ARABS - ISRAEL DOESNOT WANT PEACE

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South. 3-2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem. 4-Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran. 5-US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off. 6-Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert. 7-GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel. 8-Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace.

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 = Thur Mar 15 12:00 AM EDT

MAR 14,07
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA

MAR 13,07
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL 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.

Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 14,07

Northeast

A cold front accompanied by rain and isolated thunderstorms will push southward through the Northeast tomorrow reaching central Virginia by evening. In parts of Upstate New York and northern New England the rain may change to wet snow before ending during the afternoon. An inch or two of slush is possible, especially in the higher terrain. The combination of rain, snowmelt and ice jams could lead to some river and stream flooding in northern Pennsylvania, New York and western New England. High temperatures will range from the 30s in western New York, the Adirondacks and far northern New England to the low 80s in southeastern Virginia. Readings in many locations may hold steady or retreat during the day.

South

Rain, showers and thunderstorms will dampen much of the South tomorrow, mainly from Louisiana eastward. The heaviest downpours are expected underneath an upper-air low in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Florida, the showers and storms should be primarily of the scattered afternoon pop-up variety. In the western reaches of the region, dry weather is forecast for the vast majority of Texas and Oklahoma. Temperatures, meanwhile, will continue to run well above March averages in most spots with highs in the 70s and 80s. Only the northern half of the Texas Panhandle and portions of northern Oklahoma will be limited to the 60s as gusty northerly winds push cooler air southward.

Midwest

Showers in the lower Midwest tomorrow should push gradually southward to south of the Ohio Valley by evening. Farther west, isolated showers may dot Kansas and Missouri throughout the day. To the north, a weak surface low followed by a reinforcing push of colder air is expected to deposit a few inches of snow on eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. High temperatures are expected to range from the 20s in much of northern North Dakota and far northern Minnesota to the 60s from extreme southeastern Kansas eastward through Kentucky. Readings in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio will be noticeably lower than today's topping out in the 40s and 50s in the wake of cold front.

West

Except for an orphaned shower or snow flurry here and there in the Rocky Mountain states tomorrow, the West will be dry. Temperatures will be near to above end-of-winter means with more record highs possible at some locations in the Southwest. Maxima are forecast to range from the 30s at a few spots in the northern Rockies to the 90s in southeast California and southwest Arizona. Most of the Great Basin will reach the 50s and 60s.

2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 13,07

In the course of preparing tracks for the new light-rail system in Jerusalem, remains of an ancient Jewish community just north of the Holy Temple have been uncovered. Rescue digs, required by law before any major construction work in Jerusalem and environs, have found a major set of remains of a Jewish town from post-Second Temple times. A long strip of land, 400 dunams (100 acres) in size, has been uncovered in which can be seen roads, alleys, houses, public buildings, a mikveh (ritual bath), and more. The community was located east of the old Roman highway leading from Jerusalem to Shechem (Nablus) - roughly along the same route as today's Shechem Way, or Highway 60.

Evidence shows that the community - the largest from that period yet uncovered in the Jerusalem vicinity - was inhabited by a well-to-do and religiously observant populace. In addition to the mikveh, many stone utensils were found - popularly used because they could not become ritually defiled, according to Jewish Law. Many coins were also found, including a rare gold one (pictured above) depicting Trainus Caesar (98-117 CE). Trainus began his reign 30 years after the Second Temple was destroyed. Antiquities Authority dig manager Rachel Bar-Natan said that this was only the second coin of its type found in Israel, and the first one within the Green Line. Nearly 1,000 4th-to-6th graders have visited the site on school trips. The site was first discovered during infrastructure work for the light-rail system being built in Jerusalem by the Moriah Company. In a related item, the National Infrastructures Planning and Construction Committee of the Interior Ministry has made its choice from among five alternatives for the establishment of Jerusalem's fifth water supply line. The project, which will be one of Israel's largest over the coming decade, will involve the placing of an 8-foot wide pipe deep underground, running from south of Rehovot to the western-Jerusalem reservoir in Beit Zayit. The 2-billion shekels project is being planned to meet the water needs of Jerusalem, Ramallah and the Jerusalem Corridor for the years 2015-2065.

Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran
By Peter Finn - Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page A13

MOSCOW, March 12 -- Russian officials said Monday that nuclear fuel will not be delivered to Iran this month as planned and that the September completion of a Russian-built nuclear power plant will be postponed because of an escalating dispute between the two countries.Moscow and Tehran have been arguing for weeks over what Russia calls Iran's failure to make $25 million monthly payments on the $1 billion plant in the southern city of Bushehr. Iran insists that it has made all scheduled payments.It will be impossible to launch the reactor in September, and there can be no talk about supplying fuel this month, the state-owned Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said in a statement Monday.Underlying the financial dispute appears to be increasing Russian hostility to Iran's suspected desire to build nuclear weapons and its flouting of international demands that it stop the enrichment of uranium and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The delivery of nuclear fuel would be a major boost for the Iranians. We hope the Russians won't politicize the delivery, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Sunday, according to news agencies. This should be done within the next two weeks. We expect the Russians to fulfill their commitments.The U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran in December after it refused to stop uranium enrichment. Iran says it has no intention of producing highly enriched uranium necessary for making nuclear weapons. Construction of the Bushehr plant was not affected by the sanctions, but Russia has in the past slowed construction as a lever to pressure Iran.The Security Council is considering further penalties against Tehran.We do not need a nuclear Iran or an Iran with the potential to create them, a Russian official whose name was not disclosed told Russian news agencies Monday. We will not play any anti-U.S. games with it, should [Iran] decide against giving any answers to the IAEA's questions. Let them answer for themselves.

The unidentified source accused Iran of abusing its good relations with Moscow. The Iranians have done nothing to help us convince our colleagues of Tehran's consistency, the official said. This is detrimental to us, especially to our foreign policy and our image.Russia has been building the Bushehr nuclear plant under a contract signed in 1995, and the two countries have close economic ties. Russia has repeatedly defended Iran's right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program and has resisted efforts by the United States and the European Union to level harsher sanctions against the country.

Iran reportedly wants to make payments in euros, not dollars, which Russia has refused to accept without renegotiating the contract. There are reports here that the contract has become unprofitable and Russia may want to extract additional financial and political concessions.Talks broke down last week when Russian officials became angered by public statements from the head of the Iranian delegation blaming Moscow for the standoff.Iran's central bank issued a new bank note Monday that includes a nuclear symbol, the Associated Press reported. The note shows electrons flying around a nucleus on a map of Iran.

US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and James Quinn
GMT 14/03/2007

A surge in arrears across the US mortgage industry and warnings of mass defaults have sent shivers through the US stock and junk bond markets, as Capitol Hill floated proposals for the biggest homeowner bail-out in US history.Chris Dodd called for direct aid

On Wall Street, the Dow tumbled 242.6 points to 12,076.0 - almost 2pc - in near panic trading as investors fled bank stocks led by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while shares of sub-prime lender Accredited Home Lenders crashed 64pc as creditors invoked repayment clauses.Ominously, the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that 4.95pc all loans tracked were in arrears of 30 days or more, the highest since the depths of the 2002 recession. Deliquencies on sub-prime loans have reached 13.3pc, even though the economy has barely begun to slow.US Federal Reserve governor Susan Bies said the turmoil in the $1,200bn (£620bn) sub-prime sector would get worse as people struggled to pay costs on over-sized properties bought on assumptions of capital gain. This is not the end of the wave, this is the beginning, she said, accusing brokers of issuing loans without even asking for proof of income.Median US house prices have fallen 9.3pc since April, leading to endemic cancellations on new homes. The market is now deteriorating so fast that top Democrats on Capitol Hill discussed plans yesterday for emergency measures to prevent the foreclosure on some 2.2m homes at risk from sub-prime defaults. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the federal government would have to step in with direct aid. The impact of losing 2.2m homes, I suspect, will be in a lot of areas of our cities and towns that are already pretty hard hit, so we clearly want to look at that and legislate, he said.

advertisementHe proposed some from of forbearance or a new financial instrument to allow distressed households to work their way through the crisis.Meanwhile, chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Berney Frank said he wanted legislation to restrict risky mortgages.The grim mood in Washington comes after Lehman Brothers warned that defaults could $300bn over the next two years if the distress sales of property lead to contagion into the prime segment. There was a risk the sub-prime meltdown could be a catalyst to drag down the entire housing market.Some 20pc of US mortgages issued in the past two years have been sub-prime, but lax practices have also spread to the prime sector. Some 29pc of homes bought from mid-2005 to mid-2006 were purchased with no equity.Nouriel Roubini, of New York University, estimates that half of the entire mortgage issuance since early 2005 is garbage, warning of a seizure in housing. We have the beginning of a much broader credit crunch that could have severe macro-economic effects, Prof Roubini said. Home equity withdrawals reached 6pc of GDP at the height of the property boom, allowing overstretched consumers to meet their bills.

Federal regulators have now clamped down on lender New Century Financial, which seems headed for bankruptcy after its banks switched off support on Monday.The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing accounting errors that led to New Century's share suspension earlier this week. The Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry.In London, shares in HSBC, which has a big exposure to the sub-prime market, fell 8½ to 902½p.

Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert MAR 1407

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is not enthusiastic about using military means to stop Iran's controversial nuclear programme, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday. The central issue bothering Israel nowadays is Iran, Olmert's office quoted him as telling representatives of the American Jewish Council.I have said before, and I still believe, that we prefer a diplomatic solution to the issue, and we are not enthusiastic about a military solution, he said during the meeting in Jerusalem.Believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel has accused Iran of trying to make an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an existential threat after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.Olmert has in the past said Israel did not rule out taking military steps against Iran.

Also Wednesday, ultra-nationalist Minister for for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman accused European leaders of willing to sacrifice the Jewish state to preserve economic ties with Tehran.

There are elements in Europe that are ready to sacrifice Israel on the alter of their security, of their trade contracts with Iran, Lieberman said.We saw the same phenomenon before World War II. That is how they sacrificed Czechoslovakia. That is how they ignored the Jewish problem, he said, referring to when European powers allowed Nazi Germany to annex areas in central Europe on the eve of World War II.I can see no other explanation to the opposition of some elements in Europe to imposing severe sanctions against Iran, he told public radio.Six world powers -- the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- were set on Wednesday to resume efforts to agree new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance amid signs they are nearing agreement on a new resolution.The Security Council slapped a first round of sanctions on Iran in December.

GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel
by Hillel Fendel MAR 13,07 (INN)

An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within. An internal General Security Service document says that Israel's Arab population is a genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel.A recent meeting in the Prime Minister's office presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with worrisome data in various spheres, including increasing Israeli-Arab solidarity and identification with terrorist elements, Hizbullah and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. The GSS has found that in the year 2006, 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens. In 2005, the numbers were 17 terror cells involving 22 Arabs.

Arabs of Israel are generally recruited into terrorist gangs based on their family or business ties with Arabs of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), usually those of Samaria. The terrorists in Yesha find it easier to transport weapons using the services of Israeli-Arabs who are not bound by restrictions at checkpoints and the like. For instance, in November 2006, a smuggling cell of ten Israeli-Arabs was found to be active in smuggling weapons from pre-1967 Israel to Judea and Samaria. In the Negev, as well, Bedouin Arabs help out in smuggling weapons - to Gaza. Six such smuggling gangs were cracked open in 2006. Involvement of Hizbullah in Israeli-Arab terrorist initiatives has also been long noted. In July 2006, an Israeli-Arab was arrested who admitted to his interrogators that during the recent war with Hizbullah, he transmitted information to a Lebanese Hizbullah drug-dealer regarding IDF forces, military plans, and location of rocket hits. Some 40% of the Israeli-Arabs involved in terrorism originated in Yesha, but were permitted to come to pre-'67 Israel and receive Israeli residency after marrying Israeli-Arabs. They are then permitted to travel freely throughout the country.

Just this morning, six Israeli-Arabs from a Galilee village were indicted on charges of four brutal rapes over the past two years. The rapes were apparently another form of anti-Israel terrorism, as one victim told investigators that the rapists had told her that he was avenging" IDF operations in Gaza. This was echoed by one of the Arabs during police questioning.

Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace
by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 14,07

Arab nations have expressed outrage over Israeli contentions that their 2002 peace plan, known as the Saui Arabian plan, equires changes in order to work for both sides, and charge that Israel doesnt want peace.The 5-year-old Arab initiative was recently dragged out of mothballs for re-examination in light of the Palestinian Authority failures to make headway on creating peace on its own neither with Israel nor internally between its own terrorist factions. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said last week that there were elements of the plan that needed to be changed a comment that evoked the ire of Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Arabs Say Saudi Plan is Best Offer Take It or Leave It

Saudi Arabia has taken a take it or leave it stance on the 2002 Arab peace plan authored by Saudi King Abdullah. That view has been backed by other Arab leaders who will meet late this month at the Arab League summit in Riyadh. The 5-year-old peace plan is expected to be a main focus of the discussions. Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Saud Al-Faisal said, in response to comments by Israeli officials that some of the language of the proposal was problematic,that there was nothing to talk about. We have no desire to negotiate over this, he said. They accept the resolution and then they talk about putting preconditions that should be accepted before negotiations or discussions or even the acceptance of the proposal. This is not a good way to do business.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak joined in the chorus. A spokesman for the Egyptian leader told reporters after a meeting with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa that Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs. Mubarak's spokesman rejected Israel's insistence that some of the plans elements were unacceptable. The Arab plan requires full withdrawal for full peace, he said. Foreign Minister Livni, responding to the attacks in New York, said that Israel had never accepted the plan in toto, and that it was always said to be a matter for negotiations. To the best of my understanding, she said, peace initiatives are not yes-or-no affairs or package deals... they must be negotiated.

Professor: Arab Peace Plans Have One Goal - to Destroy Israel

Historian and Middle East expert Prof. Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine today, We must understand that the goal of all Arab peace initiatives is the same - the liquidation of the State of Israel. There is no Arab initiative that is not Islamic in essence. As far as the Arabs are concerned, Israel is a reversal of Allah's promise that Islam can and must rule over the entire world, and this reversal must be corrected... The State of Israel is not led by wise leaders who understand this.Syria too has expressed support for Saudi Arabias stance that its 2002 Arab peace plan cannot be amended or changed in any way. We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole, said Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara. Talk about amending it is baseless. Al-Shara bluntly told reporters Tuesday, after his talks Mubarak, What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem.Jordans King Abdullah II also warned Tuesday evening that violence and Islamic extremism is likely to return to the region if Israel does not come to the negotiating table.

Israel-PA Talks Less Than Promising

Talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which were revived in December 2006, have been less than promising, as expected. Both the U.S. and Israel have remained firm that the Hamas-led PA government must meet the criteria of the four- member Quartet of nations, comprised of the U.S., Russia, the United Nations and European Union official recognition of the State of Israel, renunciation of terrorism and fulfillment of agreements signed by previous PA governments. Hamas has repeatedly refused to comply with those demands, which the international community has set as a precondition for serious negotiations. The most recent Olmert-Abbas meeting, held in Jerusalem this past Sunday, was tense according to sources on both sides of the negotiating table, a description applied to the previous talks refereed personally last month by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That assessment came less than a day after sources in the Prime Ministers office reported that the talks were conducted in a good atmosphere.

Despite weeks of groundwork by Rice, who met for weeks with Arab leaders and Quartet representatives, there was little accomplished other than Israeli concessions to the Hamas-led PA government. These included relaxation of travel restrictions on PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria, removal of a number of security checkpoints, and the transfer of $100 million in tax monies, collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, to Abbass office. Moreover, Reuters reported Tuesday that Hamas terrorists revealed that a portion of those funds, allegedly earmarked for partial salaries for Abbas's forces and for humanitarian purposes, nonetheless reached the hands of Hamas security personnel.

At their meeting this week, Olmert demanded that Abbas provide an accounting of how the tax funds were spent; Abbas was unable to do so. He did promise to have it by the end of the week.