THE MIDEAST HEATS UP TO WAR

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

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.

Russia Defends Its Diplomacy in Syria Amid Accounts of Escalating Violence By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ Published: February 8, 2012

BEIRUT, Lebanon — As reports of assaults by Syrian tanks and other forces at several major rebellious areas across Syria continued for a fifth day, Russia’s leaders tried Wednesday to fend off international criticism that they were doing nothing effective to stop the bloodshed, arguing that Moscow’s efforts were far more productive and balanced than the combined Western and Arab plan.In Moscow, Sergey V. Lavrov, the foreign minister, stressed that Russia would seek to inaugurate open negotiations between the government and the opposition. Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, the once and likely future president, as well as Dmitri A. Medvedev, the incumbent, weighed in, trumpeting the Kremlin’s effort as unbiased while others were acting like a bull in a china shop, as Mr. Putin put it.The Russians faced a chorus of voices wondering why Syrian government tanks and artillery continued to shell civilian neighborhoods in numerous towns and cities a day after Mr. Lavrov met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, the Syrian capital.Both Britain and France noted that Mr. Assad had previously promised numerous visiting government leaders that he would end the violence, to no end.I think we have very little confidence in that,” Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said when asked about Syrian promises to Russia, adding that by vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution last Saturday condemning the violence, Russia and China had set themselves against Arab opinion and world opinion.Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, also expressed skepticism, while telling Parliament that the European Union would strengthen sanctions.

In Moscow, Mr. Lavrov voiced frustration with Western and Arab attitudes.Sometimes there is an impression that the more the Syrian leadership shows understanding about the necessity to move forward — albeit belatedly and under pressure — the more we see rejection of reciprocal steps on the opposite side,Mr. Lavrov said.Russia, clearly hoping to achieve a diplomatic master stroke while protecting an ally and arms customer, sees demands that Mr. Assad step down, before any negotiations, as unacceptable international interference in a country’s sovereign matters.Mr. Lavrov said he had received assurances from Mr. Assad that he would open talks with the opposition, and he called on Western and Arab leaders to support such efforts, though he did not address the fractured nature of the opposition or suggest that Mr. Assad would halt assaults on civilians before any talks began. The Russian minister suggested that the Arab and Western players had been too quick to ignore the armed attacks against the government.Mr. Putin weighed in on the Arab uprisings for the first time in months. We, of course, condemn all violence, no matter its source, but do not conduct yourself like a bull in a china shop, he said in a meeting with religious leaders in Moscow. People need to be allowed to decide their fates independently.Mr. Putin has blamed the United States for instigating the protests against him that have erupted in recent weeks, and warned that the spirit of the Arab Spring revolts could spread to Russia. In the last decade, unfortunately, a cult of violence has come to the fore in international affairs,he said.We cannot allow anything like this to come to our country.Mr. Medvedev discussed the Syrian crisis with Turkey’s prime minister on Wednesday, saying Moscow supported continuing diplomatic efforts as long as no country violated Syria’s sovereignty.

With no concrete diplomatic plan in sight, Navi Pillay, the United Nations humans rights chief, pressed the international community to act.Noting activists’ reports of a sharp increase in attacks on the central city of Homs, Ms. Pillay issued a statement saying, I am appalled by the Syrian government’s willful assault on Homs and its use of artillery and other heavy weaponry in what appear to be indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.Ms. Pillay emphasized the extreme urgency needed to protect civilians, saying that the humanitarian situation in Homs and other areas was steadily deteriorating.The aid group Doctors Without Borders issued a report on Wednesday accusing the government of blocking medical care for activists and others wounded in government attacks.The failure of the Security Council resolution after a double Russian and Chinese veto appears to have fueled the Syrian government’s readiness to massacre its own people in an effort to crush dissent, Ms. Pillay said.In violence that ranged from the Damascus suburbs through the hill town of Zabadani to the embattled city of Homs, at least 50 people were killed on Wednesday, according to overseas activists struggling to track the casualties of the clashes. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, said its count was likely to rise because of the continuous shelling and the lack of medical care.

The Syrian government allows only sporadic access by foreign news media or other observers, so independent confirmation is not possible.Activists described a pattern in the attacks, with tanks surrounding the smaller towns, or in the case of Homs, entire neighborhoods, and firing at random, sometimes using small artillery, from a distance. The tanks avoid maneuvering into the warrens of streets beyond the major thoroughfares lest they be trapped and burned.They are trying to weaken the social cradle that has embraced the Free Syrian Army in those neighborhoods and to turn the residents against them, said Omar Idilbi, a member of the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, based in Lebanon.Videos posted on YouTube showed scenes identified as Homs, with the bodies of one family crushed under heavy concrete blocks brought crashing down by the shelling.In Inshaat, a neighborhood of Homs next to the more besieged Bab Amr quarter, one family reached by telephone said it had spent hours cowering in its basement to escape artillery rounds showering down outside.Government troops requisitioned empty apartments that commanded a view over the neighborhood, said the wife in the family, speaking anonymously out of fear of repercussions.Soldiers appeared at the family’s door asking for coffee and food. When she told them in response to their questions that she was afraid, they assured her that everything would be fine because Mr. Assad had issued orders to clean up the neighborhood within a week, she said.In the official version of events reported by the government-run Syrian Arab News Agency, the violence was perpetrated by armed terrorist groups that used mortar shells to hit government targets in a number of neighborhoods.

The authorities in the governorate are pursuing and clashing with these groups, said the report, denying any humanitarian problem. Hospitals in the province are functioning normally,it quoted a medical source as saying.In the mountain town of Zabadani, near Damascus, which the Free Syrian Army controlled briefly last month, one resident reached by telephone said the tanks had approached but while shelling had stayed about a kilometer away (about five-eighths of a mile).God is great, God is great; do you hear that? Do you hear? the resident, Zein Nour, said during a satellite telephone interview as shells erupted in the background every five or six minutes. Since the assault began five days ago, shellfire has intensified during the day and diminished after dark, he said, and about 5,000 residents have fled.There is no life, no communications, no bread, no hospitals,Mr. Nour said. There is no Zabadani. There used to be a Zabadani, but now there is no Zabadani; there is just destruction.Neil MacFarquhar reported from Beirut, and Michael Schwirtz from Moscow. Hwaida Saad and an employee of The New York Times contributed reporting from Beirut, and Alan Cowell from London.

Russia's Putin: No bull in china shop for Syria
February 8, 2012 | 7:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c11xkoQ77A

REPORTING FROM BEIRUT -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ventured Wednesday into the raging international debate about Syria, voicing support for Moscow’s controversial decision to throw a diplomatic lifeline to embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.Of course, we condemn any instance of violence, whatever side this violence comes from, but one cannot behave like a bull in a china shop, Putin said at a meeting in Moscow with Russian religious leaders, Interfax news agency reported. People should be given [the opportunity] to decide their fate themselves.
Putin faces what some have dubbed Russian Spring protests in his bid to be elected president next month. Some commentators have said the Russian leadership is especially wary of United Nations-backed regime change in autocratic states. Moscow was unhappy with the scenario last year in Libya, where U.N. action paved the way for a Western-led bombing campaign that helped topple Moammar Kadafi.However, Russian officials say their actions on Syria, including a veto Saturday of a U.N. Security Council measure calling on Assad to step aside, have been motivated by a desire to avoid more bloodshed. The joint veto by Russia and China drew condemnation from Syrian opposition groups and governments that are calling on Assad to step down.

The comments by Putin come a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received a boisterous welcome in Damascus and met with Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for more than 40 years. The top Russian diplomat said he had exacted a vow from the Syrian leader to help end the violence that has ravaged the Middle East nation for almost a year. Assad also pledged to hasten reforms and talks with the opposition, Lavrov said.The president of Syria assured us he was completely committed to the task of stopping violence, regardless of where it may come from, Lavrov said after meeting with Assad.But opposition groups, the United States and other nations seeking Assad’s ouster expressed skepticism about the Syrian leader's commitment to peace. Burhan Ghalioun, the head the opposition Syrian National Council, called Lavrov’s visit a truly aggressive act against the Syrian people, reported the pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera.The week has seen a number of nations, including the United States, several European countries and Gulf Arab states, recall their envoys from Damascus. Some Arab states opposed to Assad also expelled Syrian diplomats. The Russian foreign minister said the withdrawal of diplomats from Damascus would not help peace efforts.The Syrian government assault on the rebel stronghold of Homs continued Wednesday, said opposition activists, who reported a fifth consecutive day of shelling with heavy civilian casualties.The Syrian government said security forces battled terrorists in Homs and elsewhere in Syria.

Russia claims Assad promised end to violence
By OREN KESSLER AND REUTERS 02/08/2012 09:53
France, Gulf states pull envoys; 19 killed as Moscow's top diplomat visits Damascus; leaked emails purport to show regime's tactics for manipulating Western media.
Syria's Assad meets Russian FM Lavrov in Damascus By REUTERS

Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in his country, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.Visiting Damascus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hinted that the issue of Assad giving up power – a central element of the Arab proposal that Russia vetoed this week at the UN Security Council – had been raised. Assad said he would cooperate with any plan that stabilized Syria, but made clear that it would only include an earlier Arab League proposal that called for dialogue, release of prisoners and withdrawing the army from protest centers.France withdrew its ambassador on Tuesday, vowing not to give up on peace efforts and saying Assad’s days at the helm are numbered.Opposition activists said government forces renewed shelling of Homs just before Lavrov’s arrival, killing 19 people in an onslaught they say has claimed more than 300 lives in the past five days. There were also reports from residents of shelling and fighting between government and rebel forces in Hama, another urban stronghold of anti-Assad sentiment.Also on Tuesday, hundreds of e-mails from Assad’s office were leaked by the hacker group Anonymous. The e-mails were reportedly sent from Sheherazad Jaafari, a press attaché at Syria’s UN mission, to Assad’s media adviser Bouthaina Shaaban in advance of his December interview with Barbara Walters of ABC News.

In the e-mails, obtained by Haaretz, Jaafari reportedly wrote, It is hugely important and worth mentioning that mistakes have been done in the beginning of the crises because we did not have a well-organized police force. American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are mistakes done and now we are fixing it.It would be worth mentioning how your personality has been attacked and praised in the last decade according to the media,she wrote, referring to Assad. At one point H.E. [Assad] was viewed as a hero and in other times H.E. was the bad guy. Americans love these kinds of things and get convinced by it.Facebook and YouTube, Jaafari wrote, are important to the American mindset and Assad should mention that the fact that Facebook and YouTube are open now – especially during the crisis – is important.Russian media quoted Lavrov as saying Assad had assured him he wanted an end to violence by both sides and an expanded Arab League monitoring mission, and that a referendum would be held on a new draft constitution, followed by free elections.President Assad informed [me] he will meet in the coming days with the commission that prepared a draft of the new constitution, state-run Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported. The work is finished, and now a date will be announced for a referendum on this important document for Syria.In remarks carried by state-run Rossiya-24 television, Lavrov said: On the basis of this new Basic Law [constitution], general elections will be organized and conducted in which many parties will participate. The elections will be held on the basis of a new constitution in which there are no privileges or advantages for [Assad’s] Ba’ath Party.

Sherkoh Abbas, president of the exiled Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, said a referendum would be pointless.Russia is looking for a way out for the regime – some kind of transition. But a referendum on what? The people have made their choice – they’ve hit the streets, he told The Jerusalem Post from Washington.Syrian state television said the commission dealing with a new constitution had completed its work on Tuesday.The state news agency SANA quoted Assad as saying Syria would cooperate with any effort to resolve its crisis that promotes stability in the country.Syria from the beginning has welcomed any efforts that back the Syrian solution to the crisis, SANA quoted Assad as saying while meeting Lavrov. Lavrov told Interfax that Assad assured us he was completely committed to the task of stopping violence regardless of where it may come from,and was ready for dialogue with all political groups in Syria.Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Lavrov and Foreign Intelligence Service chief Mikhail Fradkov had gone to Damascus because Moscow wanted to see the swiftest stabilization of the situation in Syria on the basis of the swiftest implementation of democratic reforms whose time has come.Syrian state television showed hundreds of people gathering on a main Damascus highway to welcome Lavrov. They waved Syrian, Russian and Hezbollah flags and held up two Russian flags made out of hundreds of red, white and blue balloons.In Paris, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero explained France’s withdrawal of its ambassador.Faced with worsening repression led by the Damascus regime against its own population, French authorities have decided to recall their ambassador in Syria for consultations,he said.We will not give up,Foreign Minister Alain Juppé told a foreign affairs debate in the Senate. We have two objectives: to intensify the pressure on the countries that use their veto and to add pressure on the Syrian regime, which is discredited. Its day are numbered and the veto in New York is not a blank check to continue [repression].European Union states prepared a new round of sanctions, EU diplomats said on Tuesday, with the focus on central bank assets and trade in precious metals, gold and diamonds.Syrian first lady Asma Assad broke her 11-month silence with a letter in support of the government. In a letter to The Times of London, she wrote that her husband is the president of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the first lady supports him in that role.Click for full JPost coverage

The first lady’s very busy agenda is still focused on supporting the various charities she has long been involved with and rural development as well as supporting the president as needed,she reportedly wrote from an unknown location. These days she is equally involved in bridging gaps and encouraging dialogue. She listens to and comforts the families of the victims of the violence.The Gulf Cooperation Council said its members were recalling their ambassadors from Damascus and expelling Syrian envoys from their own capitals, in response to surging violence.
It is necessary for the Arab states... to take every decisive measure faced with this dangerous escalation against the Syrian people,the Saudi-led bloc said in a statement, adding: Nearly a year into the crisis, there is no glint of hope in a solution.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an ex-ally who has turned against Assad, described the UN vetoes as a fiasco for the civilized world, and said Ankara was preparing a new initiative with those who oppose the Syrian government.
Opposition activists said the fresh assault on Homs came after 95 people were killed on Monday in the city of one million, Syria’s third biggest. More than 200 were reported killed there by sustaining shelling on Friday night.A further 19 people were killed and at least 40 were wounded in Tuesday’s barrage, activists said. Some reported fighting between army defectors and government forces trying move into areas the rebels hold in Homs.Assad has said parliamentary elections will be held when the constitution is approved, but has also pledged to eradicate terrorists he associates with the violence.Syria’s opposition, which rejected a Russian invitation for talks with Syrian officials in Moscow, says Assad’s promises of reforms have been discredited by persistent armed attacks on protests, in which the UN says 5,000 people have been killed.

Bloomberg Russians Meet Assad as Europe Joins Gulf Pulling Diplomats February 08, 2012, 11:24 AM ESTBy Terry Atlas and Caroline Alexander(Updates with Lavrov comment in second paragraph, Homs death toll in seventh paragraph.)

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- European Union and Persian Gulf countries recalled their ambassadors from Damascus, increasing diplomatic isolation for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he conferred with Russian officials on a way to resolve the crisis.Assad asked Russia to broker talks with opposition groups, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday after meeting with the Syrian leader in Damascus. Assad assigned his deputy, Farouk al-Sharaa, to lead the negotiations, Lavrov told reporters in Moscow today.It’s clear that the efforts to end the violence must be accompanied with the initiation of a dialogue among all political forces, Lavrov said, according to Russian state news service Itar-Tass. Today we received confirmation of the Syrian president’s readiness to cooperate on this.Russia and China on Feb. 4 vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution by western and Arab countries to facilitate a political transition. Assad thanked Lavrov for Russia’s position at the UN and said he seeks a national dialogue without foreign interference,according to the website of the state- run Syrian Arab News Agency.State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland dismissed Syria’s proposal to the Russian delegation as the same offer that Assad has been making for months and months and months.

Shelling Resumes

The Syrian army resumed shelling residential districts in the city of Homs, killing 43 people, Al Jazeera reported today, citing unidentified Syrian activists. Five Syrian soldiers were killed and two armored vehicles were destroyed in fighting in Idlib in the north, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an e-mailed statement today.The prospect of civil war is growing, as the daily death toll mounts. Assad is using tanks and artillery in cities where protesters are calling for the end of his rule. At least 174 people were killed on Feb. 4, said the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, making it one of the deadliest days in the 11-month revolt.Germany, Spain, Belgium and France announced withdrawal of diplomats yesterday. The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- also withdrew ambassadors from Damascus and expelled Syrian ambassadors from their capitals.

EU Observer

The EU will keep its head of delegation in Damascus to observe events on the ground, bloc spokesman Michael Mann said. The U.S. suspended embassy operations in Damascus and recalled Ambassador Robert Ford and the rest of the American staff Feb. 6. The Polish embassy in Damascus will represent U.S. interests in the country.The veto by Russia and China was their second attempt to block efforts at the UN to hold Assad accountable, citing concern that the measure was aimed at regime change, as happened in Libya.Syria’s government has blamed terrorists and foreign provocateurs for fomenting the protests and has rejected an Arab League plan for Assad to transfer power to a deputy, who would then begin talks with the opposition to form a unity government within two months.--With assistance from Glen Carey and Mourad Haroutunian in Riyadh, Nicole Gaouette in Washington, Emre Peker in Ankara, Patrick Donahue in Berlin, Emma Ross-Thomas in Madrid, James G. Neuger in Brussels and Henry Meyer and Ilya Arkhipov in Moscow. Editors: Terry Atlas, Ben Holland, Louis Meixler.
To contact the reporters on this story: Terry Atlas in Washington at tatlas@bloomberg.net; Caroline Alexander in London at calexander1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

Latest update 14:29 06.02.12 Report: Top Iran military official aiding Assad's crackdown on Syria opposition-Prominent Syrian lawmaker says the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force has recently arrived in the country to help manage Assad's regime brutal suppression of a 11-month-long popular unrest.By Zvi Bar'el

The war room is also reportedly populated by Assad himself, as well as his brother Maher, brother-in-law Assaf Shaukat and cousin Rami Makhlouf, with the Syrian chief of staff's authority reportedly restricted and divided up between other military commanders.The Quds Force includes 15,000 elite soldiers who operated, among other locations, in Iraq during the war, and the specialty of which is engaging in unconventional warfare on foreign soil. Among other duties, the Quds Force is in charge of traning and funding Hezbollah.Salimani's presence in Syria serves as an indication of the kind of battle that Assad is planning against opposition forces, with the Syrian army reportedly planning to wage all out war against the rebel city of Homs.According to the report, the Syrian president's goal is to gain ground ahead of a planned visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who will be arriving in the country along with a military delegation which includes the head of Russian intelligence.Assad's aim, sources say, is to display his control of the situation and his ability to suppress the unrest, with the determining battles to be staged in Homs and in the reoccupation of the town of Zabadani, which fell to Free Syria Army forces.An Al-Arabiya report indicated that the battle over Zabadani has already begun, with Syrian soldiers defecting to the opposition along with eight tanks, and that Homs has been placed under a siege which has included the cutting of electricity and water supplies.

The report also claimed that the Syrian army for the first time has been using rockets in order to target houses as well as mortars to hit populated areas. So far, 60 people were reportedly killed and hundreds wounded in this battle, as well as reports of the demolition of seven houses, residents and all.Syrian opposition organizations that are active internationally are currently trying to gain a political front bypassing the UN Security Council, where a resolution underwritten by the Arab League failed due to Russian and Chinese vetoes on Saturday.At this stage, opposition leaders are trying to find a way forward, as it is clear that Turkey and the Arab states oppose military action against the Assad regime, and the imposing of economic sanctions will not stop Assad.Facing Russia and Chinese opposition, and the Iranian threat to open a new front, there is doubt whether a western coalition will agree to act directly against Syria. The question is whether the Free Syrian Army will be able to get additional military assistance, and to arm itself with heavy artillery, tanks and shells so that it will be able to pose a real challenge to the Syrian army, and change the civilian resistance into a real military struggle, much like the rebel forces in Libya.Along with the Syria Free Army’s attempts to increase the number of defectors from the Syrian military, the opposition is also considering offering the minority Alawite elite guarantees of their safety in exchange for ordering Alawites to leave the regime and join the civilian resistance.Along with the Syria Free Army’s attempts to increase the number of defectors from the Syrian military, the opposition is also considering offering the minority Alawite elite guarantees of their safety in exchange for ordering Alawites to leave the regime and join the civilian resistance.Parallel to these efforts, however, the opposition seems to be facing a new and violent civilian group that is comprised mainly of Syria’s Kurdish minority. This group is working as strongmen for the regime, both in Damascus and in Kurdish population centers.

Israel embassies preparing for Iran strike? Diplomats stationed in Israel request gas masks, prepare contingency plans in case of missile attacks; envoys fear that thousands of dual-citizenship Israelis will seek evacuation Itamar Eichner Published:02.08.12, 00:05 / Israel News

Preparing for Iran strike? Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel.Senior officials in Jerusalem said that several diplomatic missions have shown great interest in preparing for various emergency situations, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday.In the framework of the preparations for possible fallout in case of an Israeli strike on Iran, foreign diplomats stationed in Israel requested that the Foreign Ministry equip them and their family members with gas masks.Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry has provided foreign embassies in Israel with a list of public bomb shelters across the country, as well as an instructional pamphlet in English produced by the IDF Home Front Command.

Diplomatic officials deployed in Israel are particularly concerned about the possibility of a missile offensive on the Jewish State that would prompt thousands of Israeli citizens with foreign passports to seek evacuation from country.A senior European diplomat said that in such case, the European Union does not have the means to undertake a massive evacuation operation within a short period of time.Meanwhile, the Home Front Command is preparing to launch a two-day drill in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday. IDF forces, firefighters, police officers and Magen David Adom emergency services will be taking part in the exercise.Army officials said that heavy military and emergency vehicle traffic is expected in the city's Shimshon neighborhood during the day. The drill marks the latest in a series of Home Front exercises held in Israel in recent months.The Air Force will also be holding major maneuvers Wednesday, in the northern Israel Galilee region.
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Netanyahu: Stop Blabbing About Iran-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly told top security officials and commanders to stop talking about a potential strike on Iran.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/7/2012, 10:11 PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his top officials to stop blabbing about a potential military strike targeting Iran's nuclear program.According to the Hebrew-language Maariv, Netanyahu earlier this week took a number of military officials and government ministers to task for speaking too freely about Israel's alleged military plans.Stop blabbing, already, he reportedly told the officials. This chit-chat causes huge damage, puts Israel on the front line, and undermines sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe.Maariv's cited unnamed senior sources who said Netanyahu was concerned Israel might be perceived as dragging the US into a war with Iran against its will and endangering the US' national interests.The warning came after several statements by senior Israeli military and political officials at last week's Herzliya conference that seemed to indicate Israel was leaning towards a strike.Those statements led to rampant speculation in the media and resulted in US Secretary of Defense saying he believed Israel would strike Iran by June 2012.

Panetta's comments raised ire by officials in Jerusalem and Washington alike who accused him of stirring controversy and potentially compromising Israel's military plans.US President Barack Obama also tried to tamp down speculation about Israel's intentions early this week.I don't think Israel has made a decision to hit Iranian facilities, he told the American network NBC.I've been very clear — we're going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and creating a nuclear arms race in a volatile region, he said.He added: Again, our goal is to resolve this diplomatically. That would be preferable. We're not going to take options off the table, though.Israel, the United States, the Gulf Arab monarchies, and many European nations maintain Iran's nuclear program is intended to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.A recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that Iran had sought - and continued to seek - nuclear know-how unique to the construction of nuclear weapons.Observers say Netanyahu's desire for his senior advisors and officials to remain silent about a potential Iran strike stems from a desire to avoid potentially disastrous leaks.Last year, several former senior Israeli officials opposed to a nuclear strike on Iran revealed details of the ongoing debate in Israel's security community and cabinet over Iran.The leaks led to a firestorm in Israel's press and accusations from government officials that leading media figures were trying to make an Israeli strike impossible by exposing plans.A newspaper in Qatar reported at the time that Netanyahu ordered a probe to find out who in his government had leaked the information.

Report: Israel Considering Placing IAF Aircraft in Cyprus-Israel is planning to place military aircraft in Cyprus, according to a Cypriot defense website.By Elad Benari First Publish: 2/8/2012, 5:43 AM

Israel is planning to place military aircraft in Cyprus, according to a Channel 10 News report on Tuesday.The report cited Israeli officials who said the issue may be raised during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Nicosia later this month. The officials added, however, that a final decision on the matter has not yet been made.An official at the Israeli Embassy in Cyprus told Channel 10 that Netanyahu’s visit is intended to highlight the good relations between the two countries and strengthen their bilateral relations. A local site in Cyprus reported, however, that Israel has asked Cyprus to place fighter jets at a local air force base in Paphos.

The embassy official told Channel 10 that the issue is still not agreed upon and is in its preliminary exploratory stages. It is not clear whether it will happen or not, he said, noting that the possibility that the Israeli Air Force will run a base off the coast of Israel exists.Netanyahu will be the first Israeli prime minister to make a state visit to Cyprus when he visits the island nation. Last month Cypriot Defense Minister Demetrius Eliades visited the Jewish State, and last November President Shimon Peres became the first Israeli president to visit Cyprus. Several other Cypriot leaders met with Jerusalem officials last week as well.Israel has made an effort to tighten its ties with both Cyprus and Greece over the past few years, particularly in light of Turkey's growing hostility and movement towards radical Muslim elements in the region.Lebanon has expressed anger over Israel's drilling in wells that have, for the most part, produced abundant supplies of the precious resource off the northwestern coast of the Jewish State, contending the maritime boundaries of the field.Turkey has begun to hint it will do the same with Cyprus, which is participating with Israel in a similar exploration in the eastern Mediterranean between the island nation and the Jewish State. The island nation has been divided between Greek and Turkish ethnic boundaries since 1974, with Turkey taking over the northern part of the island.

PM Netanyahu: Only Strength Ensures Survival of Jewish People-PM: Only thing that ensures our existence, security and prosperity is our strength By Rachel Hirshfeld First Publish: 2/7/2012, 3:51 PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, said that the only thing that ensures our existence, security and prosperity is our strength. Netanyahu asserted that, We are obligated to continue to develop the military, economic and social strength of the State of Israel.The PM’s statement was made against the backdrop of recent events. The Iranian regime recently announced that it has the ability to wipe out Israel in nine minutes. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, proclaimed that the Zionist regime is really the cancerous tumor of this region and it needs to be removed and will be removed and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem recently called for the mass killing of Jews, wherever they are to be found. Similar proclamations seem to be emanating and echoing from the Arab world daily.The incitement and hatred of Jews has long been established as a dominant theme throughout Arab society. However, these unrestrained remarks, which are announced with pride, are coming at an increasing rate.

EU concerned about potential instability in Jordan
Today FEB 8,12 @ 17:52 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - With all eyes on violence in Syria, some EU countries are becoming increasingly concerned about the risk of instability in Jordan.A senior EU diplomatic contact told this website on Wednesday (8 February) in Brussels that the Arab Spring is taking a nasty turn inside one of the West's main allies in the region. The problem now is if things get worse and spill into Jordan, the source said.Ruled by King Abdullah II, better known abroad for his high society wife, Queen Rania, the Bedouin tribes which form the backbone of Jordanian society and its security forces have been grumbling about the royal clique's monopoly on wealth and power for the past year.In recent weeks, they stopped calling for reform and started calling for the king to step down.The mood has shifted quite sharply. There is a loss of support in the Bedouin bedrock which is turning quite antagonistic at this stage ... I am not saying it's on the brink of instability, but there has been a qualitative change,Alastair Crooke, a former EU advisor on Middle East security affairs who now runs an NGO in Lebanon, told EUobserver.It's another artificial state. It's a very fragile country, Ali Ben-David, a defence expert for Israel's Channel 10 TV station, said.

With Jordan currently home to some 750,000 reguees from Iraq, including some Islamist radical groups, he added that if Jordan begins to unravel, it could create a security nightmare for Israel. Tens of thousands of terrorists in Iraq lost their job and they are looking for their next target ... If things begin spilling into Jordan, you could get both Al-Qaeda and the Iranian revolutionary guard camped on the other side of the Jordan river,he said.North of the border in Syria, some 2,500 EU citizens are believed to be still in the country amid escalating violence.Around 90 percent are dual EU-Syrian citizens and are expected to see out the crisis no matter what happens.France - a former colonial power in Syria - has the largest group among the remaining 10 percent. The French foreign ministry says that despite reports of mass-killings in Homs over the past weekend, the situation in the rest of the country has not significantly deteriorated.We haven't started the launch code for an evacuation. We haven't even closed our embassy. The only thing we've done is recalled our ambassador for consultations, which is a political gesture,a French diplomat said.Meanwhile, Lebanon - the most volatile country in the region in contemporary history - is looking the most stable for the time being.

A TV speech on Tuesday by Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of the main military power in Lebanon, Hezbollah, in which he said he does not take orders from Iran, is seen by Israeli analysts as meaning he will not start a war with Israel to take the heat off his allies in Damascus and Tehran.The British foreign office is saying people should avoid all but essential travel to anywhere east of the mountains which bisect Lebanon from north to south due to risk of kidnapping and Syrian military incursions.
For his part, Crooke, who lives in Beirut, said a traveller would have to go well off the beaten track into militant training camps in the foothills, Palestinian refugee camps in the south or smuggler villages which straddle the Lebanon-Syria border, to get into trouble.If you are using ordinary routes, the Bekaa valley [the eastern half of the country] is quite normal - people are crossing it every day to go to Damascus and back,he said.

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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

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.

Palestinian Authority Funds Land Grab in Samaria-Palestinian Authority-controlled Shechem is allocating 300 tractors to plow and claim land near Jewish communities in Samaria.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 2/8/2012, 5:36 PM

Palestinian Authority-controlled Shechem is allocating 300 tractors to plow and claim land in 25 locations near Jewish communities in Samaria, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency.Shechem governor Jibreel al-Bakri said that helping Arab farmers to cultivate the land is an unprecedented action. The PA will provide farmers with fuel for their tractors.The lands include areas the Israeli Defense Forces has declared to be closed military zones, al-Bakri added. We decided to reach these lands…without any exceptions and every acre will be plowed, he added.

The Palestinian Authority in the past decade has taken over thousands of acres of land that is not under any private ownership but which Israel has in effect surrendered by not acting against Arab and international leftist groups who routinely take over farmland that either lay fallow or had been farmed by Jews.The benign neglect policy of Israel has allowed the Palestinian Authority, funded in large part by the European Union, to become a dominant presence in areas of Jewish settlement.European funds are used to pay Arabs to live in new and unregulated communities, many of which begin with only one house and quickly expand into an entire neighborhood.The new Palestinian Authority effort continues a trend blocking against any pioneering efforts by Jews in Judea and Samaria.

Shaath: PA Unity Government Need Not Recognize Israel Fatah official says the PLO, not the PA, recognizes Israel - so what is the problem if Hamas sits in a PA government? By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/8/2012, 1:32 PM

Fatah official Nabil Shaath on Monday said the new the new interim Palestinian Authority government to be headed by Mahmoud Abbas need not recognize Israel.It is the PLO, not the PA, that recognizes Israel,Shaath insisted in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Arabic-language Al Quds. Shaath was attempting to justify forming a unity government with Hamas, which continues to call for Israel's destruction.Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, the PLO was allowed to establish the PA as the administrative organ for its enclaves in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza after Yasser Arafat and Yizchak Rabin exchanged mutual letters of recognition.Nonetheless, Shaath claimed the PA is committed to agreements signed and the ongoing process between the parties,adding that the Quartet must recognize Palestinians in Israel before the establishment of a Palestinian state.However, in December 2011 senior PLO officials said they were seriously considering downgrading all agreements with Israel, including economic and security cooperation.Shaath's statements also run counter to clear conditions set by the Quartet for Middle East Peace - the European Union, Russia, United Nations, and United States - for Hamas to be included in a PA government.Quartet officials have said Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist, formally abandon terrorism and violence, and uphold agreements signed by previous PA governments with Israel and any other entity.Hamas refuses to recognize Israel, continues to call for Israel's destruction while pursuing terrorism as its principle means of resistance against the Jewish state.

In December 2011, Hamas' Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh said, The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]... We won’t relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine! Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday responded to the news that Fatah and Hamas would form a unity government, I say to Abu Mazen [Abbas]: You cannot hold the stick by both ends. It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel; you cannot have it both ways.However, many critics say the government's response to the winds blowing from Ramallah has been sluggish and that officials in Jerusalem have yet to absorb that the tentative Peace Process and Oslo Accords have become a diplomatic non-sequitur.Fatah's decision to form a unity government with Hamas comes on the heel of its own decision in December 2011 to adopt a strategy based on continuous efforts along with the international community to secure full recognition and full United Nations membership, pursuing internal reconciliation, and keeping up the popular resistance.While popular resistance is ostensibly non-violent, it has historically been accompanied with violent riots and waves of terror, and resulted in two so-called Intifadas.In 1993, Arafat wrote to Yitzchak Rabin ...the PLO affirms that those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid. Consequently, the PLO undertakes to submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval the necessary changes in regard to the Palestinian Covenant.However, those changes were never forthcoming. Article 9 of the PLO charter continues to assert, Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This it is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.It also maintains Palestine is defined by the British Mandate and is indivisible – thus leaving little or no room for Israel to exist at all.

Catholics Fight Obama on Contraception in the Workplace-The Obama administration lit a firestorm by compeling Catholic institutions to violate faith and provide contraception in health package.By Amiel Ungar First Publish: 2/8/2012, 11:07 AM

Until now in this US presidential campaign, the cultural issues that were at the forefront of the 2004 campaign were considered irrelevant with everyone focused on the economy. Now that assumption may have to be revised.A firestorm erupted when Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, explained that the preventive medicine envisaged by the compulsory healthcare insurance law also included anti-contraception measures - and employers would have to provide this to employees.The only exemption would be for a religious institution that forbade contraception and whose employees all shared that belief. The institution, for example, a hospital or a university, would have to provide the measures if it employed people outside the faith, even if this was against its religious principles.

It was Stalin who reportedly asked facetiously and somewhat derogatively, How many divisions does the Pope have.The Obama administration may be asking itself the very same question and the answer may be a high number. Catholics were an important part of the victorious 2008 Obama coalition and gave Obama 54 percent of their vote.The announced policy produced a backlash in which priests sent letters to their congregations claiming that the law was unjust and unprecedented. Perhaps the administration had felt that the church had de facto conceded on the contraception issue and would not make an issue of it. Some of the scandals that have rocked the church may have also convinced the administration that it was confronting a wounded and hesitant opponent.The administration soon realized that it had a tiger by the tail, as even liberal Catholics who in the previous election had publicly backed Obama, opposed the ruling as an infringement on freedom of religion.The California Catholic Conference for example called on worshippers to voice their displeasure to the administration as:By its actions, the Administration declares that free contraception is more important than religious freedom -- a value that pre-dates the formation of the United States -- and is so important that is enshrined in our constitution as the First Amendment.

Please tell President Obama that this is unacceptable, unnecessary and inconsistent with his repeated pledge to respect religious freedom in the health care law and other aspects of governance.In the Senate, Marco Rubio quickly introduced a bill to exempt religious institutions. The issue quickly moved to the presidential campaign. Mitt Romney accused the administration of leading an assault on religion -- an assault on the conviction and religious beliefs on members of our society.David Axelrod, a senior Obama strategist, tried to calm things down by promising to tweak the ruling so everybody could live with it and denied that the administration sought to abridge anyone's religious freedom.Republican candidate Rick Santorum pounced on the administration's spin. The Catholic Church has been arguing and negotiating this for a year, and the administration is saying 'it's just a misunderstanding …It's just a bunch of bull. They are folks who are trying to use their power to force people to do things that they believe they should do and are right. They don't care about their religion.The Jewish community was split along Orthodox-liberal lines: The OU said, In declining to expand the religious exemption within the healthcare reform law, the Obama Administration has disappointingly failed to respect the needs of religious organizations such as hospitals, social welfare organizations and more. Agudath Yisrael of America weighed in:The Obama Administration had an opportunity to declare that there is a fundamental American value at stake here — religious freedom — and provide strong and unequivocal protections to religious employers. Instead, it took a step backwards by imposing religiously-objectionable mandates on countless religious entities, and by devising a cramped limitation on what religious groups are and what their public mission in society should be.

WORLD GOVERNMENT
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http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

Freedom Hating Globalists Continue Attack on Constitution and Liberty Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones Infowars.com February 8, 2012

The global elite will not rest until they have revoked the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. Over the last few years, they have engaged in a concerted attack on our founding documents and time-honored ideals. On Tuesday, the New York Times continued this trend with an article on the front page of its print edition.The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber, the New York Times argues.Entitled We the People Lose Appeal With People Around the World, the article by Adam Liptak argues that the Constitution is outdated, inflexible and no longer trendy. It cites an article published in June in The New York University Law Review that explains how America’s Constitution is losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere as statists, bureaucrats and autocrats turn to examples presented by more malleable documents such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and those produced by India, South Africa, New Zealand and the United Nations.The problem, Liptak notes, is that rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber. In other words, the problem with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence is that the rights enumerated there are not open for interpretation and cannot be changed by government.

But what really irks the elite is the idea that government only exists by the consent of the governed and whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,as the Declaration of Independence states. In other words, it is the right of the people to revolt against government – preferably through peaceful means, but by violent revolution if need be, as Thomas Jefferson argued – when it becomes an oppressive tyranny, as it now is.The very idea that the people have the right to abolish government scares the hell out of the ruling elite. The Second Amendment is under persistent attack not because guns are a danger to school children, but because guns and people well trained in their proper use are often required to resist and overthrow government tyranny. Control freaks never surrender power willingly.The establishment is now openly assaulting the Constitution and the very idea of innate and god-given individual rights going back to the Magna Carta, the Habeas Corpus Act, the Petition of Right and English common law. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence encapsulate and enumerate into law liberties that are the birthright of humanity. Government is not required to bestow them as the New York Times would have use believe. We are born with them despite trendiness or the dictates of commissars at the United Nations.Obama has continued unabated the concerted attack on the Constitution initiated under his predecessors. Efforts to undermine the Constitution began in earnest with FDR, although earlier presidents – most notably Lincoln – set important precedents.

Obama’s task is to undermine due process and the separation of powers. From the NDAA to Obamacare and violating the will of Congress and the American people through signing statements and waging illegal wars without declaration or congressional consultation, Obama has amplified and expanded what George Bush and Bill Clinton before him began.Obama’s letter to Congress claiming U.S. military power used with devastating result against the people of Libya was legitimized by the United Nations Security Council represents a watershed moment in the effort to trample the Constitution and transfer authority from the people to autocratic globalists. It is a modern version of the long train of abuses and usurpations mentioned by the founders in the Declaration of Independence.It is up to the American people to prevent the destruction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It probably cannot be accomplished from within the system. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Obama – these are the corrupted minions of globalists who fear the Rights of Man the same as vampires fear sunlight. They will further the destruction of liberty, not impede it and stop the solemn march to slavery and ultimately the destruction of civilization.Ron Paul represented the best chance to restore the Constitution and rebuild our republic. He was plowed under by the establishment and its corporate media propaganda machine. Patriotic Americans must continue at all cost to oppose the efforts of the elite as they work to methodically turn the planet into a slave labor gulag with a high-tech police state control grid overlay. The effort must transcend any particular political candidate and live in the hearts of men and women as they resist tyranny.

Nine EU countries form splinter group on financial tax Today FEB 8,12 @ 09:29 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - A group of nine euro-countries led by France and Germany on Tuesday (7 February) asked the Danish EU presidency to fast-track plans for a financial transactions tax - a move indicating they will forge ahead on their own in the absence of an EU-wide consensus.We strongly believe in the need for a financial transactions tax implemented at European level as a crucial instrument to secure a fair contribution from the financial sector to the costs of the financial crisis and to better regulate European financial markets, the letter says.The nine signatories are the finance ministers of France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Monti, who also holds the finance portfolio.They group asks the Danish presidency to accelerate the analysis and negotiation process" of a proposal by the EU commission to introduce a 0.1 percent tax on stocks and 0.01 percent on trading in derivatives - the larger and riskier financial market held widely responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.

For its part, the Danish EU presidency welcomes the letter and is currently looking into how to accommodate the request at the technical level - meaning a new political discussion among finance ministers - it said in an emailed statement to press.Britain and a handful of other countries fiercely oppose the tax arguing that it will lead to business flight and job losses in their financial sectors, making an EU-wide tax highly unlikely.But the letter signals it could be introduced among fewer countries, with a minimum of nine member states needed to trigger so-called enhanced cooperation - a group of like-minded member states pushing forward on legislation to be joined by others at a later stage.Member states already used the legal option for the EU patent, which was gradually subscribed to by all member states except Spain.Economists in favour of the financial transactions tax say the gradual approach will work.Even national introduction is a positive step. The financial sector played a major role in the 2008 crisis, but it still remains one of the most under-taxed parts of the economy, for instance they pay no VAT,Stephany Griffith-Jones from Colombia University told an EU parliament hearing on Monday.

The British argument that investors will flee once the tax is introduced is incorrect, said Avinash Persaud, a London-based investment consultant, since the government already levies a stamp duty - unilaterally introduced in 1986 - on stocks traded in the City,Forty percent of this levy is paid by foreign residents. So far from sending them abroad, this stamp duty is paid by more foreigners than any other tax, he pointed out.For its part, the EU Commission estimates that over €50 billion could be raised within the bloc if such a tax was introduced.The question we should ask is what is the least growth-unfriendly way of raising €50 billion in Europe. It is a financial transactions tax, not raising the VAT or increasing employment taxes, said Sony Kapoor from Re-Define, a think tank.

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

UK cyber-security expert joins international calls for online regulation Today FEB 8,12 @ 13:28 By Benjamin Fox

BRUSSELS - UK cyber security advisor Pauline Neville-Jones has joined calls by experts for governments to beef up their cyber security networks.In a speech to the Global Strategy Forum, the former defence minister described the UK’s cyber security base as wholly inadequate, adding that governments needed to increase public and business awareness of cyber threats.There is a vast swathe of corporates who have valuable intellectual property, much more valuable than they understand, which is inadequately protected, she said, adding that level of awareness is nothing like it needs to be.Dame Neville Jones speech follows last week’s publication Cyber-security: the vexed question of global rules, by Brussels think-tank Security and Defence Agenda (SDA), featuring country-by-country stress tests on 23 major countries, as well as the United Nations, NATO and the EU, based on methodology devised by former US Defence official Robert Lentz.Echoing the views of Dame Neville-Jones, Evangelos Ouzounis, expert at ENISA, the European agency responsible for information security, also called for the creation of a pan-European curriculum for cyber-security. There’s a big gap between what the market needs and what universities produce….most universities don’t produce cyber-security professionals but computer scientists with little specialisation in security, he said.

According to the report’s authors, who include senior NATO official Jamie Shea, Israel, Finland and Sweden are among the countries most capable of withstanding cyber-attacks to their computer network.Despite this, against the backdrop of fragmented regulatory standards, cyber experts spoke of the need for common rules to regulate online information flows amidst concerns that the world has embarked on an unregulated data revolution.Phyllis Schneck of web security firm McAfee said that industry needed to destroy the profit element (of cyber crime) by improving control over malicious instructions.Swimming pools have chemical filters. Networks and computers need intelligence filters, she added.A popular demand of experts was for an international agreement making countries responsible for their own sovereign cyber-space and for blocking infected computers in their jurisdiction from the Internet.According to Lars Nicander, Director of Cyber-Security at the Swedish National Defence College, Israel, China and Russia are the most consistently offensive countries in cyber-attacks. Indeed, many of the 250 senior security practitioners surveyed called on Western governments to seek a multi-lateral cyber security policy with China and Russia, with BP Director John Meakin saying by incentivising these countries to gradually change, we may gradually reduce the number of attacks.However, there is little scope for international regulation. Indeed, although some, including Hamadoun Toure, Secretary General of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union, want to agree a cyber peace treaty, the SDA report states that there is little agreement between experts and national authorities on terminology, and without that the prospects for regulating cyber-space are poor.Policy on cyber-security is currently handled by Member States, although the EU institutions are working on an inter-institutional cyber emergency response unit. Last November the EU held its first joint cyber exercise with the US and this year will see Member States produce their first annual reports to ENISA on cyber security incidents.

According to Freddy Dezure, who heads up the fledgling unit, the intention is not to create extra regulation but to become the glue, the catalyst to initiate new systems and foster information exchange.However, while worldwide agreement seems unlikely, the Commission wants to address the disparity in online security between Member States. In its e-commerce communication last month, the Commission promised to outline an internet security strategy to increase protection against cyber attacks in 2012.