US PERSISTS WITH PALESTINIAN STATE

1-Amidst War, 650 French jews move to Israel. 2-3000 dead in Korean floods.3-Typhoon hits China 500,000 evacuated. 4-7 Wildfires in boise. 5-Rice says need to keep focus on Palestinian state. 6-Vatican,behind the scenes works on mideast peace. 7-Israeli women Walk around Walls of Jerusalem.

Amidst War, 650 French Jews Move to Israel in One Day
By Ezra HaLevi(Arutz-7 INN)

Despite the Re-Engagement War, 650 French Jews arrived on Aliyah (immigrating to Israel) Tuesday - the largest number to arrive in a single day since 1971.The new immigrants arrived on two chartered Israir flights, one with 500 passengers from Paris and the other with 150 Jews from Marseille. They arrive in Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday afternoon and were greeted by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.The immigrants have received logistical assistance from AMI - the French Aliyah organization, similar to its North American (and British) counterpart Nefesh b'Nefesh. Similar to the lavish ceremonies organized by Nefesh b'Nefesh, the French arrivals were greeted with refreshments and a large stage set up at the airport, with hundreds of friends, relatives and Aliyah enthusiasts on hand to greet them.

AMI reports that many of the new immigrants will be moving to northern Israel, and like the planeload of North Americans that arrived last week, refused to postpone their plans due to the two-front war that has two million Israelis living in bomb shelters and temporary quarters.Recent polls have shown that more half of young French Jews do not see themselves staying in France in the future.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Almost 3,000 believed dead, missing in NKorea floods Wed Jul 26, 8:08 AM ET

SEOUL (AFP) - Nearly 3,000 North Koreans were believed dead or missing in floods and landslides after torrential rains hit the impoverished country, a respected South Korean human rights group has said. Monsoon downpours caused much more damage than the secretive North's state media have claimed, said Good Friends, an independent rights group which in the past has provided accurate information about the isolated communist country.

North Korea has suffered really severe damage from recent rains, with nearly 3,000 people known to have been recorded dead or missing,the group said in a statement Wednesday.Damage and casualties are far heavier than known so far to the outside world,it said.Lee Seung-Yong, a Good Friends activist, refused to say how the group obtained information on North Korea's rain damage. We are collecting data from various sources,he said.

North Korea was lashed by a typhoon on July 10, followed by three days of heavy monsoon rains.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said last week the rains had left hundreds of people dead or missing, with agricultural and other sectors of the country's economy badly damaged.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Tuesday that nearly 250 people were dead or missing in the disaster.That figure was based on government statistics provided to the International Red Cross, said Hope Weiner, an official with the federation's East Asia regional office in Beijing.The federation said the worst natural disaster to hit the impoverished country in four years swept away a vast area of arable land, left nearly 17,000 families and totally or partially destroyed 23,400 houses.

Good Friends said North Korea had imposed a temporary ban on unnecessary domestic trips, with roads and railways cut off in many areas.The center of Pyongyang was also partly flooded for the first time in 16 years, it said.The rain caused the Taedong river to flood for the first time in 16 years,it said. The river runs along the central section of Pyongyang.Meanwhile, North Korea's two northeastern provinces were hit by a prolonged drought this year, it said.

Damage to the harvest across North Korea sparked concerns that its chronic food shortages may worsen again this year, the group said.North Korea has relied on emergency shipments from the the UN's World Food Program (WFP) to feed one-third of its population since being hit by a series of natural diasters in the mid-1990s.But it stopped accepting UN food aid late last year and asked for development assistance instead, citing better harvests and aid from China and South Korea.However, South Korea earlier this month angrily rejected a North Korean request for rice aid after Pyongang launched a series of missile tests that earned it international condemnation. North Korea's food shortages are getting worse due to the suspension of humanitarian aid from South Korea and tensions over its missile tests, Good Friends said. Famine may hit the country again this year, it said.

Typhoon hits China, over 500,000 evacuated by Cindy Sui
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BEIJING (AFP) - Typhoon Kaemi struck the southeast coast of China, sparking the evacuation of over 500,000 people in an area still reeling from a tropical storm that claimed over 600 lives. The typhoon -- which first passed over Taiwan, causing widespread disruption to daily life but not enormous damage -- struck mainland China's Fujian province at 3:50 pm (0750 GMT), the official Xinhua news agency said.State television showed footage of torrential rains lashing Fuzhou, a major city in Fujian, as workers struggled to fasten power cables and make other preparations for the onslaught of the typhoon.With the storm packing winds of up to 120 kilometers (74 miles) per hour as it approached, more than 430,000 people were evacuated from Fujian, while another 80,000 were moved from their homes in neighboring Zhejiang province.

Kaemi, which means ant in Korean, pounded Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain after making landfall there late Monday, leaving four people slightly injured when the bus they were in was hit by falling rocks.

The typhoon also forced the cancellation of flights in Taiwan, disrupted road traffic, knocked out power for thousands of residents and forced some offices to close.Kaemi had earlier brushed past the Philippines, causing heavy rain there, with schools closed and more than 2,600 people evacuated in and around the capital of Manila on Tuesday due to heavy flooding.A total of 435,000 people were evacuated in Fujian, including those working in fish farms on the sea, other fishermen and residents in low-lying areas, Xinhua news agency said.

About 44,000 fishing boats were ordered to return to harbor by Tuesday, while flights from Xiamen city have been postponed or cancelled.Around 3,000 armed police equipped with speedboats were also deployed to conduct rescue and relief operations if necessary, Xinhua said.Local authorities were advised to monitor the safety of people living in makeshift shelters at coal mines and in mountainous areas and to boost patrols along reservoirs and dams in preparation for flooding.So far, Fujian province has prepared 12,000 tents, 50,000 quilts, 80,000 items of clothing and a five-day supply of food for 300,000 people, Xinhua said.Fujian was still trying to cope with the impact of Bilis, which struck mainland China on July 14, killing at least 43 people in the province.

Zhejiang, which did not suffer too badly from Bilis, was preparing for a much tougher time with Kaemi, Xinhua said.Neighboring Guangdong province to the south, where 106 people were killed in Bilis, was also making preparations for strong winds
and heavy rain, even though it was not expected to be directly hit by Kaemi.Bilis killed at least 612 people in southern, eastern and central China, with 208 still missing, according to the latest figures released by the government Monday.China's east coast is regularly hit by storms and typhoons in the summer, but the number of fatalities, missing people and economic losses are much greater this year than in 2005, officials said over the weekend.

The UN's panel on climate change has long held that rising temperatures would result in more severe rain storms in south and central China and drought in the north. In a separate development during a brutal period of weather for north Asia, the International Red Cross said at least 121 people had been killed and another 127 missing in North Korea following heavy storms in mid-July. Nearly 17,000 families had been left homeless in five North Korean provinces with rain totally or partially destroying 23,400 houses, the Red Cross said.

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.

03:11 PM MDT on Saturday, July 22, 2006
BOISE -- Seven wildfires and more than 6,000 acres of forest are burning north of Boise today.
Bill Krumm-KTVB

The Trailhead Fire is burning in the Sawtooth National Forest off Highway 21.Two of the largest fires sparked by lightning are burning in the Payette National Forest. The Lick Creek Fire has blackened 550 The Dunce Fire burning further east has charred more than 4,000 acres. Fire crews are letting both wildfires burn naturally to reduce fuel in the forest. The Quartz Creek Fire north of Yellow Pine has charred just under 100 acres. Even bigger is the Elkhorn Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest, which has now burned 1,000 acres. The most significant wildfire this season is the Trailhead Fire in the Sawtooth National Forest near Grandjean and Yellow Pine off Highway 21. The fire is estimated at 1,000 acres. It’s burning just over a mile away from the Sawtooth Lodge.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

DANIEL 8:25
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:39
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

ISAIAH 28:15
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

TAKE NOTICE WHAT VERSE 14 SAYS YES ITS JERUSALEM THATS DIVIDED.THATS WHY GOD IS SO MAD AND WW3 RESULTS BECAUSE OF IT. IN DANIEL CHAPTERS 2 + 7 IT SAYS THE EU WILL BE THE LAST DAYS POWER AND IN DANIEL 9:24-27 IT INVOLVES ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM. YOU COULD NOT DIVIDE JERUSALEM IF IT WAS NOT IN ISRAELS HANDS, THATS WHY THE LAST DAYS COUNTDOWN STARTED WITH ISRAEL BECOMING A NATION AND RECAPTURING JERUSALEM IN THE SIX DAY WAR. JERUSALEM IS THE KEY. BECAUSE JERUSALEM WILL BE TROUBLSOME AND A CUP OF TREMBLING IN THESE LAST DAYS.

ZECHARIAH 12:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Rice says need to keep focus on Palestinian state By Wafa Amr
1 hour, 1 minute ago

RAMALLAH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday there was a need to remain focused on establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel despite the crisis in Lebanon. Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after visiting Lebanon and Israel, where she discussed the two weeks of fighting with Hizbollah guerrillas that have opened up a second front for Israel, already fighting in Gaza for a month.Even as the Lebanon situation is resolved, we must remain focused on what is happening here, in the Palestinian territories,Rice told a news conference.On our desires to get back to ... (the) vision of two states living side by side in peace.

Israeli-Palestinian relations hit a new low last month when gunmen from the Gaza Strip, including militants from the governing Hamas Islamist movement, killed two soldiers in Israel and abducted a third.That prompted an Israeli offensive which has left 121 Palestinians dead, but failed to secure the soldier's release or halt rocket fire by militants. The fighting in Gaza has been overshadowed by the war in Lebanon.A senior Palestinian official said Rice had told Abbas, a moderate, that Washington wanted to see a change in the Hamas government, which is under a U.S.-led aid embargo to force it to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept peace deals.She also told Abbas to use his authority to restore calm so that a political settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be discussed when the Lebanon crisis is over.

THREAT

If the Palestinians don't change the government and don't achieve calm, the Palestinians will be ignored,the official said. There was no immediate U.S. comment.Abbas, who has been struggling to salvage peacemaking amid resistance from Hamas, voiced hope that the Israeli soldier would be returned by the militants and Israel would be prompted to release Palestinian prisoners.We ... will exert maximum effort to revive the peace process and to guarantee the release of the soldier,he said.We hope that Israel will realize the suffering of 10,000 Palestinian families whose sons and daughters are in Israeli jails.Israel, which abandoned Gaza in 2005 after a 38 years of occupation, has ruled out any prisoner swap, although Germany, which helped negotiate an exchange of prisoners in 2004, said on Monday it was hopeful for the release of the soldier.A Palestinian official said Abbas told Rice that a more fanatical group might emerge in Lebanon if Hizbollah is cowed, noting that when Israel pushed out Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon in the 1980s they were replaced by Hizbollah.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas dismissed calls by Rice for a new Middle East of peace and democracy. It seems that the new Middle East from the American perspective begins with the destruction of Lebanon and by killing the biggest number of Palestinians,Haniyeh said.(Additional reporting by Sue Pleming)

REVELATION 17:4-5
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

SODANO-SUMMIT Jul-25-2006
Cardinal: Vatican will continue behind-scenes work for Mideast peace
By Carol Glatz,Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As government ministers and world leaders gathered in Rome to work on resolving the recent violence in the Middle East, a top church official said the Vatican would continue to work behind the scenes in pushing for a peaceful solution.

Though it was not sending a representative or observer to a July 26 summit aimed at hammering out a peace plan for Lebanon and Israel, the Vatican planned to follow the summit's progress with great attention,Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, told the Italian state television, RAI, July 24.The Holy See tries to be 'super partes' (above all parties); it has a universal mission to unite all of humanity,the cardinal said.His remarks echoed Pope Benedict XVI's July 21 comments that the Vatican tends to leave diplomatic bargaining to other nations because we do not get involved in politics even if we do everything for peace.

However, the Vatican supports everything that can facilitate and lead to peace, the pope had said.Because modern civilization calls for dialogue, not war, to resolve disputes, every day the Vatican has been contacting foreign diplomats in an effort to foster a peaceful resolution, Cardinal Sodano said.There has been intense effort contacting the chanceries of many of the countries involved in or concerned about resolving the Mideast violence, he said.Cardinal Sodano said the Vatican has been emphasizing Pope Benedict's concerns and wishes for an immediate cease-fire and a humanitarian corridor in the area of conflict so as to get needed aid into the region.The Vatican will continue to maintain contact with various governments of the world in order to make its contribution so that this tragedy may end as soon as possible,he said.Israel began a bombing campaign against targets in Lebanon and deployed troops into the country after the Islamic militant group, Hezbollah, captured two Israel soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid July 12. The violence, which includes Hezbollah launching rocket attacks into northern Israel, has killed about 400 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and about 35 Israelis and has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced.

In a separate interview with Italy's leading Catholic magazine, Famiglia Cristiana, the cardinal countered criticism that the Vatican was not understanding enough of Israel's reasons to bomb what it says are Hezbollah militants' strongholds in Lebanon.In the magazine's July 30 issue, released July 25, Cardinal Sodano said that over the last century the Vatican has always held fast to reasons of peace which will often displease one or the other side of belligerent parties.

The church's calls for nonviolence will always carry the risk of being criticized, misunderstood, or accused of taking sides, he said, but this is the price one must pay in order to contribute to the establishment of peace.Church teaching says that, if there is no competent and sufficiently powerful authority at the world level to resolve the danger of war, nations cannot be denied the right to legitimate defense once every means of peaceful resolution has been exhausted, he said.

However, even in cases of legitimate self-defense, innocent civilians must not be caught up in the fighting, and basic humanitarian laws must never be violated,he said in the magazine interview.Meanwhile, Cardinal Sodano praised the Italian government and others who made the July 26 summit a reality, saying the city of Rome has a special vocation of peace for the world.Government ministers and leaders from at least 13 countries, including the United States and Canada, were expected to attend the special summit aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. Representatives from the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank were to attend the meeting, which also was expected to address reconstruction plans and aid to Lebanon. (Catholic News Service)

25/07
WOMEN IN GREEN's ANNUAL TISHA B'AV WALK around the Walls of the Old City

MK Prof. Arieh Eldad and Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf from Hebron will lead the walk of tens of thousands As we mark a year to the destruction of Gush Katif and Northern Shomron we call upon all to join in this old Jerusalem custom of walking around the walls of
its Old City TISHA B'AV Evening, Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 For Jerusalem's Sake, I will not be silent! at 20:30 pm Maariv and the reading of Eicha at safra Square.

Bring a flag, megillat Eicha and a flashlight to help you follow the reading.at 21:30 - Our walk begins , starting from Safra Square. We will pass the New Gate, Damascus Gate and the Flower gate.

At the Lion's Gate we will assemble to proclaim our eternal bond to the Temple Mount where our First and second Temples stood, and where the Third Temple will be built, speedily in our days. We will end our Walk at the Dung gate, near the western Wall. We have a police permit for the Walk. Parking of cars (for a fee) in the Karta parking lot, Emek street across David's Citadel hotel.

Davka this year, as we mark a year to the destruction of Gush katif and Northern Shomron and the Arabs have once again started a war with us whose purpose is the elimination of any Jewish presence in Israel, it is important to show our loyalty to every inch in the Land of Israel by strengthening our bond to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. As the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg wrote:He who controls the Temple Mount, controls all of the Land of Israel Women for israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) pob 7352, Jerusalem 91072,www.womeningreen.org