FATAH - HAMAS GAY LOVE FEST ALMOST COMPLETE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I HAVE SEEN ABOUT THE BLOOD MOONS AND ISRAELI WARS.WHAT I BELIEVE WILL BE HAPPENING FROM APRIL OF THIS YEAR TILL OCT OF 2015.I BELIEVE ISRAEL WILL GET SOME OR MOST OF THE LAND THREW WARS THAT GOD PROMISED ISRAEL.AND BEING THIS IS THE BIRD MIGRATION SEASONS IN SPRING AND FALL IN ISRAEL-IT BLENDS RIGHT IN WITH THE 4 BLOOD MOONS THAT THESE 4 BLOOD MOONS MEAN ISRAELI WARS THAT ISRAEL WILL WIN AND GET THEIR PROMISED LAND TO HAVE LAND TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE ARABS IN THE FUTURE 7 YEAR PEACE DEAL WHICH WILL INCLUDE ISRAEL REBUILDING THE 3RD TEMPLE FOR HALF OF JERUSALEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LClvrDFQWBw

BLOOD MOONS AND ISRAELI WARS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/12/2014-15-blood-moons-israeli-wars-to.html 

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)

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)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

Iran: We’re ready for ‘decisive battle’ with Israel, US

Chief of staff warns Tehran’s enemies and regional states against military action, calling American threats ‘political bluff’

By AFP and Lazar Berman February 12, 2014, 1:08 pm 1-The times of Israel

In the latest in a series of warnings against the US, Iran’s chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi warned the Islamic republic’s foes that Iran is prepared for a “decisive battle” if attacked.“We are ready for the decisive battle with America and the Zionist regime (Israel),” Fars news agency quoted Firouzabadi as saying Wednesday.He also warned neighboring nations not to allow any attack to be launched on Iran from their soil.“We do not have any hostility toward regional states, but if we are ever attacked from the American bases in the region we will strike that area back,” he said.Washington has many military bases in the region, including in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.US Secretary of State John Kerry said late last month that if diplomacy with Iran fails, “the military option of the United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do.”But Firouzabadi accused the US of bluffing.“Over the past decade, they brought their forces but came to the conclusion that they can’t attack us, and left,” he said, dismissing the US military threat as nothing but a “political bluff.”Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the West should not have any delusions about using a military option.

An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Su-24MK fighter aircraft (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Shahram Sharifi/Wikimedia)

“I say explicitly, if some have delusions of having any threats against Iran on their tables, they need to wear new glasses. There is no military option against Iran on any table in the world,” he said.On Sunday, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy Commander Ali Fadavi said the US knows that its aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf would be sunk if it launched a military strike on Iran.“The Americans can sense by all means how their warships will be sunk with 5,000 crews and forces in combat against Iran and how they should find its hulk in the depths of the sea,” said Fadavi, according to Fars news agency.“They cannot hide themselves in the sea since the entire Middle East region, Western Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz are monitored by us and there is no place for them to hide.”Also Sunday, Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan touted the Iranian military’s ability to respond to an American attack, Fars reported.“The Iranian Armed Forces are an intertwined and coherent complex that can give a decisive response to any threat at any level and any place under the command of the commander-in-chief,” Dehqan said in a ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the revolution that brought the current Islamic regime to power.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on parade (photo credit: YouTube image capture)

“The enemy can never assess and think of the range of the response given by the powerful and mighty Armed Forces of the Islamic Iran,” he added.The bellicose rhetoric follows Saturday’s announcement by an Iranian admiral that Iran had dispatched warships to the North Atlantic, while Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the Americans as liars who, while professing to be friends of Tehran, would bring down his regime if they could. He also said it was “amusing” that the US thought Iran would reduce its “defensive capabilities.”On Friday, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben-Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a simulated retaliation for a hypothetical Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic.Iran is due to resume talks on Monday in Vienna with the P5+1 — Britain, France, the United States, Russia and China plus Germany — aimed at reaching a comprehensive nuclear accord following a landmark interim agreement struck in November.Western nations have long suspected Iran of covertly pursuing nuclear weapons alongside its civilian program, allegations denied by Tehran, which insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful.Neither the United States nor Israel has ruled out military action to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, if diplomacy fails.

Liberman bashes Iran’s ‘warmongering’ missile tests

Ahead of trip to Paris, foreign minister praises France’s role in curbing Tehran’s nuclear program

By AFP February 11, 2014, 8:21 pm 6-The times of Israel

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday that Iran’s claim to have tested two new missiles proved it was still a “warmongering” state despite its recent diplomatic overtures to the West.Liberman’s remarks came on the eve of an official visit to France, which is taking part in talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program set to resume next week in Vienna.“France has an important role in the international efforts to prevent Iran from advancing its nuclear program,” Lieberman said in a statement.“The new missile tests conducted by Iran yesterday are further proof its intentions have not changed and the Iranians are not even hiding their being a warmongering state,” he said.“The only change in Iran is that now they threaten world peace behind a mask of smiles.”Iran announced it had tested a new ballistic missile and a laser-guided projectile on Monday, after officials had earlier said that its missile program would not be discussed in the talks with the P5+1 group of world powers.Iran boasts long-range missiles with a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), enough to reach Israel.Israel has long accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons alongside its civilian program and, like the United States, has refused to rule out military action to prevent the Islamic republic from acquiring an atomic bomb.Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed state in the region, though it has never officially confirmed or denied having such an arsenal.Liberman, who heads the nationalistic Yisrael Beytenu faction and was long known for his stridently hawkish views, has struck a more conciliatory tone since returning to his post in November following his acquittal in a corruption trial.

He stood up for US Secretary of State John Kerry after the diplomat was slammed by Israeli ministers for remarks they took to be a threat of international boycott of the Jewish state if peace talks with the Palestinians fail.On his first visit to France since 2009, Liberman plans to meet with his counterpart Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Manuel Valls.He will also hold talks with the head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Angel Gurria, members of the National Assembly and senate, and heads of the Jewish communities in France, his spokesman said.He will return to Israel on Sunday.

Iranian TV airs simulated bombing of Tel Aviv, US aircraft carrier

Clip shows simulated strikes on Ben Gurion Airport, Haifa, USS Abraham Lincoln in retaliation for hypothetical attack on Iran

By Ilan Ben Zion February 8, 2014, 10:02 pm 323-The TImes of Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxpcHl2jj20 

Iranian state TV on Friday ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a hypothetical retaliation for an Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic.Iranian drones and missiles are also shown carrying out simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, downing American aircraft and striking American military targets in the Persian Gulf.The clip was broadcast amid a clear escalation of anti-American rhetoric and even action by Iran: On Saturday, an Iranian admiral announced that Iran had despatched warships to the North Atlantic, while Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the Americans as liars who, while professing to be friends of Iran, would bring down his regime if they could. He also said it was “amusing” that the US thought Iran would reduce its “defensive capabilities.”The film, entitled “The Nightmare of Vultures,” opens with Supreme Leader Khamenei addressing military academy graduates in 2011, warning: “Anybody who thinks of attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran should be prepared to receive strong slaps and iron fists from the Armed Forces.”“And America, its regional puppets and its guard dog – the Zionist regime – should know that the response of the Iranian nation to any kind of aggression, attacks or even threats will be a response that will make them collapse from within,” the film shows him saying.Set to dramatic music, the video shows Iranian drones and missiles carrying out strikes against Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina square, the Azrieli Towers skyscrapers, and the IDF’s Kirya central command complex, as well as Ben Gurion International Airport, Haifa’s Technion, several army and air force bases, and the nuclear reactor in Dimona.The strike on the Israel’s central command building is shown taking place while former prime minister Ehud Olmert and former defense minister Amir Peretz — who served in that capacity during the 2006 Second Lebanon War — are inside convening a meeting.

Iranian TV aired a program showing computerized shots of Ben Gurion Airport being bombed by Iran in retaliation for an American or Israeli strike on Iran. (screen capture: YouTube)

The clips of drone strikes on Israel are interspersed with shots of Israeli emergency personnel evacuating injured Israeli civilians and soldiers while air raid sirens wail.

A barrage of missiles brings down Tel Aviv’s skyscrapers in a final blow.

Iranian TV aired a program showing computerized shots of Tel Aviv being bombed by Iran in retaliation for an American or Israeli strike on Iran. (screen capture: YouTube)

Afterwards, Iranian drones and missiles are show attacking the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on its way through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. Iranian drones are shown downing several American aircraft before sinking the US capital ship. Zooming out to a map of the Middle East marked with US military bases, Iranian missiles are then shown striking American military targets across the Persian Gulf. In November, Iranian state television aired a shorter animated clip showing Iranian missiles targeting Israeli cities.Iranian leaders have made repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map, and have threatened to annihilate Tel Aviv should Iran’s nuclear facilities be attacked by the West.

Erdogan: No deal with Israel until ‘Gaza siege’ lifted

After his foreign minister reported ‘momentum’ in talks over rapprochement with Jerusalem, Turkish PM dampens optimism

By Lazar Berman February 12, 2014, 11:45 am 3-The times of Israel

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan poured cold water Tuesday evening on mounting expectations of a nearing détente between Ankara and Jerusalem, telling reporters that reconciliation between the once-friendly nations was contingent on Israel lifting its blockade on the Gaza Strip.“About the negotiations, we have not reached any agreement,” he emphasized, according to Channel 10. “As long as the siege on Gaza isn’t lifted, it won’t happen. The siege must be lifted, and that must be part of the protocol, signed and agreed upon.”Erdogan also said that talks would continue over the amount of damages to be paid by Israel to families of the nine Turks killed in the botched May 2010 naval commandeering operation on the Mavi Marmara ship.The incident triggered an international outcry and exacerbated already strained relations between Turkey and Israel into a full-blown diplomatic crisis, with Ankara expelling the Israeli ambassador and demanding a formal apology and compensation.Talks on compensation eventually began in March 2013 after Israel extended a formal apology to Turkey in a breakthrough brokered by US President Barack Obama during a landmark visit to Jerusalem.On Monday, a Turkish official said that negotiators were close to striking the long-awaited deal.Turkish foreign ministry undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu was in Israel earlier this month to discuss the terms of an agreement, which would help normalize relations between Jerusalem and its once closest Muslim ally.Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu acknowledged on Sunday there had been “momentum” in talks toward bridging the gaps.“It would not be correct to provide a timeframe on such (delicate) issues but I can say that serious progress has been made in recent meetings,” Davutoglu told Turkish television.“A historic step was taken with the apology… Now a second step will be taken with the compensation,” he said. ”We are going through a period where the relations are the closest to normalization after Mavi Marmara.”Israeli media reports have said the compensation talks were revived in December when Israeli negotiators traveled to Istanbul and Turkey lowered its demands, which was neither confirmed nor denied by the Turkish side.

Passengers on the deck of the Mavi Marmara on May 31, 2010 (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Office/ Flash 90)

The amount of compensation to be paid, as well as the legality of a final agreement, are believed to be sticking points but the two sides appear to be narrowing their differences.Last week, Haaretz reported that Israel has offered $20 million in compensation to the families of those killed and wounded in the flotilla raid.

Western diplomats quoted by the paper said Ankara had demanded $30 million, but Israel was initially willing to give only $15 million.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later decided to up Israel’s offer to $20 million, with an extra $3 million available “if necessary to secure an agreement,” the paper said.Davutoglu refused to disclose the amount of compensation being sought but hinted at “some positive developments.” He said he was in constant touch with Erdogan to discuss future steps to be taken after a deal including the appointment of an ambassador to Israel.Turkey’s interest in reconciliation is also thought to be connected to its desire to purchase Israeli natural gas.AFP contributed to this report.

Jordanian MP: Kerry deal demolishes right of return

Mohammad al-Qatatsha says that under framework agreement, Palestinian foreign nationals will be barred from settling in Israel

By Spencer Ho February 12, 2014, 8:48 am 3-The Times of Israel

Millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants who live outside of the territories and hold foreign citizenship would be ineligible for a “right of return” to Israel under US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposed framework deal, a Jordanian lawmaker said.Mohammad al-Qatatsha said that Kerry had revealed details of the proposal during a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Monday and that it contained “secret terms,” the Ma’an News Agency reported on Wednesday.Although no official data exists on the subject, estimates put the Palestinian population of Jordan at around three million people, possibly more than half of the country’s population. After Jordan withdrew its claims to the West Bank in 1988, it granted citizenship to the Palestinian refugees within its borders, except for those who came from the Gaza Strip. West Bank Palestinians living in Jordan were eligible for citizenship as long as they could prove continuous ties with the West Bank through Israeli-issued residency permits.However, for years Jordan systematically revoked its nationality from citizens of Palestinian origin, traditionally justifying the procedure as a means of preventing Israel’s forced transfer of Palestinians eastward into Jordan. But observers suspected that Jordan was more worried about its own demographic makeup than the citizenship rights of Palestinians.According to a report published by Human Rights Watch in 2010, over 2,700 Jordanians of Palestinian origin were stripped of their nationality between the years 2004 and 2008. The practice was reportedly suspended in April 2012.Descendants of Palestinian refugees in other countries, such as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, are typically barred from obtaining citizenship.Al-Qatatsha also said that while the Jordanian leadership supports the Palestinians’ rights and objects to isolating a future Palestinian state with Jordanian and international forces controlling the borders, Jordan would not push an agenda out of respect for the Palestinian Authority’s independence in negotiations.Kerry has been toiling over the past several months to formulate and propose a framework deal that both the PA and Israel will accept as a basis for continuing negotiations toward toward an end-of-the-year target for a final accord. In his attempts, he has run into opposition from both sides over issues such as security arrangements and the right of return, and has reportedly not obtained backing from US President Barack Obama to impose a “binding” deal on the sides. The Israelis have signaled a willingness to accept the deal with reservations, but grumblings from the PA camp seem to indicate that it has reservations on the terms of the framework.King Abdullah is scheduled to meet with Obama on February 14 in California.On the Israeli side, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United States for five days in the first week of March, during which he will meet with Obama at the White House, presumably to discuss the faltering peace process with the Palestinians as well as differences between Jerusalem and Washington regarding Iran’s nuclear program.Elhanan Miller contributed to this report.

Hamas can hit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem with dozens of rockets

Salvos on central Israel constitute an unprecedented threat, while Gaza’s Islamist rulers have also built sprawling underground network to move troops, fire rockets, maintain communications in future conflict

By David Horovitz February 11, 2014, 8:39 pm 15-The times of Israel

Just 15 months after Israel sought to drastically reduce the rocket threat from Gaza in Operation Pillar of Defense, Hamas has substantially bolstered its capacity to fire on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the rest of central Israel.The Gaza Strip’s Islamist rulers have invested heavily in producing their own M-75 rockets, with a range of 75 kilometers and more, and now have an arsenal of dozens of the rockets, The Times of Israel has learned. They will have dozens more by the end of this year.This means that the next round of conflict with Gaza will be focused on central Israel, with the Israeli military braced to defend the heart of the country against unprecedented salvos of M-75s directed at Tel Aviv, the rest of central Israel, and Jerusalem.

It is not clear how effectively Israel’s missile defense systems will be able to deal with the expected launch of numerous M-75s in large, simultaneous barrages. During the eight days of Operation Pillar of Defense, in November 2012, only about 10 of the M-75 rockets were launched at central Israel and Jerusalem, so the current threat is seen as many times more serious.

An apartment building in Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv, that was hit by a rocket from Gaza, November 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hamas realized after Pillar of Defense that firing on central Israel immensely bolstered its prestige, and the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, was recognized and hailed as only the second Arab leader, after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, to have hit central Israel.Since that conflict, therefore, Hamas has focused on improving its capacity to build such rockets, establishing a domestic production capacity rather than relying on smuggling rockets and components into the strip. Domestic production of the M-75 has become Hamas’s flagship project.

An Iron Dome battery placed in the Tel Aviv area on November 17, 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense (photo credit: Alon Besson/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

At the same time, Hamas has also committed considerable resources to the construction of a substantial network of tunnels — dozens of miles of underground networks in key areas of the Strip — which will immensely complicate future military confrontations for Israel, The Times of Israel has learned.Hamas’s investment in tunnels dug toward and under the border with Israel, in order to carry out terror attacks, is longstanding. It was through such a tunnel that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped, and two of his colleagues were killed, in a 2006 infiltration that ultimately led to the release of some 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for Shalit’s freedom five years later. Hamas remains committed to attempting further kidnapping operations, both to bolster its prestige and to secure additional prisoner releases. The kidnap threat is considered acute both from Gaza and in the West Bank.Beyond this, however, Hamas in Gaza has moved far ahead with an underground military network inside the Strip — a subterranean network with several significant benefits for the Islamic extremist group: Hamas will use the tunnels to plant mines targeting Israeli land forces, the Israeli military believes. It will use the network of tunnels to move its gunmen undetected from place to place during warfare. The Israeli military further anticipates that Hamas will fire rockets from underground launchers, making them far harder to detect and target. Moreover, the Hamas command and communication facilities will be located underground, enabling it to seek to maintain effective control out of reach of Israeli air power. Finally, the Hamas leadership, which the Israeli army said in the past had taken refuge in underground bunkers beneath hospitals and other civilian facilities, will also utilize these more-sophisticated underground facilities.

Palestinian rescue workers search for the bodies of three Hamas operatives inside a tunnel hit by an Israeli air strike, near the border between Israel and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2013. The Israeli military said the tunnel was to be used as a springboard for terror attacks inside Israel. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

In terms of its regional status, Hamas is perceived by Israel to be relatively weak, notably because of the ouster of its Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt. The ongoing crackdown by Egypt on the cross-border smuggling tunnels has devastated Gaza’s economy. Water supplies are dwindling, and water quality is extremely poor. Electricity is available in some areas for only a few minutes a day. Unemployment is high. And public dissatisfaction with the Hamas government is widespread, in the Israeli assessment.For now, Hamas is not perceived to be ready for a further round of conflict with Israel, in part because of a concern about how the consequent devastation would be received by Gazans. At the same time, however, Hamas’s practical capacity to prevent rocket fire on Israel by rival groups is on the wane. Iran is constantly prodding the rival Islamic Jihad group to attack Israel, and Islamic Jihad is indeed behind much of the recent intermittent rocket fire on Ashkelon and southern Israel. Hamas has made efforts to thwart such attacks, but is ridiculed by Islamic Jihad for trying to keep the peace with Israel, and in some cases is hamstrung by such basic factors as a lack of fuel for its vehicles as they patrol to try to thwart the rocket-launch squads.For now, Hamas’s governance in Gaza is secure, Israel believes. Hamas fears a Tahrir Square-style popular uprising, but is proving highly effective in cracking down on occasional small public signs of dissent and is not currently facing wide scale efforts at public protest.Ultimately, however, Israel’s military assessment is that another round of conflict is simply a matter of time. Some in the security hierarchy believe that a substantial Israeli ground offensive, possibly even a long-term operation, may be unavoidable, but there is no consensus on this.What is clear, The Times of Israel has learned, is that when the next round of conflict does come, the IDF and the home front will be facing a Hamas with immensely greater capabilities to fire on central Israel, thanks to its domestic rocket production, and a much-enhanced capacity to defend itself against Israeli air and ground capabilities by virtue of its new underground networks.

Fatah-Hamas reconciliation almost final, reports say

PA delegation talks with Gaza rulers; Fatah members warned against cooperating with renegade ex-security chief Dahlan

By Elhanan Miller February 11, 2014, 5:05 pm 2-The Times of Israel

Fatah and Hamas have made significant progress in reconciliation talks held in Gaza and are now on the verge of implementing previously signed agreements, Palestinian media reported on Tuesday.“Things are completely ready for ending the divide, and [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas is very optimistic that the reconciliation will soon be implemented,” said Nabil Shaath, a senior Fatah member sent by Abbas to Gaza late last week at the head of a delegation from Fatah’s Central Committee to hold talks with Hamas.The two rival movements have been at loggerheads since Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, a year after winning a landslide victory in national elections. A series of signed reconciliation agreements have not been implemented amid ongoing persecution of opposition members both by Hamas in Gaza and by Fatah in the West Bank.Speaking to journalists in Gaza Monday evening, Shaath said that Hamas has agreed to the immediate formation of a “national consensus” government headed by Abbas, followed by legislative and presidential elections in six months. Elections are also to be held for the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, in which Palestinian refugees living in the diaspora will take part.

Nabil Shaath in his Ramallah office (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Abbas is expected to send Azzam Al-Ahmad, the Fatah official responsible for talks with Hamas, to Gaza to discuss the implementation of the agreement, Shaath said.Hamas, for its part, is concerned that some 55,000 of its civil servants working in Gaza will remain jobless following reconciliation with Fatah, the PA official daily Al-Ayyam reported, quoting “knowledgeable political sources.” Hamas would like to see these employees integrated into the PA’s bureaucracy, though Fatah has given no guarantee to that effect, the sources told the paper.Referring to rumors regarding the content of a framework peace agreement to be presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry in the coming weeks, Shaath said that Abbas would not be able to accept a number of American conditions, including recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, leaving a certain number of settlers in the West Bank, and extending the Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley.

“Negotiations will not be extended [beyond their original nine-month time-frame] if these conditions persist,” Shaath was quoted by the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying. He warned, however, that Palestinians should be prepared for the eventuality that refusal to accept the American conditions would bring about a “cutting of the foreign aid which the PA relies on to fulfill its needs.”

Fatah attempts to block Dahlan

Talks with Hamas were not the only purpose of the high-profile Fatah visit to Gaza, however. The Ramallah-based movement is concerned over the growing influence of Mohammad Dahlan, a former Fatah member and once the head of Palestinian security in the Gaza Strip.An Arafat loyalist, Dahlan was expelled from the movement in 2011 after his public criticism of Abbas for corruption led to accusations that he was plotting a coup against the Palestinian president. He fled to Dubai, but continues to enjoy a following among the rank and file of Fatah both in Gaza and in the West Bank.

Mohammed Dahlan in 2006. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

According to Jerusalem-based Palestinian daily Al-Quds, the Fatah delegation headed by Shaath sent a harsh message to Fatah members in Gaza and the West Bank, warning them against cooperating with Dahlan. The movement summoned prominent supporters of Dahlan living in Ramallah, such as Sufian Abu Zaida and Majed Abu Shamala, and told them they must choose between working with Dahlan and remaining in the movement.“Mohammed Dahlan is no longer a member of Fatah. He now works from an office in Dubai in the UAE under orders of UAE sheikhs, and moves as an Emirates citizen, receiving a budget from the UAE,” Shaath said.Fatah’s leadership has also accused Dahlan of encouraging cooperation with Hamas in Gaza, a claim that Hamas’s deputy political bureau chief, Mousa Abu Marzouq, rushed to dismiss.“Hamas denies the rumors regarding reconciliation with Dahlan,” Abu Marzouq wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Sunday. “In truth, the demands which we obliged in Gaza came from the reconciliation delegation headed by Azzam Al-Ahmad.” Hamas remained largely mum on Tuesday on the prospect of imminent reconciliation with Fatah.Like us on Facebook Get our newsletter Follow us on Twitter

 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)

Israel granted observer status in Pacific Alliance

Netanyahu says contact with major Latin American trade and economic organization a step in diversifying the country’s economy

By Gavriel Fiske February 11, 2014, 4:09 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Israel has been granted observer status in the Pacific Alliance, an economic trade organization of several major Latin and Central American countries, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Tuesday. The final decision was made Monday evening at a summit in Cartagena, Colombia.The Pacific Alliance member states are Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, all countries with major coastlines along the Pacific ocean. The group aims to build “deep economic integration,” promote “larger growth, development and competitiveness” and ”become a platform for political articulation and economic and trade integration” among member countries.“As an observer state, Israel will be invited to take part in the staff work of the Pacific Alliance and attend its conferences, which will facilitate the advancement of cooperation with its member states,” the PMO said in a press release.Israeli exports to the Pacific Alliance countries currently amount to $864 million, around 1 percent of its total exports, but the government hopes that Israel’s new status will be an aid in increasing that figure. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled, within the next few months, to visit Colombia and Mexico in order to promote Israel’s economic role in the region.“I thank the leaders of the Pacific Alliance member states for accepting Israel as an observer to the important organization that they head. This is an additional step in ensuring the continued growth of the Israeli economy. We are diversifying the State of Israel’s international markets,” Netanyahu said Tuesday.In becoming an observer state, Israel joins 24 other countries, including economic powerhouses such as the US, China and Japan, a host of Latin American countries, and several European countries including Spain and Germany. The only other Middle Eastern observer state is Turkey.

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.

Army blasts MKs for rebuffing plan to lengthen service

Shaked Committee has decided to lengthen yeshiva students’ service by only a month, and women’s not at all

By Spencer Ho February 11, 2014, 7:37 pm 0-The Times of Israel

A Defense Ministry official reacted angrily on Tuesday to the failure of a Knesset committee the previous day to approve the army’s recommendation for extending the length of service for women and for yeshiva students in the Hesder program.The Shaked Committee agreed Monday that IDF service for male noncombat soldiers would be shortened to 32 months, instead of the current 36. The IDF representative to the committee had agreed to the change on condition that, in order to make up the manpower shortfall, the service period of women would be extended by four months from 24 to 28 and that of Hesder students by eight months, from 16 to 24.Soldiers who participate in the five-year Hesder program typically do 16 months of actual army service, including training and active duty, with the balance devoted to several years of Torah study in their yeshivas. The committee voted to extend the 16 months to 17.Said the defense official, “You cannot make a mockery of an entire establishment and of the army.” The IDF proposal, which he called extremely thorough and well-thought-out, “must not disappear into oblivion based on a whim or on politics.”

Committee head MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) said that the committee did not support the lengthening of women’s service. Members objected to the extension because, as women can obtain an exemption simply by signing a declaration that they are religious, it would be unfair to increase the burden on those who actually choose to serve.One MK on the committee said Monday that it would be particularly unjust to extend women’s service when the committee was only extending Hesder soldiers’ service by one month, after having bowed to pressure from rabbis and Shaked’s Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, Haaretz reported.Since the IDF’s manpower cycle is four months — every four months a new cohort is drafted and a veteran cohort is discharged — it is unclear how the additional single month of service will help fill the IDF’s manpower needs, since it will leave a three-month gap before the next cohort is drafted.The committee has faced criticism, including from Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, for not requiring Hesder participants to perform as much army service as ultra-Orthodox citizens who would be drafted into the army — as long as 24 months in the developing compromise.Shaked fired back on Israel Radio Tuesday, noting that there are 8,000 religious-nationalist soldiers in the IDF, of which just 900 are part of the shortened Hesder program (one-third of whom eventually decide to remain in the army for the full term). She said, “Shas has nothing to complain about; when all of their yeshiva graduates go to the army and 900 go to Hesder, then we can talk.” Yeshiva students affiliated with Shas rarely serve in the IDF at all.

The committee, tasked with drafting a bill for the parameters of ultra-Orthodox army conscription, is set to present a version for a final Knesset vote in March, and will meet again on Wednesday to discuss the hot-button issue of criminal sanctions for Haredi young men who do not report for enlistment.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, the leader of the Yesh Atid party, said Saturday that his party would pull out of the ruling coalition if a bill mandating military or national service for the ultra-Orthodox was not passed.The implementation of such a bill was a central pillar of Yesh Atid’s platform in the last general election.

The arrest of an ultra-Orthodox man who refused to enlist in the IDF sparked widespread protests throughout the country last week, as thousands of Haredi demonstrators demanded the young man’s immediate release from army prison and called on the government to reinstate payments to religious seminaries which were frozen earlier in the week by the Finance Ministry.Earlier last week, Lapid brought a halt to state payments to yeshivas attended by ultra-Orthodox men who refuse to register for the draft. Lapid’s freeze order on the funds came just hours before the cash was due to be paid out.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.