CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS IN SAN ANTONIO

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Floods, storms claim 22 more lives in Turkey. 3-Dozens dead in Ethiopia flooding. 4-EU tests capacity to react to major terror attack. 5-Bush: Israel’s survival depends on two-state solution. 6-Mediterranean states call for renewed Mideast peace process. 7-Israel Launches Major Gaza Operation. 8-Police Considering Calling Off Homosexual March. 9-More Than 50,000 Expected to Visit Rachel´s Tomb. 10-U.S. sets ambitious global NATO summit agenda. 11-Tower of Babel translator made. 12-Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio.

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.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS(USGS)

Update time = Wed Nov 1 11:45:04 EDT 2006

NOV 01,2006
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA

OCT 31,2006
MAP 2.9 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 ECUADOR
MAP 4.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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.

Floods, storms claim 22 more lives in Turkey by Mahmut Bozarslan
53 minutes ago

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - Floods and storms have claimed 22 lives in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast and wreaked havoc in other parts of the country.Wednesday's deaths brought to 27 the toll in the southeast since Friday, when unusually heavy rains began to pound the poverty-stricken region.Fourteen of the dead were passengers on a minibus swept away by floodwaters as it travelled here overnight from nearby Mardin, Diyarbakir governor Efkan Ala told NTV television Wednesday.A woman, her four-month-old daughter and four-year-old son drowned when their house in Cinar town was flooded and a body was found in the town of Bismil, a crisis center set up here reported.Military units with helicopter and dinghies rescued dozens of people stranded on rooftoops or in inundated streets as water levels rose by one metre (3.3 feet) in some areas.

The water also destroyed several houses in the region, where schools in rural areas remained closed Wednesday.The situation is under control, Ala said, but warned that more rain is expected in the area later in the day.In the town of Silopi, on the border with Iraq, siblings aged three and four drowned when their home was flooded, while a 70-year-old woman was killed when her house collapsed, district governor Haci Mehmet Kara told the Anatolia news agency.Many houses in the southeast are shoddily built, often of mud brick, and are highly vulnerable to floods and earthquakes.A woman aged 30 died in Kilis, west of here, as a raging storm demolished the bus stop where she had sought shelter as it also blew away rooftops and toppled trees and power poles, Anatolia reported.Five people were killed and two were reported missing at the weekend in other provinces in the region, where the
floodwaters damaged hundreds of buildings.

Vast stretches of cotton fields, a major source of livelihood in the area, were innundated.Heavy rains also struck the west of the country on Wednesday.In Beykoz, a suburban area of Istanbul's Asian side, about 1,000 buildings were flooded, including a school where some 100 children were stranded for several hours, NTV reported.

The authorities ordered schools closed for two days and said some schoolhouses would be used to shelter people who had lost their homes.On the southern, Mediterranean coast, a stream burst its banks in the tourist-frequented Manavgat region, flooding the lower floors of many hotels and blocking a main highway for several hours, Anatolia reported.Restaurants and cafes at Manavgat's scenic waterfalls were also submerged, it said.

Dozens dead in Ethiopia flooding Tue Oct 31, 5:48 PM ET

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Four days of devastating floods along Ethiopia's eastern border killed dozens of people and prowling crocodiles hampered rescue efforts as rain continued to fall, officials said Tuesday. The deadly floods began Friday when the Shebelle River overflowed its banks in the Ogaden region, more than 600 miles from the capital, Addis Ababa.Sixty-seven people have died since the worst flooding hit Friday, and the crocodiles in the area are eating some of the bodies,said Muktar Mohammed, flood coordinator for the government-run Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau.

Four survivors have been injured by crocodile attacks, he added.We need helicopters, boats and food and medical supplies urgently, Muktar said.Muktar said more than 2,500 acres of crops were washed away in the floods, along with thousands of cattle, camels, donkeys and other livestock. Rain was expected to continue through the week.In August, flooding across the country killed more than 600 people and displaced about 50,000.Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, with more than half of its 77 million people living on less than $1 a day.

Aid groups were sending food and other help to the region, officials said.

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.

EU tests capacity to react to major terror attack
31.10.2006 - 17:42 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU and its member states have simulated a near-simultaneous terrorist attack in five EU cities, with the test revealing that there is a need for improvement in the use of communication technology. The aim of the exercise, conducted on Monday (30 October) was to verify the joint capacity of the council [EU member states] and the [European] Commission to react quickly and efficiently to a major crisis, an EU statement after the simulation said. EU officials declined to reveal the five cities involved in the exercise but added the simulated attacks were similar to those on 11 September 2001 in the US, involving planes. It is underscored that the exercise's scenario was not based on any existent information on the possibility of such attacks taking place, and was a purely fictitious description of events, the press statement said.

The institutions tested knew that the simulation would take place in the last five days of October but the exact date was only known to the planners of the exercise in order to keep the surprise effect. The EU's recently approved Emergency and Crisis Coordination Arrangements (CCA), designed to react to this type of situations, generally functioned well, the test revealed. It pointed to the adequacy of the CCA structures as well as the good level of knowledge among participants of the CCA structures and procedures.

One official said however that there is a need for closer co-operation between the commission and the council in assessing the needs regarding things like the evacuation of the injured, however. The need for improvement in the use of communication technology was also demonstrated in the simulation, which also involved COREPER the body of member states ambassadors in Brussels.CCAEX06, the exercise's code name, started at 13h30 Brussels time with a number of fictitious media inputs that continued throughout the afternoon. It ended at 20.00.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

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

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
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.

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 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) 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 A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, 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.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Bush: Israel’s survival depends on two-state solution
By Stan Goodenough,October 31, 2006

President George W. Bush is personally committed to helping create a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza because he believes that Israel’s survival depends on it.The American leader spelled out to newspaper columnists invited to the Oval Office last Wednesday why he is a two-state solution person when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.I don’t see how Israel can possibly survive in the long term unless there is a democracy on her border. I don’t see how she retains her Jewish state if there is not a place for Palestinians to go to, he said.Bush made these statements against the backdrop of an extended explanation of his overall strategic approach to helping bring peace to the world including, of course, to the Middle East.A closer look at this explanation may help answer some of the questions Christian Zionists are asking about the president’s policy on Israel.Bush said that he had called for the get-together with these influential writers in order to provide them with a clearer understanding of what the guy’s thinking.

You either like it or don’t like it but at least it gives you a sense of where I am strategizing, he said.Bush said he believes it is conceivable that 20 or 30 years from now the world will see a Middle East in which … extreme forms of Islam compete for power, moderate governments will be toppled, oil will be used to extract concessions, and Iran will have a nuclear weapon, and writers such as yourself would say, what happened to them? How come they couldn't see the great conflict taking place in front of their very eyes? Why did they lose their nerve? Why did they not support moderate people who yearn for something better than the vision of the extremists?

And my answer to it is, he said, is that I see the threat, and will use American power to protect ourselves, and at the same time, try to create the first victory in this ideological the first victories in the ideological war of the 21st century.Bush described how he sees the world, where he believes it is headed, where it could head if helped in the right direction, and what he’s doing to help head it that way.

He believes, he said, that the 21st Century world is caught up in a great conflict between moderate people and ideologues that are totalitarian and kill to achieve their objective without conscience.Much of the thinking and the decision making that I do now is based on my belief that we are in this great ideological struggle.

Iran, together with all the extremists who identify with the goals of that Islamic state, stands on one side of this conflict.America leads those on the other, moderate side.When it comes to the Middle East, Bush sees the Israelis as among the moderates.

Notably he does not, however, count the Palestinian Arabs per se or the general Arab populations in the region as among the extremists.On the contrary, in his understanding and this was borne out in an interview columnist Cal Thomas had with Bush’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, on the same day the Oval Office meeting was taking place the majority of all Arabs are moderates.It is only the relatively few among them, like the Hamas and the Hizb’allah, that are in the extreme fringe and bound together with Iran and others by a common desire to spread their vision.Most Arabs want to live in peace, also with Israel.What America had to do was continue to lead the moderates that oppose that extremist and violent vision.

And when it comes to the Middle East, the goal of the Bush administration is to plant and nurture democratic societies including a democratic Palestine that will see the extremists marginalized and, ultimately disappear.I’m a two-state-solution person. I don’t see how Israel can possibly survive in the long term unless there is a democracy on her border. I don’t see how she retains her Jewish state if there is not a place for Palestinians to go to.For the leader of the free world, then, the Middle East conflict is part of a struggle between ideologues and moderates. And it can be best resolved by ensuring that the moderates win over the ideologues.

What Bush apparently does not see at all, is that this is a conflict involving God and His Word on the one side against Satan and his determined effort to thwart that Word and its Author on the other.

Mediterranean states call for renewed Mideast peace process

MADRID: Ministers from ministers from 11 states attending a Mediterranean Forum meeting in the southern Spanish city of Alicante on Saturday called for the launching of a new and credible Mideast peace process, a diplomatic source said. In an Alicante Declaration the countries, which did not include Israel, also called for measures to defuse the current tension in the region and backed a mooted Spanish plan for a Mideast peace conference, similar to one which Madrid hosted in 1991. Washington has received the idea coolly and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said it was too early to talk about fixing a date. Israel did not take part in the meeting. Earlier this week Moratinos told the Spanish parliament that current tensions required a major initiative, along the lines of the 1991 conference, which drew together Israel and Arab states under the aegis of the United States and the Soviet Union. The conference set out a framework for a Middle East peace process and opened the way to the 1993 Oslo accords on Palestinian self-rule. Saturday's declaration proposed to reactivate and revise the peace roadmap.

It also demanded the freeing of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian prisoners the transfer from Israel of tax recipts to the Palestinian Authority, as well as an adequate balance between security and the movement of good and people in frontier zones. Moratinos, a former EU envoy to the region, said it was time such measures were drawn up to put an end to the tragedy of the Middle East.

The forum agreed that Mediterranean countries needed to engage in efforts to speed a solution to the conflict. French Minister for European Affairs Catherine Colonna said that there needed to be an implication of Mediterranean states in the seeking of a solution to the Middle East (conflict).The situation has doubtless never been as dangerous owing to the absence of political perspectives in the region, Colonna added, calling for urgent responses to what she termed the degradation of the situation in the region. The grouping, known as FOROMED, is a consultative body associated with the so-called Barcelona Euro-Mediterranean process, a framework for political, economic and social relations in the region. Member states, which sent foreign ministers or their deputies to the weekend meeting, comprise Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Tunisia. Libya
has observer status.

Israel Launches Major Gaza Operation(VOA NEWS)

Palestinian relatives of Ahmed Edwan mourn in Beit Lahia November 1,2006 after he was killed during an Israeli incursion into the northern of Gaza Strip At least eight Palestinians were killed, Wednesday, and more than 40 others injured, as Israeli forces launched a major military operation in the northern Gaza Strip. One Israeli soldier was also killed in the operation. Israel's security cabinet met to discuss the operation, but decided against expanding their offensive into other parts of the Gaza Strip.

About 40 armored vehicles and bulldozers moved into Beit Hanoun, near Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, early Wednesday. They were demolishing structures that Israel says were being used by Palestinian militants to launch rockets into Israel.

In one of the biggest military operations so far in Israel's four-month incursion in Gaza, helicopter gun ships carried out numerous air strikes in the area. Israel says several militants were killed in the strikes.Speaking to journalists after Israel's security cabinet decided not to send large numbers of troops into other parts of Gaza, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Wednesday's operation was designed to hit rocket launching sites.Peretz said Israel has specific military objectives in Gaza and does not intend to reoccupy the territory.

Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from the Gaza Strip, last year. Since then, Israeli forces have carried out air strikes in Gaza, in response to Palestinian rocket attacks against towns in southern Israel. In late June, Israeli ground forces moved back into Gaza after an Israeli soldier was kidnapped by Palestinian militants.

A statement from Hamas, Wednesday, says Israel's current ground operations would have a negative influence on negotiations aimed at achieving a prisoner swap expected to involve the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier.A Hamas delegation is in Cairo this week for talks with Egyptian officials on the issue.

Hassan Nasrallah Meanwhile, the leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says his organization, which is holding two Israeli soldiers, is involved in indirect negotiations with Israel over aprisoner exchange.Nasrallah said, so far, the meetings have been serious and positive,but he gave no indication about any imminent breakthrough.Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war, earlier this year, after Hezbollah militants attacked an Israeli border post and abducted the two soldiers. More than 1,000 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 150 Israelis died before a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect, August 14.

Police Considering Calling Off Homosexual March
By Hillel Fendel(INN)

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Edri has asked the police to consider banning the Homosexual Parade in Jerusalem, scheduled for nine days from now. The police are leaning towards calling it off. The police announced last night (Tuesday) that they were planning to deploy in top-level strength for the event a declaration perceived by some to be a salvo in the public-opinion war over whether or not to allow the march. One internal police source said the announcement was publicized merely to stir up anti-march sentiment; official police sources denied this.Hareidi-religious affairs commentator Yossi Elituv said, The fight against the march has knocked down all barriers in the hareidi and religious camps. The Hassidic sectors Belz, Gerrer, and others together with Litaim (non-Hassidic), as well as the Sephardi-hareidim and the religious-Zionist sectors all are standing together against this parade.

The police say they have received word that protestors are planning to throw eggs and razor blades at the marchers, flood the streets with sewage, block roads in Jerusalem and elsewhere, and even possibly perpetrate fake terrorist attacks. Elituv says these fears are ridiculous and totally unfounded. He said he does not believe any violence is planned, but cannot rule out unpredictable acts by individuals.

Official: March Would Not be Held in Mecca or Vatican

Army Radio's Micha Friedman asked a police official whether the police were actually yielding to the threats of violent groups.The official said, Let's not be naive. Such a parade would never be held in the Vatican nor in Mecca.Members of the Islamic Movement have also called for the cancellation of the parade.The police said they are planning to field 6,000 policemen in Jerusalem, with the addition of another 2,000 Border Guardsmen from their patrols in Judea and Samaria, on the day of the march, if it is held. Protests Have Started Hareidi protests against the march have already begun. Last night, hundreds attempted to block the main highway leading to the Old City from northern Jerusalem.

Some protestors wore sackcloth and burnt garbage bins; the police used violence to remove them, and several protestors threw rocks. Four policemen were reported injured, while no word was received on how many protestors were hurt. Several of the latter were detained. Thousands of religious Jews legally blocked off the Sabbath Square intersection in the Me'ah She'earim neighborhood of Jerusalem two weeks ago, threatening to be out in even stronger force if the march is actually held. Religious and political leaders have called for, and said they will lead, active protests against the march.

Tens of thousands are expected to take part in protests against the march on the day itself, and Jerusalem residents are signing up to host Jews from other parts of the country for the Sabbath that begins immediately following the end of the march.

Noa Satat, the head of the Jerusalem Open House, which is organizing the march, said that the police have been working for weeks on plans to protect the march, and therefore she is certain that the police will fulfill their legal obligation and protect freedom of expression.The Sanhedrin a group of rabbis who say they have re-established the religious-legal assembly of 71 sages that convened as the Supreme Jewish Tribunal during the Holy Temple period and for several centuries afterwards has called upon all synagogues to hold their upcoming Sabbath services on the streets. Close your doors and pray outside, the organization calls, as a sign of shame, warning and pleading for the abominable march to be canceled. We must not continue our regular routine while the police and courts force a march of abomination in Jerusalem upon millions of Jews against their faith and belief in the holiness of the city and the Torah's dictates.Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi announced that he has postponed his scheduled trip to Turkey next week, in light of the preparations needed for the march. Karadi was to have signed a cooperation agreement between the police forces of Israel and Turkey.

More Than 50,000 Expected to Visit Rachel´s Tomb
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz(INN)

More than 50,000 people are expected to visit the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem this Thursday, the anniversary of the Biblical matriarch's death. Security in the area from Jerusalem to the tomb, recently transferred from the IDF's jurisdiction to that of the police, will be increased to ensure the safety of the worshipers. The fortified security arrangements will be put into effect beginning Wednesday afternoon and will last through Thursday night. In the past, Palestinian Authority terrorists have fired at Jews visiting the religiously and historically significant site. In addition, the increased police presence will oversee and maintain the flow of traffic to and from Rachel's tomb. The Egged public transportation company will provide buses running every few minutes from various Jerusalem neighborhoods to the Bethlehem site.

With the transfer of responsibility for the tomb and its immediate environs from the military to the Jerusalem civilian authorities in September, Mayor Uri Lupolianski directed the municipality to provide services there. To that end, the capital's sanitation service has prepared the tomb complex for the expected wave of visitors this week and has also begun expanding services to the site on a regular basis. Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Uri Maklev has arranged for a large visitors tent to be set up at an intersection on the way to Rachel's tomb, along with a supply of drinking water. At the tomb site itself, drinks and snacks will be provided, as well. In honor of the anniversary of the passing of the matriarch Rachel, the city of Jerusalem is this week hosting dozens of lectures and activities geared towards women. The events are sponsored by the Torah Culture Department of the municipality.

The Biblical Rachel died on the 11th of Cheshvan of the year 2208 in the Jewish calendar (1553 BCE) while giving birth to her second son, Benjamin. Rachel's tomb, in Bethlehem, has served as a place of prayer for Jews for more than 35 centuries.

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)

U.S. sets ambitious global NATO summit agenda
Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:27pm ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States set out an ambitious agenda on Monday for transforming NATO into a global security organization at a summit next month but acknowledged that some European allies have misgivings.U.S.

NATO ambassador Victoria Nuland said the 26-nation alliance had gone beyond debates about whether to act outside its Euro-Atlantic area, deploying forces on four continents in the last 18 months, most importantly in Afghanistan.NATO is already performing missions in practice for which it has yet to adapt its theory, she said, forecasting tough drafting debates before the November 28-29 summit in Riga, Latvia. We want NATO to be able to demonstrate when our heads meet four weeks from now that we have an alliance that is taking on global responsibilities, that it increasingly has the global capabilities to meet those responsibilities, and that it is doing it with global partners, Nuland said in a speech to the Center for European Policy Studies think-tank.

The alliance is fighting Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan, supporting African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, patrolling former Yugoslav battlefields in Kosovo and has flown relief supplies to earthquake victims in Pakistan.For the next four weeks, allies are going to spend a lot of time arm-wrestling and mud-wrestling about the words that we use in our NATO documents to reflect today's reality.

It's going to be a tense conversation as we head toward Riga,she said without identifying which allies objected to stating such global ambitions in the summit documents.But today, I would argue that the reality of what's going on in NATO is outstripping our ability to encapsulate it in NATO doctrine in theory here in NATO headquarters, Nuland added.

FRANCE MOST RETICENT

Diplomats said France was most reticent about accepting a global role for the U.S.-led alliance, of which it has been a prickly, semi-detached member since General Charles de Gaulle pulled French forces out of allied military command in 1966.Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain also had reservations about appearing to rebrand NATO as a world policeman, they said.Nuland said European allies were coming to realize in Afghanistan that they needed to spend more on defense and develop long-range airlift and more special commando forces to cope with 21st century security challenges.Many European allies were spending less than NATO's unofficial minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product.

The NATO Reaction Force, designed for rapid deployment to high-intensity combat situations, will not be fully operational in time for the Riga summit because of the strain on national defense resources, Nuland acknowledged.We are not all the way yet but we are making progress, she said.But the summit will see progress on strategic airlift, with 14 allies and non-NATO Sweden signing a joint deal to acquire long-range C-17 heavy lift aircraft, and on joint training and communications for special forces.Politically, Nuland said the NATO council was now discussing global issues far beyond the Euro-Atlantic area, such as the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea. Reuters 2006.

Tower of Babel translator made

A Tower of Babel device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another. The researchers said the effect was like watching a television programme that had been dubbed.

The system, detailed in New Scientist, is not yet fully accurate, but experts said it showed the technology was within reach. The idea is that you can mouth words in English and they will come out in Chinese or another language Tanja Schultz.The translation systems that are currently in use work by using voice recognition software. But this requires people to speak out loud and then wait for the translation to be read out, making conversations difficult.

But the new device, being created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, is different. Electrodes are attached to the neck and face to detect the movements that occur as the person silently mouths words and phrases. Using this data, a computer can work out the sounds being formed and then build these sounds up into words. The system is then able to translate the words into another language which is read out by a synthetic voice.

Within reach

The team currently has two prototypes: one that can translate Chinese into English and another that can translate English into Spanish or German.

If the prototypes used a small vocabulary of about 100-200 words they worked with about 80% accuracy, researcher Tanja Schultz said. But, she added, a full vocabulary had a much lower level of accuracy. Professor Schultz said: The idea is that you can mouth words in English and they will come out in Chinese or another language. The ultimate goal, the researchers said, was to be in a position where you can just have a conversation. Chuck Jorgensen, a researcher at Nasa's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, told New Scientist: "This is showing the technology is really within reach. Phil Woodland, professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, said: This work sounds interesting. Most groups are
working on translating audio data into different languages, but this is different to work I have come across before because they are not working from a real acoustic signal.

Issue Date: November 3, 2006
Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio
Speakers say Islam is the enemy and advocate attacking Iran
By MARGOT PATTERSON,San Antonio

In 1981, Texas pastor and televangelist John Hagee put on the first Night to Honor Israel at his church in San Antonio. Israel had a few months before bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, and the Christian Zionist preacher wanted to show his support for Israel after its destruction of the nuclear reactor had been criticized around the world.Twenty-five years later, Hagee, who now advocates a strike by the United States or Israel on Iran’s nuclear installations, observed the silver anniversary of the Church of the Cornerstone’s annual Night to Honor Israel, an event that was part of a three-day celebration Oct. 20-22 designed to show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people and to advance the message that Israel and America are in danger.

For the first time, Christians United for Israel, CUFI, a lobbying group Hagee established nine months ago, presented the event. It was billed as the first national Night to Honor Israel, an event that CUFI directors are taking to other U.S. cities. Such evenings have already been held in Berkeley, Sacramento and Pasadena, Calif.; St. Louis; Arvada, Colo.; and Carlsbad, N.M., and are scheduled
for several other cities.For Hagee, bringing together Christian ministers from across the country, many of them representing megachurches like his own, with local and national Jewish representatives was the fulfillment of a vision he’d had since 1981 when he tried to summon 30 Christian ministers to host such an event and 29 of them left at the first break.It was an absolute failure, a royal bust,he said, recalling the event.

But this year’s national event in San Antonio was a new day for Hagee. Since 1981, he and others have witnessed the emergence of Christian Zionism as a religious and political movement with growing political clout.The evolving agenda of that movement was on display throughout the weekend, particularly at the special Middle East intelligence briefing on Saturday, Oct. 21, which featured former CIA director James Woolsey; a military adviser and former chief of staff for the Israeli Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon; and Joseph Ginat, director of the Strategic Dialogue Center at the Netanya Academic College in Israel.Around 3,000 people paid $25 each to attend the three-hour-plus briefing at the Church of the Cornerstone in which the spectre of Islamofascism was regularly invoked.

Woolsey said America is at war with a new enemy. Previously, it had faced secular totalitarian regimes. Now it faces several theocratic totalitarian regimes rooted, he said, in one of the world’s great religions, Islam. They hate us not for what we’ve done wrong but what we do right, Woolsey said. They hate us for our freedom.While many analysts have said that Iran is years away from producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli scholar Joseph Ginat warned that the West has only six to 10 months to take military action against Iran. A strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would be difficult but not impossible, he said. He expressed little hope
that a diplomatic solution to the impasse over Iran’s development of nuclear power could be negotiated.In the culture of the Arab world, there is a dimension known as the culture of lies, said Ginat.

A grim picture

Yaalon painted a grim picture of an ongoing war that he said had already started between the West and radical Islam, one he said will go on for generations. The war is between the Western culture, the culture which supports compassion, human rights and dignity, freedom, against those that promote death death for any freedom.Yaalon argued that opposition to Israel has little to do with its occupation of the Palestinian territories. The problem is not what they fabricate about occupation or apartheid, he said.

Two Arab speakers appeared on the platform. Brigitte Gabriel, a former TV anchor for World News on the Middle East Television network and the author of Why They Hate, described herself as a Lebanese Zionist and recounted traumatic episodes growing up as a Lebanese Christian during the civil war in Lebanon. Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist who converted to Christianity and is the author of Why I Left Jihad, also drew on his personal experiences.

Gabriel said Israel’s enemies are America’s, warned of Hamas cells in the United States. Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil and declared, Our enemy is in Islamic mosques throughout the U.S.Shoebat was just as explicit in his denunciation of Islam. There are peaceful Muslims, he conceded, but said those were the Muslims who knew little about their religion.,Our job is to liberate 1.2 billion Muslims and sometimes it has to be with a baseball bat,Shoebat said, who compared Islam to Nazism.The two Arab speakers’ personal stories hit an obvious chord with the audience. But despite the enthusiastic cheers and ovations, not everyone was convinced. Susan Ives, the director of communications at the interfaith peaceCENTER in San Antonio and a critic of Hagee, said she had come to the briefing skeptical of Christian Zionism but attempting to have an open mind. Ives said she found the briefing very frightening.

I’ve never been in any placed that called itself a Christian setting where there was such hatred, Ives said.If I were a Muslim, I would have been very, very afraid at the end of those four hours. They were depicting Islam as a hateful religion at the very least, especially the two Arab speakers. But almost every single one of them talked about Islam as a religion of liars.It has to be a real wake-up call for people who do not buy into this theology,Ives said.That theology is rooted in a view of Biblical prophecy and the end times that leads Christian Zionists to unstintingly support the state of Israel. Christian Zionists regard the creation of Israel in 1948 as one of the most significant events in history, a necessary prelude to the Rapture and Armageddon. Like Hagee, most Christian Zionists oppose any territorial concessions on the part of Israel for any reason.

Let it be known

In addition to the intelligence briefing, the weekend celebration of Israel and the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, included a carnival, food booths and a marketplace selling goods by scores of Israeli vendors. An Israeli choir sang at the regular Sunday services and the concluding celebration.The latter was an extravaganza that began with the American and Israeli national anthems and went on to evoke memories of the Holocaust. The Cornerstone Church choir and drama department sang Jewish and Israeli songs and at one point filed into a darkened church holding electric candles and small Israeli flags as a voice intoned, Israel, you are not alone. Not only are you not alone, you are loved. Let it be known from this night on, Israel has a family. Let it be known in Tehran, Damascus and Beirut that night and day we will watch and pray. Messages from Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanking the congregation and Hagee for their support for Israel were broadcast over two large video screens.

In his keynote address, Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, spoke of recent attempts to deny Israel’s legitimacy, singling out for criticism Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt of the University of Chicago and Harvard for their recent sophomoric paper critical of the Jewish lobby, and condemned what he said were attempts to give moral equivalency to Hezbollah and Israel in the recent war in Lebanon.Critics of Christian Zionists say their unequivocal support for Israel comes at the expense of Palestinians, including local Christian Palestinians, and jeopardizes prospects for peace.The dangers of Christian Zionism haven’t been talked about, said Art Preisinger, a retired Lutheran minister and history professor attending the celebration at Cornerstone Church.But most of the Christians in attendance for the weekend were wholehearted in their support for Hagee’s message.

Elesi Nagalu, 41, said nobody should be telling Israel what to do. That land [Israel] belongs to the Jewish people. They [Palestinians] might have property deeds, but property deeds don’t mean anything to me.Nagalu, who had come to San Antonio from San Mateo, Calif., said she had enjoyed the weekend thoroughly. God willing, I’ll be here next year. If Jesus doesn’t return before then.Margot Patterson is an NCR reporter and editor. Her e-mail address is mpatterson@natcath.org.