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
Israelis remain largely isolated in praise for Trump and US policy — poll-Pew survey shows 82% of Jewish Israelis trust US handling of global affairs and 94% have favorable opinion of America — views which are out of sync with most other nations polled-By TOI staff-OCT 2,18
Israelis have an extremely positive view of US President Donald Trump and his administration, and are largely isolated in this outlook in the international community, a new survey by the Pew Research Center has shown.The poll of America’s standing in 25 countries shows 82 percent of Jewish Israelis have confidence in Trump’s handling of global affairs (69% among Israelis overall) while 94 of Jewish Israelis have a favorable view of the US in general (83% overall).But Israeli approval was not shared by many others, and ratings were generally at historic lows, with views of Washington dim — and falling — in many nations which are key allies of the US, including Germany (30% favorability), Canada (39%) and France (38%). The UK was evenly split at 50%.Though some nations showed a ratings improvement between 2017 to 2018 — such as Spain, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and South Africa — all but three continued to view the US less favorably than under the Obama administration, those three being, Israel, Russia and Kenya.And Israel was tied with the Philippines for the highest overall rating for the current administration at 83%. Among Israeli Jews that figure was still higher at 94%, while only 43% of Arabs agreed.Israeli appreciation for the US actually went up over the past year, from 81% in 2016 and 2017.Pollsters also noted that respondents on the political right were generally far more enthusiastic than those on the left, with the divide in Israel (94% to 57%) being the largest between countries polled.Israelis were also more convinced than any other respondents that the US was doing more to address global problems in the past two years, with 52% expressing that sentiment. The only other countries to come close were Nigeria (48%) and Kenya (42%), while in most European countries that number was in single digits or low teens.Israel is also far ahead of most countries in the belief that Washington takes its interests into account, with 86% saying the administration considers Israeli interests when making decisions. Once again the Philippines (74%) and Kenya (63%) were closest to the Israeli position, while the median for all countries was only 28%.While most respondents did not register a major change in their nations’ relationship with the US between this year and last, Israelis once again stood out, with 79% saying ties had improved — likely a result of the US decision in December 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital and move its embassy there.And while, as noted above, 69% of Israelis trust Trump’s handling of international relations, the number is far above the median of all 25 nations which stands at 27%.Israelis are in agreement with most polled nations, however, that China plays a far larger role on the world stage today than in the past, with 74% expressing that view — a percentage similar to those in France, Spain, Russia, Germany, the UK, Canada and others.
Israel denies Norway mediating return of soldiers’ bodies from Hamas-Senior official says report by Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese daily that Oslo is leading talks on possible exchange is false-By TOI staff-OCT 2,18
A senior Israeli official on Monday denied a report that Norway was mediating between Israel and Hamas for the return of the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, which are being held by the Palestinian terror group in the Gaza Strip.The report published earlier in the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar said a Norwegian envoy visited Gaza last month and received permission from Hamas to begin mediation-The unnamed senior Israeli official told Hadashot TV news that the report was false, without elaborating further.According to the Lebanese newspaper, a source said the proposed price for the soldiers “is a respectable exchange deal, like the Shalit deal in 2011.”“There is flexibility regarding the preconditions set by Hamas to open negotiations, including on the release of all prisoners released in the Shalit deal [who have since been re-detained],” the source added.In 2011, Israel traded over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the release of Gilad Shalit, a soldier held captive in Gaza for more than five years. Many were rearrested over the following years.Shaul was killed on July 20, 2014 when Hamas operatives fired an anti-tank missile at a 1970s-model armored personnel carrier stalled in a narrow street in Gaza. Six troops were killed and Hamas claimed to have kidnapped Shaul.Goldin was part of a team of Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2014 trying to find and destroy attack tunnels. A 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire had been declared that morning, and as a result, Israel says Goldin’s team was prohibited from using weapons during their search except in the case of immediate danger to their lives.According to Israel’s military, the soldiers came under fire from Gaza gunmen who killed Goldin and took his body into a tunnel. Two other soldiers were also killed.Four Israeli civilians — Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed and Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima and an unnamed individual — are also believed to have crossed into the Gaza Strip. Not all of them are necessarily being held captive by Hamas.Last year, partly in response to the Goldin family’s campaign, Israel imposed new restrictions on Hamas, including refusing to return the bodies of its fighters.The families of the soldiers have said that Israel’s government should find ways to further pressure Hamas and have accused the Netanyahu government of not doing enough to retrieve their sons’ remains.Last month, a former official who led Israeli efforts to return the bodies of the two soldiers said Israel should never have ended the 2014 war in which they were captured without their retrieval.Lior Lotan, a retired IDF Colonel, had been appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014 to lead the efforts to return the remains and bring back the Israeli civilians.Lotan resigned from his post in mid-2017. He told Israeli TV he quit because the cabinet had not accepted his “outside the box” proposal for advancing negotiations with Hamas. He did not go into details about the proposal, though he has been quoted in the past saying Israel should adopt a policy of kidnapping enemy combatants to use as bargaining chips.
Netanyahu slams ‘ridiculous’ Iran effort to tie Israel to attack at parade-Prime minister speaks out after Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards fire missiles bearing ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’ slogans at Islamic State targets in Syria-By Agencies and TOI staff-2 October 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night castigated Iran for falsely seeking to tie Israel to an attack at a military parade in southern Iran last month in which at least 24 people were killed.Netanyahu spoke after Iran fired missiles featuring slogans urging “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” at Islamic State targets in Syria earlier Monday that it said were connected to the attack. Tehran has blamed a range of adversaries, including Israel, the US, the Islamic State, and others, for the attack.“Iran’s attempt to tie Israel to the terrorist attack in southern Iran is ridiculous,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “The fact that ‘Death to Israel’ was written on the missiles launched at Syria proves everything,” he added.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched six ballistic missiles as well as drone bombers early Monday toward eastern Syria, targeting what it said were terrorists that it blamed for the attack on the military parade.The missiles had anti-Israel, anti-American, and anti-Saudi slogans written on them. One missile shown on state television bore the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Al Saud,” referring to Saudi Arabia’s ruling family. The missile also bore in Arabic the phrase “kill the friends of Satan,” referring to a verse in the Quran on fighting infidels.The missiles had enough range to strike regional US military bases and targets inside both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Iran’s supreme leader has called out the two Arab nations by name, accusing them of being behind the Sept. 22 attack on the parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, something denied by both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.Israel’s Hadashot TV news reported Monday night that one of the Iranian missiles crashed soon after launch.Netanyahu is a relentless critic of the Iranian regime, which he insists is trying to fool the world as it seeks a nuclear arsenal. At the UN last week, he revealed details of what he said was a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran, which he said stored radioactive material — an allegation Tehran has denied and derided.“This is the roaring of missiles belonging to the Revolutionary Guard of the Islamic Revolution,” an Iranian state TV reporter said as the missiles launched behind him. “In a few minutes, the world of arrogance — especially America, the [Israeli] Zionist regime and the Al Saud — will hear the sound of Iran’s repeated blows.” Al Saud is a reference to Saudi Arabia’s royal family.Iranian state TV and the state-run IRNA news agency said the missiles “killed and wounded” militants in Syria, without elaborating. The missiles, launched from western Iran, flew over Iraq and landed near the city of Boukamal in the far southeast of Syria, they reported.Slogans written on the missiles launched by #Iran today according to Iran State TV :“Down with USA”“Down with Israel”“Down with the house of Saud”pic.twitter.com/hFSY1UhTsV— Nafiseh Kohnavard (@nafisehkBBC) October 1, 2018-“Terrorists used bullets in Ahvaz,” Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guard’s aerospace division, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency. “We answered them with missiles.”The Guard, a paramilitary group that answers directly to the supreme leader, said it followed the missiles with bombing runs by seven remotely piloted drones, a first for Iran. State TV aired footage of a drone dropping what appeared to be an unguided munition.Boukamal is held by Syrian government forces, but Islamic State still maintains a presence in the area, despite being driven from virtually all the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq.Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told The Associated Press that the Iranian missiles hit the IS-held town of Hajin, just north of Boukamal.Strong explosions shook the area early Monday, reverberating east of the Euphrates River, he said. US-allied Kurdish fighters have been battling IS in and around Hajin for weeks.The US military’s Central Command acknowledged that Iranian forces conducted “no-notice strikes” in the area.“The coalition is still assessing if any damage occurred, and no coalition forces were in danger,” US Army Col. Sean Ryan said.The missile launch further adds to confusion over who carried out the assault on a military parade, which killed at least 24 people and wounded over 60.
Russia using world’s largest military planes to deliver S-300 system to Syria-Moscow began delivery of the advanced anti-aircraft system over the weekend, despite Israeli objections-By TOI staff and Agencies-2 October 2018
Russia has over the past week been delivering its advanced anti-aircraft systems, S-300, to Syria and has been using the Russian-made Antonov An-124 Ruslan for the job.The Antonov An-124 Ruslan, also known as the Condor, is considered the largest military transport aircraft in the world, and is the second-largest plane overall, behind the Antonov An-225 Mriya. The Russian-made Mriya is the heaviest aircraft ever built and has the largest wingspan of an aircraft in service, at 88.4 meters (290 feet). With an empty weight of 314 tons, only one such aircraft was ever built.The Ruslan weighs 192 tons empty and has a wingspan of 73.3 meters (240 feet).The planes, used by the Russian Air Force as well as several cargo operators, were spotted by hobbyists who track aircraft movements (also known as aircraft spotters), on the Russia-Syria route over the past several days, according to Israeli news site Ynet.Russia said it began supplying the S-300 air-defense system to Syria on Friday, despite Israeli protests. The first Ruslan plane was spotted arriving at the Hmeimim Air Base near Latakia in Syria on Thursday evening, according to the Ynet report.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the deliveries had started during a UN press conference. He said the anti-aircraft system “will be devoted to [ensuring] 100 percent safety and security of our men in Syria.”Moscow’s decision to supply the systems to Syria has caused concern in Jerusalem. A senior Israeli official said Saturday that Syria’s possession of the S-300 posed a serious challenge for the Jewish state, but added that Israel was working on ways to prevent the development from becoming a major threat to the country’s security.“The S-300 is a complex challenge for the State of Israel. We are dealing with the [decision] in different ways, not necessarily by preventing shipment [of the anti-aircraft system],” the official said.The official added that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that while Moscow “made a move, the playing field is very large,” indicating that Israel reserved the right to protect itself and that it had the support of the United States.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday criticized Russia’s move as “irresponsible,” but said Israel was committed to continued deconfliction with Moscow in its military operations in the region.Speaking to CNN in New York after the annual UN General Assembly, Netanyahu said that he spoke to Putin earlier this month after Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike mistakenly shot down a Russian military reconnaissance plane, killing all 15 people on board.Netanyahu said he told Putin, “Let’s continue this deconfliction, but at the same time, I told him very respectfully and very clearly that Israel will do, will continue to do what it has to do to defend itself.”He said both sides wanted to avoid a military clash in Syria, noting that the many militaries and other groups operating in the region were making it “very crowded over there in this tiny space.“Through this mess, we’ve been able for three years to avoid any clash between … between Russian and Israeli forces,” he said. “I think there’s a desire on both our part and Russia’s part to … avoid a clash.”The Russian defense ministry also announced last week that it would begin jamming radars of military planes striking targets in Syria from off the coast of the Mediterranean.Both Israel and the United States have protested the decision to supply Syria with the S-300, which could complicate ongoing Israeli efforts to prevent Iran deepening its military presence in Syria and to thwart the transfer of weapons in Syria to Hezbollah.Israel has vowed to continue its operations.Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria over the last several years, with fighter jets going nearly unchallenged by the country’s air defenses — though an F-16 was downed by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile in February in what the IDF later said was the result of a professional error by the pilots.Jerusalem has vowed to prevent Lebanon-based Hezbollah or Iranian proxy militias in Syria from obtaining advanced weapons that could threaten the Jewish state and has worked to keep Iran from gaining a foothold in Syria that can be used to attack Israel.Russia, which is a main backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has maintained a deconfliction hotline with Israel, allowing the Jewish state to carry out the attacks as long as it was informed beforehand.The future of that program has been uncertain since the September 17 incident, which occurred as four Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike on the weapons warehouse near the coastal city of Latakia, which the IDF said was intended to provide weapons to the Hezbollah terror group and other Iranian proxies.Moscow has accused Israel of using the IL-20 spy plane as a shield after the attack, rejecting Israel’s claims that poorly trained Syrian air defense operators are to blame for the deaths of 15 Russian servicemen aboard the aircraft.Israel denies this charge, and insists it also notified the Russians 12 minutes before the attack — while Moscow has said it was given only a minute’s notice.Earlier this year Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman downplayed Israeli concerns over Russia’s purported plans to install the system in Syria.“One thing needs to be clear: If someone shoots at our planes, we will destroy them. It doesn’t matter if it’s an S-300 or an S-700,” he said.
Israel derides Lebanon for what it says is cover-up of Hezbollah missiles sites-As Beirut’s foreign minister leads foreign envoys on tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s allegations, IDF issues video noting you can hide a lot in three days-By TOI staff and AFP-2 October 2018
As Lebanon’s foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah terrorist movement has secret missile facilities there, the Israeli army derided what it indicated was a cover up.The IDF Spokesman released a video noting that three days had passed since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detailed the presence of the alleged facilities in a speech to the UN, and noted that three days was plenty of time to clear out a missile factory and invite foreign diplomats to tour the area.“In three days you can clear out a precision missile factory, invite foreign ambassadors, and hope that the world will fall for it.”It urged the international community not to be duped by what it said were “Hezbollah’s lies.”The IDF issued the clip as Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil told 73 foreign envoys in Beirut: “Today Lebanon is raising [its] voice by addressing all countries of the world… to refute Israel’s allegations.”#Hezbollah has a long history of covering up inconvenient truths and then parading foreign officials around. Maybe this time ask why missile workshop located so close to int’l #airport in heart of #Beirut?#maybethetruththistime pic.twitter.com/SFpqmw7ztq— Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) October 1, 2018-Bassil gathered the envoys for a televised briefing, in what he described as a “counter-diplomatic campaign,” and then took the diplomats and dozens of journalists on a tour of the alleged missile sites. US diplomats stayed away.Israel’s Channel 10 news said Monday night that Lebanon feared Israel may attack the sites.On September 27, Netanyahu said in an address to the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah had secret missile conversion sites near Beirut airport.He produced satellite imagery pinpointing three sites and accused the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite terror group of using Beirut residents as human shields.“So I also have a message for Hezbollah today: Israel knows, Israel also knows what you’re doing. Israel knows where you’re doing it. And Israel will not let you get away with it,” Netanyahu said.Hezbollah, whose forces control south Lebanon bordering Israel and Beirut’s southern suburbs where the airport is located, has not officially reacted to the accusation.Last month, its chief Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had acquired “precision missiles.”On Monday, Bassil led a group of the ambassadors around a sports stadium and pool complex, one of the sites that Netanyahu had identified as a missile facility.The delegation was accompanied by security personnel and journalists.Bassil lashed out at Israel, which he said had “violated our land, air, and marine space 1,417 times in the last eight months.”Israel was attempting “to justify another violation of UN resolutions and to justify another aggression on a sovereign country,” he said.The Jewish state has fought several conflicts against Hezbollah, the last in 2006.Soon after Netanyahu’s speech Thursday, the IDF released satellite images of the sites that it says are being used by Hezbollah to hide underground precision missile production facilities.The sites are located within close proximity to the Beirut airport.The factories, which are meant to convert regular missiles into more accurate precision ones, are not believed to be up and running. The Israeli military said the missiles are currently being constructed with Iranian assistance.The target of last month’s Israeli airstrike, in which a Russian spy plane was inadvertently shot down by Syrian air defenses, was machinery used in the production of precision missiles en route to Hezbollah, The Times of Israel learned.According to Netanyahu, these precision missiles are capable of striking with 10 meters (32 feet) of their given target. Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles, though the vast majority are thought to lack precision technology.The army said the facilities are “another example of Iranian entrenchment in the region and the negative influence of Iran.”Holding up aerial photos of the alleged Hezbollah facilities, Netanyahu warned: “Israel knows what you are doing, Israel knows where you are doing it, and Israel will not let you get away with it.”Netanyahu accused the Lebanese terror group of “deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields.”According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah began working on these surface-to-surface missile facilities last year.Reports that Iran was constructing underground missile conversion factories in Lebanon first emerged in March 2017.Since then, Israeli officials have repeatedly said that Israel would not tolerate such facilities.In January, Netanyahu said Lebanon “is becoming a factory for precision-guided missiles that threaten Israel. These missiles pose a grave threat to Israel, and we cannot accept this threat.”One of the alleged sites is located under a soccer field used by a Hezbollah-sponsored team; another is just north of the Rafik Hariri International Airport; and the third is underneath the Beirut port and less than 500 meters from the airport’s tarmac.These three are not the only facilities that the IDF believes are being used by Hezbollah for the manufacturing and storage of precision missiles.“Israel is monitoring these sites with a variety of capabilities and tools, has significant knowledge of the precision project and is working to fight it with a variety of operational responses, techniques and tools,” the army said.In May, Netanyahu said Israel was “operating against the transfer of deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon or their manufacture in Lebanon.”In recent years, Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, which it says were aimed at both preventing Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria and blocking the transfer of advanced munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Israeli Air Force has largely abstained from conducting raids inside Lebanon itself, though it has indicated that it was prepared to do so.Earlier this year, IAF chief Amiram Norkin showed visiting generals a picture of an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter flying next to Beirut’s airport, in what was seen as a direct message to Hezbollah.Israel fought a punishing war with Hezbollah in 2006. Jerusalem believes the group has since re-armed with tens of thousands of missiles that can threaten all of Israel.
Iran state media: Alleged secret nuclear site is a scrap metal recycling center-Worker at Tehran plant calls Netanyahu a ‘stupid person’ for asserting the warehouse is an illicit weapons development facility in violation of 2015 deal-By TOI staff-2 October 2018
Iranian state-run media claimed Monday that the Tehran warehouse described by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the UN last week as a “secret atomic warehouse” is actually a recycling facility for scrap metal.A Tasnim News reporter sent to investigate Netanyahu’s allegation was told by a worker from inside the facility that it was not a military site, and the Israeli leader was “a stupid person” for believing it was a nuclear warehouse.The reporter did not enter the facility, only speaking to the worker via intercom from outside the locked gate.The owner of a nearby carpet cleaning business told Tasnim “there was nothing out of the ordinary” about the warehouse, and asserted that Netanyahu was fed disinformation to “make him a fool.”In his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Netanyahu accused Iran of keeping a “secret atomic warehouse” just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.Holding up a poster-board map of Tehran, Netanyahu told world leaders that Iranian officials have been keeping up to 300 tons of nuclear equipment and material in a walled, unremarkable-looking property near a rug-cleaning operation in the Turquzabad neighborhood.He claimed some 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of radioactive material had been recently removed from the “secret atomic warehouse” and squirreled away around Tehran, endangering the capital’s residents.Netanyahu specified that there was a rug-cleaning business nearby: “Like the atomic archive [revealed by the prime minister in April], it’s another innocent looking compound. Now for those of you at home using Google Earth, this no-longer-secret atomic warehouse is on Maher Alley, Maher Street. You have the coordinates, you can try to get there. And for those of you who try to get there, it’s 100 meters from the Kalishoi, the rug cleaning operation. By the way, I hear they do a fantastic job cleaning rugs there. But by now they may be radioactive rugs.”He added: “Now, countries with satellite capabilities may notice some increased activity on Maher Alley in the days and weeks ahead. The people they’ll see scurrying back and forth are Iranian officials desperately trying to finish the job of cleaning up that site. Because, you see, since we raided the atomic archive, they’ve been busy cleaning out the atomic warehouse. Just last month, they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive material. ”The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring Iran’s compliance with the agreement, had no immediate comment on Netanyahu’s revelations.Netanyahu’s disclosure came four months after Israel announced the existence of what it said was a “half-ton” of Iranian nuclear documents obtained by Israeli intelligence in the Shourabad neighborhood near Tehran, a few miles from the Turquzabad warehouse.Netanyahu said that the archive and the secret warehouse were proof that Iranian leaders covered up their nuclear weapons program before signing the 2015 agreement, and had not given it up.He said the IAEA ignored Israeli intelligence on the nuclear sites and more than 100,000 documents on Iran’s nuclear program obtained by Israel from the Shourabad facility that he revealed earlier this year.Netanyahu later urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to request the IAEA to investigate the facility.Iranian officials dismissed Netanyahu’s claims about the atomic warehouse as unfounded and “obscene.”The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Ghasemi, said Netanyahu’s accusation was “not worth talking about.”“These farcical claims and the show by the prime minister of the occupying regime [Israel] were not unexpected,” he said.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called Netanyahu a “liar who would not stop lying,” according to state media.Iranians also mocked Netanyahu’s claims about the site, with many posting selfies of themselves outside the warehouse over the weekend and reporting that “nothing was going on.”However, a senior Israeli aide said Saturday that Netanyahu’s speech was causing “growing pressure inside Iran,” as officials were scrambling to cover up evidence of nuclear activities at the site.“There is no doubt it is a very important site for them; they’re seeking to conceal it and stall in any way possible,” the official told Channel 10 over the weekend.He said Israel “had no choice” but to reveal the information during Netanyahu’s UN speech in an effort to goad the IAEA to investigate the sites.
Lebanon FM gives diplomats tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s missile claims-Gibran Bassil says ‘Netanyahu is spreading lies’ with his allegation at UN of Beirut facilities used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to improve, hide advanced weapons-By AFP and Judah Ari Gross-TOI-2 October 2018
Lebanon’s foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah terror group has secret missile facilities there.“Today Lebanon is raising [its] voice by addressing all countries of the world… to refute Israel’s allegations,” Gibran Bassil said.Bassil was speaking to 73 foreign envoys gathered for a televised briefing, in what he described as a “counter-diplomatic campaign.”The most notable absentee was the ambassador of the United States, Israel’s top ally. Bassil said the US envoy was traveling, but no deputy was sent to stand in for Elizabeth Richard.The minister then took the diplomats and dozens of journalists on a tour of the alleged missile sites, in a bid to refute Israel’s claims.On September 27, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address to the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah had secret missile conversion sites near Beirut airport.He produced satellite imagery pinpointing three sites and accused the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite terror group of using Beirut residents as human shields.“So I also have a message for Hezbollah today: Israel knows, Israel also knows what you’re doing. Israel knows where you’re doing it. And Israel will not let you get away with it,” Netanyahu said.Hezbollah, whose forces control south Lebanon bordering Israel and Beirut’s southern suburbs where the airport is located, has not officially reacted to the accusation.Last month, its chief Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had acquired “precision missiles.”On Monday, Bassil led a group of the ambassadors around a sports stadium and pool complex, one of the sites that Netanyahu had identified as a missile facility.The delegation was accompanied by security personnel and journalists.Bassil lashed out at Israel, which he said had “violated our land, air, and marine space 1,417 times in the last eight months.”Israel was attempting “to justify another violation of UN resolutions and to justify another aggression on a sovereign country,” he said.The Jewish state has fought several conflicts against Hezbollah, the last in 2006.Soon after Netanyahu’s speech Thursday, the IDF released satellite images of the sites that it says are being used by Hezbollah to hide underground precision missile production facilities.The sites are located within close proximity to the Beirut airport.The factories, which are meant to convert regular missiles into more accurate precision ones, are not believed to be up and running. The Israeli military said the missiles are currently being constructed with Iranian assistance.The target of last month’s Israeli airstrike, in which a Russian spy plane was inadvertently shot down by Syrian air defenses, was machinery used in the production of precision missiles en route to Hezbollah, The Times of Israel learned.According to Netanyahu, these precision missiles are capable of striking with 10 meters (32 feet) of their given target. Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles, though the vast majority are thought to lack precision technology.The army said the facilities are “another example of Iranian entrenchment in the region and the negative influence of Iran.”Holding up aerial photos of the alleged Hezbollah facilities, Netanyahu warned: “Israel knows what you are doing, Israel knows where you are doing it, and Israel will not let you get away with it.”Netanyahu accused the Lebanese terror group of “deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields.”According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah began working on these surface-to-surface missile facilities last year.Reports that Iran was constructing underground missile conversion factories in Lebanon first emerged in March 2017.Since then, Israeli officials have repeatedly said that Israel would not tolerate such facilities.In January, Netanyahu said Lebanon “is becoming a factory for precision-guided missiles that threaten Israel. These missiles pose a grave threat to Israel, and we cannot accept this threat.”One of the alleged sites is located under a soccer field used by a Hezbollah-sponsored team; another is just north of the Rafik Hariri International Airport; and the third is underneath the Beirut port and less than 500 meters from the airport’s tarmac.These three are not the only facilities that the IDF believes are being used by Hezbollah for the manufacturing and storage of precision missiles.“Israel is monitoring these sites with a variety of capabilities and tools, has significant knowledge of the precision project and is working to fight it with a variety of operational responses, techniques and tools,” the army said.In May, Netanyahu said Israel was “operating against the transfer of deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon or their manufacture in Lebanon.”In recent years, Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, which it says were aimed at both preventing Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria and blocking the transfer of advanced munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Israeli Air Force has largely abstained from conducting raids inside Lebanon itself, though it has indicated that it was prepared to do so.Earlier this year, IAF chief Amiram Norkin showed visiting generals a picture of an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter flying next to Beirut’s airport, in what was seen as a direct message to Hezbollah.Israel fought a punishing war with Hezbollah in 2006. Jerusalem believes the group has since re-armed with tens of thousands of missiles that can threaten all of Israel.
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
Israelis remain largely isolated in praise for Trump and US policy — poll-Pew survey shows 82% of Jewish Israelis trust US handling of global affairs and 94% have favorable opinion of America — views which are out of sync with most other nations polled-By TOI staff-OCT 2,18
Israelis have an extremely positive view of US President Donald Trump and his administration, and are largely isolated in this outlook in the international community, a new survey by the Pew Research Center has shown.The poll of America’s standing in 25 countries shows 82 percent of Jewish Israelis have confidence in Trump’s handling of global affairs (69% among Israelis overall) while 94 of Jewish Israelis have a favorable view of the US in general (83% overall).But Israeli approval was not shared by many others, and ratings were generally at historic lows, with views of Washington dim — and falling — in many nations which are key allies of the US, including Germany (30% favorability), Canada (39%) and France (38%). The UK was evenly split at 50%.Though some nations showed a ratings improvement between 2017 to 2018 — such as Spain, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and South Africa — all but three continued to view the US less favorably than under the Obama administration, those three being, Israel, Russia and Kenya.And Israel was tied with the Philippines for the highest overall rating for the current administration at 83%. Among Israeli Jews that figure was still higher at 94%, while only 43% of Arabs agreed.Israeli appreciation for the US actually went up over the past year, from 81% in 2016 and 2017.Pollsters also noted that respondents on the political right were generally far more enthusiastic than those on the left, with the divide in Israel (94% to 57%) being the largest between countries polled.Israelis were also more convinced than any other respondents that the US was doing more to address global problems in the past two years, with 52% expressing that sentiment. The only other countries to come close were Nigeria (48%) and Kenya (42%), while in most European countries that number was in single digits or low teens.Israel is also far ahead of most countries in the belief that Washington takes its interests into account, with 86% saying the administration considers Israeli interests when making decisions. Once again the Philippines (74%) and Kenya (63%) were closest to the Israeli position, while the median for all countries was only 28%.While most respondents did not register a major change in their nations’ relationship with the US between this year and last, Israelis once again stood out, with 79% saying ties had improved — likely a result of the US decision in December 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital and move its embassy there.And while, as noted above, 69% of Israelis trust Trump’s handling of international relations, the number is far above the median of all 25 nations which stands at 27%.Israelis are in agreement with most polled nations, however, that China plays a far larger role on the world stage today than in the past, with 74% expressing that view — a percentage similar to those in France, Spain, Russia, Germany, the UK, Canada and others.
Israel denies Norway mediating return of soldiers’ bodies from Hamas-Senior official says report by Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese daily that Oslo is leading talks on possible exchange is false-By TOI staff-OCT 2,18
A senior Israeli official on Monday denied a report that Norway was mediating between Israel and Hamas for the return of the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, which are being held by the Palestinian terror group in the Gaza Strip.The report published earlier in the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar said a Norwegian envoy visited Gaza last month and received permission from Hamas to begin mediation-The unnamed senior Israeli official told Hadashot TV news that the report was false, without elaborating further.According to the Lebanese newspaper, a source said the proposed price for the soldiers “is a respectable exchange deal, like the Shalit deal in 2011.”“There is flexibility regarding the preconditions set by Hamas to open negotiations, including on the release of all prisoners released in the Shalit deal [who have since been re-detained],” the source added.In 2011, Israel traded over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the release of Gilad Shalit, a soldier held captive in Gaza for more than five years. Many were rearrested over the following years.Shaul was killed on July 20, 2014 when Hamas operatives fired an anti-tank missile at a 1970s-model armored personnel carrier stalled in a narrow street in Gaza. Six troops were killed and Hamas claimed to have kidnapped Shaul.Goldin was part of a team of Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2014 trying to find and destroy attack tunnels. A 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire had been declared that morning, and as a result, Israel says Goldin’s team was prohibited from using weapons during their search except in the case of immediate danger to their lives.According to Israel’s military, the soldiers came under fire from Gaza gunmen who killed Goldin and took his body into a tunnel. Two other soldiers were also killed.Four Israeli civilians — Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed and Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima and an unnamed individual — are also believed to have crossed into the Gaza Strip. Not all of them are necessarily being held captive by Hamas.Last year, partly in response to the Goldin family’s campaign, Israel imposed new restrictions on Hamas, including refusing to return the bodies of its fighters.The families of the soldiers have said that Israel’s government should find ways to further pressure Hamas and have accused the Netanyahu government of not doing enough to retrieve their sons’ remains.Last month, a former official who led Israeli efforts to return the bodies of the two soldiers said Israel should never have ended the 2014 war in which they were captured without their retrieval.Lior Lotan, a retired IDF Colonel, had been appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014 to lead the efforts to return the remains and bring back the Israeli civilians.Lotan resigned from his post in mid-2017. He told Israeli TV he quit because the cabinet had not accepted his “outside the box” proposal for advancing negotiations with Hamas. He did not go into details about the proposal, though he has been quoted in the past saying Israel should adopt a policy of kidnapping enemy combatants to use as bargaining chips.
Netanyahu slams ‘ridiculous’ Iran effort to tie Israel to attack at parade-Prime minister speaks out after Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards fire missiles bearing ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’ slogans at Islamic State targets in Syria-By Agencies and TOI staff-2 October 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night castigated Iran for falsely seeking to tie Israel to an attack at a military parade in southern Iran last month in which at least 24 people were killed.Netanyahu spoke after Iran fired missiles featuring slogans urging “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” at Islamic State targets in Syria earlier Monday that it said were connected to the attack. Tehran has blamed a range of adversaries, including Israel, the US, the Islamic State, and others, for the attack.“Iran’s attempt to tie Israel to the terrorist attack in southern Iran is ridiculous,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “The fact that ‘Death to Israel’ was written on the missiles launched at Syria proves everything,” he added.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched six ballistic missiles as well as drone bombers early Monday toward eastern Syria, targeting what it said were terrorists that it blamed for the attack on the military parade.The missiles had anti-Israel, anti-American, and anti-Saudi slogans written on them. One missile shown on state television bore the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Al Saud,” referring to Saudi Arabia’s ruling family. The missile also bore in Arabic the phrase “kill the friends of Satan,” referring to a verse in the Quran on fighting infidels.The missiles had enough range to strike regional US military bases and targets inside both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Iran’s supreme leader has called out the two Arab nations by name, accusing them of being behind the Sept. 22 attack on the parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, something denied by both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.Israel’s Hadashot TV news reported Monday night that one of the Iranian missiles crashed soon after launch.Netanyahu is a relentless critic of the Iranian regime, which he insists is trying to fool the world as it seeks a nuclear arsenal. At the UN last week, he revealed details of what he said was a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran, which he said stored radioactive material — an allegation Tehran has denied and derided.“This is the roaring of missiles belonging to the Revolutionary Guard of the Islamic Revolution,” an Iranian state TV reporter said as the missiles launched behind him. “In a few minutes, the world of arrogance — especially America, the [Israeli] Zionist regime and the Al Saud — will hear the sound of Iran’s repeated blows.” Al Saud is a reference to Saudi Arabia’s royal family.Iranian state TV and the state-run IRNA news agency said the missiles “killed and wounded” militants in Syria, without elaborating. The missiles, launched from western Iran, flew over Iraq and landed near the city of Boukamal in the far southeast of Syria, they reported.Slogans written on the missiles launched by #Iran today according to Iran State TV :“Down with USA”“Down with Israel”“Down with the house of Saud”pic.twitter.com/hFSY1UhTsV— Nafiseh Kohnavard (@nafisehkBBC) October 1, 2018-“Terrorists used bullets in Ahvaz,” Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guard’s aerospace division, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency. “We answered them with missiles.”The Guard, a paramilitary group that answers directly to the supreme leader, said it followed the missiles with bombing runs by seven remotely piloted drones, a first for Iran. State TV aired footage of a drone dropping what appeared to be an unguided munition.Boukamal is held by Syrian government forces, but Islamic State still maintains a presence in the area, despite being driven from virtually all the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq.Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told The Associated Press that the Iranian missiles hit the IS-held town of Hajin, just north of Boukamal.Strong explosions shook the area early Monday, reverberating east of the Euphrates River, he said. US-allied Kurdish fighters have been battling IS in and around Hajin for weeks.The US military’s Central Command acknowledged that Iranian forces conducted “no-notice strikes” in the area.“The coalition is still assessing if any damage occurred, and no coalition forces were in danger,” US Army Col. Sean Ryan said.The missile launch further adds to confusion over who carried out the assault on a military parade, which killed at least 24 people and wounded over 60.
Russia using world’s largest military planes to deliver S-300 system to Syria-Moscow began delivery of the advanced anti-aircraft system over the weekend, despite Israeli objections-By TOI staff and Agencies-2 October 2018
Russia has over the past week been delivering its advanced anti-aircraft systems, S-300, to Syria and has been using the Russian-made Antonov An-124 Ruslan for the job.The Antonov An-124 Ruslan, also known as the Condor, is considered the largest military transport aircraft in the world, and is the second-largest plane overall, behind the Antonov An-225 Mriya. The Russian-made Mriya is the heaviest aircraft ever built and has the largest wingspan of an aircraft in service, at 88.4 meters (290 feet). With an empty weight of 314 tons, only one such aircraft was ever built.The Ruslan weighs 192 tons empty and has a wingspan of 73.3 meters (240 feet).The planes, used by the Russian Air Force as well as several cargo operators, were spotted by hobbyists who track aircraft movements (also known as aircraft spotters), on the Russia-Syria route over the past several days, according to Israeli news site Ynet.Russia said it began supplying the S-300 air-defense system to Syria on Friday, despite Israeli protests. The first Ruslan plane was spotted arriving at the Hmeimim Air Base near Latakia in Syria on Thursday evening, according to the Ynet report.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the deliveries had started during a UN press conference. He said the anti-aircraft system “will be devoted to [ensuring] 100 percent safety and security of our men in Syria.”Moscow’s decision to supply the systems to Syria has caused concern in Jerusalem. A senior Israeli official said Saturday that Syria’s possession of the S-300 posed a serious challenge for the Jewish state, but added that Israel was working on ways to prevent the development from becoming a major threat to the country’s security.“The S-300 is a complex challenge for the State of Israel. We are dealing with the [decision] in different ways, not necessarily by preventing shipment [of the anti-aircraft system],” the official said.The official added that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that while Moscow “made a move, the playing field is very large,” indicating that Israel reserved the right to protect itself and that it had the support of the United States.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday criticized Russia’s move as “irresponsible,” but said Israel was committed to continued deconfliction with Moscow in its military operations in the region.Speaking to CNN in New York after the annual UN General Assembly, Netanyahu said that he spoke to Putin earlier this month after Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike mistakenly shot down a Russian military reconnaissance plane, killing all 15 people on board.Netanyahu said he told Putin, “Let’s continue this deconfliction, but at the same time, I told him very respectfully and very clearly that Israel will do, will continue to do what it has to do to defend itself.”He said both sides wanted to avoid a military clash in Syria, noting that the many militaries and other groups operating in the region were making it “very crowded over there in this tiny space.“Through this mess, we’ve been able for three years to avoid any clash between … between Russian and Israeli forces,” he said. “I think there’s a desire on both our part and Russia’s part to … avoid a clash.”The Russian defense ministry also announced last week that it would begin jamming radars of military planes striking targets in Syria from off the coast of the Mediterranean.Both Israel and the United States have protested the decision to supply Syria with the S-300, which could complicate ongoing Israeli efforts to prevent Iran deepening its military presence in Syria and to thwart the transfer of weapons in Syria to Hezbollah.Israel has vowed to continue its operations.Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria over the last several years, with fighter jets going nearly unchallenged by the country’s air defenses — though an F-16 was downed by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile in February in what the IDF later said was the result of a professional error by the pilots.Jerusalem has vowed to prevent Lebanon-based Hezbollah or Iranian proxy militias in Syria from obtaining advanced weapons that could threaten the Jewish state and has worked to keep Iran from gaining a foothold in Syria that can be used to attack Israel.Russia, which is a main backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has maintained a deconfliction hotline with Israel, allowing the Jewish state to carry out the attacks as long as it was informed beforehand.The future of that program has been uncertain since the September 17 incident, which occurred as four Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike on the weapons warehouse near the coastal city of Latakia, which the IDF said was intended to provide weapons to the Hezbollah terror group and other Iranian proxies.Moscow has accused Israel of using the IL-20 spy plane as a shield after the attack, rejecting Israel’s claims that poorly trained Syrian air defense operators are to blame for the deaths of 15 Russian servicemen aboard the aircraft.Israel denies this charge, and insists it also notified the Russians 12 minutes before the attack — while Moscow has said it was given only a minute’s notice.Earlier this year Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman downplayed Israeli concerns over Russia’s purported plans to install the system in Syria.“One thing needs to be clear: If someone shoots at our planes, we will destroy them. It doesn’t matter if it’s an S-300 or an S-700,” he said.
Israel derides Lebanon for what it says is cover-up of Hezbollah missiles sites-As Beirut’s foreign minister leads foreign envoys on tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s allegations, IDF issues video noting you can hide a lot in three days-By TOI staff and AFP-2 October 2018
As Lebanon’s foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah terrorist movement has secret missile facilities there, the Israeli army derided what it indicated was a cover up.The IDF Spokesman released a video noting that three days had passed since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detailed the presence of the alleged facilities in a speech to the UN, and noted that three days was plenty of time to clear out a missile factory and invite foreign diplomats to tour the area.“In three days you can clear out a precision missile factory, invite foreign ambassadors, and hope that the world will fall for it.”It urged the international community not to be duped by what it said were “Hezbollah’s lies.”The IDF issued the clip as Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil told 73 foreign envoys in Beirut: “Today Lebanon is raising [its] voice by addressing all countries of the world… to refute Israel’s allegations.”#Hezbollah has a long history of covering up inconvenient truths and then parading foreign officials around. Maybe this time ask why missile workshop located so close to int’l #airport in heart of #Beirut?#maybethetruththistime pic.twitter.com/SFpqmw7ztq— Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) October 1, 2018-Bassil gathered the envoys for a televised briefing, in what he described as a “counter-diplomatic campaign,” and then took the diplomats and dozens of journalists on a tour of the alleged missile sites. US diplomats stayed away.Israel’s Channel 10 news said Monday night that Lebanon feared Israel may attack the sites.On September 27, Netanyahu said in an address to the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah had secret missile conversion sites near Beirut airport.He produced satellite imagery pinpointing three sites and accused the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite terror group of using Beirut residents as human shields.“So I also have a message for Hezbollah today: Israel knows, Israel also knows what you’re doing. Israel knows where you’re doing it. And Israel will not let you get away with it,” Netanyahu said.Hezbollah, whose forces control south Lebanon bordering Israel and Beirut’s southern suburbs where the airport is located, has not officially reacted to the accusation.Last month, its chief Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had acquired “precision missiles.”On Monday, Bassil led a group of the ambassadors around a sports stadium and pool complex, one of the sites that Netanyahu had identified as a missile facility.The delegation was accompanied by security personnel and journalists.Bassil lashed out at Israel, which he said had “violated our land, air, and marine space 1,417 times in the last eight months.”Israel was attempting “to justify another violation of UN resolutions and to justify another aggression on a sovereign country,” he said.The Jewish state has fought several conflicts against Hezbollah, the last in 2006.Soon after Netanyahu’s speech Thursday, the IDF released satellite images of the sites that it says are being used by Hezbollah to hide underground precision missile production facilities.The sites are located within close proximity to the Beirut airport.The factories, which are meant to convert regular missiles into more accurate precision ones, are not believed to be up and running. The Israeli military said the missiles are currently being constructed with Iranian assistance.The target of last month’s Israeli airstrike, in which a Russian spy plane was inadvertently shot down by Syrian air defenses, was machinery used in the production of precision missiles en route to Hezbollah, The Times of Israel learned.According to Netanyahu, these precision missiles are capable of striking with 10 meters (32 feet) of their given target. Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles, though the vast majority are thought to lack precision technology.The army said the facilities are “another example of Iranian entrenchment in the region and the negative influence of Iran.”Holding up aerial photos of the alleged Hezbollah facilities, Netanyahu warned: “Israel knows what you are doing, Israel knows where you are doing it, and Israel will not let you get away with it.”Netanyahu accused the Lebanese terror group of “deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields.”According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah began working on these surface-to-surface missile facilities last year.Reports that Iran was constructing underground missile conversion factories in Lebanon first emerged in March 2017.Since then, Israeli officials have repeatedly said that Israel would not tolerate such facilities.In January, Netanyahu said Lebanon “is becoming a factory for precision-guided missiles that threaten Israel. These missiles pose a grave threat to Israel, and we cannot accept this threat.”One of the alleged sites is located under a soccer field used by a Hezbollah-sponsored team; another is just north of the Rafik Hariri International Airport; and the third is underneath the Beirut port and less than 500 meters from the airport’s tarmac.These three are not the only facilities that the IDF believes are being used by Hezbollah for the manufacturing and storage of precision missiles.“Israel is monitoring these sites with a variety of capabilities and tools, has significant knowledge of the precision project and is working to fight it with a variety of operational responses, techniques and tools,” the army said.In May, Netanyahu said Israel was “operating against the transfer of deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon or their manufacture in Lebanon.”In recent years, Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, which it says were aimed at both preventing Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria and blocking the transfer of advanced munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Israeli Air Force has largely abstained from conducting raids inside Lebanon itself, though it has indicated that it was prepared to do so.Earlier this year, IAF chief Amiram Norkin showed visiting generals a picture of an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter flying next to Beirut’s airport, in what was seen as a direct message to Hezbollah.Israel fought a punishing war with Hezbollah in 2006. Jerusalem believes the group has since re-armed with tens of thousands of missiles that can threaten all of Israel.
Iran state media: Alleged secret nuclear site is a scrap metal recycling center-Worker at Tehran plant calls Netanyahu a ‘stupid person’ for asserting the warehouse is an illicit weapons development facility in violation of 2015 deal-By TOI staff-2 October 2018
Iranian state-run media claimed Monday that the Tehran warehouse described by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the UN last week as a “secret atomic warehouse” is actually a recycling facility for scrap metal.A Tasnim News reporter sent to investigate Netanyahu’s allegation was told by a worker from inside the facility that it was not a military site, and the Israeli leader was “a stupid person” for believing it was a nuclear warehouse.The reporter did not enter the facility, only speaking to the worker via intercom from outside the locked gate.The owner of a nearby carpet cleaning business told Tasnim “there was nothing out of the ordinary” about the warehouse, and asserted that Netanyahu was fed disinformation to “make him a fool.”In his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Netanyahu accused Iran of keeping a “secret atomic warehouse” just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.Holding up a poster-board map of Tehran, Netanyahu told world leaders that Iranian officials have been keeping up to 300 tons of nuclear equipment and material in a walled, unremarkable-looking property near a rug-cleaning operation in the Turquzabad neighborhood.He claimed some 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of radioactive material had been recently removed from the “secret atomic warehouse” and squirreled away around Tehran, endangering the capital’s residents.Netanyahu specified that there was a rug-cleaning business nearby: “Like the atomic archive [revealed by the prime minister in April], it’s another innocent looking compound. Now for those of you at home using Google Earth, this no-longer-secret atomic warehouse is on Maher Alley, Maher Street. You have the coordinates, you can try to get there. And for those of you who try to get there, it’s 100 meters from the Kalishoi, the rug cleaning operation. By the way, I hear they do a fantastic job cleaning rugs there. But by now they may be radioactive rugs.”He added: “Now, countries with satellite capabilities may notice some increased activity on Maher Alley in the days and weeks ahead. The people they’ll see scurrying back and forth are Iranian officials desperately trying to finish the job of cleaning up that site. Because, you see, since we raided the atomic archive, they’ve been busy cleaning out the atomic warehouse. Just last month, they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive material. ”The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring Iran’s compliance with the agreement, had no immediate comment on Netanyahu’s revelations.Netanyahu’s disclosure came four months after Israel announced the existence of what it said was a “half-ton” of Iranian nuclear documents obtained by Israeli intelligence in the Shourabad neighborhood near Tehran, a few miles from the Turquzabad warehouse.Netanyahu said that the archive and the secret warehouse were proof that Iranian leaders covered up their nuclear weapons program before signing the 2015 agreement, and had not given it up.He said the IAEA ignored Israeli intelligence on the nuclear sites and more than 100,000 documents on Iran’s nuclear program obtained by Israel from the Shourabad facility that he revealed earlier this year.Netanyahu later urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to request the IAEA to investigate the facility.Iranian officials dismissed Netanyahu’s claims about the atomic warehouse as unfounded and “obscene.”The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Ghasemi, said Netanyahu’s accusation was “not worth talking about.”“These farcical claims and the show by the prime minister of the occupying regime [Israel] were not unexpected,” he said.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called Netanyahu a “liar who would not stop lying,” according to state media.Iranians also mocked Netanyahu’s claims about the site, with many posting selfies of themselves outside the warehouse over the weekend and reporting that “nothing was going on.”However, a senior Israeli aide said Saturday that Netanyahu’s speech was causing “growing pressure inside Iran,” as officials were scrambling to cover up evidence of nuclear activities at the site.“There is no doubt it is a very important site for them; they’re seeking to conceal it and stall in any way possible,” the official told Channel 10 over the weekend.He said Israel “had no choice” but to reveal the information during Netanyahu’s UN speech in an effort to goad the IAEA to investigate the sites.
Lebanon FM gives diplomats tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s missile claims-Gibran Bassil says ‘Netanyahu is spreading lies’ with his allegation at UN of Beirut facilities used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to improve, hide advanced weapons-By AFP and Judah Ari Gross-TOI-2 October 2018
Lebanon’s foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah terror group has secret missile facilities there.“Today Lebanon is raising [its] voice by addressing all countries of the world… to refute Israel’s allegations,” Gibran Bassil said.Bassil was speaking to 73 foreign envoys gathered for a televised briefing, in what he described as a “counter-diplomatic campaign.”The most notable absentee was the ambassador of the United States, Israel’s top ally. Bassil said the US envoy was traveling, but no deputy was sent to stand in for Elizabeth Richard.The minister then took the diplomats and dozens of journalists on a tour of the alleged missile sites, in a bid to refute Israel’s claims.On September 27, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address to the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah had secret missile conversion sites near Beirut airport.He produced satellite imagery pinpointing three sites and accused the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite terror group of using Beirut residents as human shields.“So I also have a message for Hezbollah today: Israel knows, Israel also knows what you’re doing. Israel knows where you’re doing it. And Israel will not let you get away with it,” Netanyahu said.Hezbollah, whose forces control south Lebanon bordering Israel and Beirut’s southern suburbs where the airport is located, has not officially reacted to the accusation.Last month, its chief Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had acquired “precision missiles.”On Monday, Bassil led a group of the ambassadors around a sports stadium and pool complex, one of the sites that Netanyahu had identified as a missile facility.The delegation was accompanied by security personnel and journalists.Bassil lashed out at Israel, which he said had “violated our land, air, and marine space 1,417 times in the last eight months.”Israel was attempting “to justify another violation of UN resolutions and to justify another aggression on a sovereign country,” he said.The Jewish state has fought several conflicts against Hezbollah, the last in 2006.Soon after Netanyahu’s speech Thursday, the IDF released satellite images of the sites that it says are being used by Hezbollah to hide underground precision missile production facilities.The sites are located within close proximity to the Beirut airport.The factories, which are meant to convert regular missiles into more accurate precision ones, are not believed to be up and running. The Israeli military said the missiles are currently being constructed with Iranian assistance.The target of last month’s Israeli airstrike, in which a Russian spy plane was inadvertently shot down by Syrian air defenses, was machinery used in the production of precision missiles en route to Hezbollah, The Times of Israel learned.According to Netanyahu, these precision missiles are capable of striking with 10 meters (32 feet) of their given target. Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles, though the vast majority are thought to lack precision technology.The army said the facilities are “another example of Iranian entrenchment in the region and the negative influence of Iran.”Holding up aerial photos of the alleged Hezbollah facilities, Netanyahu warned: “Israel knows what you are doing, Israel knows where you are doing it, and Israel will not let you get away with it.”Netanyahu accused the Lebanese terror group of “deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields.”According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah began working on these surface-to-surface missile facilities last year.Reports that Iran was constructing underground missile conversion factories in Lebanon first emerged in March 2017.Since then, Israeli officials have repeatedly said that Israel would not tolerate such facilities.In January, Netanyahu said Lebanon “is becoming a factory for precision-guided missiles that threaten Israel. These missiles pose a grave threat to Israel, and we cannot accept this threat.”One of the alleged sites is located under a soccer field used by a Hezbollah-sponsored team; another is just north of the Rafik Hariri International Airport; and the third is underneath the Beirut port and less than 500 meters from the airport’s tarmac.These three are not the only facilities that the IDF believes are being used by Hezbollah for the manufacturing and storage of precision missiles.“Israel is monitoring these sites with a variety of capabilities and tools, has significant knowledge of the precision project and is working to fight it with a variety of operational responses, techniques and tools,” the army said.In May, Netanyahu said Israel was “operating against the transfer of deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon or their manufacture in Lebanon.”In recent years, Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, which it says were aimed at both preventing Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria and blocking the transfer of advanced munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Israeli Air Force has largely abstained from conducting raids inside Lebanon itself, though it has indicated that it was prepared to do so.Earlier this year, IAF chief Amiram Norkin showed visiting generals a picture of an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter flying next to Beirut’s airport, in what was seen as a direct message to Hezbollah.Israel fought a punishing war with Hezbollah in 2006. Jerusalem believes the group has since re-armed with tens of thousands of missiles that can threaten all of Israel.
