JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 2 2009

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 2 TODAY IN ISRAEL

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 1 2008 - AUDIO
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JURUSALEM CONFERENCE INTERVIEWS 2009 DAY 1 - AUDIO
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JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 DAY 2 TODAY
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JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
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CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL
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ONE JERUSALEM
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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.

Fresh warnings after storm kills 26 in southern Europe by Hugo Di Zazzo – Mon Jan 26, 5:05 pm ET

BORDEAUX, France (AFP) – Weather forecasters warned Monday of flooding and more gales to come after hurricane-force winds killed 26 people across southern Europe and left hundreds of thousands without electricity.The storm caused several hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in damage to homes, farms, businesses and infrastructure in France alone, insurance companies said.As families buried four children killed when a sports hall collapsed in northeastern Spain, the French prime minister called a crisis meeting for a briefing on recovery efforts underway in the country's southwest.The death toll continued to rise as a 70-year-old woman was reported dead of hypothermia after fleeing her home near Bordeaux after tiles were blown off her roof by winds that in places reached 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour.Local authorities declared a state of alert because of the risk of flooding in eight departments in southwestern France, which along with northeastern Spain bore the brunt of the weekend's violent storms.The tempest blew in from the Atlantic on Saturday, ripping roofs off houses, pulling down power lines and flattening countless trees -- many onto roads and rail lines -- before heading across the Mediterranean to batter Italy.France's agriculture ministry said late Monday that five million euros had been set aside to address the problem of fallen trees across woodlands and the country's infrastructure.There's nothing left standing around here, said Pierre Darmante, the mayor of Arjuzanx village in the heavily-forested Landes department on the French Atlantic coast.The devastation was described as like a war zone by the head of the SNCF state rail operator, Guillaume Pepy, after he visited the area.

Pepy told France Info radio later that it would take up to two weeks for rail transport across the country's network to get completely back to normal.Both France and Spain deployed hundreds of soldiers to join the thousands of workers and technicians engaged in the massive recovery effort after the worst storm to hit southwestern France and northern Spain in a decade.The storm plunged 1.7 million homes into darkness and by Monday night 427,000 of them were still without power.

Some 410,000 mobile telephone subscribers were also unable to access their networks as a result of the loss of power, according to the SFR and Bouygues Telecom providers.Nine people were killed in France, including four who inhaled carbon monoxide from electricity generators they used during power outages in two separate incidents.Two drivers were killed by falling trees Saturday in the Landes department, while flying debris killed a 78-year-old outside his home. A 73-year-old woman died in the Gironde department when a power cut halted her breathing machine.

But most of the deaths were in Spain, where more strong winds were forecast.The four children died in the town of Sant Boi de Llobregat , near Barcelona, when strong winds brought the roof and wall of a sports hall crashing down on their heads.Two more deaths were reported in Spain on Monday. Two people were found dead in the northwestern Galicia region apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator they set up after a power cut, officials said. Fourteen died in total in Spain, including a woman crushed by a wall, another who died after a door lifted by the wind slammed into her, and a police sergeant killed by a falling tree as he was directing traffic. The storm also claimed lives in Italy in two separate incidents near the southern city of Naples. A young woman was swept to her death Sunday by a wave as she walked on a beach, while torrential rain triggered a mudslide on the main highway south of Naples, killing two people and injuring five. French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said authorities would likely soon declare the storms to have been a natural catastrophe, which would let homeowners claim back home repair costs from their insurance firms.

France, Spain still shaken by deadly storms By JAMEY KEATEN, Asssociated Press Writer – Sun Jan 25, 4:02 pm ET

PARIS – French authorities deployed 10,000 cleanup and recovery workers and Spain let evacuated villagers return home Sunday a day after deadly storms pounded southwest France and northeast Spain.Authorities in Spain reported at least 12 deaths linked to the storm, including four children crushed as a sports facility buckled in high winds in Barcelona. In France, at least eight people died — including two couples who died of carbon-monoxide poisoning from generators they had turned on as power outages swept the region, officials said.Chain saws buzzed and clearing crews fanned out on both sides of the French-Spanish border as workers cut through felled trees on homes, power lines, rail tracks and roadways and took away debris Sunday.The issue today is to restore electricity as quickly as possible, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters at a crisis response center in Bordeaux, adding that 10,000 people including rescue teams, state officials, civil security workers and others had been deployed in France.ERDF, an Electricite de France subsidiary, said that it had managed to restore power to 900,000 customers among 1.7 million who initially were hit with the blackout Saturday. Tens o f thousands of homes in Spain were without electricity.In France, rail operator SNCF said service was gradually returning in the region after 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) of rail had been affected by the storm.In Spain, the bullet-train link between Madrid and Barcelona was restored as debris was cleared off the track, but services into France won't resume Sunday, state rail operator Renfe said.In Spain, aircraft battled forest fires near the eastern town of La Nucia that the town's mayor said was caused when winds blew down a high-tension power pylon in a wooded area.

Around 14,000 people that had been evacuated from several villages near the burning hills were being allowed to return to their homes, regional government counselor Serafin Castellano said.Leisure park Terra Natura, south of Valencia, said staffers evacuated some of its animals — which include jaguars, elephants, armadillos and monkeys — from their enclosures, and hailed firefighters who helped keep away flames that had surrounded the safari park on Saturday.Associated Press Writer Pierre Sauvey in Bordeaux, France, and Harold Heckle in Madrid, Spain, contributed to this report.

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.

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(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.

CARTER,ITS TIME FOR YOU TO PUT A TOWEL ON YOUR HEAD AND TURN MUSLIM,BECAUSE YOU ARE STUCK TO THEM LIKE GLUE AND HATE ISRAEL....CARTER GET A LIFE.

Carter: If no Palestine, Israel sees catastrophe By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,09

NEW YORK – Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Israel will face a catastrophe unless it revives the Mideast peace process and establishes an independent Palestinian state.In an interview with The Associated Press, he said Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land in the foreseeable future.If we look toward a one-state solution, which seems to be the trend — I hope not inexorable — it would be a catastrophe for Israel, because there would be only three options in that case, Carter said.One would be to expel large numbers of Palestinians, which he said would amount to ethnic cleansing.The second would be to deprive the Palestinians of equal voting rights, which he said would amount to apartheid.The third would be to give the Palestinians equal voting rights, and therefore the majority, he said.And you would no longer have a Jewish state, Carter said. The basic decisions would be made by the Palestinians, who would almost very likely vote in a bloc, whereas you would have some sharp divisions among the Israelis, because the Israelis always have different points of view.Carter spoke to The Associated Press as his new book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was released.

His wording on Israel's options was not new. His 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, provoked a hail of criticism, particularly from Jewish-Americans who felt it unfairly compared Israeli treatment of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to the legalized racial oppression that once existed in South Africa.Carter still believes a two-state solution is the best option, with all of Israel's Arab neighbors recognizing its right to exist in peace, and Israel withdrawing from most of the land it captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War to create an independent Palestine.

Carter brokered the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt 30 years ago, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.During Monday's interview, Carter also criticized the refusal of British Broadcasting Corp. and Rupert Murdoch's Sky News to broadcast a charity appeal to help Palestinian victims in Gaza.The two major broadcasters maintain they must protect their journalistic impartiality.When asked whether the appeal might lead to donations being co-opted by Gaza's ruling Hamas militants, Carter responded, Not necessarily.You have to remember that about 70 percent of the total population of Gaza are refugees, and their extreme concerns are administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he said. So the funds could be channeled through United Nations agencies, or through some other objective agencies, not through Hamas political leaders.The Carter Center: http://www.cartercenter.org/homepage.html

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU U.S. to let Hamas patrol Gaza smuggling routes?
Washington negotiating agreement that could grant legitimacy to terrorist group
January 26, 2009 10:02 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – An official document being negotiated by the U.S., Israel, Egypt and other players currently grants Hamas a role in patrolling the Gaza Strip's borders, according to an Egyptian intelligence official familiar with the draft document.

The stated purpose of the future patrols, set to follow Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, are to ensure against Hamas rearming in the territory. The document is set to be issued by Egypt, but the U.S., Israel and the European Union are heavily involved in the draft text, which would likely grant legitimacy to Hamas' role in Gaza. Both the U.S. and EU officially classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Hamas' charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of Israel. The group is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish population centers, shootings, knifings and cross-border raids. There is an understanding of all powers involved that Hamas must play a role, that without Hamas there can be no cross-border agreement, the Egyptian intelligence official told WND. So, yes, indirectly the U.S. and Israel admit that Hamas is a player and must be taken into consideration in any political arrangement. It will be an Egyptian paper. The U.S. and Israel can then say it's just Egypt that recognizes Hamas, but this is not true, the official said. The document seeks to establish an international monitoring system to prevent Hamas from rearming along the Egypt-Gaza border. According to the Egyptian intelligence official, the monitoring contingent is set to include Egyptian and European monitors as well as representatives from Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. Hamas has strenuously objected to any Israeli presence along the Egypt-Gaza border. The Egyptian official said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently arrived in the Egyptian Sinai desert, which borders Gaza, bringing with them advanced machinery to aid Egyptian troops in detecting Hamas smuggling tunnels. One of Israel's main goals for its offensive was to halt Hamas' ability to smuggle weapons across the Egypt-Gaza border. Israel is negotiating an international monitoring mechanism it hopes will stop Hamas from smuggling weapons from neighboring Egypt into Gaza. But previous international monitors stationed along the Egypt-Gaza border fled their duty and repeatedly failed to stem Hamas' weapons smuggling. The monitors were stationed at the border following Israel's 2005 evacuation of the Gaza Strip.

Although the U.S. classifies Hamas as a terrorist group, there have been some reports of American contacts with the organization. Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, claimed to WND last month his group has held talks with U.S. officials, including members of both Democratic and Republican parties. He said he believed the incoming administration of Barack Obama will favor dialogue with his group. He also said Hamas is in talks with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who serves as the main envoy for the Quartet of Russia, the U.S., the EU and the U.N. In November, Yousef sparked controversy after he claimed Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months prior with aides to Obama. He claimed the terror group was asked to keep the contacts secret until after November's elections. The charge was denied by Obama's transition team. Some trace Hamas' claim of newfound international dialogue to Jimmy Carter's visit in April, when the former president met with top Hamas officials. Immediately after Carter's meeting, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed Paris held talks with Hamas, and Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansan, admitted meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniya. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum confirmed to WND that Hamas this year met a delegation from the European Parliament, from France, and from Italy, and Norway, and from the EU parliament and from Carter.All of these are supporting Hamas, and they have a plan to support Palestinian rights and interests, Barhoum said, speaking from Gaza.

FITNA ISLAM
VIDEO - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7961200236915885171&ei=Unl3SYqPApPSjgKmzbilDw&q=fitna

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
http://www.pmw.org.il/

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video

MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/1874;_ylt=A0wNcxFdg6xIgbkAwD6z174F

ABC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2461

FOX NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3074

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3045

AP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529

BBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2918

REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2704

AFP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3091

CNBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3245

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JAN 27,2009

09:30 AM +7.73
10:00 AM +28.25
10:30 AM -2.70
11:00 AM +10.52
11:30 AM +63.40
12:00 PM +44.53
12:30 PM +96.78
01:00 PM +83.73
01:30 PM +52.01
02:00 PM +37.20
02:30 PM +33.69
03:00 PM +67.23
03:30 PM +72.96
04:00 PM +58.70 8174.73

S&P 500 845.70 +9.13

NASDAQ 1504.90 +15.44

GOLD 897.70 -11.10

OIL 41.67 -4.03

TSE 300 8754.41 +97.90

CDNX 867.87 +0.71

S&P/TSX/60 527.40 +7.14

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow +31 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +78 points high today.
Dow -6 points at low today.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.52%
S&P -7.38%
Nasdaq -5.55%
TSX Advances 623,declines 547,unchanged 210,Volume 629,451,184.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 398,Declines 306,Unchanged 289,Volume 137,874,302.

A RECORD 72,300 JOBS LOST YESTERDAY IN THE USA.
Senate Banking committee holds hearings on alleged Madoff scam this morning.
Oil opens at $44.30 today,Gold opens at $898.80 in trading today.

OBAMA TALKS TO MUSLIMS ON AL-ARABYA TV LAST NIGHT - VIDEO
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3P99bxwXg

http://www.shallownation.com/2009/01/27/obama-interview-al-arabiya-video-
obama-arab-interview-1-26-09/

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow +105 points at high today.
Dow -31 points at low today.
12:30PM TSX STATS
Advances 507,declines 497,unchanged 220 Volume 324,558,678.
12:30PM TSX VENTURE
Advances 278,declines 243,unchanged 254 Volume 63,213,743.
Missing fund manager Arthur Nadel arrested in Florida.
California Woman gives birth to 8 children.
FEDEX cargo plane crashes,pilots survive.
Investors shrug off Record low consumer confidence.
Stocks rebound after brief selloff.
Record drop in Home prices.
Credit Card losses rise to 7.2% (DEC)from 4.8% a year earlier.
Dow Utilities +2.4% for 2009.
Nasdaq,S&P 500 up for 6th time in 8 sessions.
Nasdaq has best 3 day gain since JANUARY 6,2009.

GERALD CELENTE TIP -GOVERNMENT IS SETTING US UP FOR A FALL,BE PREPARED,GOLD COULD BE CONFISCATED.WATCH OUT FOR ISRAEL TO ATTACK IRAN,CLINTON GAVE ISRAEL PERMISSION LAST WEEK TO GO FOR IT.
http://www.trendsresearch.com/
http://www.trendsresearch.com/institut.htm

GERALD CELENTE PREDICTIONS 2007-08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvZwo2qhIo&eurl=http://israndjer.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -31 points at low.
Dow +109 points at high.
Dow +0.72% today Volume 246,174,905.
Nasdaq +1.04% today Volume 1,685,931,545.
S&P 500 +1.09% Volume N/A

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)

NOTICE ITS TREATIES THAT THE RUSSIAN,ARAB,MUSLIMS MAKE AGAINST ISRAEL BEFORE THEY MARCH TO TRY TO ELIMINATE ISRAEL FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

HERES THE RUSSIA,IRAN,MUSLIMS,LIBYA CONNECTION - OIL.

LIBYA FACTS.
Dictator Moammar Gadhafi took over Libya in 1969.
Libya is a little bit larger than Alaska.
90% of Libya is dessrt or semidessert.
Libya Energy Industries want to earn $80 BILLION by 2012.
Libya relies on Oil for 95% of its exports.
Occidential is Lbys largest Oil and Gas acreage holder.
Libyas oil output is 1.8 MILLION barrels a day.
Libya has over 40 BILLION barrels of Oil.
Libya is hoping to attract 10 MILLION tourists by 2015.

HERES ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL.LIBYA INCLUDED and also EGYPT INCLUDED.NOTICE LAST WEEK ISRAEL JUST DISCOVERED MULITUDES OF GAS IN ISRAEL,THIS WILL BE WHY THE RUSSIAN,MUSLIM,ARABS,LIBYANS,EGYPTIANS MARCH AS THIS WILL BE THE HOOK IN THE JAWS GOD USES TO DECIEVE THEM TO MARCH TO ISRAEL BEFORE THEY GET DESTROYED.

EZEKIEL 38:1-7
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 RUSSIA-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.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

HERES THE MARCH TO GET ISRAEL GAS RESERVES IN THE FUTURE.

EZEKIEL 38:8-12
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.

AND HERES THE RESULTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL AND AGAINST ALL THE MARCHERS IN WAVE 1 OF WW3. 5/6th of them destroyed including the whole countries of Libya,Egypt,Ethiopia,Syria and others,these we know for sure will be destroyed.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) 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.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.

Zimbabwean economy's dollarisation a quick fix to crisis: analysts by Godfrey Marawanyika JAN 26,09

HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe has become a de facto dollar state as its tottering economy battles chronic hyper-inflation that has eroded the local currency, but analysts say that the dollarisation is merely a quick fix. Most monetary transactions in Zimbabwe are now conducted in US dollars, British pounds, South African rand and Botswana pulas since businesses were licenced by the central bank to trade in foreign currency some four months ago.A passport now costs 670 US dollars (516 euros), state-run newspapers are sold for a dollar, telephone calls are billed at 0.29 cents a minute, and transport operators charge one dollar per trip.But Professor Anthony Hawkins, an economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, said that although the dollarisation was a logical move, it will not end the country's woes.This is an exercise which does not solve anything, now everyone has to be paid in foreign currency. Not everyone has foreign currency. The only solution to the country's crisis is a political one, he told AFP.In a bid to discourage payments in local currency, the national carrier Air Zimbabwe charges 19 quintillion Zimbabwean dollars for a return flight from Harare to Bulawayo. The same trip costs 215 dollars.

The country's world record hyperinflationary environment has led the central bank to slash 13 zeros from the local unit over the past three years in a bid to make the currency more manageable.Earlier this month, the bank indicated it would introduce a 100 trillion dollar note, in its latest attempt to keep pace with conditions that has left its once-vibrant economy in tatters.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions acting secretary general Gideon Shoko told AFP that since most goods and services are now being charged in foreign currency, workers must also be paid in hard currency.Everyone is charging in foreign currency, even vegetables vendors are selling their goods in foreign currency, Shoko said.However, most employees were not going to work as they could not afford the transport fees, he said, raising questions of where ordinary Zimbabweans still being paid in local money were to source hard currency.Banks are now competing for clients to open foreign currency accounts, but despite the proliferation of the US dollar, consumers are short-changed at stores as shops do not have small coins in stock.Independent Harare based economist, Charles Tichaona said the dollarisation of the economy was only good for the short term.The local unit has lost attributes of being a currency as evidenced by the fact that almost every corner of the country is now trading foreign currency, he said.The economy has shrunk by nearly 40 percent over the past six years, with the last official inflation estimate of 231 million percent in July believed to be many times higher.Adding to the Zimbabwe's problems are consecutive years of drought.

Zimbabwe's economic crisis has also worsened under a protracted political deadlock between President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai.

Job-killing recession racks up more layoff victims By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer job JAN 26,09

WASHINGTON – The recession is killing jobs at an alarming pace, with tens of thousands of new layoffs announced Monday by some of the biggest names in American business — Pfizer, Caterpillar and Home Depot.More pink slips, pay freezes and other hits are expected to slam workers in the months ahead as companies desperately look for ways to survive.We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg — the big firms, said Rebecca Braeu, economist at John Hancock Financial Services. There's certainly other firms beneath them that will lay off workers as quickly or even quicker.Looking ahead, economists predicted a net loss of at least 2 million jobs — possibly more — this year even if President Barack Obama's $825 billion package of increased government spending and tax cuts is enacted. Last year, the economy lost a net 2.6 million jobs, the most since 1945, though the labor force has grown significantly since then.The unemployment rate, now at a 16-year high of 7.2 percent, could hit 10 percent or higher later this year or early next year, under some analysts' projections.Obama called on Congress Monday to speedily enact his recovery plan, warning that the nation can't afford distractions or delays.With the recession expected to drag on through much of this year, more damage will be inflicted on both companies and workers.The mounting toll was visible Monday as roughly 40,000 more U.S. workers got the grim news.Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., which is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion deal, and Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third-largest wireless provider, said they each will slash 8,000 jobs.Home Depot Inc., the biggest home improvement retailer in the U.S., will get rid of 7,000 jobs, and General Motors Corp. said it will cut 2,000 jobs at plants in Michigan and Ohio because of slow sales.We are seeing no improvement in labor market conditions, said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets Economics. This year could be as bad as last year in terms of layoffs.In response to deteriorating business conditions, Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest maker of mining and construction equipment, disclosed nearly 20,000 job cuts, most of which already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white collar workers, which will occur globally by the end of March.

Earlier actions included the elimination of 2,500 Caterpillar workers through a buyout offer announced in December, the termination of about 8,000 contract and temp agency workers, and the reduction of 4,000 full-time factory workers through firings and buyouts.Texas Instruments Inc., which makes chips for cell phones and other gadgets, will cut 3,400 jobs due to slumping demand. The Dallas-based company said Monday it will slash 12 percent of its work force — 1,800 jobs through layoffs and another 1,600 through voluntary retirements and departures. And Brooks Automation Inc. said it plans to get rid of 350 jobs, or 20 percent of its work force. It will be the second round of cuts for Brooks, which makes software and equipment for chip manufacturers.Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co. said it will eliminate jobs in markets particularly hard hit by the recession, though it didn't provide details. Its larger rival Schlumberger Ltd. said last week it will cut up to 5,000 jobs worldwide in the first half of 2009 and consider further reductions this spring.The flurry of layoffs comes on the heels of similar action by big-name companies just last week.Microsoft Corp. said it will slash up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. Intel Corp. said it will cut up to 6,000 manufacturing jobs. And United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said it would get rid of 1,000 jobs, on top of 1,500 axed late last year.And there's no end in sight. In a survey by the National Association for Business Economics, 39 percent of forecasters predicted job reductions through attrition or significant layoffs over the next six months, up from 32 percent in the previous survey in October. Around 45 percent in the current survey anticipated no change in hiring plans. About 17 percent thought hiring would increase. A new report by the placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that companies are often turning to a creative combination of measures to cut costs — beyond layoffs. Those measures include pay freezes or reductions, forced vacations, travel cutbacks and the elimination of year-end bonuses. Many companies cannot cut their payrolls as deeply as they have in previous downturns, simply because they did not do as much hiring during the most recent expansion, said John Challenger, president of the firm. As a result, they are forced to find alternative ways to keep costs down. Not all the economic news was as grim Monday. Sales of previously owned homes and a separate barometer of economic activity each logged unexpected gains in December. But economists didn't view them as signs of improvement. Keep the party hats in boxes and the Champagne in the cellar, said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. It's one month's set of data and they tell us little about the future.

Economists said the uptick in home sales was due to sinking prices spurring buyers. In the other report, a government-influenced balloon in the nation's money supply largely affected the outcome. Wall Street closed moderately higher. The Dow Jones industrials rose 38.47,or 0.48 percent, to 8,116.03, after briefly moving into negative territory. The National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes rose 6.5 percent to an annual rate of 4.74 million last month. Buyers took advantage of dramatically lower prices, especially in distressed states like California, Florida and Nevada, where foreclosures are soaring. The nationwide median sales price sank to $175,400, down 15.3 percent from a year ago. That marked the biggest annual drop on records going back to 1968. The median is the middle point, where half the homes sell for more and half for less. For all of last year, existing-home sales totaled 4.9 million, down more than 13 percent from the previous year, and the lowest since 1997. Meanwhile, the Conference Board's monthly forecast of economic activity rose 0.3 percent in December. But that pickup was influenced mainly by federal efforts to ease the credit crisis, which caused the supply of money to expand. If the jump in the money supply were excluded, the board's index would have dropped sharply, economists said. The national economy, meanwhile, is continuing to backslide. Many analysts predict the economy will have contracted at a pace of 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter when the government releases that report Friday. If they are correct, that would mark the worst performance since a 6.4 percent drop in the first quarter of 1982. The economy is still contracting now — at a pace of around 4 percent, according to some projections. AP Business Writers Ellen Simon and Alan Zibel contributed to this report.

World stocks end higher; bank shares boost Europe By CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 5:30 pm ET

LONDON – World stock markets closed higher Monday following an upbeat performance on Wall Street and reassuring news from Europe's battered banking sector.Bucking the trend were shares in Japan, the only major Asian market open Monday amid a slew of regional holidays. Shares there dipped as investors braced for key earning results this week from Sony, Honda and other major names.Britain's Barclays bank surprised by releasing a statement showing it had made a solid profit for 2008 and that it did not need any cash bailouts to stay in business. Its shares rose an astonishing 73.2 percent.Dutch bank ING rose 27.75 percent. It announced a loss and said it would shed 7,000 jobs and get a government backstop for 80 percent of a 27.7 billion euro ($36.4 billion) portfolio of risky assets.Markets had sold off banking stocks in recent days over fears of more heavy losses and nationalizations.Britain's FTSE 100 closed 3.9 percent higher at 4,209.01, while Germany's DAX was up 3.5 percent at 4,326.87 and the French CAC-40 climbed 3.7 percent at 2,955.37.On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials rose 38.47, or 0.48 percent, to 8,116.03, after briefly moving into negative territory. Stocks rise in response to Pfizer Inc.'s $68 billion planned acquisition of Wyeth, a deal that reassured investors that mergers could still take place in a recession.In Europe, financial and energy stocks were the best-performing shares.The dust has settled after last week's heavy losses, so we're seeing a bit of a bounce, supported by some bargain-hunting, said Paul Chesterton, analyst at CMC Markets.Chesterton noted Goldman Sachs had upgraded oil stocks, such as BP, which helped buoy the wider indexes, but financial stocks led the charge on Barclay's good news.Barclays shares skyrocketed after it said it expects pretax profits of over 5.3 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) for the full year 2008 despite writing down 8 billion pounds on bad assets. The bank also said it would not need any bailouts beyond some guarantees on toxic assets — dispelling fears it was set to be part-nationalized.

The news was a breath of fresh air for the banking sector, which was braced for the worst in Britain. Separate news also showed that banks are taking measures to fix their balance sheets and boost lending to the economy.Meanwhile, electronics giant Philips reported a fourth-quarter loss of 1.47 billion euros ($1.9 billion) and said it would cut 6,000 jobs, but saw its shares rise 8.25 percent on relief the news was not worse.Latin American shares echoed the gains on Wall Street. Brazil's Ibovespa index finished up 1 percent at 38,509, Mexico's IPC gained 1.2 percent to 19,583, Chile's IPSA tacked on 0.8 percent to 2,515, while Argentina's Merval inched up 0.1 percent to 1,068.In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 0.8 percent lower at 7,682.14. Markets in Hong Kong, mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan were closed for the Lunar New Year holidays. Australian and Indian markets were also closed for national holidays.In Tokyo, investors were nervous ahead of the expected flurry of dismal quarterly results and a worsening outlook, said Masayoshi Okamoto, head of dealing at Jujiya Securities in Tokyo.They're hanging back and trying to figure out what to do next, he said. (Earnings) will likely be worse than anyone imagined, and investors know that the situation will deteriorate even further in the January-March quarter.Sony Corp., which last week projected its first annual net loss in 14 years, fell 3.1 percent and will report third quarter results on Thursday, followed by Honda Motor Co. Friday. Nomura Holdings Inc., which reports Tuesday, managed to edge up 0.5 percent on hopes it had finished writing off costs related to its purchase of Lehman Brothers' operations in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Australia's market, closed for Australia Day, will reopen Tuesday, as will trading in India, which was observing Republic Day. Markets in Singapore and South Korea will reopen Wednesday, and Hong Kong's markets will reopen Thursday. Trading in mainland China and Taiwan will be closed all week and resume Feb. 2. Oil prices fell Monday as investors weighed early gains in the equity markets against signs of a deepening recession that could further eat away at energy demand. Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 74 cents to settle at $45.73 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In currencies, the euro jumped to $1.3137 in late trading Monday from $1.2974 late Friday, while the British pound rose to $1.3938 from $1.3768. Meanwhile, the dollar gained to 89.02 Japanese yen from 88.76 yen. AP Business Writer Tomoki A. Hosaka in Tokyo contributed to this report.

65 hospitalised for toxic fumes at French church: officials JAN 26,09

PHALEMPIN, France (AFP) – Sixty-five people were hospitalised for carbon monoxide poisoning after breathing toxic fumes at a church concert near the northern French city of Lille, officials said.Among those hospitalised were 16 children including choir singers, a regional administration official said.No one was in serious condition. Most of those hospitalised suffered from headaches and vomiting.

Emergency services were called to the scene when a couple members of the audience became ill, and after determining there were very elevated carbon monoxide levels in the air, evacuated the 250 people from the church in the town of Phalempin.Peope were immediately directed towards a reception room where they underwent medical exams on a case-by-case basis, said the chief of staff for the regional prefecture, Gisele Rossat-Mignod.Some 20 paramedics provided people oxygen and examined them for symptoms of poisoning from the colourless and odourless yet highly toxic gas, which can also cause confusion, tiredness, and fainting.Officials suspect the heating system released the gas into the poorly ventilated church, although they said the furnace had been inspected Friday.Looking back, I think if the two people hadn't become ill, then in a few more minutes some people could have had much more serious problems, said Thierry Lazaro, the deputy mayor of the town, who attended the concert.Carbon monoxide poisoning, which blocks the absorption of oxygen in the blood, can lead to death in less than one hour.Regional officials first said 24 people had been hospitalised.

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).

WHO says no evidence of China bird flu epidemic JAN 26,09

BEIJING (AFP) – The World Health Organisation said Tuesday there was no evidence of a bird flu epidemic in China after a fifth person died of the disease this month, but urged caution in the Lunar New Year holiday.An 18-year-old man succumbed to the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus Monday, bringing to five the number of fatalities from the disease so far this year in China, compared to just three in the whole of 2008.The number of cases has sparked fears of an epidemic, particularly during this week's Lunar New Year, as hundreds of millions of families across China reunite around huge feasts that include poultry.Peter Cordingley, WHO spokesman for the Western Pacific Region, said there was no need for undue alarm.What we are seeing is so far within our expectations and broadly matches previous years, he told AFP. There is no evidence of an epidemic.Also, the China cases are geographically scattered and sporadic, with no sign of any connection between them.Cordingley urged caution during the biggest holiday of the year in China, saying the mass movement of people and poultry brought a heightened risk of humans mingling with chickens.

(This) is not a situation we are comfortable with, and the increase in consumption of chicken meat presents dangers of people unknowingly handling infected meat, he said.Members of the public should take every precaution when preparing chicken meat for the table.China is considered one of the nations most at risk of bird flu epidemics because it has the world's biggest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.The H5N1 virus typically spreads from birds to humans via direct contact, but experts fear that it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to kill millions in a pandemic.

Cold weather also encourages the spread of the virus and large swathes of China have been hit by sub-zero temperatures in recent days. All three of last year's deaths occurred in the first two months of the year.The first fatality in 2009 occurred on January 5 when a 19-year-old woman died in Beijing.Then a 27-year-old woman died away in the eastern province of Shandong, and a 16-year-old boy died last week in the central province of Hunan, although he had initially fallen ill in neighbouring Guizhou.A 31-year-old woman succumbed to the disease Friday in northwest China's Xinjiang region.Some of the victims had come into contact with dead or sick poultry before falling ill, according to previous health ministry statements.Cordingley said this indicated there was a problem with animal surveillance in China.At least two other people in China have fallen ill to avian influenza this month, including a two-year-old girl in the northern province of Shanxi who is now out of danger, the official Xinhua news agency reported last week. The agency said Monday the other patient, a 29-year-old who had contracted the disease in Guizhou, was now in a stable condition. So far, 25 people have died from avian influenza in China since the disease re-emerged in 2003, according to World Health Organisation figures.

No indication Canada bird flu outbreak has spread Mon Jan 26, 7:55 pm ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – There is no indication an outbreak of bird flu in Canada has spread beyond the turkey farm near Vancouver where the disease was discovered last week but testing continues, officials said on Monday.Crews began killing the 60,000 turkeys at the farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia that were ordered destroyed after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed several of the birds had contracted the virus.Officials say the disease was H5 avian influenza but were awaiting test results to determine the exact virus strain and it pathogenicity, a measure of how severe the illness is to birds. Initial tests indicate it was a less severe strain.There were no human illnesses associated with the outbreak and Canadian officials said the health threat to people in this case was very low.The H5N1 strain of the virus can infect people and is responsible for 252 human deaths since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.Farms within a 3 km (2 mile) radius of the initial outbreak have been quarantined for further monitoring but preliminary tests on birds from 10 of the 23 farms found no sign of the disease, a provincial agriculture official said.A farm outside the quarantined zone is also being monitored because there may have been human contact, such as a traveling worker, between it and the farm where the outbreak was discovered, CFIA said.The farms are in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, which also suffered avian influenza outbreaks in 2004 and 2005.It was not yet known how the turkeys in this case caught the flu but officials have speculated they may have contracted it from wild waterfowl in the area. Wild birds often carry the avian influenza virus.
(Reporting Allan Dowd; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

Indonesians among the few to witness solar eclipse By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 7:20 am ET

ANYER, Indonesia – Indonesians were among the few worldwide to witness an eclipse of the sun Monday, some cheering and banging on drums as the moon slowly crossed its path, blocking out everything but a thin, blazing rim of fire.Dozens gathered in the western coastal town of Anyer to see the spectacle, which peaked at 4:40 p.m. and lasted for about four minutes.I'm old, but I still think this is magical, said Roanna Makmur, 66, who drove several hours with eight friends to witness the sight, known as an annular eclipse, because it does not completely black out the sun.I can't help but feel the greatness of God, she said, as fellow onlookers applauded and then fell silent. Anyone who passed up this opportunity, really missed out.

Annular eclipses, which are considered far less important to astronomers than total eclipses of the sun, occur about 66 times a century and can only be viewed by people in the narrow band along its path.Aside from several regions in Indonesia — from Sumatra island in the west to Kalimantan in the east — only villagers on a tiny South Pacific island group known as the Cocos could see Monday's eclipse, said Jay Pasachoff, professor of astronomy at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is also a chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses.But a partial eclipse — with coverage ranging from 1 percent to 84 percent of the sun's diameter — was to visible in the southern third of Africa, in southeastern India, and Southeast Asia, as well as the western part of Australia.

Hundreds turned out in Indonesia's Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan province, where more than 90 percent of the sun's diameter was covered. Some ignored danger warnings and looked directly at the sun. Others wore sunglasses to protect their eyes or looked at its reflection in buckets of water.We are so happy we were able to see this, said Fauziah Sulaiman, a mother of two, who was standing outside her house. It's great for the children, especially after learning about it in school.
The last total eclipse of the sun was Aug. 1, 2008, and was visible in Canada, across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and China.The next total eclipse will be July 22, 2009, and will be visible in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China and some Japanese islands.On the Net:Path details: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2009-Fig01.pdf

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 RUSSIA-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)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.

HERE WE GO OBAMA IS TALKIN TO MUSLIMS INSTEAD OF BOMBING THEM,GET READY AMERICA THE MUSLIMS WILL BE COMING TO AMERICA NOW WITH TERRORISM LOOKOUT. AMERICA YOU ARE TURNING INTO A CHICKEN COUP IN WITH WOLVES AND FOXES.

US envoy predicts direct diplomacy with Iran By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 5:53 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama's administration will engage in direct diplomacy with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.Not since before the 1979 Iranian revolution are U.S. officials believed to have conducted wide-ranging direct diplomacy with Iranian officials. But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program.The dialogue and diplomacy must go hand in hand with a very firm message from the United States and the international community that Iran needs to meet its obligations as defined by the Security Council. And its continuing refusal to do so will only cause pressure to increase, she told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session.Her comments, reflecting Obama's signals for improved relations with America's foes after eight years under President George W. Bush, came shortly after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on her first day in her new job.Iran still considers the U.S. the Great Satan, but a day after Obama was sworn in, said it was ready for new approaches by the United States. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country would study the idea of allowing the U.S. to open a diplomatic office in Tehran, the first since 1979.

Rice said the U.S. remains deeply concerned about the threat that Iran's nuclear program poses to the region, indeed to the United States and the entire international community.We look forward to engaging in vigorous diplomacy that includes direct diplomacy with Iran, as well as continued collaboration and partnership with the other four permanent members of the Security Council — Britain, China, France and Russia — plus Germany, Rice said.And we will look at what is necessary and appropriate with respect to maintaining pressure toward that goal of ending Iran's nuclear program, she said.In recent years, Iranian and American officials have negotiated in the same room on talks about Afghanistan that involved other countries' diplomats. They also talked face to face in Baghdad but the agenda was limited to Iraqi security.But the differences between Washington and Tehran run deep. They include U.S. suspicions about Iran's nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to annihilate Israel, and Tehran's support for Hamas.Rice met with Ban in the morning to present her credentials. She said they spent 45 minutes discussing climate change, poverty reduction, U.N. peacekeeping, nonproliferation, Sudan and the Middle East.She told reporters that putting the United States at the center of international efforts to support poverty reduction, development, fighting disease and achieving the (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals, which President Obama has said repeatedly, will now be America's goals as well.Rice said the U.S. will address the Gaza conflict on Tuesday in the Security Council, seeking ways to support efforts to ensure that that cease-fire is lasting, and in that context for border crossings to open and be available for humanitarian as well as day-to-day economic development imperatives.Rice, who was a key Africa adviser to the Clinton administration during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, also said the Obama administation remains very deeply concerned about the ongoing genocide in Darfur.The priority at this point has to be effective protection for civilians, she said, adding that she had discussed ways to fully deploy the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur so that there is the capacity on the ground to begin to effect that civilian protection.

In Washington, Obama's top spokesman said that Rice was merely restating the president's policy on Iran.Asked about Rice's comments to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, that what Rice did was simply to restate the message that the administration is going to use all elements of our national power to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

NATO's secretary-general, Japp de Hoop Scheffer, also said Monday that NATO must engage with Iran to secure regional support for the escalating war in neighboring Afghanistan. The surprise call from the head of the Western alliance comes as the new U.S. administration prepares to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan, where Taliban militants are regrouping and violence is on the rise. They will reinforce the 62,000-strong NATO and U.S. force already operating there. We need a discussion that brings in all the relevant players: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, Russia — and yes, Iran. We need a pragmatic approach to solve this very real challenge, de Hoop Scheffer said in a speech to the Security and Defense Agenda, a Brussels-based think tank. Until now, the United States has sought to isolate the clerical regime in Iran from meddling in Afghanistan, although the Shiite nation has a long history of opposing Taliban rule there. De Hoop Scheffer said what's required is a broader approach that includes all of Afghanistan's neighbors, but he was not sure at this stage how to constructively bring Iran into Afghanistan diplomacy.

Obama calls leaders of Russia, France, Germany JAN 26,09

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama telephoned the leaders of Russia, France and Germany as he entered his first full week in office, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Gibbs said, promising further details later in the day.In a statement, Sarkozy's office said the French president and Obama discussed Afghanistan, the global economic crisis, and the new US leader's promise to shut down the Guantanamo war on terror detainment camp.Sarkozy and Obama agreed during their warm, 30-minute conversation to work together in a resolute fashion on the economic emergency as world leaders prepare to meet in London in April, the statement said.Sarkozy also restated France's offer of cooperation on closing down Guantanamo and on Obama's pledge to renew the NATO offensive in Afghanistan, and congratulated his commitment to Middle East peace, it said.Merkel has been less forthright on Guantanamo and on Afghanistan, while Medvedev last week said Russia was ready to cooperate with Obama on Afghanistan and help with the transit of supplies and in the fight against terror.But the Russian president, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, have also made clear that they expect Obama's fledgling administration to work harder on US-Russia ties after prickly relations under president George W. Bush.Germany's embassy in Washington said Merkel and Obama had an in-depth and friendly conversation focusing on the economic crisis, Afghanistan, the Middle East and climate change.

Obama and Medvedev both agreed on the importance of stopping the drift in US-Russia relations and the need to meet to discuss shared challengers, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.The presidents agreed, that as they were both new leaders from a post-Cold War generation, they have a unique opportunity to establish a fundamentally different kind of relationship between our two countries.A day after taking office last Tuesday, Obama underlined his pledge to revive Middle East peace efforts by making his first foreign phone calls to the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.On Friday he telephoned the British and Canadian prime ministers as well as Saudi King Abdullah, the White House said.

Iran condemns EU for taking group off terror list Mon Jan 26, 1:48 pm ET

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran is condemning a decision by the European Union to remove an Iranian opposition group from its terror list and lift restrictions on its funds. The country says the EU decision encourages terrorism.Iran's Foreign Ministry says the hands of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran are stained with the blood of thousands of Iranian and non-Iranian people. It also says the group has never renounced violence and has resorted to terrorism. The ministry statement was read on state television Monday night.Monday's decision by the 27 foreign ministers of the EU means that as of Tuesday the assets of the group will be unfrozen. It is the first time an organization has been de-listed by the EU.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union decided Monday to remove an Iranian opposition group from the EU's terror list and lift the restrictions on its funds, a move likely to further damage relations strained over Tehran's nuclear program.The decision by the 27-nation bloc's foreign ministers means that as of Tuesday, the assets of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or PMOI, will be unfrozen. It is the first time an organization has been de-listed by the EU.Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the group said $9 million (euro7 million) had been frozen in France alone, with tens of millions of dollars worth of assets also locked away in other EU countries.The group had been blacklisted as a terror organization by the EU since 2002, but waged a long legal battle in the EU's court of justice to reverse that decision. Several EU court decisions went in the group's favor, concluding the EU had failed to properly explain why it froze the assets of the Paris-based group.

The group however, remains on the United States terror list. It was blacklisted by Washington in 1997.What we are doing today is abiding by the decision of the court, there is nothing we can do about the decision, said Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief.Czech European Affairs Minister Alexandr Vondra said that if new evidence comes to light linking the group to terror activities, the EU could decide to re-include the group on a list that includes 60 groups and individuals, such as Osama bin Laden, Hamas and al-Qaida.The People's Mujahedeen, also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, is the military wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which is based in Paris. The council said it is dedicated to a democratic, secular government in Iran.However, it maintains a camp of disarmed fighters in Iraq, north of Baghdad. Iraqi officials on Saturday called for the group to shut down the camp and move to another country.Iraq's Shiite-led government has long sought to get rid of the People's Mujahedeen, which fought alongside Saddam Hussein's forces during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, many Iraqi Shiites fled to Shiite-dominated Iran and fought against Iraq.The PMOI was founded in Iran in the 1960s and helped followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrow U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979.But the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq fell out with Khomeini, and thousands of its followers were killed, imprisoned or forced into exile. It launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings against Iran's government as a result.The PMOI has long tried to shed its terrorist tag, despite a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s — and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against Iran's Islamic establishment.The group said however, it has renounced violence in 2001 and hasn't kept any arms since 2003. Maryam Rajavi, who heads the Paris-based National Council of Resistance, the political wing of the PMOI, said Monday's decision was a crushing defeat to Europe's policy of appeasement with Iran.

The blacklisting of the Iranian Resistance contributed to the prolongation of the rule of religious fascism in Iran, she said in a statement. The Iranian regime did not refrain from using all political and diplomatic pressures to maintain the PMOI on the list.Rajavi said her group would now focus its attention on getting the United States to drop the PMOI from its terror list. Mohammad Safaei, a spokesman at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, said he could not comment on the decision because it had not yet been officially relayed to Tehran. The court-mandated move is likely to complicate difficult ties with Tehran just as the EU is trying to negotiate over Iran's nuclear program. The EU and the United States fear Iran is building atomic weapons. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband appealed to Iran to return to talks with European nations and the United States over its nuclear program. During 2009 there will and should be significant focus on this issue, Miliband said. The group had established a camp for about 3,500 members in Iraq, which its forces used to launch cross-border attacks into Iran. After U.S.-led forces overthrew Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, American troops removed the Iranian group's weapons and confined its fighters to the camp.

Reports: Russia planning Abkhazia naval base Mon Jan 26, 12:30 pm ET

MOSCOW – Russian news agencies report that Moscow is planning to build a naval base in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region and could start construction this year.Basing warships in the province would heighten tension following Russia's war with Georgia in the summer.It would also deepen Western concerns about Moscow's growing military presence in Abkhazia, which Russia recognized after the war.The state-connected ITAR-Tass news agency quoted an unidentified naval official as saying Monday that work would begin on a naval base in Abkhazia this year. Interfax quoted Abkhazia's president as saying agreement on the plan had been reached in principle.The reports could not immediately be confirmed independently. But Russian officials frequently use such reports to get information out.

Kremlin: Obama, Medvedev vow to seek better ties Mon Jan 26, 5:37 pm ET

MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President Barack Obama spoke by phone Monday and vowed to try their best to improve the strained relationship between Moscow and Washington, the Kremlin said.Medvedev and Obama each expressed their intention to apply all efforts to restring the potential of Russian-American relations and to take a constructive approach to resolving disputes, a Kremlin statement said.It said the two presidents plan to meet in the near future, but gave no date.Relations have been badly strained amid vocal Kremlin criticism of U.S. foreign policy during the administration of George W. Bush, and Russia's war with ex-Soviet Georgia in August brought ties to a post-Cold War low.Medvedev and other senior Russian officials have expressed hope for warmer ties under Obama. But they have placed conditions on a potential thaw, urging Obama to scrap U.S. efforts to expand NATO further eastward and place missile-defense facilities in central Europe.

The Kremlin said both presidents spoke of the need to work together on common tasks such as overcoming the global financial crisis, averting the spread of weapons of mass destruction and battling terrorism. They said cooperation is needed on the Middle East and Afghanistan, according to the statement.

NKorea criticizes SKorea's Lee for worsening ties Sun Jan 25, 4:11 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea criticized South Korea's president Sunday for nominating a conservative security expert to handle relations between the two sides, warning the move will further heighten tensions on the divided peninsula.Relations between the Koreas have been frayed since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office 11 months ago. Unhappy with Lee's failure to reaffirm pacts forged under previous administrations, Pyongyang cut off all ties last year, halted cooperation on key joint projects and vilified Lee as human scum.Last week Lee tapped Hyun In-taek, a professor at Seoul's Korea University who helped shape the president's policy on the North, as his new unification minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.The North's state-run Minju Joson newspaper on Sunday called the appointment an open provocation and accused the South Korean leader of seeking to push the inter-Korean relations deeper into the abyss of confrontation and ruin.No one can predict what catastrophic consequences will be entailed in the North-South relations because of Hyun's appointment, the paper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.The UCLA-educated international diplomacy expert is known to be critical of the reconciliatory Sunshine Policy espoused by Seoul's previous liberal leadership, noting that pouring aid into the North unconditionally did not stop the regime from testing a nuclear bomb in 2006.

Anxious to dismantle the country's atomic program, five regional powers hashed out a 2007 deal promising energy and other aid to Pyongyang in exchange for nuclear disarmament, but the agreement has been hindered by a disagreement with the United States over how to verify its past nuclear activities.Earlier this month, Pyongyang accused Lee's government of plotting an invasion of the North and warned of a strong military response. South Korea denied it was planning to attack the North and put its military on alert.The two Koreas have been separated one of the world's most heavily armed borders since a three-year war ended in a truce in 1953.Lee's presidential Blue House and the Unification Ministry were not immediately available for comment Sunday.

AU force warns of more suicide attacks in Somalia Mon Jan 26, 4:56 am ET

MOGADISHU (AFP) – The African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia warned Monday that extremist Islamist militia were plotting more suicide attacks in Mogadishu after a weekend car bomb killed 22 people.We have information indicating that two more cars full of explosives were prepared by the hardliners to target the African peacekeepers' positions. We warn civilians to be cautious, an AU force spokesman, Major Bahuko Baridgye, told AFP.On Saturday 17 civilians were killed when an explosives-laden car aimed at the AU peacekeepers in southern Mogadishu missed its target and hit a bus. Five others killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Separately, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, the spokesman of the Shebab militia, said they would seize the provincial town of Baidoa where the parliament sits after Ethiopian forces withdrew.

Ethiopian troops who rolled into the country in late 2006 to back a weak transitional government against an Islamist insurgency completely pulled out of Somalia at the weekend.We are going to take control of that town (Baidoa) because it was the only place that the holy fighters were defeated in 2006, he said, referring to their militia.If the armed people inside the town decide not fight we will not fight them, but if they resist, we will crush them.Baidoa resident Mohamed Haji Abdullahi said there was tension in the town and government soldiers were partrolling in armed vehicles.They are prepared to fight. I'm not sure they can resist the Shebab, he said.The Ethiopian pull-out has sparked security concerns in the war-ravaged country already suffering a leadership crisis.

OBAMA TALKS TO MUSLIMS FIRST TV INTERVIEW ON AL-ARABYA TV JAN 26,2009
January 27, 2009, 12:18 AM Obama's Interview On Arab Television
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(Al Arabiya)President Obama reached out to the Muslim world Monday in an exclusive interview on Arab television network Al Arabiya.

In all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith – and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers – regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams, Obama said in the wide ranging interview, a transcript of which can be found below.

The freshly-minted president spoke about the prospects for peace in the Middle East, the nuclear threat posed by Iran and the stake that America has in the overall well-being of the Arab world. Mr. Obama praised the people of Iran, but chided their government for stirring up trouble in the region.

Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past – none of these things have been helpful, Obama said.

The following is a transcript of President Obama's interview with Al Arabiya News Channel by Hisham Melhem.

AL ARABIYA: Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity, we really appreciate it.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much.

AL ARABIYA: Sir, you just met with your personal envoy to the Middle East, Senator (George) Mitchell. Obviously, his first task is to consolidate the cease-fire, but, beyond that, you've been saying that you want to pursue actively and aggressively peacemaking between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Tell us a little bit about how do you see your personal role, because, you know, if the President of the United States is not involved, nothing happens – as the history of peacemaking shows. Will you be proposing ideas, pitching proposals, parameters, as one of your predecessors did? Or just urging the parties to come up with their own resolutions, as your immediate predecessor did?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I think the most important thing is for the United States to get engaged right away, and George Mitchell is somebody of enormous stature. He is one of the few people who have international experience brokering peace deals.

And so what I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating - in the past on some of these issues - and we don't always know all the factors that are involved. So let's listen. He's going to be speaking to all the major parties involved, and he will then report back to me. From there we will formulate a specific response.

Ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what's best for them. They're going to have to make some decisions. But I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people, and that instead, it's time to return to the negotiating table.

And it's going to be difficult, it's going to take time. I don't want to prejudge many of these issues, and I want to make sure that expectations are not raised so that we think that this is going to be resolved in a few months. But if we start the steady progress on these issues, I'm absolutely confident that the United States – working in tandem with the European Union, with Russia, with all the Arab states in the region - I'm absolutely certain that we can make significant progress.

AL ARABIYA: You've been saying essentially that we should not look at these issues - like the Palestinian-Israeli track and separation from the border region - you've been talking about a kind of holistic approach to the region. Are we expecting a different paradigm in the sense that in the past one of the critiques - at least from the Arab side, the Muslim side - is that everything the Americans always tested with the Israelis, if it works. Now there is an Arab peace plan, there is a regional aspect to it, and you've indicated that. Would there be any shift, a paradigm shift?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, here's what I think is important. Look at the proposal that was put forth by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia…

AL ARABIYA: Right.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I might not agree with every aspect of the proposal, but it took great courage...

AL ARABIYA: Absolutely.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ...To put forward something that is as significant as that. I think that there are ideas across the region of how we might pursue peace.

I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And what I've said, and I think Hillary Clinton has expressed this in her confirmation, is that if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.

Now, Israel is a strong ally of the United States. They will not stop being a strong ally of the United States. And I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount. But I also believe that there are Israelis who recognize that it is important to achieve peace. They will be willing to make sacrifices if the time is appropriate and if there is serious partnership on the other side.

And so what we want to do is to listen, set aside some of the preconceptions that have existed and have built up over the last several years. And I think if we do that, then there's a possibility at least of achieving some breakthroughs.

AL ARABIYA: I want to ask you about the broader Muslim world, but let me – one final thing about the Palestinian-Israeli theater; There are many Palestinians and Israelis who are very frustrated now with the current conditions and they are losing hope, they are disillusioned, and they believe that time is running out on the two-state solution because, mainly because of the settlement activities in Palestinian-occupied territories. Will it still be possible to see a Palestinian state – and you know the contours of it – within the first Obama administration?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think it is possible for us to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame on it - that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life.

And, look, I think anybody who has studied the region recognizes that the situation for the ordinary Palestinian in many cases has not improved. And the bottom line in all these talks and all these conversations is, is a child in the Palestinian Territories going to be better off? Do they have a future for themselves? And is the child in Israel going to feel confident about his or her safety and security? And if we can keep our focus on making their lives better and look forward, and not simply think about all the conflicts and tragedies of the past, then I think that we have an opportunity to make real progress.

But it is not going to be easy, and that's why we've got George Mitchell going there. This is somebody with extraordinary patience as well as extraordinary skill, and that's what's going to be necessary.

AL ARABIYA: Absolutely. Let me take a broader look at the whole region. You are planning to address the Muslim world in your first 100 days from a Muslim capital. And everybody is speculating about the capital. (Laughter.) If you have anything further, that would be great.

How concerned are you – because, let me tell you, honestly, when I see certain things about America – in some parts, I don't want to exaggerate – there is a demonization of America.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Absolutely.

AL ARABIYA: It's become like a new religion, and like a new religion it has new converts - like a new religion has its own high priests.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA:It's only a religious text.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA: And in the last – since 9/11 and because of Iraq, that alienation is wider between the Americans and - and in generations past, the United States was held high. It was the only Western power with no colonial legacy.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA: How concerned are you and – because people sense that you have a different political discourse. And I think, judging by (inaudible) and Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden and all these, you know – a chorus.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes, I noticed this. They seem nervous.

AL ARABIYA: They seem very nervous, exactly. Now, tell me why they should be more nervous?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they've been using against me before I even took office .

AL ARABIYA:I know, I know.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ...What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt. There's no actions that they've taken that say a child in the Muslim world is getting a better education because of them, or has better health care because of them.

In my inauguration speech, I spoke about: You will be judged on what you've built, not what you've destroyed. And what they've been doing is destroying things. And over time, I think the Muslim world has recognized that that path is leading no place, except more death and destruction.

Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

AL ARABIYA:The largest one.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The largest one, Indonesia. And so what I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith – and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers – regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams.

And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect. But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.

But ultimately, people are going to judge me not by my words but by my actions and my administration's actions. And I think that what you will see over the next several years is that I'm not going to agree with everything that some Muslim leader may say, or what's on a television station in the Arab world - but I think that what you'll see is somebody who is listening, who is respectful, and who is trying to promote the interests not just of the United States, but also ordinary people who right now are suffering from poverty and a lack of opportunity. I want to make sure that I'm speaking to them, as well.

AL ARABIYA: Tell me, time is running out, any decision on from where you will be visiting the Muslim world?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I'm not going to break the news right here.

AL ARABIYA: Afghanistan?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: But maybe next time. But it is something that is going to be important. I want people to recognize, though, that we are going to be making a series of initiatives. Sending George Mitchell to the Middle East is fulfilling my campaign promise that we're not going to wait until the end of my administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace, we're going to start now. It may take a long time to do, but we're going to do it now. We're going to follow through on our commitment for me to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital. We are going to follow through on many of my commitments to do a more effective job of reaching out, listening, as well as speaking to the Muslim world.

And you're going to see me following through with dealing with a drawdown of troops in Iraq, so that Iraqis can start taking more responsibility. And finally, I think you've already seen a commitment in terms of closing Guantanamo, and making clear that even as we are decisive in going after terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians, that we're going to do so on our terms, and we're going to do so respecting the rule of law that I think makes America great.

AL ARABIYA: President Bush framed the war on terror conceptually in a way that was very broad, war on terror, and used sometimes certain terminology that the many people - Islamic fascism. You've always framed it in a different way, specifically against one group called al Qaeda and their collaborators. And is this one way of...

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think that you're making a very important point. And that is that the language we use matters. And what we need to understand is, is that there are extremist organizations – whether Muslim or any other faith in the past – that will use faith as a justification for violence. We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith's name.

And so you will, I think, see our administration be very clear in distinguishing between organizations like al Qaeda – that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it – and people who may disagree with my administration and certain actions, or may have a particular viewpoint in terms of how their countries should develop. We can have legitimate disagreements but still be respectful. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down.

But to the broader Muslim world what we are going to be offering is a hand of friendship.

AL ARABIYA:Can I end with a question on Iran and Iraq then quickly?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: It's up to the team...

AL ARABIYA: Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important for us to make sure that we are using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy, in our relationship with Iran.

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past – none of these things have been helpful.

But I do think that it is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very clearly where our differences are, but where there are potential avenues for progress. And we will, over the next several months, be laying out our general framework and approach. And as I said during my inauguration speech, if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.