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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)
EZEKIEL 39:6-22
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.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
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)
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Israel to announce major land appropriation in Jordan Valley-Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest such seizure since 2014-By Times of Israel staff January 20, 2016, 4:18 am
The Israeli government will announce the allocation of 370 acres of West Bank agricultural land near the Palestinian city of Jericho as state lands, the largest such land appropriation since August 2014.The area, part of which has been worked in recent years by Israeli farmers, is situated north of the West Bank settlement of Almog, in the Jordan Valley, according to an Army Radio report on Tuesday. Additional details about the move were to be published Wednesday morning.Israel has previously used an 1858 Ottoman law stating that land which lies fallow for several years could revert to government property as the legal basis for such moves.The procedure was approved by Israeli government officials and was to receive final approval in the coming weeks, according to the report.The move comes amid heightened tensions with the European Union, which earlier this week said in a declaration that its agreements with Israel didn’t extend over the Green Line, angering Jerusalem.US Ambassador Dan Shapiro also said Monday that Washington was “concerned and perplexed” by Israel’s settlement policy which he said raised “honest questions about Israel’s long-term intentions.”“This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly expressed support for a negotiated settlement that would involve mutual recognition and separation,” he said. “Yet separation will become more and more difficult” if Israel continues to expand settlements, Shapiro said.The anticipated appropriation was expected to garner negative responses from the European Union, United States and Palestinian Authority, Army Radio reported.The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Defense Ministry body serving as the Civil Administration in the West Bank, confirmed the report saying that the move was awaiting final approval, having already received the green light from senior officials and professional experts.The last such move by the Israeli government, in August 2014, involved the appropriation of nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land near the site of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens months before. The Israeli army declared that there was no claim of Palestinian ownership on the land in question, but the action was roundly condemned by the US and European governments.The head of Peace Now said at the time that it was the largest such confiscation of West Bank land by the Israeli government since the 1980s.
Abbas says Israel snubbed his attempt to meet Netanyahu-Jerusalem denies claim as ‘an attempt to evade responsibility’; Palestinian leader insists PA is not inciting violence-By Avi Issacharoff January 21, 2016, 9:33 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
RAMALLAH — Israel has not responded to a Palestinian initiative for a summit meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the latter said Thursday. In a conversation with Israeli reporters at the PA’s Ramallah headquarters, Abbas said he had sought to initiate a meeting between two top Palestinian officials and two of their Israeli counterparts who would prepare the summit between himself and Netanyahu.That was two months ago, the Palestinian leader said, “But since then, we haven’t heard from the Israeli side.”Netanyahu’s office denied Abbas’s claim.“It isn’t true,” a source in the Prime Minister’s Office said. “It’s an attempt by Abbas to evade responsibility for the lack of talks. Even today, Netanyahu called on Abbas at Davos to come to negotiate without precon ditions.”Abbas, too, reiterated his own call to return to negotiations on Thursday, but said he would not rescind his demand that Israel freeze settlement construction during the talks.“Beyond that,” he said, “we demand that Israel respect the agreements that it is signed on to, including the deal to release 104 prisoners, which Netanyahu agreed to on the phone with John Kerry while [Kerry] was in my office in Ramallah.” Abbas called on Israel to release the last of four cohorts of Palestinian prisoners it agreed to free during the last round of US-brokered peace talks in 2014.Israel refused to release the last group as talks broke down that year, disputing that it had ever agreed to release Israeli Arabs, noting that the overall package of releases was agreed to as part of an effort to facilitate the talks, and blaming the Palestinian Authority for the talks’ failure.Abbas reiterated his longstanding rejection of Israel’s demand that he recognize it as a Jewish nation state.“We recognized the State of Israel in 1993,” he said. “And you didn’t demand from Egypt and Jordan to recognize you as a Jewish state. If you want, Netanyahu can go to the UN and the UN will recognize him with whatever definition he wants.”Abbas emphasized the PA would continue its security coordination with Israel, saying: “Until this very minute, I have not changed my position on this issue.”Asked about official Palestinian Authority incitement to violence, which Netanyahu and cabinet ministers have claimed has been stoking the recent wave of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, Abbas denied the PA was engaged in incitement and invited an American interlocutor to settle the issue.He said he was “ready at any time” to reconvene a joint Palestinian-Israeli-American committee that examined the issue in the past.“We are willing to accept any suggestion made by the American representative on that committee,” he promised.The Israeli reporters pressed Abbas on his failure to condemn the murder of Israelis in the current wave of stabbings, car-rammings and shootings; the Palestinian leader said he was opposed to bloodshed on all sides, regardless of the perpetrator.“Any bloodshed — Muslim, Jewish or Christian — is haram,” or forbidden by Muslim law, he said.Asked why the PA paid benefits and salaries to Palestinians who took part in terror attacks, and to the families of terrorists, he suggested the motive was concern for the families’ welfare, not support for violence.“If the Palestinian Authority arrests a spy who spies for Israel and decides to execute him, it will pay his wife and children a salary, because that’s the tradition and custom among Palestinians,” Abbas said.Asked about a possible heir to his rule, the octogenarian Palestinian leader replied: “Just as the Palestinian institutions chose an heir to [Yasser] Arafat,” so they would select his heir in the event of his death or resignation.
Netanyahu at Davos says Israel needs more aid after Iran deal-[AFP]-January 21, 2016- YAHOONEWS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday that his country will need more US military aid because of the nuclear deal with Iran.Israel is currently negotiating a new 10-year military aid package with Washington that it says will need to grow beyond the $3.1 billion yearly currently provided by the United States.The figure excludes US spending on projects including Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.Netanyahu reiterated his argument that the nuclear deal that has seen sanctions lifted against its regional rival Iran would require Israel to increase spending to maintain its military edge.The influx of cash, he said, would allow Iran to further back proxy militants, including Israeli enemies Hezbollah.Netanyahu said it would be important to "resist Iranian aggression in the region, which continues and might even accelerate given the amount of funds that they're going to get with the lifting of sanctions". "And the strongest way to stop Iranian aggression is to bolster America's allies, first and foremost (of) which is Israel," he said.The Israeli leader added that "we're talking about a bigger package. But remember that even over a 10-year period, it pales in comparison to the enormous funds that Iran gets".The United States has unblocked an estimated $100 billion of Iranian assets held abroad and settled a long-running international dispute that will see Iran get $1.7 billion directly from Washington following the implementation of the nuclear deal.Netanyahu, whose country is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East, though it has never declared it, strongly opposed the accord and labelled it a "historic mistake". His outspoken criticism, including in an address to the US Congress, led to troubled ties with the United States.He has since scaled back his rhetoric and visited Washington in November as part of efforts to move past the rift.A US delegation is due in Israel next week as part of discussions over the new military package, with the current agreement due to expire in 2017, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.Israel's total defence budget amounts to some $16 billion, excluding the US aid.Netanyahu's Davos appearance was dominated by issues such as Iran and Syria, but he briefly addressed the conflict with the Palestinians.A wave of Palestinian gun, knife and car-ramming attacks erupted in October, prompting right-wing members of Netanyahu's cabinet to call for a stronger response to the violence.Speaking of the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu said: "I think we've been careful to enable the (Palestinian) economy to continue even as we have this wave of stabbings because we don't want the overall population to fall into that trap."
Israel revokes residency of Palestinians accused of deadly attacks-AFP-January 21, 2016- YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Thursday he has revoked the permanent residency permits of four Palestinians from east Jerusalem who allegedly killed Israelis in Jerusalem in recent attacks.The rare move is yet another Israeli attempt to stem the nearly four-month wave of Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces, many of which were carried out by east Jerusalem residents.The interior ministry named three of the Palestinians as Walid Atrash, Mohammad Abu Kaf and Abed Dawiat.They are accused of stoning a car driven by 64-year-old Alexander Levlovich on September 13, causing it to veer off the road and into a tree, leading to his death.The fourth Palestinian was Bilal Ghanem, who together with another Palestinian is accused of shooting and stabbing passengers on a bus on October 13.That attack killed Chaim Haviv, 78, and Alon Govberg, 51, and fatally wounded Richard Lakin, a 76-year-old American-Israeli."This is a rare measure, but the severity of the deeds committed by the four justifies my decision," Deri said."During the attacks, the terrorists took advantage of the freedom of movement they were entitled to as permanent residents with Israeli identification cards."From now on, all terrorists will know that their terror attacks will have consequences beyond imprisonment," he said in a statement.An interior ministry spokeswoman said that in the past decade, only four Palestinians from east Jerusalem had their residency permits revoked for deadly attacks on Israelis.The spokeswoman said it was yet to be decided what the legal status of the four affected by Thursday's decision would be, noting options such as a tourist or temporary work visa.Twenty-four Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed in Palestinian attacks including stabbings, car rammings and gunfire targeting security forces and civilians since October 1.At the same time, 155 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks and others during clashes and demonstrations.Israel recently reinstated its controversial practice of demolishing homes of Palestinian attackers in east Jerusalem, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "one of the most efficient tools" in discouraging Palestinian attacks.
For second day, Palestinian workers barred from some Israeli settlements-After stabbing attacks in two Jewish communities, IDF upholds ban on much of the West Bank-By Judah Ari Gross January 19, 2016, 11:18 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
For the second day, Palestinian workers will not be allowed into some Jewish settlements in the West Bank on Wednesday, following two stabbing attacks in two separate communities.“Security measures will continue in the Israeli communities in the areas of Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and some of the communities in the area of Ramallah,” an army spokesperson said Tuesday.The head of the IDF’s West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Lior Carmeli, first decided to keep Palestinian workers out of all settlements in the West Bank on Monday evening, following the terror attacks in Otniel and Tekoa.Carmeli opted to renew the policy “following the daily situational assessment and in light of recent terror attacks,” the army spokesperson said.“These measures will be evaluated on a daily basis, and additional security measures in other parts of Judea and Samaria have already been removed,” the army official said.In addition, Hawara checkpoint outside of Nablus will be closed to south-bound traffic for several hours on Wednesday for renovations, an IDF spokesperson told The Times of Israel.The closure is unrelated to the current security situation, she added.In its place, traffic will be directed through a temporary checkpoint a few meters away, the spokes person said.Though the IDF did not wish to state when exactly the checkpoint would be closed, as it may be subject to the change, Osama Mansour, head of the Palestinian military liaison in Nablus, told the Palestinian Ma’an news service that the closures would occur between 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.On Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 38-year-old Dafna Meir to death at the entrance to her home at Otniel, in the Hebron Hills. Meir, a mother of six, was laid to rest on Monday.On Monday morning, a Palestinian teenager stabbed and moderately injured Michal Froman, who is 18 weeks pregnant, inside the Bethlehem-area settlement of Tekoa. Following the stabbing, Palestinian workers were barred from the settlement.Froman was out of danger in the hospital after surgery later Monday, and the fetus was stable and unharmed, doctors said. She spoke to the media from her hospital bed on Tuesday.Palestinian laborers are occasionally banned from settlements in response to security incidents or Jewish holidays.Thousands of Palestinians — as many as 20,000 by some estimates — are employed inside settlements, mostly in construction, manufacturing and agriculture.In June 2014, thousands of Palestinian workers were barred from settlements in the Etzion settlement bloc and elsewhere during a search for three kidnapped Israeli teens, who were later found murdered by Hamas terrorists.That move, which was seen as a way of putting pressure on the Palestinian population, drew the ire of some settlers, who said the directive harmed their businesses.
EZEKIEL 39:6-22
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.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
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)
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Israel to announce major land appropriation in Jordan Valley-Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest such seizure since 2014-By Times of Israel staff January 20, 2016, 4:18 am
The Israeli government will announce the allocation of 370 acres of West Bank agricultural land near the Palestinian city of Jericho as state lands, the largest such land appropriation since August 2014.The area, part of which has been worked in recent years by Israeli farmers, is situated north of the West Bank settlement of Almog, in the Jordan Valley, according to an Army Radio report on Tuesday. Additional details about the move were to be published Wednesday morning.Israel has previously used an 1858 Ottoman law stating that land which lies fallow for several years could revert to government property as the legal basis for such moves.The procedure was approved by Israeli government officials and was to receive final approval in the coming weeks, according to the report.The move comes amid heightened tensions with the European Union, which earlier this week said in a declaration that its agreements with Israel didn’t extend over the Green Line, angering Jerusalem.US Ambassador Dan Shapiro also said Monday that Washington was “concerned and perplexed” by Israel’s settlement policy which he said raised “honest questions about Israel’s long-term intentions.”“This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly expressed support for a negotiated settlement that would involve mutual recognition and separation,” he said. “Yet separation will become more and more difficult” if Israel continues to expand settlements, Shapiro said.The anticipated appropriation was expected to garner negative responses from the European Union, United States and Palestinian Authority, Army Radio reported.The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Defense Ministry body serving as the Civil Administration in the West Bank, confirmed the report saying that the move was awaiting final approval, having already received the green light from senior officials and professional experts.The last such move by the Israeli government, in August 2014, involved the appropriation of nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land near the site of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens months before. The Israeli army declared that there was no claim of Palestinian ownership on the land in question, but the action was roundly condemned by the US and European governments.The head of Peace Now said at the time that it was the largest such confiscation of West Bank land by the Israeli government since the 1980s.
Abbas says Israel snubbed his attempt to meet Netanyahu-Jerusalem denies claim as ‘an attempt to evade responsibility’; Palestinian leader insists PA is not inciting violence-By Avi Issacharoff January 21, 2016, 9:33 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
RAMALLAH — Israel has not responded to a Palestinian initiative for a summit meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the latter said Thursday. In a conversation with Israeli reporters at the PA’s Ramallah headquarters, Abbas said he had sought to initiate a meeting between two top Palestinian officials and two of their Israeli counterparts who would prepare the summit between himself and Netanyahu.That was two months ago, the Palestinian leader said, “But since then, we haven’t heard from the Israeli side.”Netanyahu’s office denied Abbas’s claim.“It isn’t true,” a source in the Prime Minister’s Office said. “It’s an attempt by Abbas to evade responsibility for the lack of talks. Even today, Netanyahu called on Abbas at Davos to come to negotiate without precon ditions.”Abbas, too, reiterated his own call to return to negotiations on Thursday, but said he would not rescind his demand that Israel freeze settlement construction during the talks.“Beyond that,” he said, “we demand that Israel respect the agreements that it is signed on to, including the deal to release 104 prisoners, which Netanyahu agreed to on the phone with John Kerry while [Kerry] was in my office in Ramallah.” Abbas called on Israel to release the last of four cohorts of Palestinian prisoners it agreed to free during the last round of US-brokered peace talks in 2014.Israel refused to release the last group as talks broke down that year, disputing that it had ever agreed to release Israeli Arabs, noting that the overall package of releases was agreed to as part of an effort to facilitate the talks, and blaming the Palestinian Authority for the talks’ failure.Abbas reiterated his longstanding rejection of Israel’s demand that he recognize it as a Jewish nation state.“We recognized the State of Israel in 1993,” he said. “And you didn’t demand from Egypt and Jordan to recognize you as a Jewish state. If you want, Netanyahu can go to the UN and the UN will recognize him with whatever definition he wants.”Abbas emphasized the PA would continue its security coordination with Israel, saying: “Until this very minute, I have not changed my position on this issue.”Asked about official Palestinian Authority incitement to violence, which Netanyahu and cabinet ministers have claimed has been stoking the recent wave of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, Abbas denied the PA was engaged in incitement and invited an American interlocutor to settle the issue.He said he was “ready at any time” to reconvene a joint Palestinian-Israeli-American committee that examined the issue in the past.“We are willing to accept any suggestion made by the American representative on that committee,” he promised.The Israeli reporters pressed Abbas on his failure to condemn the murder of Israelis in the current wave of stabbings, car-rammings and shootings; the Palestinian leader said he was opposed to bloodshed on all sides, regardless of the perpetrator.“Any bloodshed — Muslim, Jewish or Christian — is haram,” or forbidden by Muslim law, he said.Asked why the PA paid benefits and salaries to Palestinians who took part in terror attacks, and to the families of terrorists, he suggested the motive was concern for the families’ welfare, not support for violence.“If the Palestinian Authority arrests a spy who spies for Israel and decides to execute him, it will pay his wife and children a salary, because that’s the tradition and custom among Palestinians,” Abbas said.Asked about a possible heir to his rule, the octogenarian Palestinian leader replied: “Just as the Palestinian institutions chose an heir to [Yasser] Arafat,” so they would select his heir in the event of his death or resignation.
Netanyahu at Davos says Israel needs more aid after Iran deal-[AFP]-January 21, 2016- YAHOONEWS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday that his country will need more US military aid because of the nuclear deal with Iran.Israel is currently negotiating a new 10-year military aid package with Washington that it says will need to grow beyond the $3.1 billion yearly currently provided by the United States.The figure excludes US spending on projects including Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.Netanyahu reiterated his argument that the nuclear deal that has seen sanctions lifted against its regional rival Iran would require Israel to increase spending to maintain its military edge.The influx of cash, he said, would allow Iran to further back proxy militants, including Israeli enemies Hezbollah.Netanyahu said it would be important to "resist Iranian aggression in the region, which continues and might even accelerate given the amount of funds that they're going to get with the lifting of sanctions". "And the strongest way to stop Iranian aggression is to bolster America's allies, first and foremost (of) which is Israel," he said.The Israeli leader added that "we're talking about a bigger package. But remember that even over a 10-year period, it pales in comparison to the enormous funds that Iran gets".The United States has unblocked an estimated $100 billion of Iranian assets held abroad and settled a long-running international dispute that will see Iran get $1.7 billion directly from Washington following the implementation of the nuclear deal.Netanyahu, whose country is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East, though it has never declared it, strongly opposed the accord and labelled it a "historic mistake". His outspoken criticism, including in an address to the US Congress, led to troubled ties with the United States.He has since scaled back his rhetoric and visited Washington in November as part of efforts to move past the rift.A US delegation is due in Israel next week as part of discussions over the new military package, with the current agreement due to expire in 2017, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.Israel's total defence budget amounts to some $16 billion, excluding the US aid.Netanyahu's Davos appearance was dominated by issues such as Iran and Syria, but he briefly addressed the conflict with the Palestinians.A wave of Palestinian gun, knife and car-ramming attacks erupted in October, prompting right-wing members of Netanyahu's cabinet to call for a stronger response to the violence.Speaking of the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu said: "I think we've been careful to enable the (Palestinian) economy to continue even as we have this wave of stabbings because we don't want the overall population to fall into that trap."
Israel revokes residency of Palestinians accused of deadly attacks-AFP-January 21, 2016- YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Thursday he has revoked the permanent residency permits of four Palestinians from east Jerusalem who allegedly killed Israelis in Jerusalem in recent attacks.The rare move is yet another Israeli attempt to stem the nearly four-month wave of Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces, many of which were carried out by east Jerusalem residents.The interior ministry named three of the Palestinians as Walid Atrash, Mohammad Abu Kaf and Abed Dawiat.They are accused of stoning a car driven by 64-year-old Alexander Levlovich on September 13, causing it to veer off the road and into a tree, leading to his death.The fourth Palestinian was Bilal Ghanem, who together with another Palestinian is accused of shooting and stabbing passengers on a bus on October 13.That attack killed Chaim Haviv, 78, and Alon Govberg, 51, and fatally wounded Richard Lakin, a 76-year-old American-Israeli."This is a rare measure, but the severity of the deeds committed by the four justifies my decision," Deri said."During the attacks, the terrorists took advantage of the freedom of movement they were entitled to as permanent residents with Israeli identification cards."From now on, all terrorists will know that their terror attacks will have consequences beyond imprisonment," he said in a statement.An interior ministry spokeswoman said that in the past decade, only four Palestinians from east Jerusalem had their residency permits revoked for deadly attacks on Israelis.The spokeswoman said it was yet to be decided what the legal status of the four affected by Thursday's decision would be, noting options such as a tourist or temporary work visa.Twenty-four Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed in Palestinian attacks including stabbings, car rammings and gunfire targeting security forces and civilians since October 1.At the same time, 155 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks and others during clashes and demonstrations.Israel recently reinstated its controversial practice of demolishing homes of Palestinian attackers in east Jerusalem, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "one of the most efficient tools" in discouraging Palestinian attacks.
For second day, Palestinian workers barred from some Israeli settlements-After stabbing attacks in two Jewish communities, IDF upholds ban on much of the West Bank-By Judah Ari Gross January 19, 2016, 11:18 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
For the second day, Palestinian workers will not be allowed into some Jewish settlements in the West Bank on Wednesday, following two stabbing attacks in two separate communities.“Security measures will continue in the Israeli communities in the areas of Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and some of the communities in the area of Ramallah,” an army spokesperson said Tuesday.The head of the IDF’s West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Lior Carmeli, first decided to keep Palestinian workers out of all settlements in the West Bank on Monday evening, following the terror attacks in Otniel and Tekoa.Carmeli opted to renew the policy “following the daily situational assessment and in light of recent terror attacks,” the army spokesperson said.“These measures will be evaluated on a daily basis, and additional security measures in other parts of Judea and Samaria have already been removed,” the army official said.In addition, Hawara checkpoint outside of Nablus will be closed to south-bound traffic for several hours on Wednesday for renovations, an IDF spokesperson told The Times of Israel.The closure is unrelated to the current security situation, she added.In its place, traffic will be directed through a temporary checkpoint a few meters away, the spokes person said.Though the IDF did not wish to state when exactly the checkpoint would be closed, as it may be subject to the change, Osama Mansour, head of the Palestinian military liaison in Nablus, told the Palestinian Ma’an news service that the closures would occur between 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.On Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 38-year-old Dafna Meir to death at the entrance to her home at Otniel, in the Hebron Hills. Meir, a mother of six, was laid to rest on Monday.On Monday morning, a Palestinian teenager stabbed and moderately injured Michal Froman, who is 18 weeks pregnant, inside the Bethlehem-area settlement of Tekoa. Following the stabbing, Palestinian workers were barred from the settlement.Froman was out of danger in the hospital after surgery later Monday, and the fetus was stable and unharmed, doctors said. She spoke to the media from her hospital bed on Tuesday.Palestinian laborers are occasionally banned from settlements in response to security incidents or Jewish holidays.Thousands of Palestinians — as many as 20,000 by some estimates — are employed inside settlements, mostly in construction, manufacturing and agriculture.In June 2014, thousands of Palestinian workers were barred from settlements in the Etzion settlement bloc and elsewhere during a search for three kidnapped Israeli teens, who were later found murdered by Hamas terrorists.That move, which was seen as a way of putting pressure on the Palestinian population, drew the ire of some settlers, who said the directive harmed their businesses.
