KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
http://www.facebook.com/Netanyahu
And for us all, Encouragement from Bibi!
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) 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.
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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON NOVEMBER 19,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +146.67
10:30 AM +145.43
11:00 AM +156.71
11:30 AM +155.81
12:00 PM +160.70
12:30 PM +177.25
01:00 PM +166.57
01:30 PM +156.48
02:00 PM +175.82
02:30 PM +170.61
03:00 PM +187.75
03:30 PM +178.20
04:00 PM +207.65 12,795.96
S&P 500 1386.89 +27.01
NASDAQ 2916.07 +62.94
GOLD 1,731.80 +16.90
OIL 89.21 +2.30
TSE 300 12,040.40 +162.68
CDNX 1249.96 +14.62
S&P/TSX/60 688.14 +8.65
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +95 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +160 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,731.50.OIL opens at $88.68 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +207 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +207 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
http://www.facebook.com/Netanyahu
And for us all, Encouragement from Bibi!
I would like to thank all the citizens of Israel and all over the world who are taking part in the national information effort. You are performing a very important job, and I am following your activities.We are engaged on four fronts: The military front, the home front, the diplomatic front and the information front. What you are doing provides us with serious reinforcement on the information front, we have to battle for the truth, the facts and your help is tremendous.
The fact that you are focusing on rebutting the entire falsehood industry, and reaching the audiences that you are getting to is a significant bonus for the State of Israel. Keep up your important work and I can tell you that in the next few days we are going to have major tasks and efforts to perform. All the best and thanks a lot."
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) 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.
EU countries urge Israel not to invade Gaza
Today @ 09:25 By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Two leading EU countries have urged Israel not to launch ground operations in Gaza.
Speaking ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (19 November), the UK's Wiliam Hague told Sky news on Sunday that "a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation."France's Laurent Fabius while on a visit to Tel Aviv also on Sunday told press: "War is not an option. It's never the solution."The EU in a joint statement last week blamed Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, for starting the fighting."The rocket attacks by Hamas and other factions in Gaza which began this current crisis are totally unacceptable," its communique said.But Hague and Fabius took different lines in their public remarks."It is Hamas that bears ... the principle responsibility for starting all of this," Hague said. "Responsibility is shared. There are rockets fired from Gaza and there are extremely deadly attacks against the people of Gaza," Fabius noted.For its part, the UN's office in East Jerusalem says the escalation began when Israel assassinated a senior Hamas commander on 14 November.The US-based NGO Human Rights Watch says it began when Israeli fire killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy on 8 November.With 95 Palestinian and three Israeli deaths so far, the crisis is to dominate the EU ministers' talks, pushing other Middle East issues into the background.Ministers had planned to discuss Palestine's plan to call a UN vote on 29 November on upgrading its status to "observer state."
But Hague said the UN bid is a bad idea in the current context. "I think it would be a mistake for the Palestinians to try at this moment ... because it would be so divisive among all the people whose help they need to get the peace process going," he told Sky.Palestine's draft UN resolution has some sympathy in Brussels, however.One senior EU contact told EUobserver the text is "mild" because it does not call for countries which do not recognise Palestinian sovereignty to do so and does not call on Israel to take back the millions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. At the same time, it givs a nod to UN resolution 181, which describes Israel as a "Jewish state."Ministers had also planned to take note of an EU report on Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.Giving a broader context to the decades-old enmity between the two sides, the report says the Israeli army does little to protect Palestinian victims.It urges individual EU countries to consider travel bans on settler extremists, an EU source noted.
Foreign ministers will also look at developments in Mali, Syria and Ukraine. But decisions on the three dossiers are to be left for later.There is no EU consensus on recognising the newly-formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate government of Syria despite the fact France took the step last week.Detailed plans on how many troops and what kind of financial or intelligence support to give to Mali to reconquer its northern provinces from Toureg and Islamist warlords are due in December.Ministers will also wait until next month to decide what to do with an EU-Ukraine political and trade agreement following flawed elections in the EU neighbour.
Speaking ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (19 November), the UK's Wiliam Hague told Sky news on Sunday that "a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation."France's Laurent Fabius while on a visit to Tel Aviv also on Sunday told press: "War is not an option. It's never the solution."The EU in a joint statement last week blamed Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, for starting the fighting."The rocket attacks by Hamas and other factions in Gaza which began this current crisis are totally unacceptable," its communique said.But Hague and Fabius took different lines in their public remarks."It is Hamas that bears ... the principle responsibility for starting all of this," Hague said. "Responsibility is shared. There are rockets fired from Gaza and there are extremely deadly attacks against the people of Gaza," Fabius noted.For its part, the UN's office in East Jerusalem says the escalation began when Israel assassinated a senior Hamas commander on 14 November.The US-based NGO Human Rights Watch says it began when Israeli fire killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy on 8 November.With 95 Palestinian and three Israeli deaths so far, the crisis is to dominate the EU ministers' talks, pushing other Middle East issues into the background.Ministers had planned to discuss Palestine's plan to call a UN vote on 29 November on upgrading its status to "observer state."
But Hague said the UN bid is a bad idea in the current context. "I think it would be a mistake for the Palestinians to try at this moment ... because it would be so divisive among all the people whose help they need to get the peace process going," he told Sky.Palestine's draft UN resolution has some sympathy in Brussels, however.One senior EU contact told EUobserver the text is "mild" because it does not call for countries which do not recognise Palestinian sovereignty to do so and does not call on Israel to take back the millions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. At the same time, it givs a nod to UN resolution 181, which describes Israel as a "Jewish state."Ministers had also planned to take note of an EU report on Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.Giving a broader context to the decades-old enmity between the two sides, the report says the Israeli army does little to protect Palestinian victims.It urges individual EU countries to consider travel bans on settler extremists, an EU source noted.
Foreign ministers will also look at developments in Mali, Syria and Ukraine. But decisions on the three dossiers are to be left for later.There is no EU consensus on recognising the newly-formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate government of Syria despite the fact France took the step last week.Detailed plans on how many troops and what kind of financial or intelligence support to give to Mali to reconquer its northern provinces from Toureg and Islamist warlords are due in December.Ministers will also wait until next month to decide what to do with an EU-Ukraine political and trade agreement following flawed elections in the EU neighbour.
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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON NOVEMBER 19,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +146.67
10:30 AM +145.43
11:00 AM +156.71
11:30 AM +155.81
12:00 PM +160.70
12:30 PM +177.25
01:00 PM +166.57
01:30 PM +156.48
02:00 PM +175.82
02:30 PM +170.61
03:00 PM +187.75
03:30 PM +178.20
04:00 PM +207.65 12,795.96
S&P 500 1386.89 +27.01
NASDAQ 2916.07 +62.94
GOLD 1,731.80 +16.90
OIL 89.21 +2.30
TSE 300 12,040.40 +162.68
CDNX 1249.96 +14.62
S&P/TSX/60 688.14 +8.65
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +95 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +160 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,731.50.OIL opens at $88.68 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +207 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +207 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
Van Rompuy: financial tax to form part of EU budget
16.11.12 @ 10:26 By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The much vaunted EU
financial transaction tax (FTT) is set to be hard-wired into the EU
budget, with most of its revenue going directly to the EU.A paper prepared by EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and sent
to European capitals ahead of next week's EU budget summit, where
leaders aim to agree a mandate on the budget framework for 2014-2020,
would deduct FTT revenues from national contributions to the annual EU
pot.Van Rompuy put forward his ideas after private talks with EU countries' budget sherpas over the past 10 days.He has proposed a cut of €75 billion in commitments from the text put
forward by the European Commission, leaving total commitments at €973
billion - a €20 billion reduction on the €993 billion agreed for the
2007-2013 period.The European Commission had tabled an initial proposal for an EU FTT to apply to the eurozone in autumn 2011.The initiative stalled following opposition from a handful of countries.But in October, the EU executive agreed to demands by 11 states, led
by Germany and France, to re-table an FTT bill using the "enhanced
co-operation procedure."This rule allows a group of countries within the EU to adopt
legislation between themselves without affecting the rest of Europe.Under Van Rompuy's plan, two thirds of FTT revenues from each country
would be transferred to the EU budget, with the national contributions
made by member states reduced accordingly.Countries not using the FTT would not be affected by the change.While the Van Rompuy paper does not spell out precise figures on the
revenue expected to be generated by an FTT, the impact assessment to the
Commission's original proposal estimated annual revenue of €57 billion
coming from levies of 0.1 percent on bond trading and 0.01 percent on
derivatives trading.The EU budgets between 2014 and 2020 are expected to be worth around €140 billion a year on average.Although just 11 countries have to date confirmed that they will use
an FTT, with the new Dutch government currently weighing up its options,
other EU countries can still block the legislation if they wish.None has indicated that they will do so.The European Parliament, which has campaigned concertedly for an EU
FTT since the start of the 2009-2014 legislature, can only give a
non-binding opinion on the bill.The Van Rompuy paper, which will form the reference point for talks
on 22 and 23 November, attempts a fine balance among member states - who
are divided on whether to cut overall spending and on policy priorities
- and for the European Parliament, which can veto the budget.EU diplomatic sources voiced hope that the proposal would be welcomed
by MEPs, with one official commenting that "changing the system on own
resources is big for the parliament."In a resolution adopted at the October Strasbourg session, MEPs said
that an FTT and a new EU VAT levy could reduce direct GNI-based
contributions to the EU budget to 40 percent by 2020.
Five EU countries call for new military 'structure'
16.11.12 @ 09:26 By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Five leading EU countries,
but not the UK, have said the Union needs a new military "structure" to
manage overseas operations.The foreign and defence ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain issued the call in a joint communique after a meeting in Paris on Thursday (15 November).
The paper says: "We are convinced that the EU must set up, within a framework yet to-be-defined, true civilian-military structures to plan and conduct missions and operations."It adds: "We should show preparedness to hold available, train, deploy and sustain in theatre the necessary civilian and military means."
It lists a number of EU military priorities for the coming years: helping Somalia to fight Islamists and pirates; "a possible training mission to support the Malian armed forces" in reconquering north Mali; "assistance to support the new Libyan authorities" against Islamist militias; "normalisation" of the Western Balkans; "conflict resolution" in Georgia; and police training in Afghanistan.The communique also calls for more "pooling and sharing" of EU defence hardware in the context of crisis-related budget cuts.It identifies "space, ballistic-missile defence, drones, air-to-air refuelling, airlift capacities, medical support to operations [and] software defined radio" as pooling areas.The reference to new "civilian-military structures" comes after the UK last year blocked the creation of a new operational headquarters (OHQ) in Brussels for EU military missions.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper earlier this week cited a "senior French source" as saying that EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton supports the idea of an OHQ, which will become a "ripe fruit" in the "long-term" as EU military operations multiply.Ashton officials denied the report.Meanwhile, the UK's role in future EU defence co-operation was a big topic at the Paris meeting.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said the UK can join the group-of-five at any time: "The text which we have developed is open to all of our colleagues, especially Great Britain."French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the communique is designed to "create a movement" ahead of an EU summit on defence in 2013.For his part, Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: "If the EU wants to become a superpower, and Poland supports this, then we must have the capability to exert influence in our neighbourhood ... Sometimes we must use force to back our diplomacy."He called for an "ambitious" EU budget for 2014 to 2020 to help with defence co-ordination.
Speaking in a separate interview in UK newspaper The Times also on Thursday, Sikorski blamed British "nostalgia" for past greatness as a reason why it is pulling back from EU integration and why it wants to cut the EU budget.He touched on historic sensitivities by describing EU spending as a kind of "Marshall plan."
He said Poland and other former-Soviet-controlled EU countries missed out on the plan - a massive injection of US money to rebuild Europe after World War II - because UK and US leaders at a summit in Yalta in 1945 gave the Soviet Union control of eastern Europe."We fought Hitler alone, giving you [the UK] valuable time to prepare for fighting. But we did not enjoy freedom after World War II ... Because of Yalta, we could not benefit [from the Marshall plan]. European cohesion funds are our Marshall plan for catching up with Europe," he noted.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/all-eyes-on-cairo-ahead-of-gaza-ground-incursion/
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)
IF ISRAEL STOPS THE ATTACKS NOW.THE ARAB / MUSLIMS WILL CALL THEM LOSERS AND JUST CONTINUE CALLING FOR ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL HAS TO FINISH OFF HAMAS AND THE PALESTINIAN ARABS THIS TIME.ISRAEL HAS TO KILL EVERY TERRORIST IN GAZA AND THEN TAKE OVER THE HAMAS GOVERNMENT .ISRAEL HAS TO INSTALL ISRAELI LEADERS OVER GAZA.AND IF THE ARABS THAT LIVE IN GAZA REFUSE TO OBEY THE ISRAELI LEADERS.THEN ALL THE ARABS THAT REBEL WOULD BE FORCED TO LIVE IN EGYPT OR SOME OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY.IF THERE IS A CEASEFIRE,ISRAEL HAS TO INSIST THAT IF THE ARABS BREAK THE CEASEFIRE.THEN ISRAEL GOES ALL OUT AFTER GAZA AND TAKES IT OVER FULLY.AND IN THE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT (WHICH NO ARAB / MUSLIM) WILL EVER KEEP.IF ISLAM BREAKS THE CEASEFIRE THEN ALL THE REBELLERS AGAINST ISRAELS TAKEOVER FROM GAZA WILL BE FORCED TO GO TO EGYPT.AND EGYPT CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT MUSLIM COUNTRY THE ARABS GO TO.IF THIS IS NOT IN THE CEASEFIRE.ISRAEL MUST JUST CONTINUE WITH THE BOMBINGS TILL MOST OF THE ARABS FLEE GAZA FROM THE WAR AND ISRAEL RECAPTURES SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND PROMISED THEM BY GOD.SINCE GAZA IS ISRAELS PROMISED LAND AND THE WEST BANK TO.ISRAEL WILL SOME TIME GET ALL THAT LAND BACK FROM THE ARABS IN THE FUTURE.WE KNOW FOR SURE.
By David Lev First Publish: 11/19/2012, 3:47 PM-INN
Tens of thousands of army reservists are waiting for orders to move
into Gaza. A poll shows 84% of Israelis support Pillar of Defense. A
ground incursion apparently awaits the outcome of efforts for a truce.
A Dialogue survey carried out for the Haaretz newspaper revealed that 39% of respondents support a continuation of aerial attacks and 30% want a ground offensive. Only 19%% said they want a quick ceasefire.More than half of the respondents are satisfied with the performance of both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the week-old counterterrorist campaign.
The country has mobilized to come to the aid of reservists, many of whom were called up after the Sabbath began last Friday night, recalling a similar situation at the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Jewish law not only allows but also requires taking actions that normally are prohibited on the Sabbath in order to save lives.Several reservists, including fathers with several children, were told before the Sabbath to carry their cell phones in the case of a call-up, which was issued after the Sabbath began.Many synagogues began to empty as reservists rushed home to gather essentials before traveling, sometime taking their own cars.On-duty soldiers called their families to send supplies to friends who were stranded. One reservist from Ashkelon told Arutz Sheva that the parents of “a friend of a friend” surprised him with a personal visit adjacent to the community and gave him sheets, blankets and snacks.Many reservists replaced regular soldiers on patrols to free them for action in Gaza, if the IDF gives the go-ahead.Dozens of armored vehicles and tanks were seen on transports from the Golan Heights, along the Syrian border, to Gaza.Thousands of reservists swarmed into convenience stores on the way to their bases to stock up on goods.
The Israeli army on Monday took over programming at a Gaza-based Hamas television station "to broadcast warnings” on the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense.Al-Aqsa television, the official station of Gaza's Hamas regime, said
in a statement the Israeli army "is interfering with Al-Aqsa TV," with
the picture going on and off for several hours and sometimes appearing
scrambled, according to AFP."We took over the Hamas television to broadcast warnings," a military spokeswoman said, indicating the takeover would probably last for a number of hours.She told Arutz Sheva that AFP journalists' claims that “they could see no warning being sent out by the army” were incorrect.On Sunday, the army took over Hamas radio broadcasts in Gaza for several hours.The IDF on Sunday bombed an antenna used
by Hamas. The surgical strike atop the 15-story building caused minimal
damage, as seen in an IDF video, but Hamas has claimed that eight
journalists were wounded in the operation.Mainstream media have reported the claim without verification.
The IDF later called on "international journalists... to stay clear of Hamas's bases and facilities, which serve them in their activity against the citizens of Israel."
The paper says: "We are convinced that the EU must set up, within a framework yet to-be-defined, true civilian-military structures to plan and conduct missions and operations."It adds: "We should show preparedness to hold available, train, deploy and sustain in theatre the necessary civilian and military means."
It lists a number of EU military priorities for the coming years: helping Somalia to fight Islamists and pirates; "a possible training mission to support the Malian armed forces" in reconquering north Mali; "assistance to support the new Libyan authorities" against Islamist militias; "normalisation" of the Western Balkans; "conflict resolution" in Georgia; and police training in Afghanistan.The communique also calls for more "pooling and sharing" of EU defence hardware in the context of crisis-related budget cuts.It identifies "space, ballistic-missile defence, drones, air-to-air refuelling, airlift capacities, medical support to operations [and] software defined radio" as pooling areas.The reference to new "civilian-military structures" comes after the UK last year blocked the creation of a new operational headquarters (OHQ) in Brussels for EU military missions.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper earlier this week cited a "senior French source" as saying that EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton supports the idea of an OHQ, which will become a "ripe fruit" in the "long-term" as EU military operations multiply.Ashton officials denied the report.Meanwhile, the UK's role in future EU defence co-operation was a big topic at the Paris meeting.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said the UK can join the group-of-five at any time: "The text which we have developed is open to all of our colleagues, especially Great Britain."French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the communique is designed to "create a movement" ahead of an EU summit on defence in 2013.For his part, Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: "If the EU wants to become a superpower, and Poland supports this, then we must have the capability to exert influence in our neighbourhood ... Sometimes we must use force to back our diplomacy."He called for an "ambitious" EU budget for 2014 to 2020 to help with defence co-ordination.
Speaking in a separate interview in UK newspaper The Times also on Thursday, Sikorski blamed British "nostalgia" for past greatness as a reason why it is pulling back from EU integration and why it wants to cut the EU budget.He touched on historic sensitivities by describing EU spending as a kind of "Marshall plan."
He said Poland and other former-Soviet-controlled EU countries missed out on the plan - a massive injection of US money to rebuild Europe after World War II - because UK and US leaders at a summit in Yalta in 1945 gave the Soviet Union control of eastern Europe."We fought Hitler alone, giving you [the UK] valuable time to prepare for fighting. But we did not enjoy freedom after World War II ... Because of Yalta, we could not benefit [from the Marshall plan]. European cohesion funds are our Marshall plan for catching up with Europe," he noted.
International pressure for ceasefire grows, as Palestinian death toll rises
Western leaders make plain their opposition to ground offensive; China condemns Israel’s ‘over-use of force causing deaths and injuries amongst innocent ordinary people’
November 19, 2012, 1:33 pm
3-The Times of Israel
As the number of Palestinian
civilians killed in Israeli air strikes increased from Sunday to Monday,
so did international pressure on Jerusalem to restrain its Gaza
offensive and intensify efforts to find a ceasefire.
While Israeli government officials say the
international community generally recognizes that Hamas is responsible
for the current crisis and supports Israel’s right to defend herself,
world leaders and the international press are growing increasingly
impatient, with Western leaders heading to Israel to encourage a
ceasefire and governments calling on Jerusalem to refrain from
escalating the situation.By midday Monday, the Palestinian death toll
had climbed up to 84, and the IDF continued to prepare for a ground
operation in Gaza. According to unconfirmed reports, about half the
casualties were civilians, many of them women and children. The death
toll in Israel was three, with dozens of people injured; Hamas rocket
fire into Israel continued, with a direct hit on an (empty) Ashkelon
school, and much of the south confined to safe areas.
“I am deeply saddened by the reported deaths
of more than 10 members of the Dalu family, including women and
children, and additional Palestinian civilians killed as a result of the
ongoing violence in the Gaza strip,” said United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday in New York, as he headed to the
Middle East.Ban also said he was “alarmed by the continuing firing of rockets against Israeli towns.”“This must stop,” he said, urging both parties
to cooperate with Egyptian-led efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire.
“Any further escalation will inevitably increase the suffering of the
affected civilian populations and must be avoided.”The EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton
called for “a solution that brings security to the region” and said she
was “very concerned for the rising death toll on both sides… I have
always been and remain in contact with the Israeli Prime Minister, with
the Arab League and with the Arab Countries. It is necessary to find a
long-term solution for Gaza: I was there three times; we must find a way
of preventing rocket strikes and guarantee peace and security to the
people in that area.”The IDF is currently investigating
the deaths of members of the Dalu family, which might have been the
result of a mistake during an attempt to kill Hamas’s rocket chief Yihya
Abiya on Sunday. No official statement had been released as of Monday
noon.A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry on
Monday said that Beijing is “extremely concerned about Israel’s
continued large-scale military operations towards the Gaza Strip,” according to Reuters.
“We condemn the over-use of force causing deaths and injuries amongst
innocent ordinary people,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during a daily
news briefing.“We strongly urge relevant parties, especially
Israel, to maintain maximum restraint and ceasefire as soon as
possible, to avoid any actions which may exacerbate the situation or
raise tensions,” she said.A spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Ministry made similar statements, saying the government was “deeply concerned at the steep escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine.”But Israeli officials insisted that such statements do not constitute real pressure on Israel to change its course.“It’s not that they are sending someone over
to intervene, or are calling for an urgent meeting of the Security
Council, or suggesting anything concrete,” an Israeli official told The
Times of Israel. “They just issued statements. These are unpleasant
statements that are certainly disappointing, given the overall good
relations we have with China and India. In light of our good strategic
and cultural cooperation, you’d expect also a change of tone in
statements on foreign policy. But there’s no pressure.”‘If Eli Yishai wanted to contribute to Israel’s hasbara efforts, he has done the exact opposite’Israel has also come under fire by some
critics for comments made by Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who said that
Operation Pillar of Defense’s goal is “to send Gaza back to the Middle
Ages.” During a television interview on Sunday, the Shas political
leader said that Israel did not seek to harm innocent bystanders but
that the offensive should “wreak havoc and heavy destruction” on
terrorist infrastructure in Gaza.“If Eli Yishai wanted to contribute to
Israel’s hasbara (public diplomacy) efforts, he has done the exact
opposite,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor told The Times of
Israel. The minister’s statements do not only have a “dismal impact on
Israel’s good image in the world” but on the way Israelis themselves see
their government, Palmor added.German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was
expected to arrive in Israel on Monday, to meet with Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman and President Shimon Peres. He is set to meet with
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday.
Westerwelle so far been supportive of Israel’s operation but is also
expected to urge Israel for restraint and to further efforts to achieve a
ceasefire.“It is obvious that Israel has the right to
confront the violence of Hamas rockets and to protect its people.
Israel’s government is acting in order to protect its citizens. The
trigger of this spiral of violence are Hamas’s rockets,”Westerwelle
wrote Sunday in an op-ed in Bild, Germany’s largest daily. “But what’s
also obvious is that the situation is extremely dangerous. The entire
region risks to be drawn into an escalation. Everyone needs to be aware
of their responsibility.”Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair met with Peres on Monday.
On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius met with Netanyahu, Peres, Liberman and Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, urging both sides to end the hostilities.France is interested in “preventing a war in the long run, and bringing about a ceasefire in the short run,” Fabius said.British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who
was one of the first Western leaders to back Operation Pillar of
Defense, on Sunday advised Israel against sending ground troops into
Gaza, saying such a move would protract the conflict and erode
international support for Israel.“It’s much more difficult to restrict and
avoid civilian casualties during a ground invasion and a large ground
operation would threaten to prolong the conflict,” Hague told Sky News.
“A ground invasion is much more difficult for the international
community to sympathize with or support — including the United Kingdom.”US President Barack Obama likewise said that
it would be “preferable” if a solution to the conflict could be found
“without a ramping-up of military activity in Gaza.” At a press
conference in Bangkok, he said he had told Arab leaders that Israel has
every right not have missiles fired into its territory. “If that can be
accomplished without a ramping-up of military activity in Gaza, that’s
preferable; that’s not just preferable for the people of Gaza, it’s also
preferable for Israelis — because if Israeli troops are in Gaza,
they’re much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded,” he
said.
Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon rejected
statements by foreign leaders advising Israel against launching a ground
operation into Gaza, saying that Jerusalem would not determine how to
best defend citizens’ lives based on the opinion of foreign leaders.“We expect our allies to support us [when we]
use all tools available in order to defend our people. To say the least,
we don’t like these kinds of reservations,” Ya’alon told foreign reporters on Sunday in Jerusalem.
“Regarding a ground operation, we feel like we should have the freedom
of operation in order to be able to defend our country without any
reservations. But we don’t think we are under pressure.”Speaking to The Times of Israel on Monday
morning, a government official said that there were no signs Western
support for Operation Pillar of Defense was waning in the wake of news
of Palestinian casualties.Western media outlets, however, highlighted
the deaths and destruction in Gaza. While in the initial phase of
Israel’s offensive, coverage largely seemed balanced and keen on portraying both sides of the conflict, Monday’s papers mainly focused on Palestinian casualties.The lead story on the front page of The
International Herald Tribune, for example, was headlined “Heavy civilian
toll from Israeli strikes.”
The strike that apparently killed the Dalu family in Gaza City’s Sheikh-Redwan neighborhood was widely reported.
“In the Israeli strike on Sunday morning, it
took emergency workers and a Caterpillar digger more than an hour to
reveal the extent of the devastation under the two-story home of Jamal
Dalu, a shop owner,” The New York Times reported.
“Mr. Dalu was at a neighbor’s when the blast wiped out nearly his
entire family: His sister, wife, two daughters, daughter-in-law and four
grandchildren ages 2 to 6 all perished under the rubble, along with two
neighbors, an 18-year-old and his grandmother.”The French Le Monde newspaper also focused on the Palestinian casualties.“Since the Israeli offensive ‘Pillar of
Defense’ started in Gaza on Wednesday with the assassination of the head
of Hamas’s military operations, Ahmad Jabari, 90 people were killed: 87
Palestinians, half of them civilians, and three Israeli civilians,” the
paper writes. “Sunday was the deadliest day with 31 Palestinians
killed, mostly women and children.”The paper went on to quote a Hamas spokesperson vowing that Sunday’s “massacre” would not go unpunished.The website of the London-based Guardian
newspaper headlined its main article on the conflict on Monday morning,
“Israeli air strikes inflict bitter toll on Gaza children.”Reporting from Gaza, the paper’s Harriet Sherwood described unsettling scenes from the local Shifa hospital:
“The bodies of four young children lay on two metal trays in the
morgue, covered in dust and blood. A crowd of onlookers outside became
increasingly distressed as the body of the children’s mother was wheeled
in, covered in blankets.”http://www.timesofisrael.com/all-eyes-on-cairo-ahead-of-gaza-ground-incursion/
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)
IF ISRAEL STOPS THE ATTACKS NOW.THE ARAB / MUSLIMS WILL CALL THEM LOSERS AND JUST CONTINUE CALLING FOR ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL HAS TO FINISH OFF HAMAS AND THE PALESTINIAN ARABS THIS TIME.ISRAEL HAS TO KILL EVERY TERRORIST IN GAZA AND THEN TAKE OVER THE HAMAS GOVERNMENT .ISRAEL HAS TO INSTALL ISRAELI LEADERS OVER GAZA.AND IF THE ARABS THAT LIVE IN GAZA REFUSE TO OBEY THE ISRAELI LEADERS.THEN ALL THE ARABS THAT REBEL WOULD BE FORCED TO LIVE IN EGYPT OR SOME OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY.IF THERE IS A CEASEFIRE,ISRAEL HAS TO INSIST THAT IF THE ARABS BREAK THE CEASEFIRE.THEN ISRAEL GOES ALL OUT AFTER GAZA AND TAKES IT OVER FULLY.AND IN THE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT (WHICH NO ARAB / MUSLIM) WILL EVER KEEP.IF ISLAM BREAKS THE CEASEFIRE THEN ALL THE REBELLERS AGAINST ISRAELS TAKEOVER FROM GAZA WILL BE FORCED TO GO TO EGYPT.AND EGYPT CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT MUSLIM COUNTRY THE ARABS GO TO.IF THIS IS NOT IN THE CEASEFIRE.ISRAEL MUST JUST CONTINUE WITH THE BOMBINGS TILL MOST OF THE ARABS FLEE GAZA FROM THE WAR AND ISRAEL RECAPTURES SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND PROMISED THEM BY GOD.SINCE GAZA IS ISRAELS PROMISED LAND AND THE WEST BANK TO.ISRAEL WILL SOME TIME GET ALL THAT LAND BACK FROM THE ARABS IN THE FUTURE.WE KNOW FOR SURE.
Israel says prefers diplomacy over Gaza invasion option
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller | Reuters – 1 hr 46 mins ago NOV 19,12
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel bombed dozens of targets in Gaza
on Monday and said that while it was prepared to step up its offensive
by sending in troops, it preferred a diplomatic solution that would end
Palestinian rocket fire from the enclave.As international pressure mounted for a truce, mediator Egypt said a deal to end the fighting could be close.Twelve Palestinian civilians
and four fighters were killed in the air strikes, bringing the Gaza
death toll since fighting began on Wednesday to 90, more than half of
them non-combatants, local officials said. Three Israeli civilians have
been killed.After an overnight lull, militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip fired 45 rockets at southern Israel, causing no casualties, police said. One damaged a school, but it was closed at the time.The deaths of 11 Palestinian civilians - nine from one
family - in an air strike on Sunday - drew more international calls for
an end to six days of hostilities and could test Western support for an
offensive Israel billed as self-defense after years of cross-border
rocket attacks.
Israel's military did not immediately comment on a report in the liberal Haaretz newspaper that it had mistakenly fired on the Dalu family home, where the dead spanned four generations, while trying to kill a Hamas rocketry chief.Echoes of explosions in Gaza mixed with cries of grief and defiant chants of "God is greatest" at the funeral of the four children and five women killed in the attack that flattened the three-storey house. Their bodies were wrapped in Palestinian and Hamas flags and thousands turned out to mourn them.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to arrive in Cairo to weigh in on ceasefire efforts led by Egypt, which borders both Israel and Gaza and whose Muslim Brotherhood-rooted government has been hosting leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed faction in the Palestinian enclave.
Israeli media said a delegation from Israel had also been to Cairo for the truce talks. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government declined comment on the matter."Israel is prepared and has taken steps, and is ready for a ground incursion which will deal severely with the Hamas military machine," a senior official close to Netanyahu told Reuters.But he added: "We would prefer to see a diplomatic solution that would guarantee the peace for Israel's population in the south. If that is possible, then a ground operation would no longer be required. If diplomacy fails, we may well have no alternative but to send in ground forces."The official's language echoed that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who said on Sunday it would be "preferable" to avoid a move into Gaza. Obama also said Israel had a right to self-defense and no country would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens.Egyptian negotiators could be close to achieving a deal between Israel and the Palestinians to stop the fighting could be close, the Egyptian prime minister said.
"I think we are close, but the nature of this kind of negotiation, (means) it is very difficult to predict," Hisham Kandil said in an interview in Cairo for the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit.Egypt's foreign minister is expected to visit Gaza on Tuesday with a delegation of Arab ministers to express solidarity with the Palestinians.In scenes recalling Israel's 2008-2009 winter invasion of Gaza, tanks, artillery and infantry have massed in field encampments along the sandy, fenced-off Gaza border and military convoys moved on roads in the area.Israel has also authorized the call-up of 75,000 military reservists, so far mobilizing around half that number.
WORLD CONCERN
The Gaza fighting has stoked the worries of world powers watching an already combustible region.
In the absence of any prospect of permanent peace between Israel and Hamas and other Islamist factions, mediated deals for each to hold fire unilaterally have been the only formula for stemming bloodshed in the past. But both sides now placed the onus on the other.Izzat Risheq, aide to Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal, wrote on Facebook that Hamas would enter a truce only after Israel "stops its aggression, ends its policy of targeted assassinations and lifts the blockade of Gaza".Listing Israel's terms, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon wrote on Twitter: "If there is quiet in the south and no rockets and missiles are fired at Israel's citizens, nor terrorist attacks engineered from the Gaza Strip, we will not attack."Yaalon also said Israel wanted an end to Gaza guerrilla activity in the neighboring Egyptian Sinai, a desert peninsula where lawlessness has spread during Cairo's political crises.Israel bombed some 80 sites in Gaza overnight, the military said, adding in a statement that targets included "underground rocket launching sites, terror tunnels and training bases" as well as "buildings owned by senior terrorist operatives".Netanyahu has said he had assured world leaders that Israel was doing its utmost to avoid causing civilian casualties in Gaza. At least 22 of the Gaza fatalities have been children, medical officials said.Before leaving for Cairo, Ban urged Israel and the Palestinians to cooperate with all Egyptian-led efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire.But a big rocket strike might be enough for Netanyahu to give a green light for a Gaza invasion, despite the political risks of heavy casualties before a January election he is favored to win.Although 84 percent of Israelis supported the current Gaza assault, according to a Haaretz poll, only 30 percent wanted an invasion. Nineteen percent wanted their government to work on securing a truce soon.Israel's declared goal is to deplete Gaza arsenals and force Hamas to stop rocket fire that has bedevilled Israeli border towns for years.The rockets now have greater range, becoming a strategic weapon for Gaza's otherwise massively outgunned militants. Several projectiles have targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. None hit the two cities and some of the rockets were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor system.As a precaution against the rocket interceptions endangering nearby Ben-Gurion International Airport, civil aviation authorities said on Monday new flight paths were being used.There was no indication takeoffs and landings at Ben-Gurion had been affected.Hamas and other groups in Gaza are sworn enemies of the Jewish state which they refuse to recognize and seek to eradicate, claiming all Israeli territory as rightfully theirs.Hamas won legislative elections in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 but a year later, after the collapse of a unity government under President Mahmoud Abbas the Islamist group seized control of Gaza in a brief and bloody civil war with forces loyal to Abbas.
Israel's military did not immediately comment on a report in the liberal Haaretz newspaper that it had mistakenly fired on the Dalu family home, where the dead spanned four generations, while trying to kill a Hamas rocketry chief.Echoes of explosions in Gaza mixed with cries of grief and defiant chants of "God is greatest" at the funeral of the four children and five women killed in the attack that flattened the three-storey house. Their bodies were wrapped in Palestinian and Hamas flags and thousands turned out to mourn them.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to arrive in Cairo to weigh in on ceasefire efforts led by Egypt, which borders both Israel and Gaza and whose Muslim Brotherhood-rooted government has been hosting leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed faction in the Palestinian enclave.
Israeli media said a delegation from Israel had also been to Cairo for the truce talks. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government declined comment on the matter."Israel is prepared and has taken steps, and is ready for a ground incursion which will deal severely with the Hamas military machine," a senior official close to Netanyahu told Reuters.But he added: "We would prefer to see a diplomatic solution that would guarantee the peace for Israel's population in the south. If that is possible, then a ground operation would no longer be required. If diplomacy fails, we may well have no alternative but to send in ground forces."The official's language echoed that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who said on Sunday it would be "preferable" to avoid a move into Gaza. Obama also said Israel had a right to self-defense and no country would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens.Egyptian negotiators could be close to achieving a deal between Israel and the Palestinians to stop the fighting could be close, the Egyptian prime minister said.
"I think we are close, but the nature of this kind of negotiation, (means) it is very difficult to predict," Hisham Kandil said in an interview in Cairo for the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit.Egypt's foreign minister is expected to visit Gaza on Tuesday with a delegation of Arab ministers to express solidarity with the Palestinians.In scenes recalling Israel's 2008-2009 winter invasion of Gaza, tanks, artillery and infantry have massed in field encampments along the sandy, fenced-off Gaza border and military convoys moved on roads in the area.Israel has also authorized the call-up of 75,000 military reservists, so far mobilizing around half that number.
WORLD CONCERN
The Gaza fighting has stoked the worries of world powers watching an already combustible region.
In the absence of any prospect of permanent peace between Israel and Hamas and other Islamist factions, mediated deals for each to hold fire unilaterally have been the only formula for stemming bloodshed in the past. But both sides now placed the onus on the other.Izzat Risheq, aide to Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal, wrote on Facebook that Hamas would enter a truce only after Israel "stops its aggression, ends its policy of targeted assassinations and lifts the blockade of Gaza".Listing Israel's terms, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon wrote on Twitter: "If there is quiet in the south and no rockets and missiles are fired at Israel's citizens, nor terrorist attacks engineered from the Gaza Strip, we will not attack."Yaalon also said Israel wanted an end to Gaza guerrilla activity in the neighboring Egyptian Sinai, a desert peninsula where lawlessness has spread during Cairo's political crises.Israel bombed some 80 sites in Gaza overnight, the military said, adding in a statement that targets included "underground rocket launching sites, terror tunnels and training bases" as well as "buildings owned by senior terrorist operatives".Netanyahu has said he had assured world leaders that Israel was doing its utmost to avoid causing civilian casualties in Gaza. At least 22 of the Gaza fatalities have been children, medical officials said.Before leaving for Cairo, Ban urged Israel and the Palestinians to cooperate with all Egyptian-led efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire.But a big rocket strike might be enough for Netanyahu to give a green light for a Gaza invasion, despite the political risks of heavy casualties before a January election he is favored to win.Although 84 percent of Israelis supported the current Gaza assault, according to a Haaretz poll, only 30 percent wanted an invasion. Nineteen percent wanted their government to work on securing a truce soon.Israel's declared goal is to deplete Gaza arsenals and force Hamas to stop rocket fire that has bedevilled Israeli border towns for years.The rockets now have greater range, becoming a strategic weapon for Gaza's otherwise massively outgunned militants. Several projectiles have targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. None hit the two cities and some of the rockets were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor system.As a precaution against the rocket interceptions endangering nearby Ben-Gurion International Airport, civil aviation authorities said on Monday new flight paths were being used.There was no indication takeoffs and landings at Ben-Gurion had been affected.Hamas and other groups in Gaza are sworn enemies of the Jewish state which they refuse to recognize and seek to eradicate, claiming all Israeli territory as rightfully theirs.Hamas won legislative elections in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 but a year later, after the collapse of a unity government under President Mahmoud Abbas the Islamist group seized control of Gaza in a brief and bloody civil war with forces loyal to Abbas.
PA Arabs Show Their Support for Hamas – By Attacking Israelis
Arabs in Judea and Samaria have begun to show their solidarity with their fellow Arabs – by throwing stones
Vehicle damaged by rock attack-Binyamin Residents' Council
As Operation Pillar of Defense continues with mounting losses for
Gaza Arab terrorists, Arabs in Judea and Samaria have begun to show
their solidarity with their fellow Arabs – by rioting and throwing
stones and other objects at Israeli cars driving on the roads. A large number of Israeli drivers have reported being targeted in the past several days.Among the victims of stone throwing
attacks in recent days was Moti Hominer, a resident of Ateret in the
Binyamin region, whose vehicle was attacked by a mob of stone-throwing
Arabs as he returned from Petach Tikvah last Friday. Speaking to Arutz
Sheva, Hominer said that he saw a number of Arab youths sitting on a
hill by the side of the road, and he realized he was going to be
attacked. There was damage to the vehicle as the youths lobbed large
stones aimed at the driver's side window, but he was uninjured.When asked what he did when he realized
that he was going to be attacked, Hominer said he prepared himself
psychologically to barrel through the rock barrage, but that what he did
was not necessarily what everyone could or should do in that situation.
“How a driver reacts is really dictated by the facts on the ground,” he
said. In discussions with experts afterwards, Hominer said that he
realized he might have been better off stopping the car
and making a U-turn, but that he decided at the last moment to try and
outrun the attack. “Unfortunately these youths are very experienced, and
they know exactly how to match the force and aim of the rock to the car's speed,” he said, with the subsequent damage to his vehicle.
On Monday, Israel Radio reported numerous
incidents of rock throwing on roads in Judea and Samaria. A number of
vehicles were damaged, but no injuries were reported. Reservists Waiting for Orders to Move into Gaza
Tens
of thousands of army reservists are waiting for orders to move into
Gaza. A poll shows 84% of Israelis support Pillar of Defense.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 11/19/2012, 2:11 PM-INN
Gantz meets reservists-Flash 90
A Dialogue survey carried out for the Haaretz newspaper revealed that 39% of respondents support a continuation of aerial attacks and 30% want a ground offensive. Only 19%% said they want a quick ceasefire.More than half of the respondents are satisfied with the performance of both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the week-old counterterrorist campaign.
The country has mobilized to come to the aid of reservists, many of whom were called up after the Sabbath began last Friday night, recalling a similar situation at the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Jewish law not only allows but also requires taking actions that normally are prohibited on the Sabbath in order to save lives.Several reservists, including fathers with several children, were told before the Sabbath to carry their cell phones in the case of a call-up, which was issued after the Sabbath began.Many synagogues began to empty as reservists rushed home to gather essentials before traveling, sometime taking their own cars.On-duty soldiers called their families to send supplies to friends who were stranded. One reservist from Ashkelon told Arutz Sheva that the parents of “a friend of a friend” surprised him with a personal visit adjacent to the community and gave him sheets, blankets and snacks.Many reservists replaced regular soldiers on patrols to free them for action in Gaza, if the IDF gives the go-ahead.Dozens of armored vehicles and tanks were seen on transports from the Golan Heights, along the Syrian border, to Gaza.Thousands of reservists swarmed into convenience stores on the way to their bases to stock up on goods.
Israel Takes Over Hamas TV Programming
The Israeli army took over Hamas TV programming "to broadcast warnings” on the sixth day of Pillar of Defense.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 11/19/2012, 2:32 PM-INN
PMW Feature Hamas TV-PMW Screenshot
The IDF later called on "international journalists... to stay clear of Hamas's bases and facilities, which serve them in their activity against the citizens of Israel."