ABBAS BLAMES ISRAEL FOR ALL ITS WOES

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

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 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.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

1 PETER 4:16-19
16  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;(WILLINGLY-THEY CHOSE THE IMPLANT) and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

Nazareth’s dwindling Christian populace torn between moving out, fighting back

This month’s local elections underline the bleak and bitter rivalries in the city of Jesus’s childhood

By Elhanan Miller October 11, 2013, 8:27 pm 4-The Times of Israel

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” wondered Nathaneal, a disciple of Jesus, in the Gospel of John. Asked today, that question would have many of the city’s residents hard-pressed for an answer.The upcoming municipal elections, scheduled for October 22, find the largest Arab city in Israel impoverished and depressed. A nationwide study, conducted by the Ministry of Public Security in August, revealed that Nazareth residents are the most likely Israelis to fear falling victim to crime. They also reported the lowest sense of personal security, along with the inhabitants of the crime-ridden cities of Ramle and Lod.“Things have deteriorated in this city,” said an elderly woman walking down Nazareth’s main street on Thursday, wearing a necklace with a large golden Cross. “No citizen gets any help — not from the municipality, nor from the government, nor from the police.”Like its Christian twin. Bethlehem, in the West Bank, Nazareth’s demographic makeup has dramatically changed over the past six decades, a fact some residents tie to the deteriorating sense of security and general “low quality of life.” From being a city with a large Christian majority before 1948, today 70 percent of Nazareth’s 80,000 residents are Muslim. The change dates back to Israel’s War of Independence, when an influx of internally displaced villagers from the surrounding area relocated to Nazareth. Researchers also point to a significantly higher Muslim birth rate.Religious tension in the city came to the fore in the early 2000s, when the local Muslims began constructing a new mosque near the Basilica of the Annunciation, the city’s towering Christian landmark. In early 2002, the government decided to halt construction on the site, built over the grave of Salladin’s nephew Shihab a-Din, following massive pressure from the Vatican. The Muslims were infuriated by the move, but put up little resistance when an illegal structure they had built on the site was bulldozed the following year.Ramez Jaraisy, the city’s Communist Christian mayor nearing 20 years in office, downplayed confessionalism as a significant factor in Nazareth. Tawfik Zayyad, his predecessor in office who was killed in a 1994 car crash, was a Muslim, he remarked. Over the past century, Christian and Muslim mayors governed the city, paying little attention to the religious affiliation of their constituents.

Mayoral incumbent Ramez Jaraisy in his office, on October 10, 2013 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

“I was elected four times in direct elections by both Muslims and Christians,” said Jaraisy. “Some people use religion to achieve political goals. We have no religious dispute outside small fundamentalist groups of Muslims and Christians. They are a very small minority.”One member of that “very small minority” is Nazareth resident Bishara Shlayan, a retired captain in the Israeli merchant navy, who is in the process of forming a political party for Christian Arabs living in Israel. The party, Shlayan said, is geared at confronting what he regards as the gradual encroachment of the city’s Muslim majority on Nazareth’s historic Christian symbols.“Mary’s Well used to have a big blue sign explaining its history. They removed the sign in order to erase any trace of Christianity, naming it ‘the Nazareth Stream.’ Even the city bus announces the stop as ‘Nazareth Stream.’ Why? Others may ignore this, but I consider it very significant.”Shlayan said that solving the problem of Christian emigration from the city required more than merely electing a Christian mayor. Change, he reasoned, must come from the Knesset, before “all the city’s Christians leave because of the gangs demanding protection money.”Jaraisy said Shlayan is a “collaborator” with the Israeli authorities, striving to create needless tension between Christians and Muslims in the city.“He will fail,” the mayor asserted.But Shlayan was not the only Christian in town speaking his mind. Waiting for his son to exit a church high school downtown, Ibrahim said he left Nazareth 14 years ago for the nearby Jewish city of Upper Nazareth — and has never looked back.“If you gave me all of Nazareth for free, I wouldn’t come back,” Ibrahim said, adding that he recently sold his 10-apartment building in the Muslim neighborhood of Jabel Hammoudeh. “We faced problems of racism there. Almost every apartment in the building has an illegal weapon.“Religion plays a big role in Nazareth. When the Christians were a majority, there was no problem… Our mentality is more European and our religion says ‘Love each other.’ ”Ibrahim said his new Jewish neighbors in Upper Nazareth are very friendly, as long as he doesn’t discuss politics with them.

Mayoral candidate Hanin Zoabi in her Nazareth office, on October 10, 2013 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Hanin Zoabi, the controversial member of Knesset from the Arab nationalist party Balad, joined Nazareth’s mayoral race in late August. Zoabi, a secular Muslim — who sailed on the Mavi Marmara to Gaza in 2010, castigated the IDF over its interception of the vessel, and was only allowed to run for the Knesset in January after court intervention — acknowledged that Christians are leaving Nazareth in greater numbers than Muslims, but said that this is due to the Christians’ generally higher socioeconomic level.“Muslims want to leave Nazareth just as badly as Christians do,” she said. “Christians aren’t moving to Upper Nazareth because they are more welcome there than Muslims… For the state of Israel, if you’re not a Jew you’re either a foreigner or a threat.”By forming a new Christian party, Zoabi added, Shlayan was “selling his honor and his nation.”But the Christian navy captain seemed unscathed by that critique. While waiting for the paperwork for his new party, he recently appealed to Tourism Minister Uzi Landau to place the largest statue of Jesus in the world on the city’s Mount Precipice, from which — according to Christian tradition — the heathen residents of Nazareth tried to push their savior to his death, and failed.

ITS ALWAYS ISRAELS FAULT SAYS ABBAS.WELL I GOT NEWS FOR ABBAS.WHY DOES ISRAEL HAVE TO GIVE USE MONEY.WHEN ALL USE DO IS IS MURDER INNOCENT ISRAELIS.USE CLAIM YOU WANT A STATE OF YOUR OWN.BUT USE LEACH OFF THE WEST FOR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR JUST TO MAKE BOMBS TO KILL ISRAELIS.YOU LEACHES OF CASH.YOU CAN'T PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES SALARIES. BECAUSE ALL USE DO IS BUILD BOMBS AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO TRY TO KILL EVERY ISRAELI IN ISRAEL.IF THOSE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS USE GET FROM LEACHING OFF THE WEST WENT INTO JOBS AND CREATING JOBS.THEN THERE WOULD BE TRUE PEACE IN ISRAEL.BECAUSE USE LEACHES WOULD NOT HAVE TO COUNT ON THE WEST FOR HANDOUTS.GAZA WOULD BE MAKING ITS OWN CASH.NOT JUST LEACHING OFF THE WEST TO MAKE AND BUY WEAPONS TO DESTROY YOUR SO CALLED PEACE PARTNER IN THE PEACE PROCESS ISRAEL. BALESTINIANS IF YOU REALLY WANT A STATE OF YOUR OWN.YOU BETTER START CREATING REAL JOBS FOR YOUR PEOPLE.HOW CAN YOU EXPECT A STATE THATS NOT EVEN IN YOUR VOCABULARY.USE CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THE NAME PALESTINE BECAUSE USE CHANGE THE P IN PALESTINE TO A B.WELL GOD DONE A GREAT JOKE ON USE IN THIS SITUATION.GOD IS REVEALING THROUGH YOUR ARABIC LANGUAGE HOW HYPOCRITICAL ARABS AND ISLAM REALLY ARE.GOD MADE SURE YOU CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF YOUR STATE YOU CLAIM TO BE YOURS.SO THE BALESTINIAN PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN A STATE CALLED BALESTINE.AND WILL STEAL HALF OF JERUSALEM FROM ISRAEL.AND THEN BESIDES THAT-YOU BALESTINIANS ARE TRYING TO FORCE ISRAEL TO PAY ALL YOUR BILLS.SO USE CAN GET A FREE STATE-STEAL JERUSALEM.GET BILLIONS FROM THE WEST TO BUILD BOMBS TO TRY TO DESTROY INNOCENT WOMEN, CHILDREN AND MEN ISRAELIS.I'D SAY BALESTINE-USE CAN NOT EVEN CREATE JOBS TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOUR OWN CITIZENS.HOW CAN USE POSSIBLY RUN A STATE OF YOUR OWN WITH THE BILLIONS NEEDED TO KEEP THAT STATE RUNNING.AND BUILD BOMBS TO KILL ISRAELIS AT THE SAME TIME.HOW-WHEN ALL THE SUCKER NATIONS OF THE WORLD SUPPLY USE MURDERERS WITH CASH.-THATS HOW.SO DON'T YOU DARE BLAME ISRAEL FOR ANYTHING. WHATEVER USE ARE GOING THROUGH ITS BECAUSE USE CAUSED THE SITUATION. SURE NOT ISRAEL.IF I WAS ISRAELS LEADER.GAZA WOULD BE ISRAELS-AND EVERY ARAB WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO OTHER ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES. BECAUSE IF I WAS ISRAELS LEADER.I WOULD NEVER STAND FOR THE ARABS LEECHING CASH FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO BUILD ROCKETS TO KILL MY BRETHERN THE JEWS.IF I WERE A JEWISH LEADER OF COURSE.UNFORTUNATELY I'M A CHRISTIAN GERMAN STICKING UP FOR ISRAEL.I WOULD PROTECT MY CITIZENS LIKE GOD WILL ALWAYS PROTECT ISRAEL FROM ITS ENEMIES.THANK YOU KING JESUS THE GOD AND MESSIAH OF THE WORLD AND ISRAEL FOR KEEPING YOUR PROMISES TO ISRAEL.BECAUSE IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU GOD PROTECTING ISRAEL-THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED FROM THE EARTH A MILLION TIMES OVER.

Abbas blames Israel for Palestinian fiscal crisis

In interview on PA television, Palestinian leader says government won’t be able to pay employees’ salaries next month

By Ilan Ben Zion October 12, 2013, 3:16 pm 2-The Times of Israel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday blamed Israel for the economic crisis in the Palestinian territories, reiterating the findings of a World Bank report earlier this week which accused Israel of limiting PA income by restricting access to the majority of the West Bank.“The economic situation is very difficult and the central reason for this is the Israeli occupation,” Abbas said in an interview with Palestinian government television. “Israel exploits our resources and lands which directly leads to an increase in the deficit which we must contend with.”According to Abbas, Palestinian Finance Minister Shukri Bishara informed him that the PA won’t be able to pay government salaries unless it receives international aid. The Palestinian government employs approximately 150,000 of the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in the West Bank.In January 2013 the Palestinian government said it was in “extreme jeopardy” because of a financial crisis it pinned on Arab countries’ failure to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. At the time, prime minister Salam Fayyad said the crisis had worsened in recent years, and the government, the Palestinian Authority, wasn’t able to pay the salaries of its employees.Earlier this year the PA’s 2013 budget deficit was expected to reach $1.4 billion; the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency cited the deficit as nearly $500 million. A World Bank report published earlier this week accused Israel of squeezing the Palestinian economy out of billions of dollars by restricting access to Area C, which comprises some 61 percent of West Bank territory but is under full Israeli civil and security control.The report said the Palestinian economy could add $3.4 billion in potential value a year, or 35 percent of the 2011 Gross Domestic Product, if Palestinians are allowed to develop the restricted area. The bank says the deficit of the Palestinian self-rule government, currently dependent on foreign aid, would drop by half, thereby reducing “the need for donor support, and reduce unemployment and poverty rates.”During his interview, Abbas called on expatriate Palestinians who succeeded in making a living abroad to aid the Palestinian Authority.“I call on all wealthy Palestinians everywhere to support small projects. If every wealthy Palestinian took care of a family or opened up a small project for them, this would help to mitigate the crisis,” Ma’an quoted the president saying.“We must take responsibility for the law, we are working to improve the situation and reduce unemployment by supporting small business owners,” Abbas said.Abbas’ statements came amid renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians that began at the end of July. The negotiations teams are scheduled to meet again this week.

How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel

A plan used in the 1950s to build a system of towns and villages in the northern Negev was based on a theory developed in the Third Reich, to be used for populating an Eastern Europe cleansed of Jews. Did Zionist planners not know, or not care?

By Joshua Davidovich October 11, 2013, 3:15 pm 31-The Times of Israel 

The areas of West Central Poland, and Lachish, Israel, in the southern lowland between the coast and Judean mountains, have little in common. Poznan’s rolling hills, ancient forests and many rivers interspersed with farms, villages, towns and cities provide a stark contrast to Lachish’s nearly flat and semi-arid network of collective farms, agricultural settlements and the backwater burg of Kiryat Gat.Yet an ironic twist of history will forever link the two places, for what was nearly instituted in Poznan during World War II, once the area had been cleared of Jews and other “undesirables,” came to life just a couple of decades later in the Lachish area, thanks to Zionist planners seeking to create a modern Utopian state out of what was seen as a land without a people.The man linking the two places is Walter Christaller, a giant of regional planning whose Nazi associations were somehow washed away, or conveniently forgotten, in the post-war years. His Theory of Central Places, which Konrad Meyer and Heinrich Himmler wanted to use to replicate the city-country landscape of Germany in a conquered Eastern Europe, later found a home in the Lachish region, among other places, as Israeli planners attempted to build an urban and agricultural region, like so much of the Jewish state, from scratch.Describing Christaller’s plan for the Warthegau area of Poland, Trevor Barnes, a geography professor at the University of British Columbia, told this reporter recently that “it involved creating this empty space without people and then refilling it with a Germanized population… If that’s what happened in Israel, it’s repeating exactly the same narrative, the same set of relations as there were in Nazi Germany.”

Israeli planners, for the most part, have not grappled with the fact that one of the dominant planning doctrines in early Israel was developed by a geographer in the Nazi party. And while Barnes says the doctrine is tinged by its Nazi associations, most Israeli planners deny that Christaller’s professional life had any bearing on it.

“Christaller presented a theory. Anyone can use or learn from it as they see fit but there is no connection to his past,” Gideon Biger, a professor in Tel Aviv University’s Geography department, said. (Full disclosure: I attended a class Biger taught while a student in the department, during which he spoke at length about central place theory.)

A true-blue brown shirt?

It is difficult to know how devoted Christaller was to the Nazi cause. A Social Democrat, he fled Germany for France on his bicycle in 1933, after Adolf Hitler took power, for fear that he would be persecuted by the Nazis.

Walter Christaller. (photo credit: Courtesy)

It was the same year that he published his seminal thesis “Central Places in Southern Germany,” which became the lodestar of the central places movement in geography. Christaller returned to Berlin several years later, taking a job in the Nazi Soil and Planning Department under SS man Konrad Meyer. It was there that he was tasked with creating a plan for Warthegau, which the Nazis intended to cleanse of Jews, Slavs and Poles as a test case for what the Third Reich hoped would be the creation of a greater Germany-conquered Eastern Europe, in accordance with the concept of Lebensraum (“living room”).“I have no evidence that he was an anti-Semite,” Barnes said. “His own records were destroyed and he asked his son to burn his papers. There is very little information about what he actually believed at the time … He got sucked up into that bureaucracy, but it’s not clear if he even believed in it.”After the war, Christaller joined the Communist cause (and was rumored to have worked for the Stasi) and became widely respected in planning circles, winning the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographic Society in 1968.The question of whether Christaller was a true-blue brown shirt or just an academic trying to get ahead while the Nazis were in power is one that cuts to the heart of his legacy. No definitive answer has ever been given, but the warm welcome he received in international planning circles as early as the 1950s, and the fact that he is still widely taught in schools across the world, including in Israel, testify to the fact that most were happy to forgive, or not take seriously, his past.While his Nazi history was never a secret, it was not until his death in 1969 that the true extent of his associations with the party reverberated through the planning world.In 2012, Barnes and Claudio Minca coauthored an article exposing “the dark history” of Christaller and his theory. Next year, a second paper will be published by Barnes, comparing Christaller to Final Solution architect Adolf Eichmann, not in the severity of his crimes but in the fact that he was a “desk killer,” or schreibtischtaeter in German, a bureaucrat who efficiently helped carry out the Third Reich’s plans.“He had some belief in what he was doing,” Barnes said. “Not only did he revive the plan for Warthegau but he helped to arrange for the transfer of migrants who are going to go to the empty farms.”Christaller is far from the only Nazi to escape the taint of his actions under the Third Reich. Dr. Werner von Braun, the father of the German V-2 rocket program, was famously co-opted by the US to help get the country’s nascent space program off the launch pad; filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl remained a sought-after photographer despite being a major part of the Nazi propaganda machine; and Martin Heidegger is still considered a giant of philosophy despite his relationship with the Nazi party, thanks in part to the efforts of Hannah Arendt to clear his name.Ideas too, seeped out of Nazi Germany and into accepted modern discourse. Maps of North Africa used by German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel were utilized as recently as the 2011 NATO campaign in Libya. According to Haifa University’s Dr. Arnon Golan, who was the first Israeli academic to write about Christaller’s Nazi past in 1997, the Israel Defense Forces also bases some of its tank warfare doctrine on maneuvers innovated by Rommel as he swept through North Africa. And the idea of regression to the mean, an accepted scientific principle, had its roots in the study of eugenics.So too, despite its dark past, central place theory proved popular for many European and American planners in the 1950s and 60s, with champions of the program either ignoring or not knowing about Christaller’s Nazi past. (A plan for Christaller to conduct a speaking tour in the US in the 1960s was stymied not because he had been a Nazi, but because he was a Communist).

A tempting formula for growth

Central place theory, which is based on the relationship between cities and their surroundings in southern Germany, calls for a hierarchy of small farming villages, larger towns and bigger cities, with each rung providing a different level of service for area residents. Using a mathematical model that places the cities, towns and villages in a hexagonal pattern, proponents of central place theory hoped to be able to efficiently direct development for maximum economic benefit, while maintaining a high quality of life.For Israel in the 1950s, central place theory proved a tempting way for planners to decide where to direct growth, particularly development towns and farming villages to be populated by the influx of new immigrants. Planners engineered a hierarchical system from small farming villages, or moshavim, to large cities, and in many cases they were placed with geopolitical considerations, such as Kiryat Shmona on the border with Lebanon, and Ashdod, which was intended to be a second port out of rocket range.But nowhere did central place theory play as large a role as it did in the mostly empty Lachish region, a flat and arid expanse sitting between Israel’s southern coastal plain and the southern end of the West Bank.“As most of the development towns were planned as service centers for rural districts around them, it seemed relevant to apply central place theory to determine their location and size,” planner Arie Shachar wrote in 1971.

The settlement of Gat, a precursor to Kiryat Gat, in 1946. (photo credit: public domain, Wikimedia commons)

In the Mandate period, the Lachish region had been dominated by the Arab towns of Iraq al Manshiya and Faluja. During the War of Independence, the area saw heavy fighting between Israeli and Egyptian forces and all the inhabitants left, either by choice or by force, according to different historians.What was left was an empty area in which a purer form of Christaller’s theory could be applied “They found a lot of empty spaces and were troubled about how to better use their resources to develop the country,” said Ilan Troen, a professor at Brandeis University and the author of “Imagining Zion,” about Zionist planning. “The people who were engaged in planning had it in mind in creating a modern society. Christaller was a leading person in that regard.”What was created, and what still exists today, was a system of small villages feeding into larger service centers, which all fed into the large development town of Kiryat Gat. Everything is placed, as much as possible, according to mathematical models and hexagonal patterns pioneered by Christaller and later revised by Auguste Losche, another German planner who was able to find success despite rebuffing the Nazis.

Christaller and Kiryat Gat

Most planners maintain that Israeli officials at the time had no idea about Christaller’s past, only that he and his theory were popular in the West, where it was applied in the Netherlands and the US, among other places.“Thanks heavens they didn’t know everything about Christaller,” Troen said. “He engaged in the kind of activities that would have offended and been considered outrageous.”Golan said that David Amiran, the father of modern Israeli planning who played a large role in the Lachish project, told him that planners at the time had never heard of Christaller and certainly not his Nazi past.“They took planning as something universal. They didn’t take it as something that derives from Christaller,” Golan said.Most planners and historians are quick to point out that despite Christaller’s associations, central places is a sterile theory with no connection to National Socialism, and that it was developed before Christaller joined the Nazi party. According to Golan, the theory even predates Christaller by several decades, though Christaller nonetheless became its poster boy.However, some say shades of the theory’s journey through the Third Reich are embedded within its cold sterility and efficiency for developing a new Germany — hallmarks of Nazi ideology, which balanced cruel science with a völkisch commitment to nationalism.“It connects to the kind of Nazi ideology forged in the countryside,” said Barnes. “It begins with the farm itself. And it moves up all the way to the large urban centers. The habitation makes the connection between these two different ends, one the celebration of the rural and the other high modernism and science and industrial productivity.”

Barnes has not studied Israel’s application of central place theory. But, he says, if Israel’s planners did use it, it would be akin to Jerusalem choosing a Wagner tune for its national anthem.“You must always take into account historical context,” he said. “Personally, I am very suspicious of any theory that presents itself as the embodiment of rationality and pure logic.”Golan, however rejects Barnes’s parallel, saying that Wagner was a symbol of anti-Semitism, unlike Christaller who was “not the spirit of Nazi Germany.”So too, Golan says, Israeli use of central place theory need not be tainted with the fact that its original innovators wanted to use it for evil.“The fact that you use the same theory doesn’t show you use the same ideology,” he said.In Poland, the idea would have been used to transport Germany into a newly-conquered area. In Lachish, the idea was not to transfer Zionist city-country ideology, but rather just to find the most efficient way to put people, farms, towns and cities into a newly empty area that needed to be filled, in order to shore up Israel’s hinterlands, in what was then considered the northern Negev, and to keep Tel Aviv and the coastal region from overcrowding, a very real concern at the time for Israeli planners who feared Israel could turn into a binodal Australia redux.Instead of becoming a strong self-sustaining regional center, though, Kiryat Gat today is mostly seen as a poor backwater, kept afloat only by government subsidies — which helped spur Intel to put a plant there — and its proximity to Tel Aviv.“Models or paradigms are neat. Reality is messy,” Troen said. “The realities of Palestine in the 20th century were messy.”

Kiryat Gat as seen from the air today. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Amos Meron, Wikimedia commons)

In 1997, Golan wrote that it was too simple for planners to just disregard Christaller’s Nazi connections because of the “objectivity” of his theories. “It seems … that it is rooted in the complex relations between Israelis and their painful past and that understanding the social and cultural dimensions of theories such as the central place theory, might contribute to a revaluation of the agenda of recent Israeli geography and the research of the shaping of Israeli landscapes,” his paper reads.According to Troen, it’s impossible that Israeli planners, most of whom had been educated in Germany and maintained contacts with the post-war European planning community, didn’t know about Christaller. But relating to him for Israelis then was no different than their dilemmas over whether or not to buy German appliances.At the end of the day, central places provided an important model for a country that also learned to live with Bosch washing machines and strong diplomatic ties with Bonn and Berlin.“Jews had to make decisions about how to relate to the products of Nazi Germany,” he said. “Zionist planners saw that as bitter irony. These are the unexpected connections that seem so absurd and so tragic.”Follow Joshua Davidovich on Twitter 

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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.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

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.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)

In Gaza, Hamas feels the squeeze

Although Israel has boosted supplies, Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels has raised prices in the Strip, angered residents, and cost the Islamist government a fortune. It’s still training terrorists, though

By Avi Issacharoff October 12, 2013, 3:54 am 2-The Times of Israel

ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER — At first glance, everything seems peaceful and serene. I’m standing at the northern tip of the Gaza Strip, the point where the barrier between Israel and Gaza ends as it descends gradually into the sea. And nothing separates the sands of Israel’s Zikim beach from the northernmost beach in Gaza.Two Palestinian fishermen row their raft into the sea, hoping to catch some fish to sell and bring home a few shekels. Today, the rest of Gaza beach is empty. On weekends, it is packed with people seeking recreation and relaxation.The northernmost homes of the al-Shati refugee camp, a few kilometers south, are visible in the distance. This is the home of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Further south are the Gaza beach hotels, generally empty except for the foreign journalists who stay from time to time.This single position where I’m taking in the view is one of the biggest headaches for the Israeli security forces. Those fishermen could, theoretically, row out to sea towards the imaginary border inside the water and easily swim to the Israeli side in a matter of seconds.This hasn’t happened. For now, Hamas has no interest in launching a terrorist attack from Gaza or initiating military confrontations.But Egypt’s exhaustive crackdown on Hamas, and on its smuggling tunnels running into the Sinai, is giving rise to fears that the Islamist group may attempt to escalate tensions with Israel, in a bid to force Egypt to open the Sinai border for commerce and trade.

That’s why in recent weeks it has been the Israelis, of all people, who have attempted to dissuade Cairo from enforcing a hermetic blockade on the Gaza Strip. Squeezing Gaza too tight will likely cause upheaval in the region, which will result in a new round of violence between Israel and Hamas.For most Gazans, though, the closing of the tunnels has translated into a new reality in which, while most products are still available, they are much more expensive than before Egypt made its move.

A city underground

During the years of Israel’s tight blockade on Gaza, from 2007 to 2010, hundreds of tunnels were dug out, very close together, along the narrow strip of land that forms the border between Egypt and Gaza.

The spokesperson for the Egyptian Border Police reported last week that the Egyptians have closed 1,055 tunnels since January 2011, 794 of them in the nine months since January 2013.The tunnels were one of the Hamas government’s primary projects. The industry employed up to 40,000 people, and provided nearly 40% of the government’s budget. The tunnels were of varying lengths and widths, but the majority shared a purpose – to smuggle in all types of merchandise, from missiles and military equipment to snacks and cigarettes. Subverting the Israeli blockade, the industry proved highly profitable, too, for private entrepreneurs.Hamas monitored the tunnels closely and heavily taxed the tunnel owners. Each entrepreneur would pay taxes to the Rafah Municipality for a license to begin digging. Once the tunnel was dug, taxes were charged on all products brought through it, but the goods were still cheaper than anything flowing legitimately through the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.A seven shekel ($2) pack of cigarettes from Egypt, for example, would sell for 10 shekels (almost $3) in the Gaza shops; the tunnel owner made two shekels and Hamas one shekel per smuggled pack.The system worked for everyone: The tunnel owners earned their commission, residents of Gaza enjoyed exceptionally cheap products, and Hamas benefited from the tens of millions of dollars in taxes that it accumulated each month.The first stage of the Egyptian war against the tunnels began when the Muslim Brotherhood was still in control. After 16 Egyptian police officers were killed near the Rafah border in August 2012, Cairo realized that terrorists affiliated with Al-Qaeda were using the tunnels to receive military equipment from Gaza and were smuggling people through the tunnels to facilitate fighting.This was the trigger for Egyptian military action. Approximately half of the tunnels were closed down. But the most dramatic shift began in late June 2013, several days before the widespread protests against Morsi led to his ouster. The army took advantage of the Brotherhood’s weakness and launched a massive operation along the Rafah border, shutting down 90% of the tunnels there.The financial implications for Gaza and the Hamas treasury were immediate and the situation has not improved since. “For six years, we grew accustomed to buying everything, and cheap,” a Gaza resident told me. “Gasoline was only three shekels per liter. Cigarettes cost ten and milk was sold for four shekels. Now, it’s not that we’re lacking anything. Trucks constantly enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom. But the prices have more than doubled.”

The Coordinating Office for Government Activities in the Territories, understanding the potential for escalated violence in Gaza as a result of the lack of merchandise, has lately allowed over 430 trucks to bring products into Gaza via Kerem Shalom on a daily basis.But according to the Gaza resident, the problem is cost, not availability. “People earn the same salaries as before, if they work at all. But the prices have skyrocketed. People cannot afford to buy gasoline for eight shekels per liter or cigarettes for 25 shekels. The Gaza markets are suffering a recession, and this is holiday season,” he said, referring to Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, which begins next Tuesday.Hamas is also hurting. “Just picture the situation: Nearly all the men in Gaza smoke. But the taxes collected on smuggled cigarettes from Egypt are gone,” a Gaza vendor said. “Half a million liters of fuel were transported through the tunnels daily and each liter contributed 1.5 shekels to the Hamas treasury. They paid thousands of dollars in taxes for each car that was brought in through the tunnels. The same was true for construction materials, snacks, everything.”The lack of income has impacted Hamas government salaries. Hamas withheld last month’s wages in order to save the money for Eid al-Adha. The government apparently plans on granting a 1,000 shekel bonus to each of its 50,000 employees for the holiday.

What does Hamas do now?

“Hamas now has nothing to offer the Palestinian community in Gaza,” said a Palestinian analyst, who asked to remain anonymous. “Let’s look a few years ahead. According to the UN, by 2020 there will not be a single drop of water in the Gaza Strip that is fit for human consumption. What can Hamas do about that? Very little.“But even today, the financial situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating rapidly. The government’s income has declined — because of the tunnels, but also because of a decrease in outside contributions. The money that the Muslim Brotherhood once raised for Hamas from its members in Egypt has dried up. Unemployment rates among the younger generation in Gaza have never been higher and the majority of university graduates cannot find work. What kind of future can Hamas offer these thousands of young adults who cannot afford to buy a house or even to get married?”Hamas, this analyst said, is facing “one of the most severe economic and political crises in its history — because of the events throughout the Middle East. Its mother-movement in Egypt has once again been outlawed and now operates underground. Its ally in Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has his own local Intifada to deal with due to the rising costs of fuel. The movement has been pushed to the sidelines of the civil war in Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood is no longer a central player even in Jordan, where protests against the royal family have tapered out.”Hamas’s only supporters, he said, “are Qatar and Turkey, while all other Arab countries including Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain oppose them. There isn’t even anyone left to mediate between Hamas and Fatah, if Gaza decides to take the [internal Palestinian] reconciliation route.”This analyst believes that while there is a possibility of escalated violence against Israel, its unlikely. “It’s not on their agenda, despite the financial crisis. One faction, led by Haniyeh, claims that the current circumstances in the region leave Hamas with no choice but to reconcile with Fatah. A second group argues that Hamas must show no signs of weakness at this time and must hang tough until circumstances change for the better. A third group advocates reconciliation, but only in six months’ time, once the negotiations between the PA and Israel come to an end. At that point, they believe that Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] will have no choice but to accept that the talks with Israel failed, which will weaken him politically. They want to reconcile from a position of strength.”For now, Hamas leaders are waiting to see if Egypt will change its policies towards Gaza. These leaders cannot even leave the Strip; Cairo has forbidden them from crossing through the Rafah border terminal.At the same time, Hamas is constantly building up its military forces in case its leaders do choose the escalation route. It has set up a training camp for members of its military wing, not far from Gaza’s northwestern border, on the ruins of the Dugit settlement. The camp is named Askelan — a reference to Ashkelon, further up the coast in Israel.A tall watchtower constructed at the camp is clearly visible from Israeli territory. From this elevated vantage point, Hamas activists observe activity on the Israeli side of the border. Since the last major flare-up in November 2012, they’ve been watching relative quiet. There are no guarantees that it will last.

Al-Qaeda leader urges unity among Syrian jihadis

Ayman al-Zawahiri tells Islamists fighting Assad not to cooperate with secular rebels, calls on Egyptian Islamists to unite to rid country of military

By AP and Times of Israel staff October 12, 2013, 12:48 pm 0-The Times of Israel

BEIRUT — The leader of al-Qaeda has urged jihadis in Syria to unite, an appeal likely aimed at rival affiliates of his terror network fighting there to oust President Bashar Assad.Ayman al-Zawahiri said fighters must “rise above organizational loyalties and party partisanship” and unite behind the goal of setting up an Islamic state.Al-Zawaihri also urged Syrian regime opponents not cut deals with Western-backed and secular groups. Islamist rebels have battled with secular and Kurdish rebel groups over Syria’s border crossings with Turkey for several weeks, leaving dozens dead.However, he suggests he will not impose unity, saying in an audio message Friday that “what you agree upon will also be our choice.”Two al-Qaeda-linked groups have emerged in Syria’s civil war — Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The first is commanded by a Syrian, the second by an Iraqi, but both are loyal to al-Zawahiri.In the 17-minute video clip, the al-Qaeda leader also called on Egyptian Islamists to work together under the banner of Islam in order to rid the country of military rule. Zawahiri railed against the Egyptian military, calling its leader “the Americanized butcher of the military coup” and accusing it of waging a war against Islam.He said the “secular military” has colluded with the United States, Israel, secular movements and Christians against Islam. Al Zawahiri also accused Egypt’s secularists of cooperating with the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.“Here is the tragedy in Egypt unfolding before your eyes, showing the extent the hatred of the seculars, the US agents, have for Muslims and Islamist groups,” Al Zawahiri said. “The secular military and its allies, the enemies of Islam, what to eradicate anyone who raises the banner of Islam.”In a jab at Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, Al Zawahri criticised Islamists who “compromised” with secular groups in Egypt and Tunisia, only to end up being persecuted by them. He said the anti-Islam alliance doesn’t distinguish between Islamists who wage holy war or those who seek power through democratic means.“They held on to secularism, fought for it, turning against the so-called democracy idol they asked Muslims to submit to in place of the rule of Sharia,” he said.Al Zawahiri urged Islamists to unite and wage a “popular” religious uprising “to rid Egypt of this criminal gang that jumped over power with fire and iron”.The recording was produced by the media arm of the group which issues Al Zawahiri’s messages. This is Al Zawahiri’s second message about Egypt since August.

POPE FRANCIS IF YOU HATE ISRAEL (ANTISEMETIC) YOU HATE GOD HIMSELF

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

DR JACK VAN IMPE SHOW-TODAY OCT 12,THE FALLING AWAY AND ISRAEL HATE
http://www.thegospel.com/clients/jvim-jack-van-impe-ministries/media.asp
JAN MARKELL THE SEDUCTION OF THE CHURCH-THE LURE OF END TIME DECEPTION
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/listen/the-seduction-of-the-church-the-lure-of-end-time-deception-370744.html

10/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis: “It's a contradiction for a Christian to be anti-Semitic”

Bergoglio with the Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni

A Jewish delegation visits Francis on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Rome’s Jews. Chief Rabbi Di Segni praises the Lampedusa recovery efforts

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city “It’s a contradiction that a Christian is anti-Semitic: His roots are Jewish,” said the Pope. “A Christian cannot be anti-Semitic! Let Anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman!” Pope Francis said this to members of Rome’s Jewish community, whom he met today, to mark the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the city’s Jewish population during the Nazi occupation.The Pope recalled that “for many centuries … the Jewish community and the Church of Rome have lived in our city, with a history - as we well know - which was often transversed by misunderstandings and even true grievances,” Pope Francis said. “However, it is a story, that with the help of God, has for many decades experienced the development of friendly and fraternal relations.”
“Naturally the Second Vatican Council reflections on the Catholic side have contributed” to this change in mentality “but the life and actions of wise and generous individuals on both sides have also had an important part to play with their “courageous efforts in creating new paths for understanding and dialogue”. “Paradoxically, the shared tragedy of the war taught us to walk alongside each other. In a few days we will commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the deportation of Rome’s Jewish population,” Francis added. It will be a chance to remember and pray for the victims and their families. “It will also be an opportunity to keep vigilant so that, under any pretext, any forms of intolerance and anti-Semitism in Rome and the rest of the world not come back to life. I've said it other times and I would like to repeat it now: It’s a contradiction that a Christian is anti-Semitic: His roots are Jewish,” said the Pope. “A Christian cannot be anti-Semitic! Let Anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman!”Francis also reminded his audience of the efforts made by Christians and the clergy, with Pius XII’s blessing, to help the Jewish population. The Pope also said that “the anniversary offers a chance to remember how the Christian community responded during this “hour of darkness” to the needs of his brother in difficulty. We know how many religious institutions, monasteries and Papal Basilicas, interpreting the will of the Pope, opened their doors in a brotherly welcome , and how many ordinary Christians offered what help they could give, however big or small.”“The vast majority” of these Christians, Francis said, “were not aware of the need to update the Christian understanding of Judaism, and perhaps knew very little about the life of the Jewish community, But they had the courage to do what at that time was the right thing: to protect their brother, who was in danger. I would like to emphasize this aspect, because if it is true that it is important, on both sides, to study, in depth, theological reflections through dialogue, it is also true that there is a dialogue of life, that of everyday experience, which is no less important. Indeed, without this, without a real and concrete culture of encounter, which leads to authentic relationships, which exist without prejudice and suspicion, the engagement in the intellectual field would serve little purpose.”Finally, Francis pointed to some among the “many things” that the two communities have in common: the Decalogue as a solid foundation and source of life for our society which has become disoriented as a result of an extreme pluralism of choices and orientations.The Pope also sent the community a written message to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the deportation of Rome’s Jews. The message contained an appeal to the new generations not to let their existence become flat, not to let themselves be influenced by ideologies, never to justify the evils they come across, not let their guard down and continue fighting against anti-Semitism and racism, whatever their background.In his opening greeting to the Pope, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, alluded to the Biblical story of Noah’s Arc and the global flood, saying: “there is still something about that story that torments us: out of the whole of humanity only one family survives inside a boat, while everything else is destroyed by the flood.” “But in the past few days we have seen the exact opposite happening: we’ve seen people in a boat dying while the rest of humanity survives, helpless and indifferent.” “Our history and our faith rebel against this and with your strong presence which shares in this rebellion, you have proven that we have common values to pass on to humanity,” the Chief Rabbi continued.“It was a positive meeting,” Chief Rabbi Di Segni told Vatican Insider. The Pope showed a “great willingness to listen and a propositional attitude. In both our private and public meetings we spoke about biblical exegesis, history and solidarity.”

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)

REVELATION 17:1-5,9
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

10/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Bergoglio gives Schultz a push: “Europe must live up to its responsibilities”

Francis with Martin Schulz

Today the Pope met with the President of the European Parliament who invited Francis to Strasbourg. The two agreed that “the Lampedusa scenario must never be repeated again”

GIACOMO GALEAZZI vatican city As the son of immigrants whose father had a lucky escape from a sinking ship, Bergoglio sent out a firm message to Europe in his meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, today. The Pope called on Europe to live up to its responsibilities in order to prevent boat people tragedies like last Thursday’s one at Lampedusa, which claimed the lives of 319 illegal immigrants. The European Parliament is anxious to welcome a Pope of such “extraordinary open-mindedness”. But Bergoglio is no fan of blown up media campaigns unless he can see concrete results, so a papal visit to Strasbourg would mean a crammed schedule with lots of topics to discuss.A hot topic up for discussion is the need for greater European involvement in welcoming immigrants and in mediation for peace in Syria and the Middle East. In a press statement, Martin Schultz said that during his audience with Francis, “I spoke about the urgent problems faced by the EU and I think it’s no surprise that our conversation turned to Lampedusa and the immigration,” the President of the EU Parliament said after the meeting. He underlined that “more solidarity and a greater cooperation against despair and civil war” were crucial. “The Pope’s messages in these first few months of his pontificate encouraged me to bring him this message.” “Once again I extended the European Parliament’s invitation to the Pope to come to Strasbourg” and “I think my message was warmly received, so I am glad I had the opportunity to extend our invitation to him,” Schultz told journalists. The invitation coincides with an important anniversary: “Twenty-five years ago, on this day, John Paul II addressed the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. On behalf of the European Parliament, I have extended an invitation to Pope Francis to address the plenary."Widening the scope of legal immigration and creating more human corridors for refugees coming to Europe as well as temporary permits for refugees are measures Europe could adopt to deal with the immigration emergency after the Lampedusa boat tragedy, Schultz underlined. The subject of immigration took up much of this morning’s half-hour meeting with the Pope, who asked for greater attention to be paid to the issues linked to this phenomenon. It is an issue that Europe as a whole needs to deal with urgently but responsibility also lies with the single States. This morning Francis and the President of the European Parliament leafed through a photo album of John Paul II’s visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg 25 years ago. Schultz asked the Pope to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and visit the European Parliament.The president gave the Pope a book of Sunday prayers and a book on Aachen Cathedral. Francis reciprocated with a Vatican Museum pen featuring one of the columns from Bernini’s “baldacchino” (canopy) which surmounts the Confession altar. Schultz was accompanied by the mayor of Aachen, the local newspaper’s editor-in-chief and the local parish priest. The Vatican’s spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, said some of the issues covered during the meeting included “poverty, the emigration phenomenon and youth unemployment,”The Pope showed his appreciation for the invitation to Strasbourg. “The President’s invitation was heartfelt and will receive the Pope’s careful consideration,” Fr. Lombardi underlined. So the Pope has not yet taken Schultz up on his invitation and there was no mention of any potential dates. If a visit does take place, it will only be to the European institutions and not to the Diocese of Strasbourg, which John Paul II did visit back in 1998, the Curia pointed out.

10/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis: “The devil exists, let’s not confuse it with a mental illness”

Pope Francis

In this morning’s homily for the daily mass in St. Martha’s House, Francis said “Let us not do business with the devil”

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city Pope Francis spoke again of the devil at today’s mass in St. Martha’s House, inviting faithful to take the Scriptures that mention the devil, seriously. The text Francis commented on today was a passage from Luke’s Gospel, which says that Jesus casts out demons but is not understood by the people.“There are some priests who, when they read this Gospel passage, this and others say: ‘But, Jesus healed a person with a mental illness’. They do not read this, no? It is true that at that time, they could confuse epilepsy with demonic possession; but it is also true that there was the devil! And we do not have the right to simplify the matter, as if to say: ‘All of these (people) were not possessed; they were mentally ill’. No! The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil,” Francis said.Francis’ call to faithful not to downplay or confuse the devil’s action with mental illnesses was particularly striking. Francis asked Christians not to be naïve when faced with the temptation of finding explanations “to diminish the power of the Lord.” “There is always the temptation to want to diminish the figure of Jesus, as if he were “a healer at most” and so as not to take him “so seriously”. This temptation still exists today.The Pope then outlined three ways of fighting evil: “Do not confuse the truth. Jesus fights the devil: first criterion. Second criterion: he who is not with Jesus is against Jesus. There are no attitudes in the middle. Third criterion: vigilance over our hearts because the devil is astute. He is never cast out forever. It will only be so on the last day.”“Vigilance,” Francis said, “because his strategy is this: ‘You became Christian. Advance in your faith. I will leave you. I will leave you tranquil. But then when you are used to not being so watchful and you feel secure, I will come back’. The Gospel today begins with the devil being cast out and ends with the devil coming back! St. Peter would say: ‘It is like a fierce lion that circles us’. It is like that.”“‘But, Father, you a little ancient. You are frightening us with these things…’ No, not me! It is the Gospel! And these are not lies: it is the Word of the Lord! Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won against the devil! Please, let us not do business with the devil! He seeks to return home, to take possession of us… Do not relativize; be vigilant! And always with Jesus!.

Mosque and school spark new feud between Turkey and Greece

By Michel Sailhan 22 hours ago-OCT 12,13-yahoonews

Athens (AFP) - Greece and Turkey, which share a history marred by bitter territorial disputes and Christian-Muslim feuds, are at loggerheads once again over religion.The latest row erupted after Greece flatly rejected the idea of reviving two Muslim mosques in Athens in return for the reopening of an Orthodox clergy school in Turkey.Mosques have been a thorny issue for a long time in Greece, where the population is predominantly Greek Orthodox. Athens is one of the few European capitals without an official mosque.
The Halki seminary has also been a subject of controversy. The Orthodox clergy used to train in the school located on an island off Istanbul but it was closed in 1971, after Turkey fell out with Greece over Cyprus.
Turkey, a country where Muslims make up 99 percent of the population, recently decided to give back to the seminary lands that had been seized in 1943, but there was no talk of reopening."While we return something, we have the right to expect the return of other things," said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said he wanted two mosques revived in exchange for the seminary."Greece's position on the subject (the re-opening of the seminary) is clear, (it is) in accordance with international law and has been expressed on numerous occasions," Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos said earlier this week.Any further public discussion on the matter would be "counter productive," Venizelos said when asked to comment on Erdogan's suggestion.Erdogan also wants Greece's Muslims to be able to elect their own Mufti (religious leader), something that the Greek government is currently in charge of.Greece is home to around 500,000 Muslims -- many of them undocumented migrants -- including a community of over 100,000 Greek citizens of Turkish origin in the country's northeast.A staunchly Orthodox state with bitter memories of nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule, Greece currently offers sanctioned Muslim religious sites only near its northeastern border with Turkey.The issue of mosques in Greece started popping up shortly after 2000, as the 2004 Athens Olympics were looming up.With an increasing number of migrants from Pakistan and other Muslim countries having recently found their way to the Greek capital, the matter has become more pressing and in 2011 the government approved the construction of a mosque in Athens.But there were no immediate signs of interest in the project, in view of the Greek Church's reluctance, objections by local residents and protests by far-right activists including neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.In September, the ministry of infrastructure launched a fourth call for offers for this project which will cost some one million euros ($1.4 million).

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) 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 ANIMAL 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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

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.

Danon: 'Need to Weigh Up Future of Negotiations'

In light of earlier incidents, Jordan Valley attack creates a "disturbing picture," says Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon.-By Kochava Rozenbaum-First Publish: 10/11/2013, 12:27 PM-Israelnationalnews

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon-Flash 90

Although Friday's fatal attack in the Jordan Valley community of Brosh is unrelated to previous recent acts of terrorism, together they form a disturbing picture, according to Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon.
Danon told interviewers on Israeli radio network Reshet Bet that there was room to weigh up whether or not to continue negotiations with the Palestinian Authority following the attacks, and the incitement he said lay behind them.According to the Deputy Defense Minister, "forces trying to undermine" Mahmoud Abbas' leadership could also have been behind the attack."Israel expects the Palestinian Authority to react and take actions, but at the moment we are not seeing this," Danon lamented.Many political figures have rejected claims that the recent spate of terror attacks is not the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Chaiman, Mahmoud Abbas.Following the attack in Psagot last week, which saw a nine-year old Israeli girl shot in the neck at close range, Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel said: “the same 'Abu' is not denouncing and the same 'Mazen' is not taking action to arrest terrorists but only making gestures.” Abu Mazen is another name for the PA Chairman. Minister Uri Ariel also said that the current violence is a problem that requires that the government “stop, think anew, reach conclusions and see how we continue.”Also following Thursday night's attack, Judea and Samaria (Yesha) Council Chairman and Head of the Binyamin Regional Council Avi Ro'eh said that the continued negotiations with the Palestinian Authority had only led to an increase in terror attacks, adding that they gave the impression of weakness and sent out the wrong message.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

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.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

ISAIAH 51:3-4
3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion:(JERUSALEM) he will comfort all her waste places;(FROM NUCLEAR WAR) and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(I BELIEVE THE EZEKIEL 40-48,(4TH) TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER JESUS RULE FOR THE 1,000 YRS FROM JERUSALEM) and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.(PRAISE TO JESUS IN THE DESERT-COULD BE THE NEW JERUSALEM-4TH TEMPLE BUILT 25 MILES INTO THE DESERT FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.SINCE EZEKIELS TEMPLE IS WAY TO BIG FOR THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT)
4  Hearken unto me, my people;(ISRAEL) and give ear unto me, O my nation:(ISRAEL) for a law shall proceed from me,(JESUS IN JERUSALEM) and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.(ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)

Houses of prayer in the Holy City

Some have been desecrated, some have been destroyed, and some have been lovingly restored, but the stories of Jerusalem’s synagogues live on

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am October 12, 2013, 10:43 am 0-The Times of Israel

ALL THE PICTURES IN THIS STORY

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  Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
• Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
• Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel’s War of Independence ended with Jerusalem divided in two — and the Old City in Jordanian hands. Unfortunately, during the course of the war, two of the Old City’s magnificent and historic synagogues were razed to the ground by the Jordanian Legion. When the Six Day War of 1967 reunited the Holy City, the Jewish Quarter returned to Israel. Restorations began on a number of important sites, including several sanctuaries that had been demolished, desecrated or taken away by the Muslim authorities over the centuries. Here are a few of their stories:

Four Sephardic Synagogues

Rabbi Yochanan Ben-Zakkai was a first century sage and a member of the Sanhedrin (the highest Jewish court and council in ancient times) who kept Jewish learning alive after the fall of the Second Temple. In the 16^th century, a sanctuary in Jerusalem was named after the famous rabbi, which was joined, over the next 200 years, by three adjoining houses of worship. Called the Four Sephardic Synagogues, that complex is located on the edge of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City and serves as a major spiritual, educational, and financial center for Sephardic Jews. Indeed, it is here that the Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic community has been anointed since 1893 (except during the years of Jerusalem’s division). The largest of the four chambers is the Ben-Zakkai Synagogue on which site, according to tradition, the revered rabbi taught Bible. A smaller sanctuary next door, named for Elijah the prophet, has been the subject of numerous stories. My favorite is the tale about the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) when only nine Jews showed up for prayers (services can’t start without ten). Suddenly a stranger appeared and the worshipers happily began to pray. Immediately after the service, the stranger vanished. It was obvious to the others that the tenth addition had been Elijah — who saves the day on all kinds of different occasions.Kahal Zion, also known as the Middle Synagogue, is the smallest of the four sanctuaries. On the wall are framed computer-produced memorials. These replace stone memorials which were destroyed by the Jordanians during and after the War of Independence. Built by immigrant Jews from Istanbul, and today used by Jews from Kurdistan as well, the fourth chamber is called the Istanbuli Synagogue. This 18th-century sanctuary boasts an extraordinary pulpit with exquisite ornamentation; its gold-plated wooden ark has been lovingly restored.In 1948, this place of worship was a last refuge for the Jews of the Old City, who were forced to surrender when the soldiers of the Arab Legion closed in on them. Nineteen years later, when Jewish soldiers re-entered the synagogue complex, they found that the Jordanians had turned the historic house of worship into a stable. Since that time the synagogue has been completely restored.

Tiferet Yisrael

When completed in 1872, Tiferet Yisrael was three stories high and its dome was one of the tallest spots in the Old City. It was built by followers of a religious movement founded in the 18^th century, when Judaism was sometimes considered the sole domain of scholars and community leaders. The new movement, called Hasidism, made Judaism accessible and attractive to all, teaching that even an ignorant person could find grace in the eyes of God if he had a pure heart and prayed with devotion.

Tiferet Yisrael (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

In 1948, Tiferet Yisrael became an important military position and lookout point for Jewish defenders, and the battle over the building led to its destruction. Already badly damaged by heavy shelling, Tiferet Yisrael was completely demolished by Jordanian sappers in the days following the capitulation of the Jewish Quarter. Dome and walls collapsed and covered the building’s foundations. While some of its splendid features can still be seen in the ruins, this is the one early synagogue that has not been restored.

The Ramban Synagogue

Established in 1267, this was the very first synagogue to be built in the Jewish Quarter. Its founder was a well-known Spanish biblical commentator, Rabbi Moshe Ben-Nahman (1194-1270). His name is abbreviated in Hebrew as the famous acronym: the Ramban and he is also known as Nahmanides.

Commander Abdullah A-Tal decided to completely destroy Jewish morale and thus to purge the city of Jews once and for all. He gave an order — and the synagogue was blown to bits

Rabbi Moshe Ben-Nahman immigrated to the land of Israel after participating in a debate on religion with the royalty of Spain. Having won the debate, he was then forced to leave the country. Spain’s loss was Israel’s gain. Rabbi Ben-Nahman wasted no time in building a synagogue, traditionally on this site, utilizing marble pillars and a lovely dome from an abandoned edifice in its construction. Since the synagogue was a religious center for all of the Jewish groups in the city, the Jewish Quarter developed around it. In 1586, the Turkish governor of Jerusalem kicked the Jews out of their synagogue and Muslims began using the building as a storeroom for a neighboring mosque. The beautiful interior of the synagogue, reconstructed after the reunification of Jerusalem and returned to use after almost four centuries of neglect, contains one of its former columns. The pillar bears the Hebrew inscription “Avraham, Yitzhak, Ya’akov” (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).

The Hurva Synagogue

Several decades ago, a naked arch was erected above a pile of rubble in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter. It quickly became a Jerusalem landmark, seen on countless postcards and photographs. Considered by many to be a symbol of wanton destruction – and to others the promise of future redemption – the arch has completely disappeared. It was replaced by the complete restoration of the exquisite Hurva Synagogue, which stood on this site before its destruction by the Jordanian Legion in 1948.

Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

The first synagogue to be erected on this spot was built in 1705 by Ashkenazi followers of Rabbi Yehuda HaHasid. Five years earlier, the rabbi and his disciples had come to Jerusalem from eastern Europe to hasten the coming of the Messiah. Although the rabbi passed away soon after his arrival, his followers were desperate for a synagogue. Since money was scarce, they were forced to borrow heavily from the local Muslim populace in order to complete its construction. A few decades later, when the Jews were unable to pay back the loans, Muslim rioters demolished the synagogue and expelled the Ashkenazi community from Jerusalem. In 1836, a small place of Ashkenazi worship called Menachem Zion was constructed at the site; a house of study, Sha’arei Zion, was added in 1856. But the very large center for Ashkenazi Jews that would stand here eventually was completed only in 1864, with the help of the philanthropic Rothschild family. Officially named Beit Ya’akov, after the Baron James (Ya’akov in Hebrew) de Rothschild, it continued to be known as the Hurva (“Ruin”) of Rabbi Yehuda HaHasid.

Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

A splendid edifice, Beit Ya’akov was the tallest structure in the Jewish Quarter, with lovely interior wall decorations and a stunning Holy Ark from Russia. The synagogue became the center of Jewish life in Jerusalem, so important that, during the War of Independence, defenders of the Jewish Quarter kept the fighting away from the site. On May 27th, 1948, when the Jewish Quarter was under siege and its buildings devastated, Commander Abdullah A-Tal decided to completely destroy Jewish morale and thus to purge the city of Jews once and for all. He gave an order — and the synagogue was blown to bits. On the very next day, the brave defenders of the Jewish Quarter surrendered. But times have changed. And today, risen from the ashes, the Hurva Synagogue once again towers over the Jewish Quarter. —————————————————————————————————————– Aviva Bar-Am is the author of seven English-language guides to Israel. Shmuel Bar-Am is a licensed tour guide who provides private, customized tours in Israel for individuals, families and small groups.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Rain and wind batter Indian coast as huge storm approaches; three dead

By Sruthi Gottipati and Jatindra Dash 2 minutes ago-OCT 12,13-yahoonews

ICHAPURAM/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing about 450,000 people to flee to shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets.Filling most of the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Phailin was about 90 km (124 miles) off the coast by late afternoon and was expected to strike the coast by nightfall with winds of between 210 kph (130 mph) and 220 kph (137 mph).The storm was expected to affect 12 million people, most of them in the densely populated states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, weather and disaster management officials said.Even before landfall, coconut trees in villages along the coast were bent and broken in the gusting wind. Electrical poles were brought down and roads were littered with debris.

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In the first reported deaths, two people were killed by falling trees while a third when the walls of her mud house collapsed.Terrified children clung to their mothers as they sought shelter. Most towns along the coast were deserted but there were still some people trying to flee.Some people took refuge in temples, others crammed into three-wheel auto-rickshaws and headed inland."This is one of the largest evacuations undertaken in India," said Shashidhar Reddy, vice chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, who estimated that more than 440,000 people had fled from their homes.The size of the storm made extensive damage to property more likely, he told reporters in New Delhi. "Our priority is to minimize loss of life."Phailin is expected to bring a 3.4-m (11-foot) surge in sea levels when it hits the coast between 1230 GMT and 1430 GMT.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
The weather department warned of extensive damage to mud houses, major disruption of power and communication lines, and the flooding of rail tracks and roads. Flying debris is another threat."In a storm of this magnitude there is the potential for widespread damage to crops and livestock in the low-lying coastal areas and houses completely wiped away," said Kunal Shah, the head of the aid group World Vision's emergency response team in India."While we are praying this storm loses intensity, we're also preparing."

London-based Tropical Storm Risk classed the storm in Category 5 - the strongest such rating. The U.S. Navy's weather service said wind at sea was gusting at 314 kph.Many of the people along the coast are subsistence fishermen and farmers, who live in mud-and-brick or thatched huts.In 1999, a typhoon battered the same region, killing 10,000 people.India's disaster preparations have improved significantly since then and aid workers praised precautions for Phailin such as early warnings, stocking of rations in shelters and evacuations."A lot has been learnt since 1999 and my guess is that while there could be extensive damage to property and crops, the death toll will be much less," said G. Padmanabhan, emergency analyst at the U.N. Development Programme.But despite all the warnings, some people refused to leave their homes."I have a small child, so I thought, how will I leave?" asked Achamma, 25, as she clutched on to her boy in Donkuru, a fishing village in Andhra Pradesh, as waves crashed on to a nearby beach.Police said a rescue had been launched for 18 fishermen stranded at sea off Paradip, a major port in Odisha, after their trawler ran out of fuel.Paradip halted cargo operations on Friday. All vessels were ordered to leave the port, which handles coal, crude oil and iron ore. An oil tanker holding about 2 million barrels of oil, worth $220 million, was also moved, an oil company source said.But the storm was not expected to hit India's largest gas field, the D6 natural gas block in the Cauvery Basin further down the east coast, field operator Reliance Industries said.

(Additional reporting by Sruthi Gottipati and Nita Bhalla; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel and Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Robert Birsel)

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

31 in Fla. Infected by Bacteria in Salt Water

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. October 11, 2013 (AP)

By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press-yahoonews

Patty Konietzky thought the small purple lesion on her husband's ankle was a spider bite. But when the lesion quickly spread across his body like a constellation, she knew something wasn't right.After a trip to the hospital and a day and a half later, Konietzky's 59-year-old husband was dead.The diagnosis: vibrio vulnificus (vih-BREE'-oh VUHL'-nihf-ih-kus), an infection caused by a bacterium found in warm salt water. It's in the same family of bacterium that causes cholera. So far this year, 31 people across Florida have been infected by the severe strain of vibrio, and 10 have died."I thought the doctors would treat him with antibiotics and we'd go home," said Konietzky, who lives in Palm Coast, Fla. "Never in a million years it crossed my mind that this is where I'd be today."State health officials say there are two ways to contract the disease: by eating raw, tainted shellfish — usually oysters — or when an open wound comes in contact with bacteria in warm seawater.In Mobile, Ala., this week health department officials said two men with underlying health conditions were diagnosed with vibrio vulnificus in recent weeks. One of the men died in September and the other is hospitalized. Both men were tending to crab traps when they came into contact with seawater.While such occurrences could potentially concern officials in states with hundreds of miles of coastline and economies largely dependent on ocean-related tourism, experts say the bacteria is nothing most people should worry about. Vibrio bacteria exist normally in salt water and generally only affect people with compromised immune systems, they say. Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. If the bacteria get into the bloodstream, they provoke symptoms including fever and chills, decreased blood pressure and blistering skin wounds.But there's no need to stop swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, says Diane Holm, a spokeswoman for the state health department in Lee County, which has had a handful of cases that included one fatality this year."This is nothing abnormal," she said. "We don't believe there is any greater risk for someone to swim in the Gulf today than there was yesterday or 10 years ago."There have been reports this year in Gulf states of other waterborne illnesses, but they are rare. In fresh water, the Naegleria fowleri amoeba usually feeds on bacteria in the sediment of warm lakes and rivers. If it gets high up in the nose, it can get into the brain. Cases have been reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and in Florida, including the August death of a boy in the southwestern part of the state who contracted the amoeba while knee boarding in a water-filled ditch.Dr. James Oliver, a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, has studied vibrio vulnificus for decades. He said that while Florida has the most cases of vibrio infection due to the warm ocean water that surrounds the state, the bacteria is found worldwide, generally in estuaries and near the coast."It's normal flora in the water," he said. "It belongs there."The vast majority of people who are exposed to the bacteria don't get sick, he said. A few people become ill but recover. Only a fraction of people are violently ill and fewer still die; Oliver said many of those people ingest tainted, raw shellfish.

Oliver and Florida Department of Health officials say people shouldn't be afraid of going into Florida's waters, but that those with suppressed immune systems, such as people who have cancer, diabetes or cirrhosis of the liver, should be aware of the potential hazards of vibrio vulnificus, especially if they have an open wound.Holm said nine people died from vibrio vulnificus in Florida in 2012, and 13 in 2011, so this year's statistics aren't alarming. What's different, she said, was that victims' families are speaking to the news media about the danger.Konietzky watched as her husband Henry "Butch" Konietzky died on Sept. 23. She said she feels it's her mission to let others know about the potential risks. Next week, she and her husband's adult daughter are scheduled to appear on "The Doctors" television program to discuss the disease."We knew nothing about this bacteria," she said. Never mind that both she and her husband grew up in Florida and have spent their lives fishing and participating in other water activities.The couple had gone crabbing on the Halifax River near Ormond Beach on Sept. 21, she said. Her husband first noticed the ankle lesion in the middle of that night. He didn't wake his wife, but in the morning, told her that it felt like his skin was burning near the lesion. Patty Konietzky took a photo of it and hours later, when her husband said he was in pain and the lesions had spread, they went to the emergency room.Konietzky said her husband didn't have any health problems or open wounds that she knew of, and when doctors told her that he had an infection in his bloodstream, she didn't think it was too serious. Within hours, her husband's skin turned purple and it "looked like he had been beaten with a baseball bat."Nearly 62 hours after he was in the water, Butch Konietzky died. His wife notes that she, too, was in the same water — yet wasn't infected."To walk around in the water and doing the things we did, you didn't give it any thought," she said.Konietzky said her husband wouldn't want her — or anyone else — to stop fishing or enjoying outdoor activities because of a fear of the bacteria. Nonetheless, she wants people to be aware of the risk and is pushing her local county commission to post signs warning folks about the bacteria."I'm not going to be afraid of it," she said. "I have to personally put some meaning on the loss of my husband. And speaking out is all I can do."————————

Online: Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/vibriov/index.html

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DEAD ANIMALS

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3  Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

Overwhelmed by Python Infestation, Florida Embraces Cagey Solution

By Salvatore Cardoni | Takepart.com 23 hours ago -OCT 12,13-yahoonews

Florida wildlife officials have had little success reducing the burgeoning local populations of Burmese pythons, but they sure aren’t giving up any time soon.After myriad solutions have proved largely ineffective against the invasive species, the state is—once again—deploying a new weapon: Traps engineered specifically for pythons.Two separate triggers need to be tripped simultaneously for the five-foot long, galvanized steel device to close. Officials said this fail-safe feature should keep the trap from closing on native snakes like the shorter eastern diamondback rattlesnake or the water moccasin.In the next few months, officials at the Gainesville field station for the National Wildlife Research Center will test the device in an enclosure housing five pythons. To lure the snakes, officials will bait the traps with scents of the snakes’ prey—the state’s small mammals. If the devices prove effective, the plan is to then move them to the wild sometime next year. “There’s still more to be learned, there’s still more to be tested,” said John Humphrey, a biologist at the NWRC.The Everglades has become an immense breeding ground for the Burmese python, with an estimated 150,000 of the slithering giants thriving in the warm waters, lush swamplands, and saw grasses that dominate the peninsula’s southern reach.“There’s nothing stopping them, the native wildlife are in trouble,” said Kenneth Krysko, of the Florida Museum of Natural History, told the AP last year when a 17-foot, 7-inch specimen was caught and killed. That record-setter has since been eclipsed by a 19-foot, 128-pound specimen, killed in May.Native to South Asia, the snakes first came to Florida in the 1980s as part of the exotic pet trade. The infestation began, officials surmise, when pets were released into the wild, either intentionally or accident when they may have slithered out of Miami-area pet stores after Hurricane Andrew ransacked the city in 1992.In early 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the "importation and interstate transportation" of African rock pythons, Burmese pythons, and the yellow anaconda. But people in the United States and Canada can still own the snakes with special permits.
Voracious, unscrupulous eaters, the snakes are decimating the state’s small mammals. A January 2012 study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, estimated that Florida’s raccoon population had fallen 99.3 percent, opossum by 98.9 percent, and bobcat by 87.5 percent between 2003 and 2011.State officials have since gotten quite creative in their attempt to exterminate the unwanted visitors.They’ve enlisted the help of python-sniffing dogs, held python-hunting contests, and even supported turning the critters into handbags.By and large, these silver bullets have missed the mark. Perhaps the new python trap will have better aim. Stay tuned. 

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

American Scientists Warn Against Loose Missiles in Syria

Syria's anti-aircraft missiles could imperil civil aviation if they fall into the hands of terror groups, warns American scientists group.-By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 10/12/2013, 12:19 AM-INNEWS

Syrian rebels on patrol-AFP photo

The Syrian government's shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and launchers could imperil civil aviation if they fall into the hands of terror groups, an independent report examining the global proliferation of portable missiles says.The report released Friday by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and reported on by the Associated Press, warns that some opposition factions inside Syria are already wielding small numbers of anti-aircraft systems in combat against Syrian government forces.Citing video and photo evidence from opposition forces, media and official accounts, the FAS study says some portable launchers and missiles have been seized by opposition forces during battles with Syrian troops, while others have been smuggled in to rebel fighters from neighboring countries.FAS is a prominent Washington group that focuses on issues of science and security.The 88-page report warns about man-portable air-defense systems, also known as MANPADS, in the arsenal of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's government. U.S. officials have estimated the Syrian government has as many as 20,000 MANPADS, compact missile launchers with the range and explosive power to attack low-flying planes and helicopters.It is unclear how many similar weapons might have been smuggled into Syria by rebels and sympathizers to fight Assad.Syria's anti-aircraft missile inventory is comparable in size to that amassed by Libyan forces before the 2011 ouster of Muammar Qaddafi. The FAS study cites the widespread looting of anti-aircraft weapons that occurred after Qaddafi’s fall and the mass ransacking of Iraqi weapons depots after the U.S. invasion in 2003 as evidence that Syria's missiles are equally vulnerable.The report said it was unclear whether any have been smuggled out of Libya.

"Should Syria go the way of Libya and Iraq, the international community could be confronted with the loss of government control over thousands of additional MANPADS, some of which are significantly more sophisticated than most of the MANPADS looted from depots in Libya," wrote the study's author, Matthew Schroeder, director of the FAS' Arms Sales Monitoring Project.Both militant and moderate opposition forces have repeatedly urged Western and Mideast nations to supply them with portable anti-aircraft systems capable of downing Syrian aircraft used in bombing runs at rebel and civilian targets. The U.S. has so far balked at providing missiles, worried that some could end up with terrorist groups such as the Al-Nusra Front which has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda.Verifying the authenticity of videos and photos depicting the missiles in Syria has been difficult, but Schroeder said that a "broad array of sources," which include media eyewitness accounts of the use of missiles, point to the availability and occasional use of anti-aircraft weapons in Syria.Many of the portable launchers displayed by Syrian rebel groups on the Internet, Schroeder said, appear to be decades-old models such as Russian-made SA-7s — similar to ones found in Libya after Qaddafi’s ouster.Unlike Libya, Syria's military has a larger supply of newer and longer-range models supplied from Russia, Schroeder said, and as a result, Syrian rebels also appear to have seized some new-model Russian missile launchers.The report was released the same day that Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that groups of Syrian rebel forces executed at least 190 civilians and seized over 200 as hostages during a military offensive on August 4.According to the report, a majority of the massacres took place in the city of Latakia, predominantly inhabited by members of Bashar Al-Assad's minority Alawite sect.Al-Nusra and other jihadist rebel groups vowed revenge strikes against villages from the Alawite community over a chemical weapons attack in Damascus on August 21.Members of Al-Nusra and other rebel groups have committed atrocities during the Syrian civil war, including publicly beheading a Catholic priest who was accused of collaborating with Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.(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.)

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

N. Korea warns of 'all-out war'

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North's National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean peninsula and the "US mainland"."(The United States) must bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the United States," a spokesman of the NDC was quoted as saying in a statement carried by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency."We emphasize again that the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us. Dependent upon this are... peace and security, not only on the Korean peninsula but the US mainland as well."The comments come after a two-day joint naval drill between Japan, South Korea and the US, which included an American nuclear aircraft carrier, sparked a series of angry responses and threats from Pyongyang.On Friday the North slammed a naval drill by US, South Korean and Japanese warships as a "serious military provocation" and vowed to "bury in the sea" the American carrier taking part in the exercise.The latest bellicose statement from the NDC demanded that the US lift sanctions against the North, stop the "constant nuclear blackmails" and various war drills.It rejected as "intolerable contempt" a US demand that it should show tangible commitment towards abandoning its nuclear programmes if it wants substantive talks with the United States."The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is an inalterable policy goal of the DPRK government," it said, but added that getting rid of such weapons should also include a total removal of US nuclear threats against the North.The US and South Korea have long demanded that Pyongyang show tangible commitment to ending its nuclear weapons programme before the six-party talks, which have been stalled for several years, can resume.The North has said for years it wants denuclearisation of the whole Korean peninsula and that it is developing a nuclear arsenal to protect itself from the US military, which occasionally sends nuclear-powered warships and aircraft capable of carrying atomic weapons.In February the North carried out its third underground nuclear test in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, sending tensions soaring and raising fears of possible conflict. It also launched a rocket in December that Washington said was a disguised ballistic missile test.As well as the two Koreas, China and the US the six-party talks also involve Russia and Japan.

CAIR now stalking professor it doesn’t like, trespassing in his class

17 hours ago-OCT 11,13-yahoonews

On top of its epic struggle to understand the First Amendment, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has now shown that it apparently doesn’t understand elementary trespassing law.On October 1, Samantha L. Bowden, CAIR’s communication and outreach director in Florida, drove about 80 miles from Tampa, Fla. to Orlando, Fla. to “stalk” University of Central Florida (UCF) professor Jonathan Matusitz by impermissibly sitting in one of his scheduled classes, according to the website Family Security Matters.
“As I started teaching my class, I noticed that a female stranger was sitting at the back of the classroom. That person never asked me if she could enter my class and sit in the back of the classroom,” Matusitz explained, apparently in a police report.“When I approached her, that person introduced herself as Samantha. Because Samantha is not one of my students, I asked her to leave. In the beginning, she was insisting to stay in my class. I had to ask her a few times before she finally left.”Matusitz said he realized that Bowden works for CAIR not long after she finally left.“She is based in Tampa,” the professor added. “She is not a UCF student and never was a UCF student.”A profile by SaintPetersBlog notes that Bowden is a registered Democrat who spent time volunteering with Rock the Vote and was a “prominent Occupy activist.” She majored in international affairs and geography at the University of South Florida. One day, she hopes to visit the Middle East.Florida law prohibits trespassing on the campuses of state universities. A specific UCF regulation prohibits trespassing and loitering. “Only students registered for a class may be in attendance in instructional areas unless permission of the instructor is given,” it reads.CAIR has quite a history of trying to intimidate Matusitz, a tenured communications professor. The Muslim civil liberties group doesn’t like Matusitz’s argument linking Muslim culture to radical Islamic terrorism.In August, CAIR asked government officials in Brevard County, Fla. to deny the use of a county-owned meeting room to a group hosting a speech by Matusitz. CAIR called the group, ACT! for America, “an anti-Muslim hate group.” (RELATED: CAIR tries to ban professor’s speech on ‘The Islamic Threat to America’) ACT! for America is a conservative organization that bills itself as standing athwart the threat posed by radical Islam.
CAIR representatives told the Orlando Sentinel that an exception to the First Amendment should be made for Matusitz’s speech.“This individual makes statements to incite violence against the Muslim community, so I think that the line has been crossed,” explained Hassan Shibly, a lawyer and executive director of CAIR of Tampa. “ACT! is an extremist group no different than the KKK. And if the KKK wanted to use that room, there would be a protest.”Doug “Ibrahim” Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director, piped up, too.
“It creates the perception of endorsement and approval by the Brevard County government of this group’s hateful views,” he said.According to his faculty webpage, Matusitz has a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He claims 95 academic publications and more than 100 conference presentations. Also, in 2010, he taught at a NATO-affiliated military base in Belgium.Follow Eric on Twitter and on Facebook, and send education-related story tips to erico@dailycaller.com.oin the conversation on The Daily Caller