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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 Ready to be 'Global Leader' in Alternative Fuels-Netanyahu announces winner of largest cash prize in world to advance alternate transportation fuels.By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 1:38 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Science Minister Ya'akov Perry (Yesh Atid) on Sunday announced the winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation.The two recipients, Prof. Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and Prof. Thomas Meyer of the University of North Carolina, will be the second set awarded with the prize by the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, and Keren Hayesod.The Eric and Sheila Samson Prize, as it is also know, totals $1 million and is the world's largest monetary prize in the field of alternative fuels."We are making a major multi-year effort so that we will not be dependent on fluctuations in the price of oil. This prize gives the researchers true appreciation for their efforts," said Netanyahu on announcing the winners.Perry also spoke during the announcement, saying "this prize symbolizes the state of Israel’s commitment to the advancement of the field of alternative fuels, which is of utmost importance to every aspect of our lives here - to Israel’s economy, security, scientific research and society."Grätzel was selected for his research in development of a new solar cell termed the Grätzel Cell, which imitates photosynthesis converting light energy into electric energy that can be used for electrical propulsion, or to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, a process useful for fuels. The cells have the highest efficiency in using solar energy, and are much cheaper than normal solar cells.Meyer has also pioneered the field of artificial photosynthesis, and the development of solar fuels by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. His research has made a critical contribution to the technological development of cell for artificial photosynthesis."The basic scientific discoveries and the technological developments of the prize recipients have helped humanity advance one step closer to the moment in which it can use available and unlimited solar energy for transportation and other needs and it can stop using diminishing and polluting fossil fuels," said Professor Yitzchak Apeloig, Chairman of the Board of Trustees that selected the winners.The two will be presented with their prizes on December 3 at the Fuel Choices Summit, an international conference for fuel alternatives. National Fuel Alternatives Program Director Eyal Rosner spoke about the initiatives, saying "Israel has set itself an ambitious goal - to reduce the use of conventional fuel for transportation by 60% by the year 2025.""Israel is prepared to become the global leader in this field - we must reduce our dependence on fuel and the dependence on oil-producing nations; and consequently, we will strengthen the world economy," added Rosner.
Op-Ed: Islam is at War with the Oldest Religions-Ancient communities will soon be gone as ISIS murders "infidels".Published: Monday, October 06, 2014 5:19 AM-Giulio Meotti-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
It was 1929 when British archaeologist Leonard Woolley made a sensational discovery in Nineveh, Iraq's province. He commanded an Arab worker to dig a pit to test the archaeological layers of the biblical Ur of the Chaldeans, the birthplace of Abraham. They found broken bricks and other items that indicated an ancient human settlement.At a depth of one meter, the worker reached what archaeologists call "virgin clay", the layer from which it follows that there is nothing more that is interesting and signs of life end right there."Babylon will become a heap of ruins, haunted by jackals. She will be an object of horror and contempt".Woolley told him to continue. After two and a half meters of further excavation, the worker found fragments of pottery and other archaeological material.Sir Woolley gasped: How you could interpret that split between two civilizations, the clean land between two layers which clearly indicated two different human presences, two different civilizations separated by a layer of sandy soil and virgin clay? Nineveh had been erased from the earth. The most magnificent capital of Mesopotamian civilization, the "great whore" of the Bible, the land of Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, full of sculptures of terrifying winged genuses, man-hawks, demons, Pazuzu and bulls with wings, was the first to disappear, reduced to rubble by the Babylonians and Persians, with lynx and jackals howling in the ruins of palaces and temples, ruins still largely submerged by the hills of dirt accumulated over the millennia. Even a dam on the Euphrates, still in business, was built with bricks stamped with the seal of Nebuchadnezzar.In Nineveh today the grass grows once more. There where the most ancient cults of the earth sill mingle, Islam is waging war against the world's oldest religions.As Louis Sako, head of Iraq's largest Catholic congregation, said: "This has never happened in the Christian and Islamic history".Priests and astrologers have been present in Mesopotamia since the dawn of civilization. It has been proven that our civilization was born in the land of the two rivers, in Mesopotamia. Up to today, throughout the Fertile Crescent, despite the many wars in the region, one could find communities that bore witness to the extraordinary antiquity of the areas religious traditions.
Until the arrival of the Islamic State.
Like the Jews, who fled decades ago, Christians are now also all gone. On Sunday, "for the first time in two thousand years the Christian communion was not celebrated in Nineveh", said the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White. There remain only the homes of Christians marked with the "n" of Nasrani. Nazarenes.A year ago there were 60,000 Christians in Mosul. Today there is only a handful.Yazidis of the Islamic State are killed in mass. The bodies of thirty Yazidis, including five children, killed by the jihadists of the Islamic State, have just been found in a mass grave, one of many fresh graves discovered in northern Iraq near Zummar, in an area recaptured by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia .The Yazidi Fraternal Organization has recorded the names of twelve thousand Yazidi - five thousand women and seven thousand men - killed or kidnapped (in the case of women) since August third, when the mountain of Sinjar fell into the hands of Islamic State. Yazidis are one of the oldest communities linked to the Zoroastrians, the ancestors of the great orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, who fled from Persia twelve centuries ago to preserve the sacred fire of Zoroaster from the desecration of the Arab invaders.Relatives of the Yazidi are Kakais, the Kurdish syncretic sect known for their mustache rituals. The Islamic State considers them to be "blasphemous", because the Qur'an prescribes a short mustache. Kakais are a heterodox sect linked to Shiite Islam. The Islamic State kills them every time they are caught.Among the Sunni jihadists fighting in Syria, supporters of Bashar el Assad, Alawites, are called "Majous". Like in the Gospels.The Mandaeans, the last Gnostics on earth, are also disappearing in Iraq. Every Sunday they gather on the banks of the Tigris to celebrate immersion in the waters as did John the Baptist. Ninety percent of the Mandaeans have fled Iraq, threatened with death by Islamists. The first Mandaean tribes migrated from the Holy Land to the banks of the lower Euphrates during the first and second century AD, over two thousand years ago.The Mandaeans speak a dialect similar to Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. They are the cousins of the people who produced the Nag Hammadi codices (such as the Gospel of Thomas)-The Mandaeans are pacifists, their religion prevents them from carrying weapons. They have fallen victim to lawlessness, kidnappings, rapes, murders and forced conversions at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists.The Shabak syncretic cult is another of the main objectives for terrorist movements, especially the Islamic State. According to a report published by the Ministry of Human Rights in Iraq, 1,200 Shabaks have been killed and six thousand displaced. The position of the Shabak in support of the Anglo-American war in Iraq in 2003 and their vote for the Iraqi constitution has made them enemies of terrorists.Also threatened by the Islamic State are Zoroastrian Turkmen. Finally there are the Sabians, the children of the South Arabian civilization and the Queen of Sheba, the one who appears in the Bible and in the Qur'an. As reported by Uday Asa'ad Khamas, spokesman for the Iraqi Sabeans, in ten years ten thousand of the forty thousand Sabians have left. In Baghdad there is only one religious Sabean. They are mentioned in both the Qur'an and the Book of Job.Targeted by the Islamic State are also the last people who speak Aramaic. As in the Syrian town of Maalula, long besieged by the Syrian Islamists and then freed by the army of Bashar el Assad. The Islamists say they want to transform Aramaic into a "dead language."This is a war not only against humanity, but against civilization. It seems almost a confirmation of the biblical prophecy: "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, haunted by jackals. She will be an object of horror and contempt".What remains of the most gorgeous and sinful capital of the ancient world today bears the appearance of death. There is a silence, in which one can still hear echoing the curse of Jeremiah.
Tel Aviv Will Explode in Their Faces'-Prominent Tel Aviv activist defends 'ISIS flags', accuses High Court 'dictatorship' of abandoning residents after Infiltrator Law nixed.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 7:06 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Organizers of last night's march in Tel Aviv against the High Court's decision to reject the "Infiltrator Law" have warned the area is on the brink of "an explosion" due to rising tensions over unchecked illegal immigration, and rejected left-wing criticism of their campaign as cynical and politically-motivated.The march was organized by local activists calling to overthrow the "dictatorship" of the High Court - known by its Hebrew acronym, "Bagatz" - after the decision to overrule the law, which means police can no longer detain illegal immigrants and must release those currently being held at a security facility in Holon. Residents of south Tel Aviv - a largely working-class area which is currently home to at least 18,000 illegal African immigrants - say their lives have been made a misery by the high-crime and general lawlessness brought in the wake of the flood of illegals, and accuse the High Court of abandoning them for political reasons.The march gained a lot of negative publicity due to the use of black flags emblazoned with the word "Bagatz", which resembled the emblem of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. The PR prop - along with the decision by some organizers, such as right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and ex-MK Michael Ben-Ari, to explicitly draw the comparison between the two - drew a hail of negative reactions and criticism from observers, particularly on the Left.But May Golan, a resident of south Tel Aviv and a rising star among campaigners for the rights of local residents, dismissed the criticism as a cynical attempt divert attention away from the legitimate grievances of working-class Tel Avivians. She said that she had not in fact meant for the flags to represent ISIS but rather to signify the "destruction" of Tel Aviv by the High Court, which was rapidly turning some southern neighborhoods into "no-go areas"."It's about raising a black flag, just like the one the judges have put on us by canceling the law," she said."What is a black flag? When I was a little girl - before there was any ISIS - when I went to the beach and I saw a black flag I knew that meant 'don't enter'. When the Bagatz ruled the way they did they put a black flag on the entrance to south Tel Aviv - no coming out, no going in. It's a no-go area."
'We've been abandoned'
Golan said that despite being "totally our of touch with reality", the High Court judges were perfectly aware that what they were doing would cause the residents of south Tel Aviv to suffer. She accused the High Court of acting like a "dictatorship", and embarking on a campaign of social engineering which members of the left-wing elite could watch play out from a convenient distance, since their wealthy neighborhoods remained unaffected - a world away from the tension and poverty they were perpetuating just a few miles south. Crime, particularly violent and sexual crimes, has skyrocketed in neighborhoods with large concentrations of illegals in recent years, and countless illegal businesses have sprung up which operate openly, apparently with complete impunity."They abandoned us to the terror and the horror, the hell that is going on here," she said of the High Court. "This country is being left without any tools to protect itself... You can't use the word 'democracy' to make life hell for others.""Even Edna Arbel, one of the judges who voted down the law, said she realized that the south Tel Aviv residents will suffer - she knows that! She is basically approving the fact that the residents of south Tel Aviv should suffer so she can fulfill her political vision. She doesn't care."If the Bagatz wants to put a black flag on us then we will go all the way and put it on the actual territory here, until the government decides to replace the Israeli flag," Golan declared.She lamented the fact that just as the government was finally waking up to the problem - which began under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's watch, she noted - the High Court stepped in to make sure there would be no change to the status-quo. The decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu to build a fence (which was recently completed) along Israel's southern border was a very positive step, but would be rendered totally ineffective if the legal tools to enforce the law against illegal immigrants are taken away from law enforcement agencies, Golan warned."No fence is high enough or strong enough to deter any infiltrator if there is no 'legal fence' behind it," she says. "The only reason there aren't thousands of infiltrators at the fence now is because they know there is a law."She said the ISIS comparison was an emotional act of protest provoked by a sense of despair and frustration by residents, and defended it as a legitimate act of free speech."These people are crying out in pain. They have been abandoned - you honestly don't know what we are going through."As for those who used the flags as a pretext to attack campaigners: "People who have an agenda against the people of south Tel Aviv... people who want to keep the infiltrators in Israel, will always find things to use against us. They already say we're racist, inhumane, whatever. I really don't care if people think it's bad PR.""Even if people did say they used the black flag because they feel like the High Court is acting 'like ISIS' - they are talking out of pain," she emphasized. "I'm not going to apologize. We are living in a dark reality, we are living in terror, we are living in a way that no one should live."
'Fake' human rights groups
Golan warned the situation on the ground was "on the verge of an explosion", now that the Infiltrator Law had been shot down by the courts without offering any alternative to alleviating the social pressure cooker in neighborhoods such as her's."It's worse than ever now," she lamented. "The infiltrators were already basically acting above the law, openly operating illegal businesses, defecating and urinating in public, drinking and holding loud parties on the street, having fights, attacking and robbing people."Now they're under the impression that even crimes against us are above the law. They know they can do whatever they want against us and that the police are basically powerless against them, because the Bagatz is on their side.""You can recognize the Jewish homes by the extra gates they have. This is the reality in south Tel Aviv," she added grimly.But what of those immigrants who were genuine refugees? Golan accepts that some Sundanese immigrants - who make up a small minority of the illegal immigrant population - may well be legitimate refugees and deserved to have their status looked into. But she insists that is not representative of the vast majority of infiltrators - some 85% of whom are from Eritrea - who are simply economic migrants.She also claimed that technically, since those who crossed Israel's southern border had first arrived in Egypt - which is a signatory to the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, and houses the largest UNHCR office in the Middle East - their legal status as refugees upon choosing to move on to Israel was highly questionable in the first place.Deriding the current refugee verification process as "a joke", Golan noted that by allowing the problem to fester for so long the government had gifted an opportunity to radical left-wing groups to "manipulate" the situation for their own political purposes, including funding and organizing expensive political campaigns and even coaching the illegals on the "right things" to say in order to both play to the media and claim asylum despite not really having a legitimate claim. Earlier this year saw mass rallies by illegal immigrants which were organized and funded by a variety of left-wing NGOs, and which made global headlines.The ironic result, she said, was that those "fake human rights groups" had made it all but impossible to tell who was a genuine refugee and who was not."After being here for seven years, being guided by leftist organizations on what to say and what to do, how to play the system... It's a joke. The court system won't be able to sustain the requests - it will cost millions."She blamed the far-left Meretz party, as well as radical NGOs funded by the New Israel Fund - including the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Hotline for Refugees and Migrant Workers in Israel, Kav LaOved Workers' Hotline, Assaf – Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel - for leading such efforts, and accused them of ignoring the human rights of local residents.Some leftist activists were even helping infiltrators to set up businesses illegally under false Israeli names, Golan alleged."Now they're even telling them 'don't leave Israel' - even those signing up to leave voluntarily - because the Bagatz is going to cancel the law! "They tell them to stay in south Tel Aviv because they know that they won't suffer from it - only the poor people here will suffer while they can go home and sleep soundly at night."Far from being motivated by human rights, she charged leftist NGOs were using the infiltrators as "pawns" to dilute the Jewish character of the State of Israel."Before all this, they said they cared about the Filipinos," she said, referring to the sizable number of foreign workers from the Philippines in Israel. "But now the Filipinos are getting raped by the infiltrators and are not serving their interests - and suddenly they don't care about them any more! "These fake human rights people want a 'country of all its citizens'... of all its infiltrators... not a "Jewish state", and they will do whatever they can to achieve that. The last thing on their mind is human rights."That charge is regularly leveled at the NIF by nationalist groups, particularly after a confidential cable leaked three years ago by Wikileaks revealed a conversation between a senior NIF figure and a US government official, in which the former predicted Israel would eventually lose its Jewish majority, and said it would "not be a tragedy" if that happened.Yet despite the extensive campaigning and mobilization by leftist NGOs, Golan notes only 2,000 asylum requests were even made out of tens of thousands of infiltrators."And how many were actually accepted? 18! That tells you what proportion of these people are legitimate."Asked to respond to the allegations, a New Israel Fund spokesperson dismissed Golan and other campaigners as "right-wing extremists", and accused protesters themselves of playing politics and engaging in "incitement" against the group."It is unfortunate that the organizers of the right-wing extremist demonstration are trying to gain political capital at the expense of the New Israel Fund and the residents of southern Tel Aviv," spokeswoman Adi Adamit countered.It was equally "unfortunate", she said, that "the State of Israel has decided to concentrate most of the refugees in the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv, creating overcrowding and placing great strain on the services they receive."But she insisted that the High Court ruling was just, since detaining illegals until they were deported was "contrary to all human values and inhumane."Adamit added that the NIF had in fact tried to help Israeli residents "through several different programs", including - bizarrely - joint patrols of both residents and illegal immigrants "to strengthen residents' sense of security."But despite the feelings of frustration, Sunday night's protest marks a watershed moment, according to Golan, due to the sheer breadth of support protesters received from across the country.Despite the short notice, "hundreds" of demonstrators of all ages were present - and not just from southern Tel Aviv. Supporters came from as far and wide as Eilat, Ashdod, Netanya, Arad, Rishon Letzion and even Hevron."We really felt the empathy of the Israeli public for our plight," she said. "This is not about the success of one demonstration but an attempt to get the message across.""Unless the government establishes a new law or minimizes the authority of the High Court to intervene in the democratic process it will take us to a very, very dangerous place."They're basically neglecting one of the most deprived areas in the country as it is. By putting more pressure on the people of south Tel Aviv, who are already living a very difficult existence, they are taking things to a very bad place and the Israeli government should know that."The Israeli government is very good at waking up too late - we're letting them know that it's already too late and if they don't act now it will explode in their faces."
White House rejects Netanyahu's criticism with withering response-Reuters-OCT 6,14-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House rejected criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a withering response on Monday, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge how much help the United States has been to Israel over the years.A long-time split between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu appeared to widen further after the Israeli leader's visit to the White House last week.Netanyahu, on the CBS program "Face the Nation" on Sunday, said U.S. criticism of an Israeli move for a new Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem was "against American values."At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: "It did seem odd for him to try to defend the actions of his government by saying our response did not reflect American values."The fact is American policy has been clear and unchanged under several administrations, both Democrat and Republican."Earnest added: "We oppose any unilateral actions that attempt to prejudge final status issues including the status of Jerusalem. These can only be legitimately determined through direct negotiations through the parties that this president has worked hard to try to facilitate."(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Nuclear Expert' Killed in Explosion at Iranian Nuclear Plant-Iranian sites claim large explosion heard 'several kilometers away', shattered windows as far as 15 kilometers from blast.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 4:03 PM / Last Update: 10/6/2014, 5:28 PM-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
An explosion at Iran's Parchin nuclear plant has killed at least two people, among them an unnamed "nuclear expert", according to Iranian media reports.The plant is located close to the Iranian capital Tehran, and the explosion has triggering speculation over a possible sabotage or assassination.The semi-official Isna news agency claimed the explosion took place at around 10:00 a.m. after a fire erupted in an "explosive materials production unit"."Unfortunately, due to the incident, two workers of this production unit lost their lives," the site reported. Other Iranian outlets cited witnesses who said a "loud explosion" could be heard several kilometers away.The opposition Sahamnews outlet claimed the blast was so powerful it shattered windows some 15 kilometers away from the site, raising the possibility that a far more destructive explosion had taken place than official outlets are letting on.Iran has refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to access Parchin since 2005, and both opposition figures and others have accused the regime of using the site to house an illegal nuclear weapons program.Last month, Israel's Internal Security Minister Yuval Steinitz said he had "reliable information" that Parchin was being used for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon.The latest development comes as talks between Iran and world powers remain deadlocked over Iran's illegal nuclear program, as a November 24 deadline for a permanent deal.
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 Ready to be 'Global Leader' in Alternative Fuels-Netanyahu announces winner of largest cash prize in world to advance alternate transportation fuels.By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 1:38 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Science Minister Ya'akov Perry (Yesh Atid) on Sunday announced the winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation.The two recipients, Prof. Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and Prof. Thomas Meyer of the University of North Carolina, will be the second set awarded with the prize by the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, and Keren Hayesod.The Eric and Sheila Samson Prize, as it is also know, totals $1 million and is the world's largest monetary prize in the field of alternative fuels."We are making a major multi-year effort so that we will not be dependent on fluctuations in the price of oil. This prize gives the researchers true appreciation for their efforts," said Netanyahu on announcing the winners.Perry also spoke during the announcement, saying "this prize symbolizes the state of Israel’s commitment to the advancement of the field of alternative fuels, which is of utmost importance to every aspect of our lives here - to Israel’s economy, security, scientific research and society."Grätzel was selected for his research in development of a new solar cell termed the Grätzel Cell, which imitates photosynthesis converting light energy into electric energy that can be used for electrical propulsion, or to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, a process useful for fuels. The cells have the highest efficiency in using solar energy, and are much cheaper than normal solar cells.Meyer has also pioneered the field of artificial photosynthesis, and the development of solar fuels by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. His research has made a critical contribution to the technological development of cell for artificial photosynthesis."The basic scientific discoveries and the technological developments of the prize recipients have helped humanity advance one step closer to the moment in which it can use available and unlimited solar energy for transportation and other needs and it can stop using diminishing and polluting fossil fuels," said Professor Yitzchak Apeloig, Chairman of the Board of Trustees that selected the winners.The two will be presented with their prizes on December 3 at the Fuel Choices Summit, an international conference for fuel alternatives. National Fuel Alternatives Program Director Eyal Rosner spoke about the initiatives, saying "Israel has set itself an ambitious goal - to reduce the use of conventional fuel for transportation by 60% by the year 2025.""Israel is prepared to become the global leader in this field - we must reduce our dependence on fuel and the dependence on oil-producing nations; and consequently, we will strengthen the world economy," added Rosner.
Op-Ed: Islam is at War with the Oldest Religions-Ancient communities will soon be gone as ISIS murders "infidels".Published: Monday, October 06, 2014 5:19 AM-Giulio Meotti-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
It was 1929 when British archaeologist Leonard Woolley made a sensational discovery in Nineveh, Iraq's province. He commanded an Arab worker to dig a pit to test the archaeological layers of the biblical Ur of the Chaldeans, the birthplace of Abraham. They found broken bricks and other items that indicated an ancient human settlement.At a depth of one meter, the worker reached what archaeologists call "virgin clay", the layer from which it follows that there is nothing more that is interesting and signs of life end right there."Babylon will become a heap of ruins, haunted by jackals. She will be an object of horror and contempt".Woolley told him to continue. After two and a half meters of further excavation, the worker found fragments of pottery and other archaeological material.Sir Woolley gasped: How you could interpret that split between two civilizations, the clean land between two layers which clearly indicated two different human presences, two different civilizations separated by a layer of sandy soil and virgin clay? Nineveh had been erased from the earth. The most magnificent capital of Mesopotamian civilization, the "great whore" of the Bible, the land of Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, full of sculptures of terrifying winged genuses, man-hawks, demons, Pazuzu and bulls with wings, was the first to disappear, reduced to rubble by the Babylonians and Persians, with lynx and jackals howling in the ruins of palaces and temples, ruins still largely submerged by the hills of dirt accumulated over the millennia. Even a dam on the Euphrates, still in business, was built with bricks stamped with the seal of Nebuchadnezzar.In Nineveh today the grass grows once more. There where the most ancient cults of the earth sill mingle, Islam is waging war against the world's oldest religions.As Louis Sako, head of Iraq's largest Catholic congregation, said: "This has never happened in the Christian and Islamic history".Priests and astrologers have been present in Mesopotamia since the dawn of civilization. It has been proven that our civilization was born in the land of the two rivers, in Mesopotamia. Up to today, throughout the Fertile Crescent, despite the many wars in the region, one could find communities that bore witness to the extraordinary antiquity of the areas religious traditions.
Until the arrival of the Islamic State.
Like the Jews, who fled decades ago, Christians are now also all gone. On Sunday, "for the first time in two thousand years the Christian communion was not celebrated in Nineveh", said the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White. There remain only the homes of Christians marked with the "n" of Nasrani. Nazarenes.A year ago there were 60,000 Christians in Mosul. Today there is only a handful.Yazidis of the Islamic State are killed in mass. The bodies of thirty Yazidis, including five children, killed by the jihadists of the Islamic State, have just been found in a mass grave, one of many fresh graves discovered in northern Iraq near Zummar, in an area recaptured by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia .The Yazidi Fraternal Organization has recorded the names of twelve thousand Yazidi - five thousand women and seven thousand men - killed or kidnapped (in the case of women) since August third, when the mountain of Sinjar fell into the hands of Islamic State. Yazidis are one of the oldest communities linked to the Zoroastrians, the ancestors of the great orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, who fled from Persia twelve centuries ago to preserve the sacred fire of Zoroaster from the desecration of the Arab invaders.Relatives of the Yazidi are Kakais, the Kurdish syncretic sect known for their mustache rituals. The Islamic State considers them to be "blasphemous", because the Qur'an prescribes a short mustache. Kakais are a heterodox sect linked to Shiite Islam. The Islamic State kills them every time they are caught.Among the Sunni jihadists fighting in Syria, supporters of Bashar el Assad, Alawites, are called "Majous". Like in the Gospels.The Mandaeans, the last Gnostics on earth, are also disappearing in Iraq. Every Sunday they gather on the banks of the Tigris to celebrate immersion in the waters as did John the Baptist. Ninety percent of the Mandaeans have fled Iraq, threatened with death by Islamists. The first Mandaean tribes migrated from the Holy Land to the banks of the lower Euphrates during the first and second century AD, over two thousand years ago.The Mandaeans speak a dialect similar to Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. They are the cousins of the people who produced the Nag Hammadi codices (such as the Gospel of Thomas)-The Mandaeans are pacifists, their religion prevents them from carrying weapons. They have fallen victim to lawlessness, kidnappings, rapes, murders and forced conversions at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists.The Shabak syncretic cult is another of the main objectives for terrorist movements, especially the Islamic State. According to a report published by the Ministry of Human Rights in Iraq, 1,200 Shabaks have been killed and six thousand displaced. The position of the Shabak in support of the Anglo-American war in Iraq in 2003 and their vote for the Iraqi constitution has made them enemies of terrorists.Also threatened by the Islamic State are Zoroastrian Turkmen. Finally there are the Sabians, the children of the South Arabian civilization and the Queen of Sheba, the one who appears in the Bible and in the Qur'an. As reported by Uday Asa'ad Khamas, spokesman for the Iraqi Sabeans, in ten years ten thousand of the forty thousand Sabians have left. In Baghdad there is only one religious Sabean. They are mentioned in both the Qur'an and the Book of Job.Targeted by the Islamic State are also the last people who speak Aramaic. As in the Syrian town of Maalula, long besieged by the Syrian Islamists and then freed by the army of Bashar el Assad. The Islamists say they want to transform Aramaic into a "dead language."This is a war not only against humanity, but against civilization. It seems almost a confirmation of the biblical prophecy: "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, haunted by jackals. She will be an object of horror and contempt".What remains of the most gorgeous and sinful capital of the ancient world today bears the appearance of death. There is a silence, in which one can still hear echoing the curse of Jeremiah.
Tel Aviv Will Explode in Their Faces'-Prominent Tel Aviv activist defends 'ISIS flags', accuses High Court 'dictatorship' of abandoning residents after Infiltrator Law nixed.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 7:06 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Organizers of last night's march in Tel Aviv against the High Court's decision to reject the "Infiltrator Law" have warned the area is on the brink of "an explosion" due to rising tensions over unchecked illegal immigration, and rejected left-wing criticism of their campaign as cynical and politically-motivated.The march was organized by local activists calling to overthrow the "dictatorship" of the High Court - known by its Hebrew acronym, "Bagatz" - after the decision to overrule the law, which means police can no longer detain illegal immigrants and must release those currently being held at a security facility in Holon. Residents of south Tel Aviv - a largely working-class area which is currently home to at least 18,000 illegal African immigrants - say their lives have been made a misery by the high-crime and general lawlessness brought in the wake of the flood of illegals, and accuse the High Court of abandoning them for political reasons.The march gained a lot of negative publicity due to the use of black flags emblazoned with the word "Bagatz", which resembled the emblem of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. The PR prop - along with the decision by some organizers, such as right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and ex-MK Michael Ben-Ari, to explicitly draw the comparison between the two - drew a hail of negative reactions and criticism from observers, particularly on the Left.But May Golan, a resident of south Tel Aviv and a rising star among campaigners for the rights of local residents, dismissed the criticism as a cynical attempt divert attention away from the legitimate grievances of working-class Tel Avivians. She said that she had not in fact meant for the flags to represent ISIS but rather to signify the "destruction" of Tel Aviv by the High Court, which was rapidly turning some southern neighborhoods into "no-go areas"."It's about raising a black flag, just like the one the judges have put on us by canceling the law," she said."What is a black flag? When I was a little girl - before there was any ISIS - when I went to the beach and I saw a black flag I knew that meant 'don't enter'. When the Bagatz ruled the way they did they put a black flag on the entrance to south Tel Aviv - no coming out, no going in. It's a no-go area."
'We've been abandoned'
Golan said that despite being "totally our of touch with reality", the High Court judges were perfectly aware that what they were doing would cause the residents of south Tel Aviv to suffer. She accused the High Court of acting like a "dictatorship", and embarking on a campaign of social engineering which members of the left-wing elite could watch play out from a convenient distance, since their wealthy neighborhoods remained unaffected - a world away from the tension and poverty they were perpetuating just a few miles south. Crime, particularly violent and sexual crimes, has skyrocketed in neighborhoods with large concentrations of illegals in recent years, and countless illegal businesses have sprung up which operate openly, apparently with complete impunity."They abandoned us to the terror and the horror, the hell that is going on here," she said of the High Court. "This country is being left without any tools to protect itself... You can't use the word 'democracy' to make life hell for others.""Even Edna Arbel, one of the judges who voted down the law, said she realized that the south Tel Aviv residents will suffer - she knows that! She is basically approving the fact that the residents of south Tel Aviv should suffer so she can fulfill her political vision. She doesn't care."If the Bagatz wants to put a black flag on us then we will go all the way and put it on the actual territory here, until the government decides to replace the Israeli flag," Golan declared.She lamented the fact that just as the government was finally waking up to the problem - which began under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's watch, she noted - the High Court stepped in to make sure there would be no change to the status-quo. The decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu to build a fence (which was recently completed) along Israel's southern border was a very positive step, but would be rendered totally ineffective if the legal tools to enforce the law against illegal immigrants are taken away from law enforcement agencies, Golan warned."No fence is high enough or strong enough to deter any infiltrator if there is no 'legal fence' behind it," she says. "The only reason there aren't thousands of infiltrators at the fence now is because they know there is a law."She said the ISIS comparison was an emotional act of protest provoked by a sense of despair and frustration by residents, and defended it as a legitimate act of free speech."These people are crying out in pain. They have been abandoned - you honestly don't know what we are going through."As for those who used the flags as a pretext to attack campaigners: "People who have an agenda against the people of south Tel Aviv... people who want to keep the infiltrators in Israel, will always find things to use against us. They already say we're racist, inhumane, whatever. I really don't care if people think it's bad PR.""Even if people did say they used the black flag because they feel like the High Court is acting 'like ISIS' - they are talking out of pain," she emphasized. "I'm not going to apologize. We are living in a dark reality, we are living in terror, we are living in a way that no one should live."
'Fake' human rights groups
Golan warned the situation on the ground was "on the verge of an explosion", now that the Infiltrator Law had been shot down by the courts without offering any alternative to alleviating the social pressure cooker in neighborhoods such as her's."It's worse than ever now," she lamented. "The infiltrators were already basically acting above the law, openly operating illegal businesses, defecating and urinating in public, drinking and holding loud parties on the street, having fights, attacking and robbing people."Now they're under the impression that even crimes against us are above the law. They know they can do whatever they want against us and that the police are basically powerless against them, because the Bagatz is on their side.""You can recognize the Jewish homes by the extra gates they have. This is the reality in south Tel Aviv," she added grimly.But what of those immigrants who were genuine refugees? Golan accepts that some Sundanese immigrants - who make up a small minority of the illegal immigrant population - may well be legitimate refugees and deserved to have their status looked into. But she insists that is not representative of the vast majority of infiltrators - some 85% of whom are from Eritrea - who are simply economic migrants.She also claimed that technically, since those who crossed Israel's southern border had first arrived in Egypt - which is a signatory to the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, and houses the largest UNHCR office in the Middle East - their legal status as refugees upon choosing to move on to Israel was highly questionable in the first place.Deriding the current refugee verification process as "a joke", Golan noted that by allowing the problem to fester for so long the government had gifted an opportunity to radical left-wing groups to "manipulate" the situation for their own political purposes, including funding and organizing expensive political campaigns and even coaching the illegals on the "right things" to say in order to both play to the media and claim asylum despite not really having a legitimate claim. Earlier this year saw mass rallies by illegal immigrants which were organized and funded by a variety of left-wing NGOs, and which made global headlines.The ironic result, she said, was that those "fake human rights groups" had made it all but impossible to tell who was a genuine refugee and who was not."After being here for seven years, being guided by leftist organizations on what to say and what to do, how to play the system... It's a joke. The court system won't be able to sustain the requests - it will cost millions."She blamed the far-left Meretz party, as well as radical NGOs funded by the New Israel Fund - including the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Hotline for Refugees and Migrant Workers in Israel, Kav LaOved Workers' Hotline, Assaf – Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel - for leading such efforts, and accused them of ignoring the human rights of local residents.Some leftist activists were even helping infiltrators to set up businesses illegally under false Israeli names, Golan alleged."Now they're even telling them 'don't leave Israel' - even those signing up to leave voluntarily - because the Bagatz is going to cancel the law! "They tell them to stay in south Tel Aviv because they know that they won't suffer from it - only the poor people here will suffer while they can go home and sleep soundly at night."Far from being motivated by human rights, she charged leftist NGOs were using the infiltrators as "pawns" to dilute the Jewish character of the State of Israel."Before all this, they said they cared about the Filipinos," she said, referring to the sizable number of foreign workers from the Philippines in Israel. "But now the Filipinos are getting raped by the infiltrators and are not serving their interests - and suddenly they don't care about them any more! "These fake human rights people want a 'country of all its citizens'... of all its infiltrators... not a "Jewish state", and they will do whatever they can to achieve that. The last thing on their mind is human rights."That charge is regularly leveled at the NIF by nationalist groups, particularly after a confidential cable leaked three years ago by Wikileaks revealed a conversation between a senior NIF figure and a US government official, in which the former predicted Israel would eventually lose its Jewish majority, and said it would "not be a tragedy" if that happened.Yet despite the extensive campaigning and mobilization by leftist NGOs, Golan notes only 2,000 asylum requests were even made out of tens of thousands of infiltrators."And how many were actually accepted? 18! That tells you what proportion of these people are legitimate."Asked to respond to the allegations, a New Israel Fund spokesperson dismissed Golan and other campaigners as "right-wing extremists", and accused protesters themselves of playing politics and engaging in "incitement" against the group."It is unfortunate that the organizers of the right-wing extremist demonstration are trying to gain political capital at the expense of the New Israel Fund and the residents of southern Tel Aviv," spokeswoman Adi Adamit countered.It was equally "unfortunate", she said, that "the State of Israel has decided to concentrate most of the refugees in the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv, creating overcrowding and placing great strain on the services they receive."But she insisted that the High Court ruling was just, since detaining illegals until they were deported was "contrary to all human values and inhumane."Adamit added that the NIF had in fact tried to help Israeli residents "through several different programs", including - bizarrely - joint patrols of both residents and illegal immigrants "to strengthen residents' sense of security."But despite the feelings of frustration, Sunday night's protest marks a watershed moment, according to Golan, due to the sheer breadth of support protesters received from across the country.Despite the short notice, "hundreds" of demonstrators of all ages were present - and not just from southern Tel Aviv. Supporters came from as far and wide as Eilat, Ashdod, Netanya, Arad, Rishon Letzion and even Hevron."We really felt the empathy of the Israeli public for our plight," she said. "This is not about the success of one demonstration but an attempt to get the message across.""Unless the government establishes a new law or minimizes the authority of the High Court to intervene in the democratic process it will take us to a very, very dangerous place."They're basically neglecting one of the most deprived areas in the country as it is. By putting more pressure on the people of south Tel Aviv, who are already living a very difficult existence, they are taking things to a very bad place and the Israeli government should know that."The Israeli government is very good at waking up too late - we're letting them know that it's already too late and if they don't act now it will explode in their faces."
White House rejects Netanyahu's criticism with withering response-Reuters-OCT 6,14-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House rejected criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a withering response on Monday, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge how much help the United States has been to Israel over the years.A long-time split between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu appeared to widen further after the Israeli leader's visit to the White House last week.Netanyahu, on the CBS program "Face the Nation" on Sunday, said U.S. criticism of an Israeli move for a new Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem was "against American values."At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: "It did seem odd for him to try to defend the actions of his government by saying our response did not reflect American values."The fact is American policy has been clear and unchanged under several administrations, both Democrat and Republican."Earnest added: "We oppose any unilateral actions that attempt to prejudge final status issues including the status of Jerusalem. These can only be legitimately determined through direct negotiations through the parties that this president has worked hard to try to facilitate."(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Nuclear Expert' Killed in Explosion at Iranian Nuclear Plant-Iranian sites claim large explosion heard 'several kilometers away', shattered windows as far as 15 kilometers from blast.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 10/6/2014, 4:03 PM / Last Update: 10/6/2014, 5:28 PM-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
An explosion at Iran's Parchin nuclear plant has killed at least two people, among them an unnamed "nuclear expert", according to Iranian media reports.The plant is located close to the Iranian capital Tehran, and the explosion has triggering speculation over a possible sabotage or assassination.The semi-official Isna news agency claimed the explosion took place at around 10:00 a.m. after a fire erupted in an "explosive materials production unit"."Unfortunately, due to the incident, two workers of this production unit lost their lives," the site reported. Other Iranian outlets cited witnesses who said a "loud explosion" could be heard several kilometers away.The opposition Sahamnews outlet claimed the blast was so powerful it shattered windows some 15 kilometers away from the site, raising the possibility that a far more destructive explosion had taken place than official outlets are letting on.Iran has refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to access Parchin since 2005, and both opposition figures and others have accused the regime of using the site to house an illegal nuclear weapons program.Last month, Israel's Internal Security Minister Yuval Steinitz said he had "reliable information" that Parchin was being used for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon.The latest development comes as talks between Iran and world powers remain deadlocked over Iran's illegal nuclear program, as a November 24 deadline for a permanent deal.
