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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)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
3rd AND 4th TEMPLES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2008/01/israeli-temples.html
THE RED HEIFER
https://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EZEKIEL 36:25-26
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Police chief: MKs who seek status quo change barred from Temple Mount-Knesset speaker says Danino should focus on ensuring Israeli citizens’ security, not giving ‘unnecessary advice’ to parliamentarians-By Marissa Newman and Times of Israel staff November 28, 2014, 5:51 pm
For the fourth consecutive day, Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino criticized members of Knesset who went to the Temple Mount, saying that parliamentarians who seek a change to the status quo at the site should not be allowed there.“I think that certain MKs, whose agenda it is to change the status quo, should be forbidden from going to the Temple Mount. I will not let these MKs access the site,” Danino said at a conference in Ashkelon.The current arrangement on the Temple Mount allows Jewish visitors but bars them from praying at the site, the holiest for Jews and third sacred for Muslims.The police chief was reiterating comments he made earlier in the week to that same effect, remarks which prompted critical responses from politicians, including Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein.Danino said Edelstein did not understand the role of a police commander.Edelstein panned Danino earlier on Friday, calling on him to focus on his job instead of giving “unnecessary advice” to parliamentarians on what they can and cannot do.The Knesset speaker said he “expects the police commander to be out in the field and invest his energy ensuring the security of the citizens of Israel.” Edelstein added that he would continue protecting the rights of elected officials.Edelstein and Danino went head to head Thursday as well, with the Knesset speaker turning to Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch to complain about similar remarks Danino made Wednesday and on Tuesday.“These [statements] are grave and inappropriate coming from a police commissioner about elected public officials. It’s unacceptable that a public servant — as senior as the position may be — would question the freedom of movement of Knesset members,” Edelstein wrote in the letter, according to the Israeli news site NRG. Edelstein asked Aharonovitch to order Danino to refrain from such comments in the future and to respect Knesset members’ status. The Knesset speaker went to to say that the current surge of violence and terror attacks in Jerusalem are caused by the incitement in the Palestinian public sphere, and the Temple Mount issue is a fig leaf for the violence.On Tuesday, at the Sderot Conference for Society, Danino also blasted Knesset members who called for an alteration to the current arrangement under which non-Muslim worshipers can visit, but not pray, at the holy site. He maintained that there are no efforts to change the status quo.“I forbade [Likud MK] Feiglin from going to the Temple Mount until I lost the backing of the attorney general. It is a mistake to allow entry to those who are a symbol of changing the status quo,” Danino said.Danino’s comments came after weeks of riots and terror attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere, touched off in part by Palestinian fears — denied by Israel — that Israeli lawmakers would seek to change the status quo on the compound, called the Haram al-Sharif or al-Aqsa by Muslims.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on several occasions that Israel had no intention of changing the status quo at the site.Despite his apparent critique of the attorney general, the police commissioner later said that he did not intend to criticize Weinstein.The Temple Mount has been a source of increased tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, which have led to a number of violent clashes, Palestinian acts of terrorism and the attempted assassination of a Temple Mount activist in just under a month.Since the attempted assassination on October 30 of activist Yehudah Glick, who agitated for Jewish prayer on the site, at least three right-wing politicians — Likud MKs Feiglin and Tzipi Hotovely, and Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the Jewish Home party — have visited the site, claiming it as their democratic right and denouncing the double standard for Jewish and Muslim worshipers.Under the terms of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, the Temple Mount remains under Jordanian custodianship through the Waqf authorities, who maintain administrative charge of the holy site.
Liberman ‘peace plan’ would pay Arabs to leave Israel-FM’s party manifesto calls on Arab-Israelis to decide if they want to be part of the state of Israel or a future Palestine-By Times of Israel staff and AP November 28, 2014, 4:26 pm 118
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman published his own proposed peace plan Friday in which he calls for funding the emigration of Arab citizens of Israel.In a manifesto of his Yisrael Beytenu party, Liberman said he favors ceding Arab-majority areas in northern Israel to a future Palestinian state and providing economic incentives for Arab-Israelis — about 20 percent of Israel’s population — who do not identify with the state to encourage them to leave the country, and make a future Palestinian state their home.An offer to Israeli-Arabs “who feel part of the Palestinian people [to leave the country] will solve the problem of divided loyalties and ‘split personality’ they suffer from. They can decide if they are part of the state of Israel or Palestine.”“Those who decide that they identify as Palestinian could give up their Israeli citizenship and become citizens of a future Palestinian state. The State of Israel should encourage this via a system of economic incentives,” the plan states.The manifesto comes amid increasing signs of a coalition crisis and talk of elections. Once a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Liberman is seen as harboring prime ministerial ambitions himself.“The conflict Israel faces is not just a territorial conflict with the Palestinians; rather it is a combined three-dimensional conflict: Arab countries, Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs. Therefore, any agreement with the Palestinians has to include peace agreements with the Arab states and population and territory exchanges with Israeli-Arabs,” reads the manifesto.The plan does not set out positions on the most difficult issues in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including the status of Jerusalem and Israel’s borders. But it does acknowledge the necessity of territorial compromise in reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians, and also with moderate Arab countries.“The nation of Israel is more important than the land of Israel,” the paper quotes Liberman saying, explaining why he’s willing to give up land.The foreign minister also touted an old party slogan — “No citizenship without loyalty” — which directly targets Israel’s Arab population and which calls for “rewarding” those who contribute to the state and applying punitive measures to those who don’t, including against Arab members of Knesset.Liberman is expected to present the plan next week at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Basel, Switzerland, after which he will travel to America and present the plan at the annual Saban Forum.The offer to pay Israeli Arabs to leave comes as Netanyahu pushes forward with a contentious parliamentary bill to formalize Israel’s status as a Jewish state — a measure that many Arab-Israelis say will institutionalize their status as second class citizens.The bill, which Netanyahu says is necessary to safeguard Israel’s future, is opposed by a wide range of Israeli political figures, including President Reuven Rivlin and former president Shimon Peres, but is strongly supported by right-wing members of his ruling coalition, including Liberman.
Israel’s next army chief ‘would only strike Iran as last resort’-TV report says Gadi Eizenkot believes Israel should only intervene against Tehran nuclear facilities ‘if the sword is at our throat’By Times of Israel staff November 28, 2014, 10:14 pm 4
Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, named Friday night as the next IDF chief of the General Staff, firmly opposes Israeli military intervention to thwart Iran’s nuclear program unless Iran poses an immediate existential threat to Israel, an Israeli television report said.Eizenkot, the current deputy chief, holds to the view that Israel should not strike at Iran “unless the sword is at our throat,” Channel 10 reported. That phrase was first used in the Iranian context almost four years ago by Israel’s former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and Dagan subsequently declared that the idea of an Israeli Air Force attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was “the stupidest thing I have ever heard” and that anyone seriously considering any such strike needed to internalize that he would be “dragging Israel into a regional war that it would not know how to get out of. The security challenge would become unbearable.”Eizenkot subscribes to this assessment that Israel must only act against Iran as a last resort, “as do all of Israel’s security chiefs,” the Channel 10 report said, referring to the outgoing chief of General Staff Benny Gantz, current Mossad chief Tamar Pardo, and Shin Bet domestic security chief Yoram Cohen.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed that Israel will “stand alone” to stop Iran if necessary, has publicly fumed as world powers negotiated intensively with Iran in recent months, and has demanded the dismantling of Iran’s entire “military nuclear” capability.The prime minister delayed naming Eizenkot as Gantz’s successor for the past two weeks, the TV report said, in part because he toyed with the idea of finding a candidate with an outlook less similar to that of Gantz.Netanyahu partly blames Gantz for the sense that Israel emerged “with a tie” from the summer’s 50-day war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, and looked around for a top officer to succeed him “with more of a knife between his teeth.”Eizenkot, the report said, is a “moderate” like Gantz, who wants to keep any wars Israel has to fight as short as possible, and aims not to enter conflicts without a clear exit strategy.Eizenkot was the clear choice as next army chief of both Gantz and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and ultimately Netanyahu decided not to antagonize Ya’alon, and to go ahead with the appointment, which will be formalized in the next few days. He is set to take up the post on February 15.
Moses flic panned in casting dispute-Director defends selection of mainly Caucasian actors, says film wouldn’t be financed with ‘Mohammad so-and-so’ as lead-By Justin Jalil November 28, 2014, 11:10 pm -the times of israel
After a furious campaign by social media users, director Ridley Scott addressed his selection of mainly Caucasian actors to play ancient Egyptians and Israelites in upcoming bible-inspired mega-movie Exodus: Gods and Kings.The Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated director stated that his decision was purely a financial one, claiming that the film depicting the story of Moses would have never been financed without big name actors such as the movie’s leading man, Christian Bale.“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott said in an interview with Variety, an American entertainment-trade magazine. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”The film, which was primarily filmed in Spain, was reportedly going to cost upwards of $200 million, but was completed on a budget of $140 million after a host of European tax rebates.The film also includes Caucasian actors Joel Edgerton (as Ramses), Sigourney Weaver (as Tuya), John Turturro (as Seti I) and Aaron Paul (as Joshua). Non-white actors with significant roles include Ben Kingsley (as Nun), Maria Valverde (as Zipporah) and Israeli-Arab actress Hiam Abbass (as Bithiah.)According to the Huffington Post, actors of African descent were largely cast into the roles of slaves and servants which provoked the ire of many who perceive the film as historically inaccurate.Others were offended by the sociological implications of the film and the negative stereotypes they believed it reinforced. “Ridley Scott is one of those guys who’s apparently hellbent on historical accuracy but doesn’t care enough to cast a person of color as Moses or a goddamn African queen while simultaneously filling out the rest of the movie with black servants and thieves,” wrote one user in a profanity-laced piece for Medium, a blog-publishing platform. “But to make the main characters white and everyone else African is cinematic colonialism. It’s creating a piece of historical ‘art’ that carries on oppressive imagery that’s helped shackle entire countries and corners of the world.”The English director had previously addressed his controversial casting choices in an interview with Yahoo! Australia in August: “Egypt was –- as it is now -– a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. We cast major actors from different ethnicities to reflect this diversity of culture, from Iranians to Spaniards to Arabs. There are many different theories about the ethnicity of the Egyptian people, and we had a lot of discussions about how to best represent the culture.”Lead actor Christian Bale, an Academy Award winner who has achieved critical acclaim in such films as American Hustle, The Fighter and several Batman movies, provoked a great deal of controversy with religious groups when he said that Moses was “likely schizophrenic and was one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life.”Bale, who claimed to have read the Torah and Quran and conducted extensive research for his role, was equally critical of the Old Testament’s depiction of God, who he described as “equally very mercurial” in relation to Moses.
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)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
3rd AND 4th TEMPLES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2008/01/israeli-temples.html
THE RED HEIFER
https://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EZEKIEL 36:25-26
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Police chief: MKs who seek status quo change barred from Temple Mount-Knesset speaker says Danino should focus on ensuring Israeli citizens’ security, not giving ‘unnecessary advice’ to parliamentarians-By Marissa Newman and Times of Israel staff November 28, 2014, 5:51 pm
For the fourth consecutive day, Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino criticized members of Knesset who went to the Temple Mount, saying that parliamentarians who seek a change to the status quo at the site should not be allowed there.“I think that certain MKs, whose agenda it is to change the status quo, should be forbidden from going to the Temple Mount. I will not let these MKs access the site,” Danino said at a conference in Ashkelon.The current arrangement on the Temple Mount allows Jewish visitors but bars them from praying at the site, the holiest for Jews and third sacred for Muslims.The police chief was reiterating comments he made earlier in the week to that same effect, remarks which prompted critical responses from politicians, including Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein.Danino said Edelstein did not understand the role of a police commander.Edelstein panned Danino earlier on Friday, calling on him to focus on his job instead of giving “unnecessary advice” to parliamentarians on what they can and cannot do.The Knesset speaker said he “expects the police commander to be out in the field and invest his energy ensuring the security of the citizens of Israel.” Edelstein added that he would continue protecting the rights of elected officials.Edelstein and Danino went head to head Thursday as well, with the Knesset speaker turning to Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch to complain about similar remarks Danino made Wednesday and on Tuesday.“These [statements] are grave and inappropriate coming from a police commissioner about elected public officials. It’s unacceptable that a public servant — as senior as the position may be — would question the freedom of movement of Knesset members,” Edelstein wrote in the letter, according to the Israeli news site NRG. Edelstein asked Aharonovitch to order Danino to refrain from such comments in the future and to respect Knesset members’ status. The Knesset speaker went to to say that the current surge of violence and terror attacks in Jerusalem are caused by the incitement in the Palestinian public sphere, and the Temple Mount issue is a fig leaf for the violence.On Tuesday, at the Sderot Conference for Society, Danino also blasted Knesset members who called for an alteration to the current arrangement under which non-Muslim worshipers can visit, but not pray, at the holy site. He maintained that there are no efforts to change the status quo.“I forbade [Likud MK] Feiglin from going to the Temple Mount until I lost the backing of the attorney general. It is a mistake to allow entry to those who are a symbol of changing the status quo,” Danino said.Danino’s comments came after weeks of riots and terror attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere, touched off in part by Palestinian fears — denied by Israel — that Israeli lawmakers would seek to change the status quo on the compound, called the Haram al-Sharif or al-Aqsa by Muslims.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on several occasions that Israel had no intention of changing the status quo at the site.Despite his apparent critique of the attorney general, the police commissioner later said that he did not intend to criticize Weinstein.The Temple Mount has been a source of increased tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, which have led to a number of violent clashes, Palestinian acts of terrorism and the attempted assassination of a Temple Mount activist in just under a month.Since the attempted assassination on October 30 of activist Yehudah Glick, who agitated for Jewish prayer on the site, at least three right-wing politicians — Likud MKs Feiglin and Tzipi Hotovely, and Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the Jewish Home party — have visited the site, claiming it as their democratic right and denouncing the double standard for Jewish and Muslim worshipers.Under the terms of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, the Temple Mount remains under Jordanian custodianship through the Waqf authorities, who maintain administrative charge of the holy site.
Liberman ‘peace plan’ would pay Arabs to leave Israel-FM’s party manifesto calls on Arab-Israelis to decide if they want to be part of the state of Israel or a future Palestine-By Times of Israel staff and AP November 28, 2014, 4:26 pm 118
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman published his own proposed peace plan Friday in which he calls for funding the emigration of Arab citizens of Israel.In a manifesto of his Yisrael Beytenu party, Liberman said he favors ceding Arab-majority areas in northern Israel to a future Palestinian state and providing economic incentives for Arab-Israelis — about 20 percent of Israel’s population — who do not identify with the state to encourage them to leave the country, and make a future Palestinian state their home.An offer to Israeli-Arabs “who feel part of the Palestinian people [to leave the country] will solve the problem of divided loyalties and ‘split personality’ they suffer from. They can decide if they are part of the state of Israel or Palestine.”“Those who decide that they identify as Palestinian could give up their Israeli citizenship and become citizens of a future Palestinian state. The State of Israel should encourage this via a system of economic incentives,” the plan states.The manifesto comes amid increasing signs of a coalition crisis and talk of elections. Once a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Liberman is seen as harboring prime ministerial ambitions himself.“The conflict Israel faces is not just a territorial conflict with the Palestinians; rather it is a combined three-dimensional conflict: Arab countries, Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs. Therefore, any agreement with the Palestinians has to include peace agreements with the Arab states and population and territory exchanges with Israeli-Arabs,” reads the manifesto.The plan does not set out positions on the most difficult issues in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including the status of Jerusalem and Israel’s borders. But it does acknowledge the necessity of territorial compromise in reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians, and also with moderate Arab countries.“The nation of Israel is more important than the land of Israel,” the paper quotes Liberman saying, explaining why he’s willing to give up land.The foreign minister also touted an old party slogan — “No citizenship without loyalty” — which directly targets Israel’s Arab population and which calls for “rewarding” those who contribute to the state and applying punitive measures to those who don’t, including against Arab members of Knesset.Liberman is expected to present the plan next week at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Basel, Switzerland, after which he will travel to America and present the plan at the annual Saban Forum.The offer to pay Israeli Arabs to leave comes as Netanyahu pushes forward with a contentious parliamentary bill to formalize Israel’s status as a Jewish state — a measure that many Arab-Israelis say will institutionalize their status as second class citizens.The bill, which Netanyahu says is necessary to safeguard Israel’s future, is opposed by a wide range of Israeli political figures, including President Reuven Rivlin and former president Shimon Peres, but is strongly supported by right-wing members of his ruling coalition, including Liberman.
Israel’s next army chief ‘would only strike Iran as last resort’-TV report says Gadi Eizenkot believes Israel should only intervene against Tehran nuclear facilities ‘if the sword is at our throat’By Times of Israel staff November 28, 2014, 10:14 pm 4
Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, named Friday night as the next IDF chief of the General Staff, firmly opposes Israeli military intervention to thwart Iran’s nuclear program unless Iran poses an immediate existential threat to Israel, an Israeli television report said.Eizenkot, the current deputy chief, holds to the view that Israel should not strike at Iran “unless the sword is at our throat,” Channel 10 reported. That phrase was first used in the Iranian context almost four years ago by Israel’s former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and Dagan subsequently declared that the idea of an Israeli Air Force attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was “the stupidest thing I have ever heard” and that anyone seriously considering any such strike needed to internalize that he would be “dragging Israel into a regional war that it would not know how to get out of. The security challenge would become unbearable.”Eizenkot subscribes to this assessment that Israel must only act against Iran as a last resort, “as do all of Israel’s security chiefs,” the Channel 10 report said, referring to the outgoing chief of General Staff Benny Gantz, current Mossad chief Tamar Pardo, and Shin Bet domestic security chief Yoram Cohen.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed that Israel will “stand alone” to stop Iran if necessary, has publicly fumed as world powers negotiated intensively with Iran in recent months, and has demanded the dismantling of Iran’s entire “military nuclear” capability.The prime minister delayed naming Eizenkot as Gantz’s successor for the past two weeks, the TV report said, in part because he toyed with the idea of finding a candidate with an outlook less similar to that of Gantz.Netanyahu partly blames Gantz for the sense that Israel emerged “with a tie” from the summer’s 50-day war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, and looked around for a top officer to succeed him “with more of a knife between his teeth.”Eizenkot, the report said, is a “moderate” like Gantz, who wants to keep any wars Israel has to fight as short as possible, and aims not to enter conflicts without a clear exit strategy.Eizenkot was the clear choice as next army chief of both Gantz and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and ultimately Netanyahu decided not to antagonize Ya’alon, and to go ahead with the appointment, which will be formalized in the next few days. He is set to take up the post on February 15.
Moses flic panned in casting dispute-Director defends selection of mainly Caucasian actors, says film wouldn’t be financed with ‘Mohammad so-and-so’ as lead-By Justin Jalil November 28, 2014, 11:10 pm -the times of israel
After a furious campaign by social media users, director Ridley Scott addressed his selection of mainly Caucasian actors to play ancient Egyptians and Israelites in upcoming bible-inspired mega-movie Exodus: Gods and Kings.The Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated director stated that his decision was purely a financial one, claiming that the film depicting the story of Moses would have never been financed without big name actors such as the movie’s leading man, Christian Bale.“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott said in an interview with Variety, an American entertainment-trade magazine. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”The film, which was primarily filmed in Spain, was reportedly going to cost upwards of $200 million, but was completed on a budget of $140 million after a host of European tax rebates.The film also includes Caucasian actors Joel Edgerton (as Ramses), Sigourney Weaver (as Tuya), John Turturro (as Seti I) and Aaron Paul (as Joshua). Non-white actors with significant roles include Ben Kingsley (as Nun), Maria Valverde (as Zipporah) and Israeli-Arab actress Hiam Abbass (as Bithiah.)According to the Huffington Post, actors of African descent were largely cast into the roles of slaves and servants which provoked the ire of many who perceive the film as historically inaccurate.Others were offended by the sociological implications of the film and the negative stereotypes they believed it reinforced. “Ridley Scott is one of those guys who’s apparently hellbent on historical accuracy but doesn’t care enough to cast a person of color as Moses or a goddamn African queen while simultaneously filling out the rest of the movie with black servants and thieves,” wrote one user in a profanity-laced piece for Medium, a blog-publishing platform. “But to make the main characters white and everyone else African is cinematic colonialism. It’s creating a piece of historical ‘art’ that carries on oppressive imagery that’s helped shackle entire countries and corners of the world.”The English director had previously addressed his controversial casting choices in an interview with Yahoo! Australia in August: “Egypt was –- as it is now -– a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. We cast major actors from different ethnicities to reflect this diversity of culture, from Iranians to Spaniards to Arabs. There are many different theories about the ethnicity of the Egyptian people, and we had a lot of discussions about how to best represent the culture.”Lead actor Christian Bale, an Academy Award winner who has achieved critical acclaim in such films as American Hustle, The Fighter and several Batman movies, provoked a great deal of controversy with religious groups when he said that Moses was “likely schizophrenic and was one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life.”Bale, who claimed to have read the Torah and Quran and conducted extensive research for his role, was equally critical of the Old Testament’s depiction of God, who he described as “equally very mercurial” in relation to Moses.
