KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
KATHY GRIFFIN AND ANDERSON COOPER ARE SICK IN THE HEAD.KATHY WAS PRETENDING TO GO DOWN ON COOPER THE GAY FOR THE LAST 20 MINUTES FROM 12:15AM TO 12:35AM.THEY BOTH SHOULD BE FIRED FOR THIS FILTH.JUST REDICULAS.WITH ALL THE KIDS WATCHING.WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOUNG GIRLS.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 12/31/2012, 11:35 AM-Israelnationalnews
The number of Israeli Jews passed the
emotional 6 million mark in November, and the total population will
pass 8 million in February, according to the Central Bureau of
Statistics.The Jewish population represents 75.4 percent of the total, of which
Arabs are 20.6 percent, representing a continuing trend of a higher
Jewish birth rate and a lower Arab birth rate.The other four percent of the Israeli population includes Christians,
other faiths and 319,000 people who call themselves Jewish but are not
recognized as such according to Jewish law. Almost all of them are from
the former Soviet bloc.As January 1 approached, the total population was 7,981,000, 1.8 per cent higher than the previous year.The figures do not temporary residents and foreign workers.New immigrants account for a smaller increase in the number of Jews, with only 16,500 having come on “aliyah” in 2012.North American aliyah was about 4,000, including those who already were in Israel and took out Israeli citizenship, Nefesh B’Nefesh spokeswoman Yael Katsman told Arutz Sheva Monday. She said the numbers are rising, and that the expectation is that the trend will continue in 2013.
The third annual Conference on the Application of Israeli
Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria will take place Tuesday evening. This
year's conference is subtitled: From the Edmond
Levy Report to Sovereignty. The event is being organized by Women for
Israel's Tomorrow, known popularly as the "Women in Green".
The conference will discuss the ramifications of Israel finally annexing the districts of Judea and Samaria. This week's incident at Oz Tzion will give the conference more significance. The Israeli government has often evicted Jewish residents from areas not zoned for habitation by the Defense Ministry.
Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, the regions have been divided into
areas A, B and C. Israel has full control of Area C where most of the
over 340,000 Jewish residents live. Area A was assigned to the
Palestinian Authority where most of the Arab residents live. Area B is
under joint control and has large tracts of barren land."Some say that we should apply sovereignty then only over Area C," Matar told Arutz Sheva's live streaming English language audiocast. "But others say no, we must annex all of our land."She added, "the hardest question is what will be the status
of the Arab residents after we apply sovereignty. There are a wide
variety of options," Matar stated. A panel discussion with a question
and answer session with audience members will debate the issue.According to many estimates,
1.5 million Arabs live in the region. However, accurate statistics have
been difficult to obtain, with some claiming the Arab demographics have
been artificially inflated.Following the Six Day War of 1967, the formerly Jordanian-occupied
neighborhoods of Jerusalem including the Old City were officially
incorporated as parts of Israel, as were the Golan Heights. However,
Judea and Samaria were never officially annexed by the Israeli
government. The IDF Civil Administration has jurisdiction over the
districts.Among the speakers will be
former MK Geula Cohen; MK Aryeh Eldad (Otzma LeYisrael); Minister Yuli
Edelstein (Likud); MK Yariv Levin (Likud); MK Zev Elkin (Likud); Moshe
Feiglin (Likud); Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan (Bayit Yehudi); Caroline Glick of
the Jerusalem Post; attorney Alan Baker; Davidi Perl, head of the Gush
Etzion Regional Council; Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University; Dr.
Martin Sherman of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, and
Yehudit Katzover of Women for Israel's Tomorrow. Eran Bar-Tal of Maariv newspaper will moderate the panel debate.A humorous skit from Latma, a political satire TV show, will be
performed as well. All lectures and panel discussions will be in Hebrew
with simultaneous English translation.The conference will be held January 1st at 6:00PM at the Bayit Vegan Guest House.Arutz Sheva's Hebrew language news site will simulcast the
event. Nadia Matar, co-chair of the Women for Israel's Tomorrow spoke
to Arutz Sheva / Israel National Radio about the event. For the full podcast click here.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/4421#.UOL2ZawwneE
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ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 1/1/2013, 9:21 AM-Israelnationalnews
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has affirmed to Channel 2 that as elections approach, he stands behind the principles he outlined in his speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009. Channel 2's Knesset reporter, Amit Segal, did not say Monday evening whether the information came directly from Netanyahu, but from the way in which he reported the news, it was clear that it had been approved by the Prime Minister.This means that Netanyahu supports the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state, conditional upon "a public, binding and unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people," and with Jerusalem remaining the united capital of Israel.
Earlier on Monday, Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said that
Netanyahu's Bar Ilan speech was made for "tactical" reasons only and did
not reflect Likud's true platform. She claimed that the speech was
meant "to expose Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas's true
positions to the world.""In the next term, he will
uproot communities and no one will be able to say that he did not give
advance notice," a senior nationalist political source told Arutz Sheva
following the Channel 2 report. "He has announced his intentions, and
voting for him means giving the public's stamp of approval to troubling
diplomatic moves," the source added.Senior Likud members recently called for the addition of a statement
to the Likud platform that would renounce the idea of a Palestinian
state. The platform currently does not directly address the issue.
Critics of the "Palestinian state" idea have expressed concern that "in any “West Bank” Palestinian “Demilitarized” state, Hamas will smuggle in thousands of chemical-warheaded Katyushas into the “Demilitarized” West Bank which they will launch, en masse, into the Tel Aviv."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6fGMC0VtQ&feature=player_embedded
on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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)
BOMBARDMENT
The civil war in Syria has become the longest and deadliest of the conflicts that rose out of the uprisings that swept through the Arab world over the past two years.Many Sunni Muslims, the majority in Syria, back the rebellion, while Assad, who hails from the Shi'ite-derived Alawite minority sect, is backed by some minorities who fear revenge if he falls. His family has ruled Syria harshly since his father seized power in a coup 42 years ago.Assad's forces have lately relied more on aerial and artillery bombardment, rather than infantry. Residential areas where rebels base themselves have been targeted, killing civilians unable to flee. Schools and queues of people buying bread have been hit.Rebels have taken swathes of the north and the east but have struggled to hold cities, complaining that they are defenseless against Assad's Soviet-built air force.
A year ago, many diplomats and analysts predicted Assad would leave power in 2012. But he has proved resilient and none of his inner circle have defected. He still largely retains control of his armed forces.
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have faltered, with the rebels refusing to negotiate unless Assad leaves power and him pledging to fight until death.Most Western and Arab states have called for him to leave power. He is supported by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.In the final days of 2012, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi called on countries to push the sides to talk, saying Syria faced a choice of "hell or the political process".One Damascus resident, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said the usual new year's eve crowds were absent from the increasingly isolated capital."There was hardly anyone on the streets, no cars, no pedestrians. Most restaurants, cafes and bars were empty," she said. Some young people gathered at three bars in the old city."There was music but nobody was dancing. They just sat there with a drink in their hands and smoking. I don't think I saw one person smile," she said. The midnight gunfire caused alarm."It was very scary. No one knew what was going on. People got very nervous and started making phone calls. But then I discovered that at least on my street, the gunfire was celebratory."(Editing by Peter Graff and Alison Williams)
KATHY GRIFFIN AND ANDERSON COOPER ARE SICK IN THE HEAD.KATHY WAS PRETENDING TO GO DOWN ON COOPER THE GAY FOR THE LAST 20 MINUTES FROM 12:15AM TO 12:35AM.THEY BOTH SHOULD BE FIRED FOR THIS FILTH.JUST REDICULAS.WITH ALL THE KIDS WATCHING.WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOUNG GIRLS.
Israel Now Has 6 Million Jews
The
number of Israeli Jews passed the emotional 6 million mark in November,
and the total population will pass 8 million in February.
Aliyah Revolution banner-Nefesh B'Nefesh
Conference on Israel's Annexing of Judea-Samaria
"The hardest question is what will be the status of the Arab residents after we apply sovereignty," Nadia Matar states.
By INR Staff First Publish: 1/1/2013, 1:54 PM-Israelnationalnews
Israeli Sovereignty in Judea & Samaria-WomeninGreen
The conference will discuss the ramifications of Israel finally annexing the districts of Judea and Samaria. This week's incident at Oz Tzion will give the conference more significance. The Israeli government has often evicted Jewish residents from areas not zoned for habitation by the Defense Ministry.
Nadia Matar interview
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/4421#.UOL2ZawwneE
http://www.womeningreen.org/
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
Netanyahu Stands behind "Palestinian State" Vision
Channel 2 says Prime Minister affirmed he still believes in the solution he outlined in Bar Ilan speech.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has affirmed to Channel 2 that as elections approach, he stands behind the principles he outlined in his speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009. Channel 2's Knesset reporter, Amit Segal, did not say Monday evening whether the information came directly from Netanyahu, but from the way in which he reported the news, it was clear that it had been approved by the Prime Minister.This means that Netanyahu supports the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state, conditional upon "a public, binding and unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people," and with Jerusalem remaining the united capital of Israel.
Critics of the "Palestinian state" idea have expressed concern that "in any “West Bank” Palestinian “Demilitarized” state, Hamas will smuggle in thousands of chemical-warheaded Katyushas into the “Demilitarized” West Bank which they will launch, en masse, into the Tel Aviv."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6fGMC0VtQ&feature=player_embedded
Palestinians join chorus of voices berating Peres for his foreign policy remarks
‘He’s meddling in Palestinian politics and deciding who can and who can’t be a party to talks,’ says top PA negotiator after president allows for negotiations with Hamas
January 1, 2013, 8:51 am
5-The Times of Israel
After coming under fire from
right-wing Israeli politicians for a series of statements he made over
the past few days regarding the peace process and the prospect of talks
with Hamas, President Shimon Peres on Tuesday was subjected to an unexpected tongue lashing — from a top Palestinian Authority official.
“He’s meddling in Palestinian politics and
deciding who can and who can’t be a party to talks,” said Saeb Erekat,
the chief PA negotiator. Peres had said on Monday that Israel should negotiate with Hamas, provided that the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip meet certain conditions.“When a peace deal is signed, it will be
signed between the elected officials of the Israeli people and the
elected officials of the Palestinian people,” Erekat told the
Hebrew-language daily Maariv. “The Palestinian people don’t decide who
gets elected by the Israelis, and Israel can’t decide who’ll represent
the Palestinian people.”Despite persistent attempts at reconciliation,
the Islamic Hamas has by and large been locked in bitter conflict with
PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah party, which rules the
Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank. Thus, Peres’s comments
could be perceived as indicating a readiness to go behind Abbas’s back.
“People ask, why not talk with Hamas? There is
nothing wrong, if you get a reply,” Peres had told an assembly of
Christian leaders in Jerusalem. “We are willing to talk to Hamas, but
they aren’t [willing to talk to us].”However, the president continued, in order for
dialogue to take place, Hamas must “accept the conditions of the
Quartet [the US, the UN, EU and Russia],” which include the cessation of
terror, a recognition of Israel, and the acceptance of agreements previously signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.On Sunday, the president was pummeled by the Israeli right for another set of comments that were perceived as meddling in Israeli politics
ahead of the January 22 elections. Peres had expressed support for
Abbas as a partner for peace and called for the renewal of talks to
reach a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.“You can reach an agreement with Abbas… one of
the only leaders in the Arab world to publicly and boldly say that he
supports peace and a demilitarized state, and opposes terrorism,” Peres
said at Beit Hanassi — the president’s residence — during a meeting of
Israeli ambassadors.The dovish elder statesman took a series of swipes
at recently resigned foreign minister Avigdor Liberman, who would have
been hosting the event had he not stepped down earlier in December to
fight an indictment for corruption.
“The role of diplomacy is to make friends, not
to deceive enemies,” Peres told the audience, in an apparent allusion
to Liberman’s conduct as foreign minister. “In diplomacy, it’s always
better to be a lion in sheep’s clothing than a sheep with a lion’s roar
that scares the entire world.”On Tuesday, despite his criticism of the
president for evoking the prospect of talks with Hamas, Erekat seemed to
echo Peres — albeit more dismissively — in his castigation of
Likud-Yisrael Beytenu rhetoric vis-a-vis the Palestinians.“The things they say in Likud about
alternative Palestinian leadership are no more than electioneering, and
nothing to be taken seriously,” he said. “We know all about the Israel
elections system, and understand that politicians say things with an eye
to gaining political capital.”As for Liberman, Erekat continued, “we know he’s an extremist — there’s nothing new about that.”Gabe Fisher contributed to this report.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Israel will cease to exist within the decade, adviser to Egyptian president predicts
Essam al-Erian says all those who occupied Palestine ‘will have to return to their homelands,’ including Egypt
January 1, 2013, 12:54 pm
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A senior Egyptian official who
also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday
expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years.The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head
of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, was an attempt to
explain a previous statement to the effect that Jews who once lived in
Egypt should return to their home country and leave Israel to the
Palestinians.“There are people in Palestine who occupied
it, and those occupiers have prior homelands,” Erian wrote on his
Facebook page. The quotes were cited by the London-based pan-Arab daily
A-Sharq Al-Awsat.Israel, he claimed would cease to exist within the next decade.“There won’t be a thing called Israel anymore;
only Palestine, and it’ll contain Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze,
and all of the people who lived there to begin with,” he said. “Anyone
who wants to stay will stay as a Palestinian citizen.”Thus, he explained, “all of those who occupied it” — including Jewish former residents of Egypt – “will have to return to their homelands.”
Essam
al-Erian, the deputy head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom
and Justice Party (photo credit: BBC screen capture)
On Sunday, during a television interview, Erian said
that “Jews [in Israel] of Egyptian origin should refuse to live under a
brutal, bloody and racist occupation stained with war crimes against
humanity.”He also questioned why former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled the Jews from Egypt in the first place.The office of the Egyptian president and the
ruling Muslim Brotherhood party attempted to distance themselves from
the comments, apparently not due to Erian’s implication that Israel has
no right to exist, but rather due to the implication that the tens of
thousands of Jews who were expelled from Egypt in the wake of Israel’s
establishment would be welcome in their country of birth.“Erian’s statements don’t represent the stance
of the presidency, and he isn’t an official spokesman of the
president’s office,” the president’s statement said.“The Jews of Egypt are criminals who deserve
to be punished for what they’ve done to Egypt and the Palestinians,”
said Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan.JTA contributed to this report.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
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.
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
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.
Hard-right Likud candidate arrested for praying on Temple Mount
Moshe Feiglin removed by police after breaking taboo by worshipping at site holy to both Jews and Muslims
January 1, 2013, 4:27 pm
0-The Times of Israel
Moshe Feiglin, Likud party candidate, April 2010, (photo credit: Flash90)
Feiglin, considered among the most right-wing
of the Likud party slate, was touring the site with a group of people
when he reportedly prostrated himself on the ground and began to pray.Although Jews are allowed by law to enter the
Temple Mount complex, an unwritten law forbids them from praying at the
site, which is administered by the Muslim religious authority, the Waqf.
Police arrested Feiglin on the spot for disturbing the peace.Police initially demanded that Feiglin sign a
statement of commitment to not return to the Temple Mount, but he was
later released without agreeing to the demand.In December, Feiglin was filmed praying on the Temple Mount and was not arrested.The run-in at the sensitive holy site came a
day after Feiglin, who is 14th on the joint Likud-Yisrael Beytenu
Knesset campaign list, announced that his party had asked him to stop
giving interviews to the press due to his firebrand views.“My message is not always consistent with the
message that my party wants to give,” Feiglin said. “Therefore I am
keeping quiet and not giving interviews.”
Last week Feiglin caused an uproar among Holocaust survivors
after comments he made in support of conscientious objection for IDF
soldiers ordered to remove West Bank settlements, comparing them to
German soldiers refusing to follow orders during World War II.
Pope hopes for 2013 of peace, slams unbridled capitalism
By Philip Pullella | Reuters – 2 hrs 3 mins ago JAN 1,13
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict
said in his New Year's message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year
of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality.The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks its World Day of Peace with initiatives around the world.He also spoke of peace after the mass, addressing tens
of thousands of people who had followed the service from outside in St
Peter's Square."A new year is like a trip. With the light and the
grace of God, may it be the start of a path to peace for every person,
every family, every country and for the entire world," he said from his
window overlooking the square.He thanked the world's peacemakers, saying they deserve
praise for working, often behind the scenes, tirelessly, thanklessly
and armed only "with the weapons of prayer and forgiveness".Peace marchers carrying rainbow banners released blue
balloons in a sunny but cold St Peter's Square as the pope spoke.Earlier in his homily, the leader of the world's 1.2
billion Roman Catholics decried "hotbeds of tension and conflict caused
by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor".He also denounced "the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated capitalism, various forms of terrorism and criminality".Benedict said he was convinced of "humanity's innate
vocation to peace" despite many problems and setbacks. A personal
relationship with God can help all believers deal with what he called
the "darkness and anguish" that sometimes defines human existence."This is the inner peace that we want in the midst of
events in history that are sometimes tumultuous and confused, events
that sometimes leave us shaken," he said.In his full message for the peace day, the pope called
for a new economic model and ethical regulations for markets, saying the
global financial crisis was proof that capitalism does not protect
society's weakest members.He also warned that food insecurity was a threat to
peace in some parts of the world and strongly reaffirmed the Church's
opposition to gay marriage. Heterosexual marriage had an indispensable
role in society, he said.Thousands of people took part in a peace march to the
Vatican led by the Catholic peace and charity group, the Sant' Egidio
Community, which negotiated the end of the civil war in Mozambique in
1992.Other peace marches took place in Italian cities, and Catholic dioceses around the world held their own events.
(Editing by Angus MacSwan)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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)
Syria starts 2013 with aerial strikes and clashes
By Oliver Holmes | Reuters – 1 hr 40 mins ago JAN 1,13
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital.Residents of Damascus
entered the new year to the sound of artillery hitting southern and
eastern districts that form a rebel-held crescent on the outskirts of
the capital, the center of which is still firmly under government
control.
In the center, soldiers manning checkpoints fired
celebratory gunfire at midnight, causing alarm in a city where streets
were largely deserted."How can they celebrate? There is no 'Happy New Year'," Moaz al-Shami, an opposition activists who lives in the capital's central Mezzeh district, said over Skype, his voice trembling with anger.He said rebel fighters attacked one checkpoint in the
district of Berzeh early on Tuesday. Opposition groups said mortar bombs
hit the southwest suburb of Daraya, where the army launched a military
offensive on Monday to retake the battered district.Assad's air force pounded Damascus's eastern suburbs,
as well as rebel-held areas in the second city Aleppo, and several rural
towns and villages, opposition activists said.An estimated 45,000 people have been killed in the
revolt, which started in early 2011 with peaceful protests demanding
democratic reforms but turned into an armed uprising after months of
attacks on protesters by security forces.A resident of the central city of Homs, who asked to
remain anonymous, said shells had landed on the Old City early on
Tuesday.Homs lies on the strategic north-south highway and
parts of the ancient city have been leveled during months of clashes.
Government forces ousted rebels from the city early last year but
militants have slowly crept back in."The Old City is under siege. There is shelling from all sides," he said.The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, a British-based monitoring group, reported 160 people killed on
the final day of 2012, including at least 37 government troops. The
group's reports cannot be verified.BOMBARDMENT
The civil war in Syria has become the longest and deadliest of the conflicts that rose out of the uprisings that swept through the Arab world over the past two years.Many Sunni Muslims, the majority in Syria, back the rebellion, while Assad, who hails from the Shi'ite-derived Alawite minority sect, is backed by some minorities who fear revenge if he falls. His family has ruled Syria harshly since his father seized power in a coup 42 years ago.Assad's forces have lately relied more on aerial and artillery bombardment, rather than infantry. Residential areas where rebels base themselves have been targeted, killing civilians unable to flee. Schools and queues of people buying bread have been hit.Rebels have taken swathes of the north and the east but have struggled to hold cities, complaining that they are defenseless against Assad's Soviet-built air force.
A year ago, many diplomats and analysts predicted Assad would leave power in 2012. But he has proved resilient and none of his inner circle have defected. He still largely retains control of his armed forces.
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have faltered, with the rebels refusing to negotiate unless Assad leaves power and him pledging to fight until death.Most Western and Arab states have called for him to leave power. He is supported by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.In the final days of 2012, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi called on countries to push the sides to talk, saying Syria faced a choice of "hell or the political process".One Damascus resident, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said the usual new year's eve crowds were absent from the increasingly isolated capital."There was hardly anyone on the streets, no cars, no pedestrians. Most restaurants, cafes and bars were empty," she said. Some young people gathered at three bars in the old city."There was music but nobody was dancing. They just sat there with a drink in their hands and smoking. I don't think I saw one person smile," she said. The midnight gunfire caused alarm."It was very scary. No one knew what was going on. People got very nervous and started making phone calls. But then I discovered that at least on my street, the gunfire was celebratory."(Editing by Peter Graff and Alison Williams)
Heavy clashes in suburbs of Syrian capital
– 15 mins ago JAN 1,13
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists and state media are reporting heavy clashes and shelling in suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus and other parts of the country.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says some of the heaviest fighting is taking place in the Damascus suburb of Daraya.The fighting showed rebel strength in the area of capital as the 22-month civil war drags on.The Observatory and activist Mohammed Saeed, who is based near Damascus, say Syrian warplanes took part in bombing Daraya on Tuesday.State-run news agency SANA said
troops killed "tens of terrorists" in Daraya and nearby areas. The
regime refers to rebels as "terrorists."Daraya is few miles (kilometers) from the strategic military air base of Mazzeh, a western neighborhood of the capital.
Iran warns foreign planes near Strait of Hormuz
– 2 hrs 45 mins ago JAN 1,13
TEHRAN, Iran
(AP) — Iran's navy issued dozens of warnings to foreign planes and
warships that approached its forces during a five-day sea maneuver near
the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a semi-official news agency reported Tuesday.Mehr quoted Adm. Amir Rastgari, spokesman for the exercise, as saying that naval and air defense forces on 30 occasions warned off reconnaissance planes,
drones and warships belonging to "extraregional forces" that approached
the drill, using a term that the Islamic Republic commonly employs to
refer to the militaries of the U.S. and its allies.The five-day naval drill, dubbed
Velayat-91, is Iran's latest show of strength in the face of mounting
pressures over its disputed nuclear program. The West suspects it may be
aimed at producing nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.Iran has threatened to close the strait over Western sanctions but
has not repeated the threats lately. The strait is the passageway for
one-fifth of the world's oil supply.Rastgari said the aircraft and warships heeded the warnings and stayed away."Various reconnaissance aircraft
that sought to penetrate into the drill area were given warnings by the
navy and the Khatam-ol-Anbia (air defense force) ... Subsequently, the
intelligence planes and drones distanced from the area after receiving
the warnings," Rastgari said.Iran has used the maneuvers to highlight recently-developed weapons systems.State TV said "Ghader," or "Capable," a sea-launched anti-ship
missile with a range of 200 kilometers (120 miles), was among the
weapons used in the final day of navy drills Tuesday.Ghader missile was delivered in late 2011 to the Iranian military and
the powerful Revolutionary Guard's naval division, which is assigned to
protect Iran's sea borders. Iranian officials say the missile can skim
the sea to avoid detection and can sink large warships.TV said the navy also used another anti-ship missile, dubbed Noor, or
Light, during the drill. It showed several missiles being fired and
hitting their targets at sea. Reports on the maneuvers say Iran also
used its electronic warfare systems.Iran's growing arsenal includes
short- and medium-range ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting
targets in the region such as Israel and U.S. military bases in the
Gulf.Iran began a military self-sufficiency program in 1992, under which
it produces a large range of weapons, including tanks, missiles, jet
fighters, unmanned drone aircraft and torpedoes.The maneuvers cover nearly 1
million sq. kilometers (400,000 sq. miles) from the Strait of Hormuz to
the northern part of the Indian Ocean, including the Gulf of Oman.
Israeli-Palestinian clashes erupt in West Bank
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 20 mins ago JAN 1,13
TAMOUN, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians say a raid by Israeli soldiers disguised as vegetable vendors to seize members of a militant group has sparked clashes in the northern West Bank.Residents in the town of Tamoun say youths are tossing stones and bottles at Israeli troops, while the soldiers have responded with what appears to be live fire.Resident Faris Bisharat says eight men have been wounded, some by live fire. Bisharat says the wanted men belong to Islamic Jihad, a violent group sworn to Israel's destruction.
Bisharat says the clashes began early Tuesday after Israeli forces
dressed as merchants arrested one man. He says regular forces then
entered the town, and men began hurling rocks at them to prevent other
arrests.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Egypt orders 15-day detention for Israeli
By | Associated Press – 59 mins ago JAN 1,13
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say a former sergeant in the Israeli army has been ordered detained for 15 days for investigation into his illegal entry from Israel into the Sinai Peninsula.
The authorities say the 24 year-old unarmed Israeli has been in custody since Friday. They announced the arrest Monday.The officials said Tuesday he is
under investigation in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh for
allegedly trying to reach the Gaza Strip through Sinai. They have
identified him as Andrew Yaacoub Cheteko.Known in Israel as Andre Pshenichnikov,
the Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan made headlines last year when he
announced he wanted to move to a West Bank refugee camp in solidarity
with Palestinians there.The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
