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
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.
For peace talks, a 10th month of pregnancy?-Negotiations ended this week without a deal, or an intifada, which leaves a situation ripe for secret contacts between the sides-By Avi Issacharoff May 2, 2014, 3:21 pm 5-The Times of Israel
Nine months of talks between the Palestinians and Israel ended Tuesday night with a whimper. No peace agreement or emotional ceremonies, no explosions or intifadas. The talks simply ended.On the Palestinian side, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gave a special address on Palestinian television, in which he laid out his conditions for a renewal of the talks: the release of the fourth batch of veteran security prisoners; a complete settlement freeze; and negotiations for three months, in which the borders of two states — Israel and Palestine — will be established.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not give a similar talk.The official end of the negotiations was overshadowed in Israel by reports from the sentencing proceedings for ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert, and a soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Though on the field the game was one-sided (in Madrid’s favor, for anyone who missed it), Ronaldo and company still looked infinitely more interesting than another report about the fruitless peace effort.A senior American official, who was asked four months ago why the US chose a nine-month window for the talks, replied only half-jokingly that, like pregnancy, the negotiations might bear a peace agreement.Taking the analogy forward, then, this pregnancy ended in an abortion.‘What happens after nine months? What is your Plan B?’But one still cannot reach conclusions that are too far reaching, at least not at this stage. Both sides share an interest in maintaining the quiet, in continuing to sit down for talks even If they don’t bring about a dramatic resolution, in order to maintain the appearance of contact between the sides.The same American official was asked during the conversation, “What happens after nine months?” What is your Plan B? He declined to answer, but it seemed as if he’d been asked the question dozens of times before. It is likely that the US administration has a contingency plan for the day after. But it’s hard to say what that plan is.Maybe the US will present both sides with the fabled “Obama outlines” and see which side will dare turn down the American president.Or maybe Washington will let both sides stew in their own juices: Let Israel deal alone with the international criticism and maybe even with an escalation on the ground; and cut aid to the Palestinians.Abbas, himself, dealt with this question when he met with Israeli journalists 10 days ago. This was before the reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas was announced, and the talks hadn’t yet blown up.“What will happen the day after April 29?” he was asked. Abbas said that nothing out of the ordinary would occur. He even hinted that talks would go on through unofficial channels. He also emphasized that security cooperation between the sides would continue.It is possible that this will be all the opening that is needed for secret talks.If the security coordination is handled through secret and semi-secret channels, if Central Command chief Nitzan Alon and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai can visit Ramallah openly, is it not possible that representatives of the two sides would meet to discuss what needs to be done in order to reach a breakthrough in negotiations? The candidates for such talks already exist: Yitzhak Molcho, the prime minister’s tireless emissary, and Majid Faraj, head of the Palestinian general intelligence service. The two aren’t inclined to talk much to the press, to say the least, refraining from interviews and declarations and understanding the importance of the political chain of command.But it doesn’t depend on them. In the end, Netanyahu and Abbas know that there will be a price for a political breakthrough and neither seems eager to pay it. Netanyahu is not keen to break apart his coalition, and Abbas doesn’t believe in Netanyahu.After Fatah and Hamas signed their unity deal late last month, Abbas attempted to calm jittery Israelis via a speech to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council last Saturday.“This is a government with me at the head,” said Abbas about the technocratic government that is scheduled to take power within five weeks. “I recognize Israel and it will recognize Israel. I reject violence and terror and so will it, and recognize the signed agreements and their legitimacy, and the government will as well.”But then he discovered that in Israel in 2014, no one wants to hear or listen to him. A statement went out from Netanyahu’s office after the talk, claiming that “Abbas verified the killing of the peace process.” In the Prime Minister’s Office, it seems, they don’t let facts, or in this case warnings, confuse them.The next day, the PA president published a statement saying that the Holocaust is the gravest crime in human history. And again Netanyahu responded with a fitting Zionist response — in joining up with Hamas, Abbas had reconciled with Holocaust deniers.But despite Israeli and American worries, the Palestinian unity agreement represents for Abbas an important victory against Hamas, albeit a temporary one, and he won’t give it up quickly. Hamas basically agreed to accept all of Abbas’s demands, at least on the big issues.
The devil is in the details
“A-sitan bi-tfasil.” This is the saying repeated again and again by Fatah officials recently as they talked about the possibility of completing the reconciliation process.“The devil is in the details,” it means. The path to creating a unity government made of technocrats is not an easy one, and the path to general elections for parliament and the presidency is even longer and more complicated.On the former issue, what will happen to the 20,000 members of Hamas’s security forces? They are all armed; some are simple policemen, others are intelligence operatives, and almost 1,000 of them are responsible for preventing rocket fire into Israel. Who will pay their salaries? Will they continue to take orders from Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, or will they listen, from now on, to Abbas’s commands? On Tuesday, Mahmoud a-Zahar, one of the heads of Hamas in Gaza, said in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper al-Youm a-Saba that no armed man in Gaza will be under Abbas’s command. ‘And if this government is established, we still have the minor issue of elections. How exactly will elections be run in the West Bank?’ A-Zahar no longer enjoys the status he had in the past in Hamas, but his statement could still complicate ties with Fatah. If it’s true that “not one armed man” will listen to Abbas’s instructions, it means the reconciliation deal is worthless.A-Zahar wasn’t talking about Hamas’s armed wing, as both sides understand it will not give up its weapons to the PA. Instead, he was referring to “every armed man,” meaning even the civilian police.Another problem is the fate of the clerks in the Hamas government, another 20,000 to 30,000 people who, until now, have received their paycheck from Hamas. Abbas doesn’t have the resources to pay the salaries of another 40,000-50,000 members of the security forces and government clerks, not to mention the 160,000 clerks he already pays.There will also be tensions over laws the Hamas government in Gaza has passed in recent years, especially those with religious overtones: a law against women moving around alone in places like the beach; a ban on Ronaldo-like haircuts for young men; a law forbidding women from riding on motorcycles; and so on. Will the government under Abbas agree to uphold these rules? And if this government is established, we still have the minor issue of elections. How exactly will elections be run in the West Bank? Many Hamas leaders are in Israeli jails, and Israeli security forces are limiting the movements of those outside the prison walls.A more pressing question is where exactly the elections will be held. Abbas and Hamas will demand that they be held in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. But Israel will not allow elections in East Jerusalem in which Hamas takes part.In a case like this, Abbas and Hamas might well cancel the elections. And this might by the thing that lets Abbas slink away from a vote while still saving face. His demand for elections with only the weak and factional Fatah organization behind him was a complex gamble.There is precedent for some of this. In late 2005 and early 2006, Israel — initially under Ariel Sharon and after that under Ehud Olmert — almost agreed to cooperate with the PA’s political elections.But senior Fatah officials feared that the vote would lead to losses against Hamas, and therefore came to understandings with Israel that Jerusalem would announce that it was not ready to hold elections in East Jerusalem.The ruse failed then, and Hamas went on to give Fatah a resounding defeat at the polls. Should Abbas try again, he may pull it off.But with a unity government still not a done deal, these speculations are early at best. It isn’t even certain that Hamas and Fatah will succeed in establishing a unity government.
In Italy, al-Aqsa Mosque imam urges destruction of Israel-Cleric calls on Arab armies, including those of Egypt and Jordan, to ‘liberate’ cities such as Jaffa and Haifa-By Yifa Yaakov May 2, 2014, 5:03 am-The Times of Israel
An imam from Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque last week called for Israel’s destruction while on a visit to Italy, urging Arab armies — including those of Egypt and Jordan, with whom Israel has signed peace agreements — to “liberate” the land.During an Islamic conference in the city of Milan, the cleric, Raed al-Danna, said Israel would soon “vanish,” enabling the Palestinians to return to Jaffa, Haifa and other cities within the Green Line.“In Gaza, there are great and proud men, whose feet are firmly planted in the ground, who have realized that darkness and the Jewish state would vanish, and that the morning sun will rise on Palestine,” he said in comments filmed by al-Jazeera and translated by media monitoring group MEMRI.“We will return to the sea of Jaffa, to the sands of Haifa, to the palm trees of Beit Shean, and to the hills of Lod and Ramla,” al-Danna predicted.He said the clerics and worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque, which has recently been the site of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, were awaiting “the legions of the conquerors” who would take over Israel.“We await the armies from Tunisia, from Jordan, from Egypt, from Iraq, from the Maghreb, and from the Hijaz,” al-Danna said.“We await a Muslim leader, whose voice we yearn to hear, shouting to the liberating armies in the al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard,” he continued.“You must say the afternoon prayer only in Safed, Haifa, or Jaffa. You must say the afternoon prayer only in Lod and Ramla.”A crowd member could then be heard shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”
Palestinian media bashes Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish state’ law-Iraq fearfully awaits elections results as columnist calls for complete political overhaul-By Elhanan Miller May 2, 2014, 5:09 pm 0-The Times of Israel
As Arab media begins analyzing the result of Iraq’s general elections on Friday, Palestinian newspapers focus on a draft law advanced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to define Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.“Netanyahu strives to draft the racist ‘Jewish state’ law; Livni vows it will not pass,” reads the headline of official Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah.“Netanyahu has made the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state a mainstay of any peace agreement, asserting that the basis of the conflict between the peoples is the Arab rejection of the Jewish state and not the occupation of Palestinian land since 1967,” reads the article.With a similar report, official PA daily Al-Ayyam‘s headline reads “Netanyahu tries to draft a basic law in the Knesset enshrining Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people.”Ma’an, an independent Palestinian news agency, focuses on the controversy the draft law has caused within Netanyahu’s government.“Debate in Israel surrounding the draft ‘Jewish state’ law,” reads the article’s headline. The report focuses on support and opposition to the law among Israeli legislators, choosing for some reason to survey only women MKs: Miri Regev (Likud), Tzipi Livni (Hatnua), Ruth Kalderon (Yesh Atid), and Tamar Zandberg (Meretz).
Iraqi vote exposes divided society
Arab media dedicates much attention to the Iraqi elections held Wednesday; noting that while official results have not yet been made public, no clear winner seams to have emerged.“Iraqi election results exacerbate the conflict, and open the door for dialogue,” reads the headline of London-based daily Al-Hayat, reporting a slight majority in exit polls for President Nouri Al-Malki’s State of Law coalition, followed by the Citizen Bloc led by Shiite cleric Ammar Al-Hakim.“Maliki and Hakim both claim victory, and the prime minister rejects compromise democracy,” reads the headline of Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat. displaying a photo of an Iraqi citizen handing a flower to a policeman guarding a May Day parade in Baghdad.The daily quotes liberal Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi as claiming irregularities in the Western predominantly Sunni provinces of Anbar and Nineveh, but saying he cannot comment on results before they are announced by the Independent Elections Committee.“Fear of election results controls Iraqis,” reads the headline of an article on Saudi-owned news site Elaph. Mutual threats by the rival parties have caused fear of social collapse, the article reports. One activist is quoted as warning that he will “twist the finger of anyone who steels our votes,” a possible reference to the marking of voters’ fingers with dark ink.Meanwhile, Al-Hayat columnist Randa Taqi A-Din warns that Iraq may fragment into three regions following the elections.“There used to be hope that following Saddam Hussein a democracy would emerge in Iraq which would be a model for Arab regimes. But Maliki’s rule and the expanding corruption are diametrically opposed to what any citizen believing in democracy would wish for. Iraq is a big, rich and important country, but it needs a complete change of leaders.”
Palestinians officially join 5 UN treaties-PA becomes signatory to conventions banning racial discrimination, protecting human rights-By AFP and Times of Israel staff May 2, 2014, 7:04 pm-The Times of Israel
The Palestinians on Friday became a formal party to five global treaties banning torture and racial discrimination, and protecting the rights of women, children and the disabled, the UN said.Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN human rights office, told reporters that the move followed the Palestinians’ April 2 declaration to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that they were adopting the treaties.In addition, the Palestinians will on May 7 become party to an accord protecting children in conflict zones — which is an optional part of the overall child rights treaty — and on July 2 they will adopt two agreements governing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.“This accession to seven core human rights treaties and a key protocol is a significant step towards enhancing the promotion and protection of human rights in Palestine,” Colville told reporters.“It is notable in a region with a high number of reservations to human rights treaties, that Palestine is acceding to eight human rights treaties without making a single reservation,” he added.In the face of fierce Israeli opposition, Palestine won observer status at the United Nations in November 2012, opening the way for it to adopt a host of international accords.The Palestinians had pledged to freeze all moves to seek membership in UN organizations and international conventions — a stepping stone to recognition of their hoped-for state — during peace talks in return for Israel’s release of veteran Arab prisoners.But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas launched a new diplomatic drive in early April, amid blame-trading with Israel over the stalled negotiations. Israeli officials have said the move dealt a critical blow to Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.In addition to the UN treaties, the Palestinians have also signed up formally to the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of warfare and humanitarian operations in conflict zones.The Palestinians also submitted requests to the United Nations to adopt accords including the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, and an anti-corruption agreement.
Lebanese bishop to make historic Jerusalem trip-Maronite patriarch will join Pope Francis when he visits Israel in late May, a first for a man in his position-By AFP May 2, 2014, 10:54 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The patriarch of the Maronite church will travel to Jerusalem next month to greet Pope Francis, the first head of his Lebanon-based denomination to visit since Israel’s creation in 1948, he said Friday.
“The pope is going to the Holy Land and Jerusalem. He is going to the diocese of the patriarch, so it’s normal that the patriarch should welcome him,” Beshara al-Rahi told AFP by telephone from France.Al-Rahi’s visit is diplomatically noteworthy because Lebanon remains technically at war with Israel and bans its citizens from entering the Jewish state.Maronite clergy are able to travel to the Holy Land to minister to the estimated 10,000 faithful, but all other Lebanese are banned.Al-Rahi insisted that the trip will be strictly religious and has no political significance.“It is a religious visit and in no way a political one.”Al-Rahi’s deputy Boulos Sayyah, who will accompany him, said the patriarch would not participate in any political meetings in Israel but will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.He explained that Maronite Christian officials have special permission to visit Israel despite the tensions.“Since the armistice in 1949, there has been an agreement that the Maronite bishop for the Holy Land can travel from Lebanon to Palestine through the crossing at Naqoura,” in southern Lebanon, Sayyeh said.“A tacit agreement exists to allow other Maronite men and women of religion to go on missions to the Holy Land whether via land crossings or through the Tel Aviv airport because there are faithful there and they need to carry out their missions,” he said.Pope Francis is scheduled to make his first trip to the Holy Land from May 24-26.
The Maronite church has its roots in the Fertile Crescent of the early 5th century. It is named after St Maron, a hermit whose holiness and miracles attracted many followers.Following a bloody persecution a century later, the Maronite fled to the mountains of what is now Lebanon to seek refuge.They have their own distinct theology, spirituality, liturgy and code of canon law but are in full communion with Rome.
At Jerusalem wedding, Hezbollah and Hamas flags-Palestinians hold procession through Old City, shout out anti-Israeli mantras, according to media report-By Times of Israel staff May 2, 2014, 7:47 pm 3-The Times of Israel
Participants in a Palestinian wedding procession which took place in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday with police authorization displayed the flags of Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda alongside those of Palestine, Walla news reported.According to the report the crowd also chanted anti-Israeli slogans as it passed through the streets.Local resident Sarit Applebaum told the news website that such incidents were becoming increasingly common.“Every few days there is a procession of some kind, which is usually followed by rock-throwing at our homes,” she said. Applebaum added that such rallies prevented Jewish residents from leaving their homes for long hours due to safety concerns.“Sometimes we simply cannot return home and have to remain outside,” she said.Jerusalem’s Old City has recently become a hotspot of Israeli-Palestinian clashes, with riots often occurring in or around the Temple Mount as Palestinians protest Israelis visiting the compound, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque.Last week Jordan’s foreign ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Nevo to protest Israel’s actions in the Temple Mount. Jordanian officials protested what they called a “gross breach of international law and of the peace agreement between the two nations.”They accused Israel of allowing extremist Israeli Jews to enter the compound and of attacking Muslim worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque.
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)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
How the EU's 'big bang' enlargement changed foreign policy-01.05.14 @ 09:19-On the German-Polish border 10 years after enlargement-EU-Georgia treaty highlights enlargement fatigue-By Steven Blockmans
BRUSSELS - The European Union’s leap from 15 to 25 (and later to 28) members was supposed to have consigned the Cold War legacy of separate and hostile camps in Eastern and Western Europe to the shelves of history.The fault lines that opened up across Europe in 2003 over the war in Iraq were therefore ominous signs for the development of a cohesive EU foreign policy after the fifth enlargement of the Union envisaged for 2004. All Central and Eastern European candidate countries signed letters supporting the US policy to ‘disarm’ Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.The position of the majority of Western European states, Germany and France in particular, was one of emphatically rejecting the impending war. Divisions were deepened by French President Jacques Chirac, who noted that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe had "lost a good opportunity to keep quiet", calling their support for the US "infantile" and "reckless". There was even an implicit threat that they might have their EU accession blocked by a French referendum.Although the other member states and the European Commission rejected Chirac’s criticism, the incident reinforced US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s evocation of ‘old’ and ‘new’ Europe. The take home message for the EU-15 was that the aspirant members would bring along their own sensitivities and stand for their own interests.For those states not already members of NATO and the EU, the effects of the fall of the Iron Curtain were particularly urgent as they all had to deal with the insecurities of internal transition; some even with disintegration and war. For many Central and Eastern European states, the practical response to these predicaments was first a move toward NATO – thereby affirming the transatlantic link to the hard power of the US – and then toward the EU – the best method to address myriad soft security challenges.The dual enlargement has contributed to the stability of a large swathe of Central and Eastern Europe. Contrary to the prevailing message, though, EU enlargement has in some cases heightened security concerns. By the southeastward push of its external borders, the European Union has imported the frozen conflict over Cyprus, pitching it more sharply against Turkey, and it has been confronted more directly to hard security threats in the (new) neighbourhoods: from tensions over Kosovo’s independence and bursts of violence in the South Caucasus to the slaughter in Syria.The worries in the Baltic states and Poland about the stand-off with Russia over Ukraine also show that the stability of EU territory remains vulnerable at the edges. By the same token, the EU’s ‘big bang’ enlargement has compounded softer security challenges such as illegal immigration, organised crime and the disruption of the flow of energy resources, to name just a few.Within the EU, the last decade has been characterised by a sense of transition and political tension over the failed Constitutional Treaty, the economic and financial crisis, the nature of external border security, the new foreign policy architecture established by the Lisbon Treaty, and differing visions of the EU’s external relations, including the future of EU enlargement. The addition of 10+2+1 new member states has impacted on how the EU perceives and tackles these and other issues, thereby shaping the European Union’s foreign policy role overall.
Leadership and decision-making
Whereas it is now safe to say that the innovations of the Lisbon Treaty have strengthened the EU’s visibility and efficiency of decision-making in the realm of external action, the successive enlargements since 2004 have nevertheless complicated the Union’s political balance. The Big 3 – France, Germany and the UK – continue to play a crucial role in the Union’s foreign and security policy-making, as their efforts to spearhead a resolution of the nuclear dispute with Iran demonstrates.At the next level down, Italy and Spain have been joined by Poland as another ‘large state’ demanding a seat at the top table. In certain domains (e.g. Ukraine), the Weimar Triangle has allowed Poland to steer EU foreign policy alongside France and Germany. Together with Sweden, Poland also tabled the plan for an Eastern dimension to the European Neighbourhood Policy, presenting it as a path toward EU membership – thereby truly envisaging the stated aim of the ENP, i.e. the eradication of new dividing lines on the continent after the 2004 enlargement.While the initiative for an Eastern Partnership immediately drew criticism from Bulgaria and Romania, that did not want to see the Union’s Black Sea Synergy undermined, the Commission and the Czech Republic threw their weight behind the plan, which led to the inaugural summit of the Eastern Partnership in Prague in May 2009, during the Czech rotating Presidency of the Council.Dominated by bans on foodstuff, plans on a missile shield and energy shortages, the political climate in EU-Russia relations has seen a dramatic drop in temperature since 2004. This was to a considerable extent the result of a more assertive attitude adopted by the EU under the influence of some new member states from Central and Eastern Europe.Gradually, older member states have hardened their positions as well. Yet, dealing with Putin’s Russia remains emblematic for the division among member states, even among the new ones. Countries like Slovakia and Bulgaria have different cultural, economic and political sensitivities from those exercised by the Baltic States and Poland. Geographical proximity and cross-border trade or minority issues condition the approaches to Russia in several and diverse ways. This goes to show that there is no Central and Eastern European ‘bloc’ within the EU. At best, there are changing coalitions around the ‘Visegrad 4’ (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia).As the majority of new member states can be classified as ‘small states’, their interests and sensitivities within foreign policy decision-making have been uploaded to the EU level, especially during the rotating Presidencies. Cases in point are Slovenia and Hungary’s focus on the Western Balkans, Cyprus’s attention to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and Lithuania’s ambition to turn Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia away from Russia, into the arms of the EU.Given their shared history under the Soviet yoke, the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe have more reason than most to be wary of Moscow’s intentions and actions.This has translated in their markedly western orientation, which has tipped the internal balance of the CFSP/CSDP in a Atlanticist direction. New member states have been increasingly engaged in civilian and military crisis management operations under EU flag. As a rule they have done so as modular components of bigger multinational units and under foreign command. Much as their contributions have been limited in time, scope and numbers, the new member states have proved their willingness and ability to participate and perform in CSDP operations, especially in the Western Balkans and the eastern neighbourhood, but also further afield.
Impact
In size, scope and character the ‘big bang’ enlargement of 2004 was nothing like the previous accession waves and it is unlikely to be anything similar of those in the future. The (by now not so) new member states have brought their own preferences and interests to bear, thereby complicating in some cases the already fractured foreign and security policies of the EU.Despite the nuances which persist among the latest entrants, the enlargement rounds of the last decade have introduced an undisputedly new eastern dimension to the EU’s foreign policy, a more encompassing and at the same time more assertive Ostpolitik than the one sought after by Willy Brandt in the 1970s.Today’s blurring distinctions between internal and external policies and between hard and soft security demands a more holistic and inclusive approach in tackling challenges and seizing opportunities if the EU is to make good on its foreign policy objectives. In this respect, the experience and expertise of the newer member states has been and will continue to be indispensable for the European Union.The writer is Senior Research Fellow & Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
05/ 2/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-“Vatican’s administrative bodies need a change in mentality,” says Francis-A group of cardinals-At a meeting with the Council for the Economy, Francis said the Church needs to manage its assets in a transparent and efficient manner, showing care for the poor. Reforming the Curia is not going to be easy, he added-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-The Church’s assets need to be managed showing a special concern for the poor and the Holy See administration needs to adopt “a new mentality” of evangelical service. These were Francis’ key messages in the brief speech he gave at this morning’s meeting with the Council for the Economy, coordinated by the Cardinal of Munich, Reinhard Marx and made up of a group of cardinals and lay people. The body has the task of steering the Vatican’s administrative and financial policies.The Pope recalled that the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for the Economy and the general Reviser office were established last February and given a “very important mission”: “the Church’s awareness of the responsibility it has to protect and carefully manage its assets according to the mission of evangelization, showing special care for the poor.” Francis stressed that “We must not stray from this path, transparency, efficiency … That’s what all this is aimed at.”“The Holy See is called to carry out this mission, bearing in mind especially its responsibility towards the universal Church. Furthermore, these changes will reflect the wish to implement a much-needed Curia reform, in order to better serve the Church and Peter’s mission. This is a big challenge which requires faith and prudence.”The Curia reform process “is not going to be simple and requires courage and determination. The Holy See’s administrative bodies need to adopt a new mentality of evangelical service,” the Pope said. “The Council for the Economy has an important role to play in this reform process; it has the task of overseeing the management of the Holy See’s economic, administrative and financial affairs; it works closely with the Secretariat for the Economy.”Francis thanked Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s new “finance minister” for his work. “The Council represents the universal Church: eight cardinals from various local Churches, seven lay people of different nationalities who contribute to the wellbeing of the Church and its mission with their personal experience. The Council’s lay members are full members, they do not play a secondary role,” Francis pointed out.“The Council’s work is influential and of great importance and its contribution will be vital to the service carried out by the Roman Curia and the Holy See’s various administrative bodies. Good luck with your work and thank you very much for what you are doing and will do in due course. Thank you so much. And pray for me: I need it!”Francis has again pointed to careful use of financial resources and attention to the poor as priorities. He also emphasized the need for a change in mentality in the Holy See’s administrative bodies.
05/ 2/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “I wept when I heard about the crucifixion of Christians-Persecuted Christians-At this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House Francis said: “still today there are people who kill and persecute, in the name of God” and “in some countries you can still go to jail for possessing a Gospel”-Domenico Agasso jr
vatican city-“Still today there are people who kill and persecute, in the name of God.” There are still too many "masters of conscience". “In some countries you can still go to jail for possessing a Gospel or wearing a Crucifix,” Francis said in the homily he pronounced at this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House.Today’s homily drew on the Gospel of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, in which Christ’s disciples are flogged by the Sanhedrin. Pope Francis proposed three icons, Vatican Radio reports.“The first is Jesus’ love for people, his attention to peoples’ problems. He said the Lord is not concerned with how many people follow him, he would “never even thinks of taking a census" to see if "the Church has grown ... no! He speaks, preaches, loves, accompanies, travels on the path with people, meek and humble". He speaks with authority, that is, with "the power of love".”“The second icon is the "jealousy" of the religious authorities of the time: "They couldn’t stand the fact that people followed Jesus! They couldn’t stand it! They were jealous. This is a really bad attitude to have. Jealousy and envy, and we know that the father of envy" is "the devil". It was through his envy that evil came into the world. These people knew who Jesus was: they knew! These people were the same who had paid the guard to say that the disciples had stolen Christ’s body!" Francis continued."They had paid to silence the truth,” Francis highlighted. “People can be really evil sometimes! Because when we pay to hide the truth, we are [committing] a very great evil. And that's why people knew who they were. They would not follow them, but they had to tolerate them because they had authority: the authority of the cult, the authority of the ecclesiastical discipline at that time, the authority of the people ... and the people followed. Jesus said that they weighed people down with oppressive weights and made them carry them on their shoulders. These people cannot tolerate the meekness of Jesus, they cannot tolerate the meekness of the Gospel, they cannot tolerate love. And they pay out of envy, out of hate.”“During the gathering of the Sanhedrin there is a "wise man", Gamaliel, who asks the religious leaders to free the apostles. Thus, the Pope insists, there are these first two icons: Jesus who is moved to see people "without a shepherd" and the religious authorities. These, with their political manoeuvring, with their ecclesiastical manoeuvres to continue to dominate the people ... And so, they bring forth the apostles, after this wise man had spoken, the called the apostles and had them flogged and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus. Then they freed them. ‘We have to do something, we will give them a sound hiding and send them on their way! Unjust! but they did it. They were the masters of conscience [thought police], and felt they had the power to do so. Masters of conscience ... Even in today's world, there are so many.”Pope Francis then confessed: “I cried when I saw reports on the news of Christians crucified in a certain country that is not Christian. Still today - he pointed out – there are these people who kill and persecute, in the name of God. Still today, "we see many who" like the apostles “rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour in Christ’s name".This "is the third icon today. The Joy of witness.”Francis concluded his homily by summing up the three icons he talked about: "First icon: Jesus with people, his love, the path that He has taught us, which we should follow. The second icon: the hypocrisy of these religious leaders of the people, who had people imprisoned with these many commandments, with this cold, hard legality, and who also paid to hide the truth. Third icon: the joy of the Christian martyrs, the joy of so many of our brothers and sisters who have felt this joy in history, this joy that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for Christ’s name. And today there are still so many! Just think that in some countries, you can go to jail for just carrying a Gospel. You may not wear a crucifix or you will be fined. But the heart rejoices. The three icons: let us look at them today. This is part of our history of salvation.”
05/ 2/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-Holy See presents its proposal to the UN Committee Against Torture-The United Nations headquarters in Geneva-Between 5-6 May, Nuncio Silvano Tomasi, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, will be presenting the Vatican’s report and is preparing to respond to remarks on the paedophilia issue-ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY-The Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, Nuncio Silvano Tomasi, is preparing to represent the Holy See at the 52nd session of the Convention against Torture (CAT).The meeting is set to take place between 5 and 6 May. The meeting between member States and the Committee is a normal procedure and aims to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of the Convention through open dialogue and a discussion of any potential differences in interpretation.“The Holy See has signed the Convention on behalf of Vatican City State (SVC) (on 22 June 2002, Ed.) and so its legal responsibility for implementation regards the territory and competences of Vatican City State.” The Vatican said that the CAT Committee is aware of this and therefore all questions, concerns and observations, whether positive or negative, that relate to the action taken by the Catholic Church around the world in addressing torture are not directly relevant in legal terms, inasmuch as the commitments assumed through adherence to the Convention, are limited to SCV territory.The Vatican delegation will present its report in the morning of 5 May. The two speakers selected by the Committee – Mrs. Felice Gaer (US) and George Tugushi (Georgia) – will discuss their observations, followed by other members. An afternoon session is expected to be held on 6 May: the Holy See delegation will have the chance to respond to the questions put to it the previous day.In the last two years, the issues CAT has dealt with have only had an indirect link to torture, or have been based on an extensive interpretation. “For instance, this occurred last January during the dialogue with the Committee for the Convention on the rights of the child,” the Vatican delegation explained.Based on the concluding observations presented in previous Reports presented by the CAT Committee, below is a summary of the main points the Holy See expects to have to answer to, followed by some ideas on how it may respond.Vatican officials continue to make a false distinction, stressing that the Holy See’s jurisdiction is limited to the Vatican City State and not the entire Catholic Church and its institutions.“The Holy See exercises its responsibility in two different ways. Firstly through the exclusive judicial and legal jurisdiction the Holy See has over the territory of the Vatican City State (SVC) and the, which it exercises just as any other Government does. Secondly, it also has a spiritual responsibility which it exercises through an authority based on the voluntary adhesion of faithful to the Catholic faith; this means that if a member of the Catholic Church is held responsible for acts that are prohibited by CAT, he/she is s under the jurisdiction of the State of which they are a citizen or resident. Catholics from any country outside the Vatican City State are subject to the civil authorities of their respective country. In accordance with international law, the Holy See respects the sovereignty of other nations and does not consider those nations that freely associate themselves spiritually with the Catholic Church as citizens of the Vatican City State, but as citizens of the countries in which they live. As it is not the Holy See that holds responsibility over these citizens, legitimate authority lies with the State that punishes crimes committed by its citizens.”The Catholic Church, which accounts for over one billion followers, is an institution in which there is uncontrolled power. The children that are being looked after by the Church’s various institutions are left vulnerable to those who wish to commit and conceal sexual crimes against minors. As such, it fosters the torture of children as well as other crimes that are prohibited by CAT. “First of all, the power held by the Holy See is well regulated both in legal terms, in the Vatican City State which is the home of Holy See law and in spiritual terms, for the wellbeing of all the world’s faithful, through the Code of Canon Law which sets down a series of rights and duties that apply to all members of the Catholic Church. CAT provisions have been incorporated into Vatican City State law in force across its territory, in order to prevent and punish, if the need arises, any form of torture. The data presented by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the legal measures adopted by the Holy See on a national level (for the Vatican City State) and as a moral advice and guidelines for actions to be taken by the Bishops’ Conferences and by single diocesan bishops, offer clear evidence that concrete results have been achieved in the significant reduction of paedophilia cases. Clearly, while civil authorities have the right and the duty to investigate and punish individuals for abuse carried out against minors or others, regardless of who the guilty party is, the Church exercises its spiritual authority through its own internal law that provides for a different kind of punishment. This way, priests who are found guilty are not only punished by the civil authorities that have criminal jurisdiction, but by the Church as well. It would be useful if other institutions or Governments would publish their statistics.”
The Church’s hierarchical and male-dominated structure is archaic and encourages the abuse of minors. “Hundreds of thousands of children have been abused,” but the Catholic Church has done nothing to introduce a series of checks and balances.“Child abuse is a worldwide problem. According to the World Health Organisation, in 2002 (the most recent data available), around 150 million girls and 73 million children under the age of 18 fell victim to violence or sexual exploitation. The 2006 UN Report on Violence Against Children edited by the Independent Expert for the United Nations, Sérgio Pinheiro, estimated that between 500 million and one and a half billion children and adolescents.”Most violent incidents take place within the family, which is why the real number of abuse cases and cases of violence remains is uncertain. The World Congress III Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Rio de Janeiro (2008) – after the ones held in Stockholm and Yokohama – revealed that 150 million young girls and approximately 75 million minors under the age of 18 were victims of forced sex or sexual violence, suffering wither commercial or non-commercial sexual exploitation. The abuse was committed by people of different social backgrounds, including public and civil officials such as teachers and social workers, magistrates and legislators and regrettably also religious representatives. However, the attempt to attack the Holy See by claiming that the Church’s hierarchical structure is a sort of “incubator” for abusive clergy, is absurdly illogical and intellectually dishonest. Out of all the denominations, the Catholic Church is the one with the lowest percentage of sex offenders among its clergy. Right now, every Catholic priest is being watched very carefully and has come under the microscope of suspicion. If those who constantly attack the Church applied the same logic to other denominations as well and didn’t use the situation to attack the Church but to really defend minors who suffer this atrocious kind of violence, we may start getting more positive results. The Holy See has exercised its spiritual and moral jurisdiction in the Catholic Church through the implementation of numerous measures, including changes to the Canonical processes for the removal of abusive priests and through the establishment of a special Commission for the protection of children. The Holy See urges local civil authorities to prosecute those who have committed such offences.”The Holy See’s policy and laws – particularly those relating to abortion and artificial contraception - forbid certain types of behaviour thereby becoming a cause of physical and psychological torture. The Holy See therefore needs to change the laws preventing these practices, which are considered essential by some.“The Holy See’s goal is to prevent children from being tortured or killed before birth, as is stipulated in the Convention. For example, in Canada, 622 living babies were delivered after failed abortion attempts, between 2000 and 2001. 66 such cases were registered in the UK in 2005. Some methods of late-term abortions constitute forms of torture, particularly in the case of dilation and evacuation, where “the foetus, still alive, is dismembered to be pulled out of the womb in pieces.”“Freedom of expression and of belief are a fundamental right and any attempt to dictate laws to the Holy See, asking it to change its convictions, is a direct violation of this right. Any behaviour that respects natural law and is freely chosen by faithful cannot be interpreted as measures that limit others’ freedom. The way of life the Holy See proposes is clearly in accordance with divine revelation and natural law but in no way does it coercively force or impose its convictions on individuals who do not freely wish to accept them.”The Holy See should collaborate with local authorities and open its archives to all. The Church continues to make promises and excuses while the abuse continues and the code of silence remains unbroken.“As the Committee on the Rights of the Child highlights, the Holy See has developed very clear and solid policies for the protection of children, to ensure transparency and full collaboration with local authorities. The statistics point to a significant reduction in the number of new paedophilia cases and offer clear proof of the efficiency of the measures taken by the Holy See. As far as the so-called “code of silence” is concerned, if someone is obstructing the course of justice, then the competent civil authority has a duty to intervene. The Holy See encourages this procedure as it is linked to national sovereignty and is in line with international law. It is worth repeating something Francis said in a recent interview: "The Catholic Church is possibly the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility," Francis said. "No one else has done more. Yet the church is the only one to be attacked."The Holy See moves priests around in order to protect their reputation but in so doing gives them the chance to commit further abuse. Furthermore, the Holy See does not have a clear policy regarding remuneration or compensation for abuse victims.“As things currently stand, a person employed by the Church who is rightly suspected of abusing minors, is immediately suspended and can have no further contact with these minors. In the past, it was popularly thought that the decision should be left up to professionals such as psychiatrists or psychologists. They could determine whether a person was “cured” and could resume working as normal. Clerics cannot be blamed for following a procedure that was considered to be the best at the time. This was common practice in many countries throughout the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and was considered the best practice at the time. It was also applied to drug addicts, sexually deviant priests and others. Unfortunately the experts got it wrong sometimes. As far as victim compensation is concerned, let’s take the US as an example. Bearing in mind that there were an estimated 10,667 abuse cases recorded in the United States between 1950 and 2002 and not hundreds and thousands as biased sources have claimed, the Catholic Church in the US paid 572,5 million dollars in legal and related expenses, plus 1,3 billion dollars in compensation to victims, to date (2008).Dioceses are continuing payments in various countries where cases of abuse by members of the clergy have been registered. The Holy See encourages local Churches to make victims a priority and to respond adequately to their needs.”
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)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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 KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) 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)
Russian gas supplies 'not guaranteed', EU commissioner warns
02.05.14 @ 18:07-By Valentina Pop-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - A first mediation attempt by the EU between Russia and Ukraine on their gas price dispute on Friday (2 May) in Warsaw ended with no results other than the willingness to meet again.
"It is with concern that we see the security of supply for end consumers in EU and non-EU states like Ukraine is not guaranteed," EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger told press after the meeting.The energy ministers of Ukraine and Russia, for the first time at a table since the annexation of Crimea and the Russia-backed separatist movements in eastern Ukraine, decided to hold separate press points rather than join Oettinger in a common press conference.Still, when asked about the atmosphere in the meeting, Oettinger responded that "we are all adults" and emphasised the willingness of both sides to meet again mid-May."The European Commission will stabilise Naftogaz [Ukraine's state-owned gas company] and Ukraine and will be a fair mediator for justified and fair gas prices," Oettinger said.At the core of the current dispute is how much Ukraine owes and has to pay for current and future gas deliveries from Russia: 485 US dollars per cubic meter of gas as Gazprom demands or roughly half of it, the price Kiev used to pay before the political turmoil that started late last year.For the Russian side, the price is "clear, set in the contract signed until 2019" and any negotiations are "odd".Russian energy minister Alexander Novak told press after the meeting that Ukraine has not paid for any gas it imported in the last quarter of 2013 and the first three months of this year."There is a 16 May deadline when an invoice will be issued to pay for the gas by 31 May and to prepay for the consumption in June. If by June these payments are not made, Gazprom will have the possibility to restrict supplies to Ukraine," Novak said.He added that European supplies should not be affected as they are paid for until September 2014. Any disruptions in gas flows to the EU during this time should only be blamed on Ukraine, if it "illegally" taps these supplies or diverts them to storage.Novak also questioned plans by the EU to reverse the flow of gas and supply Ukraine with Russian gas via Slovakia."If such contracts are executed, we'll look at them very attentively and reserve our right to address courts and institutions of arbitration," he said.As for Ukraine, its energy minister Yuriy Prodan said the doubling of the gas price by Russia was "discriminatory" and "abusive" and that Kiev will take the matter to the international court of arbitration in Stockholm."It is possible that in arbitration we can change the volume of our debt to Gazprom, possibly no debt at all," Prodan said.He insisted that "Ukraine is a reliable partner, a transit country and it will fulfil all its obligations to its European partners."Ukraine is the main transit country for Russian gas supplies to EU countries, with previous price disputes having translated into gas cuts at the height of cold winters, leaving citizens in Bulgaria and Slovakia in the cold.The situation has since improved, with increased reserves and the capacity to reverse the gas flow from less-dependent EU countries to the ones totally relying on Russian imports.But with pro-Russian separatists shooting down two Ukrainian helicopters and with Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring a Geneva peace deal "no longer valid", the chances of a solution to the gas dispute are low.
Merkel asks Putin to free EU hostages in Ukraine
02.05.14 @ 09:27-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has personally asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help free EU military officers held by pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine.Her press service said she "reminded Putin of Russia's responsibility as an OSCE member state and appealed for him to fulfill this responsibility".Her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, added that the kidnapping is a "totally unacceptable … criminal act".But the Kremlin statement noted that Putin "stressed that the most important thing now is to withdraw all military units from the south-eastern parts [of Ukraine], stop the violence, and immediately start a national dialogue that would involve all regions and all political forces within the framework of a constitutional reform".Rebels in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine, are holding 11 monitors sent by the OSCE, a Vienna-based multilateral body.They call the group – which includes four Germans, a Czech, a Dane, a Pole, and four Ukrainians – "prisoners of war" and deny Western claims that they and other separatists take orders from Russia.Amid the high-level diplomacy, the situation on the ground in Sloviansk escalated on Friday morning (2 May), with reports that Ukrainian forces exchanged fire with rebels in an operation to retake the town.Merkel will on Friday meet with US leader Barack Obama in Washington to discuss the next steps on the crisis.Her press service underlined that "should Russia show no signs toward a de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine, [the EU and US] could jointly adopt third stage penalties as an answer".The "third stage" refers to economic sanctions against Russian energy, banking, high-tech, and arms industries to come on top of existing blacklists of Russian officials, oligarchs, politicians and security chiefs.White House spokesman Jay Carney told press on Thursday that Putin's plan to visit Crimea, a Ukrainian region which he annexed in March, on 9 May will not trigger the move.But he noted that "should Russia engage in further provocations – up to and including potentially a military intervention, direct military intervention across the Ukrainian border – there will be further severe economic costs to Russia as a result."US and EU companies with business interests in Russia are urging politicians to hold back.In Germany, corporate giants Basf, Siemens, Volkswagen, Adidas, and Deutsche Bank are leading the anti-sanctions lobby. "It's up to politicians and historians to determine the efficacy of boycotts, but I have my doubts," Basf CEO Kurt Bock, whose firm has extensive ties with Russia's Gazprom, recently told German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.German-Russian trade accounts for €76 billion a year. There are 6,200 German firms active in Russia and Berlin has said stage three sanctions could lead to the loss of 300,000 German jobs.For his part, Carney said the political stakes are too high for leaders to bow to business interests. "There's no question there would be an impact if such steps were taken, both in the United States and around the world. But the costs would be far greater for Russia," he noted on Thursday.But US senators from the opposition Republican party believe that Merkel, whose decisions shape EU foreign policy, is taking too soft a line."We certainly need a clearer, more targeted and more united position," senator Jeff Sessions, who attended a dinner with Merkel on Thursday night in the US capital, told the AFP news agency.Senator John McCain, who has visited Kiev several times to show support for the pro-Western authorities, added that the German "industry lobby … might as well sit in the [German] federal government. It's a shame".
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
30 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-05-02 23:56:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)30 earthquakes in map area
3.1 55km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 21:38:05 UTC-04:00 6.0 km
2.7 65km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-05-02 18:28:34 UTC-04:00 70.9 km
2.6 83km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-05-02 17:08:58 UTC-04:00 11.6 km
2.8 23km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 16:26:54 UTC-04:00 74.0 km
2.9 7km NNW of Spencer, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 16:10:33 UTC-04:00 5.6 km
3.4 7km NNW of Spencer, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 15:44:20 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.2 29km SE of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico 2014-05-02 15:08:23 UTC-04:00 150.8 km
2.6 14km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2014-05-02 14:24:37 UTC-04:00 7.2 km
4.9 98km E of Hihifo, Tonga 2014-05-02 14:10:29 UTC-04:00 9.7 km
4.6 245km SE of Kamaishi, Japan 2014-05-02 13:14:10 UTC-04:00 42.7 km
4.5 7km SSE of Palin, Guatemala 2014-05-02 12:28:43 UTC-04:00 190.5 km
3.0 46km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-05-02 11:09:58 UTC-04:00 76.3 km
3.1 16km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada 2014-05-02 10:03:03 UTC-04:00 1.8 km
4.5 112km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-05-02 09:33:03 UTC-04:00 51.1 km
2.7 65km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-05-02 09:15:37 UTC-04:00 82.9 km
4.4 85km NE of Calama, Chile 2014-05-02 08:46:13 UTC-04:00 118.8 km
4.5 144km W of Ilioilio, Philippines 2014-05-02 07:44:01 UTC-04:00 26.3 km
4.8 270km ENE of Dili, East Timor 2014-05-02 07:12:07 UTC-04:00 161.1 km
3.4 89km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 07:01:19 UTC-04:00 38.0 km
2.6 7km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 06:29:20 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.9 257km SE of Kamaishi, Japan 2014-05-02 05:15:20 UTC-04:00 14.6 km
2.7 43km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 04:53:56 UTC-04:00 57.0 km
6.0 70km SSE of Namlea, Indonesia 2014-05-02 04:43:37 UTC-04:00 54.2 km
2.6 51km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 04:04:50 UTC-04:00 16.0 km
2.5 9km SE of Chester, California 2014-05-02 03:46:17 UTC-04:00 0.2 km
5.3 139km W of Neiafu, Tonga 2014-05-02 03:46:07 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 9km SE of Chester, California 2014-05-02 03:29:49 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
4.9 182km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-05-02 03:19:57 UTC-04:00 30.9 km
2.9 9km N of Crescent, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 01:46:03 UTC-04:00 4.7 km
2.6 73km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 00:45:40 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
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
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.
For peace talks, a 10th month of pregnancy?-Negotiations ended this week without a deal, or an intifada, which leaves a situation ripe for secret contacts between the sides-By Avi Issacharoff May 2, 2014, 3:21 pm 5-The Times of Israel
Nine months of talks between the Palestinians and Israel ended Tuesday night with a whimper. No peace agreement or emotional ceremonies, no explosions or intifadas. The talks simply ended.On the Palestinian side, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gave a special address on Palestinian television, in which he laid out his conditions for a renewal of the talks: the release of the fourth batch of veteran security prisoners; a complete settlement freeze; and negotiations for three months, in which the borders of two states — Israel and Palestine — will be established.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not give a similar talk.The official end of the negotiations was overshadowed in Israel by reports from the sentencing proceedings for ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert, and a soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Though on the field the game was one-sided (in Madrid’s favor, for anyone who missed it), Ronaldo and company still looked infinitely more interesting than another report about the fruitless peace effort.A senior American official, who was asked four months ago why the US chose a nine-month window for the talks, replied only half-jokingly that, like pregnancy, the negotiations might bear a peace agreement.Taking the analogy forward, then, this pregnancy ended in an abortion.‘What happens after nine months? What is your Plan B?’But one still cannot reach conclusions that are too far reaching, at least not at this stage. Both sides share an interest in maintaining the quiet, in continuing to sit down for talks even If they don’t bring about a dramatic resolution, in order to maintain the appearance of contact between the sides.The same American official was asked during the conversation, “What happens after nine months?” What is your Plan B? He declined to answer, but it seemed as if he’d been asked the question dozens of times before. It is likely that the US administration has a contingency plan for the day after. But it’s hard to say what that plan is.Maybe the US will present both sides with the fabled “Obama outlines” and see which side will dare turn down the American president.Or maybe Washington will let both sides stew in their own juices: Let Israel deal alone with the international criticism and maybe even with an escalation on the ground; and cut aid to the Palestinians.Abbas, himself, dealt with this question when he met with Israeli journalists 10 days ago. This was before the reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas was announced, and the talks hadn’t yet blown up.“What will happen the day after April 29?” he was asked. Abbas said that nothing out of the ordinary would occur. He even hinted that talks would go on through unofficial channels. He also emphasized that security cooperation between the sides would continue.It is possible that this will be all the opening that is needed for secret talks.If the security coordination is handled through secret and semi-secret channels, if Central Command chief Nitzan Alon and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai can visit Ramallah openly, is it not possible that representatives of the two sides would meet to discuss what needs to be done in order to reach a breakthrough in negotiations? The candidates for such talks already exist: Yitzhak Molcho, the prime minister’s tireless emissary, and Majid Faraj, head of the Palestinian general intelligence service. The two aren’t inclined to talk much to the press, to say the least, refraining from interviews and declarations and understanding the importance of the political chain of command.But it doesn’t depend on them. In the end, Netanyahu and Abbas know that there will be a price for a political breakthrough and neither seems eager to pay it. Netanyahu is not keen to break apart his coalition, and Abbas doesn’t believe in Netanyahu.After Fatah and Hamas signed their unity deal late last month, Abbas attempted to calm jittery Israelis via a speech to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council last Saturday.“This is a government with me at the head,” said Abbas about the technocratic government that is scheduled to take power within five weeks. “I recognize Israel and it will recognize Israel. I reject violence and terror and so will it, and recognize the signed agreements and their legitimacy, and the government will as well.”But then he discovered that in Israel in 2014, no one wants to hear or listen to him. A statement went out from Netanyahu’s office after the talk, claiming that “Abbas verified the killing of the peace process.” In the Prime Minister’s Office, it seems, they don’t let facts, or in this case warnings, confuse them.The next day, the PA president published a statement saying that the Holocaust is the gravest crime in human history. And again Netanyahu responded with a fitting Zionist response — in joining up with Hamas, Abbas had reconciled with Holocaust deniers.But despite Israeli and American worries, the Palestinian unity agreement represents for Abbas an important victory against Hamas, albeit a temporary one, and he won’t give it up quickly. Hamas basically agreed to accept all of Abbas’s demands, at least on the big issues.
The devil is in the details
“A-sitan bi-tfasil.” This is the saying repeated again and again by Fatah officials recently as they talked about the possibility of completing the reconciliation process.“The devil is in the details,” it means. The path to creating a unity government made of technocrats is not an easy one, and the path to general elections for parliament and the presidency is even longer and more complicated.On the former issue, what will happen to the 20,000 members of Hamas’s security forces? They are all armed; some are simple policemen, others are intelligence operatives, and almost 1,000 of them are responsible for preventing rocket fire into Israel. Who will pay their salaries? Will they continue to take orders from Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, or will they listen, from now on, to Abbas’s commands? On Tuesday, Mahmoud a-Zahar, one of the heads of Hamas in Gaza, said in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper al-Youm a-Saba that no armed man in Gaza will be under Abbas’s command. ‘And if this government is established, we still have the minor issue of elections. How exactly will elections be run in the West Bank?’ A-Zahar no longer enjoys the status he had in the past in Hamas, but his statement could still complicate ties with Fatah. If it’s true that “not one armed man” will listen to Abbas’s instructions, it means the reconciliation deal is worthless.A-Zahar wasn’t talking about Hamas’s armed wing, as both sides understand it will not give up its weapons to the PA. Instead, he was referring to “every armed man,” meaning even the civilian police.Another problem is the fate of the clerks in the Hamas government, another 20,000 to 30,000 people who, until now, have received their paycheck from Hamas. Abbas doesn’t have the resources to pay the salaries of another 40,000-50,000 members of the security forces and government clerks, not to mention the 160,000 clerks he already pays.There will also be tensions over laws the Hamas government in Gaza has passed in recent years, especially those with religious overtones: a law against women moving around alone in places like the beach; a ban on Ronaldo-like haircuts for young men; a law forbidding women from riding on motorcycles; and so on. Will the government under Abbas agree to uphold these rules? And if this government is established, we still have the minor issue of elections. How exactly will elections be run in the West Bank? Many Hamas leaders are in Israeli jails, and Israeli security forces are limiting the movements of those outside the prison walls.A more pressing question is where exactly the elections will be held. Abbas and Hamas will demand that they be held in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. But Israel will not allow elections in East Jerusalem in which Hamas takes part.In a case like this, Abbas and Hamas might well cancel the elections. And this might by the thing that lets Abbas slink away from a vote while still saving face. His demand for elections with only the weak and factional Fatah organization behind him was a complex gamble.There is precedent for some of this. In late 2005 and early 2006, Israel — initially under Ariel Sharon and after that under Ehud Olmert — almost agreed to cooperate with the PA’s political elections.But senior Fatah officials feared that the vote would lead to losses against Hamas, and therefore came to understandings with Israel that Jerusalem would announce that it was not ready to hold elections in East Jerusalem.The ruse failed then, and Hamas went on to give Fatah a resounding defeat at the polls. Should Abbas try again, he may pull it off.But with a unity government still not a done deal, these speculations are early at best. It isn’t even certain that Hamas and Fatah will succeed in establishing a unity government.
In Italy, al-Aqsa Mosque imam urges destruction of Israel-Cleric calls on Arab armies, including those of Egypt and Jordan, to ‘liberate’ cities such as Jaffa and Haifa-By Yifa Yaakov May 2, 2014, 5:03 am-The Times of Israel
An imam from Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque last week called for Israel’s destruction while on a visit to Italy, urging Arab armies — including those of Egypt and Jordan, with whom Israel has signed peace agreements — to “liberate” the land.During an Islamic conference in the city of Milan, the cleric, Raed al-Danna, said Israel would soon “vanish,” enabling the Palestinians to return to Jaffa, Haifa and other cities within the Green Line.“In Gaza, there are great and proud men, whose feet are firmly planted in the ground, who have realized that darkness and the Jewish state would vanish, and that the morning sun will rise on Palestine,” he said in comments filmed by al-Jazeera and translated by media monitoring group MEMRI.“We will return to the sea of Jaffa, to the sands of Haifa, to the palm trees of Beit Shean, and to the hills of Lod and Ramla,” al-Danna predicted.He said the clerics and worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque, which has recently been the site of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, were awaiting “the legions of the conquerors” who would take over Israel.“We await the armies from Tunisia, from Jordan, from Egypt, from Iraq, from the Maghreb, and from the Hijaz,” al-Danna said.“We await a Muslim leader, whose voice we yearn to hear, shouting to the liberating armies in the al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard,” he continued.“You must say the afternoon prayer only in Safed, Haifa, or Jaffa. You must say the afternoon prayer only in Lod and Ramla.”A crowd member could then be heard shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”
Palestinian media bashes Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish state’ law-Iraq fearfully awaits elections results as columnist calls for complete political overhaul-By Elhanan Miller May 2, 2014, 5:09 pm 0-The Times of Israel
As Arab media begins analyzing the result of Iraq’s general elections on Friday, Palestinian newspapers focus on a draft law advanced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to define Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.“Netanyahu strives to draft the racist ‘Jewish state’ law; Livni vows it will not pass,” reads the headline of official Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah.“Netanyahu has made the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state a mainstay of any peace agreement, asserting that the basis of the conflict between the peoples is the Arab rejection of the Jewish state and not the occupation of Palestinian land since 1967,” reads the article.With a similar report, official PA daily Al-Ayyam‘s headline reads “Netanyahu tries to draft a basic law in the Knesset enshrining Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people.”Ma’an, an independent Palestinian news agency, focuses on the controversy the draft law has caused within Netanyahu’s government.“Debate in Israel surrounding the draft ‘Jewish state’ law,” reads the article’s headline. The report focuses on support and opposition to the law among Israeli legislators, choosing for some reason to survey only women MKs: Miri Regev (Likud), Tzipi Livni (Hatnua), Ruth Kalderon (Yesh Atid), and Tamar Zandberg (Meretz).
Iraqi vote exposes divided society
Arab media dedicates much attention to the Iraqi elections held Wednesday; noting that while official results have not yet been made public, no clear winner seams to have emerged.“Iraqi election results exacerbate the conflict, and open the door for dialogue,” reads the headline of London-based daily Al-Hayat, reporting a slight majority in exit polls for President Nouri Al-Malki’s State of Law coalition, followed by the Citizen Bloc led by Shiite cleric Ammar Al-Hakim.“Maliki and Hakim both claim victory, and the prime minister rejects compromise democracy,” reads the headline of Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat. displaying a photo of an Iraqi citizen handing a flower to a policeman guarding a May Day parade in Baghdad.The daily quotes liberal Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi as claiming irregularities in the Western predominantly Sunni provinces of Anbar and Nineveh, but saying he cannot comment on results before they are announced by the Independent Elections Committee.“Fear of election results controls Iraqis,” reads the headline of an article on Saudi-owned news site Elaph. Mutual threats by the rival parties have caused fear of social collapse, the article reports. One activist is quoted as warning that he will “twist the finger of anyone who steels our votes,” a possible reference to the marking of voters’ fingers with dark ink.Meanwhile, Al-Hayat columnist Randa Taqi A-Din warns that Iraq may fragment into three regions following the elections.“There used to be hope that following Saddam Hussein a democracy would emerge in Iraq which would be a model for Arab regimes. But Maliki’s rule and the expanding corruption are diametrically opposed to what any citizen believing in democracy would wish for. Iraq is a big, rich and important country, but it needs a complete change of leaders.”
Palestinians officially join 5 UN treaties-PA becomes signatory to conventions banning racial discrimination, protecting human rights-By AFP and Times of Israel staff May 2, 2014, 7:04 pm-The Times of Israel
The Palestinians on Friday became a formal party to five global treaties banning torture and racial discrimination, and protecting the rights of women, children and the disabled, the UN said.Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN human rights office, told reporters that the move followed the Palestinians’ April 2 declaration to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that they were adopting the treaties.In addition, the Palestinians will on May 7 become party to an accord protecting children in conflict zones — which is an optional part of the overall child rights treaty — and on July 2 they will adopt two agreements governing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.“This accession to seven core human rights treaties and a key protocol is a significant step towards enhancing the promotion and protection of human rights in Palestine,” Colville told reporters.“It is notable in a region with a high number of reservations to human rights treaties, that Palestine is acceding to eight human rights treaties without making a single reservation,” he added.In the face of fierce Israeli opposition, Palestine won observer status at the United Nations in November 2012, opening the way for it to adopt a host of international accords.The Palestinians had pledged to freeze all moves to seek membership in UN organizations and international conventions — a stepping stone to recognition of their hoped-for state — during peace talks in return for Israel’s release of veteran Arab prisoners.But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas launched a new diplomatic drive in early April, amid blame-trading with Israel over the stalled negotiations. Israeli officials have said the move dealt a critical blow to Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.In addition to the UN treaties, the Palestinians have also signed up formally to the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of warfare and humanitarian operations in conflict zones.The Palestinians also submitted requests to the United Nations to adopt accords including the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, and an anti-corruption agreement.
Lebanese bishop to make historic Jerusalem trip-Maronite patriarch will join Pope Francis when he visits Israel in late May, a first for a man in his position-By AFP May 2, 2014, 10:54 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The patriarch of the Maronite church will travel to Jerusalem next month to greet Pope Francis, the first head of his Lebanon-based denomination to visit since Israel’s creation in 1948, he said Friday.
“The pope is going to the Holy Land and Jerusalem. He is going to the diocese of the patriarch, so it’s normal that the patriarch should welcome him,” Beshara al-Rahi told AFP by telephone from France.Al-Rahi’s visit is diplomatically noteworthy because Lebanon remains technically at war with Israel and bans its citizens from entering the Jewish state.Maronite clergy are able to travel to the Holy Land to minister to the estimated 10,000 faithful, but all other Lebanese are banned.Al-Rahi insisted that the trip will be strictly religious and has no political significance.“It is a religious visit and in no way a political one.”Al-Rahi’s deputy Boulos Sayyah, who will accompany him, said the patriarch would not participate in any political meetings in Israel but will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.He explained that Maronite Christian officials have special permission to visit Israel despite the tensions.“Since the armistice in 1949, there has been an agreement that the Maronite bishop for the Holy Land can travel from Lebanon to Palestine through the crossing at Naqoura,” in southern Lebanon, Sayyeh said.“A tacit agreement exists to allow other Maronite men and women of religion to go on missions to the Holy Land whether via land crossings or through the Tel Aviv airport because there are faithful there and they need to carry out their missions,” he said.Pope Francis is scheduled to make his first trip to the Holy Land from May 24-26.
The Maronite church has its roots in the Fertile Crescent of the early 5th century. It is named after St Maron, a hermit whose holiness and miracles attracted many followers.Following a bloody persecution a century later, the Maronite fled to the mountains of what is now Lebanon to seek refuge.They have their own distinct theology, spirituality, liturgy and code of canon law but are in full communion with Rome.
At Jerusalem wedding, Hezbollah and Hamas flags-Palestinians hold procession through Old City, shout out anti-Israeli mantras, according to media report-By Times of Israel staff May 2, 2014, 7:47 pm 3-The Times of Israel
Participants in a Palestinian wedding procession which took place in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday with police authorization displayed the flags of Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda alongside those of Palestine, Walla news reported.According to the report the crowd also chanted anti-Israeli slogans as it passed through the streets.Local resident Sarit Applebaum told the news website that such incidents were becoming increasingly common.“Every few days there is a procession of some kind, which is usually followed by rock-throwing at our homes,” she said. Applebaum added that such rallies prevented Jewish residents from leaving their homes for long hours due to safety concerns.“Sometimes we simply cannot return home and have to remain outside,” she said.Jerusalem’s Old City has recently become a hotspot of Israeli-Palestinian clashes, with riots often occurring in or around the Temple Mount as Palestinians protest Israelis visiting the compound, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque.Last week Jordan’s foreign ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Nevo to protest Israel’s actions in the Temple Mount. Jordanian officials protested what they called a “gross breach of international law and of the peace agreement between the two nations.”They accused Israel of allowing extremist Israeli Jews to enter the compound and of attacking Muslim worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque.
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)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
How the EU's 'big bang' enlargement changed foreign policy-01.05.14 @ 09:19-On the German-Polish border 10 years after enlargement-EU-Georgia treaty highlights enlargement fatigue-By Steven Blockmans
BRUSSELS - The European Union’s leap from 15 to 25 (and later to 28) members was supposed to have consigned the Cold War legacy of separate and hostile camps in Eastern and Western Europe to the shelves of history.The fault lines that opened up across Europe in 2003 over the war in Iraq were therefore ominous signs for the development of a cohesive EU foreign policy after the fifth enlargement of the Union envisaged for 2004. All Central and Eastern European candidate countries signed letters supporting the US policy to ‘disarm’ Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.The position of the majority of Western European states, Germany and France in particular, was one of emphatically rejecting the impending war. Divisions were deepened by French President Jacques Chirac, who noted that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe had "lost a good opportunity to keep quiet", calling their support for the US "infantile" and "reckless". There was even an implicit threat that they might have their EU accession blocked by a French referendum.Although the other member states and the European Commission rejected Chirac’s criticism, the incident reinforced US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s evocation of ‘old’ and ‘new’ Europe. The take home message for the EU-15 was that the aspirant members would bring along their own sensitivities and stand for their own interests.For those states not already members of NATO and the EU, the effects of the fall of the Iron Curtain were particularly urgent as they all had to deal with the insecurities of internal transition; some even with disintegration and war. For many Central and Eastern European states, the practical response to these predicaments was first a move toward NATO – thereby affirming the transatlantic link to the hard power of the US – and then toward the EU – the best method to address myriad soft security challenges.The dual enlargement has contributed to the stability of a large swathe of Central and Eastern Europe. Contrary to the prevailing message, though, EU enlargement has in some cases heightened security concerns. By the southeastward push of its external borders, the European Union has imported the frozen conflict over Cyprus, pitching it more sharply against Turkey, and it has been confronted more directly to hard security threats in the (new) neighbourhoods: from tensions over Kosovo’s independence and bursts of violence in the South Caucasus to the slaughter in Syria.The worries in the Baltic states and Poland about the stand-off with Russia over Ukraine also show that the stability of EU territory remains vulnerable at the edges. By the same token, the EU’s ‘big bang’ enlargement has compounded softer security challenges such as illegal immigration, organised crime and the disruption of the flow of energy resources, to name just a few.Within the EU, the last decade has been characterised by a sense of transition and political tension over the failed Constitutional Treaty, the economic and financial crisis, the nature of external border security, the new foreign policy architecture established by the Lisbon Treaty, and differing visions of the EU’s external relations, including the future of EU enlargement. The addition of 10+2+1 new member states has impacted on how the EU perceives and tackles these and other issues, thereby shaping the European Union’s foreign policy role overall.
Leadership and decision-making
Whereas it is now safe to say that the innovations of the Lisbon Treaty have strengthened the EU’s visibility and efficiency of decision-making in the realm of external action, the successive enlargements since 2004 have nevertheless complicated the Union’s political balance. The Big 3 – France, Germany and the UK – continue to play a crucial role in the Union’s foreign and security policy-making, as their efforts to spearhead a resolution of the nuclear dispute with Iran demonstrates.At the next level down, Italy and Spain have been joined by Poland as another ‘large state’ demanding a seat at the top table. In certain domains (e.g. Ukraine), the Weimar Triangle has allowed Poland to steer EU foreign policy alongside France and Germany. Together with Sweden, Poland also tabled the plan for an Eastern dimension to the European Neighbourhood Policy, presenting it as a path toward EU membership – thereby truly envisaging the stated aim of the ENP, i.e. the eradication of new dividing lines on the continent after the 2004 enlargement.While the initiative for an Eastern Partnership immediately drew criticism from Bulgaria and Romania, that did not want to see the Union’s Black Sea Synergy undermined, the Commission and the Czech Republic threw their weight behind the plan, which led to the inaugural summit of the Eastern Partnership in Prague in May 2009, during the Czech rotating Presidency of the Council.Dominated by bans on foodstuff, plans on a missile shield and energy shortages, the political climate in EU-Russia relations has seen a dramatic drop in temperature since 2004. This was to a considerable extent the result of a more assertive attitude adopted by the EU under the influence of some new member states from Central and Eastern Europe.Gradually, older member states have hardened their positions as well. Yet, dealing with Putin’s Russia remains emblematic for the division among member states, even among the new ones. Countries like Slovakia and Bulgaria have different cultural, economic and political sensitivities from those exercised by the Baltic States and Poland. Geographical proximity and cross-border trade or minority issues condition the approaches to Russia in several and diverse ways. This goes to show that there is no Central and Eastern European ‘bloc’ within the EU. At best, there are changing coalitions around the ‘Visegrad 4’ (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia).As the majority of new member states can be classified as ‘small states’, their interests and sensitivities within foreign policy decision-making have been uploaded to the EU level, especially during the rotating Presidencies. Cases in point are Slovenia and Hungary’s focus on the Western Balkans, Cyprus’s attention to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and Lithuania’s ambition to turn Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia away from Russia, into the arms of the EU.Given their shared history under the Soviet yoke, the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe have more reason than most to be wary of Moscow’s intentions and actions.This has translated in their markedly western orientation, which has tipped the internal balance of the CFSP/CSDP in a Atlanticist direction. New member states have been increasingly engaged in civilian and military crisis management operations under EU flag. As a rule they have done so as modular components of bigger multinational units and under foreign command. Much as their contributions have been limited in time, scope and numbers, the new member states have proved their willingness and ability to participate and perform in CSDP operations, especially in the Western Balkans and the eastern neighbourhood, but also further afield.
Impact
In size, scope and character the ‘big bang’ enlargement of 2004 was nothing like the previous accession waves and it is unlikely to be anything similar of those in the future. The (by now not so) new member states have brought their own preferences and interests to bear, thereby complicating in some cases the already fractured foreign and security policies of the EU.Despite the nuances which persist among the latest entrants, the enlargement rounds of the last decade have introduced an undisputedly new eastern dimension to the EU’s foreign policy, a more encompassing and at the same time more assertive Ostpolitik than the one sought after by Willy Brandt in the 1970s.Today’s blurring distinctions between internal and external policies and between hard and soft security demands a more holistic and inclusive approach in tackling challenges and seizing opportunities if the EU is to make good on its foreign policy objectives. In this respect, the experience and expertise of the newer member states has been and will continue to be indispensable for the European Union.The writer is Senior Research Fellow & Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
05/ 2/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-“Vatican’s administrative bodies need a change in mentality,” says Francis-A group of cardinals-At a meeting with the Council for the Economy, Francis said the Church needs to manage its assets in a transparent and efficient manner, showing care for the poor. Reforming the Curia is not going to be easy, he added-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-The Church’s assets need to be managed showing a special concern for the poor and the Holy See administration needs to adopt “a new mentality” of evangelical service. These were Francis’ key messages in the brief speech he gave at this morning’s meeting with the Council for the Economy, coordinated by the Cardinal of Munich, Reinhard Marx and made up of a group of cardinals and lay people. The body has the task of steering the Vatican’s administrative and financial policies.The Pope recalled that the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for the Economy and the general Reviser office were established last February and given a “very important mission”: “the Church’s awareness of the responsibility it has to protect and carefully manage its assets according to the mission of evangelization, showing special care for the poor.” Francis stressed that “We must not stray from this path, transparency, efficiency … That’s what all this is aimed at.”“The Holy See is called to carry out this mission, bearing in mind especially its responsibility towards the universal Church. Furthermore, these changes will reflect the wish to implement a much-needed Curia reform, in order to better serve the Church and Peter’s mission. This is a big challenge which requires faith and prudence.”The Curia reform process “is not going to be simple and requires courage and determination. The Holy See’s administrative bodies need to adopt a new mentality of evangelical service,” the Pope said. “The Council for the Economy has an important role to play in this reform process; it has the task of overseeing the management of the Holy See’s economic, administrative and financial affairs; it works closely with the Secretariat for the Economy.”Francis thanked Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s new “finance minister” for his work. “The Council represents the universal Church: eight cardinals from various local Churches, seven lay people of different nationalities who contribute to the wellbeing of the Church and its mission with their personal experience. The Council’s lay members are full members, they do not play a secondary role,” Francis pointed out.“The Council’s work is influential and of great importance and its contribution will be vital to the service carried out by the Roman Curia and the Holy See’s various administrative bodies. Good luck with your work and thank you very much for what you are doing and will do in due course. Thank you so much. And pray for me: I need it!”Francis has again pointed to careful use of financial resources and attention to the poor as priorities. He also emphasized the need for a change in mentality in the Holy See’s administrative bodies.
05/ 2/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “I wept when I heard about the crucifixion of Christians-Persecuted Christians-At this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House Francis said: “still today there are people who kill and persecute, in the name of God” and “in some countries you can still go to jail for possessing a Gospel”-Domenico Agasso jr
vatican city-“Still today there are people who kill and persecute, in the name of God.” There are still too many "masters of conscience". “In some countries you can still go to jail for possessing a Gospel or wearing a Crucifix,” Francis said in the homily he pronounced at this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House.Today’s homily drew on the Gospel of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, in which Christ’s disciples are flogged by the Sanhedrin. Pope Francis proposed three icons, Vatican Radio reports.“The first is Jesus’ love for people, his attention to peoples’ problems. He said the Lord is not concerned with how many people follow him, he would “never even thinks of taking a census" to see if "the Church has grown ... no! He speaks, preaches, loves, accompanies, travels on the path with people, meek and humble". He speaks with authority, that is, with "the power of love".”“The second icon is the "jealousy" of the religious authorities of the time: "They couldn’t stand the fact that people followed Jesus! They couldn’t stand it! They were jealous. This is a really bad attitude to have. Jealousy and envy, and we know that the father of envy" is "the devil". It was through his envy that evil came into the world. These people knew who Jesus was: they knew! These people were the same who had paid the guard to say that the disciples had stolen Christ’s body!" Francis continued."They had paid to silence the truth,” Francis highlighted. “People can be really evil sometimes! Because when we pay to hide the truth, we are [committing] a very great evil. And that's why people knew who they were. They would not follow them, but they had to tolerate them because they had authority: the authority of the cult, the authority of the ecclesiastical discipline at that time, the authority of the people ... and the people followed. Jesus said that they weighed people down with oppressive weights and made them carry them on their shoulders. These people cannot tolerate the meekness of Jesus, they cannot tolerate the meekness of the Gospel, they cannot tolerate love. And they pay out of envy, out of hate.”“During the gathering of the Sanhedrin there is a "wise man", Gamaliel, who asks the religious leaders to free the apostles. Thus, the Pope insists, there are these first two icons: Jesus who is moved to see people "without a shepherd" and the religious authorities. These, with their political manoeuvring, with their ecclesiastical manoeuvres to continue to dominate the people ... And so, they bring forth the apostles, after this wise man had spoken, the called the apostles and had them flogged and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus. Then they freed them. ‘We have to do something, we will give them a sound hiding and send them on their way! Unjust! but they did it. They were the masters of conscience [thought police], and felt they had the power to do so. Masters of conscience ... Even in today's world, there are so many.”Pope Francis then confessed: “I cried when I saw reports on the news of Christians crucified in a certain country that is not Christian. Still today - he pointed out – there are these people who kill and persecute, in the name of God. Still today, "we see many who" like the apostles “rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour in Christ’s name".This "is the third icon today. The Joy of witness.”Francis concluded his homily by summing up the three icons he talked about: "First icon: Jesus with people, his love, the path that He has taught us, which we should follow. The second icon: the hypocrisy of these religious leaders of the people, who had people imprisoned with these many commandments, with this cold, hard legality, and who also paid to hide the truth. Third icon: the joy of the Christian martyrs, the joy of so many of our brothers and sisters who have felt this joy in history, this joy that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for Christ’s name. And today there are still so many! Just think that in some countries, you can go to jail for just carrying a Gospel. You may not wear a crucifix or you will be fined. But the heart rejoices. The three icons: let us look at them today. This is part of our history of salvation.”
05/ 2/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-Holy See presents its proposal to the UN Committee Against Torture-The United Nations headquarters in Geneva-Between 5-6 May, Nuncio Silvano Tomasi, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, will be presenting the Vatican’s report and is preparing to respond to remarks on the paedophilia issue-ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY-The Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, Nuncio Silvano Tomasi, is preparing to represent the Holy See at the 52nd session of the Convention against Torture (CAT).The meeting is set to take place between 5 and 6 May. The meeting between member States and the Committee is a normal procedure and aims to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of the Convention through open dialogue and a discussion of any potential differences in interpretation.“The Holy See has signed the Convention on behalf of Vatican City State (SVC) (on 22 June 2002, Ed.) and so its legal responsibility for implementation regards the territory and competences of Vatican City State.” The Vatican said that the CAT Committee is aware of this and therefore all questions, concerns and observations, whether positive or negative, that relate to the action taken by the Catholic Church around the world in addressing torture are not directly relevant in legal terms, inasmuch as the commitments assumed through adherence to the Convention, are limited to SCV territory.The Vatican delegation will present its report in the morning of 5 May. The two speakers selected by the Committee – Mrs. Felice Gaer (US) and George Tugushi (Georgia) – will discuss their observations, followed by other members. An afternoon session is expected to be held on 6 May: the Holy See delegation will have the chance to respond to the questions put to it the previous day.In the last two years, the issues CAT has dealt with have only had an indirect link to torture, or have been based on an extensive interpretation. “For instance, this occurred last January during the dialogue with the Committee for the Convention on the rights of the child,” the Vatican delegation explained.Based on the concluding observations presented in previous Reports presented by the CAT Committee, below is a summary of the main points the Holy See expects to have to answer to, followed by some ideas on how it may respond.Vatican officials continue to make a false distinction, stressing that the Holy See’s jurisdiction is limited to the Vatican City State and not the entire Catholic Church and its institutions.“The Holy See exercises its responsibility in two different ways. Firstly through the exclusive judicial and legal jurisdiction the Holy See has over the territory of the Vatican City State (SVC) and the, which it exercises just as any other Government does. Secondly, it also has a spiritual responsibility which it exercises through an authority based on the voluntary adhesion of faithful to the Catholic faith; this means that if a member of the Catholic Church is held responsible for acts that are prohibited by CAT, he/she is s under the jurisdiction of the State of which they are a citizen or resident. Catholics from any country outside the Vatican City State are subject to the civil authorities of their respective country. In accordance with international law, the Holy See respects the sovereignty of other nations and does not consider those nations that freely associate themselves spiritually with the Catholic Church as citizens of the Vatican City State, but as citizens of the countries in which they live. As it is not the Holy See that holds responsibility over these citizens, legitimate authority lies with the State that punishes crimes committed by its citizens.”The Catholic Church, which accounts for over one billion followers, is an institution in which there is uncontrolled power. The children that are being looked after by the Church’s various institutions are left vulnerable to those who wish to commit and conceal sexual crimes against minors. As such, it fosters the torture of children as well as other crimes that are prohibited by CAT. “First of all, the power held by the Holy See is well regulated both in legal terms, in the Vatican City State which is the home of Holy See law and in spiritual terms, for the wellbeing of all the world’s faithful, through the Code of Canon Law which sets down a series of rights and duties that apply to all members of the Catholic Church. CAT provisions have been incorporated into Vatican City State law in force across its territory, in order to prevent and punish, if the need arises, any form of torture. The data presented by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the legal measures adopted by the Holy See on a national level (for the Vatican City State) and as a moral advice and guidelines for actions to be taken by the Bishops’ Conferences and by single diocesan bishops, offer clear evidence that concrete results have been achieved in the significant reduction of paedophilia cases. Clearly, while civil authorities have the right and the duty to investigate and punish individuals for abuse carried out against minors or others, regardless of who the guilty party is, the Church exercises its spiritual authority through its own internal law that provides for a different kind of punishment. This way, priests who are found guilty are not only punished by the civil authorities that have criminal jurisdiction, but by the Church as well. It would be useful if other institutions or Governments would publish their statistics.”
The Church’s hierarchical and male-dominated structure is archaic and encourages the abuse of minors. “Hundreds of thousands of children have been abused,” but the Catholic Church has done nothing to introduce a series of checks and balances.“Child abuse is a worldwide problem. According to the World Health Organisation, in 2002 (the most recent data available), around 150 million girls and 73 million children under the age of 18 fell victim to violence or sexual exploitation. The 2006 UN Report on Violence Against Children edited by the Independent Expert for the United Nations, Sérgio Pinheiro, estimated that between 500 million and one and a half billion children and adolescents.”Most violent incidents take place within the family, which is why the real number of abuse cases and cases of violence remains is uncertain. The World Congress III Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Rio de Janeiro (2008) – after the ones held in Stockholm and Yokohama – revealed that 150 million young girls and approximately 75 million minors under the age of 18 were victims of forced sex or sexual violence, suffering wither commercial or non-commercial sexual exploitation. The abuse was committed by people of different social backgrounds, including public and civil officials such as teachers and social workers, magistrates and legislators and regrettably also religious representatives. However, the attempt to attack the Holy See by claiming that the Church’s hierarchical structure is a sort of “incubator” for abusive clergy, is absurdly illogical and intellectually dishonest. Out of all the denominations, the Catholic Church is the one with the lowest percentage of sex offenders among its clergy. Right now, every Catholic priest is being watched very carefully and has come under the microscope of suspicion. If those who constantly attack the Church applied the same logic to other denominations as well and didn’t use the situation to attack the Church but to really defend minors who suffer this atrocious kind of violence, we may start getting more positive results. The Holy See has exercised its spiritual and moral jurisdiction in the Catholic Church through the implementation of numerous measures, including changes to the Canonical processes for the removal of abusive priests and through the establishment of a special Commission for the protection of children. The Holy See urges local civil authorities to prosecute those who have committed such offences.”The Holy See’s policy and laws – particularly those relating to abortion and artificial contraception - forbid certain types of behaviour thereby becoming a cause of physical and psychological torture. The Holy See therefore needs to change the laws preventing these practices, which are considered essential by some.“The Holy See’s goal is to prevent children from being tortured or killed before birth, as is stipulated in the Convention. For example, in Canada, 622 living babies were delivered after failed abortion attempts, between 2000 and 2001. 66 such cases were registered in the UK in 2005. Some methods of late-term abortions constitute forms of torture, particularly in the case of dilation and evacuation, where “the foetus, still alive, is dismembered to be pulled out of the womb in pieces.”“Freedom of expression and of belief are a fundamental right and any attempt to dictate laws to the Holy See, asking it to change its convictions, is a direct violation of this right. Any behaviour that respects natural law and is freely chosen by faithful cannot be interpreted as measures that limit others’ freedom. The way of life the Holy See proposes is clearly in accordance with divine revelation and natural law but in no way does it coercively force or impose its convictions on individuals who do not freely wish to accept them.”The Holy See should collaborate with local authorities and open its archives to all. The Church continues to make promises and excuses while the abuse continues and the code of silence remains unbroken.“As the Committee on the Rights of the Child highlights, the Holy See has developed very clear and solid policies for the protection of children, to ensure transparency and full collaboration with local authorities. The statistics point to a significant reduction in the number of new paedophilia cases and offer clear proof of the efficiency of the measures taken by the Holy See. As far as the so-called “code of silence” is concerned, if someone is obstructing the course of justice, then the competent civil authority has a duty to intervene. The Holy See encourages this procedure as it is linked to national sovereignty and is in line with international law. It is worth repeating something Francis said in a recent interview: "The Catholic Church is possibly the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility," Francis said. "No one else has done more. Yet the church is the only one to be attacked."The Holy See moves priests around in order to protect their reputation but in so doing gives them the chance to commit further abuse. Furthermore, the Holy See does not have a clear policy regarding remuneration or compensation for abuse victims.“As things currently stand, a person employed by the Church who is rightly suspected of abusing minors, is immediately suspended and can have no further contact with these minors. In the past, it was popularly thought that the decision should be left up to professionals such as psychiatrists or psychologists. They could determine whether a person was “cured” and could resume working as normal. Clerics cannot be blamed for following a procedure that was considered to be the best at the time. This was common practice in many countries throughout the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and was considered the best practice at the time. It was also applied to drug addicts, sexually deviant priests and others. Unfortunately the experts got it wrong sometimes. As far as victim compensation is concerned, let’s take the US as an example. Bearing in mind that there were an estimated 10,667 abuse cases recorded in the United States between 1950 and 2002 and not hundreds and thousands as biased sources have claimed, the Catholic Church in the US paid 572,5 million dollars in legal and related expenses, plus 1,3 billion dollars in compensation to victims, to date (2008).Dioceses are continuing payments in various countries where cases of abuse by members of the clergy have been registered. The Holy See encourages local Churches to make victims a priority and to respond adequately to their needs.”
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)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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 KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) 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)
Russian gas supplies 'not guaranteed', EU commissioner warns
02.05.14 @ 18:07-By Valentina Pop-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - A first mediation attempt by the EU between Russia and Ukraine on their gas price dispute on Friday (2 May) in Warsaw ended with no results other than the willingness to meet again.
"It is with concern that we see the security of supply for end consumers in EU and non-EU states like Ukraine is not guaranteed," EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger told press after the meeting.The energy ministers of Ukraine and Russia, for the first time at a table since the annexation of Crimea and the Russia-backed separatist movements in eastern Ukraine, decided to hold separate press points rather than join Oettinger in a common press conference.Still, when asked about the atmosphere in the meeting, Oettinger responded that "we are all adults" and emphasised the willingness of both sides to meet again mid-May."The European Commission will stabilise Naftogaz [Ukraine's state-owned gas company] and Ukraine and will be a fair mediator for justified and fair gas prices," Oettinger said.At the core of the current dispute is how much Ukraine owes and has to pay for current and future gas deliveries from Russia: 485 US dollars per cubic meter of gas as Gazprom demands or roughly half of it, the price Kiev used to pay before the political turmoil that started late last year.For the Russian side, the price is "clear, set in the contract signed until 2019" and any negotiations are "odd".Russian energy minister Alexander Novak told press after the meeting that Ukraine has not paid for any gas it imported in the last quarter of 2013 and the first three months of this year."There is a 16 May deadline when an invoice will be issued to pay for the gas by 31 May and to prepay for the consumption in June. If by June these payments are not made, Gazprom will have the possibility to restrict supplies to Ukraine," Novak said.He added that European supplies should not be affected as they are paid for until September 2014. Any disruptions in gas flows to the EU during this time should only be blamed on Ukraine, if it "illegally" taps these supplies or diverts them to storage.Novak also questioned plans by the EU to reverse the flow of gas and supply Ukraine with Russian gas via Slovakia."If such contracts are executed, we'll look at them very attentively and reserve our right to address courts and institutions of arbitration," he said.As for Ukraine, its energy minister Yuriy Prodan said the doubling of the gas price by Russia was "discriminatory" and "abusive" and that Kiev will take the matter to the international court of arbitration in Stockholm."It is possible that in arbitration we can change the volume of our debt to Gazprom, possibly no debt at all," Prodan said.He insisted that "Ukraine is a reliable partner, a transit country and it will fulfil all its obligations to its European partners."Ukraine is the main transit country for Russian gas supplies to EU countries, with previous price disputes having translated into gas cuts at the height of cold winters, leaving citizens in Bulgaria and Slovakia in the cold.The situation has since improved, with increased reserves and the capacity to reverse the gas flow from less-dependent EU countries to the ones totally relying on Russian imports.But with pro-Russian separatists shooting down two Ukrainian helicopters and with Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring a Geneva peace deal "no longer valid", the chances of a solution to the gas dispute are low.
Merkel asks Putin to free EU hostages in Ukraine
02.05.14 @ 09:27-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has personally asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help free EU military officers held by pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine.Her press service said she "reminded Putin of Russia's responsibility as an OSCE member state and appealed for him to fulfill this responsibility".Her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, added that the kidnapping is a "totally unacceptable … criminal act".But the Kremlin statement noted that Putin "stressed that the most important thing now is to withdraw all military units from the south-eastern parts [of Ukraine], stop the violence, and immediately start a national dialogue that would involve all regions and all political forces within the framework of a constitutional reform".Rebels in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine, are holding 11 monitors sent by the OSCE, a Vienna-based multilateral body.They call the group – which includes four Germans, a Czech, a Dane, a Pole, and four Ukrainians – "prisoners of war" and deny Western claims that they and other separatists take orders from Russia.Amid the high-level diplomacy, the situation on the ground in Sloviansk escalated on Friday morning (2 May), with reports that Ukrainian forces exchanged fire with rebels in an operation to retake the town.Merkel will on Friday meet with US leader Barack Obama in Washington to discuss the next steps on the crisis.Her press service underlined that "should Russia show no signs toward a de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine, [the EU and US] could jointly adopt third stage penalties as an answer".The "third stage" refers to economic sanctions against Russian energy, banking, high-tech, and arms industries to come on top of existing blacklists of Russian officials, oligarchs, politicians and security chiefs.White House spokesman Jay Carney told press on Thursday that Putin's plan to visit Crimea, a Ukrainian region which he annexed in March, on 9 May will not trigger the move.But he noted that "should Russia engage in further provocations – up to and including potentially a military intervention, direct military intervention across the Ukrainian border – there will be further severe economic costs to Russia as a result."US and EU companies with business interests in Russia are urging politicians to hold back.In Germany, corporate giants Basf, Siemens, Volkswagen, Adidas, and Deutsche Bank are leading the anti-sanctions lobby. "It's up to politicians and historians to determine the efficacy of boycotts, but I have my doubts," Basf CEO Kurt Bock, whose firm has extensive ties with Russia's Gazprom, recently told German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.German-Russian trade accounts for €76 billion a year. There are 6,200 German firms active in Russia and Berlin has said stage three sanctions could lead to the loss of 300,000 German jobs.For his part, Carney said the political stakes are too high for leaders to bow to business interests. "There's no question there would be an impact if such steps were taken, both in the United States and around the world. But the costs would be far greater for Russia," he noted on Thursday.But US senators from the opposition Republican party believe that Merkel, whose decisions shape EU foreign policy, is taking too soft a line."We certainly need a clearer, more targeted and more united position," senator Jeff Sessions, who attended a dinner with Merkel on Thursday night in the US capital, told the AFP news agency.Senator John McCain, who has visited Kiev several times to show support for the pro-Western authorities, added that the German "industry lobby … might as well sit in the [German] federal government. It's a shame".
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
30 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-05-02 23:56:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)30 earthquakes in map area
3.1 55km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 21:38:05 UTC-04:00 6.0 km
2.7 65km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-05-02 18:28:34 UTC-04:00 70.9 km
2.6 83km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-05-02 17:08:58 UTC-04:00 11.6 km
2.8 23km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 16:26:54 UTC-04:00 74.0 km
2.9 7km NNW of Spencer, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 16:10:33 UTC-04:00 5.6 km
3.4 7km NNW of Spencer, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 15:44:20 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.2 29km SE of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico 2014-05-02 15:08:23 UTC-04:00 150.8 km
2.6 14km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2014-05-02 14:24:37 UTC-04:00 7.2 km
4.9 98km E of Hihifo, Tonga 2014-05-02 14:10:29 UTC-04:00 9.7 km
4.6 245km SE of Kamaishi, Japan 2014-05-02 13:14:10 UTC-04:00 42.7 km
4.5 7km SSE of Palin, Guatemala 2014-05-02 12:28:43 UTC-04:00 190.5 km
3.0 46km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-05-02 11:09:58 UTC-04:00 76.3 km
3.1 16km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada 2014-05-02 10:03:03 UTC-04:00 1.8 km
4.5 112km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-05-02 09:33:03 UTC-04:00 51.1 km
2.7 65km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-05-02 09:15:37 UTC-04:00 82.9 km
4.4 85km NE of Calama, Chile 2014-05-02 08:46:13 UTC-04:00 118.8 km
4.5 144km W of Ilioilio, Philippines 2014-05-02 07:44:01 UTC-04:00 26.3 km
4.8 270km ENE of Dili, East Timor 2014-05-02 07:12:07 UTC-04:00 161.1 km
3.4 89km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 07:01:19 UTC-04:00 38.0 km
2.6 7km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 06:29:20 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.9 257km SE of Kamaishi, Japan 2014-05-02 05:15:20 UTC-04:00 14.6 km
2.7 43km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-05-02 04:53:56 UTC-04:00 57.0 km
6.0 70km SSE of Namlea, Indonesia 2014-05-02 04:43:37 UTC-04:00 54.2 km
2.6 51km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 04:04:50 UTC-04:00 16.0 km
2.5 9km SE of Chester, California 2014-05-02 03:46:17 UTC-04:00 0.2 km
5.3 139km W of Neiafu, Tonga 2014-05-02 03:46:07 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 9km SE of Chester, California 2014-05-02 03:29:49 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
4.9 182km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-05-02 03:19:57 UTC-04:00 30.9 km
2.9 9km N of Crescent, Oklahoma 2014-05-02 01:46:03 UTC-04:00 4.7 km
2.6 73km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2014-05-02 00:45:40 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
