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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)
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
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)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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
Nasrallah threatens to displace ‘millions’ of Israelis in future war-Hezbollah chief responds to senior IDF officer’s warning of consequences for south Lebanon of attack on Israel-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2015, 7:18 pm
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday threatened to leave millions of Israelis without homes in a future war between the Lebanese Shiite militia and the Jewish state.Addressing supporters in south Beirut, Nasrallah said that the “time in which Israelis destroyed our homes and maintained their homes has ended in 2006,” referring to the Second Lebanon War in which the IDF battled with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon for a month.“I clearly say to Israel: the Resistance (Hezbollah) threatens to displace millions of Israelis in the next war if imposed on Lebanon,” Nasrallah said.He appeared to be responding to comments from an unnamed senior IDF official to military reporters on Thursday to the effect that Israel, if it had no choice in a future war with Hezbollah, would force 1 million to 1.5 million Lebanese residents to evacuate their homes in order to target the Hezbollah missile launchers and other weaponry emplaced in the villages of southern Lebanon. “If you push 1.5 Lebanese from their homes, the islamic resistance in Lebanon will force millions of Israelis from their homes,” Nasrallah said.“We are not afraid of your war or of your threats,” he said. “If you assume that we are busy in Syria, then you are wrong — because this changes nothing in how we deal with our enemy.”Speaking to journalists on May 13, an Israeli army official said all villages in south Lebanon are a “military stronghold” where Hezbollah stockpiles rockets capable of hitting his country. “Each (village) is a military stronghold. Next time we have a war with Hezbollah, we will have to attack each one of these targets, and we hope the population will not be there,” the officer said.The 2006 war claimed over 160 Israeli lives, mostly soldiers, and the lives of over 1,100 Lebanese, roughly half of whom were Hezbollah combatants, according to the UN.A senior Israeli intelligence official said in May that Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of rockets and other advanced weapons in Shi’ite villages of southern Lebanon, and warned that civilians would be at risk if war breaks out.According to the official, Hezbollah possesses roughly 100,000 short-range rockets capable of striking northern Israeli cities and towns. Several thousand longer-range missiles could strike as far as Tel Aviv and central Israel, and hundreds of long-range missiles which can strike the entire country.Referring to the IDF’s recent civil defense drill, conducted across the country including central and southern Israel, Nasrallah said it was a tacit acknowledgement of Hezbollah’s missile capabilities.“You are admitting in this drill that you have a defeated army by saying fully and in details that the resistance is able to reach all the areas where the exercises are taking place,” he said, according to a translation published on Hezbollah’s al-Manar website.A senior IDF officer said in a briefing earlier this week that Hezbollah has lost 700 men since the start of the fighting in Syria and 100 over the past two weeks alone. He said Nasrallah’s recent spate of saber-rattling speeches shows he’s facing “no small amount of embarrassment” in Lebanon, and that Israel has seen the transfer of Hezbollah troops from the south – the border with Israel – to Syria.AFP, Mitch Ginsburg contributed to this report.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
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 (GOD) 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)
Op-Ed: Who is Really Behind BDS? We Can Cut Off BDS at the Spigot-How can we fight the flow of finances to BDS?Published: Friday, June 05, 2015 8:44 AM-David Bedein-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Thousands of young people are now employed on campuses around the world, well financed and well organized, in an unprecedented effort that challenges the very legitimacy of Israel on every possible academic and economic front.They call their movement: BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.Over the next few days, Mr. Sheldon Adelson and Mr. Haim Saban have called an emergency meeting of organizations concerned about BDS to answer two questions.From where does the finance and organizational support for BDS emanate? How can BDS be stopped? The answers may be easier to ascertain than one would expectMost recently, official representatives of the Palestinian Authority, the PA, engaged in an international effort that almost booted Israel out of FIFA, the most prestigious international sporting association, a step which could have denied any Israel sports team from competing in any sports competition, anywhere in the world.The direct involvement of the PA in this massive BDS activity revealed what had been known for years, which is that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah organized the BDS “movement” in 2005. The BDS web site speaks for itself. http://www.bdsmovement.net/, It is no more than a front for the PA.BDS has indeed fostered an image that makes it seem as if it is a spontaneous grass roots movement.“BDS” sounds better to the modern ear than “boycott” or “blacklist”.Yet it does not take much research to discern that BDS is not listed anywhere as an independent organization, nor does BDS even hold or own a bank account, anywhere in the world. That is meant to foster the grass roots image, but the money involved has to come from somewhere.BDS, in fact, acts as a subsidiary of the PA, in coordination with the PLO Negotiations Department, working with the official Arab League boycott of Israel that has fought Israel ever since the Jewish state came into being in 1948. (How many of you remember the days when American Jews shunned Pepsi Cola because it had succumbed to the Arab boycott pressure and refused to sell to Israel?) After losing the battle to eradicate the new state of Israel, the Arab League launched a full-scale economic war, which continues to this day, recruiting each Arab country to promote a boycott of all companies that do business in Israel.The Arab League Boycott requires all imports into Arab ports to produce a "negative certificate of origin" - a document indicating that products were not manufactured in Israel, and their components were also not sourced from the Jewish state.The Arab League via a Central Boycott Office (CBO), established in 1951, has implemented this ever since. The CBO was tasked with creating a "blacklist" of companies and institutions with trade ties to Israel, and applies to all Arab countries, except for the two Arab nations that signed peace treaties with Israel- Egypt and Jordan, which signed off from the Arab boycott. The PLO was expected to also sign off from the Arab boycott after the 1993 Oslo Accords.However, the PLO has never stopped promoting the Arab boycott of Israel, even though one of the explicit clauses of the “declaration of principles" in Oslo was that the PLO would no longer support the Arab League boycott of Israel.Why? What has escaped public attention is that the PLO never ratified the "declaration of principles", the most fundamental document of the Israel-Palestinian Oslo Accords, nor did the PLO ever cancel its charter to destroy Israel, which was another major clause in that accord.Only three weeks after the Oslo Accords were initialed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, pending ratification by both sides, a prominent left wing journalist, Pinchas Inbari, reporting for the Mapam (Meretz) newspaper Al Hamishmar from the PLO headquarters in Tunis, reported that PLO leader Yassir Arafat announced that on the day of the scheduled PLO ratification, October 6, 1993, the PLO leader could not or would not convene the necessary quorum for ratification. As a result, the Oslo Accords have gone unratified to this day.I called the Arab League Boycott office at the Arab League office in Washington, DC. and asked if the PLO supports the current Arab League boycott.The Arab League spokesman confirmed that the PLO indeed supports the Arab boycott campaign against Israeli products. Without any prodding, the Arab League spokesman went on to say that “We call that BDS now”-“BDS” sounds better to the modern ear than “boycott” or “blacklist”.The Arab league spokesman confirmed that all data of the Arab League boycott and Arab League blacklist has now been transferred to BDS, working under the control of each PLO legation in more than 100 countries, under the supervision of the PLO Negotiations Department, which coordinates activities with the central offices of the Palestinian Authority.That means that the PA now enjoys the best of all worlds. The PA imports 30 billion shekels a year of Israeli products, while the PLO helps the Arab League campaign to boycott Israeli products, using the new terminology of BDS.BDS activists, mostly from campuses abroad, now make timely visits to the PA in Ramallah, where cash is allocated for an untold number of BDS activists to profit in cash for their BDS activities.Since supervision of funds for Palestinian humanitarian services in the PA or UNRWA hardly exists, and since more than one nation provides cash for each of the Palestinian humanitarian services, that means that a cash surplus exists which PA can allocate for BDS activists to finance their operations.It is easy to witness BDS hard at work in Jerusalem.BDS activists from abroad meet at the American Colony Hotel on a regular basis with senior officials of the PA and return home to their campuses with bundles of cash in their pockets.How can you fight the flow of finances to BDS?Keep it simple. Ask each donor nation that funds Palestinian humanitarian services to make a reasonable requirement for transparency for the funds that each nation allocates to the PA or to UNRWA.The BDS spigot may dry up, very quickly.And then there is a diplomatic avenue. The PLO embassy in Washington, DC, which coordinates BDS activity in the US, was opened in May 1996 with the permission of the US government on the proviso that the PLO would cancel its charter to destroy Israel.The PLO charter remains unchanged.The non-cancellation of the PLO charter can now be invoked, to choke off the PLO office in DC, the fulcrum of support for the BDS.Last but not least, the Israel Legal Forum has distributed copies of a strong anti-boycott law that was passed four years ago in Israel, http://www.nevo.co.il/law_word/law14/law-2304.pdf which mandates that anyone or any organization that engages in advancing a boycott of Israel or Israeli firms can be arrested and tried for a felony, and, upon conviction, can serve ten years in prison and face fines that will put their organization out of business.The time may be right to encourage Israel to prosecute those Israeli citizens and visitors in Israel who actively promote the BDS Arab boycott of Israel.
Op-Ed: The Biblical Roots of BDS-Published: Sunday, May 31, 2015 9:48 PM-Steve Apfel-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Plots and characters in Torah are said to portend what history will have in store for the Jewish people. That being so, the Balaam narrative in the Book of Numbers foretold the plot against modern Israel: if war could not bring down the nation then cursing would.The compelling intrigue with its twists and turns and bad forebodings is familiar enough. It begins with the desire of Balak, King of Moab, to stop the redeemed slaves in their tracks after unlikely victories over real armies. Military might was not behind the juggernaut Jews, so Balak understood. The power of the start-up nation, he learns, resided in their leader’s power of speech. Moses was the secret weapon. And this gave Balak an idea. If by speaking with God, Moses could empower the Jews, then equally they could be disempowered by speech.So the king contracts with a pagan prophet for hire. A militant curser and master of talking donkey, Balaam was made for the job. This grandson of the schemer Laban was born to curse. Up to now he has made a good living out of plaguing people to untimely and ugly deaths. The Near East was rife with practitioners of similar stamp, but here was a commission that would make Balaam immortal. He is offered a king’s ransom to bad mouth.We’ll bring Israel to its knees through the power of negative publicity, condemn and demonize the Zionists to the point where they become a pariah people.God’s own people. The end game is not necessarily to wipe the wandering multitude off the face of the desert, but to keep them from going into the Promised Land."Let us drive them out," the king says at a meeting with the elders of Moab and Midian. It was not the Jews they feared so much as the idea of a sovereign state. Homeless and stateless Jews were no problem; as far as the elders were concerned, God’s chosen could keep their difficult laws anywhere they liked; or almost anywhere. The Moabs and Midians were prepared to live and let live. But a Jewish people in possession of God’s own country – that would be a different kettle of fish. Happy with their deities and quaint perversions, they feared that a sovereign Israel would fundamentally make the world a different place. So it was imperative that Moses and his crowd be cursed into spiritual oblivion.Listen, myriad voices urge at a far-ahead point in history, at which time the people of Israel are living, and thriving, in the Promised Land, and “Human Rights” delegates by the thousands meet on the side of a game-changing conference at the Indian Ocean city of Durban. The year is 2001, and plots are afoot. Listen, the plotters gabble; war after war has left Israel not just intact but invulnerable. Why not wage a different kind of war? This will be a war that Israel can’t win. Words will be our weapon. We’ll bring Israel to its knees through the power of negative publicity, condemn and demonize the Zionists to the point where they become a pariah people. We’ll unite the nations of the world in a common hatred.This was an intoxicating vision, and many entities and people bristling with pent-up scores to settle, were intoxicated by it. What could be simpler than picking on the worst international crimes in the book and laying them at Israel’s door! Apartheid came to mind first; who wouldn’t hate a country that implemented apartheid! Ethnic cleansing, war crimes and occupation came a close second, third and fourth. The prospect was enough to make plotters drool. Add some imaginative marketing and PR, draw on deep pockets to grease the wheels, and in no time at all a full-blown campaign had gone international. Before Israel knew it, the court of public opinion was onto its case.From there on it was all downhill. Set an impossibly high legal and moral bar to clear, Israel was coerced into fighting terrorism with kid gloves. And another ‘plus’ for the mischief-makers: it cost Jewish lives. ‘Be not over righteous, nor too clever,’ Ecclesiastes 7:16 warns the nation. And Shimon b. Lakish adds: ‘Whoever shows mercy to the cruel will ultimately be cruel to those deserving of mercy.’ Look for these truths to the victims of terrorism.Zionist brutality, Zionist oppression, Zionist occupation; Zionist Nazi: this is cursing, and it’s enough to make Jews, young and old, duck and dive like criminals. The cursers are trained to avoid the ‘Jew’ word, which would be an unpardonably destructive thing to do. Curse the Zionists all you like, but don’t call them Jews. Protect our prime asset, that human rights halo. Remember our halo, and keep it shining brightly, warn the script writers. Brandish the halo while we curse Israel out of existence.The club of cursers is led by the Big Five: Amnesty, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch; Christian Aid, and the UN Human Rights Council. Nominally these entities are humanitarian, not-for-profit and apolitical. Really they are none of those things. And there are hundreds of second-tier bad-mouthers of Israel, a bewildering number of them in tiny Israel. Entities like B’Tselem, ‘Committee Against House Demolitions’, Jewish Voices for Peace’ and so on, compete fiercely to bad mouth Israel. After all, with publicity comes money, and ultimately that is what the human rights business is all about.There is a load of cash out there for anyone with a bad word to say about Israel. George Soros coughs up hundreds of millions per year; the European Union coughs even more. Trade is brisk, the money big and the players earnest. For the rights activist Israeli crimes represent the goose that lays the golden egg.So war by other means was born in Durban. And on its heels tumbled the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. BDS sets out to paralyze Israel to the point where it stands alone and vulnerable among the nations, a meek prey for waiting wolves. Negative people (awake to faults, real or not); arrogant people (presuming to know better than the Palestinians what’s good for them); greedy people (earning good money and benefits for their cursing) they are progeny of the patriarchal curser, Balaam.Will modern-day cursers meet the fate of the wily wizard? ‘When the Almighty told Balaam to hold his tongue he should have listened. But feted celebrity-hood beckoned like a pot of gold. Ill will in human form, he ransacked his whole bag of tricks. But the Almighty had other plans for Balaam. Stymied, he rode from pillar to post. Immortal Balaam would be, though for reasons he would not have foretold. At the moment of truth wrong words tripped off his tongue, that mouth organ of militant curses, bridge to a grubby soul, gadget of fortune and misfortune, master of talking donkey. Born to curse, Balaam uttered the most sublime blessings in human annals, and would have departed this life with the hurt rioting and rotting in his head.How beautiful are your tents, oh Jacob, your dwelling places, oh Israel! For the tribute recited in synagogues to this day thank a pagan prophet for hire. Odder yet, thank a lifetime antagonist of the Jews. Oddest of all, thank a curser by trade.
French FM 'Firmly Opposed' to Orange Boycott of Israel-Fabius says partially state-owned Orange can determine its own 'commercial strategy,' but opposes 'boycott of Israel.'By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 11:54 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
France's foreign minister on Friday said Paris was "firmly opposed" to any boycott of Israel as a row rages over French telecom group Orange's decision to withdraw its brand from the Jewish state."Although it is for the president of the Orange group to determine the commercial strategy of the company, France is firmly opposed to a boycott of Israel," Laurent Fabius said in a statement, as reported by AFP.Fabius also used the opportunity to bash Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria - which is legal under international law and yet was part of the pressure on Orange to cut ties with Israel - saying, "also, France and the European Union have a consistent policy on settlement-building that is known to all."Orange is largely publicly owned, meaning the French government has a large share in the company that on Thursday said it will cut ties with the Israeli company Partner which franchises its name in Israel.That move came just a day after Orange CEO Stephane Richard said in Cairo he would "dump" Israel "tomorrow" if he could without taking a loss.Richard tried to play damage control on Friday, claiming to the Israeli Yediot Aharonoth that his move to cut off from Israel - which came after months of intense pressure from the BDS movement urging a boycott Israel and Partner over its service to customers in Judea and Samaria - was "misunderstood."While Richard tried to claim that the move was taken out of business considerations and not from political views, a claim Fabius apparently gave credence to in saying it was for Orange to determine its commercial strategy, critics have noted that Orange just recently signed a 10-year extension deal with Partner belying the economic incentive to its new position.His move also comes following a BDS push to have his company boycott Israel, but Richard claimed on Friday he was unaware of the incredibly vocal movement, saying "I never said that Orange wants to break away from Israel, I was not aware of the global campaign for a boycott against you, and I'm sorry about that."Partner is reportedly considering launching a massive lawsuit against Orange for its discriminatory decision.
Irksome EU labeling of settler goods could snowball into BDS avalanche-Just 0.7% of exports to the EU come from settlements, but as Israel grapples with new boycott pressures, labeling of these products could become the next big blow-By Raphael Ahren June 4, 2015, 10:45 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
In April, 16 European Union foreign ministers called for the implementation of a labeling regime for settlement goods, spurring then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman to compare them to Nazis.“They can … label all products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights with a yellow star,” he said using the Biblical terms for the West Bank.MK Yair Lapid phoned EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to complain about the foreign ministers’ demand, terming it a “stain on the EU.” The demand for labeling of settlements is a call for a “de facto boycott of Israel,” Lapid lamented, adding that this “dangerous process” could “bring disaster to the Israeli economy.”As a former finance minister, Lapid likely knew he was exaggerating the move’s immediate, short-term impact on the nation’s economy. But he also plainly recognized that the introduction of a labeling regime for Israeli products from areas the EU considers illegally occupied has the potential to seriously hurt the State of Israel in the long run. Indeed, it could bolster the international sense of Israel as a pariah state, some experts warn, and trigger an avalanche that would end in a global boycott of Israeli products.Efforts to boycott Israel have been steadily gaining strength for years but are currently dominating the national agenda as never before, with senior politicians and activists elevating the imperative to fight against the so-called BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement to top priority.This week, Israelis talked about little else. Last Friday, the Palestinians attempted to boot Israel out of world soccer, before abandoning the bid at the eleventh hour. On Tuesday, the UK’s National Union of Students formally endorsed BDS. On Wednesday, the CEO of mobile communications giant Orange said he would love to pull out of the Israeli market. On Thursday, the French company officially announced that it will cut ties with its Israeli subsidiary Partner.While this onslaught of anti-Israel activity is part of a long-term pattern, the threat has never felt more tangible. The prospect of Israel being kicked out of FIFA rattled Israelis more than any damning United Nations report or union boycott had done. And the Orange squash then exacerbated the sense of siege.The EU’s labeling plan, however, is a threat of a whole different order, a case of democratic governments gearing up to target the settlement enterprise and its relatively minor exports, but with potential repercussions for the entire Israeli economy — and for Israel’s perceived legitimacy. And many insiders believe that, sooner or later, the EU will indeed go ahead with the labeling regime.The poet Erez Biton, who won this year’s Israel Prize for literature, in his acceptance speech called on Israeli society to unite around the rejection of the EU’s scheme. “Those who label products today are liable to label people tomorrow,” he predicted ominously.If labeling is introduced, the immediate financial blow to the nation’s economy may turn out to be marginal. It is unclear just how many European consumers care enough about the occupation to avoid products from the West Bank. Perhaps very few would turn down delicious and cheap dates, for example, based on their origin. And those who do take a conscious decision to avoid Israeli products from the settlements likely wouldn’t be waiting for the EU to place labels on them.Furthermore, while pro-Palestinian activists would delightedly highlight the labeling, it would also mobilize supporters of Jewish settlements. These could include European Jewish communities or non-Jewish consumers who want to strengthen Israel because they believe it stands on the frontline of the West’s battle against radical Islam.
So much for immediate, direct impact. But that’s not the full story.In 2014, EU imported NIS 60b. from Israel proper-Exports from Jewish settlements — which consist mostly of agricultural products since there are no major technological companies — are minuscule compared to those from Israel proper.According to the most recent available statistics from the Israel Manufacturers Association (from 2012), exports from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights amount to $100 million a year. That is about 0.7 percent of the approximately $14 billion the EU annually imports from within the Green Line (in 2014, it was exactly €13,070,556,887; or about NIS 57 billion).There are 14 industrial zones with 800 factories and agricultural facilities in the West Bank, according to Yigal Dilmoni, a spokesman for the Yesha Council of Jewish settlements.If these companies were to lose money due to labeling or a boycott, the 15,000 Palestinian workers they employ, who earn more than twice as much working for Jews as they would in the Palestinian Authority, would also be among those hurt, Dilmoni said. In that sense, he argued, labeling will not contribute to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but rather destroy one area in which peaceful coexistence currently exists.“I don’t know how the world would react to the labeling,” Dilmoni said. “Yes, it could cause us some losses, but we will overcome it.”Singling out products made by Jews in the West Bank while ignoring other conflict regions, Dilmoni charged, “is a new kind of anti-Semitism. Whoever does such a thing doesn’t really care to solve the conflict, but will only make it worse.”The Europeans evidently beg to differ. Last month, Mogherini told the EU foreign ministers that the details of the scheme would be “finalized in the near future.” She reiterated that message during her visit to Israel last month, an EU source in Israel said.It is not precisely clear what the EU has in mind when it talks about promoting a labeling regime, but some of its parameters can be gauged.The European Commission will publish “an interpretative note that is not legally binding,” a reliable EU source told The Times of Israel Thursday. In other words, European vendors will be allowed to choose whether to attach special labels to West Bank products or leave them as they are, marked as “Made in Israel.” Voluntary or not, it may be assumed that many, if not all, member states will adopt the commission’s recommendation; they might consider it “morally binding.”What exactly would the labels for settlement goods say? Again, this is not clear. “Made by Israeli settlers in Occupied Palestinian Territory” would probably deter more European consumers than a simple “West Bank: Israeli goods.” But there are pointers: Alongside Belgium and Denmark, the UK has already implemented voluntary guidelines on labeling. In some British supermarkets, there are already labels on products that read “Produce of the West Bank (Israeli settlement produce).”Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs already states on its website that it “considers that traders would be misleading consumers, and would therefore almost be certainly committing an offence, if they were to declare produce from the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory] (including from the West Bank) as ‘Produce of Israel’.”In 2012, the South African government instructed retailers to label settlement products as coming from the “Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).” After a protest from the Jewish community, the text to be used on labels was changed to “West Bank: Israeli goods” or “East Jerusalem: Israeli goods.” Jewish leaders celebrated their victory, hailing the new terms as “essentially neutral and descriptive,” but official Jerusalem was unhappy. Labeling as such is discriminatory, no matter how it is done, the Foreign Ministry complained at the time.‘This is the first step, but there will be others’The Europeans explain their desire to label West Bank settlement products as a way to support the “preservation of the two-state solution” and to ensure that “consumers are not being misled by false information.” The EU recognizes the State of Israel only inside its pre-1967 lines; therefore, officials argue, it would violate its consumer protection laws to label West Bank goods as “Made in Israel.”If the immediate financial impact of the EU’s scheme might be negligible, many Israelis fear it could snowball: labeling of West Bank goods could lead to an import ban on those products, which could develop into a full-blown boycott of all Israeli products.“This is the first step, but there will be others. This will lead to a boycott,” predicted Seev Hirsch, professor emeritus of international business at Tel Aviv University. The struggle against apartheid South Africa started with a boycott and eventually led to the downfall of the racist regime, he noted.The EU “won’t take too long before it’ll start taking other steps,” he warned. “As an economic issue it’s a probably meaningless. But I don’t see it as an economic issue — it’s a political issue.”The average European cannot be expected to distinguish between goods from Israel proper and the goods from settlements, and so might simply avoid them all The immediate losses would be limited, agreed Mikhael Manekin, managing director of the left-leaning think tank Molad. But the insistence on the labeling issue underlines Europe’s preoccupation with what it considers Israel’s illegitimate occupation of Palestinians lands, and that ultimately negatively impacts Israel’s entire economy, he said.In 2008, the EU and Israel planned to upgrade ties but the process foundered over European objections to Israel’s actions in the West Bank, he recalled. “As long as the EU’s focus is on Israel’s behavior behind the Green Line, we’re stuck in a position that’s not beneficial to Israeli interests,” Manekin said.As soon as European consumers understand that West Bank products are singled out and thus seen as problematic, “it’s not about the settlements anymore,” Manekin said. The average European cannot be expected to distinguish between goods from Israel proper and the goods from settlements, and so might simply avoid them all. As time goes by, more and more consumers and industrialists will want to avoid the technical and moral headaches that are Israeli products, he said.Manekin argued that EU labeling “has nothing to do with BDS or with radical anti-Israel sentiment,” is not anti-Semitic, and is not part of an effort to delegitimize Israel: “If settlement labeling teaches us anything, it is that there is an overwhelming consensus in the world that Israel’s control of the West Bank is illegitimate, he said. “It’s a measure against Israel’s presence in the West Bank.”True or not, the spiraling concern in Israel is that labeling would have an increasingly resonant impact, and would emphatically bolster those who do seek to delegitimize Israel.Social scientist Eithan Orkibi elaborated that Europeans care greatly about “fair trade,” and said that labels on settlement products are likely to place such products, in the minds of consumers, in the same category as cosmetic goods tested on animals or sneakers produced by children in Asian sweatshops. A lecturer at Ariel University, which is located in the heart of the West Bank and thus subject to special treatment from the EU, Orkibi has done extensive research into the psychology of the BDS movement.“It is easy to create the impression that if you buy this or that product you cooperate with an evil empire,” he said. It doesn’t take much to convince consumers that they are making the world a better place by avoiding wine from the West Bank. “They’re getting a positive psychological reward,” he said.Protesting occupation and supporting national liberation movements through nonviolent acts of resistance is about to become “a great cultural trend” in Europe, Orkibi predicted. In Israel, many young hipsters are turning to veganism, he said, while among young Europeans “it’s almost a trend to boycott Israel or settlement products.”And the young Europeans of today, he noted, “form the core of Europe’s future elite.”
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; 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, 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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Saudi general tells Israeli TV of peace hopes-Anwar Eshki gives highly unusual interview at event where he spoke with incoming Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold, author of a book critical of Saudi Arabia-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2015, 9:29 pm
In a further small sign of warming official Saudi attitudes to Israel, a retired Saudi general with ties to the government gave an interview to an Israeli TV station and said the two countries would be able to work together were Israel to accept the Saudi-initiated Arab Peace Initiative.Anwar Eshki, spoke to Israel’s Channel 10 news during a remarkable event in Washington on Thursday, when he shared a platform with the incoming director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Saudi Arabia has no diplomatic relations with Israel, and while Saudi officials sometimes talk privately with Israeli journalists, they do not do so publicly. In 2007, at the height of a US-brokered effort to advance regional peace efforts, for instance, Saudi Arabia ejected from its embassy in Washington a group of Israeli journalists who sought to attend a briefing the Saudis were holding for western journalists on the sidelines of the Annapolis peace conference.Eshki told the TV station that he and Gold had sat down together “to call for peace in the Middle East.” He said “Saudis and Israelis could work together when Israel announces that it accepts the Arab Initiative.”In their back-to-back addresses at the event, held under the auspices of the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Gold and Eshki both espoused Israeli-Saudi peace and identified Iran as the chief threat to regional stability.
Hatred's Kingdom
The partnership between the two men — already remarkable because of the absence of ties between their nations — is even more so given that Gold penned a withering book about the Saudis little more than a decade ago. In “Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, published in 2003, Gold highlighted “the ideology of hatred fostered” in a country he bitterly described as America’s “ostensible ally.”In his address, Eshki spoke at length of Iran’s hostile and aggressive actions in the region and signaled that peace with Israel, based on the Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative, was a top priority. He also spoke of the need for a joint Arab military force to increase regional stability.Gold, the current head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank, is expected to be confirmed as the Foreign Ministry director-general in the coming days. He too spoke of the challenge posed to the Middle East by Iran, and warned against a weak nuclear accord with Tehran which would leave the Islamic republic as a nuclear threshold state.Bloomberg News reported that representatives from the two countries have held five clandestine meetings over the past 17 months on the threat posed by Iran. Netanyahu has spoken repeatedly in recent months of the opportunities for new partnerships between Israel and other nations in the region who share its concern over Iran’s nuclear program and regional ambitions.Shimon Shapira, described by Bloomberg as an expert on Lebanese terror group Hezbollah who took part in the meetings, said: “We discovered we have the same problems and same challenges and some of the same answers.”While Gold and Eshki stressed that they were not speaking as official representatives of their nations, but rather as foreign policy experts, they expressed hope that their states could find common ground in the face of regional challenges.“Our standing today on this stage does not mean we have resolved all the differences that our countries have shared over the years,” Gold said. “But our hope is we will be able to address them fully in the years ahead.”Eshki said flatly in his talk that Iran was seeking a nuclear arsenal.While stopping short of fully endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative, Netanyahu said last week that he welcomed the general idea behind it — a regional agreement between Israel and the moderate Arab states.The Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, has many problematic aspects to it, the prime minister said, such as its call for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights and the return of Palestinians refuges to Israel. “There are positive aspects and negative aspects to it,” he told Israeli diplomatic correspondents at a rare on-record briefing. “This initiative is 13 years old, and the situation in the Middle East has changed since it was first proposed. But the general idea — to try and reach understandings with leading Arab countries — is a good idea.”In the framework proposed by the initiative, all Arab and Islamic states would establish normal diplomatic relations with Israel after the successful conclusion of the peace process with the Palestinians.Meanwhile, a new telephone poll conducted by an Israeli college among citizens of Saudi Arabia concluded that the Saudi public is far more concerned about the threats of Iran and the Islamic State group than Israel, and that the vast majority of Saudis support the decade-old peace offer to the Jewish state.The International Disciplinary Center’s poll found that 53 percent of Saudis named Iran as their main adversary, while 22% said it is the Islamic State group and only 18 percent said Israel. The poll, conducted in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, surveyed 506 Saudis over the phone and had a margin of error of 5 percentage points.Raphael Ahren and AP contributed to this report.
IDF Deploys Three Iron Dome Batteries in South-In the wake of latest rocket fire from Gaza, IDF deploys three Iron Dome batteries in Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon.By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 9:04 PM-israelnationalnews
The IDF has deployed two Iron Dome batteries in the Ashdod and Netivot areas of southern Israel, following the rocket fire on Israel this past week.A third battery was also deployed in Ashkelon, Channel 10 News reported on Friday.On Wednesday evening, two rockets from Gaza exploded in the Sdot Negev region. There were no physical injuries or damages.Wednesday’s attack came just one week after terrorists from Gaza fired a Grad rocket towards southern Israel. The rocket exploded near the community of Gan Yavneh, near Ashdod. There were no injuries.The Iron Dome, which is designed to intercept rockets that are fired towards populated area, has proven very effective and its success rate was listed as 90% in 2012.The system uses radar, advanced tracking technology and anti-missile batteries to follow the trajectory of an incoming rocket or mortar and determine if it is headed for a major population center. If an urban area is threatened, interceptors are fired to detonate in the air in close proximity to the missile. Projectiles not posing a threat are allowed to fall in empty fields.The system targets short-range rockets with a range between 2 miles and 45 miles; interceptors cost as much $100,000 apiece.Last year, President Barack Obama signed a bill granting an additional $225 million in taxpayer dollars for the Iron Dome.(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.)
Hamas Tells Israel 'ISIS Fired Rockets to Make us Fight'-Senior Hamas source sends message via Egypt minutes after rocket attack blaming Salafists; Ya'alon says 'Hamas still responsible.'By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 9:03 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Mere minutes after the rocket attack Wednesday night that was claimed by a Salafist group in Gaza affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS), Hamas rushed to tell Israel it was not behind the attack and that the ISIS affiliate was trying to cause conflict between the terrorist group and Israel.As Hamas terrorists on Wednesday rushed to clear out of terror sites fearing the IDF retaliation that was quickly forthcoming in the wake of the rocket strike, a senior Hamas source sent a message to Israel via Egypt, reports Maariv.In the message, the Hamas source said an ISIS affiliate in Gaza that is in a state of conflict with his group intentionally fired the rocket to cause Israel to strike back at Hamas and escalate the situation.The “Sheikh Amar Hadid Brigades” which claimed the rocket attack said in a statement on Thursday that the strike was in revenge for “the death of an Islamic State member in Gaza by Hamas members."The statement apparently refers to a Salafist leader affiliated with ISIS who on Tuesday was shot dead by Hamas forces in Gaza City as they tried to arrest him and he allegedly opened fire on them.Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) responded to the message on Thursday, saying, "even if those firing on Israeli territory are gangs of rebels from global jihad organizations interested in challenging Hamas by firing at us, we view Hamas as responsible for the goings-on in the (Gaza) Strip, and we won't tolerate attempts to harm our citizens.""Tonight the IDF responded with strikes to the (rocket) fire. And if needed - we will strike even harder, and last summer proved that," warned Ya'alon.In context of Israel's security threats, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is to visit Israel next week to meet Ya'alon, and likewise hold his first work meeting with the recently appointed IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot; the defense leaders will discuss the threats from Syria and Gaza.
Hamas Blames Israel for Defending Itself From Rockets-Gaza rocket attack leads IAF to retaliate in strikes on terror sites - Hamas tells Egypt to force Israel to keep ceasefire agreement.By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 2:49 PM-ISRAELNATIONAL NEWS
The IAF airstrikes in response to Wednesday's rocket attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli cities is being denounced by the Hamas terrorist organization, which blames Israel of "aggressiveness" in defending itself.
Senior Hamas official Ismail Radwan said Hamas had turned to Egypt and other international sources demanding that they force Israel to maintain the ceasefire agreement sealed after last summer's Hamas terror war, which Gaza has already breached in several rocket attacks such as the one that prompted Wednesday's response.Radwan blamed Israel completely for last summer's escalation, even though Operation Protective Edge was launched after Hamas cranked up its steady trickle of rocket fire to a torrent of hundreds of missiles within days necessitating the operation.Wednesday's attack was claimed by an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate Salafist group in Gaza, which said it had fired the rockets that led to an Israeli counter strike as an act of revenge for the death of a Salafist leader affiliated with ISIS, who on Tuesday was shot dead by Hamas forces in Gaza City as they tried to arrest him and he allegedly opened fire on them.Mere minutes after the attack a senior Hamas source reportedly contacted Israel via Egypt, saying that the ISIS-affiliated Salafists had launched the attack to try and provoke conflict between Hamas and Israel.Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) responded to the message on Thursday, saying, "even if those firing on Israeli territory are gangs of rebels from global jihad organizations interested in challenging Hamas by firing at us, we view Hamas as responsible for the goings-on in the (Gaza) Strip, and we won't tolerate attempts to harm our citizens."Hamas is said not to be interested in another conflict with Israel at the current stage, and instead is focusing on rebuilding its terrorist infrastructure including attack tunnels and domestic rocket production in ongoing missile tests.In parallel Hamas is engaging in a diplomatic push for recognition; earlier this week Israel condemned the UN's decision to recognize a Hamas front group NGO.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
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)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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
Nasrallah threatens to displace ‘millions’ of Israelis in future war-Hezbollah chief responds to senior IDF officer’s warning of consequences for south Lebanon of attack on Israel-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2015, 7:18 pm
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday threatened to leave millions of Israelis without homes in a future war between the Lebanese Shiite militia and the Jewish state.Addressing supporters in south Beirut, Nasrallah said that the “time in which Israelis destroyed our homes and maintained their homes has ended in 2006,” referring to the Second Lebanon War in which the IDF battled with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon for a month.“I clearly say to Israel: the Resistance (Hezbollah) threatens to displace millions of Israelis in the next war if imposed on Lebanon,” Nasrallah said.He appeared to be responding to comments from an unnamed senior IDF official to military reporters on Thursday to the effect that Israel, if it had no choice in a future war with Hezbollah, would force 1 million to 1.5 million Lebanese residents to evacuate their homes in order to target the Hezbollah missile launchers and other weaponry emplaced in the villages of southern Lebanon. “If you push 1.5 Lebanese from their homes, the islamic resistance in Lebanon will force millions of Israelis from their homes,” Nasrallah said.“We are not afraid of your war or of your threats,” he said. “If you assume that we are busy in Syria, then you are wrong — because this changes nothing in how we deal with our enemy.”Speaking to journalists on May 13, an Israeli army official said all villages in south Lebanon are a “military stronghold” where Hezbollah stockpiles rockets capable of hitting his country. “Each (village) is a military stronghold. Next time we have a war with Hezbollah, we will have to attack each one of these targets, and we hope the population will not be there,” the officer said.The 2006 war claimed over 160 Israeli lives, mostly soldiers, and the lives of over 1,100 Lebanese, roughly half of whom were Hezbollah combatants, according to the UN.A senior Israeli intelligence official said in May that Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of rockets and other advanced weapons in Shi’ite villages of southern Lebanon, and warned that civilians would be at risk if war breaks out.According to the official, Hezbollah possesses roughly 100,000 short-range rockets capable of striking northern Israeli cities and towns. Several thousand longer-range missiles could strike as far as Tel Aviv and central Israel, and hundreds of long-range missiles which can strike the entire country.Referring to the IDF’s recent civil defense drill, conducted across the country including central and southern Israel, Nasrallah said it was a tacit acknowledgement of Hezbollah’s missile capabilities.“You are admitting in this drill that you have a defeated army by saying fully and in details that the resistance is able to reach all the areas where the exercises are taking place,” he said, according to a translation published on Hezbollah’s al-Manar website.A senior IDF officer said in a briefing earlier this week that Hezbollah has lost 700 men since the start of the fighting in Syria and 100 over the past two weeks alone. He said Nasrallah’s recent spate of saber-rattling speeches shows he’s facing “no small amount of embarrassment” in Lebanon, and that Israel has seen the transfer of Hezbollah troops from the south – the border with Israel – to Syria.AFP, Mitch Ginsburg contributed to this report.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
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 (GOD) 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)
Op-Ed: Who is Really Behind BDS? We Can Cut Off BDS at the Spigot-How can we fight the flow of finances to BDS?Published: Friday, June 05, 2015 8:44 AM-David Bedein-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Thousands of young people are now employed on campuses around the world, well financed and well organized, in an unprecedented effort that challenges the very legitimacy of Israel on every possible academic and economic front.They call their movement: BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.Over the next few days, Mr. Sheldon Adelson and Mr. Haim Saban have called an emergency meeting of organizations concerned about BDS to answer two questions.From where does the finance and organizational support for BDS emanate? How can BDS be stopped? The answers may be easier to ascertain than one would expectMost recently, official representatives of the Palestinian Authority, the PA, engaged in an international effort that almost booted Israel out of FIFA, the most prestigious international sporting association, a step which could have denied any Israel sports team from competing in any sports competition, anywhere in the world.The direct involvement of the PA in this massive BDS activity revealed what had been known for years, which is that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah organized the BDS “movement” in 2005. The BDS web site speaks for itself. http://www.bdsmovement.net/, It is no more than a front for the PA.BDS has indeed fostered an image that makes it seem as if it is a spontaneous grass roots movement.“BDS” sounds better to the modern ear than “boycott” or “blacklist”.Yet it does not take much research to discern that BDS is not listed anywhere as an independent organization, nor does BDS even hold or own a bank account, anywhere in the world. That is meant to foster the grass roots image, but the money involved has to come from somewhere.BDS, in fact, acts as a subsidiary of the PA, in coordination with the PLO Negotiations Department, working with the official Arab League boycott of Israel that has fought Israel ever since the Jewish state came into being in 1948. (How many of you remember the days when American Jews shunned Pepsi Cola because it had succumbed to the Arab boycott pressure and refused to sell to Israel?) After losing the battle to eradicate the new state of Israel, the Arab League launched a full-scale economic war, which continues to this day, recruiting each Arab country to promote a boycott of all companies that do business in Israel.The Arab League Boycott requires all imports into Arab ports to produce a "negative certificate of origin" - a document indicating that products were not manufactured in Israel, and their components were also not sourced from the Jewish state.The Arab League via a Central Boycott Office (CBO), established in 1951, has implemented this ever since. The CBO was tasked with creating a "blacklist" of companies and institutions with trade ties to Israel, and applies to all Arab countries, except for the two Arab nations that signed peace treaties with Israel- Egypt and Jordan, which signed off from the Arab boycott. The PLO was expected to also sign off from the Arab boycott after the 1993 Oslo Accords.However, the PLO has never stopped promoting the Arab boycott of Israel, even though one of the explicit clauses of the “declaration of principles" in Oslo was that the PLO would no longer support the Arab League boycott of Israel.Why? What has escaped public attention is that the PLO never ratified the "declaration of principles", the most fundamental document of the Israel-Palestinian Oslo Accords, nor did the PLO ever cancel its charter to destroy Israel, which was another major clause in that accord.Only three weeks after the Oslo Accords were initialed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, pending ratification by both sides, a prominent left wing journalist, Pinchas Inbari, reporting for the Mapam (Meretz) newspaper Al Hamishmar from the PLO headquarters in Tunis, reported that PLO leader Yassir Arafat announced that on the day of the scheduled PLO ratification, October 6, 1993, the PLO leader could not or would not convene the necessary quorum for ratification. As a result, the Oslo Accords have gone unratified to this day.I called the Arab League Boycott office at the Arab League office in Washington, DC. and asked if the PLO supports the current Arab League boycott.The Arab League spokesman confirmed that the PLO indeed supports the Arab boycott campaign against Israeli products. Without any prodding, the Arab League spokesman went on to say that “We call that BDS now”-“BDS” sounds better to the modern ear than “boycott” or “blacklist”.The Arab league spokesman confirmed that all data of the Arab League boycott and Arab League blacklist has now been transferred to BDS, working under the control of each PLO legation in more than 100 countries, under the supervision of the PLO Negotiations Department, which coordinates activities with the central offices of the Palestinian Authority.That means that the PA now enjoys the best of all worlds. The PA imports 30 billion shekels a year of Israeli products, while the PLO helps the Arab League campaign to boycott Israeli products, using the new terminology of BDS.BDS activists, mostly from campuses abroad, now make timely visits to the PA in Ramallah, where cash is allocated for an untold number of BDS activists to profit in cash for their BDS activities.Since supervision of funds for Palestinian humanitarian services in the PA or UNRWA hardly exists, and since more than one nation provides cash for each of the Palestinian humanitarian services, that means that a cash surplus exists which PA can allocate for BDS activists to finance their operations.It is easy to witness BDS hard at work in Jerusalem.BDS activists from abroad meet at the American Colony Hotel on a regular basis with senior officials of the PA and return home to their campuses with bundles of cash in their pockets.How can you fight the flow of finances to BDS?Keep it simple. Ask each donor nation that funds Palestinian humanitarian services to make a reasonable requirement for transparency for the funds that each nation allocates to the PA or to UNRWA.The BDS spigot may dry up, very quickly.And then there is a diplomatic avenue. The PLO embassy in Washington, DC, which coordinates BDS activity in the US, was opened in May 1996 with the permission of the US government on the proviso that the PLO would cancel its charter to destroy Israel.The PLO charter remains unchanged.The non-cancellation of the PLO charter can now be invoked, to choke off the PLO office in DC, the fulcrum of support for the BDS.Last but not least, the Israel Legal Forum has distributed copies of a strong anti-boycott law that was passed four years ago in Israel, http://www.nevo.co.il/law_word/law14/law-2304.pdf which mandates that anyone or any organization that engages in advancing a boycott of Israel or Israeli firms can be arrested and tried for a felony, and, upon conviction, can serve ten years in prison and face fines that will put their organization out of business.The time may be right to encourage Israel to prosecute those Israeli citizens and visitors in Israel who actively promote the BDS Arab boycott of Israel.
Op-Ed: The Biblical Roots of BDS-Published: Sunday, May 31, 2015 9:48 PM-Steve Apfel-ISRAEL NATIONALNEWS
Plots and characters in Torah are said to portend what history will have in store for the Jewish people. That being so, the Balaam narrative in the Book of Numbers foretold the plot against modern Israel: if war could not bring down the nation then cursing would.The compelling intrigue with its twists and turns and bad forebodings is familiar enough. It begins with the desire of Balak, King of Moab, to stop the redeemed slaves in their tracks after unlikely victories over real armies. Military might was not behind the juggernaut Jews, so Balak understood. The power of the start-up nation, he learns, resided in their leader’s power of speech. Moses was the secret weapon. And this gave Balak an idea. If by speaking with God, Moses could empower the Jews, then equally they could be disempowered by speech.So the king contracts with a pagan prophet for hire. A militant curser and master of talking donkey, Balaam was made for the job. This grandson of the schemer Laban was born to curse. Up to now he has made a good living out of plaguing people to untimely and ugly deaths. The Near East was rife with practitioners of similar stamp, but here was a commission that would make Balaam immortal. He is offered a king’s ransom to bad mouth.We’ll bring Israel to its knees through the power of negative publicity, condemn and demonize the Zionists to the point where they become a pariah people.God’s own people. The end game is not necessarily to wipe the wandering multitude off the face of the desert, but to keep them from going into the Promised Land."Let us drive them out," the king says at a meeting with the elders of Moab and Midian. It was not the Jews they feared so much as the idea of a sovereign state. Homeless and stateless Jews were no problem; as far as the elders were concerned, God’s chosen could keep their difficult laws anywhere they liked; or almost anywhere. The Moabs and Midians were prepared to live and let live. But a Jewish people in possession of God’s own country – that would be a different kettle of fish. Happy with their deities and quaint perversions, they feared that a sovereign Israel would fundamentally make the world a different place. So it was imperative that Moses and his crowd be cursed into spiritual oblivion.Listen, myriad voices urge at a far-ahead point in history, at which time the people of Israel are living, and thriving, in the Promised Land, and “Human Rights” delegates by the thousands meet on the side of a game-changing conference at the Indian Ocean city of Durban. The year is 2001, and plots are afoot. Listen, the plotters gabble; war after war has left Israel not just intact but invulnerable. Why not wage a different kind of war? This will be a war that Israel can’t win. Words will be our weapon. We’ll bring Israel to its knees through the power of negative publicity, condemn and demonize the Zionists to the point where they become a pariah people. We’ll unite the nations of the world in a common hatred.This was an intoxicating vision, and many entities and people bristling with pent-up scores to settle, were intoxicated by it. What could be simpler than picking on the worst international crimes in the book and laying them at Israel’s door! Apartheid came to mind first; who wouldn’t hate a country that implemented apartheid! Ethnic cleansing, war crimes and occupation came a close second, third and fourth. The prospect was enough to make plotters drool. Add some imaginative marketing and PR, draw on deep pockets to grease the wheels, and in no time at all a full-blown campaign had gone international. Before Israel knew it, the court of public opinion was onto its case.From there on it was all downhill. Set an impossibly high legal and moral bar to clear, Israel was coerced into fighting terrorism with kid gloves. And another ‘plus’ for the mischief-makers: it cost Jewish lives. ‘Be not over righteous, nor too clever,’ Ecclesiastes 7:16 warns the nation. And Shimon b. Lakish adds: ‘Whoever shows mercy to the cruel will ultimately be cruel to those deserving of mercy.’ Look for these truths to the victims of terrorism.Zionist brutality, Zionist oppression, Zionist occupation; Zionist Nazi: this is cursing, and it’s enough to make Jews, young and old, duck and dive like criminals. The cursers are trained to avoid the ‘Jew’ word, which would be an unpardonably destructive thing to do. Curse the Zionists all you like, but don’t call them Jews. Protect our prime asset, that human rights halo. Remember our halo, and keep it shining brightly, warn the script writers. Brandish the halo while we curse Israel out of existence.The club of cursers is led by the Big Five: Amnesty, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch; Christian Aid, and the UN Human Rights Council. Nominally these entities are humanitarian, not-for-profit and apolitical. Really they are none of those things. And there are hundreds of second-tier bad-mouthers of Israel, a bewildering number of them in tiny Israel. Entities like B’Tselem, ‘Committee Against House Demolitions’, Jewish Voices for Peace’ and so on, compete fiercely to bad mouth Israel. After all, with publicity comes money, and ultimately that is what the human rights business is all about.There is a load of cash out there for anyone with a bad word to say about Israel. George Soros coughs up hundreds of millions per year; the European Union coughs even more. Trade is brisk, the money big and the players earnest. For the rights activist Israeli crimes represent the goose that lays the golden egg.So war by other means was born in Durban. And on its heels tumbled the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. BDS sets out to paralyze Israel to the point where it stands alone and vulnerable among the nations, a meek prey for waiting wolves. Negative people (awake to faults, real or not); arrogant people (presuming to know better than the Palestinians what’s good for them); greedy people (earning good money and benefits for their cursing) they are progeny of the patriarchal curser, Balaam.Will modern-day cursers meet the fate of the wily wizard? ‘When the Almighty told Balaam to hold his tongue he should have listened. But feted celebrity-hood beckoned like a pot of gold. Ill will in human form, he ransacked his whole bag of tricks. But the Almighty had other plans for Balaam. Stymied, he rode from pillar to post. Immortal Balaam would be, though for reasons he would not have foretold. At the moment of truth wrong words tripped off his tongue, that mouth organ of militant curses, bridge to a grubby soul, gadget of fortune and misfortune, master of talking donkey. Born to curse, Balaam uttered the most sublime blessings in human annals, and would have departed this life with the hurt rioting and rotting in his head.How beautiful are your tents, oh Jacob, your dwelling places, oh Israel! For the tribute recited in synagogues to this day thank a pagan prophet for hire. Odder yet, thank a lifetime antagonist of the Jews. Oddest of all, thank a curser by trade.
French FM 'Firmly Opposed' to Orange Boycott of Israel-Fabius says partially state-owned Orange can determine its own 'commercial strategy,' but opposes 'boycott of Israel.'By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 11:54 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
France's foreign minister on Friday said Paris was "firmly opposed" to any boycott of Israel as a row rages over French telecom group Orange's decision to withdraw its brand from the Jewish state."Although it is for the president of the Orange group to determine the commercial strategy of the company, France is firmly opposed to a boycott of Israel," Laurent Fabius said in a statement, as reported by AFP.Fabius also used the opportunity to bash Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria - which is legal under international law and yet was part of the pressure on Orange to cut ties with Israel - saying, "also, France and the European Union have a consistent policy on settlement-building that is known to all."Orange is largely publicly owned, meaning the French government has a large share in the company that on Thursday said it will cut ties with the Israeli company Partner which franchises its name in Israel.That move came just a day after Orange CEO Stephane Richard said in Cairo he would "dump" Israel "tomorrow" if he could without taking a loss.Richard tried to play damage control on Friday, claiming to the Israeli Yediot Aharonoth that his move to cut off from Israel - which came after months of intense pressure from the BDS movement urging a boycott Israel and Partner over its service to customers in Judea and Samaria - was "misunderstood."While Richard tried to claim that the move was taken out of business considerations and not from political views, a claim Fabius apparently gave credence to in saying it was for Orange to determine its commercial strategy, critics have noted that Orange just recently signed a 10-year extension deal with Partner belying the economic incentive to its new position.His move also comes following a BDS push to have his company boycott Israel, but Richard claimed on Friday he was unaware of the incredibly vocal movement, saying "I never said that Orange wants to break away from Israel, I was not aware of the global campaign for a boycott against you, and I'm sorry about that."Partner is reportedly considering launching a massive lawsuit against Orange for its discriminatory decision.
Irksome EU labeling of settler goods could snowball into BDS avalanche-Just 0.7% of exports to the EU come from settlements, but as Israel grapples with new boycott pressures, labeling of these products could become the next big blow-By Raphael Ahren June 4, 2015, 10:45 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
In April, 16 European Union foreign ministers called for the implementation of a labeling regime for settlement goods, spurring then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman to compare them to Nazis.“They can … label all products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights with a yellow star,” he said using the Biblical terms for the West Bank.MK Yair Lapid phoned EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to complain about the foreign ministers’ demand, terming it a “stain on the EU.” The demand for labeling of settlements is a call for a “de facto boycott of Israel,” Lapid lamented, adding that this “dangerous process” could “bring disaster to the Israeli economy.”As a former finance minister, Lapid likely knew he was exaggerating the move’s immediate, short-term impact on the nation’s economy. But he also plainly recognized that the introduction of a labeling regime for Israeli products from areas the EU considers illegally occupied has the potential to seriously hurt the State of Israel in the long run. Indeed, it could bolster the international sense of Israel as a pariah state, some experts warn, and trigger an avalanche that would end in a global boycott of Israeli products.Efforts to boycott Israel have been steadily gaining strength for years but are currently dominating the national agenda as never before, with senior politicians and activists elevating the imperative to fight against the so-called BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement to top priority.This week, Israelis talked about little else. Last Friday, the Palestinians attempted to boot Israel out of world soccer, before abandoning the bid at the eleventh hour. On Tuesday, the UK’s National Union of Students formally endorsed BDS. On Wednesday, the CEO of mobile communications giant Orange said he would love to pull out of the Israeli market. On Thursday, the French company officially announced that it will cut ties with its Israeli subsidiary Partner.While this onslaught of anti-Israel activity is part of a long-term pattern, the threat has never felt more tangible. The prospect of Israel being kicked out of FIFA rattled Israelis more than any damning United Nations report or union boycott had done. And the Orange squash then exacerbated the sense of siege.The EU’s labeling plan, however, is a threat of a whole different order, a case of democratic governments gearing up to target the settlement enterprise and its relatively minor exports, but with potential repercussions for the entire Israeli economy — and for Israel’s perceived legitimacy. And many insiders believe that, sooner or later, the EU will indeed go ahead with the labeling regime.The poet Erez Biton, who won this year’s Israel Prize for literature, in his acceptance speech called on Israeli society to unite around the rejection of the EU’s scheme. “Those who label products today are liable to label people tomorrow,” he predicted ominously.If labeling is introduced, the immediate financial blow to the nation’s economy may turn out to be marginal. It is unclear just how many European consumers care enough about the occupation to avoid products from the West Bank. Perhaps very few would turn down delicious and cheap dates, for example, based on their origin. And those who do take a conscious decision to avoid Israeli products from the settlements likely wouldn’t be waiting for the EU to place labels on them.Furthermore, while pro-Palestinian activists would delightedly highlight the labeling, it would also mobilize supporters of Jewish settlements. These could include European Jewish communities or non-Jewish consumers who want to strengthen Israel because they believe it stands on the frontline of the West’s battle against radical Islam.
So much for immediate, direct impact. But that’s not the full story.In 2014, EU imported NIS 60b. from Israel proper-Exports from Jewish settlements — which consist mostly of agricultural products since there are no major technological companies — are minuscule compared to those from Israel proper.According to the most recent available statistics from the Israel Manufacturers Association (from 2012), exports from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights amount to $100 million a year. That is about 0.7 percent of the approximately $14 billion the EU annually imports from within the Green Line (in 2014, it was exactly €13,070,556,887; or about NIS 57 billion).There are 14 industrial zones with 800 factories and agricultural facilities in the West Bank, according to Yigal Dilmoni, a spokesman for the Yesha Council of Jewish settlements.If these companies were to lose money due to labeling or a boycott, the 15,000 Palestinian workers they employ, who earn more than twice as much working for Jews as they would in the Palestinian Authority, would also be among those hurt, Dilmoni said. In that sense, he argued, labeling will not contribute to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but rather destroy one area in which peaceful coexistence currently exists.“I don’t know how the world would react to the labeling,” Dilmoni said. “Yes, it could cause us some losses, but we will overcome it.”Singling out products made by Jews in the West Bank while ignoring other conflict regions, Dilmoni charged, “is a new kind of anti-Semitism. Whoever does such a thing doesn’t really care to solve the conflict, but will only make it worse.”The Europeans evidently beg to differ. Last month, Mogherini told the EU foreign ministers that the details of the scheme would be “finalized in the near future.” She reiterated that message during her visit to Israel last month, an EU source in Israel said.It is not precisely clear what the EU has in mind when it talks about promoting a labeling regime, but some of its parameters can be gauged.The European Commission will publish “an interpretative note that is not legally binding,” a reliable EU source told The Times of Israel Thursday. In other words, European vendors will be allowed to choose whether to attach special labels to West Bank products or leave them as they are, marked as “Made in Israel.” Voluntary or not, it may be assumed that many, if not all, member states will adopt the commission’s recommendation; they might consider it “morally binding.”What exactly would the labels for settlement goods say? Again, this is not clear. “Made by Israeli settlers in Occupied Palestinian Territory” would probably deter more European consumers than a simple “West Bank: Israeli goods.” But there are pointers: Alongside Belgium and Denmark, the UK has already implemented voluntary guidelines on labeling. In some British supermarkets, there are already labels on products that read “Produce of the West Bank (Israeli settlement produce).”Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs already states on its website that it “considers that traders would be misleading consumers, and would therefore almost be certainly committing an offence, if they were to declare produce from the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory] (including from the West Bank) as ‘Produce of Israel’.”In 2012, the South African government instructed retailers to label settlement products as coming from the “Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).” After a protest from the Jewish community, the text to be used on labels was changed to “West Bank: Israeli goods” or “East Jerusalem: Israeli goods.” Jewish leaders celebrated their victory, hailing the new terms as “essentially neutral and descriptive,” but official Jerusalem was unhappy. Labeling as such is discriminatory, no matter how it is done, the Foreign Ministry complained at the time.‘This is the first step, but there will be others’The Europeans explain their desire to label West Bank settlement products as a way to support the “preservation of the two-state solution” and to ensure that “consumers are not being misled by false information.” The EU recognizes the State of Israel only inside its pre-1967 lines; therefore, officials argue, it would violate its consumer protection laws to label West Bank goods as “Made in Israel.”If the immediate financial impact of the EU’s scheme might be negligible, many Israelis fear it could snowball: labeling of West Bank goods could lead to an import ban on those products, which could develop into a full-blown boycott of all Israeli products.“This is the first step, but there will be others. This will lead to a boycott,” predicted Seev Hirsch, professor emeritus of international business at Tel Aviv University. The struggle against apartheid South Africa started with a boycott and eventually led to the downfall of the racist regime, he noted.The EU “won’t take too long before it’ll start taking other steps,” he warned. “As an economic issue it’s a probably meaningless. But I don’t see it as an economic issue — it’s a political issue.”The average European cannot be expected to distinguish between goods from Israel proper and the goods from settlements, and so might simply avoid them all The immediate losses would be limited, agreed Mikhael Manekin, managing director of the left-leaning think tank Molad. But the insistence on the labeling issue underlines Europe’s preoccupation with what it considers Israel’s illegitimate occupation of Palestinians lands, and that ultimately negatively impacts Israel’s entire economy, he said.In 2008, the EU and Israel planned to upgrade ties but the process foundered over European objections to Israel’s actions in the West Bank, he recalled. “As long as the EU’s focus is on Israel’s behavior behind the Green Line, we’re stuck in a position that’s not beneficial to Israeli interests,” Manekin said.As soon as European consumers understand that West Bank products are singled out and thus seen as problematic, “it’s not about the settlements anymore,” Manekin said. The average European cannot be expected to distinguish between goods from Israel proper and the goods from settlements, and so might simply avoid them all. As time goes by, more and more consumers and industrialists will want to avoid the technical and moral headaches that are Israeli products, he said.Manekin argued that EU labeling “has nothing to do with BDS or with radical anti-Israel sentiment,” is not anti-Semitic, and is not part of an effort to delegitimize Israel: “If settlement labeling teaches us anything, it is that there is an overwhelming consensus in the world that Israel’s control of the West Bank is illegitimate, he said. “It’s a measure against Israel’s presence in the West Bank.”True or not, the spiraling concern in Israel is that labeling would have an increasingly resonant impact, and would emphatically bolster those who do seek to delegitimize Israel.Social scientist Eithan Orkibi elaborated that Europeans care greatly about “fair trade,” and said that labels on settlement products are likely to place such products, in the minds of consumers, in the same category as cosmetic goods tested on animals or sneakers produced by children in Asian sweatshops. A lecturer at Ariel University, which is located in the heart of the West Bank and thus subject to special treatment from the EU, Orkibi has done extensive research into the psychology of the BDS movement.“It is easy to create the impression that if you buy this or that product you cooperate with an evil empire,” he said. It doesn’t take much to convince consumers that they are making the world a better place by avoiding wine from the West Bank. “They’re getting a positive psychological reward,” he said.Protesting occupation and supporting national liberation movements through nonviolent acts of resistance is about to become “a great cultural trend” in Europe, Orkibi predicted. In Israel, many young hipsters are turning to veganism, he said, while among young Europeans “it’s almost a trend to boycott Israel or settlement products.”And the young Europeans of today, he noted, “form the core of Europe’s future elite.”
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; 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, 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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Saudi general tells Israeli TV of peace hopes-Anwar Eshki gives highly unusual interview at event where he spoke with incoming Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold, author of a book critical of Saudi Arabia-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2015, 9:29 pm
In a further small sign of warming official Saudi attitudes to Israel, a retired Saudi general with ties to the government gave an interview to an Israeli TV station and said the two countries would be able to work together were Israel to accept the Saudi-initiated Arab Peace Initiative.Anwar Eshki, spoke to Israel’s Channel 10 news during a remarkable event in Washington on Thursday, when he shared a platform with the incoming director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Saudi Arabia has no diplomatic relations with Israel, and while Saudi officials sometimes talk privately with Israeli journalists, they do not do so publicly. In 2007, at the height of a US-brokered effort to advance regional peace efforts, for instance, Saudi Arabia ejected from its embassy in Washington a group of Israeli journalists who sought to attend a briefing the Saudis were holding for western journalists on the sidelines of the Annapolis peace conference.Eshki told the TV station that he and Gold had sat down together “to call for peace in the Middle East.” He said “Saudis and Israelis could work together when Israel announces that it accepts the Arab Initiative.”In their back-to-back addresses at the event, held under the auspices of the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Gold and Eshki both espoused Israeli-Saudi peace and identified Iran as the chief threat to regional stability.
Hatred's Kingdom
The partnership between the two men — already remarkable because of the absence of ties between their nations — is even more so given that Gold penned a withering book about the Saudis little more than a decade ago. In “Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, published in 2003, Gold highlighted “the ideology of hatred fostered” in a country he bitterly described as America’s “ostensible ally.”In his address, Eshki spoke at length of Iran’s hostile and aggressive actions in the region and signaled that peace with Israel, based on the Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative, was a top priority. He also spoke of the need for a joint Arab military force to increase regional stability.Gold, the current head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank, is expected to be confirmed as the Foreign Ministry director-general in the coming days. He too spoke of the challenge posed to the Middle East by Iran, and warned against a weak nuclear accord with Tehran which would leave the Islamic republic as a nuclear threshold state.Bloomberg News reported that representatives from the two countries have held five clandestine meetings over the past 17 months on the threat posed by Iran. Netanyahu has spoken repeatedly in recent months of the opportunities for new partnerships between Israel and other nations in the region who share its concern over Iran’s nuclear program and regional ambitions.Shimon Shapira, described by Bloomberg as an expert on Lebanese terror group Hezbollah who took part in the meetings, said: “We discovered we have the same problems and same challenges and some of the same answers.”While Gold and Eshki stressed that they were not speaking as official representatives of their nations, but rather as foreign policy experts, they expressed hope that their states could find common ground in the face of regional challenges.“Our standing today on this stage does not mean we have resolved all the differences that our countries have shared over the years,” Gold said. “But our hope is we will be able to address them fully in the years ahead.”Eshki said flatly in his talk that Iran was seeking a nuclear arsenal.While stopping short of fully endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative, Netanyahu said last week that he welcomed the general idea behind it — a regional agreement between Israel and the moderate Arab states.The Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, has many problematic aspects to it, the prime minister said, such as its call for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights and the return of Palestinians refuges to Israel. “There are positive aspects and negative aspects to it,” he told Israeli diplomatic correspondents at a rare on-record briefing. “This initiative is 13 years old, and the situation in the Middle East has changed since it was first proposed. But the general idea — to try and reach understandings with leading Arab countries — is a good idea.”In the framework proposed by the initiative, all Arab and Islamic states would establish normal diplomatic relations with Israel after the successful conclusion of the peace process with the Palestinians.Meanwhile, a new telephone poll conducted by an Israeli college among citizens of Saudi Arabia concluded that the Saudi public is far more concerned about the threats of Iran and the Islamic State group than Israel, and that the vast majority of Saudis support the decade-old peace offer to the Jewish state.The International Disciplinary Center’s poll found that 53 percent of Saudis named Iran as their main adversary, while 22% said it is the Islamic State group and only 18 percent said Israel. The poll, conducted in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, surveyed 506 Saudis over the phone and had a margin of error of 5 percentage points.Raphael Ahren and AP contributed to this report.
IDF Deploys Three Iron Dome Batteries in South-In the wake of latest rocket fire from Gaza, IDF deploys three Iron Dome batteries in Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon.By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 9:04 PM-israelnationalnews
The IDF has deployed two Iron Dome batteries in the Ashdod and Netivot areas of southern Israel, following the rocket fire on Israel this past week.A third battery was also deployed in Ashkelon, Channel 10 News reported on Friday.On Wednesday evening, two rockets from Gaza exploded in the Sdot Negev region. There were no physical injuries or damages.Wednesday’s attack came just one week after terrorists from Gaza fired a Grad rocket towards southern Israel. The rocket exploded near the community of Gan Yavneh, near Ashdod. There were no injuries.The Iron Dome, which is designed to intercept rockets that are fired towards populated area, has proven very effective and its success rate was listed as 90% in 2012.The system uses radar, advanced tracking technology and anti-missile batteries to follow the trajectory of an incoming rocket or mortar and determine if it is headed for a major population center. If an urban area is threatened, interceptors are fired to detonate in the air in close proximity to the missile. Projectiles not posing a threat are allowed to fall in empty fields.The system targets short-range rockets with a range between 2 miles and 45 miles; interceptors cost as much $100,000 apiece.Last year, President Barack Obama signed a bill granting an additional $225 million in taxpayer dollars for the Iron Dome.(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.)
Hamas Tells Israel 'ISIS Fired Rockets to Make us Fight'-Senior Hamas source sends message via Egypt minutes after rocket attack blaming Salafists; Ya'alon says 'Hamas still responsible.'By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 9:03 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Mere minutes after the rocket attack Wednesday night that was claimed by a Salafist group in Gaza affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS), Hamas rushed to tell Israel it was not behind the attack and that the ISIS affiliate was trying to cause conflict between the terrorist group and Israel.As Hamas terrorists on Wednesday rushed to clear out of terror sites fearing the IDF retaliation that was quickly forthcoming in the wake of the rocket strike, a senior Hamas source sent a message to Israel via Egypt, reports Maariv.In the message, the Hamas source said an ISIS affiliate in Gaza that is in a state of conflict with his group intentionally fired the rocket to cause Israel to strike back at Hamas and escalate the situation.The “Sheikh Amar Hadid Brigades” which claimed the rocket attack said in a statement on Thursday that the strike was in revenge for “the death of an Islamic State member in Gaza by Hamas members."The statement apparently refers to a Salafist leader affiliated with ISIS who on Tuesday was shot dead by Hamas forces in Gaza City as they tried to arrest him and he allegedly opened fire on them.Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) responded to the message on Thursday, saying, "even if those firing on Israeli territory are gangs of rebels from global jihad organizations interested in challenging Hamas by firing at us, we view Hamas as responsible for the goings-on in the (Gaza) Strip, and we won't tolerate attempts to harm our citizens.""Tonight the IDF responded with strikes to the (rocket) fire. And if needed - we will strike even harder, and last summer proved that," warned Ya'alon.In context of Israel's security threats, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is to visit Israel next week to meet Ya'alon, and likewise hold his first work meeting with the recently appointed IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot; the defense leaders will discuss the threats from Syria and Gaza.
Hamas Blames Israel for Defending Itself From Rockets-Gaza rocket attack leads IAF to retaliate in strikes on terror sites - Hamas tells Egypt to force Israel to keep ceasefire agreement.By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/5/2015, 2:49 PM-ISRAELNATIONAL NEWS
The IAF airstrikes in response to Wednesday's rocket attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli cities is being denounced by the Hamas terrorist organization, which blames Israel of "aggressiveness" in defending itself.
Senior Hamas official Ismail Radwan said Hamas had turned to Egypt and other international sources demanding that they force Israel to maintain the ceasefire agreement sealed after last summer's Hamas terror war, which Gaza has already breached in several rocket attacks such as the one that prompted Wednesday's response.Radwan blamed Israel completely for last summer's escalation, even though Operation Protective Edge was launched after Hamas cranked up its steady trickle of rocket fire to a torrent of hundreds of missiles within days necessitating the operation.Wednesday's attack was claimed by an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate Salafist group in Gaza, which said it had fired the rockets that led to an Israeli counter strike as an act of revenge for the death of a Salafist leader affiliated with ISIS, who on Tuesday was shot dead by Hamas forces in Gaza City as they tried to arrest him and he allegedly opened fire on them.Mere minutes after the attack a senior Hamas source reportedly contacted Israel via Egypt, saying that the ISIS-affiliated Salafists had launched the attack to try and provoke conflict between Hamas and Israel.Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) responded to the message on Thursday, saying, "even if those firing on Israeli territory are gangs of rebels from global jihad organizations interested in challenging Hamas by firing at us, we view Hamas as responsible for the goings-on in the (Gaza) Strip, and we won't tolerate attempts to harm our citizens."Hamas is said not to be interested in another conflict with Israel at the current stage, and instead is focusing on rebuilding its terrorist infrastructure including attack tunnels and domestic rocket production in ongoing missile tests.In parallel Hamas is engaging in a diplomatic push for recognition; earlier this week Israel condemned the UN's decision to recognize a Hamas front group NGO.
