KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
Relatives and friends of victims of the worst attack on Jews since World War II, which took place in Buenos Aires in 1994, are nominating Pope Francis for the Nobel Prize for Peace.The group announced this after a 90-minute private audience with him in the Vatican on July 5, during which he expressed support for their effort to find out the truth about the attack that happened nineteen years ago, and obtain justice.The attack took place on the morning of July 18, 1994. A car bomb destroyed the AMIA, (Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina), a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, leaving 85 dead and 300 wounded. It was the deadliest terrorist attack ever in Argentina's history and came just two years after the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy there. An official Argentinean government report in 2006 identified Iranian and Hezbollah figures as responsible for the attack but to-date no one has been brought to justice.“Count on me”, the Pope told them during the meeting. He encouraged them to continue their efforts because “this is the only way” and “it is necessary to arrive at the real truth as quickly as possible, which will take us to justice”. “only in that way can you have the peace you seek”. It is “only in this way that you can have the peace you seek”, he told them.“Sadly it is money not man that is in the image and likeness of God (today)”, the Pope said. “The rise and fall of the stock-markets in New York, Tokyo or London make more news that the deaths by violence or hunger that are happening in the world”, he added.At the time of the bombing, Bergoglio was an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, but he was the first public figure to sign a petition condemning the attack and calling for justice. Leaders of Argentina’s 250,000 Jews - most of them live in Buenos Aires, consider him a friend and are grateful for his solidarity then and his ongoing support. Jewish community leaders around the world noted that his words and actions "showed solidarity with the Jewish community" in the aftermath of that deadly attack.On the afternoon of July 5, family members and friends of the victims of the AMIA attack visited Pope Francis in Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse which he has made his residence. The group included Sergio Burstein– who thanked the Pope for ‘universalizing their quest for justice’. Other members of the group including three mothers who lost their sons - Rosa Barreiro , Olga Degtiar, Graciela Linial de Furman, and Daniel Komarovsky, They were accompanied by their human rights and international lawyers, Alicia Oliveira – a close friend of the Pope, and Eduardo Valdes.Rosa Barreiro, whose 5-year old son Sebastian was the youngest victim in the attack, said she was deeply moved by the meeting with Pope Francis. She gave him her child’s apron, the last piece of clothing she had of him.Another mother, Olga Degtiar, who lost her son Christian, told him “I do not want to die without knowing who killed him”, while Graciela Liniado de Furman, who also lost her son Fabian, said the meeting with the Pope was something that gave her the greatest happiness in these past 19 years..During the meeting, Daniel Komarovsky said he believed that the only way to reduce the distances between people is to promote the dialogue between religions, and in this context he proposed Pope Francis as the group’s candidate for the Nobel Prize for peace because of the work he has done.In a press statement issued after the meeting, the Group said Pope Francis explained that he is not accustomed to receive prizes or other distinctions, but felt he could not oppose the initiative since it came from a group of relatives of victims of the AMIA attack.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
It was supposed to be just an unveiling of a statue in the Vatican gardens: the bronze sculpture of the Archangel St Michael, an artistic work by Antonio Lomuscio, situated near the Governors palace. But with Pope Francesco nothing is ever what it seems, the same ordinary Vatican routine – Santa Marta docet – becomes distorted and surprises are sprung on a daily basis.The first surprise: this morning, just before nine o’clock, in front of a small crowd of a few hundred people, , there was someone else taking part in the inaugural event. Together with the Bishop of Rome there was also his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger was invited personally by Pope Francesco, and accepted willingly. The Pope emeritus was greeted warmly by those present – who even applauded him – dispensing smiles to all. On the same day that the Encyclical written by "quattro mani" Lumen Fidei, is being presented to the world penned by Francesco but with a predominant Ratzinger influence, Pope Bergoglio asked his predecessor to appear at a “run of the mill” public event and so nonchalantly dispersed all the hype about the "two Popes" manifested by hoards of frowning analysts. If it was not for them, the people "would not have understood" and "would have been confused."In reality , the people of God seem to understand instantly what is going on in Christ’s Church. Even in the friendship between Francesco and Benedict the sensus fidei captures a reflection of the light of grace that feeds and keeps the Church alive. Having Benedict present in the Vatican created no embarrassment for Francesco. He was happy for Benedict to receive the people as he does not want him to live an isolated life. For Pope Bergoglio, Ratzinger is like the “grandfather” of the Vatican.You just have to listen to the Bishop of Rome’s sermons - with memories of "Abuela Rosa," often cited as the one who taught the little Jorge Mario his first Christian prayers - to work out the full connection between the two. And so the reigning Pope scuppered the ruminations of those who would like eradicate the Pope emeritus, locked away in his golden circle. In the eyes of Bergoglio, the intention expressed by his predecessor to live the last years of his life in silence and prayer, remaining "on St. Peter’s doorstep," ipso facto places Ratzinger at the heart of Church life. For Francesco - as he said at the Angelus on Sunday - Ratzinger gave "a wonderful example of what it really means to consciously follow the will of Jesus." "The example of our Father - he repeated - is good for us, good for all of us to follow ." This is also why he wanted him close today and why he asked to share this symbolic and eloquent gesture with him.The unveiling of the bronze statue in the Vatican gardens turned into a consecration of the whole Vatican State to St Joseph and St Michael, the patron saints already chosen by the Governor. And so Francesco and Benedict have once again entrusted the capable care of the State to the foster father of Jesus and the Archangel, constantly fighting the devil along the way through poverty and generosity, devotion and opportunism, evangelical enthusiasm and corruption that live beyond the Leonine Walls. Including the skull -duggery of those random trains of thought where resistance and nervousness can grow. These so-called "operations" are formed in the shadows and then brought out by way of "loyal" channels and agents according to the typical cliché of clerical power struggles that have recently plagued the Church: "Complaining and ranting is their forte. They grumble, moan and criticise . They are in a bad mood and, what is worse, they bear grudges "(Charles Peguy).
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)
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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)
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim president held talks Saturday
with the army chief and interior minister following an outburst of
violence between supporters and opponents of ousted leader Mohammed
Morsi that killed at least 36 people across the country and deepened the
battle lines in the divided nation.Three days after the military
pushed out Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, the
country appears to be careening toward further conflict and turmoil.
Morsi's supporters have vowed to take to the streets until the toppled
Islamist leader is reinstated, while his opponents have called for more
mass rallies to defend what they call the "gains of June 30," a
reference to the start of massive protests to call for the ouster of the
president.With both sides digging in, the country's acting
president, Adly Mansour, met Saturday with army chief and Defense
Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as well as Interior Minister
Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police, at the Ittihadiya
presidential palace.It was the first time Mansour, a previously
little known senior judge, has worked out of the president's main
offices since he was sworn-in Thursday as the country's interim leader, a
day after the military shunted Morsi aside after four days of the
street protests that brought millions out into the streets.Mansour
also met Saturday with leaders of Tamrod, or Rebel, the youth movement
that organized the mass anti-Morsi demonstrations, according to the
officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to brief the media.Mansour
was recently appointed by Morsi as chief justice of the Supreme
Constitutional Court, and was only sworn in as the chief justice minutes
before he took the oath of office as president.He took the helm of a fiercely divided country.Enraged
by Morsi's overthrow, tens of thousands of the ousted president's
supporters poured into the streets Friday, holding rallies that they
have vowed to continue until the former leader is returned to office.Late
Friday, violence erupted in central Cairo as the rival camps clashed on
a bridge over the Nile River. Gunfire crackled in the streets and
flames leaped from a burning car. The chaotic scenes ended only after
the army rushed in with armored vehicles to separate the warring groups.The
clashes had accelerated after the supreme leader of Morsi's Muslim
Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, defiantly proclaimed his followers would
not give up street action until the toppled president's return to
office."God
make Morsi victorious and bring him back to the palace," Brotherhood
chief Mohammed Badie proclaimed Friday before cheering supporters at a
Cairo mosque in his first appearance since the overthrow. "We are his
soldiers we defend him with our lives."
Badie said it was a matter of honor for the military to abide by its pledge of loyalty to the president, in what appeared to be an attempt to pull it away from its leadership.Hours later, his deputy, Khairat el-Shater, considered the most powerful figure in the organization, was arrested in a Cairo apartment along with his brother on allegations of inciting violence, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif told The Associated Press.Across the country, clashes erupted as Morsi supporters tried to storm local government buildings or military facilities, battling police or Morsi opponents. Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of the national ambulance service, said at least 36 people were killed in Friday's clashes, the highest death toll in one day since the protests began last Sunday. Another 1,076 were injured.In his first public appearance since he was sworn in, Mansour was photographed at the Muslim Friday prayers, which he performed at a mosque near his house in a suburb west of Cairo."I want everyone to pray for me. Your prayers are what I need from you," he told worshippers who approached him to shake his hand and wish him well, according to the independent daily el-Tahrir.The paper said the president spoke to its reporter in a brief interview after the prayer. The president's office could not be immediately reached to confirm the comments."We all need national reconciliation and we will work to realize it," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "Egypt is for everyone."
By Mike Collett-White and Asma Alsharif
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt counted its dead on Saturday after Islamists enraged by the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi took to the streets in an explosion of violence against what they denounced as a military coup.At least 30 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded after Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood movement called "Friday of Rejection" protests across the country and tried to march on the military compound where the ousted president is held.The most deadly clashes were in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where 14 people died and 200 were wounded. In central Cairo, pro- and anti-Mursi protesters fought pitched battles late into the night with stones, knives, petrol bombs and clubs as armored personnel carriers rumbled among them.It took hours to restore calm. The Nile River bridges around the landmark Egyptian Museum where the street fights raged were still covered with the debris of rocks and shattered glass on Saturday morning. Both pro- and anti-Mursi activists remained encamped in different squares in the capital.The Health Ministry said 30 people were killed throughout Egypt on Friday, and 1,138 injured, state media reported.State-owned newspapers said the army-backed authorities that took power on Wednesday and suspended the constitution, would announce the appointment of a prime minister on Saturday to run the country during a transition period.Former U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, 71, a leading liberal politician, was seen as the most likely candidate to lead an administration focused on reviving a shattered economy and restoring civil peace and security.In an interview with Reuters, the country's main leftist leader, Hamdeen Sabahi, endorsed ElBaradei for the tough job, saying the transition should be short to amend the constitution and elect a new president and parliament.The military has given few details and no timeframe for a new ballot - adding to political uncertainty at a time when many Egyptians fear violence could polarize society even further.Egypt's first freely elected president was toppled after mass demonstrations against Muslim Brotherhood rule, the latest twist in a tumultuous two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region in 2011.
SINAI VIOLENCE
Five police officers were gunned down in separate incidents in the North Sinai town of El Arish, and while it was not clear whether the attacks were linked to Mursi's ouster, hardline Islamists there have warned they would fight back.There more attacks on army checkpoints in the lawless Sinai peninsula overnight and gunmen fired on central security building in the town of El-Arish, security sources said.A new Islamist group announced its formation in the lawless Sinai peninsula adjoining Israel and the Gaza Strip, calling the army's ousting of Mursi a declaration of war on their faith and threatening violence to impose Islamic law.The group, calling itself Ansar al-Shariah in Egypt, said it would gather arms and start training its members, in a statement posted on an online forum for militants in the country's Sinai region recorded by SITE Monitoring.The events of the last week have aroused concern among Egypt's allies in the West, including key donors the United States and the European Union, and in Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace treaty since 1979.Egyptian newspapers quoted ElBaradei as saying he expected Gulf Arab monarchies that were hostile to the Brotherhood's rule to pile in with financial support for the new authorities.Only gas-rich Qatar provided substantial funds to Mursi's government with a total of $7 billion in loans and grants. Turkey and Libya also provided smaller loans and deposits.Mursi's overthrow was greeted with wild scenes of celebration but infuriated supporters who fear a return to the suppression of Islamists they endured under military rule.It has deepened Egypt's crisis. The Brotherhood has spurned army invitations to join an inclusive transition plan, culminating in fresh elections, saying it will not recognize the "usurper authorities".
RISING TENSIONS
Early on Friday, three protesters were shot dead outside the Republican Guard barracks where deposed Mursi is being held, security sources said.The army denied responsibility for the shootings. An army spokesman said troops did not open fire on the demonstrators and soldiers used blank rounds and teargas to control the crowd.It was unclear whether other security forces were present.Later, tens of thousands of cheering Islamists gathered near a mosque in a Cairo suburb where they were addressed by Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, free to address them despite reports on Thursday that he had been arrested.
Badie, like some other leaders, pledge that it was worth "our lives" to restore Mursi to the presidency. But Brotherhood officials have also insisted they will not resort to violence.After dark, running battles broke out in the area between Tahrir Square, scene of the demonstrations that toppled Mubarak, and the state broadcasting headquarters. Reuters journalists saw hundreds of youths from either side skirmish around the highway ramps of a major bridge over the Nile.The violence will ring alarm bells in the United States. Washington has so far avoided referring to the army's removal of Mursi as a "coup", a word that under U.S. law would require a halt to its $1.5 billion in annual aid.But many Egyptians see the army as a guarantor of stability at a dangerous time for the world's most populous Arab nation."Maybe they will need to issue a curfew. Maybe the trouble will last a few days," said Said Asr, 41, sitting with friends outside a Cairo cafe smoking a cigarette. "But the army is everything in this country. And they are taking control."(Reporting by Asma Alsharif, Mike Collett-White, Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Alastair Macdonald, Sarah McFarlane, Shadia Nasralla, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Paul Taylor, and Patrick Werr in Cairo, Abdelrahman Youssef in Alexandria, Yursi Mohamed in Ismailia and Michelle Nichols in New York; Writing by Paul Taylor)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
(AP) — The ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has delivered a
sharp jolt to Gaza's Hamas rulers, robbing them of their most important
ally and raising difficult questions about the future of Islamic
political movements in the region.On Friday, Hamas Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh said he is "monitoring developments" in Gaza's larger
neighbor, and is hopeful relations will endure despite the crisis."We
are not afraid of losing our cause, no fear that our cause will be
absent from the Islamic nation's agenda, despite the difficulties and
hard circumstances that sometimes the Islamic nation faces," Haniyeh
said at Friday prayers.Earlier in the day, Egypt shut its border
crossing with the territory, citing security concerns after suspected
Islamic militants attacked four sites in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
One soldier was killed and three were wounded. Some 200 Palestinians
were turned back to Gaza after the order.Jittery Hamas officials
in Gaza have been otherwise quiet as they tried to adjust to the new
reality. But it appeared likely that after making important gains over
the past year, their group will see its regional standing weakened, at
least in the short term. The rival Palestinian movement Fatah, which
lost control of Gaza to Hamas six years ago, welcomed the changes in
Egypt."I am sure that Hamas is carefully considering every move
and every word. This is a strike at the heart of the experience of the
Muslim Brotherhood in power," said Atef Ahmad, a Gaza political analyst.
"Hamas is now in a difficult situation."Relations with Egypt are
critical to Gaza. Gaza shares a border with Egypt and shares important
cultural ties with its larger neighbor, which controlled the seaside
strip before it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel
and Hamas are bitter enemies, so Egypt is the primary gateway for Gazans
to leave the territory. Egypt is also a key supplier of goods, ranging
from fuel to building materials to cars and foods, much of it through an
illicit system of smuggling tunnels along the border.The streets
of Gaza were quiet on Thursday, a vivid contrast to the wild
celebrations that erupted just a year ago when Morsi won Egypt's first
democratic election.Shopkeepers were glued to TV and radio
broadcasts from Egypt. Hamas' al-Aqsa TV station provided brief hourly
updates about Egypt but otherwise ignored the situation, while Hamas
supporters posted Quranic verses about patience and victory on Facebook
and other social media pages."I think that Egypt's relations with
Gaza will be tepid for a short while, but will return back to normal,"
said Mustafa Sawaf, a pro-Hamas commentator. "The public interest
requires a strong relationship between Gaza and Egypt."Morsi
and Hamas both come from the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood movement, and
his victory was seen as a ringing endorsement of the group's rigid
Islamist ideology. Morsi quickly ushered in an era of new relations with
Hamas after years of strained ties with his predecessor, the longtime
Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak.While Mubarak limited contact with
Hamas to security matters along the border, Morsi gave Hamas rulers VIP
treatment. Hamas leaders were permitted to travel freely across the
Egyptian border and were welcomed in Cairo as legitimate political
rulers.Morsi also eased some restrictions on travel of everyday
people in and out of Gaza, and personally sponsored a cease-fire last
November between Israel and Hamas after eight days of heavy fighting. In
a show of solidarity, Morsi sent his prime minister to Gaza during the
fighting.Not everything that Morsi did was to Hamas' liking,
however. He carefully preserved Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel,
despite his personal hostility toward the Jewish state. And in recent
weeks, Egyptian forces have cracked down on the smuggling tunnels to
contain militant groups operating in the area. The crackdown has
resulted in shortages of certain key goods, including fuel and cement.Nonetheless,
Morsi, as leader of the Arab world's largest and most powerful nation,
was widely seen as a friend to Gaza and an important symbol of hope that
Islamist groups would spread their influence across the region in the
wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.Late Wednesday, the Egyptian
military toppled Morsi, saying it had acted in the name of millions of
Egyptians who believed that Morsi had warped the democratic process and
abused his power. The crackdown continued Thursday with the arrests of
top Muslim Brotherhood figures, including its supreme leader.Everyday Gazans greeted the news of Morsi's downfall with a mixture of resignation and trepidation."We
as Palestinian people, whatever the Egyptian people want, we support
them," said Gaza resident Maher al-Kitnani. "We are not with the
government, we are with the people."But Said Dukhan, a vegetable grocer in Gaza City, said he feared for Gaza's future.
"Egypt is our gateway to the world, so there is no doubt that anything that happens there will affect us here," he said. "Egypt has responsibilities toward Gaza and any leader should keep this in mind. Otherwise, we will suffer."Hamas seized control of Gaza after several days of fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. The Palestinians have been divided between two rival governments since then, Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The Palestinians seek to build a state in both territories, located on opposite sides of Israel, but repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed.Fatah officials did little to conceal their happiness over the Muslim Brotherhood's failure in Egypt, and even expressed hope that it would lead to a collapse of the Hamas government as well."We salute the Egyptian people who have expressed their will," said Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Fatah official in the West Bank.
"I think this is the end of the Muslim Brotherhood project" across the region, he added. "It's time for us to return Gaza and reunite our country, which was split by the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's now much easier than during Morsi."In Israel, leaders and military officials were closely following the developments in Egypt but declined to comment publicly.Earlier this week, as the turmoil was unfolding, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to take sides, saying only that he hoped Egypt would keep the peace with Israel.The 1979 treaty has been a critical component of Israeli security, allowing the military to divert resources to volatile fronts with Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. Israeli officials say security cooperation between the two militaries has remained strong during the Morsi era and even during the past few days of unrest.Efraim Halevy, a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, said the ouster of Morsi could spell trouble for the Muslim Brotherhood across the region."What happened now is that in the pan-Arab view a change has taken place, and it could be that a bigger change will happen in everything related to a general Islamic campaign in different countries in the Middle East," he told Israel Radio. "I think it is very important to pay attention to this aspect and not just the internal Egyptian aspect."___Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
AS WELL AS THIS NEXT HEADLINE.A PASTOR WAS KILLED IN EGYPTS PROTESTS OR RIOTS.
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants attacked a
boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29
students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the
latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.Farmer
Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot
in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot
in the chest."That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school,"
he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said
he had three younger children in a nearby school."It's not safe," he said. "The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers."Survivors
at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked
Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers (3 miles)
from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday. The gunmen are believed to
be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western education is
sacrilege."They killed 29 students and an English teacher
Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest according to another teacher,
Ibrahim Abdu."We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.He
put his arm up in defense, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all
four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.He
said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to
torch the school's administrative block and one of the hostels."They burned the children alive," he said, the horror showing in his wide eyes.He
and teachers at the morgue said dozens of children from the
1,200-student school escaped into the bush but have not been seen since.Some bodies are so charred they could not be identified, so many parents do not know if their children survived or died.Islamic
militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than
1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010,
according to an Associated Press count.Scores of schools have been burned down in the past year in northeast Nigeria.President
Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14, and deployed
thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants
had taken control of some towns and villages.The military has
claimed success in regaining control of the area — the states of
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe . However, the area covers some 155,000 square
kilometers (60,000 square miles) or one-sixth of the sprawling country.Soldiers say they have killed and arrested hundreds of fighters.
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers on vaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military's shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.___Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops have advanced into rebel-held
areas of the city of Homs, occupying buildings after pummeling the area
with artillery that drove out opposition fighters, an activist said
Saturday.
The push into Khaldiyeh district was the first significant gain for troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, who have been waging an eight-day campaign to seize parts of the central Syrian city in rebel hands for over a year.Tariq Badrakhan, an activist based in the neighborhood, said government troops used rockets, mortars and cannon fire to flush out the area's "first line of defenses" on Friday evening. The offensive continued Saturday morning, he said via Skype, as explosions were heard in the background.
"We feel like they are shaking the sky," Badrakhan said.Another activist said eight rebels were killed in the fighting. He requested anonymity because rebels have accused him in the past of damaging their morale by reporting their casualties.Syria has been embroiled in a civil war since a peaceful uprising against the Assad regime two years ago turned into armed revolt after a violent government crackdown.Government forces, sometimes bolstered by fighters of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, have launched a major countrywide offensive to reclaim territory lost to rebels, who operate in chaotic groups with ideologies ranging from secular to hardline Islamic extremists.Hardline Sunni Muslims from other countries have also joined the fighting, which has left more than 93,000 people dead.In other violence Saturday, government troops battled rebels in the Damascus suburb of Qaboun, as the regime tries to push opposition forces further away from the capital, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.State-run television said government forces seized control of the area, adding that the move had cut off rebel weapons supplies and movement between the neighborhoods of Jobar, Qaboun, Zamalka and Harasta.Homs location between Damascus and the Syrian coast, a stronghold for the Assad regime, makes it a strategic prize.Activist Badrakhan said fighters in the Khaldiyeh district had held out until Friday evening, when they were hit with explosions that killed some and caused others to flee.He provided The Associated Press with three videos showing a series of fighters lying on flimsy mattresses in what was described as a makeshift clinic in Khaldiyeh. The faces and hands of four men appeared blackened with burns.Clashes and shelling continued Saturday in neighborhoods around Homs' Old City, said another Homs-based activist who gave his name only as Nedal for fear of government reprisals.He said shelling had intensified since Friday morning and Syrian military intelligence forces were arresting people suspected of being loyal to the rebels."They are taken and it's a death sentence," he said. "They disappear."_______Follow Hadid on twitter.com/diaahadid.
Explosions rocked several army
ammunition depots in the western Syrian province of Latakia on Friday,
possibly after they were targeted with rockets, the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights said, according to the AFP news agency.Observatory director Rami Abdel
Rahman said there were reports of deaths and injuries in the blasts but
he had no further details."Explosions around dawn today
rocked an area... in the east of Latakia apparently as a result of
blasts in ammunitions depots near a brigade of regime forces," the
Observatory said in an email quoted by AFP.Abdel Rahman said there were
indications that the blasts were caused by rocket fire targeting the
depots, but that there was uncertainty over who was behind the attack.
A military source told the website of Hizbullah’s Al-Manar that the rockets were fired from hotspots in the northern countryside.The military source denied that “this operation targeted the military barrack from the sea or airspace.”Syrian officials did not officially comment on the incident, but Israel’s Channel 10 News reported that a website affiliated with the Syrian rebels blamed Israel for it.Elsewhere in the country, the Syrian air force carried out at least three raids on besieged sectors of the central city of Homs, where troops have been battling to roll back rebel forces, reported AFP.The Observatory reported heavy shelling on Khaldiyeh district and the Old City of Homs, adding that regime forces backed by the National Defense Force militia and members of Hizbullah were fighting rebels on the outskirts of Khaldiyeh.The group said eight regime forces were killed in fighting on Thursday in the two neighborhoods of Homs, which have been under siege by the army for more than a year.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
LEVITICUS 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
LEVITICUS 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
PSALMS 14:1
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
By Brad Poole
BISBEE, Arizona (Reuters) - The liberal enclave of Bisbee in southeast Arizona bucked the state's conservative leanings by registering same-sex couples for civil unions on Friday, with two lesbians becoming the first to take the step.In April the former copper mining town defied the state's Republican attorney general by approving a civil unions measure for same-sex couples. A modified version went into effect on Friday.Arizona law does not recognize same-sex unions. But now couples can go to Bisbee City Hall to sign documents assigning powers of attorney to each other.Kathy Sowden and Deborah Grier, who own an antique store in town and have been together for 21 years, were the first to get a civil union certificate.
The couple signed documents, strolled down a hallway to pay the $76 fee, and it was done."I guess it feels like it sort of solidifies the relationship with the rest of the world. That's why we did it - because it does give you another level of security legally," Sowden, 57, said."And there's a little extra happiness in here," Grier, 63, added, patting her heart with her palm and smiling at her partner.The documents give them the ability to visit each other in hospitals, talk to doctors for the other partner, have access to medical records and make decisions for each other, such as in the case of organ donation.Though the registration of the contractual agreements is with Bisbee, it offers protection beyond the town, said City Attorney John MacKinnon. "These delegations of authority would be applicable anywhere," he said.The ordinance also allows employees of the town to access a partner's medical benefits through a civil union, regardless of whether they are in same-sex or heterosexual partnerships.The Bisbee City Council's vote to approve the civil unions measure prompted a warning from Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, a Republican.He said Bisbee lacked the authority under state law to pass the ordinance and threatened to go to court to block it.Arizona does not have a law entitling same-sex couples to civil unions, and voters in 2008 approved a change to the state constitution restricting marriage to between a man and a woman.After a meeting with Horne, Bisbee officials softened the language in their ordinance, dropping references that said the city's civil unions would confer rights equivalent to marriage.Horne said in May he withdrew his objection after the city agreed not to change any state laws within its jurisdictions.Laws permitting gay and lesbian civil unions or domestic partnerships have been approved in more than half a dozen U.S. states. Eleven states recognize same-sex marriage, and laws to accomplish that in two more states go into effect on August 1.In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court last month forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages in states where it is legal and in a separate ruling it cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California.(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Xavier Briand)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
07/ 6/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Argentinean Jewish group proposes pope Francis for Nobel Peace prize
The Pope with his friends
Pope Francis met relatives of the worst anti-Jewish attack in Argentina’s history, and supported their efforts to discover the truth and obtain justice. They are nominating him for the Nobel Prize for Peace, for the work he did
Gerard O'Connell RomeRelatives and friends of victims of the worst attack on Jews since World War II, which took place in Buenos Aires in 1994, are nominating Pope Francis for the Nobel Prize for Peace.The group announced this after a 90-minute private audience with him in the Vatican on July 5, during which he expressed support for their effort to find out the truth about the attack that happened nineteen years ago, and obtain justice.The attack took place on the morning of July 18, 1994. A car bomb destroyed the AMIA, (Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina), a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, leaving 85 dead and 300 wounded. It was the deadliest terrorist attack ever in Argentina's history and came just two years after the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy there. An official Argentinean government report in 2006 identified Iranian and Hezbollah figures as responsible for the attack but to-date no one has been brought to justice.“Count on me”, the Pope told them during the meeting. He encouraged them to continue their efforts because “this is the only way” and “it is necessary to arrive at the real truth as quickly as possible, which will take us to justice”. “only in that way can you have the peace you seek”. It is “only in this way that you can have the peace you seek”, he told them.“Sadly it is money not man that is in the image and likeness of God (today)”, the Pope said. “The rise and fall of the stock-markets in New York, Tokyo or London make more news that the deaths by violence or hunger that are happening in the world”, he added.At the time of the bombing, Bergoglio was an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, but he was the first public figure to sign a petition condemning the attack and calling for justice. Leaders of Argentina’s 250,000 Jews - most of them live in Buenos Aires, consider him a friend and are grateful for his solidarity then and his ongoing support. Jewish community leaders around the world noted that his words and actions "showed solidarity with the Jewish community" in the aftermath of that deadly attack.On the afternoon of July 5, family members and friends of the victims of the AMIA attack visited Pope Francis in Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse which he has made his residence. The group included Sergio Burstein– who thanked the Pope for ‘universalizing their quest for justice’. Other members of the group including three mothers who lost their sons - Rosa Barreiro , Olga Degtiar, Graciela Linial de Furman, and Daniel Komarovsky, They were accompanied by their human rights and international lawyers, Alicia Oliveira – a close friend of the Pope, and Eduardo Valdes.Rosa Barreiro, whose 5-year old son Sebastian was the youngest victim in the attack, said she was deeply moved by the meeting with Pope Francis. She gave him her child’s apron, the last piece of clothing she had of him.Another mother, Olga Degtiar, who lost her son Christian, told him “I do not want to die without knowing who killed him”, while Graciela Liniado de Furman, who also lost her son Fabian, said the meeting with the Pope was something that gave her the greatest happiness in these past 19 years..During the meeting, Daniel Komarovsky said he believed that the only way to reduce the distances between people is to promote the dialogue between religions, and in this context he proposed Pope Francis as the group’s candidate for the Nobel Prize for peace because of the work he has done.In a press statement issued after the meeting, the Group said Pope Francis explained that he is not accustomed to receive prizes or other distinctions, but felt he could not oppose the initiative since it came from a group of relatives of victims of the AMIA attack.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
07/ 5/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Francis (with Benedict) dedicates the Vatican to St Michael
The blessing of the statue
The Bishop of Rome – in the presence of his predecessor – unveils a statue of St Michael in the Vatican gardens. And places the Vatican city under the protection of the Archangel St Joseph
Gianni Valente Vatican CityIt was supposed to be just an unveiling of a statue in the Vatican gardens: the bronze sculpture of the Archangel St Michael, an artistic work by Antonio Lomuscio, situated near the Governors palace. But with Pope Francesco nothing is ever what it seems, the same ordinary Vatican routine – Santa Marta docet – becomes distorted and surprises are sprung on a daily basis.The first surprise: this morning, just before nine o’clock, in front of a small crowd of a few hundred people, , there was someone else taking part in the inaugural event. Together with the Bishop of Rome there was also his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger was invited personally by Pope Francesco, and accepted willingly. The Pope emeritus was greeted warmly by those present – who even applauded him – dispensing smiles to all. On the same day that the Encyclical written by "quattro mani" Lumen Fidei, is being presented to the world penned by Francesco but with a predominant Ratzinger influence, Pope Bergoglio asked his predecessor to appear at a “run of the mill” public event and so nonchalantly dispersed all the hype about the "two Popes" manifested by hoards of frowning analysts. If it was not for them, the people "would not have understood" and "would have been confused."In reality , the people of God seem to understand instantly what is going on in Christ’s Church. Even in the friendship between Francesco and Benedict the sensus fidei captures a reflection of the light of grace that feeds and keeps the Church alive. Having Benedict present in the Vatican created no embarrassment for Francesco. He was happy for Benedict to receive the people as he does not want him to live an isolated life. For Pope Bergoglio, Ratzinger is like the “grandfather” of the Vatican.You just have to listen to the Bishop of Rome’s sermons - with memories of "Abuela Rosa," often cited as the one who taught the little Jorge Mario his first Christian prayers - to work out the full connection between the two. And so the reigning Pope scuppered the ruminations of those who would like eradicate the Pope emeritus, locked away in his golden circle. In the eyes of Bergoglio, the intention expressed by his predecessor to live the last years of his life in silence and prayer, remaining "on St. Peter’s doorstep," ipso facto places Ratzinger at the heart of Church life. For Francesco - as he said at the Angelus on Sunday - Ratzinger gave "a wonderful example of what it really means to consciously follow the will of Jesus." "The example of our Father - he repeated - is good for us, good for all of us to follow ." This is also why he wanted him close today and why he asked to share this symbolic and eloquent gesture with him.The unveiling of the bronze statue in the Vatican gardens turned into a consecration of the whole Vatican State to St Joseph and St Michael, the patron saints already chosen by the Governor. And so Francesco and Benedict have once again entrusted the capable care of the State to the foster father of Jesus and the Archangel, constantly fighting the devil along the way through poverty and generosity, devotion and opportunism, evangelical enthusiasm and corruption that live beyond the Leonine Walls. Including the skull -duggery of those random trains of thought where resistance and nervousness can grow. These so-called "operations" are formed in the shadows and then brought out by way of "loyal" channels and agents according to the typical cliché of clerical power struggles that have recently plagued the Church: "Complaining and ranting is their forte. They grumble, moan and criticise . They are in a bad mood and, what is worse, they bear grudges "(Charles Peguy).
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)
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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)
Egypt: Interim president meets with army chief
Badie said it was a matter of honor for the military to abide by its pledge of loyalty to the president, in what appeared to be an attempt to pull it away from its leadership.Hours later, his deputy, Khairat el-Shater, considered the most powerful figure in the organization, was arrested in a Cairo apartment along with his brother on allegations of inciting violence, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif told The Associated Press.Across the country, clashes erupted as Morsi supporters tried to storm local government buildings or military facilities, battling police or Morsi opponents. Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of the national ambulance service, said at least 36 people were killed in Friday's clashes, the highest death toll in one day since the protests began last Sunday. Another 1,076 were injured.In his first public appearance since he was sworn in, Mansour was photographed at the Muslim Friday prayers, which he performed at a mosque near his house in a suburb west of Cairo."I want everyone to pray for me. Your prayers are what I need from you," he told worshippers who approached him to shake his hand and wish him well, according to the independent daily el-Tahrir.The paper said the president spoke to its reporter in a brief interview after the prayer. The president's office could not be immediately reached to confirm the comments."We all need national reconciliation and we will work to realize it," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "Egypt is for everyone."
Egypt counts dead after Islamist protest violence
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt counted its dead on Saturday after Islamists enraged by the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi took to the streets in an explosion of violence against what they denounced as a military coup.At least 30 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded after Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood movement called "Friday of Rejection" protests across the country and tried to march on the military compound where the ousted president is held.The most deadly clashes were in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where 14 people died and 200 were wounded. In central Cairo, pro- and anti-Mursi protesters fought pitched battles late into the night with stones, knives, petrol bombs and clubs as armored personnel carriers rumbled among them.It took hours to restore calm. The Nile River bridges around the landmark Egyptian Museum where the street fights raged were still covered with the debris of rocks and shattered glass on Saturday morning. Both pro- and anti-Mursi activists remained encamped in different squares in the capital.The Health Ministry said 30 people were killed throughout Egypt on Friday, and 1,138 injured, state media reported.State-owned newspapers said the army-backed authorities that took power on Wednesday and suspended the constitution, would announce the appointment of a prime minister on Saturday to run the country during a transition period.Former U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, 71, a leading liberal politician, was seen as the most likely candidate to lead an administration focused on reviving a shattered economy and restoring civil peace and security.In an interview with Reuters, the country's main leftist leader, Hamdeen Sabahi, endorsed ElBaradei for the tough job, saying the transition should be short to amend the constitution and elect a new president and parliament.The military has given few details and no timeframe for a new ballot - adding to political uncertainty at a time when many Egyptians fear violence could polarize society even further.Egypt's first freely elected president was toppled after mass demonstrations against Muslim Brotherhood rule, the latest twist in a tumultuous two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region in 2011.
SINAI VIOLENCE
Five police officers were gunned down in separate incidents in the North Sinai town of El Arish, and while it was not clear whether the attacks were linked to Mursi's ouster, hardline Islamists there have warned they would fight back.There more attacks on army checkpoints in the lawless Sinai peninsula overnight and gunmen fired on central security building in the town of El-Arish, security sources said.A new Islamist group announced its formation in the lawless Sinai peninsula adjoining Israel and the Gaza Strip, calling the army's ousting of Mursi a declaration of war on their faith and threatening violence to impose Islamic law.The group, calling itself Ansar al-Shariah in Egypt, said it would gather arms and start training its members, in a statement posted on an online forum for militants in the country's Sinai region recorded by SITE Monitoring.The events of the last week have aroused concern among Egypt's allies in the West, including key donors the United States and the European Union, and in Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace treaty since 1979.Egyptian newspapers quoted ElBaradei as saying he expected Gulf Arab monarchies that were hostile to the Brotherhood's rule to pile in with financial support for the new authorities.Only gas-rich Qatar provided substantial funds to Mursi's government with a total of $7 billion in loans and grants. Turkey and Libya also provided smaller loans and deposits.Mursi's overthrow was greeted with wild scenes of celebration but infuriated supporters who fear a return to the suppression of Islamists they endured under military rule.It has deepened Egypt's crisis. The Brotherhood has spurned army invitations to join an inclusive transition plan, culminating in fresh elections, saying it will not recognize the "usurper authorities".
RISING TENSIONS
Early on Friday, three protesters were shot dead outside the Republican Guard barracks where deposed Mursi is being held, security sources said.The army denied responsibility for the shootings. An army spokesman said troops did not open fire on the demonstrators and soldiers used blank rounds and teargas to control the crowd.It was unclear whether other security forces were present.Later, tens of thousands of cheering Islamists gathered near a mosque in a Cairo suburb where they were addressed by Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, free to address them despite reports on Thursday that he had been arrested.
Badie, like some other leaders, pledge that it was worth "our lives" to restore Mursi to the presidency. But Brotherhood officials have also insisted they will not resort to violence.After dark, running battles broke out in the area between Tahrir Square, scene of the demonstrations that toppled Mubarak, and the state broadcasting headquarters. Reuters journalists saw hundreds of youths from either side skirmish around the highway ramps of a major bridge over the Nile.The violence will ring alarm bells in the United States. Washington has so far avoided referring to the army's removal of Mursi as a "coup", a word that under U.S. law would require a halt to its $1.5 billion in annual aid.But many Egyptians see the army as a guarantor of stability at a dangerous time for the world's most populous Arab nation."Maybe they will need to issue a curfew. Maybe the trouble will last a few days," said Said Asr, 41, sitting with friends outside a Cairo cafe smoking a cigarette. "But the army is everything in this country. And they are taking control."(Reporting by Asma Alsharif, Mike Collett-White, Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Alastair Macdonald, Sarah McFarlane, Shadia Nasralla, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Paul Taylor, and Patrick Werr in Cairo, Abdelrahman Youssef in Alexandria, Yursi Mohamed in Ismailia and Michelle Nichols in New York; Writing by Paul Taylor)
Egyptian turmoil jolts Gaza's Hamas rulers
"Egypt is our gateway to the world, so there is no doubt that anything that happens there will affect us here," he said. "Egypt has responsibilities toward Gaza and any leader should keep this in mind. Otherwise, we will suffer."Hamas seized control of Gaza after several days of fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. The Palestinians have been divided between two rival governments since then, Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The Palestinians seek to build a state in both territories, located on opposite sides of Israel, but repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed.Fatah officials did little to conceal their happiness over the Muslim Brotherhood's failure in Egypt, and even expressed hope that it would lead to a collapse of the Hamas government as well."We salute the Egyptian people who have expressed their will," said Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Fatah official in the West Bank.
"I think this is the end of the Muslim Brotherhood project" across the region, he added. "It's time for us to return Gaza and reunite our country, which was split by the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's now much easier than during Morsi."In Israel, leaders and military officials were closely following the developments in Egypt but declined to comment publicly.Earlier this week, as the turmoil was unfolding, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to take sides, saying only that he hoped Egypt would keep the peace with Israel.The 1979 treaty has been a critical component of Israeli security, allowing the military to divert resources to volatile fronts with Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. Israeli officials say security cooperation between the two militaries has remained strong during the Morsi era and even during the past few days of unrest.Efraim Halevy, a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, said the ouster of Morsi could spell trouble for the Muslim Brotherhood across the region."What happened now is that in the pan-Arab view a change has taken place, and it could be that a bigger change will happen in everything related to a general Islamic campaign in different countries in the Middle East," he told Israel Radio. "I think it is very important to pay attention to this aspect and not just the internal Egyptian aspect."___Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
AS WELL AS THIS NEXT HEADLINE.A PASTOR WAS KILLED IN EGYPTS PROTESTS OR RIOTS.
30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers on vaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military's shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.___Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
Syrian troops advance in rebel-held parts of Homs
The push into Khaldiyeh district was the first significant gain for troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, who have been waging an eight-day campaign to seize parts of the central Syrian city in rebel hands for over a year.Tariq Badrakhan, an activist based in the neighborhood, said government troops used rockets, mortars and cannon fire to flush out the area's "first line of defenses" on Friday evening. The offensive continued Saturday morning, he said via Skype, as explosions were heard in the background.
"We feel like they are shaking the sky," Badrakhan said.Another activist said eight rebels were killed in the fighting. He requested anonymity because rebels have accused him in the past of damaging their morale by reporting their casualties.Syria has been embroiled in a civil war since a peaceful uprising against the Assad regime two years ago turned into armed revolt after a violent government crackdown.Government forces, sometimes bolstered by fighters of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, have launched a major countrywide offensive to reclaim territory lost to rebels, who operate in chaotic groups with ideologies ranging from secular to hardline Islamic extremists.Hardline Sunni Muslims from other countries have also joined the fighting, which has left more than 93,000 people dead.In other violence Saturday, government troops battled rebels in the Damascus suburb of Qaboun, as the regime tries to push opposition forces further away from the capital, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.State-run television said government forces seized control of the area, adding that the move had cut off rebel weapons supplies and movement between the neighborhoods of Jobar, Qaboun, Zamalka and Harasta.Homs location between Damascus and the Syrian coast, a stronghold for the Assad regime, makes it a strategic prize.Activist Badrakhan said fighters in the Khaldiyeh district had held out until Friday evening, when they were hit with explosions that killed some and caused others to flee.He provided The Associated Press with three videos showing a series of fighters lying on flimsy mattresses in what was described as a makeshift clinic in Khaldiyeh. The faces and hands of four men appeared blackened with burns.Clashes and shelling continued Saturday in neighborhoods around Homs' Old City, said another Homs-based activist who gave his name only as Nedal for fear of government reprisals.He said shelling had intensified since Friday morning and Syrian military intelligence forces were arresting people suspected of being loyal to the rebels."They are taken and it's a death sentence," he said. "They disappear."_______Follow Hadid on twitter.com/diaahadid.
Explosions Rock Ammunition Depots in Syria
Explosions rocked several army ammunition depots in Latakia, possibly after they were targeted with rockets.By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 7/5/2013, 9:10 PM-Israelnationalnews
Destruction in Syria-AFP photo
A military source told the website of Hizbullah’s Al-Manar that the rockets were fired from hotspots in the northern countryside.The military source denied that “this operation targeted the military barrack from the sea or airspace.”Syrian officials did not officially comment on the incident, but Israel’s Channel 10 News reported that a website affiliated with the Syrian rebels blamed Israel for it.Elsewhere in the country, the Syrian air force carried out at least three raids on besieged sectors of the central city of Homs, where troops have been battling to roll back rebel forces, reported AFP.The Observatory reported heavy shelling on Khaldiyeh district and the Old City of Homs, adding that regime forces backed by the National Defense Force militia and members of Hizbullah were fighting rebels on the outskirts of Khaldiyeh.The group said eight regime forces were killed in fighting on Thursday in the two neighborhoods of Homs, which have been under siege by the army for more than a year.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
LEVITICUS 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
LEVITICUS 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
PSALMS 14:1
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Arizona town signs up first couple for same-sex civil union
BISBEE, Arizona (Reuters) - The liberal enclave of Bisbee in southeast Arizona bucked the state's conservative leanings by registering same-sex couples for civil unions on Friday, with two lesbians becoming the first to take the step.In April the former copper mining town defied the state's Republican attorney general by approving a civil unions measure for same-sex couples. A modified version went into effect on Friday.Arizona law does not recognize same-sex unions. But now couples can go to Bisbee City Hall to sign documents assigning powers of attorney to each other.Kathy Sowden and Deborah Grier, who own an antique store in town and have been together for 21 years, were the first to get a civil union certificate.
The couple signed documents, strolled down a hallway to pay the $76 fee, and it was done."I guess it feels like it sort of solidifies the relationship with the rest of the world. That's why we did it - because it does give you another level of security legally," Sowden, 57, said."And there's a little extra happiness in here," Grier, 63, added, patting her heart with her palm and smiling at her partner.The documents give them the ability to visit each other in hospitals, talk to doctors for the other partner, have access to medical records and make decisions for each other, such as in the case of organ donation.Though the registration of the contractual agreements is with Bisbee, it offers protection beyond the town, said City Attorney John MacKinnon. "These delegations of authority would be applicable anywhere," he said.The ordinance also allows employees of the town to access a partner's medical benefits through a civil union, regardless of whether they are in same-sex or heterosexual partnerships.The Bisbee City Council's vote to approve the civil unions measure prompted a warning from Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, a Republican.He said Bisbee lacked the authority under state law to pass the ordinance and threatened to go to court to block it.Arizona does not have a law entitling same-sex couples to civil unions, and voters in 2008 approved a change to the state constitution restricting marriage to between a man and a woman.After a meeting with Horne, Bisbee officials softened the language in their ordinance, dropping references that said the city's civil unions would confer rights equivalent to marriage.Horne said in May he withdrew his objection after the city agreed not to change any state laws within its jurisdictions.Laws permitting gay and lesbian civil unions or domestic partnerships have been approved in more than half a dozen U.S. states. Eleven states recognize same-sex marriage, and laws to accomplish that in two more states go into effect on August 1.In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court last month forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages in states where it is legal and in a separate ruling it cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California.(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Xavier Briand)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
Banking union bill to be published next week, confirms Barroso
Today @ 06:55 JULY 6,13
Speaking in Vilnius, prior to the opening ceremony launching
Lithuania's six month EU presidency, Commission boss Jose Manuel Barroso
confirmed that the legislation would be released by the bloc's
financial services commissioner, Michel Barnier, on Wednesday.The EU executive arm is expected to set up a common resolution authority for the eurozone to wind up ailing banks.Ministers must agree their position by the end of the year, said
Barroso, adding that the regulation was needed to "put banking union on
firm foundations".Last week, EU finance ministers reached agreement on their
negotiating stance on the bank resolution and recovery directive, seen
as a precursor for more integrated banking rules for eurozone countries,
which includes measures to 'bail in' bank shareholders and creditors in
the event of a bank crisis.
However, policy makers will have to act fast. With federal elections in Germany set to take place in late September and expected to lead to up to six weeks of talks to form a new coalition government, there is unlikely to be any movement on the proposal until November. Both Angela Merkel's CDU and the social democrat opposition are reluctant to agree to a eurozone resolution authority without treaty change.
Meanwhile, Barroso confirmed that two EU-US working groups set up to look into revelations that US security services had bugged EU institutions would start work on Monday (8 July), the same day as the first round of talks on an EU-US free trade agreement. Commission officials will represent the EU in the working groups tasked with assessing whether the data protection and privacy rights of Europeans had been breached. However, questions relating to spying for national intelligence purposes would be dealt with by member states dealing directly with the US, he said.The Lithuanian presidency marks the first time that one of the three baltic countries has had control of the EU's legislative machine, and the Lithuanian government has made it clear that it intends to devote some its political capital to the EU's relations with eastern Europe.
In particular, Lithuanian officials are keen to sign off on an economic association agreement between the Ukraine and the EU amid concerns that failure to bring the Ukraine closer to the EU could help drive Viktor Yanukovych's government into the arms of Russia.Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite commented that the Ukrainian government had "at least three urgent pieces of homework" to do before a deal could be reached, identifying selective justice, judicial independence and electoral reform as the main items of contention."Provided they do their part of the job, they should be offered closer economic integration," added Barroso.
However, policy makers will have to act fast. With federal elections in Germany set to take place in late September and expected to lead to up to six weeks of talks to form a new coalition government, there is unlikely to be any movement on the proposal until November. Both Angela Merkel's CDU and the social democrat opposition are reluctant to agree to a eurozone resolution authority without treaty change.
Meanwhile, Barroso confirmed that two EU-US working groups set up to look into revelations that US security services had bugged EU institutions would start work on Monday (8 July), the same day as the first round of talks on an EU-US free trade agreement. Commission officials will represent the EU in the working groups tasked with assessing whether the data protection and privacy rights of Europeans had been breached. However, questions relating to spying for national intelligence purposes would be dealt with by member states dealing directly with the US, he said.The Lithuanian presidency marks the first time that one of the three baltic countries has had control of the EU's legislative machine, and the Lithuanian government has made it clear that it intends to devote some its political capital to the EU's relations with eastern Europe.
In particular, Lithuanian officials are keen to sign off on an economic association agreement between the Ukraine and the EU amid concerns that failure to bring the Ukraine closer to the EU could help drive Viktor Yanukovych's government into the arms of Russia.Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite commented that the Ukrainian government had "at least three urgent pieces of homework" to do before a deal could be reached, identifying selective justice, judicial independence and electoral reform as the main items of contention."Provided they do their part of the job, they should be offered closer economic integration," added Barroso.
EU-US counter-terrorism pacts at risk over snooping affair
05.07.13 @ 18:20
By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - The European Commission has
said two major data sharing agreements with the US are at risk due to
tensions over US snooping operations in Europe.Both the EU-US passenger name record (PNR) and the terrorist
financial tracking programme (TFTP) agreements are currently up for
annual review.
A team from the European Commission will meet with US officials in Washington on Monday (8 July) for a pre-scheduled evaluation to determine if the Americans are respecting the terms of the agreements.
But the routine event comes in the context of revelations that US intelligence services snoop on EU citizens' Internet data and bug EU embassies, creating a toxic atmosphere.EUobserver understands that EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom spelled out her concerns in a letter sent on Thursday to Janet Napolitano, the US homeland security chief, and David Cohen, the US treasury's terrorism and financial intelligence director.According to a source, the letter warns that, given the negative climate, unless the US fully co-operates on PNR and TFTP compliance, there is a risk that European politicians will push to scrap the treaties.Malmstrom's spokesman, Michele Cercone, underlined the point in a press briefing in Brussels on Friday.“Should we fail to demonstrate the benefits of the TFTP and of the PNR instruments for our citizens and the fact that they have been implemented in full compliance with the law, their credibility will be seriously affected and in such a case we will be obliged to reconsider if their conditions for implementation are still met,” he said.The PNR agreement requires airline companies to send to the US Department of Homeland Security data relating to all passengers flying between the EU and the US as of July last year.The Americans can keep the data on record for up to 15 years.After the first six months, they must strip away personal information that can identify a passenger. They then keep it for five years, after which they can place it in a "dormant" database for another 10 years.The agreement was endorsed by the European Parliament in March 2012. But the rapporteur, Dutch liberal Sophie Int’Veld, withdraw her signature from the report because of data protection concerns.She told EUobserver she is "pleased" about Malmstrom's tough line on the review. "Europe should be a lot of tougher and defend EU citizens rather than put international relations first,” she said.Meanwhile, the TFTP gives agents from the US treasury department access to data on Europeans' financial transactions in a bid to identify terrorist money.The data is handed over by EU police agency Europol.A report by Europol's supervisory board in 2012 said that, despite safeguards on the "relevance" of the data to be handed over, the Americans have carte-blanche to get what they want.A commission report last year noted that TFTP analysts conducted close to 32,000 data searches in 20 months, a slight decrease on the previous reporting period.The commission team will in Washington on Monday also discuss how to handle the US snooping affair.The preliminary negotiations will not go into details of the US snooping programme, but will try to decide which officials are to be involved from both sides in future "working parties" and what they will talk about.The British and Swedish EU ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday set their own ground rules.They told fellow EU states that commission officials have a legal mandate to discuss data privacy with the US, but they do not have the right, under the EU treaty, to stray into intelligence or national security matters."There is some concern that the commission is trying to pad its role," one EU diplomatic contact said.An EU source noted that a possible compromise will be to split the future EU team in two.A set of EU officials would handle the data privacy ramifications of the US snooping programme. While a second team, composed of experts on intelligence matters seconded from EU countries' capitals, would tackle the broader intelligence/security implications.
A team from the European Commission will meet with US officials in Washington on Monday (8 July) for a pre-scheduled evaluation to determine if the Americans are respecting the terms of the agreements.
But the routine event comes in the context of revelations that US intelligence services snoop on EU citizens' Internet data and bug EU embassies, creating a toxic atmosphere.EUobserver understands that EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom spelled out her concerns in a letter sent on Thursday to Janet Napolitano, the US homeland security chief, and David Cohen, the US treasury's terrorism and financial intelligence director.According to a source, the letter warns that, given the negative climate, unless the US fully co-operates on PNR and TFTP compliance, there is a risk that European politicians will push to scrap the treaties.Malmstrom's spokesman, Michele Cercone, underlined the point in a press briefing in Brussels on Friday.“Should we fail to demonstrate the benefits of the TFTP and of the PNR instruments for our citizens and the fact that they have been implemented in full compliance with the law, their credibility will be seriously affected and in such a case we will be obliged to reconsider if their conditions for implementation are still met,” he said.The PNR agreement requires airline companies to send to the US Department of Homeland Security data relating to all passengers flying between the EU and the US as of July last year.The Americans can keep the data on record for up to 15 years.After the first six months, they must strip away personal information that can identify a passenger. They then keep it for five years, after which they can place it in a "dormant" database for another 10 years.The agreement was endorsed by the European Parliament in March 2012. But the rapporteur, Dutch liberal Sophie Int’Veld, withdraw her signature from the report because of data protection concerns.She told EUobserver she is "pleased" about Malmstrom's tough line on the review. "Europe should be a lot of tougher and defend EU citizens rather than put international relations first,” she said.Meanwhile, the TFTP gives agents from the US treasury department access to data on Europeans' financial transactions in a bid to identify terrorist money.The data is handed over by EU police agency Europol.A report by Europol's supervisory board in 2012 said that, despite safeguards on the "relevance" of the data to be handed over, the Americans have carte-blanche to get what they want.A commission report last year noted that TFTP analysts conducted close to 32,000 data searches in 20 months, a slight decrease on the previous reporting period.The commission team will in Washington on Monday also discuss how to handle the US snooping affair.The preliminary negotiations will not go into details of the US snooping programme, but will try to decide which officials are to be involved from both sides in future "working parties" and what they will talk about.The British and Swedish EU ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday set their own ground rules.They told fellow EU states that commission officials have a legal mandate to discuss data privacy with the US, but they do not have the right, under the EU treaty, to stray into intelligence or national security matters."There is some concern that the commission is trying to pad its role," one EU diplomatic contact said.An EU source noted that a possible compromise will be to split the future EU team in two.A set of EU officials would handle the data privacy ramifications of the US snooping programme. While a second team, composed of experts on intelligence matters seconded from EU countries' capitals, would tackle the broader intelligence/security implications.
