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.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
HAPPY 44TH OR 45TH BIRTHDAY NATHALIE T.IN MONTRAL QUEBEC.DEC 27,2014
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
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 9:26-27
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)
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).
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
Erekat: Vote in UN Later Today or Monday-PA chief negotiator says the Security Council would vote on unilateral resolution later Friday or on Monday at the latest.By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 10:06 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Friday that the United Nations (UN) Security Council would vote on the PA’s resolution calling for Israel to “end the occupation” later Friday or on Monday at the latest.According to a report on Kol Yisrael government radio, Erekat said that some revisions have been made to the original text of the resolution in recent days. The final wording has not yet been made public.The original text of the draft resolution calls for Israel to “end the occupation” - that is, to withdraw from Judea and Samaria - by 2017.The draft resolution would set a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final settlement and the end of 2017 as the time frame for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.That text, however, was unacceptable to several countries, including Luxembourg and France, and diplomatic sources estimated this week that the vote on the unilateral resolution is likely to be postponed because of those countries’ objection to the text.Erekat had indicated on Tuesday that he believed the Security Council would vote on the resolution even before the end of 2014.On Thursday, Russia said it intends to support the draft resolution.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said his country “would like to see a text that will satisfy all the 15 members of the UN Security Council and be truly oriented towards practical results, such as the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, the beginning of the negotiating process and the resolution of all problems.”"In our opinion, it is important that all members of the Security Council support it [this resolution]," stressed Gatilov.Even if the resolution passes the vote at the Security Council, it is presumed that the United States would veto it.While Secretary of State John Kerry has not publicly stated that Washington would use its veto against the resolution, his spokeswoman said last week the United States will not support the resolution.Washington has seen the text of the draft resolution and "it is not something that we would support," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "We think others feel the same and we are calling for further consultations. The Palestinians understand that."(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Erdogan to Europe: Don't Criticize Us, Fight Islamophobia-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slams European countries for criticizing deteriorating press freedom in Turkey.By Ben Ariel, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 10:33 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed European countries for criticizing deteriorating press freedom in Turkey, Reuters reported, saying they should instead try to find a solution for what the increasing Islamophobia in Europe.Turkish police earlier this month raided media outlets close to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan accuses of forming a 'parallel state' to undermine his rule and orchestrating a graft scandal targeting his inner circle.The European Union, which Turkey has been seeking to join for decades, said the media raids ran counter to European values, a criticism already dismissed by Erdogan. On Friday, the President repeated his discontent, with a visibly harsher tone."We are not Europe's scapegoat," Erdogan told a symposium of civil servants."We are definitely not a country that Europe can point its finger at and scold. Instead of criticizing us, Europe should find a solution to increasing racism and Islamophobia," he charged.Erdogan made reference to an incident in the German city of Dormagen, where ultra nationalists drew Nazi signs on the walls of a mosque construction, according to reports in Turkish local media earlier this week.Erdogan, whose AK Party was elected in 2002, introduced many democratic reforms in his first years in power and curbed army involvement in politics.NATO allies often cited Turkey as an example of a successful Muslim democracy, but more recently critics have accused Erdogan of intolerance of dissent.The crackdown came almost a year to the day after Erdogan's government was rocked by stunning corruption allegations that the authorities denied and blamed on Gulen.The corruption probe, opened on December 17, 2013, saw the arrests of dozens of leading businessmen and political figures close to Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time.Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came under mounting pressure during that time, especially when audio recordings were leaked in which Erdogan and his son allegedly discuss how to hide vast sums of money.In response to the leaked recordings, Erdogan threatened to ban websites such as YouTube and Facebook.His rant against Europe came two days after police in Turkey arrested a 16-year-old student on charges of insulting Erdogan.The teen was arrested on Wednesday after criticizing the AKP during a speech at a student protest in the central Anatolian city of Konya. However, reports on Friday indicated he had been released.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Former Shin Bet Chief: Right-wing Parties are 'Destructive'-Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin launches Facebook tirade against Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu.By Uzi Baruch-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 3:14 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin on Thursday attacked the Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu parties ahead of the March elections.In a post on his Facebook page, Diskin warned that the three are “destructive” to Israel’s future."Each of us needs to ask himself whether he wants to continue down the current path to which we were led by the past right-wing governments, a path which is leading us into a bi-national state, deepening international isolation, the possibility of increasing international sanctions which would severely harm Israel, to growing extremist religion, to deepening racism, to increasing social inequalities, to further damage to the weak and to a lack of a future to our wonderful young people in Israel,” he wrote.Diskin continued by saying that "the combination of the road to nowhere of Jewish Home, the no way of the Likud and the dangerous cynicism of Yisrael Beytenu is destructive to the country's future.”“Anyone who agrees that this road leads us to a reality that endangers the very future of the nation and the state, should demand from parties in the moderate right (Kahlon?), the center and left in the state of Israel, to join forces while forging an agreement on a number of guidelines that they will undertake for their voters,” he added.Diskin has already stated that he has no intention to run in the upcoming elections to the Knesset, despite rumors to the contrary, but that he does plan to be a part of overthrowing the Netanyahu government."We must insist - and not accept any excuses - from the heads of center and left parties to put their egos aside, and unite around the goal to bring us to this road," Diskin wrote several weeks ago."And if we see that one of them does not give up his/her ego - we will organize and ourselves and 'punish' him/her at the polls in the most obvious was possible," he added."I plan to join forces in the near future with many good people I met working outside of the party system to help allow this to happen. I also call on everyone to be part of this effort."Since leaving office, Diskin has launched many verbal attacks against Netanyahu and his government. One such attack came last March, when the former Shin Bet chief accused the members of the coalition of "abandoning the country.""The sane centrist (parties) are abandoning the country to a hollow party of the shallow right-wing (Likud), controlled by a band of extreme firebrands that signed a pact with the Yesh Atid party - which engraved on its flag 'equality of burden' and removed it from among us - and with the national religious Jewish Home party, in whose eyes unity of the land is more important than unity of the people," charged Diskin in a column in Yedioth Ahronoth.Last December, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office responded to Diskin's various verbal attacks by saying, "Netanyahu will not be affected by recycled statements or by righteous preaching arising from the personal frustration of someone who wanted to be appointed head of the Mossad by Netanyahu and did not get the position."The response came after Diskin claimed there were "too many Jews" in Judea and Samaria for it to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority (PA), calling on Israel to be a country "which prefers the sanctity of its people over the sanctity of its land," and which "does not feel it has to occupy others' land."
Nationalist MKs Slam High Court's Decision on Amona-Nationalist MKs criticize High Court's decision that the new community of Amona be demolished within two years.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 3:45 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Nationalist MKs attacked on Thursday evening the decision of the High Court that the new community of Amona in the Shomron (Samaria) be demolished within two years.In its decision, the Court said that despite the facts that the details of ownership of land have not yet been fully established, “the homes in Amona are built on private land and there is no way to legalize their presence. The IDF commander of Judea and Samaria must actively protect the property rights of all residents, and that includes preventing unauthorized parties from taking property that does not belong to them. Construction of homes by such parties on private land is illegal and in lieu of any other arrangement they must be torn down.”The court, in a decision written by Chief Justice Asher Grunis, rejected claims by Amona residents that they had legally purchased the land. Even if they had, Grunis said, the homes there were built without permits or licenses from planning commissions and other legal bodies whose approval is required for construction.Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein said the decision is "difficult, painful and infuriating.”“Along with the adherence to the rule of law it was expected that common sense will prevail and that law enforcement would be proportionate and equal, since it is a blooming community in which many families built homes,” he said.“It is too bad that under the pretext of protecting rights, the residents are harmed again. I very much hope that the time allotted will allow for a reasonable and humane solution for the families,” added Edelstein.Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) responded to the decision as well, saying, “A situation in which a city or neighborhood are uprooted because of a dispute over ownership of the land is intolerable. A similar dispute in northern Tel Aviv or Kfar Saba would have ended in giving compensation or an alternate land to the owners, and in no way would a neighborhood in Kfar Saba or Ramat Aviv be destroyed.”"Just as it was in Migron and in the Ulpana neighborhood [in the town of Beit El], here too the result is contrary to the laws of logic and elementary morality," he added.Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis called on the government to adopt the report written by the late Judge Edmond Levy, which concluded that there is no “occupation” and international law allows Jews to live in Judea and Samaria, as its status was not that of a nation in 1967."It is indeed unfortunate that the Supreme Court has yet again issued rulings that run against the legitimacy of the establishing of new communities. The government needs to immediately adopt the report of Justice Edmond Levy, in order that a clear and immediate response to a ruling such as this," Akunis said.MK Danny Danon (Likud) said that “the lack of proportionality in the decision is very jarring. The matter could have been settled with financial compensation instead of destroying an entire town.”MK Yariv Levin (Likud) said, "The High Court justices are once again trampling the basic principles of Israel, and are blatantly and inappropriately interfering, under the guise of protecting rights, in decisions that have nothing to do with them.”
Palestinian Factions Call for Resumption of Ceasefire Talks-Palestinian Arab factions, meeting in Gaza, call on Egypt to resume its status as broker in the negotiations to maintain a Gaza ceasefire. By Ben Ariel-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 1:14 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Palestinian Arab factions on Thursday called on Egypt to resume its status as broker in the negotiations between them and Israel to maintain a Gaza ceasefire, the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper reported.The factions met in Gaza to discuss what was described “Israeli violations”In a press conference after the meeting, Khaled Al-Batsh, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad, called on Egypt to resume the negotiations immediately “to pressure the Israeli enemy into stopping its aggression on Palestinians”, the state-run Egyptian MENA news agency reported.Al-Batsh held Israel responsible for the latest escalation, which he regarded as a breach of the Egyptian-brokered truce, stressing that the Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves against “Israeli aggression”.Thursday’s meeting came a day after a gunfight erupted on the border with Israeli soldiers, leaving one soldier critically wounded. Israel responded by eliminating a senior Hamas terrorist.Last weekend, Gaza terrorists fired a rocket at Israel last Friday in a breach of the truce with Israel, in at least the third such rocket attack since the ceasefire that ended Operation Protective Edge in August.In response to the rocket attack, the IAF struck Gaza concrete factories used to rebuild the terror tunnels leading into Israel and built to attack Israeli civilians. Over 30 such tunnels were destroyed in the operation, but since it ended Hamas has been busily rebuilding them.Hamas has denied that the sniper who carried out Wednesday morning's attack against IDF soldiers was one of its members, but Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made clear that Israel holds Hamas responsible for anything that happens in Gaza and would firmly respond to any violations of the ceasefire.The Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, the so-called “military wing” of the Popular Resistance Committees, said during Thursday’s press conference that Israel "shall pay the price of violating the terms of the truce", adding that its members would "respond immediately to any act of aggression."An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire reached on August 26 ended the 50-day Operation Protective Edge.
Shots Fired at Kosher Restaurant in Paris-Shots from an air gun fired at a kosher restaurant in Paris. Window damaged, but no injuries.By Ben Ariel-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 12:13 AM-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Just days after fire was opened at a synagogue in Paris, a kosher restaurant in the same city was attacked in a similar manner.According to the French-language JSSNews, an air gun was fired towards the Al Haeche kosher restaurant in the 19th district of the French capital.The attack took place overnight Tuesday, and the owner of the restaurant discovered a bullet hole in his window on Wednesday morning, around 7:00 a.m.The damage was minimal and there were no injuries, noted JSSNews, adding that the same type of gun was used in attack earlier this week on the David Ben Ichay synagogue.The Bureau for National Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) condemned the incident and added, “We describe it as anti-Semitic because it was deliberately aimed at a kosher restaurant.”The BNVCA noted that the restaurant and the synagogue are located within one kilometer of one another, and that the weapon used in both attacks was an air pistol."Regardless of the projectile, the BNVCA considers the intention and gesture to be criminal and anti-Jewish,” said the organization.France has seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitism in recent years, and it flared particularly during this past summer's Operation Protective Edge, with violent protests in Paris.In one incident, hundreds of Muslim extremists attacked a major synagogue in Paris, provoking clashes with Jewish youths who rushed to defend the site and worshippers trapped inside.Earlier this month there was a shocking robbery and rape attack committed against a young Jewish couple in Paris, which has led French politicians to condemn the steep rise of anti-Semitism.Recent attacks have also targeted non-Jews. On Saturday, knife-wielding Bertrand Nzohabonayo attacked French police in a suburb of Tours while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is greater), leaving two officers seriously injured before being shot dead.Then on Sunday, another man also yelled "Allahu Akbar" before ramming his vehicle into dozens of pedestrians in the eastern French city of Dijon. Thirteen people were injured in that incident, but officials brushed it off claiming no link to terrorism. The story repeated itself on Monday, when a van rammed into shoppers at a Christmas market in the western city of Nantes, injuring at least ten people. There again, the driver shouted "Allahu Akbar."
Israeli court orders state to raze West Bank outpost-Associated Press-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's supreme court has ordered Israeli authorities to demolish one of the oldest and most contentious Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank.The court on Thursday said the hilltop outpost of Amona must be evacuated within two years.Amona was established in 1995 on private Palestinian land without Israeli government permission.In 2006, Israeli police demolished nine homes at the outpost, setting off a bloody clash of settlers and supporters against police and soldiers. Several dozen trailers have remained.The government put off dismantling the rest of the outpost, despite court deadlines. Settlers also claimed to have retroactively bought some of the land where the outpost sits, though the Palestinian landowners claim some of those sales were fictitious.Palestinians want to establish a state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Liberman: 'Mysterious Forces' Are Always Trying to Hurt Us-Yisrael Beytenu chairman says his party is being targeted by police before every election, vows his party "will come out strong".By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 8:21 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, on Friday addressed the massive corruption scandal exposed this week and to which members of his party have been linked.30 senior figures, including Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum and former Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, both of Yisrael Beytenu, have been brought in for investigation for involvement in corruption.A gag order was released on the case Wednesday morning, revealing that the suspects apparently illegally allocated budgets to NPOs and different sources, transferred funds to regional council organizations, and laundered money through "straw company" fronts.In a post on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon, Liberman blamed “mysterious forces” which, he said, always interfere in Yisrael Beytenu’s campaign before every election."I'm certain of the innocence of all our friends, and stress again that one should not rush to decide the fate of the people,” he said."Only those who are lazy will not think why and how, time after time, and without exception, before each election, 'mysterious forces' intervene and violate the right of Yisrael Beytenu to a fair campaign. As far as Yisrael Beytenu is concerned - there are no elections without investigation," wrote Liberman.He further noted that "in a democratic society a person is innocent until proven otherwise” and added, “I also strongly reject the attempt to tarnish Yisrael Beytenu as a whole. We've known how to deal with this every time and we came out stronger; this time, too, we will come out strong and we will continue to work for the security and unity of the State of Israel.”Earlier this week, after the corruption scandal was exposed, Liberman "played dumb" and, speaking at forum, said, "I'm not familiar with the case beyond what I heard in the news and I have nothing to add."Addressing the audience sarcastically, he continued, "If there are those who are disappointed they should leave the hall now, because on this topic I have nothing to enlighten or oppose the opinions of others."Before the last elections, Liberman was forced to resign from his position as Foreign Minister, after the Attorney General decided to indict him on charges of fraud and breach of trust.A three-judge panel unanimously acquitted Liberman of the charges against him last November, and he subsequently returned to office as Foreign Minister.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Liberman: 'Mysterious Forces' Are Always Trying to Hurt Us-Yisrael Beytenu chairman says his party is being targeted by police before every election, vows his party "will come out strong".By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 8:21 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, on Friday addressed the massive corruption scandal exposed this week and to which members of his party have been linked.
30 senior figures, including Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum and former Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, both of Yisrael Beytenu, have been brought in for investigation for involvement in corruption.A gag order was released on the case Wednesday morning, revealing that the suspects apparently illegally allocated budgets to NPOs and different sources, transferred funds to regional council organizations, and laundered money through "straw company" fronts.In a post on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon, Liberman blamed “mysterious forces” which, he said, always interfere in Yisrael Beytenu’s campaign before every election."I'm certain of the innocence of all our friends, and stress again that one should not rush to decide the fate of the people,” he said."Only those who are lazy will not think why and how, time after time, and without exception, before each election, 'mysterious forces' intervene and violate the right of Yisrael Beytenu to a fair campaign. As far as Yisrael Beytenu is concerned - there are no elections without investigation," wrote Liberman.He further noted that "in a democratic society a person is innocent until proven otherwise” and added, “I also strongly reject the attempt to tarnish Yisrael Beytenu as a whole. We've known how to deal with this every time and we came out stronger; this time, too, we will come out strong and we will continue to work for the security and unity of the State of Israel.”Earlier this week, after the corruption scandal was exposed, Liberman "played dumb" and, speaking at forum, said, "I'm not familiar with the case beyond what I heard in the news and I have nothing to add."Addressing the audience sarcastically, he continued, "If there are those who are disappointed they should leave the hall now, because on this topic I have nothing to enlighten or oppose the opinions of others."Before the last elections, Liberman was forced to resign from his position as Foreign Minister, after the Attorney General decided to indict him on charges of fraud and breach of trust.A three-judge panel unanimously acquitted Liberman of the charges against him last November, and he subsequently returned to office as Foreign Minister.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
12/25/2014-THE VATICAN INSIDER-The Pope remembers the ‘abused children, killed before they see the light’ and ‘slaughtered’-Pope Francis-In the Urbi et Orbi Christmas message, Pope Francis asks for hope, closeness and aid for the exiles and refugees. He asks for peace in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine and remembers the Ebola victims-ANDREA TORNIELLI
Città del Vaticano-‘Humble people, full of hope in the goodness of God, are those who welcome Jesus and recognize him,.. Jesus is the salvation for every person and for every people!’ Pope Francis said this in his Urbi et Orbi Christmas message, which he gave at midday today from the central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica before a very crowded square. In his message, the Pope spoke strong words about the tragedy of abused children, killed in their mothers’ wombs and slaughtered by bombs.Firstly, the Pope talked about the situation in the Middle East. ‘I ask him, the Saviour of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria, who for too long now have suffered the effects of ongoing conflict, and who, together with those belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, are suffering a brutal persecution. May Christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region and from the whole world. May indifference be changed into closeness and rejection into hospitality, so that all who now are suffering may receive the necessary humanitarian help to overcome the rigours of winter, return to their countries and live with dignity’.Francis asked that peace be granted to the entire Middle Eastern region, starting from the Holy Land, wishing that ‘the efforts of those committed effectively to dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians’ may be sustained.The Pope added: ‘May Jesus, Saviour of the world, protect all who suffer in Ukraine, and grant that their beloved land may overcome tensions, conquer hatred and violence, and set out on a new journey of fraternity and reconciliation’. Francis then remembered Nigeria, ‘where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed’. He then said: ‘I invoke peace also on the other parts of the African continent, thinking especially of Libya, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and various regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I beseech all who have political responsibility to commit themselves through dialogue to overcoming differences and to building a lasting, fraternal coexistence’.The Pope then asked the Child of Bethlehem to save ‘the vast numbers of children who are victims of violence, made objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers’. ‘The Child Jesus. My thoughts turn to all those children today who are killed and ill-treated, be they infants killed in the womb, deprived of that generous love of their parents and then buried in the egoism of a culture that does not love life; be they children displaced due to war and persecution, abused and taken advantage of before our very eyes and our complicit silence. I think also of those infants massacred in bomb attacks, also those where the Son of God was born. Even today, their impotent silence cries out under the sword of so many Herods. On their-blood stands the shadow of contemporary Herods’.He also to asked Jesus to comfort ‘the families of the children killed in Pakistan last week’, and be close to ‘all who suffer from illness, especially the victims of the Ebola epidemic, above all in Liberia, in Sierra Leone and in Guinea’. Francis thanked those who ‘are courageously dedicated to assisting the sick and their family members’ and renewed his ‘urgent’ appeal to provide the ‘necessary assistance and treatment.’Pope Francis ended by saying that ‘there are so many tears this Christmas, together with the tears of the Infant Jesus… May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. May this divine power, by its meekness, take away the hardness of heart of so many men and women immersed in worldliness and indifference, the globalisation of indifference. May his redeeming strength transform arms into ploughshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness. Then we will be able to cry out with joy: “Our eyes have seen your salvation”’.
12/26/2014-THE VATICAN INSIDER-‘May the sacrifice of the martyrs strengthen the commitment to freedom of belief’-Pope Francis in the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day-In the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day, Pope Francis exhorts Christians to remain coherent with the faith they profess-GIACOMO GALEAZZI
vatican city-‘Those persecuted for their faith are at the heart of the Chruch. Not those Christians who live as pagans’. Francis turns the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day into a collective prayer for the persecuted Christians and stigmatises the ‘fake Christmas that tastes sickly-sweet’. Today’s feast day for the first Christian martyr, the deacon Stephen, ‘shows us how to fully live the Christmas mystery’, says the Pope, highlighting Jesus’ words to his disciples at the moment when he sends them on a mission, which we read in the liturgy of this feast day. Jesus says ‘Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved’, even if they ‘do not upset Christmas celebrations, they divest it of that fake sickly- sweet cover that does not belong to them’.‘The let us understand that, in the trials we accept because of faith, violence is defeated by love, death by life’.The faithful, gathered in St. Peter’s square for the Angelus, sang out ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Hooray for the Pope’ as a homage to Francis. According to the Pope, ‘in order to welcome Jesus truly in our life, and prolong the joy of the Holy Night, the way is that which is indicated in this Gospel, namely to give testimony to Jesus in humility, silent service and with no fear of going against the current and paying the price personally’. Therefore, ‘although not everyone is called, like St. Stephen, to spill their blood, every Christian is called to be coherent in every circumstance with the faith he professes’.Moreover, ‘following the Gospel is definitely a demanding path, but great, really great, and those who walk on this path with loyalty and courage receive the promised gift from God to men and women of good will, as the Angels sang on Christmas Day: “Peace, peace!”. This peace given by God is able to clear the conscience of those who, through the trials of life, know how to welcome the Word of God and are committed to observing it to the end’.On this day, when the Catholic Church remembers its first martyr, St. Stephen, the religious news website Il Sismografo, reports that the appeals of the faithful, the bishops and the newspapers were useless. The Police of the Guerrero state, in Mexico, has confirmed the discovery of the body of Father Gregorio López Gorostieta, kidnapped last Monday while he was in his room in the seminary of Ciudad Altamirano. The terrible discovery happened in the Tlapehuala municipality, which counts 9 thousand citizens, not far from the place where, weeks ago, the body of a missionary from Uganda, called Father John Ssenyondo, was found, who had been kidnapped last 30th of April too.With the murder of Father López Gorostieta, the number priests killed in Mexico in 2014 goes up to three; 12 throughout the whole American continent. In Peru, last Wednesday, Father Alfonso Comina Zevallos – 56 years old - was killed in the course of a violent robbery. Pope Francis’ words about ‘Christian coherence’ will remain as a warning. ‘Christian coherence is a grace that we must ask for to the Lord; to be coherent, to live as Christians, and not only to say we are Christians while living as pagans’.The Pope wishes that, in every corner of the globe, the commitment to recognising and actively ensuring freedom of belief, which is an ‘inalienable right of every human being’. To the martyrs of the third millennium, Francis guarantees that the universal Church will pray for ‘those who are persecuted, discriminated and even killed because of their testimony to Christ’. Moreover, to each of them he says that ‘if you carry this cross with love, you will join in the Christmas mystery; you will be at the heart of Christ and the Church’.From St. Peter’s square, filled with the faithful, a prayer rises up ‘so that, thanks to the sacrifice of today’s martyrs’, namely those who are discriminated and persecuted because of their Christian faith, ‘the commitment in every part of the world strengthens to recognise and actively ensure freedom of belief, which is an inalienable right of every human being’. Lastly, the Pope remembered that ‘in these weeks, I have received many wishes from Rome, Italy and every part of the world. Since it is not possible for me to answer each one of them, I now express to you all my heartfelt thanks, especially for the gift of your prayer. Thank you sincerely! May the Lord recompense you for your generosity’.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Four EU countries in top 10 world economies-Today @ 09:28-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Four European countries are in the world’s 10 largest economies, according to research by the Centre for Economic and Business Research.The annual World Economic League Table 2015 published on Friday (26 December) by the London-based think tank puts the US as the world’s main economic powerhouse, followed by China and Japan.Germany, the UK and France take the fourth, fifth and sixth spots, respectively, with Italy, in the eighth place, the only other EU country in the top 10.The UK has edged ahead of France into fifth place in this year's rankings, although the Cebr comments that the $1 billion (€850 million) gap in output between the two countries is “well within the margin of error” and would likely be extinguished if France's markets in drugs and prostitution, which “may prove to be 'larger than their British counterparts”, were included.In June, the UK economy received a statistical boost of £65 billion (€80 billion) following the introduction of new EU accounting rules allowing the so-called ‘grey economy’, which includes proceeds from drug trafficking and prostitution, to be recorded.Meanwhile, Russia is the main loser in the new list, dropping from eighth place to tenth in the rankings, with Cebr chief executive Douglas McWilliams suggesting that Moscow’s role in the ongoing Ukraine conflict was a factor in the country’s economic decline.“The fun of the world economic league table is that it brings things back to hard figures,” said McWilliams.He added that “countries like Russia and Argentina, who have invaded neighbouring countries and whose leaders spout aggressively nationalistic rhetoric, are brought down to earth by their falls in the league table as their economies collapse".The Russian economy is poised to endure a 4.5 percent recession in 2015 as a result of falling oil prices and the effects of western sanctions.Last week the country’s central bank was forced to spent around €3 billion of its foreign currency reserves to prevent a run on the rouble currency.But the next 15 years are likely to be about the continuing rise of some of the 'Bric' countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China.China is projected to overtake the US by 2025 as the world’s largest economy, the Cebr forecasts, while the "unstoppable" rise of India will see it become the world’s third-largest economy by 2024.In Europe, meanwhile, Cebr predicts that Germany’s ageing and declining population, coupled with the weakness of the euro, will allow the UK to overtake it by 2030.
Germany split on how to handle Russian rouble crisis-Today @ 09:54-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Dominant figures on the right and left in Berlin have voiced different views on how the EU should handle Russia’s rouble crisis.Wolfgang Schaeuble, the finance minister from the centre-right CDU party in the grand coalition, showed little sympathy in an interview with the Rheinische Post daily on Christmas eve (24 December).“Of course, we are concerned about the developments in Russia … But that doesn’t mean we accept that Russia can impose its interests by military means. The annexation of Crimea and Russia’s permanent violation of the ceasefire in Ukraine cannot remain without consequences. I hope every day that Russia will return to co-operation with the West, but until then we are sticking to the sanctions”, Schaeuble said.Asked what consequences a Russian default could have for Europe, he said only that: “It is up to Moscow to prevent them”.But the centre-left SPD’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking in Der Spiegel one day earlier, said a Russian economic collapse is dangerous. Steinmeier noted that the current situation “can’t allow us to go straight back to business as usual”.But he added: “I'm worried. This is why I oppose any further tightening of the sanctions. Anyone who wants to bring the Russian economy to its knees is completely mistaken if they think that this will bring about greater security in Europe”.“It cannot be in our interests for this to spiral completely out of control. We should bear this in mind in our sanctions policy”.Steinmeier said the EU and Nato should hold more talks with Russia to alleviate its trade concerns and to avoid an accidental military confrontation.“Even during the coldest days of the Cold War, these types of talks [between Nato and Russia military experts] were held. What manoeuvres, movements of troops, and overflights are taking place? We need to talk about such things”, he noted.He also ruled out the idea of Ukraine joining Nato in the near future.“This [Ukraine accession] wasn’t even raised at the last Nato council meeting [in September], let alone debated. Sometimes what is not said at a summit is also important”.The German comments came ahead of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Minsk on Christmas eve and an EU foreign ministers’ debate on Russia sanctions on 19 January.The peace talks broke off without a result, but are expected to resume on Friday.Meanwhile, the Russian rouble stabilised this week after plunging to record lows against the dollar.But a leading US ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, warned on Thursday (25 December) it might downgrade Russian bonds to “junk” in January. Dmitry Polevoy, the ING Bank’s chief economist on Russia, also told Reuters that “near-term prospects for the rouble remain highly uncertain”.The currency crisis has seen the price of basic commodities, such as bread, rise steeply in 2014.The main cause is a slump in oil prices. But EU sanctions on Russian banks and energy firms are making matters worse by stopping the blacklisted firms from buying debt on international markets.Three listed banks - Sberbank, Vnesheconombank, and VTB - have challenged the EU measures in the EU court in Luxembourg on technical grounds.The EU recently suffered several legal defeats on sanctions, including on Iran and on the Palestinian militant group Hamas, due to lack of hard evidence.But cases take two years or more to reach a verdict and no listed company has ever won financial damages from the EU tribunal.
Who governs the online world?-Today @ 21:10-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The Internet feels like it has always been with us and it is easy to forget just how recently it became part of public consciousness.The number of regular web-users has increased from 150 million in 1998 to over 3 billion, and technologists see no reason why this number cannot swell up to 7 billion over the next few years.The brainchild of engineers such as Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn from the 1970s onwards, the net has also tended to be run by the engineers that created it. Its governance was left to the experts. Politicians were kept out.But in recent years online governance has become increasingly political. The debates on net neutrality, data privacy, cyber security, and the future of the Internet’s governing structure have risen up the political agenda.A public backlash against the anti-counterfeit treaty Acta, which is primarily about protecting intellectual property rights, but which became ingrained in the public psyche as an Internet power grab by governments and service providers, led the European Parliament to veto the treaty in July 2012.Meanwhile, the revelations by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden last summer of mass data capture and surveillance by US security authorities prompted widespread public anger and questions about how our data is collected and used by governments.If there is little indication that it has stopped people from using the web, there is evidence that the NSA scandal has had a detrimental effect on the online economy, where consumer trust and security is a prerequisite.A report published this spring by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, estimated that the US cloud industry faces up to €25.8 billion in lost revenues.It also has implications for the methods and structures used to govern the Internet.In March the US Department of Commerce signalled that it wants to scale down its role in Internet governance, outlining plans to end its contract in September 2015 with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has been charged with managing domain names since the late 1990s.For its part, in a paper entitled "Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" the previous European Commission headed by Jose Manuel Barroso signalled its support for an international group to replace the San Francisco-based ICANN and warned that the web should not be allowed to "unravel into a series of regional or national networks”.Meanwhile, other governments and analysts have mooted the possibility of a international forum based loosely based on the model of the UN Security Council, although this idea has been resisted by most of the technologist and business community.Mark Raymond, assistant professor at the university of Oklahoma in the US says that consumers are “no longer happy to leave [Internet governance] to the experts”.“It is too important to leave to engineers”, he told EUoberver at a conference on Internet governance organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Brussels in December.If there appears to be agreement among politicians, civil society, and industry that Internet governance needs updating, there is no sign of a consensus on what this brave new cyber-world should look like.“How can we get to a global consensus when the parties can’t even agree on the procedures to draw up the rules?” Raymond asks.“There is a risk that Internet governance is a canary in a coal mine,” he adds, worrying that failure to reach international agreement “may indicate that we can’t agree on governance in other international policy fields.”Speaking at the same conference, one of the Internet founding fathers - Cerf - argued that the Internet’s history has been one of only creating new institutions and governing structures “when there is an apparent need” rather than in response to political pressure.Cerf says the Internet operates in a "post-Westphalian world", a reference to the peace treaty agreed by France and the Habsburg family in 1648 which brought an end to the Thirty Years war and ushered in the concept of state sovereignty which has shaped the modern world.The Internet does not respect national borders, Cerf believes, explaining that this was “very deliberate in the original design of the network.”The result of this is that “things that happen on the net are all of our responsibility no matter where they happen”.It also means that national or even European regulation can have little effect other than to fragment the online world.Lawmakers are learning this as they shape their responses to the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling by the European Court of Justice in May, which judged that the EU’s data protection laws give Europeans the right to demand that search engines delete results based on a person’s name if the data is irrelevant, out of date, inaccurate, or an invasion of privacy.This rule may apply in Europe, but there is nothing to prevent the same material being available elsewhere in the world.Can the Internet survive if politicians, engineers, the business community and activists cannot agree on how it should be run? The technologist community appears comfortable that a system which has seen its network of users increase by a factor of nearly 30 in less than two decades will not collapse any time soon.“We would hope that our systems are capable for surviving without consensus,” says Cerf. “There will be a lumpy kind of Internet if we cannot reach agreement but it will still work. It has to work even when it’s broken.”
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Japan says close to deal with South Korea and U.S. on North Korea defense-Reuters-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, the United States and South Korea are close to reaching a deal on sharing and safeguarding sensitive information on North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, Japan's Defence Ministry said on Friday.As Japan lies well within the range of North Korea's mid-range missiles, acquiring military intelligence on North Korea in a timely manner is vital for its security."Ever since defense ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed on the importance of information sharing in May, discussion has taken place at various levels," a Japanese Defence Ministry official told a media briefing."And now we are in the final stages toward signing."Under the framework, South Korea would pass relevant information to the United States, with which Seoul already has a legally-binding pact to share and safeguard intelligence called General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), and then the U.S. would pass the information onto Japan.It would also work the other way around as the United States has signed a GSOMIA with Japan as well.Some South Koreans have voiced concerns about signing a security pact with Japan, a one-time colonial ruler. Besides Japan's annexation of Korean peninsula that ended in 1945, bilateral ties have been plagued by a prolonged territorial dispute over a group of tiny islets.(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Russia's new military doctrine names NATO as key risk-Reuters-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine, naming NATO expansion among key external risks, the Kremlin said on Friday, days after Ukraine made fresh steps to join the Atlantic military alliance.Moscow's previous military doctrine, signed by Putin in 2010, also identified NATO expansion as a top risk to Russia, but the stakes have risen sharply over the past year.Russia said this week NATO was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties if Ukraine's hopes of joining NATO were realized.The Kiev parliament's renunciation of Ukraine's neutral status on Tuesday in pursuit of NATO membership has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula this year.NATO has already boosted its military presence in eastern Europe this year, saying it has evidence that Russia orchestrated and armed a pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine that followed the overthrow of a Kremlin-backed president in Kiev.Moscow denies supporting the rebellion, and is currently trying, along with Kiev and the rebels, to renew efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.It is likely to take years for Ukraine to meet the technical criteria for accession to NATO and, even then, there is no certainty that the alliance is ready to take such a decision.A NATO official said on Friday the alliance respected the move by Ukraine's parliament, and so should Russia."Should Ukraine decide to apply for NATO membership, NATO will assess its readiness to join the Alliance in the same way as with any candidate. This is an issue between NATO and the individual countries aspiring to membership."(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova, additional reporting by Barbara Lewis in Brussels; Writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Alexander Winning)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
37 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-12-26 15:19:54 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)37 earthquakes in map area
2.5 71km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2014-12-26 13:19:10 UTC-05:00 3.6 km
2.9 6km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-26 13:03:37 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 4km SSE of Bouinan, Algeria 2014-12-26 12:55:17 UTC-05:00 7.4 km
3.0 18km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2014-12-26 12:12:57 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
4.8 58km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-26 11:38:28 UTC-05:00 80.8 km
4.2 9km SE of Obama, Japan 2014-12-26 08:30:35 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 129km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia 2014-12-26 08:00:09 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.8 132km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 07:20:21 UTC-05:00 71.0 km
4.8 122km SE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2014-12-26 06:17:10 UTC-05:00 45.2 km
2.9 68km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 04:08:33 UTC-05:00 44.0 km
2.9 76km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 04:00:33 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
2.8 77km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:56:59 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.9 74km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:50:48 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
3.1 72km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:47:43 UTC-05:00 17.0 km
2.6 66km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:45:30 UTC-05:00 62.0 km
3.2 77km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:42:01 UTC-05:00 26.0 km
2.5 2km SW of Pahala, Hawaii 2014-12-26 02:30:55 UTC-05:00 33.9 km
4.9 27km ESE of Xegar, China 2014-12-26 02:08:09 UTC-05:00 49.0 km
4.8 150km SW of Nayun, China 2014-12-26 01:07:09 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.9 99km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu 2014-12-25 23:58:48 UTC-05:00 65.9 km
4.2 40km S of Jarm, Afghanistan 2014-12-25 23:26:30 UTC-05:00 163.5 km
3.0 77km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-12-25 22:54:18 UTC-05:00 28.0 km
2.9 6km WNW of The Geysers, California 2014-12-25 22:44:29 UTC-05:00 2.1 km
4.9 150km ENE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2014-12-25 20:49:07 UTC-05:00 32.9 km
2.8 5km SE of Anthony, Kansas 2014-12-25 20:12:09 UTC-05:00 5.7 km
4.6 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-25 20:02:25 UTC-05:00 526.7 km
4.8 Mid-Indian Ridge 2014-12-25 19:55:01 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 87km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska 2014-12-25 19:09:32 UTC-05:00 58.7 km
2.6 20km ENE of Avalon, California 2014-12-25 18:54:43 UTC-05:00 1.7 km
3.9 21km ENE of Perry, Oklahoma 2014-12-25 18:11:36 UTC-05:00 2.0 km
2.7 52km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-12-25 18:05:18 UTC-05:00 50.0 km
5.0 108km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-12-25 17:53:26 UTC-05:00 7.7 km
2.8 19km SE of Yosemite Valley, California 2014-12-25 17:20:44 UTC-05:00 0.8 km
4.2 48km SW of Ovalle, Chile 2014-12-25 17:11:33 UTC-05:00 68.0 km
2.9 17km NE of Noatak, Alaska 2014-12-25 17:07:16 UTC-05:00 20.7 km
3.8 5km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-25 15:32:49 UTC-05:00 4.5 km
2.5 46km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-12-25 15:29:18 UTC-05:00 202.4 km
HAPPY 44TH OR 45TH BIRTHDAY NATHALIE T.IN MONTRAL QUEBEC.DEC 27,2014
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
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 9:26-27
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)
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).
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
Erekat: Vote in UN Later Today or Monday-PA chief negotiator says the Security Council would vote on unilateral resolution later Friday or on Monday at the latest.By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 10:06 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Friday that the United Nations (UN) Security Council would vote on the PA’s resolution calling for Israel to “end the occupation” later Friday or on Monday at the latest.According to a report on Kol Yisrael government radio, Erekat said that some revisions have been made to the original text of the resolution in recent days. The final wording has not yet been made public.The original text of the draft resolution calls for Israel to “end the occupation” - that is, to withdraw from Judea and Samaria - by 2017.The draft resolution would set a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final settlement and the end of 2017 as the time frame for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.That text, however, was unacceptable to several countries, including Luxembourg and France, and diplomatic sources estimated this week that the vote on the unilateral resolution is likely to be postponed because of those countries’ objection to the text.Erekat had indicated on Tuesday that he believed the Security Council would vote on the resolution even before the end of 2014.On Thursday, Russia said it intends to support the draft resolution.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said his country “would like to see a text that will satisfy all the 15 members of the UN Security Council and be truly oriented towards practical results, such as the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, the beginning of the negotiating process and the resolution of all problems.”"In our opinion, it is important that all members of the Security Council support it [this resolution]," stressed Gatilov.Even if the resolution passes the vote at the Security Council, it is presumed that the United States would veto it.While Secretary of State John Kerry has not publicly stated that Washington would use its veto against the resolution, his spokeswoman said last week the United States will not support the resolution.Washington has seen the text of the draft resolution and "it is not something that we would support," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "We think others feel the same and we are calling for further consultations. The Palestinians understand that."(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Erdogan to Europe: Don't Criticize Us, Fight Islamophobia-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slams European countries for criticizing deteriorating press freedom in Turkey.By Ben Ariel, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 10:33 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed European countries for criticizing deteriorating press freedom in Turkey, Reuters reported, saying they should instead try to find a solution for what the increasing Islamophobia in Europe.Turkish police earlier this month raided media outlets close to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan accuses of forming a 'parallel state' to undermine his rule and orchestrating a graft scandal targeting his inner circle.The European Union, which Turkey has been seeking to join for decades, said the media raids ran counter to European values, a criticism already dismissed by Erdogan. On Friday, the President repeated his discontent, with a visibly harsher tone."We are not Europe's scapegoat," Erdogan told a symposium of civil servants."We are definitely not a country that Europe can point its finger at and scold. Instead of criticizing us, Europe should find a solution to increasing racism and Islamophobia," he charged.Erdogan made reference to an incident in the German city of Dormagen, where ultra nationalists drew Nazi signs on the walls of a mosque construction, according to reports in Turkish local media earlier this week.Erdogan, whose AK Party was elected in 2002, introduced many democratic reforms in his first years in power and curbed army involvement in politics.NATO allies often cited Turkey as an example of a successful Muslim democracy, but more recently critics have accused Erdogan of intolerance of dissent.The crackdown came almost a year to the day after Erdogan's government was rocked by stunning corruption allegations that the authorities denied and blamed on Gulen.The corruption probe, opened on December 17, 2013, saw the arrests of dozens of leading businessmen and political figures close to Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time.Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came under mounting pressure during that time, especially when audio recordings were leaked in which Erdogan and his son allegedly discuss how to hide vast sums of money.In response to the leaked recordings, Erdogan threatened to ban websites such as YouTube and Facebook.His rant against Europe came two days after police in Turkey arrested a 16-year-old student on charges of insulting Erdogan.The teen was arrested on Wednesday after criticizing the AKP during a speech at a student protest in the central Anatolian city of Konya. However, reports on Friday indicated he had been released.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Former Shin Bet Chief: Right-wing Parties are 'Destructive'-Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin launches Facebook tirade against Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu.By Uzi Baruch-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 3:14 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin on Thursday attacked the Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu parties ahead of the March elections.In a post on his Facebook page, Diskin warned that the three are “destructive” to Israel’s future."Each of us needs to ask himself whether he wants to continue down the current path to which we were led by the past right-wing governments, a path which is leading us into a bi-national state, deepening international isolation, the possibility of increasing international sanctions which would severely harm Israel, to growing extremist religion, to deepening racism, to increasing social inequalities, to further damage to the weak and to a lack of a future to our wonderful young people in Israel,” he wrote.Diskin continued by saying that "the combination of the road to nowhere of Jewish Home, the no way of the Likud and the dangerous cynicism of Yisrael Beytenu is destructive to the country's future.”“Anyone who agrees that this road leads us to a reality that endangers the very future of the nation and the state, should demand from parties in the moderate right (Kahlon?), the center and left in the state of Israel, to join forces while forging an agreement on a number of guidelines that they will undertake for their voters,” he added.Diskin has already stated that he has no intention to run in the upcoming elections to the Knesset, despite rumors to the contrary, but that he does plan to be a part of overthrowing the Netanyahu government."We must insist - and not accept any excuses - from the heads of center and left parties to put their egos aside, and unite around the goal to bring us to this road," Diskin wrote several weeks ago."And if we see that one of them does not give up his/her ego - we will organize and ourselves and 'punish' him/her at the polls in the most obvious was possible," he added."I plan to join forces in the near future with many good people I met working outside of the party system to help allow this to happen. I also call on everyone to be part of this effort."Since leaving office, Diskin has launched many verbal attacks against Netanyahu and his government. One such attack came last March, when the former Shin Bet chief accused the members of the coalition of "abandoning the country.""The sane centrist (parties) are abandoning the country to a hollow party of the shallow right-wing (Likud), controlled by a band of extreme firebrands that signed a pact with the Yesh Atid party - which engraved on its flag 'equality of burden' and removed it from among us - and with the national religious Jewish Home party, in whose eyes unity of the land is more important than unity of the people," charged Diskin in a column in Yedioth Ahronoth.Last December, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office responded to Diskin's various verbal attacks by saying, "Netanyahu will not be affected by recycled statements or by righteous preaching arising from the personal frustration of someone who wanted to be appointed head of the Mossad by Netanyahu and did not get the position."The response came after Diskin claimed there were "too many Jews" in Judea and Samaria for it to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority (PA), calling on Israel to be a country "which prefers the sanctity of its people over the sanctity of its land," and which "does not feel it has to occupy others' land."
Nationalist MKs Slam High Court's Decision on Amona-Nationalist MKs criticize High Court's decision that the new community of Amona be demolished within two years.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 3:45 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Nationalist MKs attacked on Thursday evening the decision of the High Court that the new community of Amona in the Shomron (Samaria) be demolished within two years.In its decision, the Court said that despite the facts that the details of ownership of land have not yet been fully established, “the homes in Amona are built on private land and there is no way to legalize their presence. The IDF commander of Judea and Samaria must actively protect the property rights of all residents, and that includes preventing unauthorized parties from taking property that does not belong to them. Construction of homes by such parties on private land is illegal and in lieu of any other arrangement they must be torn down.”The court, in a decision written by Chief Justice Asher Grunis, rejected claims by Amona residents that they had legally purchased the land. Even if they had, Grunis said, the homes there were built without permits or licenses from planning commissions and other legal bodies whose approval is required for construction.Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein said the decision is "difficult, painful and infuriating.”“Along with the adherence to the rule of law it was expected that common sense will prevail and that law enforcement would be proportionate and equal, since it is a blooming community in which many families built homes,” he said.“It is too bad that under the pretext of protecting rights, the residents are harmed again. I very much hope that the time allotted will allow for a reasonable and humane solution for the families,” added Edelstein.Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) responded to the decision as well, saying, “A situation in which a city or neighborhood are uprooted because of a dispute over ownership of the land is intolerable. A similar dispute in northern Tel Aviv or Kfar Saba would have ended in giving compensation or an alternate land to the owners, and in no way would a neighborhood in Kfar Saba or Ramat Aviv be destroyed.”"Just as it was in Migron and in the Ulpana neighborhood [in the town of Beit El], here too the result is contrary to the laws of logic and elementary morality," he added.Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis called on the government to adopt the report written by the late Judge Edmond Levy, which concluded that there is no “occupation” and international law allows Jews to live in Judea and Samaria, as its status was not that of a nation in 1967."It is indeed unfortunate that the Supreme Court has yet again issued rulings that run against the legitimacy of the establishing of new communities. The government needs to immediately adopt the report of Justice Edmond Levy, in order that a clear and immediate response to a ruling such as this," Akunis said.MK Danny Danon (Likud) said that “the lack of proportionality in the decision is very jarring. The matter could have been settled with financial compensation instead of destroying an entire town.”MK Yariv Levin (Likud) said, "The High Court justices are once again trampling the basic principles of Israel, and are blatantly and inappropriately interfering, under the guise of protecting rights, in decisions that have nothing to do with them.”
Palestinian Factions Call for Resumption of Ceasefire Talks-Palestinian Arab factions, meeting in Gaza, call on Egypt to resume its status as broker in the negotiations to maintain a Gaza ceasefire. By Ben Ariel-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 1:14 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Palestinian Arab factions on Thursday called on Egypt to resume its status as broker in the negotiations between them and Israel to maintain a Gaza ceasefire, the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper reported.The factions met in Gaza to discuss what was described “Israeli violations”In a press conference after the meeting, Khaled Al-Batsh, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad, called on Egypt to resume the negotiations immediately “to pressure the Israeli enemy into stopping its aggression on Palestinians”, the state-run Egyptian MENA news agency reported.Al-Batsh held Israel responsible for the latest escalation, which he regarded as a breach of the Egyptian-brokered truce, stressing that the Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves against “Israeli aggression”.Thursday’s meeting came a day after a gunfight erupted on the border with Israeli soldiers, leaving one soldier critically wounded. Israel responded by eliminating a senior Hamas terrorist.Last weekend, Gaza terrorists fired a rocket at Israel last Friday in a breach of the truce with Israel, in at least the third such rocket attack since the ceasefire that ended Operation Protective Edge in August.In response to the rocket attack, the IAF struck Gaza concrete factories used to rebuild the terror tunnels leading into Israel and built to attack Israeli civilians. Over 30 such tunnels were destroyed in the operation, but since it ended Hamas has been busily rebuilding them.Hamas has denied that the sniper who carried out Wednesday morning's attack against IDF soldiers was one of its members, but Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made clear that Israel holds Hamas responsible for anything that happens in Gaza and would firmly respond to any violations of the ceasefire.The Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, the so-called “military wing” of the Popular Resistance Committees, said during Thursday’s press conference that Israel "shall pay the price of violating the terms of the truce", adding that its members would "respond immediately to any act of aggression."An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire reached on August 26 ended the 50-day Operation Protective Edge.
Shots Fired at Kosher Restaurant in Paris-Shots from an air gun fired at a kosher restaurant in Paris. Window damaged, but no injuries.By Ben Ariel-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 12:13 AM-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Just days after fire was opened at a synagogue in Paris, a kosher restaurant in the same city was attacked in a similar manner.According to the French-language JSSNews, an air gun was fired towards the Al Haeche kosher restaurant in the 19th district of the French capital.The attack took place overnight Tuesday, and the owner of the restaurant discovered a bullet hole in his window on Wednesday morning, around 7:00 a.m.The damage was minimal and there were no injuries, noted JSSNews, adding that the same type of gun was used in attack earlier this week on the David Ben Ichay synagogue.The Bureau for National Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) condemned the incident and added, “We describe it as anti-Semitic because it was deliberately aimed at a kosher restaurant.”The BNVCA noted that the restaurant and the synagogue are located within one kilometer of one another, and that the weapon used in both attacks was an air pistol."Regardless of the projectile, the BNVCA considers the intention and gesture to be criminal and anti-Jewish,” said the organization.France has seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitism in recent years, and it flared particularly during this past summer's Operation Protective Edge, with violent protests in Paris.In one incident, hundreds of Muslim extremists attacked a major synagogue in Paris, provoking clashes with Jewish youths who rushed to defend the site and worshippers trapped inside.Earlier this month there was a shocking robbery and rape attack committed against a young Jewish couple in Paris, which has led French politicians to condemn the steep rise of anti-Semitism.Recent attacks have also targeted non-Jews. On Saturday, knife-wielding Bertrand Nzohabonayo attacked French police in a suburb of Tours while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is greater), leaving two officers seriously injured before being shot dead.Then on Sunday, another man also yelled "Allahu Akbar" before ramming his vehicle into dozens of pedestrians in the eastern French city of Dijon. Thirteen people were injured in that incident, but officials brushed it off claiming no link to terrorism. The story repeated itself on Monday, when a van rammed into shoppers at a Christmas market in the western city of Nantes, injuring at least ten people. There again, the driver shouted "Allahu Akbar."
Israeli court orders state to raze West Bank outpost-Associated Press-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's supreme court has ordered Israeli authorities to demolish one of the oldest and most contentious Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank.The court on Thursday said the hilltop outpost of Amona must be evacuated within two years.Amona was established in 1995 on private Palestinian land without Israeli government permission.In 2006, Israeli police demolished nine homes at the outpost, setting off a bloody clash of settlers and supporters against police and soldiers. Several dozen trailers have remained.The government put off dismantling the rest of the outpost, despite court deadlines. Settlers also claimed to have retroactively bought some of the land where the outpost sits, though the Palestinian landowners claim some of those sales were fictitious.Palestinians want to establish a state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Liberman: 'Mysterious Forces' Are Always Trying to Hurt Us-Yisrael Beytenu chairman says his party is being targeted by police before every election, vows his party "will come out strong".By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 8:21 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, on Friday addressed the massive corruption scandal exposed this week and to which members of his party have been linked.30 senior figures, including Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum and former Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, both of Yisrael Beytenu, have been brought in for investigation for involvement in corruption.A gag order was released on the case Wednesday morning, revealing that the suspects apparently illegally allocated budgets to NPOs and different sources, transferred funds to regional council organizations, and laundered money through "straw company" fronts.In a post on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon, Liberman blamed “mysterious forces” which, he said, always interfere in Yisrael Beytenu’s campaign before every election."I'm certain of the innocence of all our friends, and stress again that one should not rush to decide the fate of the people,” he said."Only those who are lazy will not think why and how, time after time, and without exception, before each election, 'mysterious forces' intervene and violate the right of Yisrael Beytenu to a fair campaign. As far as Yisrael Beytenu is concerned - there are no elections without investigation," wrote Liberman.He further noted that "in a democratic society a person is innocent until proven otherwise” and added, “I also strongly reject the attempt to tarnish Yisrael Beytenu as a whole. We've known how to deal with this every time and we came out stronger; this time, too, we will come out strong and we will continue to work for the security and unity of the State of Israel.”Earlier this week, after the corruption scandal was exposed, Liberman "played dumb" and, speaking at forum, said, "I'm not familiar with the case beyond what I heard in the news and I have nothing to add."Addressing the audience sarcastically, he continued, "If there are those who are disappointed they should leave the hall now, because on this topic I have nothing to enlighten or oppose the opinions of others."Before the last elections, Liberman was forced to resign from his position as Foreign Minister, after the Attorney General decided to indict him on charges of fraud and breach of trust.A three-judge panel unanimously acquitted Liberman of the charges against him last November, and he subsequently returned to office as Foreign Minister.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Liberman: 'Mysterious Forces' Are Always Trying to Hurt Us-Yisrael Beytenu chairman says his party is being targeted by police before every election, vows his party "will come out strong".By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 12/26/2014, 8:21 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, on Friday addressed the massive corruption scandal exposed this week and to which members of his party have been linked.
30 senior figures, including Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum and former Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, both of Yisrael Beytenu, have been brought in for investigation for involvement in corruption.A gag order was released on the case Wednesday morning, revealing that the suspects apparently illegally allocated budgets to NPOs and different sources, transferred funds to regional council organizations, and laundered money through "straw company" fronts.In a post on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon, Liberman blamed “mysterious forces” which, he said, always interfere in Yisrael Beytenu’s campaign before every election."I'm certain of the innocence of all our friends, and stress again that one should not rush to decide the fate of the people,” he said."Only those who are lazy will not think why and how, time after time, and without exception, before each election, 'mysterious forces' intervene and violate the right of Yisrael Beytenu to a fair campaign. As far as Yisrael Beytenu is concerned - there are no elections without investigation," wrote Liberman.He further noted that "in a democratic society a person is innocent until proven otherwise” and added, “I also strongly reject the attempt to tarnish Yisrael Beytenu as a whole. We've known how to deal with this every time and we came out stronger; this time, too, we will come out strong and we will continue to work for the security and unity of the State of Israel.”Earlier this week, after the corruption scandal was exposed, Liberman "played dumb" and, speaking at forum, said, "I'm not familiar with the case beyond what I heard in the news and I have nothing to add."Addressing the audience sarcastically, he continued, "If there are those who are disappointed they should leave the hall now, because on this topic I have nothing to enlighten or oppose the opinions of others."Before the last elections, Liberman was forced to resign from his position as Foreign Minister, after the Attorney General decided to indict him on charges of fraud and breach of trust.A three-judge panel unanimously acquitted Liberman of the charges against him last November, and he subsequently returned to office as Foreign Minister.(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
12/25/2014-THE VATICAN INSIDER-The Pope remembers the ‘abused children, killed before they see the light’ and ‘slaughtered’-Pope Francis-In the Urbi et Orbi Christmas message, Pope Francis asks for hope, closeness and aid for the exiles and refugees. He asks for peace in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine and remembers the Ebola victims-ANDREA TORNIELLI
Città del Vaticano-‘Humble people, full of hope in the goodness of God, are those who welcome Jesus and recognize him,.. Jesus is the salvation for every person and for every people!’ Pope Francis said this in his Urbi et Orbi Christmas message, which he gave at midday today from the central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica before a very crowded square. In his message, the Pope spoke strong words about the tragedy of abused children, killed in their mothers’ wombs and slaughtered by bombs.Firstly, the Pope talked about the situation in the Middle East. ‘I ask him, the Saviour of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria, who for too long now have suffered the effects of ongoing conflict, and who, together with those belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, are suffering a brutal persecution. May Christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region and from the whole world. May indifference be changed into closeness and rejection into hospitality, so that all who now are suffering may receive the necessary humanitarian help to overcome the rigours of winter, return to their countries and live with dignity’.Francis asked that peace be granted to the entire Middle Eastern region, starting from the Holy Land, wishing that ‘the efforts of those committed effectively to dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians’ may be sustained.The Pope added: ‘May Jesus, Saviour of the world, protect all who suffer in Ukraine, and grant that their beloved land may overcome tensions, conquer hatred and violence, and set out on a new journey of fraternity and reconciliation’. Francis then remembered Nigeria, ‘where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed’. He then said: ‘I invoke peace also on the other parts of the African continent, thinking especially of Libya, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and various regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I beseech all who have political responsibility to commit themselves through dialogue to overcoming differences and to building a lasting, fraternal coexistence’.The Pope then asked the Child of Bethlehem to save ‘the vast numbers of children who are victims of violence, made objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers’. ‘The Child Jesus. My thoughts turn to all those children today who are killed and ill-treated, be they infants killed in the womb, deprived of that generous love of their parents and then buried in the egoism of a culture that does not love life; be they children displaced due to war and persecution, abused and taken advantage of before our very eyes and our complicit silence. I think also of those infants massacred in bomb attacks, also those where the Son of God was born. Even today, their impotent silence cries out under the sword of so many Herods. On their-blood stands the shadow of contemporary Herods’.He also to asked Jesus to comfort ‘the families of the children killed in Pakistan last week’, and be close to ‘all who suffer from illness, especially the victims of the Ebola epidemic, above all in Liberia, in Sierra Leone and in Guinea’. Francis thanked those who ‘are courageously dedicated to assisting the sick and their family members’ and renewed his ‘urgent’ appeal to provide the ‘necessary assistance and treatment.’Pope Francis ended by saying that ‘there are so many tears this Christmas, together with the tears of the Infant Jesus… May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. May this divine power, by its meekness, take away the hardness of heart of so many men and women immersed in worldliness and indifference, the globalisation of indifference. May his redeeming strength transform arms into ploughshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness. Then we will be able to cry out with joy: “Our eyes have seen your salvation”’.
12/26/2014-THE VATICAN INSIDER-‘May the sacrifice of the martyrs strengthen the commitment to freedom of belief’-Pope Francis in the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day-In the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day, Pope Francis exhorts Christians to remain coherent with the faith they profess-GIACOMO GALEAZZI
vatican city-‘Those persecuted for their faith are at the heart of the Chruch. Not those Christians who live as pagans’. Francis turns the Angelus on St. Stephen’s Day into a collective prayer for the persecuted Christians and stigmatises the ‘fake Christmas that tastes sickly-sweet’. Today’s feast day for the first Christian martyr, the deacon Stephen, ‘shows us how to fully live the Christmas mystery’, says the Pope, highlighting Jesus’ words to his disciples at the moment when he sends them on a mission, which we read in the liturgy of this feast day. Jesus says ‘Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved’, even if they ‘do not upset Christmas celebrations, they divest it of that fake sickly- sweet cover that does not belong to them’.‘The let us understand that, in the trials we accept because of faith, violence is defeated by love, death by life’.The faithful, gathered in St. Peter’s square for the Angelus, sang out ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Hooray for the Pope’ as a homage to Francis. According to the Pope, ‘in order to welcome Jesus truly in our life, and prolong the joy of the Holy Night, the way is that which is indicated in this Gospel, namely to give testimony to Jesus in humility, silent service and with no fear of going against the current and paying the price personally’. Therefore, ‘although not everyone is called, like St. Stephen, to spill their blood, every Christian is called to be coherent in every circumstance with the faith he professes’.Moreover, ‘following the Gospel is definitely a demanding path, but great, really great, and those who walk on this path with loyalty and courage receive the promised gift from God to men and women of good will, as the Angels sang on Christmas Day: “Peace, peace!”. This peace given by God is able to clear the conscience of those who, through the trials of life, know how to welcome the Word of God and are committed to observing it to the end’.On this day, when the Catholic Church remembers its first martyr, St. Stephen, the religious news website Il Sismografo, reports that the appeals of the faithful, the bishops and the newspapers were useless. The Police of the Guerrero state, in Mexico, has confirmed the discovery of the body of Father Gregorio López Gorostieta, kidnapped last Monday while he was in his room in the seminary of Ciudad Altamirano. The terrible discovery happened in the Tlapehuala municipality, which counts 9 thousand citizens, not far from the place where, weeks ago, the body of a missionary from Uganda, called Father John Ssenyondo, was found, who had been kidnapped last 30th of April too.With the murder of Father López Gorostieta, the number priests killed in Mexico in 2014 goes up to three; 12 throughout the whole American continent. In Peru, last Wednesday, Father Alfonso Comina Zevallos – 56 years old - was killed in the course of a violent robbery. Pope Francis’ words about ‘Christian coherence’ will remain as a warning. ‘Christian coherence is a grace that we must ask for to the Lord; to be coherent, to live as Christians, and not only to say we are Christians while living as pagans’.The Pope wishes that, in every corner of the globe, the commitment to recognising and actively ensuring freedom of belief, which is an ‘inalienable right of every human being’. To the martyrs of the third millennium, Francis guarantees that the universal Church will pray for ‘those who are persecuted, discriminated and even killed because of their testimony to Christ’. Moreover, to each of them he says that ‘if you carry this cross with love, you will join in the Christmas mystery; you will be at the heart of Christ and the Church’.From St. Peter’s square, filled with the faithful, a prayer rises up ‘so that, thanks to the sacrifice of today’s martyrs’, namely those who are discriminated and persecuted because of their Christian faith, ‘the commitment in every part of the world strengthens to recognise and actively ensure freedom of belief, which is an inalienable right of every human being’. Lastly, the Pope remembered that ‘in these weeks, I have received many wishes from Rome, Italy and every part of the world. Since it is not possible for me to answer each one of them, I now express to you all my heartfelt thanks, especially for the gift of your prayer. Thank you sincerely! May the Lord recompense you for your generosity’.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Four EU countries in top 10 world economies-Today @ 09:28-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Four European countries are in the world’s 10 largest economies, according to research by the Centre for Economic and Business Research.The annual World Economic League Table 2015 published on Friday (26 December) by the London-based think tank puts the US as the world’s main economic powerhouse, followed by China and Japan.Germany, the UK and France take the fourth, fifth and sixth spots, respectively, with Italy, in the eighth place, the only other EU country in the top 10.The UK has edged ahead of France into fifth place in this year's rankings, although the Cebr comments that the $1 billion (€850 million) gap in output between the two countries is “well within the margin of error” and would likely be extinguished if France's markets in drugs and prostitution, which “may prove to be 'larger than their British counterparts”, were included.In June, the UK economy received a statistical boost of £65 billion (€80 billion) following the introduction of new EU accounting rules allowing the so-called ‘grey economy’, which includes proceeds from drug trafficking and prostitution, to be recorded.Meanwhile, Russia is the main loser in the new list, dropping from eighth place to tenth in the rankings, with Cebr chief executive Douglas McWilliams suggesting that Moscow’s role in the ongoing Ukraine conflict was a factor in the country’s economic decline.“The fun of the world economic league table is that it brings things back to hard figures,” said McWilliams.He added that “countries like Russia and Argentina, who have invaded neighbouring countries and whose leaders spout aggressively nationalistic rhetoric, are brought down to earth by their falls in the league table as their economies collapse".The Russian economy is poised to endure a 4.5 percent recession in 2015 as a result of falling oil prices and the effects of western sanctions.Last week the country’s central bank was forced to spent around €3 billion of its foreign currency reserves to prevent a run on the rouble currency.But the next 15 years are likely to be about the continuing rise of some of the 'Bric' countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China.China is projected to overtake the US by 2025 as the world’s largest economy, the Cebr forecasts, while the "unstoppable" rise of India will see it become the world’s third-largest economy by 2024.In Europe, meanwhile, Cebr predicts that Germany’s ageing and declining population, coupled with the weakness of the euro, will allow the UK to overtake it by 2030.
Germany split on how to handle Russian rouble crisis-Today @ 09:54-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Dominant figures on the right and left in Berlin have voiced different views on how the EU should handle Russia’s rouble crisis.Wolfgang Schaeuble, the finance minister from the centre-right CDU party in the grand coalition, showed little sympathy in an interview with the Rheinische Post daily on Christmas eve (24 December).“Of course, we are concerned about the developments in Russia … But that doesn’t mean we accept that Russia can impose its interests by military means. The annexation of Crimea and Russia’s permanent violation of the ceasefire in Ukraine cannot remain without consequences. I hope every day that Russia will return to co-operation with the West, but until then we are sticking to the sanctions”, Schaeuble said.Asked what consequences a Russian default could have for Europe, he said only that: “It is up to Moscow to prevent them”.But the centre-left SPD’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking in Der Spiegel one day earlier, said a Russian economic collapse is dangerous. Steinmeier noted that the current situation “can’t allow us to go straight back to business as usual”.But he added: “I'm worried. This is why I oppose any further tightening of the sanctions. Anyone who wants to bring the Russian economy to its knees is completely mistaken if they think that this will bring about greater security in Europe”.“It cannot be in our interests for this to spiral completely out of control. We should bear this in mind in our sanctions policy”.Steinmeier said the EU and Nato should hold more talks with Russia to alleviate its trade concerns and to avoid an accidental military confrontation.“Even during the coldest days of the Cold War, these types of talks [between Nato and Russia military experts] were held. What manoeuvres, movements of troops, and overflights are taking place? We need to talk about such things”, he noted.He also ruled out the idea of Ukraine joining Nato in the near future.“This [Ukraine accession] wasn’t even raised at the last Nato council meeting [in September], let alone debated. Sometimes what is not said at a summit is also important”.The German comments came ahead of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Minsk on Christmas eve and an EU foreign ministers’ debate on Russia sanctions on 19 January.The peace talks broke off without a result, but are expected to resume on Friday.Meanwhile, the Russian rouble stabilised this week after plunging to record lows against the dollar.But a leading US ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, warned on Thursday (25 December) it might downgrade Russian bonds to “junk” in January. Dmitry Polevoy, the ING Bank’s chief economist on Russia, also told Reuters that “near-term prospects for the rouble remain highly uncertain”.The currency crisis has seen the price of basic commodities, such as bread, rise steeply in 2014.The main cause is a slump in oil prices. But EU sanctions on Russian banks and energy firms are making matters worse by stopping the blacklisted firms from buying debt on international markets.Three listed banks - Sberbank, Vnesheconombank, and VTB - have challenged the EU measures in the EU court in Luxembourg on technical grounds.The EU recently suffered several legal defeats on sanctions, including on Iran and on the Palestinian militant group Hamas, due to lack of hard evidence.But cases take two years or more to reach a verdict and no listed company has ever won financial damages from the EU tribunal.
Who governs the online world?-Today @ 21:10-DEC 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The Internet feels like it has always been with us and it is easy to forget just how recently it became part of public consciousness.The number of regular web-users has increased from 150 million in 1998 to over 3 billion, and technologists see no reason why this number cannot swell up to 7 billion over the next few years.The brainchild of engineers such as Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn from the 1970s onwards, the net has also tended to be run by the engineers that created it. Its governance was left to the experts. Politicians were kept out.But in recent years online governance has become increasingly political. The debates on net neutrality, data privacy, cyber security, and the future of the Internet’s governing structure have risen up the political agenda.A public backlash against the anti-counterfeit treaty Acta, which is primarily about protecting intellectual property rights, but which became ingrained in the public psyche as an Internet power grab by governments and service providers, led the European Parliament to veto the treaty in July 2012.Meanwhile, the revelations by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden last summer of mass data capture and surveillance by US security authorities prompted widespread public anger and questions about how our data is collected and used by governments.If there is little indication that it has stopped people from using the web, there is evidence that the NSA scandal has had a detrimental effect on the online economy, where consumer trust and security is a prerequisite.A report published this spring by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, estimated that the US cloud industry faces up to €25.8 billion in lost revenues.It also has implications for the methods and structures used to govern the Internet.In March the US Department of Commerce signalled that it wants to scale down its role in Internet governance, outlining plans to end its contract in September 2015 with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has been charged with managing domain names since the late 1990s.For its part, in a paper entitled "Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" the previous European Commission headed by Jose Manuel Barroso signalled its support for an international group to replace the San Francisco-based ICANN and warned that the web should not be allowed to "unravel into a series of regional or national networks”.Meanwhile, other governments and analysts have mooted the possibility of a international forum based loosely based on the model of the UN Security Council, although this idea has been resisted by most of the technologist and business community.Mark Raymond, assistant professor at the university of Oklahoma in the US says that consumers are “no longer happy to leave [Internet governance] to the experts”.“It is too important to leave to engineers”, he told EUoberver at a conference on Internet governance organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Brussels in December.If there appears to be agreement among politicians, civil society, and industry that Internet governance needs updating, there is no sign of a consensus on what this brave new cyber-world should look like.“How can we get to a global consensus when the parties can’t even agree on the procedures to draw up the rules?” Raymond asks.“There is a risk that Internet governance is a canary in a coal mine,” he adds, worrying that failure to reach international agreement “may indicate that we can’t agree on governance in other international policy fields.”Speaking at the same conference, one of the Internet founding fathers - Cerf - argued that the Internet’s history has been one of only creating new institutions and governing structures “when there is an apparent need” rather than in response to political pressure.Cerf says the Internet operates in a "post-Westphalian world", a reference to the peace treaty agreed by France and the Habsburg family in 1648 which brought an end to the Thirty Years war and ushered in the concept of state sovereignty which has shaped the modern world.The Internet does not respect national borders, Cerf believes, explaining that this was “very deliberate in the original design of the network.”The result of this is that “things that happen on the net are all of our responsibility no matter where they happen”.It also means that national or even European regulation can have little effect other than to fragment the online world.Lawmakers are learning this as they shape their responses to the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling by the European Court of Justice in May, which judged that the EU’s data protection laws give Europeans the right to demand that search engines delete results based on a person’s name if the data is irrelevant, out of date, inaccurate, or an invasion of privacy.This rule may apply in Europe, but there is nothing to prevent the same material being available elsewhere in the world.Can the Internet survive if politicians, engineers, the business community and activists cannot agree on how it should be run? The technologist community appears comfortable that a system which has seen its network of users increase by a factor of nearly 30 in less than two decades will not collapse any time soon.“We would hope that our systems are capable for surviving without consensus,” says Cerf. “There will be a lumpy kind of Internet if we cannot reach agreement but it will still work. It has to work even when it’s broken.”
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Japan says close to deal with South Korea and U.S. on North Korea defense-Reuters-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, the United States and South Korea are close to reaching a deal on sharing and safeguarding sensitive information on North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, Japan's Defence Ministry said on Friday.As Japan lies well within the range of North Korea's mid-range missiles, acquiring military intelligence on North Korea in a timely manner is vital for its security."Ever since defense ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed on the importance of information sharing in May, discussion has taken place at various levels," a Japanese Defence Ministry official told a media briefing."And now we are in the final stages toward signing."Under the framework, South Korea would pass relevant information to the United States, with which Seoul already has a legally-binding pact to share and safeguard intelligence called General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), and then the U.S. would pass the information onto Japan.It would also work the other way around as the United States has signed a GSOMIA with Japan as well.Some South Koreans have voiced concerns about signing a security pact with Japan, a one-time colonial ruler. Besides Japan's annexation of Korean peninsula that ended in 1945, bilateral ties have been plagued by a prolonged territorial dispute over a group of tiny islets.(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Russia's new military doctrine names NATO as key risk-Reuters-DEC 26,14-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine, naming NATO expansion among key external risks, the Kremlin said on Friday, days after Ukraine made fresh steps to join the Atlantic military alliance.Moscow's previous military doctrine, signed by Putin in 2010, also identified NATO expansion as a top risk to Russia, but the stakes have risen sharply over the past year.Russia said this week NATO was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties if Ukraine's hopes of joining NATO were realized.The Kiev parliament's renunciation of Ukraine's neutral status on Tuesday in pursuit of NATO membership has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula this year.NATO has already boosted its military presence in eastern Europe this year, saying it has evidence that Russia orchestrated and armed a pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine that followed the overthrow of a Kremlin-backed president in Kiev.Moscow denies supporting the rebellion, and is currently trying, along with Kiev and the rebels, to renew efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.It is likely to take years for Ukraine to meet the technical criteria for accession to NATO and, even then, there is no certainty that the alliance is ready to take such a decision.A NATO official said on Friday the alliance respected the move by Ukraine's parliament, and so should Russia."Should Ukraine decide to apply for NATO membership, NATO will assess its readiness to join the Alliance in the same way as with any candidate. This is an issue between NATO and the individual countries aspiring to membership."(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova, additional reporting by Barbara Lewis in Brussels; Writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Alexander Winning)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
37 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-12-26 15:19:54 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)37 earthquakes in map area
2.5 71km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2014-12-26 13:19:10 UTC-05:00 3.6 km
2.9 6km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-26 13:03:37 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 4km SSE of Bouinan, Algeria 2014-12-26 12:55:17 UTC-05:00 7.4 km
3.0 18km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2014-12-26 12:12:57 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
4.8 58km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-26 11:38:28 UTC-05:00 80.8 km
4.2 9km SE of Obama, Japan 2014-12-26 08:30:35 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 129km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia 2014-12-26 08:00:09 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.8 132km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 07:20:21 UTC-05:00 71.0 km
4.8 122km SE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2014-12-26 06:17:10 UTC-05:00 45.2 km
2.9 68km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 04:08:33 UTC-05:00 44.0 km
2.9 76km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 04:00:33 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
2.8 77km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:56:59 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.9 74km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:50:48 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
3.1 72km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:47:43 UTC-05:00 17.0 km
2.6 66km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:45:30 UTC-05:00 62.0 km
3.2 77km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-12-26 03:42:01 UTC-05:00 26.0 km
2.5 2km SW of Pahala, Hawaii 2014-12-26 02:30:55 UTC-05:00 33.9 km
4.9 27km ESE of Xegar, China 2014-12-26 02:08:09 UTC-05:00 49.0 km
4.8 150km SW of Nayun, China 2014-12-26 01:07:09 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.9 99km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu 2014-12-25 23:58:48 UTC-05:00 65.9 km
4.2 40km S of Jarm, Afghanistan 2014-12-25 23:26:30 UTC-05:00 163.5 km
3.0 77km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-12-25 22:54:18 UTC-05:00 28.0 km
2.9 6km WNW of The Geysers, California 2014-12-25 22:44:29 UTC-05:00 2.1 km
4.9 150km ENE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2014-12-25 20:49:07 UTC-05:00 32.9 km
2.8 5km SE of Anthony, Kansas 2014-12-25 20:12:09 UTC-05:00 5.7 km
4.6 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-25 20:02:25 UTC-05:00 526.7 km
4.8 Mid-Indian Ridge 2014-12-25 19:55:01 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 87km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska 2014-12-25 19:09:32 UTC-05:00 58.7 km
2.6 20km ENE of Avalon, California 2014-12-25 18:54:43 UTC-05:00 1.7 km
3.9 21km ENE of Perry, Oklahoma 2014-12-25 18:11:36 UTC-05:00 2.0 km
2.7 52km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-12-25 18:05:18 UTC-05:00 50.0 km
5.0 108km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-12-25 17:53:26 UTC-05:00 7.7 km
2.8 19km SE of Yosemite Valley, California 2014-12-25 17:20:44 UTC-05:00 0.8 km
4.2 48km SW of Ovalle, Chile 2014-12-25 17:11:33 UTC-05:00 68.0 km
2.9 17km NE of Noatak, Alaska 2014-12-25 17:07:16 UTC-05:00 20.7 km
3.8 5km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-25 15:32:49 UTC-05:00 4.5 km
2.5 46km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-12-25 15:29:18 UTC-05:00 202.4 km
