ISRAEL RELEASES 26 PALESTINIAN MURDERERS IN THE NAME OF PEACE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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)

IAEA chief calls for ‘concrete progress’ in Iran talks

Tehran says it has a ‘new approach’ ahead of back-to-back meetings with UN inspectors and world powers in Vienna

By Stuart Winer October 28, 2013, 3:52 pm 0-The Times of Israel

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog called Monday for Iran and Western negotiators to produce real results from the round of meetings that began on Monday.Yukia Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on representatives to make “concrete progress.” He was meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Vienna, Reuters reported.Araqchi, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, met with Amano ahead of two days of technical talks between Iranian representatives and the UN’s watchdog.

Amano described his meeting as important in addressing “the outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program.”Iranian officials are scheduled to hold multiple meetings to try and resolve international concerns that the Islamic Republic is developing nuclear weapons.On Wednesday, Iran will hold low-level technical talks with representatives from the six world powers engaged in parallel talks over curbing Tehran’s nuclear program.Several rounds of talks between Tehran and the IAEA over opening up suspected nuclear sites to international oversight have failed to produce any headway, but Araqchi said Iran would bring new tactics to the table.The talks “will focus on Iran’s new approach to negotiations with this international body,” Araqchi said according to a Sunday report from Iranian Press TV.The two men also planned to talk about recent developments in meetings between Tehran and the P5+1 world powers, the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, plus Germany.Shortly after the Araqchi-Amano meeting, technical and legal experts from Iran and the IAEA were scheduled to begin two days of talks about Iran’s nuclear program. IAEA experts are looking to investigate suspicions that Iran for years worked secretly on developing a nuclear weapons program.

Representatives of the two sides have already met 11 times since January as the IAEA tries to negotiate access to some of Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to monitor activity within the sites.The sides are scheduled to hold diplomatic-level meetings in Vienna on November 7 and 8.The flurry of activity comes amid intensified efforts by the West to curb enrichment in Iran. A meeting in mid-October between Iran and the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany, known as the P5+1, produced cautious optimism that a deal could be reached to limit Iranian nuclear enrichment in exchange for eased sanctions.The optimism came after years of inconclusive meetings. The talks in Geneva were focused on limiting Iranian nuclear programs that can be used both to generate power and make fissile warhead material.The key elements of the talks are Iran’s uranium enrichment program and its plutonium heavy-water facility. Western nations argue that the 20 percent enriched uranium and the plutonium Iran is producing are not necessary for generating nuclear power and therefore must be halted with all such material removed from the country.In an effort to pressure Tehran to agree to the demands, a series of suffocating sanctions has been enforced on Iran’s oil and financial sectors over the past couple of years. Tehran hopes to negotiate an easing of the sanctions without giving up its enrichment program.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi (photo credit: Screen capture YouTube/Press TV)

On Sunday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani told China’s Phoenix news network that he believes a deal can be reached within a year, but Tehran will not halt the program if talks fail..“The settlement of nuclear issues completely depends on the approaches and if a positive approach rules the negotiations and there exist some seriousness, one can hope for the settlement of issues in less than a year,” Larijani said according to a report in the state-run Fars news agency. “If the negotiations fail to yield results, we will continue the present path and approach that we are paving now.”Israel has called for enrichment to cease completely, saying even low-grade uranium could be made suitable for a nuclear weapon in a short time with enough centrifuges running.A report last week by the US-based Institute for Science and International Security, which has been tracking Iran’s nuclear program, estimated that Tehran could have enough material for a bomb in a number of weeks, should it choose to build one.Iran says it has no nuclear arms and denies working toward one, claiming all its atomic activities are peaceful. While the talks with the IAEA and the P5+1 are formally separate, they are linked by concerns over Iran’s nuclear aspirations, and progress in one may result in advances in the other.The diplomatic atmosphere between Iran and Western powers improved following the August installation of President Hassan Rouhani who is considered more moderate than his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the United Nations General Assembly meetings at the beginning of September Iranian officials, including Rouhani, held ground-breaking meetings with Western leaders after years of diplomatic severance.However, Israeli officials maintain that regardless of its diplomatic overtures to the West, Iran is still hell-bent on achieving nuclear weapons.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Israel names 26 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in 48 hours

All were convicted of murder, including brutal killings such as 1990 Rosh Hashanah lynch of IDF reservist in Gaza; 21 inmates are from West Bank, 5 from Gaza

By Times of Israel staff October 28, 2013, 12:48 am 9-The Times of Israel

The Israel Prison Service published the names late Sunday night of 26 Palestinian prisoners set to be released over the next 48 hours as part of a deal to keep the US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on course. All are convicted murderers.Six of the inmates have been imprisoned for just under 30 years, one of whom was due to be released in four years. All were imprisoned for murders committed before the signing of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords. A government statement said earlier that  21 of the inmates were from the West Bank and five were from the Gaza Strip.Among the prisoners to go free is Damouni Saad Mohammed Ahmed, who was convicted in the 1990 lynch of IDF reservist Amnon Pomerantz in the Gaza Strip; Pomerantz’s car was set on fire while he was inside. The other convicted murderer of Pomerantz is not among those set to be released.In a list of Pre-Oslo prisoners released by the Almagor Terror Victims Association, it is noted that Ahmed “did not express regret for his acts.”

Gila Molcho, center, holds a picture of her brother Ian Feinberg, who was killed in 1993 in Gaza, at a demonstration against the release of Palestinian prisoners outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 11, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The killer behind the 1993 murder of South-African-born Ian Feinberg, a 30-year-old lawyer and activist working with Palestinians in Gaza, will also be set free. Masoud Issa Rajeb Amer, a member of the PFLP, was sentenced to three life sentences for the killing, which was perpetrated with a hatchet. On April 18, 1993, Feinberg participated in a meeting in the Gaza offices of a European-funded NGO involved in aid projects when terrorists burst in, ordered everyone, except Feinberg, to the floor, and proceeded to kill him.

Massalha Awwad Mohammed Yusuf and Amawi Hamed Alabad Halmi, both Hamas members who killed 22-year-old Yigal Vaknin in 1993, are also on the list. Vaknin was lured with a plea for help and stabbed to death. His body was found in a field near his home in Moshav Bazra in the Sharon region, two hours before the start on Yom Kippur that year. Yusuf was originally sentenced to two life terms for the killing.Also included is Haga Salim Mahmud Mo’id who in May 1992 swam from Aqaba, Jordan to Eilat along with three other terrorists and shot 62-year-old Yosef Shirazi to death. Various weapons were found on Mo’id which led authorities to believe they planned a much larger attack.

Relatives of Israelis killed in terror attacks holding signs as they demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 11, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The planned release constitutes the second phase of a four-stage prisoner release deal, agreed to as part of the talks which restarted in July. Israel released a first group of prisoners in August.Earlier Sunday, a ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved on the names of those Palestinians set to go free on Tuesday.“A list of the prisoners is to be published Sunday night on the website of the Israel Prisons Service, after the bereaved families have been informed,” the statement said.

The releases were expected to be accompanied by the announcement of new plans for West Bank settlement construction, a senior Israeli official said.The religious, nationalist Jewish Home party has bitterly attacked the planned prisoner releases in recent days. On Sunday, the party proposed legislation to prevent future releases. Opposed by Netanyahu, the bill was rejected by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation in an 8-5 vote.The Jewish Home’s decision to push forward with the bill drew harsh criticism from Likud ministers and other coalition partners.Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua), who is heading off negotiations with the Palestinians, criticized Jewish Home and said that the committee vote showed which coalition parties truly had the nation’s needs at heart.“Today it has once again been made clear that the government, in contrast to one of its member parties, is acting in the national interest and not according to the instructions of the rabbis in the West Bank,” she said.Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) denounced the Jewish Home ministers for failing to toe the government line.“You are responsible just like all the other members of the government,” he said to Pensioners Minister Uri Orbach (Jewish Home). “If you don’t like it, you can resign.”Although the prisoner release deal was approved by Netanyahu, Jewish Home, led by Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, blamed Livni for it.MK Ayelet Shaked of Jewish Home told Channel 2 Saturday that Jewish Home had made its opposition clear to Netanyahu. ”We told the prime minister that we are against the release of terrorists. It’s immoral. No other country in the world does it,” she said.Jewish Home also made plain it was not appeased by news of further homes to be built in the settlements. In a statement on Thursday, the party said that “the attempt to link the release of the murderers to construction tenders is manipulative and morally wrong. It will be better if the prime minister does not release murderers and does not build. This looks like a despicable attempt to free murderers and tarnish the settlement enterprise.”

Hatnua’s Environment Minister Amir Peretz said earlier Sunday that Jewish Home could have prevented the release by agreeing to a halt in settlement building, but is instead trying to paper over its own involvement in the government move.“What is happening in front of our eyes is the biggest dance of hypocrisy I’ve ever seen by a party,” Peretz, a former defense minister, told Army Radio. “On the one hand it sits within the government, and on the other hand it takes advantage of the convenience of being in the government to fulfill its objectives; participates in the vote on the prisoner release, and prevents any way of discussing another option.”A senior Israeli official said the Americans and Palestinians were aware of Israel’s intentions to build more settlement homes, which had been made clear before talks resumed. The official said that any new construction would take place inside the major blocs Israel aims to keep in any future peace deal. In previous rounds of negotiations, the Palestinians agreed in principle to swap some West Bank land for Israeli territory to allow Israel to annex some settled areas adjacent to the 1967 lines.Netanyahu has faced pressure from hawkish ministers to delay or cancel the prisoner releases in the wake of a series of violent incidents in the West Bank in recent weeks, including the killing of two IDF soldiers and an attack that wounded a 9-year-old girl in the settlement of Psagot.Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) also slammed the planned prisoner release, saying it only strengthened terror. ”We’ll see the celebrations in Gaza, in Ramallah, in Nablus. This only strengthens those who seek to harm [us],” he told Army Radio Saturday. ”Any approval of settlement construction should not be linked to these releases,” he added.

Mahmoud Abbas celebrating the return of Palestinian prisoners in August. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Netanyahu has resisted the pressure from the right and plans to release the prisoners on schedule, the prime minister’s representative in the peace talks, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, assured Palestinian and American officials in recent days.In July, Israel agreed to the four-phase release of 104 prisoners, many of whom were convicted of brutal murders, serving sentences for acts of terror committed before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Twenty-six prisoners were released in the first wave on August 13, just after talks started.

The deal was intended as a sign of good faith ahead of the renewed American-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Op-Ed: PLEASE NOT AGAIN: Releasing Terrorists for "Peace"

Published: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:56 AM-Israelnationalnews

An internationally acclaimed Professor of Political Science and International Law writes that this flawed plan is not only indecent; it is also unlawful - and asks: What is wrong with us?

Prof. Louis René Beres

Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." Yet again, a plainly desperate government in Jerusalem is preparing to sacrifice Israel's self-respect and its security in a grotesque "gesture." Although the prime minister seeks to justify the impending terrorist release as a sorely lamentable but still necessary condition for  "peace talks" with the Palestinian Authority, it is perfectly obvious that no such talks could produce meaningful results.What, exactly,  is Benjamin Netanyahu thinking? On the Palestinian Authority's maps, all of Israel is already included within "Palestine."Hillary Clinton, John Kerry.....it makes not a bit of difference. In this self-evident matter, the sitting American Secretary of State is beside the point. Yet again, however unwittingly, Washington's "good offices" will represent little more than an officially opened American back door for the next massacre of Israeli women and children by terrorist murderers.Credo quia absurdum.  For the past several years, U.S. General Keith Dayton has been training Fatah "security service forces" in nearby Jordan. Supported by tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars, this uniquely incoherent program will only add to the corollary harms of the Israeli prisoner release. Somehow, in an utterly incomprehensible expression of "cooperation," Jerusalem and Washington will have managed to implement a "peace plan" with no conceivable chance of success.Significantly, this flawed plan is not only indecent; it is also unlawful.
All countries coexist under the indisputable authority of a planet-wide law of nations. A core element of this longstanding international law is the  rule of Nullum crimen sine poena, or "No crime without a punishment." This principle was reaffirmed at the post-War Nuremberg Trials (1945-46). It remains a fully conspicuous part of all national legal systems.President Barack Obama's evident concurrence in the impending Israeli terrorist release represents an incontestable act of U.S. complicity with major international crimes.  Here, the U.S. is in violation not only of international law, but also the law of the United States.  This is because international law is already part of US law (the "supreme law of the land") by virtue of Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, and also by virtue of a number of landmark Supreme Court decisions.Back in June 2003, the Shurat HaDin, Israel Law Center, in an astute anticipation of then-planned terrorist releases, had properly condemned Israel's intended freeing of 100 Palestinian prisoners. Later, almost five times that number were actually set loose by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.  Then, in her letter to the Prime Minister, and to members of his Cabinet, Shurat HaDin Director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner  had written that releasing terrorists as a "goodwill gesture" would only reignite Arab terrorism against defenseless Jewish men, women, and especially children.Of course, Director Darshan-Leitner was correct.  Soon thereafter, at least two newly-released Fatah-linked terrorists went on to launch suicide bomb attacks in Israel. In one of these attacks, an alleged "military target" of the heroic Palestinian fighters was a cafe filled with mothers and their young children.
Every state has an obligation under international law to prosecute and punish terrorists. This obligation derives in part from the vital expectation, "No crime without a punishment." It is codified directly in many basic sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles (1950). According to Principle 1: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment."

These are Nuremberg-category crimes so egregious that the perpetrators are known in law as Hostes humani generis, or "Common enemies of humankind."
Terrorism is a serious crime under international law. The precise offenses that comprise this crime can be found, inter alia, at The European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism. Notwithstanding Israeli government assurances to the contrary at the time, some of the Palestinian terrorists previously released in “good will gestures” were also guilty of related crimes of war and crimes against humanity. These are Nuremberg-category crimes so egregious that the perpetrators are known in law as Hostes humani generis,  or "Common enemies of humankind."International law presumes solidarity between all states in the fight against  crime, including the crime of terrorism. This presumption is mentioned as early as the seventeenth century in Hugo Grotius, "The Law of War and Peace" (1625). Although Israel has unequivocally clear jurisdiction to punish crimes committed on its own territory, it may sometimes also have the right to act under certain broader principles of "universal jurisdiction."Its particular case for such wider jurisdiction, which would derive from a reasonable expectation of interstate solidarity, is found at the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. These Conventions impose upon the High Contracting Parties the sober obligation to punish "Grave Breaches.”No government has the legal right to free terrorists as a "goodwill gesture.”  Terrorism is a criminally sanctionable violation of international law, one that is not subject even to well-intentioned manipulations by individual countries. Moreover, in the United States, it is clear from the Constitution that the President's power to pardon does not encompass violations of international law.  Rather, this power is always limited very narrowly to "Offenses against the United States."In its original capture and punishment of Arab terrorists, Israel had acted unambiguously on behalf of all states. Because some of these terrorists had also committed crimes against other states, Israel cannot now permissibly pardon these offenses against assorted other sovereigns. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu's anticipated terrorist release does not, strictly speaking, represent a "pardon," it would have exactly the same legal consequence.No state possesses any sort of authority to pardon violations of international law, especially the uniquely cruel violations generated by Palestinian Arab terrorism. No matter what might be permissible under its own Basic Law, any political freeing of terrorists by Israel would always be impermissible. A fundamental principle is established in law that, by virtue of any such releases, the releasing state itself must assume responsibility for pertinent past criminal acts, and for future ones.Under international law, Prime Minister Netanyahu's intended release of more Palestinian Arab terrorists, effectively analogous to a mass pardoning of international criminals, would implicate the Jewish State for a "denial of justice." This implication could have profound practical consequences. Although it is arguable that punishment, which is always central to justice, does not always deter future crimes, any such Israeli freeing of terrorists would nonetheless undermine the Jewish State's legal obligation to incapacitate violent criminals.What sort of people and government would agree to free the murderers of its own women and children, and without any plausible expectations of  a reciprocal peace or justice? Please, it should not be the people and government of Israel. Not again.
LOUIS RENÉ BERES was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. He is the author of many major books and articles dealing with international law and terrorism