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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Thousands mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz-Jews from around the world, students and Israeli officials gather at Nazi death camp for annual March of the Living-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff May 5, 2016, 10:22 pm
Thousands of young Jews from 40 nations marched alongside a handful of Holocaust survivors and Polish teenagers Thursday in homage to the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in southern Poland.Now a memorial and museum run by the Polish state, the site is symbolic of Nazi Germany’s genocide of European Jews. One million perished there between 1940 to 1945.Survivor Feiga Francis Schmidt Libman, 81, told AFP she lost her grandmother, aunt and cousins at Auschwitz.Her father died at Dachau, another Nazi camp located in Germany, but she and her mother survived the ordeal of life in the Stutthof camp. She was just 10.“I want them (young people) to know that hatred kills,” Libman, now a great grandmother, told AFP. “I have a motto: if you have hatred in your heart, there is no room for love. I want everyone to be nice to each other and it doesn’t matter if you pray in a synagogue, if you pray in a church or if you pray in a mosque.“We are all the same and we should love each other and try to get along because there is beauty and goodness in all of us.”The doleful sound of the shofar — a traditional Jewish ram’s horn symbolic of freedom — marked the start of the march in brilliant sunshine in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, where Nazi Germany built the death camp in 1940.Participants walked through the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Will Set You Free) gate at Auschwitz, before marching two miles (three kilometers) to Birkenau, the main extermination site.Held for the 28th time, organizers say the annual March of the Living is the world’s largest single Holocaust memorial event.It marks Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.“I’m afraid that Europe and maybe some other parts of the world didn’t learn much (from the Holocaust),” Dr Shmuel Rosenman, march chairman, told AFP.He urged governments to enact tough legislation “against anti-Semitism, racism, fascism.”Yossi Fischer, a 19-year-old New Yorker, said that his great grandfather was the lone survivor among his relatives, all of whom perished at Auschwitz.“They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around.”Eight Knesset members from across the political spectrum attended the annual event, including Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked who addressed modern-day anti-Semitism in her remarks to participants after the march.“Many in Europe, even in modern Europe of 2016, are only willing to accept the Jew in one role and one role only: that of a victim. A perpetual victim,” she said.“A strong and thriving State of Israel, one which wins its wars and overcomes its enemies, is a state that many in Europe find difficult to accept.“Does such a state have a place in the world? Does it have a right to exist? Here in Birkenau I will say this: The existence of the State of Israel is justified in every moment. Even when it enjoys, as we do today, a time of prosperity. Even in days of great strength.“We must remember that even today, there are those who call for the destruction of the Jewish people.‘They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around’-“From this place, I call upon you and upon all the countries that you represent here: Study the lessons of the most terrible of horrors and do not let their seeds sprout anew,” Shaked said.Also in attendance was Zionist Union MK Yael Cohen Paran, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.“It’s a really important day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the March of the Living symbolizes the victory of the Jewish people over the terrible Nazi Shoah. Nearly all of the relatives of my grandparents died in the Holocaust, and being here is very meaningful to me, like coming full circle,” Paran said. “I haven’t started to cry yet but I am sure I will.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stayed in Israel to attend official state memorial events, addressed the 10,000 participants via videolink.“It is here that the Jews were burned to death, millions perished and nobody lifted a finger, so it was a double tragedy: the tragedy of extermination and the tragedy of neglect,” he said.“The March of the Living represents the rebirth of the Jewish people, the rebirth of the Jewish sate, the rebirth of the Jewish commitment to defend ourselves against those who wish to destroy us.”Historical records show that six million European Jews perished under the Nazi German genocide during World War II.In 1944, some 430,000 Jews were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train from Hungary. Most were immediately put to death in gas chambers, while the others shared the fate of all of the camp’s inmates: forced labor, hunger and disease that most often led to death.More than 100,000 non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and anti-Nazi partisans also died at the infamous death camp in occupied Poland. The Soviet Red Army liberated it in 1945.The March of the Living began in 1988 as a biennial event, but was soon staged yearly.So far, almost 200,000 Jewish youths have taken part in the march, according to the International March of the Living organizers, who intend it to be an element of education for new generations.
PM scolded Ya’alon over IDF deputy chief’s Holocaust remarks-Yair Golan sparks controversy after appearing to compare Israel to Nazi Germany in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech-By Tamar Pileggi May 5, 2016, 8:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reprimanded Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon over the IDF deputy chief of staff’s Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Wednesday, during which he appeared to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.During a “tense” late-night phone call on Wednesday, Netanyahu told Ya’alon that Maj. Gen. Yair Golan’s remarks were “unacceptable,” Hebrew media reported.Amid criticism of his comments by senior politicians as well as an outcry on social media, Golan on Thursday walked back his statement, saying his address was not meant to compare the actions of Israel or the IDF to those of the Nazis.“It is an absurd and baseless comparison and I had no intention whatsoever of drawing any sort of parallel or to criticize the national leadership,” Golan said in a statement communicated by the IDF Spokesperson’s unit.Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office told the TV station that Netanyahu welcomed Golan’s statement.“With all due respect to the deputy chief of staff, the prime minister believes he erred in his remarks, and so it’s good that he explained them,” PMO sources said.According to Channel 2, IDF officials insisted Golan’s clarification had nothing to do with Netanyahu’s reprimand, and said the army would have issued a statement on Golan’s remarks regardless.In sharp contrast to Netanyahu, Ya’alon dismissed the widespread criticism of Golan, saying he had “full confidence” in the “valued and accomplished” deputy chief of staff.“These attacks on him are intentional, distorted interpretations of something he said yesterday, and are part of a wider, alarming campaign to cause political damage to the IDF and its officers,” Ya’alon said in a statement on Thursday.“We cannot afford to let that happen,” he added. “The job of every IDF commander, especially a senior commander, is not just to lead soldiers into battle, but also obligates him to lead the way in establishing values.”The strained conversation between Ya’alon and Netanayhu was reported as an indication of deteriorating relationship between the two.Controversy over Golan’s comments continued to snowball Thursday even after the IDF issued his clarification, with some politicians expressing dismay over both the content of his claim and its timing, and others backing him.Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sharply criticized Golan as “confused” and showing “contempt for the Holocaust,” while opposition leader Isaac Herzog praised Golan for exhibiting “morality and responsibility.”On Wednesday night, Golan told the audience during the central state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial that he saw trends in Israel today that are similar to those in Europe prior to the Holocaust, warning against growing callousness and indifference toward those outside of mainstream Israeli society.“If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016,” Golan said at the event.While his critique of Israeli society was likely aimed at support for Jewish extremist actions, Golan specifically touched upon the issue of moral flaws within the army, saying the strength of the IDF was its ability to thoroughly investigate and punish wrongdoers “and take responsibility for the good and the bad,” without justifying their actions or attempting to cover them up.“We believe truly in the justness of our path, but not everything we do is just,” he said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
No joking matter: 1940s political cartoons warned US of Holocaust-Proof of America’s awareness of genocide against European Jews lay in the funny papers, where cartoonists used pens to eviscerate US politicians’ apathy-By Cathryn J. Prince May 5, 2016, 8:41 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
NEW YORK — Long before becoming a beloved children’s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of the Third Reich.In fact, Geisel belonged to a small but determined cadre of American editorial cartoonists who, as early as 1933, sounded the alarm about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Now the work of these legendary cartoonists is featured in Dr. Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe’s new book, “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust.”But beyond resurrecting these cartoons from history’s margins, the book upends the narrative that Americans were unaware of the mounting barbarism.“There is a popular misconception that what Hitler was doing was not known to the American public until the camps were liberated,” Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told The Times of Israel. “When you look at the newspaper coverage at the time you see a great deal was known long before that. And the number of editorial cartoons further illustrates how widely known Hitler’s atrocities were before the end of the war.”That cartoonists addressed the threat of Nazi Germany so early fits in with how they view their role in society, said Yoe, an Eisner Award-winning comics historian and the former creative director for Jim Henson’s Muppets and Nickelodeon.“Cartoonists are often progressive. They give a voice for people who are struggling and they can speak for those who need a voice. They care about social laws and issues,” he said.Through more than 150 rare political cartoons, historical explanations and commentary, the authors tell how these cartoonists implored American politicians and private citizens alike to act against Nazi Germany and save Jewish lives.Readers will view Kristallnacht, book burnings, the voyage of the doomed refugee ship St. Louis, the struggle over America’s refugee policy, the gas chambers, the cattle car trains, and the Nuremberg Trials, through the eyes of watchdogs such as Herbert Block of the “Washington Post,” Jay “Ding” Darling of the “New York Herald Tribune”, and Edmund Duffy of “The Baltimore Sun.”As the authors write in the book’s introduction, successful editorial cartoons poke, prod and provoke. Not only did they command attention in the US, they drew a response from Nazi Germany.“In fact Hitler put out two volumes of cartoons showing what the world was saying about Nazi Germany. They collected cartoons from abroad as a way to say, ‘They’re lying about us and about what is really happening.’ It was their way to refute the accusations being made against Nazi Germany,” said Dr. Steven Luckert, Senior Program Curator at the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Without choosing a favorite cartoonist, Yoe said he’s long been drawn to the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Daniel Fitzpatrick, who worked in charcoal. His 1935 cartoon “Swastika Over Germany” depicts a swastika formed by a bent and chained person.“He drew very simple, yet very forceful cartoons. You have to be a very good artist to get an idea across like that,” Yoe said.As the author of 16 books on the Holocaust and Jewish history, Medoff said the cartoons offer a fresh way to teach the story of the Shoah.“One important point that strikes me again and again is it’s really hard for teens to relate to the Holocaust because it seems so long ago, so very far away,” said Medoff. “They read ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and often Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ but this sticks in their minds in a way a 250-page text book does not.”Luckert agreed, saying cartoons offer a succinct way to convey an argument. As such, cartoons often feature in the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions.Many of the cartoonists were Pulitzer Prize-winning muckrakers. Some were the targets of racist mobs. And some, like Eric Godal and Arthur Szyk, were Jewish refugees whose parents were trapped in Hitler’s Europe.“That added a poignant twist. I thought I was writing a book about well-meaning cartoonists who were trying to make a difference. I didn’t realize how they [Godal and Szyk] were personally impacted,” Medoff said.Originally from Germany, Godal narrowly escaped the Gestapo in 1933 and after settling in the US started working as a cartoonist for several publications. One of his cartoons in 1938, “The Wandering Jew” showed a Jewish refugee crisscrossing the globe, according to the book. A year later his own mother, Anna Marien-Goldbaum, and 936 other German Jewish refugees boarded the “St. Louis,” hoping to be granted safe haven in the US.She sent two letters, from an aged mother on the wandering steamship to her son Godal the artist in New York. She wrote of holding out hope that President Franklin D. Roosevelt “and other influential people will help us… I shall not lose courage until the happy end is reached.”Roosevelt did not help and the “St. Louis” returned to Europe. Many of the passengers, including Godal’s mother, perished in Nazi concentration camps. Later Godal would pen one of the harshest critiques of Roosevelt in a cartoon captioned “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for consideration.” It shows an apathetic Roosevelt passing off a memorandum about how the Nazis were murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews monthly.More than 70 years after the war ended, it’s difficult to gauge the impact cartoons had on public opinion and policy — for while the US government didn’t intercede on behalf of Jewish refugees, individuals such as Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha rescued an anti-Nazi member of the Czech parliament by sneaking him out of a hospital morgue in a body bag.“Even if you can’t measure it in an obvious way it doesn’t mean the cartoon didn’t have impact,” Medoff said. “The public’s appreciation of editorial cartoons is still great, they still really pack a punch and can be taken seriously as political commentary.”
Palestinian woman killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza-Several injuries also reported in southern Strip after IAF strikes on 4 Hamas sites; PM to convene emergency cabinet meeting-By Times of Israel staff and AFP May 5, 2016, 8:58 pm
A Palestinian woman was killed when Israeli tank shells hit her home east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the southern city’s Nasser hospital said.The Israeli fire came in response to a spate of mortar attacks on troops along the Gaza border fence since Tuesday.The woman was identified by the hospital as Zeina al-Amour, 54.The Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news agency Shehab posted photos on Facebook from the aftermath of the tank fire.Palestinian media also reported that a number of people were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the area of Rafah on Thursday, also in the southern Gaza Strip.The Israeli Air Force confirmed its aircraft hit four military posts belonging to Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Palestinian enclave, Thursday afternoon.The air raids came after Palestinians fired another round of mortar shells from the southern Gaza Strip Thursday afternoon at Israeli troops operating on the Gaza frontier. IDF forces responded with tank fire, shelling nearby “suspicious” sites believed to be the source of the mortar launches, the military said.“Since May 3, 2016, Hamas has repeatedly fired and launched mortar rounds against forces during operational defensive activities adjacent to the security fence with the Gaza Strip. This is the 10th incident in the past two days,” the military said in a statement Thursday.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene an emergency meeting of the security cabinet later Thursday evening to discuss the escalation in violence along Israel’s southern border.Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned Hamas that Israel would not tolerate any attempts to disrupt the lives of its citizens.“Terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip need to know that if they try to disrupt our lives, they will delivered a severe blow,” he said at a service to mark the end of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “We will not tolerate a return to a routine of shooting and attempts to harm our civilians and soldiers. We will take firm action with an iron fist, as we have in the past few days, against the terrorist organizations in the Strip, led by Hamas, which is responsible for the shooting and incidents in Gaza.”Earlier in the day, the IDF revealed that it had discovered a Hamas “terror tunnel” burrowing into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. It was the second such tunnel discovered in a month.Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, head of the IDF’s Southern Command, issued an order declaring the surrounding area a closed military zone.Zamir’s order pertains particularly to the area surrounding Kibbutz Sufa, which sits a few kilometers north of the Kerem Shalom crossing.Thursday was the third day in a row in which IDF troops on the border came under mortar fire, as they worked to uncover the new tunnel on the Gaza side of the border fence.No troops have thus far been injured in the attacks, though some engineering vehicles have been damaged, according to the army.The second tunnel, which is slated to be destroyed in the coming days, is 28 meters (90 feet) deep and was located just a few kilometers from the location of another tunnel discovered and destroyed last month, the army said.It was not immediately clear if the tunnel was newly constructed or if it remained from the 2014 Gaza war.Despite the increased tension along the border with Gaza in recent weeks, the years since the 2014 conflict, known as Operation Protective Edge, have been the quietest in over a decade, in terms of rocket fire and attacks coming from the coastal enclave.Since the discovery of the first attack tunnel last month, the IDF and the Israeli government have stressed there are no indications of an imminent large-scale conflict with the Hamas terrorist organization.Hamas has similarly voiced through proxies that it does not wish to renew conflict with the Jewish state at this point in time.
Iranian commander threatens to close Strait of Hormuz to US-Hossein Salami also says in speech aired on state TV that ‘Americans cannot make safe any part of the world’-By AP May 4, 2016, 1:22 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
TEHRAN, Iran — The deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they “threaten” the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.The comments by Gen. Hossein Salami, carried on state television, follow a long history of both rhetoric and confrontation between Iran and the US over the narrow strait, through which nearly a third of all oil traded by sea passes.The remarks by the acting commander of the Guard also follow those of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who on Monday criticized US activities in the Persian Gulf. It’s unclear whether that signals any new Iranian concern over the strait or possible confrontation with the US following its nuclear deal with world powers.The US Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In his remarks, Salami said that “Americans should learn from recent historical truths,” likely referring to the January capture of 10 US sailors who entered Iranian waters. The sailors were released less than a day later, though state TV aired footage of the sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads.“If the Americans and their regional allies want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz and threaten us, we will not allow any entry,” Salami said, without elaborating on what he and other leaders would consider a threat.He added: “Americans cannot make safe any part of the world.”The US and Iran have a long history of confrontations in the Persian Gulf. They even fought a one-day naval battle on April 18, 1988, after the near-sinking of the missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts by an Iranian mine. That day, US forces attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or damaged six Iranian vessels.A few months later, in July 1988, the USS Vincennes in the strait mistook an Iran Air flight heading to Dubai for an attacking fighter jet, shooting down the plane and killing all 290 people aboard.US Navy officials say they face near-daily encounters with Iranian naval vessels. In January, an unarmed Iranian drone flew over a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, the first since 2014, according to Navy records obtained by The Associated Press.The US has also criticized what it called a “highly provocative” Iranian rocket test in December near its warships and commercial traffic. Iran said it has the right to conduct tests in the strait and elsewhere in Gulf.Iran also sank a replica of a US aircraft carrier near the strait in February 2015 and has said it is testing “suicide drones” that could attack ships.
Trump: Israel should keep building West Bank settlements-Republican front-runner rejects construction freeze as precursor to peace talks with Palestinians, blasts ‘devastating’ Gaza rocket fire into Israel-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 1:53 am
Israel should keep building settlements in the West Bank, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday, linking construction to the continued rocket threat that Israel faces from the Gaza Strip and which has seen it drawn into three wars against Hamas-run Gaza in recent years.In an interview with the British Daily Mail on Tuesday, Trump said there should be no pause in settlement construction, a position at odds with that of the Obama administration, which in 2009 encouraged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to implement a freeze new construction for 10 months in an effort restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate until the very end of the freeze, which Netanyahu then refused to extend.Asked if there should be a pause in settlement building, Trump was quoted answering as follows: “No, I don’t think it is, because I think Israel should have – they really have to keep going. They have to keep moving forward… I don’t think there should be a pause… Look: Missiles were launched into Israel, and Israel, I think, never was properly treated by our country. I mean, do you know what that is, how devastating that is?”“You have hundreds and, I guess, thousands of missiles being launched into Israel, who would put up with that? Who would stand for it?” he added.In July 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in an effort to stop rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into Israel, which came after Operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank following the kidnapping and murder by a Hamas-affiliated cell of three Israeli teenagers earlier that summer. Over the course of the 50-day war, Hamas and other Gaza terror groups launched thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel.Sporadic rocket fire into Israel continues, to which Israel usually responds with air strikes.Trump’s stance favoring settlements is at odds with traditional US opposition to the settlement enterprise. Settlements are seen as an impediment by proponents of the two-state solution, which who would see a Palestinian state alongside Israel in most of the West Bank and all of Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, dismantling all settlements there. Hamas took over in a coup against the Palestinian Authority in 2007.Trump said that despite supporting continued settlement building — a sticking point for the Palestinians who insist all construction must stop while negotiations take place — he’d like to help restart peace talks.“With all of that being said, I would love to see if peace could be negotiated. A lot of people say that’s not a deal that’s possible. But I mean lasting peace, not a peace that lasts for two weeks and they start launching missiles again. So we’ll see what happens,” he said.Asked about Netanyahu, Trump said he was a “very good guy” whom he didn’t know that well.“I think I’d have a very good relationship with him,’ Trump said, adding that he thinks “Obama has been extremely bad to Israel.”Israel began building settlements in the West Bank after it captured the territory, hitherto controlled by Jordan, in the Six Day War in 1967. Today, over 250,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements and outposts.
Trump says he will try to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace deal-‘You got to use our best people. And I know the best people,’ GOP front-runner says at Terre Haute rally ahead of Indiana primary-By Times of Israel staff May 3, 2016, 4:26 am
Claiming he’d “never met a person from Israel that didn’t want to make that deal,” Donald Trump said if elected president he plans to try to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty.“I am going to try and make that deal just because — man, would that be a beauty – if you like deals. I like deals,” the Republican presidential front-runner said at a rally Sunday in Terre Haute ahead of Tuesday’s Indiana primary, according to Jewish Insider.“A lot of my Jewish friends say, ‘You will never be able to make the deal’ because there are so many years of hatred, especially on the other side,” Trump added. “You know, they [the Palestinians] grow up as young children hating, hating, hating Israel. I think the deal can be made. But we got to be smart, and we got to use our best people; gotta use me, but you got to use our best people. And I know the best people.”In the speech, Trump also said the United States should use its clout as a major funder to demand that the United Nations do more to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Trump’s first foreign policy speech last week did not mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than criticizing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for being too critical of the Jewish state.
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Thousands mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz-Jews from around the world, students and Israeli officials gather at Nazi death camp for annual March of the Living-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff May 5, 2016, 10:22 pm
Thousands of young Jews from 40 nations marched alongside a handful of Holocaust survivors and Polish teenagers Thursday in homage to the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in southern Poland.Now a memorial and museum run by the Polish state, the site is symbolic of Nazi Germany’s genocide of European Jews. One million perished there between 1940 to 1945.Survivor Feiga Francis Schmidt Libman, 81, told AFP she lost her grandmother, aunt and cousins at Auschwitz.Her father died at Dachau, another Nazi camp located in Germany, but she and her mother survived the ordeal of life in the Stutthof camp. She was just 10.“I want them (young people) to know that hatred kills,” Libman, now a great grandmother, told AFP. “I have a motto: if you have hatred in your heart, there is no room for love. I want everyone to be nice to each other and it doesn’t matter if you pray in a synagogue, if you pray in a church or if you pray in a mosque.“We are all the same and we should love each other and try to get along because there is beauty and goodness in all of us.”The doleful sound of the shofar — a traditional Jewish ram’s horn symbolic of freedom — marked the start of the march in brilliant sunshine in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, where Nazi Germany built the death camp in 1940.Participants walked through the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Will Set You Free) gate at Auschwitz, before marching two miles (three kilometers) to Birkenau, the main extermination site.Held for the 28th time, organizers say the annual March of the Living is the world’s largest single Holocaust memorial event.It marks Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.“I’m afraid that Europe and maybe some other parts of the world didn’t learn much (from the Holocaust),” Dr Shmuel Rosenman, march chairman, told AFP.He urged governments to enact tough legislation “against anti-Semitism, racism, fascism.”Yossi Fischer, a 19-year-old New Yorker, said that his great grandfather was the lone survivor among his relatives, all of whom perished at Auschwitz.“They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around.”Eight Knesset members from across the political spectrum attended the annual event, including Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked who addressed modern-day anti-Semitism in her remarks to participants after the march.“Many in Europe, even in modern Europe of 2016, are only willing to accept the Jew in one role and one role only: that of a victim. A perpetual victim,” she said.“A strong and thriving State of Israel, one which wins its wars and overcomes its enemies, is a state that many in Europe find difficult to accept.“Does such a state have a place in the world? Does it have a right to exist? Here in Birkenau I will say this: The existence of the State of Israel is justified in every moment. Even when it enjoys, as we do today, a time of prosperity. Even in days of great strength.“We must remember that even today, there are those who call for the destruction of the Jewish people.‘They tried to destroy us, but thank God we’re still around’-“From this place, I call upon you and upon all the countries that you represent here: Study the lessons of the most terrible of horrors and do not let their seeds sprout anew,” Shaked said.Also in attendance was Zionist Union MK Yael Cohen Paran, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.“It’s a really important day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the March of the Living symbolizes the victory of the Jewish people over the terrible Nazi Shoah. Nearly all of the relatives of my grandparents died in the Holocaust, and being here is very meaningful to me, like coming full circle,” Paran said. “I haven’t started to cry yet but I am sure I will.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stayed in Israel to attend official state memorial events, addressed the 10,000 participants via videolink.“It is here that the Jews were burned to death, millions perished and nobody lifted a finger, so it was a double tragedy: the tragedy of extermination and the tragedy of neglect,” he said.“The March of the Living represents the rebirth of the Jewish people, the rebirth of the Jewish sate, the rebirth of the Jewish commitment to defend ourselves against those who wish to destroy us.”Historical records show that six million European Jews perished under the Nazi German genocide during World War II.In 1944, some 430,000 Jews were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train from Hungary. Most were immediately put to death in gas chambers, while the others shared the fate of all of the camp’s inmates: forced labor, hunger and disease that most often led to death.More than 100,000 non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and anti-Nazi partisans also died at the infamous death camp in occupied Poland. The Soviet Red Army liberated it in 1945.The March of the Living began in 1988 as a biennial event, but was soon staged yearly.So far, almost 200,000 Jewish youths have taken part in the march, according to the International March of the Living organizers, who intend it to be an element of education for new generations.
PM scolded Ya’alon over IDF deputy chief’s Holocaust remarks-Yair Golan sparks controversy after appearing to compare Israel to Nazi Germany in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech-By Tamar Pileggi May 5, 2016, 8:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reprimanded Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon over the IDF deputy chief of staff’s Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Wednesday, during which he appeared to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.During a “tense” late-night phone call on Wednesday, Netanyahu told Ya’alon that Maj. Gen. Yair Golan’s remarks were “unacceptable,” Hebrew media reported.Amid criticism of his comments by senior politicians as well as an outcry on social media, Golan on Thursday walked back his statement, saying his address was not meant to compare the actions of Israel or the IDF to those of the Nazis.“It is an absurd and baseless comparison and I had no intention whatsoever of drawing any sort of parallel or to criticize the national leadership,” Golan said in a statement communicated by the IDF Spokesperson’s unit.Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office told the TV station that Netanyahu welcomed Golan’s statement.“With all due respect to the deputy chief of staff, the prime minister believes he erred in his remarks, and so it’s good that he explained them,” PMO sources said.According to Channel 2, IDF officials insisted Golan’s clarification had nothing to do with Netanyahu’s reprimand, and said the army would have issued a statement on Golan’s remarks regardless.In sharp contrast to Netanyahu, Ya’alon dismissed the widespread criticism of Golan, saying he had “full confidence” in the “valued and accomplished” deputy chief of staff.“These attacks on him are intentional, distorted interpretations of something he said yesterday, and are part of a wider, alarming campaign to cause political damage to the IDF and its officers,” Ya’alon said in a statement on Thursday.“We cannot afford to let that happen,” he added. “The job of every IDF commander, especially a senior commander, is not just to lead soldiers into battle, but also obligates him to lead the way in establishing values.”The strained conversation between Ya’alon and Netanayhu was reported as an indication of deteriorating relationship between the two.Controversy over Golan’s comments continued to snowball Thursday even after the IDF issued his clarification, with some politicians expressing dismay over both the content of his claim and its timing, and others backing him.Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sharply criticized Golan as “confused” and showing “contempt for the Holocaust,” while opposition leader Isaac Herzog praised Golan for exhibiting “morality and responsibility.”On Wednesday night, Golan told the audience during the central state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial that he saw trends in Israel today that are similar to those in Europe prior to the Holocaust, warning against growing callousness and indifference toward those outside of mainstream Israeli society.“If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016,” Golan said at the event.While his critique of Israeli society was likely aimed at support for Jewish extremist actions, Golan specifically touched upon the issue of moral flaws within the army, saying the strength of the IDF was its ability to thoroughly investigate and punish wrongdoers “and take responsibility for the good and the bad,” without justifying their actions or attempting to cover them up.“We believe truly in the justness of our path, but not everything we do is just,” he said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
No joking matter: 1940s political cartoons warned US of Holocaust-Proof of America’s awareness of genocide against European Jews lay in the funny papers, where cartoonists used pens to eviscerate US politicians’ apathy-By Cathryn J. Prince May 5, 2016, 8:41 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
NEW YORK — Long before becoming a beloved children’s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of the Third Reich.In fact, Geisel belonged to a small but determined cadre of American editorial cartoonists who, as early as 1933, sounded the alarm about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Now the work of these legendary cartoonists is featured in Dr. Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe’s new book, “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust.”But beyond resurrecting these cartoons from history’s margins, the book upends the narrative that Americans were unaware of the mounting barbarism.“There is a popular misconception that what Hitler was doing was not known to the American public until the camps were liberated,” Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told The Times of Israel. “When you look at the newspaper coverage at the time you see a great deal was known long before that. And the number of editorial cartoons further illustrates how widely known Hitler’s atrocities were before the end of the war.”That cartoonists addressed the threat of Nazi Germany so early fits in with how they view their role in society, said Yoe, an Eisner Award-winning comics historian and the former creative director for Jim Henson’s Muppets and Nickelodeon.“Cartoonists are often progressive. They give a voice for people who are struggling and they can speak for those who need a voice. They care about social laws and issues,” he said.Through more than 150 rare political cartoons, historical explanations and commentary, the authors tell how these cartoonists implored American politicians and private citizens alike to act against Nazi Germany and save Jewish lives.Readers will view Kristallnacht, book burnings, the voyage of the doomed refugee ship St. Louis, the struggle over America’s refugee policy, the gas chambers, the cattle car trains, and the Nuremberg Trials, through the eyes of watchdogs such as Herbert Block of the “Washington Post,” Jay “Ding” Darling of the “New York Herald Tribune”, and Edmund Duffy of “The Baltimore Sun.”As the authors write in the book’s introduction, successful editorial cartoons poke, prod and provoke. Not only did they command attention in the US, they drew a response from Nazi Germany.“In fact Hitler put out two volumes of cartoons showing what the world was saying about Nazi Germany. They collected cartoons from abroad as a way to say, ‘They’re lying about us and about what is really happening.’ It was their way to refute the accusations being made against Nazi Germany,” said Dr. Steven Luckert, Senior Program Curator at the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Without choosing a favorite cartoonist, Yoe said he’s long been drawn to the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Daniel Fitzpatrick, who worked in charcoal. His 1935 cartoon “Swastika Over Germany” depicts a swastika formed by a bent and chained person.“He drew very simple, yet very forceful cartoons. You have to be a very good artist to get an idea across like that,” Yoe said.As the author of 16 books on the Holocaust and Jewish history, Medoff said the cartoons offer a fresh way to teach the story of the Shoah.“One important point that strikes me again and again is it’s really hard for teens to relate to the Holocaust because it seems so long ago, so very far away,” said Medoff. “They read ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and often Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ but this sticks in their minds in a way a 250-page text book does not.”Luckert agreed, saying cartoons offer a succinct way to convey an argument. As such, cartoons often feature in the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions.Many of the cartoonists were Pulitzer Prize-winning muckrakers. Some were the targets of racist mobs. And some, like Eric Godal and Arthur Szyk, were Jewish refugees whose parents were trapped in Hitler’s Europe.“That added a poignant twist. I thought I was writing a book about well-meaning cartoonists who were trying to make a difference. I didn’t realize how they [Godal and Szyk] were personally impacted,” Medoff said.Originally from Germany, Godal narrowly escaped the Gestapo in 1933 and after settling in the US started working as a cartoonist for several publications. One of his cartoons in 1938, “The Wandering Jew” showed a Jewish refugee crisscrossing the globe, according to the book. A year later his own mother, Anna Marien-Goldbaum, and 936 other German Jewish refugees boarded the “St. Louis,” hoping to be granted safe haven in the US.She sent two letters, from an aged mother on the wandering steamship to her son Godal the artist in New York. She wrote of holding out hope that President Franklin D. Roosevelt “and other influential people will help us… I shall not lose courage until the happy end is reached.”Roosevelt did not help and the “St. Louis” returned to Europe. Many of the passengers, including Godal’s mother, perished in Nazi concentration camps. Later Godal would pen one of the harshest critiques of Roosevelt in a cartoon captioned “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for consideration.” It shows an apathetic Roosevelt passing off a memorandum about how the Nazis were murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews monthly.More than 70 years after the war ended, it’s difficult to gauge the impact cartoons had on public opinion and policy — for while the US government didn’t intercede on behalf of Jewish refugees, individuals such as Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha rescued an anti-Nazi member of the Czech parliament by sneaking him out of a hospital morgue in a body bag.“Even if you can’t measure it in an obvious way it doesn’t mean the cartoon didn’t have impact,” Medoff said. “The public’s appreciation of editorial cartoons is still great, they still really pack a punch and can be taken seriously as political commentary.”
Palestinian woman killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza-Several injuries also reported in southern Strip after IAF strikes on 4 Hamas sites; PM to convene emergency cabinet meeting-By Times of Israel staff and AFP May 5, 2016, 8:58 pm
A Palestinian woman was killed when Israeli tank shells hit her home east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the southern city’s Nasser hospital said.The Israeli fire came in response to a spate of mortar attacks on troops along the Gaza border fence since Tuesday.The woman was identified by the hospital as Zeina al-Amour, 54.The Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news agency Shehab posted photos on Facebook from the aftermath of the tank fire.Palestinian media also reported that a number of people were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the area of Rafah on Thursday, also in the southern Gaza Strip.The Israeli Air Force confirmed its aircraft hit four military posts belonging to Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Palestinian enclave, Thursday afternoon.The air raids came after Palestinians fired another round of mortar shells from the southern Gaza Strip Thursday afternoon at Israeli troops operating on the Gaza frontier. IDF forces responded with tank fire, shelling nearby “suspicious” sites believed to be the source of the mortar launches, the military said.“Since May 3, 2016, Hamas has repeatedly fired and launched mortar rounds against forces during operational defensive activities adjacent to the security fence with the Gaza Strip. This is the 10th incident in the past two days,” the military said in a statement Thursday.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene an emergency meeting of the security cabinet later Thursday evening to discuss the escalation in violence along Israel’s southern border.Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned Hamas that Israel would not tolerate any attempts to disrupt the lives of its citizens.“Terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip need to know that if they try to disrupt our lives, they will delivered a severe blow,” he said at a service to mark the end of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “We will not tolerate a return to a routine of shooting and attempts to harm our civilians and soldiers. We will take firm action with an iron fist, as we have in the past few days, against the terrorist organizations in the Strip, led by Hamas, which is responsible for the shooting and incidents in Gaza.”Earlier in the day, the IDF revealed that it had discovered a Hamas “terror tunnel” burrowing into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. It was the second such tunnel discovered in a month.Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, head of the IDF’s Southern Command, issued an order declaring the surrounding area a closed military zone.Zamir’s order pertains particularly to the area surrounding Kibbutz Sufa, which sits a few kilometers north of the Kerem Shalom crossing.Thursday was the third day in a row in which IDF troops on the border came under mortar fire, as they worked to uncover the new tunnel on the Gaza side of the border fence.No troops have thus far been injured in the attacks, though some engineering vehicles have been damaged, according to the army.The second tunnel, which is slated to be destroyed in the coming days, is 28 meters (90 feet) deep and was located just a few kilometers from the location of another tunnel discovered and destroyed last month, the army said.It was not immediately clear if the tunnel was newly constructed or if it remained from the 2014 Gaza war.Despite the increased tension along the border with Gaza in recent weeks, the years since the 2014 conflict, known as Operation Protective Edge, have been the quietest in over a decade, in terms of rocket fire and attacks coming from the coastal enclave.Since the discovery of the first attack tunnel last month, the IDF and the Israeli government have stressed there are no indications of an imminent large-scale conflict with the Hamas terrorist organization.Hamas has similarly voiced through proxies that it does not wish to renew conflict with the Jewish state at this point in time.
Iranian commander threatens to close Strait of Hormuz to US-Hossein Salami also says in speech aired on state TV that ‘Americans cannot make safe any part of the world’-By AP May 4, 2016, 1:22 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
TEHRAN, Iran — The deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they “threaten” the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.The comments by Gen. Hossein Salami, carried on state television, follow a long history of both rhetoric and confrontation between Iran and the US over the narrow strait, through which nearly a third of all oil traded by sea passes.The remarks by the acting commander of the Guard also follow those of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who on Monday criticized US activities in the Persian Gulf. It’s unclear whether that signals any new Iranian concern over the strait or possible confrontation with the US following its nuclear deal with world powers.The US Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In his remarks, Salami said that “Americans should learn from recent historical truths,” likely referring to the January capture of 10 US sailors who entered Iranian waters. The sailors were released less than a day later, though state TV aired footage of the sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads.“If the Americans and their regional allies want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz and threaten us, we will not allow any entry,” Salami said, without elaborating on what he and other leaders would consider a threat.He added: “Americans cannot make safe any part of the world.”The US and Iran have a long history of confrontations in the Persian Gulf. They even fought a one-day naval battle on April 18, 1988, after the near-sinking of the missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts by an Iranian mine. That day, US forces attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or damaged six Iranian vessels.A few months later, in July 1988, the USS Vincennes in the strait mistook an Iran Air flight heading to Dubai for an attacking fighter jet, shooting down the plane and killing all 290 people aboard.US Navy officials say they face near-daily encounters with Iranian naval vessels. In January, an unarmed Iranian drone flew over a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, the first since 2014, according to Navy records obtained by The Associated Press.The US has also criticized what it called a “highly provocative” Iranian rocket test in December near its warships and commercial traffic. Iran said it has the right to conduct tests in the strait and elsewhere in Gulf.Iran also sank a replica of a US aircraft carrier near the strait in February 2015 and has said it is testing “suicide drones” that could attack ships.
Trump: Israel should keep building West Bank settlements-Republican front-runner rejects construction freeze as precursor to peace talks with Palestinians, blasts ‘devastating’ Gaza rocket fire into Israel-By Times of Israel staff May 4, 2016, 1:53 am
Israel should keep building settlements in the West Bank, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday, linking construction to the continued rocket threat that Israel faces from the Gaza Strip and which has seen it drawn into three wars against Hamas-run Gaza in recent years.In an interview with the British Daily Mail on Tuesday, Trump said there should be no pause in settlement construction, a position at odds with that of the Obama administration, which in 2009 encouraged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to implement a freeze new construction for 10 months in an effort restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate until the very end of the freeze, which Netanyahu then refused to extend.Asked if there should be a pause in settlement building, Trump was quoted answering as follows: “No, I don’t think it is, because I think Israel should have – they really have to keep going. They have to keep moving forward… I don’t think there should be a pause… Look: Missiles were launched into Israel, and Israel, I think, never was properly treated by our country. I mean, do you know what that is, how devastating that is?”“You have hundreds and, I guess, thousands of missiles being launched into Israel, who would put up with that? Who would stand for it?” he added.In July 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in an effort to stop rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into Israel, which came after Operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank following the kidnapping and murder by a Hamas-affiliated cell of three Israeli teenagers earlier that summer. Over the course of the 50-day war, Hamas and other Gaza terror groups launched thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel.Sporadic rocket fire into Israel continues, to which Israel usually responds with air strikes.Trump’s stance favoring settlements is at odds with traditional US opposition to the settlement enterprise. Settlements are seen as an impediment by proponents of the two-state solution, which who would see a Palestinian state alongside Israel in most of the West Bank and all of Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, dismantling all settlements there. Hamas took over in a coup against the Palestinian Authority in 2007.Trump said that despite supporting continued settlement building — a sticking point for the Palestinians who insist all construction must stop while negotiations take place — he’d like to help restart peace talks.“With all of that being said, I would love to see if peace could be negotiated. A lot of people say that’s not a deal that’s possible. But I mean lasting peace, not a peace that lasts for two weeks and they start launching missiles again. So we’ll see what happens,” he said.Asked about Netanyahu, Trump said he was a “very good guy” whom he didn’t know that well.“I think I’d have a very good relationship with him,’ Trump said, adding that he thinks “Obama has been extremely bad to Israel.”Israel began building settlements in the West Bank after it captured the territory, hitherto controlled by Jordan, in the Six Day War in 1967. Today, over 250,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements and outposts.
Trump says he will try to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace deal-‘You got to use our best people. And I know the best people,’ GOP front-runner says at Terre Haute rally ahead of Indiana primary-By Times of Israel staff May 3, 2016, 4:26 am
Claiming he’d “never met a person from Israel that didn’t want to make that deal,” Donald Trump said if elected president he plans to try to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty.“I am going to try and make that deal just because — man, would that be a beauty – if you like deals. I like deals,” the Republican presidential front-runner said at a rally Sunday in Terre Haute ahead of Tuesday’s Indiana primary, according to Jewish Insider.“A lot of my Jewish friends say, ‘You will never be able to make the deal’ because there are so many years of hatred, especially on the other side,” Trump added. “You know, they [the Palestinians] grow up as young children hating, hating, hating Israel. I think the deal can be made. But we got to be smart, and we got to use our best people; gotta use me, but you got to use our best people. And I know the best people.”In the speech, Trump also said the United States should use its clout as a major funder to demand that the United Nations do more to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Trump’s first foreign policy speech last week did not mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than criticizing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for being too critical of the Jewish state.
