JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Nobody registers to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership-Party must now decide whether to bother holding formal leadership vote next month-By Tamar Pileggi January 10, 2016, 3:47 pm-the times of israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will remain head of his Likud party after no challengers announced their candidacy for the party leadership primaries by Sunday’s deadline.Subsequently, the Likud Elections Committee will decide whether or not to hold the February 23 vote, a formality in the absence of other candidates.Likud lawmakers Oren Hazan and Avi Dichter mulled runs against Netanyahu in the primaries, but both declined to challenge him in the end.On Sunday, Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, the wife of former Likud MK Silvan Shalom, tweeted that she was considering challenging Netanyahu for the role. But fearing she might “accidentally win,” the outspoken Nir-Mozes, said, she ultimately decided not to run.A senior Likud official was quoted by Ha’aretz as saying that while Netanyahu had “certainly secured his victory,” that could prove to be a double-edged sword by antagonizing political powerhouses such as Yisrael Katz and Gideon Sa’ar, who see themselves as potential party leaders.In December 2015, the party’s powerful central committee voted to approve Netanyahu’s request to move up the leadership primaries to February, which the prime minister argued would stabilize the governing coalition and its razor-thin Knesset majority. Opponents had argued that bringing forward the primaries instead of holding them closer to the next general elections could stymie attempts by potential competitors to run against the prime minister.A year ago, facing a shaky coalition, Netanyahu brought the leadership primaries forward; in that instance, the aim was to prevent rival Sa’ar from mounting a successful counterbid for the leadership. Sa’ar subsequently pulled out of the race.Primaries, which are conducted by several Israeli political parties, enable party members — rather than internal committees — to elect a leader and the lists of candidates for general elections. In June, Netanyahu fought off a bid to have the power to choose candidates returned to the Likud Central Committee. Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes contributed to this report.
Netanyahu says he’ll advance Arabs while enforcing law-PM says new program signals ‘national effort’ to develop non-Jewish communities, including NIS 2b. for Druze and Circassians-By Stuart Winer January 10, 2016, 2:00 pm-the times of israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a national effort is required to close the social gaps between the Jewish and Arab communities in Israel, and that success will only come alongside more robust law enforcement in Arab towns.Speaking ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu also announced the approval of NIS 2 billion ($510 million) plan to develop the Druze and Circassian communities.“Any sensible person knows that there are large gaps between the Arab and Jewish population, resource gaps and disparities in law enforcement, gaps and discrepancies in rights and obligations,” Netanyahu said. “These gaps formed over decades, and it is time to make a major national effort to reduce them.”“The unprecedented program that the government approved ten days ago will do even more in that direction,” he added, referring to a NIS 15 billion ($4 billion) five-year development plan for Arab communities.“At the same time, we will also implement a comprehensive law enforcement plan for the Arab community,” Netanyahu continued. “I want to make it clear that nothing we do in various areas of infrastructure, tourism, education, in trade and economy — these things can’t progress if we don’t deal with the question of enforcing Israeli law in the Arab community.“These two programs are intertwined, and they will help and benefit the citizens of Israel, primarily Arab citizens,” he said.Likewise, Netanyahu said, the upcoming scheme for Druze and Circassian communities “will help to close the gaps, advancing a community that serves in the IDF and sees itself as a part of Israel.”Circassians are members of a displaced ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and now spread across the Middle East, of whom 4,000 live in Israel.“I believe anyone who wants real integration of all the citizens of Israel in Israeli society will be a partner to this national effort that the government will lead in the coming years,” Netanyahu said.Last week the prime minister rejected reports he was preparing to impose conditions on Israel’s Arab community for the recently passed multi-billion-shekel development plan, though one minister said he had been asked to draw up the demands. Channel 2 reported Monday night that Netanyahu was considering withholding funds earmarked for Israeli Arab communities unless they accept new measures for “increased law enforcement,” in the wake of a January 1 terror shooting spree by an Israeli Arab man in Tel Aviv that killed three people and injured six others.According to the report, the prime minister instructed ministers Ze’ev Elkin and Yariv Levin to prepare such a plan in response to the shooting. The attack highlighted the problem of unregistered firearms in Arab communities, bringing calls — including from Arab Israeli political leaders — for a police crackdown on the issue. The Prime Minister’s Office denied the report at the time, saying there were no plans to limit or condition the aid package for the Arab community.Earlier this month the government approved a plan to build a new Druze town in the North.Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh dismissed Netanyahu’s promise of new construction for Arab communities as empty rhetoric and derided the calls for better law enforcement as being years overdue.“The prime minister continues to incite and to use empty slogans to distract the public from a discussion of his failure to lead the country,” Odeh said in a statement. “The prime minister is talking about widespread construction as though there is any meaning to the idea when there are communities where right now the infrastructure is collapsing. We would be happy and we’d encourage the construction of new neighborhoods with adequate infrastructure and with an education system and trade that would make enable dense construction.”Raoul Wootlife contributed to this report.
In Paris, thousands remember victims of 2015 jihadi attacks-President Hollande unveils plaque in memory of those killed last year at Charlie Hebdo, Jewish supermarket-By Gina DOGGETT and Guy JACKSON January 10, 2016, 3:11 pm-the times of israel
PARIS (AFP) — Several thousand people gathered in Paris Sunday in a low-key ceremony to mark a year since a million and half citizens thronged the French capital in a show of unity following jihadist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.People attending the event in the Place de la Republique were searched by armed police before standing around a simple stage and a monument covered in the red, white and blue French flag.President Francois Hollande unveiled a plaque next to an oak tree planted in the square in memory of the victims of the jihadist outrages that rocked France in 2015, beginning with the shootings at Charlie Hebdo.Veteran rocker Johnny Hallyday performed a short song and the army’s choir gave a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise.The understated event was a far cry from January 11, 2015, when four million citizens rallied across France, in the biggest mass demonstrations since the end of World War II.The outpouring of support for freedom of expression was crowned by a huge march in Paris that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.Twelve people were killed in the January 7, 2015 assault on Charlie Hebdo, which had been in the jihadists’ sights since publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2006.The next day, another extremist, Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead a policewoman before killing four people in a siege at a Jewish supermarket.France’s year of jihadist bloodshed culminated in the coordinated shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people and were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.Sunday’s event was dedicated to all the victims from the attacks last year, which left the country in shock and under stringent security measures, including a state of emergency.One of those who attended the commemoration, Jacques Clayeux, a 54-year-old museum technician, had known one of the murdered cartoonists, Tignous.“Everyone grew up with those guys,” he said. “But I have mixed feelings today. It is terrible to attack journalists, but it’s scary to live under a state of emergency.”-Thwarted attack-The one- year anniversary on Thursday of the Charlie Hebdo shootings was overshadowed when a man was shot dead by police as he approached a police station in northern Paris wielding a meat cleaver and wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives vest.The man, believed to be a Tunisian called Tarek Belgacem, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before trying to attack an officer at the entrance of the police station in the ethnically-mixed Goutte d’Or district. He was carrying a handwritten letter claiming he was acting in the name of IS.German police confirmed late Saturday that he had been living in an asylum seekers’ shelter in Germany.The thwarted attack underlined the authorities’ concerns that another terror assault remains highly likely in France. Hollande responded to the November massacre by vowing to crush IS and French jets have been bombing the extremist group in Syria and Iraq.Mosques in France opened their doors to the public this weekend in a bid by the Muslim community to build bridges following the attacks.Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was among those who sipped mint tea as he visited a mosque near Paris on Saturday.France needs, more than ever, “the engagement of all Muslims in France,” Cazeneuve said, while warning that “the self-proclaimed preachers of hate” in mosques would be dealt with severely.
Minister halts return of Tel Aviv gunman’s body for burial-Gilad Erdan delays funeral for Nashat Milhem in hometown of Arara, citing ongoing investigation into possible accomplices-By Times of Israel staff January 10, 2016, 5:41 pm
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has instructed the Israel Police to delay the return of the body of Tel Aviv gunman Nashat Milhem to his family for burial.Milhem was killed in a shootout with police and the Shin Bet on Friday, a week after killing three Israelis in Tel Aviv on January 1 and then fleeing a massive police manhunt to hide in his hometown in the northern Israeli village of Arara. According to officials, he was not affiliated with any organized terror group, but is believed to have been motivated by a jihadist ideology. Several members of his family are being investigated on suspicion of aiding his week-long escape from police.Milhem’s family was preparing to bury him Sunday afternoon in Arara, but Erdan, who oversees the police, instructed that Milhem’s body be withheld from the family while the investigation into possible accomplices remains underway.Several suspects have not yet been found, police said.Nashat’s father Mohammed and brother Ali, who were in police custody as suspected accomplices were released Sunday to house arrest.Public defender Nechami Feinblatt, who represents the Milhem family, told Army Radio earlier in the day that he had secured his clients’ release after reaching an agreement with the Shin Bet.“I think the Shin Bet understands that the family wanted to help capture him and not help him [escape],” he said.In the days following the shooting, Milhem’s father and brothers Juadat and Ali, together with five other relatives and friends, were arrested on charges of premeditated manslaughter, being an accessory to murder, illegal association and conspiracy to commit a crime. The next day, Juadat was released from prison, but ordered not to return home.“If I had been an accomplice, you wouldn’t be seeing me here now,” said Mohammed Milhem after his release on Sunday. He also said he was not angry with the Shin Bet for arresting him, and that he had fully cooperated with the Israeli law enforcement authorities.Hours after the shootings on January 1, Mohammed went to local police and told them he had recognized his son as the gunman from TV broadcasts of security camera footage of the attack.On Monday, he made a televised plea to his son to turn himself in, as Tel Aviv residents hunkered down amid ongoing searches for the gunman.“Contact me,” Mohammed said, appealing directly to his son. “I will help you. Let’s end this saga. These are difficult days for the family.”On Wednesday, Juadat Milhem, the terrorist’s brother, repeated that plea after he was freed from police custody.Last week, Feinblatt told Israeli media that while Mohammed had been in touch with his son after the murders, he had “certainly not” helped him escape. He said that security officials were made aware of the phone call between the two.While Milhem’s family immediately condemned his actions and urged he turn himself in, some local residents told media that his relatives had known where he was hiding all along.On Monday, police found DNA evidence indicating Milhem was in his hometown of Arara, and he was eventually tracked to an abandoned house in the town.The structure was surrounded on Friday afternoon, and according to police, Milhem spotted the forces converging upon him. He fired on them from the window of the apartment, fled the building, and ran some 200 meters before he was gunned down by security forces. The forces had been ordered to take him alive if possible.Milhem’s funeral had been set for Sunday afternoon in a small, private ceremony in Arara, to avoid drawing negative attention to the family, relatives said.
Israel busts Hamas cell planning highway shooting attack-Hebron terror group had purchased guns, were led by brother of man who oversaw abduction-murder of three teens last year, officials say-By Judah Ari Gross January 10, 2016, 2:45 pm-the times of israel
In a joint Shin Bet-IDF operation, a Hamas terror cell was broken in Hebron in November, officials announced Sunday.The cell had purchased a variety of weapons, including an M-16 rifle, in order to carry out a terror attack on the Route 35 highway, which runs between Hebron and the coastal city of Ashkelon, the Shin Bet said in a statement.“The thwarting of this terror cell, which was nearly prepared to carry out an attack, again demonstrates the never-ending attempts by Hamas operatives in Hebron to carry out severe terror acts,” the statement said.The head of the alleged terror cell, Mehmad Ali Qawasmeh, is the brother of one of the terrorists responsible for the abduction-killing of three Israeli teenagers in the summer of 2014, the Shin Bet said.Qawasmeh is a member of the extended Qawasmeh family, a strong Hamas force within the city of Hebron. Another member of the family, Maher Qawasmeh, was arrested in December by the Shin Bet for leading another terror cell, which planned to kidnap and murder Israelis in order to negotiate the release of Palestinian prisoners, the security service said last week.The group had already scoped out the highway to find optimum vantage point to carry out the attack and had purchased pistols and at least one M-16 assault rifle. The guns were seized by Shin Bet and IDF forces during the bust of the cell.Mehmed Ali Qawasmeh, 38, recruited the other members of the cell, all of whom were residents of Hebron, the Shin Bet said.Though the Shin Bet would not reveal how many people were arrested from the cell, at least another three members were picked up.Louai Faisal Hashlmon, 32, was another leader in the group, the Shin Bet said. He had previously been incarcerated as a Hamas operative. Amer Mehmed Ewiwie, 29, and Husam Fakhrie Hashelmon, 24, were also arrested for their activities in the alleged cell.In addition, Qawasmeh recruited a number of people for logistical support, who were expected to provide a stolen vehicle with which ti carry out the proposed attack on the highway and also assist the operatives who actually carried out the attack to escape and hide, the Shin Bet said.A military court indicted the men for conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter and for being members of Hamas, an illegal organization.
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
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Nobody registers to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership-Party must now decide whether to bother holding formal leadership vote next month-By Tamar Pileggi January 10, 2016, 3:47 pm-the times of israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will remain head of his Likud party after no challengers announced their candidacy for the party leadership primaries by Sunday’s deadline.Subsequently, the Likud Elections Committee will decide whether or not to hold the February 23 vote, a formality in the absence of other candidates.Likud lawmakers Oren Hazan and Avi Dichter mulled runs against Netanyahu in the primaries, but both declined to challenge him in the end.On Sunday, Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, the wife of former Likud MK Silvan Shalom, tweeted that she was considering challenging Netanyahu for the role. But fearing she might “accidentally win,” the outspoken Nir-Mozes, said, she ultimately decided not to run.A senior Likud official was quoted by Ha’aretz as saying that while Netanyahu had “certainly secured his victory,” that could prove to be a double-edged sword by antagonizing political powerhouses such as Yisrael Katz and Gideon Sa’ar, who see themselves as potential party leaders.In December 2015, the party’s powerful central committee voted to approve Netanyahu’s request to move up the leadership primaries to February, which the prime minister argued would stabilize the governing coalition and its razor-thin Knesset majority. Opponents had argued that bringing forward the primaries instead of holding them closer to the next general elections could stymie attempts by potential competitors to run against the prime minister.A year ago, facing a shaky coalition, Netanyahu brought the leadership primaries forward; in that instance, the aim was to prevent rival Sa’ar from mounting a successful counterbid for the leadership. Sa’ar subsequently pulled out of the race.Primaries, which are conducted by several Israeli political parties, enable party members — rather than internal committees — to elect a leader and the lists of candidates for general elections. In June, Netanyahu fought off a bid to have the power to choose candidates returned to the Likud Central Committee. Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes contributed to this report.
Netanyahu says he’ll advance Arabs while enforcing law-PM says new program signals ‘national effort’ to develop non-Jewish communities, including NIS 2b. for Druze and Circassians-By Stuart Winer January 10, 2016, 2:00 pm-the times of israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a national effort is required to close the social gaps between the Jewish and Arab communities in Israel, and that success will only come alongside more robust law enforcement in Arab towns.Speaking ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu also announced the approval of NIS 2 billion ($510 million) plan to develop the Druze and Circassian communities.“Any sensible person knows that there are large gaps between the Arab and Jewish population, resource gaps and disparities in law enforcement, gaps and discrepancies in rights and obligations,” Netanyahu said. “These gaps formed over decades, and it is time to make a major national effort to reduce them.”“The unprecedented program that the government approved ten days ago will do even more in that direction,” he added, referring to a NIS 15 billion ($4 billion) five-year development plan for Arab communities.“At the same time, we will also implement a comprehensive law enforcement plan for the Arab community,” Netanyahu continued. “I want to make it clear that nothing we do in various areas of infrastructure, tourism, education, in trade and economy — these things can’t progress if we don’t deal with the question of enforcing Israeli law in the Arab community.“These two programs are intertwined, and they will help and benefit the citizens of Israel, primarily Arab citizens,” he said.Likewise, Netanyahu said, the upcoming scheme for Druze and Circassian communities “will help to close the gaps, advancing a community that serves in the IDF and sees itself as a part of Israel.”Circassians are members of a displaced ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and now spread across the Middle East, of whom 4,000 live in Israel.“I believe anyone who wants real integration of all the citizens of Israel in Israeli society will be a partner to this national effort that the government will lead in the coming years,” Netanyahu said.Last week the prime minister rejected reports he was preparing to impose conditions on Israel’s Arab community for the recently passed multi-billion-shekel development plan, though one minister said he had been asked to draw up the demands. Channel 2 reported Monday night that Netanyahu was considering withholding funds earmarked for Israeli Arab communities unless they accept new measures for “increased law enforcement,” in the wake of a January 1 terror shooting spree by an Israeli Arab man in Tel Aviv that killed three people and injured six others.According to the report, the prime minister instructed ministers Ze’ev Elkin and Yariv Levin to prepare such a plan in response to the shooting. The attack highlighted the problem of unregistered firearms in Arab communities, bringing calls — including from Arab Israeli political leaders — for a police crackdown on the issue. The Prime Minister’s Office denied the report at the time, saying there were no plans to limit or condition the aid package for the Arab community.Earlier this month the government approved a plan to build a new Druze town in the North.Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh dismissed Netanyahu’s promise of new construction for Arab communities as empty rhetoric and derided the calls for better law enforcement as being years overdue.“The prime minister continues to incite and to use empty slogans to distract the public from a discussion of his failure to lead the country,” Odeh said in a statement. “The prime minister is talking about widespread construction as though there is any meaning to the idea when there are communities where right now the infrastructure is collapsing. We would be happy and we’d encourage the construction of new neighborhoods with adequate infrastructure and with an education system and trade that would make enable dense construction.”Raoul Wootlife contributed to this report.
In Paris, thousands remember victims of 2015 jihadi attacks-President Hollande unveils plaque in memory of those killed last year at Charlie Hebdo, Jewish supermarket-By Gina DOGGETT and Guy JACKSON January 10, 2016, 3:11 pm-the times of israel
PARIS (AFP) — Several thousand people gathered in Paris Sunday in a low-key ceremony to mark a year since a million and half citizens thronged the French capital in a show of unity following jihadist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.People attending the event in the Place de la Republique were searched by armed police before standing around a simple stage and a monument covered in the red, white and blue French flag.President Francois Hollande unveiled a plaque next to an oak tree planted in the square in memory of the victims of the jihadist outrages that rocked France in 2015, beginning with the shootings at Charlie Hebdo.Veteran rocker Johnny Hallyday performed a short song and the army’s choir gave a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise.The understated event was a far cry from January 11, 2015, when four million citizens rallied across France, in the biggest mass demonstrations since the end of World War II.The outpouring of support for freedom of expression was crowned by a huge march in Paris that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.Twelve people were killed in the January 7, 2015 assault on Charlie Hebdo, which had been in the jihadists’ sights since publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2006.The next day, another extremist, Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead a policewoman before killing four people in a siege at a Jewish supermarket.France’s year of jihadist bloodshed culminated in the coordinated shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people and were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.Sunday’s event was dedicated to all the victims from the attacks last year, which left the country in shock and under stringent security measures, including a state of emergency.One of those who attended the commemoration, Jacques Clayeux, a 54-year-old museum technician, had known one of the murdered cartoonists, Tignous.“Everyone grew up with those guys,” he said. “But I have mixed feelings today. It is terrible to attack journalists, but it’s scary to live under a state of emergency.”-Thwarted attack-The one- year anniversary on Thursday of the Charlie Hebdo shootings was overshadowed when a man was shot dead by police as he approached a police station in northern Paris wielding a meat cleaver and wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives vest.The man, believed to be a Tunisian called Tarek Belgacem, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before trying to attack an officer at the entrance of the police station in the ethnically-mixed Goutte d’Or district. He was carrying a handwritten letter claiming he was acting in the name of IS.German police confirmed late Saturday that he had been living in an asylum seekers’ shelter in Germany.The thwarted attack underlined the authorities’ concerns that another terror assault remains highly likely in France. Hollande responded to the November massacre by vowing to crush IS and French jets have been bombing the extremist group in Syria and Iraq.Mosques in France opened their doors to the public this weekend in a bid by the Muslim community to build bridges following the attacks.Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was among those who sipped mint tea as he visited a mosque near Paris on Saturday.France needs, more than ever, “the engagement of all Muslims in France,” Cazeneuve said, while warning that “the self-proclaimed preachers of hate” in mosques would be dealt with severely.
Minister halts return of Tel Aviv gunman’s body for burial-Gilad Erdan delays funeral for Nashat Milhem in hometown of Arara, citing ongoing investigation into possible accomplices-By Times of Israel staff January 10, 2016, 5:41 pm
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has instructed the Israel Police to delay the return of the body of Tel Aviv gunman Nashat Milhem to his family for burial.Milhem was killed in a shootout with police and the Shin Bet on Friday, a week after killing three Israelis in Tel Aviv on January 1 and then fleeing a massive police manhunt to hide in his hometown in the northern Israeli village of Arara. According to officials, he was not affiliated with any organized terror group, but is believed to have been motivated by a jihadist ideology. Several members of his family are being investigated on suspicion of aiding his week-long escape from police.Milhem’s family was preparing to bury him Sunday afternoon in Arara, but Erdan, who oversees the police, instructed that Milhem’s body be withheld from the family while the investigation into possible accomplices remains underway.Several suspects have not yet been found, police said.Nashat’s father Mohammed and brother Ali, who were in police custody as suspected accomplices were released Sunday to house arrest.Public defender Nechami Feinblatt, who represents the Milhem family, told Army Radio earlier in the day that he had secured his clients’ release after reaching an agreement with the Shin Bet.“I think the Shin Bet understands that the family wanted to help capture him and not help him [escape],” he said.In the days following the shooting, Milhem’s father and brothers Juadat and Ali, together with five other relatives and friends, were arrested on charges of premeditated manslaughter, being an accessory to murder, illegal association and conspiracy to commit a crime. The next day, Juadat was released from prison, but ordered not to return home.“If I had been an accomplice, you wouldn’t be seeing me here now,” said Mohammed Milhem after his release on Sunday. He also said he was not angry with the Shin Bet for arresting him, and that he had fully cooperated with the Israeli law enforcement authorities.Hours after the shootings on January 1, Mohammed went to local police and told them he had recognized his son as the gunman from TV broadcasts of security camera footage of the attack.On Monday, he made a televised plea to his son to turn himself in, as Tel Aviv residents hunkered down amid ongoing searches for the gunman.“Contact me,” Mohammed said, appealing directly to his son. “I will help you. Let’s end this saga. These are difficult days for the family.”On Wednesday, Juadat Milhem, the terrorist’s brother, repeated that plea after he was freed from police custody.Last week, Feinblatt told Israeli media that while Mohammed had been in touch with his son after the murders, he had “certainly not” helped him escape. He said that security officials were made aware of the phone call between the two.While Milhem’s family immediately condemned his actions and urged he turn himself in, some local residents told media that his relatives had known where he was hiding all along.On Monday, police found DNA evidence indicating Milhem was in his hometown of Arara, and he was eventually tracked to an abandoned house in the town.The structure was surrounded on Friday afternoon, and according to police, Milhem spotted the forces converging upon him. He fired on them from the window of the apartment, fled the building, and ran some 200 meters before he was gunned down by security forces. The forces had been ordered to take him alive if possible.Milhem’s funeral had been set for Sunday afternoon in a small, private ceremony in Arara, to avoid drawing negative attention to the family, relatives said.
Israel busts Hamas cell planning highway shooting attack-Hebron terror group had purchased guns, were led by brother of man who oversaw abduction-murder of three teens last year, officials say-By Judah Ari Gross January 10, 2016, 2:45 pm-the times of israel
In a joint Shin Bet-IDF operation, a Hamas terror cell was broken in Hebron in November, officials announced Sunday.The cell had purchased a variety of weapons, including an M-16 rifle, in order to carry out a terror attack on the Route 35 highway, which runs between Hebron and the coastal city of Ashkelon, the Shin Bet said in a statement.“The thwarting of this terror cell, which was nearly prepared to carry out an attack, again demonstrates the never-ending attempts by Hamas operatives in Hebron to carry out severe terror acts,” the statement said.The head of the alleged terror cell, Mehmad Ali Qawasmeh, is the brother of one of the terrorists responsible for the abduction-killing of three Israeli teenagers in the summer of 2014, the Shin Bet said.Qawasmeh is a member of the extended Qawasmeh family, a strong Hamas force within the city of Hebron. Another member of the family, Maher Qawasmeh, was arrested in December by the Shin Bet for leading another terror cell, which planned to kidnap and murder Israelis in order to negotiate the release of Palestinian prisoners, the security service said last week.The group had already scoped out the highway to find optimum vantage point to carry out the attack and had purchased pistols and at least one M-16 assault rifle. The guns were seized by Shin Bet and IDF forces during the bust of the cell.Mehmed Ali Qawasmeh, 38, recruited the other members of the cell, all of whom were residents of Hebron, the Shin Bet said.Though the Shin Bet would not reveal how many people were arrested from the cell, at least another three members were picked up.Louai Faisal Hashlmon, 32, was another leader in the group, the Shin Bet said. He had previously been incarcerated as a Hamas operative. Amer Mehmed Ewiwie, 29, and Husam Fakhrie Hashelmon, 24, were also arrested for their activities in the alleged cell.In addition, Qawasmeh recruited a number of people for logistical support, who were expected to provide a stolen vehicle with which ti carry out the proposed attack on the highway and also assist the operatives who actually carried out the attack to escape and hide, the Shin Bet said.A military court indicted the men for conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter and for being members of Hamas, an illegal organization.
