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)
YESTERDAY MISSOURI FINALLY GAVE DONALD TRUMP HIS 12 BONUS DELEGATES FOR WINNING ON MAR 15,16.BUT WE REALLY KNOW WHY THEY GAVE HIM THEM YESTERDAY.TO TRY TO SHUT HIM UP FROM SAYING THIS IS ALL A ABSOLUTELY FIXED-RIGGED PROCESS FOR THE PARTY PUPPET-THAT THEY WANT IN.
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
Clinton: ‘Not accurate, fair or useful’ to primarily blame Israel for peace failures-In interview with New York Jewish Week, Democratic front-runner distances herself from Obama administration, lambastes Palestinian inaction, says her commitment to Israel is ‘personal’-By Times of Israel staff April 12, 2016, 6:15 pm
Starkly differentiating herself from the Obama administration in which she once served, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton lambasted the Palestinians for failing to seize past opportunities for peace with Israel, and said she had a “long memory” of Palestinian inaction on the peace front. Asked in an interview whether it was fair for the US administration and mainstream US media to primarily blame Israel for the failure of peace efforts, Clinton was categorical: “No, it’s not accurate or fair or useful.”The former secretary of state, who did not directly criticize the president or even mention him by name, was speaking in a telephone interview with the New York Jewish Week, conducted on Friday and published on Tuesday. New York holds potentially critical primaries on April 19.Further distancing herself from Obama, who has had a famously strained relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton said she and the prime minister “get along well,” and promised that the inevitable differences between the two allied countries — she is a perennial critic of the “unhelpful” settlement enterprise — would be handled “quickly, respectfully and responsibly” if she were elected president.Recalling the 10-month freeze on settlement building imposed by Netanyahu in 2009-2010, when she was secretary of state, Clinton slammed the Palestinians for failing to capitalize on that opportunity for progress. “I regret very much that the Palestinians didn’t take advantage,” she said. “The Palestinians couldn’t act.”She recalled, too, that the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat “walked away” from the 2000 Camp David summit hosted by her husband, then-president Bill Clinton. “It was one of the most comprehensive efforts” to resolve the conflict, she noted.In a subsequent email, the New York Jewish Week reported, Clinton stressed the need to maintain “the hope of peace,” and highlighted an imperative “to leverage the converging interests between Israel and Arab states to move forward together toward a two-state vision of a Jewish and democratic Israel with secure and recognized borders.”More personally, in the telephone interview, Clinton stressed that her commitment to Israel is “not just policy; it’s personal.” She said she had worked throughout her career “to further the relationship” and “enhance Israel’s security.” Echoing a sentiment she expressed in a speech to the AIPAC policy conference last month, she promised as president to elevate ties “to the next level.”While some in Israel are concerned that the Obama administration may not veto new efforts by the Palestinians to push a resolution critical of Israel through the UN Security Council, Clinton was adamant in her opposition to imposed UN resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The United Nations is not the venue” for such efforts, she said, citing its “terrible track record in addressing these issues.” The Israelis and Palestinians, she made clear, must resolve their differences in direct talks.(In a speech at the Washington Institute shortly after the latest US-led effort at peace-making broke down in 2014, Obama’s special envoy Martin Indyk criticized both sides for the failed peace talks. At around the same time, a Yedioth Ahronoth feature, reportedly based on a briefing by Indyk, quoted unnamed US officials offering a withering assessment of Netanyahu’s handling of the negotiations, and warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence. The officials highlighted Netanyahu’s ongoing settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame” for the failure of the 2013-2014 effort to broker a permanent accord.) On the Iran nuclear deal, Clinton said she would “use every tool for compliance,” and argued that “Iran should be sanctioned” for its latest ballistic missile tests.In an email exchange that followed the interview, in which she was asked about differentiating anti-Israel and anti-Semitic behavior by BDS activists, Clinton wrote: “Demonizing Israeli scientists and intellectuals, even students, and comparing Israel to South African apartheid is not only wrong — it is dangerous and counterproductive.” Such language that “vilifies Israelis has no place in any civilized society,” she added.Clinton had little to say in the interview about her Jewish rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, who has made headlines in recent weeks for staying away from AIPAC (the only candidate from either party to do so), castigating Israel’s ostensible “indiscriminate” military actions in Gaza, and inflating the Gaza civilian death toll. Said Clinton briskly, “His comments will have to be read and evaluated by readers.”
As Palestinians head back to the UN, cause for concern in Israel-Upcoming Security Council resolution is projected to easily win the votes it needs — and this time a US veto is far from assured-By Raphael Ahren April 12, 2016, 10:14 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Unlike last time Israel faced a hostile resolution at the United Nations Security Council, in December 2014, this time there is virtually no chance that it will fail to garner the required majority.That means that the key to fending off the latest Palestinian attempt to get Israel condemned at the UN’s most important body lies with US President Barack Obama. He will be in the awkward position of having to either veto a resolution despite agreeing with its content, or to abstain, thus further alienating America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East and allowing political opponents at home to portray his party as anti-Israel.The plan to bring another anti-settlement resolution to the Security Council is thus slated to become a veritable litmus test of US-Israel relations, nearly half a year before America elects a new president.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to use his upcoming trip to the UN in New York — where is slated to attend a signing ceremony for the historic climate agreement reached in Paris in December — to launch yet another attempt to the get the UN to condemn Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.“The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now become urgent due to settlement activities and because Israel has not stopped these activities,” Abbas told AFP on Tuesday.A leaked draft of the proposed resolution expresses “grave concern” over dwindling prospects of a two-state solution and calls on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem.”The draft further urges the “intensification and acceleration of international and regional diplomatic efforts and support aimed at achieving, without delay, an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967.”The draft does not explicitly set a 12-month deadline for negotiations on a final peace deal with Israel and an imposed full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem within three years, as a resolution proposed in late December 2014 did. That resolution got eight yes votes, two no votes and five abstentions, and thus failed to pass.For a resolution to pass it needs nine votes from the council’s 15 members. If that were to occur, one of its five permanent members — the US, the UK, China, France and Russia — could veto the resolution.Only a US veto can stop the resolution-Since 2014, the makeup of the Security Council has changed in the Palestinians’ favor, and there is virtually no chance for Israel to stave off a resolution critical of settlements.China, Russia, Egypt, Malaysia, Senegal, Venezuela and France are certain to support the draft. Given that the universally accepted view among the international community is that Israeli settlements are illegal, it is also safe to assume the remaining members of the council — Britain, Angola, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Ukraine and Uruguay — would support the Palestinian proposal. The US thus remains the only wildcard in the upcoming diplomatic showdown at Turtle Bay.In February 2011, a resolution condemning Israel’s settlements — without establishing deadlines for an Israel withdrawal — got 14 yes votes but stumbled over Washington’s veto.And even then, the Americans made it clear that they do not disagree with the resolution’s content but merely take issue with using the Security Council as a tool to advance the stalled peace process.“Our opposition to the resolution before this council today should therefore not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity,” Susan Rice, then the US’s ambassador to the UN and today Obama’s national security adviser, declared at the time. “On the contrary, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.”The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be solved by even the best-intentioned outsiders, Rice said. “Therefore every potential action must be measured against one overriding standard: Will it move the parties closer to negotiations and an agreement? Unfortunately, this draft resolution risks hardening the positions of both sides. It could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations and, if and when they did resume, to return to the Security Council whenever they reach an impasse.”And while she ultimately stood alone in voting against the Palestinian resolution, she concluded her remarks by making plain that Washington agrees with the world about the “folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.”‘Our preference is that any kind of an agreement on final status negotiations take place by the parties’-Nothing has changed since 2011 when it comes to the principle she described — that even if settlements are bad, unilateral moves at the UN are futile and potentially even counterproductive — but these days the administration adamantly refuses to assure Israel of another veto.“I’m not going to get into hypotheticals,” State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said Monday, arguing that he has seen only “very early drafts” of the resolution. While the US deems settlements “illegitimate” and “counterproductive to the cause of peace,” the American position regarding unilateral moves at the UN has not changed, he added. “Our preference is that any kind of an agreement on final status negotiations… take place by the parties.”-Which way will the US go?-It is difficult to gauge whether the US will once again take an isolated stance and veto a resolution. On the one hand, there are several reasons to assume that the Obama administration could abstain and allow it to pass.For one, the US needs regional Arab allies in its fight against the Islamic State group and may not want to antagonize them over the Palestinian question. Furthermore, Obama — who, during his last months in office is keen on leaving a tangible legacy in the region — might still be bitter over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blatant effort to thwart the nuclear deal with Iran by addressing the US Congress and trying to get American Jews to oppose their government.Obama would not be the first president to support Security Council resolutions critical of Israel. In fact, he is the only president since the 1967 Six Day War to have blocked all such efforts, Lara Friedman, of Americans for Peace Now, noted this week in The New York Times.On the other hand, failure to block the resolution would give ample ammunition to domestic political opponents trying to portray the Democrats as anti-Israel, and threatens to erode Jewish support for the party ahead of the November presidential elections.Israeli officials this week refused to comment on the Palestinians’ demarche, but Netanyahu on Thursday called it a “step that will push negotiations further away,” arguing that peace can only be advanced through direct bilateral negotiations.Last month, responding to a question posed by The Times of Israel, on whether he was concerned that Washington could support, or at least refrain from opposing, a Palestine-related resolution at the UN, Netanyahu said that it has been the “traditional policies of US governments to oppose” unilateral efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. All US presidents, including Obama, support this view, the prime minister added.He then quoted verbatim from a speech Obama delivered in 2011 at the UN General Assembly: “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations… Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians — not us — who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them.“That is to say that peace won’t come from dictates at the UN or the Security Council,” Netanyahu said, looking up from his notes. “I agree entirely with this position.”Still, the fact that he had to look up a speech delivered by Obama five years ago shows he is worried the US position might have changed.
Billionaire, famed cosmologist unveil plan to reach Alpha Centauri-Light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ riding laser sails at one-fifth the speed of light may be humanity’s first interstellar messengers-By AFP April 12, 2016, 11:31 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
NEW YORK — Billionaire Russian Jewish investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.Milner and Hawking are spearheading the “Breakthrough Starshot” team of scientists working on the bold research program to create a fleet of super-compact, ultra-light space vehicles or “nanocraft.”The goal is to send the light-propelled mini-space vehicles — each no bigger than a cell phone — to Alpha Centauri, which is 4.37 light years away, or 25 trillion miles, from Earth.They estimate it could take about 20 years to reach the star system from the time of the launch — rather than the 30,000 years it would take with today’s fastest spacecraft.“Space travel as we know it is slow. How do we go faster and how do we go further? How do we make this great leap?” Milner, who is planning to initially commit $100 million to the project, told a press conference in Manhattan.Milner — one of the original investors in Facebook — said the team hoped to send a super light robotic spacecraft streaking through space at 60,000 kilometers (faster than 37,000 miles) per second — about 20 percent the speed of light.The initiative will work by creating a giant laser array to propel the mini-probes — which would deploy micro-sails — toward a given star, creating what Milner likened to an “interstellar sailboat.”“The Breakthrough StarChip concept is based on technology either already available or likely to be available in the near future. But as with any moonshot, there are major engineering problems to solve,” Milner cautioned.Hawking noted: “I believe what makes us unique is transcending our limits.”The Russian Jewish philanthropist said that he will fund the project with $100 million from his own pocket for the project, which could cost as much as $10 billion before it is fully realized.Milner, Hawking and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sit on the project’s board.
Young Arabs say Islamic State the Mideast’s greatest challenge-Poll finds optimism over Arab Spring drops by half in four years, from 72% in 2012 to 36% in 2016-By AFP April 12, 2016, 10:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Young Arabs see the rise of the Islamic State group as “the single biggest challenge” in the region, a survey published Tuesday said, with respondents prioritizing stability over democracy.Fifty percent regard IS “as the biggest obstacle in the region, up from 37 percent last year,” the study published in Dubai said.“Three in four Arab youth are concerned about the rise of Daesh,” it said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.But “just one in six believes the terrorist group ultimately will succeed” in establishing a state, it added.US-based polling firm Penn Schoen Berland interviewed 3,500 men and women aged 18 to 24 from across the Arab world between January 11 and February 22 for the survey.IS, which has attracted tens of thousands of fighters to its ranks, has seized large swathes territory in Syria and Iraq and claimed deadly attacks both in and outside the region.“A quarter of young people believe that a lack of jobs and opportunities are the main recruitment drivers” for IS, the survey said.Five years since the Arab Spring uprisings erupted, 53 percent of participants said that “promoting stability in the region is more important than promoting democracy.”But two thirds of respondents also demanded that their leaders do more “to improve their personal freedoms and human rights,” the study said.“In 2016, just 36 percent of young Arabs think that the Arab world is better off following the uprisings, down from 72 percent in 2012 at the height of unrest,” it added.Meanwhile, 47 percent of respondents said relations between Islam’s Sunni and Shiite sects have worsened over the past five years.The Arab Spring uprisings that started in Tunisia with calls for democratic reform have spiraled into conflict and chaos in several countries across the region.The unrest has been exploited by jihadist groups, notably IS.
Israel confirms it gave written consent to Saudi island transfer-Defense minister acknowledges coordination between Jerusalem, Cairo and Riyadh, hints at burgeoning strategic interaction-By Times of Israel staff April 12, 2016, 7:52 pm
Israel gave written approval to the Egyptian transfer of the Red Sea islands of Sanafir and Tiran to Saudi Arabia, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed Tuesday.His acknowledgement, given in a briefing with reporters Tuesday, hints at growing, though quiet, Israeli-Saudi cooperation in recent years.According to Ya’alon, Israel was told in writing about the island transfer between Cairo and Riyadh, which came as part of a series of cooperation agreements signed last week between Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo. The Cairo-Riyadh agreements cement the alliance of the two Sunni Arab states in a region undergoing chaotic change and facing the growing sway of Shiite Iran to the east.“An appeal was made to us – and it needed our agreement, the Americans who were involved in the peace agreement and of the MFO,” Yaalon said, referring to the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping forces at the Israeli-Egyptian border. “We reached an agreement between the four parties – the Saudis, the Egyptians, Israel and the United States – to transfer the responsibility for the islands, on condition that the Saudis fill in the Egyptians’ shoes in the military appendix of the peace agreement.”The raft of agreements also includes some $16 billion in Saudi investments in the ailing Egyptian economy.The two Red Sea islands figure prominently in the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement signed in 1979, which promises safe passage to Israeli civilian and military ships through the narrow waterways of the Straits of Tiran. The Egyptian blockade of the waterway to Israeli shipping in 1967 was a key casus belli for Israel that led to the onset of the Six Day War.Under the Egyptian-Saudi agreement, the islands are to be transferred to Saudi control in 25 years, giving Riyadh a direct hand in ensuring the fulfillment of the peace treaty with Israel.Saudi officials in recent days said they were committed to “all Egyptian commitments” related to the islands. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview that his country would honor the Israel-Egypt peace treaty’s terms as regards the islands. Saudi Arabia won’t negotiate with Israel about the islands, he said, since “the commitments that Egypt approved [in the peace treaty] we are also committed to, including the stationing of an international force on the islands. We looked into the matter and we know our legal position. We are committed to what Egypt committed to before the international community.”But according to Ya’alon, the coordination with Israel went further. Saudi Arabia agreed to ensure free shipping for all parties through the straits. Israel was notified in writing about the new arrangement weeks before it was made public, and gave its approval in writing to Egypt and, indirectly, to Saudi Arabia.Israel also agreed to the construction of a bridge between the islands and the Egyptian and Saudi mainlands.Israel’s agreement to the transfer necessitated a reopening of the military appendix to the peace treaty, Ya’alon said. The discussions between all three parties were facilitated by the US, the defense minister noted, according to the Ynet news site.The Straits of Tiran are Israel’s only water passage from Eilat to the open sea, allowing for shipping to and from Africa and Asia without requiring passage through the Suez Canal, as well as passage to and from the Suez Canal. Israel Navy ships use the waterway to reach open seas, where they carry out naval exercises that are not possible in the narrow confines of the Gulf of Aqaba.In the briefing Tuesday, Ya’alon also addressed the security situation in Gaza.Hamas, the terror group that rules the coastal territory, is “deterred” by Israel, “and therefore doesn’t act against us. But it is building its strength,” he said.Ya’alon said there was “no siege on Gaza, but there is a security closure in which we forbid the import of dual-use materials that could be used to create rockets. Gaza merchants important goods from abroad through the ports of Ashdod [in Israel], Port Said and Alexandria [in Egypt].”While Hamas was choosing not to attack Israel, the group “is growing stronger,” the defense minister said. “Its main challenge is to smuggle weaponry, since the smuggling route through Sudan no longer exists, but the route from Libya to Sinai is still open. Hamas is also growing stronger when it comes to development and construction of unmanned aircraft, with funding and expertise from Iran, and in the improvement of its naval forces that can penetrate [into Israel] from the beach.”JTA contributed to this report.
Public security minister seeks to expand gun permit eligibility-Under Erdan’s initiative, every former IDF combat soldier would be automatically eligible for an arms license-By Daniel Douek April 12, 2016, 11:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan reportedly announced Tuesday a bid to further relax conditions for gun license eligibility so that all former IDF combat soldiers will be entitled to carry a firearm.Erdan announced his intention to relax gun permit restrictions at the Israel Security Conference, held in Yad Binyamin in central Israel, Ynet reported.According to Erdan, former combat soldiers should naturally be entitled to bear arms as civilians due to the dangers surrounding day-to-day life in Israel.“It makes no sense to take away the firearms of those who serve in reserve units their whole life,” he was quoted as saying at the convention. “The intention is that they will carry a firearm [outside the army as well].”The initiative reflects Erdan’s policy on easing gun permit restrictions.In October 2015, after Israeli police submitted its professional opinion, he expanded gun permit eligibility so that graduates of elite combat units, as well as all IDF officers above the rank of 2nd lieutenant and non-commissioned officers from the rank of first sergeant and up can obtain a permit, even if they hold those ranks in the reserves. Parallel ranks in the police and other security services may do the same.Erdan also ordered gun permits be granted to graduates of certain elite units in the security services, as well as certain government security courses, including those that train the security details of ministers and government institutions.If Erdan’s current initiative to grant permits to all combat soldiers — even those who didn’t serve in elite units — is approved, the number of civilians who will be eligible for gun permits will rise to hundreds of thousands, the report said.Erdan spoke at the convention of a need to balance between gun control policy and the possibility of fast response in event of a terror attack.“I decided to switch to a balancing policy. It’s a matter of public interest: When a trained and armed individual is at the scene of a terror attack, we can see the difference. [Easing restrictions on gun permits] saves human lives.”Erdan’s initiative would have to be approved by the Finance Ministry to accommodate the budget and staffing requirements it will incur.Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich also commented on the matter in the convention, underlining the complexity inherent to the easing of gun control.“When we debated the question of whether or not easing restrictions on gun permits will bolster security, we also had to question if doing so will be an asset or a burden to Israeli society,” Alsheich told the crowd.“Guns can potentially be stolen, and Israeli police are in a constant struggle against this issue. On the other hand, [gun permits] make a difference in terror attacks. It’s not an easy decision to make.”
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
Clinton: ‘Not accurate, fair or useful’ to primarily blame Israel for peace failures-In interview with New York Jewish Week, Democratic front-runner distances herself from Obama administration, lambastes Palestinian inaction, says her commitment to Israel is ‘personal’-By Times of Israel staff April 12, 2016, 6:15 pm
Starkly differentiating herself from the Obama administration in which she once served, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton lambasted the Palestinians for failing to seize past opportunities for peace with Israel, and said she had a “long memory” of Palestinian inaction on the peace front. Asked in an interview whether it was fair for the US administration and mainstream US media to primarily blame Israel for the failure of peace efforts, Clinton was categorical: “No, it’s not accurate or fair or useful.”The former secretary of state, who did not directly criticize the president or even mention him by name, was speaking in a telephone interview with the New York Jewish Week, conducted on Friday and published on Tuesday. New York holds potentially critical primaries on April 19.Further distancing herself from Obama, who has had a famously strained relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton said she and the prime minister “get along well,” and promised that the inevitable differences between the two allied countries — she is a perennial critic of the “unhelpful” settlement enterprise — would be handled “quickly, respectfully and responsibly” if she were elected president.Recalling the 10-month freeze on settlement building imposed by Netanyahu in 2009-2010, when she was secretary of state, Clinton slammed the Palestinians for failing to capitalize on that opportunity for progress. “I regret very much that the Palestinians didn’t take advantage,” she said. “The Palestinians couldn’t act.”She recalled, too, that the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat “walked away” from the 2000 Camp David summit hosted by her husband, then-president Bill Clinton. “It was one of the most comprehensive efforts” to resolve the conflict, she noted.In a subsequent email, the New York Jewish Week reported, Clinton stressed the need to maintain “the hope of peace,” and highlighted an imperative “to leverage the converging interests between Israel and Arab states to move forward together toward a two-state vision of a Jewish and democratic Israel with secure and recognized borders.”More personally, in the telephone interview, Clinton stressed that her commitment to Israel is “not just policy; it’s personal.” She said she had worked throughout her career “to further the relationship” and “enhance Israel’s security.” Echoing a sentiment she expressed in a speech to the AIPAC policy conference last month, she promised as president to elevate ties “to the next level.”While some in Israel are concerned that the Obama administration may not veto new efforts by the Palestinians to push a resolution critical of Israel through the UN Security Council, Clinton was adamant in her opposition to imposed UN resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The United Nations is not the venue” for such efforts, she said, citing its “terrible track record in addressing these issues.” The Israelis and Palestinians, she made clear, must resolve their differences in direct talks.(In a speech at the Washington Institute shortly after the latest US-led effort at peace-making broke down in 2014, Obama’s special envoy Martin Indyk criticized both sides for the failed peace talks. At around the same time, a Yedioth Ahronoth feature, reportedly based on a briefing by Indyk, quoted unnamed US officials offering a withering assessment of Netanyahu’s handling of the negotiations, and warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence. The officials highlighted Netanyahu’s ongoing settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame” for the failure of the 2013-2014 effort to broker a permanent accord.) On the Iran nuclear deal, Clinton said she would “use every tool for compliance,” and argued that “Iran should be sanctioned” for its latest ballistic missile tests.In an email exchange that followed the interview, in which she was asked about differentiating anti-Israel and anti-Semitic behavior by BDS activists, Clinton wrote: “Demonizing Israeli scientists and intellectuals, even students, and comparing Israel to South African apartheid is not only wrong — it is dangerous and counterproductive.” Such language that “vilifies Israelis has no place in any civilized society,” she added.Clinton had little to say in the interview about her Jewish rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, who has made headlines in recent weeks for staying away from AIPAC (the only candidate from either party to do so), castigating Israel’s ostensible “indiscriminate” military actions in Gaza, and inflating the Gaza civilian death toll. Said Clinton briskly, “His comments will have to be read and evaluated by readers.”
As Palestinians head back to the UN, cause for concern in Israel-Upcoming Security Council resolution is projected to easily win the votes it needs — and this time a US veto is far from assured-By Raphael Ahren April 12, 2016, 10:14 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Unlike last time Israel faced a hostile resolution at the United Nations Security Council, in December 2014, this time there is virtually no chance that it will fail to garner the required majority.That means that the key to fending off the latest Palestinian attempt to get Israel condemned at the UN’s most important body lies with US President Barack Obama. He will be in the awkward position of having to either veto a resolution despite agreeing with its content, or to abstain, thus further alienating America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East and allowing political opponents at home to portray his party as anti-Israel.The plan to bring another anti-settlement resolution to the Security Council is thus slated to become a veritable litmus test of US-Israel relations, nearly half a year before America elects a new president.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to use his upcoming trip to the UN in New York — where is slated to attend a signing ceremony for the historic climate agreement reached in Paris in December — to launch yet another attempt to the get the UN to condemn Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.“The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now become urgent due to settlement activities and because Israel has not stopped these activities,” Abbas told AFP on Tuesday.A leaked draft of the proposed resolution expresses “grave concern” over dwindling prospects of a two-state solution and calls on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem.”The draft further urges the “intensification and acceleration of international and regional diplomatic efforts and support aimed at achieving, without delay, an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967.”The draft does not explicitly set a 12-month deadline for negotiations on a final peace deal with Israel and an imposed full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem within three years, as a resolution proposed in late December 2014 did. That resolution got eight yes votes, two no votes and five abstentions, and thus failed to pass.For a resolution to pass it needs nine votes from the council’s 15 members. If that were to occur, one of its five permanent members — the US, the UK, China, France and Russia — could veto the resolution.Only a US veto can stop the resolution-Since 2014, the makeup of the Security Council has changed in the Palestinians’ favor, and there is virtually no chance for Israel to stave off a resolution critical of settlements.China, Russia, Egypt, Malaysia, Senegal, Venezuela and France are certain to support the draft. Given that the universally accepted view among the international community is that Israeli settlements are illegal, it is also safe to assume the remaining members of the council — Britain, Angola, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Ukraine and Uruguay — would support the Palestinian proposal. The US thus remains the only wildcard in the upcoming diplomatic showdown at Turtle Bay.In February 2011, a resolution condemning Israel’s settlements — without establishing deadlines for an Israel withdrawal — got 14 yes votes but stumbled over Washington’s veto.And even then, the Americans made it clear that they do not disagree with the resolution’s content but merely take issue with using the Security Council as a tool to advance the stalled peace process.“Our opposition to the resolution before this council today should therefore not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity,” Susan Rice, then the US’s ambassador to the UN and today Obama’s national security adviser, declared at the time. “On the contrary, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.”The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be solved by even the best-intentioned outsiders, Rice said. “Therefore every potential action must be measured against one overriding standard: Will it move the parties closer to negotiations and an agreement? Unfortunately, this draft resolution risks hardening the positions of both sides. It could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations and, if and when they did resume, to return to the Security Council whenever they reach an impasse.”And while she ultimately stood alone in voting against the Palestinian resolution, she concluded her remarks by making plain that Washington agrees with the world about the “folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.”‘Our preference is that any kind of an agreement on final status negotiations take place by the parties’-Nothing has changed since 2011 when it comes to the principle she described — that even if settlements are bad, unilateral moves at the UN are futile and potentially even counterproductive — but these days the administration adamantly refuses to assure Israel of another veto.“I’m not going to get into hypotheticals,” State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said Monday, arguing that he has seen only “very early drafts” of the resolution. While the US deems settlements “illegitimate” and “counterproductive to the cause of peace,” the American position regarding unilateral moves at the UN has not changed, he added. “Our preference is that any kind of an agreement on final status negotiations… take place by the parties.”-Which way will the US go?-It is difficult to gauge whether the US will once again take an isolated stance and veto a resolution. On the one hand, there are several reasons to assume that the Obama administration could abstain and allow it to pass.For one, the US needs regional Arab allies in its fight against the Islamic State group and may not want to antagonize them over the Palestinian question. Furthermore, Obama — who, during his last months in office is keen on leaving a tangible legacy in the region — might still be bitter over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blatant effort to thwart the nuclear deal with Iran by addressing the US Congress and trying to get American Jews to oppose their government.Obama would not be the first president to support Security Council resolutions critical of Israel. In fact, he is the only president since the 1967 Six Day War to have blocked all such efforts, Lara Friedman, of Americans for Peace Now, noted this week in The New York Times.On the other hand, failure to block the resolution would give ample ammunition to domestic political opponents trying to portray the Democrats as anti-Israel, and threatens to erode Jewish support for the party ahead of the November presidential elections.Israeli officials this week refused to comment on the Palestinians’ demarche, but Netanyahu on Thursday called it a “step that will push negotiations further away,” arguing that peace can only be advanced through direct bilateral negotiations.Last month, responding to a question posed by The Times of Israel, on whether he was concerned that Washington could support, or at least refrain from opposing, a Palestine-related resolution at the UN, Netanyahu said that it has been the “traditional policies of US governments to oppose” unilateral efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. All US presidents, including Obama, support this view, the prime minister added.He then quoted verbatim from a speech Obama delivered in 2011 at the UN General Assembly: “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations… Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians — not us — who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them.“That is to say that peace won’t come from dictates at the UN or the Security Council,” Netanyahu said, looking up from his notes. “I agree entirely with this position.”Still, the fact that he had to look up a speech delivered by Obama five years ago shows he is worried the US position might have changed.
Billionaire, famed cosmologist unveil plan to reach Alpha Centauri-Light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ riding laser sails at one-fifth the speed of light may be humanity’s first interstellar messengers-By AFP April 12, 2016, 11:31 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
NEW YORK — Billionaire Russian Jewish investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.Milner and Hawking are spearheading the “Breakthrough Starshot” team of scientists working on the bold research program to create a fleet of super-compact, ultra-light space vehicles or “nanocraft.”The goal is to send the light-propelled mini-space vehicles — each no bigger than a cell phone — to Alpha Centauri, which is 4.37 light years away, or 25 trillion miles, from Earth.They estimate it could take about 20 years to reach the star system from the time of the launch — rather than the 30,000 years it would take with today’s fastest spacecraft.“Space travel as we know it is slow. How do we go faster and how do we go further? How do we make this great leap?” Milner, who is planning to initially commit $100 million to the project, told a press conference in Manhattan.Milner — one of the original investors in Facebook — said the team hoped to send a super light robotic spacecraft streaking through space at 60,000 kilometers (faster than 37,000 miles) per second — about 20 percent the speed of light.The initiative will work by creating a giant laser array to propel the mini-probes — which would deploy micro-sails — toward a given star, creating what Milner likened to an “interstellar sailboat.”“The Breakthrough StarChip concept is based on technology either already available or likely to be available in the near future. But as with any moonshot, there are major engineering problems to solve,” Milner cautioned.Hawking noted: “I believe what makes us unique is transcending our limits.”The Russian Jewish philanthropist said that he will fund the project with $100 million from his own pocket for the project, which could cost as much as $10 billion before it is fully realized.Milner, Hawking and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sit on the project’s board.
Young Arabs say Islamic State the Mideast’s greatest challenge-Poll finds optimism over Arab Spring drops by half in four years, from 72% in 2012 to 36% in 2016-By AFP April 12, 2016, 10:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Young Arabs see the rise of the Islamic State group as “the single biggest challenge” in the region, a survey published Tuesday said, with respondents prioritizing stability over democracy.Fifty percent regard IS “as the biggest obstacle in the region, up from 37 percent last year,” the study published in Dubai said.“Three in four Arab youth are concerned about the rise of Daesh,” it said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.But “just one in six believes the terrorist group ultimately will succeed” in establishing a state, it added.US-based polling firm Penn Schoen Berland interviewed 3,500 men and women aged 18 to 24 from across the Arab world between January 11 and February 22 for the survey.IS, which has attracted tens of thousands of fighters to its ranks, has seized large swathes territory in Syria and Iraq and claimed deadly attacks both in and outside the region.“A quarter of young people believe that a lack of jobs and opportunities are the main recruitment drivers” for IS, the survey said.Five years since the Arab Spring uprisings erupted, 53 percent of participants said that “promoting stability in the region is more important than promoting democracy.”But two thirds of respondents also demanded that their leaders do more “to improve their personal freedoms and human rights,” the study said.“In 2016, just 36 percent of young Arabs think that the Arab world is better off following the uprisings, down from 72 percent in 2012 at the height of unrest,” it added.Meanwhile, 47 percent of respondents said relations between Islam’s Sunni and Shiite sects have worsened over the past five years.The Arab Spring uprisings that started in Tunisia with calls for democratic reform have spiraled into conflict and chaos in several countries across the region.The unrest has been exploited by jihadist groups, notably IS.
Israel confirms it gave written consent to Saudi island transfer-Defense minister acknowledges coordination between Jerusalem, Cairo and Riyadh, hints at burgeoning strategic interaction-By Times of Israel staff April 12, 2016, 7:52 pm
Israel gave written approval to the Egyptian transfer of the Red Sea islands of Sanafir and Tiran to Saudi Arabia, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed Tuesday.His acknowledgement, given in a briefing with reporters Tuesday, hints at growing, though quiet, Israeli-Saudi cooperation in recent years.According to Ya’alon, Israel was told in writing about the island transfer between Cairo and Riyadh, which came as part of a series of cooperation agreements signed last week between Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo. The Cairo-Riyadh agreements cement the alliance of the two Sunni Arab states in a region undergoing chaotic change and facing the growing sway of Shiite Iran to the east.“An appeal was made to us – and it needed our agreement, the Americans who were involved in the peace agreement and of the MFO,” Yaalon said, referring to the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping forces at the Israeli-Egyptian border. “We reached an agreement between the four parties – the Saudis, the Egyptians, Israel and the United States – to transfer the responsibility for the islands, on condition that the Saudis fill in the Egyptians’ shoes in the military appendix of the peace agreement.”The raft of agreements also includes some $16 billion in Saudi investments in the ailing Egyptian economy.The two Red Sea islands figure prominently in the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement signed in 1979, which promises safe passage to Israeli civilian and military ships through the narrow waterways of the Straits of Tiran. The Egyptian blockade of the waterway to Israeli shipping in 1967 was a key casus belli for Israel that led to the onset of the Six Day War.Under the Egyptian-Saudi agreement, the islands are to be transferred to Saudi control in 25 years, giving Riyadh a direct hand in ensuring the fulfillment of the peace treaty with Israel.Saudi officials in recent days said they were committed to “all Egyptian commitments” related to the islands. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview that his country would honor the Israel-Egypt peace treaty’s terms as regards the islands. Saudi Arabia won’t negotiate with Israel about the islands, he said, since “the commitments that Egypt approved [in the peace treaty] we are also committed to, including the stationing of an international force on the islands. We looked into the matter and we know our legal position. We are committed to what Egypt committed to before the international community.”But according to Ya’alon, the coordination with Israel went further. Saudi Arabia agreed to ensure free shipping for all parties through the straits. Israel was notified in writing about the new arrangement weeks before it was made public, and gave its approval in writing to Egypt and, indirectly, to Saudi Arabia.Israel also agreed to the construction of a bridge between the islands and the Egyptian and Saudi mainlands.Israel’s agreement to the transfer necessitated a reopening of the military appendix to the peace treaty, Ya’alon said. The discussions between all three parties were facilitated by the US, the defense minister noted, according to the Ynet news site.The Straits of Tiran are Israel’s only water passage from Eilat to the open sea, allowing for shipping to and from Africa and Asia without requiring passage through the Suez Canal, as well as passage to and from the Suez Canal. Israel Navy ships use the waterway to reach open seas, where they carry out naval exercises that are not possible in the narrow confines of the Gulf of Aqaba.In the briefing Tuesday, Ya’alon also addressed the security situation in Gaza.Hamas, the terror group that rules the coastal territory, is “deterred” by Israel, “and therefore doesn’t act against us. But it is building its strength,” he said.Ya’alon said there was “no siege on Gaza, but there is a security closure in which we forbid the import of dual-use materials that could be used to create rockets. Gaza merchants important goods from abroad through the ports of Ashdod [in Israel], Port Said and Alexandria [in Egypt].”While Hamas was choosing not to attack Israel, the group “is growing stronger,” the defense minister said. “Its main challenge is to smuggle weaponry, since the smuggling route through Sudan no longer exists, but the route from Libya to Sinai is still open. Hamas is also growing stronger when it comes to development and construction of unmanned aircraft, with funding and expertise from Iran, and in the improvement of its naval forces that can penetrate [into Israel] from the beach.”JTA contributed to this report.
Public security minister seeks to expand gun permit eligibility-Under Erdan’s initiative, every former IDF combat soldier would be automatically eligible for an arms license-By Daniel Douek April 12, 2016, 11:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan reportedly announced Tuesday a bid to further relax conditions for gun license eligibility so that all former IDF combat soldiers will be entitled to carry a firearm.Erdan announced his intention to relax gun permit restrictions at the Israel Security Conference, held in Yad Binyamin in central Israel, Ynet reported.According to Erdan, former combat soldiers should naturally be entitled to bear arms as civilians due to the dangers surrounding day-to-day life in Israel.“It makes no sense to take away the firearms of those who serve in reserve units their whole life,” he was quoted as saying at the convention. “The intention is that they will carry a firearm [outside the army as well].”The initiative reflects Erdan’s policy on easing gun permit restrictions.In October 2015, after Israeli police submitted its professional opinion, he expanded gun permit eligibility so that graduates of elite combat units, as well as all IDF officers above the rank of 2nd lieutenant and non-commissioned officers from the rank of first sergeant and up can obtain a permit, even if they hold those ranks in the reserves. Parallel ranks in the police and other security services may do the same.Erdan also ordered gun permits be granted to graduates of certain elite units in the security services, as well as certain government security courses, including those that train the security details of ministers and government institutions.If Erdan’s current initiative to grant permits to all combat soldiers — even those who didn’t serve in elite units — is approved, the number of civilians who will be eligible for gun permits will rise to hundreds of thousands, the report said.Erdan spoke at the convention of a need to balance between gun control policy and the possibility of fast response in event of a terror attack.“I decided to switch to a balancing policy. It’s a matter of public interest: When a trained and armed individual is at the scene of a terror attack, we can see the difference. [Easing restrictions on gun permits] saves human lives.”Erdan’s initiative would have to be approved by the Finance Ministry to accommodate the budget and staffing requirements it will incur.Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich also commented on the matter in the convention, underlining the complexity inherent to the easing of gun control.“When we debated the question of whether or not easing restrictions on gun permits will bolster security, we also had to question if doing so will be an asset or a burden to Israeli society,” Alsheich told the crowd.“Guns can potentially be stolen, and Israeli police are in a constant struggle against this issue. On the other hand, [gun permits] make a difference in terror attacks. It’s not an easy decision to make.”
