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
German Jewish leader warns of ‘Nazi renaissance’ after far-right win-As AfD party wins seats in Berlin state vote, Charlotte Knobloch urges ‘democratic parties’ to counter nationalist rise-By JTA September 19, 2016, 9:19 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BERLIN — A local Jewish leader called for Germans to vote against a “Nazi renaissance,” after the country’s newest far-right, populist party — Alternative for Germany — gained seats for the first time in Berlin’s state parliament.The anti-immigrant, Euro-skeptic party known as AfD has been plagued by controversies over anti-Semitism in its ranks. It finished fifth in Sunday’s vote with 14.1 percent and now has seats on legislatures in 10 states. The party was founded in 2013.The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told the German news media on Sunday that the results were worrying.A former council president, Charlotte Knobloch, who heads the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, on Sunday urged Germany’s “democratic parties to make good use of the time between now and the next elections in 2017 to stop the Nazi renaissance.”Three additional states will hold elections in the first half of 2017, followed by national parliamentary elections in September.Knobloch, who survived the Holocaust in hiding as a child in Bavaria, called AfD “a party that incites against minorities in a disgusting manner, that wants to make National Socialist terminology and approaches acceptable again, that is unable to distance itself credibly from neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.” She said its gains in state parliaments are a “true nightmare.”If the established parties don’t manage to gain support by the national elections next year, Knobloch warned, “I fear for the good and peaceful future of our country.”The Berlin election was won by the Social Democratic Party, which held off the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union, with 21.6% of the vote to 17.5%.AfD leaders were jubilant at the prospect of occupying 25 seats out of 160 in the state parliament of Germany’s capital.The elections are seen as a litmus test for Merkel’s controversial refugee policy, with more than 1 million asylum seekers having entered the country from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Trump calls for racial profiling, citing Israel’s success-Bombs in New York, New Jersey lead Republican nominee to pan system in which he says ‘amazing’ police are afraid to act-By Times of Israel staff September 19, 2016, 5:03 pm
As he has done several times in recent months, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cited Israel as his example for the success of “profiling” in the prevention of terror attacks.In a phone interview Monday on “Fox and Friends,” Trump said he would “knock the hell out of” terrorist groups.Trump said that police “are afraid to do anything” to stop attacks like the bombing in New York.“You know, our police are amazing,” he told Fox News. “Our local police, they know who a lot of these people are. They’re afraid to do anything about it because they don’t want to be accused of profiling.”Trump cited Israel as a model for the US to emulate. “You know in Israel, they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do.”He said Americans are reluctant to follow Israel’s example due to political correctness, “and this is only going to get worse.”Trump on Fox about bombings: "local police, they know who a lot of these people are" but they're afraid of profiling pic.twitter.com/CLZrJkqLn3 — Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) September 19, 2016-Trump also repeated his call to crack down on immigration, a central theme of his campaign.He said: “This isn’t just something that I developed overnight” because of the attacks. “I knew this was going to happen,” he added.In June, in the wake of the Orlando attack, Trump also called for racial profiling.In the age of international terrorism, it was a matter of choosing “common sense” over “political correctness,” he said in an interview on CBS.African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and other minorities in the United States have complained bitterly for decades about profiling, in which police use a person’s race, religion, national origin or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting them of committing a crime.Trump also took credit for predicting current events, once again, after he had declared that the cause of Saturday’s New York explosion was a bomb before authorities had publicly said so.He told “Fox and Friends” that, “I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news.”Trump also said he believes there’s a foreign connection to the attack.It is unclear whether Trump obtained his information from some sort of briefing. His campaign has declined to say.Trump is also saying that people who publish bomb-making instructions in magazines and on websites should be arrested “immediately.”He said: “They’re making violence possible.”
Israel's Iron Dome shoots down two 'projectiles' fired from Syria - army-[Reuters]-September 17, 2016-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system on Saturday shot down two stray "projectiles" fired during fighting in Syria's civil war, Israel's military said.There has been frequent spillover of fighting between the factions in Syria into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but this was the first time Iron Dome was activated to intercept the errant fire."An additional projectile fired from Syria was intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system. No injuries reported," the military said in a statement, shortly after the system had first activated.Israel usually retaliates with air strikes against battle stations in Syria.The military has stationed Iron Dome batteries in areas that have been targeted by cross-border fire, which is most frequently from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The system usually only fires an interceptor if the enemy rocket is calculated to strike near a populated area.Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines of Syria's civil war, keeping watch over the Golan frontier and occasionally carrying out air strikes or returning mortar fire if there is a specific threat.Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, in a 1967 Middle East war.(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
2 police hurt, one seriously, in Jerusalem stabbing; assailant shot-Female officer badly wounded after being knifed in neck outside Old City’s Herod’s Gate, second cop listed in moderate condition; attacker in critical condition-By Judah Ari Gross September 19, 2016, 7:59 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two police officers were wounded in a stabbing attack outside Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday morning, police said, as a fresh wave of attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank persisted for a fourth straight day.A female officer, 38, was seriously wounded in the assault. A male officer, 45, was moderately wounded, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.The assailant, 20-year-old Ayman Kurd, was shot and critically wounded, according to police.According to police and a video from the scene, Kurd came up behind the police and stabbed them repeatedly before being shot by the male officer.The female officer was taken to the capital’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, while the male officer was taken to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, according to Magen David Adom.“A female officer was brought to the trauma center with a stab wound to the neck. She was in serious condition, unconscious and on a respirator,” a spokesperson for Shaare Zedek said.The male officer sustained multiple stab wounds to the upper body, but was conscious, a Hadassah Hospital spokesperson said.Additional officers were called to the scene to secure the area around Herod’s Gate, police said.The assailant was identified by police as a 20-year-old resident of East Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amoud neighborhood. However, his name and and the names of the two victims were not immediately released.Israeli security forces have “boosted their forces” ahead of the upcoming holidays and in light of the uptick in violence against police officers, soldiers and civilians in recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.“The security forces are on heightened alert and I will meet with them today in order to ensure that we will be ready to defend our people during this sensitive period,” he said.Six attacks over the weekend — four stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, and raised fears that regular attacks could return.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” a military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.In the past year, Israel saw a wave of so-called “lone wolf” Palestinian terror attacks, which claimed the lives of 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals since October 2015. Over 200 Palestinians have also been killed in the past year, with the Israeli army and police saying that most of those killed were attackers or involved in clashes with security forces.
Two Palestinians shot dead in alleged Hebron stabbing attempt-Assailants killed after approaching border guards in flashpoint city with knives drawn, police say-By Judah Ari Gross September 19, 2016, 2:33 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Border Police officers shot and killed two Palestinian men apparently attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs pilgrimage site in Hebron on Monday, police said.They approached the officers before taking out knives and attempting to stab a group of them. The Border Police officers opened fire at the assailants, hitting both of them, police said.One was pronounced dead a short while later, while the other was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition and died of his wounds a few hours later, police said.The assailants were identified as cousins Muhannad Jamil al-Rajabi, 21, and Amir Jamal al-Rajabi, 17, by the Palestinian health ministry. They were both residents of Hebron.No Israeli troops were injured.The attack was the second of the day, after two police were stabbed by a knifeman outside the Old City of Jerusalem Monday morning.One victim, a 38-year-old female, was in intensive care after suffering stab wounds to her neck. The second, a 45-year-old male, suffered moderate wounds. The attacker was shot and hospitalized in critical condition.Six attacks over the weekend — four stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, and raised fears that regular attacks could return.Many of the attacks have been centered around the flashpoint city of Hebron, where Palestinians live in close proximity to settlers and Israeli troops.The Tomb of the Patriarchs, where Muslims and Jews believe the Biblical patriarch Abraham is buried, is heavily guarded and shared by worshipers from both religions, in separate spaces.Israeli security forces have “boosted their forces” ahead of the upcoming holidays and in light of the uptick in violence against police officers, soldiers and civilians in recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.“The security forces are on heightened alert and I will meet with them today in order to ensure that we will be ready to defend our people during this sensitive period,” he stated.Officials fear the upcoming Jewish holidays and the recently ended Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday could be behind the raised tensions.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” a military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.In the past year, Israel saw a wave of so-called “lone-wolf” Palestinian terror attacks, which has claimed the lives of 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals since October 2015. Over 200 Palestinians have also been killed in the past year, with the Israeli army and police saying that most of those killed were attackers or involved in clashes with security forces.Dov Lieber contributed to this report.
As terror returns to Israel’s streets, UN envoy urges restraint-Mladenov says both sides ‘must take measures to preserve calm’; Herzog says government to blame for renewed violence-By Times of Israel staff September 19, 2016, 9:05 pm
The United Nations special envoy to the Middle East on Monday condemned the new spate of Palestinian attacks against Israeli security forces and civilians, and called for both sides to act to restore the relative quiet of recent weeks.Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said there can be no justification for the violence.“I am disturbed by the recent violence over the past week,” Mladenov said. “I reiterate the United Nations position that there can be no justification for terror and violence.”Mladenov urged both sides to maintain calm ahead of the Jewish New Year, which begins in two weeks and marks the start of a series of religious festivals.“I call upon authorities on both sides to take measures to preserve calm and avoid escalation, especially during the upcoming period of the Jewish High Holy Days.”The eight attacks since Friday — six stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked late 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, raising fears that regular attacks could return.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” an Israeli military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.Meanwhile, opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Sunday criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for their handling of the wave of violence, holding them personally responsible for the security of Israeli citizens.“This intifada proves that Liberman and Netanyahu do not know how to deal with terror,” Herzog said according to the Ynet news website. “Israel is no longer safe, and is attacked day and night with knives, Molotov cocktails and lethal rocks. The duo of Netanyahu and Liberman has collapsed and the citizens of Israel are paying the price.”
Syria’s military declares week-long ceasefire over-Moscow and Damascus blame rebels for undermining truce agreement. while France holds Assad responsible for violations-By AFP September 19, 2016, 8:06 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Syria’s armed forces on Monday announced an end to a week-long ceasefire in the war-torn country brokered by the United States and Russia, blaming opposition groups battling to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad for its failure.“Syria’s army announces the end of the freeze on fighting that began at 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) on September 12, 2016 in accordance with the US-Russia agreement,” the statement carried by state news agency SANA said.It said rebel groups “did not commit to a single element” of the deal.After months of negotiations, the United States and Russia agreed on September 9 to call for a ceasefire, the delivery of aid and the joint targeting of Islamist rebels in Syria.The ceasefire ran into trouble at the weekend when rebel-held districts of Aleppo came under a barrage of air strikes and the US-led coalition killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in an attack that Washington said was unintentional.Russia’s defense ministry had appeared to bury the week-old truce it agreed with the United States, saying rebel violations made it “pointless” for Syrian troops to uphold it.The end of the ceasefire came shortly after the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault declared that the US-Russian ceasefire remains the “only basis” for achieving a political settlement of the conflict.“The agreement is particularly fragile — these past hours have shown this — but it must retain a glimmer of hope. It is the only basis that the international community can draw on” to resolve the Syrian crisis, he said.“What is lacking in this instance is good faith and sincerity,” Ayrault told a news conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.The French foreign minister reiterated that President Bashar Assad’s regime was to blame for ceasefire violations.“We should not have a short memory, the reality is, without a doubt, that the regime is mainly responsible for the tragedy in Syria”, he said.Ayrault put forward a French proposal to set up a monitoring mechanism of the ceasefire and said all sides must unite to shore up the US-Russian deal.More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria’s war, now in its sixth year, with more than 13 million people driven from their homes.
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
German Jewish leader warns of ‘Nazi renaissance’ after far-right win-As AfD party wins seats in Berlin state vote, Charlotte Knobloch urges ‘democratic parties’ to counter nationalist rise-By JTA September 19, 2016, 9:19 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BERLIN — A local Jewish leader called for Germans to vote against a “Nazi renaissance,” after the country’s newest far-right, populist party — Alternative for Germany — gained seats for the first time in Berlin’s state parliament.The anti-immigrant, Euro-skeptic party known as AfD has been plagued by controversies over anti-Semitism in its ranks. It finished fifth in Sunday’s vote with 14.1 percent and now has seats on legislatures in 10 states. The party was founded in 2013.The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told the German news media on Sunday that the results were worrying.A former council president, Charlotte Knobloch, who heads the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, on Sunday urged Germany’s “democratic parties to make good use of the time between now and the next elections in 2017 to stop the Nazi renaissance.”Three additional states will hold elections in the first half of 2017, followed by national parliamentary elections in September.Knobloch, who survived the Holocaust in hiding as a child in Bavaria, called AfD “a party that incites against minorities in a disgusting manner, that wants to make National Socialist terminology and approaches acceptable again, that is unable to distance itself credibly from neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.” She said its gains in state parliaments are a “true nightmare.”If the established parties don’t manage to gain support by the national elections next year, Knobloch warned, “I fear for the good and peaceful future of our country.”The Berlin election was won by the Social Democratic Party, which held off the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union, with 21.6% of the vote to 17.5%.AfD leaders were jubilant at the prospect of occupying 25 seats out of 160 in the state parliament of Germany’s capital.The elections are seen as a litmus test for Merkel’s controversial refugee policy, with more than 1 million asylum seekers having entered the country from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Trump calls for racial profiling, citing Israel’s success-Bombs in New York, New Jersey lead Republican nominee to pan system in which he says ‘amazing’ police are afraid to act-By Times of Israel staff September 19, 2016, 5:03 pm
As he has done several times in recent months, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cited Israel as his example for the success of “profiling” in the prevention of terror attacks.In a phone interview Monday on “Fox and Friends,” Trump said he would “knock the hell out of” terrorist groups.Trump said that police “are afraid to do anything” to stop attacks like the bombing in New York.“You know, our police are amazing,” he told Fox News. “Our local police, they know who a lot of these people are. They’re afraid to do anything about it because they don’t want to be accused of profiling.”Trump cited Israel as a model for the US to emulate. “You know in Israel, they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do.”He said Americans are reluctant to follow Israel’s example due to political correctness, “and this is only going to get worse.”Trump on Fox about bombings: "local police, they know who a lot of these people are" but they're afraid of profiling pic.twitter.com/CLZrJkqLn3 — Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) September 19, 2016-Trump also repeated his call to crack down on immigration, a central theme of his campaign.He said: “This isn’t just something that I developed overnight” because of the attacks. “I knew this was going to happen,” he added.In June, in the wake of the Orlando attack, Trump also called for racial profiling.In the age of international terrorism, it was a matter of choosing “common sense” over “political correctness,” he said in an interview on CBS.African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and other minorities in the United States have complained bitterly for decades about profiling, in which police use a person’s race, religion, national origin or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting them of committing a crime.Trump also took credit for predicting current events, once again, after he had declared that the cause of Saturday’s New York explosion was a bomb before authorities had publicly said so.He told “Fox and Friends” that, “I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news.”Trump also said he believes there’s a foreign connection to the attack.It is unclear whether Trump obtained his information from some sort of briefing. His campaign has declined to say.Trump is also saying that people who publish bomb-making instructions in magazines and on websites should be arrested “immediately.”He said: “They’re making violence possible.”
Israel's Iron Dome shoots down two 'projectiles' fired from Syria - army-[Reuters]-September 17, 2016-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system on Saturday shot down two stray "projectiles" fired during fighting in Syria's civil war, Israel's military said.There has been frequent spillover of fighting between the factions in Syria into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but this was the first time Iron Dome was activated to intercept the errant fire."An additional projectile fired from Syria was intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system. No injuries reported," the military said in a statement, shortly after the system had first activated.Israel usually retaliates with air strikes against battle stations in Syria.The military has stationed Iron Dome batteries in areas that have been targeted by cross-border fire, which is most frequently from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The system usually only fires an interceptor if the enemy rocket is calculated to strike near a populated area.Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines of Syria's civil war, keeping watch over the Golan frontier and occasionally carrying out air strikes or returning mortar fire if there is a specific threat.Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, in a 1967 Middle East war.(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
2 police hurt, one seriously, in Jerusalem stabbing; assailant shot-Female officer badly wounded after being knifed in neck outside Old City’s Herod’s Gate, second cop listed in moderate condition; attacker in critical condition-By Judah Ari Gross September 19, 2016, 7:59 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two police officers were wounded in a stabbing attack outside Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday morning, police said, as a fresh wave of attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank persisted for a fourth straight day.A female officer, 38, was seriously wounded in the assault. A male officer, 45, was moderately wounded, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.The assailant, 20-year-old Ayman Kurd, was shot and critically wounded, according to police.According to police and a video from the scene, Kurd came up behind the police and stabbed them repeatedly before being shot by the male officer.The female officer was taken to the capital’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, while the male officer was taken to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, according to Magen David Adom.“A female officer was brought to the trauma center with a stab wound to the neck. She was in serious condition, unconscious and on a respirator,” a spokesperson for Shaare Zedek said.The male officer sustained multiple stab wounds to the upper body, but was conscious, a Hadassah Hospital spokesperson said.Additional officers were called to the scene to secure the area around Herod’s Gate, police said.The assailant was identified by police as a 20-year-old resident of East Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amoud neighborhood. However, his name and and the names of the two victims were not immediately released.Israeli security forces have “boosted their forces” ahead of the upcoming holidays and in light of the uptick in violence against police officers, soldiers and civilians in recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.“The security forces are on heightened alert and I will meet with them today in order to ensure that we will be ready to defend our people during this sensitive period,” he said.Six attacks over the weekend — four stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, and raised fears that regular attacks could return.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” a military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.In the past year, Israel saw a wave of so-called “lone wolf” Palestinian terror attacks, which claimed the lives of 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals since October 2015. Over 200 Palestinians have also been killed in the past year, with the Israeli army and police saying that most of those killed were attackers or involved in clashes with security forces.
Two Palestinians shot dead in alleged Hebron stabbing attempt-Assailants killed after approaching border guards in flashpoint city with knives drawn, police say-By Judah Ari Gross September 19, 2016, 2:33 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Border Police officers shot and killed two Palestinian men apparently attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs pilgrimage site in Hebron on Monday, police said.They approached the officers before taking out knives and attempting to stab a group of them. The Border Police officers opened fire at the assailants, hitting both of them, police said.One was pronounced dead a short while later, while the other was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition and died of his wounds a few hours later, police said.The assailants were identified as cousins Muhannad Jamil al-Rajabi, 21, and Amir Jamal al-Rajabi, 17, by the Palestinian health ministry. They were both residents of Hebron.No Israeli troops were injured.The attack was the second of the day, after two police were stabbed by a knifeman outside the Old City of Jerusalem Monday morning.One victim, a 38-year-old female, was in intensive care after suffering stab wounds to her neck. The second, a 45-year-old male, suffered moderate wounds. The attacker was shot and hospitalized in critical condition.Six attacks over the weekend — four stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, and raised fears that regular attacks could return.Many of the attacks have been centered around the flashpoint city of Hebron, where Palestinians live in close proximity to settlers and Israeli troops.The Tomb of the Patriarchs, where Muslims and Jews believe the Biblical patriarch Abraham is buried, is heavily guarded and shared by worshipers from both religions, in separate spaces.Israeli security forces have “boosted their forces” ahead of the upcoming holidays and in light of the uptick in violence against police officers, soldiers and civilians in recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.“The security forces are on heightened alert and I will meet with them today in order to ensure that we will be ready to defend our people during this sensitive period,” he stated.Officials fear the upcoming Jewish holidays and the recently ended Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday could be behind the raised tensions.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” a military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.In the past year, Israel saw a wave of so-called “lone-wolf” Palestinian terror attacks, which has claimed the lives of 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals since October 2015. Over 200 Palestinians have also been killed in the past year, with the Israeli army and police saying that most of those killed were attackers or involved in clashes with security forces.Dov Lieber contributed to this report.
As terror returns to Israel’s streets, UN envoy urges restraint-Mladenov says both sides ‘must take measures to preserve calm’; Herzog says government to blame for renewed violence-By Times of Israel staff September 19, 2016, 9:05 pm
The United Nations special envoy to the Middle East on Monday condemned the new spate of Palestinian attacks against Israeli security forces and civilians, and called for both sides to act to restore the relative quiet of recent weeks.Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said there can be no justification for the violence.“I am disturbed by the recent violence over the past week,” Mladenov said. “I reiterate the United Nations position that there can be no justification for terror and violence.”Mladenov urged both sides to maintain calm ahead of the Jewish New Year, which begins in two weeks and marks the start of a series of religious festivals.“I call upon authorities on both sides to take measures to preserve calm and avoid escalation, especially during the upcoming period of the Jewish High Holy Days.”The eight attacks since Friday — six stabbings, a car ramming and a rock throwing — caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked late 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, raising fears that regular attacks could return.“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities,” an Israeli military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.“The motivation and inspiration to carry out attacks against Israelis remains strong,” the official said.Meanwhile, opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Sunday criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for their handling of the wave of violence, holding them personally responsible for the security of Israeli citizens.“This intifada proves that Liberman and Netanyahu do not know how to deal with terror,” Herzog said according to the Ynet news website. “Israel is no longer safe, and is attacked day and night with knives, Molotov cocktails and lethal rocks. The duo of Netanyahu and Liberman has collapsed and the citizens of Israel are paying the price.”
Syria’s military declares week-long ceasefire over-Moscow and Damascus blame rebels for undermining truce agreement. while France holds Assad responsible for violations-By AFP September 19, 2016, 8:06 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Syria’s armed forces on Monday announced an end to a week-long ceasefire in the war-torn country brokered by the United States and Russia, blaming opposition groups battling to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad for its failure.“Syria’s army announces the end of the freeze on fighting that began at 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) on September 12, 2016 in accordance with the US-Russia agreement,” the statement carried by state news agency SANA said.It said rebel groups “did not commit to a single element” of the deal.After months of negotiations, the United States and Russia agreed on September 9 to call for a ceasefire, the delivery of aid and the joint targeting of Islamist rebels in Syria.The ceasefire ran into trouble at the weekend when rebel-held districts of Aleppo came under a barrage of air strikes and the US-led coalition killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in an attack that Washington said was unintentional.Russia’s defense ministry had appeared to bury the week-old truce it agreed with the United States, saying rebel violations made it “pointless” for Syrian troops to uphold it.The end of the ceasefire came shortly after the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault declared that the US-Russian ceasefire remains the “only basis” for achieving a political settlement of the conflict.“The agreement is particularly fragile — these past hours have shown this — but it must retain a glimmer of hope. It is the only basis that the international community can draw on” to resolve the Syrian crisis, he said.“What is lacking in this instance is good faith and sincerity,” Ayrault told a news conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.The French foreign minister reiterated that President Bashar Assad’s regime was to blame for ceasefire violations.“We should not have a short memory, the reality is, without a doubt, that the regime is mainly responsible for the tragedy in Syria”, he said.Ayrault put forward a French proposal to set up a monitoring mechanism of the ceasefire and said all sides must unite to shore up the US-Russian deal.More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria’s war, now in its sixth year, with more than 13 million people driven from their homes.
