GOOGLE BUYS ISRAELI COMPANY

GATES AND DEATH PANELS ADMITTED
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gates-death-panel-advocate.html

The Real Story Behind Bill Gates And Death Panels-Microsoft founder is a hardcore eugenicist who has publicly stated his intention to use the billions worth of vaccines his foundation funds to lower global population Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Bill Gates’ advocacy for death panels has caused controversy amongst conservative commentators, but the real outrage behind the story has been completely overlooked – the fact that Gates is a hardcore eugenicist and has called for lowering the global population through vaccines which his foundation funds to the tune of billions.
Gates’ death panel comments were actually made over two months ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen Colorado, but they only garnered attention when the video clip appeared on numerous conservative websites on Sunday, including Breitbart.tv and The Blaze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MZG9vK0W8&feature=player_embedded

During a question and answer session, Gates implied that elderly patients undergoing expensive health care treatments should be killed and the money spent elsewhere.Gates said there was a lack of willingness to consider the question of choosing between spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient or laying off ten teachers.But that’s called the death panel and you’re not supposed to have that discussion, added Gates.The Microsoft owner’s advocacy for killing granny in the name of spending the money elsewhere strikes at the root of why so many Americans are outraged over Obamacare, which contains as one of its core components a cost/benefit board which will be able to refuse care to elderly patients, proving that death panels will indeed come into force despite establishment media PR campaigns to convince the public otherwise.Although Americans will be subject to the whims of death panels, the federal government will continue to require hospitals to provide emergency treatment to illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense, the New York Times reported.

However, the wider significance of Gates’ comments has gone completely unnoticed by those outraged over what he said.Gates is an avowed eugenicist who is committed to drastically reducing the world’s population in the name of combating global warming. This is alarming given the fact that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funds the production and distribution of vaccines to the third world.During a February 2010 TED conference, Gates openly stated that vaccines would be used to reduce global population and lower CO2 emissions.Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.

Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064&feature=player_embedded

Quite how an improvement in health care and vaccines that supposedly save lives would lead to a lowering in global population is an oxymoron, unless Gates was referring to vaccines that sterilize people, which is precisely the same method advocated in White House science advisor John P. Holdren’s 1977 textbook Ecoscience, which calls for a dictatorial planetary regime to enforce draconian measures of population reduction via all manner of oppressive techniques, including sterilization.Indeed, As Natural News’ Mike Adams revealed, one of the Gates Foundation’s current projects revolves around the funding of a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months.Now, the foundation has funded a new sweat-triggered vaccine delivery program based on nanoparticles penetrating human skin, writes Adams. The technology is describes as a way to …develop nanoparticles that penetrate the skin through hair follicles and burst upon contact with human sweat to release vaccines.The Microsoft founder’s advocacy for death panels is a shocking admission, but it pales in significance when one considers that Gates, as one of the richest men on the planet who routinely meets with other billionaires to discuss population reduction efforts, has publicly stated his intention to use the billions of dollars worth of vaccines that he funds to lower global population in the third world, which could only be achieved if the vaccines were designed to forcibly sterilize people without their consent or induce forced abortions.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

$12.9 TRILLION MISSING DOLLARS DOES THAT STIMULUS ENDLESS CASH SCAM RING A BELL.NOW IT GOES BACK TO THE G-20 COUTRIES WE SEE DISQUISED AS BASEL 3.

Basel III worth 10 trillion euros to G20 states: Carney
– Tue Sep 14, 3:09 pm ET

BERLIN (AFP) – New bank capital rules approved by central banks and financial regulators are worth at least 10 trillion euros (12.9 trillion US dollars) to G20 economies, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney estimated on Tuesday.A calculation of benefits from so-called Basel III banking regulations and long-run costs yields average net benefits for G20 economies of 30 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) in present-value terms, or about 10 trillion euros, Carney said in an address given in Berlin.This estimate is conservative. The analysis understates the benefits of the new rules and errs on the side of overstating the costs, he added.

On Sunday, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision unveiled tougher capital requirements for banks intended to protect against financial crises that will be presented for approval to the Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing nations in November.The changes, which require banks to build stronger buffers of high-quality assets to protect against future losses, would require hundreds of billions of euros (dollars), committee chairman Nout Wellink said Monday.I hesitate to mention precise figures because the implementation is due to happen over a period of about eight years and the figures may change, but it involves hundreds of billions, Wellink, also the Dutch central bank governor, told Radio 1 in the Netherlands.Carney had another calculation in hand meanwhile, a Bank of Canada forecast that as a result of the crisis, cumulative foregone economic output from 2009 to 2012 will be 16 percent of GDP in Europe and nine percent of GDP in Canada.Over the longer term, we estimate that these shortfalls could grow to about 40 percent and 30 percent of respective GDP.Canadian banks did not make many risky loans of the sort that fuelled the global crisis, but Carney noted that in an interdependent financial system, much of the cost has been borne by countries, businesses, and individuals who did not directly contribute to the fiasco.He concluded that a fully risk-proofed system is neither attainable nor desirable.The point is not to pile up so much capital in our institutions that they are never heard from again, either as a source of instability or of growth.Rather, the Canadian central bank chief said: The challenge is to get the balance between resiliency and efficiency right. The Basel III agreement accomplishes these objectives.

Dollar falls, gold soars on global economy jitters
- SEPT 14,10

LONDON (AFP) – The dollar fell against the euro and gold prices rose as investors took stock of global economic prospects and sought refuge in assets seen as safe havens.The US currency also tumbled against the yen and the Swiss Franc which -- like gold -- attracts investors as a sure bet in times of trouble.The euro in late day trade was up to 1.3018 dollars from 1.2880 on Monday.The dollar meanwhile was trading at 83.04 yen against 83.64 on Monday. But at one point the greenback plunged to 82.93 yen, its lowest reading since May 1995, after Prime Minister Naoto Kan easily overcame a challenge to his party leadership from veteran powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa.The news led traders to buy the yen as they considered a win for Kan meant that any immediate intervention on the currency markets to stem the yen's rise was unlikely.The dollar also fell to 0.9944 Swiss francs from 1.0076 on Monday.The price of gold rose to 1,270.00-1,271.00 dollars an ounce.Renewed sovereign debt concerns have driven up gold, said Robin Bhar, senior metals analyst at Credit Agricole bank.

Fears of a resurgent eurozone debt crisis are likely to stunt European economic growth prospects this year, the EU warned on Monday.The global recovery is still expected to be uneven and is surrounded by major uncertainties, the European Commission said in its autumn forecast, citing the resurfacing of global imbalances, high debt levels and lingering tensions in sovereign-debt markets.Gold, whose two main drivers are jewellery and investment buyers, is also regarded as a good store of value in times of high inflation.In another development, metals consultancy GFMS predicted that gold was set to reach a record high above 1,300 dollars an ounce this year.I think we could easily see gold spike comfortably above 1,300 dollars before the year's out, GFMS chairman Philip Klapwijk said in the independent group's latest annual survey of the precious metal.We'll probably get a fair bit of profit taking as we head into the New Year but I wouldn't take that as a sign that the party's over -- further gains in 2011 are far from out of the question.The euro began the day by losing ground against the dollar after data showed a collapse in German investor confidence.The euro stumbled as the ZEW institute's sentiment indicator for Europe's biggest economy plunged 18.3 points to minus 4.3 points in September -- its fifth consecutive monthly drop and its second unexpectedly sharp loss in a row.Tuesday's survey reflects the idea that growth in Germany is expected to fall back significantly during the next six months, following the exceptionally strong growth seen in the first half of the year, said ABN AMRO bank economist Aline Schuiling.

But sentiment shifted later in the day as the dollar came under pressure on macroeconomic concerns. While US retail sales were reported to have risen for the second straight month in August, economists at Briefing.com warned that sales were likely to remain weak for quite a while given the current trends in employment, and the negative wealth impact for depressed prices for homes and stocks.In London on Tuesday, the euro changed hands at 1.3018 dollars against 1.2880 dollars on Monday, 108.07 yen (107.74), 0.8361 pounds (0.8347) and 1.2942 Swiss francs (1.2974). The dollar stood at 83.04 yen (83.64) and 0.9944 Swiss francs (1.0076).The pound was at 1.5572 dollars (1.5428).

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED SEPT 15,2010

09:30 AM -3.25
10:00 AM -4.46
10:30 AM +19.98
11:00 AM +18.77
11:30 AM +27.29
12:00 PM +39.85
12:30 PM +32.12
01:00 PM +31.33
01:30 PM +36.56
02:00 PM +36.56
02:30 PM +21.57
03:00 PM +22.93
03:30 PM +53.43
04:00 PM +46.24 10,572.73

S&P 500 1125.07 +3.97

NASDAQ 2301.32 +11.55

GOLD 1,269.20 -2.50

OIL 75.70 -1.10

TSE 300 12,144.80 -48.10

CDNX 1630.24 +8.04

S&P/TSX/60 706.08 -2.58

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -30 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -46 points at low today.
Dow +40 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,270.30.OIL opens at $75.21 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -46 points at low today so far.
Dow +61 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -46 points at low today.
Dow +61 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,274.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL -2.5 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -700,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -340,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Van Rompuy economic governance task-force fizzling out
LEIGH PHILLIPS 14.09.2010 @ 18:19 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy's pet project, a task-force exploring EU 'economic governance', appears to be fizzling out as 'economic governance' endeavours developed by the European Commission take centre stage instead amid bickering between member states.One EU diplomat told this website he believed there would not be much more to see from the task force, established in May as a hot-house composed of finance ministers to come together with ideas on how to achieve closer harmonisation of European economies.Van Rompuy has probably already achieved what he expected to achieve in terms of the European semester, he said, referring to the new six-month budget review period agreed by finance ministers last week. We are not expecting a huge amount of progress more.Another European official told this website It's a task-force and that's it. What do task-forces do? They produce reports, reports which can acted upon or put in a desk or even a bin.

According to diplomats, there is a very large degree of disagreement over a large number of issues regarding the issue of sanctions, what they will be, when they would kick in, which parts of the EU budget they would apply to, who decides when sanctions are to be imposed.Having first met toward the end of May, a further two times before the summer recess, and again on 6 September, the task-force set itself four goals under the rubric of stronger economic cohesion of the union - a phrase that from the beginning produced conflicting interpretations from London, France and Berlin.Beyond the construction of new crisis-response mechanisms - some of which are now already being imposed - the task force is also supposed to come up with proposals for strengthening economic governance, to give teeth to EU rules on budget discipline that have historically been flouted with impunity and, finally, a way to reduce the divergences in competitiveness.

Nebulous

The task-force and, crucially, what punishment should be meted out to laggards - on Monday was criticised as nebulous by Berlin, which is growing frustrated at the lack of progress seen so far.German deputy foreign minister Werner Hoyer on Monday said: We hope that President Van Rompuy will soon present concrete propositions.This dossier is too important to be treated on the basis of nebulous texts, he said in Brussels on the margins of a meeting of EU foreign ministers, according to French and German media.He added that the president had chosen a way of working that sets imprecise foundations for debate.While EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has on a number of occasions been the subject of member-state grumbles, most recently for choosing to travel to China at the expense of participating in the relaunch of Middle East peace talks, this is the first time the man whose job title in some quarters has been simplified to that of 'European President' has been publicly attacked by a member state.Germany is instead looking for a comprehensive dialogue between the member states and the European Commission, something that so far has certainly not been the case, he continued.The EU must show a focussed and determined attitude when it comes to constructing our common future currency.The comments followed a editorial in the influential Financial Times Deutschland that ridiculed the task-force for its lack of concrete proposals, arguing for a shift back toward the European Commission to develop proposals, given its experience drawing up legislative proposals compared to an ad-hoc meeting of politicians.The paper also quoted Luxembourgish finance minister Luc Frieden as suggesting that the task-force be dissolved.We always come together again and repeat the same principles, he said.
Slovakia's Ivan Miklos meanwhile slammed Van Rompuy's task-force for having too many voices, too many views.

State of play

The task-force was originally given a deadline by EU premiers and presidents of the European Summit in Brussels this Thursday for producing its final report. However on Monday, the Belgian six-month rotating EU presidency said that Mr Van Rompuy will only produce an interim state-of-play report at the summit. There is to be a discussion on the subject at the meeting and further discussions by Europe and foreign ministers in October, after which the task-force will present its report.
According to the draft of a final statement to be made at the end of this week's European Summit seen by EUobserver, EU leaders simply welcome the important progress made and underline the need to keep the momentum.The statement makes no mention at all of any of the suggestions of sanctions that have been mooted by different member states, including halting delivery of structural funds to a member state or even temporary withdrawal of voting rights in the Council.While in principle all member states back the idea of tougher discipline for countries that break any new rules put in place, there are wide divergences as to what form such sanctions should take. Germany backs the idea of a suspension of voting rights in the Council.This is an unpopular position as it would likely require treaty change, although Finland and Latvia have both signed up to the idea.

Sanctions needed ASAP

Instead, the initiative appears to be returning to the EU executive, which is to unveil a package of legislative proposals regarding sanctions on 29 September.
However, the proposals will limit themselves to a discussion of a withholding of structural and possibly agricultural funds, with voting rights off the table as they would require a treaty change.This is not to say that treaty changes could not be up for discussion at a later point - the door is not closed - but everything that is to be proposed is feasible within the existing legal framework, the treaties, which means that they can be launched from the very first of the new year, in concert with the European semester.For confidence to be returned to markets, the commission feels that the possibility of fresh sanctions being applied needs to be imposed as soon as possible and we all know how long a treaty change would take: years. It's just not likely.

Norway funds NGOs in EU to stem rise of racism in poorer states
VALENTINA POP 14.09.2010 @ 17:54 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Norway is boosting its funding scheme for civil society projects in the EU's poorer states in the east and south in order to stem a rise of racism aggravated by unemployment and the economic crisis.We will focus on civil society and one reason why we do it is because we see racism on the increase, Ingrid Schulerud, a Norwegian diplomat, told EUobserver. Ms Schulerud was in charge of negotiations with the EU on the renewal of a funding scheme worth €1.79 billion that is available from 2009 to 2014 to the EU's newest member states in central and eastern Europe, as well as Greece, Portugal and Spain.As a non-EU member, oil- and gas-rich Norway agreed to this trade-off for the less developed countries in Europe some 15 years ago, when it joined the bloc's internal market. Iceland and Liechtenstein are also donors to the so-called EEA Grants, with Oslo providing 97 percent of the total funding.At least 10 percent of the funding will now be specifically earmarked for non-govermental organisations, with Norway saying that democracy-supporting measures are badly needed in times of economic crisis.

Enlargement happened when economic figures were all pointing upwards. But now we face very different times. Many of the newest members are particularly vulnerable. In those circumstances, investing in civil society is even more important, Ms Schulerud said.The aim of the grants for NGOs, which can range between €5,000 and €250,000 is to fill a niche the EU is not covering. When the Norwegian Grants moved in in 2004, foreign donors available for the NGOs, like the Soros Foundation and others, moved eastwards. Enlargement was in a way seen to secure fundamental rights. Our funding has been vital for civil society in these countries as national or local sources have not been able to fill the gap from those that withdrew, and EU funds were not really available for NGOs.Asked what happens to these NGOs when the projects run out, Ms Schulerud said the funding was not targeting activities only, but also capacity-building in the financial area helping the NGOs become more sustainable.Also, Norway is finding more support within the EU commission for these activities and is hoping that more EU funding will become available to NGOs.Ms Schulerud said she expected many Norway-funded programmes to focus on the situation of Roma in different countries.

Racism is a challenge, and racism towards the Roma is probably the biggest challenge. There is an EU report stating that they are the biggest discriminated group. At the same time, we feel it's important to focus on youth, whether they are Roma or not – because there is social exclusion of youngsters across ethnicity and culture, she said.Meanwhile, Oslo is looking to fund not only projects focusing on social problems, but also those which highlight the strong contribution of Roma to music, to the European cultural identity.A public consultation process was launched last week until 22 October, with input from various NGOs expected to contribute to the new guidelines which will govern the allocation of funding.

CULT P-1
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2527
NETANYAHU HEADS TO WASHINGTON
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139624
JOY AND RENEWAL
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2528

Budapest’s Oldest Synagogue Reopens
by Elad Benari SEPT 15,10

The oldest synagogue in Hungary’s capital Budapest reopened last week, just in time to mark Rosh Hashanah.1500 people participated at the Obuda Synagogue’s dedication ceremony earlier this month, among them Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjn and Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.The Obuda Synagogue was constructed in 1737, at a time when the Jewish community in Obuda was the largest in Hungary. The present building replaced it on the same site in 1820.During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the local Jewish community shrank as Jews moved into the city of Pest. At its height in 1940, Hungary’s Jewish community consisted of about 800,000 Jews, with Budapest having 125 synagogues. Hungary was occupied by Germany later in the war, in 1944, and most of its Jews were deported by the Nazis to concentration camps where they were subsequently killed. Only about 200,000 Hungarian survived the Holocaust.After the war, Hungary became a communist state, and in 1960, the Obuda Synagogue, which had remained standing all this time, was appropriated by the government and used as a studio for a state-run television network.During his speech at last week’s rededication ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Semjn said that the event is significant not only to the Jewish people but also to the Hungarian government. He said that even though communism formally ended in Hungary 20 years ago, the reopening of the Obuda Synagogue is a symbol to the real end to communism. Every house of prayer, regardless of religion, represents the human being’s connection with G-d. Everyone has a need to have a connection with his Creator, so taking away synagogue takes away the individual’s freedom to have this bond.

Because of the Holocaust, a lot of people didn't come back to their places in this synagogue,said Chief Rabbi Metzger about the synagogue’s re-opening.And after some years, the Communists took it and changed it into a textile museum and then into a studio for the television. So to come here after 50 years shows us that the renaissance in Hungary is real truth.Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres also took part in the celebration, through letters they sent to the community’s members. Netanyahu described the re-opened synagogue as the symbol of a Jewish renaissance and Peres wished for the synagogue to be a house of prayer for everyone.Leading the renewed Obuda Synagogue will be Rabbi Shlomo Koves. This is the moment—when the Torah is installed—that makes the building a synagogue, a sanctuary,he said. Rabbi Koves admitted he is concerned about re-emerging extremism in Hungary, as the far right Movement for a Better Hungary became the third largest party in recent elections. However, he said that he believes that the ongoing renovation of the Obuda Synagogue is the best way to fight extremism.The community from its own strength renovates it and uses it again for the same purpose, for prayers. And that is the answer to all those voices that are here [representing] the strengthening anti-Semitism and the strengthening racism. The best answer is to build [and] to get the community together and show that we are still living and give the people the chance to go back to their own identity...he told Voice of America.The synagogue will continue to carry its original name, Kehal Adas Yehsurin, and will also be known as Beit Knesset Chabad-Lubavitch. Hungary today is home to one of Central and Eastern Europe’s largest Jewish communities, with some 100,000 Jews currently living in the country. It is hoped that the re-opening of the Obuda Synagogue will encourage the same in other old synagogues throughout Europe.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Google Acquires Israeli Company
by Elad Benari SEPT 15,10

Google announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Quiksee, an Israeli-based company which develops interactive video mapping technologies based on user-filmed videos.

Founded in 2007 by CEO Gadi Royz, VP R&D Rony Amira, CTO Assaf Harel, and Pavel Yosifovich, Quiksee’s software allows Internet users to turn a simple video clip into an interactive video clip. Its users can photograph any location where they are with a digital camera or mobile device, and then upload the file to Google Maps. The clip thus becomes interactive, allowing people to wander through and get a real visit experience, without physically being there.A report in TheMarker financial newspaper on Monday estimated that the deal was worth $10 million. A spokeswoman for Google told Reuters on Tuesday that it was a small deal and did not provide exact figures.In an announcement on its website, Quiksee said: We are delighted to announce that Quiksee has been acquired by Google! We've learned a lot from our previous work at Quiksee, and we look forward to bringing our experience, creativity and insight to Google. Both Google and Quiksee share the same innovative vision…we look forward to the opportunity to contribute and do great things together in the future.According to TheMarker, Google sees Quiksee's technology as the missing link in its Street View service which allows users to view photographs of streets around the world.Quiksee is Google's second acquisition in Israel in six months. In April, it acquired web gadgets provider LabPixies for an estimated $25 million. LabPixies specializes in personalized websites and mobile gadgets such as calendars, checklists, games, and news and weather feeds.Google Israel’s development center managing director Yossi Matias, said in a statement that Google was committed to continue investing in Israel both by expanding and deepening our activity as well as by continuing to strengthen our collaboration with companies and start-ups in Israel.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Jews Who Defied British Ban on Shofars at Wall Hold Reunion
by Hillel Fendel SEPT 13,10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfLbkx4ZIM&feature=player_embedded

As Yom Kippur approaches, memories of the dramatic, climactic, and British-banned shofar blasts at the Western Wall under the British Mandate come to the fore. Six men who, as teenagers, braved the British bobbies and blew the ram’s horn at the Wall, and who even sat in prison for their efforts, gathered recently for a remarkable reunion at the Western Wall itself to discuss their memories.Under the British Mandate, the Western Wall prayer area was only some 13 feet wide, and was used by local Arabs as a pedestrian thoroughfare. Jews were allowed to hold some prayer services there, but at times sitting was not allowed, and shofar-blowing was certainly a non-starter.The shofar is blown in Jewish tradition on three occasions nowadays: At morning services during the month preceding Rosh HaShanah, on Rosh HaShanah itself in fulfillment of a Biblical commandment, and to mark the end of the Yom Kippur prayers and fast.The Yom Kippur shofar blasts at the Wall took on special significance under the British Mandate. While the shofar could be sounded elsewhere on the other occasions, Yom Kippur worshipers at the Wall refused to surrender their right to audibly mark the passage from the solemnity of the Day of Atonement to the joyous days of forgiveness and preparing for the Festival of Sukkot. Shofars were smuggled in each year from 1931 until 1947, and brave teenagers belted out several blasts before running away; some were caught – and jailed for up to six months.

Their experiences of then and now are recounted in a new video produced by the Toldot Yisrael (Chronicles of Israel) association. Toldot Yisrael is a Jerusalem-based nonprofit organization dedicated to recording and sharing the first-hand testimonies of the men and women who helped found and build the State of Israel. Its current video features the six brave Western Wall Yom Kippur shofar-blowers.The producers of the movie say that the only shofar-blowers who are still alive are Yaakov Sheretzki, who blew the ram’s horn at the Wall on Yom Kippur of 1943 at the age of 18; Avraham Elkayam, in 1947, when he was aged 13; Avraham Kaspi, who was aged 16, in 1946; Mordechai Shechori, aged 21, in 1942; Yaakov Aharoni, aged 16, in 1938; Moshe Karavani, aged 13, in 1946; and Ephraim Steinberg, aged 15, in 1946.They gathered at the Wall to tell their stories of how they jumped at the opportunity to blow the shofar, how they actually did so under the British noses - and then tried to run away. They also recounted what the experience meant to them throughout their lives. All the stories bear repeating – the video is certainly worth watching - but the following can certainly not be overlooked. Elkayam said that during the Six Day War, immediately after the liberation of the Old City, he went with several of his comrades to the Western Wall. He said he saw someone there with a shofar, and felt the urge to blast out a few tekiot. When he finished, someone approached him and said, I see that you have a special connection with this… What is it? Elkayam said, I was the last person to blow the shofar here in 1947.The man, who was none other than the famous Moshe Segal, answered, And I was the first one to blow it, on Yom Kippur in 1931! – and the two embraced.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

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.

PA Legislator's New Math Updates Number of Virgins for Martyrs
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 14,10

Palestinian Authority Hamas legislative Speaker Ahmad Bahr has updated from 72 to 2.5 million the number of virgins waiting for martyrs upon their arrival in the Garden of Eden.In a recent speech translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Bahr, who is the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the palace where the virgins are waiting can be entered only by prophets, by the righteous, and by martyrs.Most Muslim preachers and politicians have used the expression 72 virgins to encourage Arab youth to be ready to die in anti-Israeli terrorist attacks and suicide bombings. Bahr’s new arithmetic reasons, In the Garden of Eden, there is a palace... with 500 gates. At every gate, there are 5,000 black-eyed virgins. Brothers, 500 multiplied by 5,000 is 2.5 million.He said in his speech, aired on Hamas television, that men should be praying for a son who would wage Jihad for the sake of Allah... As long as we continue on this path, nobody on Earth will be able to confront the resistance, or to confront the mujahedeen, those who worship Allah and seek martyrdom.Bahr also took aim at the American-mediated talks with the PA and Israel. He said, I say to you, loud and clear: the negotiations, conducted first in the United States, then in Sharm el Sheikh, and wherever, are aimed at uprooting Islam and the resistance here in Palestine, in Gaza.
Hamas leaders recently have increased terrorist attacks and escalated rhetoric against the diplomatic process.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Hermine death toll at 8 after 2 more bodies found
-SEPT 14,10

AUSTIN, Texas – The death toll from flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN') has reached eight after two more bodies were found in Texas.One body was identified Tuesday as that of 51-year-old Jennifer Ring of Austin. The mother of two children had been missing since swift water swept her sport utility vehicle off a road on Sept. 8.Austin police say two fishermen found her body in Lake Austin on Monday.In nearby Georgetown, police on Tuesday found the debris-wrapped body of a man in a drainage field. A police statement says the cause of his death hasn't been determined but Hermine flooding was a factor.Those deaths bring to seven the number of people killed in Texas in Hermine-related flooding. One person also was killed in Oklahoma.

Tropical Storm Karl forms in Caribbean
– Tue Sep 14, 5:07 pm ET

MIAMI – Tropical Storm Karl has formed in the northwestern Caribbean, heading on a path expected to take it over the Yucatan Peninsula.Forecasters say the storm has maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph (65 kph) and is located about 270 miles (435 kph) east of Chetumal, Mexico. It's moving west-northwest at 15 mph (24 kph).Mexico's government has issued a tropical storm warning for the peninsula from Chetumal northward to Cabo Catoche. Parts of Belize are under a tropical storm watch.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm is expected to strengthen, and its center could be over the Yucatan on Wednesday.Meanwhile far from land over the Atlantic, Hurricane Igor's top winds increased to 145 mph (230 kph). Hurricane Julia, also in the open Atlantic, had maximum winds near 85 mph (140 kph).
(This version CORRECTS APNewsNow. corrects that Karl formed in Caribbean. UPDATES with wind speeds for Julia and Igor. AP Video.)

Igor stirs up Caribbean, takes aim at Bermuda
– Tue Sep 14, 6:22 pm ET

MIAMI (AFP) – The most powerful Atlantic storm of 2010, Hurricane Igor, whipped up dangerous swells in the Caribbean on Tuesday as it barreled west-northwest in the direction of Bermuda.Igor, packing winds of 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour is a category four hurricane, the second highest notch on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, and forecasters warned it was getting stronger.As the powerful storm churned through the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said tropical storm Karl had formed off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.Though still comparatively weak, the system threatened to dump more rain on Mexico, which is struggling with flooding in southeastern states including Veracruz and Oaxaca.Almost one million people were affected by flooding this month alone which left 25 dead. The rains, which began in July, are set to worsen as the season continues to almost the end of the year.More than one third of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz has been hit by flooding which affected some 500,000 people, according to governor Fidel Herrera.Igor is not expected to make landfall for days. Forecasters say the storm could reach Bermuda by Sunday, but caution it is too early to know if it will be a direct hit or how strong it will be five days from now.

Exact impacts of Hurricane Igor at the end of the week are still difficult to gauge, the Bermuda Weather Service said.Much more detail on Igor will be covered in the next few days, as it likely becomes a potential threat to the island.At 2100 GMT, Igor's eye was located some 655 miles (1,055 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands and it was heading west-northwestward at eight miles (13 kilometers) per hour, US experts said.Swells generated by the storm were due to begin affecting the archipelago later Tuesday before reaching Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands late Tuesday and Wednesday.These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.Although the storm's strength was expected to fluctuate in the coming days, Igor is expected to remain a very powerful hurricane through Thursday, it added.Of more immediate threat to land was tropical storm Karl, which the NHC said could bring coastal flooding and up to eight inches of rain to Mexico and parts of Belize and northern Guatemala.A storm surge is expected to produce some coastal flooding near and to the north of where the center makes landfall, the center said. The surge will be accompanied by large and damaging waves.Karl is expected to produce total rain accumulations of three to five inches over the Yucatan peninsula, Belize and northern Guatemala, with isolated maximum amounts of eight inches, the center added.

A third weather system, Hurricane Julia, continued to strengthen, with high winds increasing to 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour, making it a category one storm as it tracked slowly west-northwest.Little change in strength is forecast during tonight or Wednesday, following by slow weakening by Thursday, the NHC said. Last week, powerful Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into far northeastern Mexico and then barreled into US territory, sparking flash floods on both sides of the border.

DR SAMUEL DOCTORIAN PREDICTED THE EIFFEL TOWER WILL BE DESTROYED AT SOME TIME.

Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb alert
– Tue Sep 14, 7:35 pm ET

PARIS (AFP) – Police evacuated some 2,000 people from the Eiffel Tower and the park surrounding the Paris landmark on Tuesday following a bomb alert that turned out to be a false alarm, the police said.Within hours police also briefly cleared a suburban train station not far from Notre-Dame cathedral after a bomb alert but no device was found.The company managing the Eiffel Tower received an anonymous telephone call around 8:20 pm (1820 GMT), a Paris police official told AFP.Special units, one with sniffer dogs, went to the site to search the Eiffel Tower floor by floor, the official said.Around 2,000 people were evacuated,the official added.The 324-metre (1,063-feet) high tower has three floors open to visitors and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world.

The tower, which also has two restaurants, normally closes at 11:00 pm.The people evacuated, mostly French and foreign tourists, were asked to stay on the nearby Seine river banks and the Champ de Mars park to the east, and the tower area was cordoned off, an AFP reporter on the scene said.Around a dozen police vehicles could be seen inside the cordoned-off area.The cordons were later removed and several dozen Eiffel Tower staff were allowed to enter the structure to collect their belongings.Nothing was found. It was a false alarm, a police officer at the scene told reporters.The Eiffel Tower was built in two years by engineer Gustave Eiffel as the centerpiece of the 1889 world fair in Paris.In central Paris police briefly evacuated the platforms at the Saint Michel suburban train station after an anonymous phone call.Platforms of the RER C line which runs along the Seine river were closed for nearly an hour, the state rail company SNCF said.On the intersecting RER B line which runs north-south, the platform was evacuated at the request of the police for 15 minutes, a spokesman for the Paris transit operator RATP said.The station was reopened after a police check.

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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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 hopes prisoner release helps peace talks By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 14,10

ATLANTA – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he hoped North Korea's release of an American prisoner to him would jump-start six-nation denuclearization talks that could lead to a permanent peace deal on the peninsula.Carter said he worked five weeks to get permission from the White House and the State Department before making the private trip in August to free Aijalon Gomes, 31, who had been held since he crossed into the country from China on Jan. 25 for unknown reasons. He had been sentenced to eight years hard labor.North Korea officials told Carter they would only release Gomes if Carter came to get the captive himself, the former president said in his first public remarks since his journey to the country.We didn't have any communication with North Korea, so they called and asked me to come over there to get Mr. Gomes, the Georgia Democrat said during a discussion at the Carter Center. They said they would not let him go to anyone except me. Obviously, they wanted me to come back over there.The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner would not say if he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. But he said he spoke with leaders who told him they were eager to have peace talks that will lead to the denuclearization of the peninsula and a permanent peace treaty with the U.S. and South Korea.Carter, 85, who was president from 1977-81, is well-regarded in North Korea despite the longtime animosity between the two countries. He met with the late President Kim Il Sung on his last trip to Pyongyang in 1994 in a cordial meeting that led to a landmark nuclear disarmament deal. The North Korean leader died weeks later.They really revere me in a way for being the last person who met with Kim Il Sung before he passed away, the ex-president said.We meet with some unsavory people, some outcasts from international diplomatic circles,he said. But they're the ones who can solve problems involving unwarranted war or abuse of human rights.

Carter, who traveled to China a week after his visit, said he hoped Gomes' release would start peace talks. China has hosted the talks since 2002 but North Korea walked away last year in protest of international condemnation following its test of a long-range missile.I think they would like to be accepted in the world political environment, he said. They do some strange things because we just don't understand them.Carter said doctors determined that Gomes, of Boston, had been treated superbly during his seven months in prison and that North Korean officials gave him his own prison cell. He also said Gomes was given his own hospital room in the country's capital, Pyongyang, after he tried to commit suicide, but he did not elaborate.He did not take oral questions and only answered those written on note cards.Carter said the Atlanta-based center was forced into a private mission to secure Gomes to fill the diplomatic void left by Washington's refusal to restore diplomatic ties with North Korea. He said he seeks approval from Washington before taking diplomatic travels, but he doesn't hold back once he gets there.This is the kind of problem that the Carter Center faces. And in all of those areas, the U.S. won't become involved but the Carter Center does, said Carter, who founded the organization in 1982. We go where we wish, we meet with whom we choose and we say what we believe.
Online:http://www.cartercenter.org

Mitchell: Mideast peace accord can be inked in a year By Miret El Naggar, McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Sep 14, 6:14 pm ET

SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt — Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed after a second round of peace talks started Tuesday to continue aiming for a deal within a year, but they failed to overcome a dispute over Israel's West Bank settlements that threatens to derail the U.S.-sponsored diplomacy.The latest round began in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el Sheik, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met twice.President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu continue to agree that these negotiations, whose goal is to resolve all core issues, can be completed within a year, said U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell , a former Senate majority leader from Maine .Their common goal remains two states for two peoples, and they're committed to a solution to the conflict that resolves all issues, Mitchell said.

Peace talks had been stalled for nearly two years before President Barack Obama pressured both parties to resume negotiations. Now the expiration of Israel's 10-month moratorium on settlement construction, which runs out Sept. 26 , could jeopardize the talks.The Obama administration, which is withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and battling the Islamist Taliban movement in Afghanistan , wants to end the 62-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict in part to improve relations with the Muslim world. In the Middle East , skepticism remained high over the outcome, after years of failed talks and with flare-ups of violence.We've been witnessing these talks over the past 19 years, said Mohamed Sobieh, the Arab League deputy chief and official for Palestinian affairs. We've always supported the negotiations, and we support them today. But we've previously walked out of Annapolis without any gains, he said, referring to talks in Maryland in 2007.A resumption of Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank could be the undoing of this round, unless concessions are reached, Arab diplomats said.Mitchell said the talks would continue Wednesday in Jerusalem , but he didn't say how they could overcome the settlement hurdle.We think it makes sense to extend the moratorium, given that the talks are moving in a constructive direction, Mitchell said, reiterating earlier comments by Obama and Clinton. We know this is a politically sensitive issue in Israel . But we've also called on President Abbas to take steps that help encourage and facilitate this process.The Palestinians insist on extending the freeze on construction of settlements in the West Bank , where they hope to found a Palestinian state once a permanent peace deal is struck.

Choosing to continue with settlements in any form means destroying the negotiations, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said ahead of Tuesday's first meeting.A member of Netanyahu's team on Tuesday reiterated the prime minister's earlier comments that there will be no extension of the settlement freeze and that they needed to reach a compromise either Tuesday or in Jerusalem .This isn't the only sticking point, however. The two sides have yet to reach a deal on other core issues, such as the borders of the new Palestinian state; control of Jerusalem , which both sides claim as their capital; the right of generations of Palestinian refugees to return to homes that are now in Israel ; and security measures.The Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian leader are under pressure from their constituents. Right-wing parties in Netanyahu's government have demanded that he end the freeze on settlement building he imposed last December. Abbas has yet to reach a compromise with the militant Islamist movement Hamas , which seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after winning elections there.Abbas' own mandate to govern expired last year, his popularity in the West Bank is waning and critics charge that corruption is widespread in his party and government.We are under no illusions. We know there will be many obstacles; there will be hurdles that have to be crossed, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said. Nevertheless, he described the meetings between both parties as good.(Naggar is a McClatchy special correspondent. Hannah Allam contributed to this article.)