Friday, October 07, 2016

ISRAEL REJECTS US CRITICISM,SAYS NO NEW SETTLEMENTS PLANNED.

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

US invokes Peres legacy in biting condemnation of settlement expansion-State Department slams approval of 98 new homes in Shiloh for Amona outpost evacuees, saying move will ‘distance Israel from many of its partners’-By Times of Israel staff and AFP October 5, 2016, 9:10 pm

The US State Department issued a biting condemnation Wednesday of Israeli plans to expand a northern West Bank settlement in order to house residents living in homes built illegally in another settlement and which are slated for demolition.“We strongly condemn the Israeli government’s recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.The stern rebuke also cited the peace efforts of former president Shimon Peres, who died last week and whose funeral on Friday was attended by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. Toner’s statement was unusually harsh, effectively accusing Israel of attempting to hide the expansion.“The retroactive authorization of nearby illegal outposts, or redrawing of local settlement boundaries, does not change the fact that this approval contradicts previous public statements by the Government of Israel that it had no intention of creating new settlements,” the statement read. “And this settlement’s location deep in the West Bank, far closer to Jordan than Israel, would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility of a viable Palestinian state more remote.”The statement added: “Proceeding with this new settlement, which could include up to 300 units, would further damage the prospects for a two state solution.”Israel approved the construction of nearly 100 new housing units in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh to compensate homeowners of the nearby outpost of Amona ahead of its court-ordered evacuation and demolition. The plan calls for two phases of construction, with a further 200 units to be approved after the first round is completed.The US statement called the decision “deeply troubling…that Israel would take a decision so contrary to its long-term security interest in a peaceful resolution of its conflict with the Palestinians,” particularly as it came “in the wake of Israel and the US concluding an unprecedented agreement on military assistance designed to further strengthen Israel’s security.”It added: “Furthermore, it is disheartening that while Israel and the world mourned the passing of President Shimon Peres, and leaders from the US and other nations prepared to honor one of the great champions of peace, plans were advanced that would seriously undermine the prospects for the two state solution that he so passionately supported.”And it openly warned the move would “distance Israel from many of its partners.”“Israelis must ultimately decide between expanding settlements and preserving the possibility of a peaceful two state solution. Since the recent Quartet report called on both sides to take affirmative steps to reverse current trends and advance the two-state solution on the ground, we have unfortunately seen just the opposite,” the statement said.“Proceeding with this new settlement is another step towards cementing a one-state reality of perpetual occupation that is fundamentally inconsistent with Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state. Such moves will only draw condemnation from the international community, distance Israel from many of its partners, and further call into question Israel’s commitment to achieving a negotiated peace.”The plans were initially made public by the watchdog Peace Now.“At a time when world leaders met to commemorate Shimon Peres and the way he advocated for peace, the Israeli government has created a new obstacle to a two-state solution,” a Peace Now spokeswoman said when reporting on the plans, which have since been confirmed by the government.Peres, 93, died on Wednesday and was buried on Friday at a Jerusalem ceremony attended by many world leaders including Obama, who has tried to broker new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, with the last effort breaking down in 2014.According to a Channel 2 report, the 98 new housing units in the settlement, located north of Ramallah, were approved by the Civil Administration’s Planning Authority on Wednesday, but went largely unnoticed due to Peres’s death earlier that day. The report said an additional 200 units were slated to be approved by the authority at a later date.After a protracted legal battle, the Supreme Court in 2014 ordered the Israeli government to dismantle the unauthorized outpost of Amona by December 2016, ruling that many of the homes were built illegally on private Palestinian land which must be returned to its original owners.Some Amona residents have rejected the relocation order, and have vowed not to comply with the court-ordered evacuation.In an effort to sidestep the demolition, coalition Knesset members have locked horns over legislative proposals that sought to allocate alternative plots of land in the West Bank to the Palestinian owners, in addition to financial compensation amounting to 50 percent of the land’s value.The bill was shelved in July after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit argued it was unconstitutional.A similar law to recognize outposts was knocked down in its preliminary reading in the Knesset in 2012, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed it and threatened to fire any minister or deputy minister who voted in favor.Established in 1997, Amona is the largest of about 100 unauthorized outposts — built without permission but generally tolerated by the government — that dot the West Bank. Amona became a symbol of settler defiance after a partial evacuation a decade ago sparked violent clashes between residents and security forces. The impending evacuation, ordered in 2014, could lead to another showdown.The Supreme Court has on several occasions ordered Amona dismantled. However, the government has repeatedly put off razing the community, despite court-ordered deadlines. In 2006, Israeli troops demolished nine homes after clashes with some 5,000 settlers and their sympathizers, but several dozen trailers have remained.Amona settlers have recently claimed they had bought some of the land the outpost sits on, but Palestinians from a nearby village listed as its owners have vehemently denied this. Israeli police officials have said the documents which purportedly proved the sale had taken place were likely forged.Marissa Newman contributed to this report.

Israel rejects US criticism, says no new settlements planned-Foreign Ministry insists new construction castigated by Washington is within existing community of Shiloh, and will house residents of outpost tapped for demolition-By Raphael Ahren October 5, 2016, 11:46 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Israel on Wednesday rejected harsh criticism from the United States over West Bank building, saying that the controversial construction newly authorized is not a new settlement.“The 98 housing units approved in Shiloh do not constitute a ‘new settlement’,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “This housing will be built on state land in the existing settlement of Shiloh and will not change its municipal boundary or geographic footprint.”The US State Department earlier issued a biting condemnation of Israeli plans to expand the northern West Bank settlement. The new construction will house the residents of Amona, an illegal outpost scheduled for demolition on the orders of the Supreme Court.Israel approved the construction of the new housing units to compensate homeowners of Amona ahead of its court-ordered evacuation. The plan calls for two phases of construction, with a further 200 units to be approved after the first round of 98 homes is completed.The Foreign Ministry also reiterated Israel’s stance that the settlements are not the main cause of the stalled peace process with the Palestinians.“The real obstacle to peace is not the settlements – a final status issue that can and must be resolved in negotiations between the parties — but the persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any boundaries,” the statement said.In an uncharacteristically fierce rebuke earlier Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the US strongly condemns Israel’s “recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank.”Invoking the name of Israel’s former president who died last week, Toner added: “[I]t is disheartening that while Israel and the world mourned the passing of President Shimon Peres, and leaders from the US and other nations prepared to honor one of the great champions of peace, plans were advanced that would seriously undermine the prospects for the two state solution that he so passionately supported.”

Hamas, PLO slam Israel for boarding Gaza-bound boat-After IDF commandeers vessel with no violence, Strip’s Islamist rulers protest ‘state terrorism,’ while PA’s Erekat condemns ‘Israeli aggression’-By Times of Israel staff October 5, 2016, 10:41 pm

The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Hamas terror group on Wednesday condemned Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound boat of women activists earlier in the day.Hamas referred to the move “state terrorism.”-In a statement, PLO official Saeb Erekat condemned what he called “Israeli aggression against today’s international flotilla that attempted to break the illegal Israeli siege over 1.8 million people in Gaza.”The Israeli Navy took control of the boat of women activists on Wednesday evening, saying it was commandeered without violence or any resistance from the 13 activists on board.The boat, the Zaytouna-Oliva, was intercepted some 35 nautical miles (65 kilometers) from the Gaza coast, and then began to slowly make its way toward the Israeli port of Ashdod. El barco de mujeres a GAZA asaltado en aguas internacionales por Israel. Qué vergüenza! Que hace la UE? pic.twitter.com/ohyB2ca3xh— Pedro Arrojo (@PericoArrojo) October 5, 2016-The group of 13 women, including 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, was traveling aboard the sailboat in the Mediterranean Sea toward the Hamas-run coastal enclave.In his statement, Erekat said “Palestine commends the international solidarity movement with its just cause, including the latest flotilla, composed by an all-female crew of parliamentarians, writers and human rights activists, among others.“We call upon the occupying power to immediately release them, as well as on their countries, including Spain, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Canada and the United States, to do everything possible in order to prevent Israel from violating the rights of their citizens.“The Palestinian cause for freedom and independence is a universal quest for justice embraced by millions worldwide. The flotilla is a humble yet significant reminder that it is time to turn statements into concrete actions.”Earlier, the IDF said it had acted “in accordance with government directives and after exhausting all diplomatic channels,” and that the boat was attempting to breach a “lawful maritime blockade.”“In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel numerous times to change course prior to the action. Following their refusal the Navy visited and searched the vessel in international waters in order to prevent their intended breach of the lawful maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. The visit and search of the vessel was uneventful,” the statement concluded.Women soldiers were placed at the forefront of the navy’s interception force, Israel Radio reported, in order to minimize friction with the activists.The activists put up a website carrying prepared “SOS messages” by those on board alleging they had been “kidnapped” by the IDF.SOS messages from #WomenToGazahttps://t.co/uUtRmjG9ur-Pls contact your Govt to demand their release and an end to the illegal blockade! pic.twitter.com/6EIkuPvXL4-— Women's Boat To Gaza (@GazaFFlotilla) October 5, 2016-Israel says its maritime, land and sea blockade of Gaza is aimed at preventing Hamas from receiving weapons and supplies which could be used for military purposes. Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, seeks the destruction of Israel, and has fought three wars with the Jewish state since 2008.UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted.AFP contributed to this report.

EU roadmap for Iran ties ignores its anti-Semitism, terrorism-European committee to vote on draft document setting principles for normalizing Iran-EU relations following nuke deal-By JTA October 6, 2016, 4:11 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The European Parliament is set to vote on a roadmap for relations with Iran that critics charge sidesteps Tehran’s endorsement of anti-Semitism, terrorism and calls to destroy Israel.Compiled by Richard Howitt, a member of the European Union’s legislative arm for Britain’s Labour Party and a close ally of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the draft report on “EU strategy towards Iran after the nuclear agreement” is scheduled to be voted on Thursday by the Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels.The draft document, which sets principles for normalizing Iran-EU ties following the agreement to lift sanctions from Tehran in exchange for Iran scaling back its nuclear program, contains one single criticism of Iran, regarding its use of the death penalty. It does not mention Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism, support for Holocaust denial and threats to destroy Israel.“Iran’s revolutionary legacy and its constitution as an Islamic state must not be an impediment for finding common ground on matters related to democracy or human rights,” the document states. Omitting reference to Iran’s support for the Hezbollah military wing, which is on the EU list of terrorist groups, the document “welcomes Iran’s contribution to the fight against ISIS.”The report in its current form “is a serious blow to the standing of the European Parliament as a defender of human rights, justice and freedom,” Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee’s EU Office, the AJC Transatlantic Institute, said in a statement.Iran has been accused of fueling sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in Syria and Iraq.Many EU sanctions on Iran have been lifted, along with other international sanctions, under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the formal name for the deal reached last year between six major world powers, led by the United States, and Iran, exchanging sanctions relief for a rollback of nuclear development in Iran.Israel has opposed the deal, claiming it will pave Iran’s way to nuclear offensive capabilities rather than block it, as President Barack Obama said the agreement would.The European Parliament document devotes considerable attention to the benefits of trade between Iran and Europe following the lifting of sanctions and notes that “European investments are key” for Iran’s stated objective of achieving a yearly growth rate of 8 percent.Iran has faced criticism over its support for terrorist groups, persecution of minorities, state-sponsored torture, persecution of dissidents and journalists, and other human rights violations. In addition, it has been condemned for hosting last year the Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Tehran. The event was decried as anti-Semitic by UNESCO, Germany and the United States, among others.Noting this, the Transatlantic Institute wrote in its October 3 statement that it is “deeply concerned over the European Parliament’s failure to mention let alone criticize in its draft Iran report Tehran’s anti-Semitic propaganda and repeated calls for the destruction of Israel; its support for international terrorism, and illegal ballistic missile tests.”

Intercepted at sea, women’s boat to Gaza docks quietly in Israel-13 activists aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva transferred to authorities for ‘further processing,’ IDF says-By Times of Israel staff October 6, 2016, 1:46 am

A boat full of women activists which was headed for the Gaza Strip before being intercepted and commandeered by the Israeli Navy on Wednesday has docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod without incident.The activists were transferred to authorities “for further processing,” the Israeli military said in a statement late Wednesday.The boat carrying 13 women, including 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, was traveling aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva sailboat in the Mediterranean Sea toward the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave in protest against Israel’s security blockade when it was intercepted some 35 nautical miles (65 kilometers) from the Gaza coast.It was commandeered without violence or any resistance from the activists on board, the army said. Israel takes over women's boat to Gaza #LetFFlotillaSail https://t.co/qaQ14nepYh pic.twitter.com/XgYgncCFd3— Joe Catron (@jncatron) October 5, 2016-El barco de mujeres a GAZA asaltado en aguas internacionales por Israel. Qué vergüenza! Que hace la UE? pic.twitter.com/ohyB2ca3xh— Pedro Arrojo (@PericoArrojo) October 5, 2016-This is so beautiful. Zaytouna-Oliva' crew singing for Gaza -pic.twitter.com/ausoyMETio— صايل (@Palestinianed) October 5, 2016-“In accordance with government directives and after exhausting all diplomatic channels, the Israeli Navy redirected the vessel in order to prevent breach of the lawful maritime blockade,” the IDF said in a statement.“In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel numerous times to change course prior to the action. Following their refusal the Navy visited and searched the vessel in international waters in order to prevent their intended breach of the lawful maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. The visit and search of the vessel was uneventful,” the statement concluded.Women soldiers were placed at the forefront of the navy’s interception force, Israel Radio reported, in order to minimize friction with the activists.The activists put up a website carrying prepared “SOS messages” by those on board alleging they had been “kidnapped” by the IDF when the boat was intercepted.SOS messages from #WomenToGazahttps://t.co/uUtRmjG9ur-Pls contact your Govt to demand their release and an end to the illegal blockade! pic.twitter.com/6EIkuPvXL4— Women's Boat To Gaza (@GazaFFlotilla) October 5, 2016-They had expected to be boarded earlier Wednesday by Israeli authorities at around 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) from the coast of the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement since 2007. But the interception came hours later.“The Zaytouna-Oliva has passed the fatal line of 100 miles and everything is going well,” Claude Leostic, spokeswoman for the activists, told AFP by telephone earlier in the day.They saw lights that seemed to be focused on them at around 4 a.m. and assumed it was the Israeli navy, she said.Israeli media had reported that the authorities planned to intercept the boat and then escort it to Ashdod as it did with a similar attempt by activists last year.Tweets by supporters posted photos they said were of a navy vessel nearing the boat.Unlike previous flotillas, the boat did not carry humanitarian aid for Gaza, Hebrew media reported. Gazans readied to welcome the boat in the afternoon with music at the enclave’s port.Pictures showed several people with balloons, and at least one Norwegian flag, at the port in Gaza City.The Zaytouna-Oliva set sail from Barcelona in September.Maguire, a Northern Ireland activist, was among the women of different nationalities on board.Dubbed “Women’s Boat to Gaza,” the boat is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla Coalition that consists of pro-Palestinian boats that regularly seek to go to Gaza to try to break the blockade.None has yet managed to get through, and Israeli authorities have made several arrests.In 2010, a Turkish flotilla led by the Mavi Marmara ship was intercepted by IDF naval commandos. The soldiers were attacked as they boarded the Marmara, leading to a melee during which 10 Turkish activists were killed and several Israeli soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously.While that incident gave Israel a diplomatic black eye and contributed to a deterioration of ties with Turkey, Jerusalem has since apologized as part of reconciliation deal with Ankara.One of the funders of the current initiative, the Islamist Turkey-based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, was the main organizer of the Mavi Marmara flotilla.Israel says its maritime, land and sea blockade of Gaza is aimed at preventing Hamas from receiving weapons and supplies which could be used for military purposes. An Islamist terror group, Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, seeks the destruction of Israel, and has fought three wars with the Jewish state since 2008.UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted.AFP contributed to this report.

IS recruits, suicide bombers more educated than average, study finds-World Bank: Data shows clearly that poverty is not a driver of radicalization into violent extremism-By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 6, 2016, 3:27 am

WASHINGTON — Recruits into the Islamic State terror group are better educated than their average countryman, contrary to popular belief, according to a new World Bank study.Moreover, those offering to become suicide bombers ranked on average in the more educated group, said the newly released study Wednesday titled “Economic and Social Inclusion to Prevent Violent Extremism”.The study, which aimed to identify socioeconomic traits that might explain why some are drawn to the Syria-based terror group, made clear that poverty and deprivation were not at the root of support for the group.Almost without exception, fighters joining IS’s Syria and Iraq-based forces had several more years of education in their home countries — whether in Europe, North Africa or elsewhere in the Middle East — than the average citizen.The data shows clearly, the report said, that “poverty is not a driver of radicalization into violent extremism.”Out of 331 recruits described in a leaked Islamic State database, 69 percent reported at least a high school education, while a quarter had university-level educations. Only those from Eastern Europe were below the average, and only marginally so, according to the study.“Foreign recruits from the Middle East, North Africa and South and East Asia are significantly more educated than what is typical in their region,” the World Bank report said, and a vast majority had an occupation or a job before joining the terror organization.About 30 percent of the recruits told the extremist group what positions in the force they wanted. Around one in nine volunteered for suicide operations, and their educational levels were on par with those who sought to be administrators, the report said.“The proportions of administrators but also of suicide fighters increase with education,” it said.However, it noted that a significant number of those choosing “suicide fighter” as their preferred option when enlisting said that they had not been employed back in their home country, or that they were in the military before joining the group, also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh.“Looking at measures of economic inclusion shows a strong association between a country’s male unemployment rate and the propensity of that country to supply Daesh foreign recruits,” the report said, adding that “unemployment among the educated leads to a greater probability to hold radical ideas.”An important finding, according to the study of the leaked material, “is that these individuals are far from being uneducated or illiterate. Most claim to have attended secondary school and a large fraction have gone on to study at university.“We find that Daesh did not recruit its foreign workforce among the poor and less educated, but rather the opposite. Instead, the lack of economic inclusion seems to explain the extent of radicalization into violent extremism,” the report said.Another significant finding links to religious knowledge and religiosity. Among the studied recruits, 53% reported a “basic” level of religious knowledge, 20% an “intermediate” level and 4% an “advanced” level.“Large Muslim-population countries that exhibit higher levels of religiosity are less likely to be the origin of Daesh recruits,” the report said.

Thursday, October 06, 2016

ISRAEL HATER AGGRESSOR ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE NEAR COAST.

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

IDF hits Gaza for second time after rocket attack — Palestinian media-Israeli airstrike targets northern and southern Strip, in fresh raid after projectile fired from Hamas-run territory lands in Sderot-By Judah Ari Gross October 5, 2016, 3:47 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Israeli warplanes struck Hamas sites in the northern and southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon, in the second such attack of the day after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave struck Sderot, according to Palestinian media.The Israel Defense Forces would not immediately comment on the reported airstrikes.According to Palestinian media, Israeli jets hit targets in both the al-Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City in the northern Strip and in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.Earlier in the day, Israeli tanks fired on Hamas targets in Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner of the Strip, the army said. There were no immediate reports of Palestinian injuries.The rocket, which was fired from the Gaza Strip, struck a street in the Israeli city of Sderot — a few miles from Beit Hanoun — just before 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police said.The strike caused damage and sent three people to the hospital suffering from anxiety attacks.The Islamic State-affiliated Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis terrorist group took responsibility for the rocket launch in statements released in both Arabic and Hebrew.“Oh you cowardly Jews: You don’t have safety in our land. [Former defense minister Moshe] Ya’alon, the failure at giving security. [Defense Minister Avigdor] Liberman to fail will be a certainty,” the Salafist group said in its statement, in poorly translated Hebrew.The attack against Israel was apparently a response to the Strip’s Hamas rulers arresting several members of the Salafist organization, according to the group’s statement. As usual the group also releases messages in Hebrew, claiming there will be no security for #Israel pic.twitter.com/3iepoZlUGz— Michael Horowitz (@michaelh992) October 5, 2016-Though the Salafist group claimed the attack, Israel has said it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks emanating from Gaza and routinely responds to such launches with strikes inside the Palestinian territory.“We can’t go after every little group in Gaza with a couple of dozen members that goes out one night and fires a rocket,” a senior officer in the IDF’s Southern Command told reporters last month.Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis released a similar statement last month after a failed attempt to launch a rocket at southern Israel on the first day of school. The group also claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that hit Sderot in August, landing between two houses in the southern Israeli city.In Wednesday morning’s rocket attack, three people in Sderot “suffered anxiety attacks” and were treated by medical teams, but no one was physically hurt by the attack, according to the Magen David Adom medical service.The three — including a 15-year-old girl and a 60-year-old man — were taken to Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center for further care, MDA paramedics said.The street where the rocket landed was damaged in the attack, as were several nearby cars and homes.Police sappers were called to the scene, and the area was closed off to pedestrians and traffic, police said.Last month, a mortar shell was launched from the Gaza Strip and landed in a field in southern Israel, causing neither injury nor damage, the army said. The projectile hit an empty field in the Eshkol region, next to the southern Strip, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces.

Boat of activists seeking to break Gaza blockade nears coast-15 women aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva draw within 70 nautical miles of Palestinian enclave; Israeli navy expected to intercept-By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 5, 2016, 4:30 pm

A group of activists seeking to break Israel’s decade-long security blockade of the Gaza Strip were less than 70 nautical miles (130 kilometers) from the coast on Wednesday afternoon without having been intercepted, they said. As of 5 pm, they were some 10 hours from the enclave, Israel’s Channel 2 said.The group of around 15 women, including 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, was traveling aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva sailboat in the Mediterranean Sea toward the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave.They had expected to be boarded by Israeli authorities at around 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) from the coast of the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement since 2007.“The Zaytouna-Oliva has passed the fatal line of 100 miles and everything is going well,” Claude Leostic, spokeswoman for the activists, told AFP by telephone.They saw lights that seemed to be focused on them at around 4 a.m. and assumed it was the Israeli navy, she said.Israeli media has reported that the authorities planned to intercept the boat and then escort it to the Israeli port of Ashdod as it did with a similar attempt by activists last year.The IDF refused to comment on reports that an Israeli navy gunboat fired warning shots in the air as the ship approached.Gazans readied to welcome the boat in the afternoon with music at the enclave’s port if it manages to get through.Pictures show several people with balloons, and at least one Norwegian flag, at the port in Gaza City.The Zaytouna-Oliva set sail from Barcelona in September.Maguire, a Northern Ireland activist, is among the women of different nationalities on board.Dubbed “Women’s Boat to Gaza,” the boat is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla Coalition that consists of pro-Palestinian boats that regularly seek to go to Gaza to try to break the blockade.None has yet managed to get through, and Israeli authorities have made several arrests.The first flotilla to Gaza, led by the Mavi Marmara ship in 2010, was intercepted by IDF naval commandos. They were attacked as they boarded the Marmara, leading to a melee during which 10 Turkish activists were killed and several Israeli soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously.While that incident gave Israel a diplomatic black eye and contributed to a deterioration of ties with Turkey, Jerusalem has since apologized as part of major reconciliation deal with Ankara.Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have fought three wars since 2008.Israel says its maritime, land and sea blockade of Gaza is aimed at preventing Hamas from receiving weapons and supplies which could be used for military purposes. An Islamist terror group, Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, seeks the destruction of Israel, and has fought three wars with the Jewish state since 2008.UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted.

New generation of Israeli ultra-Orthodox challenges old guard-Growing number of critics inside religious community call for comprehensive reform, including education and outreach to broader society-By Aron Heller October 4, 2016, 7:37 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

AP — As the senior representative of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel’s government, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is unapologetic about the insular lifestyle he advocates, despite irking mainstream Israel and endangering its long-term economic prospects.He insists that shirking compulsory military service, rejecting secular education and raising large families on state subsidies all serve the noblest of purposes: a life devoted to the study of scripture that has preserved Jewish traditions over centuries and will ultimately bring about the coming of the Messiah.“To sit and learn is a mitzvah,” or commandment from God, he told The Associated Press. “It is the most important thing.”But the parochial establishment he represents is increasingly being challenged by a new generation of ultra-Orthodox Jews who are demanding academic degrees, satisfying professions, a bigger role for women and greater immersion in Israeli society.“We are looking into the future, what will become of the next generation,” said Avigayil Karlinsky, a 28-year-old social activist. “I am part of the larger Israel and I want my voice to be heard.”She said the ultra-Orthodox leadership’s aversion to progress and integration is mostly about maintaining political power rather than serving their constituents. Until recently, such open criticism was unheard of, but it is gaining traction as people like Karlinsky try to change their world from within.Experts have long warned that the ultra-Orthodox community’s high birthrate and poverty levels, along with low rates of employment and education, could doom Israel’s economic prospects.Many ultra-Orthodox acknowledge this, but they reject any outside effort to enforce changes and insist the process has to happen at its own pace.Critics inside and outside the community say a more comprehensive reform is needed, including greater emphasis on teaching children math, English and computer literacy. There also are growing calls for outreach to Israel’s secular majority.The ultra-Orthodox, or “haredim” — Hebrew for “those who fear God” — are the fastest growing sector in Israel.They currently make up about 11 percent of Israel’s 8.5 million citizens, with the majority living beneath the poverty line, according to a recent study by the Israel Democracy Institute, an independent think tank. With a growth rate four times that of the general Jewish population, their numbers are expected to rise to 14% in 2024, 19% in 2039 and 27% in 2059, the think tank predicted.Gilad Malach, a researcher who specializes in the community, said reform was already underway. He said a majority of haredi men now work, compared to just a third in 2003. Women continue to be the primary breadwinners, and their employment rates of close to 75% are comparable to the general public, he said.The number of ultra-Orthodox joining the military and pursuing degrees has also quietly grown, but “modern” haredim like Karlinsky still only make up about 10% of the community, he said. He says the leadership hopes it stays that way.“Their approach is ‘nothing has changed,'” said Malach. “But regular people are more sophisticated than that. Every mainstream haredi knows he has to make adjustments.”The state offers specialized training programs, study grants and other incentives to haredim, but they have to be handled with care so as not to come off as patronizing. While leading rabbis and their representatives in parliament have given their blessing to some projects, they have offered none of their own.“There is no vision. That’s the real problem,” said Malach. “They don’t have any plans and it would be best if the push came from them.”Litzman, who has gained popularity with the general public as health minister by campaigning against junk food and advocating for medical marijuana, has defied calls to change his community.He points to low crime rates as evidence of their superior values and insists that intensive Jewish studies at an early age instill lifelong learning skills that allow haredim to easily pick up professions later in life.“There is always new ways and new things which we have to get used to and check out if we can live with it, but there is no change in halacha,” or Jewish law, he said. “Until the Messiah will come, it will stay like that.”Karlinsky said she too is guided by her religious beliefs, but takes issue with what she considers a hypocritical approach of a leadership that clings to tradition to maintain control and reinforce a false sense of victimhood.Her husband was a star seminary student in Jerusalem until he decided it wasn’t for him. He turned to computer programming and now works among secular colleagues at Google in Tel Aviv.She established “the Torah Hub,” a Facebook support group for like-minded haredim, and another for victims of sexual abuse in the community — another previously taboo topic. She plans to send her two young children to ultra-Orthodox schools but also make sure they learn English so they have more options later in life.“I’m not afraid of change,” she said, dismissing long-held fears that immersion would lead to assimilation. “Perhaps those who are so afraid of being tempted by secularism don’t have strong enough faith to begin with.”In Elad, a central Israeli city of 50,000 mostly haredi residents, the ultra-Orthodox are seeking a happy medium. It boasts the highest rates of employment, salaries and high school matriculation of all haredi communities in Israel. It also prides itself in having clean streets, close ties to neighboring secular and Arab towns, and ample public services like libraries, theaters and community centers.Mayor Yisrael Porush, a 35-year-old father of six and scion of a prominent haredi family, said his main objective was to develop the city and provide opportunities for residents.“I’m opening the door for them and it doesn’t come at the expense of study,” he said. “The world is moving forward and everyone wants to feel equal.”He deferred larger questions about haredi society to the rulings of the great rabbis, but clearly reveled in the companies and colleges that had opened branches in his city and accommodated haredi needs, such as separate working spaces for men and women, and flexible hours for working mothers. He said such an approach would be much more effective than open confrontation.“Everyone understands that you have to provide for your family,” he said. “But if you come at us with a gun, or with a whip, or threats, we have a problem.”

World’s oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late-Holocaust survivor, 113-year-old Yisrael Kristal, missed the original celebration because of World War I-By Aron Heller October 5, 2016, 4:27 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

AP — The world’s oldest man has finally celebrated his bar mitzvah — a hundred years later than usual.Yisrael Kristal, 113, has lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Earlier this year, Guinness World Records awarded him a certificate as the world’s oldest man.But there was a ceremony that the supercentenarian observant Jew longed for even more.Born in Poland in 1903, Kristal missed his bar mitzvah — the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony celebrated when a boy turns 13 — because of World War I.His daughter, Shulamith Kuperstoch, said his children, grandchildren and nearly 30 great-grandchildren gathered over the weekend to mark the occasion. She said he was very pleased as he recited the traditional Jewish prayer of gratitude while draped in a prayer shawl and surrounded by loved ones.“Everyone sang and danced around him. He was very happy,” she told The Associated Press. “It was always his dream to have a bar mitzvah and he really appreciated the moment.”Kristal was born to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland. He was orphaned shortly after World War I and moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionary business in 1920. During the Nazi occupation of Poland he was confined to the ghetto there and later sent to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. His first wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust.Kristal survived World War II weighing only 37 kilograms (about 81 pounds) — the only survivor of his large family. He married another Holocaust survivor and moved with her to Israel in 1950 where he built a new family and a successful confectionary business.A devout Jew, he has wrapped phylacteries daily for the past century. Kuperstoch said her father still has a curious spirit and keeps a regular schedule, but she asked that reporters not burden him with questions.She said he was still in good health and could regale in stories from the early 20th century about, for example, how he saw his first car at the age of nine and wondered why it wasn’t attached to horses.Kuperstoch also said that her father had no explanation for his incredible longevity.“It’s a gift from above,” she added. “He doesn’t feel like he had any part in it.”

Ya’alon: Obama showing ‘lack of leadership’ in confronting Iran-Ex-defense minister pens cutting LA Times op-ed accusing US president of ‘wishful thinking’ in believing nuclear deal would bring reform-By Raoul Wootliff October 5, 2016, 4:35 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon slammed US President Barack Obama in an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, accusing him of showing a “lack of leadership” in facing Iran and calling on the United States to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic.Writing as US presidential candidates tussle over, among other issues, the Iranian nuclear deal and Israel’s position on the accord, Ya’alon in Thursday’s piece implored “political leaders of both parties” to focus efforts on damage control after last year’s agreement.“US political leaders of both parties argue that destroying Islamic State is America’s top priority in the Middle East. In reality, that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran,” he wrote.Ya’alon accepted that the agreement would delay Iran’s nuclear ambitions but said Tehran was still “much more menacing to Western interests than the Sunni thugs and murderers of Raqqah and Mosul,” a reference to the Islamic State organization.The deal reached with Iran on July 14, 2015, saw the US, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia agree to lift some international sanctions in exchange for guarantees that Tehran would not pursue nuclear weapons.In pointed comments, Yaa’lon said that those who believed the agreement would lead to a reformed Iran “regrettably suffer from wishful thinking.”“What we lack is leadership from our traditional allies in the West, especially our good friends in America. Should President Obama or his successor shift priorities and lead a campaign to pressure Iran to end its destabilizing policies — applying the same type of pressure that forced Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program — it will find willing partners among both Arabs and Israelis,” he wrote.The former defense minister was effectively ousted from his position earlier this year amid political wrangling that saw hawkish Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman take his place.In Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Republican candidate Mike Pence took issue with claims the Iran nuclear deal prevented Tehran from ever obtaining atomic weapons. “Well, that’s not what Israel thinks,” Pence said.“Gadi Eisenkot, you can go check it,” retorted Democratic candidate Tim Kaine, referring to the IDF chief of staff.Eisenkot in January said the Iran nuclear deal was “a strategic turning point” and “a big change in terms of the direction that Iran was headed, and in the way that we saw things,” but stopped short of endorsing the deal or asserting that it fully curtails Iran’s nuclear program.“It has many risks, but also presents many opportunities. Our role is to look at the risk prism and the capability prism and to judge from that — not to assume that the worst-case scenario will take place, because that is as dangerous as the best-case scenario. Therefore, we are now revisiting our strategy,” the IDF chief said at the time.In September Ya’alon also denied that Israeli security officials now back the deal.In the LA Times op-ed, Ya’alon cautioned that “in 14 years, when critical restrictions will be lifted, the world may be in a worse position to prevent Iran’s nuclear project than ever before. In history and international politics, 14 years is the blink of an eye. And there are many factors — such as the possibility of global events that distract international attention from Iranian violations — that could shrink that time frame significantly.”This is not the first time that Ya’alon has taken aim at the Obama administration over its Middle East policies. In 2014, he reportedly savaged US-led peace talks with the Palestinians, lambasting the security proposal drawn up by US Secretary of State John Kerry as being “not worth the paper it is printed on.”Ya’alon also called Kerry “inexplicably obsessive” and “messianic” in his efforts to coax the two sides into a peace agreement, saying the secretary of state had “nothing to teach me about the conflict with the Palestinians.”

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

RUSSIA SENDS S-300 AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM TO SYRIA.

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)

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Russia sends S-300 air defense system to Syria-Moscow’s defense ministry says installation ‘poses no threat’; insists it’s unclear why it ‘has caused such a stir among our western colleagues’-By AFP October 5, 2016, 2:05 am-the times of israel

MOSCOW, Russia — Russia’s defense ministry said Tuesday that it had sent an S-300 missile system to its naval facility in the Syrian city of Tartus, a measure it says is meant to bolster its security.“The S-300 anti-aircraft missile system has indeed been sent to the Syrian Arab Republic,” defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.“I remind you that the S-300 is a purely defensive system and poses no threat to anyone.“It’s not clear why the placement of S-300 in Syria has caused such a stir among our western colleagues,” he said.The announcement comes as talks on reviving a failed ceasefire were suspended by Washington over Moscow’s support of the regime in Damascus.Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the Russian missile system would not affect operations in the US-led air campaign against the Islamic State group in northern Syria, and questioned why Moscow was making the move.“Last I checked, the Russians said that their primary goal was to fight extremism, ISIL and Nusra, in Syria,” he said, referring to IS and another group formerly known as Al-Nusra Front.“Neither one has an air force… So this is something we’ll watch carefully. But it should be clear to the Russians and everybody else operating in Syria how seriously we take the safety of our air crews.”Moscow has been accused of indiscriminately bombing Aleppo’s opposition-controlled east as it helps an offensive currently being conducted by Syrian regime forces to capture all of the country’s second city.Russia has also denied that its strikes have hit hospitals and other civilian facilities in spite of reports to the contrary.In addition to operating a naval facility in Tartus, Russia runs an air base outside the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, which currently houses war planes used in Moscow’s bombing campaign in support of long-time ally Bashar Assad.A senior Russian official said in August that Russia was planning to expand its Hmeimim Air Base in Syria into a permanent military facility.The air base already has an S-400 air defense system, the most modern in Russia’s arsenal.

Iran leaders snub German vice chancellor over call to recognize Israel-Foreign minister, parliament speaker cancel Tehran meetings with Sigmar Gabriel after he says full normalization will hinge on recognition of Jewish state-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies October 5, 2016, 1:36 am

Iran’s foreign minister and parliament speaker have called off meetings with Germany’s vice chancellor over his demand that the Islamic Republic recognize Israel as a precondition for full normalization of ties between Berlin and Tehran, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.Sigmar Gabriel, who also serves as economy minister, arrived in Tehran on Sunday as part of Germany’s efforts to renew business ties with the Islamic Republic following the last year’s nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers that eased international sanctions in exchange for curbs to Tehran’s nuclear program.Ahead of the visit, Gabriel told Der Spiegel that Germany could not move ahead with full normalization of ties until the Iranian regime accepted Israel’s right to exist.According to the Fars News Agency, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani subsequently snubbed Gabriel, who was in the Islamic Republic for two days with some 120 business representatives and dozens of journalists. Meetings between the Iranian politicians and Gabriel were canceled, the report said.Gabriel met with other senior Iranian officials during his two-day trip, including the economy minister.An Iranian government spokesperson was quoted by the report as saying that Gabriel told him his remarks regarding Israel were misconstrued.“When Gabriel came to Iran, I asked him why he has said such a thing while he is one of the pioneering officials who came to Iran after the nuclear deal? He clearly said that they (the media) had distorted his comments. He said that he has come to Iran now without any precondition and that they respect Iran’s views,” said Mohammad Baqer Nobakht.The spokesperson reiterated that Tehran will never recognize Israel, and said “no country can set a precondition for us. We live with our beliefs.”Meanwhile, Iran’s judiciary chief on Tuesday said that given the power to do so, he would have banned Gabriel from visiting the country altogether over his remarks.“The German economy minister has made incorrect and illogical comments and said that if Iran wants to open way for trade interactions, it should recognize Israel. Apparently, he is asleep and doesn’t know that Iran has tolerated abundant pressures for the sake of its beliefs for over 30 years to resist against such demands,” said Iran’s judiciary chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani, according to the Fars News Agency.“Were I in the place of the government and the foreign minister, I would not allow this minister to visit Iran,” he added.Iran last week rejected outright the demand that it recognize Israel as a precondition for full diplomatic ties.“Ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Germany are based on mutual respect and interests, and no precondition would be acceptable in this regard,” Bahram Qasemi, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said on Saturday, according to the official Iranian news outlet Press TV.“The Islamic Republic considers defending the rights of the people of Palestine to be a fixed plank of its foreign policy and will never and under no circumstances forsake the Palestinian cause,” Qasemi said.Gabriel was among the first Western leaders to lead a delegation to Tehran following the removal of key nuclear-related sanctions in January. Germany seeks to reclaim its former position as one of Iran’s major trading partners, but has long criticized the regime for its virulent anti-Israel stance, regime-backed Holocaust denial conferences, and frequent calls for Israel’s destruction.Gabriel acknowledged on Monday that “there are differences between our countries.”“There are many points that connect us, and some points that separate us. In foreign policy we have a different point of view, especially regarding the difficult conflict in Syria. We should talk about this with respect for each other,” he said.He added that Germany supports Iran’s desire to join the World Trade Organization.Trade between the two countries — which was 2.4 billion euros last year ($2.7 billion) — grew by 15 percent in the first half of 2016.

Prince Charles secretly visited grandmother’s grave while in Jerusalem-British royal took advantage of his attendance at Peres funeral to stop by burial site of Princess Alice of Battenberg, on Mount of Olives-By Times of Israel staff October 3, 2016, 5:59 pm

Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles of Wales, quietly visited his grandmother’s grave at a Jerusalem convent on Friday following his attendance at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres.Charles stopped at the Mount of Olives’ Church of Mary Magdalene before heading back to the UK, where his paternal grandmother Princess Alice of Battenberg, who saved a Jewish family during the Holocaust, was interred in the late 1980s.It was a rare opportunity for Charles to visit the site of his grandmother’s burial.A Telegraph report in late 2015 said British royals were unlikely to visit Israel before the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.“The Royal family can’t really go there,” a British government source told the newspaper at the time. “In Israel so much politics is caught up in the land itself that it’s best to avoid those complications altogether by not going there.”But the Peres funeral in Jerusalem, attended by dozens of world leaders, may have provided the perfect justification, one that is unlikely to repeat itself anytime soon.Alice of Battenberg was recognized by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as a “Righteous Among the Nations” and by the British government as a “Hero of the Holocaust.”During the Nazi occupation of Greece, she hid a Jewish woman and two of her children from the Nazis. In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip visited Israel for a ceremony to mark his mother’s valor.Born in 1885 as Princess Alice of Battenberg and congenitally deaf, she spent much of her life in Greece after marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (he was simultaneously prince of two different European countries).Alice moved to London in 1967 to live in Buckingham Palace with her son, Philip, and daughter-in-law, the present queen. When the princess died two years later, her body was interred in a crypt at Windsor Castle. But in 1988, she was transferred to the crypt at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives – honoring a wish she had expressed before her death.In October 1994, on a trip that marked the first time that a member of the British royal family had visited the State of Israel, Prince Philip attended a ceremony honoring his mother at Yad Vashem. Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, met with members of the Cohen family whom his mother hid in her Athens palace for 13 months during the Nazi occupation of Greece.At the ceremony at Yad Vashem, he accepted the Righteous Among the Nations award that was bestowed posthumously upon his late mother. He also planted a maple tree in her memory along the Avenue of the Righteous Among Nations, which commemorates gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. “God brings everything we do to judgment,” the prince wrote in the visitors’ book at Yad Vashem.Prior to the ceremony, Philip, accompanied by his sister Princess Sophie, visited the crypt where his mother’s coffin lies.In September of 1943, members of the Cohen family, from the Greek town of Trikala, had appealed to Princess Alice for refuge. An acquaintance of theirs, she took them in and hid them until the Nazis withdrew in October 1944.The story was not known until the early 1990s, when Michel Cohen, 78, told officials at Yad Vashem of how he, his mother and sister were saved by the princess. The surviving members of the Cohen family flew to Israel from France to attend the ceremony in 1994.

Boat of female activists set to attempt Gaza landing-Israeli officials say navy will intercept the Zaytouna-Oliva overnight and escort it to the Israeli port of Ashdod-By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 5, 2016, 12:48 am

A group of women will try to reach the Gaza Strip on board a boat on Wednesday in a bid to break a decade-long blockade by Israel, a spokeswoman said.Fifteen women will try to breach the blockade aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva boat early on Wednesday, said spokeswoman Claude Leotic.“But we fear there will be an Israeli attack” to prevent the boat from reaching Gaza’s shores, she told AFP Tuesday in a telephone interview.Israeli media, quoting unnamed officials, have reported in recent days that the navy will intercept the boat and escort it to the Israeli port of Ashdod to prevent it from reaching Gaza.Israel says its maritime, land and sea blockade of Gaza is aimed at preventing Hamas from receiving supplies which could be used for military purposes.The Zaytouna-Oliva is one of two vessels that set sail from Barcelona in September.The flotilla dubbed “Women’s Boat to Gaza,” is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla Coalition that consists of pro-Palestinian boats that regularly go to Gaza from all over the world to try to break the blockade.None have yet managed to get through, and Israeli authorities have made several arrests.The first flotilla to Gaza, led by the Mavi Marmara ship, was intercepted by IDF naval commandos who were attacked as they boarded, leading to a melee during which 10 Turkish activists were killed and several Israeli soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously.While that incident gave Israel a diplomatic black eye and contributed to a deterioration of ties with Turkey, Jerusalem has since apologized as part of major reconciliation deal with Ankara.Among the women of different nationalities on board the Zaytouna-Oliva is Northern Ireland activist and 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire.A South African passenger, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, told AFP she expected the boat to be 100 nautical miles off the shores of Gaza by 0300 GMT.“Our goal is to reach Gaza. We are not worried about what Israel plans on doing,” she added.

European anti-Semites increasingly playing victim in classic ‘perpetrator inversion,’ says expert-If you thought you noticed increasing Jew-hatred online and in mainstream European media, you were right — and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel can quantify that scientifically-By Marc Neugroschel October 5, 2016, 3:17 am-the times of israel

JERUSALEM — One of Europe’s most distinguished anti-Semitism researchers, Monika Schwarz-Friesel has an alarming message: scientific measures indicate a massive upsurge of Jew-hatred on the internet, as anti-Semitism reestablishes itself as an increasingly visible element in European mainstream discourse.A psychologist, linguist and professor of cognitive science at the Technical University of Berlin, Schwarz-Friesel is one of the most quoted experts on anti-Semitism in both international academic literature and the German media.In her numerous publications she analyzes and exposes new manifestations of old anti-Semitic sentiments — disguised though they might be — employing much of the same Jew-hatred that has been shaping European discourse throughout the years, even when officially outlawed.These analyses are evidence that recent anti-Israeli tropes demonizing the Jewish state are actually work-arounds of old anti-Semitic sentiments that have been with us for two millennia.As the go-to scholar on anti-Semitism in Europe, in March 2016, Schwarz-Friesel delivered a keynote speech at the Berlin Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism in the Bundestag (the German federal parliament) which was attended by 100 lawmakers from 40 countries. In 2015 she wrote a much noted expertise that was part of the testimony against German journalist Jürgen Elsässer in a court case, in which the latter sued the publicist and former politician Jutta Ditfurth for calling him a “glowing anti-Semite.”And now, to further amplify her research outside of Europe, an English translation of her much celebrated study titled “Inside the anti-Semitic Mind” (co-authored with former Brandeis University president, Jehuda Reinharz), will be available this upcoming November.Currently, Schwarz-Friesel, is spending the last part of her sabbatical in Jerusalem, where she met with The Times of Israel on Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus Campus to share some insight into the truly disturbing results of her research.Your book “Inside the anti-Semitic Mind” reviews over 15,000 letters, emails and other correspondence that have been addressed to Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions all over Europe. What do these correspondences reveal? Many of these letters employ classical anti-Semitic stereotypes in order to abuse their addressees, while demonizing the state of Israel and Jews. Jews in general are blamed for alleged crimes by the State of Israel that is slurred as “a hypocritical terror regime, living of the blood of Palestinians,” or a nation of “child-eaters.” Zionism is being equated with racism and Israel is being called an “apartheid regime,” posing the greatest danger to world peace. Such ideas have nothing to do with the reality on the ground. Instead they reflect classic anti-Semitic stereotypes that have been with us for 2,000 years and that brand Jews as murderers and an omnipresent evil force in the world.It is hard to believe that such views are prevalent in contemporary European mainstream discourse. Aren’t they just characteristic of uneducated, radical subgroups? Unfortunately, no. The authors of the anti-Semitic letters that we reviewed included students, lawyers, journalists, doctors, priests, self-employed entrepreneurs, politicians and even university professors.‘Israel and Jews are being portrayed as overly powerful and vengeful child murderers’But still, people who address letters to Jewish institutions in order to condemn the State of Israel are not necessarily a representative sample of society.True. However, other inquiries reveal the same anti-Semitic patterns as well in other domains, such as the social media and even in the quality press. In the framework of a new research project on anti-Semitism in the world wide web, supported by the German Research Foundation, I am currently reviewing Facebook posts and reader comments on articles in the quality media. What I am finding so far is a replication of the same anti-Semitic stereotypes. Israel and Jews are being portrayed as overly powerful and vengeful child murderers. Indeed, speaking for Germany, throughout the past 10 years, anti-Semitic content in comments on the internet and in letters to editors has almost tripled.Is this upsurge of anti-Semitism on the internet paralleled by a similar development in the quality media? There are ongoing investigations, the intermediate findings of which raise the suspicion that this could be the case indeed, though it’s too early yet to draw such conclusions with certainty. However, we don’t even have to wait for the definite results of these studies in order to establish that anti-Semitism has resurfaced as an evident element in mainstream European discourse. Just think about the utterances of writer Günter Grass or of the journalist Jakob Augstein that portray Israel in terms of classic anti-Semitic clichés, according to which Jews are a menace to mankind and control world politics.In addition, there is less and less resistance to anti-Semitic utterances. A case in point is the lack of objection upon the conclusion of the speech by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament last June, which raised the false accusation that rabbis asked the Israeli government to poison the water of Palestinians. Abbas even received standing ovations after this speech, which promoted the classic anti-Semitic slur that Jews are well-poisoners.Most of the examples that you mention involve anti-Semitic demonizations of the State of Israel…There is a global Israelization of anti-Semitic discourse. The articulation of traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes by projecting them onto Israel is by now the most dominant manifestation of modern Jew hatred.But isn’t it difficult to distinguish such Israel-focused anti-Semitism without being liable to declaring all criticism of Israel per se to be anti-Semitic? Not at all! Scientifically we can draw a very clear distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. We give many examples for both types in our book. Those who claim that criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism cannot be distinguished do so in order to excuse or marginalize anti-Semitic views.A lot of people express concerns that they would not be allowed to criticize Israel without being labeled as anti-Semites…‘None of the authors of the letters that criticized Israel without being anti-Semitic voiced any concerns that they could falsely be accused of Jew-hatred’Yes. And remarkably, in the material that we reviewed, this concern is expressed exclusively by authors of letters that are actually anti-Semitic. None of the authors of the letters that criticized Israel without being anti-Semitic voiced any concerns that they could falsely be accused of Jew-hatred. It is the anti-Semites who actually commit the kind of false accusation which they claim to be a victim of, in order to deny their hatred of Jews. This implies a victim-perpetrator-inversion, which is a historically deep-rooted pattern in the standard repertoire of anti-Semitic constructions. Already in the 19th century anti-Semites accused Jews to use their alleged control over the media to censor and delegitimize anti-Jewish criticism.Let’s discuss another concrete example of Israel-focused anti-Semitism. A German author called Christian Ebener recently published a travelogue of a road trip through the Middle East that also brought him to Israel about which he writes:“Our short stopover in this […] state and the three days on the boat [from Haifa to Lavrio, Greece, which involved an encounter with a Palestinian passenger] have revolutionized our idea of the Jews. I used to think that this religious community is one of the most persecuted and suffering groups of mankind, which was abused over and over again throughout history up to point of annihilation. But today, I have to recognize that this is only one side of the coin. The other side is that Jews, in spite of their bitter experience are no better, as they persecute and kill people of different nationality and faith with the same kind of brutality.”‘Equating Jews with Nazis invokes the victim-perpetrator-inversion’ Slurring Jews collectively as a people of culprits, this statement is clearly anti-Semitic. Equating Jews with Nazis, it also invokes the victim-perpetrator-inversion. A baseless vilification of Israel, which, without giving any evidence, except for the narrative of a random Palestinian on a boat, is slandered as a regime that conducts Nazi-like persecution and killings of national and religious minorities, is taken as a justification to condemn all Jews, be they Israeli or not. In addition to the quotation that you just mentioned, there is another paragraph in the same book, where Ebener questions the legitimacy of Israel’s very existence. This is another typical trope of contemporary anti-Semitism.It would be absurd to suggest that such slander cannot be separated from founded criticism of particular Israeli policies.Many people are concerned that anti-Semitism in Europe could further be aggravated by the massive influx of refugees from the Middle East.Many of the refugees that have been pouring into Europe recently come from societies that are deeply anti-Semitic. It would be foolish to assume that their anti-Semitism can be educated away in a few years and that it won’t leave its mark on European societies.

JORDAN DEFENDS NATURAL GAS DEAL WITH ISRAEL.

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

From Trump to Trudeau — Rosh Hashanah greetings roll in-Clinton, Corbyn among leading figures congratulating Jews worldwide on start of new year with tweets, apple dipping and even a song routine-By Times of Israel staff October 3, 2016, 3:34 am

New year’s greetings poured in from around the world Sunday as Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah — the beginning of the year 5777.President Barack Obama reflected on the “great privilege” of working with the Jewish community in his final Rosh Hashanah message as president.Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, also delivered Rosh Hashanah greetings, sending “my best wishes for a Shana Tova — a happy and healthy new year — to Jewish families and communities in the United States, Israel and around the world.”She added: “All Americans should question whether we’re doing all that we can to work on ‘Tikkun Olam’ — repairing the world.”Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump tweeted “warmest greetings” to those celebrating the holiday. Melania and I extend our warmest greetings to those observing Rosh Hashanah here in the United States, in Israel, and around the world.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2016-In the UK, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been accused of mishandling allegations of anti-Semitism within the party, posted a well-wishing video on his Twitter feed, vowing to represent “all communities across Britain” and asking for the Jewish community’s help in strengthening Labour.Shanah Tovah. As Jewish communities start to celebrate the New Year I want to extend my warmest greetings. pic.twitter.com/SbaH79xA7d— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) October 2, 2016-British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to protect the UK’s Jewish communities from anti-Semitism.“I want to ensure that Britain is a place where all our communities can flourish, and that means stamping out sickening and shameful hatred, including anti-Semitism the like of which I never thought we would see again,” May said.Russian President Vladimir Putin said the new year “gives everyone strength and opportunities to become better and walk the path of good, mercy and justice.“It is pleasant to see that Jewish organizations do a lot to preserve religious and national customs and traditions, and to teach followers of Judaism respect for the invaluable historical, spiritual legacy of their ancestors,” he said in a statement.Canada’s leader, Prime Minister Justin Tredeau, said he was “delighted” to celebrate with the Jewish community. He too cited the value of ‘Tikkun Olam’ and the desire to “build a better world for our children and our grandchildren.”Wishing a happy and sweet New Year to Jews in Canada and around the world. Shana Tova! Statement: https://t.co/slxnP80lRo pic.twitter.com/IgiFg5RqzL— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 2, 2016-German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman tweeted a greeting from his boss, in which she promised to fight any and all instances of anti-Semitism and vowed “unequivocal commitment to our liberal values.”Kanzlerin #Merkel dankt den jüdischen Gemeinden in Deutschland + wünscht allen ein gutes neues Jahr – Schana Tova! https://t.co/2UXInX6l4T pic.twitter.com/fQxoAjn3MN— Steffen Seibert (@RegSprecher) October 2, 2016-The US Embassy in Tel Aviv, whose head Dan Shapiro is Jewish, issued a video of Embassy employees eating the traditional apple dipped in honey. Shapiro himself wished the people of Israel a happy and sweet new year — in Hebrew.The Turkish Embassy also chimed in with a tweet.Şana tova u'metuka! A happy and sweet New Year! #RoshHashanah pic.twitter.com/bM2LTmR2Z6-— Turkish Embassy TA (@TelAvivBE) October 1, 2016-French Ambassador Hélène Le Gal wished Israelis a year of “happiness, prosperity and success,” and expressed hope for robust cultural cooperation in events sponsored by the Embassy. Her greeting card even included some hand-drawn pomegranates.Meanwhile Swedish Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser showed off a surprisingly operatic voice as he sat at the piano and sang the classic Ehud Manor song “Bashana Haba’ah.”

Jordan defends Israel natural gas deal-Minister tells local TV that deal wouldn’t make Hashemite kingdom dependent on Jewish state, but would cut $600 million from energy bill-By AFP October 3, 2016, 12:43 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Jordan on Monday defended its deal to buy Israeli natural gas that has stirred public opposition, insisting the accord would not leave the Arab country reliant on the Jewish state.Information Minister Mohamed Momani, who is also government spokesman, told Jordanian television that the deal would cut $600 million a year from the state’s energy bill.“We will not be dependent on Israel,” he said.Momani said the government was seeking to diversify its sources of gas supplies.It was “too simplistic to say that sealing such a deal means the kingdom is supporting Israeli occupation,” he said, referring to the occupied Palestinian territories.Hundreds of Jordanians took part in a demonstration Friday in the center of Amman to protest against the deal signed on September 26 to import natural gas from Israel.The protest was called by trade unions and political parties opposed to the 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, half the population of which is of Palestinian origin.The opposition Islamic Action Front, political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, on Monday kept up its condemnation of the deal, charging the gas was “stolen from Palestinian waters.”A US-led consortium leading the development of Israel’s offshore gas reserves announced the deal to sell natural gas from its Leviathan field to Jordan.US firm Noble Energy, the lead partner, said the contract with the National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO) was for 300 million cubic feet (8.5 million cubic meters) per day over a 15-year term.

Palestinian court orders local elections only in West Bank-Hamas and Fatah to take part in first polls since 2006, but not in Gaza Strip; date has yet to be set-By AFP October 3, 2016, 1:44 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.The ruling could bring to an end hopes that the municipal elections would be the first since 2006 in which both Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah, which runs the West Bank, would participate.Palestinian municipal polls scheduled for October 8 were postponed last month after a court delayed a ruling on whether to hold the first vote since 2006 to include both Fatah and Hamas.The Palestinian high court in the Fatah-led West Bank put off its ruling until October 3, only five days before the scheduled date for the elections.In response, the electoral commission confirmed that the October 8 date “is no longer applicable.” It set no new date.On September 8, the court suspended the elections following disputes between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements over candidate lists.It had left open the possibility that they could be re-scheduled for the same date if the dispute was resolved, but Wednesday’s announcement by the electoral commission was widely anticipated.Gaza-ruling Hamas, considered a terror group by Israel and other Western countries, boycotted the last Palestinian municipal elections in 2012, but it was due to participate this year.The October vote was to choose municipal councils in some 416 cities and towns in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.It is seen by some analysts as a test of whether Hamas and Fatah can take a significant step towards reconciliation.Their divisions are viewed as among the key obstacles in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, at a standstill for more than two years.The Palestinian parliament has not met since 2007, the year Hamas, buoyed by its 2006 election victory, seized the Gaza Strip by force, driving out Fatah in a week of deadly clashes.Hamas caused a shock by winning the majority of seats in the 2006 polls, which were seen by some as the most transparent to be held in the Palestinian territories.But the international community refused to accept a Hamas government, demanding the Islamist group first renounce violence, recognize Israel, and respect agreements signed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

IDF nabs Gaza man who crossed into Israel-Suspect who breached border in Eshkol region taken in for questioning by security services-By Times of Israel staff October 3, 2016, 9:15 am

IDF soldiers arrested a man on suspicion of crossing the Gaza border fence into Israel on Monday morning.The incident took place in the Eshkol regional council, opposite the central Gaza Strip, Walla news reported.The suspect was taken in for questioning by Israel’s security services.The man’s identity wasn’t released for publication.The incident was one of several in recent months in which Palestinians from Gaza penetrated the border into Israel. Israel is working to build a sophisticated border barrier to prevent tunneling into Israeli territory.Last month, in a “abnormal” incident, an 8-year-old Palestinian child entered Israel, only to be scooped up by security forces and eventually returned to Gaza.In August, four Palestinian men were arrested in the southern Eshkol region minutes after crossing from the Gaza Strip into Israel. IDF troops reportedly apprehended the men shortly after they crossed into Israeli territory.They were said to be carrying wire-cutters used to cut through the border fence.The border fence contains a bevy of sensors and cameras to support the large number of soldiers who regularly patrol the area. Infiltrators are typically caught within hours, if not sooner.

Sunday, October 02, 2016

AFTER BITTERSWEET END TO YEAR-NETANYAHU PUTS HOPEFUL SPIN ON 5777 (3 7'S=21 TRIBULATION PERIOD JUDGEMENTS)(IT COULD BE CLOSE-LOOK UP OUR REDEMPTION COULD BE ANY SECOND NOW-HOPEFULLY)(COME QUICKLY KING JESUS)

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

After bittersweet end to year, Netanyahu puts hopeful spin on 5777-Ahead of Jewish New Year, prime minister declares he’s more hopeful than ever, and says Israel will pursue peace efforts — though only in English-By Times of Israel staff October 2, 2016, 10:05 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broadcast a message of optimism ahead of the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown Sunday night, trumpeting the state’s accomplishments and vowing to pursue peace efforts — a statement he made only in English.Closing out a year bookended by a wave of deadly violence and the death of former president and peace pioneer Shimon Peres last week, Netanyahu attempted to telegraph a message of hope for the coming year --- 5777 by the Jewish calendar.“Shimon was a man of vision and optimism,” he said in an English-language video distributed Saturday night. “And I think Shimon would want us to celebrate Rosh Hashanah this year by looking back with pride and looking forward with hope.”“He was the strongest representative for a better hope, and with the entrance of the new year, I as well, more than any other time, am filled with hope.”The video was sent out a day after leaders from around the world gathered in Jerusalem to bury Peres, considered the last of Israel’s founding fathers and a major figure on the international stage.Netanyahu in the videos touted increased ties with the US and the world and, at least in English, said Israel “will continue working for peace.”The words about peace, however, did not appear in his Hebrew message, which focused on advances in Israeli society.“This year too we will continue to do our great work, continue to build the country, continue to develop it, to boost the economy, to ensure our security, to make our lives easier, to work toward your future, our future,” he said the clip.In English, he called on “Jews around the world to remain hopeful and continue pursuing justice and truth.”The Jewish New Year, marking the start of the High Holy Days, is typically celebrated as a time of looking forward to the year to come as well as reflection on the past year. Many Jews celebrate the holiday with a festive meal marked by special foods meant to symbolize good omens, such as honey for a sweet new year.But a year ago, the holiday marked for many the start of over six months of deadly violence, starting with the stoning of the car of Alexander Levlovitz in southeast Jerusalem, leading to his death on the first night of the holiday.The deadly wave of violence that followed claimed the lives of over 30 Israelis and some 200 Palestinians, many of them attackers, in what came to be known as the “lone-wolf intifada.”As in years past, the IDF announced it would seal off the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Sunday to Tuesday for security reasons over the holiday.The military said it would make exceptions for medical emergencies and “humanitarian cases,” with the approval of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).The closure will take effect on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. and is expected to last until Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., dependent upon a “situational assessment,” the army said.The closure comes as Muslims will also mark the Islamic new year, Raʼs al-Sanah al-Hijrīyah, which falls on the same day as the Jewish holiday in a calendrical quirk.The holiday, which will herald the start of the year 1438 in the Islamic calendar, is generally marked by Muslim Arabs with large festive meals and many sweets.While neither Netanyahu nor President Reuven Rivlin, who also put out a holiday greeting Saturday night, mentioned the Muslim holiday in their videos, Rivlin spoke of the need for “connections between the various and varied communities within Israel, religious, secular, Jewish and Arab. We must build together a shared hope for Israel for our shared future in this land.”According to population figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics last week to mark the new year, the State of Israel has a population of 8.585 million, including 6.4 million Jews and 1.8 million Muslims.Jews make up close to three-quarters of the population at 6.4 million residents, while Israel’s almost 1.8 million Arabs make up one-fifth of the population.Israel’s Jews make up about half the world’s Jewish population, and Rivlin in a video in English pleaded with Diaspora Jewry to visit and to strengthen the bond with Israel, noting as well the need to combat anti-Semitism.“We must work to help them continue to be proud to be Jewish, with security, free from anti-Semitism, and free to wear a kippa in the street. Every Jew will always have a home in Israel, but they should have the right to live without fear where they wish, and we must stand up for this right,” he said. “To the Jewish students and young families in Europe, North America and all over, I want to say, ‘Do not take Israel for granted, do not forget that our destinies are tied together.’”

In Rosh Hashanah message, British PM vows to uproot anti-Semitism-Theresa May pledges to stamp out ‘sickening and shameful’ hatred of Jews, which ‘I never thought we would see again’-By Times of Israel staff October 2, 2016, 5:03 pm

British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to protect the UK’s Jewish communities from anti-Semitism, in a Rosh Hashanah video message released hours ahead of the Jewish New Year on Sunday.“As the Jewish New Year begins, I want to renew my unshakable vow to stand by our Jewish community now and for the years to come,” May said. “And as prime minister, and working in partnership with you, I will do everything in my power to protect your community, and indeed all communities in Britain.”“I want to ensure that Britain is a place where all our communities can flourish, and that means stamping out sickening and shameful hatred, including anti-Semitism the like of which I never thought we would see again,” the prime minister said.Last month, May addressed Britain’s Jewish communities for the first time since her July election, praising the relationship between the UK and Israel and reaffirmed the British government’s long-held position of support for Israel’s right to self-defense.Writing in the latest edition of the magazine for the Conservative Friends of Israel, a pro-Israel group in her ruling Conservative party, May said that the UK’s relationship with Israel was “as strong as ever.”May highlighted the fact that the UK and Israel will soon mark the 100-year anniversary of affirmation by then Conservative foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour of the “UK’s support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people” — in a document now known as the Balfour Declaration.

Rosh Hashanah fruit is in focus for food bank-Leket, which organizes volunteers to pick crops for the needy, trains its eye on apples, pomegranates and carambolas for the New Year-By Jessica Steinberg September 29, 2016, 1:50 pm

Leket, the crop-picking and food donation organization, is all about new fruit at this time of year.While Leket’s teams of volunteers usually harvest anything from potatoes to lemons, at this time of year it’s mainly about the apples. And pomegranates.Leket — the Hebrew word for gleaning or gathering produce from the fields — chooses the fruits and vegetables it picks based on the needs of the groups that receive its produce, as well as the farmers who need help in harvesting their crops.For much of the year, its volunteers pick the vegetables that make up the classic Israeli salad, such as cucumber, tomato and onion.There are, however, special requests, such as apples before Rosh Hashanah, as well as pomegranates and carambola aka starfruit, which are often used as the “new fruit” eaten during the New Year.This September, the food bank helped out Golan Heights farmers, the growers of many of Israel’s apples, and picked 300 tons of apples that will be provided to 140,000 families in need over the holiday. An average day of apple-picking yields about three tons of the fruit.For pomegranates, they gathered 300 kilograms of yellow carambola from a moshav near Ra’anana, providing 150 families with the unusual ridged fruit that resembles a star when it’s sliced across.

Where Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton may pray on Rosh Hashanah-No matter who the next president is, a Jewish son-in-law is sure to visit the White House some time before the next Jewish New Year-By Debra Nussbaum Cohen October 2, 2016, 5:47 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

NEW YORK (JTA) – One has attended previous High Holiday services at an Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The other has accompanied a college friend to Rosh Hashanah services at Stanford University, and her Jewish husband to services at a Reform temple in Midtown.Inquiring minds want to know how the two potential First Daughters, Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton, are celebrating the Jewish New Year. No matter whether the next president is named Clinton or Trump, a Jewish son-in-law is sure to visit the White House some time before next Rosh Hashanah.Clinton isn’t Jewish but is married to Marc Mezvinsky, who is. And of course Trump became Jewish before her marriage a few years back to Jared Kushner, who has reportedly become one of his father-in-law’s closest advisers on all things Jewish- and Israel-related.“That has never been the case before. Nor have we previously had ‘First Daughters’ who are themselves so close to Jews,” the preeminent historian of American Jewry, Jonathan Sarna, told JTA.Trump underwent an Orthodox conversion and has told Vogue magazine about her family’s traditional Jewish home, including shutting off their electronic devices before Shabbat begins.Mezvinsky wore a yarmulke and tallit at his wedding to Clinton, who was raised Methodist. “Chelsea believes that she can raise her children in multiple faiths,” said Sarna.For Rosh Hashanah, she and Mezvinsky “will go to synagogue,” Rabbi James Ponet, who co-officiated their 2010 wedding along with a Methodist minister, told JTA. Now retired, Ponet was at the time the Jewish chaplain at Yale University. The ceremony included a wedding contract, or “ketubah,” and the traditional seven blessings were recited.Ponet was unsure which congregation they might attend. “It’s not a close friendship but we’ve maintained some contact,” he said.Clinton has long shown interest in Judaism. As a freshman at Stanford University in 1997, she attended Rosh Hashanah services at the Hillel there with a female friend. A year earlier, she reportedly attended Yom Kippur services at George Washington University Hillel, in Washington D.C. She was dating Mezvinsky at the time.Before their wedding, Clinton and Mezvinsky had attended services at Central Synagogue, a Reform congregation in Midtown Manhattan. But current Rabbi Angela Buchdahl told JTA she hasn’t seen them there in about nine years.Clinton has not attended services at any of the Reform and Conservative synagogues in the vicinity of their apartment on East 26th Street, calls to those congregations revealed.“She is incredibly private about that part of her life and historically speaking it’s not something she talks about, because it’s between her and her family,” Hillary Clinton spokesperson Zara Rahim told JTA.Of course, with a newborn son and the time pressures of campaigning on behalf of her mother, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, some say this is a year she may not make it to synagogue.Trump, too, recently gave birth to a son, her third child, Theodore, who is now 6 months old. Her older children with husband Jared Kushner are Arabella, 5, and Joseph, 2.Trump converted to Judaism in 2009 under the auspices of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a modern Orthodox rabbi and former spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.The Trump-Kushners used to attend Kehilat Jeshurun on East 85th Street, but haven’t since they moved further downtown, to the East 60s, said Rabbi Lookstein, who declined to go into more detail.Kushner’s family now attends the Fifth Avenue Synagogue on East 62nd Street when they are in Manhattan, Joseph Malovany, the synagogue’s cantor, told JTA, and he has seen Trump and her husband there. “Sometimes they come, sometimes they don’t come,” he said. “I don’t know what their plans are for the holiday.”Neither Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign nor Ivanka Trump’s fashion company responded to inquiries by JTA.But the Trump-Kushner family also frequents a private synagogue hosted by the investor and philanthropist Ronald Perelman, which he had built between his two back-to-back townhouses on East 62nd and East 63rd Streets.“I’ve sung there, he’s [Perelman is] a very close friend,” Malovany said. The Trump-Kushners “came with the children, so it was very nice. The question is whether they are even in the city for ‘yom tov.’ Usually the family gets together either in their home in [northern] New Jersey or at their home at the shore,” which is on the beach in Long Branch, New Jersey. “Sometimes they go to Israel, but probably not this year,” said Malovany, with a chuckle.The candidate’s daughter “really ‘davens’ [‘prays’] with a lot of ‘kavannah’ [‘intention’],” said Malovany, who shared that he once saw Trump and Kusnher walking after Rosh Hashanah services to the East River for “tashlich,” the ritual of casting away of sins into a body of water. “She is a wonderful convert to Judaism with all the trimmings.”Whatever their plans, the 2016 presidential campaign has offered revealing glimpses into the impact and ubiquity of interfaith marriage and Jewish identity, said Sarna, the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University.“In the case of Bernie Sanders, who has a non-Jewish wife, his grandchildren are Christian,” he said of the Vermont senator who sought the Democratic nomination. “In the case of Donald Trump, his grandchildren are Jewish — indeed, Orthodox Jews. In the case of Hillary and Bill Clinton, their grandchildren are somewhere in between.“The impact of intermarriage on American Jewry’s future is both complicated and unpredictable. There are multiple possibilities, as the experiences of the Sanders, Trump and Clinton grandchildren illustrate, and the results are not at all preordained. What happens depends, much as the election itself does, on individual actions,” Sarna said.“That may be the most important High Holiday lesson that this election offers us.”

Service with a smile: Synagogue rethinks the High Holy Days-From the way it sells tickets to the contemplative stitching circle, Pico Union Project is putting the ‘new’ in New Year-By Lisa Klug October 1, 2016, 11:11 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

For a community in Los Angeles, Rosh Hashanah not only represents the evolution of the self and the birthday of the world — it also translates into a reinterpretation of communal finances.To underwrite a dynamic series of High Holiday programs, Pico Union Project (PUP) launched a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign this summer. In less than two months, donations totaled more than $62,000, supporting a wide range of creative events including teen services, meditative stitching and innovative services with musician Craig Taubman, PUP’s founder and artistic director.“We raised the minimum amount needed in order to produce our full schedule of services and still have tickets to spare,” says Dr. Zach Lasker, PUP’s full-time executive director and resident yogi. “Anyone can purchase a single or multi-day pass and those who believe in our work and still want to make a financial contribution are able to do so.”PUP describes itself as a multi-faith center for spiritual exploration, cultural arts, and community activism. Its mission statement reads, “We are rooted in the principle to love your neighbor as yourself, and believe that in order to love your neighbor you must get to know your neighbor.”“Programmatically, Rosh Hashanah at PUP will again be a joyful, soulful, innovative and creative experience that strives to make the old new and the new holy,” Lasker says. “As a non-traditional community, we decided to move away from the dues-paying membership model.”PUP came into being when singer-songwriter Taubman purchased the landmark synagogue in 2013 with his wife Louise, who oversees several administrative functions, such as accounting and parts of event operations. The building dates to 1909, when it was the first home of the Sinai Temple congregation, and was sold to a church nearly a century ago. After the Taubmans took ownership, they hosted the first High Holy services in L.A.’s oldest synagogue structure in 91 years.“My wife and I seized the opportunity to purchase the building and rebuild a Jewish community in downtown Los Angeles and honor the incredibly diverse, multi-faith, and cultural make up of the neighborhood,” Taubman says. “PUP promotes the Jewish principle to love your neighbor as yourself — with the understanding that in order to be loving to others you must get to know them first. We celebrate and honor diversity and promote mutual respect through story, song, theater, dance, food, prayer, health, wellness and acts of loving kindness.”The self-described open egalitarian community witnessed a standing room-only crowd last year.People “came together for an unexpected and unprecedented experience of celebration, prayer, singing, spoken word, diversity, emotion and intellectual stimulation… all with a casual, let-it-loose, eclectic and affordable vibe,” Taubman says.Without traditional membership, PUP can’t say exactly how many people it serves. The sanctuary, Lasker says, is expected to sell out its 375 High Holiday seats. Its Shabbat program accommodates 50 attendees. And about a dozen people regularly attend Lasker’s yoga classes.The goal is “about joining together to form a creative, nurturing, and loving community… something special and uniquely Jewish in the heart of L.A.,” Lasker says. “The holidays will be our launching pad.”This year’s “High Holy Day Gathering” features Taubman as well as Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Nefesh, Rabbi Susan Goldberg and “Tashlich,” a new dance composition by Deborah Rosen and Company.Also on the High Holidays menu is a stitching circle, spiritual centering through the art of contemplative stitching to create a meditative practice around liturgical themes with renowned instructor, Debra Linesch. Teen prayer services in partnership with Tzedek America and other programs are designed to make the holidays meaningful in a nouveau L.A. kind of way.PUP invites non-Jewish faith leaders to attend services, Lasker says. Reverend Najuma Pollar of the Word of Encouragement Church will make public remarks on Erev Yom Kippur.“There are occasions when other faith groups hold services and events [and] they have attendees from other walks of life, too,” Lasker says.Special High Holy guest speakers include iconic television writer and producer Norman Lear, Palestinian activist and pacifist Ali Abu Awwad, Rabbi Deborah Schuldenfrei and social activist and entrepreneur Joseph Sanberg.Services are led by Taubman, who possesses a unique gift “at holding space and recognizing sparks in other people that he brings into the room,” Lasker says. “The result is that people feel a heightened sense of belonging and meaning.”In Taubman’s eyes, it is a shared effort, “recognizing that no one personality, mode of prayer and singing, or point of view can speak to everyone equally,” Taubman says. “Our team of spiritual leaders includes singers, artists, teachers and rabbis that reflect the diversity of our community. Our hope is to optimize engagement through multiple points of entry.”Taubman, 58, brings to PUP a storied history as a Jewish professional.“Once upon a time, I was an artist with Disney records and performed over 100 concerts a year. I felt blessed for the work, but it was hard on me and my family to be on the road,” Taubman says. “Twenty years ago, Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple asked me to create Friday Night Love with him. This service allowed me the freedom to stay in town more, as well as focus on music for the Jewish community.”Taubman has had, he says, “an amazing run producing recordings since my first of over 60 albums as a high school senior 40 years ago. From vinyl we went to cassette tapes, CDs and digital downloads.”Taubman previously curated 11 mini volumes relating to High Holiday themes under the concept Jewels of Elul for the month leading up to the Jewish New Year.“Twelve years ago, I had no idea how impactful the project would be on my life and many others around the world,” Taubman says. “People want to grow and change and Jewels of Elul gave them the tools to do it.”He recently decided to apply the concept to the universal experience of losing a loved one. His “30 Days” project is inspired by the Jewish mourning ritual of Shloshim. Similar to the Jewels project, it will contain 30 affirmations and healing thoughts from an eclectic group of writers.“The past year has been a challenging one for me with illnesses and deaths including the lives of my wife’s parents,” Taubman says. “With loss so heavy on my heart I have been focused on ways to honor them and the mourning process.”Taubman’s and PUP’s out-of-the-box approach was reflected in its recent Jewcer campaign, which included opportunities to contribute at various price points. Starting at $50, a five-ticket package included seats at Slichot, first day Rosh HaShanah, Erev Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur morning and Neilah services. Two donors claimed a “Tree of Life” contribution starting at $1,250 to support the purchase of trees for the synagogue that will later be planted in the neighborhood. Another donor supported a minimum $1,500 donation to support Chief PUP Storyteller Jason Chu to pen a poem to be read at the High Holy Day services based on a theme of the donor’s choice.Another two donors each donated at least $3,000 each to sponsor and design the menu for lunch on Rosh Hashanah or at a communal Yom Kippur break-the-fast. And two more donors each contributed a minimum of $5,000 to support the composition of a musical piece to be debuted at services. Private contributions and other funding includes a grant from the Office of Homeland Security in California and a $200,000 Cutting Edge Grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.“Investing in vibrant spaces for Jews to thrive and engage with one another and the wider community in downtown Los Angeles is exciting for us,” said Elana Wien, director of the Jewish Community Foundation of LA’s Center for Designed Philanthropy. “We are confident that The Sanctuary@Pico Union can answer the call for opportunities to engage in Jewish spiritual discovery, social justice and the creative arts.”Rentals for private events, including bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and “quincineras” (Latin American coming of age parties for 15-year old girls), also generate income.While the Taubmans currently donate use of the building, in the coming year, PUP will phase in a modest rental fee payable to the Taubmans. PUP will retain rental fees collected from the faith community, cultural groups, and private rentals, Lasker says.“I feel as if all of the elements that motivate and excite can be found at the PUP — art, music, community, gardening, making a difference, Jewish culture, all come together in our beautiful downtown space,” Taubman says. “Every day I am reminded that I can not only make change, but be the change in the world I have been blessed to inhabit.”

Hundreds answer Peres family shiva call, pay last respects at grave-Mourners from across the country gather at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Jaffa peace center-By Times of Israel staff October 2, 2016, 6:48 pm

Hundreds of Israelis, among them Knesset members, diplomats and religious leaders, arrived at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa starting on Saturday night to answer a shiva call extended to the nation by the family of Shimon Peres, who was buried Friday in Jerusalem in a state ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders.Hundreds more visitors flocked to the grave at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to pay tribute to the last of the country’s founding fathers. Peres passed away early Wednesday at the age of 93, two weeks after suffering a massive stroke.On Saturday, Peres’s family began the Jewish mourning tradition of shiva, and invited all Israelis wishing to pay their respects to visit them at the Peres Center for Peace in the coming days.Peres’s son Chemi told visiting mourners Saturday that since his passing “we are submerged in deep grief, and feel that this grief is not only ours but all of Israel’s.”“The love and support we have received from the citizens of Israel and from world leaders envelops us and eases the great pain,” he said.The center was adorned with pictures from Peres’s life. Visitors were invited to walk around and explore the former president’s work. Many approached the family to speak with them.Attendees included US Ambassador Dan Shapiro and Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor, United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni and former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo.At the grave, Jacques Saul, a new immigrant from France said Peres was “one of Israel’s greatest leaders who advanced the country abroad,” according to Yisrael Hayom.“We will never forget him,” said Rachel who brought her grandchildren to the grave told the paper. “Peres was one of a kind in his generation, and it’s important for me that the next generation will know who he is.”World leaders who attended the funeral Friday praised the former leader for pursuing peace with an indefatigable spirit and optimism, even though his vision of a “new Middle East” was never fulfilled.Peres led Israel through some of its most defining moments: creating what is believed to be a nuclear arsenal in the 1950s; disentangling its troops from Lebanon and rescuing its economy from triple-digit inflation in the 1980s; and guiding a skeptical nation into peace talks with the Palestinians in the 1990s.In 1994, he shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for negotiating an interim peace accord with the Palestinians.Among the mourners at Peres’ funeral on Friday were US President Barack Obama, former US president Bill Clinton, French President Francois Hollande, Britain’s Prince Charles, German President Joachim Gauck and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Despite the stalemate in peace talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sat in the front row alongside other world leaders. Representatives from Egypt and Jordan also were present.The ceremony was Israel’s largest gathering of international dignitaries since Rabin’s funeral, and was one of the most complicated logistical and security operations ever undertaken.

White House strikes ‘Israel’ from Jerusalem dateline on Obama’s eulogy transcript-Change to dateline on Peres speech confirms to US policy not to recognize Jerusalem as any nation’s until status settled at peace talks-By JTA and AP October 1, 2016, 2:31 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The White House amended its transcript of President Barack Obama’s eulogy for Shimon Peres to remove “Israel” from the Jerusalem dateline.The White House sent reporters an amended transcript Friday afternoon, “with a corrected header,” about nine hours after the transcript was first mailed.Instead of simply removing the word “Israel,” officials struck it through.US policy since 1949 has been not to recognize Jerusalem as belonging to any nation until its status is settled through peace talks.The White House press office routinely issues transcripts of Obama’s speeches and includes the location of the speech at the top. A transcript released shortly after the funeral listed the location as “Jerusalem, Israel.” Hours later, while Obama was still flying back from Israel, the White House issued an amended transcript listing merely “Jerusalem” and with “Israel” crossed out with a line.For decades, Jerusalem’s status has been one of the most difficult and emotional issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as the capital of their future state, but Israel’s government considers a united Jerusalem to be its eternal capital. Mount Herzl, where Peres was buried, is deep inside the western end of the city, part of Israel since its independence in 1948.US policy refuses to recognize any nation’s sovereignty over Jerusalem until Israelis and Palestinians resolve the city’s status through negotiations. Although Israel’s parliament, high court and government offices are in Jerusalem, the American Embassy in Israel is in Tel Aviv, as are the vast majority of embassies in Israel.The tortured nature of a policy that tries to avoid taking a position about a heavily populated city has occasionally caused the US headaches.Government officials have occasionally had to correct public statements in which they unwittingly lumped Jerusalem in with the country that surrounds it and claims it as the capital. Last year, the US Supreme Court ruled that Americans born in Jerusalem can’t list Israel as their birthplace on their passports, despite legislation Congress passed in 2002 allowing Americans to list Jerusalem in passports and calling for the US Embassy to be moved to Jerusalem.Minor corrections to White House transcripts are not uncommon, and the mistake in the eulogy transcript appeared to be a clerical oversight. The White House declined to comment on the error, but pointed to a statement reiterating official US policy that Jerusalem’s status should be addressed in a way that respects both Israeli and Palestinian rights.“We believe that through good-faith direct negotiations, the parties should mutually agree on an outcome that realizes the aspirations of both parties for Jerusalem and safeguards its unique religious status for people around the world,” the statement said.