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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Israel raises the dead with skyward cemetery-Associated Press-By ARON HELLER-OCT 17,14-YAHOONEWS
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) — At first glance, the multi-tiered jungle of concrete off a major central Israeli highway does not appear unusual in this city of bland high-rises. But the burgeoning towers are groundbreaking when you consider its future tenants: They will be homes not for the living but rather the dead.With real estate at a premium, Israel is at the forefront of a global movement building vertical cemeteries in densely populated countries. From Brazil to Japan, elevated cemeteries, sometimes stretching high into the sky, will be the final resting place for thousands of people. They are now the default option for the recently departed in the Holy Land.After some initial hesitations, and rabbinical rulings that made the practice kosher, Israel's ultra-Orthodox burial societies have embraced the concept as the most effective Jewish practice in an era when most of the cemeteries in major population centers are packed full."The source of all this is that there is simply no room," said Tuvia Sagiv, an architect who specializes in dense burial design. "It's unreasonable that we will live one on top of the other in tall apartment buildings and then die in villas. If we have already agreed to live one on top of the other, then we can die one on top of the other."The Yarkon Cemetery on the outskirts of Tel Aviv has been his flagship project. As the primary cemetery for the greater Tel Aviv area, its traditional burial grounds are at near capacity with 110,000 graves stretched across 150 acres. But thanks to an array of 30 planned vertical structures, Sagiv said the cemetery will be able to provide 250,000 more graves without gobbling up any more land, providing the region with 25 years of breathing room."It takes some getting used to," he admitted, as he stood on the roof of the first completed 70-foot-high (22-meter-high) building, "but it just makes the most sense."For now, the interior of the gray buildings looks mainly like a construction site. They feature circular ramps, and a terrace-like facade with vegetation. Each floor has openings on the sides for fresh air to get in.Cemetery overcrowding presents a challenge the world over, particularly in cramped cities and among religions that forbid or discourage cremation. The reality of relying on finite land resources to cope with the endless stream of the dying has brought about creative solutions.The world's tallest existing cemetery is the 32-story high Memorial Necropole Ecumenica in Santos, Brazil. In Tokyo, the Kouanji is a six-story Buddhist temple where visitors can use a swipe card to have the remains of their loved ones brought to them from vaults on a conveyer belt system.Versions of stacked cemeteries already exist in some shape or form in places like New Orleans and across Europe, in Egypt's Mountain of the Dead, in China and in the amphitheater-like Pok Fu Lam Rd Cemetery in Hong Kong.But the future will likely look more like the ambitious plan of Norwegian designer Martin McSherry for an airy cemetery skyscraper that looks like a gigantic honeycomb with triangular caverns.Other plans for cemetery towers have been presented for Paris and Mumbai. In Mexico City, another big project has been proposed: the Tower for the Dead, which will combine a vertical necropolis and an 820-foot-deep (250-meter-deep) subterranean complex. In China, Beijing residents have been provided subsidies to buy space in vertical cemeteries.But only in Israel does the phenomenon appear to be part of a government-backed master plan. Aside from those who have already purchased their future plots, individual outdoor graves are no longer offered to the families of the more than 35,000 Israelis who die each year.The first space-saving option is to put graves on top of each other — separated by a concrete divider — and have a shared headstone. This is common among couples and even whole families, and every new pit dug in Israel has room for at least two graves in it. The second option is stacking the dead above ground into niches built into walls, a bit like in a morgue, but adorned with headstones. The third, and most revolutionary option, is to be buried in a building where each floor resembles a traditional cemetery, without the blue sky above.For this upheaval to take off in Israel, though, the blessing of the rabbis was needed. Israel's rabbinical authorities oversee all burials of Jewish Israelis.The Jewish burial ritual is based on the passage in Genesis in which God banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden: "For dust you are — and to dust you shall return." Jewish law stipulates that all bodies be buried separately on a layer of dust and earth.Yaakov Ruza, the rabbi of the Tel Aviv burial society, a semiofficial organization that oversees Jewish burials, said the new forms of burial have been endorsed by leading Jewish ultra-Orthodox figures.The towers, for instance, have pipes filled with dirt inside their columns so that each layer is still connected to the ground. In many ways, Ruza said the new types of burial represent a return to the Holy Land's ancient origins of burying inside caves and catacombs."This is an artificial cave," he said. "Once they used to build a cave into a mountain. Now we are taking these artificial caves and turning them into a mountain."Jerusalem's burial society even has plans to dig an actual underground cave to find more room for the dead.Proponents say the new system is more sustainable, environmentally friendly and user friendly — providing a more comfortable visiting experience.But resistance has emerged from a public wary of change. In one famous case, a bereaved family threatened a cemetery official that if their loved one was put in a wall they'd put the official in a wall too.Shmuel Slavin, a former director-general of Israel's Finance Ministry who put together a report on the country's burial crisis, said there is no reason for such an emotionally fraught overhaul of an ancient tradition. He believes there is enough space in outlying areas, such as the vast Negev Desert in southern Israel, to build new cemeteries.He said technological advances could allow more burials in existing cemeteries, and that the new "dead cities" will be expensive to build and maintain.But the bottom line, he said, was that people just don't want to be buried that way. "People don't want to hear about it," he said. "There is a matter of tradition here. People want to be buried like their parents."Officials say those who insist on traditional burial will still have that option; they'll just have to drive a little further and pay for it. Cemeteries, they say, are not designed for the dead but rather for the living who want to visit them. The hope is that by attending funerals, people will be exposed to the new system and learn to appreciate its upside.Either way, burial officials say a growing number of people understand that change is inevitable."We are all in favor of burying in the open field so long as it does not infringe on our lives. So if there is no more room to build homes in Jerusalem, I prefer burying in layers," said Chananya Shahor, manager of the Jerusalem burial society. "God gave us land for living, not for dying."____Follow Aron Heller on Twitter @aronhellerap
Arab Terrorists Try to Burn Jews Alive in Jerusalem-'Silent intifada' spirals out of control; terrorists hurl firebombs at Jewish homes in dead of night to burn sleeping inhabitants.By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 1:03 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Arab terrorists hurling molotov cocktail firebombs at Jewish homes, trying to burn entire families as they sleep - it has become part of a routine of terror in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, where a "silent intifada" has been raging under the radar of major news outlets.A new video shows just shocking and potentially lethal the wave of terror has become; the video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, shows Arab terrorists from the Al Sawana neighborhood just east of the Old City, between the Mount of Olives and Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus, lobbing firebombs at Jewish homes.The terrorists can be seen charging the homes in the dead of night clutching their molotov cocktails, before releasing the bombs at the houses in large arcs and then turning tail to flee the scene.Two of the firebombs are seen catching, setting alight the homes with blazing fires. Miraculously, the inhabitants were able to avoid the urgent danger.Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has been actively promoting the recent terror wave, with senior PA official Jibril Rajoub saying in August his organization had made a "political decision" not to stop anyone from "slaughtering a settlement."Fatah terrorists have also been engaged in gun battles in and around Jerusalem, and were recently filmed firing automatic weapons into the air in the capital. Hamas has also been getting in on the action; another recent video shows terrorists with Hamas headbands shooting at an IDF Border Patrol post with modified sub-machine guns in Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood.Aside from the shooting incidents, Jews have been targeted in several ambush lynch attempts, aside from the incessant rock throwing attacks.The Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, has been a focal point of the Arab violence, with Arab riots repeatedly forcing the closure of entry to Jewish visitors. The Jerusalem Light Rail has also been hard hit by the rioters, who have destroyed the three stations in Arab-majority neighborhoods and continue damaging the trains as they pass through.Shockingly, Israeli police have been revealed to be hushing up Arab terror in Jerusalem, as Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat urged the media to stay quiet on the topic in order to avoid potential harm to local tourism. Finally he broke down earlier this month and called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to end the "silent intifada."Such action has not been forthcoming, as just this Monday after more violent Arab riots on the Temple Mount Netanyahu called for the "status quo" of the site to be preserved.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Greater Jerusalem Area' Plan Key to Sovereignty? Minister Yisrael Katz proposes that Judea-Samaria sovereignty begins with Jerusalem - and expanding it as much as possible.By Shimon Cohen-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 11:15 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is dependent on sovereignty in Jerusalem, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) declared in an interview published Friday. Katz presented his plan to establish full Israeli sovereignty over the full State of Israel in an interview with the Sovereignty journal, published by Women in Green.In the interview, he dubs the first stage the "Greater Jerusalem" plan. "I envision autonomy for Arab residents like what was decided at Camp David," Katz explained, referring to the 2000 Camp David summit. At the time, the status of Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem was heavily disputed. In the Israeli negotiators' incarnation of a deal, the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have had civilian autonomy - but not full sovereignty - over Arab neighborhoods and the Temple Mount."This [plan] was the most correct, and it's a shame that discussion surrounding it was discontinued," Katz lamented. "Every attempt to establish a full Palestinian state in the first place is doomed to fail. I'm talking about autonomy and ties with Jordan, a form of citizenship and political affiliation that would enable that they [Palestinians] lead their lives well, but without security and foreign affairs autonomy."The comment echoes statements by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, also of the Likud party, who on Wednesday called for giving the PA autonomy although not a state.But to Katz, the time is not yet ripe. The political arena, he says, is a battleground - where to navigate between right and left, you must attack the enemy's weakest point. Katz has identified this point for the political Left as Jerusalem. Katz's "battle plan" is to establish sovereignty over "Greater Jerusalem" - the many neighborhoods beyond 1949 Armistice Lines that are under the legal jurisdiction of the capital city - and declare it as, unequivocally, the State of Israel under full political law, rather than leave it to IDF governance.According to Katz, this small move - which would include Ma'ale Adummim, Beitar Illit, Givat Ze'ev, and most of Gush Etzion - could pave the way for full annexation of Judea-Samaria. Katz says that the model for this is European capitals, such as London or Paris - all of which have metropolitan areas which are taken for granted as being part of the city. Katz is convinced that the idea of expanding Jerusalem is impossible for the Left to oppose in any meaningful way, as all parties have agreed on similar moves in the context of a future peace deal. The minister's assertions surface amid tensions over Jerusalem's future, both politically and practically.Earlier this month, Housing Ministry figures revealed that the housing crisis has deepened - in no small part due to a "covert" building freeze in Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria - and pressure is being put on opponents to sovereignty to ease the burden for thousands of young couples without affordable housing. Meanwhile, the green light has been given for rampant illegal construction in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem - an attempt to establish facts on the ground to divide Jerusalem and establish the groundwork for a Palestinian state.
Third Time's The Charm? Housing Minister Slams Freeze-Ariel of Jewish Home comes out once again against his own coalition government's silent freeze of Jewish construction.By Meir Sela, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 7:43 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Jewish Home Housing Minister Uri Ariel and MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli and Moti Yogev on Thursday evening were in the Samaria community Givat Assaf, which has been threatened with destruction, for the second hakafot celebrations at the end of Simchat Torah.While there Ariel addressed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu directly, saying "enough of the (construction) freeze, this word is a foreign and difficult word. In the land of Israel we don't freeze anyone, in the land of Israel we only build, and I call on him (Netanyahu) to build the land of Israel in all its parts and regions."This was in fact the third time - and the second time this week - that the housing minister has acknowledged his coalition government is conducting a building freeze on Jews in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, and vowed to stop it.In the Samaria town of Itamar on Sunday, Ariel said "the lack of building is understood G-d forbid as a prize to terror, and I turn to the prime minister and say to him: don't bring us to a trying experience, don't let the situation of this coalition and the government be undermined because of the building freeze. Start to build."Likewise, Ariel said back in May "there will be no more freezes, we will not accept delays and restrictions in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and we will continue to build in all parts of our country."Despite his frequent protestations, his role as housing minister and his party's prominent position in the coalition, the freeze has continued unabated, blocking the natural growth of communities for hundreds of thousands of Jews amid a severe housing crisis.Jewish Home has likewise faced criticism for speaking against the release of 78 terrorists as "gestures" during the peace talks, but staying in the coalition government that released them.
"Givat Assaf shall overcome"
In Givat Assaf, Ariel also discussed the challenges facing the town; nearly all of the town has been purchased and registered in the state land registry by residents, and further there are no Arab complainants claiming ownership of the land. But last month the state reversed its position, telling the Supreme Court it doesn't plan to recognize the town."After there was a murder here and then another murder we couldn't abide by the way Jewish blood became abandoned," said Ariel. "It is true this community is facing great difficulties, but Beit El and other communities also overcame them."Praising the members of the community, Ariel said "fortunate are we that you are our settlers, our sons and our fighters. With G-d's help, this year we will merit to establish here a fixed community as this place deserves."Moalem also spoke at the event, saying "coming to Givat Assaf for me is first of all a connection to the wonderful people who for many years have carried this community on their backs. Families, single men and women who really come from a true place of memory in remembering the secret of redemption."The MK also backed Ariel's statement against the freeze, saying his words "are really simple and clear to the prime minister, to the security minister, to the state attorney: change the tune. In Givat Assaf we must normalize it as a fixed community, to allow here the building of fixed homes, to allow many additional families who want to come here to do so and build their homes."Regardless of the freeze, it evidently hasn't been enough to satisfy UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who on Monday in Ramallah said "we must tackle the root causes of instability. We must give renewed attention to the West Bank. I once again strongly condemn the continued settlement activity by Israel."
The Struggle to Keep Eastern Jerusalem Property in Jewish Hands-Neighborhood occupied by Arabs in 1929 riots - now Councilman King tells Arutz Sheva about his fight to maintain Jewish ownership.-By Hezki Ezra, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/15/2014, 7:59 AM-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Arieh King, Jerusalem councilman and director of the Israel Land Fund, told Arutz Sheva about the struggle he has been engaged in over the last year to keep a block of buildings in the "Eshel Avraham" Georgian neighborhood area of eastern Jerusalem in Jewish hands.The site in question consists of a dunam of property, and three homes spread over 800 meters in the neighborhood located opposite the Damascus Gate to the north of the Old City on Hanevi'im Street. The neighborhood was established in 1892 by Jews who immigrated from Georgia and held 100 homes for affluent families - and later violently occupied by Arabs in the 1929 riots that killed seven local Jews and destroyed homes and synagogues in the neighborhood.In April, around the Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover), the Jewish families in France who still hold the rights to the block decided to sell it for roughly 11 million shekels (nearly $3 million) and turned to a real estate agency to help them in doing so.The agency owner suggested the site to King, who found a buyer from America interested in purchasing the property.However, a few days later, roughly 10% of the property was sold to an Arab family despite the fact that the American buyer had "shaken hands" on the deal. Now King is trying to facilitate the purchase of the rest of the property, and fears outside influences and shady money may endanger the chances of keeping the property in Jewish hands.In recent days, one of the owners agreed to sell 50% of the property in his possession, and currently both sides are engaged in negotiations."Jews were slaughtered there less than 100 years ago"Asked whether the whole issue is a matter of money, King told Arutz Sheva "yes and no, we don't want the owners to take a loss and are even willing to pay him 10% more; on the other hand, we don't want Jews to take advantage of the situation and try to extort us.""The main thing is to leave the property in Jewish hands," stated King. "Jews were slaughtered there less than 100 years ago by an Arab mob; the place must not be transferred to Arab control."King acknowledged that with owners who don't care about selling to Jews or non-Jews, instead only being interested in the money, "it's difficult to deal with them, and I can only hope that the history and future of the Jewish people, and the past of his family and community are more important to him than money."King has been leading the push for retaining the Jewish nature of Jerusalem in his post as Jerusalem councilman, a position that ran him afoul of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat after King petitioned the Jerusalem District Court over Barkat's plan to build 2,500 Arab housing units in Al-Sawahira Al-Gharbiyya - in response, Barkat dismissed King from his coalition posts.The project adds to a neighborhood sensitively located in the Kidron Valley between the Old City and the East Talpiyot neighborhood, which already today has 3,000 illegal Arab housing units. The new project would allow 5,500 new units in the neighborhood, greatly increasing Arab residents and threatening the demographic balance as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu freezes Jewish building amid a housing crisis.Between Netanyahu's freeze and Barkat's advance of Arab building and lack of enforcement against rampant illegal Arab construction that already has built 40,000 illegal Arab housing units in the capital adding 800 new ones each year, King has warned that the two are leading to a de facto division of the capital.
UN Envoy Meets Hezbollah Leader Who Called to Destroy Israel-Israel asked UN to disarm Hezbollah after attack on border last week - instead, UN envoy and coordinator chat with deputy chief.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 10:52 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Israel last Wednesday asked the UN to demand the disarmament of the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon a day after it wounded IDF soldiers with two explosives set on the border - instead, this Thursday the UN sent an envoy to chat with the terror group's deputy leader.UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura was accompanied by UN special coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly on Thursday as he met Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, reports the Lebanese The Daily Star.The two then met with Sheikh Naim Qassem, second-in-command behind Hassan Nasrallah of the terror organization that has pledged to destroy Israel and launched numerous attacks to do so.Making the meeting the more astonishing is the fact that Hezbollah's "military wing" was added to the European Union's (EU) official terror list last July.After meeting Qassem in his Beirut office, de Mistura said his visit to the terror group was part of consultations with all parties to find a "political solution" to problems in the Middle East, particularly the internecine bloodshed in Syria where Hezbollah is helping to prop up President Bashar Assad's regime.The UN envoy said his viewpoint was identical with the terror group that a Syrian solution should be political - despite the fact that the group has been sending thousands of troops and is actively engaged in the bloody fighting."It has been confirmed that a political solution will save Syria and its people. Everyone must expect painful concessions in this respect. But it is the only solution at hand. There is no other solution," said Qassem.De Mistura also called for political unity in Lebanon while meeting with the terror group, saying "the Lebanese political environment should be stabilizing the sooner and the better."
Israel, "enemy of humanity"?
Meanwhile the Hezbollah deputy in May called Israel the "main enemy," adding "Israel is the enemy of humanity and truth. It cannot coexist with anyone," and promoting violent terrorism instead of political dialogue with the Jewish state. After claiming the attack last week, Qassem said his terror group is ready to fight Israel.The meeting comes as Hezbollah is expanding its influence, holding a clandestine meeting on Wednesday in Beirut with a senior Hamas official and vowing strong ties with the group.For the UN's part, the meeting comes amid a recent upsurge in anti-Israel rhetoric, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon slamming "settlement activity" on Monday in Ramallah despite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's covert building freeze against Jews.Ban also called for a return to peace talks on Tuesday while receiving an IDF tour of Hamas terror tunnels - even though Hamas has already restarted construction on the terror tunnels, and bragged that the IDF didn't destroy all of the tunnels, an assessment this week backed by an IDF commander.Regardless of that, and the fact that humanitarian materials were siphoned by Hamas to build the tunnels in the first place, Israel began transporting more construction materials into Gaza on Tuesday as a "humanitarian gesture," including 600 tons of cement, 50 truckloads of aggregate and 10 truckloads of steel.
Police Limit Temple Mount Entry Anticipating Friday Riots-It's the Muslim day of rest - that means violent riots on Judaism's holiest site. But will police restrictions fail again? By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/16/2014, 11:40 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Anticipating yet another Muslim "day of rest" on Friday punctuated by the explosions of fireworks, rocks and general mayhem on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, Jerusalem District Police Chief Yossi Pariente decided to limit entry for Muslim visitors.Muslim male visitors will be limited to those over the age of 50, in an attempt to limit the young Arab rioters expected to return to their increasingly frequent occupation of violent clashes with police to block Jewish entry.According to intelligence information received by the police, Arab youths are indeed planning to riot after Friday morning prayers. Police and Border Patrol forces will be deployed from the early morning hours in eastern Jerusalem and the Old City to try and prevent riots.However, many are left wondering if they will succeed, after similar moves to limit entry to Muslim males over 50 while allowing Muslim females of all ages on Hoshana Raba Wednesday, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, still ended with Jewish entry being cancelled due to the violent riots.Only 103 Jews were able to visit the holiest site of Judaism on the holiday before the closure, during riots in which at least three police officers were lightly hurt by Muslim rioters throwing rocks at them at a gate to the Temple Mount, in rioting that in places was reportedly led by Arab MKs.While only Muslims aged over 50 were allowed in, they too exhibited contempt for the Jewish pilgrims, shouting wildly at them. Jewish activists reported that the Muslims were conducting raucous prayers in the Temple Mount plaza, while Jews were still forbidden from any kind of prayer by the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) that holds de facto control of the site.The rioters on the Mount, part of a recent wave of violence in Jerusalem, were caught off guard on Monday when police stormed the Temple Mount and locked them inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The youths had collected rocks and fireworks and prepared firebombs, which they stored inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to use them against police and interfere with non-Muslim visits to the Mount.That same day in Ramallah, UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon slammed the enforcement as a "provocation," saying "I am...deeply concerned by repeated provocations at the holy sites in Jerusalem. These only inflame tensions and must stop."Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall) and Holy Sites, last week decried the Arab attempts to wreck the week-long Sukkot holiday by violently rioting to block Jewish visitors, warning the Temple Mount has been turned into a "terror base."Speaking to Arutz Sheva, the rabbi argued that the Arab rioters are intentionally trying to prevent Jews from reaching the site on Sukkot, one of the three Jewish pilgrimage holidays that in ancient times required Jews to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem.
Islamic Jihad Head Praises Iran Role in Gaza War Against Israel-Ramadan Shallah says 'victory' against Israel during summer's Operation Protective Edge due to Iranian support.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 10/16/2014, 7:29 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group praised Iran for its role in last summer's Gaza conflict against Israel, during a visit to Tehran on Thursday."Definitely, the victory was achieved with the assistance of the Islamic republic," Ramadan Abdullah Shallah said at a meeting with Iran's supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quoted by Fars news agency."Without Iran's strategic and efficient help, resistance and victory in Gaza would have been impossible," he said of the 50-day war in which 2,200 Gazans and 73 Israelis died and the Hamas-ruled territory suffered serious damage..Iran, whose government is sworn to Israel's destruction, is one of the world's leading sponsors of terrorism, and a longtime backer of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Iran has been the primary supplier of the rockets Islamist terrorists in Gaza have used to target Israeli civilians, as well as other support in terms of weaponry, funding and training.Recently, a senior Iranian military official claimed Iran was also helping terrorists fight Israel "in the field."Iran has also been actively working to arm terrorists in Judea and Samaria.At the meeting with Shallah, Khamenei, also quoted by Fars, urged the terrorists to "boost their preparedness day by day and reinforce their resources" ahead of any further Israeli assault on the territory.The Islamic Jihad leader was skeptical of the $5.4 billion in international aid to rebuild Gaza that was pledged at a donor conference in Cairo last Sunday. "We do not pin much hope on such promises and only rely on God to compensate losses inflicted on us by the Zionist regime," said Shallah, referring to Israel which launched its July-August assault on Gaza with the aim of halting rocket fire on its towns, and destroying dozens of tunnels infiltrating into Israeli territory in preparation for terrorist assaults.AFP contributed to this report.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Israel raises the dead with skyward cemetery-Associated Press-By ARON HELLER-OCT 17,14-YAHOONEWS
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) — At first glance, the multi-tiered jungle of concrete off a major central Israeli highway does not appear unusual in this city of bland high-rises. But the burgeoning towers are groundbreaking when you consider its future tenants: They will be homes not for the living but rather the dead.With real estate at a premium, Israel is at the forefront of a global movement building vertical cemeteries in densely populated countries. From Brazil to Japan, elevated cemeteries, sometimes stretching high into the sky, will be the final resting place for thousands of people. They are now the default option for the recently departed in the Holy Land.After some initial hesitations, and rabbinical rulings that made the practice kosher, Israel's ultra-Orthodox burial societies have embraced the concept as the most effective Jewish practice in an era when most of the cemeteries in major population centers are packed full."The source of all this is that there is simply no room," said Tuvia Sagiv, an architect who specializes in dense burial design. "It's unreasonable that we will live one on top of the other in tall apartment buildings and then die in villas. If we have already agreed to live one on top of the other, then we can die one on top of the other."The Yarkon Cemetery on the outskirts of Tel Aviv has been his flagship project. As the primary cemetery for the greater Tel Aviv area, its traditional burial grounds are at near capacity with 110,000 graves stretched across 150 acres. But thanks to an array of 30 planned vertical structures, Sagiv said the cemetery will be able to provide 250,000 more graves without gobbling up any more land, providing the region with 25 years of breathing room."It takes some getting used to," he admitted, as he stood on the roof of the first completed 70-foot-high (22-meter-high) building, "but it just makes the most sense."For now, the interior of the gray buildings looks mainly like a construction site. They feature circular ramps, and a terrace-like facade with vegetation. Each floor has openings on the sides for fresh air to get in.Cemetery overcrowding presents a challenge the world over, particularly in cramped cities and among religions that forbid or discourage cremation. The reality of relying on finite land resources to cope with the endless stream of the dying has brought about creative solutions.The world's tallest existing cemetery is the 32-story high Memorial Necropole Ecumenica in Santos, Brazil. In Tokyo, the Kouanji is a six-story Buddhist temple where visitors can use a swipe card to have the remains of their loved ones brought to them from vaults on a conveyer belt system.Versions of stacked cemeteries already exist in some shape or form in places like New Orleans and across Europe, in Egypt's Mountain of the Dead, in China and in the amphitheater-like Pok Fu Lam Rd Cemetery in Hong Kong.But the future will likely look more like the ambitious plan of Norwegian designer Martin McSherry for an airy cemetery skyscraper that looks like a gigantic honeycomb with triangular caverns.Other plans for cemetery towers have been presented for Paris and Mumbai. In Mexico City, another big project has been proposed: the Tower for the Dead, which will combine a vertical necropolis and an 820-foot-deep (250-meter-deep) subterranean complex. In China, Beijing residents have been provided subsidies to buy space in vertical cemeteries.But only in Israel does the phenomenon appear to be part of a government-backed master plan. Aside from those who have already purchased their future plots, individual outdoor graves are no longer offered to the families of the more than 35,000 Israelis who die each year.The first space-saving option is to put graves on top of each other — separated by a concrete divider — and have a shared headstone. This is common among couples and even whole families, and every new pit dug in Israel has room for at least two graves in it. The second option is stacking the dead above ground into niches built into walls, a bit like in a morgue, but adorned with headstones. The third, and most revolutionary option, is to be buried in a building where each floor resembles a traditional cemetery, without the blue sky above.For this upheaval to take off in Israel, though, the blessing of the rabbis was needed. Israel's rabbinical authorities oversee all burials of Jewish Israelis.The Jewish burial ritual is based on the passage in Genesis in which God banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden: "For dust you are — and to dust you shall return." Jewish law stipulates that all bodies be buried separately on a layer of dust and earth.Yaakov Ruza, the rabbi of the Tel Aviv burial society, a semiofficial organization that oversees Jewish burials, said the new forms of burial have been endorsed by leading Jewish ultra-Orthodox figures.The towers, for instance, have pipes filled with dirt inside their columns so that each layer is still connected to the ground. In many ways, Ruza said the new types of burial represent a return to the Holy Land's ancient origins of burying inside caves and catacombs."This is an artificial cave," he said. "Once they used to build a cave into a mountain. Now we are taking these artificial caves and turning them into a mountain."Jerusalem's burial society even has plans to dig an actual underground cave to find more room for the dead.Proponents say the new system is more sustainable, environmentally friendly and user friendly — providing a more comfortable visiting experience.But resistance has emerged from a public wary of change. In one famous case, a bereaved family threatened a cemetery official that if their loved one was put in a wall they'd put the official in a wall too.Shmuel Slavin, a former director-general of Israel's Finance Ministry who put together a report on the country's burial crisis, said there is no reason for such an emotionally fraught overhaul of an ancient tradition. He believes there is enough space in outlying areas, such as the vast Negev Desert in southern Israel, to build new cemeteries.He said technological advances could allow more burials in existing cemeteries, and that the new "dead cities" will be expensive to build and maintain.But the bottom line, he said, was that people just don't want to be buried that way. "People don't want to hear about it," he said. "There is a matter of tradition here. People want to be buried like their parents."Officials say those who insist on traditional burial will still have that option; they'll just have to drive a little further and pay for it. Cemeteries, they say, are not designed for the dead but rather for the living who want to visit them. The hope is that by attending funerals, people will be exposed to the new system and learn to appreciate its upside.Either way, burial officials say a growing number of people understand that change is inevitable."We are all in favor of burying in the open field so long as it does not infringe on our lives. So if there is no more room to build homes in Jerusalem, I prefer burying in layers," said Chananya Shahor, manager of the Jerusalem burial society. "God gave us land for living, not for dying."____Follow Aron Heller on Twitter @aronhellerap
Arab Terrorists Try to Burn Jews Alive in Jerusalem-'Silent intifada' spirals out of control; terrorists hurl firebombs at Jewish homes in dead of night to burn sleeping inhabitants.By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 1:03 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Arab terrorists hurling molotov cocktail firebombs at Jewish homes, trying to burn entire families as they sleep - it has become part of a routine of terror in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, where a "silent intifada" has been raging under the radar of major news outlets.A new video shows just shocking and potentially lethal the wave of terror has become; the video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, shows Arab terrorists from the Al Sawana neighborhood just east of the Old City, between the Mount of Olives and Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus, lobbing firebombs at Jewish homes.The terrorists can be seen charging the homes in the dead of night clutching their molotov cocktails, before releasing the bombs at the houses in large arcs and then turning tail to flee the scene.Two of the firebombs are seen catching, setting alight the homes with blazing fires. Miraculously, the inhabitants were able to avoid the urgent danger.Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has been actively promoting the recent terror wave, with senior PA official Jibril Rajoub saying in August his organization had made a "political decision" not to stop anyone from "slaughtering a settlement."Fatah terrorists have also been engaged in gun battles in and around Jerusalem, and were recently filmed firing automatic weapons into the air in the capital. Hamas has also been getting in on the action; another recent video shows terrorists with Hamas headbands shooting at an IDF Border Patrol post with modified sub-machine guns in Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood.Aside from the shooting incidents, Jews have been targeted in several ambush lynch attempts, aside from the incessant rock throwing attacks.The Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, has been a focal point of the Arab violence, with Arab riots repeatedly forcing the closure of entry to Jewish visitors. The Jerusalem Light Rail has also been hard hit by the rioters, who have destroyed the three stations in Arab-majority neighborhoods and continue damaging the trains as they pass through.Shockingly, Israeli police have been revealed to be hushing up Arab terror in Jerusalem, as Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat urged the media to stay quiet on the topic in order to avoid potential harm to local tourism. Finally he broke down earlier this month and called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to end the "silent intifada."Such action has not been forthcoming, as just this Monday after more violent Arab riots on the Temple Mount Netanyahu called for the "status quo" of the site to be preserved.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Greater Jerusalem Area' Plan Key to Sovereignty? Minister Yisrael Katz proposes that Judea-Samaria sovereignty begins with Jerusalem - and expanding it as much as possible.By Shimon Cohen-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 11:15 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is dependent on sovereignty in Jerusalem, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) declared in an interview published Friday. Katz presented his plan to establish full Israeli sovereignty over the full State of Israel in an interview with the Sovereignty journal, published by Women in Green.In the interview, he dubs the first stage the "Greater Jerusalem" plan. "I envision autonomy for Arab residents like what was decided at Camp David," Katz explained, referring to the 2000 Camp David summit. At the time, the status of Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem was heavily disputed. In the Israeli negotiators' incarnation of a deal, the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have had civilian autonomy - but not full sovereignty - over Arab neighborhoods and the Temple Mount."This [plan] was the most correct, and it's a shame that discussion surrounding it was discontinued," Katz lamented. "Every attempt to establish a full Palestinian state in the first place is doomed to fail. I'm talking about autonomy and ties with Jordan, a form of citizenship and political affiliation that would enable that they [Palestinians] lead their lives well, but without security and foreign affairs autonomy."The comment echoes statements by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, also of the Likud party, who on Wednesday called for giving the PA autonomy although not a state.But to Katz, the time is not yet ripe. The political arena, he says, is a battleground - where to navigate between right and left, you must attack the enemy's weakest point. Katz has identified this point for the political Left as Jerusalem. Katz's "battle plan" is to establish sovereignty over "Greater Jerusalem" - the many neighborhoods beyond 1949 Armistice Lines that are under the legal jurisdiction of the capital city - and declare it as, unequivocally, the State of Israel under full political law, rather than leave it to IDF governance.According to Katz, this small move - which would include Ma'ale Adummim, Beitar Illit, Givat Ze'ev, and most of Gush Etzion - could pave the way for full annexation of Judea-Samaria. Katz says that the model for this is European capitals, such as London or Paris - all of which have metropolitan areas which are taken for granted as being part of the city. Katz is convinced that the idea of expanding Jerusalem is impossible for the Left to oppose in any meaningful way, as all parties have agreed on similar moves in the context of a future peace deal. The minister's assertions surface amid tensions over Jerusalem's future, both politically and practically.Earlier this month, Housing Ministry figures revealed that the housing crisis has deepened - in no small part due to a "covert" building freeze in Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria - and pressure is being put on opponents to sovereignty to ease the burden for thousands of young couples without affordable housing. Meanwhile, the green light has been given for rampant illegal construction in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem - an attempt to establish facts on the ground to divide Jerusalem and establish the groundwork for a Palestinian state.
Third Time's The Charm? Housing Minister Slams Freeze-Ariel of Jewish Home comes out once again against his own coalition government's silent freeze of Jewish construction.By Meir Sela, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 7:43 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Jewish Home Housing Minister Uri Ariel and MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli and Moti Yogev on Thursday evening were in the Samaria community Givat Assaf, which has been threatened with destruction, for the second hakafot celebrations at the end of Simchat Torah.While there Ariel addressed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu directly, saying "enough of the (construction) freeze, this word is a foreign and difficult word. In the land of Israel we don't freeze anyone, in the land of Israel we only build, and I call on him (Netanyahu) to build the land of Israel in all its parts and regions."This was in fact the third time - and the second time this week - that the housing minister has acknowledged his coalition government is conducting a building freeze on Jews in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, and vowed to stop it.In the Samaria town of Itamar on Sunday, Ariel said "the lack of building is understood G-d forbid as a prize to terror, and I turn to the prime minister and say to him: don't bring us to a trying experience, don't let the situation of this coalition and the government be undermined because of the building freeze. Start to build."Likewise, Ariel said back in May "there will be no more freezes, we will not accept delays and restrictions in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and we will continue to build in all parts of our country."Despite his frequent protestations, his role as housing minister and his party's prominent position in the coalition, the freeze has continued unabated, blocking the natural growth of communities for hundreds of thousands of Jews amid a severe housing crisis.Jewish Home has likewise faced criticism for speaking against the release of 78 terrorists as "gestures" during the peace talks, but staying in the coalition government that released them.
"Givat Assaf shall overcome"
In Givat Assaf, Ariel also discussed the challenges facing the town; nearly all of the town has been purchased and registered in the state land registry by residents, and further there are no Arab complainants claiming ownership of the land. But last month the state reversed its position, telling the Supreme Court it doesn't plan to recognize the town."After there was a murder here and then another murder we couldn't abide by the way Jewish blood became abandoned," said Ariel. "It is true this community is facing great difficulties, but Beit El and other communities also overcame them."Praising the members of the community, Ariel said "fortunate are we that you are our settlers, our sons and our fighters. With G-d's help, this year we will merit to establish here a fixed community as this place deserves."Moalem also spoke at the event, saying "coming to Givat Assaf for me is first of all a connection to the wonderful people who for many years have carried this community on their backs. Families, single men and women who really come from a true place of memory in remembering the secret of redemption."The MK also backed Ariel's statement against the freeze, saying his words "are really simple and clear to the prime minister, to the security minister, to the state attorney: change the tune. In Givat Assaf we must normalize it as a fixed community, to allow here the building of fixed homes, to allow many additional families who want to come here to do so and build their homes."Regardless of the freeze, it evidently hasn't been enough to satisfy UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who on Monday in Ramallah said "we must tackle the root causes of instability. We must give renewed attention to the West Bank. I once again strongly condemn the continued settlement activity by Israel."
The Struggle to Keep Eastern Jerusalem Property in Jewish Hands-Neighborhood occupied by Arabs in 1929 riots - now Councilman King tells Arutz Sheva about his fight to maintain Jewish ownership.-By Hezki Ezra, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/15/2014, 7:59 AM-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Arieh King, Jerusalem councilman and director of the Israel Land Fund, told Arutz Sheva about the struggle he has been engaged in over the last year to keep a block of buildings in the "Eshel Avraham" Georgian neighborhood area of eastern Jerusalem in Jewish hands.The site in question consists of a dunam of property, and three homes spread over 800 meters in the neighborhood located opposite the Damascus Gate to the north of the Old City on Hanevi'im Street. The neighborhood was established in 1892 by Jews who immigrated from Georgia and held 100 homes for affluent families - and later violently occupied by Arabs in the 1929 riots that killed seven local Jews and destroyed homes and synagogues in the neighborhood.In April, around the Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover), the Jewish families in France who still hold the rights to the block decided to sell it for roughly 11 million shekels (nearly $3 million) and turned to a real estate agency to help them in doing so.The agency owner suggested the site to King, who found a buyer from America interested in purchasing the property.However, a few days later, roughly 10% of the property was sold to an Arab family despite the fact that the American buyer had "shaken hands" on the deal. Now King is trying to facilitate the purchase of the rest of the property, and fears outside influences and shady money may endanger the chances of keeping the property in Jewish hands.In recent days, one of the owners agreed to sell 50% of the property in his possession, and currently both sides are engaged in negotiations."Jews were slaughtered there less than 100 years ago"Asked whether the whole issue is a matter of money, King told Arutz Sheva "yes and no, we don't want the owners to take a loss and are even willing to pay him 10% more; on the other hand, we don't want Jews to take advantage of the situation and try to extort us.""The main thing is to leave the property in Jewish hands," stated King. "Jews were slaughtered there less than 100 years ago by an Arab mob; the place must not be transferred to Arab control."King acknowledged that with owners who don't care about selling to Jews or non-Jews, instead only being interested in the money, "it's difficult to deal with them, and I can only hope that the history and future of the Jewish people, and the past of his family and community are more important to him than money."King has been leading the push for retaining the Jewish nature of Jerusalem in his post as Jerusalem councilman, a position that ran him afoul of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat after King petitioned the Jerusalem District Court over Barkat's plan to build 2,500 Arab housing units in Al-Sawahira Al-Gharbiyya - in response, Barkat dismissed King from his coalition posts.The project adds to a neighborhood sensitively located in the Kidron Valley between the Old City and the East Talpiyot neighborhood, which already today has 3,000 illegal Arab housing units. The new project would allow 5,500 new units in the neighborhood, greatly increasing Arab residents and threatening the demographic balance as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu freezes Jewish building amid a housing crisis.Between Netanyahu's freeze and Barkat's advance of Arab building and lack of enforcement against rampant illegal Arab construction that already has built 40,000 illegal Arab housing units in the capital adding 800 new ones each year, King has warned that the two are leading to a de facto division of the capital.
UN Envoy Meets Hezbollah Leader Who Called to Destroy Israel-Israel asked UN to disarm Hezbollah after attack on border last week - instead, UN envoy and coordinator chat with deputy chief.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/17/2014, 10:52 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Israel last Wednesday asked the UN to demand the disarmament of the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon a day after it wounded IDF soldiers with two explosives set on the border - instead, this Thursday the UN sent an envoy to chat with the terror group's deputy leader.UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura was accompanied by UN special coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly on Thursday as he met Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, reports the Lebanese The Daily Star.The two then met with Sheikh Naim Qassem, second-in-command behind Hassan Nasrallah of the terror organization that has pledged to destroy Israel and launched numerous attacks to do so.Making the meeting the more astonishing is the fact that Hezbollah's "military wing" was added to the European Union's (EU) official terror list last July.After meeting Qassem in his Beirut office, de Mistura said his visit to the terror group was part of consultations with all parties to find a "political solution" to problems in the Middle East, particularly the internecine bloodshed in Syria where Hezbollah is helping to prop up President Bashar Assad's regime.The UN envoy said his viewpoint was identical with the terror group that a Syrian solution should be political - despite the fact that the group has been sending thousands of troops and is actively engaged in the bloody fighting."It has been confirmed that a political solution will save Syria and its people. Everyone must expect painful concessions in this respect. But it is the only solution at hand. There is no other solution," said Qassem.De Mistura also called for political unity in Lebanon while meeting with the terror group, saying "the Lebanese political environment should be stabilizing the sooner and the better."
Israel, "enemy of humanity"?
Meanwhile the Hezbollah deputy in May called Israel the "main enemy," adding "Israel is the enemy of humanity and truth. It cannot coexist with anyone," and promoting violent terrorism instead of political dialogue with the Jewish state. After claiming the attack last week, Qassem said his terror group is ready to fight Israel.The meeting comes as Hezbollah is expanding its influence, holding a clandestine meeting on Wednesday in Beirut with a senior Hamas official and vowing strong ties with the group.For the UN's part, the meeting comes amid a recent upsurge in anti-Israel rhetoric, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon slamming "settlement activity" on Monday in Ramallah despite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's covert building freeze against Jews.Ban also called for a return to peace talks on Tuesday while receiving an IDF tour of Hamas terror tunnels - even though Hamas has already restarted construction on the terror tunnels, and bragged that the IDF didn't destroy all of the tunnels, an assessment this week backed by an IDF commander.Regardless of that, and the fact that humanitarian materials were siphoned by Hamas to build the tunnels in the first place, Israel began transporting more construction materials into Gaza on Tuesday as a "humanitarian gesture," including 600 tons of cement, 50 truckloads of aggregate and 10 truckloads of steel.
Police Limit Temple Mount Entry Anticipating Friday Riots-It's the Muslim day of rest - that means violent riots on Judaism's holiest site. But will police restrictions fail again? By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/16/2014, 11:40 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Anticipating yet another Muslim "day of rest" on Friday punctuated by the explosions of fireworks, rocks and general mayhem on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, Jerusalem District Police Chief Yossi Pariente decided to limit entry for Muslim visitors.Muslim male visitors will be limited to those over the age of 50, in an attempt to limit the young Arab rioters expected to return to their increasingly frequent occupation of violent clashes with police to block Jewish entry.According to intelligence information received by the police, Arab youths are indeed planning to riot after Friday morning prayers. Police and Border Patrol forces will be deployed from the early morning hours in eastern Jerusalem and the Old City to try and prevent riots.However, many are left wondering if they will succeed, after similar moves to limit entry to Muslim males over 50 while allowing Muslim females of all ages on Hoshana Raba Wednesday, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, still ended with Jewish entry being cancelled due to the violent riots.Only 103 Jews were able to visit the holiest site of Judaism on the holiday before the closure, during riots in which at least three police officers were lightly hurt by Muslim rioters throwing rocks at them at a gate to the Temple Mount, in rioting that in places was reportedly led by Arab MKs.While only Muslims aged over 50 were allowed in, they too exhibited contempt for the Jewish pilgrims, shouting wildly at them. Jewish activists reported that the Muslims were conducting raucous prayers in the Temple Mount plaza, while Jews were still forbidden from any kind of prayer by the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) that holds de facto control of the site.The rioters on the Mount, part of a recent wave of violence in Jerusalem, were caught off guard on Monday when police stormed the Temple Mount and locked them inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The youths had collected rocks and fireworks and prepared firebombs, which they stored inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to use them against police and interfere with non-Muslim visits to the Mount.That same day in Ramallah, UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon slammed the enforcement as a "provocation," saying "I am...deeply concerned by repeated provocations at the holy sites in Jerusalem. These only inflame tensions and must stop."Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall) and Holy Sites, last week decried the Arab attempts to wreck the week-long Sukkot holiday by violently rioting to block Jewish visitors, warning the Temple Mount has been turned into a "terror base."Speaking to Arutz Sheva, the rabbi argued that the Arab rioters are intentionally trying to prevent Jews from reaching the site on Sukkot, one of the three Jewish pilgrimage holidays that in ancient times required Jews to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem.
Islamic Jihad Head Praises Iran Role in Gaza War Against Israel-Ramadan Shallah says 'victory' against Israel during summer's Operation Protective Edge due to Iranian support.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 10/16/2014, 7:29 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group praised Iran for its role in last summer's Gaza conflict against Israel, during a visit to Tehran on Thursday."Definitely, the victory was achieved with the assistance of the Islamic republic," Ramadan Abdullah Shallah said at a meeting with Iran's supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quoted by Fars news agency."Without Iran's strategic and efficient help, resistance and victory in Gaza would have been impossible," he said of the 50-day war in which 2,200 Gazans and 73 Israelis died and the Hamas-ruled territory suffered serious damage..Iran, whose government is sworn to Israel's destruction, is one of the world's leading sponsors of terrorism, and a longtime backer of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Iran has been the primary supplier of the rockets Islamist terrorists in Gaza have used to target Israeli civilians, as well as other support in terms of weaponry, funding and training.Recently, a senior Iranian military official claimed Iran was also helping terrorists fight Israel "in the field."Iran has also been actively working to arm terrorists in Judea and Samaria.At the meeting with Shallah, Khamenei, also quoted by Fars, urged the terrorists to "boost their preparedness day by day and reinforce their resources" ahead of any further Israeli assault on the territory.The Islamic Jihad leader was skeptical of the $5.4 billion in international aid to rebuild Gaza that was pledged at a donor conference in Cairo last Sunday. "We do not pin much hope on such promises and only rely on God to compensate losses inflicted on us by the Zionist regime," said Shallah, referring to Israel which launched its July-August assault on Gaza with the aim of halting rocket fire on its towns, and destroying dozens of tunnels infiltrating into Israeli territory in preparation for terrorist assaults.AFP contributed to this report.
