IRAN THREATENS EU IF FOR ISRAEL

1-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 2-Strong earthquake rattles Peruvian coast. 3-300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano . 4-Indonesia disaster shows risks of mud volcanoes. 5-Death toll from Thai, Myanmar floods reaches 127. 6-Haniyeh: Hamas will not be moved from power. 7-Opening an Embassy for Yesha. 8-New Iranian Threats Set Off Alarm Bells in Israel. 9-U.N.: Number of ocean dead zones rise. 10-Gillerman: Iran is determined to destroy.11-PM Olmert: PA’s Moment of Truth Rapidly Approaching. 12-Ahmadinejad warns Europe it will pay for backing Israel. 13-Speculation mounts over Solana leaving job.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 19, 2006

Dear Friend of The Fellowship,

Too often, Hollywood movie producers spend millions making films that look good, but are so short on substance they aren't long for viewing. On the other hand, people of faith have entered the film market and produced movies that try to tell good stories, but are marred by poor production values. A new movie, One Night with the King, is one that I'm looking forward to seeing when I return from Israel later this month. My friend Michael Medved, a national radio show host and movie reviewer, has called the movie, a very, very powerful testament to how much the American Christian community loves the Jewish community. My staff has confirmed that it is a beautifully filmed production comparable to the best Hollywood has to offer that faithfully recounts the biblical story of Esther, one of the most compelling in the Bible. The King of Persia chooses a beautiful young woman named Esther to be his queen, unaware that she is Jewish. Esther hears from Mordecai, her uncle, that the King has entrusted the fate of Persian Jews to Haman, the King's top adviser. Haman hates the Jews, and issues an order that they all be killed.

At great risk to her own life, Esther reveals to the King that she is Jewish and pleads with him to save her people. He agrees to do so, and, in a fitting twist, gives the evil Haman the same fate Haman himself had planned to give the Jews.The story of Esther is usually associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim, still four months away. But its message is timeless. Esther's bravery and obedience to God inspires in any season. And her willingness to put her own life on the line to save her people teaches us a valuable lesson about self-sacrifice and purpose.Haman, on the other hand, represents a sort all too common today the person who hates the Jews so much that he sees in their destruction the solution to all the world's problems. We hear echoes of Haman in Iranian president Ahamadinejad's call to wipe Israel off the map in the promise by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that the Palestinian government will never recognize Israel's right to exist in the hateful words of radical Muslim clerics who refer to Jews as descendants of apes and pigs in their sermons.

The power of One Night with the King comes from its strong biblical message. In a world when Hamans often speak the loudest, we need more Esthers seeking to do what is right, to stand humbly before God and defend His people in the face of all difficulties.

Like Esther, perhaps God has indeed raised you and me up for such a time as this (Esther 4:14) a time when true Guardians of Israel are needed to confront anti-Semitism, to give generously to feed Israel's hungry and clothe her poor, and to comfort and bind the wounds of those whose lives have been shattered by war and terrorism. Let's continue in that duty and turn a time of great uncertainty and difficulty for Israel and the Jewish people into a time of joy and celebration.

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

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EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Strong earthquake rattles Peruvian coast 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - A strong earthquake rattled Peru's southern coast on Friday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck at 5:48 a.m. below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 56 miles northwest of the coastal city of Pisco, according to Peru's Geophysics Institute. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake as magnitude 6.5. The earthquake was felt as a long shudder in the capital, Lima, and inland in the Andean provincial city of Huancavelica. But it caused the most alarm in Ica, a coastal city 165 miles to the southeast, where local radio reports said panicked residents rushed from their homes into streets and parks.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano Thu Oct 19, 10:08 PM ET

QUITO, Ecuador - Lava and ash erupted from an Ecuadoran volcano and forced the evacuation of about 300 villagers, a local mayor said Thursday. An eruption two months ago of the Tungurahua volcano killed four people and left two others missing and still unaccounted for.We were able to take them out last night from the most dangerous zones located on the flanks where the explosions occurred Aug. 16,said Juan Salazar, mayor of Penipe, 12 miles from the volcano.The upper slopes of the volcano have been mostly deserted since August. But Salazar said about 80 families had returned to attempt to farm in the ash-encrusted ground.They saw incandescent rocks coming down on the slopes and so they evacuated, he said. No injuries were reported.

In addition to the casualties, nearly 5,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged and tens of thousands of acres of pasture and crops were also destroyed in the August eruption, according to the Civil Defense.Experts have warned that renewed explosions could come any time from the 16,575-foot volcano located about 85 miles south of the capital, Quito.What we have seen now is evidence that something there could be something similar to the episodes in July and August,said Hugo Yepes, director of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute. Inside the ground there is a chamber of magma much larger than the volcano itself.

Indonesia disaster shows risks of mud volcanoes By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent 1 hour, 45 minutes ago Oct 20,06

OSLO (Reuters) - In a village in Indonesia's East Java province, a man is struggling to watch television with a volcano erupting in his living room. Risks from volcanoes that ooze mud rather than spew lava have long been underestimated worldwide, even with a cataclysmic mudflow in another part of Java that has swamped an area the size of Monaco and forced 10,000 people from their homes.Experts say the disaster, flooding the Sidoarjo region since May 29, highlights lack of knowledge about mud volcanoes, thousands of which have been found from Alaska to Australia. They range from tiny seeps to cones 500 meters (1,640 ft) tall.

In Java nobody ever studied mud volcanoes,said Adriano Mazzini, a leading Italian volcano expert at the University of Oslo who says the Indonesian disaster may signal the first time people have recorded the birth of a mud volcano.In Indonesia they have other priorities magmatic volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis,he told Reuters.

On Java, villages about 10-20 km (6-12 miles) north of the mud eruption Gununganyar, Kalanganyar and Pulungan are built on old, near-dormant mud volcanoes that must have seemed attractive-looking mounds to village founders.

Pulungan was the most vivid example of ignoring the risks of mud volcanoes, such as subsidence.We went to one house where a man took us into his living room. He opened the cupboard beneath the television, and there were seeps erupting, Mazzini said after a recent trip.Another home in Pulungan has collapsed and elsewhere many residents are worried by seeps of gas, mud and fluids. The volcano may have been stirred by an earthquake on May 27, two days before the catastrophic mudflow began.

BUILDING LIFTED

In Kalanganyar, the end of one long thin building had been lifted a meter or two over the years by the pressures from a mud volcano bulging beneath.Mud volcanoes need better study,said Antje Boetius, a professor at the International University of Bremen in Germany.She noted that they could cause disasters, ranging from subsidence to tsunamis. They mean something for humans it's not just scientific curiosity,she said.Mud volcanoes are often caused by a build-up of pressure from sediments crushed several kilometers below the surface that release methane and other gases. They are often found near oil and gas deposits, also caused by a crush of organic matter.As in Java, they can also happen near where tectonic plates of the earth's crust rub together. Mazzini said it was impossible to say how long the Sidoarjo flow would last.

He said researchers would probably never know exactly what triggered the catastrophic mudflow at Sidoarjo, releasing the build-up of pressure deep below ground.The trigger might have been a magnitude 4 earthquake two days before the mudflow began, he said, or the drilling of a gas exploration well operated by PT Lapindo Brantas Inc, which is controlled by Pt Energi Mega Persada.

Mud volcanoes are rarely deadly since they more often seep rather than explode. In 1997, an eruption of a mud volcano at Piparo, a farming village in central Trinidad, threw mud 45 meters (150 ft) into the air, covering many homes. No one died. In Azerbaijan, a large mud volcano that erupted in 2001 also released giant flares of methane.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

Death toll from Thai, Myanmar floods reaches 127 Fri Oct 20, 4:25 AM ET

BANGKOK (AFP) - The death toll from severe flooding in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar has reached 127 as Thai weather authorities warned of more heavy rains over the weekend in the country's south.

At least 108 people have died in Thailand since severe flooding began in late August in the country's central and northern provinces, the interior ministry said in a statement.

The death toll soared overnight after the ministry confirmed that 25 people reported dead earlier were confirmed to be flood victims.The water that inundated northern Thailand was slowly working its way south, but 16 central provinces were still suffering from the floods, the ministry said.At its peak earlier in the month, the flooding, triggered by heavy rains from Typhoon Xangsane, affected 46 of the nation's 76 provinces.In neighboring Myanmar, 19 people died in floods across central and eastern parts of the country, but in most places there, the water has already subsided.

Haniyeh: Hamas will not be moved from power
Friday 20 October 2006, 17:38 Makka Time, 14:38 GMT

Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, said in a speech at a mosque on Friday that Hamas would reject any moves by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to oust Hamas from power.Haniyeh's convoy came under attack as it passed through the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza shortly after the prime minister's speech, but the Hamas leader was unhurt.Hamas officials said the attack did not appear to be an assassination attempt, but it comes at a time of growing tensions between rival Palestinian factions that have sparked fears of civil war.

An official in Haniyeh's office said: The prime minister is alright and he is out of the area which witnessed the gunfire. His car was not attacked. Islam Shawan, a spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, said that the last car in the motorcade was hit and set alight.

There were no reports of injuries.

Pointless

Abbas has hinted that he might fire the Hamas government after efforts to form a unity cabinet foundered over Hamas' refusal to soften its stance toward Israel.Haniyeh said it would be pointless for Abbas to fire the government, suggesting any emergency administration the president appointed would not get the ultimate approval of parliament, where Hamas has an absolute majority.
He also said Hamas would reject other measures such as calling early elections. Haniyeh said: All you have here are options that have no aim but to remove Hamas from government. The wheel of history will not go backward.All these options will not achieve stability and calm and will not represent a way out of the crisis.

Haniyeh did not threaten explicit action to oppose Abbas, such as calling Hamas supporters out onto the streets.

Western sanctions

Abbas said this week that he would make a decision soon on the fate of the government. The president has not explicitly identified his options but his aides have said that he might call fresh elections, appoint an emergency cabinet or hold a referendum to let the Palestinian people decide what to do.A senior Abbas aide told Reuters on Thursday that the president was expected to make his decision several days after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Eid this year falls around October 23.Palestinians had hoped that a unity government would lead to a lifting of crippling Western sanctions that were
imposed on Hamas when it assumed office in March.(Reuters)

Opening an Embassy for Yesha
By Stan Goodenough,October 20, 2006

It was an event that went largely unnoticed (or was purposefully ignored) by the news media. For many of those participating, however, it was one of prophetic magnitude and an opportunity to express their unshakeable resolve.On Sunday, October 8, in front of more than 300 visiting Gentiles and invited Israeli guests, the Jerusalem-based pro-Israel Christian organization, the International Christian Zionist Center, officially opened its new offices on the road between Jerusalem and Bethel.According to an ICZC press release, the move to the area in Samaria, behind the controversial security fence and inside the territory earmarked for a future State of Palestine, was made in solidarity with the people of Israel and their undeniable historic link to all their divinely-promised land.

Because every unilateral Israeli withdrawal in the region had only increased the bellicose stand of Israel’s enemies and intensified their terrorism against Israel, with their final aim being to excise the sovereign Jewish state from their Muslim midst, ICZC director Jan Willem van der Hoeven said the Christians represented by the organization believed that Israel needs to spell out to the world as well as to her own, battered, people that this tiny piece of land is theirs and will never be forsaken by them.With members in nations around the globe, the ICZC had committed itself to tirelessly spelling this out to our own gentile leaders and governments.

Van der Hoeven recalled how, in 1981, after 13 embassies crumpled under Arab pressure and fled from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, he had led a small group of Christians in founding the International Christian Embassy so that Christians around the world could say to Israel, You are not alone.I feel to repeat that action today, Van der Hoeven said, and open an embassy for Yesha (the targeted areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza) here, to say like Ruth to the Jews in these endangered communities, Your God is our God and we are with you.It is on the hearts of millions of Christians, from China to Brazil, from America to South Africa, as some of you have come to say to the Jewish people, You will never have peace when you give up the land; but you will have peace when you keep it!

The land where the ICZC offices were situated was the very land Jacob had been sleeping when God promised him that the ground on which you are lying, I will give to you.This land, which included Ariel and Bethel and Shiloh and Hebron and Jerusalem, was now under the gun. And if the battle to preserve Bethel and Shiloh was lost, the battle for Jerusalem would also be lost.Among the Israeli guests asked to address the gathering were Ron Nachman, the founder and mayor of Ariel, the biggest Jewish community Samaria, and Hebrew University Professor of Arabic Studies Moshe Sharon.Stepping up to the microphone, Nachman declared: In the Bible there is no West Bank, no Occupied Territories…only the Promised Land.He reminded world leaders that the first deed in real estate was not in Washington DC, not in Paris, not in London, it was in Hebron.

But he bemoaned the fact that the Gentile nations do not see the biggest threat today: the clash of civilizations, Islam against Christianity and Judaism.Nachman said he believed it was important that Christians and Jews stand together in defense of Israel’s land.When visiting the United States, he said, I am not welcomed and not invited to speak by the Jewish establishment, because I am mayor of the biggest Jewish city in the West Bank.So I go to the Christians.The mayor, a former Knesset member, said he sees a great hope in the connection of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities in resisting the world’s efforts to rob the Jews of their land.However, he stressed, while it was good that people prayed against the uprooting of Jewish communities Gush Katif was evacuated despite all the prayers.

The fight was also a political fight and we need to fight it on that front, he said.Moshe Sharon sounded the alarm he has been speaking out for many years but which have mostly fallen on the deaf ears of politicians who believe they have to remain politically correct:The world is caught up in a clash of civilizations and is already in fact embroiled in World War III.The Middle East conflict was part of that war, but it was reaching deep into areas in the Western world.Beware Europe! You are on the way to becoming an Islamic state. There are 4800 mosques in Germany alone!! And right now in the oldest city in Finland, a new mosque is being erected that is so high it will be visible from 50 km away…Muslims were teaching that Europe is the cancer. Islam is the answer!

Sharon, an advisor on Arab affairs to a number of former Israeli prime ministers, said there could never be peace between Israel as a Jewish state and the Arabs, for as far as the Arabs are concerned the establishment of the state of Israel is a reversal of history; it was something that could not happen! The word peace simply does not exist in the Quran, he said.Returning to the podium, Van der Hoeven told the gathering that while the International Christian Zionist Center was the only Christian-led organization to fully support Jews against expulsion from the heartland of Israel by physically locating itself on the endangered land, he believed other pro-Israel groups would one day follow this example.It was the vision of the ICZC to help train the millions of Christians from every nation to stand pro-actively with Israel, spiritually, materially and politically, as Israel’s few remaining friends among the nations faded away.

New Iranian Threats Set Off Alarm Bells in Israel
By Robert Berger ,Jerusalem,20 October 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel no longer has any reason to exist and will soon disappear. The latest threats are adding to Israel's already deep concerns about Iran's nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers speech after attending anti-Israeli rally Friday, Oct. 20, 2006.

Israeli officials say the saber-rattling from Iran is another warning to the international community that the Islamic regime must not be allowed to get a nuclear bomb. At a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran's president said Israeli leaders are a group of terrorists, and he threatened any country that supports the Jewish state. He also said Israel is a fake regime that would soon disappear. It was a similar statement to one a year ago, when he threatened to wipe Israel off the map.

Since then, Israel has watched the Iranian nuclear program with growing alarm. Foreign Minister Tzippe Livni says the leaders of Iran pose a threat to regional and global stability.They speak proudly and openly of their desire to wipe Israel off the map, she said. And now, by their actions, they pursue the weapons to achieve this objective, to imperil the region and to threaten the world.

So what now?

The world faces a critical test.,she noted.Israel believes the international community is moving too slowly to stop Iran, and that the U.N. must change course and quickly impose sanctions.

Ehud Olmert

However, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Russia this week to urge a tougher stand on Iran, but came away empty handed from talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russia is building Iran's first nuclear reactor and opposes sanctions on Tehran.So Mr. Olmert warned that Iran would have a price to pay if it does not back down from its nuclear ambitions. It was a broad hint that if the international community does not act, Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities on its own.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

U.N.: Number of ocean dead zones rise By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Scientists have found 200 dead zones in the world's oceans places where pollution threatens fish, other marine life and the people who depend on them.

The United Nations report Thursday showed a 34 percent jump in the number of such zones from just two years ago. Pollution-fed algae, which deprives other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones that cover tens of thousands of square miles of waterways. Scientists chiefly blame fertilizer and other farm run-off, sewage and fossil-fuel burning.Those contain an excess of nutrients, particularly phosphorous and nitrogen, that cause explosive blooms of tiny plants known as phytoplankton. When they die, they sink to the bottom, where they are eaten by bacteria that use up the oxygen in the water.

The low levels of oxygen in the water make it difficult for fish, oysters and other marine creatures to survive as well as important habitats such as sea grass beds,U.N. officials said. These areas are fast becoming major threats to fish stocks and thus to the people who depend upon fisheries for food and livelihoods.By 2030, the world's rivers will pump 14 percent more nitrogen into seas and oceans than that found in the mid-1990s, according to new U.N. research released at a meeting in Beijing.Researchers led by Robert Diaz, a marine scientist at Virginia's College of William and Mary, said they found new dead zones at the Archipelago Sea in Finland; Fosu Lagoon in Ghana; Pearl River estuary and Changjiang River in China; and Mersey River estuary in Britain.Other new zones found were at the Elefsis Bay and Aegean Sea in Greece; Paracas Bay in Peru; Mondego River in Portugal; Montevideo Bay in Uruguay; and in the western Indian Ocean.

The United Nations marine experts said the number and size of oxygen-deprived zones has grown each decade since the 1970s.Not all the dead zones persist year-round; some return seasonally, depending on winds that bring nutrient-rich water to the surface.

It seems like a big jump in two years,said Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, who was not part of the U.N. research. She said an important factor has been the huge increase in pollution from fast-developing countries.Rabalais, who has studied the Gulf of Mexico's massive dead zone that is now the size of New Jersey, said marine creatures that swim fast enough can usually escape.The things that are left behind are the ones that usually can't survive, she said.

When you consider the size of some of these areas, it's removing what's considered the essential habitat for fishes and crustaceans.Other U.N. scientific findings released Thursday, however, raised hopes for the recovery of damaged coral reefs, which serve as the ocean's nurseries. It found that reefs bleached in the late 1990s by high surface sea temperatures are affected by how polluted the waters are.Coral reefs recovering faster are generally those living in marine protected areas and coastal waters where the levels of pollution, dredging and other kinds of human-induced disturbance are considered low,the U.N. said.
On the Net:U.N. report: http://www.gpa.unep.org/bin/php/igr/igr2/supporting.php

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Gillerman: Iran is determined to destroy
Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 10.19.06

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Gillerman took advantage of the monthly UN discussion on the situation in the Middle East Thursday to warn the members of the Security Council on the threat posed by Iran. Gillerman said Iran paid Hamas USD 50 million in order to torpedo efforts to release Gilad Shalit. Today I learned that Iran had paid USD 50 million to Hamas in order to torpedo the deal to the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

If Iran is willing to pay so much money to solve a humanitarian issue, it is frightening how much they will be willing to pay to torpedo any diplomatic initiative to block their nuclear efforts,Gillerman said, referring to an item first published by Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday morning. Although the speech was part of a routine discussion held monthly at the UN, this time it was held before the Security Council. During the meeting, UN special envoy to the Middle East Alvaro de-Soto presented his report and said that since the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit in late June, 295 Palestinians were killed by IDF forces, including 66 children, and another 1,113 were injured.

During his speech Gillerman praised the decision to impose sanctions on North Korea but warned that North Korea is only the prelude to a more disturbing story, the emergence of a nuclear Iran, armed and willing to share its state terrorist capabilities with the other unholy extremists who yearn to destroy us. He added that Israel sees the Iranian threat as an existential one, not solely to itself but to the entire world as well. The international community must be determined, clear, and unequivocal in its plan of action.

There is only one choice: the world must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons.

Are you doing everything you can?

Gilerman added that although the real, most urgent threat to stability and peace in the Middle East is Iran, We are bolstered by the surfacing of moderate voices in the region, voices that recognize the true threats facing us.Now these moderates are joining together to form an alliance against the extremists and for a historical reconciliation and mutual advancement. Ambassador Gillerman also criticized the fact that the kidnapped IDF soldiers have not been freed yet and the failure to enforce the arms embargo from Syria into Lebanon.This Council, in its unanimous adoption of resolution 1701, took upon itself the responsibility to secure the unconditional release of our boys, the Israeli soldiers Gilad Shalit, Udi Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev. I ask you now, as I did then, to do your utmost to alleviate this humanitarian crisis and bring them home.

Gillerman added that two and a half weeks after the last Israeli soldier left southern Lebanon, the situation along the northern border has begun to stabilize, but it is still early to declare it as a success. Success will be determined only to the extent to which resolution 1701 is fully implemented. There is reason to be concerned about the smuggling of arms across the border between Lebanon and Syria. Hizbullah’s rearming not only violates the essence and strength of resolution 1701, it places the entire region in immediate peril. There can be no ambiguity in policy here. The embargo must be enforced, and its violators must be held accountable,he said.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE 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.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) 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 KINGS OR NATIONS).

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
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.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

PM Olmert: PA’s Moment of Truth Rapidly Approaching
By Yechiel Spira(INN)

Upon his return from Moscow on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the PA’s moment of truth is rapidly approaching.

The prime minister stated that PA (Palestinian Authority) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) must make some critical decisions. Decisions, he said, that will determine the future of the region. If Abu Mazen does not take the required steps, we will all be losers,Olmert said.While negotiations between Abu Mazen’s Fatah and the ruling Hamas movement continue, fighting between rival factions has sharply increased, with daily shootouts taking place in Gaza this week as the two terror organizations struggle for control.

Hamas emerged the victor in the PA’s general elections, but Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah is now isolated by the western community which is demanding recognition of Israel, resulting in an economic boycott of the Hamas government.

Reaching an agreement with Abu Mazen whereby a new coalition government would recognize Israel in some regard would result in international acceptance of the PA government, a move that would unlock donor nation funds for the PA and its institutions. Regarding Iran, Olmert added the clock is running out, adding that today, things are happening and the situation has changed. While stating I did not threaten Iran,the prime minister added, Iran must not realize who it is up against .Iran should be afraid.Seeking to exhibit an air of success upon his return from Moscow, the prime minister added that Russian President Vladimir Putin opposes a nuclear independent Iran. This despite the fact that during a meeting between the two, Olmert failed to receive the assurances he was seeking a stronger Russian position against Iran’s ongoing nuclear program.

Russian technology has played a strong influence in the area with regard to Iran’s nuclear development; advanced weapon sales to Syria and indirect assistance to Hizbullah. Nonetheless, Olmert attempted to exhibit an atmosphere of cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow.The London-based Arabic Al-Hayat newspaper, quoting Hamas sources, reports progress regarding efforts to obtain IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s release from his PA captors. Israel’s Yediot Achronot daily reported on Thursday that a deal which would have led to Shalit’s release next week was thwarted by Iran. According to the report, a deal was reached in which Shalit would have been released during the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitr, marking the end of the month of Ramadan. In exchange, Israel agreed to release Arab prisoners - not all at once, but in a number of waves.

According to the report, Iranian officials arrived in Damascus and with a $50 million gift for Hamas politburo Khaled Meshal, succeeding in bringing the plans to a halt. Meshal upped his demands, calling upon Israel to release terrorists who he knew the Olmert government could not release. This gave him the ability to cancel the deal, placing the blame on Israel. Regarding Shalit, who was taken captive on June 25th, Abu Mazen stated on numerous occasions that he will not enter into a coalition agreement with Hamas until Shalit is released. He also told western media sources that he insists that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist and declare the government’s commitment to abide by previously signed agreements.In interviews with the Arab media however, Abu Mazen stated his Fatah Party needn’t recognize Israel.

Ahmadinejad warns Europe it will pay for backing Israel
Robert Tait in Tehran,Friday October 20, 2006,Guardian Unlimited

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran added a threatening edge to his verbal onslaught on Israel today by warning European governments to withdraw their support or face getting hurt in a storm of retaliation.He also called Britain and the United States enemies of Iran whose attempts to block the country's nuclear programme at the UN security council were illegitimate.Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking in Tehran at the annual Qods [Jerusalem] day rally, staged by Iran's Islamic regime to propagate its ideological opposition to Israel. He repeated predictions that Israel would soon disappear but, in a fresh warning, said European countries could pay a much higher price than the US for their backing.

We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the neighbours of the nations in this region, he said. We inform you that the nations are like an ocean that is welling up, and if a storm begins, the dimensions will not stay limited to Palestine, and you may get hurt. It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals ... This is an ultimatum. Don't complain tomorrow.Mr Ahmadinejad, who last year called for Israel to be wiped off the map and dismissed the holocaust as a myth, has not previously made such a clear distinction between US and European support for Israel.

The UN security council is poised to consider sanctions in response to Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.

But Mr Ahmadinejad dismissed the security council because of the presence of America and Britain as permanent veto-wielding powers.What sort of security council is this, he asked. You want to be the judge, the jury and the enforcer.Mr Ahmadinejad's outburst came amid a carnival atmosphere in which throngs of children carrying balloons milled among the crowds. Dozens swapped paintings depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for T-shirts donated by Tehran city council.A display of banners featured one bearing the phrase Israel must be wiped off the map in Hebrew. Others accused companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nestlé and Marks and Spencer of being pro-Israel. A stall recruiting potential martyrs was selling DVDs showing volunteers from the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas preparing suicide attacks against Israel.

Speculation mounts over Solana leaving job
19.10.2006 - 17:36 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Speculation is mounting that Javier Solana, the EU's top diplomat, will step down for health reasons with the former Swedish, Slovak and Austrian prime ministers reportedly first in line to succeed him. Intense rumours about an end to the Solana era have been circulating in Brussels for the last couple of weeks, with several reasons being cited for his possible imminent retirement. One version says it became clear to the Spaniard during the Lebanon crisis in the summer that he could never really act on behalf of the EU, with member states refusing to give him a clear mandate.Mr Solana also had to recently admit that his efforts to get Iran to halt uranium enrichment which he had exceptionally handled on behalf of all UN veto powers have stalled.

On top of this, the deadlock on the EU constitution means that Mr Solana will not get the job as official EU foreign minister foreseen for November in the shelved charter.

Highly-skilled diplomat

Generally, the Spanish socialist is seen as a highly skilled diplomat who has managed to survive seven years in the gruelling position without facing much political flak. He is seen as at least having given a positive face to EU foreign policy despite the domain being still very much in member state hands. But Austrian paper Der Kurier on Wednesday (18 October) reported that the 64-year old Mr Solana could nevertheless soon step down for health reasons.

German chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly had a long phone call with the Spaniard last week in which he said he would follow his doctor's advice and soon quit the job, otherwise he would be dead in twelve months even if this is not visible in his appearance and in his statements. A press officer in Mr Solana's office however denied the report saying there was not such a phone call. Mr Solana's mandate expires in 2009 and his post is not available,she stated, adding that the Spanish diplomat jogs every day before work.

Verheugen not interested

The Austrian paper writes that Ms Merkel, whose country will hold the EU presidency in the first half of next year, has shortlisted two favourites to succeed Mr Solana: Slovakia's former prime minister Miklas Dzurinda and Austria's outgoing leader Wolfgang Schussel. The report contradicts earlier speculation saying that Berlin has its own candidate EU industry commissioner Guenter Verheugen.Mr Verheugen however told Germany's Die Welt on Thursday that he is not interested in the post, saying he consciously said farewell to foreign policy when he left the commission's enlargement department in 2004.Another strong candidate who has been doing the rounds is Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt, who is back on the EU stage since he was appointed foreign minister in the new Swedish centre-right government.

Insiders say Mr Bildt is not hiding his ambitions to obtain the top job, while also having a huge network in international affairs. The chances of the rumoured candidates is set to depend to a large extent on their ability to bridge the gap between atlanticist states such as the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and new member states and proponents of distance to Washington notably France.Mr Dzurinda is known as a strong pro-US politician and therefore difficult to accept by Paris. Mr Schussel, on the other hand, makes no secret of his opposition to Turkish EU accession which would put him at odds with the UK.