KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
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.
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)
ISRAEL WE NEED THAT 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT NOW SO USE CAN SACRIFICE ANIMAL TO YOUR AND OUR GOD AND JEWISH MESSIAH KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE EARTH.THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION-NO OTHER.
FROM NOW ON IF I WAS ISRAEL I WOULD TELL THOSE ARAB MURDERERS.THIS IS A ONE STATE SOLUTION.WE ISRAELIS HAVE THE LAND AND WILL NEVER DIVIDE IT.AND JERUSALEM IS OUR CAPITAL AND WE WILL NEVER EVER EVEN TALK PEACE WITH USE AGAIN.NO MATTER WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.AND USE JUST DARE SHOOT ONE ROCKET AT US ISRAELIS AND GAZA AND THE WEST BANK WON'T BE AROUND THE NEXT DAY.JUST MY THOUGHTS ON THE PEACE PROCESS.JUST THINKING OUT LOUD AGAIN ON THE 2 STATE SOLUTION.
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 42 mins ago JUNE 17,13
MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 evening tide 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)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
Reuters – 12 mins ago JUNE 17,13
By Maria Golovnina and William Schomberg | Reuters – 1 hr 16 mins ago JUNE 17,13
U.S.-EU TRADE TALKS
The leaders of the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Italy - representing just over half of the $71.7 trillion global economy - will also discuss global economy and trade.The leaders of the EU and United States are due to announce the start of formal negotiations on a free trade deal that could be worth more than $100 billion a year to each economy."We expect the negotiations to start as soon as possible, most likely July," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders will probably discuss the role of central banks and monetary policy.They are likely to say they are not content with progress so far in fixing their economies in the wake of the global financial crisis, according to a draft communique seen by Reuters.
Abe will use the opportunity to explain his blend of fiscal and monetary stimuli known as 'Abenomics' to the leaders as investors try to absorb the implications of a signal by the U.S. Federal Reserve it may start to slow its money-printing.Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will not attend. He and his colleagues hold a policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
TREASURE ISLAND TAX
Cameron has made tackling tax avoidance - which campaigners say costs about $3 trillion a year - a main part of the formal agenda at the summit.He has turned up the pressure to clamp down on secretive money flows by pressing Britain's overseas tax havens into a transparency deal and announcing new disclosure rules for British firms.Representatives of overseas tax havens linked to Britain on Saturday agreed to sign up to an international transparency protocol. Aid campaigners said Britain's action will count for little if the rest of the G8 does not follow suit.G8 leaders will probably shy away from adopting a measure aimed at curbing tax avoidance by highlighting when companies channel profits into tax havens, and will include a watered-down alternative, according to the draft communique."I particularly care that we track down tax evaders, especially to end tax avoidance," Merkel told German TV Station RTL. "That only works through international cooperation."(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
OK THE FALSE IMAGE THE MEDIA IS PUTTING ON IRAN ALREADY,SAYING IRAN WILL BE SO PEACE LOVING AND HELPFUL.IRAN HAS NOT CHANGED ITS COLOURS.REMEMBER THIS SO CALLED MODERATE DOES DOES NOT EVEN TAKE POWER TILL AUGUST I THINK.SO NOTHING CHANGES TILL AUGUST AND THE MEDIA IS CLAIMING IRAN IS SUDDENLY A ISRAEL LOVER AND A WEST LOVER AND WOULD NEVER NUKE EITHER.WHAT HOGWASH-THIS IS JUST A MEDIA DECEPTION.GET YOUR HEADS OUTTA THE SAND PEOPLE.NOTHING WILL CHANGE IN IRAN TILL ISRAEL NUKES THERE NUCLEAR SITES.THEN MAYBE IRAN WILL BECOME SO CALLED MODERATE.UNTIL THEN,IRANS JUST AS RADICAL AS EVER AGAINST ISRAEL,WEST AND FOR MAKING ATOMIC BOMBS.
Reuters – 1 hr 42 mins ago JUNE 17,13
DUBAI (Reuters) - President-elect Hassan Rohani said on Monday he hoped the world would grasp a new opportunity for "constructive interaction" with Iran and pledged to be more transparent about the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in order to see sanctions lifted.But he said Tehran was not ready to suspend its enrichment of uranium, which the West fears is aimed at producing a nuclear weapons capability - something Iran denies. "That period has ended," he said.Rohani,
a moderate conservative cleric, scored an emphatic and surprise
election win over conservative rivals on Friday and has quickly moved to
assure Iranians and the world that he will keep his pledges of better
relations with other countries.He said the new government, after his inauguration in August, would
"revive ethics and constructive interaction with the world through
moderation"."I hope that all countries use this opportunity," Rohani told his first news conference after his election win.Rohani, Iran's nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, said Tehran would be more transparent about its activities in the future."Our nuclear programs are
completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency
and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks," he said.(Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian, Yeganeh Torbati and Marcus George; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Reuters – 43 mins ago JUNE 17,13
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe will "pay the price" if it delivers arms to rebel forces in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with a German newspaper."If the Europeans deliver
weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will
pay the price for it," he said in an advance extract of an interview due
to be published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday.He also warned that delivering arms would result in the export of "terrorism" to Europe.In his first comments since the United States announced on Thursday
that they would be supplying military aid to rebels fighting for his
overthrow, Assad said: "Terrorists will gain experience in combat and
return with extremist ideologies."
(Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Noah Barkin)
By Yasmine Saleh | Reuters – 1 hr 1 min ago JUNE 17,13
UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
"This revolution is not over yet," said Mohamed ElBaradei, a former top U.N. diplomat and one of the best known faces of Tamarud, whose keen young sidewalk volunteers say their petition is close to gathering more signatures for Mursi's - hypothetical - removal than the 13 million votes that elected him a year ago.ElBaradei spoke at a two-week-old sit-in by artists at the Culture Ministry. It was prompted by the new minister firing the head of Cairo Opera and by fears of a new puritanism after an Islamist lawmaker called for a ban on ballet as "naked art".Such threats capture media headlines and ElBaradei said Islamist dominance must be stopped: "We ask every Egyptian to go out on the 30th, to free ourselves and reclaim our revolution."
For the millions of poor, for whom the ballet ranks low on their priorities, it is an economy caught in a vice of collapsed tourist income, rising world commodity prices and a growing population dependent on subsidized bread and fuel that matters."We don't want Mursi. We want change," said Umm Sultan, working with her son at the family juice stall in Cairo's Old City. "They must give us money so our children can live."Echoing fellow Islamists governing in Turkey, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood insists he has a democratic mandate and warn that protest is permitted - "a healthy sign that this revolution has actually worked", one aide called it - but must be peaceful.Mursi himself says he will react "fiercely" to trouble from "felloul" - 'remnants' of Mubarak - and calls the petition, which has no legal weight, "an absurd and illegitimate action".There have been scuffles this month between groups gathering signatures; an apartment used by Tamarud was firebombed. A new test looms this Friday, when Islamists plan pro-Mursi rallies.The heart of the problem is a failure to build consensus.With opponents in disarray, the Brotherhood and its allies won majorities in both houses of parliament and the presidency last year and rushed a constitution through a referendum. The opposition, partly backed by a judiciary the Islamists see as Mubarak holdovers, now reject most of those state institutions.Elections for a new lower house that might provide a forum for national dialogue are being held up by rows over the rules.Anchoring his power in the provinces, Mursi named Islamists to run several governorates on Sunday, including one from a group whose gunmen massacred 58 foreigners in Luxor and will now head the administration in the temple city, a hub for tourism.Deprived of broad popular support, the legislature and the executive have struggled to act decisively on the economy.
ISLAMISTS WARN ARMY
There seems little prospect the Tamarud petition will induce Mursi to resign - and even some liberal commentators say that might set an unwelcome precedent. Mursi's win seemed fair and a new presidential vote might produce a broadly similar result.No opponent is clearly more popular than the bespectacled, bearded face crossed out with a red "X" on Tamarud's ubiquitous posters. Yet if the protest movement seems like a leap into the unknown, that is not deterring large numbers from joining it."Tamarud is a representative public reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood and Mursi's failure to run the state," said Hassan Nafaa, a Cairo University political scientist who says Mursi must resign for his "stupidity". "It has left people no option but the streets and so they will come out - in large numbers."The president's allies will not give in so easily:"If Mursi ends up being ousted by violence or a coup by the army or police, there will be an Islamic revolution," said Al-Ghaddafi Abdel Razek, manager of the pro-Mursi Tagarud campaign."We have our people in the army and the police, too, and we are ready," added Abdel Razek, 37, a pharmacist once jailed for his membership of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, the militant group that tried to cripple Mubarak by attacking tourists in the 1990s.Tagarud's gathering of 7 million signatures urging Mursi to stay is also deeply personal: "We know that if Mursi goes, we'll all be in prison," Abdel Razak said.
DECISION TIME
Over at the opposition campaign, spokesman Mahmoud Badr is grappling with piles of signatures and ID numbers that need to be verified against databases if Tamarud is to make the case it hopes to the United Nations that its petition is genuine.Even without international intervention, Badr argued, the weight of opinion could embarrass Mursi into stepping aside. Others say that at least it might push him to listen to them.
And after that? It may seem hypothetical now, but Badr and his team have a post-Mursi plan: the constitutional court chief would be interim head of state with a small technocrat cabinet.For many, exasperated by power cuts, shortage of fuel and rising prices, a return to army rule would be welcome - though the military insists it wants no such responsibility. Its chief, appointed by Mursi, has urged "a framework for consensus".One military source told Reuters the army was ready for all eventualities after June 30 - "but we will not interfere unless the situation seems to be heading towards violent conflict".Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said troops will "defend the state and what is sacred to the people" - that, the source said, included their rights to protest.As the rallies approach, Egyptians have decisions to make.Ahmed Mahmoud, 30, a laborer from Alexandria is already in the capital to make his voice heard: "I want to tell Mursi loud and clear he needs to go since he has failed to meet the demands of our revolution, for a better life and freedom," he said."We are tired and cannot take it anymore. We want to live."But others, who fear yet more unrest can only plunge them deeper into poverty, are more patient. Mohamed Ali, 26, a waiter at a Cairo cafe, said Mursi should be given his chance: "We are new to democracy and we should give him time to work and learn."(Additional reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Alastair Macdonald in Cairo; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Anna Willard)
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 37 mins ago JUNE 17,13
By | Associated Press – 36 mins ago JUNE 17,13
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
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.
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)
ISRAEL WE NEED THAT 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT NOW SO USE CAN SACRIFICE ANIMAL TO YOUR AND OUR GOD AND JEWISH MESSIAH KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE EARTH.THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION-NO OTHER.
FROM NOW ON IF I WAS ISRAEL I WOULD TELL THOSE ARAB MURDERERS.THIS IS A ONE STATE SOLUTION.WE ISRAELIS HAVE THE LAND AND WILL NEVER DIVIDE IT.AND JERUSALEM IS OUR CAPITAL AND WE WILL NEVER EVER EVEN TALK PEACE WITH USE AGAIN.NO MATTER WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.AND USE JUST DARE SHOOT ONE ROCKET AT US ISRAELIS AND GAZA AND THE WEST BANK WON'T BE AROUND THE NEXT DAY.JUST MY THOUGHTS ON THE PEACE PROCESS.JUST THINKING OUT LOUD AGAIN ON THE 2 STATE SOLUTION.
Israeli official blasts idea of Palestinian state
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 42 mins ago JUNE 17,13- View PhotoAssociated Press/Sebastian Scheiner, File - FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, touches the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray,
JERUSALEM (AP) — The idea of Palestinians
establishing a state in the territory they seek has "reached a dead
end," a senior Israeli official said Monday, in the latest remarks by
hard-liners that appear to contradict the country's official support for
a "two-state solution" to its conflict with the Palestinians.The statements by Naftali Bennett, economics minister and leader of the Jewish Home party, chime with similar sentiments expressed by other officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government and come as the United States is trying to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians."The idea that a Palestinian state will arise inside the land of Israel
has reached a dead end," Bennett said Monday at a meeting of the Yesha
settlement group. "Never in the history of Israel have so many people
dealt with so much energy with something so pointless," he said.Talks collapsed about five years ago over the core issue of Jewish
housing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, territory Israel captured
from Jordan in 1967 and which Palestinians envision for a future state.
The Palestinians refuse to return to talks unless construction there
stops.Israel says settlements and all other issues like security can only
be resolved through dialogue and has frequently called for peace talks
to resume without preconditions. Some Israelis cite security, religious
and historic reasons for their opposition to a Palestinian state.Many Israelis are concerned that violent groups will fill the vacuum
if Israel withdraws from areas it controls. The Islamic militant group
Hamas eventually took over the Gaza Strip after Israel left it in 2005.
Hamas is defined as a terrorist organization by the U.S., EU and others
due to its suicide bombings, shooting and rocket attacks aimed at
civilians that have killed hundreds.Bennett said that the policy of Israeli land concessions and
withdrawals has failed. "Terrorists entered everywhere that Israel
withdrew from.""The most important thing in the land of Israel is to build and build
and build," he added. "Israel's biggest problem regarding Judea and
Samaria was and remains the lack of willingness by Israeli leaders to
say in a simple way that the land of Israel belongs to the people of
Israel," Bennett said, referring to the West Bank territory by its
biblical names.Last week, Netanyahu's deputy defense minister and member of his own
Likud party, Danny Danon, said "there is certainly no majority" in the
Likud for establishing a Palestinian state based on Israel's borders
before the 1967 Mideast war."A Palestinian state on the 1967 lines is something dangerous for
Israel, and therefore I oppose that idea," Danon told Channel 2 TV. He
said it was possible that the broader coalition government, which
includes other hard-line parties, also opposes a return to the 1967
lines.Last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shuttled between
Israel and the Palestinians to try to resume talks. His return to the
region has been postponed.The Palestinians' chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, condemned Benett's
remarks. "These are not isolated events but a reaffirmation of political
platforms and radical beliefs. Israel has officially declared the death
of the two-state solution," he said.
PA Chairman Abbas related Monday to Economy Minister Bennett's opposition to PA statehood, "The Israeli government must justify such destructive and dangerous comments, clearly meant to sabotage US Secretary John Kerry's peace initiative."
By David Lev-First Publish: 6/17/2013, 6:27 PM-Israelnationalnews
Hassan Rohani, Iran's new President, is being termed a “moderate” in
Western media, but it appears that his moderation stops when it comes
to Israel. In his first speech as Iran's new leader, Rohani quickly
launched into a diatribe against Israel, blaming the Jewish state for
Iran's economic problems.Those problems largely have their roots in the sanctions imposed by
the West on Iran, the result of the previous government's refusal to
allow international inspectors into some of its nuclear facilities, and
its insistence at enriching uranium at a level that would allow Tehran
to build nuclear weapons. Western countries several times tried to work
out arrangements with Iran to allow the country to continue nuclear
enrichment at a level that would be used for civilian nuclear development
programs in exchange for the removal of sanctions – but Tehran
refused.Yet the sanctions are not the result of Iran's actions, Rohani
said
in his first speech; it was Israel that got the West to impose those
sanctions, in an attempt to ruin Iran economically. “The Iranian nation
has done nothing to deserve these sanctions,” he said. “Our activities
are in line with international norms. If the sanctions help anyone, it
is Israel. They are directed only at us. The Western nations do not have
sanctions against anyone else.” It was part of Israel's plan to “ruin”
Iran, he added.In his speech, Rohani said that although Iran might
consider stepping
up international inspections of its nuclear facilities, it would not
change its pace of development, or other policies regarding the nuclear
program. Rohani is Iran's former top nuclear negotiator.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the world not to be deceived by the leader’s “moderate” credentials. “We are not deluding ourselves,” the prime minister said said. “We need to remember that the Iranian ruler at the outset disqualified candidates who were not in line with his extreme world view, and from among those whom he did allow, the one seen as least identified with the regime was elected. But we are still speaking about someone who calls Israel the 'great Zionist Satan.'”
Abbas vs Bennett on PA Statehood-INN June 17,13
New Iran Prez: Our Economic Problems All Israel's Fault
The 'moderation' of Iran's new president appears to stop at Israel, judging from a speech he made on Monday
Iran's new President Hassan Rohani-AFP file
On Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the world not to be deceived by the leader’s “moderate” credentials. “We are not deluding ourselves,” the prime minister said said. “We need to remember that the Iranian ruler at the outset disqualified candidates who were not in line with his extreme world view, and from among those whom he did allow, the one seen as least identified with the regime was elected. But we are still speaking about someone who calls Israel the 'great Zionist Satan.'”
MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 evening tide 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)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
Russia says it will not allow Syria no-fly zones
Reuters – 12 mins ago JUNE 17,13
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.
"I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding that calls for a no-fly zone showed disrespect for international law.Lukashevich spoke before planned talks between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern Ireland which were expected to focus on the conflict in Syria that has killed at least 93,000 people.Russia and the United States are trying to bring representatives of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his foes to the negotiating table,
but Moscow has criticized U.S. plans to arm rebel forces and to consider
imposing a no-fly zone."All these maneuvers about no-fly zones and humanitarian corridors
are a direct consequence of a lack of respect for international law,"
Lukashevich said.He said Russia did not want a scenario in Syria that resembled the
events in Libya after the imposition of a no-fly zone which enabled NATO
aircraft to help rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska,; Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)West scolds Putin over Syria before G8 meeting
By Maria Golovnina and William Schomberg | Reuters – 1 hr 16 mins ago JUNE 17,13
By Maria Golovnina and William Schomberg
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Western leaders criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting Syria's Bashar al-Assad
in his battle to crush a two-year-old uprising, setting the stage for
what could be a difficult meeting of world leaders over Monday and
Tuesday.British Prime Minister David Cameron, who chairs the G8 summit in Northern Ireland,
acknowledged there was "a big difference" between the positions of
Russia and the West on Syria. Moscow said it would not permit no-fly
zones to be imposed over Syria.U.S. President Barack Obama
will meet Putin later on Monday and, in what could be a frosty
encounter, will try to convince the Kremlin chief to bring Assad to the
negotiating table. Putin has warned the West it risks sowing turmoil
across the Middle East by arming the Syrian rebels.Other Western leaders criticized Russia, Assad's only big-power
ally, for delivering arms to Assad while the rebels - whom Putin
described on Sunday as cannibals who ate their enemies' intestines -
perished."How can we allow that Russia continues to deliver arms to the
Bashar al-Assad regime when the opposition receives very few and is
being massacred?" French President Francois Hollande said.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Putin was supporting Assad's "thugs"."I don't think we should fool ourselves. We, the G7 + 1, that's what
this is, we in the West have a very different perspective on this
situation," Harper said.Stung by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah's recent victories for Assad's
forces in the civil war, the United States said last week it would step
up military aid to the rebels including automatic weapons, light
mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.The European Union has also dropped its arms embargo on Syria, allowing France and Britain to arm the rebels, though Cameron expressed concern about some of Assad's foes."Let's be clear - I am as worried as anybody else about elements of
the Syrian opposition, who are extremists, who support terrorism and who
are a great danger to our world," Cameron said.Obama and Putin are due to meet at about 6:30 pm local time at the
Lough Erne golf resort about 10 km (7 miles) outside the Northern Irish
town of Enniskillen, scene of an IRA bomb attack in 1987 that killed 11
people.Security was tight and the venue was surrounded by a high steel
fence, though Cameron was keen to showcase the relative peace in
Northern Ireland as it tries to attract investment after decades of
trouble.In a speech in Belfast, Obama urged young people in Northern Ireland
to finish making "permanent peace" and set an example to other areas of
the world stricken by conflict.Cameron could also face some awkward questions at the G8 table after
a Guardian newspaper report that Britain spied on officials taking part
in two Group of 20 meetings in 2009.U.S.-EU TRADE TALKS
The leaders of the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Italy - representing just over half of the $71.7 trillion global economy - will also discuss global economy and trade.The leaders of the EU and United States are due to announce the start of formal negotiations on a free trade deal that could be worth more than $100 billion a year to each economy."We expect the negotiations to start as soon as possible, most likely July," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders will probably discuss the role of central banks and monetary policy.They are likely to say they are not content with progress so far in fixing their economies in the wake of the global financial crisis, according to a draft communique seen by Reuters.
Abe will use the opportunity to explain his blend of fiscal and monetary stimuli known as 'Abenomics' to the leaders as investors try to absorb the implications of a signal by the U.S. Federal Reserve it may start to slow its money-printing.Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will not attend. He and his colleagues hold a policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
TREASURE ISLAND TAX
Cameron has made tackling tax avoidance - which campaigners say costs about $3 trillion a year - a main part of the formal agenda at the summit.He has turned up the pressure to clamp down on secretive money flows by pressing Britain's overseas tax havens into a transparency deal and announcing new disclosure rules for British firms.Representatives of overseas tax havens linked to Britain on Saturday agreed to sign up to an international transparency protocol. Aid campaigners said Britain's action will count for little if the rest of the G8 does not follow suit.G8 leaders will probably shy away from adopting a measure aimed at curbing tax avoidance by highlighting when companies channel profits into tax havens, and will include a watered-down alternative, according to the draft communique."I particularly care that we track down tax evaders, especially to end tax avoidance," Merkel told German TV Station RTL. "That only works through international cooperation."(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
OK THE FALSE IMAGE THE MEDIA IS PUTTING ON IRAN ALREADY,SAYING IRAN WILL BE SO PEACE LOVING AND HELPFUL.IRAN HAS NOT CHANGED ITS COLOURS.REMEMBER THIS SO CALLED MODERATE DOES DOES NOT EVEN TAKE POWER TILL AUGUST I THINK.SO NOTHING CHANGES TILL AUGUST AND THE MEDIA IS CLAIMING IRAN IS SUDDENLY A ISRAEL LOVER AND A WEST LOVER AND WOULD NEVER NUKE EITHER.WHAT HOGWASH-THIS IS JUST A MEDIA DECEPTION.GET YOUR HEADS OUTTA THE SAND PEOPLE.NOTHING WILL CHANGE IN IRAN TILL ISRAEL NUKES THERE NUCLEAR SITES.THEN MAYBE IRAN WILL BECOME SO CALLED MODERATE.UNTIL THEN,IRANS JUST AS RADICAL AS EVER AGAINST ISRAEL,WEST AND FOR MAKING ATOMIC BOMBS.
Rohani hopes all countries will use chance of friendly ties
Reuters – 1 hr 42 mins ago JUNE 17,13Assad says Europe will 'pay price' if it arms rebels: newspaper
Reuters – 43 mins ago JUNE 17,13(Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Noah Barkin)
Protests to give new turn to Egypt revolution
By Yasmine Saleh | Reuters – 1 hr 1 min ago JUNE 17,13
By Yasmine Saleh
CAIRO (Reuters) - Does Egypt face a new revolution? Millions hope so, it seems; they
have signed a national petition demanding the president resign and plan
to take to the streets on June 30, when Mohamed Mursi marks a year in office.Their slogan is a call for revolt: "Tamarud - Rebel!"But for all the simmering discontent with the Islamist who has
presided over political and economic paralysis, millions more are ready
to defend Egypt's first freely elected leader; they say those
campaigning for him to quit are agents of the old regime and plan their
own pro-Mursi rallies starting Friday.Their counter-campaign - "Tagarud" - calls for open minds.There is a risk of more of the violence that has punctuated the two and a half years since Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a blast of rage from Tahrir Square. "June 30" crops up endlessly in conversation. The Cairo bourse has shriveled in anticipation and security forces say they are preparing to deal with trouble.
"There is a strong chance of violence resulting from the coming
protests," said retired Egyptian general Sameh Seif al-Yazal, a military
analyst. "It could start from any side."It is unclear what can end stalemate between the Islamists,
whose organized electoral base has handed them the formal levers of
power, and a diffuse opposition of liberals, Christians and secular
conservatives united in fear of Islamic rule, plus a mass of the
uncommitted fed up with economic drift under Mursi.The "culture war" between elected Islamists and a secular
opposition, with a once-political army in the background, has echoes of
today's unrest in Turkey, but deep economic crisis and a still unformed
political system makes Egypt much more fragile.With world powers at odds over Syria, where Mursi has backed the
Sunni Muslim revolt, and Washington funding an Egyptian army that honors
Cairo's peace treaty with Israel, any instability in the most populous
Arab state has implications far beyond.The wealthy generals, once led by Mubarak but who sacrificed him to
save themselves, have said they want no more political role. Islamists
say it would mean civil war if the troops moved against them. Yet the
army is still held in high regard by the vast majority and says it will
intervene to maintain order.However June 30 ends - and few will bet with confidence on the
outcome - it will help determine whether the Arab Spring eventually
blossoms, or withers - not just for 84 million Egyptians but for
would-be democracies across the Middle East.UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
"This revolution is not over yet," said Mohamed ElBaradei, a former top U.N. diplomat and one of the best known faces of Tamarud, whose keen young sidewalk volunteers say their petition is close to gathering more signatures for Mursi's - hypothetical - removal than the 13 million votes that elected him a year ago.ElBaradei spoke at a two-week-old sit-in by artists at the Culture Ministry. It was prompted by the new minister firing the head of Cairo Opera and by fears of a new puritanism after an Islamist lawmaker called for a ban on ballet as "naked art".Such threats capture media headlines and ElBaradei said Islamist dominance must be stopped: "We ask every Egyptian to go out on the 30th, to free ourselves and reclaim our revolution."
For the millions of poor, for whom the ballet ranks low on their priorities, it is an economy caught in a vice of collapsed tourist income, rising world commodity prices and a growing population dependent on subsidized bread and fuel that matters."We don't want Mursi. We want change," said Umm Sultan, working with her son at the family juice stall in Cairo's Old City. "They must give us money so our children can live."Echoing fellow Islamists governing in Turkey, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood insists he has a democratic mandate and warn that protest is permitted - "a healthy sign that this revolution has actually worked", one aide called it - but must be peaceful.Mursi himself says he will react "fiercely" to trouble from "felloul" - 'remnants' of Mubarak - and calls the petition, which has no legal weight, "an absurd and illegitimate action".There have been scuffles this month between groups gathering signatures; an apartment used by Tamarud was firebombed. A new test looms this Friday, when Islamists plan pro-Mursi rallies.The heart of the problem is a failure to build consensus.With opponents in disarray, the Brotherhood and its allies won majorities in both houses of parliament and the presidency last year and rushed a constitution through a referendum. The opposition, partly backed by a judiciary the Islamists see as Mubarak holdovers, now reject most of those state institutions.Elections for a new lower house that might provide a forum for national dialogue are being held up by rows over the rules.Anchoring his power in the provinces, Mursi named Islamists to run several governorates on Sunday, including one from a group whose gunmen massacred 58 foreigners in Luxor and will now head the administration in the temple city, a hub for tourism.Deprived of broad popular support, the legislature and the executive have struggled to act decisively on the economy.
ISLAMISTS WARN ARMY
There seems little prospect the Tamarud petition will induce Mursi to resign - and even some liberal commentators say that might set an unwelcome precedent. Mursi's win seemed fair and a new presidential vote might produce a broadly similar result.No opponent is clearly more popular than the bespectacled, bearded face crossed out with a red "X" on Tamarud's ubiquitous posters. Yet if the protest movement seems like a leap into the unknown, that is not deterring large numbers from joining it."Tamarud is a representative public reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood and Mursi's failure to run the state," said Hassan Nafaa, a Cairo University political scientist who says Mursi must resign for his "stupidity". "It has left people no option but the streets and so they will come out - in large numbers."The president's allies will not give in so easily:"If Mursi ends up being ousted by violence or a coup by the army or police, there will be an Islamic revolution," said Al-Ghaddafi Abdel Razek, manager of the pro-Mursi Tagarud campaign."We have our people in the army and the police, too, and we are ready," added Abdel Razek, 37, a pharmacist once jailed for his membership of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, the militant group that tried to cripple Mubarak by attacking tourists in the 1990s.Tagarud's gathering of 7 million signatures urging Mursi to stay is also deeply personal: "We know that if Mursi goes, we'll all be in prison," Abdel Razak said.
DECISION TIME
Over at the opposition campaign, spokesman Mahmoud Badr is grappling with piles of signatures and ID numbers that need to be verified against databases if Tamarud is to make the case it hopes to the United Nations that its petition is genuine.Even without international intervention, Badr argued, the weight of opinion could embarrass Mursi into stepping aside. Others say that at least it might push him to listen to them.
And after that? It may seem hypothetical now, but Badr and his team have a post-Mursi plan: the constitutional court chief would be interim head of state with a small technocrat cabinet.For many, exasperated by power cuts, shortage of fuel and rising prices, a return to army rule would be welcome - though the military insists it wants no such responsibility. Its chief, appointed by Mursi, has urged "a framework for consensus".One military source told Reuters the army was ready for all eventualities after June 30 - "but we will not interfere unless the situation seems to be heading towards violent conflict".Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said troops will "defend the state and what is sacred to the people" - that, the source said, included their rights to protest.As the rallies approach, Egyptians have decisions to make.Ahmed Mahmoud, 30, a laborer from Alexandria is already in the capital to make his voice heard: "I want to tell Mursi loud and clear he needs to go since he has failed to meet the demands of our revolution, for a better life and freedom," he said."We are tired and cannot take it anymore. We want to live."But others, who fear yet more unrest can only plunge them deeper into poverty, are more patient. Mohamed Ali, 26, a waiter at a Cairo cafe, said Mursi should be given his chance: "We are new to democracy and we should give him time to work and learn."(Additional reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Alastair Macdonald in Cairo; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Anna Willard)
Unions strike, protest to support Turkey activists
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 37 mins ago JUNE 17,13
ISTANBUL (AP) — Labor unions and political foes of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan rallied by the thousands across Turkey Monday, hoping to capitalize on weeks of initially small-scale protest to register broader discontent.Two major unions urged their members to hold a one-day strike and join demonstrations in response to a police crackdown against activists who led a wave of protest that have centered on Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park in recent weeks.The show of labor force follows a weekend in which police purged
activists from an 18-day sit-in at the park that has come to symbolize
defiance against the government, while Ergodan's conservative political
base held huge rallies in both Istanbul and Ankara.
Monday's rallies had a more structured feel compared with the counterculture-style sit-in at Gezi and spontaneous protests of recent weeks, which at times devolved into clashes between stone-throwing youths and riot police firing tear gas and water cannons.The rallies went on despite a warning from the interior minister that participants in unlawful demonstrations would "bear the legal consequences."In Ankara on Monday, thousands of demonstrators waving union flags, jumping and whistling converged at central Kizilay Square in an uneasy face-off about 50 meters away from riot police and a line of trucks.Turkey's NTV television reported that riot police issued warnings to the demonstrators to disperse, saying the rally was unlawful and authorities would take action if they did not. After about three hours, the protesters left peacefully.TV images showed hundreds marching in the Aegean Sea coastal city of Izmir.Behind the strikes were the KESK confederation of public sector workers and DISK, a confederation of labor unions from industries including transport, construction, health care and media. Together they say they represent 330,000 workers. Small unions that group professionals like dentists, doctors and engineers also joined in.Strikes, however, often have little visible impact on daily life in Turkey, a country of about 75 million, and the call to walk off the job Monday had limited fallout beyond the demonstrations.Unionists in Istanbul hoped to reach Taksim Square Monday afternoon. But police have maintained a lockdown on the square after unrest continued in pockets of the country overnight.The standoff between police and protesters began as an environmentalists' rally. But a police crackdown lit a fuse on much broader anger and morphed the movement into a protest against Erdogan's government.Erdogan's opponents have grown increasingly suspicious about what they consider a gradual erosion of freedoms and secular Turkish values under his Islamic-rooted party's government. It has passed new curbs on alcohol and tried, but later abandoned its plans, to limit women's access to abortion.Five people, including a policeman, have died and more than 5,000 have been injured, according to a Turkish rights group.Erdogan has been praised for shepherding Turkey to strong economic growth as many other world economies lagged. But his government's handling of the protests has dented his international reputation. He has blamed the protests on a nebulous plot to destabilize his government and repeatedly lashed out at reports in foreign media and chatter in social media about the situation.The labor walkout was the second since the protests began. Another took place June 5.
"The first one, we said it's a warning for the government, to listen the streets, to listen the message from the demonstrators, and we asked them to stop this police violence," said Kivanc Eli Acik, a labor leader.
"But after that day, rather than stopping the violence, the excessive police violence and intervention is going much, much bigger. So this is the second warning, the second strong message to the government," he added.
___Keaten reported from Ankara, Turkey. Ezgi Akin in Ankara and Burak Sayin in Istanbul contributed.
Monday's rallies had a more structured feel compared with the counterculture-style sit-in at Gezi and spontaneous protests of recent weeks, which at times devolved into clashes between stone-throwing youths and riot police firing tear gas and water cannons.The rallies went on despite a warning from the interior minister that participants in unlawful demonstrations would "bear the legal consequences."In Ankara on Monday, thousands of demonstrators waving union flags, jumping and whistling converged at central Kizilay Square in an uneasy face-off about 50 meters away from riot police and a line of trucks.Turkey's NTV television reported that riot police issued warnings to the demonstrators to disperse, saying the rally was unlawful and authorities would take action if they did not. After about three hours, the protesters left peacefully.TV images showed hundreds marching in the Aegean Sea coastal city of Izmir.Behind the strikes were the KESK confederation of public sector workers and DISK, a confederation of labor unions from industries including transport, construction, health care and media. Together they say they represent 330,000 workers. Small unions that group professionals like dentists, doctors and engineers also joined in.Strikes, however, often have little visible impact on daily life in Turkey, a country of about 75 million, and the call to walk off the job Monday had limited fallout beyond the demonstrations.Unionists in Istanbul hoped to reach Taksim Square Monday afternoon. But police have maintained a lockdown on the square after unrest continued in pockets of the country overnight.The standoff between police and protesters began as an environmentalists' rally. But a police crackdown lit a fuse on much broader anger and morphed the movement into a protest against Erdogan's government.Erdogan's opponents have grown increasingly suspicious about what they consider a gradual erosion of freedoms and secular Turkish values under his Islamic-rooted party's government. It has passed new curbs on alcohol and tried, but later abandoned its plans, to limit women's access to abortion.Five people, including a policeman, have died and more than 5,000 have been injured, according to a Turkish rights group.Erdogan has been praised for shepherding Turkey to strong economic growth as many other world economies lagged. But his government's handling of the protests has dented his international reputation. He has blamed the protests on a nebulous plot to destabilize his government and repeatedly lashed out at reports in foreign media and chatter in social media about the situation.The labor walkout was the second since the protests began. Another took place June 5.
"The first one, we said it's a warning for the government, to listen the streets, to listen the message from the demonstrators, and we asked them to stop this police violence," said Kivanc Eli Acik, a labor leader.
"But after that day, rather than stopping the violence, the excessive police violence and intervention is going much, much bigger. So this is the second warning, the second strong message to the government," he added.
___Keaten reported from Ankara, Turkey. Ezgi Akin in Ankara and Burak Sayin in Istanbul contributed.
US stimulus hopes shore up markets
By | Associated Press – 36 mins ago JUNE 17,13
LONDON (AP) — Growing expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will maintain its current policy stance gave stocks a boost Monday.Concern that the Fed
would start reducing the amount of financial assets it is buying has
been the main factor behind the volatility that has gripped markets over
the past few weeks.
Investors were spooked in late May when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank might pull back on its aggressive support for the U.S. economy if indicators, especially hiring, improve.Policymakers at the Fed, who will start a two-day meeting Tuesday to discuss the central bank's next steps, will be greeted by a run of fairly disappointing economic data and investors now think they will persevere with the current policy.The Fed buys $85 billion in bonds every month as part of a campaign to keep interest rates extremely low. The aim is to encourage borrowing, spending and investing. Some investors worry that long-term interest rates could spike when the Fed pulls back, raising borrowing costs and threatening the economic recovery. Higher yields for government bonds have already started pushing mortgage rates up."We think it is too early for the Fed to change its monetary stance at this week's policy meeting," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. "However, the markets will be expecting some clarification of the Fed's intentions in the light of recent market volatility."In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.9 percent at 6,362 while Germany's DAX rose 1.5 percent to 8,252. The CAC-40 in France was 1.9 percent higher at 3,876.In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was up 1.1 percent at 15,232 while the broader S&P 500 index rose 1 percent to 1,644.An unexpected improvement in a manufacturing survey around the New York region and news that most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales for the first time in seven years had little market impact. The surveys from the Empire State and The National Association of Home Builders are both considered by investors to be of secondary importance.The meeting of leaders from the Group of Eight top industrial countries in Northern Ireland was on the radar but is not expected to yield much of interest to investors as the commentary in the run-up to the summit has been largely dominated by disagreements between Russia and the rest over war-riven Syria.
"With Britain chairing the discussions we can probably expect tax compliance and greater transparency at the forefront of the agenda, and little real impact on financial markets anticipated in the near term," said Brenda Kelly, senior market strategist at IG.Earlier in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei 225, the regional heavyweight, jumped 2.7 percent to close at 13,033.12, extending Friday's 2.4 percent gain. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 1.2 percent to 21,225.90 while South Korea's Kospi shed 0.3 percent to 1,883.10. Mainland Chinese stocks were mixed.One reason why Japanese shares did so well was renewed weakness in the yen following a recent rally — a lower yen makes the country's exports more competitive. The dollar was up 1.4 percent at 94.92 yen while the euro was steady at $1.3342.Oil prices were up alongside equities, with the benchmark New York rate up 29 cents at $98.14 a barrel.
Investors were spooked in late May when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank might pull back on its aggressive support for the U.S. economy if indicators, especially hiring, improve.Policymakers at the Fed, who will start a two-day meeting Tuesday to discuss the central bank's next steps, will be greeted by a run of fairly disappointing economic data and investors now think they will persevere with the current policy.The Fed buys $85 billion in bonds every month as part of a campaign to keep interest rates extremely low. The aim is to encourage borrowing, spending and investing. Some investors worry that long-term interest rates could spike when the Fed pulls back, raising borrowing costs and threatening the economic recovery. Higher yields for government bonds have already started pushing mortgage rates up."We think it is too early for the Fed to change its monetary stance at this week's policy meeting," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. "However, the markets will be expecting some clarification of the Fed's intentions in the light of recent market volatility."In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.9 percent at 6,362 while Germany's DAX rose 1.5 percent to 8,252. The CAC-40 in France was 1.9 percent higher at 3,876.In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was up 1.1 percent at 15,232 while the broader S&P 500 index rose 1 percent to 1,644.An unexpected improvement in a manufacturing survey around the New York region and news that most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales for the first time in seven years had little market impact. The surveys from the Empire State and The National Association of Home Builders are both considered by investors to be of secondary importance.The meeting of leaders from the Group of Eight top industrial countries in Northern Ireland was on the radar but is not expected to yield much of interest to investors as the commentary in the run-up to the summit has been largely dominated by disagreements between Russia and the rest over war-riven Syria.
"With Britain chairing the discussions we can probably expect tax compliance and greater transparency at the forefront of the agenda, and little real impact on financial markets anticipated in the near term," said Brenda Kelly, senior market strategist at IG.Earlier in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei 225, the regional heavyweight, jumped 2.7 percent to close at 13,033.12, extending Friday's 2.4 percent gain. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 1.2 percent to 21,225.90 while South Korea's Kospi shed 0.3 percent to 1,883.10. Mainland Chinese stocks were mixed.One reason why Japanese shares did so well was renewed weakness in the yen following a recent rally — a lower yen makes the country's exports more competitive. The dollar was up 1.4 percent at 94.92 yen while the euro was steady at $1.3342.Oil prices were up alongside equities, with the benchmark New York rate up 29 cents at $98.14 a barrel.
