ISRAEL LOSES IN BAD SWAP

REVELATION 13:1-3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(IN THE BIBLE THE SEA IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA) and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU IS THE ONE STARTED THIS TRADE BLOCK JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS HERE).
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he 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.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

PRISONER EXCHANGE
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THIS IS JUST THE MOST REDICULAS THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. DEAD ISRAELI SOLDIERS FOR LIVE ARAB(MUSLIM)MURDERERS. ISRAEL IS SUPPOSE TO BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, NOT A GIVER IN TO ARAB ENEMIES.

AND IN YESTERDAYS STORY WE SEE THAT AMERICA NEVER EVEN HAD A SEAT AT THE MEDITERRANEAN SUMMIT, JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS:IT WILL BE THE EUROPEAN UNION, NOT THE USA THAT MAKES THE FINAL 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY SIGNING OF DANIEL 9:27 WITH THE ISRAELIS - ARABS AND MANY, WE NOW KNOW THE MANY ARE THE ARAB AND AFRICAN NATIONS AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS NEW TRADE BLOC UNDER THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION)CONTROL.

Freed Lebanese prisoners at a glance By The Associated Press JULY 16,08

A look at five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel on Wednesday as part of an exchange deal with Hezbollah:

SAMIR KANTAR — Born on July 20, 1952. Kantar was serving multiple life terms for a 1979 attack in the northern Israeli coastal town of Nahariya in which a policeman and a man and his 4-year-old daughter were killed.

Prosecutors said he killed the girl by bashing her head with a rifle. Kantar denies this, saying the girl was killed in crossfire. As the attack unfolded, the child's mother hid in a crawl space and accidentally smothered her 2-year-old daughter while trying to muffle her cries.

Two other guerrillas were killed in a shootout with police. A third was convicted, but freed in the 1980s as part of a prisoner swap. Kantar was a member of the radical Palestine Liberation Front.

MAHER KOURANI — Hezbollah guerrilla born in 1981 in the southern village of Yater. He is married and has a son born after his capture. His family named the boy Hassan after the Hezbollah leader. Kourani was captured by Israeli troops on July 29, 2006, in the southern town of Shiheen near Naqoura.

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN — Hezbollah guerrilla born in 1985 in the coastal region of Byblos. He was captured during the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.

KHADER ZEIDAN — Hezbollah guerrilla born in 1982 in the southern town of Marwaniyeh. He was captured by Israeli troops in the nearby village of Ghandouriyeh during the 2006 war.

MOHAMMED SUROUR — Hezbollah guerrilla born in 1987. He comes from the border village of Aita al-Shaab where Hezbollah guerrillas crossed into Israel on July 12, 2006, and captured two Israeli soldiers whose bodies were returned Wednesday. He was captured during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

HIBOLLAH RETURN BODIES TO ISRAEL
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Lebanese militant released in Israel prisoner swap By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer JULY 16,08

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five Lebanese militants freed from prisons in Israel in exchange for the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers returned home Wednesday to a boisterous welcome from hundreds of cheering spectators. Israel released Samir Kantar and four others after Hezbollah handed over two black coffins with the bodies of the Israeli soldiers, closing a painful chapter from the 2006 war in Lebanon.Kantar, who had been serving multiple life terms in Israel for a grisly 1979 attack, wiped away tears as he stood before a crowd in the coastal border town of Naqoura.The five later flew to Beirut, where they received an official welcome from the president and were congratulated by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who was last seen in public in January.Your return is a new victory and the future with you will only be a shinning march in which we achieve the sovereignty of our land and the freedom of people, President Michel Suleiman said in his address. I congratulate the resistance (Hezbollah) for this new achievement.

Winning freedom for Kantar was one of the reasons Hezbollah's leader cited at the time for going to war with Israel in 2006.

Kantar was convicted in a nighttime attack that killed a 4-year-old girl, her father and a policeman. Although polls showed Israelis solidly endorsed the exchange, many see Kantar as the embodiment of evil.Samir Kantar is a brutal murderer of children and anybody celebrating him as a hero is trampling on basic human decency, said Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli prime minister.Wednesday's exchange was also a wrenching end to the war for Israel. The soldiers' capture by Hezbollah fighters in a cross-border raid in 2006 triggered the 34-day war. The campaign to bring Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev home had become a national crusade.The soldiers' Hezbollah captors had withheld any information about them since they were taken, refusing to release pictures or allow the Red Cross to see them. It was not clear if Regev and Goldwasser were killed in the original raid or if they died in captivity. Evidence at the scene indicated both were seriously wounded.Though officials had suspected they were dead, the sight of the coffins was the first confirmation of their fate.Regev's father, Zvi, said he fell apart the moment he saw Hezbollah take the coffins out of a van and place them on the ground.It was horrible to see it. I didn't want to, I asked them to turn off the TV, he said, choking back tears.We were always hoping that Udi and Eldad were alive and that they would come home and we would hug them, he added, using Ehud Goldwasser's nickname. We had this hope all the time.An aunt of Regev's sank to the ground when she saw the coffins appear on a small TV hooked up outside the soldier's father's house. Some 50 friends, neighbors and family who had gathered there sobbed, rocked back and forth in prayer, lit candles or tugged at their hair. Nasrallah, you will pay, several of the mourners vowed.

Other people in the crowd criticized Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saying the soldiers died for nothing.The swap was mediated by a U.N.-appointed German official who shuttled between the sides for 18 months.On Wednesday, Israeli forensic experts examined the remains for several hours, checking dental records among other things, before confirming the soldiers' identities. Israeli generals then went to the families' homes to deliver the news.

After the confirmation, Israel released Kantar and the four other Lebanese prisoners to Hezbollah. In the dead of night on April 22, 1979, Kantar and three other gunmen made their way in a rubber dinghy from Lebanon to the sleepy Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, 5 miles south of the Lebanese border. There, in a hail of gunfire and exploding grenades, they killed a policeman who stumbled upon them, then burst into the apartment of Danny Haran, herding him and his 4-year-old daughter outside at gunpoint to the beach below, where they were killed. An Israeli court found that Kantar shot Danny Haran in front of his child, then smashed her head with his rifle butt. Haran's wife, Smadar, who had fled into a crawl space in the family apartment with her 2-year-old daughter, accidentally smothered the child with her hand while trying to stifle her cries.

Kantar, a Lebanese Druse who acted on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Front, a small faction of the PLO, denies killing the older child. He says she was killed in the crossfire as he battled Israeli police, and he has never expressed remorse. Kantar was 16 years old at the time. Two members of his squad were killed in the raid, and the third, taken alive, was released in a 1985 prisoner swap. Israel held on to Kantar for decades, hoping to use him as a bargaining chip to win new information about an Israeli airman whose plane crashed in Lebanon in 1986. But despite dissatisfaction over Hezbollah's report on the airman, provided over the weekend, and under pressure from the captured soldiers' families to bring them home, Israel's Cabinet voted on Tuesday to release Kantar.

Hezbollah's commander in south Lebanon, Sheik Nabil Kaouk, called the swap an official admission of defeat for Israel. Also Wednesday, a Red Cross tractor-trailer arrived in Lebanon carrying wooden coffins containing the bodies of Lebanese and Palestinian fighters. Part of the swap included Israel handing over the remains of some 199 fighters. In addition to the two soldiers, Hezbollah also handed to ICRC officials body parts belonging to Israeli soldiers killed during the 2006 war. Associated Press writers Hussein Dakroub in Naqoura, Lebanon; Aron Heller in Rosh Hanikra, Israel; Sam F. Ghattas in Beirut and Ian Deitch in Kiryat Motzkin contributed to this report.

Hezbollah celebrates prisoner swap, Israel mourns By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent JULY 16,08

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel were flown to a heroes' welcome in Beirut on Wednesday after Hezbollah returned the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized in a cross-border raid in 2006. A grim mood prevailed in Israel, where the prisoner swap was widely seen as a painful necessity two years after the capture of the two Israeli army reservists sparked a 34-day war in which about 1,200 people in Lebanon and 159 Israelis were killed.Among the released captives was Samir Qantar, who had been Israel's longest-serving Lebanese prisoner and whom Israelis revile for his part in a 1979 Palestinian guerrilla attack.The International Committee of the Red Cross brought the men to the border town of Naqoura. After changing into military fatigues, they appeared on a red carpet flanked by a Hezbollah honor guard.This is a moment of divine victory, said Sayyed Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, a senior Hezbollah leader, told cheering crowds.Two Lebanese army helicopters then flew the men to Beirut, where President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri kissed them at the airport.Your return is a new victory, Suleiman declared.Israel retrieved the corpses of the two soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, only after agreeing to release Qantar, who had been serving a life term for the deaths of four Israelis, including a 4-year-old girl and her father.Woe betide the people who celebrate the release of a beastly man who bludgeoned the skull of a 4-year-old toddler, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a statement before a private meeting with the families of the soldiers.Tens of thousands of flag-waving Hezbollah supporters gathered in Beirut ahead of a rally to celebrate the release of Qantar and four Hezbollah fighters captured in the 2006 war.

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Hezbollah earlier handed over two black coffins containing the Israeli soldiers in Naqoura.The Israeli army said forensic teams had identified the bodies as those of its missing men. Hezbollah had never disclosed whether they were alive or dead, but Israeli officials had said they were badly wounded at the time of their capture.The release of the Lebanese prisoners, said by Hezbollah to be the last held in Israel, closes a file that has motivated repeated attempts by Shi'ite guerrillas over the past quarter of a century to capture Israelis to use as bargaining counters.The fathers of the two Israeli soldiers spoke of their pain at watching the transfer of their sons' coffins on television.It is not easy to see this, although there was not much surprise to it. But ... confronting this reality was difficult, yes, Shlomo Goldwasser told Israel radio.Zvi Regev said on Army Radio: It was a terrible thing to see, really terrible. I was always optimistic, and I hoped all the time that I would meet Eldad and hug him.Under the deal arranged by a U.N.-appointed German mediator, Israel also returned the bodies of eight Hezbollah fighters slain in the 2006 war and those of four Palestinians, including Dalal Mughrabi, a woman guerrilla who led a 1978 raid on Israel. The four were among nearly 200 Arabs killed trying to attack Israel whose bodies were delivered to Lebanon in ICRC trucks as part of the delicately orchestrated swap. Hezbollah returned the remains of other Israeli troops killed in the south. Israel will also free scores of Palestinian prisoners at a later date as a gesture to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Hezbollah has dubbed the exchange Operation Radwan, in honor of Hajj Radwan, or Imad Moughniyah, the group's military commander assassinated in Syria in February.

Yellow Hezbollah flags fluttered across south Lebanon and on the coastal highway from Naqoura to Beirut. Liberation of the captives: a new dawn for Lebanon and Palestine, a banner read. Olmert said the exchange revealed the moral and ethical might of the people of Israel.It was due to this might that we decided to recover our sons, despite the heavy price of releasing a despicable murderer, his statement said. For some Lebanese, the swap showed the futility of the conflict with Israel two summers ago. There shouldn't have been a war in 2006. A lot of lives were lost, said Rami Nasereddine, 18, lamenting Israel's refusal to trade captives at the time. The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said the Hezbollah deal strengthened its own hand in demanding freedom for hundreds of prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

(Additional reporting by Nadim Ladki, Tom Perry and Laila Bassam in Beirut, Jeffrey Heller, Ori Lewis, Jospeh Nasr and Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Avida Landau in Rosh Hanikra and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; editing by Andrew Dobbie)

Turkey sees Israeli, Syrian commitment for peace Wed Jul 16, 9:47 AM ET

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey believes that both Israel and Syria are committed to peace, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday ahead of a fourth round of indirect talks between the two sides under Turkish auspices. The talks so far took place in a sincere and constructive atmosphere, Babacan said in an interview on NTV television. Our prevailing opinion is that both parties have a genuine political will to reach a settlement.A date was set for a fourth round of indirect talks in Istanbul, Babacan said, but declined to disclose it, saying only that they would be held in a few weeks.Under the format of the talks, Israeli and Syrian officials do not see each other and Turkish diplomats shuttle between them.Babacan said the success of the talks would have wider regional impact and could lead to peace talks also between Israel and Lebanon.The Israeli-Syrian talks started in May after an eight-year freeze. The latest round was held in early July.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held indirect talks through Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Paris on Sunday on the sidelines of a summit to launch a Mediterranean union.Syria said in May that it had received Israeli commitment for full withdrawal from the Golan Heights it seized four decades ago, although Israeli officials have been tight-lipped on the controversial issue.Olmert has said Israel is willing to make major concessions, seen as a reference to the Golan Heights, seized in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981 -- a move never recognised by the international community.