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.
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
ISRAEL GO IN AND TAKE BACK THE WEST BANK AND GAZA.THEN IN THE PEACE PROCESS YOU CAN TELL THE PALESTINIANS THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO GIVE THEM 3 % OF THE WEST BANK FOR PEACE.AND YOU ISRAEL KEEPS 97% AND CAN KICK THE ARAB MURDERERS OUT IF THEY START SHOOTING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL. OR IF THE ARAB MURDERERS INSIST JERUSALEM WILL BE THEIRS. ISRAEL YOU CAN JUST TELL THE ARABS-FORGET JERUSALEM-ITS ISRAELS CAPITAL AND ALWAYS FOREVER WILL BE ISRAELS CAPITAL.THEN GIVE THE ARABS A BIT OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE AND SHOOT BOMBS AT ARABS IN GAZA.SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT.
Vatican Radio interviewed Tomasi.“There is a need to read and analyze the recommendations proposed by the committee calmly and in detail, “Tomasi said. “But our initial reaction is one of surprise because the negative tone of the document produced makes it seem as though it was prepared before the Committee’s meeting with the Holy See delegation, during which clear responses were given on a number of aspects. There was no mention of these in the concluding document or at least they don’t appear to have been taken into consideration.”The Vatican diplomat went on to say that “it seems as though” the document “has not been updated according to what the Holy See has done in the past years, with measures introduced directly by the Vatican City State and then by the Episcopal Conferences of the various different nations.” The document therefore “does not offer a correct or up-to-date picture of the situation, as a number of changes have been made to ensure the protection of children; it seems to me that changes of this kind are difficult to find in other institutions and State. These are simply the facts, it is evidence which cannot be distorted.”
Mgr. Tomasi defined some of the comments made in the concluding report as “incorrect”. we need time to reflect carefully on the conclusions and recommendations of the committee and to prepare an adequate response, so that the objective may really be pursued. The Holy See is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and intends to faithfully carry out all the elements of this Convention for the protection of children, without adding or imposing any ideological elements that deviate from the Convention itself.”Here the bishop was referring to the sections of the document where the Holy See is asked to review its teachings in the fields of abortion and family. “For example, the introduction of the Convention on the Protection of Children talks about the defence of life and the protection of children before and after they are born and yet the Holy See is advised to change its position on abortion! Of course when a child is killed it no longer has rights! So this seems to me to hugely contradict the fundamental objectives of the Convention, which are all about the protection of children.”“This Committee has not served the United Nations well as it has attempted to introduce and ask the Holy See to change its non negotiable teachings! So it is a bit sad to see that the Committee has not fully grasped the nature and functions of the Holy See which made it very clear to the Committee that it intended to implement the Convention’s recommendations on the rights of the child, giving primary importance to defining and protecting those fundamental values that ensure the real and efficient protection of children.”“The introduction to the concluding report recognises that the responses received were clear; no attempt was made to avoid any of the Committee’s requests based on the available information. Where information was not immediately available” the Holy See “promised to provide it at a later date, in accordance with the Holy See’s directives, as applies to all governments. So it seemed like a constructive dialogue and I think it should remain as such. So looking at the impression formed after the direct discussions the Holy See delegation had with the Committee and then at the conclusions and recommendations in the concluding report, one is tempted to think that the text had probably been prepared earlier and does not – apart from in some notes that were hastily added in - reflect the input and clarifications that came later.“So we have to explain the Holy See’s position and answer any questions that remain unanswered calmly and based on the evidence at hand, because we have nothing to hide! And this, in order to ensure the fundamental objective here and that is the protection of children,” Bishop Tomasi said. “At the same time we have to keep in mind that even though there are so many millions, forty million cases of abuse a year regarding children and unfortunately some cases affect also Church personnel. We have to keep in mind that, we have to continue to combat this tragedy knowing that even a case of abuse of a child is a case too much.”At the end of the interview the Vatican diplomat suggested that the UN Committee may have been influenced by someone: “Some NGOs that support homosexuality, same-sex marriage and other issues probably presented their own views and ended up reinforcing their line of thought in some way,” Tomasi said.
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
ISRAEL GO IN AND TAKE BACK THE WEST BANK AND GAZA.THEN IN THE PEACE PROCESS YOU CAN TELL THE PALESTINIANS THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO GIVE THEM 3 % OF THE WEST BANK FOR PEACE.AND YOU ISRAEL KEEPS 97% AND CAN KICK THE ARAB MURDERERS OUT IF THEY START SHOOTING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL. OR IF THE ARAB MURDERERS INSIST JERUSALEM WILL BE THEIRS. ISRAEL YOU CAN JUST TELL THE ARABS-FORGET JERUSALEM-ITS ISRAELS CAPITAL AND ALWAYS FOREVER WILL BE ISRAELS CAPITAL.THEN GIVE THE ARABS A BIT OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE AND SHOOT BOMBS AT ARABS IN GAZA.SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT.
Israel said willing to give up 90% of West Bank
Palestinians reportedly insisting on land swaps for no more than 3% of territory; either way, most Jewish settlements would remain in place
February 6, 2014, 10:55 am
20-The times of Israel
The closed-door negotiations
between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the future contours of
a Palestinian state, and how much land and settlements Israel will
retain, have reportedly come down to a matter of a few percentage
points, with both sides agreeing in principle that the majority of
Jewish West Bank settlements would be transferred to Israeli sovereignty
in a final status deal.Citing
anonymous Israeli, Palestinian and American sources close to the
negotiations, Walla News reported on Thursday that Israel is seeking to
annex about 10 percent of the West Bank’s land area in a final deal.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians are seeking to have Israel annex only around
3% of the West Bank, the report said.Some 70-80% of Jewish West Bank settlements
will be transferred to Israel whether Israel retains 10% or 3% of West
Bank land, the report noted. According to a source on the American side,
“it is clear” that Israel is “willing in principle to give up” control
of 90% of the West Bank.According to both Israeli and Palestinian
officials cited in the report, the Palestinians have agreed to Israel’s
annexation of the Gush Etzion bloc, just south of Jerusalem, but are
arguing over the settlements of Efrat and Migdal Oz, which lie east of
Route 60, a major north-south road running between Nazareth and
Beersheba, through Jerusalem, Hebron and much of the West Bank. Israel
is seeking to also retain several of the smaller communities in the
immediate area of Ma’ale Adumim, just east of Jerusalem, but the
Palestinians have been opposed to such a move, the report said. Israel
has said in the past it expects to keep control of the city of Ma’ale
Adumim.Both sides have reportedly agreed that the
settlements that lie more or less along the 1967 border will be annexed
by Israel, as will Givat Ze’ev, just north of Jerusalem. More-isolated
Jewish settlements, such as Beit El, Ofra and others in the Samaria
region, are not slated to be annexed, but Israel is reportedly seeking a
long-term lease agreement for those communities.The report did not touch on the issue of East
Jerusalem, which Israel formally annexed in 1980, a move not recognized
by the international community. The Palestinians seek to create their
capital in the eastern part of the city, but the area is also home to
several large Jewish neighborhoods, such as Gilo, Pisgat Ze’ev and Har
Homa, which Israel is unlikely to consider parting with.The future of settlements such as Ariel and
Karnei Shomron in the northern West Bank is unclear, as the Palestinians
are said to be extremely opposed to their annexation by Israel. It is
supremely important for the PA to create “a contiguous Palestinian
state” with sensible borders, and it will not agree to “a state whose
map will be broken,” according to sources cited in the report.The report noted that Israel seeks to “retain a
presence” in Hebron, but there was no mention of the status of Kiryat
Arba, a major settlement just outside the city, or any of the smaller
Jewish communities in the surrounding area.Israel has offered land adjacent to the
southern West Bank, inside of Israel proper and not far from Hebron, as
well as an area near Bet She’an, in exchange for the West Bank areas to
be annexed. Israel has also raised the possibility of monetary
compensation and other forms of economic assistance in exchange for the
annexed territories, the report said.The Americans are also attempting to persuade
the two sides to agree to the creation of a “safe road” linking the West
Bank and Gaza, but that idea, which has been raised before during
previous rounds of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, is complicated by
the security situation in the Strip, which is controlled by Islamic
terror group Hamas. Israel is not opposed to the idea, an official said,
but its implementation depends on “developments in Gaza.” If such a
deal were agreed upon by the two sides, the official noted, it would
create massive pressure on Hamas to comply with a general peace
agreement.The fate of the Jewish West Bank settlements was at the backdrop of a high-profile spat last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Home party leader, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett.Bennett reacted publicly to comments by an official to The Times of Israel saying
the prime minister was insisting that Jewish West Bank settlers be
given the option to remain in their homes under Palestinian rule,
following the signing of a peace deal.
Bennett dismissed the idea out of hand, and
said that history “won’t forgive” an Israeli leader who relinquished
parts of the Land of Israel under a peace deal. The row led to a
short-lived coalition crisis. Bennett later partially apologized for his remarks, but did not change his position.US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected
to present in the near future the so-called “framework agreement,” a
nonbinding document intended to outline a final-status agreement, the
principles of which have been agreed upon by the two sides.
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.
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)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
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.
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)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Palestinian state will ruin economy, Bennett warns
Jewish Home party scoffs at boycott threats, insists Israel cannot depend on foreign soldiers for its security
February 6, 2014, 9:52 am
9-The times of Israel
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett
dismissed on Thursday the prospect of an economic boycott of Israel,
warning that the formation of a Palestinian state would have dire
consequences for Israel’s economy, and vowing that no foreign force
would ever be allowed to protect the country.Bennett, the leader of the national religious Jewish Home party, posited in an interview with Army Radio that
the strength of Israel’s economy was based on security, and predicted
that a Palestinian state would become a staging ground for terror
attacks that would cripple trade.“I declare that establishing a Palestinian
state in the heart of the country will pulverize the Israeli economy,”
Bennett said. “After all, it only takes one rocket to hit once in one
[airport] terminal, and that will be the end of the economy.”The minister warned that the geographic
location of a future Palestine, pressed up against Israel’s heartland,
posed too great a threat.“The principle is very simple: When there is
security in Israel the economy flourishes,” he said. “The conditions for
a vibrant economy are quiet and security, and we will not get that by
setting up a Palestinian state, a terror state, in the heart of the
country.”Bennett also reiterated his absolute opposition to the suggestion — recently put forth by a source in the Prime Minister’s Office in a comment to The Times of Israel –
that residents of Jewish settlements in the West Bank could remain
living in their homes within the borders of future Palestinian state
following a peace deal.“We will fight with all our might against the
idea of abandoning hundreds of thousands of Israeli to be under
Palestinian rule, for the simple reason that they won’t protect the
Israelis,” he said.The PMO official’s comment about leaving settlers in place within a future Palestinian state almost caused a coalition crisis last week.Bennett also rejected the idea of a NATO force being deployed to police the Jordan Valley border area.“We will never ever allow any foreigner, not NATO forces, not the Palestinians, to protect us,” he declared. “Only the IDF.”Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas recently stated he would agree to a NATO force in the Jordan
Valley as a way of assuaging Israeli fears that the potentially porous
border between Jordan and a future Palestinian state would allow the
transfer of weapons and terror activists.
Abbas also said that the IDF could patrol the border areas for up to three years after the signing of a peace treaty. He later told The New York Times a withdrawal over five years would be acceptable too.
Kerry pushes back against Israeli criticism
Secretary says he has faced people with ‘real bullets’ in the past and won’t be intimidated; announces he’ll quit politics in 2016
US Secretary of State John Kerry
on Wednesday pushed back against caustic, persistent criticism from the
right flank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.The
secretary was berated by Israeli politicians for warning recently that
the Jewish state faces the serious threat of a widespread boycott and
delegitimization campaign if current talks with the Palestinians don’t
yield results. Those talks began in July and are scheduled to end in
April, with no concrete results in sight thus far.Kerry, who spoke to CNN in an interview that
is slated to be aired in its entirety on Thursday, also dropped
something of a bombshell, saying that he has “no plans whatsoever” to
run for the presidency in 2016 and intends to retire from politics
following his term as America’s top diplomat. ”I’m out of politics. I
have no plans whatsoever. This is my last stop,” he said.Kerry has placed the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict front and center on the State Department’s agenda, making 11
trips to the region since taking the reins from his predecessor, Hillary
Clinton.Of his
Israeli detractors, including Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and other
senior officials, Kerry said in the interview that he had been
“attacked” with real bullets before and wouldn’t be scared off by
words. The secretary was referring to his military service during the
Vietnam War.“My comments need to be properly represented,
not distorted,” he said. “I did not do anything except cite what other
people are talking about as a problem.”
”But I also have always opposed boycotts. I
have 100 percent voting record in support of Israel for 29 years in the
United States Senate. Unfortunately, there are some people in Israel and
in Palestine and in the Arab World and around the world that don’t
support the peace process,” Kerry added.“I’ve been, quote, ‘attacked’ before by people
using real bullets, not words. And I am not going to be intimidated,”
he told Tapper, according to a transcript released by CNN.Some in Israel cynically had posited that
Kerry was hoping to use success with the peace process as a springboard
to launching another presidential bid, or at the very least, that he
would be happy to come away with a Nobel peace prize.The secretary put those suggestions to rest,
for now. ”I’m going to serve the country in the extraordinarily
privileged position the president has given me, the great challenges
that I have, and move on,” he said.Though much of the interview focused on US
policy in Syria, Kerry was also asked about the interim agreement signed
between world powers and Iran in November.The secretary was adamant that the agreement,
which freezes much of Iran’s nuclear program in place while allowing for
limited relief from crippling sanctions, made Israel safer.“I can absolutely sit here and look you in the
eye and I’ve looked Prime Minister Netanyahu in the eye and said, ‘I
believe Israel and the region are safer today than they were before we
made this agreement.’ Because the program is stopped and rolled back and
we have greater insight and accountability into the program,” he said.
02/ 5/2014 VATICAN INSIDER
Holy See representative at UN expresses surprise at accusations by child rights Committee
The Vatican answers back to the UN
Bishop Tomasi said it seems as though the report was prepared before the Holy See's discussions with the Committee on the Rights of the Child, adding that the Committee may have been influenced by pro-homosexuality NGOs
Andrea Tornielli vatican city “The initial reaction was one of surprise.” It seems as though the report was prepared before the meeting with the Holy See delegation which gave detailed answers on a number of points.” The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva, Bishop Silvano Tomasi did not hide his dismay at the concluding report published today by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The report claims that the Holy See is continuing to violate the rights of children.Vatican Radio interviewed Tomasi.“There is a need to read and analyze the recommendations proposed by the committee calmly and in detail, “Tomasi said. “But our initial reaction is one of surprise because the negative tone of the document produced makes it seem as though it was prepared before the Committee’s meeting with the Holy See delegation, during which clear responses were given on a number of aspects. There was no mention of these in the concluding document or at least they don’t appear to have been taken into consideration.”The Vatican diplomat went on to say that “it seems as though” the document “has not been updated according to what the Holy See has done in the past years, with measures introduced directly by the Vatican City State and then by the Episcopal Conferences of the various different nations.” The document therefore “does not offer a correct or up-to-date picture of the situation, as a number of changes have been made to ensure the protection of children; it seems to me that changes of this kind are difficult to find in other institutions and State. These are simply the facts, it is evidence which cannot be distorted.”
Mgr. Tomasi defined some of the comments made in the concluding report as “incorrect”. we need time to reflect carefully on the conclusions and recommendations of the committee and to prepare an adequate response, so that the objective may really be pursued. The Holy See is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and intends to faithfully carry out all the elements of this Convention for the protection of children, without adding or imposing any ideological elements that deviate from the Convention itself.”Here the bishop was referring to the sections of the document where the Holy See is asked to review its teachings in the fields of abortion and family. “For example, the introduction of the Convention on the Protection of Children talks about the defence of life and the protection of children before and after they are born and yet the Holy See is advised to change its position on abortion! Of course when a child is killed it no longer has rights! So this seems to me to hugely contradict the fundamental objectives of the Convention, which are all about the protection of children.”“This Committee has not served the United Nations well as it has attempted to introduce and ask the Holy See to change its non negotiable teachings! So it is a bit sad to see that the Committee has not fully grasped the nature and functions of the Holy See which made it very clear to the Committee that it intended to implement the Convention’s recommendations on the rights of the child, giving primary importance to defining and protecting those fundamental values that ensure the real and efficient protection of children.”“The introduction to the concluding report recognises that the responses received were clear; no attempt was made to avoid any of the Committee’s requests based on the available information. Where information was not immediately available” the Holy See “promised to provide it at a later date, in accordance with the Holy See’s directives, as applies to all governments. So it seemed like a constructive dialogue and I think it should remain as such. So looking at the impression formed after the direct discussions the Holy See delegation had with the Committee and then at the conclusions and recommendations in the concluding report, one is tempted to think that the text had probably been prepared earlier and does not – apart from in some notes that were hastily added in - reflect the input and clarifications that came later.“So we have to explain the Holy See’s position and answer any questions that remain unanswered calmly and based on the evidence at hand, because we have nothing to hide! And this, in order to ensure the fundamental objective here and that is the protection of children,” Bishop Tomasi said. “At the same time we have to keep in mind that even though there are so many millions, forty million cases of abuse a year regarding children and unfortunately some cases affect also Church personnel. We have to keep in mind that, we have to continue to combat this tragedy knowing that even a case of abuse of a child is a case too much.”At the end of the interview the Vatican diplomat suggested that the UN Committee may have been influenced by someone: “Some NGOs that support homosexuality, same-sex marriage and other issues probably presented their own views and ended up reinforcing their line of thought in some way,” Tomasi said.
MK walks back ‘Reform not Judaism’ remarks
David Rotem drew condemnation after branding members of the movement part of ‘another religion’
February 6, 2014, 2:30 pm
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Knesset member David Rotem on
Thursday apologized for comments earlier in the week to the effect that
members of the Reform movement were not truly Jewish. Rotem claimed that
his remarks, which were lambasted by multiple Jewish organizations, had
been misunderstood, and said he would meet with the leaders of Israel’s
Reform community to clarify the issue.“Comments
attributed to me regarding the Reform movement have been misinterpreted
by elements within the media,” Rotem said in a statement posted to
Facebook. “I have never said belonging to the Reform movement makes
anyone less Jewish.”Rotem, who is Orthodox, may have “theological
differences with the Reform Movement’s perspective,” but still maintains
“the greatest respect for all Jews, regardless of their denomination
and background,” he wrote.“I apologize for any misunderstanding and all
offense generated by the content of my comments yesterday. I hope that
this clarification can generate the necessary debate on how to further
unify the Jewish people, both in Israel and the Diaspora, around our
shared vital interests and concerns, rather than limiting it to the
differences that exist among us,” the MK said.Rotem is chairman of the Knesset Constitution,
Law and Justice Committee, and a member of the ruling coalition from
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party. Rotem made
the remarks during a committee discussion on changing Israel’s child
adoption law, where he was reported to have said that “the Reform
movement is not Jewish… they are another religion.”Rotem on Thursday in an interview with Army
Radio admitted that he had made “a big mistake” and implied that the
issue had arisen because of a terminological misunderstanding. The
Reform movement is “another Jewish religion,” he told the radio, just
like the ultra-Orthodox community could “of course” be considered as
“also another Jewish religion.”“The Reform are all Jews,” he said, and added
that “we have a lot of differences… [but] we need to put those aside so
on Shabbat we can eat together.”Rotem said that after his words caused a
firestorm, he had a “very long” telephone discussion with Gilad Kariv,
executive director of the Reform movement in Israel, and arranged to
meet with a group of Reform leaders next week to clarify the matter.Kariv on Wednesday had called on Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to reprimand Rotem for the remarks.
“An assertion such as this makes it impossible
for lawmaker Rotem to continue to chair discussions on sensitive issues
such as conversion, who is a Jew and other topics that are associated
with religion and state matters, and the relationship between Israel and
the Diaspora,” Kariv said.A statement from the Reform movement in Israel
pointed out that use of the expression “another religion” was
deliberate, since Israel’s Law of Return uses the same term to exclude
non-Jews from making aliyah. By using the term, the statement said,
Rotem was saying Reform Jews have no place in Israel.The Union for Reform Judaism called Rotem’s
comments “unacceptable” and urged Edelstein to remove him from his
committee chairmanship.“There is no way that someone who holds these
views — and has consistently stated them in public — can be a fair
arbiter over laws that impact the very essence of Klal Yisrael,” Rabbi
Rick Jacobs wrote in a statement.
The leadership of the Conservative movement —
including Rabbi Julie Schonfeld of the Rabbinical Assembly and Steven
Wernick of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism — in a statement
Wednesday lamented “the utter lack of leadership that makes these
outrages so frequent and undermines the very aspirations that are the
foundations of Judaism and the Jewish state.”Saying “the Jewishness of the Reform Movement
is beyond question and in no need of defense,” the statement called on
the government of Israel to censure Rotem and remove him from leadership
roles.The Anti-Defamation League called on Rotem to retract his statements and apologize to the Reform movement.In a letter to Rotem, ADL National Director
Abraham Foxman said the lawmaker’s views were “inappropriate, offensive
and unjustified.”“The suggestion that Jews throughout the world
who identify with the Reform movement are somehow not a part of the
Jewish people is an unacceptable characterization of a proud, highly
engaged and committed group of Jews. Among many US non-Orthodox Jews,
rejectionist rhetoric of this kind fosters divisiveness and feelings of
alienation towards elements of Israeli society. As someone who has long
been engaged in the issue of Jewish identify, we are surprised and
saddened that you expressed these views,” Foxman wrote.
JTA contributed to this report.
