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
Netanyahu: EU development aid for Iran a ‘poison pill for the people’-PM urges Baltic states to step up pressure against Tehran, says EU's $21 million financial aid package to Iran to bolster flagging economy 'a big mistake'-By AP and TOI staff-AUG 27,18
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday slammed the European Union’s financial support package for Iran as a “big mistake” and said it was like a “poison pill” for the Iranian people.The EU had announced Thursday a first tranche of 18 million euros ($21 million), part of the bloc’s commitment to keeping the Iran nuclear deal alive.In May, US President Donald Trump withdrew from that deal, and began restoring US sanctions. The move has exacerbated a financial crisis in Iran that has sent its currency tumbling.“I think that the decision yesterday by the EU to give 18 million euros to Iran is a big mistake. It’s like a poison pill to the Iranian people and to the efforts to curb Iranian aggression in the region and beyond the region,” Netanyahu said, speaking during a visit to Lithuania.“Iran attempted to conduct a terror attack on European soil just weeks ago… That is incredible,” he told a press conference following a meeting with three Baltic prime ministers — Lithuanian Saulius Skvernelis, Estonia’s Juri Ratas and Maris Kucinskis of Latvia.Netanyahu was apparently referring to a suspected bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally in France in late June that was thwarted by authorities. An Iranian diplomat is suspected of involvement.“Giving money to this regime, especially at this time, is a big mistake and it must be stopped. [The regime] isn’t going to use it to solve their water problems, it’s not going to help an Iranian truck driver,” he said.“After all, where is their money going? For missiles, and to the Revolutionary Guard. All countries need to act together to renew sanctions on Iran,” he said.Netanyahu added that the Iran nuclear deal threatened the security of Europe, because, he said, it never addressed Tehran’s long-term nuclear ambitions.He said the Obama-era deal would have eventually allowed Iran to resume its uranium enrichment and “within a few years they would have not only one nuclear weapon, but a whole arsenal.”A day earlier, Netanyahu praised the decision by British Airways and Air France to end their direct flights to Iran’s capital of Tehran in September, citing low profitability due to the re-imposed US sanctions.“That’s good. More should follow, more will follow, because Iran should not be rewarded for its aggression in the region, for its attempts to spread terrorism,” Netanyahu told a news conference in Vilnius.Earlier, Netanyahu met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite who reiterated the EU position that Israeli settlements in the West Bank violated international law.A day earlier, Netanyahu said that Israel was “often mistreated by the EU,” adding there were “many distortions.”Skvernelis said in an interview with the Baltic News Service that after a meeting Thursday with Netanyahu, “I believe Lithuania really has a better understanding of Israel and that understanding could be spread among other EU countries. ”“We need to better listen, hear them out and understand their position. We definitely lack a direct dialogue,” he said.“But we have to admit that today Israel is not only waging war and defending its independence, the lives of its people, but is also fighting in a wider context, if we speak about terrorism and potential expansion of IS fighters to Europe,” Skvernelis said.On Friday, Skvernelis proposed talks between the EU and Israeli interior ministers focused on “terrorism threats and other security issues.”Skvernelis said he discussed the idea with Netanyahu, but officials said that no date was set yet and the format would depend on reactions from Brussels and Western European capitals, which are more critical toward Israel.Netanyahu arrived Thursday in Vilnius on a four-day visit, the first to Lithuania by an Israeli prime minister.
Italy threatens to pull EU funding over migrant boat crisis-The European Commission says it will follow migration law rather than engaging in finger-pointing, as 150 people remain stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship-By AFP and TOI staff-AUG 27,18
Italy’s deputy prime minister has threatened to pull the country’s EU funding if Friday’s European Commission migration meeting doesn’t come to the aid of 150 people stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship.But in response, the European Commission said Friday that it will follow migration law rather than bowing to threats.“Let’s not engage in finger-pointing. We also believe unconstructive comments, let alone threats, are not helpful and will not get us any closer to a solution. The European Union is a community of rules and it operates on the basis of rules, not threats,” Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a news conference, according to the Reuters news agency.The migrants have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania on the Diciotti vessel since Monday night as the Italian government refuses to allow them to disembark without commitments from the EU to take a portion of them in.On Thursday Winterstein told reporters that a meeting of high-level representatives from around a dozen member states would be held on Friday to discuss the issue.“In recent months we have had the chance to see how a soft line with the European Union worked and how a hard line works,” said Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio in an interview published on Facebook on Thursday evening.“If tomorrow (Friday) nothing comes out of the European Commission meeting, if they decide nothing regarding the Diciotti and the redistribution of the migrants, I and the whole Five Star Movement will no longer be prepared to give 20 billion euros ($23.1 billion) to the European Union every year.”Most of the European budget comes directly from the member states. Each country funds the bloc as a proportion of its wealth and receives a part in return.The EU’s official figures for 2016 say that Italy contributed just under 14 billion euros to the EU budget — less than one percent of its gross national income — while the bloc spent 11.6 billion euros in Italy.Friday’s meeting comes following Italian interior minister and co-deputy PM Matteo Salvini’s decision to leave the majority of the migrants on board.“No one will land in Italy without my authorization,” Salvini said in a radio interview on Thursday.Salvini’s only concession has been to allow the 27 unaccompanied minors from the group, saved at sea by the Diciotti on August 15, off the boat on Wednesday.Migration is an important issue in Italy, where hundreds of thousands of people have arrived since 2013.Opinion polls suggest that Salvini’s stance has boosted the League’s approval rating to around 30 percent — over 10 points up from its showing in March’s general election — and is now level with the populist Five Star Movement, led by Di Maio and with which it has governed Italy since the start of June.However, according to Salvini’s own ministry, migrant arrivals are more than 80 percent down on the same period last year, with 19,526 arriving up to August 23, as opposed to 98,076 in 2017.
In West Bank settlements, the housing market is booming-Many settlers are ideologically committed to the principle of Jews living in Judea and Samaria, the biblical name for the area. But some are simply drawn by the quality of life-By Ben Sales-TOI-AUG 27,18
JTA — Growing up in a Jerusalem apartment, Aaron Lipkin used to marvel at the two-story houses that he would see on weekend drives with his parents.It made little difference to him that those houses were in Israeli West Bank settlements. A religious Zionist, he sees no problem living in the territory that the international community views as occupied.So when he and his wife went house hunting in Jerusalem 19 years go and couldn’t find anything in their price range, they ventured north to this settlement. Ever since they have lived there in the two-story house of Lipkin’s dreams.A generation later, Lipkin is facing the same problem. His kids want to move back to Ofra — but now it, too, is unaffordable. Lipkin bought his house in 2000 for 550,000 shekels (about $200,000 in 2018 dollars, correcting for inflation). Now he sees houses the same size in Ofra sell for at least 1.5 million shekels, or $411,000.In fewer than 20 years, in other words, the price of housing in the settlement has doubled.“We’re not sorry for a second when we think about the price of the house, the ease of buying it,” Lipkin, the spokesman for Ofra and a tour guide, told JTA while sitting in a chair in the corner of his spacious living room. “Today we’re shaking from fear. We have five kids and we have no idea how our kids will buy their own house without becoming enslaved to a crazy mortgage.”Since the Lipkins moved across Israel’s pre-1967 borders, or the Green Line, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have followed their lead. In 2000, there were fewer than 200,000 settlers living in the West Bank, excluding eastern Jerusalem, according to Btselem, a left-wing Israeli organization. Now the number is closer to 400,000. And home prices are rising accordingly.Many of the settlers are ideological — committed to the principle of Jews living in what they call Judea and Samaria and Israel retaining control of the area. But others were drawn by the quality of life offered by settlements — larger houses, more green space and intimate communities.The Israeli government has also facilitated that comfort, building access roads that avoid Palestinian areas and increasing the number of bus lines that go directly to the settlements. The changes mean that many settlers can live their lives, if they choose, largely avoiding contact with the Palestinian villages around them. Even relatively distant settlements like Ofra have the feel of a suburb.But now the settlements are becoming more like Israel in yet another way: The country’s festering housing crisis, which has seen home prices balloon for a decade, is moving across the Green Line. The safer settlements feel, the more their home prices rise to meet the national average.According to a November 2016 paper by the Shoresh Institute, a research group in Israel, housing construction in the settlements did not keep up with population growth. An October 2016 paper by Israel’s Center for Political Economics found that the number of average monthly salaries needed to buy a home in the settlements rose from 87 in 2003 to 152 in 2015. That’s only 10 paychecks less than the national average of 162.“There’s no concern that this investment is risky because of the location of our community,” said Miri Maoz-Ovadia, a spokeswoman for the Binyamin Regional Council, a local authority that governs central West Bank settlements. “The concern is that the longer we wait, the prices will only go up. It’s slower, but it’s happening and we can see it.”Like Lipkin, Maoz-Ovadia has a professional interest in talking up the settlement housing market. And for her, too, it’s also personal. A year and a half ago, she and her husband bought a fixer-upper house with a yard in Kochav Yaakov, another far-flung settlement an hour’s drive from Jerusalem, for 1.1 million shekels. Now the same houses are selling for 1.5 million.“Families want to buy,” Maoz-Ovadia said. “They want a house with a yard and they see potential here to get it.”The housing market is also booming in Efrat, a settlement that acts as a bedroom community for nearby Jerusalem. Right-wing politicians like Naftali Bennett, the minister of education, have pushed annexation of so-called consensus settlements like Efrat — those that most Israelis assume will remain part of the country under any future scenario — for years.Israel’s right-wing, pro-settlement government has also had an impact on the market. As he walked through an empty corner townhouse for sale in Efrat, real estate agent Yaniv Gabbay said as the prospect of a Palestinian state — and corresponding settlement evacuation — becomes more and more distant, Israelis feel increasingly comfortable investing in West Bank property. Another townhouse in this development sold for 2 million shekels, about $550,000, in 2016, before it was built. This five-bedroom unit on the corner was going for 2.6 million shekels as of May.In an Instagram Q-and-A on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “I can promise you that no community in the Land of Israel will be evacuated.”“Planting that type of money into a property in Efrat, they’re not as nervous about what’s going to happen to their money,” Gabbay said. “They know there are a lot of people putting money into this area, in terms of where Efrat sits today in the political climate.”Israel’s right wing is also increasing the country’s settlement building. According to Peace Now, a left-wing Israeli NGO that monitors settlement activity, the number of construction starts in the settlements was 17 percent above the annual average in 2017.On Wednesday, Israel announced the advancement of construction plans for 1,000 more housing units in the West Bank.“Even if God knows how many people want to buy in a certain area, all of a sudden you’ve built up two new mountains worth of property,” Gabbay said. “There’s supply that’s started to catch up with the demand, but the demand hasn’t waned.”Meanwhile, Palestinians living in Area C, the area of the West Bank fully administered by Israel, have long protested that they can’t build any houses or infrastructure.“Area C has been allocated for the benefit of Israeli settlements or the Israeli military, at the expense of Palestinian communities,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “This impedes the development of adequate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods in Palestinian communities, and has significant consequences for the entire West Bank population.”Hagit Ofran, who heads Peace Now’s Settlement Watch project, said the main problem facing any potential settlement evacuation is the sheer number of residents who live in isolated settlements. She is less worried about Israelis who move to the West Bank for quality-of-life reasons than the tens of thousands of ideological settlers who are committed to living deep in the West Bank.“The challenge Israelis will have in a peace agreement is evacuating thousands of families and it will cost money, and take time, and pain the heart, even if people agree to fight the settlers in this,” Ofran said. “Most of the settlers will respect the Knesset’s decision.”A few settlers in the northern West Bank said quality of life was the driving factor in bringing them to the territory. When Miriam Shatsky and her husband were looking to buy a home recently, a mortgage agent laughed at them after they revealed their salaries and said they wanted to live in the central Israeli city of Modiin. A few months ago they were able to buy a five-bedroom apartment for slightly more than $300,000 in Karnei Shomron, a settlement with a large English-speaking, or Anglo, population.“Real estate in the territories was really risky and we didn’t know we wanted to settle here,” Shatsky said. “As we got better jobs, the target kept moving farther and farther away. Actually, Modiin sounded very interesting to me, but it was knocked off the table because it wasn’t affordable. A lot of Anglo communities are in places that aren’t affordable. That definitely [was] a significant factor in ending up here.”Lipkin said that after living in the settlements for a while, the differences between quality-of-life concerns and ideology blur. With right-wing politicians frequently calling for some form of settlement annexation, Israel is doing more to absorb the settlements than to leave them. And in the meantime, more Israelis keep moving in.“You have people who come for quality of life, and after 18 years they’ll tell you ‘it’s the Land of Israel and we need to settle it,’” Lipkin said. “I don’t have a drop of worry about evacuation. I see that Judea and Samaria is part of the State of Israel.”
UN official says Palestinian refugee issue can’t be ‘wished away’-Pierre Kraehenbuehl says American funding for UNWRA was slashed over Palestinian reaction to US recognition of Jerusalem, rather than the performance of the agency-By Agencies-TOI-AUG 27,18
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees suggested that the United States slashed his budget early this year to punish the Palestinians for their criticism of the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but he warned that the Palestinian refugee issue will not go away.The comments by Pierre Kraehenbuehl came amid signs that the US, with Israeli support, is aiming to abolish UNRWA in an apparent attempt to remove one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the negotiating agenda.“One cannot simply wish 5 million people away,” Kraehenbuehl, commissioner of the UN Relief and Works Agency, said in an interview with The Associated Press. The five million figure refers to tens of thousands of refugees from what is today’s Israel, and their millions of descendants — controversially also designated as refugees by UNRWA.In January, the US, the largest donor to the agency, slashed some $300 million from its annual contribution to UNRWA, prompting what Kraehenbuehl called an unprecedented financial crisis.Although he has made up some of the deficit by raising money from other countries, the agency still lacks over $200 million. It recently laid off over 100 people in the Gaza Strip and cut back the hours of 500 other employees. The upcoming school year for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children across the Middle East has been threatened.Kraehenbuehl said he was caught off guard by the American decision, which came just weeks after he had held what he described as a successful meeting with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Mideast adviser.He said he still has not gotten a straight answer from the Americans about why they made their decision.But he said he believes it is connected to the uproar over the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December. The Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as their capital, condemned the decision and severed nearly all ties with the Americans.“I can say with a great degree of confidence that the decision was not related to UNRWA’s performance, because in November I had received very constructive and openly positive feedback on those issues,” he said.“A few weeks later, tensions increased around the question of Jerusalem,” he added. “It appears that the humanitarian funding to UNRWA got caught up in the deep polarization around that question.”The State Department said it is reviewing funding to UNRWA and has not decided whether to restore support in the future. It repeated its position that the agency’s repeated financial crises are “unsustainable” and called on it to find other countries to share the funding burden and to undertake “fundamental reforms.”But privately, there are signs that the American agenda runs deeper and that the Trump administration seeks to abolish UNRWA altogether.In an internal email recently published by Foreign Policy magazine, Kushner called for a “sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA.”“This (agency) perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace,” he reportedly wrote.The Palestinians fear the US is putting pressure on host countries to absorb their refugee populations and eliminate the issue from future peace negotiations. The White House says it is working on a regional peace plan, though it has not said when it will be released.UNRWA was established in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israel War. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes in the fighting.In the absence of a solution, the UN General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA’s mandate. The agency now provides education, health care and social services to more than 5 million refugees and their descendants. It serves populations in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.Seen by the Palestinians and most of the international community as providing a valuable safety net, UNRWA is viewed far differently by Israel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the agency of perpetuating the conflict by helping promote an unrealistic Palestinian demand that refugees have the “right of return” to long-lost homes in what is now Israel. He has said UNRWA should be abolished and its responsibilities taken over by the main UN refugee agency.Some in Israel have even tougher criticism, accusing UNRWA of teaching hatred of Israel in its classrooms and tolerating or assisting Hamas in Gaza.Kraehenbuehl said Israel has raised similar concerns for years, but that there has been a “strong intensification” of the criticism now that the Trump administration appears to be in agreement.He rejected the Israeli claim that his agency is perpetuating the conflict, saying that it is carrying out a UN-mandated mission that reflects the will of the international community.Kraehenbuehl said that Israeli claims that the Palestinians are the only people to pass down refugee status to their children also are unfounded, saying that Afghan refugees displaced decades ago have the same status.He also noted that UNRWA has a committee to monitor the content of its classrooms and has condemned attempts by Gaza terror groups to use UNRWA facilities for cover.Kraehenbuehl said the best way to solve these matters is to find a “political solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that addresses the fate of the refugees.In the meantime, he said UNRWA’s focus is for its schools to open on schedule in early September. For now, he said there are enough funds to keep the schools running only until the end of the month. An aggressive fund-raising effort is under way to ensure the schools operate for the entire academic year.“I see the courage displayed by our students in the face of so much adversity,” he said. “I really find it very difficult to imagine that I have to go back to them and tell them that I have failed and we have failed to mobilize the needed resources, to keep the one thing that gives them a certain prospect in life … which is their education. So we will knock on every door, we will leave no stone unturned until we have good news on this front.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Mexican-Palestinian congressional candidate believes walls are not the answer-Ammar Campa-Najjar, who spent part of his childhood in Gaza and is the grandson of an architect of the 1972 Olympic massacre, says he is American first-By Agencies-TOI-AUG 27,18
Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, a 29-year-old who’s never held elected office, was working on a TV advertisement to boost his exposure when news broke that his opponent, the heavily favored Republican US Rep. Duncan Hunter, had been indicted on corruption charges.Campa-Najjar suddenly found himself thrust in the spotlight — fielding calls from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, supporters, even some local Republican elected officials. Within 24 hours of Tuesday’s indictment, he received hundreds of emails and gave nearly two dozen interviews to local and national media outlets.It was the attention, Campa-Najjar said, that his campaign deserved. And needed.The former Obama administration Labor Department official received only 17 percent of the votes in the June primary, 30 points behind Hunter, an Iraq war veteran who has represented the most Republican district in Southern California for 10 years.After months of knocking on doors, Campa-Najjar is seizing the opportunity to introduce himself to voters in the 50th District.“We’re excited,” Campa-Najjar said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t crow over the misery of other people. I feel for him and his family, but I feel more for the people of our district who deserve some much-needed representation after many years of not having a real representative.”The Hunter family is a political dynasty in the area. Hunter’s father, also named Duncan, was elected to the seat in 1980 and held it until his son won in 2008. The younger Hunter has been handily re-elected each time in a district where Republicans have a 15-point registration advantage over Democrats.Campa-Najjar said he was hopeful of breaking the Hunter family’s nearly 40-year hold on the district that runs largely east of coastal San Diego, abutting Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base and stretches toward a remote area near the US-Mexico border.Campa-Najjar, whose father is Palestinian Muslim and mother a Mexican-American Catholic, vows to reach people who had voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and eight years later backed Donald Trump. He said “they are not ignorant. They are ignored, by my party, their party and the country.”He said he offers “sensible solutions” that cross party lines, including Medicare-for-all if it does not increase government debt and free college tuition based on merit and need.He does not believe in abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency like some liberal candidates have advocated.Campa-Najjar, who lives in Jamul near the US-Mexico border, says walls are not the answer when 40 percent of those entering the US illegally come by plane or overstay their visas. He supports tougher fines for employers who break immigration laws and believes that immigrants who were brought to the United States as children should be given US citizenship.Campa-Najjar said his motivation for running is personal.His mother, who divorced his father when he was 8, did not have the government support she needed to raise Campa-Najjar and his brother, he said. At 15, he worked as a janitor to help her pay the bills.Born in San Diego County, Campa-Najjar spent part of his childhood in Gaza and is fluent in Spanish and Arabic.Campa-Najjar said he is proud of his heritage but is American first. He has made clear that he has no personal connection to his grandfather, Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar who was a mastermind of the terrorist murder of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. Al-Najjar was assassinated a year later by Israeli commandos.“I’m happy to take responsibility for my own choices and my own decisions,” he said. “I think other men are responsible for their own crimes, whether it’s somebody who I share a lineage with and nothing else, or a sitting congressman who’s being indicted and could be facing serious charges in the future. ”About a third of the district is Latino and it is also home to one of the largest Iraqi Chaldean populations in the United States. One of Campa-Najjar’s two campaign offices is in the city of El Cajon, near a business district with falafel shops, taco stands and signs in Arabic, English and Spanish, reflecting the district’s changing demographics as immigrants and refugees have settled there.The office is in a dilapidated home with yellow tape around the front porch. A paper sign under Campa-Najjar’s portrait on a red, white and blue poster told visitors to knock on the back door.Through June 30 Campa-Najjar had raised more than $1 million bu also spent much of it, federal records show. His campaign committee reported $280,000 in the bank, with $25,000 in debts.Hunter has reported raising $850,000 but had over $350,000 on hand at the end of June.It remains to be seen whether the Democratic Party will pump money into a race they had believed less winnable than other districts with vulnerable Republican incumbents. President Donald Trump won Hunter’s district by 15 points while losing statewide by more than 4 million votes in 2016.A Campa-Najjar victory would be an upset even with the allegations against Hunter, 41, and his wife Margaret. The couple has been charged by a federal grand jury with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition and theater tickets. The Hunters pleaded not guilty Thursday.Hunter says his “constituents are not easily misled” and he will fight the allegations the same way he fought as a Marine.Campa-Najjar said he feels “saddened” that a combat veteran returned from the battlefield and lost his way, becoming the “poster child of corruption” for Washington. He added that voters, including Hunter’s base, want honest politicians.“If we are a nation of laws, then you cannot in good conscience vote for Duncan Hunter,” he said.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
USGS reports 7.1-magnitude quake on Peru/Brazil border-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
LIMA, Peru (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1-magnitude struck eastern Peru, close to its borders with Brazil and Bolivia, early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake was recorded at 4:04 a.m. at a depth of 609 kilometers (378 miles). The epicenter was 135 kilometers (83 miles) west of the Peruvian village of Inapari, and 226 kilometers (140 miles) west of the Bolivian city of Cobija.The Geophysics Institute of Peru put the magnitude of the quake at 7.0.The head of Civil Defense, Jorge Chavez, told radio station RPP that the quake was felt in various locations in southeastern Peru, but due to its depth there were no immediate reports of damage.Earthquakes are common in Peru, which falls within the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
2 typhoons weaken after pounding South Korea and Japan-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 24, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A weakening typhoon brushed by metropolitan Seoul Friday after battering southern South Korea with heavy rain and high winds, leaving one person missing and a slew of damaged buildings, canceled flights and power outages.Japan's weather agency downgraded a separate storm from typhoon strength after it crossed a swath of the western part of the country overnight.South Korea's weather agency said Yyphoon Soulik's force has diminished as it moved northeast but was still expected to pound the country's mountainous eastern region with strong rain and winds before exiting the peninsula in the afternoon.North Korea reported heavy rain in its east coast city of Wonsan and in neighboring Munchon, which were lashed by 33.8 centimeters (13 inches) and 62.5 centimeters (24.5 inches) of rain respectively. No details were immediately available on whether anyone had been injured. The North's capital of Pyongyang, which is also its biggest city, received only a relatively mild rainfall Friday.South Korea's government said a man in his 30s was injured and a 23-year-old woman was missing after she was apparently swept away in southern Jeju island Wednesday night. A 16-year-old boy was injured in Goheung, a southern mainland county, after a wall collapsed on Thursday.About 22,000 power outages were reported at homes, buildings and farms in the southern regions and more than 700 flights were canceled on Thursday. No major damages have been reported in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan area, where about half of the country's 50 million people live.The Japan Meteorological Agency said Cimarron, now a tropical storm, was back at sea and heading for northern Japan after bringing heavy rain and high winds to the port city of Kobe and elsewhere in western Japan overnight.The agency said Cimarron was moving north with maximum sustained winds of 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour with gusts to 126 kph (78 mph). It was forecast to reach the northern island of Hokkaido on Friday night.The storm caused scattered damage, flooding and landslides as it swept across western Japan the previous night. A large wind turbine toppled on Awaji island near Kobe and a worship hall collapsed at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, leaving the roof almost on the ground.Japan's disaster agency tallied 30 people injured, two seriously. More than 300 flights were canceled and high-speed bullet train service was suspended in the region.Three students were believed to have been dragged into the ocean by strong waves while setting off fireworks at a beach in Shizuoka City as the typhoon approached Wednesday night. Japanese media said the search for them resumed Friday.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Spain moves closer to exhuming dictator Franco's remains-[Reuters]-By Pablo Rodero and Isla Binnie-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government took a step closer on Friday to removing the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a grand mausoleum that it intends to turn into a memorial to victims of the country's brutal civil war.Transforming the "Valley of the Fallen" site, marked by a 152-metre (500-foot) cross on a mountainside near Madrid and criticized as Europe's only remaining monument to a fascist leader, is a longstanding ambition of the Socialist Party which returned to office in June.The government issued a decree that reduces the risk of legal claims, including from Franco's descendants, preventing the exhumation.The Franco era remains a sensitive topic in Spain, more than 40 years after he died.During his 1939-1975 rule, tens of thousands of his enemies were killed and imprisoned in a campaign to wipe out dissent, and as many as 500,000 combatants and civilians died in the preceding civil war, which split the nation in two."Only the mortal remains of people who died as a result of the Spanish Civil War will lie in the Valley of the Fallen," deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo told a news conference.Past political crimes were pardoned as part of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s, fostering resentment among victims' families, very few of whom have managed to start the process of unearthing the remains of soldiers from both sides from the Valley of the Fallen.Franco's exhumation should be completed by the end of this year, with a view to turning the monument into "a place of commemoration, remembrance and homage to the victims of the war," Calvo said.Following their unexpected ouster of Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) administration, the Socialists hold just a quarter of the seats in parliament.That puts major economic and political changes out of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's reach, and he sustained a painful defeat over his budget last month.Instead, he has bet on high-profile measures likely to appeal to left-wing voters: naming a majority-female cabinet and receiving more migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, as well as pushing through the Valley of the Fallen plan.-TURNING A PAGE-The site has long been a pilgrimage for far-right groups. A man at the site on Friday morning wore a t-shirt bearing the eagle-adorned flag in use during Franco's rule, and fresh flowers lay on the dictator's tomb."Now is the time to turn a page," said Eduardo, a 25 year-old from the Canary Islands, walking in central Madrid. "It's good to go ahead with the exhumation and to convert that place into somewhere for everyone and not just for one faction."The decree needs to be approved by parliament, but even in the face of opposition or likely abstention from the PP and center-right Ciudadanos, it is unlikely to be voted down.Recent polls suggest the Socialists would easily win a national election now, some indicating a lead of almost 10 percentage points over the PP."We don't want to dig up ghosts we have happily forgotten," PP leader Pablo Casado said on Thursday, adding his party would appeal against the decree but had not decided how to vote on it.Parliament passed a non-binding motion last year to remove the remains from the mausoleum despite the PP's abstention.Sanchez resorted to passing a decree on the exhumation after failed negotiations with Franco's seven grandchildren, who reportedly engaged a notary to formalize their opposition.Carmen Martinez Bordiu, the eldest of his heirs, declined a Reuters request for comment. The abbot who runs the site and had appealed against other exhumations also declined to comment.The family will have 15 days from the end of August to decide where they want Franco's remains to be taken. If they do not make a joint decision in that time, the government will decide where the new grave will be.(Additional reporting by Belen Carreno, Andres Gonzalez and Marco Trujillo; Editing by John Stonestreet)
In a single Pennsylvania parish, 5 priests accused of abuse-[Associated Press]-MICHAEL RUBINKAM-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
SHAVERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A lacerating grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania is especially difficult reading for a church where five of the accused priests served as pastor.For parishioners of St. Therese's Church, outside Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, the report dredged up painful memories of broken trust and provoked disgust at church leaders who kept abusive priests on the job. At least two instances took place at the church, according to the grand jury. St. Therese's lost a pastor over sexual misconduct as recently as 2006.Yet for all the heartbreak, the pews were full last weekend. And while it's too early to tell whether the bombshell revelations will affect attendance or giving at St. Therese's, a vibrant parish serving about 1,500 families, church members say they separate their faith from the evil acts of supposedly holy men."Do we know that our priests are men and that sometimes they do bad things? Yes, we do. Do we want them in our community anymore? No, definitely not," longtime parishioner Kathie Kemmerer said after morning Mass this week. But "inasmuch as we're upset about everything and we feel terrible for the victims, we'll keep coming. We'll keep coming because this is the place to get God's grace."The grand jury found that some 300 predator priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children since the 1940s, abetted by bishops and other high-ranking church officials who orchestrated a cover-up to avoid public scandal and financial liability. The Pennsylvania report, along with recent sexual abuse allegations against the retired archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has plunged the Catholic Church into crisis more than 15 years after the clergy abuse scandal first broke in Boston.In a videotaped message played at St. Therese's and throughout the Diocese of Scranton last weekend, Bishop Joseph Bambera apologized for what he called a "disturbing and painful chapter in the life of our church," adding: "You have a right to be angry. I am angry too. ... I would hope that your trust in the church can be restored at some point."St. Therese's member Joann David said she's angrier with bishops and other high-ranking church officials who kept quiet about child abuse than she is with pedophile priests. The grand jury report singles out former Scranton Bishop James Timlin, who led the diocese for 19 years until his 2003 retirement, describing how he covered for abusive priests and "left children in danger.""Absolutely, the person that did it is sick. How do you do that? But the people that cover it up and put them into another parish where they can do the same thing over again? That to me is bad," she said. "That's really bad."John Kelly, another longtime parishioner, saw it as a betrayal."The most upsetting to me is Timlin, covering it up for so many years," Kelly said. "You put so much trust in a leader, and then you find all this stuff out."St. Therese's was among the parishes where abusive priests were dumped.In 1990, a woman caught the church's pastor, the Rev. Joseph Meighan, disrobing her 17-year-old son in the rectory, according to the grand jury. That took place 20 years after the Scranton diocese interviewed at least four boys who said Meighan had disrobed and fondled them. The priest received psychological treatment and was swiftly returned to the pulpit.The boy's parents remain active members of the church."I talked to them on the weekend and they said that all of this brought all of that back up again. They thought that they had been over it 30 years ago, and it just brought it all back up for them," said the current pastor, the Rev. James Paisley.Other priests named in the grand jury report served at St. Therese's in the 1950s and '60s, from 1985-87 and from 1994-2006.But several parishioners said they retain their trust in the clergy, pointing out that only a small percentage of priests have ever been accused."They are also victims of the criminal priests," Kemmerer wrote in an email. "They see the trust they have built with people over a lifetime turn to suspicion."Church members have showered Paisley with cards and hugs. One parishioner delivered a pizza and two packs of Twizzlers, one of his favorites."That's their way of saying we love you and support you," Paisley said. "I appreciate that and express my gratitude for it, but I'm not the victim here. The victims are the victims."The veteran priest also had a message for his flock: "My heart breaks for you. Victims first, but you as well because you are the church. And the church is suffering now. The church is really suffering."
Crisis moment approaching in Venezuelan exodus: U.N. agency-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
GENEVA (Reuters) - The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building towards a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.Growing numbers are fleeing economic meltdown and political turmoil in Venezuela, threatening to overwhelm neighboring countries. Officials from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will meet in Bogota next week to seek a way forward.Ecuador and Peru have this month tightened entry rules for Venezuelans, requiring them to carry valid passports instead of just national ID cards. While in Brazil, rioters drove hundreds back over the border.Describing those events as early warning signs, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman said funding and means of managing the outflow must be mobilized."This is building to a crisis moment that we've seen in other parts of the world, particularly in the Mediterranean," he told a news briefing.On Thursday, the IOM and U.N. refugee agency UNHCR called on Latin American countries to ease entry for Venezuelans, more than 1.6 million of whom have left since 2015.UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said on Friday that governments had made "commendable" efforts despite some reception capacities and services being overwhelmed.But "some disturbing images" had emerged from the region in the past week. "Those increase stigmatization of those who are forced to flee, they put at risk also the efforts for their integration," he said.(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Stonestreet)
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
Netanyahu: EU development aid for Iran a ‘poison pill for the people’-PM urges Baltic states to step up pressure against Tehran, says EU's $21 million financial aid package to Iran to bolster flagging economy 'a big mistake'-By AP and TOI staff-AUG 27,18
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday slammed the European Union’s financial support package for Iran as a “big mistake” and said it was like a “poison pill” for the Iranian people.The EU had announced Thursday a first tranche of 18 million euros ($21 million), part of the bloc’s commitment to keeping the Iran nuclear deal alive.In May, US President Donald Trump withdrew from that deal, and began restoring US sanctions. The move has exacerbated a financial crisis in Iran that has sent its currency tumbling.“I think that the decision yesterday by the EU to give 18 million euros to Iran is a big mistake. It’s like a poison pill to the Iranian people and to the efforts to curb Iranian aggression in the region and beyond the region,” Netanyahu said, speaking during a visit to Lithuania.“Iran attempted to conduct a terror attack on European soil just weeks ago… That is incredible,” he told a press conference following a meeting with three Baltic prime ministers — Lithuanian Saulius Skvernelis, Estonia’s Juri Ratas and Maris Kucinskis of Latvia.Netanyahu was apparently referring to a suspected bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally in France in late June that was thwarted by authorities. An Iranian diplomat is suspected of involvement.“Giving money to this regime, especially at this time, is a big mistake and it must be stopped. [The regime] isn’t going to use it to solve their water problems, it’s not going to help an Iranian truck driver,” he said.“After all, where is their money going? For missiles, and to the Revolutionary Guard. All countries need to act together to renew sanctions on Iran,” he said.Netanyahu added that the Iran nuclear deal threatened the security of Europe, because, he said, it never addressed Tehran’s long-term nuclear ambitions.He said the Obama-era deal would have eventually allowed Iran to resume its uranium enrichment and “within a few years they would have not only one nuclear weapon, but a whole arsenal.”A day earlier, Netanyahu praised the decision by British Airways and Air France to end their direct flights to Iran’s capital of Tehran in September, citing low profitability due to the re-imposed US sanctions.“That’s good. More should follow, more will follow, because Iran should not be rewarded for its aggression in the region, for its attempts to spread terrorism,” Netanyahu told a news conference in Vilnius.Earlier, Netanyahu met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite who reiterated the EU position that Israeli settlements in the West Bank violated international law.A day earlier, Netanyahu said that Israel was “often mistreated by the EU,” adding there were “many distortions.”Skvernelis said in an interview with the Baltic News Service that after a meeting Thursday with Netanyahu, “I believe Lithuania really has a better understanding of Israel and that understanding could be spread among other EU countries. ”“We need to better listen, hear them out and understand their position. We definitely lack a direct dialogue,” he said.“But we have to admit that today Israel is not only waging war and defending its independence, the lives of its people, but is also fighting in a wider context, if we speak about terrorism and potential expansion of IS fighters to Europe,” Skvernelis said.On Friday, Skvernelis proposed talks between the EU and Israeli interior ministers focused on “terrorism threats and other security issues.”Skvernelis said he discussed the idea with Netanyahu, but officials said that no date was set yet and the format would depend on reactions from Brussels and Western European capitals, which are more critical toward Israel.Netanyahu arrived Thursday in Vilnius on a four-day visit, the first to Lithuania by an Israeli prime minister.
Italy threatens to pull EU funding over migrant boat crisis-The European Commission says it will follow migration law rather than engaging in finger-pointing, as 150 people remain stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship-By AFP and TOI staff-AUG 27,18
Italy’s deputy prime minister has threatened to pull the country’s EU funding if Friday’s European Commission migration meeting doesn’t come to the aid of 150 people stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship.But in response, the European Commission said Friday that it will follow migration law rather than bowing to threats.“Let’s not engage in finger-pointing. We also believe unconstructive comments, let alone threats, are not helpful and will not get us any closer to a solution. The European Union is a community of rules and it operates on the basis of rules, not threats,” Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a news conference, according to the Reuters news agency.The migrants have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania on the Diciotti vessel since Monday night as the Italian government refuses to allow them to disembark without commitments from the EU to take a portion of them in.On Thursday Winterstein told reporters that a meeting of high-level representatives from around a dozen member states would be held on Friday to discuss the issue.“In recent months we have had the chance to see how a soft line with the European Union worked and how a hard line works,” said Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio in an interview published on Facebook on Thursday evening.“If tomorrow (Friday) nothing comes out of the European Commission meeting, if they decide nothing regarding the Diciotti and the redistribution of the migrants, I and the whole Five Star Movement will no longer be prepared to give 20 billion euros ($23.1 billion) to the European Union every year.”Most of the European budget comes directly from the member states. Each country funds the bloc as a proportion of its wealth and receives a part in return.The EU’s official figures for 2016 say that Italy contributed just under 14 billion euros to the EU budget — less than one percent of its gross national income — while the bloc spent 11.6 billion euros in Italy.Friday’s meeting comes following Italian interior minister and co-deputy PM Matteo Salvini’s decision to leave the majority of the migrants on board.“No one will land in Italy without my authorization,” Salvini said in a radio interview on Thursday.Salvini’s only concession has been to allow the 27 unaccompanied minors from the group, saved at sea by the Diciotti on August 15, off the boat on Wednesday.Migration is an important issue in Italy, where hundreds of thousands of people have arrived since 2013.Opinion polls suggest that Salvini’s stance has boosted the League’s approval rating to around 30 percent — over 10 points up from its showing in March’s general election — and is now level with the populist Five Star Movement, led by Di Maio and with which it has governed Italy since the start of June.However, according to Salvini’s own ministry, migrant arrivals are more than 80 percent down on the same period last year, with 19,526 arriving up to August 23, as opposed to 98,076 in 2017.
In West Bank settlements, the housing market is booming-Many settlers are ideologically committed to the principle of Jews living in Judea and Samaria, the biblical name for the area. But some are simply drawn by the quality of life-By Ben Sales-TOI-AUG 27,18
JTA — Growing up in a Jerusalem apartment, Aaron Lipkin used to marvel at the two-story houses that he would see on weekend drives with his parents.It made little difference to him that those houses were in Israeli West Bank settlements. A religious Zionist, he sees no problem living in the territory that the international community views as occupied.So when he and his wife went house hunting in Jerusalem 19 years go and couldn’t find anything in their price range, they ventured north to this settlement. Ever since they have lived there in the two-story house of Lipkin’s dreams.A generation later, Lipkin is facing the same problem. His kids want to move back to Ofra — but now it, too, is unaffordable. Lipkin bought his house in 2000 for 550,000 shekels (about $200,000 in 2018 dollars, correcting for inflation). Now he sees houses the same size in Ofra sell for at least 1.5 million shekels, or $411,000.In fewer than 20 years, in other words, the price of housing in the settlement has doubled.“We’re not sorry for a second when we think about the price of the house, the ease of buying it,” Lipkin, the spokesman for Ofra and a tour guide, told JTA while sitting in a chair in the corner of his spacious living room. “Today we’re shaking from fear. We have five kids and we have no idea how our kids will buy their own house without becoming enslaved to a crazy mortgage.”Since the Lipkins moved across Israel’s pre-1967 borders, or the Green Line, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have followed their lead. In 2000, there were fewer than 200,000 settlers living in the West Bank, excluding eastern Jerusalem, according to Btselem, a left-wing Israeli organization. Now the number is closer to 400,000. And home prices are rising accordingly.Many of the settlers are ideological — committed to the principle of Jews living in what they call Judea and Samaria and Israel retaining control of the area. But others were drawn by the quality of life offered by settlements — larger houses, more green space and intimate communities.The Israeli government has also facilitated that comfort, building access roads that avoid Palestinian areas and increasing the number of bus lines that go directly to the settlements. The changes mean that many settlers can live their lives, if they choose, largely avoiding contact with the Palestinian villages around them. Even relatively distant settlements like Ofra have the feel of a suburb.But now the settlements are becoming more like Israel in yet another way: The country’s festering housing crisis, which has seen home prices balloon for a decade, is moving across the Green Line. The safer settlements feel, the more their home prices rise to meet the national average.According to a November 2016 paper by the Shoresh Institute, a research group in Israel, housing construction in the settlements did not keep up with population growth. An October 2016 paper by Israel’s Center for Political Economics found that the number of average monthly salaries needed to buy a home in the settlements rose from 87 in 2003 to 152 in 2015. That’s only 10 paychecks less than the national average of 162.“There’s no concern that this investment is risky because of the location of our community,” said Miri Maoz-Ovadia, a spokeswoman for the Binyamin Regional Council, a local authority that governs central West Bank settlements. “The concern is that the longer we wait, the prices will only go up. It’s slower, but it’s happening and we can see it.”Like Lipkin, Maoz-Ovadia has a professional interest in talking up the settlement housing market. And for her, too, it’s also personal. A year and a half ago, she and her husband bought a fixer-upper house with a yard in Kochav Yaakov, another far-flung settlement an hour’s drive from Jerusalem, for 1.1 million shekels. Now the same houses are selling for 1.5 million.“Families want to buy,” Maoz-Ovadia said. “They want a house with a yard and they see potential here to get it.”The housing market is also booming in Efrat, a settlement that acts as a bedroom community for nearby Jerusalem. Right-wing politicians like Naftali Bennett, the minister of education, have pushed annexation of so-called consensus settlements like Efrat — those that most Israelis assume will remain part of the country under any future scenario — for years.Israel’s right-wing, pro-settlement government has also had an impact on the market. As he walked through an empty corner townhouse for sale in Efrat, real estate agent Yaniv Gabbay said as the prospect of a Palestinian state — and corresponding settlement evacuation — becomes more and more distant, Israelis feel increasingly comfortable investing in West Bank property. Another townhouse in this development sold for 2 million shekels, about $550,000, in 2016, before it was built. This five-bedroom unit on the corner was going for 2.6 million shekels as of May.In an Instagram Q-and-A on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “I can promise you that no community in the Land of Israel will be evacuated.”“Planting that type of money into a property in Efrat, they’re not as nervous about what’s going to happen to their money,” Gabbay said. “They know there are a lot of people putting money into this area, in terms of where Efrat sits today in the political climate.”Israel’s right wing is also increasing the country’s settlement building. According to Peace Now, a left-wing Israeli NGO that monitors settlement activity, the number of construction starts in the settlements was 17 percent above the annual average in 2017.On Wednesday, Israel announced the advancement of construction plans for 1,000 more housing units in the West Bank.“Even if God knows how many people want to buy in a certain area, all of a sudden you’ve built up two new mountains worth of property,” Gabbay said. “There’s supply that’s started to catch up with the demand, but the demand hasn’t waned.”Meanwhile, Palestinians living in Area C, the area of the West Bank fully administered by Israel, have long protested that they can’t build any houses or infrastructure.“Area C has been allocated for the benefit of Israeli settlements or the Israeli military, at the expense of Palestinian communities,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “This impedes the development of adequate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods in Palestinian communities, and has significant consequences for the entire West Bank population.”Hagit Ofran, who heads Peace Now’s Settlement Watch project, said the main problem facing any potential settlement evacuation is the sheer number of residents who live in isolated settlements. She is less worried about Israelis who move to the West Bank for quality-of-life reasons than the tens of thousands of ideological settlers who are committed to living deep in the West Bank.“The challenge Israelis will have in a peace agreement is evacuating thousands of families and it will cost money, and take time, and pain the heart, even if people agree to fight the settlers in this,” Ofran said. “Most of the settlers will respect the Knesset’s decision.”A few settlers in the northern West Bank said quality of life was the driving factor in bringing them to the territory. When Miriam Shatsky and her husband were looking to buy a home recently, a mortgage agent laughed at them after they revealed their salaries and said they wanted to live in the central Israeli city of Modiin. A few months ago they were able to buy a five-bedroom apartment for slightly more than $300,000 in Karnei Shomron, a settlement with a large English-speaking, or Anglo, population.“Real estate in the territories was really risky and we didn’t know we wanted to settle here,” Shatsky said. “As we got better jobs, the target kept moving farther and farther away. Actually, Modiin sounded very interesting to me, but it was knocked off the table because it wasn’t affordable. A lot of Anglo communities are in places that aren’t affordable. That definitely [was] a significant factor in ending up here.”Lipkin said that after living in the settlements for a while, the differences between quality-of-life concerns and ideology blur. With right-wing politicians frequently calling for some form of settlement annexation, Israel is doing more to absorb the settlements than to leave them. And in the meantime, more Israelis keep moving in.“You have people who come for quality of life, and after 18 years they’ll tell you ‘it’s the Land of Israel and we need to settle it,’” Lipkin said. “I don’t have a drop of worry about evacuation. I see that Judea and Samaria is part of the State of Israel.”
UN official says Palestinian refugee issue can’t be ‘wished away’-Pierre Kraehenbuehl says American funding for UNWRA was slashed over Palestinian reaction to US recognition of Jerusalem, rather than the performance of the agency-By Agencies-TOI-AUG 27,18
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees suggested that the United States slashed his budget early this year to punish the Palestinians for their criticism of the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but he warned that the Palestinian refugee issue will not go away.The comments by Pierre Kraehenbuehl came amid signs that the US, with Israeli support, is aiming to abolish UNRWA in an apparent attempt to remove one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the negotiating agenda.“One cannot simply wish 5 million people away,” Kraehenbuehl, commissioner of the UN Relief and Works Agency, said in an interview with The Associated Press. The five million figure refers to tens of thousands of refugees from what is today’s Israel, and their millions of descendants — controversially also designated as refugees by UNRWA.In January, the US, the largest donor to the agency, slashed some $300 million from its annual contribution to UNRWA, prompting what Kraehenbuehl called an unprecedented financial crisis.Although he has made up some of the deficit by raising money from other countries, the agency still lacks over $200 million. It recently laid off over 100 people in the Gaza Strip and cut back the hours of 500 other employees. The upcoming school year for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children across the Middle East has been threatened.Kraehenbuehl said he was caught off guard by the American decision, which came just weeks after he had held what he described as a successful meeting with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Mideast adviser.He said he still has not gotten a straight answer from the Americans about why they made their decision.But he said he believes it is connected to the uproar over the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December. The Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as their capital, condemned the decision and severed nearly all ties with the Americans.“I can say with a great degree of confidence that the decision was not related to UNRWA’s performance, because in November I had received very constructive and openly positive feedback on those issues,” he said.“A few weeks later, tensions increased around the question of Jerusalem,” he added. “It appears that the humanitarian funding to UNRWA got caught up in the deep polarization around that question.”The State Department said it is reviewing funding to UNRWA and has not decided whether to restore support in the future. It repeated its position that the agency’s repeated financial crises are “unsustainable” and called on it to find other countries to share the funding burden and to undertake “fundamental reforms.”But privately, there are signs that the American agenda runs deeper and that the Trump administration seeks to abolish UNRWA altogether.In an internal email recently published by Foreign Policy magazine, Kushner called for a “sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA.”“This (agency) perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace,” he reportedly wrote.The Palestinians fear the US is putting pressure on host countries to absorb their refugee populations and eliminate the issue from future peace negotiations. The White House says it is working on a regional peace plan, though it has not said when it will be released.UNRWA was established in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israel War. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes in the fighting.In the absence of a solution, the UN General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA’s mandate. The agency now provides education, health care and social services to more than 5 million refugees and their descendants. It serves populations in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.Seen by the Palestinians and most of the international community as providing a valuable safety net, UNRWA is viewed far differently by Israel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the agency of perpetuating the conflict by helping promote an unrealistic Palestinian demand that refugees have the “right of return” to long-lost homes in what is now Israel. He has said UNRWA should be abolished and its responsibilities taken over by the main UN refugee agency.Some in Israel have even tougher criticism, accusing UNRWA of teaching hatred of Israel in its classrooms and tolerating or assisting Hamas in Gaza.Kraehenbuehl said Israel has raised similar concerns for years, but that there has been a “strong intensification” of the criticism now that the Trump administration appears to be in agreement.He rejected the Israeli claim that his agency is perpetuating the conflict, saying that it is carrying out a UN-mandated mission that reflects the will of the international community.Kraehenbuehl said that Israeli claims that the Palestinians are the only people to pass down refugee status to their children also are unfounded, saying that Afghan refugees displaced decades ago have the same status.He also noted that UNRWA has a committee to monitor the content of its classrooms and has condemned attempts by Gaza terror groups to use UNRWA facilities for cover.Kraehenbuehl said the best way to solve these matters is to find a “political solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that addresses the fate of the refugees.In the meantime, he said UNRWA’s focus is for its schools to open on schedule in early September. For now, he said there are enough funds to keep the schools running only until the end of the month. An aggressive fund-raising effort is under way to ensure the schools operate for the entire academic year.“I see the courage displayed by our students in the face of so much adversity,” he said. “I really find it very difficult to imagine that I have to go back to them and tell them that I have failed and we have failed to mobilize the needed resources, to keep the one thing that gives them a certain prospect in life … which is their education. So we will knock on every door, we will leave no stone unturned until we have good news on this front.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Mexican-Palestinian congressional candidate believes walls are not the answer-Ammar Campa-Najjar, who spent part of his childhood in Gaza and is the grandson of an architect of the 1972 Olympic massacre, says he is American first-By Agencies-TOI-AUG 27,18
Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, a 29-year-old who’s never held elected office, was working on a TV advertisement to boost his exposure when news broke that his opponent, the heavily favored Republican US Rep. Duncan Hunter, had been indicted on corruption charges.Campa-Najjar suddenly found himself thrust in the spotlight — fielding calls from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, supporters, even some local Republican elected officials. Within 24 hours of Tuesday’s indictment, he received hundreds of emails and gave nearly two dozen interviews to local and national media outlets.It was the attention, Campa-Najjar said, that his campaign deserved. And needed.The former Obama administration Labor Department official received only 17 percent of the votes in the June primary, 30 points behind Hunter, an Iraq war veteran who has represented the most Republican district in Southern California for 10 years.After months of knocking on doors, Campa-Najjar is seizing the opportunity to introduce himself to voters in the 50th District.“We’re excited,” Campa-Najjar said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t crow over the misery of other people. I feel for him and his family, but I feel more for the people of our district who deserve some much-needed representation after many years of not having a real representative.”The Hunter family is a political dynasty in the area. Hunter’s father, also named Duncan, was elected to the seat in 1980 and held it until his son won in 2008. The younger Hunter has been handily re-elected each time in a district where Republicans have a 15-point registration advantage over Democrats.Campa-Najjar said he was hopeful of breaking the Hunter family’s nearly 40-year hold on the district that runs largely east of coastal San Diego, abutting Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base and stretches toward a remote area near the US-Mexico border.Campa-Najjar, whose father is Palestinian Muslim and mother a Mexican-American Catholic, vows to reach people who had voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and eight years later backed Donald Trump. He said “they are not ignorant. They are ignored, by my party, their party and the country.”He said he offers “sensible solutions” that cross party lines, including Medicare-for-all if it does not increase government debt and free college tuition based on merit and need.He does not believe in abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency like some liberal candidates have advocated.Campa-Najjar, who lives in Jamul near the US-Mexico border, says walls are not the answer when 40 percent of those entering the US illegally come by plane or overstay their visas. He supports tougher fines for employers who break immigration laws and believes that immigrants who were brought to the United States as children should be given US citizenship.Campa-Najjar said his motivation for running is personal.His mother, who divorced his father when he was 8, did not have the government support she needed to raise Campa-Najjar and his brother, he said. At 15, he worked as a janitor to help her pay the bills.Born in San Diego County, Campa-Najjar spent part of his childhood in Gaza and is fluent in Spanish and Arabic.Campa-Najjar said he is proud of his heritage but is American first. He has made clear that he has no personal connection to his grandfather, Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar who was a mastermind of the terrorist murder of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. Al-Najjar was assassinated a year later by Israeli commandos.“I’m happy to take responsibility for my own choices and my own decisions,” he said. “I think other men are responsible for their own crimes, whether it’s somebody who I share a lineage with and nothing else, or a sitting congressman who’s being indicted and could be facing serious charges in the future. ”About a third of the district is Latino and it is also home to one of the largest Iraqi Chaldean populations in the United States. One of Campa-Najjar’s two campaign offices is in the city of El Cajon, near a business district with falafel shops, taco stands and signs in Arabic, English and Spanish, reflecting the district’s changing demographics as immigrants and refugees have settled there.The office is in a dilapidated home with yellow tape around the front porch. A paper sign under Campa-Najjar’s portrait on a red, white and blue poster told visitors to knock on the back door.Through June 30 Campa-Najjar had raised more than $1 million bu also spent much of it, federal records show. His campaign committee reported $280,000 in the bank, with $25,000 in debts.Hunter has reported raising $850,000 but had over $350,000 on hand at the end of June.It remains to be seen whether the Democratic Party will pump money into a race they had believed less winnable than other districts with vulnerable Republican incumbents. President Donald Trump won Hunter’s district by 15 points while losing statewide by more than 4 million votes in 2016.A Campa-Najjar victory would be an upset even with the allegations against Hunter, 41, and his wife Margaret. The couple has been charged by a federal grand jury with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition and theater tickets. The Hunters pleaded not guilty Thursday.Hunter says his “constituents are not easily misled” and he will fight the allegations the same way he fought as a Marine.Campa-Najjar said he feels “saddened” that a combat veteran returned from the battlefield and lost his way, becoming the “poster child of corruption” for Washington. He added that voters, including Hunter’s base, want honest politicians.“If we are a nation of laws, then you cannot in good conscience vote for Duncan Hunter,” he said.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
USGS reports 7.1-magnitude quake on Peru/Brazil border-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
LIMA, Peru (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1-magnitude struck eastern Peru, close to its borders with Brazil and Bolivia, early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake was recorded at 4:04 a.m. at a depth of 609 kilometers (378 miles). The epicenter was 135 kilometers (83 miles) west of the Peruvian village of Inapari, and 226 kilometers (140 miles) west of the Bolivian city of Cobija.The Geophysics Institute of Peru put the magnitude of the quake at 7.0.The head of Civil Defense, Jorge Chavez, told radio station RPP that the quake was felt in various locations in southeastern Peru, but due to its depth there were no immediate reports of damage.Earthquakes are common in Peru, which falls within the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
2 typhoons weaken after pounding South Korea and Japan-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 24, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A weakening typhoon brushed by metropolitan Seoul Friday after battering southern South Korea with heavy rain and high winds, leaving one person missing and a slew of damaged buildings, canceled flights and power outages.Japan's weather agency downgraded a separate storm from typhoon strength after it crossed a swath of the western part of the country overnight.South Korea's weather agency said Yyphoon Soulik's force has diminished as it moved northeast but was still expected to pound the country's mountainous eastern region with strong rain and winds before exiting the peninsula in the afternoon.North Korea reported heavy rain in its east coast city of Wonsan and in neighboring Munchon, which were lashed by 33.8 centimeters (13 inches) and 62.5 centimeters (24.5 inches) of rain respectively. No details were immediately available on whether anyone had been injured. The North's capital of Pyongyang, which is also its biggest city, received only a relatively mild rainfall Friday.South Korea's government said a man in his 30s was injured and a 23-year-old woman was missing after she was apparently swept away in southern Jeju island Wednesday night. A 16-year-old boy was injured in Goheung, a southern mainland county, after a wall collapsed on Thursday.About 22,000 power outages were reported at homes, buildings and farms in the southern regions and more than 700 flights were canceled on Thursday. No major damages have been reported in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan area, where about half of the country's 50 million people live.The Japan Meteorological Agency said Cimarron, now a tropical storm, was back at sea and heading for northern Japan after bringing heavy rain and high winds to the port city of Kobe and elsewhere in western Japan overnight.The agency said Cimarron was moving north with maximum sustained winds of 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour with gusts to 126 kph (78 mph). It was forecast to reach the northern island of Hokkaido on Friday night.The storm caused scattered damage, flooding and landslides as it swept across western Japan the previous night. A large wind turbine toppled on Awaji island near Kobe and a worship hall collapsed at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, leaving the roof almost on the ground.Japan's disaster agency tallied 30 people injured, two seriously. More than 300 flights were canceled and high-speed bullet train service was suspended in the region.Three students were believed to have been dragged into the ocean by strong waves while setting off fireworks at a beach in Shizuoka City as the typhoon approached Wednesday night. Japanese media said the search for them resumed Friday.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Spain moves closer to exhuming dictator Franco's remains-[Reuters]-By Pablo Rodero and Isla Binnie-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government took a step closer on Friday to removing the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a grand mausoleum that it intends to turn into a memorial to victims of the country's brutal civil war.Transforming the "Valley of the Fallen" site, marked by a 152-metre (500-foot) cross on a mountainside near Madrid and criticized as Europe's only remaining monument to a fascist leader, is a longstanding ambition of the Socialist Party which returned to office in June.The government issued a decree that reduces the risk of legal claims, including from Franco's descendants, preventing the exhumation.The Franco era remains a sensitive topic in Spain, more than 40 years after he died.During his 1939-1975 rule, tens of thousands of his enemies were killed and imprisoned in a campaign to wipe out dissent, and as many as 500,000 combatants and civilians died in the preceding civil war, which split the nation in two."Only the mortal remains of people who died as a result of the Spanish Civil War will lie in the Valley of the Fallen," deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo told a news conference.Past political crimes were pardoned as part of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s, fostering resentment among victims' families, very few of whom have managed to start the process of unearthing the remains of soldiers from both sides from the Valley of the Fallen.Franco's exhumation should be completed by the end of this year, with a view to turning the monument into "a place of commemoration, remembrance and homage to the victims of the war," Calvo said.Following their unexpected ouster of Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) administration, the Socialists hold just a quarter of the seats in parliament.That puts major economic and political changes out of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's reach, and he sustained a painful defeat over his budget last month.Instead, he has bet on high-profile measures likely to appeal to left-wing voters: naming a majority-female cabinet and receiving more migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, as well as pushing through the Valley of the Fallen plan.-TURNING A PAGE-The site has long been a pilgrimage for far-right groups. A man at the site on Friday morning wore a t-shirt bearing the eagle-adorned flag in use during Franco's rule, and fresh flowers lay on the dictator's tomb."Now is the time to turn a page," said Eduardo, a 25 year-old from the Canary Islands, walking in central Madrid. "It's good to go ahead with the exhumation and to convert that place into somewhere for everyone and not just for one faction."The decree needs to be approved by parliament, but even in the face of opposition or likely abstention from the PP and center-right Ciudadanos, it is unlikely to be voted down.Recent polls suggest the Socialists would easily win a national election now, some indicating a lead of almost 10 percentage points over the PP."We don't want to dig up ghosts we have happily forgotten," PP leader Pablo Casado said on Thursday, adding his party would appeal against the decree but had not decided how to vote on it.Parliament passed a non-binding motion last year to remove the remains from the mausoleum despite the PP's abstention.Sanchez resorted to passing a decree on the exhumation after failed negotiations with Franco's seven grandchildren, who reportedly engaged a notary to formalize their opposition.Carmen Martinez Bordiu, the eldest of his heirs, declined a Reuters request for comment. The abbot who runs the site and had appealed against other exhumations also declined to comment.The family will have 15 days from the end of August to decide where they want Franco's remains to be taken. If they do not make a joint decision in that time, the government will decide where the new grave will be.(Additional reporting by Belen Carreno, Andres Gonzalez and Marco Trujillo; Editing by John Stonestreet)
In a single Pennsylvania parish, 5 priests accused of abuse-[Associated Press]-MICHAEL RUBINKAM-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
SHAVERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A lacerating grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania is especially difficult reading for a church where five of the accused priests served as pastor.For parishioners of St. Therese's Church, outside Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, the report dredged up painful memories of broken trust and provoked disgust at church leaders who kept abusive priests on the job. At least two instances took place at the church, according to the grand jury. St. Therese's lost a pastor over sexual misconduct as recently as 2006.Yet for all the heartbreak, the pews were full last weekend. And while it's too early to tell whether the bombshell revelations will affect attendance or giving at St. Therese's, a vibrant parish serving about 1,500 families, church members say they separate their faith from the evil acts of supposedly holy men."Do we know that our priests are men and that sometimes they do bad things? Yes, we do. Do we want them in our community anymore? No, definitely not," longtime parishioner Kathie Kemmerer said after morning Mass this week. But "inasmuch as we're upset about everything and we feel terrible for the victims, we'll keep coming. We'll keep coming because this is the place to get God's grace."The grand jury found that some 300 predator priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children since the 1940s, abetted by bishops and other high-ranking church officials who orchestrated a cover-up to avoid public scandal and financial liability. The Pennsylvania report, along with recent sexual abuse allegations against the retired archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has plunged the Catholic Church into crisis more than 15 years after the clergy abuse scandal first broke in Boston.In a videotaped message played at St. Therese's and throughout the Diocese of Scranton last weekend, Bishop Joseph Bambera apologized for what he called a "disturbing and painful chapter in the life of our church," adding: "You have a right to be angry. I am angry too. ... I would hope that your trust in the church can be restored at some point."St. Therese's member Joann David said she's angrier with bishops and other high-ranking church officials who kept quiet about child abuse than she is with pedophile priests. The grand jury report singles out former Scranton Bishop James Timlin, who led the diocese for 19 years until his 2003 retirement, describing how he covered for abusive priests and "left children in danger.""Absolutely, the person that did it is sick. How do you do that? But the people that cover it up and put them into another parish where they can do the same thing over again? That to me is bad," she said. "That's really bad."John Kelly, another longtime parishioner, saw it as a betrayal."The most upsetting to me is Timlin, covering it up for so many years," Kelly said. "You put so much trust in a leader, and then you find all this stuff out."St. Therese's was among the parishes where abusive priests were dumped.In 1990, a woman caught the church's pastor, the Rev. Joseph Meighan, disrobing her 17-year-old son in the rectory, according to the grand jury. That took place 20 years after the Scranton diocese interviewed at least four boys who said Meighan had disrobed and fondled them. The priest received psychological treatment and was swiftly returned to the pulpit.The boy's parents remain active members of the church."I talked to them on the weekend and they said that all of this brought all of that back up again. They thought that they had been over it 30 years ago, and it just brought it all back up for them," said the current pastor, the Rev. James Paisley.Other priests named in the grand jury report served at St. Therese's in the 1950s and '60s, from 1985-87 and from 1994-2006.But several parishioners said they retain their trust in the clergy, pointing out that only a small percentage of priests have ever been accused."They are also victims of the criminal priests," Kemmerer wrote in an email. "They see the trust they have built with people over a lifetime turn to suspicion."Church members have showered Paisley with cards and hugs. One parishioner delivered a pizza and two packs of Twizzlers, one of his favorites."That's their way of saying we love you and support you," Paisley said. "I appreciate that and express my gratitude for it, but I'm not the victim here. The victims are the victims."The veteran priest also had a message for his flock: "My heart breaks for you. Victims first, but you as well because you are the church. And the church is suffering now. The church is really suffering."
Crisis moment approaching in Venezuelan exodus: U.N. agency-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-August 27, 2018
GENEVA (Reuters) - The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building towards a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.Growing numbers are fleeing economic meltdown and political turmoil in Venezuela, threatening to overwhelm neighboring countries. Officials from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will meet in Bogota next week to seek a way forward.Ecuador and Peru have this month tightened entry rules for Venezuelans, requiring them to carry valid passports instead of just national ID cards. While in Brazil, rioters drove hundreds back over the border.Describing those events as early warning signs, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman said funding and means of managing the outflow must be mobilized."This is building to a crisis moment that we've seen in other parts of the world, particularly in the Mediterranean," he told a news briefing.On Thursday, the IOM and U.N. refugee agency UNHCR called on Latin American countries to ease entry for Venezuelans, more than 1.6 million of whom have left since 2015.UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said on Friday that governments had made "commendable" efforts despite some reception capacities and services being overwhelmed.But "some disturbing images" had emerged from the region in the past week. "Those increase stigmatization of those who are forced to flee, they put at risk also the efforts for their integration," he said.(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Stonestreet)
