12 EU CONTRIBUTE TO FORCE

1-Iranian cataclysm forecast Aug. 22. 2-Olmert's Support Falls as Israelis Back War Probe, Poll Shows. 3-US peace plan good first step to lasting peace: Rice. 4-US space commander predicts satellite attacks. 5-Dozen EU states ready in principle for Lebanon force. 6-Cosmology of the Cycles. 7-A Year After: No Consensus on the Expulsion.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.

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; 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.

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.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING 7 YR TRIBULATION.

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
Iranian cataclysm forecast Aug. 22
Islamists seeking heaven could spark apocalypse, Princeton expert warns
Posted: August 8, 2006,5:00 p.m. Eastern,© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Bernard Lewis (courtesy Princeton University)

A top expert on the Mideast says it is possible Iran could pick Aug. 22, the anniversary of one of Islam's holiest events, for a cataclysm Shiite Muslims believe will forever resolve the battle between good and evil. Princeton's Bernard Lewis has written an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal advising that the rest of the world would be wise to bear in mind that for those who believe the end of the world is imminent and good, there is no deterrent even to nuclear warfare.

As WorldNetDaily has reported, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged his people to prepare for the coming of an Islamic messiah, raising concerns a nuclear armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.

He's also said, in a WND report, that Islam and its followers must prepare to rule the world, because it is a universal ideology that leads the world to justice.
Now comes Lewis, who notes that the world must be concerned about a leader for whom the possibility of death is not a deterrent.

In this context, mutual assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning, Lewis wrote. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead – hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD is not a constraint, it is an inducement,he said.

Lewis noted that Ahmadinejad has referred to Aug. 22 several times, including when he rejected until that date – United Nations requests for nuclear program information. Lewis, joining several other Mideast experts who have expressed similar concerns, said Aug. 22 corresponds to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427.

This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque,
usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back,Lewis wrote. In Islam, as in other religious, certain beliefs describe the cosmic struggle at the end of time. For Shiite Muslims, Lewis wrote, this will be the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil.

The significance, he said, is that there's a radical difference between Iran and other governments with nuclear weapons. This difference is expressed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic worldview of Iran's present rulers, he wrote. Iran's leaders now clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. As for intent, a passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, reveals priorities: I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers (i.e., the infidel powers) wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom.

Lewis wrote, This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadanejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind. Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, specializes in Muslim history and interaction between Muslims and the West. His comments echoed those made just a few days earlier by Robert Spencer, another scholar of Islamic history, theology and law and the director of Jihad Watch. In an article for Front Page Magazine.com, he wrote that Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of Syria, noted the commemoration of Muhammad's ascent to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Spencer said the Night Journey, or Miraj, is what makes Jerusalem a holy site for Islam, and Islamic tradition believes Muhammad, along with the angel Gabriel, went to the Temple Mount, and then to heaven in a bathing of light over Jerusalem. Spencer reported that Ghadry talked of Ahmadinejad's plans for an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the light of that Islamic belief.

Ghadry said what the Iranian president is promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over the Aqsa Mosque,Spencer said. He said a nuclear attack on Jerusalem, or even a conventional attack, would be consistent with the references that have been made, including Ahmadinejad's talk that Israel pushed the button of its own destruction by returning fire for Hezbollah's rocket barrage. Also, Atomic Iran author Jerome Corsi notes that it's less significant whether Hezbollah survives, but it's really the first chapter in the play for Iran and the Shiite Islam nation to come to ascendancy in the Muslim world. First is the battle against Israel and the United States, he said, then against Sunni Islam. Where that group is more dominant, he said, is in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where group members are not unhappy to see Iran contained.

They may launch an attack, but I still think if they had a weapon they would just go ahead and use it,Corsi said.Terrorists don't brag about things they're going to do until after they do it. He said the recent comments are more typical of terrorists' efforts to get attention. When Ahmadinejad is capable of taking action he will do it without any warning or bravado; he'll just do it, Corsi said. In the updated edition of Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians, now available in paperback from WND Books, Corsi discusses many of the disturbing developments related to Iran. Meanwhile, Tanzanian customs officials have uncovered an Iranian smuggling operation transporting large quantities of bomb-making uranium from the same mines in the Congo that provided the nuclear material for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 61 years ago, according to a recent report in the London Sunday Times.

A United Nations report, outlining the interception last October, said there is no doubt the smuggled uranium-238 came from mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province. The smuggled uranium discovered by Tanzanian customs agents was hidden in shipment of coltan, a rare mineral used to make chips in mobile telephones. According to the manifest, the coltan was to be smelted in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan after being shipped to Bandar Abbas, Iran's largest port. Uranium-238, when used in a nuclear reactor, can be used to create plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Olmert's Support Falls as Israelis Back War Probe, Poll Shows

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's job- approval rating fell to 40 percent, according to a poll published today in Ma'ariv newspaper, compared with 78 percent on July 19, a week after hostilities erupted between Israel and Hezbollah. More than two-thirds of those questioned, or 67 percent, said there should be an investigation into the way the war was handled. Sixty-seven percent said they would support a resumption of fighting if it meant killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The poll of 500 Israeli Jewish adults was conducted yesterday, and the margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.

Though Olmert's rating fell, the poll showed that if elections were held now, the Kadima party he heads would retain its 29 seats out of 120 in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament. The Likud party, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, would post the largest gains, rising from 12 seats to 20. A majority of Israelis, 63 percent, said the country should bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel has accused Iran of providing weapons and funds to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group that triggered the conflict with Israel when it abducted two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid July 12. Fighting halted with the implementation of a UN-mandated cease- fire on Aug. 14. The U.S. and Israel classify Hezbollah, which been linked to scores of terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans, as a terrorist organization.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Janine Zacharia in Jerusalem at jzacharia@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: August 16, 2006 04:03 EDT

ISAIAH 28:14-19
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.

US peace plan 'good first step' to lasting peace: Rice Wed Aug 16, 11:07 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The UN peace plan for Lebanon will be difficult to implement,
but is a good first step to a lasting peace in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly said in a letter. Rice said UN Resolution 1701 passed on Friday that has led to a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, would also represent, once implemented, a strategic setback for Syria and Iran, who sought to prolong and intensify the war the world tried to stop, according to The Washington Post.Unlike 10 years ago, said Rice referring to the last ceasefire that was brokered over the heads of the Lebanese ... the international community is helping the Lebanese government create the conditions of lasting peace, full independence, complete sovereignty, effective democracy and a weakened Hezbollah with fewer opportunities to rearm and regroup.

Crucial for the short-term success of the peace plan, Rice said, was full cessation of hostilities ... the unconditional release of the abducted Israeli soldiers and the sevenfold increase of peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.The peace plan lays out the political principles to secure a lasting peace: no foreign forces, no weapons and no authority in Lebanon other than that of the sovereign Lebanese government.And for the first time the international community has put its full weight behind a practical political framework to help the Lebanese government realize these principles, including the disarmament of all militias operating on its territory.

The agreement we reached last week is a good first step, but it is only a first step, said Rice, adding that the United States would help to lead relief efforts
for the people of Lebanon, and we will fully support them as they rebuild their country.She said Washington had increased our immediate humanitarian assistance to 50 million dollars.

As to Hezbollah's claim to victory in the month-long conflict, Rice said the militant group only achieved the blame of the world for causing this war.

In a separate interview with USA Today also published Wednesday, Rice said any political benefit Hezbollah derived from its fight with Israel would be very short lived, and denied that its leader Hassan Nasrallah had emerged with a new standing.Nasrallah is going to have to face what has become of those populations in the south and the great devastation that Hezbollah brought on,she said.On disarming the militant group, she said it was up to the Lebanese and not the United Nations, but that to the degree that support is needed for that, the international forces can help.Militias, she pointed out, are disarmed by a plan under political agreement and then support can be given to the Lebanese in doing that.In case Hezbollah refuses to disarm, Rice said the militant group would find itself increasingly isolated from Europe and other nations, and the weapons embargo would prevent them from being rearmed by its sponsors in Syria and Iran.One would have to assume that there will be others who are willing to call Hezbollah what we are willing to call it, which is a terrorist organization, Rice said.

REVELATION 12:7-17
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,(SATAN AND HIS DEMONS)
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.(SATAN GETS BOOTED TO EARTH) (AND INCARNATES IN THE EU DICTATOR, WHO DIES AND COMES BACK TO LIFE AND THEN CLAIMS TO BE GOD, ISRAELIS REALIZE HES BEEN A FALSE MESSIAH AND FLEE TO PETRA IN JORDAN) THE ONES THAT DON'T LEAVE GET PERSECUTED BY THE EU DICTATOR.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,(SALVATION) and by the word of their testimony;and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman(ISRAEL) which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,(AIR PLANE) that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.(3 1/2 YRS OF PROTECTION)
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water(TSUNAMI) as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman,(ISRAEL) and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman,(ISRAEL) and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,(PERSECUTION) which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

US space commander predicts satellite attacks By Jim Wolf
Tue Aug 15, 8:05 PM ET

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - The Air Force's new top commander for space predicted on Tuesday future attacks on U.S. satellites and called for greatly expanded tracking and identification of payloads launched by other countries. Currently, U.S. efforts are focused on determining if an overseas launch is a ballistic missile or designed to put an object in orbit, then cataloging it over a
period that can take weeks, said Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.I say those days are over,he told an annual conference here on the fledgling, multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield. If it's a space launch, we can't afford to relax.We need to know what the intent of that launch is, he said, including whether an object could jam or otherwise harm satellites or spread micro-satellites that could do so.Chilton said his goal was to learn all this in the object's first orbit of the Earth so the United States could take unspecified actions before an adversary can cripple us.

The increased situational awareness he had in mind could be achieved largely through improved computer work that would present information in easy-to-understand displays, he said.Foes would be foolish not to be thinking of how to deny the United States the advantages of space, on which it relies heavily for military and commercial purposes, said Chilton, who took over the space command a month and a half ago.And in the future, I'm convinced they'll strike at these capabilities, if nothing else to attempt to level the playing field, he said.Chilton said the United States had a duty to secure the entire space domain not just for our own military but for our allies and for the benefit of the free world.In other remarks to the missile-defense conference, Gil Nolte of the code-making Information Assurance Directorate at the Pentagon's National Security Agency said his agency believed unspecified foreign intelligence agencies had been behind attacks on U.S. computer networks.He said there had been insufficient investment in cyber security at all levels of the U.S. government while attackers were very well financed and used a wide range of tradecraft.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING
BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
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;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Middle East News
Dozen EU states ready in principle for Lebanon force
Aug 16, 2006, 16:06 GMT

Brussels - One dozen of the 25-member nations of the European Union (EU) declared Wednesday their readiness in principle for their countries to contribute troops
to a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, diplomats in Brussels said. But the diplomats, commenting on talks by the EU political and security committee deliberations on the Lebanon, said no formal decision was taken.

The 12 nations which gave fundamental agreement to participating in a UN force included Belgium, Germany, France, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the Czech Republic, the diplomats said. Earlier, EU policy chief Javier Solana urged the EU to look not only at sending an international peacekeeping force to Lebanon but to provide long-term political, economic and humanitarian aid to the country. The EU political and security committee has gathered following a three-day trip by Solana to Lebanon and Israel. Representatives of the 25 EU governments are discussing preparations for deployment.

Diplomats said Solana wants the committee to look not only at military help but the reconstruction of the country and discuss the EU's long-term 'political, economic and financial contribution. It was still unclear how large a part EU states would take in the UN force but a considerable contribution was planned, diplomats said earlier in the week. The planned international force would police the ceasefire that came into effect Monday after more than a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

WEEKLY COMMENTARY Monday, August 14, 2006 2:37 GMT
Weekly Report ,By Clif Droke,http://www.clifdroke.com

Cosmology of the Cycles

In the past few months we've been subjected to a constant barrage of bad news from the Middle East and around the world. We've witnessed plagues, pestilence and natural disasters of biblical proportions: tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and of course, ceaseless warfare, serving as a constant reminder that these are times of great tribulation.

On top of all this comes the recent explosion of violence in the Mid-East region. In the past we've seen how the peaks and troughs of the Kress cycles have coincided not only with periods of strength and weakness in the market but also with manifestations of violence. We witnessed, for instance, the bottom of the dominant interim cycle in 2001 occur at the same time as the 9/11 bombings in New York and Washington. We saw last July's bombings in London coincide with the bottom of the Master weekly sub-cycle. And with the approach of the 4-year/8-year cycle bottom this September, we've seen additional oubreaks of violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.

One such recent outbreak occurred last week when more than 100 bombings took place in a single day -- a record. The fighting between Israel and Lebanon is another
such manifestation as this dominant yearly cycle comes down hard. What is it about the cycles that produces such acts of cruelty? Is there a cosmological aspect to the cycles during the times of cycle peaks and troughs, as yet uncovered, that extends beyond the purely monetary realm and extends into other areas of human affairs? Or is the explanation to be found in the world controllers fomenting military strife for the purpose of cushioning the blows of the cycle bottoms? The answers to these questions are not easily discovered but hopefully our investigation can shed a little more light on the problem.

As the headline to this essay suggests, there is a cosmology, or interconnectiveness between the affairs of man and sundry acts of God. Instances of this may be found in past years as, for example, the terrible series of storms that battered the East and Gulf costal areas of the U.S. in the summer of 2005. During one of the worst hurricanes last August the stock market found a temporary bottom to a minor decline that had been underway that summer. Yet within a few weeks the S&P 500 broke down to its low for the year. Soon thereafter the weather disasters ceased: East coast barometric pressure averages returned to normal and the broad market enjoyed a 7-month recovery period.

Going further back in 2004 we saw the hurricanes and foul weather associated with the 10-year cycle bottoming process. This was capped off with an event of truly biblical proportions as the Tsunami wreaked utter devastation to Indonesia. This was followed shortly thereafter by a peak in the stock market's fourth quarter rally of 2004 and a decline into May 2005. Other examples could be given, but suffice it to say that acts of God normally produce market tops while the orchestrated violence of man most often has the effect of producing market bottoms.

Following are a few additional observations that can be made in regard to the cosmology of the cycles:

* The percentage of violent crimes committed in major cities tends to increase during the hard down phase (i.e., final 10%) of a dominant yearly cycle.

* The rate of sickness and death around the country and in developed nations expands when the major cycles are coming down hard.

* Global terrorism and bombings always increase in the "hard down" phase of a major cycle.

* Bankruptcy among individuals and corporations increase during these cyclical down phases (e.g., the previous 8-year cycle bottom saw the demise of Long-Term Capital Management while the current 8-year cycle bottoming process has seen the bankruptcy of the Russian oil giant Yukos.)

To further our study of cycle cosmology let's examine the following graphs in comparison to each other.

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 (ISRAELIS) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

A Year After: No Consensus on the Expulsion
By Hillel Fendel(INN)

Exactly a year has passed since the expulsion from Gush Katif, and despite the suffering of the expelled and the Hizbullah War, there is still no national consensus on the matter. One year ago today, on August 17, 2005, tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers and policemen descended upon the residents of Gush Katif the northern Shomron was targeted a week later) and began forcibly removing them from their homes.

An article in on the Ynet Hebrew news site depicting the suffering of the expelled over the past year including family breakups, suicide attempts, unemployment, and more - has aroused a wave of comments. Despite the sympathetic nature of the article towards the former residents, the talkbacks show that Israeli society is still very divided over the issue.

Dozens of couples have begun divorce proceedings, and many others are suffering various difficulties between spouses, with children, and among themselves. Quoting a psychologist who has treated many Gush Katif couples, the article tells the plight of men 50 years old and over who were used to working hard their whole lives and who now can't get out of bed... Another psychologist talks of a woman who constantly relives the trauma of not being allowed to go to the bathroom for 30 hours while on the bus out of the Gush, and the resulting humiliation, and others who cannot remove from their minds the sight of long columns of black-uniformed soldiers coming to take them from their homes.

Their gentle struggle against the evacuation created a situation in which the extent of their fury never found its true expression, one psychologist said. A man's home is his castle - this is very instinctive. Think what type of fury erupts from a person whose home is destroyed yet they never expressed it... Then their long hotel stays greatly hurt the family cell, with the children far away from the parents' room, and the families not eating together for months - one of the most important aspects of religious family life... Then they put them into these caravillas, and now they are reduced to prowling back and forth there like lions in a cage.

The grave situation depicted in the article did not particularly move all its readers, however. One particularly hostile commenter, who evoked many objections by later talk-backers, wrote, I feel only derision towards you. Get divorced, leave the country, become poor... I heard that some rich farmers who were expelled from Gush Katif are doing good business in Ethiopia; go there it's good for all of you. And
make room there for the new expellees from the West Bank; you can build settlements in Ethiopia.

A typical response to this writer was: You are so full of hatred. Another one wrote, I have trouble believing you are Jewish.Most of the writers had some form of empathy for the settlers, even if they did not agree with them.The disengagement was a correct move, one wrote, it's just too bad that the evacuated residents are in such a bad state. In my opinion, it's both their fault and the government's fault. It seems strange to me that people who announced that they had lost all confidence in the country, waited for that very country to save them.Others criticized them for not having anticipated the expulsion in advance, and for not raising their children properly.

In response to many of the more negative comments, one wrote the following: I have read all the comments up until now and I am shocked at what I see. Every argument, as far as you are concerned, has only to do with politics? Every time the word settler is mentioned, it arouses your glands of [self] hatred and fury? Can't you simply read the article as it's written a description of tremendous emotional distress of an entire public...? Where does this incessant hatred come from? Every single one of you, if you would sit face-to-face with one of these families and hear their story, would feel empathy and even sadness regardless of your political opinions. Enough of this unending hatred!

Another comment, signed by Man of the Left,was entitled, When I started reading the article, I felt nothing.It then continued, There's this unspoken feeling we have that it's not our fault, but rather theirs [the expelled residents]. Those who feel that the settlers never should have been there, and that it was wrong for them to build communities there, cannot identify with the pain of being uprooted.

Automatically the well-known phrases of wasted money and soldiers who were killed there start jumping up in our heads. But in the middle of the article, I had another thought that something is not right if I am closed to what is being described here. It describes not a disengagement but a collapse. The collapse of genuine life. And to be honest, it's not totally their fault, because the State is that which decided on the direction of settlement as something that is justified. The State encouraged them and the Stated crushed them. I still think we had to leave Gaza - but maybe if it was in the framework of real peace... perhaps the idea that their loss gave us something significant would have changed something. Furthermore: The State knew that the disengagement would happen; it was not right that alternate communities were not prepared... They were not only expelled from their homes but from their lives... For
this, I admit guilt.One commenter wrote that the residents often treated the army as if the army owes them something.

Largely in response to that, one young soldier wrote, I was there and evacuated Shirat HaYam, Kfar Yam, and some others... So first of all, [the above commenter] is either an idiot or has no idea what he is talking about. The large majority of the residents behaved in a way that cannot but be admired. They love every piece and stone of this country, more than what most of us can even comprehend, and are willing to sacrifice so much for concepts such as faith, common decency, and love of the Land... To call them lawbreakers is simply stupidity and a misunderstanding of the reality and the facts... The lack of support that the government and some parts of the country showed our brothers (!!!) whom we removed from their homes - that is what widened the gap between us and created the crisis, no less than the process of the evacuation itself... The high percentage of elite army fighters, officers and
fighters in various IDF units among them is almost illogical.

I talked to officers who lost their soldiers and people who were wounded in war or by terrorism in Gush Katif. Try, please, just to understand them, instead of hating them for nothing... I am a secular youth, aged 20, from central Israel, who was sent at such an early age to defend and sacrifice for the country in which we all live...One philosopher summed up the situation by reminding his fellow-countrymen that at least we're home.He wrote: Whenever an El Al flight takes off from Tel Aviv, after five minutes everyone starts complaining about the service, etc. But when they're on British Airways or Lufthansa, those same Israelis sit quietly, without making a peep, and even praising the airline. What's the conclusion?

That if you move abroad you will be like Jews who are detached and scared, planning where to run to when the persecutor comes and thinking how to prevent your children from assimilating. Therefore, I'm not impressed with your cries for a second. You're just like the El Al passengers...Others said that the government had truly done them an injustice. One wrote very succintly, Sharon, Sharon! Too bad you're not around to see what you have caused! Another one summed up by noting the just-ended war in Lebanon and quoting Joseph's brothers in the Bible who said, But we are at fault for seeing his suffering when he pleaded to us but we did not listen and therefore this suffering has come upon us.