destroy the #Hamas terror tunnel network, a grave violation of Israel’s sovereignty, will not cease or be deterred.”The air strikes struck targets around Gaza’s derelict international airport and in nearby farming areas, without causing casualties, said the interior ministry for the Hamas-run Strip.The #IDF will continue to operate in order to protect the civilians of #Israel from all #Hamas terrorist threats above & beneath ground.— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) May 4, 2016-Just before the strikes were launched, Israeli officials warned Hamas to cease firing mortars at its troops on the Gaza border, or face a strong military response.The officials conveyed the message to the Palestinian Islamist terror group through intermediaries, the Walla news website reported.“We responded firmly, and we also conveyed stern messages to them,” senior defense officials told Israel’s Ynet news.Hamas said in a statement that Israel bore “full responsibility” for the escalation in hostilities.Israel’s warning came following six instances of cross-border fire from the Gaza Strip in the past day, including five mortars fired at Israeli troops near the border. The soldiers responded with tank fire, with at least one shell reportedly striking a power station in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya. Another report said a shell struck a house in Gaza City as well.Earlier in the day, following the initial cross-border exchanges, Hamas evacuated schools and headquarters in Gaza City.The IDF also banned farmers from working along the border following Wednesday’s incidents.The military said Wednesday that it was operating to locate Hamas attack tunnels burrowed beneath the border with southern Israel. Last month the IDF located and destroyed a tunnel discovered near the Kerem Shalom Crossing.The IDF believes the recent attacks on troops on the border — including gunfire at engineering corps machinery operating near the fence — mark a bid by Hamas to prevent the army from locating and destroying tunnels the group has dug since summer 2014.Israel’s Channel 10 indicated that the new flare-up at the border may have begun because Israel discovered “a tunnel or something.” Hamas has been digging attack tunnels toward, and possibly into Israel, rehabilitating and expanding the attack tunnel network destroyed by Israel in the 2014 war.Israel is determined to keep hunting down all the Hamas tunnels, and Hamas has the dilemma now of using them to attack Israel or risk Israel finding them, the TV report said. It added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently that Israel had used new technology to uncover the Hamas tunnel dug into Israel last month, and that Hamas is worried that Israeli technology might indeed render its prized tunnel network vulnerable.Two weeks ago, in a Times of Israel analysis piece, Avi Issacharoff highlighted the dilemmas as follows: “Israel faces no simple dilemma in grappling with the tunnel problem because, plainly, tackling the tunnels at root requires activity on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border and perhaps a wider solution regarding Hamas.For Hamas, the dilemmas are just beginning. What will it do if it establishes that the various hints in the Israeli media about improved technology enabling tunnel detection turn out to be true, and its network of tunnels is known to Israel? Will it maintain its current policy of restraint, keeping things quiet? Or, to the contrary, might it move into accelerated action because it fears that this prized strategic asset, this network of terror tunnels, may be about to topple domino-style — exposed and destroyed by Israel?”

Hamas braces for retaliatory strikes, as IDF hits back at Gaza shelling-Army responds to repeated mortar fire from Strip, while Palestinian terror group evacuates schools, offices in Strip-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 6:09 pm

The Israel Defense Forces hit back Wednesday afternoon at repeated mortar fire from the Gaza Strip, as the Hamas terror group that controls the coastal territory began evacuating facilities in anticipation of a tougher Israeli response to almost 24 hours of cross-border tensions.The army returned fire at suspected Hamas outposts after five separate mortar attacks in less than a day. In the most recent attack, a shell fired from Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon exploded inside Israel adjacent to the border fence, near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. No injuries or damage were reported.The IDF said it opened fire at “suspicious positions” in Shejaiya following the shelling.The Wednesday afternoon mortar attacks brought the number of attacks from Gaza in the past 24 hours to six.Reports from the Gaza Strip said that a fire broke out in a Shejaiya power plant after it was struck by an IDF tank shell.According to Palestinian reports, the escalating situation prompted Hamas to evacuate two schools and their headquarters in Gaza City over fears of IDF retaliatory strikes. The IDF, meanwhile, declared the area around Nahal Oz a closed military zone, Channel 10 reported.Earlier Wednesday, mortar shells exploded near Israeli soldiers operating along the southern part of the Israel-Gaza border. Hours later, IDF troops stationed along the northern section of the border reported hearing two loud explosions, which were also believed to be the result of mortar fire.There were no injuries or damage in either incident.Following both attacks, the IDF responded with tank fire at positions inside Shejaiya. One tank shell hit an observation post manned by the military wing of Hamas. No casualties were reported though the outpost was said to be damaged.Tensions began when Israeli soldiers along the Strip’s northern border came under attack Tuesday.Gunfire from across the border struck an IDF vehicle operating nearby. No injuries were reported, but heavy engineering machinery was damaged by the volley, the army said.Palestinian media in Gaza reported intense gunfire from Israeli forces near Kibbutz Nahal Oz immediately afterwards.The flare-up came just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured a southern section of the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday afternoon.During his tour of the border with Gaza, Netanyahu told troops that the past two years, since the end of Israel’s 2014 war with Hamas, have been the quietest in many.During the 50-day conflict, the Gaza-based terror organization lobbed hundreds of rockets and mortars at Israeli cities and towns. Mortars proved to be one of the deadliest means of attack, claiming the lives of 10 IDF soldiers in a single week, three Israeli civilians and a Thai national.Although the area has been relatively calm since the end of the 2014 fighting, sporadic rocket fire and attacks on IDF patrols have often originated in areas adjacent to the border fence. In recent weeks, tensions along the border have increased, with Israeli officials warning of a possible uptick in violence.There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the recent attacks, although Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri warned Israel not to “test the patience of the Palestinian resistance.”Masri told the Palestinian news agency Ma’an on Wednesday that Israel would “pay a heavy price” for a “flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Opposition MK denies Netanyahu-Herzog coalition talks-Rejecting PM’s earlier statement, Eitan Cabel says Likud-Zionist Union unity government is not in the works-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 9:22 pm

A senior member of the opposition Zionist Union faction on Wednesday denied coalition negotiations with Benjamin Netanyahu, hours after the prime minister confirmed rumors that his Likud party and Zionist Union had been in advanced stages of talks on a new unity government.MK Eitan Cabel, a key Zionist Union organizer who chairs the Knesset Economy Committee, leveled harsh criticism of Netanyahu in an Army Radio interview.“So what if Netanyahu said that, he says a lot of things,” Cabel said. “He has his own interests, and he’ll say whatever comes to mind to strengthen them.”He said a concrete proposal was never submitted to Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog.Cabel, who is seen as a possible challenger to Herzog for the leadership of the party, has been adamant in his opposition to a unity coalition with Likud. “We can’t go into a government just because they offered us ministerial positions,” he told the radio last month.Following a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Netanyahu announced that he and Herzog had discussed the possibility of a unity government, but that those discussions ended after it emerged that Herzog was under investigation for campaign finance issues, according to Channel 2.The prime minister added that he could not expand his narrowest of coalitions, which has 61 out of a total of 120 Knesset seats, as “there is one who doesn’t want to (join) and one who can’t,” referring respectively to former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman and Herzog, Channel 2 said.Netanyahu’s announcement comes two weeks after Herzog denied the numerous reports of coalition talks.Last week, the Haaretz daily reported that Herzog and Netanyahu had been holding secret talks for months, and the sides had even swapped draft agreements.The two had expected to reach an agreement by the end of next month and to present a unity government in time for the summer legislative session, according to the paper.Gaps were said to remain between the two sides, including Herzog’s demand that Naftali Bennett’s ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party be removed from the coalition — a demand said to have been rejected by Netanyahu — and disagreement over the shape of the diplomatic process with the Palestinians.On Monday, Channel 10 reported that under a potential unity government agreement the Zionist Union would get seven ministerial portfolios, including foreign for Herzog and economy for former Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich, and a more marginal post for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, whose Hatnua party forms part of Zionist Union. The coalition guidelines were not to have changed, and the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party would have remained in the coalition.According to the report, more important than the probe into Herzog’s fundraising irregularities in the 2013 Labor primaries, the downfall of the talks was the rejection of the offer by Livni and Yachimovich.When Herzog put the deal to the two of them, Yachimovich said while there were conditions under which she would join the government, these terms were not acceptable. She also said she wanted to be justice minister. Livni, for her part, said she would not accept a marginal ministry.Rumors about a looming unity government have waxed and waned since last year’s elections.

UK councils face court challenge over Israel boycotts-Jewish Human Rights Watch files suit against local municipalities for passing ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS motions-By AP and Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 7:17 pm

A Jewish group has launched a lawsuit against British local authorities that called for boycotts of goods from Israeli settlements, claiming the actions are anti-Semitic.Jewish Human Rights Watch — an organization devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — is asking the High Court to rule against three councils: Leicester in England, and Swansea and Gwynedd in Wales. It claims the authorities have failed to consider “the impact of their actions on the Jewish community.”Leicester and Swansea councils say their resolutions calling for sanctions are nonbinding, apply only to illegal settlements and are not attacks on the State of Israel.Leicester’s motion, passed last November and submitted by council member Mohammed Dawood, called for boycotting products from the West Bank “in so far as it is legal,” citing Israel’s “continuing to ignore and breach international law” and “continuing its occupation” of Palestinian territories.Gwynedd says it backed a trade embargo with Israel in 2014 to condemn “attacks by the Israeli state on the territory of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.”The British NGO War on Want on Wednesday slammed JHRW’s legal proceedings as “shameful,” according to a report in the Independent. “The illegal settlements are a part of the systematic abuses of international law and human rights committed by Israel against the Palestinians,” senior campaigner Ryvka Barnard said.A two-day court hearing in the case began Wednesday.

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

TROOPS COME UNDER FIREON GAZA BORDER AFTER PM VISITS THE AREA.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

India wishes Israel happy Independence Day — 9 days early-In letter to Rivlin, President Mukherjee hails ‘profound respect’ for Jewish state, strengthening ties and ‘new bonds of trust and partnership’-By Ilan Ben Zion May 3, 2016, 4:34 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee wished Israel a happy Independence Day on Monday, but unfortunately got the date wrong.In an official statement released by the president’s office, Mukherjee mistakenly identified Israel’s “National Day” as May 3 — even though the Jewish state declared independence on May 14, 1948, and is celebrating 68 years of independence according to the Hebrew calendar on May 12.Mukherjee said he sent a message to President Reuven Rivlin extending “felicitations to you and the friendly people of the State of Israel on the occasion of your National Day.”“Our common commitment to the safeguarding of our democratic institutions and our shared values of liberty, freedom and equality have helped in forging a deep friendship between our two nations,” Mukherjee said in the statement. “At the political level, our relations have been enhanced by frequent exchanges of visits which have served to deepen our mutual understanding and strengthen our resolve to work together to tackle the development challenges of the 21st century.”Mukherjee visited Israel in October of last year, the first visit of its kind by an Indian head of state and an indicator of the warming ties between the two countries. He said in his missive to Rivlin on Monday that, “I was touched by the goodwill for India amongst the people and leadership of Israel.”“I am happy to convey that this feeling is mutual and that we, in India, regard Israel with profound respect for its proud achievements. I very much valued our frank discussions that will, no doubt contribute to reinforcing our ties and building new bonds of trust and partnership between our peoples.”Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took office in 2014, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have both made bilateral cooperation key points for their foreign policies.Since 1999 India has become the largest buyer of Israeli military equipment.In October 2014, India agreed to a $525 million deal to buy Israel’s guided Spike missiles, which were widely used by the IDF during that summer’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

Troops come under fire on Gaza border, after PM visits area-Palestinian media says IDF returning fire near Nahal Oz, shortly after Netanyahu visits frontier communities further south-By Ilan Ben Zion May 3, 2016, 4:47 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Shots fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon struck an IDF vehicle near the northern border with the Palestinian enclave, the army said in a statement.No injuries were reported, but heavy army engineering machinery was damaged by the volley, which came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured a southern section of the Gaza frontier.Troops were searching the area for the attacker, the IDF spokesperson said.Palestinian media in the Gaza Strip reported intense gunfire by Israeli forces near Nahal Oz immediately after the report of shots striking the vehicle.There was no immediate claim of responsibility from Gaza, which has seen increased tensions with Israel in recent weeks, with Israeli officials warning of a possible uptick in violence.The army did not detail what kind of engineering vehicle was struck, but Israel frequently uses earth-moving equipment on the border to dig out and destroy Hamas tunnels running under the border.The incident came several hours after Netanyahu visited the southern part of the Gaza border with top IDF brass and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, near the site where the army discovered a Hamas tunnel last month.Netanyahu, along with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, visited communities near the Kerem Shalom crossing.The prime minister received situation assessment briefings from Zamir and met with soldiers stationed on the border, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. Netanyahu told the soldiers that the past two years, since the summer 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, have been the quietest in many years.Earlier in the day, Israel’s Tax Authority said an attempt to smuggle several tons of ammonium chloride into the Gaza Strip in recent weeks had been foiled by security and customs officials.Some four tons of the chemical — enough to make hundreds of rockets, according to Israeli security officials — were found buried in salt shipments to the Gaza Strip that were making their way through the Nitzana crossing between Israel and Egypt in early April.

More violence kills 9 in contested Syrian city of Aleppo-Clashes between Syrian rebels and government forces continue as UN envoy attempts to restore ceasefire-By Bassem Mroue May 3, 2016, 2:35 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and government forces on Tuesday shelled each other’s neighborhoods in Aleppo, leaving at least nine dead and scores wounded on both sides as the diplomatic focus moved to Moscow where the UN envoy for Syria was to hold talks in efforts to restore a piecemeal ceasefire that would also include the contested northern city.Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once commercial center, has been the center of violence in recent weeks but was not part of the latest partial truce.Syrian state TV said shells hit a government-held area during morning during rush hour, killing seven people and wounding at least 35, while activists reported two dead in a rebel neighborhood.The activist Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the shelling of government-held parts of the city, and also said that seven were killed, including a child. The Observatory said more than 50 were wounded, including some who were in critical condition, which could raise the death toll.The Observatory and another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said government forces also shelled rebel-held parts of the city on Tuesday, killing two and wounding several.The Observatory said more than 250 civilians have been killed in 12 days of violence in both government- and rebel-held parts of the city.Also in northern Syria, warplanes carried out intense airstrikes on the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the extremist Islamic State group, in the early hours of Tuesday. Activist groups said it was not clear if the warplanes were Russian or those of the U.S.-led coalition.The Observatory, which has a network of activists around the country, said there were more than 35 air raids and that 18 people were killed including five members of the Islamic State group. It said dozens were wounded.The anti-IS group Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently, said the airstrikes killed 10 and wounded dozens — but different casualty figures are common in the chaos of Syria’s civil war. The group said there were calls from mosque loudspeakers for the residents to donate blood.IS suffered major setbacks over the past months in Syria against government forces and US-backed Kurdish fighters including the loss of the central historic city of Palmyra.

Gaza sewage poisoning Strip’s residents, threatening Israel-Untreated waste pouring into Mediterranean is damaging Palestinians’ limited fresh water, decimating fishing zones — and now heading north-By Fares Akram and Daniella Cheslow May 3, 2016, 3:56 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone.The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and affecting Israel as well, where a nearby desalination plant was forced to shut down, apparently due to pollution.“It’s certain that Gaza Strip’s beaches are completely polluted and unsuitable for swimming and entertainment, especially in the summer,” said Ahmed Yaqoubi of the Palestinian Water Authority.Environmentalists and international aid organizations say that if the problem isn’t quickly addressed, it could spell even more trouble on both sides of the border.But while Israel has a clear interest in Gazans repairing their water infrastructure, that would likely require it to ease restrictions on the import of building materials — which it fears the territory’s Hamas rulers could divert for military purposes — and increase the amount of electricity it sells to Gaza.Poor sewage treatment in Gaza is the result of a rapidly expanding population, an infrastructure damaged during wars with Israel and a chronic shortage of electricity to run the wastewater plants that still function. In 2007, a sewage reservoir overflowed in a village in northern Gaza, drowning five people.An Israeli blockade that has restricted imports, coupled with Palestinian infighting and mismanagement by the Hamas-run government, has compounded the problems for the enclave’s 1.8 million residents. Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of Gaza since Hamas, an Islamic militant group committed to Israel’s destruction, seized power in 2007.Nasser Abu Saif said he was once happy to live in a beachfront apartment in Shati refugee camp. Now, he avoids swimming in the fetid water near his house.“There are mosquitoes in the summer and even in the winter,” he said. “It makes our lives unpleasant.”Several aid groups have attempted to solve the sewage problem.Steen Jorgensen, country director for the World Bank in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said the fatal sewage flood spurred his office to build a $73 million sewage treatment plant nine years ago. He said the facility, meant to treat about one-fifth of Gaza’s sewage, would already be operational if it had a reliable power supply.Disagreements between Hamas and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority over fuel taxes have left Gaza’s only power plant functioning at reduced capacity. Electricity from neighboring Israel and Egypt help alleviate the shortages, but usually there are only six to eight hours of power each day.“That’s just not reliable enough for a sewage plant,” said Jorgensen. He said foreign donors, including the United States, have promised to pay for a dedicated 3-megawatt electricity supply to the plant, but Israel so far has not consented.COGAT, the Israeli defense body responsible for Palestinian affairs, said Israel supplies 125 to 140 megawatts of power a day to the Gaza Strip. “The decision of distributing the electricity falls under the responsibility of the Palestinians,” COGAT wrote. In all, Gaza needs some 400 megawatts for its daily needs.Jorgensen said the World Bank plans to start running the plant in the coming months using backup diesel generators, which will increase the cost and leave sewage treatment vulnerable to fuel shortages. He said the plant will also have solar panels, but they will only generate a fraction of the needed power.“If we don’t get this operational, then I think it’s going to be very hard to raise money for other necessary projects in Gaza,” Jorgensen said.The German state-owned development bank KfW has funded the $20 million rehabilitation of an older sewage plant in Gaza, according to Jonas Blume, director of its West Bank office. Blume said the plant can only run half-days due to lack of power.Construction is scheduled to begin in August on an additional facility in central Gaza that could handle the sewage of up to 1 million people, Blume added. But he said Israeli security restrictions have slowed the work.“At the end we get most of the material in, but it’s a struggle, it takes time, and it causes delay, which leads to extra costs,” he said.COGAT said deliveries of cement and wood have been suspended or slowed because Hamas diverts materials for “terror” purposes. Israeli officials have in the past pointed the construction of underground tunnels reaching into Israel and weaponry manufactured in Gaza as cause for closely inspecting and limiting shipments of building materials into the Strip.The delays in sewage treatment are exacerbating a water crisis. Years of overdrawing Gaza’s underground aquifer have allowed seawater to infiltrate into its only source of drinking water. Sewage flows into the aquifer as well.“We can say that 100 percent of the water is not potable,” said the Water Authority’s Yaqoubi. More than 150 private water purification businesses have proliferated across Gaza to offer clean drinking water, he said.Eitemad Abu Khader lives with her four daughters in a cinderblock home surrounded by corrugated zinc north of Gaza City. Sewage collects in huge ponds next to their neighborhood. Abu Khader said she cannot afford purified water. Instead, she and her daughters drink tap water and bear the consequences.“I spend my time from doctor to doctor, hospital to hospital,” she said. “My daughters always have rashes.”On a recent afternoon, her oldest daughter, six-year-old Fayza, sat scratching her arm as insects hovered around them.There are signs that the problem is now beginning to affect Israel.Israeli Water Authority spokeswoman Ilana Keren said a desalination plant near Ashkelon, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Gaza, was shut in January and February “because of the quality of the raw water.”She did not elaborate, but Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli director of the environmental group EcoPeace Middle East, said “there’s no doubt” it was waste from Gaza. “There’s no other source,” he said.Bromberg warned that cholera, typhoid or other pandemic diseases could easily cross into Israel via the shared underground aquifer and the sea.“It’s a single shared bathtub,” Bromberg said. “There’s 101 different ways for these bacterium to be transferred.”Ashkelon deputy mayor Yoram Shefer said he fears that without a wider political settlement, the sewage issue will not improve, even though he believes the water is safe enough to swim in.“The Mediterranean sea is big. Not all (sewage) goes to Ashkelon,” he said.The Times of Israel contributed to this report.

The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews-Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light in Rita Gabis’s book, which explores the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen-By JP O’ Malley May 3, 2016, 1:56 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

LONDON — Five years ago, Rita Gabis, a poet and teacher based in New York, discovered a family secret: from 1941 to 1943 her grandfather had been the chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Švenčionys. The town was located near the killing fields of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in the autumn of 1941.Backed up by an impressive amount of scholarly research and interviews with family members, war crimes investigators, Holocaust victims and numerous historians, Gabis, who comes from an interfaith family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, has recently published a book that attempts to unveil this culture of silence in Lithuania’s dark history. Her work, part memoir, part history, is an incredibly honest and moving account of searching for the truth at all costs, even at the expense of breaking familial loyalties.“There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence,” Gabis explains when we begin chatting. “And in my family, I have been that person.”Gabis says writing the book “A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth” gave her an opportunity to think long and hard about her own family history, while also giving her the opportunity to ask several questions about human morality. The narrative is an interesting mix of daily journalistic diary entries, memoir and painstaking family soul-searching.Gabis has a remarkable nose for research too, producing the required forensic documents and scholarly analysis needed to back up the emotional responses to her own grandfather’s alleged complicity in the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews. In fact, Gabis triple-sourced almost all details surrounding the alleged crimes by her grandfather. In this part of the book, she essentially puts him on trial herself.The results Gabis obtained, she says, allowed her to draw her own conclusions, rather than arriving at any definitive answers as such. She learned, for instance, that her grandfather was one of the escorting officers who took victims to their mass-execution site during the notorious Poligon massacre.Did he pull the trigger himself? Was he simply orchestrating the logistics needed to carry out mass murder? “I don’t know,” Gabis answers, “but the documentation and witnesses show that he was at the place where the massacre happened.”So how did prodding through such distressing historical family evidence play out with Gabis’s mother, who is still alive today ? “It was very hard,” Gabis admits. “I love my mother. And writing this book, I have in some ways dismantled the myth of her father. It was very painful for her. But ultimately, she embraced the book, which is remarkable.”-‘All the stereotypical notions of vile anti-Semitism’-Grasping a firm sense of her own mixed identity was a strange concept for Gabis growing up. Her father was Jewish, while her mother came from a Catholic background. She did attend mass on Catholic holidays. Likewise, she celebrated Jewish holidays with her father’s family too.Gabis recalls how this conflicting sense of identity troubled her during childhood; her grandparents on both sides fought to implement their own sense of culture and identity on her at all times.Her grandmother on her father’s side once ripped off a cross from her neck, explaining furiously that Jews don’t wear such things, while her grandfather on her mother’s side — the main character of this book — once told her not to be like her father. He insisted that “Jews were no good.”“My grandfather had all the stereotypical notions of vile anti-Semitism,” Gabis admits.Gabis says like many anti-Semites of his generation, her maternal grandfather conflated communism with Judaism, firmly buying into the mythology of the Bolshevik Jew.Technically, during the war, Gabis’s grandfather was working for a Lithuanian police administration that was under the rule of the SS. However, he was not in the SS himself, she makes clear.But just how far-reaching did his Nazi sympathies go? Was he simply a careerist who was happy to blindly follow orders from the Germans for his own personal gain? “He didn’t think about Nazi ideology deeply,” Gabis insists. “But nor was he just a bureaucrat either.”Collaboration offers both opportunity and risk, Gabis believes, and sometimes, she says, it was done with a gun pointing at someone’s head. But often it wasn’t.-‘There are so many place of mass murder in Lithuania’-Perhaps one of the most impressive attributes of Gabis’s haunting narrative is her ability to poetically recreate the various sites across Lithuania where these massacres against Jews took place.Describing the road to Poligon, for instance, Gabis writes: “Ahead of us thin, scrawny pines cluster; farther in, alders rise, sweet briar already in bloom.”Next to these picturesque descriptions of idyllic landscape, Gabis then tends to philosophize on the page and simultaneously think out loud about history. “There are so many place of mass murder in Lithuania,” she writes.Gabis speaks about the warmth of the Lithuanian people, who have a proud cultural tradition that seems to be more genuine than most places in Europe. But also about the eerie silences that seem particularly prevalent when one begins to journey far out into the heartland of the Lithuania countryside, beyond the populated towns and cities.It can almost feel as if ghosts from the 1940s are haunting you in these isolated locations.She nods her head in agreement.“The whole experience of visiting Lithuania was very profound,” Gabis responds, after a rather long pause. “I remember being in Vilnius, and walking through the Jewish quarter. There was this tremendous sense of absence, like the soul of the place had simply vanished.”“It feels as if something is missing,” she adds. “Now we can’t turn the clock back, but historical consciousness can expand to acknowledge the death of that loss.”In the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jews settled in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, in vast numbers. Jewish culture became so influential in the metropolis that it even earned the nickname “the Jerusalem of Lithuania” under a regime that granted Jews local autonomy and gave them the ability to prosper.By the 19th century Vilnius had become home to the Haskalah — otherwise known as the Jewish Enlightenment — and had long been a hub of Jewish scholarship, producing some of the most renowned Talmudic commentaries still studied today.After World War I, Vilnius was incorporated by Poland. Even though tensions between Poles and Jews, and between Poles and Lithuanians, ran high during these years, relations between Lithuanians and Jews remained comparatively peaceful.When World War II broke out in 1939, however, the co-existence and tolerance that had existed in Lithuania for centuries suddenly collapsed.In June 1940, Lithuania lost its independence to the Soviets. The following year, the Nazis “liberated” Lithuania from Soviet control, and within a month, the Reichskommissariat Ostland — the German Civil Administration — was established in the country. The result was social chaos. By the end of the German occupation in 1945, 96 percent of the Jewish population — about 220,000 people — was wiped out. Many of the murders were carried out locally, with the majority of the killers being Lithuanians themselves.Why the sudden switch to mass murder? Historical evidence shows that the Nazis had no trouble finding Lithuanians willing to murder Jews. But what’s most haunting about this sudden switch to mass murder — in a dramatically short amount of time — is that such ethnic violence had no precedent in prewar Lithuanian policy, or indeed at any stage of historical Lithuanian-Jewish relations.Wartime testimonies today also point out that, just like in Poland — where collaboration was a common theme too during the Holocaust — all class distinctions within Lithuanian society voluntarily participated in the persecution and murder of Jews. This included members of the clergy, the intelligentsia, doctors, teachers, even down to the poorest and most marginal groups.The Soviet occupation which followed the war — lasting up until 1991, when Lithuania once again regained its independence — has tended to overshadow a proper public discussion about the Holocaust in the country’s national public discourse.This evaporation of Jewish culture isn’t just in Lithuania though, Gabis points out — as if to reiterate what seems like a fairly obvious point about modern European history, but one that is worth stating out loud nevertheless.“It’s across a lot of Eastern Europe,” she says. “You go out to the countryside in these places and you feel like time has stopped. There are people missing. And music, literature, language and culture have vanished from these towns and villages. There is something very desolate about this.”-When nationalism supersedes ‘the richness of identity’-In her book, Gabis writes that nationalism “slices away and eviscerates the richness of identity.”“If what we are looking for is purity of identity, then we fail from the get go,” says Gabis, rather philosophically. “Because, within a culture, and a society, diversity is the greatest strength; it’s the groundswell from which a society creates and recreates itself, with ever-expanding opportunity.”In order for the ideology of nationalism to work successfully, Gabis says a country has to create a history that conforms to a myth that embraces purity going centuries back.“Within that narrative you lose complexity and texture, and the opportunity to be challenged or to grow,” she argues.