VATICAN ENTERS MUSLIM VEIL DEBATE

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Earthquakes, tsunamis strike Japan (AP). 3-Tsunami slap Hawaii, Calif. north coast. 4-Philippine tsunami alert triggers panic. 5-1 dead as storms sweep across South. 6-Kenya floods kill 23, displace 80,000 -Red Cross. 7-Significant rain for the Northeast. 8-Testers in Iran find plutonium traces. 9-EU signs pacts with South Caucasus nations to boost ties. 10-Diseases appear on rise with temperatures: Experts. 11-Hamas refusal to recognize Israel threatens aid plan. 12-Bush Calls on Olmert to Permit Armed PA Military Forces in Judea & Samaria. 13-Harper’s pro-Israel position sparks a debate. 14-Vatican enters Muslim veil debate. 15-Wal-Mart Gives $60,000 To Homosexual Group To Support Homosexual Agenda In Workplace. 16-Iran says about to take final step in atomic plan. 17-Rice says Syria appears to have aligned itself with the forces of extremism. 18-JVI Prophecy Bible.

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)

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Earthquakes, tsunamis strike Japan (AP)

A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia Wednesday at 10:14 p.m. local time, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). USGS initially put the earthquake's magnitude at 7.8; the Japan Meteorological Agency initially measured the earthquake's magnitude at 8.1.The Japanese agency immediately issued tsunami warnings for Russia and Japan, where several small tsunami waves have since washed ashore, ranging from a few centimeters to 40 centimeters in height. The agency initially warned that tsunami waves up to 2 meters high could strike much of Japan's coastline, but withdrew the warning several hours later.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued tsunami warnings for Guam, Midway Island, Taiwan and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, and issued a tsunami watch for Hawaii. The center suggested that if tsunami waves were to hit Hawaii, the arrival time would have been 7:20 a.m. local time. No tsunami was observed, however, and the watches and warnings for the region were canceled.Likewise, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska issued tsunami warnings for Alaskan coastal areas, with watches being issued for Washington state and British Columbia, and precautionary advisories for Oregon and California. If tsunami waves were to arrive on the coasts of Canada and the United States, wave heights would not be expected to exceed a few centimeters and thus not to be a danger to anyone outside of the waterfronts in these areas, the center wrote in their tsunami bulletin issued this morning. By noon Eastern time, the center canceled all warnings and watches. Still, the center said that even small sea-level changes can be hazardous to boats and coastal structures, so people should take caution.

No damages or deaths have been reported from the quake or tsunamis so far, according to USGS. The earthquake struck about 445 kilometers (275 miles) northeast of Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, and 1,665 kilometers (1,030 miles) northeast of Tokyo, Japan, USGS reported. It occurred about 28 kilometers below the seafloor.Undersea earthquakes and ensuing tsunami warnings have grabbed people's attention, following the devastating magnitude-9.1 earthquake and tsunami off Sumatra in 2004 that killed more than 200,000 people around the Indian Ocean.Japan experiences more earthquakes than most parts of the world, as the country sits atop four converging tectonic plates. It is also part of the so-called Ring of Fire, a tectonically and volcanologically active area that rims the Pacific Ocean.Megan Sever,News story by Associated Press

Tsunami slap Hawaii, Calif. north coast By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 36 minutes ago

HONOLULU - Tsunamis generated by a major earthquake near Japan left behind little damage but offered a legitimate test of international warning systems. The waves, some measuring a few feet high, struck Hawaii shores Wednesday, slightly injuring one swimmer and temporarily flooding a harbor. A surge along California's northern coast destroyed two docks in Crescent City Harbor.

The waves hit Hawaii about six hours after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck north of Japan.Tsunami warnings were issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which reported that its system of sending alerts functioned properly.It went very smoothly, and there weren't any major problems at all, said Brian Shiro, a geophysicist at the center. We issued a warning for 1,000 kilometers surrounding the earthquake and an advisory for the rest of the Pacific Ocean.

The alerts were canceled once the center received further information that showed the tsunami was going to be small, he said. The center canceled the tsunami watch for Hawaii when it became clear the waves were unlikely to top one meter, or about 3.3 feet.

But local civil defense authorities still warned people to stay out of the water and to exercise caution near harbors, given the possibility the earthquake would generate unusual currents around Hawaii.A woman swimming at Waikiki suffered cuts when she was sucked through an opening in a seawall as the water receded just before the swells arrived. She was otherwise fine, said John Cummings, a spokesman for Oahu Civil Defense.On Kauai, a 2 1/2-foot swell flooded a parking lot at Nawiliwili Harbor. No serious damage was reported.Some of the boats hit the bottom with their keels when the water receded, sort of jostled them around their moorings when the wave came through, said Mark Marshall, Kauai County civil defense administrator.

In California, the weather service reported ocean surges as high as 6 feet and waves moving up to 30 mph but did not call an official tsunami warning or watch.Harbor workers at Crescent City about 20 miles south of Oregon's state line noticed a fast-moving current around mid-afternoon that harbor master Richard Young described as a river within the ocean.As the surge rushed out of the harbor, two floating docks in the inner basin were destroyed, Young said. Another surge followed, severely damaging a third dock, he said.

Several vessels attached to the destroyed docks bobbed away from their anchorage and likely received dings and possibly greater damages, the harbor master said.Young said the replacement costs of the docks could range from $300,000 to $700,000.
Thousands of people living along northern Japan's Pacific coast fled to higher ground, but Japan's meteorological agency withdrew its tsunami warning after about three hours. The waves near Japan did not swell higher than 23 inches.

Philippine tsunami alert triggers panic By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 16, 4:37 AM ET

MANILA, Philippines - A tsunami alert raised in the Philippines after an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Japan sent thousands of residents fleeing to higher ground because of rumors and miscommunication, officials said Thursday.

People in northern coastal towns reported receiving cell phone text messages warning them to flee their homes because of a tsunami.

At about 1 a.m., they all fled to the hills. We heard that a 40-foot wall of water was going to hit us, Lina Lopez, from Abulug town in northern Cagayan province, told Manila DZRH radio.Shortly after the quake struck off Japan late Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology issued a tsunami warning for the country's eastern and northern coasts.But the warning only advised people to keep watch for changes in sea conditions, director Renato Solidum said. All alerts were canceled shortly after midnight.

There was no order to evacuate, Solidum said.We need to improve the training of our communities. That's why we need to have a tsunami drill in local communities.In northeastern Aurora province, hundreds of families from at least three towns hardest hit by a recent typhoon fled to higher ground.In Manila, residents of a shantytown close to Manila Bay evacuated their homes after hearing news about the tsunami warning on radio and television. They returned early Thursday, officials said.

Wednesday's earthquake sent waves only about 23 inches high to the shores of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido. No reports of casualties or damage were reported, and the meteorological agency later withdrew its warning.

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.

Nov. 15, 2006, 11:51AM
1 dead as storms sweep across South
The Associated Press

SUMRALL, Miss. Lines of powerful thunderstorms packing possible tornadoes and heavy rain raced across parts of the South early Wednesday, injuring at least eight people in Mississippi and killing one man in Louisiana.More injuries were reported in Arkansas, where the toppled at least five tractor-trailer rigs along Interstate 40 and damaged a hotel.The man killed near Greensburg, La., was in a trailer covered by a wooden structure when the tornado hit shortly before dawn, said Maj. Michael Martin of the St. Helena

Sheriff's Office.It was total destruction, Martin said.

He said one or more tornadoes damaged buildings and power lines and downed trees along a path about 2 miles wide and 3 to 4 miles long.Several buildings were reported damaged in southeastern Louisiana's Tangipahoa and Washington parishes, near the Mississippi state line, and more than 40 homes were damaged or destroyed in four counties in southwestern Mississippi.

In Mississippi's Lamar County, emergency operations center director James Smith said a possible tornado struck a subdivision outside Sumrall at about 2:50 a.m.It appears to be a tornado from the reports of damage we've received including 11 destroyed or damaged homes and from the track,Smith said.Smith said six people were taken to hospitals from the Sumrall area, and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said two other people were injured in Greene County.

Billy Morgan said he was in his office workshop near Glade when a possible tornado blew the windows out.All I heard was a loud roar and then the next thing everything was on top of me, Morgan told The Hattiesburg American.Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, devastated last year by Hurricane Katrina, heavy rain flooded streets and closed some schools. City Hall in Biloxi suffered roof and water damage, and Mayor A.J. Holloway told The Sun Herald it appeared that a small tornado had touched down in the area.As the storms moved eastward, as much as 4 inches of rain fell in southern Alabama, flooding some homes, authorities reported.

In Arkansas, the thunderstorms toppled tractor-trailer rigs along Interstate 40 in Arkansas, and police said at least four people were hospitalized. Authorities said a hotel near Wheatley had structural damage.The storms caused flash flooding in Arkansas, including the Little Rock area, where police said they rescued two people who escaped high water by climbing trees.More than 3.5 inches of rain fell at Little Rock, including more than an inch in 20 minutes at the city's airport, the weather service said. Hail the diameter of quarters pounded areas west of the city.

Kenya floods kill 23, displace 80,000 -Red Cross
15 Nov 2006 12:17:42 GMT,Source: Reuters,By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura

NAIROBI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Floods in Kenya's northeastern and coastal areas have killed 23 people and displaced more than 80,000, the Red Cross said on Wednesday.

It also warned that heavy rains would take a toll on the flood-prone western region.
From our countrywide assessment, we know of 23 people dead at the coast, the refugee camps and other areas of north eastern province, Linet Atieno, an information officer with the Kenyan Red Cross Society, told Reuters.Government officials in the coastal province said thousands were fleeing the rising water for shelter in the hills of Kwale district.Roads have been blocked and many students sitting national high school exams have been cut off from schools and examinations centres.The number of people displaced (are) 80,000 and thousands more are affected and at high risk countrywide,the Kenya Red Cross Society said in a statement.

Flooding is also expected to occur in the traditional flood-prone areas of western Kenya, with rivers threatening to break their banks.The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said the flash floods have destroyed hundreds of homes and killed a pregnant woman and a child in the Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya. Thousands of Somali refugees fleeing tension in their country have been pouring into the Dadaab camps in recent months.Heavy rains have also been pounding the Horn of Africa beyond Kenya, bringing misery to parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea. Thousands have been driven from their homes in southern Somalia.We are asking the international community to help the affected people,said Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, one of the Somali Islamist leaders in control of much of the country's south.

Significant rain for the Northeast W. Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel 2 hours, 41 minutes ago

Yesterday a strong storm system brought widespread heavy rain and flooding, along with severe thunderstorms to parts of the southern states. Today that same storm system is headed for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Rain, heavy at times, will impact areas from the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, into western New England this morning, then spread east and north into the rest of the Northeast by this afternoon. Rainfall of 1 to 3 inches may occur over parts of the eastern Mid-Atlantic through tonight, which may result in flooding. The threat for flooding will spread into the New England states overnight. Flood and flash flood watches have been posted for parts of the area. There will also be a threat for a few strong to severe thunderstorms over the Carolinas, into the southern Mid-Atlantic. The main risk will be damaging winds; however an isolated tornado will also be possible. Gusty winds will increase over much of the eastern states today, with coastal areas possibly experiencing gale force winds of 40 to 50 mph. Inland, gusty winds of 20 to 30 mph can be expected. Given the winds, some costal flooding will be possible, especially along the Chesapeake Bay area.

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.

Testers in Iran find plutonium traces
William J. Broad, Nazila Fathi, New York Times
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

(11-15) 04:00 PST Tehran -- Iran's president said Tuesday that his country's nuclear program is nearing an important milestone, even as international atomic inspectors reported that they have found unexplained traces of plutonium and that Tehran continues to be so uncooperative in answering questions that they have been unable to confirm earlier claims of progress. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that Iran hopes soon to master the nuclear fuel cycle came as world powers, suspicious that Iran is seeking the means to make nuclear weapons, are trying to agree on a regimen of sanctions. Iran says it wants only to fuel reactors and generate electricity. I hope we can have our celebration of Iran's full nuclearization this year, Ahmadinejad said during a news conference in Tehran, apparently referring to a program that could do everything from extracting uranium ore from the ground to enriching it into reactor fuel. Iran's calendar ends in March.

In its latest report on the Iranian nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, said Tehran is moving ahead with its efforts to purify uranium while refusing to answer basic questions about its atomic program. For instance, the report said Iran has failed to provide full access to records needed to confirm its claims in June of having enriched uranium to a level of 5 percent, which is suitable for reactors. The report also said inspectors have made no progress in resolving the origin of previously discovered traces of highly enriched uranium, which can fuel atomic bombs. In September, the agency disclosed the discovery of the particles on a container from a waste storage site at Karaj, not far from Tehran, but withheld judgment about where the material came from and whether it could be linked to a secret nuclear-weapons program. Finally, the report said inspectors recently have found traces of yet another unexplained particle plutonium on samples from containers at Karaj and is assessing a response from Tehran about its origin. Plutonium, like uranium, can fuel nuclear weapons.

Unless Iran addresses the long outstanding verification issues, the report concluded, the atomic agency will remain unable to make further progress in its efforts to verify the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities. The report was sent to the 35 countries on the atomic agency's decision-making board before its regularly scheduled quarterly session in Vienna next week, on Nov. 23 and 24. It was distributed on a confidential basis Tuesday but was quickly made available to reporters. In Tehran, Ahmadinejad once again defied international demands to suspend uranium enrichment and reiterated Iran's ultimate enrichment goal
to expand its program to an industrial level with 60,000 centrifuges. In a news conference with Iranian journalists, he also brushed off suggestions by other senior authorities that Iran might suspend the reactor-fuel program, saying there is no way Iran will turn back.

Ahmadinejad said Iran had prepared itself to confront possible sanctions. Nothing has been passed against Iran yet, but we are ready for any condition, 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).

UPDATED: 09:12, November 15, 2006
EU signs pacts with South Caucasus nations to boost ties

The European Union (EU) signed here on Tuesday pacts with three South Caucasus nations, offering Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia millions of euros in economic aid and easier access to EU markets in return for the promise of political and democratic reforms. The accords, or so-called European Neighborhood Policy Action Plans in the EU's jargon, are aimed to draw these countries closer to the bloc, but offer no perspective of membership. These agreements will boost our relationship, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said.

The deals seek to stabilize Europe's eastern borders as it expands to 27 members on Jan. 1, when Romania and Bulgaria join. The accords offer broad EU cooperation in economic and justice affairs, transport, energy, environment, research, education, health and other sectors. The EU sees the neighborhood accords as an opportunity to help settle frozen conflicts in the south Caucasus and help nations there normalize frayed ties with Russia. Source: Xinhua

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Diseases appear on rise with temperatures: Experts

Nairobi, Nov 14: A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, international health experts reported today. Climate affects some of the most important diseases afflicting the world, said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organisation.The impacts may already be significant. Other specialists on a panel at the annual UN conference on climate change cited upsurges in Kenya, China and Europe in recent years of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever. Climate change could overwhelm public health services, said Kristie l EBI, an American public health consultant to the WHO.

The specialists laid out recent findings as the two-week conference entered its final four days, grappling with technical issues concerning operation of the Kyoto Protocol, and trying to set a course for future controls on global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Scientists attribute at least some of the past century's 0.6-degree-celsius rise in global temperatures to the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, by products of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel-burning sources. The Kyoto accord requires 35 industrial nations - not including the united states, which rejects the pact - to reduce such emissions by an average 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. Bureau Report

Hamas refusal to recognize Israel threatens aid plan Matthew Fisher, CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, November 15, 2006

JERUSALEM - A Palestinian plan to get western financial aid flowing again to Gaza and the West Bank was thrown into doubt Tuesday when the ruling Hamas faction insisted it would still not recognize Israel even after the creation of a new, more moderate government of national unity specifically designed to be more acceptable to the West.

Our position in this regard remains unchanged, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. We reject joining in any government that recognizes Israel.The Islamic Resistance Movement, which is Hamas' full name, also remained opposed to the so-called two state solution, which envisions Israel and a future Palestinian state living peacefully beside each other.The next government was not asked to recognize Israel and it will not do so, Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, was reported by the BBC as having told the Palestinian news agency Ramattan from Syria Tuesday.It was not asked for the two Germanys to recognize each other, while the whole world recognized them. Why should Palestine, which is not yet a state, recognize Israel?

In another interview with the Associated Press, Marzouk, who is the second ranking Hamas leader in exile, said the new government would be allowed to hold more moderate views. However, he did not indicate how much leeway that might be.

The new Hamas strategy of creating a cabinet of mostly apolitical technocrats while not changing the movement's core position on Israel was not likely to play well with the European Community, Canada and the United States. Their minimum demand to reinstate what amounts to $1-billion a year in economic help has been that Hamas, which is widely seen in the West as a terrorist organization, recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces violence.In an apparent breakthrough only two days ago, Hamas and Fatah which lost power to Hamas in elections last January, agreed to replace Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh as prime minister with Mohammed Shubair, a moderate U.S.-educated research scientist and university administrator who is not a member of any political party. It was hoped such a move, which may not be officially adopted for several more weeks, might end the western economic blockade.

When Hamas and Haniyeh formally took power from Fatah last March, the western response was to cut of virtually all financial assistance to the already financially strapped Palestinian government until they acknowledged Israel's existence and stopped terrorist attacks on the Jewish state. At the same time, and for the same reasons, Israel stopped handing over tens of millions of dollars of monthly customs revenues that it had been collecting on behalf of the Palestinian government.The so-called Quartet of western governments trying to broker a Mideast peace the U.S., the UN, the European Union and Russia are to meet in Cairo today to learn more about the still very complicated Palestinian unity talks.

Meanwhile, a three-star U.S. general and European diplomats met with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem Tuesday to discuss the Rafah border crossing that is Gaza's only non-Israeli border crossing. The crossing with Egypt has mostly been closed in recent months because of Israeli security concerns.The head of Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, told the Israeli parliament only Tuesday that Gazans had smuggled 30 tons of explosives into the territory from Egypt since Israeli forces withdrew from there 14 months ago, taking nearly 10,000 settlers with them.© CanWest News Service 2006

Report: Bush Calls on Olmert to Permit Armed PA Military Forces in Judea & Samaria 10:23 Nov 15, '06 / 24 Cheshvan 5767

(IsraelNN.com)

According to a report appearing in the British Daily Telegraph, during their White House meeting this week, US President George W. Bush called upon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to authorize the entry of 1,500 armed PA (Palestinian Authority) security forces into autonomous areas throughout Judea and Samaria.

Harper’s pro-Israel position sparks a debate
By SHELDON KIRSHNER

Writing in the the Toronto Star last month, Conservative Senator Hugh Segal observed, It is highly unlikely that Canada’s foreign policy toward Israel will determine the outcome of our next federal election. Segal is right, of course. The vast majority of Canadians have more pressing and immediate matters on their minds: the economy, Quebec’s place in Confederation, the latest trade dispute with the United States, the environment and the casualties Canada is sustaining in Afghanistan.But Israel is a fairly big issue in the Liberal party, which is gearing up for its leadership convention in Montreal from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. Since last summer’s war in Lebanon, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper described Israel’s ferocious military response to Hezbollah aggression as measured, the Liberals have been fixated on Israel, the Arab-Israeli dispute and Canada’s policy in the Middle East.

Indeed, these issues have been rehashed not only by the Liberals but by the New Democratic party and the Bloc Québécois, too.Which is really strange, since foreign policy was virtually ignored in the last federal election, and was not even a topic in the televised English and French debates between the party leaders.In addition to triggering a lively debate in Canadian political circles, Harper’s strong pro-Israel stance has galvanized many Jewish Canadians, who have traditionally voted for the Liberal party. Heather Reisman, the president of a nation-wide bookstore chain and a longtime Liberal, has apparently switched sides and now intends to support the Conservatives. Her husband, Gerald Schwartz, one of Canada’s leading entrepreneurs, signed a newspaper ad complimenting Harper for standing by Israel.

They are not the only ones who are disenchanted with the Liberals. Robert Lantos, the film producer, thanked Harper for his principled support of Israel and suggested that the Liberals could no longer take his allegiance for granted. Ariela Cotler, the Israeli wife of Montreal Liberal MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler, tore up her party membership card. These developments, which may yet presage a historic shift in Canadian Jewish voting patterns, have already caused an upheaval in the ranks of the Liberals.

Recognizing that some of his constituents were unhappy with the Liberal party’s position on Israel, Cotler told a reporter that he was working very hard to ensure that the Liberals adhere to party principles he was comfortable with when he joined the party. In a revealing aside, Cotler added, Prime Minister Harper certainly deserves credit for speaking up early and clearly in defending Israel.Liberal Senator Jerry Grafstein is concerned as well. Responding to a statement from Liberal interim leader and former foreign minister Bill Graham that Canada should not have taken sides during the month-long war in Lebanon, Grafstein said that the Liberals were never a party of honest brokers preaching a balanced approach.Susan Kadis, a Liberal MP who represents a riding in northern Toronto with a substantial Jewish population, created the biggest ripple. She withdrew as co-chair of one of the Liberal leadership front-runners, Michael Ignatieff, after he accused Israel of committing a war crime during the the war ion Lebanon.

A Toronto MP who has had a distinguished career as an academic, author and journalist, Ignatieff issued that accusation on a French-language Quebec talk show. After apologizing for saying that he was not losing sleep over a July 30 Israeli air strike in Qana that resulted in the deaths of 28 Lebanese civilians, Ignatieff said, I was a professor of human rights, and I am also a professor of the laws of war, and what happened in Qana was a war crime.

In the face of the ensuing uproar, and of a gratuitous remark by Harper that all but two of the Liberal leadership hopefuls have displayed an anti-Israel bias, Ignatieff softened his tone, saying that Hezbollah had also committed a war crime by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians. But he did not disavow his original accusation, saying it was based on reports by such groups as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Ignatieff, the son of a Russian-born Canadian diplomat, describes himself as a critical friend of Israel.Two years ago this month, he delivered a speech at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto in which he criticized Ariel Sharon’s planned unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the route of Israel’s security barrier through the West Bank. He also called for a contiguous Palestinian state and warned that a permanent Israeli occupation of the territories would be morally and politically unsustainable.

This past August, with the war in Lebanon still raging and with Israel intent on finishing off Hezbollah, Ignatieff whose chief Quebec organizers took part in a pro-Lebanon march in Montreal at which several participants carried Hezbollah’s flag urged the Canadian government to back an immediate ceasefire.If Ignatieff’s war crime comment struck a sour note, an earlier remark by Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj was equally damaging. On a fact-finding tour of Lebanon after the war, the Toronto politician charged that Israel’s offensive was nothing less than state terrorism and called on Canada to be more open to talking to Hezbollah.Reacting to his observations, Graham issued a statement that satisfied neither side. Without directly addressing Wrzesnewskyj’s reference to state terrorism, he declared that the Liberals were committed to keeping Hezbollah on Canada’s official terrorist list. But in affirming his party’s commitment to Israel’s existence and its right to self-defence, Graham muddied the waters by pointing out that the right of self-defence is always subject to international law.

At the end of the day, however, Graham seemed more interested in attacking Harper than in defending Israel or in blasting Hezbollah. Claiming that Harper had squandered our historic role as a Mideast bridge builder a point subsequently made by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa Graham said that he was increasingly at odds with the global community and with our national character. Speaking in this vein, Graham said, It is vital for middle power nations such as Canada to pursue a fair-minded and balanced foreign policy because it preserves our ability to act as an appropriate intermediary, helping us to make peace between enemies, rather than simply validating the positions held by any one party.Graham may have been inspired by an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail written by Paul Heinbecker, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations, on July 25. The core of his argument was in the first paragraph: For good or ill, the crisis in the Middle East is a defining moment for Canadian foreign policy. The new Conservative government is apparently staking out a one-sided position on the Lebanon war and departing from policies on the Middle East adopted by previous Canadian governments. The consequence could be far-reaching and negative.

Taking Harper to task for not putting Canadian interests above Diaspora politics, Heinbecker urged him to criticize intransigence on both sides, including Israeli occupation of Arab land and the disproportionate aspects of Israel’s response to Hezbollah.This critique has influenced neither Harper nor his ministers.In September, at the Francophonie summit in Romania, Harper blocked a resolution that would have recognized only Lebanese suffering during the war. Obviously, Canada believes that the resolution has to be balanced and that we should recognize the victims in both Lebanon and Israel.Less than a month later, at a B’nai Brith banquet in Toronto, Harper said, When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and never will be neutral.In Montreal, at an Israel Bonds dinner, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay dismissed critics who claim that the Conservatives have abandoned Canada’s traditional neutrality in the Arab-Israeli dispute. As he put it: Where is the neutral ground between defending oneself and Hezbollah attacks? He also said that his government will never recognize Hamas unless it comes to terms with Israel’s existence, renounces terrorism and accepts previous agreements signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority. But are the Conservatives in tune with Canadian public opinion? Not according to a recent Globe and Mail/CTV poll, which found that 77 per cent of Canadians thought that Canada should have been neutral during Israel’s war with Hezbollah.

Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 21:51 GMT
Vatican enters Muslim veil debate
By David Willey ,BBC News, Rome

Italy has a law against wearing masks in public. A senior Vatican cardinal has expressed concern over the use of some Muslim veils by Islamic immigrants in Europe. This is the first time that the Vatican has joined in the Europe-wide debate on how women who insist on wearing the veil affect the integration of Muslims. Cardinal Renato Martino said immigrants must respect the traditions, culture and religion of the nations they go to. They ought to abide by local laws banning the wearing of certain types of Muslim veils, he added. It seems elementary to me and it is quite right that the authorities demand it, said Cardinal Martino, who heads the Vatican department dealing with migration issues.

He was speaking at a news conference launching a papal statement calling for laws which encourage the better integration of migrants. Here in Italy, a law was passed during the attacks of the Red Brigades urban guerrillas three decades ago which still makes it an offence to cover your face in public if your identity is challenged by a policeman. At that time there were very few Muslim women immigrants in Italy.

Common values

Another Vatican expert on immigration, Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, said it was important in the course of dialogue with Muslims to make them understand that the consequences of some of their religious traditions might not be positive in the societies in which they now find themselves. The Italian government is trying to draw up what it calls a Charter of Common Values to get local Muslim leaders to help integrate Italy's fast-growing population. But it is hard going. At one recent meeting, a radical Muslim delegate proposed separate charters for men and for women, and favoured the death penalty. Equal rights for men and women are guaranteed, and the death penalty is banned, under the Italian constitution.

November 14, 2006
Wal-Mart Gives $60,000 To Homosexual Group To Support Homosexual Agenda In Workplace
Company Goes On Record As An Advocate For The Homosexual Agenda

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Wal-Mart has gone on record that they are an advocate for the homosexual agenda. In the Out & Equal 2006 Workplace Summit Program Guide, Wal-Mart placed a full-page ad which explicitly stated that it would be an advocate for the homosexual movement.

Keep in mind this ad was developed for the homosexual conference and aimed at participating homosexual groups.
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Not only did Wal-Mart place the ad in the program guide, they also gave $60,000 to Out & Equal, a homosexual organization pushing the same-sex agenda, including same-sex marriage, in the workplace. Out & Equal served as conference host and the donation went to help sponsor the Out & Equal Workplace Summit held this past September in Chicago.

The purpose of the conference was to train homosexuals to convince the companies for which they work to support the homosexual agenda and to encourage other companies to do the same. At the conference, Pride, Wal-Mart's in-house homosexual group, presented a PowerPoint presentation detailing how they were successful in getting Wal-Mart to support the homosexual agenda.

The PowerPoint presentation, telling Pride's story, contains 51 frames. Each page of the presentation contains the line Confidential Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.It was used to encourage conference participants to follow Pride's example in the companies for which they work.

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Iran says about to take final step in atomic plan By Parisa Hafezi
NOV 16,06

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran was about to take the final step in a nuclear program which the U.N. has called on it to curtail and which the West fears may be used to make atomic bombs.

Ahmadinejad did not say what the final step was, but he repeated comments he made this week that Iran would celebrate its right to nuclear technology by March, the end of the Iranian year, the official IRNA news agency reported.Tehran, which says its nuclear aims are peaceful, faces possible sanctions for ignoring U.N. demands to halt sensitive atomic work, but there is no agreement at the U.N. Security Council on any penalties.Analysts say this may be encouraging Iran in its defiant stance.

The Iranian nation is about to take its final step in the nuclear issue, IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. He added that Iran would resist until the end.I hope that by the end of the year we will be able to hold celebrations about the Iranian nation's right to nuclear technology, he said.In comments carried by Iran's Mehr News Agency, the president said: This path that Iran has chosen is irreversible and big powers should not make useless efforts to prevent the Iranian nation from moving forward.Analysts say the defeat for U.S. President George W. Bush's Republican Party in last week's congressional elections may also have buoyed Iran, even though it remains wary of the victorious Democrats, who are seen in Tehran as close to arch-foe Israel.

There will be less concern, at least in the immediate future, about any decisions to be made against Iran by the U.S. administration, said one Iranian analyst, who asked not to be named as the topic is sensitive in Iran.

DIFFICULT FOR INSPECTORS

Iran has snubbed an offer of economic and political incentives, backed by six big powers, to halt uranium enrichment, which can make fuel for power plants or material for warheads. Instead, Tehran says it will expand its work.Iran now runs two chains of 164 centrifuges used for enrichment. But it says it wants to develop industrial-scale enrichment and plans to install 3,000 centrifuges by March. Ahmadinejad said this week Iran ultimately aimed for 60,000.Iran has so far enriched only tiny amounts of uranium suitable for fuel. With 3,000 centrifuges in place, it could make enough material for at least one warhead, experts say.I wouldn't be surprised if they have 3,000 up by March, a senior diplomat in Vienna said. The technical challenge they have not overcome yet is to keep that many centrifuges interlinked and spinning consistently.

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a report this week Iran had not provided enough information to determine whether its plans were peaceful and was stonewalling IAEA probes.Our knowledge of Iranian activities is steadily deteriorating given how difficult it is for inspectors to move around there and the inability to make unannounced inspections, said another Vienna diplomat familiar with IAEA work in Iran.Iran, the world's fourth largest oil exporter, says it has provided information requested.(Additional reporting by Mark Heinrich in Vienna)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006
Rice says Syria appears to have aligned itself with the forces of extremism

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has said she opposes the idea of including Iran and Syria in talks to curb the violence in Iraq.The US has previously accused Iran and Syria of helping to fuel the violence. Both have denied the accusations.Tony Blair and the Iraq Study Goup earlier suggested talks with the two countries.Rice told reporters: There is no lack of opportunity to talk to the Iranians. I think the question is, is there anything about Iranian behaviour that suggests that they are prepared to contribute to stability in Iraq? And I have to say that at this point, I don't see it.The US broke ties with Iran after students stormed the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said on Tuesday that he was ready to talk to the US if there was a change in attitude from Washington.

Rice was also critical of Syria, saying it was causing problems of extraordinary proportions in Lebanon, had undermined Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and had insulted US allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.She said: That is not a very good record on which to suggest that just going and talking to Syria is going to get a change in their behaviour.There is no indication Syria wishes to be a stabilising force.The US recalled its ambassador to Syria last year after the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

No magic bullets

Rice said: Right now, it [Syria] appears to have aligned itself with the forces of extremism.I will talk to anybody, anywhere, any time, under the right circumstances if I think we can make progress.But we have had, over the course of this administration, discussions with the Syrians, talks with the Syrians, envoys to the Syrians, and nothing has ever changed in their behaviour.

She said she had been doing some deep thinking about US policy in Iraq but did not see any easy solutions to the violence there.She said: I don't think that there are any magic bullets about Iraq. This is a complicated place.They are in a very difficult time. It will take some combination of Iraqi responsibility for their politics and also ... increased responsibility for their security as well as better help from the neighbours in supporting Iraq as it makes this very difficult transition.Source: Agencies

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