KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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)
Israel may drop its opposition to stationing Russian troops on the
Golan Heights as members of the UN peacekeeping force there – if Moscow
halts its shipments of S-300 missiles to Damascus. Such a deal could be
in the works, the London-based Arabic-language a-Sharq al-Awsat said Wednesday.In June, Russia expressed interest in stationing its troops on the
Golan, where they would take the place of Austrian troops who had left
their posts as fighting between rebels and Syrian Army troops rocked the
UN base at Quneitra.
Russia applied to have its troops join the patrol, called UNDOF, but according to UN rules, Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, cannot include its troops in the Golan peacekeeping force, as per the UN-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Syria establishing UNDOF after the Yom Kippur War. Russia had proposed sending 380 troops to join the peacekeeping force.It is not clear why Russia is interested in stationing its troops on the Golan, but the a-Sharq al-Awsat report said that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni had met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in recent weeks, with the latter suggesting cancellation of the S-300 deal as a “gesture” to Israel for Jerusalem's agreement to allow Russian troops to take up posts at Quneitra.The report did not say whether the proposal had been submitted to the UN for approval, or if there had been a final agreement on the matter.
By Maggie Fick and Alexander Dziadosz-july 10,13
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrest on Wednesday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence in a clash that saw troops shoot dozens of his supporters dead.A week after the army toppled Egypt's first democratically elected leader, bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab world's most populous country, with bitterness at levels unseen in its modern history.Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior Islamists was a bid by authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters demanding his reinstatement.This week's unrest has alarmed Western donors and Israel, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Washington, treading a careful line, has neither welcomed Mursi's removal nor denounced it as a "coup". Under U.S. law, a coup would require it to halt aid, including the $1.3 billion it gives the army each year.The Brotherhood's downfall has, however, been warmly welcomed by three of the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, who showered Cairo with aid to prop up the collapsing economy.Kuwait promised Egypt $4 billion in cash, loans and fuel on Wednesday, a day after Saudi Arabia pledged $5 billion and the United Arab Emirates offered $3 billion.The Brotherhood leaders were charged with inciting violence in Monday's shootings, which began before dawn, when the Brotherhood says its followers were peacefully praying. The army says terrorists provoked the shooting by attacking its troops.According to security sources, 57 people died including 53 protesters and four members of the security forces.Haddad said the Brotherhood leaders had not been arrested and some were still attending the protest vigil at Rabaa Adawiya mosque. The charges against them were "nothing more than an attempt by the police state to dismantle the Rabaa protest"."What can we do?" he asked. "In a police state, when the police force are criminals, the judiciary are traitors and the investigators are the fabricators, what can one do?"In addition to Badie, prosecutors ordered the arrest of others including his deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat, and outspoken party leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagi. Khairat El-Shater, another senior leader, was held last week.The prosecutor also ordered 206 Brotherhood activists arrested after Monday's violence to be detained for a further 15 days on accusations of involvement in the killings. It released 464 others who had been detained, on bail of about $300 each.
RAMADAN OVERSHADOWED
Egyptians have hoped the start of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, would cool passions, but it has been overshadowed by rancour.Thousands of Brotherhood supporters braved brutal summer heat to maintain their outdoor protest vigil despite the fast, clustering in tents to protect themselves from sun during daylight hours when Islam forbids all eating or drinking.Some milled about, others staged small marches. A list was posted at the camp bearing the names of the more than 650 people arrested following Monday's "massacre". They say they will not budge until Mursi is restored to power."He'll come back," said Reda Ibrahim, a 43-year-old Mursi supporter who came from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. "He'll finish his term."
Despite the violence that followed Mursi's removal, the interim authorities are proceeding with the army's "road map" to restore civilian rule. On Tuesday, they named 76-year-old economist Hazem el-Beblawi as acting prime minister.Beblawi told Reuters he would start selecting ministers and would begin by meeting liberal politicians Mohamed ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa el-Din. ElBaradei, a former U.N. agency chief, has been named vice president. Bahaa el-Din, a former head of Egypt's investment authority, has been touted for senior posts.Both are prominent figures in the National Salvation Front, the main secularist group that led protests against Mursi.They also support a stalled $4.8 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, which would require Egypt to make politically painful reforms to subsidies for food and fuel that support its 84 million people but drain its public finances.Beblawi accepted that it would be a challenge to find a cabinet line-up with universal support. "I don't believe that anything can have unanimous approval," he told Reuters.Beblawi has indicated he would be open to offering cabinet posts to Islamists, including Brotherhood figures. The Brotherhood says it will have nothing whatsoever to do with a government of what it calls a "fascist coup".
COUP OR NO?
Both sides of Egypt's divide have become fiercely anti-American. Mursi's opponents say President Barack Obama's administration supported the Brotherhood in power, while Mursi's supporters believe Washington was behind the plot to unseat him.Secularist posters depict the U.S. president as a bearded Brotherhood member and call Cairo ambassador Anne Patterson - who spoke against street protests against Mursi - a "witch". To Islamists, Obama's refusal so far to label the military takeover a "coup" shows he is a hypocrite in promoting democracy.White House spokesman Jay Carney, who voiced confidence in the ambassador, said it was still too soon to conclude whether the takeover was a coup: "We are evaluating how the authorities are responding to and handling the current situation," he said.But aid has not been suspended. The Pentagon said a planned delivery four F-16 fighters to Egypt would take place soon.The promised $12 billion in aid from the Gulf states will go a long way to easing a deep economic crisis that has driven Egypt's finances to the brink during two and a half years of instability since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was swept from power.
The funds also reduce the incentive for Egypt to make the reforms the IMF says are needed to stabilize public finances, attract investment and rekindle economic growth.In other steps on their "road map", the authorities have announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it, and a timetable for elections beginning in about six months.Those moves already demonstrated the difficulty achieving political consensus, even among Mursi's opponents. The secularist NSF initially rejected the interim constitution, as did Islamists and others, although on Wednesday the NSF withdrew its rejection and issued a new, milder criticism.
On Wednesday, the authorities also named a chief prosecutor, replacing Mursi's appointee who was pushed out last week by a court that briefly reinstated his Mubarak-era predecessor.With the Brotherhood sidelined, the authorities are courting the second largest Islamist group, the ultra-orthodox Nour Party, to demonstrate that Islamists will not be suppressed as they were during six decades of military-backed rule.Nour officially withdrew from politics in response to Monday's violence but has said it does not object to Beblawi's appointment and will assist his government.Nour spokesman Nader Bakkar said on Wednesday the group would not accept posts in the new cabinet but would offer "consent and advice to help the cabinet pass through the transition period as soon as possible and with minimum damage"."We are waiting to help. We are ready to advise but for the time being we still take the decision not to participate in the political process until the judiciary committee gives its report about what happened," he said of this week's shooting deaths.
Bloodshed has abated since Monday's incident, the deadliest since Mubarak's fall, apart from a 2012 soccer stadium riot.However, there are fears that the political violence could lead to a breakdown in security, especially in the lawless Sinai peninsula region bordering Israel. Two people were killed and six wounded overnight when Islamist militants attacked a Sinai checkpoint.(Reporting by Maggie Fick, Alexander Dziadosz, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Sarah McFarlane, Mike Collett-White, Shadia Nasralla and Peter Graff in Cairo and Laura MacInnis, Roberta Rampton and Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Peter Millership and Alastair Macdonald)
By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 5/8/2013, 8:11 PM-israelnationalnews
Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein stated Wednesday that the present
state of affairs, in which MKs are prevented from visiting the Temple
Mount, is a "very grave" matter, which he hopes will be solved in a
year's time.In a Facebook post devoted to Jerusalem Day, Edelstein wrote: "In the
last few weeks, the rights of prayer at the Kotel, the Remainder of our
Temple, as well as the right of Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount and pray there, have been placed on the Knesset's agenda."The Temple, as is known, was a place of prayer for all nations."The state of Israel is almost the only one, throughout the history
of Jerusalem, which allows free access to all places of worship, which
are sacred to all nations, out of respect."Our belief in our right over the Land does not detract from our
commitment to Israel's Arab and Christian citizens, and to believers in
other religions."However, we must not limit the Jews, of all people, from access to the places of worship they hold dear to their hearts."I hope that the initiative of our friend, Jewish Agency Chairman
Natan Sharansky, for establishment of an egalitarian site for worship,
at the Kotel Plaza, will materialize. It is specifically out of
consciousness of Jerusalem's central role in shaping Jewish identity
that we must allow Reform, Conservative and other Jews to pray in
accordance with their beliefs, while maintaining the Kotel as a holy
place."At the same time, I see with gravity, the curtailing of the immunity
of Knesset Members, and preventing this or another MK from implementing
his right to ascend the Mount."In the discussion with the police's top echelon I made clear that it
is unthinkable that decisions that impinge on MKs' immunity are made
without the presence of, or consultation with, Knesset representatives."I understand that sometimes, one needs to take into account
considerations of the public peace. I do not see such considerations as
making us less sovereign on the Temple Mount (On the contrary, I see
those who complain day and night of our lack of sovereignty as weakening
our consciousness, and creating a reality that is the opposite of the
one they want). But I will not give up on the right of MKs to ascend the Mount."I hope that by the time of the celebration of 47 years since the unification of Jerusalem, next year, we will find a formula that allows MKs to visit the Tempe Mount without harming the public peace."
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)
Report: Russia Could Suspend Syria S-300 Sale for Golan Role
Russia
badly wants its soldiers on the Golan as peacekeepers - and is willing
to cancel its missile deal with Syria to do so, a report said.-By David Lev-First Publish: 7/10/2013, 3:18 PM-israelnationalnews
Golan soldiers-IDF Website
Russia applied to have its troops join the patrol, called UNDOF, but according to UN rules, Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, cannot include its troops in the Golan peacekeeping force, as per the UN-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Syria establishing UNDOF after the Yom Kippur War. Russia had proposed sending 380 troops to join the peacekeeping force.It is not clear why Russia is interested in stationing its troops on the Golan, but the a-Sharq al-Awsat report said that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni had met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in recent weeks, with the latter suggesting cancellation of the S-300 deal as a “gesture” to Israel for Jerusalem's agreement to allow Russian troops to take up posts at Quneitra.The report did not say whether the proposal had been submitted to the UN for approval, or if there had been a final agreement on the matter.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rejects transition plan
Army rule takes the country ‘back to zero,’ says senior Islamist figure
July 9, 2013, 4:59 pm
1-thetimesofisrael
Supporters
of ousted President Mohammed Morsi protest at the Republican Guard
building in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. (photo
credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Muslim
Brotherhood on Tuesday rejected a new timetable announced by the
military-backed interim leadership that sets a fast track for amending
the Islamist-drafted constitution and holding new parliamentary and
presidential elections by early next year.The quick issuing of the transition plan
showed how Egypt’s new leadership is shrugging off Islamists’ vows to
reverse the military’s ousting of President Mohammed Morsi and wants to
quickly entrench a post-Morsi political system.Egypt’s military also likely aims to show the
United States and other Western nations that the country is moving
quickly back to an elected civilian leadership. Washington has expressed
concern over the removal of Egypt’s first freely elected president, and
if the US government determines that the army’s move qualifies as a
coup it would have to cut off more than a $1 billion in aid to Egypt,
mostly to the military. The Obama administration has said doing so would
not be in US interests.Egypt’s political divide was only further
enflamed Monday by one of the worst single incidents of bloodshed in 2 ½
years of turmoil: Security forces killed more than 50 pro-Morsi
protesters in clashes at a sit-in by Islamists. The military accused
armed Islamists of sparking the fighting, but Morsi supporters said
troop opened fire on them without provocation after dawn prayers.
Egyptian
army stand guard around the Republican Guard building in Nasr City in
Cairo, Egypt, on Monday, July 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil
Hamra)
Since then, the military and allied media have
depicted the campaign to restore Morsi as increasingly violent and
infused with armed extremists. Islamists, in turn, have talked of the
military aiming to crush them after what they say was a coup to wreck
democracy.Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood figure
and deputy head of its Freedom and Justice Party, rejected the
transition timetable, saying it takes the country “back to zero.”“The cowards are not sleeping, but Egypt will
not surrender. The people created their constitution with their votes,”
he wrote on his Facebook page, referring to the constitution that
Islamists pushed to finalization and then was passed in a national
referendum during Morsi’s year in office.He said the military and its allies were
targeting “not just the president but the nation’s identity, the rights
and freedoms of the people and the democratic system enshrined in the
constitution.”The constitution passed under Morsi — and
suspended since his fall — was written by an assembly created by the
first post-Mubarak parliament, elected in 2011-2012. But the panel was
deeply controversial.Reflecting the parliament, the constituent
assembly had a strong Islamist majority. Most non-Islamists eventually
abandoned the assembly, complaining that the Brotherhood and its allies
were imposing their will. Courts were considering whether to dissolve
the panel but Morsi unilaterally decreed that they could not while his
allies rushed to finalize the draft.The final version had a strong Islamist
flavor, deepening requirements for laws to abide by Shariah. The
document passed in a referendum with around 60 percent of the vote — but
only around 30 percent of voters casting ballots.
A
supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi with a national flag
gestures to army soldiers guard at the Republican Guard building in Nasr
City, Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. (photo credit: AP
Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Under the timetable issued Monday by interim president Adly Mansour, two appointed panels would be created.One, made up of judges, would come up with
amendments. The other, larger body consisting of representatives of
society and political movements would debate the amendments and approve
them.
The new constitution would be put to a referendum within 4 ½ months from now.Elections for a new parliament would be held
within two months of that. Once the new parliament convenes, it would
have a week to set a date for presidential elections.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Egypt orders arrest of Brotherhood leaders
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrest on Wednesday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence in a clash that saw troops shoot dozens of his supporters dead.A week after the army toppled Egypt's first democratically elected leader, bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab world's most populous country, with bitterness at levels unseen in its modern history.Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior Islamists was a bid by authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters demanding his reinstatement.This week's unrest has alarmed Western donors and Israel, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Washington, treading a careful line, has neither welcomed Mursi's removal nor denounced it as a "coup". Under U.S. law, a coup would require it to halt aid, including the $1.3 billion it gives the army each year.The Brotherhood's downfall has, however, been warmly welcomed by three of the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, who showered Cairo with aid to prop up the collapsing economy.Kuwait promised Egypt $4 billion in cash, loans and fuel on Wednesday, a day after Saudi Arabia pledged $5 billion and the United Arab Emirates offered $3 billion.The Brotherhood leaders were charged with inciting violence in Monday's shootings, which began before dawn, when the Brotherhood says its followers were peacefully praying. The army says terrorists provoked the shooting by attacking its troops.According to security sources, 57 people died including 53 protesters and four members of the security forces.Haddad said the Brotherhood leaders had not been arrested and some were still attending the protest vigil at Rabaa Adawiya mosque. The charges against them were "nothing more than an attempt by the police state to dismantle the Rabaa protest"."What can we do?" he asked. "In a police state, when the police force are criminals, the judiciary are traitors and the investigators are the fabricators, what can one do?"In addition to Badie, prosecutors ordered the arrest of others including his deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat, and outspoken party leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagi. Khairat El-Shater, another senior leader, was held last week.The prosecutor also ordered 206 Brotherhood activists arrested after Monday's violence to be detained for a further 15 days on accusations of involvement in the killings. It released 464 others who had been detained, on bail of about $300 each.
RAMADAN OVERSHADOWED
Egyptians have hoped the start of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, would cool passions, but it has been overshadowed by rancour.Thousands of Brotherhood supporters braved brutal summer heat to maintain their outdoor protest vigil despite the fast, clustering in tents to protect themselves from sun during daylight hours when Islam forbids all eating or drinking.Some milled about, others staged small marches. A list was posted at the camp bearing the names of the more than 650 people arrested following Monday's "massacre". They say they will not budge until Mursi is restored to power."He'll come back," said Reda Ibrahim, a 43-year-old Mursi supporter who came from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. "He'll finish his term."
Despite the violence that followed Mursi's removal, the interim authorities are proceeding with the army's "road map" to restore civilian rule. On Tuesday, they named 76-year-old economist Hazem el-Beblawi as acting prime minister.Beblawi told Reuters he would start selecting ministers and would begin by meeting liberal politicians Mohamed ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa el-Din. ElBaradei, a former U.N. agency chief, has been named vice president. Bahaa el-Din, a former head of Egypt's investment authority, has been touted for senior posts.Both are prominent figures in the National Salvation Front, the main secularist group that led protests against Mursi.They also support a stalled $4.8 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, which would require Egypt to make politically painful reforms to subsidies for food and fuel that support its 84 million people but drain its public finances.Beblawi accepted that it would be a challenge to find a cabinet line-up with universal support. "I don't believe that anything can have unanimous approval," he told Reuters.Beblawi has indicated he would be open to offering cabinet posts to Islamists, including Brotherhood figures. The Brotherhood says it will have nothing whatsoever to do with a government of what it calls a "fascist coup".
COUP OR NO?
Both sides of Egypt's divide have become fiercely anti-American. Mursi's opponents say President Barack Obama's administration supported the Brotherhood in power, while Mursi's supporters believe Washington was behind the plot to unseat him.Secularist posters depict the U.S. president as a bearded Brotherhood member and call Cairo ambassador Anne Patterson - who spoke against street protests against Mursi - a "witch". To Islamists, Obama's refusal so far to label the military takeover a "coup" shows he is a hypocrite in promoting democracy.White House spokesman Jay Carney, who voiced confidence in the ambassador, said it was still too soon to conclude whether the takeover was a coup: "We are evaluating how the authorities are responding to and handling the current situation," he said.But aid has not been suspended. The Pentagon said a planned delivery four F-16 fighters to Egypt would take place soon.The promised $12 billion in aid from the Gulf states will go a long way to easing a deep economic crisis that has driven Egypt's finances to the brink during two and a half years of instability since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was swept from power.
The funds also reduce the incentive for Egypt to make the reforms the IMF says are needed to stabilize public finances, attract investment and rekindle economic growth.In other steps on their "road map", the authorities have announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it, and a timetable for elections beginning in about six months.Those moves already demonstrated the difficulty achieving political consensus, even among Mursi's opponents. The secularist NSF initially rejected the interim constitution, as did Islamists and others, although on Wednesday the NSF withdrew its rejection and issued a new, milder criticism.
On Wednesday, the authorities also named a chief prosecutor, replacing Mursi's appointee who was pushed out last week by a court that briefly reinstated his Mubarak-era predecessor.With the Brotherhood sidelined, the authorities are courting the second largest Islamist group, the ultra-orthodox Nour Party, to demonstrate that Islamists will not be suppressed as they were during six decades of military-backed rule.Nour officially withdrew from politics in response to Monday's violence but has said it does not object to Beblawi's appointment and will assist his government.Nour spokesman Nader Bakkar said on Wednesday the group would not accept posts in the new cabinet but would offer "consent and advice to help the cabinet pass through the transition period as soon as possible and with minimum damage"."We are waiting to help. We are ready to advise but for the time being we still take the decision not to participate in the political process until the judiciary committee gives its report about what happened," he said of this week's shooting deaths.
Bloodshed has abated since Monday's incident, the deadliest since Mubarak's fall, apart from a 2012 soccer stadium riot.However, there are fears that the political violence could lead to a breakdown in security, especially in the lawless Sinai peninsula region bordering Israel. Two people were killed and six wounded overnight when Islamist militants attacked a Sinai checkpoint.(Reporting by Maggie Fick, Alexander Dziadosz, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Sarah McFarlane, Mike Collett-White, Shadia Nasralla and Peter Graff in Cairo and Laura MacInnis, Roberta Rampton and Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Peter Millership and Alastair Macdonald)
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Knesset Speaker: Temple Mount Solution 'by Next Year'
MK Edelstein says preventing MKs from visiting the Temple Mount is a "very grave" matter.
Speaker Edelstein-Israel news photo: Flash 90
