JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
With bomb covered in poisoned nails, Palestinian tried to attack Jerusalem tram-Engineering student at Hebron University tells investigators he wanted ‘revenge’ for non-Muslims visiting Temple Mount-By Judah Ari Gross August 2, 2016, 2:17 pm-the times of israel
A Hebron University student who attempted to bomb the Jerusalem light rail last month sneaked into the capital through a valley east of the city, police revealed Tuesday.On July 15, Ali Abu Hassan entered Israel through a valley outside of the eastern Tsur Baher neighborhood, with the intention of carrying out an attack in the capital as a form of “revenge for visits by tourists and Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount,” police said in a statement.He was armed with three pipe bombs he had linked together into one large explosive and had covered with nails and screws dipped in rat poison. “In his bag there were also two knives and a cellphone,” police said Tuesday.Hassan researched how to make a pipe bomb that would “cause the most, and most effective, damage” on the internet and “even carried out test explosions with a number of bombs in order to check them before entering Israel,” according to a joint Shin Bet-Israel Police investigation.He worked alone, without any “organizational infrastructure,” police said.The civil engineering student came from Bayt Ula, a village northwest of Hebron, and hid out in an olive grove near the neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, police said.“Before he entered Israel, he wrote a final testament, which he left at the university and asked his friends to deliver to his parents,” police said.While in the olive grove, he shaved off his beard and changed into shorts and a T-shirt to better blend in with the Jerusalem population.On July 17, Hassan took a bus to the center of the capital and walked along Jerusalem’s popular Jaffa Road to find a target for his bombing, before stopping near the intersection with King George Street.According to investigators, he originally intended to attack a restaurant on Jaffa Road and scoped out the area to prepare for his assault. However, when he noticed the large number of passengers boarding the light rail that runs through downtown, Hassan changed his target.When he attempted to board the tram, he was stopped after he raised the suspicions of a security guard. When the guard asked to examine the contents of the bag, he noticed the bomb and called the police.Sappers were promptly deployed to the scene and the road was closed off, along with the adjacent King George Street.A video from the scene showed police pointing their guns at the suspect, who lay on the ground near the train stop. A second clip showed sappers strip-searching him, apparently for explosives.On Tuesday, an Israeli court charged the 21-year-old Palestinian man with attempted murder, creating a weapon and conspiracy to commit a crime.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Israeli minister: Gaza charity likely ‘turned blind eye’ to terror funding-Erdan says Hamas misuse of World Vision aid is widespread, Israel will not tolerate diversion of funds to Islamist group-By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross August 4, 2016, 6:16 pm-the times of israel
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Thursday warned that the links between terrorist organizations and aid groups in the Gaza Strip are substantial, and urged donor states to ensure that their money does not end up in the hands of terrorists.“I imagine that in the World Vision organization, which is very anti-Israeli, they turned a blind eye,” Erdan told Army Radio after a senior Palestinian aid worker in Gaza was indicted for allegedly funneling millions of dollars in donations to the Hamas terror group.“The connections that were uncovered today are part of a much wider and very serious phenomenon,” Erdan said.“Israel will not permit this, and we will take action against these organizations and their activists,” he said. “We expect donor countries and international organizations to carefully check the destination of the money.”The Shin Bet security service said earlier Thursday that the Hamas terrorist organization siphoned off “tens of millions of dollars” from the US-based World Vision charity over a period of several years, using the money to fund its military wing.The money — allegedly some 60 percent of the charity’s total budget — was used to purchase weapons, dig tunnels and construct military installations for Hamas, investigators said.Muhammad Halabi, a Hamas member and manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was indicted on a number of security-related charges in a Beersheba court earlier Thursday for his role in the alleged scheme. He was arrested in a joint Shin Bet-IDF-Israel Police operation at the Erez Crossing on June 15 as he tried to return to the Strip, the Shin Bet said.Halabi, a member of Hamas from a young age, was handpicked to infiltrate the international charity in 2005 in order to steal money for the terrorist organization, according to the investigation.“This was a meaningful and important investigation that showed — above all — the cynical and crude way in which Hamas takes advantage of funds and resources from international humanitarian aid organizations,” the Shin Bet said.Approximately 40 percent of World Vision’s funds for civilian projects — $1.5 million a year — was also given to Hamas battalions in cash, according to the Shin Bet, along with approximately $4 million a year that was designated for helping the needy.In a statement responding to the indictment, World Vision stressed that it “subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.”It maintained that its Gaza programs “have been subject to regular internal and independent audits, independent evaluations, and a broad range of internal controls aimed at ensuring that assets reach their intended beneficiaries and are used in compliance with applicable laws and donor requirements.”World Vision also cast doubt on the veracity of the allegations, and said that it would “carefully review any evidence presented to us and will take appropriate actions based on that evidence.” It repeated its call “for a fair, legal process for Muhammad.”World Vision is an Evangelical Christian charity created in 1950 that operates in nearly 100 countries worldwide. Today it is one of the largest relief organizations based in the United States, with a budget of approximately $2.6 billion and nearly 50,000 employees. It has operated in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza since the 1970s.
Gay Syrian refugee mutilated, beheaded in Istanbul-Rights group says victim was kidnapped and raped 5 months earlier, wanted to flee Turkey as he feared for his life-By AFP August 4, 2016, 7:16 pm-the times of israel
ANKARA, Turkey — The body of a gay Syrian refugee was found mutilated and beheaded two days after he disappeared in central Istanbul, a local rights group said.Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the conservative Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) said Wednesday.His killing has not been widely reported in Turkish media, other than in a handful of leftist publications that quote Kaos GL. There has so far been no official confirmation that he was killed for being gay.His body was found mutilated and decapitated on July 25, the association said. Muhammed Wisam Sankari #Gay #Syrien #réfugié Battu, violé puis décapité en #Turquie … #LGBTQ #LGBT 😔 pic.twitter.com/APdFITX7wV— sucette (@balzac1974) August 4, 2016-Sankari arrived in Istanbul a year ago after fleeing Syria’s civil war but wanted to leave Turkey because he feared for his life.He was threatened by male gangs carrying knives who said they wanted to rape him, friends told Kaos GL.His body was so mutilated, he was only recognizable from his clothes, one of his friends who went to identify the body told the rights organization.The Syrian had also been kidnapped and raped five months before his death, one of his housemates told the rights organization.“They took him by car to a forest where they beat and raped him,” the refugee’s housemate, Rayan, said.He added that they previously had to leave a house because they were gay, Kaos GL said. There have been no arrests, the group reported.Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since 1923 and was also legalized in the Ottoman Empire from the mid-nineteenth century.But gays in Turkey regularly complain of harassment and abuse in a largely conservative Muslim society where open displays of same-sex love are strongly frowned upon.The authorities in Istanbul in June banned the annual gay pride march for the second year in a row, citing security and public order fears.
Knesset speaker urges partial annexation of West Bank-Yuli Edelstein praises bill to apply Israeli sovereignty over Ma’ale Adumim, says ‘era of evacuations is over’-By Times of Israel staff August 2, 2016, 7:16 pm
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Tuesday urged Israel to annex the West Bank’s Etzion Bloc and Jordan Valley settlements and declare the “era of evacuations” over.At an event marking 11 years since the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip, Edelstein said: “I hope that we will finally see the extension of Israeli sovereignty over places such as the Etzion bloc and the Jordan Valley.”The Knesset speaker said Israel must clearly state that it will not relinquish territory and dismantle settlements as part of any future peace accord with the Palestinians.Israel must condition “every future accord on the total cessation of terror and incitement, but also, we need to remove from the discourse the futile equation that any agreement needs to include on our part uprooting, evacuation and destruction,” he said.“We must declare clearly that the era of evacuations and giving up land is over,” said Edelstein.“In a place where there is destruction, no peace will flourish,” he argued. “From a place where people were expelled from their homes, no good will sprout.”The Knesset speaker also reiterated his support for a bill to annex Ma’ale Adumim, a major West Bank settlement located to the east of Jerusalem. The proposal has not yet been brought to a preliminary reading.Israel captured East Jerusalem, the Old City and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, and extended sovereignty to the Old City and East Jerusalem, but the status of the West Bank remains disputed.Earlier this month, Edelstein acknowledged that annexing of Ma’ale Adumim would prompt criticism abroad and on the left, and also trigger calls on the Israeli right for the complete annexation of the West Bank. But, he said, “it is better to stay within the consensus.”Ma’ale Adumim’s size and location makes it particularly important for both Israelis and Palestinians. Many Israelis see the settlement, home to some 40,000, as a suburb of Jerusalem and important to the defense of the capital from the east, while Palestinians say its presence renders the prospect of a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem almost impossible.
IDF demolishes homes of Sarona Market terrorists-One house exploded, other partially destroyed in accordance with court order; elsewhere, soldiers seize gun-making machinery-By Judah Ari Gross August 4, 2016, 8:26 am-the times of israel
Israeli troops demolished the homes of two terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, knocking down one structure and exploding the other early Thursday morning.On June 8, cousins Khalid and Muhammad Muhamra opened fire on a Max Brenner restaurant in the posh Sarona Market shopping area, killing four and wounding 41.They were captured alive immediately after the attack and are currently awaiting trial on murder charges along with another Palestinian man, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, accused of helping the two.Last month the Supreme Court approved a demolition order for the cousins’ homes, which the army said was carried out in the early hours of Thursday morning.IDF troops filled Khalid Muhamra’s homes with explosive material and detonated it in order to destroy the building, in Yatta, a village outside of Hebron.In nearby Ruq’a, an excavator was used to knock down the second floor of Muhammad Muhamra’s house, in accordance with the court’s ruling.The army had originally planned to destroy both floors of the building where Muhammad Muhamra lived, but the court ruled that only the top floor could be demolished.In its decision, the judges noted that there were indications that some of Khalid Muhamra’s family members knew he was involved in illegal weapons trafficking and his sister had shared Facebook posts supporting terror and even praised her brother’s attack in a post after the fact.In addition, Muhammed Muhamra’s interrogation indicated that his father knew he was interested in purchasing a weapon.“There is reason to believe that there was an environment in the houses where the attackers lived, encouraging them, in one way or another, to be involved in security crimes against Israelis,” the decision read.According to the Shin Bet security agency, the assault in Sarona was planned after a July 2015 arson attack by Jewish extremists in the West Bank that killed three members of the Palestinian Dawabsha family, including an 18-month-old baby.Muhamra had wanted to carry out “a revenge attack against Israel in the name of the Islamic State” group during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Shin Bet said last month.Violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel since October has killed at least 219 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP count. Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities. Others were killed in clashes with security forces.July continued a trend of decreasing terror attacks in the West Bank, according to IDF statistics. Palestinian assailants carried out, or attempted to carry out, nine attacks on Israeli civilians an soldiers in July, the same number as in June and May. That’s approximately a third of the number of attacks in March, and a massive decrease compared to October 2015, when 70 incidents were recorded.Israeli officials say the home demolitions are a key deterrent to keep other Palestinians from carrying out attacks, though human rights groups and some Israeli security officials argue that it is a form of collective punishment, or that it is not an effective deterrent.Wednesday night and Thursday morning also saw a number of IDF raids throughout the West Bank, resulting in four arrests and the confiscation of four pieces of equipment believed to have been used to fabricate illegal weapons, the army said.Members of a Home Front Command rescue unit, along with the Israel Police, seized metal lathes and drill presses in the village of al-Qubeiba, just north of Mevasseret Zion, and arrested their suspected owner.In the northern West Bank village of Abu Salman, Israeli forces also discovered a gun in the process of being constructed and two air pistols, which have been handed over to the Shin Bet security service, the IDF said.Times of Israel staff and AFP contributed to this report.
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
With bomb covered in poisoned nails, Palestinian tried to attack Jerusalem tram-Engineering student at Hebron University tells investigators he wanted ‘revenge’ for non-Muslims visiting Temple Mount-By Judah Ari Gross August 2, 2016, 2:17 pm-the times of israel
A Hebron University student who attempted to bomb the Jerusalem light rail last month sneaked into the capital through a valley east of the city, police revealed Tuesday.On July 15, Ali Abu Hassan entered Israel through a valley outside of the eastern Tsur Baher neighborhood, with the intention of carrying out an attack in the capital as a form of “revenge for visits by tourists and Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount,” police said in a statement.He was armed with three pipe bombs he had linked together into one large explosive and had covered with nails and screws dipped in rat poison. “In his bag there were also two knives and a cellphone,” police said Tuesday.Hassan researched how to make a pipe bomb that would “cause the most, and most effective, damage” on the internet and “even carried out test explosions with a number of bombs in order to check them before entering Israel,” according to a joint Shin Bet-Israel Police investigation.He worked alone, without any “organizational infrastructure,” police said.The civil engineering student came from Bayt Ula, a village northwest of Hebron, and hid out in an olive grove near the neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, police said.“Before he entered Israel, he wrote a final testament, which he left at the university and asked his friends to deliver to his parents,” police said.While in the olive grove, he shaved off his beard and changed into shorts and a T-shirt to better blend in with the Jerusalem population.On July 17, Hassan took a bus to the center of the capital and walked along Jerusalem’s popular Jaffa Road to find a target for his bombing, before stopping near the intersection with King George Street.According to investigators, he originally intended to attack a restaurant on Jaffa Road and scoped out the area to prepare for his assault. However, when he noticed the large number of passengers boarding the light rail that runs through downtown, Hassan changed his target.When he attempted to board the tram, he was stopped after he raised the suspicions of a security guard. When the guard asked to examine the contents of the bag, he noticed the bomb and called the police.Sappers were promptly deployed to the scene and the road was closed off, along with the adjacent King George Street.A video from the scene showed police pointing their guns at the suspect, who lay on the ground near the train stop. A second clip showed sappers strip-searching him, apparently for explosives.On Tuesday, an Israeli court charged the 21-year-old Palestinian man with attempted murder, creating a weapon and conspiracy to commit a crime.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Israeli minister: Gaza charity likely ‘turned blind eye’ to terror funding-Erdan says Hamas misuse of World Vision aid is widespread, Israel will not tolerate diversion of funds to Islamist group-By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross August 4, 2016, 6:16 pm-the times of israel
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Thursday warned that the links between terrorist organizations and aid groups in the Gaza Strip are substantial, and urged donor states to ensure that their money does not end up in the hands of terrorists.“I imagine that in the World Vision organization, which is very anti-Israeli, they turned a blind eye,” Erdan told Army Radio after a senior Palestinian aid worker in Gaza was indicted for allegedly funneling millions of dollars in donations to the Hamas terror group.“The connections that were uncovered today are part of a much wider and very serious phenomenon,” Erdan said.“Israel will not permit this, and we will take action against these organizations and their activists,” he said. “We expect donor countries and international organizations to carefully check the destination of the money.”The Shin Bet security service said earlier Thursday that the Hamas terrorist organization siphoned off “tens of millions of dollars” from the US-based World Vision charity over a period of several years, using the money to fund its military wing.The money — allegedly some 60 percent of the charity’s total budget — was used to purchase weapons, dig tunnels and construct military installations for Hamas, investigators said.Muhammad Halabi, a Hamas member and manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was indicted on a number of security-related charges in a Beersheba court earlier Thursday for his role in the alleged scheme. He was arrested in a joint Shin Bet-IDF-Israel Police operation at the Erez Crossing on June 15 as he tried to return to the Strip, the Shin Bet said.Halabi, a member of Hamas from a young age, was handpicked to infiltrate the international charity in 2005 in order to steal money for the terrorist organization, according to the investigation.“This was a meaningful and important investigation that showed — above all — the cynical and crude way in which Hamas takes advantage of funds and resources from international humanitarian aid organizations,” the Shin Bet said.Approximately 40 percent of World Vision’s funds for civilian projects — $1.5 million a year — was also given to Hamas battalions in cash, according to the Shin Bet, along with approximately $4 million a year that was designated for helping the needy.In a statement responding to the indictment, World Vision stressed that it “subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.”It maintained that its Gaza programs “have been subject to regular internal and independent audits, independent evaluations, and a broad range of internal controls aimed at ensuring that assets reach their intended beneficiaries and are used in compliance with applicable laws and donor requirements.”World Vision also cast doubt on the veracity of the allegations, and said that it would “carefully review any evidence presented to us and will take appropriate actions based on that evidence.” It repeated its call “for a fair, legal process for Muhammad.”World Vision is an Evangelical Christian charity created in 1950 that operates in nearly 100 countries worldwide. Today it is one of the largest relief organizations based in the United States, with a budget of approximately $2.6 billion and nearly 50,000 employees. It has operated in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza since the 1970s.
Gay Syrian refugee mutilated, beheaded in Istanbul-Rights group says victim was kidnapped and raped 5 months earlier, wanted to flee Turkey as he feared for his life-By AFP August 4, 2016, 7:16 pm-the times of israel
ANKARA, Turkey — The body of a gay Syrian refugee was found mutilated and beheaded two days after he disappeared in central Istanbul, a local rights group said.Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the conservative Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) said Wednesday.His killing has not been widely reported in Turkish media, other than in a handful of leftist publications that quote Kaos GL. There has so far been no official confirmation that he was killed for being gay.His body was found mutilated and decapitated on July 25, the association said. Muhammed Wisam Sankari #Gay #Syrien #réfugié Battu, violé puis décapité en #Turquie … #LGBTQ #LGBT 😔 pic.twitter.com/APdFITX7wV— sucette (@balzac1974) August 4, 2016-Sankari arrived in Istanbul a year ago after fleeing Syria’s civil war but wanted to leave Turkey because he feared for his life.He was threatened by male gangs carrying knives who said they wanted to rape him, friends told Kaos GL.His body was so mutilated, he was only recognizable from his clothes, one of his friends who went to identify the body told the rights organization.The Syrian had also been kidnapped and raped five months before his death, one of his housemates told the rights organization.“They took him by car to a forest where they beat and raped him,” the refugee’s housemate, Rayan, said.He added that they previously had to leave a house because they were gay, Kaos GL said. There have been no arrests, the group reported.Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since 1923 and was also legalized in the Ottoman Empire from the mid-nineteenth century.But gays in Turkey regularly complain of harassment and abuse in a largely conservative Muslim society where open displays of same-sex love are strongly frowned upon.The authorities in Istanbul in June banned the annual gay pride march for the second year in a row, citing security and public order fears.
Knesset speaker urges partial annexation of West Bank-Yuli Edelstein praises bill to apply Israeli sovereignty over Ma’ale Adumim, says ‘era of evacuations is over’-By Times of Israel staff August 2, 2016, 7:16 pm
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Tuesday urged Israel to annex the West Bank’s Etzion Bloc and Jordan Valley settlements and declare the “era of evacuations” over.At an event marking 11 years since the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip, Edelstein said: “I hope that we will finally see the extension of Israeli sovereignty over places such as the Etzion bloc and the Jordan Valley.”The Knesset speaker said Israel must clearly state that it will not relinquish territory and dismantle settlements as part of any future peace accord with the Palestinians.Israel must condition “every future accord on the total cessation of terror and incitement, but also, we need to remove from the discourse the futile equation that any agreement needs to include on our part uprooting, evacuation and destruction,” he said.“We must declare clearly that the era of evacuations and giving up land is over,” said Edelstein.“In a place where there is destruction, no peace will flourish,” he argued. “From a place where people were expelled from their homes, no good will sprout.”The Knesset speaker also reiterated his support for a bill to annex Ma’ale Adumim, a major West Bank settlement located to the east of Jerusalem. The proposal has not yet been brought to a preliminary reading.Israel captured East Jerusalem, the Old City and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, and extended sovereignty to the Old City and East Jerusalem, but the status of the West Bank remains disputed.Earlier this month, Edelstein acknowledged that annexing of Ma’ale Adumim would prompt criticism abroad and on the left, and also trigger calls on the Israeli right for the complete annexation of the West Bank. But, he said, “it is better to stay within the consensus.”Ma’ale Adumim’s size and location makes it particularly important for both Israelis and Palestinians. Many Israelis see the settlement, home to some 40,000, as a suburb of Jerusalem and important to the defense of the capital from the east, while Palestinians say its presence renders the prospect of a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem almost impossible.
IDF demolishes homes of Sarona Market terrorists-One house exploded, other partially destroyed in accordance with court order; elsewhere, soldiers seize gun-making machinery-By Judah Ari Gross August 4, 2016, 8:26 am-the times of israel
Israeli troops demolished the homes of two terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, knocking down one structure and exploding the other early Thursday morning.On June 8, cousins Khalid and Muhammad Muhamra opened fire on a Max Brenner restaurant in the posh Sarona Market shopping area, killing four and wounding 41.They were captured alive immediately after the attack and are currently awaiting trial on murder charges along with another Palestinian man, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, accused of helping the two.Last month the Supreme Court approved a demolition order for the cousins’ homes, which the army said was carried out in the early hours of Thursday morning.IDF troops filled Khalid Muhamra’s homes with explosive material and detonated it in order to destroy the building, in Yatta, a village outside of Hebron.In nearby Ruq’a, an excavator was used to knock down the second floor of Muhammad Muhamra’s house, in accordance with the court’s ruling.The army had originally planned to destroy both floors of the building where Muhammad Muhamra lived, but the court ruled that only the top floor could be demolished.In its decision, the judges noted that there were indications that some of Khalid Muhamra’s family members knew he was involved in illegal weapons trafficking and his sister had shared Facebook posts supporting terror and even praised her brother’s attack in a post after the fact.In addition, Muhammed Muhamra’s interrogation indicated that his father knew he was interested in purchasing a weapon.“There is reason to believe that there was an environment in the houses where the attackers lived, encouraging them, in one way or another, to be involved in security crimes against Israelis,” the decision read.According to the Shin Bet security agency, the assault in Sarona was planned after a July 2015 arson attack by Jewish extremists in the West Bank that killed three members of the Palestinian Dawabsha family, including an 18-month-old baby.Muhamra had wanted to carry out “a revenge attack against Israel in the name of the Islamic State” group during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Shin Bet said last month.Violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel since October has killed at least 219 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP count. Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities. Others were killed in clashes with security forces.July continued a trend of decreasing terror attacks in the West Bank, according to IDF statistics. Palestinian assailants carried out, or attempted to carry out, nine attacks on Israeli civilians an soldiers in July, the same number as in June and May. That’s approximately a third of the number of attacks in March, and a massive decrease compared to October 2015, when 70 incidents were recorded.Israeli officials say the home demolitions are a key deterrent to keep other Palestinians from carrying out attacks, though human rights groups and some Israeli security officials argue that it is a form of collective punishment, or that it is not an effective deterrent.Wednesday night and Thursday morning also saw a number of IDF raids throughout the West Bank, resulting in four arrests and the confiscation of four pieces of equipment believed to have been used to fabricate illegal weapons, the army said.Members of a Home Front Command rescue unit, along with the Israel Police, seized metal lathes and drill presses in the village of al-Qubeiba, just north of Mevasseret Zion, and arrested their suspected owner.In the northern West Bank village of Abu Salman, Israeli forces also discovered a gun in the process of being constructed and two air pistols, which have been handed over to the Shin Bet security service, the IDF said.Times of Israel staff and AFP contributed to this report.
