YOM KIPPUR WORLD REPENTENCE

1-YOM KIPPUR (REPENTENCE FOR ISRAEL AND THE WORLD). 2-NATO's Rapid Response Force Finally Ready for Action. 3-EU hopes for new pact with U.S. on passenger data. 4-Islamic Cleric, Hassan Nasrallah - Lebonan's Peaceful Islamic Politician ??. 5-Al-Qaeda number two slams Bush, pope, West and UN.

In that Laval bridge update, 5 people have died and 4 in hospital.

LEVITICUS 23:27-36
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

YOM KIPPUR (REPENTENCE FOR ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)
Religious-Secular Prayer Groups for Yom Kippur
Tishrei 5767,by Hillel Fendel(INN)

A little-known aspect of the solemn day of Yom Kippur it is a day of friendship and love,according to the prayer service will be emphasized in some 250 prayer services around the country. Some 40,000 secular Jews are expected to take part in secular-friendly Yom Kippur services organized by the B'yachad (Together) and Tzohar (Window) rabbis organizations.The services, which generally take up most of the day, will be held in some 250 locations around the country, buttressed by the participation of religious youths and families from near and far. Many of the services will be held in neutral locations such as community centers, in the hope of easing the way for those who do not feel at home in the synagogue. Words of explanation will be added at various points in the service, and the pace will be regulated according to the participants' needs. During the breaks, the visitors and locals will talk and get to know each other.

Among the locations where special Yom Kippur services will be held are the Community Center in Ramle, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Kibbutz Givat HaShloshah, Pink House in Hod HaSharon, Students House in Kfar Saba, the Old Age home in Katzrin in the Golan, and many more. Some cities will feature several different services, and even kibbutzim and moshavim with no synagogue will host prayers. A full list (in Hebrew) can be seen here. Avi, in Moshav Lachish, southeast of Kiryat Gat and just north of the Negev, excitedly told Arutz-7 of the Yom Kippur plans in his town: We are over 100 families here, and Tzohar is sending 7 young men, 4 young women, and four couples, just as they did last year.

It's a communal event that many people get involved in; it will be held not in our small synagogue, but in the large community center, where there is a lot of room for everyone. Before Yom Kippur, we all eat together, and after the service we dance together, and they give out explanatory material, and the like. It's a real highlight a chance to cement our ties, and to emphasize the ways in which we are the same and not different.

I personally don't like being called secular,Avi volunteered. I and another friend of mine started getting interested in Judaism a while ago, and we were the ones who pushed to have a synagogue built here; it's just two years old. In the meanwhile, he has become completely religious, while I am still sort of half-and-half.In Herzliya, families of a Gar'in Torani a group of religious families will lead one of the services.

One woman who helped found the Gar'in five years ago explained, I see our purpose as simply being here, so that there should not be this separation amongst us of religious families in one community and secular families in another... At present, I don't see a dramatic 'thirst' for spirituality; of course we feel that we would like to set the tone, which requires very thorough work, but even if that doesn't work, we want to be able to see the totality of the Nation of Israel... Simply by meeting our neighbors at the nurseries and in school and on the street, we feel that we are having an effect.

Jason, a resident of the secular community of Kfar Galim, south of Haifa, told Arutz-7: This will be our fifth year of having such a service, and we are excited to have it again. We are a boarding-school community of about 40 families, and I feel that people here are crying out for more spirituality.A prayer leader for part of the services in Kfar Galim is still being sought.

30.09.2006
NATO's Rapid Response Force Finally Ready for Action
NATO's new rapid response force is ready for deployment from October 1

After 4 years in the making, the NATO Response Force will be operational as promised in time for its October 1 launch. Germany is contributing the majority of the soldiers for the alliance's new rapid deployment force.

The United States, NATO's leading member, had pushed for a thorough rebuilding of the Alliance after the terror attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 and the deployment of international troops to Afghanistan. Washington set out to convince its fellow alliance members that NATO should be remodelled in order to face new challenges.US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had developed the idea of using NATO as some sort of tool kit for the protection against global threats. In 2002, heads of states and governments decided to develop a quick response force, scheduled to be fully operational by October 1st of this year.

The military dress rehearsal for the force took place this summer on the Capverdian Islands. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was quite satisfied with the test run. I am convinced that we will be fully operational by October 1st, just as scheduled, he said at the time. NRF’s 26,000 soldiers are now ready for action. The troops lead by Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, General James Jones are to be able to react to crises within a lead time of 5 days. NATO member states will provide troops for the NRF on a rotational basis. The soldiers will stay in their home barracks until required for an emergency. They will be on duty for at least half a year, and 6 months prior to their deployment, will get trained on how to interact with other nations' armies.

Germany taking lead in NRF

Currently, the German Armed Forces are providing the largest amount of soldiers. German commander, General Gerhard Back, explained that not all of the 26,000 NRF soldiers are to be deployed at once. Rather, units with different abilities such as air transport, mine clearance or ground fighting, are to be available on request.I need all of those skills at my disposal so I can chose whichever unit I need when going on a specific mission,General back said. I don’t know yet what my next mission, or the next crisis situation will look like. When the political decision is made, I can assemble my forces with what I need.NATO will assess potential missions on a case by case basis. The response force is not designed to take part in permanent missions like United Nations peace keeping operations. Instead, its job is to clear the way for peacekeepers, so that they can take over afterwards.

Funding problem still to be solved

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: NATO leaders are still wrangling who pays for NRF.Funding the force remains a disputed topic. Some smaller NATO member states are in favour of an allocation system where all members pay into a pooled fund from which missions can be financed.

Big member states like Germany, however, prefer the current system whereby each state pays for its own soldiers and deployments. NATO's de Hoop Scheffer said a compromise is the most likely outcome.Free and democratic states always argue, even within NATO.

I believe we are at a point where we’re finding a balance about what each state pays for and what comes from NATO’s budget we can call this common funding, he said. The largest operational deployment of the NRF so far was the dispatch of units to Pakistan to support the earthquake relief effort, as well as to the United States to help victims of hurricane Katrina.From Sunday, the new NRF will be ready to respond to whatever comes next.Bernd Riegert (nda)

EU hopes for new pact with U.S. on passenger data By David Brunnstrom
2 hours, 25 minutes ago

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union hopes to reach an agreement with the United States on a new pact on sharing of airline passenger data next Friday, the European Commission said on Sunday.

U.S. and European negotiators failed on Saturday to reach a deal to share air passenger data before an existing pact expired, but both sides said they would try to reach an agreement quickly.A Commission statement said a draft agreement sent to the European side by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Saturday may be discussed by EU justice and home affairs ministers in Luxembourg next Friday, in the hope of having an agreement the same day.Under post-September 11 anti-terrorism arrangements, European airlines supply U.S. authorities with information on passengers entering the United States including their name, address, payment details and telephone numbers.

An EU court struck down the existing deal on a legal technicality in May but gave the European Union and the United States until September 30 to replace it.In the statement, the EU Commission urged the United States to continue to apply safeguards for passenger data laid down in the lapsed 2004 agreement until a new one was reached in order to minimize the risk of legal uncertainty and disruption to EU-US flights.The EU statement said Commission Vice President Franco Frattini and Chertoff were in regular contact.Much progress has already been made,it said. It is in the interests of all concerned, travelers, airlines, law enforcement agencies and data protection authorities, that a new agreement is concluded as soon possible.

U.S. officials have not made clear whether they would be willing to apply the safeguards from the lapsed agreement.Without them, said Commission spokesman Jonathon Todd, there was a risk data protection authorities in EU states would challenge airlines' right to transfer data.Airlines fear this could leave them open to legal action by passengers.There is nothing to prevent the Americans from continuing to apply those safeguards,Todd said. If they do, there shouldn't be a problem for European airlines that continue to transfer the data.The Association of European Airlines, which represents big carriers such as British Airways, Air France and Lufthansa, has expressed concerns at the possibility of extreme disruption to services unless a new agreement is reached.

Spokeswoman Francoise Humbert said that if airlines did not supply data required by the United States, passengers faced having to provide such information at U.S. airports with consequent queues and delays.

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)

WORLD TERRORISM

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

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Islamic Cleric, Hassan Nasrallah - Lebonan's Peaceful Islamic Politician ??

The stupidest, most danderous person in Lebanon is Hassan Nasrallah. He must believe we don’t read newspapers listen to the radio or watch TV. The slightly out of touch Nasrallah say’s, Hezbollah will never give up arms, as called for in the U.N. resolution that ended its 34-day war with Israel last month. No army in the world will force us to drop our weapons, force us to surrender our arms, as long as people believe in this resistance, Hezbollah was victorious in the fighting.

We do not wish to keep our weapons forever,because they should not be part of domestic life. To those who say the resistance is weak, I want to say it's stronger than ever.That fanatical resistance owns more than 25,000 missiles, worse; it is more than willing to use them to kill innocent men, women and children. Speechifying is all well and good when playing to his crowd, but what happens when the hysterical rhetoric is heard or read by more intelligent people? Israel has made no secret of its desire to kill Nasrallah something the vulnerable might regret.

Israel launched a major military operation July 12 to remove Hezbollah from southern Lebanon after militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, and after months of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel. The fighting generally stopped after the August 14 passage of Resolution 1701 by the U.N. Security Council, which also called for the re-establishment of Lebanese government control over the area. Nasrallah, speaking on the Muslim Sabbath, urged all groups in Lebanon, including Christians, to unite against any interlopers, and warned the U.N. peacekeeping forces called in to monitor the fragile cease-fire to stick to their mission.

The soldiers are supporting the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, and Lebanese soldiers. Nasrallah vowed that Lebanon will never give up its claim to the Shebaa Farms, a disputed area near the Israeli-Lebanese border. Although Nasrallah declared victory in the war, he previously said that if Hezbollah could have predicted Israel's response, it would not have abducted the Israeli soldiers and sparked the fighting. Nasrallah thought there was only 1% possibility that Israel's military response would have been as extensive as it turned out to be, I would say no, I would not have entered this for many reasons military, social, political, economic.

However the Israeli people along with their Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert thinks differently, so do I and the millions more in possession of a television who watched the battle unfolding. It’s absolutely clear Hezbollah got their arse wiped all over the Southern Lebonan’s floor. To insult our intelligence even more Nasarallah says the conflict was an American war. Exactly in which state of the U.S Southern Lebanon is in, Nasarallah doesn’t explain. What he does say is that it was an American war by providing the arms and planning. If the U.S ever was involved who could blame them. Hezbollah is an international terrorist organision, they are ready to kill for the sake of killing but when Hezbollah make insulting anti Western statements like this, Lebanon has been victorious, Palestine has been victorious, Arab nations have been victorious.When they accept weapons from every Islamic country who have shown a willingness to kill Jews, Christians, people of other religions and people of no religion, even other Muslims opposed to Islamic dictatorship. Then they, have lost the moral high ground completely.

Nasrallah went so far as to call Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a great hero, for speaking against U.S. President Bush at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

Hugo Chavez, crossed himself as he told world leaders he could smell the devil Chavez then called President Bush the devil and said that, as the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. Nasrallah defended Hezbollah supporters Iran and Syria, which have been criticised for supplying arms and money to the militants, and said the Hezbollah stances have nothing to do with the international outcry over Iran's nuclear-enrichment program.
Posted by Parnell on Sunday, October 01, 2006 at 11:55 AM |

Al-Qaeda number two slams Bush, pope, West and UN Sat Sep 30, 5:01 AM ET

DUBAI (AFP) - Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda number two, has branded US President George W. Bush a liar who had failed in his war against Al-Qaeda and launched a scathing attack on Western targets including the pope and the United Nations.

In an 18-minute video posted on the Internet on Friday, Zawahiri called Bush an executioner, responsible for the spilling of Muslim blood, and said he had failed in his war against the terror organisation headed by Osama bin Laden.Zawahiri begged Muslims to support the mujahedeen in Iraq and Afghanistan by all possible means because these countries were what he called the battlefield of the contemporary Crusade.

The Islamic nation must realise that Afghanistan and Iraq are the field of battle in the confrontation against the contemporary Crusade,he said.The nation is therefore bound to support the mujahedeen in these two countries using all means at its disposal.

He hit out at defeatist Arab governments and Muslim preachers, and called for rejection of all resolutions recognizing the Zionist entity.On Thursday, Islamist websites on the Internet had said there would be a new video message posted by Zawahiri entitled Bush, the pope, Darfur and the Crusades.Zawahiri branded Pope Benedict XVI an impostor for his attitude to Islam and the Arab world.He was referring to the pope's September 12 speech in Germany in which, critics say, the head of the Roman Catholic Church seemed to link Islam and violence.

Benedict quoted a medieval Christian emperor who equated Islam with violence, remarks that sparked outrage across the Muslim world.Also in the video message, the righthand man to Bin Laden called for a holy war in Sudan's Darfur region against the crusaders... of the UN. Zawahiri called on Muslims to join a jihad in Darfur against the forces of the crusaders related to the United Nations.The United States has been leading international efforts to force Sudan to accept the deployment of a 20,000-strong UN peacekeeping force to halt ethnic violence in its western Darfur region.At least 200,000 people have died and some 2.5 million others have fled their homes because of the unrest which began in early 2003 when African rebels launched a revolt to gain more autonomy from the Arab-dominated Khartoum government. Some sources put the death toll much higher.

The UN Security Council passed a resolution last month mandating deployment of the peacekeepers to replace an underfunded and ineffective African Union force in Darfur, but Sudan has rejected the demand.Addressing Muslims directly, Zawahiri said: The (Islamic) nation must admit the helplessness of the governments which usurp power in Muslim countries... These governments recognise the legitimacy of the United Nations, and this constrains them to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Israel.He urged Muslims to "throw anathema at all resolutions and conventions of the surrender, beginning with the resolution on the partition of Palestine, including Camp David and Olso all the way up to Resolution 1701. All these resolutions recognise the legitimacy of the Zionist entity and incriminate jihad against this entity.

In a previous video posted on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, Zawahiri warned that the Gulf and Israel would be Al-Qaeda's next targets.You should worry about your presence in two areas,he said in the message addressed to Western powers.

The first is the Gulf, from where you will be expelled, God willing, after your defeat in Iraq, and your economic ruin will be achieved.And the second is Israel, because the jihadi reinforcements are getting closer, with God's help and power, and your defeat there will put an end to the superiority of the Zionists and Crusaders. In his latest video, Zawahiri called on Muslims to wage a popular jihadist war against the Crusader campaign because that is what the enemy fears the most.

The Egyptian-born Zawahiri is regarded as the ideological powerhouse behind the terror group and carries a 25-million-dollar US bounty for information leading to his arrest or death. Zawahiri, who trained as a surgeon, is regarded as the brains behind bin Laden, and with the Al-Qaeda chief now staying out of the public eye, he has become its most senior spokesman. The FBI's list of most wanted terrorists places the 55-year-old in second place behind bin Laden and says he is the Saudi's personal doctor.